#1billsookie

[lucianalight]

Do you know if there are any good stories that explore Loki’s abusive family, his captivity and torture, his PTSD, his mental and emotional problems, and any other of the sort?

Hi, sorry for answering late. I was on a long hiatus. This ask was sent to me on August 5, 2020.

I haven’t read any Loki fanfics for over a year. But I searched through my bookmarks and made a list. I haven’t finished reading all of them and the themes you mentioned aren’t always the focus of the story but they are part of it.

I’m going to tag the writers in case they want to add their other fics which I might have missed or give more recommendations(sorry if you didn’t like to be tagged).

Anyone who is reading this post, whether a writer or a reader, please consider adding your fics or fic recs to this post. I’d be really grateful.

Here’s my list:

“Drown” by Maulfan

“Changing Fate” and “Hela's Entertainment” by melWinter

“Fate's Guardian” , “What you are in the dark (is beautiful)” , “Skýli”  and “Grievance” by @peaceheather

“Understanding the Storm” and “Ragdoll” by @lizardbeths

“Meanwhile in Norway” , “In Loco Parentis” and “Not in My Shadow” by @juliabohemian

“Beyond the Fence” and “Stars, Hide Your Fires” by @iamanartichoke

“Debts” by @foundlingmother

“The Abyss Gazes Also” by @philosopherking1887

“King” by @positivevibrationinyourheart

“The Prestige” and “I Am Yours, And All – Or The Arduous Emancipation Of One Loki Odinson” by black_feather_fiction

[lux-i-fer]

I’ve had a like/dislike thing going on for Amenadiel since 1x01. I’ve never met a character that I like and yet so frequently want to punch in equal measure.

I’m with you there! Amenadiel occasionally has his endearing moments, but I often find his arcs tiresome. Too self-righteous and self-absorbed if you ask me. I think a good arc for Amenadiel is one where his focus is helping others without expecting to benefit from it. Otherwise it just makes him look two-faced and hypocritical. 

[malkaleh]

Have you ever thought about doing a Tudor series rewrite with with your PP Trio? Because that would be so awesome!!!

I’m totally thinking about it now! (I might do episode summaries in any case...)

[lassieposting]

I adore your thoughts about deamon culture and upbringing. Something that’s always bugged me is that we don’t really get an insight into the culture and layout of heaven and hell or the non-humanness that makes angles and deamons. Please give more thoughts!!!

OH BOY, DO I

DEMON CULTURE HEADCANONS COMING RIGHT UP 

[1] My personal headcanon is that devil was originally a Lilim word that basically meant “warlord” - the leader of a clan with his or her own territory - and there were thousands of them, because demons lived in warring clans. Every clan had a _devil, _and they all considered themselves the ultimate authority and were constantly fighting for power. When Lucifer staged a coup and took over one of the strongest clans in the Ninth Circle, he basically went on a conquering spree, up to the point that there is now only one devil; all the other clan leaders have bent the knee to him. There’s probably either a Lilim way of distinguishing between A Devil (a warlord) and The Devil (Lucifer, King of Hell), or it’s become sort of an archaic term used only to refer to Lucifer and another name has become commonplace for your bog-standard warlord. The word then made its way to Earth both through Lucifer himself and through other demons before he outlawed possession, and developed its modern meaning from there. 

More under the cut - this is long as fuck. It’s becoming a habit.

GENETICS: 

- Demons live in one of the most inhospitable, treacherous environments of any dimension in the known multiverse. They’ve been shaped by the need to survive in their habitat. 

- Demons in general have a much higher heat resistance than humans, as well as far better low-light vision and enhanced speed, strength and endurance. 

- Hell has different habitats the same way Earth does, though, and the demons who live in the Ninth Circle (the part of Hell we see in the show, the part where Lucifer’s palace is) would have different adaptations to the demons who’ve evolved to live in the swampy marshland of the Sixth Circle (where Maze was born). 

- Demons are an R-coded species, so they have large numbers of babies, less parental care, a short gestation period and a very low survival-to-adulthood rate.  

- Because their babies have such a low survival rate, demons have very little parental attachment and they don’t form family units the way humans do (i.e. child raised by biologically related caregivers, close relationship between parents and child). 

CHILDHOOD:

- Baby demons are born already equipped with fantastic low-light vision, a full set of needle-sharp teeth, and the ability to get up and move around very shortly after birth. They’re not wholly independent - they don’t learn to talk or develop fine motor/dexterity skills until they’re older - but they are very much born armed and dangerous, which they need to be because… 

- They can and do eat their siblings in the nest, like sharks. Cannibalism is fucking rife in Hell. A large chunk of spawn are lost in their first year to fratricide/sororicide. It’s just seen as weeding out the weaklings. 

- In most clans, the spawn are raised communally in a creche run by designated nest-minders; these are usually the weakest members of the clan who would not be any use as warriors. Raising the young during their first few years of life is a fairly low-status position in society, but it does ensure that those weak demons will be fed, housed and protected - nobody wants to have to take over their job, so it’s worthwhile to keep them alive. 

- Demon spawn are…little demons. A large part of why Lucifer doesn’t like children is because of extended exposure to spawn. They completely lack empathy and social skills, so they’re loud, they bite, and a large chunk of nest-minders’ time is spent separating them when they try to kill each other. They won’t develop logic, critical thinking or their (still limited) sense of empathy until they’re a lot older. 

- Contrary to what some might believe, demons do have affectionate nicknames for their young - the sort of thing a warrior might call his trainee, or a nest-minder might call their favourite charge. The English equivalent would probably be kiddo or something, but they’d translate literally as “spawn” or “offspring”. There’s a sort of implication there that you care enough about this kid to see them as family; they can probably rely on you to protect them if they’re in danger. 

ADOLESCENCE:

- Demons don’t have a long childhood, and mostly they learn a trade by apprenticing under a professional. A would-be warrior is trained by an experienced warrior; a kid with a talent for art might apprentice under a leathercrafter; if you’re particularly intelligent and politically savvy you might get lucky and learn from your clan’s devil, if you manage to impress them. 

- A juvenile who wants to be a warrior (like Maze, for example) goes through a series of incredibly dangerous trials to become a fully-fledged adult warrior of their clan. It’s sort of like living in the Hunger Games, but, you know. Permanently. 

* Around the onset of puberty, at around 10 or 11 years old, they’re given a simple weapon and some supplies and sent out into the world by themselves to find something useful to bring back to their clan, to prove that they’re worth the time and effort it will take to train them. 

At this point, they have no formal training. They’ve got a decade or so of viciously scrapping with other youngsters in the creche for food, but they’re expected to get by mostly on their wits, their viciousness, and their willingness to kill to survive. 

There are hundreds of things that can kill a young demon alone in Hell. Demons from other clans. Heat exhaustion. Feral hellhounds. Dehydration. Volcanic eruption. Manticore. Harpy. Dragon. There’s even a chance another kid from their own clan will panic and kill first, ask questions later. 

What they bring back can be any of a number of things. Maybe some priceless gemstones that can be traded for commodities not native to their area of Hell. Maybe information about a territory ripe for overtaking. Maybe spoils taken from dead enemies from a clan yours is at war with. Whatever it is, it needs to be something the leaders of your clan will benefit from, or they might send you back out to find something better. Maze brought back Lucifer.

How impressive your gift is generally determines who you apprentice under; the kids who brought back the most impressive things will usually get sent to the clan’s top warriors. 

Only 30% or so of the kids sent out into the world will come back. The ones who didn’t clearly wouldn’t have survived training, so it wouldn’t have been worth the effort to train them in the first place. 

They’ll spend the next ten years or so (maybe more, maybe less) in training. Their mentor will teach them to fight with a whole load of different weapons, how to hunt, how to torture a captive, how to plan a battle, etc. The ones with leadership potential, training under the clan’s War Chief, also learn - on the DL, because nobody wants to get murdered - how to deal with your devil when they’re being an asshole, and how to bring them round to your way of thinking when their plan for a war clashes with yours. 

In bigger clans, at the end of their training, each warrior’s trainees get put in an arena to fight to the death. Of each class, only the last one standing actually becomes a warrior. Despite the immense amount of lives lost in childhood, demons breed so prolifically that plenty survive to adulthood. 

ADULTHOOD:

- Adult demons often wear identification marks, usually on their faces, to show whereabouts they’re from, which clan they belong to, and what rank they are if they have one. Some clans (like Maze’s) use face paint, others prefer tattoos, still others use scarification or branding. You don’t get to wear them until you’ve proved yourself, so it’s a great honour for a warrior to finally get their stripes.

- This helps establish social order - who you can and can’t flirt with, who you should and shouldn’t pick on, etc. If you’re a humble furs trader, you really don’t want to start a fight with a visiting devil over a casual insult to your work; you’ll get smoked. But fortunately for you, her face markings tell you who she is, so you keep your mouth shut. 

- Demons are promiscuous as fuck and don’t really go in for monogamy. It happens occasionally, but it’s definitely not the social norm. While every demon spawn knows who their mother is, it’s very common to have multiple potential fathers. 

- Demons can and do fall in love. They’re not very open about it, and there’s no way to say “I love you” in Lilim. Any demonstration of love is a demonstration of weakness, and in Hell any weakness will be used against you. Long term relationships between demons tend to look a lot like Lucifer and Maze - ride-or-die friends who hang out naked and have each other’s back against outside danger regardless of the issues they’re having with each other. 

OLD AGE:

- A demon who’s too old to battle anymore but was once a mighty warrior can still command a huge amount of respect; many become advisors to the clan devil - especially if he’s young; Lucifer had to lean on very experienced older advisors as a young king consolidating his power - or train the most promising up-and-comers. 

- Demons can and do grieve, but it’s usually expressed as a roaring rampage of revenge against whoever killed your ally. If something happened to Maze, for example, Lucifer wouldn’t cry or get sentimental; he’d cause so much carnage they’d be talking about it for millennia. By demon standards that would be the most touching tribute he could give her tbh. 

- After someone dies, their clan usually eats them - in a world where the creatures you eat can kill you just as easily as be killed by you, meat is meat and a meal you don’t have to work for is a gift. (This is why Mom asked if humans eat their own when She first came to Earth. Hell was a horrible surprise for both of them for a variety of reasons, and this is definitely one of them.) To humans, this is horrifying; to demons, it’s not even something to bat an eyelid at. 

- Devils don’t often get old. They live in a cutthroat world of power games and ambition, and everyone wants their spot. Devils get to the top by being especially cunning or vicious or physically powerful, and once the thing keeping them there starts to run down, they’re often killed and replaced by someone stronger. It’s just as common for your allies to turn on you as your enemies, so you’re watching your back constantly, never truly safe, always reading into every interaction for signs of danger. There’s a reason Lucifer doesn’t trust easy. As an angel he’s stronger than practically all demons, but Hell-forged steel can kill him; all it would take is for him to let his guard down just a little bit too much at the wrong moment. 

[thewollfgang]

If you were to give Chloe, Ella, Dan, Linda, Cain, Trixie, and Maze wings and angel powers what would they be?

Well the short answer is I probably wouldn't because some of those people with angelic powers sounds terrifying but if we're doing like a purely hypothetical thing, then that's fine

You can find a lot of my thoughts on angel!Chloe in my angel au tag but Chloe has wings much like a Golden Eagle and the angelic ability to pull the truth out of a person (similar to Lucifer, but not exactly the same).

Ella would have wings of a raven and the ability to speak to souls, wherever they may be located.

Dan would have big, beautiful vulture wings, a span to rival Lucifer's. I'd give him the ability of something like earth manipulation.

Linda would have the softest dove wings, but not the purely white ones, more like mourning dove wings. She has the ability to read the heart, or see the true inner person.

Cain gets nothing because I said so.

Trixie hasn't got her adult plumage yet, so she's still pretty fluffy and fuzzy. Best guess is they're raptor wings of some kind. If I was basing her powers on her personality I would give her the ability to influence people to her will, but that is a dangerous power in the hands of an eight year old, so instead I would say the ability to talk to animals.

Maze has bat wings but she's not an angel, she's an archdemon, so she doesn't get any powers beyond what she already possesses.

[themonsterblogofmonsters]

What features/characteristics do you think an individual would have if they were a hybrid of a Mer-Drow and a Koi-Mer? Would they be able to fit into wizarding society or have children with a wizard? Would a Cave Glowhound like/work/bond with them like with a Drow?

What features/characteristics do you think an individual would have if they were a hybrid of a Mer-Drow and a Koi-Mer? 

Mer-Drow are almost uniformly Deep-Mer in Arṣatum. Koi-Mer are Surface Mer in coastal waterways in Japan. The two almost never meet. There are a very few Mer-Drow at the surface at the Drow colony in the Orkneys - Drow returning to the surface and living near Norse settlers in the Orkneys due to linguistic and cultural similarities (remember, Drow are descended of the Scandinavian Dokkalfar) - but still, they’re half a world away from the Amabie. The odds of a Mer-Drow, even a Surface Mer-Drow, meeting an Amabie to have offspring are extremely low.

Please remember this.

If - somehow - a Deep Drow-Mer met a Koi-Mer they’d probably both be in captivity. That’s the only explanation I can think of. There’s a very slim chance that one might be travelling, but few Mer go deeper than they can handle and Deep-Mer and Arṣatumwaterways are deep down - no Surface Mer would dare without some clear protection, such as the company of an Orca-Mer and Orca-Mer just don’t go that deep. If they’re in captivity and were forced to breed then...

I don’t know? They’d be a merperson? Probably with no real place in the world because one parent is adapted for the surface waterways and the other for the depths? Appearance-wise they’d be a mix, as you might expect. If it was a surface Drow-Mer then again, mixed appearance from both parents, severe sunlight sensitivity even with Surface-Mer ancestry. This would not be a happy kid. 

I’m not sure what you expected.

Would they be able to fit into wizarding society or have children with a wizard?

Fit into wixen society? No? Why would they? Why would they even seek to, they’re a merperson, not a human. They have Mer-Society to fit into - which is going to be difficult, being the bizarre hybrid that they are.

They might be able to take a human form and have part-human offspring with a wix, but... Part-Mer aren’t common. They exist but they’re not common, and this is one Mer amongst many; the majority of Mer, if they have offspring, have them with other Mer. The odds of this one - who’d already have trouble finding a place amongst other Mer, given their oddities - seeking instead to find a place amongst wixes, despite not being one themselves, despite the decided humano-centric worldview of most wixes - the bias they have against non-human sapients - ... it’s extremely low.

If they did try to do that, odds are humans would see them as even more of an oddity than Mer might - they’d be different, unusual, exoticised and objectified. Not a person. So, I suppose, they might have a child with a wix, but not necessarily by choice.

Would a Cave Glowhound like/work/bond with them like with a Drow?

Probably not, as a Cave Glowhound is not aquatic and a Mer-Drow/Amabie hybrid would be. You’d want to look more at the animal companions found amongst Mer than amongst Drow. Perhaps a Merwolf.

I hope this answers your questions.

[thosebizzareserpents]

Do you have anything of the wider Slughorn and Jigger’s families?

No but I think it's added list now.

[mxrcusflint]

Whom did you fancast for the Slytherin quittidch team?

hi there!

Marcus - Felix Bujo

Draco - Greg Nawrat

Adrian - Vito Basso

Montague - Sasha Volosatov

Bletchley - Mats van Snippenberg

and tried to track down Derrick and Bole, but sadly could not - anybody who does happen to know the models/faces, please let me know!

[casimania]

I love your Chloe/Dan/Lucifer/Pierce. What head cannon do you have for them?

Gosh thank you! I have lots of headcanons actually, I do want to write a couple of fics about them and there’s a lot of ways they could go.

But mainly (goddamn this got so long, I rambled a lot sorry):

Chloe, Lucifer and Dan get together just as season 3 starts. When Pierce shows up they’re still settling in (there’s lot of settling in to do, from Lucifer suddenly seeing on a daily basis Dan and Chloe being parents and having to deal with his own parental issues, to Divine bullshit happening to Chloe and Dan getting used at being in a relationship again with all their past issues). There’s a lot of ways they could come together: Dan and Lucifer sort of stumbling in a relationship while pining after Chloe and Chloe having complicated feelings (she Wants but Dan has already fucked her over once and Lucifer is sometimes erratic and self-destructive and she’s always second guessing everything). Or Dan and Lucifer becoming friends and Dan gets an accidental Devil reveal and gets out of it with a stronger bond with Lucifer and it helps Lucifer deal with his feelings with Chloe and confess (and after they shack up Lucifer belately realizes he has similar feelings for Chloe and Dan has been pining over both the whole time and Chloe has been battling resurfacing feelings for Dan but thinks she’s just being a sappy fool). Or even they just slowly come together at the same pace. They don’t even notice they’re basically doing family stuff together like “we’re just friends what are you talking about ah ah” but daydream about domestic stuff all the time and a lot of people genuinely think they’re all an Item. 

I want Pierce role as the Sinnerman to be different also, just because. Less Murdery Crime Boss, more Espionage. Like a spy network. He’s hold and knows Things. His schtick is that if you fuck up he will know. He torments families for generations until their sins aren’t relevant anymore (but a lot of people do fucked up shit along the way so he gets more ammo for another couple generations). The Sinnerman name comes from this in this AU, he knows you sins and your forefathers’ ones. I really want him to emply the fact he’s the older human on Earth. He knows shit about everyone and he has tangible evidence to twist your arm. He has a chockehold on a lot of families. It’s also useful to reinvent himself or hide his tracks. I got the impression in canon the Sinnerman deal isn’t too old, here instead it’s been going on for longer. Less bloody but more deeprooted. Which is why it’s a big surprise when the Decoy Sinnerman starts offing people in fucked up ways. Pierce left him some liberty while trying to keep himself clean while working for the Law but that’s a bit too much. Also doesn’t make sense, starts getting actually worried when he notices he’s being slowly cut off from most of his sources. While killing the people making Deals with Lucifer the fake Sinnerman has also been offing people Pierce personally dealt with. And Pierce was so focused on Lucifer and Chloe and his goal he only realizes when his only option is to band together with them and Dan to bring him down.

Except, surprise! In this AU the fake Sinnerman is gonna be involved with Celestial bullshit on an Apocalyptic level so they really really have to work together. Cause since I’m hell bent on woobifying Pierce I need a big bad for them to join forces against. And I always felt like the decoy Sinnerman was heading towards something big only to be offed in an anticlimatic way (I guess it could make sense since the real dangerous big bad ended up Pierce in the end, but it’s nice to expand that role a little). And of course Pierce’s whole Cain deal comes out in the open and differently than in canon. And Chloe and Dan discover too. Which makes for some awkward (for Chloe and Dan) interactions at work. Like this is our boss, who is also literal Cain From The Bible and is Immortal AND a crime boss AND meets up like weekly to be killed by our boyfriend what the fuuuuuck.

Lucifer goes down a self acceptance journey (accepting himself as not a wretched monster who poisons and ruins everything he touches, but also accepting that not everything that happened to him  was personally enacted by his father but it’s either shitty circumstances and consequences and his subconscious acting up) while Pierce gets some sort of redemption arc. Or “take responsibility you self-victimizing asshole”. I see Canon Cain as being Bad(tm) both because he downright said so (his saying Lucifer wanted to be Good was pretty telling that he, instead, embraced the role humanity seemingly gave him and reveled in it). He needs to realize he both has to admit he made mistakes and bad things on his own and to actually make the good choice for once. Cain at first was just like “God, my family and the whole of humanity says I am a mosnter and the source of Evil in man. So there’s no point in trying to be good. I’ll just do bad shit and it will be THEIR fault, not mine. I’ve been pushed into it”. He’ll need to put his big boy pants and do some soul searching. Instead of always running away. Similar to Lucifer, yet Lucifer, even while embracing his Evil Devil Role always desperately wanted to be good in his core. He’s a very human Devil while canonly Pierce was a human who pretty much shed his humanity. So yeah, he’s gonna face reality and I’m gonna find a way to rip a lot of shit out of him he’s bitten into and swallowed down and has been unable to face for thousands of years. I really wanna make him sweat blood about it. I got a few different ideas but he’s gonna come out of it different. Probably gonna fuck him up for a while, he saw the world one way for thousands of years and in the span of one year (and a half maybe) it gets all challenged pretty violently and he can either double down in his convinctions or accept the changes and deal with it. With being the only one responsible for who he is, shit can happen but in the end the final choice is yours, and Cain always ran from this truth.

Lucifer and Pierce come to some sort of understandment pretty soon. They both see each other as someone fucked over by God. Lucifer is desperate for someone who truly gets that aspect of his life while Pierce kinda hates when he find himself when they do get each other. Like it was all fun and games when it was some snarky banter, true heart to heart moments are what usually make him choose a new identity and skip town. Chloe is someone he comes to respect pretty soon when shit starts getting seriou. The choices he always has difficulty with? The good ones? She's good at making them, she can have the literal Devil on her shoulder goading her but she always asks herself “Is it right? Is this the kind of person I want to be? To make myself become?” and she chooses knowing it’s all on her (where he always was “Not my choice, not my fault”). And Dan, damn he has a lot of animosity and contempt for Dan at first. He sees a crooked cop getting off easily due to circumstances and he’s just seeing his one bad deed and undening curse. And he hates the idea of people getting off the hook easily. But they’re all forced in close contact or a while so he unwittingly starts knowing more about Dan and just, he’s still fun to make fun of (and Lucifer agrees with him on that) but there’s some begruding respect there. He’s fucked up he keeps fucking up but he keeps trying and after realizing some shit about himself and the Mark the animosity dies down a bit and he gets a little less petty. Which slowly turns into a moment of understand between them down the line and they’re not sure which one is more shocked.

Also regarding angelic self actualization! Lucifer is gonna get his wings back or devil face off earlier than in canon. He comes to accept hismelf a little bit more and either one of those things changes. The other changes after he’s sent Goddess away, cause that’s a little bit more of self-acceptance. He’s avoided a war and sent him mother off to a hopefully better place. Of course he still thinks it’s punishment first for shacking up with Dan and Chloe and being happy and refusing to go back to Hell (maybe the wings appear first, he thinks it’s God urging him to fly back to Hell) and then for sending Goddess in another dimension (and probs also killing Uriel). But at some point he’s gonna spiral down again, want to fit into this AU something like the plot of season 4 and him going down a self-hate and doubt spiral for a reason or another. Maybe less abruptly, having loved one helps some but can’t fix eons of fucked up slowly crawling back up. And on the issue of God. I’m gonna say neither the Mark nor the Fall were dished out as punishments made to make Lucifer and Cain suffer. Here’ He’s very much a touch and go sort of guy. He gave Cain the Mark because Abel went down to Hell for way less and he doesn’t want that for either of them, but Abel is out of his hands, he can only hope for Cain’s redemption. So he sends Amenadiel to inflict a mark that extends his life, he can get rid of it once he’s finally faced the reality of the murder he committed, then he can fuck up more as he wishes and condemn himself again. The great unending punishment is something Cain and Amenadiel just assumed. Like Lucifer’s Fall. I like to think Hell was God’s way of getting Luciffer as far has his influence so he could act on his Free Will (I have more feelings on this but this thing got long enough). But he’s God and kind of a ass so he never states things clearly. You gotta work for them cause free will. Same with Chloe. He sent Amenadiel down to bless Penelope but didn’t really leave instructions (cause that again would be meddling with free will).

And also Season 4 equivalent is something I want to explore too. Also cause in the mess that would be this season 3 the whole OT4 thing doesn’t really come together immediately. More of a “Pierce does some soul searching and shapes up a little” but after it it’s more like, there’s understanding and respect between them and something is budding but it’s not quite “Here’s the keys Marcus come live with us”. He’s sort of like a stray cat they picked up. He keeps working at the precinct because the Mark is gone and his years are clearly numbered now and he has to decide what to make of them. And he sort of comes and goes, he’s been cutting ties with people for a very long time and he does not quite know how to ease himself back into yet (half the reason is gonna be the wonder trio being there, shit definitely got serious before but now he’s stalling). I write more easily lighthearted stuff and I can see Lucifer, Dan and Chloe just huddling together and discussing him. Maybe something happened in the thick of actions but since stuff chilled down they’re like, what now?? And they’re just being so obvious about it. But I don’t know yet how things will develop between Pierce and Chloe, Dan and Lucifer exactly. I have a rough idea on how each of them relates to the other (I’m excited about expanding on Pierce and Dan, but also Chloe and Pierce getting to know each other without Pierce’s canon machinations) but I have yet to see what will come up when I write them interacting in these situations. The nice thing about polyamory is that you can have very different dynamics in a single relationship. But I don’t have a definite feel of them yet. And Chloe/Dan/Lucifer is gonna happen relatively fast, Chloe/Dan/Lucifer/Pierce is def gonna be a slow burn one. Excruciatingly slow burn.

Also EVE! I love Eve and I want to explore her + her son + Lucifer and everyone else. Abel was clearly her darling boy and she recognized canon Cain got what was coming for him. But here’s like, sort of one foot in one foot out of a relationsip with Lucifer, Chloe and Dan and shaped himself up. Where does Eve’s codepedency issues and unstable sense of self bring her? Does she still seek out Lucifer? Does she force herself not fear or resent Cain because Lucifer seems to like him? How much does it distress her? She’d probably latch on Lucifer but it would be an interesting dynamic with all of them. How much “oh fuck” is Pierce feelinga about all of this? Facing his guilt and faults head on (pretty fucky when you went around millennia going “lalala no guilt in here nope sir!”). Also good to explore some background for the Eden family. Abel and Cain’s mutual fighting. Adam being a stick in the mud apparently. Eve’s own issues and how they relate to her being a mother and wife (did she see herself as a person or was absorbed by those roles? how much did she go along Adam’s wishes instead of hers even while raising their sons, she was made out of Adam’s rib literally for him. this is a hella weird dynamic to have as a family. did she see Lucifer in Abel’s playfulness and lightheartedness? Was Cain more like Adam? Could this have bred more anymosity between them?). And just the idea of Adam and Eve just spawning like that and being looked after by God at first. And Cain is just the first baby they’ve even ever seen. The pregnancy must have been pretty scary for Eve. How confused were they about baby care? His growth? Having to look after him? Did he resent that they were more prepared for Abel? Or that Eve seemed to be kind of a yes man with Adam? I have the impression this family never did much honest “here’s our feelings lets discuss” talk. And in all of this there’s a demon uprising. Because they can’t have ONE normal year, can they?

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Wait, you can do that?

Source: 1billsookie

this is Kirk's "wait you're married to your science officer? you can do that?" look and I accept no argument, you can see the little cogs going round in his brain

from s3 ep07 Day of the Dove

[cyrelia-j]

[fic] Wired (Garak/Bashir/Parmak)

Catching up on a few prompt requests from @1billsookie I decided to do some of these as a continuation of the First Contact universe (where both Garak and Parmak were exiled to DS9). That can be read HERE but isn’t necessary.

Summary: This was one an OT3 version of The Wire. A comedic take on another way that Garak’s implant may have malfunctioned ;)

Warnings: some crack, language, and adult situations but nothing explicit

           “You did what?!” Julian coughs, looking around at the raised eyebrows lowering his voice. Next to him, Parmak takes his glasses off before polishing them absently.

           “It’s ahh… one of those things in Elim’s past that he doesn’t like to talk about,” Parmak murmurs, hinting that the conversation would be better continued in private. Julian isn’t quite sure how they’re going to pull off that feat when Garak is apparently there lying in bed from what Parmak described with a cough and a mumble and an unfortunate accident that he wasn’t quite sure how to correct without Julian’s assistance. Julian had had to drag the information out of his lover - and god, what a wild ride that’s been so far! - which meant that it was likely especially bad since Parmak wasn’t usually the one to obfuscate.

 Apparently Garak has some sort of mysterious “spy implant” and apparently he and Parmak had gotten carried away the last time they were playing with it in Julian’s absence. And now it’s “not working properly.”

             Julian finds Garak lying on the couch back in their shared quarters grimacing in what appears to be pain as he clicks his tongue at the both of them and kneels down next to Garak. It doesn’t look good from the outset, he thinks, pulling his tricorder out running an initial diagnostic.The sweat concerns him, Cardassians usually not perspiring unless the conditions are extreme...

           “God, your temperature is at least two degrees higher than it ought to be,” he says, remember Parmak’s continuing instruction on Cardassian. “So tell me again what exactly the two of you were doing?”

             Silence greets him from Garak (surprisingly) followed a look passing between the two of them. Julian really doesn’t understand what all the fuss is when they’ve already had the “I used to be a nefarious spy- Parmak? Guls and Ancients Parmak couldn’t spy on a retired and blind Legate” talk. Probably Garak and more secrets and more nonsense, so Julian just sighs and wonders if perhaps he ought to just never leave the station again. Right, Sorry, Commander, I know you need your Chief Medical Officer with you but I’m afraid my lovers who are certainly old enough to know better can’t seem to be trusted alone.

             “Really… I don’t even understand how the two of you have been living here all this time without an earlier incident the way you carry on,” Julian grumbles when Parmak elbows Garak in the side and finally explains that the cerebral implant is provided to certain operatives and is only intended to be used in instances of torture to release a flood of endorphins and perhaps well after being there a while not supposing it would ever be used again (“I said, ‘Elim, we should take this as a sign that a change of profession is warranted even once we do return home’”) and bored and a bit tipsy, they got the idea to start fooling around with it.

             “It’s really quite fascinating,” Parmak explains while Garak continues breathing like he’s going into labor. “We had found a way to ahh… modify the device so that it could control a slightly more varied array of functions and be activated remotely-”

           “Remotely,” Julian says flatly as his cursory scans are thankfully showing nothing beyond the increased respirations, temperature, blood pressure, but nothing beyond that and it doesn’t seem like anything that Parmak should need emergency assistance with.

           “Right, Ah and so we’re getting to the problem now. See the device was engineered by an old acquaintance of ours-” (translation- one of their other lovers) “-and it’s worked so effectively until now that-”

             Julian jumps as Parmak is cut off by a pained hiss, a yowl that sounds something akin to two cats in an alley all emanating from Garak’s throat. Garak, who Julian realizes stupidly as he looks closer is fully everted beneath the robe, scales flushed drak, swollen, hot not with fever but Julian is beginning to get a sneaking suspicion that Garak’s brain is not under duress, that his leukocytes are perfectly fine, and that this is all a matter of-

           “So you see, we’re not quite certain how to get it open and I assure you I’ve tried every driver, every key, every seal popper that we have and it’s been nothing but a fool’s errand.”

             And that’s when Julian takes a second look to Parmak now and realizes, that while he may be standing there in his professional lab coat, a look down reveals bare legs and his slippers, and Julian realizes that both of them have only thrown on the most careless layer of clothing. Garak moans again. Parmak hisses at him to stop being so dramatic. Julian feels his eye twitching as he looks back and forth between his two older (but certainly no more mature!) lovers.

 “So let me get this straight. You called me here, postponing a delicate surgery on Morn’s hernia, because you broke the remote to your sex toy?”

             Garak looks about to say something smart but instead flops inelegantly on his stomach starting to rub against the couch cushion sounding pained.

           Parmak at least has the decency to look embarrassed as he explains that he thinks it may be the battery which normally recharges with a quick shake (that he demonstrates with an obscene jerking motion- because of course, Julian why wouldn’t the battery recharge that way?) but notes that nothing is happening except Garak groaning louder and Parmak giving his ass a good swat and…

             And if Julian is being honest, pique, the humidity, Garak’s robe riding up, is starting to make it difficult to stay angry exactly, that emotion starting to twist to something a bit more primitive as he starts examining the dubious looking device (a twenty three centimeter long grey cylinder that’s suspiciously ribbed) realizing that this is honest to God beyond the supplemental engineering courses that he’d taken at Starfleet. Julian’s already turned the thing over a million ways and realizes it may have very well been sealed not to open which begs the question of how is he supposed to repair it or even get a new one. Julian sighs.

 Which means he’s going to have to talk to Miles.

 God help him.

 ---

             “Alright, once more. Yer asking me to take a look at-”

           “The remote control,” Julian answers looking away, rubbing the back of his neck.

           “Right, for a device that you’d rather not say what it’s for…”

           “Right again.”

           “And you don’t know where it came from or who made it…”

           “Right?” Julian answers with an embarrassed cough. “But I...ah left my COM badge there so Kelas can let me know if it’s er… successful,” Julian mumbles pretending not the notice the look that Miles is giving him.

           “Should I be wearing gloves for this?” Miles asks taking a second look at the gray cylindrical device. Julian feels his face heating up having counted on one hand the number of times in his life he’s ever pulled off a visible blush.

 He’s positive that he’s bright red right now as one of the ensigns under Miles raises an eyebrow.

             “It’s a medical device!” Julian yells to a series of softly concealed snickers. Maybe he should’ve caught Miles at home or in private but it really is an emergency so…

           “So the first problem is that the device is Romulan and they used one of their damn smelt sealers. So right away it’s gonna need to be popped, probably break the case but I can replicate something should hold the parts well enough. Problem is the caps the Romulans use are hard to come by if that’s even what it is-” Miles continues as Julian just nods nods, unable to picture much else except that he’d left Garak moaning like an Algorian Mammoth in a biannual heat with Parmak clinically informing them both that they might need to perform an emergency operation if he remained everted longer than a few hours so Julian finds himself tapping his foot much to Miles’ poorly concealed annoyance.

             “Sure sure, whatever you have to do,” Julian rushes out to more irritated mumbling, his damn enhanced hearing catching every whisper of entitled CMO and how it probably is a sex toy and it’s ludicrous that an officer’s sex life is more important than the food replicators which Julian bears all gamely as Miles tells him that is definitely is one of the capacitors and he’s probably gonna have to talk to Quark and just how hard was Julian (it wasn’t me!) jerking the thing any way? “Like I said before,” Julian says with his most pleasant gritted teeth smile, “it’s not a-”

           “Yeah yeah but you see, it charges here by shaking it, which is amazing considerin’ it’s old tech or a mod of some old Earth tech they used to use with copper wire but yeah, Quark probably can get you something-”

             Julian hears him shouting “Yer welcome!” after him, already off and running.

 ---

             “So needless to say,” Julian finishes as Parmak curiously turns the [somehow even more phallic looking] remote around in his hands looking at some of the extra buttons that weren’t there before like the vibrate that Julian swears wasn’t necessary to which Miles just snorted and said “yah sure it’s not”, along with the rotation of the upper half (Boq���ta’s contribution, Julian was cheerfully informed as he just nodded and graciously accepted the repaired device). Still, the transmitter was undamaged so once it was recharged, it was a simple matter to shut it off and lecture both his lovers on the dangers of messing around with such delicate things like the brain.

             Garak had merely answered as he sat rehydrating himself with a tall glass of water and an ice pack on his lap, that a life in exile was no life at all and there were stories of those who’d turned to far worse substance abuses than a little “harmless brain stimulation”. Parmak seemed to take exception to the “no life at all” comment but of course sided with Garak saying that Garak was under a doctor’s care after all, to which Julian snipped that he was a doctor who couldn’t even fix his own remote and that if anyone ought to know better that it was him.

             “You really scared me, you know,” Julian tells them both later, his head on Parmak’s lap enjoying strong fingers massaging his temples. “Please tell me you’re going to just deactivate the thing or at the very least stop using it for recreation.” He looks over at Garak’s who’s examining the remote speculatively, still toggling the different vibrate functions. He doesn’t miss the look that passes between his two Cardassian lovers as they both solicitously vow that they absolutely will not be indulging in any more reckless implant play.

 Well, at least the new remote opens with a few small screws.

[nothingeverlost]

After that fascio with Zades I feel like i'm done with ouat. I knew that it would end badly the second the storyline was introduced but I still fell for them and allowed myself to hope that just maybe this time the writers wouldn't fuck it up. Disappointed and disgusted (but unsurprised) doesn't even begin to describe how I feel. If Hades (and Robin for that matter) had to die there are dozens of ways they could've done it (the power could've been going haywire and shooting out of the crystal,-

- killing Robin and Hades or Hades kills Robin, realizes that Zelena is enough for him and jumps in front of a power beam when it shoots towards Zelena, sacrificing himself for her. And maybe, because of the sacrifices both men made, Zues granted their souls passage into the (good) afterlife, at least allowing for the possibility that the sisters will be reunited with their TL as opposed to both men being lost to them forever). -

-The fact that Zades was almost an exact parallel for Rumbelle and Stable/Outlaw Queen just proves how lazy the writers are and how little original thought they gave to the storyline and the characters. Can you tell that I'm at the end of my rope?

II

They started Zades knowing that they were going to crush it.  They introduced characters knowing they would vanish or die.  They write everyone except Hook as expendable; for some reason Hook gets these extreme measures.  

I’m at the end of my rope too.   They have Hook, serial killer who died because he was going to kill everyone and changed his mind, not just saved but divine intervention.  And Robin gets so completely obliterated his soul is destroyed.  

The moral of the story is you need to be a white cis pretty bad boy if you want to have everything.

[hannahberrie]

Where can I find the Tangled/Wildehopps AU?

I’m not sure if anyone has written it yet, but I know @ky-jane has drawn some amazing art for it! (x)

[charlie-minion]

Just watched the scene where Balthazar says to Dean "the angel in the dirty trench coat who's in love with you". Assuming that he meant it literately and wasn't being a wiss ass a) do you think Cas was aware of his feelings and b) why didn't Dean (or even Sam) pick up on what Balthazar said?

Hey there! It’s been a while since I’ve thought about episode 6x17 (My heart will go on). That episode was written by Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder, who still write for the show. They’re not bad writers. In fact, their episode sometimes include some sort of bi!Dean subtext. The thing about them is that they’re not consistent. I cannot identify a pattern in their writing, and that makes me believe that whatever good line we do get in their episodes is mere coincidence or simple fan service. Because of this, I cannot take the line in a serious way. I always understood it as Balthazar teasing Dean. Nowadays, we can write long metas saying that Balthazar had correctly read Cas’ feeling toward Dean as romantic, the same thing that Metatron did in season 9. We can make it work because right now, 5 seasons later, we know what’s happened in the story. However, nothing in the narrative back in season 6 suggested that Balthazar meant what he said. That’s why I think it was fan service. I’ve seen Destiel as a serious and important part of the narrative from season 8 on. Before that, many things were just lucky coincidences that Carver and cia. have used to build upon. 

Regarding your specific questions: a) I don’t think Cas was aware of his feelings. I think he became aware in season 9, around 9x06. And b) Dean and Sam didn’t pick up on what Balthazar said because they probably thought Balthazar was not being serious. Meg called Castiel Dean’s boyfriend in season 7 and nobody said anything either. In those seasons, the Dean/Cas dynamic was there, but TPTB were not using it as much as Carver and cia. are nowadays. 

[lassieposting]

Somewhere along the way Lucifer forgets his Angel language. Lilium becomes the one he knows, how to speak it, write, sign it. He knows what the growls and hisses and the turn of a head means and that the bite scar on a shoulder has a different meaning then one on the thigh. When his brother first encounters him after the fall and speaks... it is meaningless. Strange random noise. Lucifer has to turn the phrases around over and over to understand, strain his memory until he thinks he knows -

(cont.) what was said. And when he responds his words barely comprehensible to his brother’s ears, the Lilium is so thick. From then on his brother visits him, writes their language in the sand and speaks slowly, gesturing and nodding, he teaches the hums and trills and clicks that Lucifer’s vocal cords have forgotten, that his mind doesn’t recognize. He learns the subtle language of wings: the ruffles and flicks and the slashing though the air. What the stillness of the body and the curling of the shoulders mean, that the bands up to the elbow are of greater status then ones on the wrist. It takes eons and eons for Lucifer to relearn the Angel he once was, and it’s not completely Angel nor demon even now. There are Lilium letters mixed with Angel ones when he writes, snarl and gnash teeth when a wing ruffle would have sufficed, scars still make more sense then bands and it is those that he looks for, and his Lilium accent is still so thick that the Angel words barely makes sense.And vocalizing is… difficult. Oh Lucifer can make them. The chirps, humms, trills and rumbles. But they sound rough, sharp. Like a bear trap wrapped in a flour sack. His vocal cords burn he makes them, even now, billions of years in Hell re-shaping them into a construction that is more demon the angel, more suited to threats and violence, death, ash and fire. Maze didn’t mind. She makes them too for it sounds right to Lucifer coming from her. More right then the sounds from his brothers throat.

[hp-picspams]

Strange request, but could you make something with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Ziyi Zhang? Maybe casting them as opposite house lovers or separately as an after the war type thing?

ok this request isn’t strange at all it’s very cool and i sort of just combined both of your ideas, i hope you don’t mind!! and i hope you like the end result because i had some trouble deciding how to go about it // xx