#.surprising no one i chose the main verse

[parabelllvm]

"i ... thought you were going to kiss me." (Whatever verse you'd like but I imagine a very flustered Chris having to admit to Ki why he got surprised and threw himself backwards, probably hurting himself in the process, when she happened to get closer. Not rejection. Just reflex.)

…Oh.

If she's being truly honest, she doesn't quite know how she should respond to that. On one hand, Kiara knows that she wasn't trying to kiss him — knows that she'd just gotten a little too close to pluck something from his hair and flick it away. She'd be the first to admit that she'd been eager to do so, with a smile stretching across across her lips as she leaned closer to Chris. She hadn't lingered any longer than she had to… but that wasn't the point; the closeness and the lean were what Chris reacted to. It's what caused him to jerk back so suddenly — to the point of practically stumbling away from her. It looked like it hurt, perhaps, with the hurried way he stepped back from her…

It probably did.

“I…I wasn't going to kiss you, Chris.” she tells him, brows tenting a bit as a mix of concern and confusion inches it's way onto her expression. “You had something in your hair…”

Something that, as she looks up to the top of his head, is now gone.

“It's, um… gone now so…” The fae trails off for a maybe moment before speaking up again, a sheepish expression on her face. “I'm sorry if I surprised you; I wasn't trying to.”

“You didn't hurt yourself, did you?”

It isn't a rejection ( or is it? ) and she knows that some part of him had just… reacted. However, Kiara can't help but listen to the self-conscious little voice at the back of her head that tells her that she's doing too much. “He reacted like that… because you got too close. He knows you have feelings for him.” it said, in a chastising tone of voice, “And that was his answer to them”

"I Thought" prompts | @desiderium-eden

[akutasoda]

Hii!! Could I request Obey me brothers with a mc who dresses like misa amane from death note? If not don’t worry!! Have an amazing day/night!<333

stylish fashion

synopsis - when mc has a fashion similar to misa amane

includes - lucifer, mammon, leviathan, satan, asmodeus, beelzebub, belphegor

warnings - gn!reader, fluff, wc - 789

a/n: hii! hope you're having an amazing day/night too!

lucifer ★↷

↪to many demon's surprise, lucifer can be quite into his fashion. while it may be more tailored toward formal wear and jewellery, he still had quite the eye for such things.

↪so he did think your style was quite bold at first. bold, but absolutely stunning. it just seemed to work so well for you and he couldn't help but compliment each of your outfits even if he had seen it before.

↪and because of his eye in jewellery, if you were the type, he would gladly take you out and help pick some to complete your look and still perfectly compliment your outfits.

mammon ★↷

↪ he's a fashion demon. he does regular photoshoots for mainly clothing companies and such so he thought he had seen majority of styles in the off hand chances of passing by other models.

↪and sure he's seen demons wear similar style clothing to you, but for some reason it suited you so much better. that and your outfits and their coordination worked so much better.

↪ isn't his style but would be more than happy to help you adf pieces into your collection by showing you all the best brands for your style.

↪and maybe if you chose to, he'd happily try and get you into a modelling gig with him. perhaps then you could help him pick a outfit in your style.

leviathan ★↷

↪he really couldn't draw his eyes away from how gorgeous he found your style. so much so that he felt a bit weird for staring at you.

↪he just couldn't help it! you're outfits were always stunning and he honestly wished he had your confidence to wear a similar style to yours.

↪he is quite well versed in various fashion/clothing shops surprisingly. so he would happily tell you were they were so you could add more pieces to your collection and maybe he would join you and help pick some for you aswell.

↪ however, he is also very good at carfting from scratch. most of his cosplays are hand made, the clothing mostly, so should you find out he would happily oblige in taking your requests.

satan ★↷

↪to absolutely no one's surprise he has limited knowledge of fashion. sure he may claim he's read books with that stuff in but that can't really be translated into the real world of fashion.

↪but he didn't have to be into fashion to think your style was absolutely amazing. you really never missed with a gorgeous, well planned outfit that always complimented your features.

↪he had to say, he loved the style. it would definitely become one he would be interested in, perhaps a more toned down version but still.

asmodeus ★↷

↪adores it an unbelievable amount. need i say more.

↪ it's no surprise asmo likes to dive into various styles and such, so when something with great fashion like you? it would be a crime not to ask.

↪while it probably wouldn't be a style he'd wear, he still thought it was absolutely brilliant. he loved all the accessories you'd sometimes where and even loved the more simpler outfits.

↪ probably knows the best places in the devildom to match your style. so would never hesitate to take you and help you expand your wardrobe.

beelzebub ★↷

↪another one that doesn't really have knowledge in fashion. it's not that he doesn't care, it's just not his main priority.

↪he rhought you looked stunning regardless of what you wore. but he did have to say, some of your outfits had a very nice look to them and he could understand why you had a strong fashion sense.

↪if you wanted to, he'd happily let you try your style of him. while it probably didn't match him like it matched you, he would still keep some accessories you tried on him.

↪ones that he could wear subtly. but he still could admire your outfits and the dedication you had to having such a fashion sense.

belphegor ★↷

↪ probably the worst when it comes to fashion. he spends most his time asleep and rarely cares about the styling of his clothes so has very limited knowledge on fashion.

↪ didn't really care how you dressed. if you were wearing something that made you comfortable and confident that's all that mattered in his opinion. although he couldn't help but admire the dedication.

↪he figured it must take you ages to coordinate and complete your outfits and pull them off each time, something he'd never really bother with.

↪ although his favourites were definitely your more 'casual' and comfortable outfits. the ones were it was mainly a top and pair of pants. those he could really get behind.

[lazytoufu]

My birthday gift! It’s the good opportunity for sharing my art here.

Inspired by @siera-knightwalker work. Thank you for awesome story! I love your AC works so much💜

SURPRISE! I’d like to say I really into fanfic with all verse stuff! Soulmate verse are one of it. It’s funny to work with it. I’d done a lot on fixed thing before it became this release ver(It took surprisingly longer due to my blog dysfunction as you may know) so mostly got renovated hahaaa bg and colouring I decided to add it later. I know there’s only Karma pretty face here, but I think you have seen Shuus pretty faces a lot in Once Upon A Dream comic. I think I like Karma’s face here hehee flower boy~ A hint of Korosensei is so funny. he’s always loved lovey dovey stuffs(tm)!

Add: it’s honestly surprising that I chose ‘soulmate’ as my birthday present as the same as the gift @tuulikannel on soulmate to me, how coincidence.

The original work, here you go!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43930206#main

[jacksgreysays]

Hello. I was reading your Star also dream fic. Also watching star wars clip. And I was wondering what would happen if shikako and others, or just shikako meets 'Yoshino's clones'?

Hi demoniorangel!

I’ll be honest I at first did not understand your question because when you said Shikako meets Yoshino’s clones I for some reason thought you meant that someone had cloned Yoshino? And was very confused. But then I realized you probably meant the clone troopers that would have served alongside padawan!Yoshino.

But before I realized that my brain weirdly thought, maybe people meet Shikako and think SHE’S a clone of Yoshino? But realized that wouldn’t really go anywhere.

Anyway!

Like I mentioned before, I haven’t properly consumed Clone Wars so most of what I know about it is through fanfiction, as well as what I know of Bant Eerin—and one of the main reasons why I chose her to be Yoshino’s master is that there was no confirmation on how she died (whereas some other candidates I had in mind had definitive death scenes which I didn’t want to stumble through and muck up) as well as the fact that as a Healer-Knight she wouldn’t be on the front lines as much and thus padawan!Yoshino wouldn’t be either.

I was trying to figure out if Bant and Yoshino would even have an assigned battalion(? or legion or company?) given they would most likely be backline/reinforcements but they probably would because 1) a devoted battalion(?) specifically designed to come in after a battle and clean up/reinforce the planets where the more offense-oriented battalion(s) had cleared the way makes sense and 2) Palpatine’s whole evil scheme relied on the clones overpowering through sheer numbers and surprise.

ANYWAY, so that would mean I’d have to make up some clone troopers who were part of said relief/reinforcement battalion(?) and especially some who were close to their Jedi counterparts and even more especially fond of their padawan commander enough to recognize some of her features in her daughter several decades later…

… unless…

… Jumping off that same previous prompt post (ie Shikako and Commander Fox interacting), Shikako has been summoned to the height of the Clone Wars—which would have been time travel within the Stars Also Dream verse anyway—and people mistake Shikako and Yoshino for each other? Or, at least, think Shikako is Yoshino’s long lost older biological sister as opposed to her time traveling daughter.

But that would make the as of yet unnamed clone troopers and/or preteen Yoshino the ideal POVs since outside POV being baffled by time traveling Shikako is way more fun than inside POV of Shikako realizing it’s 1) Star Wars, 2) the Clone Wars, and 3) that her Mum was secretly a Jedi as a youth and her having to adapt to a new world by which I mean the wider galaxy where she is very often on the backstep…

Actually that does sound fun also.

Hm… anyway, as to your question:

A) No time travel, decades later

The clones who would recognize Yoshino’s features in her daughter decades later must be absolutely wracked with guilt, enough to see her face in their minds often enough to see it in Shikako. I recently read glimmerglanger’s Haunt Me, Then in which the Jedi benignly haunt their troopers after the war. It is a Codywan fic and thus focuses on Cody trying to atone for his part in the Jedi genocide in order to see the ghost of Obi-Wan. I don’t want to get into it any further than that but it is very good and sad (which you know I love)

Anyway, to that same effect, a very minor background of this would be Bant and Yoshino’s battalion(?) eventually being freed from the chips and joining in and healing/leading the charge on the de-chipping because their jedi had been healers themselves and they’d see the ghost of Bant but not Yoshino and that would give them hope, maybe, because they remember Bant shoving Yoshino into an escape pod and sending it off without taking time to calculate the hyperspace jump (hence why she crashes into the previously unknown Naruto planet) and therefore there is no confirmed kill by a clone. But such a thing is dangerous and she was a very young padawan and would she have survived long so there are those who are metaphorically haunted by the mystery of what happened to their padawan commander.

And then they see Shikako and are like… that age is incorrect because Shikako is ~mid teens whereas Yoshino would have been preteen when Order 66 happened so that’s obviously not Yoshino… unless? And she has WEIRD abilities… so like… that’s probably not Yoshino… (unless???)

I think, weirdly enough, what would make it definitely clear that Shikako is not Yoshino is when she brings out her Sword of the Thunder God and it’s like. NO. YOSHINO HAD A GREEN LIGHTSABER NOT A YELLOW ONE (maybe that’s their armor paint color?)

And then they realize… Yoshino had a tubie!!

Anyway, depending on how Shikako got off planet (and whether or not Yoshino knows/is following) determines how the clones react. But now it’s a bunch of clone troopers trying to keep Shikako safe even as she runs around doing her own thing (until Yoshino arrives)

B) Time travel, before Order 66

This would probably just be part of the Commander Fox fic that I’m not going to write, as adding to the information that Fox is collecting on the unsub making her way toward Coruscant—briefly the Bant-Yoshino battalion(?) intersect with Shikako’s travel to Coruscant and there’s a very bewildering moment where Shikako realizes her mum was a jedi and never told anyone while Yoshino thinks she has a biological older sister (Who may or may not be dark depending on how Shikako feels in the force?) or at the very least some kind of relative and that really muddies up the theories of maybe Shikako is a Jedi or Sith from the very distant past or maybe she is Yoshino’s older sister who was raised by the Dathomirian Night Sisters or maybe someone cloned Yoshino in an attempt to clone Force sensitives (although why they’d start with a new padawan and not someone, like say, the Hero with No Fear is bewildering) etc. etc.

Either way it’s Shikako coming in and being alarming and Yoshino’s clone troopers chasing after her lol

[xtruss]

The Comic-Book Aesthetic Comes of Age in “Across the Spider-Verse”

The Spider-Man sequel might be the first superhero film to take full advantage of what comic-book art can achieve onscreen.

— By Stephanie Burt | June 14, 2023

Each of the Spiders in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” brings not just an art style but a personality and a backstory.Art work by Aymeric Kevin / Courtesy Sony Pictures

The latest comic-book movie associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” certainly knows what kind of film it is. Most of the movie follows Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, two animated teen-aged Spider-People, but, for the sake of the fandom, live actors from live-action blockbusters make surprise cameos. Gwen quips at one point that Doctor Strange—last seen in the M.C.U.’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”—should not practice medicine. Miles’s high-school roommate references another audience favorite, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017), when he tells Miles, “I’m not your guy in the chair.” Inevitably, there is a meme-inspired scene of Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man. This is the kind of self-aware fan fodder that, in lesser films, might feel tired.

And yet “Across the Spider-Verse,” which came out on June 2nd, does something that no live-action superhero movie has done before—or can do. It leans hard into, and emulates onscreen, the storytelling devices and the visual flair that make comic books special. Even more than its predecessor, “Into the Spider-Verse” (2018), the film feels designed to show young people, many of whom were raised on superhero movies, why they might care about the comics that launched these characters. It does this so well that, at a time when some Marvel movies haven’t been doing so hot at the box office, “Across the Spider-Verse” has already raked in nearly four hundred million dollars. At 7 p.m. on a Wednesday night, with local schools still in session, my seventh grader and I found most of the seats in our suburban multiplex full.

The first scene in the movie reintroduces us to Miles’s long-distance best friend, Gwen Stacy of Earth-65, a.k.a. Spider-Gwen (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld). Her world looks painterly, as if rendered by brushes and pastels; she often appears in Expressionist shades of blue and pink. That’s how the rest of the film will roll: each Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, or Spider-Villain, and each new Earth on which they live, has its own eye-popping art style. Miles (voiced by Shameik Moore), a Black Puerto Rican physics star who draws in all his notebooks, inhabits a world that evokes hip-hop album covers and graffiti. Miguel O’Hara, or Spider-Man 2099, comes with clean lines, techno details, and RoboCop vibes. Spider-Byte appears as a glowing avatar like the nineteen-eighties film “Tron.” Pavitr Prabhakar, a.k.a. Spider-Man India, swings through his home city of Mumbattan, all tropical colors and curvy architecture. (When characters move between dimensions, they pass through a portal made of hexagons—a basic geometric unit of Hollywood animation.)

Almost all of these characters existed in comic books before they hit the screen, and, crucially, all of them have what the scholar Hillary Chute identifies as the core property of comics: they look like somebody chose to draw them. They bear the mark of their creators’ hands. The Spot, a villain who sets the movie’s main plot in motion, looks like a blank page splattered with ink; each of his splotches opens up a little wormhole, in the same way that the pen stroke of a comic can open up another world. The animators of the film owe a lot to Marvel’s comic artists: the credits thank a “Black Panther” illustrator, Brian Stelfreeze; a co-creator of Miguel O’Hara, Rick Leonardi; and the nineteen-eighties titan Bill Sienkiewicz. All three have contributed to the making of “Across the Spider-Verse.”

The film’s version of Miguel O’Hara (voiced by Oscar Isaac) behaves like a stern, bad Spider-Dad. He resolves to stop Miles from disrupting something called a Canon Event—a plot development so important that it has to happen in every parallel world, lest the entire universe be at risk. “You break enough canons,” Miguel warns, “and we could lose everything.” He sounds almost like a Marvel Comics editor, telling writers that they can’t go too far. (One writer, Grant Morrison, called their longest project at Marvel “more like a prison than a playground.”) In the tradition of print comics, the film offers explanatory notes in 2-D colored boxes; some of them, in an homage to the comics of the nineteen-seventies, are even signed “--Ed.,” for editor.

Like all the best teen superhero comics, “Across the Spider-Verse” hints, or more than hints, at real-life dual identities. The colors that tend to accompany Gwen, blue and pink, are the colors of the transgender flag. A poster in her bedroom says “protect trans kids,” and her father, a police officer who initially has no idea that she is Spider-Gwen, sports a trans-flag pin on his uniform. Gwen tells Miles that her parents “only know half of who I am.” She also wears her hair in an asymmetrical undercut—which, my seventh grader told me, is often a sign of trans or nonbinary identity among Gen Z. (It should not be confused with a half-and-half, my seventh grader added.)

Miles and Gwen both have well-intentioned cops for dads, who try hard but can’t seem to stop enforcing rules. In one scene, Miles tells his father, “Men of your generation ignore their mental health too long.” In part for this reason, Miles and Gwen feel the kind of solidarity that young people can share only with one another. When they finally get some tender alone time above a twilit Brooklyn, Gwen asks Miles, “How many people can you talk to about this stuff?” He tells her, “You don’t even know.” That’s what happens when trans people meet one another, too—something that the Internet pointed out right away. (This isn’t the sole Spider-Man film to be interpreted as an L.G.B.T.Q.+ allegory; some viewers saw Tom Holland’s Spidey as transmasculine, too.)

“Across the Spider-Verse” is a sequel, but it’s arguably the first superhero film to take such full advantage of what comic-book art can achieve. At the Guggenheim Museum, Gwen has to fight a version of an old Spidey villain, the Vulture, who looks, in her words, like a “big flying turkey from the Renaissance.” He’s drawn in the style of ink on parchment, with the scratchy, busy lines you’d expect from a goose-quill pen. He’s not just from another Earth but from a different artistic universe. Elsewhere, several Spider-People chase Miles across the body of a rocket and up what appears to be a space elevator. Theoretically, C.G.I. could help live actors imitate some of these stunts—but not in such colors, and not with such dynamism and glee. In another sequence, Miles races a moving subway train while he fights a pangolin-esque villain, who rolls up in an armored ball. In a live-action film, the scene would cost a ton and still look cheesy. With animation this artful, it’s all part of the fun.

Comics are at their core a visual medium. “Everyone’s first response to your work will be to the visual aspect,” Brian Michael Bendis, the co-creator of Miles Morales, wrote, in his 2014 book about creating comics, “Words for Pictures.” In a comic, the script has to serve the art, which in turn has to serve the characters. And this script does. Each of the Spiders brings not just an art style but a personality and a backstory: tragedy for Miguel, teen heartbreak for Gwen, dad jokes for Peter B. Parker, that lovable sad sack from “Into the Spider-Verse.” (There’s even a Spider-Baby.) Each character and each gadget—one is called a Go-Home Machine—says something about generational change. Today’s kids may feel that they can’t live up to adult expectations and still be themselves. Where, if anywhere, can they find heroes?

Maybe Gen Z could find them in superhero comics, but it’s not clear that they’re reading many. The best-selling U.S. single-issue comic book of all time remains “X-Men No. 1,” published in 1991, which moved more than eight million units; in the past ten years, the best-selling superhero comics have tallied half a million instead. “The captive audiences of the pandemic era are out doing other things,” the comics journalist Heidi MacDonald wrote this year. When Zoomers read comics, it’s often via online platforms such as Tapas and Webtoon, which span genres from high fantasy to romance, or else in all-ages, slice-of-life graphic novels. (“Guts,” by Raina Telgemeier, was America’s most-purchased book—not comic book, book—one week in September, 2019.) “Across the Spider-Verse” could help to boost printed comics. Marvel has leaned hard on movies to promote Spider- titles, including the made-for-mobile online comic “Spider-Verse Unlimited.” Viewers who want to read stories that look like the Spider-Verse might also check out recent issues of “New Mutants,” by Vita Ayala and Rod Reis, in which feelings are more important than fisticuffs, and the expressive art fits the strong emotions.

“Across the Spider-Verse” is full of astonishing action, but a quiet scene midway through, when Miles and Gwen finally get a moment together above Brooklyn, might be the most affecting in the film. It lets viewers—including my rapt seventh grader—contemplate what young people want from one another, what they can never get from adults. Perhaps it’s a budding romance. Perhaps it’s trans bonding. These moments set up the conflict that comes later, when Miguel O’Hara tells Miles what he must do for the multiverse, and Miles, facing a superhero-level trolley problem, just says no. And the whole thing takes place, beautifully, with Brooklyn inverted: Miles and Gwen, using their tenderness, and also their powers, conduct the whole conversation upside down. ♦

[adenial-a]

detailed league of legends verse under the cut cuz i really really need to make one .

main league of legends verse :

ㅤㅤlovek is a vastayan former noxian noble , a love child that is considered a stain on his families honor not because he is vastayan but because his father abandoned his nation to continue the love between himself and lovek's mother . lovek was left behind because of the rash decision , and his grandparents were left to raise the young child . ㅤㅤthey were harsh & unforgiving with lovek , making certain to instill how much of a fuck up lovek's very existance really was , and how he had to atone for his father's behavior by becoming an excellent representation of noxus as a whole . ㅤㅤthe young vastayan trained as a soldier in varying schools , sponsored by other nobles due to the begging of his grandparents and their rather large coin purse , and excelled in varying forms of wartime strategies . ㅤㅤit was thought that when lovek became of age he would leave his grandparents house to be fully sponsored , and perhaps even wed to , another noble -- it was in the works that this said noble would have ties to the black rose , and lovek was made to specialize in espionage and intelligence gathering specifically because of that . ㅤㅤit was ingrained in lovek that in order to have a reason for existing in life he must have a use , and that use must be to please his superiors . ㅤㅤit is fortunate , however , that noxus soon underwent a change in leadership thanks to the rise of the once forsook general swain , who made quick work of shutting down the nobility of noxus . ㅤㅤhis proud family were given ultimatums : shed their titles and wealth as nobles and live in noxus , flee their country , or fight to the death for their right to keep their titles . ㅤㅤthey chose to fight , one way or another , but they were cowards . cold & cruel , they made young lovek be the one to fight , instead of the head of their house , just a shivering terrified child holding a blade against the strongest in noxus armies . ㅤㅤlovek's grandparents were slain without hesitation , and lovek protected . it was a disgraceful outrage to send a child to fight , and they were made to endure a fitting end . ㅤㅤafterwards , lovek was given a choice of his own . he could flee as well , safety gauranteed , or he could stay , and live for noxus . ㅤㅤamazed at the strength and mercy shown to him , lovek did stay . when he came of age , he even joined swain , putting to use the skills for intelligence gathering he had specialized in . ㅤㅤhe travels between various different nations , posing as just a noxian aristocrat traveling to see the world .

arcane verse :

ㅤㅤbasically everything about how he was raised remains the same , except that arcane takes place quite a number of years before noxus is taken over by swain . lovek comes of age and is sent to his sponsor , and is immediately set to work . ㅤㅤthe black rose has their eyes and ears in many places , and zaun / piltover are no exception . lovek's main job is to find weaknesses in the cog in the system , and see how easy it is to wiggle his fingers into it . ㅤㅤhe's incredibly bitter and jaded in this verse . there's nothing on this earth that could surprise him anymore , and he's sure to do whatever he's ordered to in order to please his superiors , for his own skins sake .

[best-fnaf-song-competition]

Hi!! I was coming in to see if anyone submitted a neat song someone suggested to me on the last poll (Knives, Gears and Wires) on the last spreadsheet bc I'd rec it otherwise. It was submitted Once on the first/main poll, upon checking. Nice. BUT 2023 music poll?!?!? That's a surprise, exciting! I saw that you won't be answering "how many submissions for [x]" asks but will you otherwise accept pre-poll propaganda? I will be sending a fleet of 2023 submissions at some point. :D -✨

I have not actually heard this one before, so I hope you don't mind if I use this as a chance to review it! (Unfortunate that it can't be submitted to this one, but here's hoping it's a good song all the same!)

To answer your question first though, pre-poll propaganda is allowed! You are allowed to send asks about your favorite songs and why people should check it out/nominate them, but as you said I will be refraining from actually listing a number until the nominations close. It's looking like there's far less submissions this time though, so please both make sure you're submitting all of your favorites and that you're spreading the word! So many newer songs need some love c:

With all that said, let me give this one a listen!

[Link to the song]

From Musiclide and feat. Swiblet is already an interesting start because for me, I am only VAGUELY aware of both of these people. So I have no expectations going in! Always exciting always fun :)

OOOOH THIS ONE IS SUPER COOL the melody is REALLY catchy in this one, and can I just say. The consistent use of a clock ticking as an instrument is SUCH A GOOD CHOICE I'm obsessed with environmental noises becoming instruments and it fits perfectly here!

Swiblet nailed the vocals, the shift between the quieter verses and the harsher chorus is Super effective here! Giving the night guard a more consistent and calm verse while the animatronics get something sharper and angry is SUPER cool

Also can I just say? The video itself is REALLY cool. The text moving alongside the camera was already neat, but I'm loving both the shift between games and the themeing of which cameras they chose to use and when. It was just really fun to watch!

Overall, this one's super cool c: vocals, melody, video, all of them are great!! I'm a little disappointed it's a 2021 release now, I wish we could submit it this time around! Thanks for bringing it up, this one was really fun!

[clemencetaught]

@velvetineblue sent in: ( also sending a heavily altered meme for the thg verse, hehe. ) " what were the last words you spoke to them? " patrick's mentee, is who tai was referring to. " … i told annie, everything would be okay... " a heavy, grief-laden pause follows the admission, his guilt and grief evident in every syllable. " i lied. " || time for a heart-to-heart ( prompts for deep conversations. )

OF COURSE HE KNOWS who Mister Tseng is referring to- Link Tignol, the male tribute from District Three for the 63rd Hunger Games. Much like Patrick himself, he was an outlier amongst the long line of tributes that had been reaped in one…it’s strange, how history seemed to repeat itself that year, from Link volunteering to take his twin brother, Linus’ place to the female tribute, resembling Tellessa in both demeanor and appearance to even the build up to the 63rd Games themselves. Patrick couldn’t help but wonder if he was watching an adaptation of his own games, however messed up that would have been.

Maybe that was why he had been a tad more invested in training Link- tutoring the boy, teaching him how to observe the other tributes and to use his wits to survive in the arena, even though deep down, Patrick knew the odds were not in Link’s favor. That boy was destined at best, a swift, if not painless death in the arena. He was sickly, one who got easily winded, and who flinched even at the sound of metal grinding against metal. That was the main difference between Patrick and the boy- whereas Patrick gave off only the impression of benignity, the boy was that, truly. He was a lamb through and through and it was for that same reason that if the other tributes didn’t get to him first, then the arena would devour him alive. 

Until he wasn’t. Until a CAREER, of all the tributes, changed the tune of his story and after fatally stabbing his district partner in the spinal cord, and started an alliance with Link. It didn’t make sense, the career’s sudden change of heart nor his strategy, but foolishly, something arose in Patrick for the first time in years: hope. Hope that maybe for once, he’ll be able to bring one child out of the arena and back to their family. For once, he could return to District Three with only one coffin…

( But even that’s a lie, isn’t it? Even if Link did live, that did not guarantee that he would be the same child that went into the arena. No one comes out of there in one piece, not really. )

And then the surprise attack and the hope bled out of his hands the same way Link went- one swift cut to his neck. That’s all it took before the cannons boomed and Link’s body was airlifted out of the arena, leaving only the career to fend for himself.

The career tribute, now an adult, carries the eyes of not only a jaded victor, but also of a defeated mentor. 

Patrick doesn’t take a step closer. Doesn’t try to close the distance- for years Mister Tseng chose to keep his distance. Of course they all did with one another, but the frigidness had been especially prominent between them- was it the resentment Mister Tseng expected to receive? Or was it the guilt of having survived instead?

The answer doesn’t matter anymore.

“No matter what my answer is, it won’t help you.” Bones groaning, he takes the seat next to Mister Tseng. Oh, there are so many things Patrick could have said to Link. Could’ve said to all of them- something like, “You can do it.” Something like, “I believe in you.” 

Something false like, “Everything will be okay.”

( That night before the 63rd Hunger Games, both Link and Patrick knew that the former would not be escaping the arena alive. And Patrick, choosing to keep pretenses for as long as possible, rested both hands on the boy’s shoulders and said, “Take care of yourself.” )

“Neither of you could have predicted what would happen in the arena.” Patrick says instead, eyes still staring ahead. “None of us ever will, but I’m sure she knew you were trying help the whole time. She might resent you for a very long time, but all you can do is be there for her- now when she needs it more than ever.”

[beyond-the-lewdiverse]

Have you watched any good anime recently that you'd recommend?

Oooooooh I have actually~! So I'm gonna recommend a few from this year that only have the one season so far and think deserve some love~! As well as a few that I just adore anyways~

Fire Force~! Outside of the intensive amount of fan service with Tamaki, I absolutely love this series. Beautifully choreographed fight scenes, sound design that is orgasmic to listen to, a rich world with an amazing power system that gets playful with what can be done (for example Karim's power is ice based but still explained well which I adore). Like I've said, the fan service is what brings this series down for me but outside of that, I couldn't recommend anything more highly. It's actually something I think up write a review for at some point~

JJK~! With a fun, playful and goofy first season that does well introducing the power system and characters followed by an insanely strong second season that hits harder than a brick, it would be a sin not recommending this series. From fast paced fights to masterfully executed voice acting, this deserves the praise and a watch~

Wind Breaker~! If you love your fighting anime, this is perfect! No power systems, just straight hands being thrown. For me, I'm not too keen on Sakura (the main character) but standing at just thirteen episodes, it's obvious that he's gonna have a lot of development so I know my opinion will change on him. On a deeper level, this series explores very real issues regarding delinquency, bullying and men's mental health. I genuinely enjoyed Wind Breaker more than I thought I would and really can't push more for people to watch it~

Kaiju No.8~! Maybe a controversial pick for an anime as this series is a lot more CG work, but it's pulled off immaculately. Please go and give it a watch! I loved every second of this show, I adore the fact that our protagonist isn't the greatest fighter in the verse but rather his strengths are his intelligence and support capabilities (outside of his Kaiju form). Kafka is such a well written character in my opinion and I love that they also chose him to be in his thirties too. The supporting cast are brilliant, memorable and with just one season, it leaves you wanting to explore more into each of them. While on the outside it can look like an AOT ripoff, it's anything but. Also the outro song slaps so hard I love it. On the topic of the music, I was surprised to see the intro is by Yungblood and the outro is by One Republic soo there's that~

Now I could keep going but for anyone wanting some new watches, there you go~!

[terraxcloud]

No Promises to Keep

[Verse: Loren Allred] I won't say that it was fate I won't say that it was destiny But if not, what could it be That drew you towards me? Could it be chance? [Chorus: Loren Allred] Till the day That we meet again Where or when I wish I could say But believe Know that you'll find me Promises to keep We won't ever need [Chorus: Loren Allred] Till the day That we meet again At our place Just let me believe In the chance Know that you'll take my hand And never let me go

***

I have been getting that vibe that this song was prepared to be a real life FF6 Opera. Having it be sung by Aerith in-game but with Loren Allred dressed similarly to Terra is interesting due to the fact that Aerith is playing the role of "Princess Rosa", yet Aerith isn't the actual "princess" (she has said that she's not one in Remake).

In a way they just hinted on who the "princess" is, because in the back of our minds we know that it could instead be Tifa singing, even Yuffie (well, maybe). Even if it isn't and it's just Aerith singing it, remember that Aerith has her own theme and it sounds very similar to the FF6 Opera.

The lyrics make me feel like there may be a temporary "meeting" in the first stanza. She seems really confused as to what caused him to appear to her, which makes her assume that it will happen again.

This is unlike "Hollow" where Terra takes initiative but the ending of that song makes it seem like she feels hopeless:

But I, I know That you're long gone But I, I will Go on howling and hollow To never know

In essence, Terra wasn't expecting much, but "something happens". "Know that you'll take my hand" is a reference to the ending of FF7, because the only part of Aerith's song that plays during that scene is the first notes which sound the most like the FF6 Opera.

Although, the lyric "At our place" implies a ton. There's probably millions of dollars and years of sweat behind that one lyric in particular

I think that the reason they chose the word "promise" is to connect it to the "Promised Land". With a potential reference to FF7's ending, the "at our place" lyric, and the word "meet" ("Maybe I can meet her...there." "Yeah, let's meet her.)

The "Promise Scene" is important. It's either Tifa or Tina (Terra's other name :P).

Also, a main theme implies a main character in some way. The semantics of that may be confusing here, probably because it's supposed to be a mystery to everyone.

So there is a chance that the "surprise" is Cloud actually finding Terra "by chance" for a little while, but is it? What about Zack's timeline? There are quite a few hints that Terra will be involved in Zack in some way (WoFF Serah/Zack scene - FF15 DLC connection is the biggest)...perhaps there's two Terras as well? Two Clouds, Two Aeriths, but only one Zack. I think one of those Terras may die (hint from Dissidia NT, her solo WoFF intervention, and Aerith's Lost Chapter in DFFOO.)

The Krile Lost Chapter hint about Terra asking how Krile travelled to different worlds still is on my mind. Travelling by meteor isn't a weird thing as the FF5 characters, Noel in FF13-2, and Jenova used one, but with the possibility of two Terras...would one use a torsion and the other a meteor? The problem is that these hints exist, if they didn't exist I wouldn't have a question. That DFFOO scene is very, very intentional.

Considering that Jenova is her antithesis, it makes sense that she'd use a meteor. She can't end up in Cloud's timeline...can she? It would definitely change everything.

I also have to mention what the devs said about Advent Children being a part of the end. What does that even mean? Advent Children isn't about crazy battles to them, y'know. Perhaps to the fans, but not to the developers.

I believe Tifa also has to meet her as the ending of FF7 implied.

[queenharumiura]

Closed starter for @signorinavongola ; I'll just call this verse the lady-boss AU since Tsuna is a lady boss here

Haru had always adored children and she had a pretty strong maternal instinct when it came to protecting and nurturing kids around her. It wasn't much of a surprise to anyone when Haru volunteered herself to watch over children who were orphaned due to the mafia business.

Whether they were orphaned because their family was in the wrong place at the wrong time or that their famiglia's were eradicated in turf wars, Haru had taken in anyone that was rescued by the Vongola.

For the most part, people left her alone, as no one wanted to have the reputation of bullying the woman who is doing her best to raise children who are known to have come from troubled backgrounds. If anyone were to cause her troubles, they probably had some kind of ties to the underground.

If they thought she was such an easy mark, they'd be wrong. She's already incapacitated two.

"I don't know who you are, but you'd best leave while you still have the chance." Haru was with the children when some dangerous looking men came onto the property, and she'd told the children to rush to the designated hiding spot. There was a place where the children could hide underneath the foundation, and in times of emergencies, Haru could push a button that would alert the main base that a situation was occuring.

If things were bad enough, the hideaway spot had a secret other passageway where it could connect to a different safe hideaway where the children would be greeted with an adult that could protect them in the meanwhile of the situation being handled.

With things happening so fast, Haru didn't have the chance to evacuate with the children and she chose to instead hold her ground. The two men she'd incapacitated by sending lightning through their bodies were left aside as she put some distance between her and the assailants. The gloves on her hands were there to protect her knuckles, but also a way for her to spark lightning through them if she had direct access to her enemies.

There were 4 more people to deal with, and that certainly wasn't good for a person on her own. All she had to do was hold out for a bit before someone was sure to come as back up. Most of all, she was hoping the kids were going to be okay.

[blossomingbellflower]

Continued from : X || @nightlamentdom​ || OM Verse: Main.

Observing the demon resting undisturbed, from others, was one of the woman’s favorite things to witness. It certainly felt like they were in a world of their own, with such peace a rarity in the chaotic House of Lamentation. The eldest, after all, having continuous fires to put out by his siblings or duties to attend on behalf of Diavolo. There was always something to do. It simply made Kikyou treasure these moments more as well..for the fact he gets to unwind and perhaps a little bit of having time to monopolize him. Yes love was possessive to a degree and selfish..but she had no regrets for it. Life was short. It was unpredictable. Kikyou didn’t know how long this may last..but she intended to enjoy the journey with her beloved nonetheless.

A soft,melodic laugh spilling out. “I may be touching you my love, but what you choose to do, I am happy with. If you wish to slumber some more, I will be happy to let it be. If you chose to remain awake, I would be satisfied as well. What will not change, is me bestowing my affections upon you.” He had her full, undivided attention. No troublesome students, work or even Solomon destroying the kitchen were her focus for the next few days.

Kikyou’s head tilted into his hand, savoring the touch of his fingers combing through her thick, silken tresses.A hand lifted to rest over his, her head turning slightly to lay a kiss to his palm. “Your happiness is exceedingly important to me. Whether it is a birthday wish or an everyday desire, you only need to tell me and I can see what I can do.”

Pleasure hummed and bubbled at the simplest of touches, her skin always so sensitive for him. Curious eyes watched as his hand moved, trailing down her body, caressing her bare skin in the process. She waited patiently to hear what it was that he wanted. What she could give him. With both his following words and the manner in which his hand rested upon her abdomen as he spoken, Kikyou came to realize what he was asking.

Heat blossomed in her porcelain cheeks, a small quiver running down her spine. His name fell from her lips breathlessly.

Children was a sensitive, complicated topic in itself. Out of all the things, she didn’t expect to hear that wish from him. It was surprising and left her momentarily surprised before the blood pooled in her cheeks, leaving her blushing at those words.

Lucifer was not one to waste words or say anything idly. Her hand shifted in response to rest upon his once again, as she attempted to process it.

“Are you certain that is what you want from me, my love?” Memories of her last life flickered to the forefront of her mind--where she once had successfully conceived a child..only to fail to protect it. For both her child and herself to die at the hands of a jealous hanyou. It certainly had left a wound that even now began to bleed with a bit of anxiety and trepidation.

Kikyou had her doubts, that admittedly were rooted in the aforementioned emotions. Would she be able to protect their child..or would she fail again. Natural causes of losing a child was hard enough but for it to killed or stolen..that was something that would destroy another piece of her again.

But even so, it was something she had always yearned for prior to the incident. Something her soul still wanted..though silenced mostly b y the fact her love life was almost non-existent until now. That she had given it up in exchange in just burying herself into her work.

She had once fantasized and deliberated this very topic a few times before with her now ex-fiance..After that, she resigned herself that work was the only thing that she could do --and in her time off from her actual doctoral duties--somehow had found herself in Devildom teaching.

Kikyou had never meant to fall in love again, not in Devildom of all places. It was meant to be temporary. Teach for a year and then return home--which by then, her time off from the hospital would be over.

Now..things were different. They were a bit complex. Putting her fears aside, how would it work? Living in Devildom was difficult and tiring for a being like herself, for many reasons. Being pregnant would make things more so and that is excluding the fact that carrying a fallen angel’s offspring may be a hard pregnancy.

But..even so, it was Lucifer. She loved him. It was something she would be happy to do, once she had the necessary reassurances..the nuances discussed.

Her hand squeezed his gently, all those thoughts and more, having ran through her head quickly as she deliberated her response. “I would love to have children with you. There is no one else I’d rather create life with than you..” Kikyou leaned down and kissed his nose. “I am just uncertain how that will work...but no matter how hard it is, I would like nothing more than to grant that wish--our wish. I love you, Lucifer.”

[wintershieldedheart]

DEV TEA ROOM: A YEAR IN REVIEW DEEP DIVE

  → what significant changes have occurred this year in your muse? what development would you like to focus on this coming year?

in the last year, Margot’s backstory has changed significantly. Her parentage changed which was a major shift and gave Margot an entirely different background to work with in terms of where she comes from and family lines. It also altered her upbringing. Instead of living with her Mother after her Dads ‘died’ she lived with her god father, Howard Stark, and by extension was raised by the Jarvis’. This drastically changed the early years for her, and had a direct impact on both her personality and the traditions she chose to continue practicing. Ana Jarvis was proudly and loudly Jewish, and as she was one of her main guardians during some of her more developmental years, Margot carries a lot of those traditions and practices with her. 

outside her backstory and in terms of personal growth, Margot has done a lot of growing in the last year. She started law school in her main verse, at Columbia, which was definitely an undertaking. It got her into a routine, it gave her goals to work towards, and ultimately, it allowed her to grow in her field. Along with that, she started to learn the importance of not jumping into every fight just because it’s there. It’s an ongoing process and definitely something she still has to work on, but she is learning. Mostly, she’s starting to come to grips with the fact that she can’t drop her entire life to throw herself headlong into danger. There are people who are paid to help, who’s job it is to fix these grand scale messes, and her job, currently, is to be a student and take back the life she’s ultimately had ripped from her. She is finally starting to understand that the world isn’t going to fall apart if she isn’t there for one fight. It doesn’t all rest on her shoulders and she doesn’t have to fix the world all by herself. 

ironically, post snap Margot is both incredibly jaded and incredibly optimistic. The only way to describe it is that she’s spitefully happy, aggressively looking for and protecting any ounce of peace she finds. It’s absolutely a ‘the world keeps trying to end and the universe keeps trying to take the people I love away, and I’m going to find so much peace and be extra happy just to spite you for trying to ruin my life’. The result was good and absolutely something her therapist would appreciate, even if the way she got there was both unorthodox and maybe a little unhealthy. Spite has kept Margot alive for a long time, and it’s not all that surprising that spite is what pushes to actually live her life. 

this year, I want to work on Margot finding her footing in the world. I want to see her work on her codependency issues that she still struggles with. I’d love to see her feel more secure in her relationships and not hold onto so much fear that people are going to leave/disappear at a moments notice. While her fears are valid, she definitely lets them control a lot of her life and I’d like to see her work through those issues. I also want to see the continued trend of her protecting her peace. Margot continuing to find happiness and holding onto it with both hands is everything I want for her this year. 

   → what do you value in resolutions and how does that affect how you write them for your muse?

personally, resolutions work in two parts as far as I’m concerned. For the remainder of winter I use the time to plan because it’s still hibernating season, and I’m very aware that if I try to jump into new habits during the cold months, I’ll inevitably fail. Between seasonal depression, bad weather, little light, and the rest, it’s just not the season for picking up new things. It is, however, a good time for me to start shedding old habits that aren’t serving me. Then in spring, I usually start implementing the good habits I want to incorporate in my routine. They tend to stick a lot better because my motivation is higher as the moths turn warmer. 

it takes approximately five years after she’s returned home for Margot to learn that this pattern ultimately works best for her as well. The only thing she starts in the cold months is a new language, and that’s because she’s determined to learn a new one every year. Otherwise, her winter months are more focused on planning for what she intends to do with herself throughout the year. For resolutions, they tend to just be an extension of her goals. Learning a language is a given every year. This year, one of her resolutions is staying out of fights that she doesn’t strictly need to be apart of. If the world isn’t literally on the brink of ending, she can sit that one out. Another resolution on her list is to instate a regular sleep schedule into her routine. 

   → what did life try to teach your muse that they rejected? 

life tried to teach Margot that she can’t save everyone, and that she has the potential to lose everyone she loves at some point. Unsurprisingly, Margot decidedly said, ‘no thanks I’ll either keep them alive or bring them back from the dead and tell death to bite me, thanks’. She isn’t native, she knows that death is inevitable, better than most people, but Margot is tired of losing people and tired of feeling plagued by grief. Life keeps trying to teach her the lesson of death and loss and Margot is deeply not interested and unwillingly.

   → what lessons did they learn?

ultimately, Margot has learned how to live and let live a little bit more. She’s starting to understand that things cannot always be in her control all the time. She sometimes has to let things go because there isn’t always going to be closure. Unfortunately, not everything gets wrapped up in a neat little box with all it’s ends tied up. Sometimes, things get left like an open wound, messy and bleeding, and all the healing has to be internal. She hasn’t perfected the art of live and let live yet, but it’s definitely something she’s working on. 

  → if your muse posted one of those year in review instagram reels/tik toks what song would they use and what photos are going in it? 

for song choice, Margot absolutely uses hope for the future by bastille. As for pictures, there’s several of her and Smaug, some laying in the grass together, some of them curled up on the couch, and at least one of them on a walk together. She includes a lot of candids of her friends and family ( because she loves snapping wild casual pictures ), a birthday picture of her blowing out the candles, a sappy picture of her Dads that she absolutely took when they weren’t looking, at least one sunset ( but probably more ), and lastly a middle finger in front of Stark Tower with a heart drawn around it fondly ( because she’s been taking those pictures for way too many years to stop the tradition now ). 

[dbphantom]

10, 36 and 44 from the fanfic writer game . Hope you enjoy your day!

Thank you so much!! Right back at you!

10) In your xxx fic, why did you decide to end it like that? Did you have an alternative ending in mind?

Oooh, loaded question! For Alkali, I chose to follow the episode Noctis ending bc I always wanted them to have a happy ending and, honestly, I just thought the book/planned ending was really good. I changed a few things to fit the focus of the story better, but overall it's the episode Noctis ending. As for the changes, you know that one scene in the last episode of H2O Season 1 where Rikki steps into the ocean? Yeah. It's a little like that.

For alt. endings, I'm not the biggest fan of the verse 2 ending from episode Ignis, but [BUT] with a couple big changes I thought it made for a fun detour with the same episode Noctis ending. It actually ended up becoming the 'main' timeline for this fic because I was having so much fun with it. I fit in the events of Episode Prompto, plus Ravus and Aranea team up with the chocobros to navigate through Zegnaurbfjflhs Keep and shut down the wall breaker wave machine. So, Ignis still puts on the ring and loses his sight and Prompto still takes down worm Verstael, it all just happens a little out of order and in new fun and exciting locations. [Verstael, to Ardyn: would you still love me if I was a worm?]

So the other timeline I had was Leviathan taking her payment early during the events of Episode Ignis, leaving Iggy with no memories of Noct to keep him from acting irrationally next time. It ends poorly. It's me, boy, I'm the sea godess, speaking to you from inside your brain. Listen to me, boy, lead the prince, to the crystal. Then come with me and guard this space. We'll have mermaid times. On Eos! Do do da do, yeah. You need me, boy. Your free will is an illusion.

36) Can you give us a spoiler for one of your WIP’s?

Yesssss, I would love to!!! I'm having such a hard time deciding which fic to choose because I love everything, but you know what? Surprise attack!!! Here's an excerpt from chapter 10 of Masked, my genrex secret identity fic.

"... I wasn't with Noah for half of the classes I went to, but I aced a pop quiz the trigonometry teacher gave us!"

Holiday's heart ached. This was the sort of stuff he should be talking about on a daily basis, not EVOs or training or which painkillers worked best before his nanites neutralized them. He reminded her so much of Beverly in that moment, excitedly going on about her day at school and the things she'd learned to her big sister in college. She wanted to do nothing more than hug him and tell him everything was going to be okay, that the adults were going to handle it all from now on and he didn't need to worry.

But Providence wasn't so kind.

Thankfully, Holiday was, and she was fiercely stubborn to boot. The one thing she wanted to do in that exact moment was protect that innocent smile on Rex's face, and she was going to do her damndest to try.

44) What is the last line you wrote?

Prompto's fumbling the reload, electric panic surging through his veins.

Uh oh... This is from the area right before Keycatrich. Cor's around, so they'll be okay XD

[veonhagen]

tot boys in an idol group au

… artem wing

the leader among all four of the boys. this wasn’t much of a surprise to some of you, since his maturity and role as the eldest plays a part in this decision. remember when mc says in his side story he’d make a great dad ? now he’s the dad of three in the group.

the lead rapper. artem has a naturally deep voice, so it fits with the rapper position. he also has quite the large vocabulary ( i’m personally not sure knowing a lot of words helps with rapping, perhaps with the rhymes ? ). either way, he would definitely have some lines where he slowly raps with his low tone.

lead vocalist. i don’t know about you guys, but i firmly believe that this fine man can sing. he’s already perfect enough <3. men with deep voices such as artem would make an amazing vocalist, with deep lines that aren’t as high as the usual tones you’d hear in pop music. take a look at wonwoo from seventeen’s vocals.

the visual. i personally think all four boys would fit to take the visual position, but honestly ? artem seems the most visually appealing to me. the others would have their own charms, such as marius’s trademark smirk, luke’s beady and bright eyes, and vyn’s soft smile — but in artem’s case, he doesn’t particularly have this sort of charm that makes him all the more attractive. he doesn’t need a defining point to make him attractive, and that speaks so loudly how he deserves the visual position.

… vyn richter

the main vocalist. now hear me out — i don’t have a particular reason in why i chose vyn to be the main vocalist. it was most probably a gut feeling for me as to why i picked that decision. but i’m definitely not complaining ; his soft sweet melodic voice i would want to hear over and over, it’s probably no surprise if he actually turns out to have some really good skills in terms of singing.

lead dancer. at this point it’s probably me following my gut when it comes to deciding the rest of the positions as well, but i do headcanon that vyn would definitely be swift whenever he picks up his legs and runs wherever, so i am assuming he’d also make a great dancer. heck, maybe he might be the choreographer of the group because of his seemingly limitless knowledge of how well some series of dance moves go well together.

bonus, i honestly think outside of idol entertainment vyn would definitely be the one most likely to become an actor. he pays attention to how people act and feel whenever they are in different situations, so he himself may eventually pick them up and make an amazing actor in his career.

… luke pearce

the face of the group. he’s on the literal icon of the tears of themis app, so why not make him the fotg ? he’s already the face of the app and one of the most popular among the boys. he’s also talked about a lot to the point his face would come up first to many’s minds whenever the group ( or game ) gets brought up in different conversations.

main dancer. correct me if i’m wrong, but luke probably is the most athletically versed out of the four men ( well, maybe aside from artem but we gotta keep the positions fair yk ). he could probably nail down all of the dance steps in first practice routine.

lead vocalist. luke would be vocally capable as well ! i firmly believe he actually gives that bangchan of stray kids kind of vocals mixed with a hyunjin style of dancing, you know ? i apologize for those non kpop stans since i really don’t know how to describe his skills </3.

i also believe in sub rapper luke supremacy. he isn’t much experienced in rapping as marius is, but he’d be the type to have a high pitched, speedy rap in some of his lines. those lines aren’t so common, but it’s equally a blessing.

… marius von hagen

absolutely the main rapper. marius’s natural voice would make really good rap lines in the group’s title tracks. i honestly really think he’d have those really fast lines ? maybe there could be some slow raps here and there but i think he has mastered rolling his tongue on spitting those verses perfectly.

lead dancer. at this point i’m probably thinking all of them are capable of dancing but hear me out ! marius gives those swag vibes if you know what i’m talking about ? he’d have a dance style more similar to taeyong from nct, which is sort of robot-like in a sense ? he also is one of the members who pick up the dance steps at a quicker learning pace, alongside luke.

maknae / youngest. this is sort of a bonus but to think how marius is the tallest yet the youngest among all four of them is really funny. imagine people who don’t stan the group and being in shock, realizing how marius is the youngest, but he towers over everyone. ( the thought of it makes me giggle a bit ngl ). he also pulls the maknae card whenever he wants something from the older members, that cheeky bastard.

Ⓒ veonhagen, do not steal. 08/04/21.

[skiyoosmi]

post-break up heartaches

verse 1. in the car that used to drive us to our home

⤷ kuroo tetsurou, oikawa tooru — more characters coming soon

⤷ verse 2 | verse 3

⤷ play. never let me go by ghostly kisses, forget about us by clinton kane

commissions: open

⇢ KUROO sighs for the umpteenth time of the day. he was so fucking exhausted and his body's about to give in to sleep any moment now. work has been beating his ass; there was this newbie who kept on messing up the documents needed by the board and for the whole day, he had to be the one to fix said issues. it's not like he wasn't paid enough for that; if anything, his paycheck was one of the most beautiful things he laid his eyes on— but god, even his body has its own limits and yet...

"ya.... yer not supposed to do this anymore. y-ya left me, remember?" you slurred, index finger pointing right at his chest as he circled his arms around your waist, huffing as you practically dropped all your weight on him. here he was, suddenly given the task of having to take you home after your supposed-to-be designated driver, miya fucking atsumu, also drank his brains out with you.

"be patient. still heartbroken because of you, y'know?" kenma softly tells him despite the tipsy feeling lurking in the back of his mind, shaking his head as he looked at you, whose system finally shut down and were now dozing off in the black haired man's arms.

"..... still?" he mumbles, looking down at your figure and he feels his heart contract with pain all over again.

"you can't expect her to be fine immediately, kuroo. it was your wedding day, supposed to be the greatest day of her life and yet it became the worst one... you left her at the altar alone."

he didn't reply anything— or rather, he was unable to. because what can he say to refute the truth? nothing. instead, he proceeded to his car with you still in his hold. he places you on the passenger seat, locking the seatbelts before jogging to the driver's side.

the car ride was calm as you slept soundly with your head occasionally hitting the window lightly as it swayed from side to side. he was sure as hell that if you were sober right now, you wouldn't even have the thought of seeing him cross your mind. he just knows for sure that you despise him with your whole being... at least, that's what he thought until...

"i'm sorry, tetsu. please come back," you whimper in your seat, voice quiet but he heard it nonetheless, "tell me what i did wrong so i can fix it."

the pitiful sounds and mumbles you made struck kuroo right in the heart and which makes him pull over an empty but safe road, just a block away from your (previously shared) apartment. looking over your form, he finds himself reaching out to touch your face, caressing your cheeks as drops of tears fell down slowly on them, "you didn't do anything wrong. you were fine. you were so perfect."

you squint your eyes at him, probably wondering if this was real or just a part of your drunken imagination. nonetheless, you hiccuped, "y-you... you left me and i... i still can't even bring myself to hate you... i just wanna ask you why? i just want to understand."

he thought he also knew the reason why but every single time he thinks about it, he's only led to one conclusion: because he was a coward. no way was this any of your fault— it's definitely not your fault that right at that moment, as he stared at the mirror, wearing the black suit you chose for him, the sudden fear of commitment loomed over him. it's not like it was your fault he suddenly got scared of losing you the way his parents lost each other. but now he thinks it's ironic, because he lost you anyway.

maybe... just maybe, if he had just met you where you stood at the altar, instead of leaving you alone in it, maybe he would've been happier. maybe his days would've started more with a smile from you as you helped him fix his necktie before going to work. maybe, the working hours he spends in the shitty corporate world would've been more worth it if it meant he can come home to you at the end of the day. maybe... maybe he wouldn't have to be stuck with this lump in his throat as he wonders what could've been happening if he just chose to show up and vowed his life to you.

but he didn't.

"i realized i wasn't just ready to tie my life with anyone yet. that's all there is to it, yn."

so with a heavy feeling stuck in his chest and a quiet promise to never see you again for the sake of not hurting you further, he starts the car's engine again, ignoring the words you replied but he was sure they will haunt him for a very long time... again.

i can wait for you no matter how long it takes, tetsu, you know that.

⇢ OIKAWA gives you what seems like a guilty smile as he stands in front of you, opening his arms and gesturing you to come closer. but the stoic expression on your face takes him back to the reality that the last thing you wanted to do today was to actually fetch him from the airport. it just so happens that his three best friends were caught up with work that they had no choice but to send you, the main ex-bestfriend slash ex-girlfriend, to him.

why did you agree when you practically loathe him with your whole being? well, it was probably because you weren't the devil who would reject your friends when they were literally on their knees as they begged you and for some reason, you thought he'll look pitiful going back to his home country after five years with no one to welcome him. yeah, that's it. it's not like you're still in love with him or anything.

"my car's just around the corner," you begrudgingly walk towards the car park with him quietly following. at the moment, he knew better than to get on your nerves or else there would be war. he hates that this happened to the both of you but he can't blame anyone else but himself. because who wouldn't hate their ex-boyfriend if they suddenly broke up with them over a phone call?

tension filled the car as you both sat beside each other. perhaps, this was what other people were talking about when they say that it's impossible for exes to be friends again, to not feel any awkwardness because you were sure as hell that the word "awkward" was an understatement of your situation right now. nevertheless, your eyes couldn't help but wander to his figure as he adjusted his body, opting for a more comfortable position in the passenger's seat.

he looked more youthful and you felt bittersweet— proud that his whole aura screams of "success" which meant that gone were the days where he longed to get that winter cup trophy, nor the times when he overworked himself and put a strain on his knee which led to countless arguments with you. if anything, he looked happier and it sucks because you're not even close to feeling that way... not without him.

"i heard you've finally gotten yourself your own condominium? that's great, yn!" he exclaimed as soon as you began driving to your destination, a hope lit within him that maybe you might just respond to him. just one smile, that's all i need, he thinks.

but you remain focused on your driving, choosing to reply with a single nod and a soft "yeah..."

disappointment fills his heart as he faces the truth that your relationship has really been ruined, along with your friendship. all because he was foolish to think that he couldn't handle the physical distance between you two. realization dawns upon him that he just made that same distance worse as you pull your heart further away from him.

"... i actually bought it for the two of us, you know?" he whips his head to your direction in surprise, heart clenching as he watch you let out a sad chuckle, "i just... i thought it would be nice if we had a place to permanently stay at and for you to have a home to go to when you're at japan. but yeah... i guess things doesn't go our way sometimes, does it?"

"i'm sor—"

"it's okay. i'm fine now," you quickly reply, shaking your head but keeping your eyes on the road. he tries to ignore the tears that start to form in them because he has no right to stop them, knowing full well that he was the one who caused them in the first place.

as if on cue, you halt your vehicle in front of a familiar apartment and much to your dismay, you find yourself looking back in the past when you used to live in that same place, making wonderful memories with the chocolate haired lad with you. you clear your throat to stop the sob that desperately attempts to escape your throat, "uhm... we're here."

"oh, yeah. we're here," he numbly states, already missing you despite the mere inches of space separating the two of you. you just felt so far away and he hates it. but this was the path he chose so he gets out of your car along with his things, turning to you once more, "uhh... thanks for the ride, yn. i know you probably hate me but yeah... it's very nice of you to put that past us and i guess i just want to say sorry for hurting you... i just..."

"i don't hate you, tooru," you softly tell him, "i just don't want anything to do with you anymore. to see you this happy, without me, is like a slap in the face because i'm not. it still hurts and i'm not fine. i just hope this will be the last time we'll see each other. be safe on your trip back to argentina. welcome home."

and with that, you start the car's engine again, no longer having the energy nor the strength to hear his reply. but he wishes you did because as he watches your car drive further away from him, he can't help but wish that he can take back time so that you don't have to go to that condominium and instead, go inside the home you once shared with him.

but i'm not happy, yn. because how could i call this place my home when you're not here with me?

at that moment, unbeknownst to the two hearts that long for each other break at the same time, you finally let out the tears and cries that you've been keeping since you saw him, knowing that no matter how much you try, you'll never be as happy as you were with him— simply because he left you with a hole in your heart that no one else can fill.

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