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zaptrapp · 7 months ago

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Ea’s Bad Batch Finale Rant

Here we go, doing this as I’ve done for ep.1. Of course SPOILERS AHEAD for the last episode (sigh, it’s all done and gone isn’t it?). Warning, this is going to be chaotic and emotional... so yeah, deal with it haha.

The intro… the eerie music… chills.

Is something bad about to happen or…?

Please leave Wrecker alone.

WRECKER NO

We are not starting on a good note, why’s Wrecker so beaten up???

This is not good, I’m not good.

I mean I know why, because of last ep beast, but c'mon why Wrecker...

“Clone Force 99 ended when Tech died” fuck If I’m not crying wow….

Crosshair shaking so much… nah I’m out already what the fuck is this.

Crosshair wanting to sacrifice himself, YO CHILL?!?

Hunter please discipline your children.

Dr. Hemlock x Rampart or did I just imagine the sexual tension?

But what if...

Enemies to lovers Dr. Hemlock x Rampart lmao please someone, anyone?

Kids please beat the shit out of miss Dr. PLEASE KIDS!

Omega being so smart, her character development, the courage! SLAY GIRLIE

FREE THE ZILLO YUP

now we're talking

"Is it Omega's or Echo's handiwork?".... "Omega's." LMAO they know Echo doesn't fuck around that much hahaha

Emerie i give you one last chance.

green kid I feel you so much, I'm also afraid of heights hahah

here we go with the Incredible 4 (aka the super clones? enhanced clones? brainwashed clones? whatever....)

they give off a lot of "Avengers Unite!" vibe

ready to slay aren't we?

When I said slay I didn't mean slay the bad batch, just to be clear.

annd Hunter is a goner

Annnnd Crosshair is a goner too i guess?

WHAT THE FUCK NOT THE HAND???

Creepiest point the show has ever been what the actual fuck is this supposed to be a children show?

Yup Wrecker is done too.

Yo the scene where Emerie and Echo see his squad being taken away. I got chills, you can fucking see his reaction, the shock.

ECHO SLAY YESSSS ECHO THE OG ARC TROOPER HERE WE GO

Emerie don't fuck this up and get those kids to safety thank you.

CLONE RESCUE HAPPENING RN I'M NOT GOOD

Nala Se and Rampart too?! slay

Omg Rampart stfu for one second or just go away you're useless anyway

Not the squad being tortured

HUNTER NOOOOOOO

"We'll survive, but you won't" -> OOOOOOHHFFFFFFUUUUCK

Hunter be mine

Oh wow Nala Se I see where you're going with this.

Kamikaze?

Too bad we didn't have more Hemlock x Rampart interactions, boyfriend died, sad.

Aaaaaand 2 are down.

Bye Rampart and Nala Se, you actually were on my dead bad batch bingo list.

Rest In Peace Nala Se🙏🏻 you got redeemed.

Rest in Sass you bitching ass imperial Rampart 🖕🏻

UH Hemlock this was such a bitchy thing to do.

and here goes the chaos

Wrecker is so fucking menacing. HE IS PISSED

OK WRECKER IS MAD MAD and also scary scary now…

Hunter with that spear makes me feel things.

Uhhh he got it coming from a mile away

And Clone CX-2 is down….

So, uhhhh…. That wasn’t Tech uh……

So….

Tech was….

….Dead dead?

Like actually dead this whole time?

Fuck.

ALSO WHERE THE FUCK IS COMMANDER CODY PLEASE RELEASE HIS FROM HIS CAGE

NO ECHO fuck god

“Take a shot everytime the bad batch is on the verge of getting killed”

-> not me being absolutely wasted and with my nerves asking for mercy

Please Hunter, Crosshair, kill that bitch ass Hemlock

major disney villain vibe in the storm with the hostage secured to his wrist yada yada...

"DROP YOUR BLASTERS" well well well

Why is Hemlock’s screaming voice kinda sexy tho

I'm so sorry for what I've just said.

WET HAIR HUNTER FUCKING THANK YOU I can die now

CROSSHAIR PLEASE bciakwnfbhc I’m dying too here

You can do it YES you can do it

Crosshar leaning on Hunter like he did with Tech in the clone wars season 7 HAHAHAHA YUUUUP I've been fed.

Uh that was personal

Guys... that's enough. Yup I-I think he's dead now. Yes, definitely gone. Uh, you can stop shooting, he's cold. He also just fell off a cliff... HE DEAD DEAD!

evil space imperial boyfriends reunited in hell

The way Omega chooses to hug Crosshair first, as a DadHunter! stan I feel a bit betrayed but comprehensible… he just saved her not missing the shot.

with one hand tooo, kudos

group hug I'm so teary

Wait so they did it?

THEY’RE OFF PLANET!??

AND THEY ALL SURVIVED?

Oh wow I bet my money on Hunter and Crosshair to die but I was wrong?? This is… refreshing.

Look at them kids!! And the clone cadets, and the rescued clones!!!

EMERIE AND ECHO YESSSS

Look at them all cozy and happy

Nah Echo my man where are you going?

Rex mention pt. 2 or something...

Rex should have been there in the finale but ok i guess... a bit disappointed but still

Nah Echo should have been there for the last shot.

It’s over uh?

look at them, finally happy and free. WE DID IT.

WAIT NO IT ISNT OVER YET???

Not the flash forward I cannot handle it

Ok Pabu!?

YOUNG ADULT OMEGA fuck yesssss

oh she looks awesome

IS THAT HUNTER'S BANDANA

deceased. dead on the ground. dead like hemlock.

NOT OLD HUNTER LIKE THIS IM DEAD ON THE GROUND DECEASED IM FUCKING CRYING OH WOW

OMEGA IS SO GROWN UP

She’s a rebel pilot

"You're our kid" I'M SCREAMING

he chose to be a dad, I knew it

She chose to keep fighting

TECH'S GOGGLES THIS IS SUCH A FOUL MOVE

They should have included Wrecker and Crosshair in this where are they??

But also it’s as it began, Hunter and Omega and their father-daughter bond

“Bye dad, imma be a pilot and save the galaxy” aka “imma move out from the basement and live on my own”

Oh Hunter you’re an old man now…. My heart is aching but also it means he got to live a peaceful life until the rest of his days.

the beard, the long hair, the gray hair.... i wonder how crosshair and wrecker are doing? and echo?? and howzer? AND CODY?

like you cannot leave me like this? hello?

This is gone full circle now.

Well….

Goodbye Bad Batch! It’s been a pleasure!

(I’m still crying)

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biblicallyaccuratepigeons · 2 months ago

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i deliberately looked for and screenshot a few anti-ford comments on that poll

because i hate myself ig

anyways i'm gonna be ventin so dldr ig (i voted stan btw)

here we go

hey fuck you? fuck you personally? we don't know that. we can't know that. and hey? it also wouldn't've taken him thirty years, just for the record.

dude what. the fuck. is your problem. you fucking symptom.

rude?? he's literally not a smartass. 20 years of being intellectually ahead of stan; ten years after that of being around college students and professors in his multiple advanced-as-fuck fucking phd programs; thirty years of a personally driven revenge quest to destroy his ex-boyfriend who would otherwise destroy everything he cared about and laugh about it; coming home to find that his life had been taken over so thoroughly that he thought it was another parallel universe; seeing his greatest fear realized; trying to stop it anyway; failing horrendously because he got startled; being tortured with enough electricity to kill a person and that's just what was PG enough to show - and all he did that could otherwise be interpreted as smartassy was to calmly correct his brother-who-had-ruined-his-chances-to-go-to-a-good-university-then-denied-his-one-imperative-request-and-pushed-him-into-the-portal-just-to-open-it-back-up-despite-the-danger's grammar. For fuck's sake, let him be a fucking human you bitch

it's not a complex dude. he is literally both more intelligent and more educated in more fields than about 99% of people, especially of his generation. sorry

As if Stan didn't do the exact same thing on the roadtrip? He would've ended up food if the kids weren't there - hell, he even went back to Darlene after she had already attempted to eat him using the exact same flattery. Did Ford ever go back to Bill? No.

ford... was also doing the most for his family? like it was pretty clear that he was trying to save the world from bill; even before that, he was doing everything so he wouldn't let his dad down and also be disowned

hey can someone tell me what "everything" is because what the actual fuck

i feel like. those two things are incompatible? but either way, in the wake of my bruised ego, this genuinely confounds me bc. like the only thing i can think of that would make someone say that is his pre-portal relationship with bill, as portrayed by bill. and. idk. that story was more sad to me than anything because i've been there. the only thing he did wrong was trust too much.

ok the funnier bit i totally agree with but WHAT THE FUCK WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK FORD'S MORE SELFISH AND HATES THE KIDS LIKE ACTUALLY LIKE THE FIRST THING HE EVER SAID ABOUT MABEL WAS THAT HE LIKED HOW WEIRD SHE WAS AND HE SPENT 30 YEARS TRYING TO KILL THE UNKILLABLE THING THAT HAD DESTROYED AND WOULD DESTROY MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELVES

wh-what the fuck did he do. what the fuck did he do.

ok now this is just a case of envy. you gonna go home to your negative gpa? gonna cry because you can't find anything special about yourself? we have no idea what ford went through while he was on the other side of that damn portal, but we do know that stan never had to be afraid of sleeping because of what he, himself, would do while he wasn't looking. he never had to worry about who was in charge of his own mind. he never had to be afraid of children on the street, or his own brother. fuck you personally and get a fucking hobby.

he was 17/18 with an abusive father and scared?? also. ford was also going through it in the events leading up to the portal. like i know he was financially comfortable and shit but he was very much not okay

i'm not gonna say he was right not to forgive nor thank stan because he absolutely wasn't, but for the record: ford did also go insane. like that was a very significant thing that happened. also: see the smartass rant. and let him be human please i am begging you.

okay one fuck you because he wasn't "playing" anything. he was trying to get shit done and enjoy life at the same time and that's not a moral failing. two you're being unfair, he didn't "start punching" stan, he punched him once and then when stan tried to punch back he stopped him. he also had thirty years of nonstop action and fear and revenge quest on his mind, with literally no time to work through his hurt because he was too busy surviving, and then stan started the portal right as he'd almost succeeded in his thirty-year revenge quest. he should've forgiven him sooner, but it's not like it doesn't make sense, even from a moral standpoint.

i'm sensing envy and ableism here. sorry you have different strengths than ford; hope you recover soon.

he's like not though? at all?

and this last one made me smile so i wanted to put it at the end for a light ending

And we were all like, "We know, but heyy!"

#alternative title: not surprised to find out that ford haters are emotionally immature shitheads with little to no analytical skills

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b1zmuth · 6 months ago

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Welcome To Hell!

Episode 1

‘’The Light and the Dark’’

´A new beginning, a new end to a tale thats already been told.´

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I can't even think about the last time I've seen the light of that once beautiful, cloudy land.

Every time my mind goes back to decrypting that horrid CREATURE... I need help remembering the events.

‘’DUDE! WAKE UP!’’ a smaller voice whisper-shouted in my ear, instantly sending shivers down my spine as I awoke.

‘’What? You know he made us work the fields last night. I just want to get some rest.’’ I responded whilst I rolled over and closed my eyes shut again.

‘’Doesn't matter... I need to show you something BIG.’’ The voice said again, now climbing on top of me and harshly shoving me from side to side

‘’Ugh!’’ I groaned while opening my eyes before turning to the taller, but younger figure on top of me.

‘’What time is it?’’ I asked

‘’It's time for us to GO. there's not much time left- and this might be my only chance of getting someone else on my side!’’ the figure spoke once again whilst pulling off the covers and pulling me out of the bed.

‘’Calm down. Im coming- do you not realize how you just- huh?’’ I questioned looking up at the sudden sound of metal scraping against the ceiling.

The taller figure stuck its head out and an arm, beckoning for me to come over.

‘’Really? How cliche of you, going through air ducts?’’ I said whilst smiling

‘’Suck it up cleaner boy. I know your curious now- but I promise ill explain once you see it for yourself as well.’’

Crawling through the tight vents and silently coughing due to the lack of maintenance, all I could think about was the endless amount of allergies I would have to endure after this.

Suddenly, the figure in front of me stopped moving and rolled on its side, and started saying something,

‘’It's gonna be a tight fit but, I need you to help me catch this vent door, you know good and well we are going to have a BALL dealing with him if we do get caught,’’

‘’Really? IF? You don't say! If a loud banging metal object goes crashing down to fully quartz flooring wouldn't alert everyone within a 50 mile radius? Shocker!’’ I laughed only to be met with a small giggle from my friend in front of me.

Im not a bad friend, of course, I had to help him.

‘’Hup!’’

‘’Jeez, that drop was tough. Are you okay Koi?’’ my friend asked lightly smiling at me

‘’You know, being a foot shorter than you is unfair.’’ I responded, rolling my eyes and placing the vent entrance down on the floor

‘’I mean, you did just jump out of a 99% trippable hole with an entire vent grate in your hands, i would be impressed if i was you!’’ he laughed in response

‘’Zip it Josh.’’

I sat there.

Mouth fully agape.

Looking at the horrific sight that lied infront of my very own eyes.

Our “God’’ was infected. Has returned.

‘’Koi? Koi! Snap out of it!’’ Josh said to me whilst shaking me pretty harshly

‘’Huh? What?’’ i responded, snapping out of my daze-like dream

‘’Look.. When i came here to do some of my sketching, i had the same experience as you have. Did you also hear the other voice?’’ Josh said in a panicked but weary tone

‘’Yeah.. I think so.. Do you know who spoke to us?’’ i asked, becoming weary of my surroundings aswell.

It was a simple mural room, designed and specifically made for our God(s), there were three waterfalls, and a small lit up statue of Noahs Ark.

‘’I-im not sure. But i know from experience whoever said ‘’has returned’’ cannot be one of our allies.’’

‘’What are you two doing here.’’

Me and Josh both quickly turned around to look and see who had said that only to be greeted with the Upper Sun, Castiel.

Castiel was one of the most mysterious Upper Suns, mainly because he seemed very uninterested in talking to HIM. he was also known as one of the cleanups..really? Nobody never knew as to why or how he knew where people were sticking their noses in places where they shouldnt have been.. But he was very lenient on us, usually sticking around to watch us do our meddling child-like business.

I miss him. Where did he go?

‘’You two arent supposed to be here, especially not with the moon in full rise. You two are SUPPOSED to be asleep.’’ Castiel questioned us, flipping his spear to point the sharp side at himself, and pointing the blunt end of his spear at us.

‘’We…’’ Josh started off, but i quickly realized that he was going to dig an even DEEPER grave for us, and cut him off.

‘’Doing some late night walks. Josh couldnt sleep and we decided to take a nice stroll, but we ended up getting cold and wandering off into here.’’ i said, trying not to laugh and break face infront of Castiel

‘’Your two are the worlds worst liars.. Ha, maybe ill join you for your little stroll.’’ Castiel said whilst lowly giggling to himself about the whole situation.

‘’Cmon now, dont make my job harder than it already is!’’ Castiel said whilst trying not to laugh and shooing us back in the direction our quarters.

But he didnt lead us to our quarters, he took a sharp right, and led us to the edge of the gates.

Suddenly, the smile on his face dropped and he looked at us with a stern face and said..

‘’Im giving you a choice of life or death. You can stay here and figure out the truth and try to save everyone, or you can go and become a fallen angel in Hell. its better than what this place will become in a while. But staying here will result in your death.’’

We only gave the taller and bigger angel in front of us a confused but content look.

As we watched a single tear fall from his blue eyes, he bowed down and whispered an apology.

‘’I hope he just sends you as a fallen angel and doesn't hurt you two. I would never forgive myself for letting you stay by my side.’’

‘’This is about what we saw.. Isnt it?’’ i asked whilst sitting down next to Castiel and giving him a awkward side hug

‘’I cant explain much about it but, yes. I want you to meet someone soon, they will protect you. But for now, pretend as i have never known you- staying near and close to me will make him target you too.’’

Feeling the hot and mournful tears fall from my eyes and leave marks on my cheeks- i couldnt help but wonder what Castiel knew about this realm, and why did he compare the sinners land to the peaceful afterlife of Heaven.

‘’You need to go home, they know we were here. You may not be able to fool me with your silly lie, but with anyone else you can. I can deal with most of the repercussions anyways.’’

If only I had stayed with him.

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My head hurts.

Well, considering how i just landed flat on my face after falling 50000+ miles, would be a pretty much expected response.

Starting to look around at my newfound surroundings, i noticed a brightly lit sign up ahead- so i dusted myself off and pulled the gigantic splinter out of my hand and walked up to it, inspecting it and reading what it said.

‘’WELCOME TO HELL! YOUR NEW GUILTY PLEASURE LIES AHEAD.’’

Cheeky.

I also noticed that there was a small booth box with a older looking demon inside of it- walking up to it i got ready to speak but was interrupted by the woman speaking.

‘’Another one? Jesus facking christ! You little angels are dropping like flies down here! *HACK* *COUGH* name and registraaaaaation pleaze.’’ the clerk lady said whilst puffing her lung cancer smoke in my face.

(eugh.)

#fallen angel #angels and demons #new story #tumblr fyp #longpost #long reads #chapter story

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coraex · 1 year ago

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𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹, 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓎.

𝐻𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓇𝓋𝑒𝒹, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓅𝓅𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓊𝓃𝓃𝓎.

𝒩𝑜 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀

𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑔𝑒𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇.

𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓃

𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇.

『⭒ 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 ⭒』

3 YEARS. That's how long the Clone Wars lasted. 3 years of gruesome battles between the Republic and the Separatists. Worlds were either being freed or conquered, lives were either saved or lost. And at the end... Nobody won.

That's how Hemera Matthews, a young mechanic, and later on, soldier, for the Grand Army of the Republic felt when it officially ended. She knew that neither the Republic, nor the Separatists won. She just knew that both sides fell down the day Order 66 came through.

Hemera, who's been fighting alongside the 501st for most of the war, was with Clone Force 99 - also named the Bad Batch -, on Kaller when Order 66 came through. She has been with the Bad Batch for seven months already when it happened.

This is the day the Galactic Empire was born. The day that changed everything for everyone... Including Hemera and the Bad Batch. And the day Hemera got betrayed by the person she deeply cared about and trusted with her life.

After being forced to leave that person behind on Kamino, Hemera and the rest of the Bad Batch become deserters, and will quickly find out that the Empire is after them for being "traitors". Forcing them to keep a low profile while trying to find what their place is in this ever-changing galaxy.

During a mission with the Batch, Hemera will lose something that was very important to her. Something she was supposed to keep on her, at all times, no matter what. And she will quickly understand why she was supposed to keep it on herself. And this event will bring up a lot of questions. Questions she doesn't have an answer to.

As she's running from the Empire, Hemera will have to find the answers to her questions by herself. Her search will finally let her know more about her bloodline, her biological parents, and why she was adopted when she was just a baby.

Unfortunately for her, the answers she got weren't the ones she was expecting, making her aware of the fact, the Empire isn't the only thing she has to hide from. She also has to hide from her biological parents who have been looking for her, for the past 21 years, but couldn't find her.

For over a month, Hemera will be hell-bent on finding out a way to get rid of her powers, afraid she might hurt someone due to her lack of control over them. But one encounter on Ryloth, with a perfect copy of herself, yet who's her total opposite, will totally change her point of view, and motivate her to learn how to use her powers as a mean to fight the Empire.

Between running from the Empire, completing missions for Cid, fighting her biological family, Hemera will also set her mind on one thing : rescuing Crosshair from the Empire. Despite learning that his chip was removed before the bombing of Tipoca City, she'll refuse to give up on him.

Even when given the chance to move on, and maybe finally letting him go, she will refuse to do so. At first, she may have been afraid to admit it, but now, she knows that, no matter how much he did hurt her, she can't let him go. She never will be able to, simply because her love for him is a lot stronger than what she thought.

But her peace will be disrupted by a rescue mission that will go horribly wrong. In less than 24 hours, she'll lose one of her best friends, the girl she always saw as her little sister, and fail to rescue the man she loved more than anyone else in the galaxy.

However, she won't get the chance to properly grieve as her biological family will contact her with an invitation for a last face to face. And if she failed to come, she would lose the rest of her found family. Leading her into the most brutal, violent and maybe even last, battle of her life.

『⚘ 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 ⚘』

𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔...

𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓃...

Chloe Bennet as

𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄

𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃...

Temuera Morrison & Dee Bradley Baker (voice) as

𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄𝐑

WARNINGS : Canon typical violence, blood, war, death, parental abuse (nothing extremely graphic), toxic relationships, sexual content (nothing too graphic), etc... If any of these topics disturb you, do not proceed

《 ♡ 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄 ♡》

I can't put into words how EXCITED I am for you to finally read this story ! I've been working on it since January and the work I put into it is MASSIVE ! And it's also it is my first fanfiction written in English and since it's not my first language, I apologize in advance for any grammar mistakes I could make (if you notice any, feel free to tell but be respectful about it)

If you follow me on Instagram (coraex.wp) you know how much I worked on Hemera's storyline and her background (did a massive research about Greek mythology (I literally did researches for THREE DAYS non-stop) because, of course, Hemera's story was gonna be a lot more than just her relationship with Crosshair and I'm super proud of everything I've created for her ! With all the events of seasons 1, 2 and waiting for season 3, Hemera's character's growth will be really visible.

I have extremely mixed feelings about the summary (basically I love and hate it at the same time haha) and I'll fully rewrite it once season 3 of the Bad Batch will be out. So for now, it doesn't go past season 2, but I'll add season 3 in it when it'll be out.

Anyway, I'm SUPER EXCITED for you to read Hemera's story and hope you'll love it as much as I did writing it !

A/N (specifically for Tumblr) : It's finally here ! I was supposed to post this yesterday but I had something else to do and totally forgot but it's finally here and I'm super excited to finally post it :) And the rest of the story that is already avaiable on Wattpad (extended cast) will be posted tomorrow :)

Taglist (if you wanna be removed, feel free to tell me) : @techs-stitches @verybadatwriting @sinfulsalutations @photogirl894 @kaminocasey

#crosshair #angst #chloebennet #crosshairxfem!oc #enemiestolovers (kind of)#fluff #bad batch #starwars #galactic empire #thebadbatch #hunter #echo #wrecker #tech #omega #theclonewars

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crimsonxe · 3 months ago

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And you're proving my point in that you immediately go to "fanatical" when anyone doesn't go along with your bullshit. Basically all of rw/de, HTDM, and shitdom are thin-skinned know-nothing little bitches that can't stand having anyone do an "well actually" against them. How about instead of throwing that term around or whining actually trying to make a substantive point that isn't torn apart by canon and facts. Oh and ftr I'm not the recruitment type that's out here trying to persuade people to watching the show, I'm the one that comes in in place of those people to give shoulder-checks to shitheads and assholes who want to run their mouths off; then cower behind "its my opinion".

HTDM, shitdom, rw/de, etc all blend together for me. So I hope you don't actually expect me to remember specifically you.

a) Cool, still doesn't change anything I said as there's a lot of things within it. Funny how you chose to latch specifically onto Bees, almost like you're trying to not go into the rest of things. Also didn't provide a shred of anything of what you were getting at.

b) To start with your bitch ass doesn't get to tell me who I call what and based on what criteria. I see a bigot I'm calling them a bigot and your ass can fuck all the way off in trying to say I can't. Now moving on from that, what I did was present the ones I've y'know ACTUALLY RUN INTO AND SEEN. Every.single.bit.of.it. If it waddles like duck, quacks like a duck, has feathers of a duck, then its 99% chance a duck. Spouting homophobic dogwhistles, right-wing rhetoric, sexist bullshit, etc = the person is 99% chance a bigot.

c) Um no I didn't, but once again proving mine in your having a lack of being able to comprehend things. Um no, any remaining things can be handled as a couple and they're already healthy dumbass.

d) No, I really didn't actually. But undoubtedly you're doing the exact thing that the others like your ass do. Ignoring and trying to dismiss away anything against what you're saying not by actually proving anything via facts or canon; but MORE whining cause someone isn't just going along with your bullshit.

Cool, still don't remember you.

ROFL, "crazy fanatic" oh yes cause I know my shit, can argue my shit, prove my shit, and don't roll over for shitheads. Also I call a bigot a bigot; an incel an incel; a sexist a sexist; and in many cases all of them being the same type.

ROFL, dumbass your sorry pathetic ass's time is about worth a spec of fly shit.

Cool, doesn't really do anything except clutter the text; but once again your shit-for-brains type would rather that cause you sure as hell can't prove shit.

Cool, never said I was special in general or in regards to being LGBT+; what I did say however was put that experience card on the table in being able to call a shitlord's bullshit on it.

Shithead a) read the fucking shit said to your dumbass "who Monty's own twitter posts" not putting words in his mouth, but referencing posts HE MADE which is the exact OPPOSITE; b) do some goddamn research cause those screenshots of his tweets aren't fucking hidden and also aren't subtle; c) absolutely go fuck your disgusting bitch ass for even thinking you could try to step up on this front; and d) congrats on once again showing that your type don't comprehend shit and yet run your bitch ass mouths off like you do and expect others to just allow it. Tried your best at stepping up and instead managed to trip and fall on your damn face and not a damn bit of anything to back your shit up either.

It's not that every person 'outside of the fandom' that calls the show 'trash' vehemently hates RWBY. Yes, some do hate it for no reason besides hopping on the hate-train to shitsville for the lols, but from my time on r/RWBYcritics I've seen a lot of people hate that the show was such a let down with many elements shoe-horned in or concepts forgotten about in favor of pandering. A lot of people who say the show is trash is because they were disappointed in the way the show went.

Yet, one big reason people outside RWBY hate the show is because they hate the radicals in the FNDM. I've seen threads on RWBYcritics of people being lynched from being in the fandom because they had a different opinion from the rest. Like, you can't even be critical about Yang and Blake's relationship without immediately being dubbed 'homophobic' by most FNDM members.

You can say that the people calling RWBY trash is why the show failed but only if you can take the fact that the fanatical fans are also why the show failed.

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l2vedive · 2 years ago

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SUNGHOON AS YOUR BEST FRIEND IN HIGH SCHOOL (HCS).

park sunghoon & reader , headcanons , fluff , comedy , cursing ig idk , mentions of other members (jungwon , sunoo) , high school au , more on classroom shenanigans

ᝰ now this bitch (affectionately)

ᝰ sunghoon is a nosey person

ᝰ he goes through ur things just for the fun of it (probably makes towers out of ur pencils, he's easily entertained)

ᝰ one time you came into class with a fancy keychain hanging onto your bag’s zipper and he was like :0

ᝰ “what’s this”

ᝰ “sanitizer, lotion, yk the like”

ᝰ “man, you girls have so many cool things why don’t guys ever get anything like this”

ᝰ bored and curious, he uncaps all of them and starts sniffing everything before trying it on 😭

ᝰ (his favourite is the birthday cake scented sanitizer that he almost finished)

ᝰ he asks you to get him one so you do HFJDFDK

ᝰ he ALWAYS fucks around with you just for shits and giggles (ie. him catching you snack in class and then raising his hand to snitch but instead he asks to go to the bathroom)

ᝰ being petty, you tell him spoilers from a show ur both watching (they’re not true) and—

ᝰ “NO”

ᝰ “(name), what the hell i was just messing with you :(”

ᝰ “that was so low…”

ᝰ you feel bad but #deserved

ᝰ he starts sulking while doing his work and turns back every three minutes to ask if you were being fr with those spoilers (you say no and he’s like “thank god” before the teacher catches yall talking)

ᝰ noisiest bitches in class

ᝰ 99% of the time he's louder than u with the way he laughs 😭

ᝰ clingy.

ᝰ yk those friends who start moaning for no reason when you’re on the phone with your family? that’s him 💀

ᝰ the way you met is one of the funniest things you two laugh about to this day

ᝰ okay so first things first, you were the new student he had heard about who also shared the same interests as him but seeing that sunoo was the only one of his friends who already had your number, he jumped on the chance to send yours to his own phone

ᝰ honestly just an excited dude because he’s never met someone in his group of friends who liked the same interests as he did

ᝰ so when you get a random ass text from him an unknown number, asking you what’s your favourite netflix show, you block him immediately bc 😵

ᝰ the next day at school he approaches you and lowkey, at first you were like ?!?!?! but then he says he got your number from sunoo and proceeds to explain himself

ᝰ you get along well after that bc he insists you guys are automatically best friends now

ᝰ but it also took him a while to ease up because ur energy felt like a child on sugar rush compared to his and he was simply not built for that 😭

ᝰ he does sometimes match ur energy and it only comes out when he's around u (and sunoo)

ᝰ it’s all good though, because you balance each other out

ᝰ plus he doesn’t mind you doing the talking bc he likes hearing u talk

ᝰ u both are giving that calm x too much energy meme with both of u switching it up from time to time LOL

ᝰ hes the kind that doesnt show much affection so he often does it discreetly

ᝰ this kinda confuses u for a bit bc he ends up tapping ur shoulder or ur wrist like three times and ur like ???? "are u ok hoon"

ᝰ "yes" and ur like 🧐

ᝰ three taps = i love u 😕 (platonically or romantically take it however u want)

ᝰ u find out from jungwon what those three taps mean so now it always make u smile whenever he does it

ᝰ above all else though , hoon as ur best friend is like having a soulmate for life :)

#enhypen scenarios #enhypen imagines #park sunghoon x reader #sunghoon x reader #enhypen sunghoon au #enhypen fluff #sunghoon au #park sunghoon #enhypen sunghoon x reader #enhypen fics #enhypen crack #enhypen headcanons #enhypen x reader #enhypen #from me 2 you

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yamahex · 3 years ago

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Not The Right Time Pt. 6

Summary: You go out after dealing with the news.

Pairing: Jack x Reader

A/N: Sorry for the wait but it’s here and I’m 99% sure the next part will be the last🫣

“What?” You looked at Jack with wide eyes.

“I’ve been tryna tell you.”

Jack looked down at you and Riah.

“Jack please take us home.”

“Y/N I-“

“Please.” He sighed and nodded.

“Where are you going?”

“I’ll deal with you later.” Jack led you and Riah to his car. You held her and sat in the backseat. He looked at you through the rear view, wondering what you were thinking.

Once the car arrived to your house you quickly put Riah in the house before coming back to face Jack.

“Tell me what you’re thinking.” He looked at you concerned.

“I don’t believe her for one goddamn second.”

“Y/N I don’t think she would lie about this.”You scoffed.

“I know for a fact she is Jack. Please think for one second.” You crossed your arms.

“Since you guys broke up she’s been tryna get back with you right?” He nodded. “So after finding out about me and Ri, she had to find a way to worm her way back in.”

His hand scratched the back of his neck.

“Well I gotta be there for her if it is true.”

Your lips tightly pressed together and you shook your head in annoyance.

“Jack you weren’t even there for me with our baby! And you’re quick to jump at the chance and be there for someone who will do anything to be with you again? She’s playing you and you’re falling for it.”

“I don’t want this to be a repeat of our situation!” You stood in shock.

“What are you tryna say Jack? Cause I did a damn good job raising her with no help from you.” He sighed.

“That’s not what I was saying-“

“No it’s exactly what you were saying. You don’t want another fatherless child running around attached to you.” Jack reached his hand out to you.

“It’s fine Jack. If you wanna believe this then go be with Tori and her “maybe baby”. Thanks for bringing us home.” You turned back and walked into the house.

“Fuck.” Jack ran his hands over his face then got back in his car and called Urban.

“Yo, you good?”

“Can you bring Tori Back to the hotel, I’ll here there in 10.”

“Yeah I guess.”

You leaned against the front door after closing it as a few tears managed to escape from your eyes.

“Mommy are you okay?” You quickly wiped them away. You noticed she already had her pajamas on.

“Yeah babe, I’m fine.” You walked up to her and picked her up. “Bedtime.”

She looked up at you while you carried her to her room.

“Are we still gonna spend time with daddy again tomorrow?”

“Yeah we’ll see babe.” You set her in her bed and gently tucked her in then leaned down and kissed her forehead.

“Goodnight babe, I love you.”

“Love you too mommy. Goodnight!” You walked out and sat on the couch next to your mother.

“So what was all the yelling about?”

When Jack entered the hotel he saw Tori waiting in the lobby. “We can talk upstairs.”

Without properly acknowledging her he made his way to the elevator and she followed. Once they got into the room they both sat down in the makeshift living room.

“Are you sure you’re pregnant?”

“Yes.”

“Have you been to any appointments to confirm?” She rested her hands on her lap.

“No they’re so booked up so it’ll take awhile till they can get me in.” He sighed deeply.

“I have a picture of the test if you don’t believe me.” She got her phone out and pulled up the picture.

“You’re sure it’s mine?” She huffed.

“I haven’t been with anyone since you.” Jack leaned back in the chair.

“Jack I can’t do this alone, I’m so scared.”

“You won’t be alone. But don’t expect me to put you over my daughter and Y/N.” She smiled.

“That’s fine but maybe we could try us again? So we can be a family?” His eyes widened at the question.

“Hell nah Tori. I’ll co-parent with you but we ain’t a family.” She huffed again.

“If that’s what you want.” She looked at the clock on the wall. “It’s late, is it okay if I stay here?”

Jack sighed in annoyance.

“Sure, take the bed and I’ll sleep on the couch.”

“That’s uncomfortable, just sleep in the bed. It’s not the first time we’ve been in the same bad.” She smirked.

“No.”

Jack laid on the couch not bothering to change his clothes.

“Can I borrow a shirt?”

“Goddamn Tori, I don’t care.” She got up and took one of his shirts. She bit her lip in excitement.

“Thank you, goodnight.”

“Goodnight.”

The next morning you woke up feeling a wave of emotions. You didn’t want to be stuck thinking about the situation so you decided to hit up some friends and plan a day out. You picked up your phone and dialed Jack after your shower.

“Hey.”

“Hey, I’m going out today so can you watch Riah? She wants to spend time with you.”

“Yeah of course. I was hoping we could talk today tho.” You sighed.

“Maybe later Jack. I’ll drop her off in a hour.”

“Alright see you then.” You walked into Riah’s room to wake her up.

“Good morning babe, come on let’s get you some breakfast so you can enjoy your day with daddy.”

Jack’s eyes widened once he realized Tori was still here. He walked up to the bed and gently shook her.

“Tori get up, you gotta go.” She woke up annoyed.

“What’s the rush?”

“Come on let’s go.”

You pulled up to Jack’s hotel and got Riah out of the car. She wore her little back pack with some toys and snacks in it.

“Come on babe.”

The two of you walked into the lobby just as Jack brought Tori down from the room. She smirked at you and then held onto Jack’s arm. He looked down at her confused but followed her gaze to you. His eyes met yours and he pushed Tori away. They stopped in front of you.

“Thank you for letting me stay J.” She winked at him, making him roll his eyes. Tori crouched down to Riah’s level.

“Hi sweetie.”

“Don’t talk to my daughter.” She stood up.

“Why not? I’m having her sibling and I’m gonna be her new mommy.” Anger burned in you.

“What the hell Tori?”

“I’m gonna ignore that since my daughter is right here and I don’t want her to see me in handcuffs, but let’s get one thing straight. No matter how clever you think you are, you will never have any association to my daughter.” She crossed her arms. “You may have Jack fooled, but I don’t buy it for a second.”

“It’s time for you to go.” She turned to Jack then walked out of the lobby.

“Y/N I’m sorry about that.”

“Don’t worry about it. Anyways she’s got everything that she needs. Please don’t let her walk off with anyone.”

“I won’t.” You crouched at her level.

“I’ll be back later. Be good for daddy and don’t go anywhere without him, okay babe?” She nodded and you kissed her forehead. Jack held his hand out for her to grab.

“Come on princess, I got a fun day planned.” He looked back up at you.

“Have fun.”

“Thank you.”

You went back to your house and got ready, you decided to wear a classy sundress and sandals. 30 minutes later you left to pick up one of your friends and head to the brunch place to meet the rest.

Being a single mom you never really got to enjoy time out so catching up with friends was very much needed.

“So when are you gonna get a man girlie?” You giggled.

“Believe it or not I’m actually with my baby daddy at the moment.” They all gasped.

“The infamous baby daddy that left you at 18??”

“Yep that’s the one. He’s reconnecting with us but-“

“But?”

“His ex is in the way, and I know she’s up to something.”

“Well he’s a idiot if he falls for whatever she’s doing.”

“Do you love him?”

“Yeah I do, I never stopped. Shits just been difficult for awhile.”

Everyone was having a good time, laughing and enjoyed some shopping after eating.

Meanwhile Jack took Riah out to a toy store. “Daddy?”

“Yes princess?”

“Do you love mommy?” He snickered to himself.

“Yeah I really do.” They continued to browse the isles. “Do you think mommy loves me?” He looked down at her.

“Mhm, I hear her talk about you a lot to grandma.”

“And what does she say to grandma?”

“She misses you.” He smiled.

“Don’t tell her I listen to her and grandma talk!” She put her hands on her hips and he lifted his hands up in surrender.

“Don’t worry princess I won’t say a word.”

As the night started to fall you all went back to your house to get ready to head out to the club. Embassy was one of the hottest clubs in Vegas so you had to dress your best.

The moment you and your friends got in they ordered shots. You only took one to not get too tipsy. You subconsciously watched the time, not wanting Riah to be up all night waiting for you. Multiple guys offered to buy you drinks and to dance but you declined.

All of the sudden something caught your eye, you had to do a double take to make sure you were seeing correctly. It was Tori, out with a group of people. Your eyes widened as you watched her pick up a shot. You quickly pulled out your phone and snapped a picture of her taking it. You mumbled to yourself while looking at your phone in shock.

“I fucking knew it.”

“Hey is everything okay?” Your friends looked at you wondering why you stopped partying.

“I gotta go pick up Ri, it’s almost her bedtime.” Everyone said their goodbyes and you left quickly to avoid being seen by Tori.

Jack sat on the ground of the hotel room and colored with Riah when his phone rang. “Hey I’m on my way over.”

“Cool see you in a few.” Riah’s head perked up.

“Was that mommy?”

“Yep she’s coming back to get you.”

“Are you gonna tell her you love her now?”

He chuckled.

“We’ll see princess.” Urban walked with food in his hands. “Yay I’m so hungry!!”

You pulled up to the hotel and got on the elevator up to his room. Knocks rang through the hallway.

“Hey, how was your night?”

“Really good, thanks.” Jack stepped aside and let you in. “How was your day?”

“Perfect.” Your eyes fell on Riah and Urban stuffing their faces making you chuckle.

“Mommy!” She said with her mouth full.

“Chew your food babe.”

Jack’s hand touched your arm.

“Can we talk?”

“Yeah, I got some things to tell you.” Jack looked at Urban.

“We’ll be right back.” Urb gave a thumbs up and the two of you went down to the lobby. The two of you sat down at some chairs in the foyer.

“I’m sorry for what I said, I just don’t want to make the mistake of not raising another kid. You did a amazing job with Riah but we both know how Tori is, poor kid wouldn’t stand a chance.” You both chuckled. “I accept your apology.” He reached his hand over to yours.

“I love you.” Your eyes widened.

“Really?”

“You always doin that.”

“Doing what?”

“Asking if I mean something. Of course I mean it girl.”

“I love you too Jack.” He smiled brightly.

“Now I got something I have to show you-“

Just then Tori walked into the building, it looked like she quickly changed her clothes. Her eyes fell upon you two holding hands making her walk up to you.

“Oh Jack I’m glad I ran into you. We gotta talk about our baby.” She smirked at you.

“Yeah actually we do.” You turned to look at Jack and he looked back at you confused.

“What do you mean Y/N?”

Your head turned to Tori.

“So are you gonna tell him or should I?”

To Be Continued…

Tags: @nye18 @rottenforharlow @moody4world @kalaharlow @skybridgerton @yonduismarrypoppins @divalicious-jessa-blog @primadxna-girl @letmebeyoureuphoria @harlowscutie @lcandothisallday

#jack harlow #jack harlow concepts #jack harlow x reader #dad!jack #jack harlow x you

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arodabi · 4 years ago

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okay, i’m finally getting around to writing this, and uhh ill say its for aro week too. this is written as an aro person directed at alloromantic people. when i refer to writing, i’m kind of using it as a general term for creative works. Here’s me throwing my hat in on the question:

Can you ship aromantic characters?

and my answer is,,,,, actually a question. Why do you want to ship aromantic characters?

I want alloros to realize that for a lot of aros, we do not get to see ourselves represented often. I can actually count on like one hand how many popular canon aro characters there are, and on the whole, none of their identities are respected. people constantly try to weasel their way out of actually writing aro characters, or they just ignore or deny their identity outright. fandom spaces (hell creative spaces in general) are at best not welcoming to aros, and at worst actively hostile towards us. So when the first question brought up when a character gets canonically confirmed as aro is “okay cool but can i ship them???” or “that’s nice but how can i still write about my fave ship that involves them??” i want to fucking scream. its a slap to the face and it shows that people really do not give a shit about aros. you say stuff like that and all i hear is “my fictional ship is so much more important than representing your marginalized minority identity” so instead of me just sitting here and saying “yes you can totally ship aro characters, as long as you’re respectful!!!” i’m saying “can you stop and think why you want to shove an aro character into a romantic relationship at the first chance you get?? maybe you have some arophobia you haven’t worked on?? maybe since we live in an amatonormative world, you’re letting that influence your views??” because that question being the first thing out of your mouth when you see a character you like confirmed as aro? that’s already disrespectful towards aros in my book.

So back to my question, Why do you want to ship aromantic characters? is it because you can’t write characters without them being in romantic relationships? or because you think a character without a romantic relationship is boring? Because if so, that’s a bad reason and it sounds like amatonormativity is rotting your brain.

Is it because you just really like a ship with the aro character? Because you can write two characters with a strong relationship without writing them as a couple. A strong friendship can hold just as much power as a romantic relationship.

Is it because fuck aros, i will write what I wanna write and I don't wanna write this character with their canon identity? because then you’re just an arophobic asshole that needs to work on your shitty opinions. aro representation is just as important as any other lgbtqia+ representation.

Now if you’re reading this and thinking “well i heard aros can be in queerplatonic relationships!” I want you to think for a second. Are you writing a qpr or are you writing a romantic relationship with the serial numbers filed off? Have you talked to aro people or read stuff actually written by us? because, yes, some qprs can look a lot like a romantic relationship from the outside, but that’s just it, you’re looking at it from the outside. qprs are more than just “romantic relationship with extra steps”, and i think it’s really telling how many times i see alloromantic people saying they’re depicting an aro character in a qpr, not a romantic relationship, but then they never ever make any effort to distinguish the qpr from any other romantic relationship they write or draw. It just feels like qprs are getting used by alloros as a gatcha any time an aro person objects to how they depict (or don’t depict) aromanticism. if you want to write a character in a qpr then go for it! but you need to actually do research, talk to aros, get multiple opinions and not just take the first opinion that agrees with you and run with it.

“But what about headcanoning a character as arospec?” now i will say before i go into this, i am aro, not arospec, so if an arospec person wants to come in and correct me at any part here im happy to listen. but my problem when alloros bring up arospec identities is a very similar problem to how qprs are often depicted. I remember when Peridot Stevenuniverse got confirmed aro (she did, do not argue this with me) people were jumping over themselves to assure everyone that “a character getting confirmed as aro just means they are any arospec identity” which,, uhh,, not true? i mean if an arospec person wants to see a canon aro character as, say, aroflux, i’ve got no problem, aro and arospec people can do what they want really. but, i do have a problem with all the alloro fans who were spreading this. because, do you really see the character as demiromantic? or are you using that identity to deflect criticism from erasing aro identities? are you actually trying to write a good depiction of a demiro person? or are you just writing normal ship stuff and slapping a “uwu ive never felt romantic attraction until i met you! and now i will act exactly like any alloromantic person!” at the beginning? being in fandom spaces, i do see the occasional fic actually depicting an aspec identity (i say aspec her because aro is so rare that most of these examples i’ve seen have been acespec identities rather than arospec) but like 99% of the time, that’s written by someone who actually shares the identity. before you use our terms and identities to cover your ass when you erase us, consider not fucking doing that. consider listening to all aros and getting our thoughts and input.

And last here is “but what about romance positive aros?” now i think most of what i’ve said previously can be applied here. the only thing i wanna add is, i think its very interesting that almost every time i see non aros depict aros, they always write them as very into romance, very open to be in romantic relationships, and very quiet about their aro identity. despite the character in canon not showing any of these traits. romance positive aros are good and important, but not every aro is romance positive. there’s quite a few of us that are romance repulsed, and alloros only depicting aros as super romance positive no matter what is suspicious to say the least. if an aro character is shown to be open to participating in romantic activities in canon then of course write them that way. but if an aro character is shown to be uninterested in, or even actively against romantic activities then respect that too.

so, to wrap up my thoughts in this ramble: please ask yourself why you want to ship aro characters so bad, because if the only reason is that amatonormativity has brainwashed you into not being able to write, or draw, or do anything with a character without them being in a romantic relationship, then you uhhh need to work on that, that’s honestly a writing/creative flaw imo. if you like the relationship dynamic between an aro character and another character, consider making them friends. friendship is not less powerful than romantic relationships. nobody is ever too old for the power of friendship trope. If you’re erasing an aro character’s identity because fuck aros, then fuck off somewhere far away from me and work on your bullshit. qprs, arospec identities, and romance positive aros are all very real, very important parts of the aro community, but please talk to other aros about them and actually make an effort to understand how these things work, dont just assume. And also don’t use these things as a way to erase aro identities and cover your ass if get called out. its disrespectful towards all aros.

The most important thing to do before writing or creating work with aro characters is to talk to aros, and not just the aros that agree with you. look up what a qpr actually is, learn how aros experience their arospec identities, talk to aros with multiple outlooks on romance. and if you can’t bring yourself to reach out, at least read through our own writings, whether that’s fiction, or informational posts, fuck, look through our memes if u wanna. Just please actually make an effort.

So, Can you ship aro characters? its complicated. look at trends in your fandom, question why you want to, and do research. Be an aro ally, listen to us. That’s really the most important thing.

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wallflowerimagines · 3 years ago

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How would the Lords handle their crush rejecting them? The reason can range from just not returning their feelings to having feelings for someone else to having feelings for one of their SIBLINGS

Ooooooooh. Time for Angst.

Alcina Dimitrescu

Ah.

Alcina doesn't settle for second best, unfortunately.

She's going to try and convince you of how wrong you are, and use every trick in her arsenal. Making you jealous, degrading your choice in perspective partner, showering you in affection, she's not above any of it. Hell, she might even play matchmaker for your crush.

To a certain extent, as long as she can convince you not to choose your crush, she's happy. You don't even have to pick her at the end of the day, she just wants to make sure they are out of your life.

IF it's another Lord, though...

I'm going to be a thousand percent honest, if she likes you and you reject her for a stranger, it would go way better than if you rejected her for a sibling.

She's not Mother Miranda's favorite, and now she's not your favorite either, and it hurts.

She's not going to try and win you over if you chose another Lord. Depending on how close you were beforehand she might even cut you out of her life entirely. If she sees you in public, she'll either ignore you or be so icily civil that it feels like she's disemboweling you with her words.

If the two of you were close friends, there might be a chance for reconciliation, but it's not likely. You would have to put in an obscene amount of effort, and it would still take years before she's even willing to entertain the idea.

(You need to prove that she's still special to you. She needs to feel appreciated, and that her love for you wasn't a waste. If you can manage to do all that, your relationship can recover and your friendship will thrive.)

She's also worse to the sibling who got picked over her, Especially if it's Heisenberg. Their petty squabbling actually turns into heated arguments with Intent To Harm, and she will not hesitate to kill him if he steps on her toes.

Donna Beneviento

Inconsolable.

For Donna to make herself vulnerable enough to confess to you, pour her heart out, and still be rejected?

It hurts. It hurts so much.

She spent all this time and effort trying to be brave, trying to build up just enough courage to make you see how she felt, and it didn't work. You don't love her. It feels like she made a running jump into the void and nobody was there to catch her.

Was it something she did? Was it something she said? Was it Angie? Her scar? Her mutation? Donna wants to know why.

And when she finds out it's someone else? ...She doesn't know how to feel.

Do they know how you take your tea? Donna does! Donna knows your favorite color, and song, and what your dream job is! It's almost like she's bargaining with you. You two are perfect together, she just knows it! Does this stranger even care about you at all?

Eventually, once you start to console her, she settles down a bit. Okay. You don't love her romantically. But you have to promise her that you'll stay in her life, that's the only way she'll accept this.

(She can't lose anyone else)

It doesn't matter if your crush is a stranger or another Lord, Donna watches them like a hawk. She's a little more lenient with her Siblings, of course, but her standards for the relationship are even higher than yours. They have to pass all these small 'tests' to prove that they're worthy of your affection.

If you don't get anything and everything you ask for, your partner is going to have to deal with Donna. If they so much as make you cry, Angie and the rest of Donna's porcelain family are going to shred them to pieces. No questions, no excuses.

Her feelings will probably change to something more familial rather than romantic (she love you too much for you guys to just be friends), but Donna will never stop being crazy protective over you.

Salvatore Moreau

Surprisingly, he has the best initial reaction.

As much as he hoped--As much as he dreamed--that you would love him back, he knew it was never going to happen.

Salvatore is aware that he's a monster, and Beauty and the Beast is just a story. People like you don't fall for things like him, and it's just a fact of life.

He's still devastated, don't get me wrong. But if you reject him because you have feelings for someone else already?

He's a little more understanding.

He would still want to be friends. No matter who you fall for, he wants to be in your life, even if he made the mistake of revealing to you how disgusting his feelings are. If you want him as a friend, he'll be there for you, no questions asked.

If you confess to your crush and it goes well? He's so genuinely happy for you! You deserve every happiness the world has to offer, and your crush would be a fool not to see how much of a gem you are.

He'll also want to know about your relationship, to the point where it's a little bit voyeuristic. But he honestly can't help himself. It's like a movie with his favorite person as the romantic lead, and he can't bring himself to look away.

Just... Don't tell him about your first kiss with your new partner. It's something he built up quite a bit in his head, and he really wanted to experience that with you. He'd spend long nights fantasizing about what your lips might feel like against his, and to hear you gush about that experience with someone else will break his heart all over again.

Moreau would also be happier with the Situation if you told him you were in love with one of his siblings. That means you're part of his family! You're not going to leave the Village! You're going to stick around, and he will still get to see you all the time!

Salvatore isn't going to pine after you until the day he dies--but it's pretty damn close. He's fairly emotionally mature about things like romance, but feelings can't just be turned on and off with the push of a button. Just because you are taken doesn't mean he still doesn't have feelings for you, after all, but he promises you he's going to work through it. Still, please, give him time.

Karl Heisenberg

Magnet Man is ready to murder.

You're HIS crush friend. You're supposed to like him! You guys have so much in common already, why would you spend time with someone else when you could be spending time with Your Friend Heisenberg??

(why don't you like him like he likes you?)

I've said it before, but Heisenberg is bad at processing emotions. He does not know what his own feelings are 99% of the time, and the rest of the time he does not want to acknowledge it. When he finds out you have a crush and it's not him? He practically throws a tantrum. It's frustrating for him too, because he's not even sure why he's so angry.

Especially because you make a point of saying that you still value your friendship with him. He's irreplaceable to you, but only platonically.

And he likes you as a friend. So much. The fact that you want to stick around after he word vomited his tangle of platonic-romantic feelings at you just proves you two are great friends. So why is he STILL so fucking pissed?

He will play the Needy Best Friend card to keep your attention on him as long as possible. Any minor inconvenience he might have is an emergency of the highest caliber, and you HAVE to help him. A part of him hopes the extended exposure will convince you to choose him.

Meanwhile, if your crush is some stranger (and he thinks he can get away with it without hurting you) that person is straight up dead. All tattoos and other identiying marks are removed so you aren't suspicious, and the corpse is used as Lycan fodder. No evidence, no proof, no problem.

If You like one of His Siblings? He does a little more soul searching. He does want you to be happy, and as much as he argues with them, his siblings are just as much Victims of Mother Miranda as he is. They do deserve happy lives (if only to spite that bitch, or at least that's how he rationalizes it to himself).

He'll... probably get over it. Maybe. Someday. But in the meantime, as long as you stick around and promise to spend time with him, it will sting way less.

#donna beneviento x reader #alcina dimitrescu x reader #karl heisenburg x reader #salvatore moreau x reader #the four lords x readers #the four lords #donna beneviento #alcina dimitrescu #karl heisenberg #salvatore moreau #re8 #resident evil #resident evil village #resident evil 8

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oomisluvr · 4 years ago

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meet my parents, a drabble

synopsis: sakusa wants you to meet his parents, but doesn't know how to ask. you're a bully in this. playful banter. teaspoon of angst. 99% fluff.

yes i am projecting my fear of commitment onto y/n what about it?

"obey me."

"no, it hurts."

"keep still!"

"i'm not even moving."

"you just flinched to california and back. stop moving."

he sighs, "can't you go any faster?"

"i probably can, if you stop moving!"

"can we take a break so i can see?"

"i thought you wanted to go faster?"

"well, now i wanna take a break!"

you pull back from him, grabbing his chin between your index finger and thumb, "you look good." you study your work, tilting his chin to catch his brows at different angles, "i'm doing pretty great, you're welcome."

he swats away your hand, turning to look at himself in the mirror. wow, he thinks, he does look good. through the mirror, he shifts his eyes to where you stand, a smug look on your face. you look like a little gremlin. he's so in love.

"what more is there to do?"

"i have to clean up the ends and pluck a couple stray hairs."

"will that hurt?"

"if you stop being a bitch, it won't hurt."

"that was completely uncalled for. you just like to be mean to me."

"it's called building character." you move to pick up the tweezers, repeatedly clicking them to make him sweat, "hold still."

he sighs dramatically, relaxing his facial muscles so you would return your work. he feels your soft breath fanning on his face, hearing you quietly hum a song he can't quite put his finger on. the hold you have on him makes sakusa blush. you're so close.

"this is so intimate." he mumbles.

"you say that every time we do this."

"well, am i wrong?" you pinch his side in response. weirdo.

your mind wanders. there was a time when he wasn't like this; when he was just a tall mop of stutters and nervous ticks, especially around you. he's come a long way. hell, you've both come a long way. and now look at him, giving you attitude over some damn eyebrows. the thought makes you smile, the realization that he's so comfortable around you.

"i actually wanted to ask you something. now that i have you here."

"everytime you talk, the chances of you getting pinched increase exponentially."

"anyways, as i was saying," he begins, ignoring you completely, "my parents are- OW FUCK!"

"told ya."

"that was a conscious effort. you literally pinched me. it was all skin."

"beauty is pain, babe. what were you about to say?" you shrug and mask a grin, quickly changing the topic. you did do that on purpose.

"my parents are coming to visit and i want you to meet them."

"oh." you stop tweezing, your attention suddenly shifted to sakusa's question. he peaks an eye open.

"just oh?"

"n-no! i just wasn't expecting such a serious question."

"well, we're pretty serious, right? it's about to be 8 months." he's trying to keep it together. he'd been wanting to ask you to meet his parents for weeks, but he didn't want to scare you away.

sakusa knows you're hesitant to commit to him fully, no matter how much you deny it. the thought of relying on someone so much makes you uneasy, he knows. the possibilities of something going wrong feel endless. the chances of a breakup are always present. the probability of choosing the wrong partner. what if you don't love each other forever?

but for kiyoomi, you're the one. if you want to wait, he'll wait. he'll go at whatever pace you set because he couldn't imagine himself without you attached to his hip. the thought makes him emotional if he dwells on it for too long. he clears his throat.

"y-you don't have to go, i just thou-"

"it's okay," you softly smile up at up, "i want to go."

"you want to meet my parents?"

"don't act so surprised," you playfully hit his arm. kiyoomi feels like he's about to burst.

"great, it's tomorrow." alright, maybe he waited a bit too long to ask you.

"tomorrow?!"

"yep, 6 pm."

"you gave me like no time to prepare myself." you whine, leaning all your body weight on to sakusa. instinctively, he reaches his arms around you, resting his chin on your head.

"too bad. you already said yes." he jokes. you continue to whine, clearly stressed about tomorrow's plans, but kiyoomi knows you just want to make a good first impression. he's excited, sakusa knows his parents will adore you.

he kisses the top of your head, feeling content with the life he's building with you, thankful for the opportunity to love you. he squeezes you tighter.

#you spend the next 2 hours deciding what to wear #Sakusa says you look good in everything #absolutely no help #sakusa #kiyoomi #sakusa kiyoomi #kiyoomi sakusa #msby #msby sakusa #msby kiyoomi #msby sakusa kiyoomi #sakusa fluff #sakusa angst #sakusa fic #sakusa imagines #sakusa x reader #sakusa kiyoomi drabbles #sakusa drabble

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itsclydebitches · 3 years ago

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The Bad Batch: A Crosshair Analysis

Hello, Star Wars fandom! I have just completed watching—and loving—The Bad Batch, which you know means I now need to dump all my thoughts about the first season into the tumblr void. Specifically, thoughts on the complicated drama that is Crosshair. I have no doubt that the majority of what I’m about to say will be old news to anyone who watched the show when it came out (I’m slow...), but I’m writing it all out anyway. Largely for my own sanity enjoyment :D

I want to preface all of this by saying that the above is not an exaggeration. I love the show and I love the entire cast. My enjoyment in each of the characters is directly connected to my enjoyment of the season as a whole, which I say because I’m about to get pretty critical towards some of the characters’ choices and, to a lesser extent, the writing choices that surround those. Does this mean I secretly hate The Bad Batch? Quite the opposite. I’m invested, which is presumably just what Filoni wants. I’m just hoping that investment pays off.

But enough of the disclaimers. Let’s start with the matter of the inhibitor chip. I’ve seen fans take some pretty hard stances on both sides: Crosshair is completely innocent because he’s definitely been under the chip’s control this whole time, no matter what he might say. Crosshair is completely guilty because he said the chip was removed a long time ago and he chose to do all this, no moral wiggle room allowed. However, the reality is that we don’t know enough to make a clear call either way. The audience, simply put, does not have all the necessary information. What we have instead is a couple of facts combined with claims that may or may not be reliable. Let’s lay them out:

Crosshair was definitely under the chip’s control at the start of the series.

He was able to resist it to a certain extent, resulting in a pressure to obey orders coupled with a primary loyalty to his squad. See: telling Hunter to follow the Empire’s commands—which includes killing kid Padawans—but not turning his team in as traitors when they did not. It’s an in-between space.

Crosshair’s chip was then amplified to an unknown extent. I’m never going to claim I’m a Star Wars aficionado—I’m a casual fan, friends. Please don’t yell at me over obscure lore lol—but within TBB’s canon, no one else is undergoing that experimentation. The effects of this are entirely unknown, which includes Crosshair’s free will, or lack thereof.

Crosshair then becomes a clear tool of the Empire, hunting down innocents, killing on a whim, the whole, evil shebang.

In “Reunion” he’s caught by the engine and suffers severe burns to his face. One leaves a scar that covers precisely the place where the chip would have been extracted.

Removing the chip leaves its own scar behind. If Crosshair’s was removed, we can’t see that scar due to the burn.

After these events Crosshair seems to mellow a bit. He does horrible things under the Empire’s orders—like shooting the senator—but is still loyal to his squad—killing his non-clone teammates to give TBB a chance, saving AZ and Omega, etc.

Crosshair claims that his chip has already been removed. However, Crosshair is arguably an unreliable source if he’s been lied to or if the chip is still there, encouraging him to manipulate the team.

Crosshair claims it was removed a long time ago, which is incredibly imprecise. As we can see from just some of the events listed above, precisely when the chip came out—if it came out—makes a huge difference.

Hunter realizes this and presses for clarification, but Crosshair dodges giving it. Again, a legitimate belief that it doesn’t matter, or evidence that he can’t say because something else is going on? We don’t know.

Hunter checks Crosshair’s head and finds the burn scar which proves… nothing. As stated above, they wouldn’t be able to see the surgery scar one way or another: its existence or its absence. It’s useless data, as Tech might say. I’ve seen a few fans claim that Hunter was also feeling for the chip with his enhanced senses, but 1. I didn’t catch any evidence of that in the scene and 2. Even if we assume Hunter did that anyway, the chips are notoriously hard to spot. Fives and AZ couldn’t find the chip at first when examining Tup. Ahsoka had to use the force to find it in Rex. TBB themselves couldn’t find it at first in Wrecker. If machinery consistently fails to find the chip on the first couple of tries—it’s meant to be a hidden implant, after all—why would we believe Hunter’s senses could pick it up instantly? Maybe he missed it, or maybe it wasn’t there at all.

Crosshair appears to be struggling with a headache in the finale, just as he was at the beginning of the season and just like Wrecker was for the first half.

The point of listing all this out is to emphasize how ambiguous this whole situation is. I don’t want to use this post to argue one way or another about whether Crosshair’s chip is really out. I have my preferred theory (the chip’s still in, but only partially functional), but at the end of the day none of this is conclusive. The writing takes us in what I hope is deliberate circles. Crosshair says the chip is out? Crosshair is not a reliable source of information until we know if the chip is out. What other evidence is there that the chip is gone? A scar? We can’t see if there’s a scar. Hunter’s abilities? He only checked once for a canonically hard to find implant—if he actually checked at all. And why would the Empire want the chip out? Well, maybe it has to do with that push towards willing soldiers, but if that were the case, why leave Crosshair behind and have the “clones die together”? By that point he was one of the most willing, chip or not. Did they have to take it out because of the engine accident? Pure speculation. We just don’t know and THAT is the point I want to make.

Because it means the rest of the Bad Batch didn’t know either.

The core issue I have here is not whether the chip is in or out, or even how long it may have been in if it is out now. The issue is that TBB spent 99% of the first season believing that Crosshair was under the chip’s influence… and they didn’t try to do anything about that. They abandoned him. They left a man behind. Does this make them all horrible monsters? Of course not! This shit is complicated as hell, but I do think they made a very large mistake and that Crosshair has every right to be furious about it.

“But, Clyde, they couldn’t have gone back. It was too dangerous! Hunter had a duty to his whole team, not just Crosshair.” True enough and I’d buy this argument 100% if Hunter hadn’t spent the entire season throwing his team into dangerous, seemingly impossible situations to save other people. Crosshair became the exception, not a hard rule of something they had to avoid. They went back to Kamino for Omega, a kid they’d only had one lunch with, despite knowing how dangerous the Empire was. They went into the heart of an occupied planet to rescue not just a stranger, but one belonging to the Separatist government. They helped Sid when she asked and there was plenty of compassion for the criminal trying to take her place. Most significantly, there wasn’t the slightest hesitation to go rescue Hunter when he was under the Empire’s control, in precisely the same place. Every explanation I’ve seen fans come up with—Kamino is too fortified, they don’t know where Crosshair is, they can’t risk Omega being captured, etc.—also holds true for Hunter, yet there wasn’t a second of doubt about needing to at least try to help him. And his rescue was arguably far more dangerous given that TBB knew they were walking into a trap. Going after Crosshair would have at least had some element of surprise.

I think the problem with these justifications is most easily seen in “Rescue on Ryloth” and, later, “War-Mantle.” In the former, we do watch Hunter decide that going on a rescue mission is too much of a risk, only for Omega to talk him into considering it.

Hunter: “It’s a big galaxy. We can’t put ourselves on the line every time someone’s in trouble.”

Omega: “Why not? Isn’t that what soldiers do?”

Hunter: “It’s not worth the risk.”

Omega: “She’s trying to save her family, Hunter. I’d do the same for you.”

The arguments that sway him are ‘Soldiers should help people’ and ‘Soldiers should specifically help their family.’ So… what does that say about their feelings for Crosshair? They’re willing to put themselves on the line for the parents of a girl they met once at a drop site, but not their own brother? That’s the message the writing sends. “But, Clyde, the difference is that they had an advantage here. Hera’s knowledge of her home planet tipped the odds in their favor.” Yeah… and Crosshair is stationed on TBB’s home planet. Even more than them collectively having the same knowledge that Hera does, “Return to Kamino” reveals that Omega always had additional, insider knowledge of the base: she has access to a secret landing pad and the tunnels leading up into the city. That knowledge was given and used the second Hunter’s freedom was on the line, but it never once came up to use for Crosshair’s benefit.

“War-Mantle’s” mission puts this problem in even sharper relief. Another claim I’ve seen a lot is that TBB only took risky rescue missions because they needed to be paid. The guys have got to eat after all. Yet Tech makes it clear that going after Gregor will lose them money. They’re meant to be on a mission for Sid and deviating for that won’t result in a payment. He explicitly says that if they decide to do this, they won’t eat. They do it anyway. No money, no intel, a huge risk “on a clone we don’t even know.” But that’s not what’s important, the show says. All that matters is that a brother is in trouble. This time it’s Echo pushing that message instead of Omega. When Hunter realizes that they’re about to try and infiltrate an entire facility and they don’t even know if this clone is still alive, Echo points out that they took that risk once before: for him. “If there’s a chance that trooper is being held against his will, we have to try and get him out.”

Yes! Exactly right! So why doesn’t that apply to Crosshair?

“Because he tried to kill them, Clyde!” No, that’s the easy, dismissive answer. A chipped Crosshair tried to kill them. AKA, a Crosshair entirely under the Empire’s control. The only difference between his enslavement and Gregor’s is that Gregor’s chains were physical while Crosshair’s were mental. And again, the point of everything at the start of this post is to show that no one knows when or even if that chip was removed. TBB definitely didn’t have any reason to suspect that Crosshair was working under his own power until Crosshair himself said as much. We might have been able to make that case at the start of the season, but “Battle Scars” removes any possible confusion. The entire team watched Rex reach for his blaster when he learned their chips were still in. The entire team watched Wrecker become a totally different person and attack them, just like Crosshair did. The entire team forgave him instantly and had their own chips removed. So why in the world didn’t anyone go, “Wow, Crosshair has a chip too. He was no more responsible for attacking us than Wrecker was. We need to try to get him out, no matter how hard that might be, just like we had to try for all these other people we’ve helped.”

But they didn’t. No one even considered rescuing Crosshair. They only went back for Hunter and, when they realized Crosshair was there too, they didn’t change their plans to try and rescue him as well. He’s treated as a particularly threatening inconvenience, not another team member in need of their help.

The problem I have with how this all went down is that the team treated Crosshair like an enemy despite all evidence to the contrary. Despite Omega outright saying that this isn’t his fault, it’s the chip, the group seems to decide that he’s gone crazy or something and that there’s nothing they can do. “It’s fine,” I thought. “They don’t really get what the chip is like yet. They don’t understand how thoroughly it controls someone.” But then “Battle Scars” arrives and Wrecker is treated with such compassion (which he deserves!) only for the group to continue acting like Crosshair is somehow different. It’s easy to say, “But Crosshair shot Wrecker” and ignore the easy pushback of, “and Wrecker nearly shot Omega.” Up until Crosshair’s own accusations and Omega’s ignored comments, TBB’s understanding of the chip’s influence and the lack of responsibility that accompanies mysteriously disappears when the show’s antagonist becomes the subject of conversation. This is seen most clearly in how Hunter tries to frame things during his talk with Crosshair:

“You tried to kill us. We didn’t have a choice.”

“Can’t you see that they’re using you? It’s that inhibitor chip in your head.”

“You really don’t get who we are, do you?”

Hunter mentions the chip, but he acts as if it’s Crosshair’s responsibility to overcome it: “Can’t you see…” Of course he can’t see, that’s the entire point of the chip, the thing he currently believes Crosshair still has stuck in his head. But Hunter and the others—with Omega as a wonderful exception—never seem to have accepted this like they did for Wrecker. When Crosshair “tried to kill us” it’s seen as a deliberate act that he chose, not something forced on him like with Wrecker. When Hunter talks about their ethics, he subconsciously separates the team from Crosshair: “You really don’t get who we are, do you?”, revealing a pretty ingrained divide between them. Even Wrecker gets in on the action, the one brother who truly understands how much the chip controls someone: “All that time, you didn’t even try to come back.” What part of he couldn’t try is not hitting home here? Again, for the purposes of this conversation it doesn’t matter whether Crosshair was chipped this whole time or not. The point is that TBB believed he was chipped… and yet still expected him to somehow, magically overcome that programming, writing him off when he failed to do that. He’s consistently held responsible for actions that they were told (and, through Wrecker, saw) were completely outside of his control. Even when we factor in his claim that the chip was removed, TBB has ignored all the evidence I listed at the start. No one, not even Omega, challenges this super vague and strange claim, or seeks out proof because they don’t want to believe that their brother could willingly do this. There’s just this... acceptance that of course Crosshair went bad. Why? Because he was an asshole sometimes? Taking it all as written, it doesn’t feel like the batch considered him a true part of the team. Certainly not like Wrecker or Hunter. As shown, the batch will go out of their way, risk anything, forgive anything, for them. They have a level of faith that was never shown to Crosshair.

“Severe and unyielding,” Tech says and he’s absolutely right, but I’d seriously challenge this idea that any of the others would have automatically done better if the situations were reversed. It stood out to me that each batch member has a moment of doubt throughout the series, a brief glimpse into how they think the Empire isn’t that bad, at least when it comes to this particular thing. Basically, a moment that could lead to a very dangerous line of thinking without others to stomp it down. Wrecker announces that he’s happy working for whoever, provided they give him food and let him blow things up. Tech finds the chain codes to be an ingenious strategy and is clearly fascinated with their development. Hunter initially wants Omega to stay on Kamino, despite knowing that this Empire has already, systematically killed an entire group of people: the Jedi. Doesn’t matter. She’s still (supposedly) safer there than she would be running with the likes of them.

There’s absolutely no doubt that those three made the correct choice in defying the Empire, but I believe that their ability to make that choice is largely dependent on them having each other. They survive together, not apart, and it’s their unity that allows them to make the really hard calls, like setting out on their own and opposing such a formidable force. But if Tech’s chip had activated and he’d been left behind, would he have muscled through to escape somehow...or would he have gotten caught up in all the new technology the Empire offered him, succumbing to both his chip and the inevitability that if his squad no longer wanted him, why not stay? Would Wrecker have escaped, or been easily manipulated into a new life of exploding things? Would Hunter have been able to push through without his brothers, or would he have become devoted to a new team to lead? Obviously there’s no way to ever know, but it’s always easier to make the right decisions when you have support in doing so. Crosshair had no support. His team left him and yes, they had to in that specific moment, but the point is that they never came back. As far as we saw throughout the season, they never planned to come back. They all talk about loving the Crosshair who existed when life was easier, but they weren’t willing to fight for the Crosshair that most needed their help. When he says “You weren’t loyal to me,” he’s absolutely right. The same episode, “Return to Kamino,” gives Omega two powerful lines that the group rallies behind:

Omega: “[The danger] doesn’t matter. Saving Hunter is what matters.”

AZ: “You must leave.”

Omega: “Not without Hunter.”

The key word there is “Hunter.” Danger, stakes, risk, probability… none of that matters when Hunter needs help. Crosshair did not receive that same level of devotion.

Which creates a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. The group is upset that Crosshair isn’t rejoining them, but they fail to realize that he has no reason to trust them anymore. He’s not joining the Empire because he’s inherently evil and that’s that, end of discussion. He’s joining it because above all Crosshair wants a place to belong… and TBB has made it clear—unintentionally—that he does not belong with them. The horrible actions that Crosshair took under his own free will (theoretically) came after he realized that doing bad things while under the Empire’s control was, apparently, unforgivable. If it wasn’t, his team would have come back to rescue him. They could have at least tried. But they didn’t, so Crosshair is left with the conclusion that either what he did under the Empire’s control is something the group can’t forgive him for, or they can forgive that (like with Wrecker) and he’s the problem here. He’s the one not worth that effort.

“The Empire will be fazing out clones next,” Hunter says. To which Crosshair responds, “Not the ones that matter.”

He wants to matter to someone and events show he no longer matters to his brothers. So why not stay with the Empire? I mean, we as the audience ABSOLUTELY know why not. Self-doubt and feelings of isolation aren’t excuses for joining the Super Evil Organization. Crosshair, if he is under his own control, is still 100% in the wrong for supporting them, no matter his reasons. So it’s not an excuse, but rather an explanation of that very human, flawed, fallible thinking. He needs to be useful. He needs to be wanted. Crosshair is an absolute dick to the regs and I have no doubt that a lot of that stems from the harassment TBB has experienced from them (with a side of his inflated ego), but I’d bet it’s also due to Crosshair’s intense desire to be valuable to someone. He keeps pointing out the regs’ supposed deficiencies because it highlights his own usefulness. When Crosshair fails to find Hera, the Admiral says that soon he’ll get someone who can, looking straight at Howzer at the door. It makes Crosshair seethe because his entire identity is based on being useful, yet no one seems to need him anymore. TBB seems to no longer want him. The Empire no longer wants clones. Now even regs are considered a better option than him, the “superior” soldier. Everywhere Crosshair turns he’s getting the message that he’s not wanted, but he’ll keep fighting to at least be needed in some capacity, no matter how small. Even if that means overlooking all the horrors the Empire commits.

“All you’ll ever be to [the Empire] is a number,” Hunter says and he’s absolutely right. But to TBB recently, Crosshair hasn’t even been that. He’s been nothing. Nobody worth coming back for. To his mind, at least being a number is something.

I hope that all of this resolves itself into a conclusion that is kind to each side (preferably without a Vader-style death redemption), especially given the still ambiguous state of the chip, but from a writing standpoint I’m admittedly a bit wary. We’re obviously meant to believe that the batch all love each other, but as established throughout this entirely too long post, this season did a terrible job imo of proving that they love Crosshair. Or, at least, proving that they love him as much as the others. If this was really meant to be just a matter of miscommunication, with Crosshair making terrible life choices because he only thinks he was abandoned, then we as the audience would have seen the batch trying and failing to get him out. Or at least establishing a very good reason why they couldn’t take that risk, hopefully with entirely different side-missions so the audience isn’t constantly going, “So you can risk everything for Gregor... but not Crosshair?” I’m VERY glad that Crosshair was allowed to air his grievances to the extent he did, but the end result of that—Hunter continually denying this, Omega walking away from him in their rooms, neither Tech nor Wrecker actually sticking up for him and acknowledging the chip’s influence during at least some of all this—is making things feel rather one-sided. It’s like we’re meant to take Crosshair at his word and accept that he’s this garden-variety antagonist who joins the Empire because yay being on the winning side… despite all these complications that clearly have a huge impact on how we read the situation. It doesn’t help that the show has already embraced an inconsistent manner of portraying chipped-clones. We know every clone has one, we know only a couple clones are aware of the chip’s existence (and can thus try to get it out), we know they enter a “Good soldiers follow orders” mindlessness once activated… yet towards the end we see a lot of side character clones thinking for themselves. Howzer decides that he’s no longer loyal to the Empire, giving a speech where a couple other clones throw down their weapons too. Gregor was arrested because he likewise realized how wrong this all was. But how is that possible? Do the chips completely control the clones, or not? Are these clones somehow exceptions? Are the chips beginning to fail? All of that has a bearing on how we read Crosshair—what were his own decisions, how much he was capable of overcoming the chip, whether that changed at all during certain points—but right now that remains really unclear.

It’s details like that which make me wonder if all these other questions will be answered. Will the story resolve all those ambiguous moments surrounding the chip, or brush them off with the belief that we should have just taken Crosshair at his equally ambiguous word? Will the story acknowledge Crosshair’s points through someone other than Crosshair, allowing it to exist as a legitimate criticism, rather than the presumed excuses of an antagonist? I’m… not sure. On the whole I’m very happy with TBB’s writing—despite what all this might imply lol. Until my brain picks over the season and discovers something else, my only other gripe is not allowing Omega to form a solid bond with Tech and Echo, instead putting all the focus on big brother!Wrecker and dad!Hunter. I think it’s a solid show that does a lot right, but I’m worried that, unless there’s a brilliant answer to all these questions and an intent to unpack both sides of the Hunter vs. Crosshair debate with respect—not just falling back on, “Well, Crosshair is with the Empire so everything he says is automatically bad and wrong” take—we’ve just gotten the setup for a somewhat messy, ethical story. For anyone here who also reads my RWBY metas, I’m pretty sure you’re not at all surprised that I’m invested in going, “Hey, you had one of the heroes suddenly become/join a dictatorship and do a lot of horrific things, but within a pretty complicated context. Can we please work through that carefully and with an acknowledgement of the nuance here, rather than throwing the ‘evil’ character to the proverbial wolves?”

God knows TBB is leagues ahead of RWBY, but I hope things continue on in not just a good direction, but one that tackles the aspects of this situation that many fans—and Crosshair—have already pointed out. As much as I adore the cast—and I really, really do—it was discomforting to watch a found family show where 4/5th of that family so completely wrote off one of the members and crucially have, at least so far, refused to acknowledge that. I want complicated, flawed characters, but that’s only compelling when the storytelling admits to and grapples with those flaws. We have quite firmly established Crosshair’s flaws in Season One. I hope Season Two delves into the rest of the team’s too.

Aaaand with that meta-dump out of my system, I’m off to write TBB fic. Thanks for reading! :D

#The Bad Batch #TBB #Crosshair #Star Wars #SW #mymetas #do I take my life in my hands #by posting SW meta?#probably lol

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happytroopers · 4 years ago

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Sick days // Hunter x reader

My google history search after this: what do they call toilets in Star Wars? Star Wars rabies?

Summary: I would do anything for Hunter, even take care of him when he has food poisoning. I saw a sick day prompt list and didn't end up using anything but it inspired this cluster fuck

TW: throwing up, alcohol mention but no use, bad writing I just love him ok

"Hey, have you seen Hunter? I need him to sign off on some damage reports." You announced as you entered the cockpit of the ship as it barreled through hyperspace, throwing a pointed look at Wrecker who was the main reason for most of aforementioned damage reports.The other members of Clone Force 99 made some sort of acknowledgment of your existence. Wrecker grinned obliviously at you as continued doing bicep curls with a GONK droid while Tech made brief eye contact with you before going back to some sort of machinery he’d dissected. Crosshair was the only one to actually somewhat answer your question, giving you a sassily quirked eyebrow and motioning down with his toothpick. "I’m assuming that super vague motion would mean he’s in the cargo hold?" You pressed but you had already turned around to go find the sergeant. "Should we tell ‘er?" You heard Wrecker ask but when no one answered him, you assumed things would be fine. Besides after almost a year with the Bad Batch, you’d walked in on them in all sorts of compromising moments. Nothing would surprise you anymore.

After popping down the ladder into the cargo bay, you did a cursory sweep. Crosshairs rifle was disassembled on a crate for cleaning, more of Tech’s mechanical experiments in a heap by the bay doors, your own trunk of belonging… but no sign of Hunter. "Hunter? Are you down here?" You poked a little further into the sleeping quarters, like any room that housed four soldiers who didn’t know how to mop, the smell chased you right back out. Shaking your head you thought to yourself, That should be considered a hazard zone. You paused by the fresher to listen for water running but heard nothing, which officially meant Hunter hadn’t been anywhere you checked, Hell, did he jump out of an airlock? Just as you were about to give up, you heard an awful noise come from the fresher. Like a bantha dying in a fire. Did some animal stow away? Absentmindedly you considered getting Wrecker to handle it- the last thing you needed was contracting some planet-specific strain of rabies. But then you considered that in the process, Wrecker would probably destroy the entire bathroom. And then everyone would be without a bathroom for the next two days… and that could get ugly. Then the noise came again, bringing you out of your mental debate. With a heavy sigh, you decided you’d have to check it out yourself. So, after pulling a random tool off your belt, you let the door slide open. To your surprise, Hunter was the first thing you saw, bent at the waist over the vac tube, bracing himself with one shaking arm against the durasteel wall. His helmet was discarded carelessly two feet closer to the entrance, and the enhanced trooper was heaving breaths, looking rather haggard. Almost stupidly the first thing that came out of your mouth was, "Oh my God, did the animal do this to you?" Hunter actually startled, which had never happened before. He was impossible to sneak up on, it was his whole thing. When he did look up at you, he looked confused, among other things. His skin pallor was four shades lighter than it was supposed to be, slightly greenish gray, and dew dropped with sweat. "Animal? What animal?" "The animal that made that-" You cut yourself off suddenly feeling dumb, now lamely dropping your defense tool. Then the disbelief, "Oh my- that noise was you?" He didn’t get the chance to answer again, instead turning his head back towards the vac tube to wretch again. Now with that information, the haggard appearance made more sense. "Hunter… you look like shit." You scolded, hesitantly moving closer, “Like, legitimately corpse like.” The sergeant coughed a bit before throwing you glare, “Thank you, (Y/L/N), that’s very helpful. Did you need something?” Damage reports long forgotten, you ignored the question instead more concerned with the trooper in front of you, “Why the hell are you standing like that? What’s wrong with you? Are you sick?”

Hunter was confused with this sudden line of questioning, turning his head to gag a little bit but this time he kept it under control to answer you, “Clones don’t get sick.”

“So this is normal for you?” You snarked right back, “Here, try kneeling, it won’t take as much of a toll on your body like that.”

At first he didn’t listen to you, just when the ship hit a patch of turbulence it triggered another wave which forced him to a knee. Then it hit you, clones don’t get sick, they’re engineered with near perfect immune systems.

“You’ve never been sick before have you?” You whispered sympathetically, he legitimately didn’t know how to handle being sick. Frowning, worried welled up in your stomach. It was almost painful to watch the man be so sick, after all how many times had he saved you or helped you out of a tight spot, so you looked away until he quieted again. This time he took a minute to catch his breath so you took some liberties.

“First, let’s get your hair off your neck and face. You’ll feel less gross.” You promised, going behind him to gently scrape his long hair into a makeshift bun and tie it off with a spare hair tie.

“What are you doing?” He croaked, but didn’t pull away from your hands.

“Taking care of you, now shut up and let me.” While your voice was still kind, you were just stern enough not to argue with you, “Now, lean up.”

You didn’t wait for him to follow the orders, instead you started unfastening pieces of armor on his arms before moving on to the chest and torso pieces. Moments later he was able to move a little freer and his armor from the waist up was neatly stacked to you right.

“There, that should help with the overheating.” You announced, not mentioned how he couldn’t bend over properly with a piece of plastoid against his abdomen. You gave him another once over, he was taking deep breaths with his eyes closed, little baby hairs already escaping your rather pitiful man bun situation. You’d never seen him so vulnerable.

“So clones don’t get sick, why are you throwing up like my roommate after her twenty first birthday?” You asked quietly, gently moving the stray bits of his forehead.

“Would you believe that I ate an expired meal ration?” He asked with enough doubt in your voice that you immediately shook your head.

“You’re not that stupid Hunter.”

“I lost a bet with Crosshair and had to eat part of the Yalbec stinger. Tech did say it was a delicacy on some planets.” He sighed, dry heaving again.

“I also remember him saying it was mildly poisonous to humans.” You reminded him, going past him to the shelves that held shower things. Reaching into your own caddy, you produced a rag before wetting it in the sink.

“Yeah, I lost the bet before he enlightened us.” Hunter admitted, visibly relaxing when you put the cold rag on his neck before sliding into a sitting position next to him, “How do you know all this stuff?”

“Well, us normies get sick a lot.” You teased, laughing when you caught the disgusted look on his face, “But, I learned most of this stuff taking care of my hungover friends.”

“Oh, just your friends?” It was Hunter’s turn to sass you, but you just rolled your eyes. The two of you fell into a halfway comfortable silence, so you took your data pad to do a little research on Yalbec poisoning.

“You don’t have to stay for this?” Hunter reminded you, using the back of his hand to wipe sweat off his forehead. When you looked back over to him, he was staring at you. Even when puking, his eyes could stare straight through you. Hurriedly, you dropped your gaze back to your data pad.

“Well, you spend all your time taking care of them,” you motioned up towards the cockpit, “And me. So someone has to look out for you when you need it, you don’t have to suffer alone.”

His eyes softened as he relaxed slightly, you were glad to see his coloring was already getting better. But after a few moments, even the softness of his stare brought a flush to your cheeks so you just cleared your throat, “Well, the good news is that the holonet says someone of your size and weight will be fine. Symptoms should pass within twelve hours at the most, and it’s already been five.”

“Thank you, (Y/N).”

Your head snapped back up, he rarely ever called you by your first name. Somehow it almost felt intimate.

“Of course, Hunter.”

You scooted a little closer so that your knees would touch. Closer than you had ever been to him, but he didn’t scoot away. You smiled at the small contact, shaking your head.

“Can I impart on you a bit of civilian wisdom?” You asked teasingly, not even waiting him to nod. You took the rag off his neck and used it to dab sweat off his forehead, “Don’t eat random things on a dare, especially things you cut off foreign animals.”

“You’re never going to let me live this down, are you?”

“Not a chance.”

#hunter x reader #bad batch x reader #bad batch hunter x reader

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mewberii · 4 years ago

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Streamer!Scaramouche AU

i feel like he’d be one of the biggest streamers on his platform- probably one of those that everyone has heard of even if they’re not into watching livestreams and all

but between those who do know who he is, they either love him or hate him. no in-between

it’s kind of understandable because his attitude is not suited/can be handled by anyone

he’s brutally honest even when his opinion may be seen as rude (to him he’s just saying the truth so he doesn’t mind if people get offended)

of course he doesn’t try to be rude on purpose but i mean it as in he’ll say what he thinks

imagine he’s playing a game and he doesn’t like a certain mechanic, or he isn’t enjoying the story;

he won’t say the game is bad but he’ll openly say he doesn’t like it/it’s not for him. it makes him seem strict but tbh he’s not that hard to please and even when he complains about one or two things he still enjoys the game

he usually gives every game a chance even when from what he’s seen it doesn’t sound like a game he’ll like. if he turns out to be right he just won’t play it again and if he’s wrong he’s a little too prideful to admit he spoke a little too fast but in the end he will admit the game is good or he’s having fun

probably the kind that just knows so much about all games and all the creators and all the game-making engines and is up to date with every single news of everything video-game + streaming-related,,, how does he do it, i don’t know,,,,

and also since he’s so popular he probably gets packages from game developers with limited edition stuff or merch from different games soooo often

and he placed the ones from his favorite games in his setup room and it looks INCREDIBLE he has so much stuff

he did a room tour stream once talking about all he has, where he got everything, from his monitor to every complement of his computer and like,,,,, the cost of his setup,,,,,,, some people already know they’ll never be able to afford that in their entire life

and he already had a great setup before he even became big as a streamer so people can already guess he’s fairly rich

also i feel like he would have started his career as a streamer without using a facecam and even like that, he already managed to get very popular because of his professional commentary of game dynamics/playability + you can tell that he’s passionate about this and also he’s very funny without even trying??

he says some stuff so casually that he doesn’t realise how funny it is

probs showed his face after he hit a very important milestone

he never considered showing his face that important but he understood why people would want to see his reactions when playing games (even tho he warned them he’s not the most expressive/dramatique person in the world and they know by now) and would want to put a face to the person who entertains them so much with his streams

and when he does show his face people go absolutely cRAZY BECAUSE he is crazy good looking (if you don’t think he’s good looking i’m sorry for your eyesight. jk i’m sorry in general i just really love him)

some people who didn’t watch his streams will even check them out because of that but literally if you come for the visuals only you won’t stay for long because as i said not anyone can handle his personality

if he sees people being superficial about him too much instead of paying attention to what’s happening in the stream, he will immediately turn the subs mode on in the chat (if he didn’t have it on already)

being rude, being disrespectful/saying discriminating stuff or anything of that sort won’t be tolerated and anyone who does it will be banned instantly

without even interrupting what he was saying before he saw the comment, he’ll just type the ban to whoever said that and go on

and his mods do the exact same. they are just as strict as him

if it ever got too much of course he wouldn’t be afraid to speak up about it and tell his chat to stop that behaviour or else, as they should already know, he won’t be afraid of banning them even if they’ve been subscribed for months or years

ANYWAYS

why do i feel like he has a super organised chat— as in instead of spamming 5 emotes per comment they all send just one and it looks so tidy and perfect

literally other streamers would be jealous of how not-messy his chat is even when he has thousands and thousands and thousands of viewers all the time

also i have this idea that maybe any of his fans would have designed him as a genshin character (which would be the design of the scaramouche we know (?))

and the little pop-ups (i don’t know the name in english rIP) thingies that show up to notify when someone subscribed or donated would be lil chibi art of that design

it’d be really cool

and since i also doodled what a stream of his could look like (i’ll show it in the future when i’m done!!) i thought that way it’d be more recognisable that the streamer is scaramouche

99% of the people who have seen him irl found him too intimidating to go ask him for a picture or tell him anything

he’s not a huge fan of taking pictures anyway + is more on the introverted/reserved side but he wouldn’t mind if someone went up to him (if he’s not busy with something) to tell him something or say they enjoy his streams

i feel like in a couple occasions he would have played a game with some subscribers and he’d like to tease them speaking with his usual tone and face (in case they’re watching the stream as they talk) so they think he’s serious

“did you watch my 12 hour stream the other day?” -scaramouche

“ah,,,, i-” -the sub

“think well of what you’re going to answer.” -scaramouche

“i-i couldn’t watch the whole thing,,,” -the sub

“ah, is that so…?” -scaramouche

he’ll pretend to sound disappointed but at one point he just can’t help but smirk and hold in a chuckle before telling them he’s not serious

(he literally doesn’t know how the hell he survived that stream himself because he isn’t one to stream for that long)

i feel like deep inside people who know him would know he wouldn’t say such things seriously/wouldn’t be disappointed in anyone for not watching every single minute of his streams or not even all his streams

but he says all that so seriously that it’s,,, intimidating and they’re lowkey like “god but what if he’s not joking-”

he’d play games with the other streamers sometimes but i feel like most of the type he’d play more single-player games

it’d be so funny if he plays among us with others and for example one of those others it’s childe

both of them would always be suspecting of the other first/bickering, especially scaramouche

and if one game turns out they’re both the impostors… people would know right away

like, if any of them tried to defend the other, everyone else would be like “!?! what is this? scaramouche and childe defending each other? scary”

they’d vote one of them (maybe scaramouche) out because they started guessing + saying proof of how both of them could be the impostors (but the biggest proof is them not coming for each other’s throats sNKJFNGKJS)

scaramouche would have to resist the urge to S C R E A M

needless to say he doesn’t like when he has to be impostor with childe

and unfortunately for him, fate makes it happen considerably often

i feel like at least one time scaramouche would kill next to childe and then report it and literally blame childe

and childe would be like ?!?!?!?!?? WHAT- NO- (struggles bc his brain instinct is to say ‘it was you!’ but they’re both the impostors??? how-)

and then they’d eject childe,,, and then people wouldn’t suspect of scaramouche for most of the game because ? why would he- blame his partner---

well he did it with no regrets and at the end when they all found out they found it very funny (except for childe, but even he ended up laughing in the end because what a mean strategy sjkfhdsgkj)

i have this feeling that even though they bicker so much and for any strangers it’d seem like they hate each other, when scaramouche does play online games, many times it’d be with childe?

ik they aren’t supposed to get along but for the sake of it being a modern au i don’t want bad vibes between any of the characters pls-

and everyone enjoys their dynamic and those streams always get a ton of viewers sjfhdsgkj and i’m sure both their chats would be good friends (most likely one’s fans would also be a fan of the other too)

very very very rarely (because he prefers just playing and talking while playing) he’d do streams where he doesn’t play anything but just talks with the chat, watches videos that they send him, looks at the fanart they make, just talks about games,,,,

it’d be super chill and the perfect streams for people to be doing homework/work/play games/draw or do basically anything while they listen to his stream in the background

he’d also be answering some of people’s questions about him or about his favorite games, or if he’s playing this new game that came out earlier this week,,,

“will you play ‘it takes two’ with childe?” -someone in the chat

“absolutely not. i won’t play a co-op game with him”

not even 5 days later, tweet from childe saying “streaming in 30 minutes! Scaramouche and I will be playing It Takes Two on my ch---”

anyways this will be all!! (for now?) i obviously knew genshin before this but, yesterday i could finally start playing it myself! so i feel like if not now, soon i will also write headcanons of him playing genshin! i don’t take requests but if you guys have any ideas or anything you want to say about this AU, send me an ask!! i’d love to talk about this and about genshin in general!

also, i was very inspired to write this by @baeshijima ! so thank you very much to her for her wonderful streamer AUs and if anyone reading this hasn’t read hers already, go check them out!! they’re amazing!!

#genshin impact #genshin impact scenarios #genshin impact headcanons #genshin impact scaramouche #genshin impact x reader #scaramouche headcanons #scaramouche scenarios

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