#( so hype to bring eight here tho!!! )

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heyo! i'm bobbi, crash landing here with my work in progress muse eight ! ( who's yongpal? he doesn't know ). i'm still working out a bunch as you can tell, but i wanted to get up a quick intro to get plots going! i have discord if you'd prefer to plot there but im's work for me too! i'll be slowly updating his pages over the next couple days, but i'm happy to brainstorm and give any info you need ( including his most embarrassing secrets and that one story from the orbit christmas party back in - ) anywho -- please enjoy this ramble!

001. GENERAL-USER-INFORMATION:

# - NAM YONGPAL ( prefers to go by his nickname EIGHT ). your current avatar is registered as PARK JIHOON. you have been logged in for 25 years since 08 AUGUST 2998. your highest ranking stats are ANALYTICAL and STANDOFFISH. please select your playlist from BLANK STARES or CRUSHED ENERGY DRINK CANS SCATTERED ACROSS THE BEDROOM FLOOR for today. last saved activity: working as a GAME DEVELOPER AT ORBIT GAMING. resume your ongoing game for GLITCHED OUT as VOID?

002. SOURCE-CODE:

# - raised an only child by his meditation instructor mother and community garden leader father, and considers them both to have some seriously flawed programming. # - despite their best efforts, eight was never too interested in the family business of life-coaching/candle-making/yoga-retreating/whatever flavor of the month it was, and retreated more and more into himself. # - he found solace away from his parents and their various wellness endeavors in vr rooms, preferring to spend almost all of his time outside of studying playing games and watching the majors. # - though he never felt good enough to go pro, he found himself drawn to development side of things, and thus his dream of working at orbit gaming was born. # - he's worked his way up to a developer role once he'd finished uni but things have been relatively lukewarm since. his initial ideas were shot down, he's barely made any waves on his team, and for the past 6-ish months he's been dealing with a severe case of creative block. # - on the bright side, his team seems too preoccupied with whatever that broadcast was to really discuss his performance...

003. ADDITIONAL-USER-STATS:

# - can be very hot-headed ( although outbursts are very rare ), can be seen taking a few cleansing deep breaths and counting to 10 on most days. # - very soft-spoken ( he's working on it ), there are a number of people around orbit who probably have no idea what eight's voice sounds like. # - fueled by caffeine and his tailored comfort playlists. you'll never catch him without his headphones or an energy drink in hand. # - prefers the late hours of night ( less opportunity for social interaction ), and would live nocturnally if he could. # - has a somewhat photographic memory and incredible recall. can remember even the smallest details from various locations he's seen, easily remembers license plate numbers, and never forgets his shopping list even if he's left the note at home. # - often plagued by nightmares of being in what he considers liminal spaces the likes of which he can't escape... but those are just random dreams that don't mean anything. right... right? # - though he keeps his opinions to himself, he feels very strongly that there is something very off about terra.

003. WANTED-CONTRIBUTERS:

*I'm big on brainstorming to get my plots going, but here's a few ideas to kick us off that i'll probably add to later!

# - eight is rather reserved in his every day life, but finds his voice on various online forums. the two could be bonding over their music tastes, debating film rankings, or discussing conspiracy theories on the forum which shall not be named and eight has no idea what you're talking about. # - you live next door to eight and occasionally are disturbed by the BOOMING VOICE ( he's still getting used to that mod - ) yelling at the panel over some minor inconvenience in the middle of the night. # - vr room buddies that he meets up with regularly, or a vr room nemesis that never lets up on eight and shows no mercy in every game. # - someone that makes it their mission to get him back in the flow state when it comes to ideas for the next big game ( dude doesn't have a creative bone in his body it feels like so good luck with that - )

[hxney-lemcn]

Late Night Chaos — Daisuke x gn! reader

summery: getting a much needed break, you find yourself getting scolded by Jimmy. you vent to Daisuke about it when he finally finishes his tasks.

tw: Jimmy 🤢

a/n: idk how to continue this, should I follow the event of the game (unbearable angst), or try and make it end happier?? If I do the second one I kinda feel like I'm ruining the point of the game tho...

wc: 1.4k

Master List

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six | Part Seven | Part Eight | Part Nine

You had started to regret your confession already. You thought confessing was supposed to fix everything, so why did your gooey, icky feelings grow ten times worse? It was honestly comical seeing you glower everytime Daisuke gave you an ounce of affection. It even made Swansea internally chuckle at the sight. Even though it seems you were regretting all your life actions, you were honestly just trying to get used to your heart fluttering and your stomach twisting into knots. It was all odd and new, and you were a bit scared that this was all too good to be true. 

You were also trying to get used to the disgusting, adoring thoughts. You had become a lovesick fool and you weren’t sure what to make of it. You wanted to hug Daisuke? Ew. You wished to cuddle him at night? Disgusting. God forbid, you wanted to kiss him? Toss yourself in the trash. Yeah…you were struggling to accept that thinking those things were okay, and being vulnerable enough to speak your wants aloud. Daisuke, on the other hand, seemed like everything was right as rain. Like loving you came naturally to him. It made your skin crawl. 

Tilting your head back, you let the warm water drown your thoughts. Your brain wouldn’t let you catch a break, couldn’t you think about something else for a second? Like that book you’ve been reading? When you brought it with you it had been all the rage, but you can’t understand the hype. Sure you were only halfway done, but the main love interest was the worst person ever, how could anyone get behind him? He literally threatens to kill the protags family, basically kidnaps her, and you’re assuming she's going to ‘find the good in him’ and they ‘live happily ever after’. Unfortunately, you had to tough it out as you could only bring so many books for entertainment. Hopefully they turn the plot around and prove you wrong. Perhaps the protag actually fights back somehow or tricks the guy into thinking she’s fallen for him only to stab him in the back. Now that? You could get behind. 

Yeah, you need to finish that, you’ve been so preoccupied with work and Daisuke you haven't had much time for yourself. Shutting the water off, you dried yourself off and put on casual clothes. You’d finished your chores early, giving you a much needed break. Walking towards the sleeping quarters, you were simply minding your own business when a rude voice made you snap to attention. 

“The hell do you think you’re doing?” Jimmy’s harsh voice growled out. Looking to your right, you noticed it was only the two of you in the hall, and he was glaring right at you. You blinked in confusion, not able to get a word out before he continued. “Do you know how much more shit needs to be done? Of course Anya just lets you do whatever the hell you want, huh? Good for nothing brat. I gotta get everything done around here.” 

You couldn’t stop the sneer that settled over your face, gazing at the middle aged man with disgust. Who the hell does he think he is? You had spent the most of your trip ignoring the other, you thought it was a mutual avoidance thing. You had a feeling there wasn’t much for either of you to talk about, and he seemed standoffish anyways, but this? You hadn’t expected him to lash out at you. And for getting a break of all things. And wait, not even just that, he was blaming Anya too? 

You couldn’t even defend yourself before he stormed off, grumbling about something or another. Who the hell pissed in his cheerios? Well…okay, odd encounter. You did your best to shrug it off, continuing to your room, but something was bugging you. Just what exactly made him so aggravated? Not like you actually cared, he probably deserved whatever it was if he acts like that to someone he barely knows. 

Whatever, you have a book that needs to be finished. That’s all that mattered at the moment.

…

You had become so engrossed in the story, you nearly missed the knock on your door. Glancing up, you shouted a quick come in, not wanting to lose your place. You were so close to finishing already, and the plot had picked up from where you left off. It wasn’t as bad as the start, the author had started as a cliche and averted the readers expectations, slowly turning the story into a revenge plot. Chefs kiss, seven out of ten so far, and if the ending was as good as everyone said it was, then perhaps that rating will go up.

Daisuke joined you on the bed, head popping over your shoulder and eyeing the book, “Good book?”

“Mhm,” You nodded, setting it on your lap but keeping your place with your finger. Your skin tingled as he wrapped an arm around your waist, pulling you closer to him and resting his head on your shoulder. Your heart skipped a beat, but the fluttering in your stomach had dulled somewhat. That wasn’t a bad thing per say. Actually it brought you a sense of relief, you were growing used to his affection. Not taking it for granted or anything, but finding comfort in it instead of tension. To be fair, it was easier for you to accept it when it was just the two of you, no peering eyes of judgment to make you overthink your actions. Just the two of you enjoying the other’s presence. 

“You should read it to me, I like hearing your voice.” He murmured, nuzzling into your neck. Okay now he ruined it as it felt like sparks going off under your skin, heat crawling up your face, shoulders tensing in just the slightest. How could he say that so simply? Like it wasn’t a life changing statement? 

“O-okay,” You agreed, trying your hardest to keep your voice from wavering (and failing). Dog earring the page you left on (a crime, but you were too cheap to buy bookmarks), you turned to the first page, pausing before starting. “How was your day?” Sure, he had become more touchy after you officially started dating, but he seemed a bit more so at the moment.

“It was fine,” Daisuke shrugged, his warm breath heating your neck and causing your hair to stand on end. The fact that you were touch starved was clearly showing. “Keep messing up but that’s just normal.”

“I’m sure you’ll get it eventually,” You replied, reaching back and messing with his hair. You weren’t sure why you did it, it just seemed like the right thing to do, and the fact that he leaned into your touch seemed to validate that thought. “Being a mechanic isn’t easy, not to mention you do a lot of the electric work too.”

“Yeah,” He sighed, eyes fluttering shut for a brief moment. “How was yours?”

“Not too bad,” You replied, slowly melting into the brunette’s touch. “Got done early, but…well, I guess something happened.” Daisuke hummed, waiting for you to continue. “Jimmy exploded for no reason, going off about how he’s gotta do everything around the ship.”

“Huh?” Daisuke looked confused and annoyed, pulling away slightly to share a look with you. “What about the Captain or hell, even Swansea does a lot.”

“I know right!” You exclaimed, turning around in his arms slightly, dropping the book off to the side. “Not to mention Anya’s the only one holding us all together.” 

“Exactly,” Daisuke nodded enthusiastically. “Not to mention you do all the small stuff so the others can focus on their bigger tasks. Keeping the ship running smoothly and all that.”

“You too,” argued. “You’re learning a lot every day, and sure you may mess up from time to time, but at the end of the day you’re doing a lot. And you keep the ship from being a dull, boring routine of madness.”

His smile turned tender, squeezing you gently, “You’re right, without me you’d have no one to cuddle with.” 

Once again you found yourself scowling, “You say that like it's a necessity.” It seemed you and deflection went hand in hand. 

“I dunno,” He chuckled, lucky for you he found it adorable whenever you scrunch your face like that. “I’m not sure how I survived so long without you in my arms.” 

“You’re so cheesy,” You groaned, draping your entire weight on him, the both of you falling onto the bed. 

“And you love it.”

You hated that he was right.

[doueverwonder]

ok so I couldn't get the age order to be the way I wanted and ignore the moms names they're just placeholders;

but here is Abby's immediate family for the bookseller and the florist. François was married to Anne and they had Matt; they got divorced and after the divorce François realized he was Bi. Such is life. Matt was an "every 3 days kid" until he was like 12 and something with the custody came up; he went to being with dad all the time and mom only every other weekend. And by the time he was 15-ish he just stayed with François (and Will) all the time.

Will was married to Dorothy (they were highschool sweethearts who got married at like 19 and everyone was like 'bad idea but go off ig'), they pretty quickly had Jack, and then about three years later Liam. William had some Stuff (TM) happened that made him realize he was gay, him and Dorothy were divorced by the time Liam was 1. They're still decently good friends, even though she moved pretty far away. Jack and Liam always spent summers with her, school year with William and then bounced back and forth for the allotted holidays.

{side note there's eight-ish years between François and Will so Matt is significantly older than Jack and Liam even tho their dads were about the same age when they had their first kid}

I haven't decided exactly but Abby was somewhere between 7-10 when she was adopted; she's older than Liam, about the same age as Jack, and younger than Matt (yes i know what the fic says i'm going to edit some things). Will and François had been together for about 3-ish years when they adopted Abby. (well, William adopted Abby, François got his name added when it became legal where they lived when she was about 12)

{side note pt 2. in this AU François and Will never actually get married due to a little thing called "it's not legal yet" & when it does become legal they just don't bc of a mutual "marriage was fun to try but i'm never doing that again sorry"; they might file for some sort of civil partnership eventually but besides that}

Years later, like Liam is in his 2nd year of highschool later, they get early on-set empty nest do some Debating, and end up getting a surrogate and having Peter. Officially they don't know who his bio dad is, but you look at the boy for two minutes and can tell he's a Kirkland. Just,,, Matt is back in town, Abby & Jack are back from College for fall break or smth, Liam is in highschool he's always home but; they sit all the kids down and are just "we have big news, we're having a baby!" and the general reaction is "what-what the fuck? aren't you two like,,, ancient?"

Anyway time goes on, Peter is like 3, Liam moved out to live with his mom and go to college around where she lives, Abby is back with an English degree to help Will run the shop (initially she was going to be a teacher but changed her mind); Jack is getting some long fancy degree no one quite understands but he's hyped about it and he's never been excited about school. And Matt is off wandering a national park and having a grand old time doing it.

Pete is down for a nap François slides in the room with a serious conversation to have with William;

within two years they've adopted Angelique, she's about six when Pete is five so they're close but not as close as Abby and Jack. It's so stereotypical but Abby was super happy to have a sister FINALLY she had kinda been hoping Peter was a girl but it's fine. She's fine.

And then last but def not least in the story there is actually going to be a future chapter when Abby drags Lars to meet her parents with the excuse of "you know that baby my parents have been fostering? Wendy? well the adoption papers finally went through, so legally she's their kid and legally she's my sister and they're throwing a little party and you should come and meet the rest of my family everyone is going to be there yes bring Emma and Henri"

anyway the age order is;

Matthieu

Abby

Jack

Liam

Angelique

Peter

Wendy

[unsleepingtales]

Ravening war finale!!!! Reactions!!! this is so long guys and a lot of it is just me making terrified noises.

Oh my god that eraser would have SUCH a bad mouth feel I feel bad just watching that

Aabria’s hair and makeup look lovely!

Brennan’s immediately in character (looking into the middle distance in abject horror)

Dome looks great!

That’s a really smart cover story actually

Battle map! Battle map!

OH it’s so gorgeous

I love that you can see the icons on the gm screen behind the set, like they’re looking over the battle and observing

The fact that Colin’s art has a receding hairline and that is just Not the case on his mini is so funny to me

Matt automatically doing the Italian hands as Ariana

Oh would you say that things are busy?

OOF

THIS is what Lou screams you lied about??? Like on the one hand I’m glad it’s this and not something worse, but also. Eek.

The Elder’s mini is so cool and detailed aaaaa

Two of the threeeeee

Brennan and Anjali exchanging glances like a theory is being confirmed! Is it the same theory that we’ve been talking about online?

This is your big moment? Kinda sad ngl

Dark blessing energy! We barbin!

Matt’s right tho y’all are burning your spell slots Fast

It’s not the blender, it’s the disposal.

Oh that’s so coooooool

That was such a cool thing to say

One more thing that has not chosen me 😭

Oh she’s his daughter

Ok so Raphaniel poisoning the king is confirmed

I love when GMs play and are still who they are and bring all of who they are as GMs to being a player

Oh god

Oh god oh fuck

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH BOIIIIIIII

Hell yeah Raphaniel fuck em up

By ‘em’ I meant colliflour not the saprophians :(

I get that they’re not great but like. Civilians.

Colin! My boy!

Do the people in charge of these mini company shots have fun with them. I hope they have fun with them. I hope they feel like they’re playing with dolls.

GIRL WHAT

GIRL WHATTTTTT

Oh that mini is so fucking sick

Holy SHIT

Stick a fork in her please

DISPOSALS IN THE FLOOR????

Karna you better be fucking careful I stg if you get more nat1 acrobatics I’m gonna lose it

TWENTY EIGHT POINTS

H o r r i f y i n g

Oh that’s so bad oh my god

Ooh Karna’s mini is pretty

Fuck her upppp

Hell yeah bb get her ass

Does she bleed machine oil now

Forty points of religious retribution and eight points of petty. All part of a balanced meal.

They really did hear Matt call it the avatar once and decided that was it

It’s just a complicated situation

Pull Of The Void Teeth?????? Hello????

I have no context!!!!

You saved his life!

I feel like Brennan and Aabria’s GM tendencies are popping out in this ep and I really appreciate it

Amangeaux fully having a crisis me too honey

Hey 20 damage is not bad!

Come on provolone!! Be ok please!!

Just noticed that the elder has a bunch of heads on his belt and I feel. Fine about it.

STUNNED?

Oh god

This is so distressing

Enough to put it out of its misery?

Oh does being killed finish its go?? Does it???

Oh GOD it can MOVE them

Alien and cruel because it is machine and unfeeling rather than consuming for sustenance

Better that a soul should feed someone than be thrown away!

This is the third thing, not deus pa’zuul

🎶 looks like we maaade it 🎶

For ONCE lair actions are gonna help the party

She’s his daughter

Anjali and Zac are turning out to be one of my favorite duos

Colin :( please be ok :(

Colin yelling to deli I’m gonna cry actually?

Oh she’s so devoted to him

Let’s hear it for helpful lair actions everyone

DOME

It is, in fact, bad here!

Rip quichei

Karnaaaaa

His bardic can be used as damage?? That’s sick ngl that’s really cool

KARNA NO

THIRTY FIVE POINTS

Numb with ominous, ever present pain

Please tell me Deli does SOMETHING

Ok that’s good yeah that’s pretty good

YEAH

Love seeing everyone hyping Lou up

He’s her father

Thank you pro bonos!

I hope you die UN HOT

Why would you do this Matt

Oh that’s really cool I’m really impressed with that idea he was actually able to trigger a lair action that’s neat

Good turn Raphaniel!

Colinnnn

There’s a lot going on.

Healing? Healing lair action?

THIRTY EIGHT POINTS

Karna full dead?? Karna full dead forever?? Oh my god

Oh god oh no please

IT BE THAT WAY SOMETIMES???

Oh I might actually cry

MURKED

Oh I just noticed that the dome is animated and not static. That’s neat.

IMMUNE TO CRITS?

Oh no

Ok. Okokok.

She was her family

I’m so glad I’m not the only one struggling to process that Karna is gone

Holy fucking shit man

Wait does Raphaniel know that Karna is gone. Like can he feel it through the telepathy. He was so prepared to not make it but I do not think he was prepared for her to not make it.

Oh never mind ok he’s also not gonna make it

Lou <3

Raphaniel full dead. Yep. Ok.

Horrifying. Great speech! But horrifying.

The closest he has ever been to anything that matters

Me too Zac. Me too. I also want to just scream.

Oh this is good story though

Oh my god

Colin is Skald but she’s Karna I’m gonna CRY

COME ON PROVOLONE

SET THEM ALL ON FIRE YEAH

She’s lost her family oh my god

Framing the mycelium as a child is heartbreaking actually

Are they about to be killed

Can you keep a secret oh my god

Amangeaux’s protectiveness as her greatest strength and of course her complete downfall

Oh god

Oh my god

They’re curious Augh

Deli no oh god

OH MY GOD the cheese man

NO

NAT ONE????

Oh he’s so close to death

Oh my god

This is gonna be the death of me

Oh my god the baby little saprophian

Oh my god if this kills him

OH MY GOD

They don’t have healing. None of them have healing.

Okay she has a hearts kit

Oh thank god okay

Okay okay okay

Oh god okay.

He really

Ok

Oh my god that letter. Yup. Actually crying a bit.

Oh

Love you too Matt <3 thank you for an incredible season.

[spideymarvelws]

Playing truth or dare with college!Peter and MJ dares you to give him a (private) lap dance

This turned out to be much longer than expected

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Warnings : SMUT! (Lap dance?ish?kind of? i went a bit of script im sorry, thigh riding, grinding, dirty talk, dom!peter, innocence kink, corruption kink?, masterbation, oral[male rec], mild degrading), alcohol consumption, everyone is 18+, kinda fluffy in the beginning but we do be getting smutty real quick tho, MJ being your personal wing woman

Also please dont take drinks from strangers this is fiction and not real life, always drink responsibly :)))

Word Count : 4.8k

Behind Doors

Fratboy!Peter Parker x Fem!Reader

You tried to keep your staring to a minimum, you really did. But how could you when he stood in the middle of the crowd, glowing like an angel amongst everyone. He was laughing with his friends, his head tilted back with his eyes squeezed shut and a smile that could make anyone's day so much brighter. You wanted nothing more but to run your hands through his floppy brown hair bouncing on his head as he told his mates a story, his facial and hand movements lively when he moved them around, accentuating the words falling from his mouth.

His fit didn’t help either. A tight white t-shirt paired with blue jeans and a gold chain that hung from his neck, begging to be played with in any way. It was simplistic but made you swoon all the same. His muscles printed through the fabric didn’t help much either, his biceps almost tearing through the sleeves a mouth watering contrast to his cheerful face.

It was like staring at a greek god that radiated puppy dog energy.

“You’re not being subtle you know,” MJ whispered into you ear nudging your side with her elbow, “Just go talk to him,”

You shook your head, heat rising to your face as you averted your eyes from the brown eyed boy, turning to face your best friend, “You know i can’t do that,”

“Not with that you aren’t,” she pointed at the red solo cup you held in your hand filled halfway with orange juice. She quickly snatched the cup away from you, dumping the contents in the grass of the backyard.

“Hey!” You gasped, but made no effort to stop her.

“You need to loosen up,” she stabbed her finger into the middle of your chest, shoving her drink into your hands, “All of it, now,”

You took the cup hesitantly swirling the contents inside around for a bit, watching as the liquid moved smoothly around the sides of the plastic. You looked back up at MJ, feeling small when she stared you down with a stern look. You knew you weren’t finding a way out of this one.

“Fine,” you grumbled before tilting your head back, chugging the alcohol down. You let out a few coughs afterwards, giggling as MJ started to cheer.

“That’s my girl!” She wrapped her arm around your shoulder, pulling you into her side, “Now for about five more,”

Two hours and four drinks later, or maybe it was six you weren't keeping count, the party finally started to die down. The liquor running through your system did its job well in letting you loosen up so you could enjoy the party without being distracted by a certain brown haired boy.

You had lost MJ halfway through the night, your mind finally processing that she wasn’t by your side when you reached for her to dance with you. As you busied yourself by looking around the room, you felt someone place their hand on your lower back, sending shivers up your spine with the touch. You whipped your head around, expecting your equity intoxicated friend but only to be met with the same brown eyes you’ve been fawning over at the beginning of the night.

“Hey,” he said into your ear so that you heard it over all the noise. He moved his hand off your back after he got your attention. You tried your best to keep the tiny whine from escaping your throat at the loss of his touch. The free feeling you felt with the alcohol completely vanished with the sound of his voice turning you into that shy nerd all over again.

“Looking for someone?” He said, pushing the tips of his fingers into the front pockets of his pants.

You stood speechless, you mouth agape that Peter Parker, the Peter Parker was talking to you. MJ was wrong, no amount of alcohol could’ve prepared you for the moment. At least you didn't scurry away like a mouse like you would’ve if you were fully sober.

“I- uh,” you coughed, trying to get some words out but failing miserably.

“Sorry, It’s just I saw you looking around,” he scratched the back of his neck, chuckling at your flustered state. His cheeks starting to turn a light pink which made you swoon even harder, “I assume you’re looking for MJ, since you were with her for most of the night,”

“Oh, right,” you mumbled, laughing awkwardly, looking down to the ground, “How did you know I was with her?”

“You guys are always together!” He smiled showing off his pearly whites, “Around campus you know? I’ve seen you guys together in my classes as well,”

“You noticed me?” You whispered, mainly to yourself but he managed to pick up your words, making you even more embarrassed than before.

“Of course!” He passed his hand through his hair, looking straight into your eyes, “How could I not Y/n?”

You stood speechless, your mouth opening and closing as if you wanted to say something but changed your mind last minute. Millions of thoughts ran through your brain per second, the most frequent being your name rolling off his tongue.

“Anyways, uh, the main reason i came was to bring you to MJ,” he chuckled nervously, seeming just as flustered as you, “She’s in one of the spare bedrooms with some of the boys, we’re playing a good ole’ game of truth and dare,” he voice raised adorably, making you giggle lightly, “You don’t need to join or anything, but i don’t think you would want to be alone out here,”

“Yeah!” you replied a bit to quickly, shaking your head at your enthusiasm, “I mean, yeah, I would like to join you,”

“Sick!” He smiled brightly, grabbing your hand. Your eyes widened at the action as he pulled you through the crowd, you looked down at the ground, allowing him to maneuver you around the mass of bodies.

“Just so you don’t get lost,” he said, looking back at you, pointing out your intertwined hands.

“Of course!” You said back, holding back your squeals of excitement.

You were honestly surprised with how sweet he was acting towards you. Despite his status as part of the biggest frat on campus, his reputation upholded him as the good boy of the group, the one who helped old lady’s across the street or bought lunch for you when you didn't have the money. Sure, you saw this on multiple occasions but to experience it for yourself was a nice change, and just solidified your crush on him even more.

When he reached the stairway vacant of anybody, he still didn't let go of your hand, only tightening his fingers around yours. He walked down the dark hallway and approached a door ,giving you a reassuring smile before turning the knob and pushing it open, revealing around eight or nine people. Some laid on the bed, beers in hand as they laughed while others sat on the couch. You spotted MJ on the floor, laughing with Harry Osborn.

“Who’s the chick Parker?” One of the boys said, silencing the room and putting everyone's attention on you.

“This is Y/n,” he gestured towards you, “Y/n, everyone,” Peter finally let go of your hand, popped himself on the edge of the bed, picking up a beer from the side table and nodding his head at the empty space besides him.

You looked towards MJ panicked, but all she did was mouth ‘go’ with a shit eating grin. You sneered back at her, rolling your eyes as you walked up to the bed, bending your right leg back to sit on your calf while the other dangled over the edge.

“You’ll be fine, don’t worry,” Peter leaned into your ear, whispering gently, “Again, you don’t have to do anything you don’t have to,”

You pouted at his actions, melting at the fact that he was so observant with you. You looked down at his beer, before looking back up at him. If you were going to get through the rest of the night, you needed to be absolutely wasted.

“Do you have another beer?” You asked him, pointed to his bottle.

“You could just have mine,” he offered his drink, passing it off to you.

You bit your lip, taking a long swig of the liquid, “Thank you,”

Before the both of you could converse any longer, a girl with short blond hair you knew from English, called out from the corner, “Okay, okay, who wants to go next?”

“I think Y/n should go,” flash said, holding up his bottle towards you, “She’s the new one isn’t she?”

Peter looked at you, silently asking if you needed him to say anything. But you decided to take things into your own hands for the first time that night.

“Yeah, I’ll go,” you said, taking another swig of beer.

“Alright Y/n,” Harry said smugly, leaning back on his forearm, “Truth or dare?”

You thought about it for a bit, missing the smug look on MJ’s face as you muttered, “Dare”

“I dare you to give Peter a lap dance,” she said immediately, leaning back as she held in her laugh at your washed out face, “I mean we could send you to the other room if you want more privacy,”

You sat speechless and once again wanted to melt into the sheets beneath you. You felt Peter’s hand wrap around yours, giving him your attention.

“Only if you want to,” he muttered, giving you a soft smile.

“I-,” you took a deep breath, trying to gather the little confidence you had left, “Which room?”

Hollers and shouts bounced off the walls, as everyone hyped both of you up. Peter stood, pulling you up with him, leading you out the room.

“Take as much time as you need!” You heard MJ shout after you before the door closed, leaving you and Peter alone once again.

Your heart pounded inside your chest as Peter guided you once again to another room. You gulped, wondering if you had made the right decision so give a lap dance to your crush. He didn’t say anything as he knocked on a door, opening it when he didn't hear any noise come from the room.

“After you,” he said politely.

“Thank you,” you said shyly, walking to the middle of the room.

Peter closed the door behind him, leaning against the wood, “Sooooo,” he dragged looking you up and down, “I- uh, didn't expect you to say yes,”

“Me neither,” you chuckled, looking down to the floor.

“I mean if you don’t want to, it’s just a silly bet,” Peter said, fiddling with his fingers.

“Do-,” you coughed, “Do you want me too?”

“It’s up to you really,”

“But would you mind if i-“

“I mean I wouldn’t be against it-,”

You both laughed nervously falling into silence after that. You looked around the room, finding interest with everything besides him. You were fidgety, playing with your fingers while tapping your foot on the floor rapidly to calm your nerves. It was stupid, you’ve been dreaming about him for so long, and now that you were finally in a room together you clamed up, not knowing what to do in his presence.

Peter on the other hand kept his gaze on you, his eyes racking your body up and down. He wasn't going to lie to himself and say that he’d never thought of this moment, the moment where you and him were finally together, in a room, all alone.

You were different from the girls he was used to in the frat. You were untouched, well to his knowledge, you were a clean slate and from the small confrontations he’s had with you, he could tell you were obedient too.

He wanted so bad to just have his way with you, to absolutely ravish you like he did in his dreams. But he wanted to savour it. After so long of watching you pin over him, purely to feed his ego, he was ready to take things to the next level and what better way than with a good lap dance. Sure he was the good guy, both as himself and as his alternate persona as a hero, but when it comes to you, all his morals were thrown out the window.

Besides, you were both intoxicated and he didn't want your first time together to be at a stupid party in a room he was barely familiar with.

After a few more seconds of silence, Peter decided to take things into his own hands, to make his fantasy a reality, or to just get it started at least. He was the first to make a move, walking right up to you, taking your chin between his fingers, tilting your head up to look at him while his other hand made its way to the side of your waist, pulling you closer.

“Y/n?” He asked, swiping his thumb across your lips. He may have an unhealthy obsession with them but it didnt matter because in the next few moments he would make them his, “I’m not stupid you know,”

You blinked rapidly, tilting your head to the side at his statement, confused and slightly hurt.

Peter only chuckled, slipping his thumb between your lips for a split second before pulling it back out and resting it back on your plump lip, testing the waters, “I said i noticed you, and when I mean I noticed you,” he leaned forward, placing his lips near your ear, “I meant everything, down to the constant heart eyes,”

You held your breath, not knowing how to feel, what to think. Peter Parker, the Peter Parker, was standing in front of you, playing with your lips with such close proximity, telling you that he was aware of your existence. That there was a chance that he might feel the same way about you.

You had to remind yourself that this was just a bet, that he didn’t mean anything he was saying. He was only doing it because he had to. Even if he was a sweet boy by heart, he still had a reputation for sleeping around, that to him you were just another girl to add to his collection. 

But when he pushed his thumb into your mouth, you knew you'd fall victim as well.

“Mhh,” he hummed, “such a good girl, just like i knew you’d be,” suddenly, he pulled his thumb out of your mouth and sat back down on the bed, pulling you to straddle his lap, “Now, i believe you have a dare to fulfill,”

“I- uh,” you stuttered, hesitantly placing your hands on his shoulder as you settled into his hold.

“You’ve never done this before, have you princess?” Peter mumbled, hovering his lips over yours.

“i-,” you shook your head, lost for words when he called you princess.

He hummed, one of his hands gripping your waist while the other laided on your cheek, rubbing the soft skin with his thumb, “Let’s start off slow then,” his thumb moved to your mouth once more, playing with the bottom lip. You sat frozen, letting him take control. You didn't trust your body to move, you could barely even talk.

“I’ve always wondered what it was like to kiss these perfect lips,” he whispered, moving to kiss your neck, trailing his way up to the corner of your mouth, “I’d imagine you’ve though the same,”

You nodded, tightening your hold on his shoulders. Peter laughed, his breath hot on your face.

“You’re going to need to say something if you want me to continue princess,”

“Yes,” you squeaked, clearing your throat, embarrassed by your quick response, “Yes, I-uh, I’ve thought about this, yeah,”

“Hmm, good,” he mumbled before finally latching his lips on yours, keeping your face close with his hand.

His lips were rougher that you imagined, probably from constantly licking them for most of the night. But the more you kissed, your mouths opening and closing with each other like its own dance, the more wet and lustful it became. You could feel your body begin to relax into his, melting into the warmth. His confidence only grew with the soft moans escaping your mouth, quickly slipping his tongue inside when your lips parted, exploring your mouth with vigour and purpose.

Your breath hitched in response, using your own tongue to match his movements and tangling it with his, fighting for dominance you were sure he was going to win. Your fingers ran through his hair, tugging at the short curls at the base of his neck, smiling when he groaned into your mouth. You beamed at him when you finally pulled away, a string of spit connected your lips.

“This seems more than just a lap dance,” you let out a shaky sigh, resting your forehead against his.

He chuckled, using his hands to bring your hips closer to his crotch, your dress rolling further up around your waist.

“Then what are you waiting for,” he said cockily, leaning back on his forearms, looking back at you expectantly.

You let out a breath, readjusting yourself on his lap before moving your hips slowly. Your pussy barely made contact with his now hard cock poking through his jeans, teasing it ever once in a while when your panties brushed the tent. You smirked, despite not knowing what the hell you were doing, it seemed like you were doing a decent job.

“Don’t get to cocky princess,” he groaned, squeezing your waist tightly, “You forget that I’m the one in charge here,”

You bit your lip, muttering a soft sorry.

He hummed, nudging his nose with yours, “Let me help you then,” 

He grasped your hips, pulling your it closer to his crotch, grinding it against your core. You let him guide you with his hands, following his lead supporting yourself with your own hands clutching on to his shoulder.   

He let out a long sigh, his head falling back. You took that as the queue to grind faster, enjoying the effect you had on him with such a simple movement. Your confidence grew with the noises escaping his throat along with the occasional praise only fueling your need.

In a rush of the moment, you moved your hands to the back of his neck, pulling him into a needy kiss. It was much more sloppier and messier than the previous one, your focus more on moving your hips than keeping your lips in sync with his.

But you wanted more. As much as you enjoyed Peter’s eyes trailing your body, his hands exploring your waist and the angelic look on his face, you couldn't help but wonder if it stopped there. If you could make his moans louder, his hips jut against your with need, just as much as you needed him.

After a few more moments, an idea popped into your head with the faint sound of music coming from downstairs.

“Peter,” you decided to purr in your ear, biting your lip when his eyes fluttered open, dark and filled with lust.

“Yes princess,” He cooed, moving his hands back to your waist while keeping eye contact, brushing his lips over yours. But before he could fully kiss you, you pulled away, giggling at the little whine he let out.

“What is it?” he pouted, rolling his eyes when you didn’t respond, only biting your lip in thought. He grabbed your jaw, focussing your gaze back on him, “You were being such a good girl, what happened hmm?”

“I- I have an idea,” you gulped, the confidence you felt seconds ago melting away under his stare, “Do you have a speaker?”

He nodded his head, pointed to a desk in the corner with a small black speaker sitting on top. You smirked, hopping off his lap and running to the box. Peter leaned back on hands, watching with curious eyes as you pulled out your phone from your jacket pocket, tapping it open and typing in your password.

“What’s going through that head of your princess,” he mumbled, but loud enough for you to hear.

You only giggled in response, playing around with the speaker to turn in on. After a few more seconds of fiddling, you spun around with your phone in hand and a teasing smile on your face. Your finger pressed down on the screen, the room filling with the song Love Is A Bitch by Two Feet.

He scoffed, “And here I am thinking you were just an innocent little thing,” 

You bit your lip, looking down shyly and placing your phone on the table, your back facing him, “I just wanted to set the mood,”

“Was grinding down on me not enough?” he teased, “Are you always this greedy?”

You let out a breath before turning around, your heart practically beating out of your chest, “Only with you,”

You glanced up at the brunette face, nervous that maybe you took it too far. It was just a simple lap dance, nothing more and nothing less and you should've kept it that way. But the kiss was addicting, keeping you in a daze where all you wanted was more. More of his touch, his mouth, his taste.

You’ve wanted him for so long and now that you dipped your toes in the waters, you wanted to dive in and never come out. What really kept you going was his reactions to your touch, the small grunts and moans escaping his mouth because of you. He wanted this as much as you did or else he would’ve shut you down by now, right?

You were just getting ahead of yourself.

“Come here Y/n,” he almost growled, his eyes never leaving you while you shuffled your way between his legs, yelping when he gripped your waist and pulled you back down. Instead of straddling his waist, he moved you so your legs were on either side of his left thigh.

You went to speak but the gripped your jaw with his forefinger and thumb, forcing your eyes on him.

“You never fail to surprise me princess,” he whispered, his free hand trailing up your waist, brushing past your breasts, “I thought I had to treat you like a good girl, take my time with you” he chuckled darkly, “Turns out you need this just as much as I do, my greedy, desperate little thing,”

You bit your lip, tucking your head in the crook of his neck to avoid his stare. The pet names he gave you was already enough to leave you a mess but adding ‘my’ in front of it made you melt. You wanted to be his, you wanted him to take control of your body and use you as he pleased. He adjusted his thigh, having it bump against your clothed pussy. Heat rose to your face when you let out a small whimper, settling back on his leg, craving the friction but you didn’t move, waiting for specific instructions.

“You weren’t so shy before, what happened?” he kissed the shell of your ear, “Go on princess, ride my thigh like the desperate whore I know you are,” 

Without thinking you began to grind your pussy along his thigh, your face growing hotter when you felt the wetness seep on to his jeans. Peter kept his hands on your waist, keeping your movements at his own past, occasionally bouncing his leg, enjoying the little whines you let out. When you started moving faster, he knew you were nearing your high.

“Princess, look at me,” he grunted,“I want to see that pretty face when you cum,”

You let out a shaky sigh, pulling your head up to face him but you could barely keep your head up, too concentrated on moving your hips against the rough fabric of his jeans. He quickly recognised this and wrapped his hand around your throat, squeezing lightly to get some of your attention. 

“Peter,” you whimpered, near to tears with how close you were to climaxing, “Peter please,”

“What is it princess? You want to cum? Is that it?”

You nodded quickly, “Please,”

“Go ahead princess,” he grinned, smashing his lips against your to swallow your moans as you came on his thigh, your hips moving in slow strokes to prolong the feeling. You pulled away after a few moments of feverish kissing, your arms falling limp around his shoulders.

“Fuck,” you sighed, your forehead falling against his with the breathless laugh, “That was-”

“Great? Amazing? The best experience of your life?” he laughed, falling back against the mattress, pulling you down with him. You giggled, shoving your face in his neck and inhaling his comforting scent.

“Yeah,” you turned your head to face him, pouting when a piece of his hair fell in front of his stunning eyes. You moved it out of his face, kissing his nose in the process, “I liked it a lot,”

“That’s good, that’s good,” he whispered, tightening his arms around you.

All of a sudden you felt something poke at the inside of your thigh. It took you a few moments to realise that he was hard and was probably aching to get off at this point in the night. 

“Do- do you want me to help?” you said shyly, sitting up on your hands to fully face him.

“You don't have to princess,” his hands passed up and down your waist, “Seeing you fall apart from my thigh is all I needed tonight,”

The twitch of his eye and dryness of his lips told you otherwise. 

“Are you sure?” you bit your lip, moving your hand slowly down to his hard on, “because I don’t mind helping Petey,”

You didn’t know where the nickname came from but it was too late to take it back. Judging by the dark look in his eyes and the almost cynical look on his face he didn’t mind.

“You want to help me princess? Are you sure you know what you’re in for?”

You shook your head eagerly, “Just tell me what you want,”

“And what if i want you to suck my cock?”

“I would do it,”

“Do what?”

“Su- suck your cock,” you replied bashfully looking down at your hands now intertwined on his stomach.

“Aww, is my princess getting shy?” he fake pouted, “After getting off on my thigh like a slut, you’re getting shy about taking me in your mouth?”

“I-”

“It’s alright princess i’ll guide you through it,” he reached down to unzip his jeans, shuffling awkwardly to push them down so he could get his member out. You watched as his hard dick slapped against his chest, big and throbbing.

He moved your hips back so that you straddled his legs this time, taking your hand and raising it to your mouth.

“Spit,” he instructed, looking up at you with hunger, “Now,”

You hesitantly spit into your hand, watching in awe as the wad fell into your hand.

“Good girl,” he sighed, moving your hand to wrap your small finger around the base of his cock, “Have you ever jerked someone off princess?”

“Just two,” you respond hesitantly.

Peter gritted his teeth, trying to get the idea of you touching anyone else out of his mind, “Well let's make this your third and final guy hmm?” his breath hitched when you started to move your hand up and down his cock, “You’re mine now princess,”

In the spur of the moment you leaned down, licking the red tip of his member, “Only yours,” you whispered before taking him halfway in your mouth, gagging and pulling yourself back up.

“Take your time princess,” he gulped, “fuck but you could do that again if you’d like though,”

You giggled, licking and kissing the sides of his cock and taking it once more, reaching further than this time than you did the last. You bobbed your head continuously only raising your head to take a breath and going in again.

“Fuck princess, I knew your mouth would be good,” he groaned, “You’re doing so well, taking my cock so good down your throat, fuck!”

You smiled around his length, the back of your throat contracting around the tip making him moan your name. Before he could praise you even more, someone's voice cut his words off.

“Everything alright in there?” MJ said through the door but you were too lost in your daze to answer or recognise her voice.

“Yeah, we’re good,” Peter smirked, pushing you to take the rest of his cock, “We’re just going to take longer than expected,”

...

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[phoebehalliwell]

I cannot wait to read the stories you write for Sheridan and Warren & Dency! I can feel the love you put into them. They feel for realistic and I wish they were canon!! 😭 how do you think Dency would be if she ever got to meet the bros? (As they’re like the best non-canon characters ever?) Also, Dency has only one friend in magic school? Poor Dency :( For some reason, when I read your little Dency holiday headcanons I could totally see he being a teacher at magic school?? ✨✨

i think a dency/warren/sheridan team up would easily be one of The most chaotic things to ever rock the magical community both are the first borns of their respective generations so both are pretty power loaded But one of them is really knowledgeable in the magical and how it all works and all that and the others were raised by a guy who has frosted tips. i my writings warren and sheridan were not like raised with really any magic they were given a spell to unbind their powers but everything else was just a sorta figure it out of your own thing i think with their active power it was really just like a figuring out what works at what doesn’t like that was p self explanatory and when it comes to like everything else. they just fuckin. try things. see what sticks. as i think i’ve mentioned before sheridan’s in a band that’s his thing and the lead singer / his friend is like a witch practitioner who does not know magic is actually real in fact okay so the majority of people in the band are witches that’s their shtick sheridan pretends not to be bc well they’re all practitioners he doesn’t want to do anything they do but then have you know actual magic happen so he’s like yeah hahaha i don’t believe in magic / i don’t wanna practice magic but basically every single spell they know they’ve learned from sheridan’s friend or alternately warren looking it up on youtube or like indie witch blogs and they work that’s undeniable but they are kinda hack jobs and like they’ll make their own potions and stuff using the knowledge they have but like. like they’ll microwave potions. they have no access to magical ingredients. they’re definitely not operating at full potential. that being said i do think a large part of magic is the intent behind it so like they’re no good at spells or writing them nor do they have the power of three but they’re still p powerful witches and everything they do they do with their chest so like it works. dency on the other hand is a magic whiz so i think in that team up like when it’s time to make a potion they’d be making it either at dency’s apartment or in magic school and i think the twins would like socks: knocked off like they had no idea how powerful magic could be and just how powerful they are like in general. i also think they’d both be pretty hyped to be related to the antichrist bc like that’s kinda cool as hell (they also definitely have no the source is/was who cole was they’re not even aware of the charmed ones so dency does her best to explain in layman’s terms the antichrist part was about the only piece of information they retained). i also think like dency grew up with the charmed ones she also grew up hearing stories of her namesake and also being raised by a cupid like she really feels and understands all the love in between the halliwells so i think she’d really be like the one to introduce w&s to you know their magical side like bust out a photo album of prue and tell them the stories she knows of her both warren and sheridan have premonition i think like very limited occasional retrocognition but i think like when you know learning about their mom and seeing all their personal items of her they would get a flashback maybe even like a prue highlight reel and uhh they don’t cry often they’re too glib for that but um yowch :’) i also think dency would help them start their own book of shadows i think dency has one of her own that she made with her roommate it’s leather bound but probably has like witchcraft for sexy bitches!!!! embossed on the cover bc it’s not meant to be an heirloom it’s just something for the two of them that dency will later add to the halliwell book of shadows. (a note on dency’s roommate bc idk if i’ve mentioned her before her name is dove she’s an only child and she comes from like a really rich family who lives in marin county right across the bridge she’s probably from like ross or something and she has no active powers. she can scry she can make potions she can cast spells she was the standard mediumship but she has absolutely no active powers. her parents also have no magic and presumably neither does her grandparents in fact there seems to be zero magic in her bloodline at all and yet here she is, a witch. and everyone sorta thought she was a late bloomer at first and dove like really really wanted to have an active power like she tried So Hard and yet nothing. so i think her andy dency both sorta bonded from being the outcasts in magic school and that’s why they became homies i think they both received the nicknames of dud and devil initially to bully them but they ended up just calling each other that people also stopped calling them mean names after someone called dency devil in the third grade and dove bit them and the whole thing develoved into a lord of the flies magical battle to the death between eight year olds. both dove and dency got suspended for a month, in that month the charmed ones still trained dency from home and dency begged them to bring over dove and train her too bc she only got suspended bc she was defending dency so that really solidified their relationship. the book that they share is really more of dove’s creation tho bc dency is very dyslexic and cannot spell and dove’s a bit of a control freak. the book also does not look like the halliwell BoS bc dove really tries to make the text as legible as possible so dency can read it when she’s not around. their book definitely looks like a bujo.) but that’s not the point the point is dency like helps warren & sheridan build their own book of shadows they were vaguely aware of the concept as the lead singer friend has a bos that she made in like a moleskine notebook however these guys tend to just keep all the information they need in their notes app. but yeah i think these guys would also just really love having someone to Talk To about magic especially someone who they can just like Ask Questions without having to dodge any language or make things seem less specific i do think they also know dency’s probably more powerful that them maybe not by raw power but she’s definitely a more skilled witch than them And Yet In Spite Of That they’re still two years older that her and do sorta shift into big brother mode (a setting they didn’t even know they had!) whenever it seems like dency’s gonna do something really dangerous like these guys were born in 2000 and dency’s in 2002 and it’s really barely a split but like still!! watch out!!!! which dency finds hilarious and tbh they find pretty funny too bc they’re not like great role models (well, sheridan isn’t, warren is studying to be a teacher for like elementary school (or he’s studying hotel management bc i think that’s be funny) so warren does seem more professional/responsible he has less tattoos than is brother but that’s definitely a con bc he is just a stupid and reckless as his twin) but yeah they like really try to fill their Responsible Shoes and be Big Brothers to dency. and then i guess since i’ve brought up teaching here i will answer your final part about dency and teaching i think the halliwells really run magic school i have said in a post many moons back lemme see if i can find it yeah no i can’t okay so i think in ye olden days the elders decided that they need to make magical schools to bring in young witches and train them in powers of good so like every elder at the time picked a location like a source of power and made their own school and the majority of them are named after their founders however i think the elder who made magic school was the captain holt of the elders which is why magic school is entirely beige and called “magic school”. i think he didn’t believe in naming the schools after the elders bc the point is not to glorify the elders to point is to uphold and train good magic. anyways that mentality faded i do think gideon ran magic school for a good chunk of time but did not exceed the amount of time the founder ran it so it was never like His magic school but i think once the charmed ones came along they really started making changes and making it practical something gideon did not do bc he’s an idiot (i’ll tell you what i will link the funniest ask i’ve ever received) and i think you know paige starts recruiting witches especially those without connection to magic to come and learn at magic school and since the charmed ones frequent it so much i do think a lot of witches who might have gone somewhere else or to a more local magic school do try to get into magic school and i think in the magical community is does end up getting dubbed like halliwell academy or even charm school where like almost no one calls in magic school anymore and if they were to get school hoodies it would say like halliwell academy on it. i think piper finds it all embarrassing i think grams does not shut up about it. so yeah i think magic school really is a part of the warren line at this point i think i could definitely see gen2 take up the mantle out of everyone i think most likely to be a professor would be henry jr. i think wyatt would guest lecture i think peyton also has a high potential in regards to dency specifically i’ll tell you what i’d love to see is okay. demons warlocks darklighters they don’t play by the same rules as light magic like “forbidden love” all that fuck that everything’s forbidden what’s an outside relationship to them and we’ve seen in the show like with the manticore baby and even in s1 i’m like 90% sure that darklighter goal was just to knock up daisy the point i’m getting at is a i think there are a lot of kids born of dark magic who just have no clue who or what they are especially if they are raised away from their magical parent and people like paige can’t find them bc they don’t get whitelighters bc they’re not witches but i think having dency find them and like bring you know the children of dark magic to learn i think that’d be a really cool thing i think it’d be a major controversy bc a lot of families would be extremely hesitant like opening up their vast wealth of knowledge to y’know evil beings and yeah i think it’s be fuckin weird if you were born half-demon and find a vanquishing potion for yourself in your textbook like ouch! but i think it’d be really interesting to do. that being said i think i’d slate that for later in life for dency where i have her at now she’s an investigative journalist (also elise is her godmother fun fact) and i think i’d really want to give her a lot of growth and knowledge before she does that But i think it’s be really cool to do

[bettycooperoutfitwatch]

3x01 Chapter Thirty-Six: Labor Day

I’m so hype for this episode’s p e a k summer vibes, I cannot even tell you. These outfits were perhaps the ones I was most excited about diving into, not necessarily for any thematic work they do, but just because I love them. It’s that simple. Summer is ~my season. And from this ep it would also appear to be Betty Cooper’s. 

She has so many different looks here! It’s the most caps I’ve made for an episode so far, topping out at 631 (don’t look at me like that). She wears A Lot of clothing in this episode, in a lot of different iterations—and this post is lengthy as a result. As such, I’m deigning to try out a read more cut on this one, which is a thing I go back and forth on for this blog—but I’ll save that chat for later.

It wounds me how briefly we get to appreciate this adorable look. The denim shorts?? With the rolled cuff? The gingham?? My god. 

I think this dress is incredibly cute (I’ll probably say that a lot this post). Sometimes I think of it randomly and wonder if I can find it for sale on the internet somewhere. I’m just very fond of it. 

There’s a moment here where Archie, Jug, and Betty reminisce about Sweetwater Swimming Hole—Betty doesn’t remember an incident involving some leeches (a la Stand By Me—and not even the most overt allusion to that film this season), but Jug and Archie do. This isn’t the only moment Betty will seemingly fail to recall a childhood memory throughout this season. Put a pin in it. 

Her envelope purse, introduced near the end of season 2.

It’s quick, but we see her pop an adderall in the courthouse. 

Murder me, please, because this is really too cute to be dealing with. 

We saw Betty wear (her first!) white v-neck tee in 220. This might be the same one, it might be new, who knows. The short overalls are defo new tho. 

Please note she wears her hammer necklace to do some work on Archie’s jalopy, which in the comics is called...Betsy. Which is potentially confusing. 

Let’s appresh that Betty has consistently been down to get dirty, as exhibited again and again and again in season 2. 

I am a sucker for a floral Reformation dress! I’m weak. Purple was certainly a season 2 color for Betty, and that carries on here—if in a softer, more lavender-leaning fashion.

It looks like the wardrobe team have made some alterations to the back, too, unless this is an earlier iteration of Refo’s Rosehip dress. 

(Okay, I’m an avid journalist, but damn girl. What’s the date range we’re talking here?)

Betty’s actual bathing suit (as opposed to her daydream suit—but we’ll get to that later) very much falls under the purview of her brand. Am I crazy, or do bathing suits just work for Ms. Reinhart? 

(She also dons a pair of on-brand flip flops I could not capture).

Baby’s first Serpent jacket! Right on top of her pretty purple floral dress, bless. 

And yes, indeed, it has the standard patch. 

Now this purpley pink is indeed a very season 2 color for Betty, worn with her B pendant necklace, another s2 staple. The shirt has a very subtle ribbing to it, too. 

This is a romper, and Betty wears it to both be confronted by her family about what she’s been up to, and to camp out with her friends. 

The points that Alice and Polly make to Betty in this episode—that Betty should not be avoiding the trauma of having a serial killer for a father, that she should not be forging prescriptions for adderall, she should not be faking having a therapist—are not so crazy. That said—the Farm’s anti-medication stance, its burn-your-diaries-and-forget-your-past methods are also not the way to go. No one’s fully in the right here. There’s middle ground to be found.

As an aside, I’ll say that I’m near positive that at this point Alice is fully on board with the Farm, and is not yet an FBI informant. People join cults because they find personal benefits, and community, and because it can better their lives. They don’t join cults knowing it’s a cult. There’s a fine but very identifiable line.

Anyway.

We last saw this bra in the pilot! Betty’s very first scene! Can u believe? She wears it with a lacy high-rise brief in a sea foam or light blue color. As a firm proponent of a mixed set, I can only approve. 

Her post-swim hair is truly fab. Floral Keds!

Betty self-soothes by building some very nice cairns. She talks about quitting adderall, about getting a non-fake therapist.

Hat: model’s boyfriend’s own.  

Short-sleeve floral sundresses appear to be Betty’s summer courtroom go-tos. Love the mustard. 

Towards the beginning of season 2, Betty began to wear a lot of sporty stripes, and these pajamas certainly fit within that space. We’ve also seen her in athletic shorts with piping before.

Maybe she did quit her adderall? Maybe she quit cold turkey and she’s having a reaction because of this. (Guys, never stop a medication cold turkey, t a p e r, with the help of a professional.) Please recall Betty was forging her prescriptions—a criminal offense, but let’s not get into it. She doesn’t have the medical advice to do this the right way. But hallucinations are a not symptom of adderall withdrawal (per the internet.) Hallucinations can occur in a seizure, however.

In addition to...whatever’s going on here, we have two moments in which Betty appears in the subconscious of others in this episode: in seemingly both Archie and Jughead’s daydreams, and later in Archie’s nightmares. Fittingly, one outfit is imagined out of whole cloth (pun); the other, we’ve already seen Betty wear. 

How do we know Jughead and Archie are daydreaming? Well, they’re each given a moment of perspective, and Jughead is wearing a different outfit in each scene.

Jug’s POV.

Arch’s POV. 

It’s hard to get a read on Betty’s suit—but I’m almost positive it is a bathing suit, unlike the skivvies-swim that happens elsewhere in the episode. This trip out to Sweetwater Swimming Hole was preplanned (...in Jug’s daydream), the Labor Day trip was spur-of-the-moment (per Archie’s ‘livin’ his last weekend as a free man’ vibe). It’s a teal color, which we really have not seen her wear at all. It could be a two piece, it could be a one-piece of a similar backless design like her pink polka dot suit, who knows.

In Archie’s version of the dream, his friends go off to live their lives without him. Betty’s wearing the pink denim skirt we last saw in 216, and what looks like a sleeveless denim top (we’ve seen her in two of those before).

Betty and Veronica are indeed wearing the same bathing suits in each day dream, most evident by Veronica’s suit—but you can also see Betty’s straps. This is probably for practical reasons; two costume changes for a wet scene is probably enough to deal with, three is asking a bit much, especially if it can be easily fudged. 

The moods of these scenes are totally disparate, as are their lighting schemes. Jug’s is full of possibility (peep how Betty gives him the eye); Archie is literally being left behind in his. Archie and Jughead are on two separate paths, and here’s your metaphor.

In Archie’s nightmare, we see the gang in their Shadow Lake get-ups from 214. Betty wears her wool moto jacket (a season two outwear staple) and her plaid knit crewneck from that ep. 

Summary: Eight outfits in real life: she changes out of her purple dress to put on her bathing suit, so we’ll count those separately; but she wears the underwear she swims in underneath that romper, so that counts as one. In addition there are two dream outfits, bringing this episode’s total to 10. Whew. 

I Own This: Yeah, you know this, I own quite a few of those Natori bras (but have never swum in one. Yet.)

Key necklace appearances: Key necklace maybe not be as supreme as it once was. We might have to retire this count. 

Best outfit: Excuse u hdu. How am I supposed to pick? I will take one of each.

Please also enjoy this wonderful piece of fanart depicting Betty’s myriad lewks this ep!

[the-kipsabian]

Please do this at your convenience but like. Can you put me together a playlist of what you consider to be Danny's best vocals? Or his best work in general? Nsp, starbomb, skyhill? I just want a good starting place

dude, honestly tho? i would be absolutely honored to do this

k so aaaAAAA lets start with. skyhill i guess since thats the first one on the line? (technically i think northern hues is the first band he was in that published stuff but i havent listened to it myself so i dont knoooow anything about it other than what i just read from a comment on a youtube video and that is that it definitely sounds like the kind of music dan would have made in his stoner days which probably was true lol)

skyhill has a lot of really good chill songs tho? i personally really love ‘the city as you walk’ and ‘black & white’ the most i think - both are like lyrically really nice to listen to and the chorus especially in black & white is just hnggg. its so good tbh. but really any skyhill songs are good! they arents. as advanced vocally as his later stuff obviously, since this band is like. 12 years old at this point at least but its nice chill stuff with honestly really nice but simple lyrics if you want some good stuff to listen to as a break from all the dick jokes and whatnots that nsp and starbomb have to offer tho!

starbomb is honestly a bit more difficult tho cause its like. much more arin-heavy with the raps and such? but! lets not have that fool us cause there are still plenty of quality songs with pretty vocals by dan tho! ..also hahaa i think its needless to say but hey heres a heavy nsfw warning for these songs

‘mega marital problems’ is a personal favorite, mostly cause dan does like. three different voices in this one? and its hilarious. also if you listen in the chorus parts, you can hear the layered singing he does and its honestly just so good mmmm

‘crasher-vania’ i feel like im gonna betray myself if i dont put this on the list for multiple reasons. 1. its EASILY the most popular song on the album. 2. its freaking fantastic, with the story and the lyrics. 3. the chorus, again? (as dan most often did the chorus work on the first album!) it sounds beautiful and especially in the second chorus, you can hear him emoting it out with the lyrics. 4. the background music. if you stop to listen to it, its honestly so good? like, its very simple, yes, but it works and it just sounds awesome. always brings a smile on my face to listen to those tasty keyboard jams ~

im gonna add ‘regretroid’ here too, as its a personal favorite too. but also his voice. goes so high? and it sounds nice?? also this song is just banging with a female feature vocalist! which is real nice!!

as for the second starbomb album! im separating it a little cause woo the boys honestly improve a lot between the albums (which is crazy cause theres only like. a year? year and a half at max? between these two albums so i cant even think how good the third one is gonna sound with five years between albums and how good current nsp sounds lol)

‘smash!’ i gotta mention cause its like. the single song from the album i feel like? also cause mark is in it! and they all sound rad and yeah it doesnt have exactly too much singing but what it has sounds. so freaking good tho mmmmm i lov

‘glass joe’s title fight’ is a must on this tho cause like. this is the one starbomb song thats so much more sing than rap heavy and hngggg its so good

‘god of no more’ okay but. dans vocals in this are gorgeous. and its a super fun song too. so its a win-win

and as a personal favorite, im just gonna throw ‘robots in need of disguise’ here cause i love this song. no other reason really lol

and thennnnn we arrive to the glory that is ninja sex party! i could be a little shit and just say to listen to all lol, but im gonna try to pick things here and there among my favorites! trying to also go by album order with these ~ also nsfw warning for this but idk what you expect with a band called ninja sex party tho

‘nsp theme song’ i mean. come on. you gotta start somewhere so lets go with this lol. and its hilarious (and kinda cute but maybe thats just me lol) and the lyrics are just. well what you’d expect with the name of the song. its very simple vocal-wise, but other than that, grade a stuff tho

‘dinosaur laser fight’ is just a classic, so here you go. its wonderful and weird and animated by arin so aaaaaa!

..also i wanna add ‘objects of desire’ here cause this song is like. lyrical genius tbh. its fucking weird but its also like a ballad so theres some nice vocal stuff here too so yay. thingssssss

‘unicorn wizard’ i honestly wouldnt be true to myself if i didnt add my FIRST nsp song to this list, the one that got me listening to these fools cause mmm. this song is ridiculous and but also lyrics? are so good?? idk how that combo works out but it does and its beautiful. also dannys vocals in the chorus are mmmmm. so solid

‘fyi i wanna f your a’ im not even ashamed to say this is one of my faves tbh. its just. the glorious kind of weird and this is like one of my favorite examples of how well these nerds write lyrics tho? also such a hard song to learn the lyrics tho, but its so worth it, trust me lol. aLSO DAN HARMONIES IN THE SECOND PART GIVE ME SO MUCH LIFE HOLY SHIT

‘let’s get this terrible party started’ gets a special mention cause of the badass jams tbh. also the lyric ‘its a ninja sex party party’ gets me every fucking time. even after five years of listening to this song lol

oooof attitude city is so hard to pick just few songs from tho aaaa. but, as ive done about three from every album so far, lets try that with this one too. tho honestly just. listen to the entirety of attitude city its so good mmm. but. lets start with what i personally feel is the most underrated song on the album, ‘peppermint creams’. i dont think i need to say more than holy shit the emotions tho? especially in the chorus cause mmm. my heart

‘attitude city’ gets here too tho cause like. im personally very nostalgic for this song as it was the first real hype i had for the album so yeah. also its honestly just a really good song. also the video. includes dancing. and we all should know how i feel about dan dancing so mmmMMM im biased as shit i admit it

‘cookies!’ i wanna put this here cause it shows the how stupidly versatile these nerds are with their songs, cause this is badass and silly cute at the same time and hngg. also visually? demon!dan is way too much of a guilty pleasure. judge me all you want i donT CARE

..also i just gotta mention ‘samurai abstinence patrol’ cause of the vocal work. and just cause this song was in progress for four years before this final form and its beautiful honestly. also ‘danny french kissed a girl like he was the king of versailles’ will never get old to me gosh

I SWEAR IM DONE WITH ATTITUDE CITY AFTER THIS but also ‘6969′ is a must to mention. its an eight and half minute song but its just. amazing at everything. beautiful jams and awesome vocals. its gorgeous tbh, a masterpiece

‘cool patrol’. first of all cause apparently i “traumatized” one of my friends by making him watch the video to this and yeah. this is vocally one of my absolute favorites from them tho, dan sounds amazing in both styles, and its just. so positive and cute and aaaaa. its just such an uplifting song i love it

‘danny don’t you know’ cause this one made my cry the first few times i listened to it and its just. so relatable. also fucking beautiful vocals tho and yes the lyrics are personal which makes it even more emotional song. hnggg i love this so much tho cause it just. goes from kind of a ballad to a more of a rock song and its amazing. development similar to the story its telling

‘first date’ i mean. i gotta put my current fave song of theirs here, right? RIGHT? personally i love this cause its just a positive song, in a way i guess, but it stays true to the original nsp style and the lyrics are just perfect for their song about dating tbh. especially with how it just keeps getting gradually weirder and weirder. its just perfection hnggg i love this song. so much. god its so good (honestly tho if you give me a lyric like ‘i’ll take you back to your place and we’ll craft the perfect alibi’ idk how you expect me, a thriller writer, not to absolutely love this song to hell and back)

‘courtship of the mermaid’ idk how you expect me to make a list without this. the emotions in the vocals of this song are beautiful and its, again, hilariously absurd. as a mermaid princess i highly approve of this song

‘mansion party’ its so sad there will probably never be a video of this song cause they want to film it in an actual mansion and so far they havent mentioned that they got a chance to do that so mmmm. cause this song is so fucking banging it deserves a video honestly. the chorus is like. one of the few things in this world that makes me wanna dance. and also theres so many genius lyrics in this that its just pure gold all the way through tbh (also how do you smoke champagne? asking for a friend)

one more i swear, but the whole cool patrol album is so good hngg. but! ‘smooth talkin’’! in all of its absurdity is a must to listen to. its just what the title says, about how smooth danny is with talking to ladies. im not gonna explain more just. it goes as well as you’d expect at this point

..this is already super long but hey did you know we are still missing the two cover albums tho??

‘everybody wants to rule the world’ this one makes me wanna cry every single time. its so nice and emotional and just. a+ vocals. its just beautiful

‘subdivisions’ idk what it is really with this song but these lyrics just fit together with dan’s voice so well its just. hnggg so gorgeous? i mean it might be cause its a rush song but also yeah. its so good

‘africa’ i mean i already told you, but his vocals are so nice in this and they fit into the style of the song so well. plus africa is a beautiful song to begin with so its a win-win really

‘pour some sugar on me’ cause oh boy my pal isnt this song just banging mmmmmmMMMMM

and for the finale! ‘heat of the moment’! like. everything about this song is just really good okay? the vocals and especially the music itself is like mmm i love it?? also the cowbell. idk what it is with that in this song, but it just. it sounds so good with dan’s vocals and aaaaa

..have i rambled enough? is this a good list?? literally just mmm anything from any of these bands is a good listen, these are just mostly my personal faves or what i feel like would be the best representations of what they are about!

[chenlays]

nct dream’s reaction to s/o beating everyone in laser tag

requested ⭐️ i would’ve posted earlier but i kept rewriting a bunch bc i hurt myself mentally :)))) ⭐️ i hope you like it!!!!!!!! if there’s something you don’t like, or something wrong with how i wrote for one of them, pLEASE tell me!!! this is a little new to me, so throw literally any criticism at me i beg ⭐️ also, i’m sorry jaemin isn’t on here :((( it wouldn’t make sense to include him, realistically speaking since he can’t play it. ⭐️ and the gifs were taking too long to load i almost died

mark lee

probably amazed and proud bf™ of your skills. laughs at donghyuck’s saltiness also. doesn’t care if you beat him by almost killing him tbh, is just “you’rE SO GOOD OMG Y E S PLEASE GET HAECHAN”. doesn’t actually scream or say that lowkey wants to but prays u fight that meme-machine. special hug for being awesome,,,,but not so hyuck can see or his roasts will burn and mark doesn’t need pain. so supportive of your laser tag aggression lmao

huang renjun

he’s a lil competitive so he’s shook over his loss (within). is happy you’re the one that won, though. if it was a member of the group, he wouldn’t care and would at the same time? like,,,u lost bby accept it. highkey just wOwed by your surprising stealth and accuracy for this game. big awkward but meaningful hug. he’s a cutie love him n o w he needs it

lee jeno

smiling literally the whole time istg. showers u in compliments but once a younger member says something about either of you he bothers them for like eight hours why. is probably second to last left against you and lets u beat him. if you say something he just,,,”wym i just rly suck at laser tag”. “ok but jeno i’m pretty sure you asking me to get you isn’t you being bad at the game”. angel bby omgmgmmgg he loves u

lee donghyuck

literally asking for a rematch probably. less salty that you won over everyone else, though. didn’t see you at all during the game and doesn’t know you’re the one that got him…..so he blames it on jeno. u never told him the truth. he is loving how good you are at the game and tries to go with everyone more often so he has more reasons to roast. would have to roast himself tho bc he lost but he’s too cute. if there’s literally anything to do with skills related to laser tag he already has ur number up. protect him next time.

zhong chenle

i feel like he’d be pretty good at it, so he wouldn’t realize everyone lost until you got him out and the game ended. did u see him fighting renjun in nct life i’m always laughign. isn’t sad or anything that he lost he’s hyped over a good time. laughs at everyone because they lost and just,,,no remorse for their defeated, sad faces if so. so happy for u

park jisung

so amazed. imagine a coconut with a ‘:0′ face and that’s jisung. can’t really poke fun at anyone because they would probably fight him, but would definitely bring it up quite a lot to kinda tease them all. didn’t expect himself to get really far most likely so he asks you to win for him and is,,,,sCReAmiNg inside because you did!!! wants to cuddle u to death but is ?? and doesn’t end up asking. is really smiley though!!

forgive me

[pryvacychapters]

     I struggled to open my eyes as pain surged through my forehead. Panda standing over me on the phone with her dad, while Alvin laughs hysterically. Veronica rushed over to my side, brushing away pieces of broken glass.

“Oh my God, Kelly you ok.” She shouted.

“That nigga aight.” Alvin laughed as he grabbed an empty champaign glass.

“Kelly I’m so so sorry.” Veronica pouted, also beginning to laugh.

“It’s not fucking funny.” Panda scolded. 

“What happened?” I asked slowly coming to my feet to sit in a chair next to me.

“Ms. Little big secret over here hit you in the face with a champaign cork that somehow, knocked you unconscious for the last five minutes.” Panda replied with anger at what just took place.

“What?...” I retorted, confused and fatigued.

“What the fuck you thought just happened dummy?” Alvin asked, leaning into my personal space.

“I thought... thought I got... yo whatever. My fucking head is killing me dog.”

“Here drink some champaign nigga, welcome back to the party KG we living the dream and you over here going to sleep and shit.” Alvin hands me a glass that he just filled with ‘Ace of Spades’.

“Kelly I was opening the bottle and I don’t know how you got hit I’m so sorry.” Veronica said to me kneeling down to my aid. “I was trying to tell you about our baby.”

“Nigga ya dog died.” Alvin blurted out in a life goes on attitude.

“What?” I jumped up and sat down just as fast, growing dizzy from my head pain and spilling my drink.

“Watch the hair boy.” Veronica scolded as she began stepping back. “He was outside playing and chased a cat into the street and...”

“No.”

“Yes,  the car just kept going.” 

     Vegas... my sweet little blue nose french bull dog. Vegas cost me a pretty penny. I got him when me and Veronica first got together. He was like our baby. He was the only reason we even spoke after the break up. I made a promise to her that if she could take care of him, even if we didn’t work out, I would always have a place in my heart for her. If she ever needed anything all she had to do was ask me. 

“Bro that’s my son.” I said to Alvin, nearly at my breaking point.

“Bro it’s just a dog.” Alvin retorted. 

“That’s not cool bro.” Panda said pulling me into her as she sat on the arm of my chair. “I bet he loved his dog more than ya mother loves that stupid ass cat.”

“Aye bitch leave frisky outta this. I hate that fucking cat but my mother loves that cat more than me. Nigga just had a fucking birthday party and took professional pictures at the Ambitious Shooters studio last week.” He replied.

“So what if Frisky the dumb ass cat died? You gonna tell ya moms ‘Bro it's just a cat’ and expect her to just be over it?” Panda asked him as she looked down on him like she was eight feet tall.

“Aight.” Alvin replied. “My bad... yo look... I’m sorry for your loss, my condolences. Now can we please get back to the party my G? I’m tryna let these ladies know how the Al get down baby.”

“I meet you there bro.” I replied, slapping him five as his insensitive ass left the room. 

“I'm right out here bro.” Panda uttered, as she gestured both hands towards the open door. 

     I put the drink down on a table next to my chair and placed my head in my hands taking a deep sigh. I can’t believe I thought I got shot, Vegas is dead, and I’m in the back of the club with my ex girlfriend drinking champaign. 

“Kelly I’m really gonna miss him.” Veronica said to me as she pulled my hands from my face. “I cried so hard and all I could picture was seeing your face. It reminded me of how much I really loved you.”

“So you wait until now to tell me this. When I’m trying to enjoy my party and have a good time. You wanna pull up with some sad news? Who even let you back here?”

“You still the same fucking Kelly.” Veronica retorted dropping my hands from her grasp.

“I ain’t mean for that to come out like that.” I rebutted. “I just haven’t seen you and this is the first thing we gotta speak about.”

“Well, if you didn’t know this is my Uncle Curtis’s club, so he let me know the so called ‘Runners Crew’ was doing an event tonight. So I decided to come and when I got here I asked Amber, the stripper girl that you was drooling over with the braid in her head. If she could bring you to me so I could talk to you in privacy. When you was knocked out I kinda figured that you was happy to see me. Ya lil friend in ya pants wasn’t too shy.”

     I missed her too. I was just having a sexy ass dream about her when I was unconscious but I can’t tell her that. I just know she looking too cute in that pink skirt... ass still fat... pretty brown skin giving off Nia Long vibes. I should kiss her. I should fuck her right now in this room while I have the chance. 

“Come here.” I told her in a soft tone.

“Boy what you want now?” Veronica replied as she slowly walked towards me. Her thighs sending flames down to her feet with each step towards my yearning for her.

“I said come here.” I reached out towards her, comfortably wrapping my hand around the back of her neck while caressing the small of her back. Veronica looked me deep in my eyes as I began to pull her closer. 

“Aye Vee.” a voice came from the opening door. She grabbed my wrist removing my hands from her body.

“Yo Vee you in... here?”

     It was one of her “uncles” club promoters. He stared from the cracked door. 

“Am I interrupting something?” He asked.

“No babe, I was just talking to an old friend.” Veronica replied seemingly startled. “Christian this is Kelly. Kelly... meet Christian.”

     Veronica walked over to Christian. Falling into his arms like he is all she trust, with confidence in his safety. She kissed him and he returned the passion like he dwelled on the moment to reflect validity of his partake in my position. Sure he may have won this fight, but the battle has just begun nigga. What he failed to realize is whats mines is mines... nobody gets to take. Whats gonna hurt more than that is knowing she’s about to see a nigga get lit with these hoes. I’m sure that shit is just gonna eat her up inside. Guess it’s time to show her that two can play, and three is a party. Truthfully tho... fuck this Fabio looking ass nigga. ‘Get the fuck outta here.’

“Nice to me you bro.” I replied with a big cheese smile on my face. “I’m gonna go and find my friends... I catch up with y’all later.”

     I walked out with more confidence than I’ve had coming to the club at the beginning of the night. My steps felt more steady, it was like my pride got reinforced. Maybe it was my lil champaign nap, but I got the energy to win. 

     We brought more bottles, rolled up some loud, I even got to know shorty wit the fronts in her mouth. Right after she told me her name I forgot it. So I saved her under ‘Baddie Balmain’ shot her a text and she locked me in. Best thing about it was Veronica and Mr. Bozo the Clown watched us the whole night. You know I had to send them a drink... us being old friends and all. A little advice though when you hanging out having fun at the club. Never take...

CHAPTER 6: HYPE

Written by: Joseff C. Baskerville

[thegeminisage]

spoilers: this was an anticlimax

today in the legend of Where Do I Even Go First

i have many new shrines to get, probably

and lots of places to explore

i kind of want to do the story stuff i wonder if any of it is in this province...

nnnnope lmao nevermind

apparently i can also go back to kakariko for a mini story thing

CHOICES, CHOICES...

i guess i’ll start with some light exploring and move on to kakariko if i get bored!

it’s too bad i can’t paraglide with my horse or summon her from nothing, if i could take her everywhere i would

i see a shrine waaay up on a cliff that isn’t technically in this province but the view from there would be perfect and i could paraglide to something else from there

a nice plan, but there’s a bokoblin camp under me LOL so i stopped to kill them first

and died

twice

lol i’m trying to get the hang of this aerial shot technique

well, i still didn’t get it, but at least i made the landing properly

and the thing was VERY easy to take from the top

so fast travel back to the tower and paraglide again this time without stopping

i have a camera now so i can take pictures of That View

i wonder if you get boats in this game...i do see an island way out there and no way do i have enough stamina to swim for it

whoa i found a hole O: and a big monster in the bottom OOO: looks like a giant moblin...i don’t know if i can get back up very easily so i’ll leave it alone for now

oooh no there’s a bokoblin camp in front of the shrine i want and no cover *SIGH*

i do have a pretty good bow rn tho so hopefully i can get a bomb arrow in there to do what needs to be done

arey opu kidding me

it WENT OUT

it started raining and my bomb arrow WENT OUT just before i fired it those are FIFTY RUPEES EACH...

oh my god okay i’ll wait out the rain and try again and maybe i can go back and pick it up ;_;

...no, it’ll probably explode *s i g h*

my fire arrow stays lit and my bomb arrow won’t?! the FUCK

whatever blows shit up i guess

and i died

they got all their health back and my fire arrows are still gone (:

died twice

three times

it occurs to me that i have enough spirit stuff to get a heart upgrade which i desperately need. i am still at 3.

FINALLY

oh wow. oh dude.

holy shit, man. the view from here is uh. terrifying. oh my god, the world is so big. it’s so big.

maybe you gotta paraglide to those islands...? and fast travel to get back...? thats why theres a shrine/fast travel point on this high-ass cliff but i’ve SEEN boats

well, shrine first, jumping into the great abyss second

THERE’S A SUPER GUARDIAN IN THIS SHRINE IT TRAPPED ME HERE NO NO NO FUCK

okay no you know what? bring it bitch i got mighty elixirs i got defense boosters i’ve got haste potions and max hearts up i’ve been cooking up a storm come the fuck at me im sick of being scared of these things

UH? i had EIGHT HEARTS and my defense was boosted and it took me down to a qyarter of a heart in ONE HIT? it must be entirely life draining jesus fuck

I DID IT OH MY GOD

it went through so many stages and the last one was the one hit KO laser but i dodged and i managed to kill it right before it finally got me!!!!! oh my god!!!!!!

WORTH EVERY ITEM I USED UP FUCK YESSSS

im obviously way below my level bc the sword bow and shield i got here are way ABOVE the equipment im currently getting...dang...dang

welp im proud of myself

now that ive got this fast travel point my ass is going back to kakariko to get more HEARTS

“a modest test of strength” my ass......

...just for fun, tho, im gonna paraglide off this cliff. just to see if it can be done.

im screaming?? oh my god i shoulda gone and got hearts first

i landed on the big island, i had to use a stamina potion but i did it...but then a voice told me i had to do this task with no equipment and now im naked and weaponless with THREE HEARTS

my poor son

im crying this island is FULL of monsters im down to one heart already i ran and ran and could find no safe place i found a giant fucking...moblin or something??

how am i supposed to do this if i fast travel do i get my shit back?

lmao i died please put me back on the cliff i’ll go back to kakariko and never return i swear

YES it did thank you @ din nayru and farore yes yes god

me: did not learn my lesson, paraglided to the shrine

there’s a boat here too you MUST be able to use them

lol the last shrine was called “a modest test of strength” and this one is “a major test of strength” so im leaving. forget this. goodbye

aaah but i see stuff out there swimming and jumping around...i wanna explore the ocean!! where are my boats. where is my zora tunic. i wanna be in the water >:(

im aching to try and swim around here but ive learned my lesson...back to kakariko. i need hearts.

ok. +2 hearts & now im at 5. good. time to cook 100000 more things to restock my inventory

its gotten to the point where it could take me literally an hour to cook and sell and cook and sell all the shit i have so im just gonna. leave some in my inventory from now on i guess. i’ll have it if i ever need more lol

i got curious and looked up the boat thing and the headlines on the articles said something about creating wind so maybe im supposed to use a korok leaf??

also looked up a memory location to finish this sheikah slate quest i just wanted one in one of the provinces i’d already visited

waht the FUCK

there’s some kind of big glowy dragon?? in the sky??? i can see it from where im chilling waiting for the rain to pass?? i took a pic & it says “farosh”

my brother texted & said “idk but i shot him and got his scale” so now its ON

IM CHASING HIM AND THERE ARE CLOUDS OF KEESE EVERYWHERE

CHASING! THE DRAGON!

I HAVE TO GO BACK TO ELDIN BRIDGE THAT I WAS TOO WEAK TO CROSS BEFORE!!!

HE’S THROWING ELECTRIC BALLS AT ME

nooo i was too slow he left at dawn...oh my god...all that hype for NOTHING...i will find you again, dude

at least i can cross this bridge now i guess...those lizalfos can’t touch me with my current equipment

cutting this off here lol its quite long enough

[krokonoko]

Pkmn Sun/Moon in hindsight

Sun/Moon was maybe my most anticipated game of 2016. I was hyped MONTHS before the release and soaked in every bit of news and development like a frickin addict.

When the game was finally out... I had a lot of mixed feelings while playin it. I mean, I liked it! But looking back, I noticed how I’m remembering the game decidedly unfavorably. Usually, the moment I’m through with a Pokemon game I already can’t wait to restart it cuz I wanna try it out with new Pokemon. This time? I feel like coming back to Alola in fifty years would be too early. And I’m not alone with that. Some of my friends still haven’t finished the game yet...!

Now I feel like enough time has passed for me to be able to maybe draw some conclusions about Sun/Moon and my experiences with it. Warning: Critical opinions ahead.

(everything I’m writing here is about my experience. If you feel completely different about this, cool. But remember that I’m not claiming any of this to be facts. All I’m sayin is: This is my opinion.)

I feel like speaking about the Sun/Moon games as “the 7th gen” when neither the sister game nor the potential remake is out yet complicates the matter a bit, but for now, this is all we have to go on for this gen. And if things stay as they are now, the 7th gen might be one of my least favourite ones, despite HEAPS of things I absolutely adored about Sun/Moon.

Cuz don’t get me wrong. I don’t wanna dislike Sun/Moon, and they did a lot of things right. But the things they did wrong just made it one of the least worthwhile games in the Pokemon franchise in my opinion.

But let’s start with the positive.

- So many of the new Pokemon are frickin amazing. Not as many as last gen, but. Idk. Every gen, no matter how much I dislike it, gets props for good Pokemon. The idea of the starters per se was really cool and novel, and. Yeah. Uhm. Looking at the list of new Pokemon I’m actually a lot more underwhelmed than I initially thought. Especially cuz my love for so many Pokemon comes with this bitter aftertaste. Like, I love Salandit and Salazzle, but what is UP with Salazzle’s pose and the weird lore surrounding it and WHY did they have to throw all this bs on one of the few cool new Fire type Pokemon we got...? ...Ok we’re in the positive section, so. Yes. Some Pokemon. Really cool.

- Team Skull is a national treasure that must be protected.

- the plot in general was pretty alright. As in, I didn’t hate it. I even was a bit invested? I think this is the Pokemon main line game with the best plot overall. Unfortunately, this brings us to a whole other can of worms, but more on that in the negative section.

- I didn’t hate the NPCs! I even kinda liked some of them? And if you know me, you know I got an affinity for loathing NPCs in almost every single game, especially Pokemon games. But p much every one of the NPCs in this one had a bearable personality. Congrats, S/M, you succeeded where X/Y failed.

- I like the IDEA of Alolan forms, and a handful of Alolan forms are cool.

- The Pokemon Resort is neat.

- I really, REALLY like that they were trying to do something new with this one. Despite everything I’m gonna criticize later, I 100% appreciate their attempt to change things up a bit in terms of graphics as well as formula.

- Last but not least: NO HMs!!! I’m serious, if they keep this feature? Or rather just frickin delete HMs from existence forever? The 7th gen will always be in my good books for that.

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on to the negative. Oh boy.

- I first thought the abolition of gyms and badges was a really interesting idea. I’m always for questioning time-honored traditions in games, and the whole gym-system has got to be one of the oldest traditions of all. All the more admirable is the attempt to try something new instead. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out at all imho. The Island Journey was nothing but confusing to me. When before we had eight gym leaders, eight battles, eight badges and that was it, we now have seven Trial Captains (one of which you don’t even get to exchange more than one line with before the Elite Four) plus a couple of former Trial Captains, four Island Kahunas, eight Totem Pokemon, a FUCKLOAD of Z-Crystals (some of which kinda replace badges) and five Trial Completion stamps. Add to that the Kapus, tho most of them don’t even do anything.

What I’m sayin is: SHIT’S CONFUSING AF. At least for me it was.

And the trials themselves aren’t all that interesting either. I have to fight Yungoos all the time anyway, why do I gotta fight three more as part of this frickin trial? Why does the trial itself often feel like it’s just stalling?? And while I found Kiawe’s trial hilarious, it’s just... it’s nothing that could replace gyms for me, ya feel?

Here’s what I think is the problem: Removing the gyms made me realize that they’re not just an old tradition of the games, but part of the absolute core of what makes a Pokemon game a Pokemon game. Training for the gym, fighting your way through the trainers until you finally reach the strongest of them and battling it out? That’s so frickin satisfying! And not just that, it also gives you a sense of progress. 

And replacing that with this confusing Island trials that sometimes are Pokemon fights, but can also be puzzles that range from alright (Mallow’s trial) to just. Really. Idiotic. (Sophocles’ trial) ...Idk it just removes all sense of progress you had. No matter what, gym leaders are figures of authority. But in this case, there were just SO many trials thrown at you left and right, you couldn’t really take this new NPC seriously that the game just shoves into your face in order to provide you with Steelium Z or whatever.

Idk. Maybe the games just can’t do without the gyms. Maybe there’s a way to replace them. This was not it.

- The Z-Crystals. When I said I’m always in favor of trying something new with old established game laws? Yeah. Sometimes this turns out wrong. Sometimes, it’s “doing something new just so that you’ve got some BIG NEW COOL THING” .

You know, I never was a huge fan of the whole concept of Mega Pokemon? As in. I liked that Pokemon could only evolve so many times and could NOT evolve back, cuz that was something that set it apart from other franchises revolving around trainable monsters. This was a time-honored tradition I LIKED. But I wasn’t super against mega evolutions either. I was just kinda. Neutral on it.

But the fact that it turned out to be nothing but a fad which they quickly tried to retcon and replace with these dumb frickin ~*~huge strong attack~*~ things? That shit drives me NUTS. We had to spend the entire sixth gen getting lectured by every NPC about how special and important and mysterious mega evolutions were, just so that they could drop that shit entirely?? For what, ~*~stronger attacks~*~?? Jesus CHRIST with a man bun.

With mega Pokemon, I at least KIND of see the appeal. But the Z-moves? The animations get SUPER tedious after using the move twice. You’re pretty overpowered the entire game through anyway. I don’t WANT these ugly crystals, I was already annoyed with the mega stones, you’re gonna drop it for some new hot shit next gen anyway, get this shit AWAY from me >:/

- The endless. Frickin. Hand-holdies and stalling. Usually, after the first day of playin a new Pokemon game? I never wanna put it away. I just wanna keep playin and playin. The first day of playin S/M, I actually hated the game with every fiber of my being, and it felt terrible. That never happened to me before. Slight annoyance with the game? Yeah. Actual friggin hatred? Never!

The way the game kept stalling and stalling and dragging its feet killed every last bit of the INTENSE excitement I started out with. You wake up, you go talk to someone, day’s over, you wake up again, go talk to someone again, blaah blaaah blaaaaah... I think it takes you half a frickin hour of playin before you get your first frickin Pokemon...! You know how long it usually takes to get your first Pokemon in p much EVERY SINGLE POKEMON GAME?? Not even FIVE MINUTES. 

Maybe they thought they needed to ease us into the new setting and all but OH my GOD I just wanted everyone to SHUT. UP already and let me start my frickin Pokemon journey! Which usually, you do not long after you got your first Pokemon. Not in S/M, however. You gotta watch cutscene after cutscene, klick through heaps of uninteresting dialogue, and when the NPCs finally let you set out? They’re still there. Always. Interrupting you. Talking to you. Explaining things to you that every frickin child can find out by themselves. Which, incidentally, p much all of us did. When I was ten, I played the red version, which explained NOTHING except for how catching Pokemon works, and I STILL FUCKING MANAGED. And ten-years-olds today aren’t dumber than we were back then! And this quenches every bit of desire you have to find out things by yourself.

LIKE. You see your first patch of grass. ALL you wanna do is THROW yourself into that thing, roll around in it until you’ve seen all the new Pokemon and askdhkasdh. But the moment you prepare to leap, the game goes “Hey, wait -insert player name-! Ha ha, it is me, an NPC! How are you and your Pokemon getting along? I see you’ve discovered this patch of grass, but let me warn you-” AND THEY KEEP GOING ON FOREVER and they just, IDK, EXPLAIN that there are Pokemon in there which you KNOW and you wanna GO and follow your innermost desires as a gamer and DO THE THING. But the game. Won’t. Let you. Until it’s stalled all of your excitement to death.

And you really feel like the game’s taking you for an idiot what with how the NPCs guard and guide your every step. I have never played a Pokemon game that felt so much like I was on rails, and the NPCs decided how fast I go, where I stop and even where I move my fucking head. Every part of the island is sealed off so that I can only go there when the game WANTS me to. Yeah, this is an element that’s always been THERE in Pokemon, certain points you can’t pass before you’ve fulfilled this and that task. Tho I mean. In the very first game, they basically let you decide in which order to take on the last gyms by yourself. In S/M tho? It’s just egregious how you can’t take a SINGLE STEP without having to get some NPC’s permission first.

Basically, this is a problem Pokemon has been suffering from for a while now. Have a short look at this Sequelitis video in which Arin explains exactly what the issue here is. Watch until 22:15. S/M did everything wrong in that regard. You don’t gotta constantly nag at the player to, whatever, go into this school and fight a bunch of kids or we won’t let you continue on your journey. We play Pokemon. Because. We like. Pokemon battles. We WANT to explore the world. We WANT to find and catch and train more Pokemon. But making all that a guided and guarded task makes it feel tedious. To quote Arin: It’s annoying. It feels like your mom and creates an “you can’t tell me what to DO” attitude.

When you played Pokemon back in the days of R/B/Y, G/S/C or R/S/E, you didn’t play the game to save the world from Team Rocket or Team Magma/Aqua. What I mean is... People sometimes act like the plot is what makes a good Pokemon game. But I think the exact opposite is the case: Pokemon games don’t need a plot. Sure, throw an evil team to defeat in if you want to. But don’t make it the REASON why I’m on this journey. This is what made B/W so stale and terrible for me. You only need to watch the intro-animation of the game and you’ll see it: They prioritized plot and NPCs over what this game should be about: Your Pokemon journey. And the more the plot is trying to butt in on this journey, the more NPCs just keep holding you back with making you click A a bunch, the more detrimental it is to the game.

To make it short: Didn’t you always hate it when you stepped outside the first few towns, ready to take on the Pokemon world, make new Poke-friends, train them and love them and catch them all and- wait, there is the guy who teaches you how to catch Pokemon in a two minute tutorial you can’t skip. Doesn’t this kind of bum you out for a second there? Yeah, that’s what the first, IDK, SIX HOURS or so of S/M felt like to me...!

This also leads to the replay value of the game tending towards zero. I usually play through a Pokemon game many times cuz I wanna try out as many Pokemon as possible. But while I found the plot reasonably entertaining while it was all new to me, clicking through it again will be the biggest frickin hassle.

If I’m being super honest, I feel like they did this to drag out the game time. I remember that when I first played X/Y I was through the game in two days. Cuz if you switch on the EP-share, you don’t need to do anything anymore, you just fly through the entire game, which makes it a bit dissatisfying as well. And X/Y had its share of NPCs that were holding you back at the start of every new Route, telling you what to do and why you should go down this one-way-street to speak to Professor Sexypants or whatever. But with S/M, it really felt like they were trying to make up for a smaller world. Which leads me to the next part.

- Not a fan of the graphics and the overhauled world-structure. I liked the little chibi-Trainers. Especially in the sixth gen. They were perfect. The trainer models in this game just look awkward imho. But that’s not my biggest concern. That honor goes to the new world structure.

The overworld in Pokemon used to be grid-based. So every object was placed in a grid and you were forced to walk on a grid, which they kind of broke up a little in the sixth gen, in a good way. But this time they went with an organic, natural world. And this. Just. Doesn’t work. The way they did it at least. A rectangular patch of grass is okay in a grid-based world. In an organic world a huge patch of grass with nothing else in it... just looks goofy and kinda empty. And that leads to the whole world feeling this little bit. Empty. The rooms are huge, but you can’t interact with anything. The furniture is prettily rendered, but what use is this pretty couch when I can’t even SIT ON IT?? We used to be able to sit on things, GF...! And this may seem like a minor concern but it’s just so symptomatic for everything wrong with the environmental design.

Which is a shame cuz I bet they put in a lot of effort into your surroundings. Unfortunately, removing the grid probably made that a bit more challenging, which lead to the routes becoming smaller. Or at least feeling smaller.

I don’t even wanna get started with how much the camera angle annoyed me most of the time...!

But back to the trainer models. Another problem that was really bothering me about the trainer models was the battle intros. The illustrations in the sixth gen are maybe the best battle intros the franchise has ever seen. Ken Sugimori’s style has evolved so much, and every character was designed with so much care! Every single one of them had so much character and I love just looking at these guys, the Delinquent, the Sky Trainers, the Artist Family... Such great designs, so much soul!

But with the new models replacing the illustrations, we had cameras zooming in on blurry and pixelated faces with uncanny valley-ish expressions and blank stares. They could’ve used the new models to give each trainer a different pose or expression, especially upon losing, but they didn’t even do that. And the unfazed, always smiling face of the protagonist has long become a meme. We also had a significantly less amount of trainer models to fight against. The trainer classes stayed roughly the same in amount, but they re-used the models constantly. To me this just. Smells like unfinished work.

- I think it’s p cool the game is set on Alola. It’s refreshingly different from everything we’ve had before. The team definitely did their research and put a lot of effort into depict a fictional version of actual Hawaiian culture. But compared to X/Y, where we had so many different shades of environmental design, so many cool atmospheric locations, S/M just felt. Bland with its repeated happy-go-lucky-island-vacation mood.

- what was the frickin photo feature even there for. I was so here for a mini Pokemon-Snap, but what we got was just disappointing.

- What the fuuuuck is up with the Pokedex entries. Can we take that ~*~dark and edgy~*~ shit away from my Pokemon game please?

smaller complains include:

- the introduction of a quest diary was nice and the Rotom-Dex was cute, but ultimately useless and annoying. It constantly badgered and reminded you about quests that were impossible to avoid while completely staying silent about those that could very easily be forgotten.

- While I mentioned that I like the IDEA of Alolan Pokemon, I hate how they were mostly just trolling with them. Instead of more cool stuff like Alolan!Ninetales or Alolan!Marowak, they gave us Dugtrio and Graveler with hair.

- fuck the fact that when it comes to trainer customization and clothes, an entire array of colors were missing from my game just cuz I got Sun. If you trainer is customizable, you gotta go all the way and not make it ridiculously complicated for one half of your players to get clothes in a color they want.

- while we’re at it: fuck the Festival Plaza. Shit’s confusing, counter-intuitive and boring.

- What the FUUUCK was up with that Ash!Greninja thing? They were obviously planning on making this the next big thing, you know, Pokemon taking on features from their trainers. But then it probably got too complicated with all the Pokemon and all the customization features, so they dropped it. But why introduce Ash!Greninja then?? Do I look like Ash? No! I don’t even watch the fucking show! Do I know this Greninja? Fuck no I don’t! So why do we have this ~*~special bond~*~ or whatever is necessary for that thing to change its form?? What was that entire useless fucking gimmick except a reminder of what could’ve been?

- SOS battles are the most annoying feature in the history of ever. Had they just given us wild Pokemon encounters DOUBLE BATTLES, like we had them in D/P/P or B/W!! Anyway, just. Go look up “SOS battles Pokemon annoying” and you’re gonna see enough ppl explaining why this feature was the last thing we needed.

- I’m REALLY not part of the git gud crowd. I think Pokemon shouldn’t be too hard. For example I think it’s a nice touch to always show which attack is how effective against what. But the fact that status conditions don’t do shit anymore is a bit sad. The Pokemon either heals itself after two rounds, or you can just pet the poison away in a ~*~fun minigame~*~ with graphics stolen right of the 00′s.

- Legendaries are the fucking cancer that kills this franchise, and after X/Y and its mercifully low number of legendaries (six, to be exact, which is a number so low in fact that we haven’t seen it since the second frickin gen), I thought we’d finally reached the point were GF is over spamming us with these fuckers that are good for nothing except trials of patience. And S/M with this friggin TERRIBLE post-game-plot of “hey here’s two dozen legendaries. Catch them plz and u get munz.” Without even the EXCUSE of a plot. Just. *throws hands up* Fuck this.

- OH AND ALSO fuck GF for not giving the Litten crowd the quadrupedal fire tiger they deserved.

Thiiiis got a lot more negative than intended. But as I said initially, I’m surprised myself at how many negative emotions I have towards this game, despite the fact that I actually enjoyed it while playing it.

Generally I think this game just feels majorly unfinished to me. I’m very interested in Stars and whether it’s gonna be better or worse than it’s predecessor. In any case, I can only hope that Pokemon will stop centering around dialogue-heavy interaction and realize why we’re all really playin this game: To be the very frickin best, like no one ever frickin was.

And that p much concludes my rant. Anything you disagree with, anything you feel the same about? S’alright, we can talk it out ^^