#A game night with some contacts of his being one of them :3c

[nekrosmos]

Nekro you have no idea what you caused in my brain with that last Poker Post. I do apologize for your notifs. 😭 But my god, the potential... Can you imagine if the life Nik tried to keep separate from Price ended up accidentally involving him too? Maybe he pissed off some dealers, maybe it's about the many people who want Nik dead or hurt. The moment Nik hears Prices name being mentioned he loses all composure. Is it hell upon earth? Does he make them regret even *considering* to plot against him? Does John know? Do they have a conversation about honesty and trust, or is John blissfully unaware as his partner goes on a hunting spree? WHO KNOWS!!! It's all so delicious either way. 😌 I think Price would have *some* idea. Just, not to full extent. That poker match does show him the realities his bf deals with though, and that reminder is enough to get him hot and bothered. JFC. I need to take a breather

also feel free to ignore this if you planned on continuing that haha i wouldn't wanna spoil or ruin anything. just here to vomit my thoughts abt nik, apologies 🙂‍↕️🙏

Never apologize for sharing your thoughts Oliv, they are highly valued !!

And for real, there's a lot to think about here. (Poker post in question)

I like the idea that Nikolai is absolutely terrified of his life impacting John in a negative way. He's scared that someone, someday, will be bold enough to try to get to John to get to Nik. It would be a terrible idea, considering how dangerous Price is as well, but it is still a risk.

Nik is also scared that Price aligning himself with someone like him, with his background, with his connections and just general shadiness, will impact John's career eventually. It's one thing to have someone like Nik as a friend, it's something else to be sleeping with him and eventually share a life with him. Maybe some hire-ups already said something about them, threatening John. Of course, Price wouldn't let this shit fly, and he probably wouldn't say anything to Nik either, he doesn't want him to worry, but Nikolai always knows, eventually. John had to reassure him a lot that day, because Nik would absolutely sacrifice his relationship with John to save him, even though John is his reason to live, and Nik means everything to John.

And then, there's your idea that Nikolai would go on a hunting spree after some people threaten or hurt John. You do not fuck with Nikolai, or the man his heart belongs to, and live to tell the tale. He would hunt them, he would get them, and he would finish them, sending a message to anyone who dares to think about attempting the same thing again. Price finds Nik on his doorstep two months later, exhausted, heavy bags under his eyes, and John asks him where he was, says he was worried sick about him. Nikolai smiles softly and simply answers "I was making sure you would be safe, John."

There would definitely be a talk about trust and honesty, because both of them would put themselves in danger to protect the other, and that is just not a productive way to go about things. They're from different worlds, and if things had turn out just a little differently, they could have been from different sides. This thought never leave their brains, and every single time they embrace, Nik and John are grateful that life turned out the way it did.

[ashenberry]

ashen. ashen i hope you know. i really want to know metal gear lore and the story please if youre ever bored and wanna talk about it talk at me about it !!!!!!!!!

HEHEHE >:3c i was gonna ask if u wanted like a specific game or in an specific order (game vs timeline) but i decided im just gonna talk at nasuem. for fun.

future ashen voice this ended up being long as shit. a read more. for ur sake

ANYWAYSSSS metal gear is about snake. which snake? fuck you that one but specifically these two

The metal gear games can basically bit split into the Solid Snake Games [MGS1/2/4] and the Big Boss (Naked Snake) Games [MGS3/PW/V]

The timeline for the games go

MGS3 -> ***MGS:Peacewalker -> MGSV* -> MG1/MG2SS** -> MGS1 -> MGS2 -> MGS4 -> MGRR

*(which is 2 games in 1 but not actually? konami wanted a game released in 2014 so they took one of the missions from V and called it ground zero. and then the rest is called the phantom pain. tpp. the peepee)

** these are msx2 games which was a home computer back in the 80s it was basically slightly more powerful then a NES. its very funny its such a. interesting part of the timeline and they never remade them so theyre just 35 year old games that are like the biggest twist is that big boss. is a bitch !

*** Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is here but its not mainline saga. Metal Gear Rising Revengence is also not mainline saga but people have heard of it so it gets a mention. its the one with the brazillian guy sammy.

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our timeline begins in the humble year 1964. the cold war is cold-ing and we meet our protagonist for the game john metal gear jumping out of a plane and into Russia to get some scientist past the iron curtain and into the states bc he decided he fucking hates developing nukes. Our cast for this game includes [Naked] Snake. The guy who will become, by the time of metal gear 2, the guy running the War Orphan Economy. they call him naked bc zero is mean and also bc they didnt give him shit in way of supplies

Zero. Also known as David Oh but who gives a shiiit. Hes your main point of contact for mission information he will tell you your current objective he'll tell you where to go what to do etc etc.

Para-Medic. She is here to tell you fun facts about the food you pick up, she is the one you call to save the game (in which she will then tell you about the movie ^-^) and she helps you when it comes to tending to wounds but i think that only comes up twice

The Boss. The most important character in the series given the impact she has on others, everyone whos met her talk about her in the highest regard and after this game Snake and Zero (and others) will tear the world apart for her.

Sigint. He's your main contact for weapons and equipment in this game. He and Para medic might end up being the character you talk the least to if you dont go out of your way to but honestly i really like their banter :]

EVA. Shes your intel on the inside for being the only other mother fucker on your side* thats actually here. in the russian jungle. Shes also propped as the love interest but snake and her at best have a one night stand and then. well you can argue they stayed friends. I do. i like that they dont get together it goes with the side thread that like. sometimes meaningful relationships cant be described as romantic or platonic WHATEVER!!!! next guy

Ocelot. fuck ass. bitch. he meows. he gets his ass kicked by snake and watches him hit his famous "i shit my pants" stance and then is just. [textually. stated in game] obsessed with him. for the next 50 years. and makes him everyone elses problem. my beloved mutuals could give u a more sincere read on ocelot i just. hes funny to me check this shit out

he does that for like 2 minutes. and for what. fuck him

Volgin. this guy is terrible he stinks which is great for a villian but hes fucking terrible. he also grabs snakes dick. he nuked a science facility hes trying to start mass produce the shagohod which is basically the precursor to metal gears. the metal gears are the nuke launching metal dinosaur

*theres some double tripple agent bullshit but. shes on your side like 90% theres like some side thing she crosses on you but snake i dont think gave a shit

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SO SO SOSO SO. game starts out snake jumps out of plane into russia etc etc etc. This is called the Virtuous Mission. His Radio team consist of Zero, The Boss, and Para-medic. And this is the first time hes talked to the boss in like. 5 years? and she is like. the most important person to him shes like basically raised him since he was 15 he is often described as 'her most beloved disciple" anyways snakes like why did you leave >;| and the boss is like snake what is loyalty. who do you answer to? the goverment? the goverment changes who are you loyal to. for no reason. btw u dont need me anymore ive taught you everything now go forth and go save that russian scientist guy. so you go and pick up sokolov and then ocelot shows up and shoots the shit out of everyone and then snake shoots the shit outta ocelot and his boys but he doesnt kill ocelot becauses hes a fuck ass 20 something and snakes like ahh hes a fuck ass 20 something i cant kill him.

so he and the russian scientist walk towards the pickup point and the boss is like hi snake :> and snakes like shouldnt you be in a submarine ? and then the boss is like send the bees. Snake and Sokolov (Scientist guy) get swarmed with bees, sokolov gets yoinked by The Cobra Unit which is just. the boss squad for the game they have silly powers and theyre the boss's group from WW2 and the boss is like hey snake. im defecting to russia and volgins like hiiii we should kill the fuck outta this guy and snake hits his famous i shit my pants pose

and then the boss breaks his arm and throws him off the bridge* and then snake washes up on shore and calls in to zero and paramedic and is like hey chat. all my bones hurt so then the boss and volgin fly off in their helicopter and volgins like thank you The Boss for these davey crockets (which are nuclear warheads u can launch by hand) im gonna use them :> and ocelot (whos there) is like you cant just nuke the shit outta people????? and volgins like i can do whatever the fuck i want the blames gonna be put on the american who just defected and snakes like. hey zero i think something down the road got nuked to shit. the send snake a balloon and thats the end of the virtuous mission

*the boss has been wearing a bandana, and when snake gets thrown off he grabs at it and then from this point on untiiiilll. end of peacewalker he is seen wearing this bandana. idk if its the same one solid snake wears it might be im no bandana doctor

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One week later, snakes in the hospital healing up from getting his bones broken and zero is like hey. theyre sending you back to russia. to kill the fuck outta the boss bc yknow that building that got nuked? well it was an american nuke on russian soil and if we cant prove that the boss was rouge this cold war is gonna go hot and theyre gonna kill the fuck out of us. So begins Operation Snake Eater, called that because the objective is to take out The Boss, Leader of the cobra unit (though the cobras will also die bc they are loyal to da boss L)

To begin snake has to meet up with his guy on the inside ADAM at the same shack sokolov was rescued from. On his way there he meets up with the boss on her horse and shes like snake. Go Home. horse stomps on his hand she breaks his gun. L. Snake heads to the shack. When snake arrives he is not greeted by ADAM however but by the motorcycle riding EVA who gets him supplies including a disguise for getting to the research facility sokolov is chilling at and a gun and shes like youuu should fucking sleep its like midnight and snakes like >:| fine. and he does. and when he wakes up in the morning theyre surrounded by the ocelot unit that snake has to take out and Ocelot, the main guy, has eva held at gunpoint and is like SNAKE. YOU. LOOK I GOT A REVOLVER LIKE YOU MENTIONED. YOURE GONNA HIT TTHE CLASSIC "i shit my pants pose" SO I CAN DEFEAT YOU FOR REAL and snakes like ok buddy & snake and eva 1-2 combo him, eva does a wheelie off his face, and they head towards the research sokolov is behind held at.

on the way there snake meets alligators and you can grab the alligator cap and some leeches and then you get to a ravine and oh fuck its ocelot again. that gif earlier? this is when he does it Snake and Ocelot have a good ol duel before they are RUDELY. interrupted by a shit ton of bees in which they are both. terrible at dealing with? snake tries to cut them with his knife and ocelot spins his guns at them and to avoid the bees snake jumps into the ravine at the end of which is our first cobra fight with

THE PAIN - each cobra brings an emotion into battle. The unit includes, The Pain, The Fear, The End, The Fury, The Joy, and The Sorrow. you fight each of them in this game. The way the Pain's fight works is that he has a shit ton of bees and you have the power of water. he uses his bees as a shield, fake clones, bullets and you can go. under water to not get stung. you defeat him he explodes yay

and off to the research facilityyyyyy. on the way you see The Boss and Volgin and Sokolov and Ocelot chit chatting and if u have a sniper rifle you can kill The End here but theyre just giving exposition about this girl tatyana and how sad it is that the pain died. off to the research facilittyyyyyyy

sokolov isnt there. some other guy is i think his name is granin? he has nice shoes and he was the guy who design shagohod and hes druunk and hes like shits fucked. heres a key card so u can go to grazny grod which is where theyre keeping sokolov and also shagohod and snakes like thanks. nice shoes. and heads out to encounter the secound cobra fight with...

THE FEAR - this guys a BITCH to do when youre doing a no kill run bc the way to take down foes non lethally is to take out their stamina and he will recharge back to full once hes hit half. his fight is him chilling. invisible in the trees until he gets hungry enough to come on the ground and start eating. i found when going non lethally just handing him a bunch of poison frogs works really well. you defeat him he explodes with a shit ton of arrows cause he used a crossbow and off you gooo.

Eva calls in and goes wdym he gave you that key card theres. mountain there. ill meet you there get you supplies. snake continues on towards their meeting location when he encounters....

THE END - honestly metal gear, aside from sniper wolf in mgs1, has reallly fun sniper fights in this youre basically hunting him down and augh its good. you can also put the game down for an irl 5 days and he will die of old age cause hes old as shit. he also has a parrot that u can eat after the fight but like. bro? dont? anyways you defeat him he explodes and then snake continues on in which he encounters. the ladder

ANYWAYS you make it past the ladder and my least favorite sneaking section of the game and then you meet up with eva and shes got you some food and a way into grozny grad BUT !! she also is trying too yknow. seduce snake shes very upfront about this tbh shes like most of my missions is to fall in love w/ who the mission says anyways snake got any deets about da boss while shes just wearing her underwear and snakes like :| yknow eva. im not feeling the whole vibe your bringing to the conversation but i will talk about the boss cause this whole things got me conflicted why would she do that to me :| and evas like oh were u lovers and snakes like some things cant be explained w/ the lovers friends dichotomy but she was like. stupidly important to me and evas like damn. i need to get going ocelots getitng suspicious of me and she heads back to gronzy grad on her motorcycle and doesnt bring us we need to go. a different way through the sewers where we have our next cobra fight with...

THE FURY - this guy is decked out like an astronaut with a flame thrower and my favorite vocal performance AND THE FIGHT IS ANNOYING AS HELL I DONT LIKE ITTT HES A BITCH whateverr u defeat him he explodes and youre in gronzy grad

Once in grazny grad snakes next objective is to get into the weapons lab. find raikovich and impersonate him and meet of with sokolov. Raikovish isss. raiden mgs2 hes very clearly made to look like him raikovich vaugely sounds like if you took raiden and tried to make it sound more russian, they made him a little bitch to reflect the fact that gamers of 2002 did nootttt like raiden bc he was a little bitch with hips you could make out as oppose to solid square. I like raiden. anyways. you locate raikovich, knock him out drag him to a locker room and steal his close and now youre raikovich so now you can just walk around without anyone instantly smiting you.

you walk into the room where sokolov is being held and there you find him getting interrogated by tatyana (who is EVA. btw. idk how much of a twist this was suppose to be bc on one hand of course but on the other aaaa it was a ps2 game i just went like waow. the third blond blue eyed women in this game bc thats just what metal gear does theres a lot of blond bitches ANYWAYS) tatyana leaves you talk to sokolov hes like we gotta blow of shagohod and snakes like im getting you outta here. this time. for sure. surely nothing bad will happen and volgin walks in and was like raikovich. i was waiting for u in my room what the hell man and snake. cant say anything he doesnt sound raikovich at all so he just stands at attention and then volgin grabs his dick. Volgin's then like hah. an imposter. and then is about to beat the shit outta him and then the boss walks in and beats the shit outta snake and then volgin beats the shit outta him to unconsciousness.

snake wakes up with a bag over his head and his arms tied up above his head for beat-the-shit-outta-him 2: electric boogaloo. Ocelot, The Boss, and tatyana eventually are watching. its an interrogation scene theyre "trying" to get information out of him but we're shown earlier that volgin is very good at the beating the shit outta someone part and very bad at the getting information part. Granin (nice shoes) guy died. very sad. ANYWAYS. volgins like i hate this cia dog dipshit are you here for the philosophers legacy and snakes like ? cause he doesnt know shit about that and volgins like the philosophers legacy. yknow. the big pile of money that The Philosophers, a group that worked behind the scenes to pull the strings on events around the world that eventually broke into the US, Russian, and China branch after the cold war started? and snake looks at him like he just got the shit beat outta him.

Tatyana is like this is fucked up and The Boss is like your ass at this and Ocelot is like tatyana can u stop wearing that perfume (this haas been mentioned everytime their on screen together I just Forgot to mention it) and volgins like ok ignoring tatyana and ocelot. Da Boss. why dont youuuuu prove your loyalty and stab both of this dipshits eyes out and the boss is like 🧍‍♂️ yeah ok hand me that knife and then we get a scene of snake looking at the boss sad puppy style while theres a blade inches from his eyes and tatyana is like this is FUUCKKED and grabs attt. volgin or the boss i forget its been a hot minute. it goes to chaos a little bit but the scene ends with Ocelot shooting out Snakes (his right, looking at him the one on the left) eye and at long last. now people who havent played the games have their shorthand for which one is big boss and which one is solid snake (the eye patch. tho we still gotta wait a minute for him to get one theyre not just gonna. give him one yet they still gotta beat the shit outta him more). eventually volgins like thats IT. we're done for now send him to the cell and tatayana (EVA) whispers to snake when she has a moment hey i got an escape route for u w/ supplies all you need to do is to get outta the cell.

So now snake is in gay baby jail. theres a couple ways to get out one is that if you went in 1st person view mode earlier you would have saw a Ghost (whos shown up a couple times, uh mostly when the boss is like Are you there The Sorrow? the ghost is the Sorrow) and the ghost wouldve held up a sign that had a radio frequency if you call it it opens the door. you can leave when the guard uses the bathroom sounds like dinner didnt agree with him. you can also make friends with the guard by giving him food hes like waow :3 my names johnny my dads name was johnny my sons name is johnny and snakes like thats crazy can you open the door and hes like yeah and you scram presumably after putting him to sleep. ANYWAYS you run off to the sewers and eva is like bad news they got dogs you gotta get going and snakes running through this sewer getting chased by dogs n guys until he gets to the end and oh fuck a cliff drop into the river and he looks behind him and FUCK ITS OCELOT AGAIN goddamit hes like SNAKE. LETS DUEL AGAIN and snakes like fuck it T-poses and falls into the river jesus style where because he was barely hanging on takes him too the next boss fight with…

THE SORROW. yeah. the ghost from earlier. snake is in a realm between life and death. The fight takes place in a monochrome version of an earlier section where you are walking through waist through water. the sorrow is like its fucked up to kill people snake. heres everyone you killed and then you have to walk through this river past the ghost of everyone youve killed up until that point. no kill runs still have a couple ocelot unit members bc snake kills them in a cutscene. and once you wade past all of them you see a body floating in the water. The sorrows body. touching it kills you instantly and to progress you need to take a revival pill you have earlier bc u also have a death pill you can use whatveer but it wasnt important.

I will mention it here. This jungle is where the sorrow died years earlier. He and the Boss were put in a situation where one of them had to kill the other and they decided the sorrow will die and the boss will live. which is great for the sorrow honestly he already had ghost powers im. being a cryptid is his calling truly.

Snake wakes up under water and starts swimming upwards for air. he gets ashore and EVA's like heres the meet up spot and he heads over there where he gets his gear back and a nice roasted snake for the time being. They Chill before Eva is like OK!! i got some C3 youre gonna head back and blow the fuck outta the shagohod i need to get back before ocelot gets sus and snakes like o7 ok AND WE HEAD BACK. TO GRANZY GROD. to BLOW UP. THE SHAGOHOD. we set up a bunch of c3 which was c4 but a little lamer but they didnt know that at the time but before the explosives can go off volgins like HIIII and hes got tatyana (EVA) corned because they found out about the spy shit. Remember how ocelot kept getting annoyed by her perfume? he finally placed the smell it was the smell of gasoline from her motorcycle and evas like your a bitch ass motherfucker and volgins like lol. lmao. strikes you with lightning. and the boss is like hey. let me finish her off and volgins like ok :thumbs_up: and turns his attention to snake where the 1v1 in a pit. Ocelots miffed because HEEE wanted to 1v1 snake so he just watches from above. and throws items for snake which pisses off volgin oh yeah next boss fight

Volgin - he has electric powers he can zap the shit outta you so for the most part you cant really use ru guns bc theyre metal you gotta use C! Q! C! close quaters combat a fighting form in universe created by The Boss and Snake. you have. 10? maybe minutes to defeat volgin b4 everything blows up. at some point phase 2 beings where volgin is like OCELOT. KILL HIS ASS> and ocelots like fuck you. does his gay little hand gesture and leaves cause he aint getting blwon the fuck up.

you finish up the volgin fight and get the hell outta dodge where you see Eva outside on her bike and snake is like ? i thought da boss killed you and evas like noooo she wanted me to tell u that we gotta go meet her at the lake where im keeping a plane and snakes like awesome ok. and then the c3 goes off and theyre like yay and then the shagohod starts coming for them and theyre like D: and volgins like IM COMING FOR YOUR ASS and ocelot who hates being left out also gets on his own motorcycle and also starts chasing after eva and snake hijinks ensue ocelot gets knocked off his bike early you blow up a bridge trying to take out the shogod it works for most of it but theres still the front half you 2v1 it in some field you kill the fuck outta volgin god strikes him with lightning. snake and eva are like x_^ YAY ^_^

then all of volgins men keeps chasing them to kill em and theyre like ah fuck. eva's like snake ill drive u shoot the fuck outta them and so u go through this driving section and then you get out nice n good and then eva n snake notice the gas tank got shot and while theyre looking at that they drive into a tree and off a cliff and eva gets like. stabbed all the way through her abdomin with a stick and shes like aug i cant go on and snakes like you have to. i cant fly a plane. i need u and shes like well when u put it like that so u get eva off the stick and then perform surgery with snakes first aid kit which includes. ointment. bandages. a cigar? SHES PATCHED UP. she aint shmooving tho so we have some slower paced stealth before we get to the lake! yay! snakes like i need. to go talk to the boss and evas like ok. ill get the plane started so snake walks over to the flower field the boss is in and then we have our final boss fight with…

THE BOSS - also known as The Joy.

Life's end... Isn't it beautiful? It's almost tragic. When life ends, it gives off a final lingering aroma. Light is but a farewell gift from the darkness to those on their way to die. I've been waiting, Snake, for a long time. Waiting for your birth, your growth, and the finality of today.

Joy recounts to snake parts of her life. How she went to space and saw the world whole. with no division no borders no west vs east capitalism vs communism us vs russia. how she went to fucking dday and gave birth on the field (??!) and how her kid n womb were taken by the powers that be. uh in this case those powers are the Philosophers. She talks about how this. shouldnt be happening. They shouldnt be going face to face. How the winds chance and how someone you fought along one day will be ur enemy the next. iiii have opinionsss but those are stored in the boss ppt uh. ask if you want those send an ask im not going tooo incredibly deep here bc im just writing this all off the top of my head but she thanks snake for letting her talk about her self, calls in a bomber jet, and says snake. we have 10 minutes before everything gets blown to shit. lets have the best fight of our lives.

I have found that this fight is far easier when using a non lethal method and also this is like the only part of the game that lags the flower field has hands. The games theme snake eater plays for the second half of the fight and you can find 3 snakes around named Solid Liquid and Solidus. buuut im stalling. At the end of the fight The boss hands snake her half of the philosophers legacy that she stole from volgin. She tells him that he is a wonderful guy. That their can only be One Boss. and One Snake. the camera pans out and this is when you the player are suppose to pull the trigger. if you wait long enough the game will do it for you but this is where Joy dies.

the while flower field turns red and snake heads towards the plane with a petal he took with him that as they take of get stolen by the wind. as the gain win who shows up but MOTHERFUCKING OCELOT BABYYY HE WANTS THAT 1 ON 1 HE HAS SOME LIKE HOVER CRAFT BULLSHIT THATS SHOWN UP A COUPLE TIME AND HES LIKE FUCK YOU SNAKEE AND THEY HAVE A 1-1 IN THE BACK OF THE PLANE AND THEN OCELOTS LIKE WAIT wwai twaitwait. russian roulette my friend here here. 1 bullet. 2 guns. he starts juggling them u take them and theres like a lot of outcomes here but its either snake gets it and shoots past him and either no bullet or its a blank or ocelot shots him and its no bullet or blank and hes like. "im not an ocelot and ur not a snake what ur name" to which snake responds john metal gear. thanks john metal gear. ocelot jumps out of the plane and we're off. out of russia. thank god.

They arrive back to the states Snake and Eva have a night to themselves :smirk: and then snake wakes up alone with a message from eva thats like hey snake. i took the philosophers legacy. i wouldve killed you too but god. The Boss is really based wow. Her ORIGINAL Mission was just to get the philosophers legacy off of volgin but the dipshit nuked a building so to prevent the cold war from going hot she had to die but she couldnt kill herself cause the states needed to prove their innocence so they made YOU do it and while this tape is playing we see snake getting his medals and honors for operation snake eater and. the president whats his fuck Lindon B Johnson i think is like. youve surpassed even the boss. we give you the title big boss. people go shake snakes hand and he just fucking leaves and goes to an unmarked* grave and just cries bc da boss is dead. *its like a MIA gravestone i think. yknow. the gravestone "here lies a hero" but theres no name.

AND THATS METAL GEAR SOLID 3. Ill be fucking honest i didnt expect this to be as long as it is holy shit. and mgs3 isnt even my favorite game i just honestly sincerely just recounted the events to you off the top of my head bwhadwaiwfjiwf. ill do the other games but later hehe

[moonlight-at-dawn]

And now for some more specific things I wanted to post about, but that are spoiler-y! This is gonna be rambly and random lol Behind the read more cut!

Background wlw in Grand Trad! I should've run through the city talking to everyone more frequently, I didn't really see this one develop. I saw them talking to each other occasionally, but I didn't really check in on the NPCs here by the time I was in even Brilehaven. This dialogue is from the 1-year-later epilogue. I know Atlus doesn't have a great track record with respectful handling of queer characters, but this simple and cute interaction is hopefully sign of a step in the right direction from them.

This is from the night before the final fight, when you go around chatting with all your contacts. From the start, Heismay has been one of my favorite characters. He lost his son in a riot, hated paripus for it for the longest time until he learned that the riot was a result of the igniter testing being done on the paripus. Seeing him give MC a gift given by parents to children was so incredibly heart warming. His companion stories were all about finding ways to come to terms with the passing of his son. He'd been carrying the boy's bones for many years, never feeling that there was a proper place to lay him to rest as is his people's custom. Finally, he started carrying the remaining bones in an amulet, so that his son would be resting near his heart, able to witness the world and its changes through his father. Absolutely beautiful story told through him.

When I said before on another post that if the MC was meant to be with anyone romantically, it would be Eupha, this is the kind of thing I was talking about. The whole thing with the extra meaning behind handshakes, and then this, on the night before the final battle. I laughed so much at Edeni. After you max out Eupha's relationship and share a second, more meaningful handshake with her, the way Edeni talks to you about her is so funny, too. And he sounds like he's for the relationship! Until now, when he tells you he'll toss you in the ocean and feed you to the sharks XD Then right in front of him, Eupha gives you a gift normally given from wives to husbands!? Oh my... :3c They're adorable~

This is the last bit of dialogue I saved. A beautiful, powerful line, delivered by the MC, and is the heart of the game. Fantasy is worth believing in and striving for. Maybe the ideal world IS impossible to reach, but in striving for it, you can make the world better, step by step, day by day.

I'll probably add more rb's to this post as I think of more specific things I want to ramble about. For now, this is how I'll leave things. There's lots of amazing characters, each with their own beautiful stories of overcoming tragedy and adversity. I know I'll want to talk more about them later (and to go more in depth about Eupha, because gosh I adore her, but right now what I've talked about with her is pretty surface-level stuff).

Metaphor: ReFantazio impressions

It was late when I beat it last night, so I didn't really put proper words to thoughts, and I don't know that I can do it justice, but man, it was a truly amazing game and I want to put some more of my impressions down.

This post will be largely spoiler-free. But there are other, definitely spoiler-y things I want to add, and that will be in a rb of this post and behind a cut.

SO!!

Metaphor is a beautiful love letter to fantasy. Fantasy authors. Fantasy readers. The fantasy of ideals. The fantasy of hope and of dreams.

It's an inspiration, a hand up, a gentle hug, for those who have lost faith in hopes and dreams.

It doesn't pretend that ideals are easy to live by or accomplish. It doesn't pretend that life isn't hard and that there isn't evil and sadness in it. But it reminds you that there's warmth, that there are people out there who are good, in spite of it all. It serves to show that if you do good, if you give people an example, then great things can happen, and the world can be changed. And no, it won't happen overnight, but it will still get better, step by step.

It reminds us that things that are worth fighting for, worth believing in and striving for, aren't easy, but are always, always, worth the effort.

It's a gorgeous game, with wonderful characters with complex and painful pasts. It shows us how we control how our traumas define us. No character suddenly pretends that the awful things that happened to them didn't happen or weren't awful. But they learn to accept those things , not necessarily forgive, but accept and reframe how they affect each of them.

This game is going to stick with me for a long time because of its gorgeous and thought-provoking world and cast. I imagine I'll play it once or twice a year here-on, as it has a wonderful and empowering message.

A fantastic experience, definitely well worth the hours put into it. I can't recommend it enough. One of the best games I've ever played, one of the best stories I've ever taken in, absolutely worth the many hours to experience it.

And the MUSIC! The music is grand and epic at every turn and that does nothing to diminish the effect of each grander song near the end of the game. It's beautiful and evocative, and Head Priest Keisuke Honryo's talent makes it a hauntingly authentic experience. Cannot speak highly enough of the music that helps make the world so grand. "Music was the first magic" indeed!

I don't think I'll ever be able to fully describe all the things this game made me feel, but it's an unforgettable experience and well WELL worth it.

[justgenshinstuf]

Darknight Hero

This one is about Traveler(reader) becoming a witness to an aftermath of Diluc’s reckless Batman games ;3c 

TW: blood mention

Traveler(Reader) x Diluc implied 

You’ve been staying in his mansion for a few days now.

Diluc offered it right after you’d finished your first quest together.

“Ordo Favonious Quarters is not the best place to stay at, trust me on this one”.

It was quite peaceful here, at the Dawn Winery. Only the sound of the leaves trembling in the wind behind your window.

But that night you just could not sleep. Different thoughts were clouding your mind as you stayed awake for several hours. And you thought the last mission tired you enough.

Too many servants and all kinds of workers circulating around the house have usually made you a bit uncomfortable, as well as this strong wine odour constantly filling the air. 

You could rarely meet Diluc here, he was mostly too occupied with his work and stayed at his office behind closed doors, or was gone, attending some other matters outside of the Dawn Winery.

The only person who could get in contact with Diluc most of the time was Elzer, the man left in charge of things, when the Master was absent. Diluc trusted him the most among his servants, you even learned he was the only one to know the true story behind the ‘Darknight Hero’.

This day at the Winery was a bit different than usual. Elzer and a few others left to deal with something important at Master’s request. The Mansion felt empty for the first time, especially at night, when all of the maids stayed in the opposite wing of the house. 

Dilluc himself was away for the whole day. You were used to the fact he could randomly disappear without notice and then come back in the same manner, greeting you the morning after, like nothing was wrong. Maybe the following morning will be just like that...

You finally gave up on sleeping and just sat on your bed. You felt uneasy for some reason, like something bad was about to happen. Stupid anxiety.

You stood up and went to the window. Floor boards creaked under your feet, disturbing the atmosphere even more. You couldn’t see any stars or even the moon, dark clouds covered the whole sky, swallowing all the light. Maybe the storm was coming? 

You turned your back to the window, settling dow, the back of your head resting beside the cold glass. Your eyes slightly adjusted to the dark, and contours of the furniture in your room slowly became more visible.

It was a big guest room, with a bed bigger than you probably needed, a wardrobe and a writing table. A picture was hanging on the wall, but at that moment you couldn’t quite make it out. Ugh, I’m so tired...

THUD

A loud noise pierced the silence, making you jump up from the window. You froze, only the sound of your heartbeat thumping loudly in your ears. What was that?!

Your room was not so far from Diluc’s bedroom, one long hallway away. Maybe someone broke in? Without much thinking you took off to where the sound supposedly came from, but stopped at the door in case you hear something else.

Someone was definitely in there and, by the sound of it, the window was wide open too. The maids would be no use in fighting an intruder, it was up to you to take the situation into your own hands. You worked up the courage and threw the door open.

There, in the dim light of gas lamp, a dark figure hunched up, sitting on the floor beside the bed. He threw his head of tumbled bright-red hair back, getting a better look at you.

There could be no mistake. It was Diluc! You rushed to his side, trying to examine him more closely. 

“What happened?! Are you injured?” You could now see some blood dripping from his head, some droplets of it on the floor. Instinctively, you grabbed his hand, pulling away instantly, as he growled from pain. 

“We need to take you to the hospital ASAP! You..”

“Hush!” He cut you off abruptly. “It’s fine. I can handle this”.

“You have blood on your face, this is serious!” You switched to angry whispering to match him.

“First drawer, brown box. There are some bandages inside. Could you, please, give it to me?” A short nod in the direction of the dresser. It seemed like your words had no affect on him what so ever.

You fulfilled his request, still irritated by his intentional neglect, but you were not going to let him do everything himself. 

The box was bigger than you’d expected, filled with all kinds of medical supply. You even caught a glimpse of a surgical needle and a thread. How long has he been doing that? Did his previous Darknight Hero justice-raids end like this? Why did’t you hear? 

You treated his injured head, stopping the blood, gently washing it off his face. You assisted him taking off his muddy coat and tight west, looking for more bleedings. Thankfully, there weren’t much more open wounds, mostly bruises. You also noted Diluc couldn’t move his right hand normally.

“Cryogunners working with hydrogunners. Those damned Fatui”.  

He was speaking through clenched teeth, slowly pulling off his glove. His hand looked almost white in color, nails turning blue-ish. You’d never seen a limb nearly frozen like that before. It was probably not the only part of his body injured like that.

He tried wiggling his fingers, but it seemed like it caused him much pain. He reached for the box with his working hand, taking a little flask from under all the bandages.

Before you could ask anything, Diluc swiftly uncapped it with his thumb and drank light shiny substance in one gulp.

“This should do”. He proclaimed, cringing slightly from the taste.

“This is a potion made with the use of alchemy. It can decrease damage caused by Cryo”. He blankly stared at the bottle he was fiddling in his hand for a moment, before looking straight at you. “It shouldn’t be used like that, per se, but I’ll probably be fine in a few hours”.

You sighed deeply, seating yourself more comfortably in front of Diluc. It wasn’t like you were planning on going somewhere before you could see him recover with your own two eyes.

“Tell me everything.”

A few more hours passed. Diluc had told you how Fatui Skirmishers tracked and ambushed him. They probably planned to take him on by numbers, but he still managed to defeat every single one of them. What you witnessed was just ‘an unpleasant result of poor planning’ as he’d put it. You were sure he left some things out of this story.

 The sun was slowly rising, first rays lighting up the bedroom. In this light it was visible how tired and worn out you both were. Things Diluc accidentally knocked over while entering throgh the window were still scattered on the floor. You eyelids felt heavy, but you still took some time to tidy up.

“Alright, I think I’m fine”. Diluc suddenly interrupted sleep-inducing silence that was going on for some time and carefully got up on his feet. “You should probably go back to your room and get some rest”.

For some reason, he was now avoiding your gaze. On a brighter side, he really did look better.

“Thank you for your help, y/n. I owe you one from now on.”. 

It seemed like he was being impatient. Was he worried someone would realise you spent the night together? You didn’t feel like you were done here.

“I know I can’t dictate you what to do, but I think you are taking on too much”. You tried not to make it sound rude, but it came out pretty straight-forward. He scared you, now you couldn’t help it but worry when he is gone for too long. Oh, who were you kidding, you’ve already been stressing while he was out playing vigilante. 

“You’re certainly right, y/n” You never noticed his fiery eyes looked so cold. “You can’t tell me what to do”. 

Why is he so dense?!

There was a moment of awkward silence. You gave him a simple nod and turned around to retreat back to your room. Something made you stop right in the doorway. You clenched your fists and sharply turned around.

A sudden determination overflown you, and you marched straight back to face Diluc. Without further hesitation you wrapped your arms around him, locking him in a tight embrace.

“Just promise me you will be more careful”. You demanded quietly but firmly.

Diluc was certainly not the one to openly show affection. These distant types of people rarely engage in touchy-feely things, so it turned out to be quite a surprise when he put his arm around you in return, gently pressing your head against his chest with the other one. You couldn’t see that, but his face turned slightly red.

“I can try”.

[katsukikitten]

JUST IN TIME FOR SAME DAY TWO FICS I PROMISED. @pazumi-au

You waltz back into the living room as Kirishima yells into the head set. Little do you know why he has it on in the first place.

At first it was to get teammates together to win a better game but it quickly turned into the purpose of drowning out your moans.

He yells again, telling his teammate that he can take the flag there until you plop onto his lap. Straddling him as your hands go beneath his loose muscle tee. Hips grinding slightly to entice him as you would Bakugou. You feel him twitch beneath you while heating the all too familiar sound of a console powering down.

Hook, line, and sinker.

You gaze into his ruby gaze as your eyes scream lust, hands fondling muscles that move to readjust your body. You don't know how long he's dreamed of this exact situation.

Of you interrupting a game session or finishing a game session with him just to ride his cock all night.

But he was always too much a gentleman to ask if you were interested. Especially after he saw you smiling at your phone so often.

Funny how he hesitates even now and you present yourself to him. He searches your eyes for something more but all he sees is white hot lust.

You stare deeply into his eyes, noticing the slight differences in their eye colors. Glistening softness vs glowering burning intensity.

"Y...y/n?" He asks with a slight blush, although you're more than sure it's not from embarrassment as you feel him harden beneath you. Another twitch has you kissing him before you can change your mind. Tongue rolling over tongue as you grind a bit more on him.

His hands roll up your sides, peeling off your shirt to reveal a nice pair of tits. He salivates as you shove them in his face, reaching for your phone. You snap a picture of Kirishima's sharp teeth biting gently into your collar bone as he all but worships you.

You send the photo to Bakugou quickly tossing your phone to the side.

Another harder bite on your collar bone has you moaning.

"Bakugoooo." Instantly the man beneath you freezes as hot embarrassment flushes your body.

"Y/N?" Kirishima pushes you back slightly to see your face. Hard on dying from both the hurt in his chest and the the hurt in your face, "Is Bakugou the hero who's 'just a friend'?"

The question has you burst into tears, sobbing as you press your face into the cool skin of his neck. Breathing in his comforting scent of sandalwood cologne and soft natural musk.

His arms fly around you tightly. Gladly falling back into the best friend category especially so since this is the first time he's seen you cry.

And you've lived with him for three and a half years.

You both were broke as hell desperately needing a roommate in order to survive in this part of the city.

You a photographer and painter and he a start up hero.

You both made more than enough to have your own apartment within the first six months but somehow the two of you just kept renewing the lease. More than happy to "save" for a house.

So to hold the strongest woman he knew as she sobbed was an honor.

Even if it meant only being the shoulder to cry on.

"I..I'm so stupid Eiji. So fucking dumb. I..." Another sob as you try to collect yourself, "I really fucking like him and then I go and use you to spite him. I'm sorry Eji I'm sorry I'm such a slut. I'm sorry."

Is all you can say as you clutch onto his shirt as if you had been lost and he was the first to find you.

The first to be salvation.

"Hey..." He soothes pushing his own hurt pride down, "It's okay. Just don't do it again. I know you're sad...."

"I'm sorry...." You say again wiping away the tears as you borderline hyperventilate.

"Here." Kirishima says pulling his shirt from his toned form to shield you from non existant prying eyes, "You wanna catch up on some anime? Eat some iiiicccceeeecreeeaam?"

You nod shyly as he lifts you onto the couch, wrapping you in the faux fur blanket you insisted should be in the living room before he heads to his room for another shirt. He comes back just as quickly to see you staring down at your phone with sniffles, he turns on his heel to pop into your room, careful to avoid anything on the floor or night stand.

He grabs your favorite giant plush and returns.

Little does he know it's one Bakugou won for you. But your face doesn't become crestfallen when he tucks it in your arms.

More tears prick your eyes as his actions remind you of Bakugou's normal after care. The rare time where his wall his down and he speaks so softly.

And just for you. Your heart squeezes in your chest as you think of the moments you fell in love with him.

"I'll be right back. Kay?" Kirishima says before slipping out the door.

Not ten minutes later he finds you in the same spot, although you do have the anime series you two were watching pulled up. Your crying had slowed but not by much as you stare down at what must be a dry phone.

He places the icecream in your hand sitting beside you. He watches you snap a picture of you holding your stuffy and the icecream to send to Bakugou before you lean into him a little like you normally would.

Kirishima is happy to be your shoulder to cry on. Silently he is rooting for you two. Especially now that he knows what must be going on. He's seen the way the two of you look at each other at parties.

More than lust lies in both yours and his scarlet eyes.

Kirishima pulls you closer to place a soft kiss on your hair line before the two of you settle in for a long night of anime.

You wake to the sound of banging on the door. You breathe in deeply as Kirishima startles beneath you. Having fallen asleep in what has to be the most uncomfortable position you've ever seen.

"Sorry. I'll get it." You say softly as you stand, stretching as you assume it's your neighbor two doors down looking for her lost kitten. Again.

"Sorry I haven't seen your kitten." You say opening the door without looking, instantly regretting not only your choice of words but your outfit. Scarlet eyes stare you down as he pushes past you into you into the apartment.

He cannot tell if you are being a brat or not.

He cannot tell if you slept with his best friend or not especially with the two conflicting pictures you sent.

"Oh uhh Hey Bakugou!" Kirishima scratches the back of his head awkwardly. Scarlet eyes notices his outfit. A brick red shirt and jeans.

No one puts jeans back on after they fuck, at least not in their own house. Still Bakugou keeps his hands deep in his black dress pants, still clad in a collared shirt, loosened tie and black vest from his early morning debriefing.

He would have been at apartment 3C earlier if it hadn't been for that stupid fucking meeting.

"You might want to leave." He keeps his voice even yet still his normal gruff as he speaks to Kirishima. The red head nods in agreement before looking to you.

Poor exhausted cried out you. He swallows thickly and whispers to you as he leaves out the door.

"Tell him and text me if you need me." With that Kirishima closes the door to leave you sealed inside with a deadly tiger.

"Care to explain, kitten?" He lets his eyes rove over the semi messy apartment, a pizza box and empty icecream containers litter the coffee table, the stuff animal he won, or more so threatened the game worker at the fair sits on the couch slightly tucked into the blanket.

"Or is it as you said and you are not my kitten anymore?"

Shit. He took your words seriously when they were intended for someone else entirely. If you told him the truth would he believe you.

"I'm still your kitten, sama." You say softly, avoiding eye contact. Still exhausted from the night before.

"Yea?" He asks coming closer, bending down to catch your eyes, hands still in his pockets to keep from popping, "Then prove it."

You rack your brain of all of his favorite lewd things you do for him and think of only one thing that has him admit you're in control. You sink to your knees, hands going to unbuckle his pants when a calloused hand seizes your throat. Choking you as he lifts you back up to your feet. Furry clouds his eyes as he looms over you.

"This is not what *my* kitten would do." He snarls, "*My* kitten would defy me until I pushed her to her knees. My kitten is disobedient. She shows her claws and bears her teeth when she's mad."

"And she's always fucking mad." He snaps letting you go to sit on the couch. He waits for you to follow and when you do not he slaps his knee hard.

You gulp as you wonder if this is the other half of your punishment.

You crawl over his lap for him to growl over your shorts. The ones that drive him mad even when he's pissed. Like now you feel him growing hard especially after he massages your ass to warm it up. He waits for any sort of protest before he comes down with a hard slap. You whince as he waits, eyes falling to your head, when you nod yes to go on he proceeds to spank you over and over again. Massaging and moving to other parts of the ass but relentlessly attacking.

"This is for wearing these around Eijirou." Another slap before a cool rub down, "This is for making me think you fucked him."

As his hand rubs over your ass and down between your thighs he speaks again.

"Are you going to tell me why you were eating icecream and snuggling with King explosion murder?" He asks referring to your fluffy angry looking bear. You're still unable to answer earning another spank, you cry out but he continues.

"You only eat icecream when you're sad." More silence and another hit this time increased intensity with aid of his quirk.

"P..please please sir. I'm..." You swallow a bit of your pride as he brings another blasting palm to your ass, "I'm starting to hurt."

"Ah so you do know how to use your words." He rubs his fingers against your dampening shorts and you buck for better access. He slaps your ass again, "Kitten gets spanked until she tells me what's really got her acting out."

One, two, three more slaps before tears are welling in your eyes. Still he looks to your head for a nod of approval when it doesn't come he decides he will do a final slap before trying a different approach.

This slap sends you over the edge as you think and think and God damn think.

"I like you. Like really like *like* you and I wanted you to be my fucking valentine!" You yell out, tears slipping down cheeks. You're righted quickly, he has you straddling him as he looks up at you.

His eyes are the same as they are during after care. Kind, soft, worried and only ever for you. Your heart pounds faster in your chest as he pushes some hair out of the way.

"Y/N....my kitten why didn't you tell me?" His voice is laced with hurt as he searches your eyes.

"Because I told you no feelings and then I go and fuck it all up!" He squeezes your ribs before his hand wipes away more tears. He gives you a soft smile that slowly turns into a deadly smirk.

"I guess I fucked up too huh?" He kisses you tenderly before putting in all of his burning passion onto your lips. Tongue fighting yours as you start to grind into his hips. He breaks the kiss hands falling to your hips placing the ball in your court.

"You like like me?" You ask, hands crumpling his nice dress shirt.

"No." He says slyly, kissing your forehead, "I love you."

You blink, heart bursting in your chest as you stare down the most emotionally unavailable man you knew. Or at least thought he was emotionally unavailable.

"Have been. For months." He admits, now it is your turn to kiss him, one hand working to free his member while his hands move aside the shorts.

"Are you sure?"

"Always Sama. Please." You say desperately before he aligns himself to plunge into you. You gasp, holding his eyes as this is the first time you've faced him.

All the other times you had asked to be bent over or blind folded.

He slowly thrusts into you before you ride him out, wanting to give him pleasure for once. He squeezes your hips as you're in charge praising your work and movements as you begin to chase your own high.

"Fuuuuck. You're riding me so well." He says coming up to bite on your collar bones, sucking hard enough to leave small bruises. You feel him twitch in your as he gets closer causing the tightness in your stomach to double.

You were going to make him come all your own. You hump harder as your clit rubs against his boxers just right causing your moans to come out shuddering.

"I..I'm close." You gasp out, core grasping onto his hard memeber for all that it's worth.

"Cum for me kitten." He breaths and he thrusts into you, holding your eyes causing you to come wholly undone. Emotionally physically and as cliche as it sounded spiritually as you watched face contort in sinful pleasure as he fucked deeply into you, hand pressing your forehead harshly to his as he filled you to the brim.

The two of you are quiet for a moment, his grip letting up as your tightens on him. You get up off of him but do not leave his lap. He stares up at you with even newer eyes, your body shudders on it's own from his duality you so desperately needed.

"Be my valentine kitten?" He asks softly supporting you even though you are on top. You smile down at him before your inner brat takes over, stealing a feverish kiss before adding.

"I thought a King never asks."

@lady-bakuhoe here is the kirishima part 😊

[daemongal]

So... I may have wrote the hiccup thing... :3c 

Synopsis: Dante has the hiccups and they just won’t go away! He thought he’d tried everything until Vergil gives him a new, much better suggestion. NSFW ahead!

Based on this post! 

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Vergil sighed, watching on in disdain as Dante leaned backwards from his desk, practically inhaling water upside down in an attempt to rid himself of his incessant hiccups. The glass abruptly hit the floor followed by the devil hunter himself, coughing and spluttering, gasping for breath as he groaned.

A few seconds passed as he lay there, eyes darting around the ceiling as if searching, awaiting another convulsion. A smirk spread up his face when nothing happened.

“What’d I tell ya? Knew that would -hic- work.... ahh shit! Curse this frail, part hu – hic – man body of mine!” He flailed his arms in a tantrum of sorts as Vergil pinched the bridge of his nose at the petulant display.  

“What methods have you tried so far?” Dante dropped his arms to his sides before turning to face his brother, chest spasming with another hiccup.

“Well, you tried scaring me which just -hic- ended in me being stabbed, I’ve been stabbed - thought that deserved a –hic- special second mention – I've tried holding my breath so long I practically –hic- passed out and finally I tried drinking from a glass upside down. I’m outta ideas –hic- Verge.” He groaned once more, dramatically wrapping his arms around his waist as if he were suffering.

Vergil huffed and slammed the book in his hand shut, locking eyes with his brothers pained ones.

“So you have yet to try an orgasm?” Silence filled the room for a few seconds, broken only by the sound of hiccupping as Dante studied his brothers face.

“Did you just say –hic- orgasm?” There wasn't a hint of humour detectable in Vergil’s eyes, he was only met with a deadpan serious look.

“Yes, you did not mishear me brother; It was something I read recently in a magazine, recommended by scientists as a way to clear yourself of the wretched ailment. I won’t go into the intricacies since they would be wasted on you.” Dante raised his hand to his chin, a thoughtful expression gracing his features as he lifted himself off the floor in a graceful hop to his feet.

“I do suggest you take action quickly though,” Vergil continued “lest I attempt to pierce a few more holes in you. Eventually one will hit the right spot.” He reached towards his blade as Dante grimaced, raising his arms in surrender.

“Ok, ok. I’ll err –hic- see what I can do about it. Just hold off on any more stabbing alright?” Dante headed upstairs, hand rubbing the back of his neck as he sighed. “Guess this one’s -hic- on me.”  

He pushed the bathroom door open slightly before being hit with moisture and the tantalizing smell of your shampoo. A smirk spread up Dante’s face as he changed direction to your shared bedroom.

“Unless...” When he went downstairs you were still sound asleep, and he had no intention of waking you, not considering how tired you had been the night before. Now that you were awake however, it was fair game.

He placed the back of his hand over his mouth in an attempt to muffle the sounds as he waltzed into the bedroom, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning against the doorframe. He smiled as he watched you towel dry your hair, his shirt from yesterday concealing your body to your thighs as you hummed a familiar tune, likely one from his jukebox.

“Hey ba-hic-be, shit.” You turned to glance at Dante, a bemused look on your face. You waited a few more seconds to confirm your suspicions as you heard another hiccup escape his chest, followed quickly by a curse. You started to giggle.

“Hiccups? Really? Not a sound I ever imagined you making oh mighty son of Sparda.” Your laughter grew with each spasm of Dante’s chest, as did his annoyance.

“Oh haha, I’m glad you’re enjoying my suffering. I’ve tried every-hic-thing and the damn things won’t stop. Well, not quite everything.” You crossed your legs and arms as you turned to face him.

“Is it safe for me to assume that’s why you’re here? Sorry to say that I don’t think I’ll be very good at scaring you, and I don’t have the strength to properly choke you to make you hold your breath. What else could I possibly do? Surely Vergil would be better suited to help you?” A knowing smirk spread up Dantes cheeks.

“Funny you should -hic- mention Vergil because he was actually the one that suggested another solution to me. Hear me –hic- out; apparently you can get rid of hiccups with... an orgasm.” You held his unwavering eye contact before bursting out into laughter.

“That’s your game? You’re using hiccups in an attempt to get some head?” Dante remaining unflinching aside from the occasional hiccup. “Seriously, you aren’t joking? He actually suggested that?” Dante nodded vigorously before closing the door behind him and making his way over to the bed next to you.

“When has he ever –hic- told a lie, and I’ll be damned if I know what he’d gain out of telling me something like that if –hic- it wasn’t true.” His hand brushed against your leg as he observed the cogs turning in your mind; he almost had you.

“Come on babe; aren’t you curious to see if it actually –hic- works?” His hand worked its way up your thigh before brushing up your side under his shirt. A mischievous grin spread up your face as you grabbed his wrist.  

Jackpot.

“Fine. But,” you removed his hand from under your shirt, placing it on the bed before cupping his face in your palm, “I’ve literally just got out of the shower, so head’ll have to do. If that doesn’t work, well...” you started unbuckling his trousers, much to Dante’s delight, “... I’ll just have to leave you to Vergil. I’m sure he’ll know the best places to put some holes in you to make them go away; like some kind of super fucked up acupuncture.”

Dante inwardly grimaced at the thought, a sigh leaving his lips as you pulled down his zipper and freed his half-hard cock from his trousers, giving it a slight squeeze. He watched you move towards the floor, quickly grabbing your face between his hands and pulling you towards his, kissing you deeply, entwining his tongue with yours in your mouth, cock twitching to attention in your grip.

He tucked your still damp hair behind your ear before pulling away with a hiccup. “You’re the best you know, babe?” You smirked before planting a quick peck on his nose and kneeling down on the floor between his legs.

“Oh I know; but I’ll gladly take a reminder every now and again.” He chuckled at your confidence, watching with eager eyes as you stroked him to full hardness with your hand before running your tongue up his length with half lidded eyes.  

He groaned as you took the tip into your mouth, teasing with your tongue and sucking gently, continuing to stroke his length with your hand. His hand reached towards your hair as you pushed against his chest, forcing him backwards into the mattress.  

You sunk further down on him, taking in as much of him as you could before settling on a rhythm, bobbing up and down, teasing with your tongue and sucking with fervor. Dante rested his feet flat against the floor before daring to raise his hips to meet with your movements, moaning as you took him further down your throat.

You removed your hand from him, instead opting to grip onto his thighs, digging your nails in as he thrusted himself into your throat. He muttered your name over and over, forgetting about everything in that moment, focusing only on the wetness of your mouth as he raced towards his peak.  

“Shit babe, I’m gonna come any second. Fuck.” His mouth dropped open as you scraped your nails down his chest, his hips raising in a final harsh thrust before he burst into your mouth, shooting his seed down your throat. His breaths came out heavy and shaky as his body shook in the aftermath of his orgasm.

He hissed between his teeth as you pulled yourself from him, swallowing every last drop before climbing up over his body, wiping your mouth with the back of your hand.

“So..?” You asked, meeting his half-lidded gaze questioningly.

“Hmmm?” Dante responded, still in a slight daze.

“Your hiccups Dante; are they gone?” Dante lay for a moment, his eyes tracing the ceiling waiting for any indication they were still there. He wasn’t going to lie; he had completely forgotten about the blasted things, completely unaware of when they had supposedly stopped. His face lit up slightly at the realization.

“Shit, I guess it worked! Guess I owe Vergil one, and you of course.” His hand raised to run his thumb over your cheek affectionately.  

“Guess I’ll add the ability of ‘hiccup banishing blowjobs’ to my list of skills eh?” Dante quickly wrapped his arms around your waist and pulled you down flush against him, a gasp leaving your lips at the sudden action, before he pressed a number of soft kisses to the top of your head.

He quickly decided that maybe hiccups weren’t all that bad.

[acrosstimeandspace]

9,13 and 14 your taruchi!

hey kai, thank you for the ask! i hope you’re having a fantastic day/night, and please remember to take care!

9. Name your biggest fear. Now name your F/O’s. Are they similar in any way? Do they come from similar origins or events in your lives? How do you help each other manage your fears?

i feel like from how he hides his love of video games, itaru’s biggest fear is his coworkers finding out that he’s a big gamer. i think it probably stems from friends/family treating his interests as childish and something to be ashamed of.

as for my biggest fear, it’s disappointing others and being seen as a failure/failing someone. in high school i carried a lot pressure to get perfect grades, have a perfect gpa, especially from my mom, so i worry a lot about disappointing others and in turn them hating me for making a mistake. it’s sadly made me quite the perfectionist.

i think we help each other manage our fears by talking about them, and assuring each other. i think taruchi finds it pretty reassuring that another adult with a full time job also enjoys playing video games, it makes him feel more secure in his hobby and it’s fun to share it as well! and he helps me by assuring me it’s okay to make mistakes, and helping me calm down when i panic over things.

13. What’s you and your F/O’s morning routine? What about bedtime routine?

our morning routine is pretty simple! i’m usually the first to wake up since i’m a very early riser, counting that taruchi hasn’t pulled an all-nighter. but those are fewer than in the past. usually i’ll wake him up, we’ll get ready in the bathroom together, and i’ll make both of us breakfast. before we head out the door to our respective jobs, we always exchange a kiss, and on some mornings i even wake him up with kisses! though that could lead to us staying in bed longer on the weekends and days taruchi doesn’t having practice.

our bedtime routine is pretty simple as well, brushing our teeth and washing our faces before bed, and i take night time showers because i prefer them. on weekends i’ll usually stay up with taruchi and play some games with him, but on week nights i’ll cuddle up to him and fall asleep as he plays.

of course, how things go changes depending on wether or not we’re at the mankai dorms or we’re at my house, but it’s still pretty similar nonetheless!

14. Have you and your F/O ever pranked each other? If so, was your funniest prank? Did a prank war happen?

we have a little, just small and cute pranks really! i think the funniest one by far is the one where itaru changes the troupe’s contact names/photos to his, and got the majority of them to say they were him when i tried to figure out who’s numbers where who’s. especially because those who joined in were to terribly not him that it became obvious to tell who it was.

and we haven’t had a prank war, yet >:3c

[manuelmueller]

pls... do ALL OF IT FOR NUELE

oof fam ooof (jk i LOVE THEM) (i crossed out a few that i had no idea how to answer or wasn’t bothered but OTHER THAN THAT) (yes all those 300 word questions kinda became a short fic you can read on ao3 here)

–––––– I tried to put this under a cut but it kept fucking up so HERE I GUESS

1. What are things they both find funny?

Little things. Weird tweets from their teammates. Leon stumbling over his shoelaces. The way Sven gets exasperated with them so quickly. A leaf blowing straight into someone’s face. Everything can make them giggle, pretty much, cause they make each other gleeful, giggly, bubbling AHHHHHH

2. If they could each describe each other in one sentence, what would it be? “Nikki is … he’s my person.” – “Alex made me realize that love can be wonderful, and kind, and fulfilling, and everything, and I love him.”

3. If they complimented each other, what would they say? Alex would talk about Nikki’s wide smile, his enthusiasm and his unbroken optimism despite going through some shit, his kinda heart and his sunshine personality. Nikki would mention Alex’ resilience, the way how he rises above the shit people talk about him and how he came out being a great person still. Also, the way his chuckles sound in the morning and the way his hair looks like spun copper in sunlight and the freckles on his cheeks and shoulders.

4. What would be their ship name? NÜLE we did a great job pairing up two of the very few dudes who have an ü in their last name huh

5. What activities do they enjoy together? Football (duh), watching dumb TV shows they can laugh at together. Cuddling on the couch. Cooking. Accompanying the other on his respective hobby and whining about how silly it is (Alex goes fishing, Nikki plays golf) but yet loving every second they get to spend with their s/o doing what they love. Also actually another couple they’re friends with kinda drags them hiking sometimes and they actually kinda like it, too.

6. What is/are their love language(s)? Actually probably it’s Quality Time for them both tbh (you could change my mind, tho)

7. Write a ~300 word love scene for them.

READ HERE

8. What were their first impressions of each other? ‘Yeah he’s a talented goalie, I wouldn’t mind to play in his defense .... oh shit is he smiling? He’s smiling. Oh fuck he’s so cute, I’m so gay, help. heLP’ – ‘Süle? Oh yeah, I’ve heard a lot about him. I mean, how could I have not? It’s in my job description to know about the best defenders. Can’t believe it took us so long to meet in person, tho. Nikki it is, okay. Wow, I’m .... is that a spark that I’m feeling? Sure, great idea, develop a crush on your first day on a new team, well done. Is it a crush? (a month later) yep, definitely a crush’

9. Have they made each other cry? with HAPPINESS, yeah

10. Write a ~300 word argument scene for them.

READ HERE

11. What causes them to fight? Genuinely can’t picture them fighting, but probably more like jokingly arguing about chores like who should take out the trash. Also football can cause a strain too, I mean, sometimes they lose games and either of them or both are partially to blame and while they’d never blame each other even if it’s true, the unspoken dissatisfaction hovering in the air between them can cause things to be quite awkward for a few hours and one night.

12. Do they have differing political opinions?

13. Name something they would never do for the other person. Lose any kind of game – as athletes they’re quite competitive, even when it comes to board games and the like. Tho they’re not above conceding when it’s obvious they loose.

14. What would be a dealbreaker? Sharing the other’s secrets to someone the other doesn’t trust enough, and also not liking pets (luckily they do)

15. What are traits they dislike in one another? Nikki gets a bit reckless sometimes. Drinking too much, doing vaguely dangerous things cause he’s excited and hyped with his friends (why the heck would you climb on that shed when it’s too high to jump down and you don’t have a ladder?? you already have bad knees, Nikki!) and Alex Worries, ok? Alex on the other hand can get quite broody and taciturn when he’s not okay, not sharing what bothers him even when Nikki asks. Nikki just wants to help, but being stubborn is a goalkeeper thing

16. If they broke up, what would be their opinions of each other?

17. What senses (sights, smells, feelings, etc). remind them of each other? Nikki thinks of Alex on windy but bright spring days, and whenever he smells his shower gel. Alex’ rumbling laugh causes the butterflies on his stomach to flutter their wings, and his bare hands when he just pulls his glove on seem to be made to be settled on Nikki’s arms, his shoulder, his waist. Nikki to Alex is a freshly cut pitch, petrichor raising from the streets in summer, warm coca cola from a bottle left outside and forgotten. He’s a sunrise, a smile flashed over the shoulder, a laugh shared with Leon, Jo, Serge, Thomas …

18. What would be their love motto?

19. If they could each write a single line in their marriage vows, what would they be? “Alex, you taught me everything I know about love. You taught to forgive, to move on and I found a forever home in you.” – “I feel the sun rise every time I hear your laugh, bean, I feel born anew every time I reach for your hand and you take it. I would still be adrift without it.”

20. What is a promise they have made to each other? That they will never let get football between them. No jealousy if one is called up for the NT and one isn’t. If they ever played for rival clubs, they wouldn’t let it get between them. If something happens during a game, it in the end won’t be a factor in their private life. It’s hard sometimes, cause they’re only human, but a vow to try and to resolve things is the best they can do, and they always do

21. How have they changed each other for the better/for the worse? They’re each other’s first boyfriend – Nikki especially has been disappointed/rejected when confessing his feelings before, so he’s really a bit reluctant when opening up to Alex, and Alex does everything he can to make him open up more again on that level and succeeds at it too. Nikki is just a constant sunshine in Alex’ life, who after announcing his transfer didn’t have the easiest time, so it’s really great to have someone who makes him remember the light-heartedness life can have when you spend it with the right people. And well, they both grow quite chatty around each other, and have been shushed by quite a few people who just want to sleep on the bus ride … (from here)

22. If their lives were what was originally intended at birth, would they have still fallen in love? Who can even tell? Who knows if they were both supposed to end up at Bayern. Who knows if they wouldn’t have had someone else from the beginning. When they were born, neither of their families probably expected to have a son-in-law instead of a daughter in law. But they’re happy with the life they got. Happy they got each other. Cause they won’t have it any other way anymore

23. Write a ~300 scene between them with no dialogue, only body language.

READ HERE

24. What is something they have each had to forgive the other for? Again, football, when either of them fucks up during a get. pride is a difficult thing to best, sometimes, but they’re learning

25. What moves do they know work on the other? Alex knows exactly how to let his voice dip, knows how to touch Nikki’s waist to make him know, knows what to say and when only uses his voice with deliberation. Nikki is a bit more thoughtless in his approach, often just communicating his appeal unbeknownst to him, because Alex loves him most in those moments when he’s just free, simply himself, laughing and smiling and so beautiful. He doesn’t need to do anything, really, tho if he does, a look is enough.

26. What are their favorite parts about physical affection/sex? Literally just being close and warm and at home and ofc the thrill of sharing that all not with a stranger you barely know but with someone who knows you inside and out :3 (pun fully intended, in this case)

27. Do they have any kinks/fetishes that they share? Nikki is really into Alex’ voice. Like really into it. That deep yet soft voice always makes his spine tingle and his stomach hop and other …. areas interested, as well :3c He also likes Alex’ back especially when it arches so delicately Alex really like Nikki’s tattoos, he’s absolutely fascinated by them and sometimes maybe even wishes Nikki had a few more – tho that’s not a kink really, is it. But they just complete the perfect package that is his boyfriend :’3 But no, in general they keep it pretty vanilla for now, just getting comfortable with each other, learning each other, studying with eyes, hands, lips

28. Write a ~300 fantasy one of them has about the other.

READ HERE

29. What are each of their signature foreplay moves? Alex whispers hushed words into Nikki’s neck, kisses his jawline, lets his hands ran up and down Nikki’s side, skilled, gentle yet insistent and talking of what’s yet to come, teasing and nipping before finally reaching down, creating the contact that Nikki wanted for so long. Nikki lets his hands simply rest on Alex’ hips, his shoulders, his heck, warm and familiar and hot and hotter with every second as he steals kiss after kiss before sliding down, sitting before him, leaning in …

30. Write a short exchange of dirty talk between them. “Alex?” “Bean?” “You look so good. Do you have any idea how good you look?” laughs “Bean, you’re drunk” frowns “Ok, maybe a little. But I love you, you know? I wanna lick you all over.” blushes a bit “Nikki, everyone’s looking.” “Nah, they’re all busy drinking. Dancing. Probably fucking in the storage closet, in some cases” he giggles. they both know who he’s talking about. he puts his chin on Alex’ shoulder “Wanna get out of here?” “Now?” “Hmm.” he kisses his neck, licks gently behind his ear “no one will care. please. let me.” “Yeah? Well, bean, then who am I to deny you” THIS SUCKS!!!

31. What do they love to do after sex? They often just lay there face to face, noses almost touching, eyes almost falling close as they exchange light, playful pecks, hands entwined, legs a tangled mess. It’s all really cute and mushy but they wouldn’t have it any other way – also! laughing!! There’s a lot of cheerful, content giggling especially in the afterglow as they are still entangled in the sleepiness and the amazing feeling of just being together. (from here)

32. Do they enjoy morning or night sex? They both quickly wake up in the morning, ready to face the day, but yet … there’s nothing better than half-sleepy morning sex, smiling and tasting the fresh air and each other’s morning breath because of the familiarity, the comfort of gazing upon each other drenched in the first sunlight, not hidden away by shadows. This is real. This is them.

[space-whalesharks]

johnnic + 94 >:3c

“I had a bad dream again” combined with @foofygoldfish‘s “just stay” prompt. 

And Then You

Five times John saves the Deputy from her nightmares and one time she saves him. 

 (aka that Johnnic bunker ficlet I promised y’all last week, whoops)

Joseph was right.

He was right, the Collapse came, the world just about ended, and she… was stuck in a bunker with John Fucking Seed.

It had started at his Ranch. Deputy Nicolette Raylan, ever the negotiator had called him back to it weeks after his capture with an arrangement- she’d give the house back for certain ‘people waiting for their Cleansing and Atonements.’

John had been the one to insist that it be at his Ranch so he could have insurance she wouldn’t play games with the house’s condition.

She hadn’t liked it, but she’d agreed.

John, ever the asshole, had been charming about things at first arrival. It wasn’t even his house anymore and yet he had held the dining room chair out for her when they had prepared to sit down at the table in the great room to talk things over.

If it was any other man or woman doing it for her, she might have appreciated it.

John had been suspiciously open about the negotiation, citing where certain people were if she had named them once things had gotten underway.

The fact that things were actually cordial and dare she say pleasant was an Apocalypse joke waiting to happen.

So of course when there was a distant bang. The pair of them had glanced up towards the sound and then glared at each other before springing upright- until they realized having the same reaction meant that the other had no idea what it was either. They had both crossed to the outside doors and looked out towards the source of the noise-

Only to see a mushroom cloud on the horizon, and then the shockwave hit them mere seconds later.

It was then that the shock set in for Nicolette. Between the roaring of everything going on, the trees getting rustled around, John shouting into his radio after a few seconds of his own stunned silence, she couldn’t get over the fact that Joseph was right. It was a bomb, a close nuclear bomb- and then there was another bang, and seconds later, another cloud showed up on the horizon. And even after everything, she had frozen up and was just about useless to the world.

She didn’t remember much in the minutes after that. She remembered John shouting and yelling and then feeling weightless as someone pulled her along somewhere.

And then she came to her senses in a bunker that looked like it was in far better shape than any of the ones she had been in in the last while.

John was in front of her at eye level, snapping his fingers in front of her face and calling her name.

She had no idea how the Hell he knew her name, or why he hadn’t used it before. Still, it took him cupping her face in his hands and repeating her name over and over for her world to stop spinning and for her to hear him clearly.

And then the rest of the situation slowly bled into her mind. Someone had just nuked the area. Joseph was right. John had brought her to a bunker and by the looks of it, they were the only ones around. Joseph was right. Joseph. Was. Right. She had broken into hysterics then and started sobbing.

And John had looked relieved that he had gotten a response, and then he had backed up carefully and let her be.

If she was honest, she had let herself consider the very possibility that had just become a reality… except of course they weren’t alone. She had expected if the world did end, if she had ended up in his bunker, he would’ve been as animated as he had been for her Confession. He would’ve been all grand wide hand gestures and smiles and talking about plans that made Bond villains look like amateurs. He wasn’t supposed to give her a wide berth and time and go off on his own.

But he did.

It had gone on like that for weeks- or months. Nicolette had lost track after a while, as horrible as that seemed once she realized she had. She silently hoped John had known the date and was keeping track after a while.

He had come to her at some point and announced he had heard her ‘boyfriend Boshaw had survived  with his neanderthal cousin and aunt.’ He had left her alone to be relieved on her own. It wasn’t until the next day that she found out that the Hurk’s Gate bunker was the only one he had been able to contact.There hadn’t been word from his family at all. He had told her so himself and then stormed off.

Still, he hadn’t taken his anger out on her, so she had taken it as a victory.

Of course, because her life was just like that, the first piece of good news she had gotten in months was accompanied by nightmares that started that very night.

The first was a bastardization of a memory.

She was in the Trials again, though the nameless strangers were no more. She was killing friends. She had snapped Sharky’s neck. She was back in those damned Trials, but instead of forgettable faces, instead of stranger, she was killing friends. She had snapped Sharky’s neck, taken a knife to Nick’s gut- Addie, Jess and Mary May had all been reduced to bullet ridden messes, bleeding into the fountain and tainting the water red.

There had been an arm curling around her arm and Jacob’s voice praising how perfect she had done- and she had woken up to a weight on her shoulders and John hovering above her, yelling at her.

She had bolted as far from him as possible, eyes blown wide with fear and confusion, her bleary eyes suddenly picking up on the family resemblance between the men.

John had the brilliant response by telling her she was safe with a completely even voice.

Terror had turned to fury at that. She had shoved him away, screaming all sorts of obscenities and accusations, murderer and fucking hypocrite being the harmless of the bunch.

He had scoffed it away and left.

Days, the second nightmare came, almost worse than the first.

She had been fifteen again, pinned to the living room carpet under her father’s weight as he tried to strangle the life out her. She had tried to buck him off and she had looked up to see her mother, bloodied on the floor a few feet away. No, no, no, something was wrong. She could hear himself pleading for her life, and there was a sickening crack and-

She woke up screaming and thrashing about and her heart just about stopped when she had thrown out a right hook out of instinct and made contact with something. Coming back from that particular memory and what that right hook could’ve caught was enough to have her springing off of the bed and into the safety of the corner of her room. She ended up tripping over her own feet in the process and collapsed in a heap in said corner.

And just like last time, the silhouette turned distinctly John shaped instead of shaped like her father. And even after the last time, it had been a relief. She wasn’t sure how to feel about that.

“You’re okay. He’s gone. He’s not here, not anymore. He can’t get to you.”  

Tell that to her hyperventilating. Tell that to the fucking shadow of her father still looming in the other corner of the room.

And then the bastard took her hands in his and leaned towards her- not enough to invade her space but enough to have her attention all on him. “Focus, Nicolette. Relax. You’re not there, you’re here. Breathe. Can you do that for me? In and out. In and out. In, out. In…”

“Out,” Nicolette croaked. She hated that it worked. She hated that that damned voice of his just commanded obedience. She hated that he had just helped her work through that. She hated that she was grateful.

John waited a few seconds and let the silence pass. Once nothing else had happened, he went to rise to his feet.

Her hand shot out to stop him. “How did you know?”

“I found you in the hallway. Brought you back here. Didn’t so much as budge, so I took you back here. You started talking in your sleep. Calling for your mother. Lots of ‘no’s and ‘Dad’s after that. Not hard to fill in the blanks.”

“You got that from that?”

“Because I know those pleas too well. I’ve been the one pleading,” John admitted quietly. “We have things that go bump in the night in common.” He looked down. “You’re lucky you only had one out of two monsters and not four for four.”

There had been silence after that, and he had left the room nearly as quickly as he had entered it.

The third nightmare came two weeks after that one. It was a kindness that it was purely her imagination and speculation that time. She could see what was going on topside. Fires burned the world above them to ash.

She woke up alone, but it wasn’t a relief like she would’ve expected, considering the last two times. She felt alone. So she had sought John out, knocking on his door.

She had crossed her arms over her chest when he blinked tiredly at her. “I had another bad dream…” she explained quietly. She immediately felt like some sort of idiot.

It didn’t stop him from moving aside to let her into the room.

They sat next to each other on the floor again. She asked him what he expected was going on up above.

He had been less than helpful, dodging the question and talking about what was to come when they got to Eden. He’d be with his family again- ‘with or without you at my side.’ That had been… different. But it was true, he hadn’t tried to get her to carry on with Atonement. He hadn’t had her confess anything.

And then, stranger yet:, he uttered, “I just wanted to save as many as I could…” nearly too quietly to be heard.

It took her a moment to realize he was just prioritizing things topside. He needed her to know his side of the story pre-bombs.  It hit her that he saw it as a failure. “Your methods sucked,” she replied carefully.

He had laughed at that. “I suppose they did.”

“I wanted to save them too. I wanted to help people. I thought I was doing the right thing,” she replied.

“I know, Deputy. I know.”

She believed him.

He gave her hand a reassuring squeeze for good measure.

She hated that she didn’t hate it.

The fourth nightmare was just an extension of the third. The world burned, but she felt it. The hellfire burned her skin to the bone and she choked on the ash. And then there were flashes of her friends who had yet to be accounted for meeting the same fate as the world, nothing but charred skeletons in their wake.

She didn’t know why it was that one that had gotten her to wake up and start sobbing. She supposed it was just everything finally getting to her, but the logic didn’t temper the breakdown.

John had chosen to check in for that one, too. He had come in, taken a glance into her room, saw the state she was in and had gone to leave.

“Wait. Just… stay,” she requested quietly. “I just… I don’t… I don’t want to be alone right now.”

“That sounds a lot like swallowing your Pride, Deputy. I might make a worthwhile project out of you yet.”

“Shut up,” she replied, though it sounded far more amused than it should’ve.

Still, John went to sit next to her. Their arms brushed once she was settled and her heart clenched at the mere idea of just having him for physical contact. Qualms aside it had managed to ease her mind a bit, and she had nodded off to his even breathing.

He hardly deserved her time, her patience, but it had done the trick and gotten her to have a solid night’s sleep, so it was enough. She could hate herself and blame the lack of companionship to choose from in the morning.

She woke up back in her own bed with the blankets draped over her, and even i it gave her heart another lurch, she wondered if Addie had been just as right as Joseph with a couple of her comments about them. She wondered just what the woman would have to say about the sight to behold.

It was months later before the next one came. She was in the bunker, but not their bunker. It took her a minute to realize it was Dutch’s- and then seeing the man’s seemingly dead body on the floor confirmed it.

There were footsteps, too heavy, too steady to be John’s. That was enough to start to make her realize she was dreaming. And then Joseph drifted into her line of vision, talking at her about the End of Days and entering Eden, and suddenly all the thoughts she had that he was the most harmless of the bunch went out the window.  She woke up from it and faded right back into a repeat, but this time it was Jacob in Joseph’s stead. She didn’t know which was worse.

She had all but shot out of bed, heading for John’s room before she even really knew what she was doing.

She knew knowing full well her imagination had been particularly unkind to her the last year, and that she knew what she would find when she went to the other room. It didn’t stop her from heading to John’s room and poking her head in to make sure it was going to be him and not his brother. The one she had some weird connection with pre-Collapse and post. The one who had done his share of crimes but hadn’t tried to play mind games like the others. The lesser of all evils.

She had stared at him for a while once she got there, still half convinced her brain was going to play tricks and he was going to morph back into one of the others. Hell, Faith had yet to show up. That was a goddamn miracle, so she wouldn’t put it past the Universe to pull that shit where it was her and Bliss the whole time.

But no, John stayed John.  And so she had eased onto the bed next to him.

He woke with a start and leaned back, probably expecting a fight.

She had merely muttered ‘s’ me’ and ‘bad dream again’ before trying to get comfortable and willing herself to sleep.

It became a habit after that. Just having someone there had kept her own demons and speculation away. And John, to her surprise, had behaved himself. The only risque comment he had partaken in was a light jab about Lust when she had curled into his side one night. She had pinched his rib and went out of her way to dig her nails in, he had hissed and shut up, and that had been that.

Not long after, one night she woke to frantic murmuring behind her. She turned to see John, eyebrow twitching away and writhing every so often, and it takes her a moment to make out the word ‘Duncan’ and it hits her. They’d come full circle. And this one- this one was dangerous. Far more dangerous than her experience. She needed to be careful. “John…” she murmured and reached out to touch his arm- not enough to wake him, but give his brain something to anchor onto in the real world.

It didn’t work and she settled for shaking his shoulder, leaning back as far as possible to escape collateral damage if it came. “John!”

He stilled immediately and cracked one eye open. His eyes followed the line of her hand on his shoulder, up her arm, to her face, and then the rest of the room. He exhaled sharply, then went out of his way to take a few deep breaths. “Thank you.”

“You did the same for me,” she pointed out.

“Never would’ve thought you’d return the favor.”

“Fucked up understands fucked up, no matter the level.”

“And to think, Joseph considered you Pride.”

“Joseph’s a fucking idiot.”

He scoffed. “You won’t hear any arguments from me there, either.”

It was her turn to laugh. She turned back over after a while.

She woke to him practically wrapped around her.

She doesn’t exactly hate that, either.

[lookslikechill]

WIP Song Summary Game

Tagged by: @requiemesque​ and @katerinarevel (thank you so much, I love writeblr tag games that incorporate music!!)

Rules:  what are three (3) songs that really embody your wip? how do they relate to it?

3 songs that embody Daydream Walking below the cutoff!  Warning, I got super rambly, especially for the first song.

Tagging: I’m not sure who hasn’t already done this, soo if you wanna do it, just say I tagged you!!

**Even BIGGER Warning!!!!  I dug much deeper into the many many heavy/hard to stomach themes that are very much present in/going to be present in this work!  For the first song I mostly just talk about masculinity, but for the second two content warnings for: abuse, murder, death, drug abuse/addiction, mentions of cocaine and alcohol, mentions of accidental overdose and vehicular deaths, police neglect/incompetency, mentions of weapons (guns, knives, etc.), and one single rape mention.**

Man to Man by Dorian Electra

So you want to play rough in the parking lot See you acting tough, but I know you're not We can take it outside, scuff up in the streetlights I just really wanna fight with you

Man to man, hand to hand One on one, friend to friend Are you man enough to soften up? Are you tough enough to open up? Man to man You gotta let me in 

This song perfectly represents the elements of masculinity vs. toxic masculinity, and internalized homophobia in DW.

Admittedly, when I first started writing Daydream Walking, I felt rather guilty for a period of time about how male-centric it is, with three main men and a whole lot of male side characters.  However, I realized there’s no reason for me to feel bad about it. It’s there for a reason. I’m a man, a trans man, and I often recognize and am bothered by the presence of toxic masculinity around me, the way a rigid standard of masculinity hurts both men and women.  And I certainly hope to address it in DW.

Clay is what would be considered effeminate today, he certainly comes off as gay.  In the futureverse of Astervale 4146, he does not stand out, it is okay for him to express himself the way he does- dramatic and charismatic, grinning and talking, dancing and joking.  When he’s plunged into the past, into the grim reality of 1947 Port Cassandra, California, he sticks out like a sore thumb, even when disguised and toned down.

Alistair actively conforms to the standards of masculinity of his time, both because that was what he was taught to do and also out of a sense of paranoia, a fear of what will happen if he’s caught, a fear of being viewed as weak, as less than a man.  Though some of this protects him, it also leads to his mental health issues(PTSD) being unresolved, which harms him. His stoic refusal to share his feelings and express emotion also harms his relationships, and though he may not recognize it, is part of what leads to his wife wanting to divorce him in the first place.  Not only is he different when he returns, supposedly alive and well, from war, but he won’t say a word about it to her.

Despite how progressive the future may initially seem, harmful ideals about men and women and their roles still exist, especially among Astervale’s rich and powerful, and this has an impact on Quince; on his belief in himself, his willingness to look more closely at his own situation, to speak out, to say no.  It certainly doesn’t help that it’s the men in Felicity’s life that Quince is most often coming in contact with, whose opinions of him he knows. The existence of Quince and Felicity’s relationship in this wip, this novel-beast of mine, is partially to prove a point, to bring the issue of abuse against men, but especially at the hands of women, to the forefront of the mind.  I can’t believe how many men I’ve spoken to who believe they can’t be abused- if a women tries to rape him, he’ll just hit here, right? Because all men are inherently stronger than women, right? Because any man would be willing to, and capable of, physically fighting off an attacker, right? It just comes with so many more harmful ideas, I simply cannot unpack them all right here.

In short- Men should be allowed to express, or not express, masculinity in many different ways, as long as they are healthy and do not harm women or other men.  Men should also be allowed to express emotions, and not only that, be but taught how to express them and deal with them in a way that doesn’t harm others. This is definitely a broad theme in DW.

Freaks by The Hawk in Paris

We have a flair for the shade and the inbetween We like to run with the wolves from the darker scene When we turn the safety off, the shots are automatic All our friends tell their friends we're so dramatic

We'll have you wrapped around our trigger finger Queen bee yellow, you're the skin for our stinger We'll make you swoon, make it hurt just a little We're the boys and the girls and the freaks in the middle

We know the halls you walk are unforgiving It's not the kind of place to find your place among the living We have a plan, we've got the means for your liberation You'll only have to blur the lines on a few occasions 

This song hits the themes of corruption and manipulation right on the head.  I also just love the sound of it- shady and smooth, lyrics flowin’.  In both the future and the past in Daydream Walking, there is corruption.  

In the past, it is more deeply rooted, at least in Port Cassandra.  The Captain is listless, dispassionate, and careless, past his prime and clinging to glory days gone by.  He largely ignores problems growing right underneath his nose.  Half the police forces is using, and addicted to, cocaine, as well as drinking heavily.  There are many more ways in which the police force in Port Cassandra is SUPER flawed, from each individual officer/detective to their aged/out of date vehicles, but it all tracks back up to the man in charge.  Not only does he not take care of brewing issues, he actively makes choices that get in the way of the productivity of the force.

In the future, well, I choose not to reveal how corruption has a role there, quite yet. >:3c

As far as manipulation goes, Quince is most certainly being manipulated/gaslit by Felicity, and manipulation also plays into corruption in Astervale’s government.

To end this section, the lyrics “the boys, and the girls, and the freaks in the middle” are fitting because of the many different characters appearing in DW, including quite a few nonbinary characters! (Note: Not that I think of nonbinary OR trans people as freaks, just seems to reflect some general societal outlook, especially historically unfortunately hhhhh)

Florida Kilos by Lana Del Rey

We could get high in Miami, ooh-ooh Dance the night away People never die in Miami, ooh-ooh That's what they all say (You believe me, don't you baby?)

Come on down to Florida, I got somethin' for ya We could see the kilos or the Keys, baby, oh, ya Guns in the summertime, chic-a-Cherry Cola lime 

And this one nails the drugs. Port Cassandra is up to its nose in cocaine, and not only it is inside the police, but many of them are also heavy drinkers.  The majority of people also smoke.  Quince is an alcoholic self-medicating subconsciously to deal with the abuse he’s been experiencing at the hands of his wife, and Clay is temporarily out of commission when he comes into contact with a new street drug.  Themes of addiction, recovery, and, yes, accidental death all show up in this thing.

The murder and death.  We start off dipping our toes into the waters of the investigation into the murder of the Morgans in Astervale, and many follow after that.  In Port Cassandra, many murders and “accidental deaths”(read: cocaine overdoses/drug associated car crashes) crop up, keeping the small police department stretched thin.  

And the presence of weapons, including guns, wands(which are treated as weapons/only issued to certain Government officials, mostly Enforcers(wizard cops)), knives, and even, cars. Clay’s means of travel into the past is an enchanted knife that cuts through the fabrics of time.  Alistair is almost constantly armed, or has a weapon nearby.  Clay, Daphne, and the rest of the Enforcers all possess wands, which allow them to do things with magic that cannot be done without a wand (for example: bodily manipulate somebody without their permission).

Additionally, the dreamy, slow sound of it feels really fitting, especially to the portion of the novel-beast set in Port Cassandra.  

(End note: Quince DOES get a happy ending, goddamnit!!  I feel like that is very important.)

If anybody has any further questions, please please please send them in!! I would love to answer them, and thinking about these things helps motivate me and figure out the rest of the story and what I should do next!

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Crime and Punishment

Title: Crime and Punishment - Kidge Week Day 7 Prompt Fill Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Pairing: Kidge Summary: Adwru glanced down at her, eyes slowly narrowing. “If I had more information to offer you, I guarantee that I would. I’m sorry if you feel you are being lied to; that is more a problem that you will need to deal with yourself. I simply decided to extend my kindness in telling you myself and returning this,” He said softly, moving to offer Pidge an object wrapped in cloth. She took it cautiously and felt her heart wedge itself squarely in to her throat; Keith’s luxite blade. Standard Disclaimer: If you read and enjoy this, please give it a like/ reblog so I know if I should write more. AN: Have I mentioned that I’m a fan of parallels? Well, that’s all the justification you’re getting for this one! :3c 

She’d been finishing up putting together a new hard drive for a new computer planned to be used for solely maintaining the meeting information of the coalition when she heard a knock on the door. She blinked then scowled slightly as she rose up. The kids were upstairs in their rooms, most likely playing video games or watching a movie, and none of them had mentioned inviting over a guest for the evening. And if Keith was returning from his meeting with the Blade, he would have simply let himself in with his key. She opened the door and blinked in surprise at the large, imposing purple figure standing before her. “Adwru… What are you doing on Earth?” She asked in surprise.

Adwru had been a younger Blade member and friend to Keith, whom took over the handle of primary leader when Kolivan chose to step down. His large ears stood upright and his arms were crossed behind his back, the posture an imitation of one she’d seen from his predecessor many a time. “Pidge, I am sorry to have to be here,” He said patiently.

She quirked one eyebrow, settling a hand on her hips. “Oh, I’m well aware how you feel about Earth. If you’re looking for Keith, he isn’t here. He left a couple of days ago to meet with you and some of the other superiors so-!”

“I am well-aware that he isn’t here. That’s part of the reason I am, though,” He cut in, ears twitching slightly. “I am afraid that Keith… He is no longer with us. He agreed to a mission and… His position was compromised. We lost contact and fear he has fallen to our enemies.”

She stared at him for a long moment, turning over what he said, knowing what he meant but not exactly sure how to place it. “What do you mean? He was going in to turn in his resignation from the Blade. How the Hell did he get roped into taking on any more of your bullshit?” She growled lowly.

“He never made any mention of wanting to leave the Blade. I’m afraid you may have misunderstood his intentions in coming to see us. Or, perhaps, he simply chose to accept as this mission was a personal request from myself but… Regardless, I have come to tell you that he will not be returning,” He said, his tone still as patient and detached as ever. Adwru, he wasn’t always like this. She recalled a time where he’d been someone she considered a friend, but in the last few years he’d become more and more aggressive about Keith continuing his work with the Blade. Nothing was more important, in Adwru’s eyes, than keeping up the work of the Blade.

He didn’t care that Keith had a wife and kids to look after. He didn’t care that Keith was happy with his life on Earth. He only cared that Keith was talented and useful to their cause.

“I don’t believe you,” She said, lifting her head to glare at him defiantly. “I don’t buy for a second that he’d decide to risk so much on a big assignment, regardless of you being the one to ask! After what happened last time? Especially after what happened last time he took an assignment from you in specific!”

She still remembered how horrified she’d been when word was sent that he was in critical condition in the Blades medical bay. She had convinced Allura and Lance to take the Castle Ship there, so that they could get him in a pod and heal him up. She had sat beside the pod for the whole three hours that he was inside it and then held him and wept. She’d been so terrified that she was going to lose him that day. After she calmed down, the kids had come in, all of them teary-eyed and terrified and she’d nearly cried again for their sake.

That night, Keith told her that he wanted to leave the Blade.

“I don’t want to ever put you all in a situation like this again,” He mumbled, gently rubbing Aria’s back. Their youngest daughter had been particularly distraught, being the sweet soul that she was, and seemed to think if she let go of Keith he’d disappear. He smiled lightly when the five year old snuggled closer to him, letting out a sleepy mumble, and rested his chin atop her head. “I want to be here for them and I can’t do that continuing up with the Blade.” They’d returned home and he started getting things in order. After two weeks, he was finally ready to come and say his goodbyes.

He’d only been gone for four days.

“I’m simply here to give you the facts about it, Pidge,” Adwru insisted, but the corner of his lips twitched like he wanted to say something more, like he wanted to let down his persona of being a composed leader.

“Which is exactly why you’re hiding the specifics from me, right? You think I’m stupid enough to believe you?” She snapped back.

Adwru glanced down at her, eyes slowly narrowing. “If I had more information to offer you, I guarantee that I would. I’m sorry if you feel you are being lied to; that is more a problem that you will need to deal with yourself. I simply decided to extend my kindness in telling you myself and returning this,” He said softly, moving to offer Pidge an object wrapped in cloth. She took it cautiously and felt her heart wedge itself squarely in to her throat; Keith’s luxite blade.

He would never willingly go anywhere without it.

She took it and stared at it for a moment, one hand tracing the Blade insignia along the handle. She then tightened her hold on it and glared up at Adwru. “I’ll prove that you’re a lying snake. I swear on his blade,” She vowed, holding the knife out towards him much like how she’d seen her husband do so many times.

“Continue to delude yourself and pretend the truth is a lie. I will not continue wasting my time on you and your overreacting, puny imagination,” He scoffed before turning and heading towards his ship, poised at the end of the driveway.

She growled and slammed the door as hard as she could, listening to the clatter of the window and clack of pictures on the wall. Nothing fell down, thankfully. She turned, intending to storm back to her office, but tensed and yelped at the figure that stood just a few steps behind her. She pressed one hand to her chest and took a deep breath, initially intending to reprimand her eldest for sneaking up on her like that, but then paused, taking in the stupid lock of her jaw and the twitch between her brows; two tells, one inherited from each of her parents. Sometimes the girl just took too much after them for comfort, really. “Amber,” She said gently.

“He’s lying,” She hissed angrily.

“How much of that did you hear?” She asked with a small sigh, shifting to head back towards the kitchen. She glanced up the stairs for a moment, hoping none of the other kids were there, and breathed a sigh of relief at the battle cries she heard from one of the other rooms. Kaden and Newt must have been having another one of their matches to determine who was the better gamer.

Amber was right on her heels. “Enough to know he’s hiding something. Dad wouldn’t have taken on another assignment; he was done with the Blades’ dealings. I think that they still have him… That they’re keeping him for something,” She insisted.

“What would be their reason for that?” She asked evenly, setting the knife down. She tapped the handle once with her index finger before moving to get herself a drink.

“Dad’s one of their best members and they’re work is starting to dwindle. They’ve got less rookies coming in to join their ranks and the need for their tactics is waning as peace is returning to the universe,” Amber answered, leaning back against the kitchen table and crossing her arms. She glanced back at the knife briefly, a heavy and oddly-shaped weight in her belly shifting and causing her to flinch as if she’d been cut, then looked back over at her mother. She offered her a water bottle but she shook her head against the offer. “They need all the members that they can get if they want to keep pretending that they’re needed to maintain the new universe order. And it isn’t like that Blade haven’t implemented questionable methods before… They could easily be keeping him prisoner or have him brain-washed or something.”

“Then it becomes a problem of proving Adwru’s lying. And there’s no way he’d let any of us anywhere near the Blade base,” Pidge answered, cracking open her water bottle and taking a quick swig.

“That’d be the easy part,” Amber scoffed. She blinked then looked away at the curious brow her mother’s cocked at her. “Well, I just mean… I could go undercover in the Blade and see what I can learn or something.”

Pidge’s eyes widened as she focused in on her daughter.

“It wouldn’t be that hard, really,” Amber said, shrugging but averting meeting her mother’s gaze. She had expected that she wouldn’t be fond of the idea; Mom got upset enough when Dad left for missions with the Blade, and he had years of experience under his belt. “Grandma Krolia still works with the Blade from time to time, so she could help me get an in. And, I mean, I’m sure you and the rest of the geniuses’ on Team Voltron could make a disguising device to make me look more Galra so I can blend in better. Alfor mentioned before that there are these Altean devices that can allow you to directly transmit your thoughts and memories into a designated host device, too, so I take one of those so that you’ll always know what’s going on with me. That way if things ever seem like they’re getting too risky, you can call me back.”

A silence fell between them after Amber’s hurried explanation of her plan, Pidge’s eye scrutinizing her daughter like a hawk.

“You’ve thought about this for a while, haven’t you?” She asked.

Amber shrugged, her gaze flittering to land on the tile. “I may have… I just had a bad feeling about this whole thing. Something that Mr. Adwru said to Dad after he came out of the cryopod really bothered me. I thought I was just being paranoid but I guess not,” She sighed. She uncrossed her arms and reached back, grabbing the luxite blade and holding it out. “And this is the final sign to me that he’d full of it! They don’t go back for mementos of fallen Blade members; not in any of the stories Grandma Krolia has told me and never in the ones Dad’s said either! This was supposed to be a way to put a nail in the emotional coffin; an attempt to keep us from being willing to investigate further!”

For a moment, Pidge wasn’t staring at her fourteen year old daughter, watching with frantic and hopeful eyes, praying her idea would be approved. No, she was staring at a mirror of herself when she was only sixteen, years ago, when news of the Kerberos failure first broke. The embarrassing attempt to cover up the truth of the situation. The malicious lie that nearly crushed her own mother’s heart and hope to smithereens.

Her chest swelled with an emotion – pride or pain, she wasn’t sure – before she walked over and gently embraced her daughter. “Okay, we’ll see what we can do with your plan,” She said quietly. Amber sucked in a quiet gasp before hugging her tightly, the luxite blade clattering loudly against the floor. She burrowed her face into her mother’s shoulder and Pidge could feel her shirt start to dampen. “I’ll see about finding a way to get in touch with your Grandma Krolia and the rest of Team Voltron to get the final plans worked out.”

“I have a communicator directly linked to Grandma Krolia,” She sniffled, lifting her head and rubbing at her eyes with the heel of one hand. A small laugh bubbled out of her as she sniffled again. “I wasn’t sure if you’d say yes, so I wanted to make sure that I had a way to make it happen, even if you weren’t on board with it.”

“You’re a little sneak, you know that?” She teased, lightly poking her in the forehead.

“Hey, we’re a family of doers, right?” Amber hummed back.

Pidge nodded and hugged her again, a little bit tighter this time. There was a part of her that was filled with fear and dread over sending her oldest child on the hunt for her father. Sure, she’d done the same when she was just a little bit older, so it was hypocritical of her to criticize. And, on top of that, she’d done it against her own mother’s wishes – though the fact Amber had planned to go behind her back if necessary said something about apples and trees – without nearly as much of a plan in place. This was probably the benefit that Amber had parents that had pioneered intergalactic travel in the name of universal peace.

She could only hope that having more resources would safeguard her daughter from disaster.

[verdigrisprowl]

Jan 10 Mirage’s CAH game

A second round is going currently, but someone else will have to log it, for I shan’t be there.

Mirage won the first round. Prowl may not have won the card game, but he made the most important joke of the night.

[10:35:32 PM] <Prowl> ((suggestion: throw in some of the normal card sets too, because having nothing but transformers cards to play against transformers cards usually isn't as fun)) [10:35:48 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ok! [10:36:35 PM] Soundwave has joined the game. [10:38:01 PM] Starscream has joined the game. [10:38:46 PM] <altusxdelusoris> i knew I should have just put 'Mirage' [10:38:59 PM] <Starscream> xD [10:39:28 PM] <altusxdelusoris> i'm so used to doing this in the Final Fantasy fandom where there is a million of everyone [10:40:04 PM] <Soundwave> ((Heh. There's a million of this nerd too, I just wasn't sure what else to put)) [10:41:21 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( if you guys also want to share the post to bring in more people, i'd be ok with that ) [10:42:28 PM] <Soundwave> ((done!)) [10:42:43 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( \ o / ) [10:43:38 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( me: hasn't been active in over a year....'hey y'all wanna play CAH?' :D ) [10:44:07 PM] <Starscream> [ a good start ] [10:44:10 PM] <Soundwave> ((usually people like cah, i hope it'll bring you some eyes)) [10:44:31 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( haha i'm a pandering ) [10:44:48 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( ....no a in there, just pandering ) [10:45:58 PM] Twinkout has joined the game. [10:46:43 PM] <Soundwave> ((hello hello)) [10:46:54 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( hiii) [10:47:16 PM] <Twinkout> ( hewwo) [10:48:21 PM] Error: Error communicating with server. Will try again in 0.5 seconds. [10:49:10 PM] Bee has joined the game. [10:49:26 PM] <Twinkout> ( oof) [10:49:39 PM] Megatron has joined the game. [10:49:47 PM] <Bee> (( aaaah i thought those decks were erased from time! [10:49:49 PM] <Soundwave> ((the flood approaches)) [10:49:58 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( looks like we have a decepticon majority ) [10:50:23 PM] <Bee> ( oh boi ) [10:51:10 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( we can squeeze in one more person before it's spectators only ) [10:51:17 PM] <Starscream> [ >:3c ] [10:52:44 PM] <Prowl> ((\o/)) [10:52:57 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( everyone ready? ) [10:53:04 PM] <Bee> ( yup! ) [10:53:43 PM] <Twinkout> ( ye) [10:53:43 PM] Play 2 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [10:53:45 PM] <Soundwave> ((yep)) [10:55:05 PM] Prowl wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [10:55:13 PM] Play 3 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [10:56:23 PM] <Prowl> *... what side of the card table is farthest from Starscream and Megatron? that's the side Prowl's going to sit on.* [10:56:30 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [10:56:37 PM] <Megatron> *grins at Prowl* [10:57:00 PM] <Soundwave> *Soundwave sits in the middle, because he's not going to sit near a Bumblebee OR a Megatron.* [10:57:02 PM] <Starscream> *assuming Starscream is even sitting anywhere close to Megatron* [10:57:02 PM] <Bee> (( if someone actually has the bumblebee card, you automatically win )) [10:57:26 PM] <Bee> [just...sitting awkwardly, folding his cards a bit] [10:57:49 PM] Megatron wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [10:57:51 PM] <Soundwave> ((who was the other human companions person, i like your style lmao)) [10:57:51 PM] <Prowl> *don't make eye contact, prowl.* [10:58:48 PM] <Bee> Sooooo...um, how is everyone? [10:58:51 PM] Bee wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [10:58:51 PM] <Bee> [he's trying] [10:58:54 PM] <Prowl> *y'know what, bumblebee is safe, he's sticking with bumblebee.* [10:58:59 PM] Play 3 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [10:59:10 PM] <Prowl> ... Can't complain. No, I mean—I CAN complain, but I'm not. [10:59:28 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ....I've been better [10:59:43 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( i'm so annoyed I didn't put 'Mirage' xD ) [10:59:54 PM] <Starscream> I could also complain [11:00:10 PM] <Bee> You always complain. [11:00:14 PM] <Soundwave> [[He functions within expected parameters.]] [11:00:29 PM] Twinkout was skipped this round for being idle for too long. [11:00:33 PM] <Starscream> So does Prowl [11:00:51 PM] <Prowl> *Is fairly confident that everyone in the room is just silently torqued off that Megatron is here.* [11:00:57 PM] <Bee> Yeah, but I don't mind when Prowl complains. [11:01:10 PM] Megatron wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:01:18 PM] Play 3 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [11:01:19 PM] <Starscream> Is there a difference? [11:01:23 PM] <Bee> [He's so used to being exposed to Megatrons that it's just second nature to ignore the presence of a new one.] [11:01:26 PM] <Soundwave> [[What unfortunate Optimus Prime feelings are these?]] [11:01:28 PM] <Soundwave> *Stares at Megatron.* [11:01:32 PM] <Prowl> *oh, he's czar for the make a haiku card.* [11:01:35 PM] <Bee> Yeah, I actually like Prowl. [11:01:37 PM] <Prowl> For the record, I WILL be counting syllables. [11:01:46 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Damn you [11:02:17 PM] <Bee> Had a feeling. [11:02:23 PM] <Twinkout> Shit [11:02:40 PM] <Prowl> If you manage to get seventeen syllables but not in a five-seven-five pattern, you'll receive partial credit. [11:02:48 PM] Starscream was skipped this round for being idle for too long. [11:02:48 PM] Megatron was skipped this round for being idle for too long. [11:03:02 PM] <Bee> Ok that's slightly more fair. [11:03:16 PM] <Megatron> Poetry takes more time than that. [11:03:19 PM] Bee wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:03:20 PM] <Starscream> thanks, i was counting [11:03:41 PM] <Prowl> *Bee was the only one who successfully 5-7-5ed* [11:04:14 PM] <altusxdelusoris> *had a 7 but no 5s* [11:04:16 PM] <Soundwave> *Is not looking forward to any of these cards at all.* [11:04:27 PM] Twinkout was skipped this round for being idle for too long. [11:04:49 PM] <Soundwave> *Well, he knows one he's NOT picking.* [11:05:00 PM] <Prowl> *he'd BETTER not* [11:05:11 PM] Prowl wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:05:11 PM] <Bee> [whistles innocently] [11:05:12 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Prowl, you devil [11:05:19 PM] Play 3 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [11:05:23 PM] <Soundwave> [[He is unsurprised.]] [11:05:26 PM] <Prowl> *gives Mirage a look of absolute, unbridled revulsion* [11:06:06 PM] <Bee> [cracks a grin] [11:06:17 PM] <altusxdelusoris> You wouldn't know sarcasm if it kissed you on the mouth [11:06:33 PM] <Starscream> Sarcasm wouldn't want to do that anyway [11:06:40 PM] <Prowl> Some things, I don't think fit to joke about. [11:06:49 PM] Twinkout was kicked for being idle for too many rounds. [11:06:49 PM] Twinkout has left the game. [11:06:59 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( oops ) [11:07:12 PM] <Bee> (( oh no D: )) [11:07:24 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:07:42 PM] <Bee> Quick someone, put Megatron. [11:07:55 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ...close enough [11:07:58 PM] <Prowl> If I had one, I would. [11:08:23 PM] <Megatron> I disagree. Starscream is far crustier. [11:08:24 PM] <Starscream> I have terrivle cards [11:08:30 PM] <Starscream> excuse me [11:08:32 PM] <Bee> ...........ok fair [11:08:37 PM] <Starscream> EXCUSE [11:08:42 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:08:44 PM] <Soundwave> *Points at the terrorcons. That one.* [11:08:55 PM] <Prowl> *played the terrorcons. truly the crustiest.* [11:09:04 PM] <Bee> I mean, if we're talking /physically/ crusty, yeah. [11:09:19 PM] <Starscream> i'm pristine [11:09:21 PM] <Bee> Though my universe's Megatron did look really crusty when he magically came back to life. [11:09:27 PM] <Bee> No, you're Starscream. [11:09:37 PM] <Prowl> Are you suggesting that Megatron possesses spiritual crustiness? [11:09:38 PM] <altusxdelusoris> *snorts* [11:09:49 PM] Soundwave wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:09:53 PM] <Soundwave> *As for the earlier talk? He prefers the name Soundwave to Sarcasm, but it's no less fitting.* [11:09:58 PM] <Bee> ...You know what? That's exactly what I'm suggesting. [11:10:10 PM] <Soundwave> *Ugh. Tarn.* [11:10:52 PM] <Prowl> ((why did two of us go for jizz cards omg)) [11:11:06 PM] Bee wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:11:10 PM] <Starscream> [ sinners, the both of you ] [11:11:15 PM] <Prowl> ((thank u)) [11:11:32 PM] <Soundwave> ((oh no i have two great cards and can't choose)) [11:11:41 PM] <Bee> (( i try )) [11:11:43 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( that's always the worst ) [11:11:47 PM] <Prowl> *has reclaimed the crown* [11:12:00 PM] Bee wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:12:03 PM] <Bee> Mirage, we're tied. [11:12:14 PM] <Bee> It's on. [11:12:23 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Wait... *checks* [11:12:26 PM] <Prowl> You're ahead of Mirage. [11:12:31 PM] <Bee> ...oh. [11:12:56 PM] Starscream wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:13:04 PM] Play 2 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [11:13:05 PM] <Starscream> finally [11:13:14 PM] <Bee> Soundwave, you're sabotaging me, aren't you? [11:14:25 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( ok whoever has the first one ) [11:14:34 PM] Bee wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:14:42 PM] <Soundwave> ((tis me sup)) [11:14:44 PM] <Prowl> ((the first one Deserved it)) [11:14:49 PM] <Soundwave> [[What would he want to do that for?]] [11:14:56 PM] <Bee> (( I THOUGHT FOR SURE THE FIRST ONE WAS GONNA WIN )) [11:15:07 PM] <Starscream> [ yEAH BUT THE LAST ONE MADE ME LAUGH ] [11:15:09 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( omg this one has the potential to be bad) [11:15:42 PM] Soundwave was skipped this round for being idle for too long. [11:16:22 PM] Starscream wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:17:26 PM] Starscream wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:17:42 PM] <Megatron> I take it back I want to pick a different one [11:17:49 PM] <Starscream> too late [11:18:03 PM] <Prowl> *mutters* Said several thousand voters. [11:18:13 PM] <Megatron> HA. [11:18:13 PM] Soundwave wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:18:16 PM] <Starscream> TOO LATE [11:18:16 PM] <Bee> [sNORTS] [11:18:22 PM] Play 3 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [11:18:33 PM] <Soundwave> *The best part about visors are, of course, the instant poker faces they provide.* [11:19:11 PM] <Starscream> >:l [11:19:59 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( the chinese gymnastics team xD ) [11:20:17 PM] Starscream wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:20:29 PM] <Bee> Frag, Starscream's catching up. [11:20:32 PM] <Prowl> *for the record: will never award anyone a point for making reference to him throwing tables.* [11:20:55 PM] <altusxdelusoris> *whistles* [11:21:09 PM] <Bee> [whistles in harmony] [11:21:19 PM] <Soundwave> [[...This reminds him to check on Red Alert. He might have unlocked the Ark by now.]] [11:21:30 PM] Hurry up! You have less than 10 seconds to decide, or you will be skipped. [11:21:51 PM] <Starscream> [ free him ] [11:21:52 PM] OmicronOfIce has joined the game. [11:22:04 PM] Megatron wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:23:12 PM] OmicronOfIce was skipped this round for being idle for too long. [11:23:29 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:23:36 PM] OmicronOfIce has left the game. [11:23:37 PM] <Prowl> *SNORTS* [11:23:39 PM] <Bee> MIRAGE [11:23:46 PM] <Soundwave> *Soft huff.* [11:23:46 PM] <altusxdelusoris> *cackling* [11:23:54 PM] <Starscream> is that speaking from experience [11:24:05 PM] <altusxdelusoris> You would know. [11:24:22 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( *mind instantly goes to Rattrap* ) [11:24:27 PM] <altusxdelusoris> WHAT [11:24:27 PM] <Starscream> if i did i wouldn't be asking [11:24:36 PM] <Bee> (( wow two sparklings XD )) [11:24:41 PM] Soundwave wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:25:01 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( who was the other sparkling? ) [11:25:05 PM] <Prowl> ((me)) [11:25:52 PM] <Bee> .......Why is that a card? [11:25:59 PM] Soundwave wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:26:05 PM] <Prowl> You'll have to be more specific. [11:26:17 PM] <Starscream> the real question is why Megatron chose it [11:26:33 PM] <Bee> Megatron why? [11:26:39 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Hm [11:26:40 PM] <Bee> Do you want to make me eternally suffer? [11:26:48 PM] Megatron wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:26:55 PM] <Megatron> Hehehehe. [11:27:01 PM] <altusxdelusoris> I expected as much [11:27:14 PM] <Starscream> hmph [11:28:04 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:28:08 PM] <Bee> Starscream was defested by a giant yellow rubber ball? [11:28:18 PM] <Bee> Someone please give me that holovid. [11:28:28 PM] <Soundwave> [[What are you offering for it?]] [11:28:31 PM] <Starscream> dont [11:28:48 PM] <Prowl> *... panders to audience* [11:28:48 PM] <Bee> What do I have that you want? [11:29:15 PM] <Starscream> a death wish [11:29:18 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:29:27 PM] <Prowl> *pandering doesn't work* [11:29:43 PM] <Soundwave> *Isn't going to claim that the police present here are going to use mnemosurgery.* [11:29:55 PM] <Prowl> *at least he doesn't have to stare at the "mnemosurgery" and "police brutality" cards anymore* [11:30:14 PM] <Bee> Mirage, you're ahead of me. [11:30:25 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:30:27 PM] <Soundwave> [[Your voice, if you are willing.]] [11:30:34 PM] <Bee> FRAG [11:30:41 PM] <altusxdelusoris> I'm....shocked you picked mine [11:30:51 PM] <Bee> ...My voice? Like, a recording of my voice or my voice box? [11:31:01 PM] <Bee> Because oh Primus, we're not doing the latter again. [11:31:10 PM] <Soundwave> [[A recording. Specifically, of you singing.]] [11:31:15 PM] <Starscream> It was the least insulting [11:31:28 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Not in my head it wasn't [11:31:38 PM] Starscream wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:31:54 PM] <Bee> That's simple enough. Why do you want that specifically? [11:31:56 PM] <Starscream> then your insults are lacking [11:32:16 PM] <altusxdelusoris> mm, well, I have to work with what I have [11:32:23 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:32:40 PM] <Prowl> *every time prowl tries to pander to his audience, mirage wins. fascinating.* [11:32:48 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( grindcore would have been good for this one ) [11:32:56 PM] <Soundwave> [[Personal music collection.]] [11:33:13 PM] Starscream wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:33:25 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Pander more, Prowl [11:33:27 PM] <Bee> ...Does this mean you have a recording of Starscream singing? [11:33:34 PM] <Starscream> I don't sing [11:33:51 PM] <Soundwave> [[He does.]] *Glance.* [[Not that one.]] [11:34:08 PM] <Bee> Scrap. [11:34:09 PM] <Prowl> *... who's pandering.* 

((For reference: the black card was “A romantic, candlelit dinner is incomplete without ___.” The dirty cheating panderer played “Soundwave’s crotch buttons.”))

[11:34:32 PM] Soundwave wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:34:37 PM] <Prowl> *SOUNDWAVE* [11:34:45 PM] <Bee> Well, that's fair enough. Alright, deal. [11:34:46 PM] <Soundwave> *Hmwhat?* [11:35:01 PM] <Starscream> subtle [11:35:13 PM] <Soundwave> [[Frequency?]] [11:35:36 PM] Megatron wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:35:38 PM] <altusxdelusoris> The fact that Galactic domination and sexual humiliation are next to each other [11:35:51 PM] <altusxdelusoris> and the fact that it's Megatron's card [11:36:02 PM] <Starscream> it tells you something, doesn't it [11:36:04 PM] <Bee> [Pinging it over.] [11:36:11 PM] <Bee> They're all things Megatron does? [11:36:22 PM] <Soundwave> ((to which tumblr inbox shall i send the thing)) [11:36:26 PM] Bee wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:36:28 PM] <Megatron> Do not accuse me of filth simply for playing this game correctly. [11:36:57 PM] <Bee> (( radioactivibee )) [11:37:11 PM] <Starscream> no more accusing than it is spreading facts [11:37:34 PM] <Bee> Galactic Domination is definitely a fact. [11:37:46 PM] Prowl wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:37:54 PM] Play 2 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [11:38:36 PM] <altusxdelusoris> My cards are rubbish [11:39:13 PM] <Bee> Same. [11:39:17 PM] <Megatron> ((I have the perfect card for this dammit)) [11:39:47 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:39:55 PM] Play 2 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [11:40:07 PM] thenightetc has joined the game. [11:40:19 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Quick Prowl, pander [11:40:44 PM] <Prowl> You can't win a point on your own turn as czar. [11:40:58 PM] <Prowl> *panders anyway* [11:41:13 PM] <thenightetc> ((*slinks in late, having left for dinner shortly before the game started*)) [11:41:14 PM] <Bee> How many points are we playing to? [11:41:24 PM] Prowl wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:41:32 PM] Play 2 cards, in the order you wish them to be judged. [11:41:33 PM] <Prowl> *look at that, it works when mirage is the czar* [11:41:44 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Ten points [11:42:08 PM] <Prowl> *looks at mirage* Quick. Pander. [11:42:13 PM] <Bee> Prowl, don't pick Mirage. [11:42:31 PM] <Bee> I believe in your deduction skills. [11:43:03 PM] <Prowl> *... doesn't know who thundertron is, but is intrigued by this dance move that's just sex* [11:43:05 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Come on Prowl [11:43:10 PM] altusxdelusoris wins the round. The next round will begin in 8 seconds. [11:43:11 PM] <altusxdelusoris> you know you want me [11:43:19 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Hahahaha [11:43:19 PM] <Prowl> ... Apparently I did. [11:43:32 PM] <Prowl> Good pandering. [11:43:39 PM] <altusxdelusoris> Another round? [11:43:55 PM] <Prowl> Can't, I have work in the morning. [11:44:05 PM] <Bee> I'll stick around for a bit. [11:44:22 PM] <Soundwave> [[He'll stay.]] [11:44:34 PM] <thenightetc> I'd love to actually play a round, instead of just catching the tail end. [11:44:42 PM] <Bee> (( gonna get ready for bed brb )) [11:44:48 PM] <Soundwave> *Work in the morning? Does that mean what he thinks?* [11:44:58 PM] <Megatron> ((i can do one more!)) [11:45:03 PM] <Prowl> *yes, yes it does. first day as captain.* [11:45:20 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( i can do one more round before bed ) [11:45:40 PM] <Starscream> [ i must rest, but im glad i caught you all ] [11:46:12 PM] <Soundwave> ((those of you who are leaving, rest well and it was fun playing with y'all :D )) [11:46:32 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( same ) [11:46:47 PM] <Prowl> ((thanks for hosting!)) [11:47:05 PM] <altusxdelusoris> ( no problem! this will most likely happen again )

[seashanties-and-tales-blog]

Hey since you're asking for some more tomura requests and I'm thirsty for tomura here's one :3c can you do headcanons or a scenario for tomura and a civilian s/o? Thanks, you're the best!!!

I’ll do headcanons because I think they fits best for the request. They also kind of turned into regular relationship headcanons. Also, this is long

Tomura: 

⚪️ Well he doesn’t hate you, so that’s good. You’re not a hero with some backward ideology (Or backwards in his point of view, that is) and you’re not some crazy villain. You’re you, and you’re normal and in the middle.

⚪️ Though clearly you’re not entirely normal, since you love him. It’s not a bad thing, really. He loves you too in his own strange way.

⚪️ The way that he loves is not conventional. 

⚪️ He’s possessive and clingy while acting like he actually isn’t. If he hasn’t seen you in a few days, he will either call you and tell you to see him right away or he will find you. Believe it or not, your presence is the one that comforts him most.

⚪️ Because you are in the middle, he relies on you as a source for him to vent when he is frustrated. Sometimes he might not even tell you the whole issue, but it’s clear that he’s angry. It might be scary at first, but just hold him. He might curse at you or tell you to stop touching him, but when it comes to laying a hand on you, he never does. He never would. He’s all talk with you.

⚪️ However, because you are in the middle, he tries to keep you as little involved as possible. Just like how in my Dabi headcanons, Dabi would want his S/O staying away from Tomura, Tomura would want you staying away from Dabi. 

⚪️ If you ever do meet Dabi, Tomura will probably tell him to get the hell away from you, or you to get the hell away from him. Dabi might start coming close to you just to piss Tomura off. 

⚪️ He gets jealous easily. Very scared of losing you, because you really are his only source of warmth in his life. Many times he’s thought ‘I just want to destroy everything and everyone’, but since he’s realized you love him and that he loves you, he’s become less angry. The rest of the League notices this too. 

⚪️ You help him mature. When you give him advice, he acts like he doesn’t care and that he isn’t listening, however he’ll repeat that advice later on to the others. 

⚪️ Kurogiri is thankful because you’ve helped Tomura in many ways that no one else has been able to. Also less things have turned to ash in the bar thanks to you.

⚪️ In a situation where you get kidnapped…. A less mature Tomura would destroy things, seethe to himself and want to hastily jump into the fray and kill your captors. However, assuming you’re a manga reader, he has been shown to be maturing and learning. 

The more mature Tomura will be angry, of course he will be. However, his anger is expertly hidden behind a calm demeanor. He develops a plan to get you back, one that doesn’t involve mercy but it does involve actual logical and strategy. He’s going to do whatever he has to in order to make sure you’re safe again.

⚪️ Safe means with him. If you aren’t with him, you aren’t safe. 

⚪️ The only other League member he trusts around you or to protect you if he isn’t around is Kurogiri. Everyone else should ‘fuck off and stop influencing you’. Eh, but Twice is okay.

⚪️ Sometimes Toga wants to talk to you and she’ll probably ask all kinds of questions. Questions that would fluster Tomura very much if he found out. 

⚪️ If he ends up hearing Toga ask something involving your emotional or physical intimacy, he’ll drop whatever he’s doing and storm out of the room to go fume to himself.

⚪️ It takes a while for him to open up to you. He will eventually, but be patient. He also doesn’t often look into your eyes. If he stares directly at your face, it’s because he’s sure you aren’t looking.

⚪️ But he will stare at you though, he does it a lot. He loves you after all and you’re probably the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen. A beautiful thing that seems to contrast him in many ways, and while he’s so used to destroying he wishes that he could preserve you forever. 

⚪️ Chances are you will get involved eventually with the League. The unwritten rules are clear to all members. Don’t touch you. Don’t hurt you. Don’t talk to you (That rule is broken often). 

⚪️ The first time you show up at the hideout, Tomura asks you, “What the hell are you doing here?” Clearly not happy since it’s not a safe place for you. If you wanted to see him, you should have called him and he’d go to your place. But ah, dammit, now you’re here so he can’t make you leave. He’ll probably end up hiding you in his room or something.

⚪️ He doesn’t cuddle you but lets you cuddle him. In fact, he enjoys it. A big part of him still craves and desires affection, but you will never heard that vocalized. 

⚪️ Will not take you out on dates. He doesn’t like being in public anyway and interacting with people. Plus the more notorious he becomes, the less safe it is to be noticed. 

⚪️ If he does take you out, it has to be somewhere in an unsafe part of town, a part that has mostly villains. He isn’t worried about your safety so long as he’s with you, and the League is in good with a lot of other villains in the area anyways. Also, it should be at night. He stands out less in all of his dark clothing.

⚪️ Is hesitant to show you his face at first, uncovered by the hand. Perhaps he’s worried that you’ll be scared of him. Your reaction to seeing his scars and intensely ominous red gaze is vital to how he feels about exposing himself any more to you. 

⚪️ The closer you become, the less she he is about being around you completely uncovered. Also, he’ll be more open about staring at you. When you notice that he’s looking and you make eye contact, sometimes he won’t even look away. If you ask him what he’s looking at, he’ll shrug and avert his gaze.

⚪️ He will wrap his arm around your shoulders while you’re together since he can’t hold your hand. But god, deep down he wants more than anything to be able to hold your hand. 

⚪️ Kisses your neck a lot. He’s most comfortable with that. 

⚪️ He’s surprisingly lenient with you. Although there is a point where he’ll take control and express his frustrations, you can sit on his lap and play with his hair all you want and he’ll just let you.

⚪️ Tomura does tease you though. He has a sense of humor. He likes seeing you nervous, embarrassed, shy, or even a little vulnerable. But, when you laugh, it’s probably the best sound he’s ever heard. Have mercy on his heart and the tone of his cheeks when you laugh and smile.

⚪️ Might not ever tell you that he loves you. Even though he does, those are words that might never leave his mouth. If you’re okay with that, then that’s good. At the most, you’ll have to hear it from others around him pointing it out. 

⚪️ Kurogiri: You can’t let your love for them get in the way of your plans.

     Dabi: What? Do you love them or something?

     Toga: You’re so lucky to have someone you love! I love lots of people. I love them so much I become them! I wanna kill everyone I love!

     Spinner: Our leader is in love with some dumb - Woah sorry I didn’t mean it..!

     Twice: Hey, I was in love before too, you know! Yeah, I hated her! She sure was ugly! 

⚪️ It’s obvious that he does love you though. So long as you understand him and how he thinks, you can tell. It’s in the way that he looks at you, the way he goes to you solace. 

⚪️ Lots of him resting his head against you and you comforting him or holding him. 

⚪️ If you come to him with your own issues, believe it or not, he listens. He probably won’t say much though. Also, if someone is causing you problems, you might hear that they somehow died a few days later. 

⚪️ He doesn’t really give you gifts or anything…. if he does, it’s something that involved him too. Like a video game that you two can play together. 

⚪️ On a related note, he likes playing video games with you. Or making you watch him as he plays video games.

⚪️ Depending on where you work, he’ll come in just to see how you’re doing and what you’re doing. But again, since he doesn’t like being in public during the daytime, especially with you since it puts you at risk of being associated with him, he doesn’t linger long. 

⚪️ Even though they’re not supposed to hang out with you, he might tell some of the members of the League to watch over you in times that he himself can’t. They’re not allowed to let you know that you’re being watched though. Sometimes they’re a bit hard to miss…

[yujachachacha]

Get to know me

Tagged by @symphonyalpha​ (I forgot the URL for a second and was like, “Why isn’t Jaewhy showing up when I type it in the user mention???” lol).

Rules: Answer these 92 statements and tag 20 people.

Last: 1. Drink: Barley water, because that’s what my family drinks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2. Phone call: My grandma, telling me what time she needed me to drive her to her doctor’s appointment. 3. Text message: To my little brother, telling him to STFU because he kept sending me dumb shit on iMessage. 4. Song you listened to: Does SIF count? If so, “Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki”. If not, I was headbanging to “Paradise Lost” by Chihara Minori after dropping my grandma off at her friend’s place the other day, lol. 5. Time you cried: tbh I probably teared up a little when I was watching the footage from the Lantis preview of the Aqours 1st Live BD/DVDs ｡ﾟ( ﾟஇωஇﾟ)ﾟ｡

Have you: 6. Dated someone twice: I haven’t even dated someone once :’))) 7. Kissed someone and regretted it: I’ve kissed exactly one person, so...hm. There was a period of time when I had conflicting emotions over what happened, but in the end, I don’t think I regret it. 8. Been cheated on: See #6. 9. Lost someone special: I’ve had a grandfather pass away, and this is probably going to sound bad, but...I really appreciated him, and he was nothing but kind to me. However, since I’d only seen him about three times in my life, the biggest way his death affected me was through my mother. It took her a while to get over my grandfather’s death, so it changed the way I behaved around her during that time. 10. Been depressed: Yes. 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: Exactly once, because I made the mistake of keeping pace with my uncle in Korea who takes soju shots like a champ. This also happened to be the night before Lunar New Year, so I got chewed out by my aunt (older sister of my uncle) once she realized why I was so lethargic during the festivities. _(:3 」∠)_ I don’t regret it though, because before that I had never been hungover before and was wondering what my limit was, haha.

List 3 favorite colors: 12-14. Red, blue, and...uh...other than those two I don’t have any definite faves. I guess the third would be either yellow or purple...? I’ll just go with purple for the sake of completion.

In the last year have you: 15. Made new friends: #TeamONIBE 16. Fallen out of love: That would require me to fall in love with someone first. 17. Laughed until you cried: I think it might have been when Mayushii and King did that disastrous cooking niconama. Like...what the actual fuck, do they seriously not know anything about basic kitchen safety and hygiene??? 18. Found out someone was talking about you: The number of times I’ve gone on to Discord and found out that someone in ONIBE was talkin’ smack about me... (｡･ˇ_ˇ･｡) It’s all in good fun though, haha. 19. Met someone who changed you: See #15. 20. Found out who your friends are: Nothing says "friendship” like screaming your heart out at an anisong concert, eating McNuggets while insanely drunk, sleeping while squished together in a seedy neighborhood, wotaing loudly in a moving vehicle, and other various activities I did with people I had never met in real life. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ AX 2017 was hella great for ONIBE bonding. 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: I don’t think I’ve even used FB for non-work stuff since 2016 lol

General: 22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: If this means “I’ve actually met them in person and have had a decent conversation with them”, then maybe a few hundred? But if this means that I actually talk to them on a semi-regular basis, then, like...10, maybe. :’) 23. Do you have any pets: See my answer in the previous chain post I did. tl;dr I had a turtle and a dog in elementary school, but after that, no pets. I’d like to have a dog when I get a place of my own, though. 24. Do you want to change your name: Nope. 25. What did you do for your last birthday: Watched LLS Episode 13 in the morning and ate Korean BBQ in the evening. 26. What time did you wake up: Today? I honestly don’t remember. Sometime before 9? 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: Laughing at dumb shit on Twitter and Discord, probably. 28. Name something you can’t wait for: The Delayed Viewing for the 2nd Live for the US! I’m making plans to meet up with ONIBE folks again and it’s gonna be ~L I T~ 29. When was the last time you saw your mom: Early in the morning. She was like “lol get up and lose some weight” while I was still in bed so I groaned back, “You’re one to talk,” and went back to sleep. 30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: I was gonna say “how about eliminating my student loans haha” but I suppose this is supposed to be a more serious question. I guess it’d be nice if I was a neater person. Like, my room is a total mess right now and I’m terrible at keeping track of things I should be working on... 31. Listening right now: Fun fact - I actually only listen to music while I’m driving. Otherwise, it distracts me from what I should be doing. 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Yup, that was the name of my debate coach when I was in junior high. 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: People who hate on LL seiyuu. Like, they’re actual human beings who are working really hard to live up to the expectations of thousands - no, millions of people worldwide. To be quite honest, I invite you to tell me if you legitimately want to shit on any one of them (both µ’s and Aqours), because I have yet to see a single person who has had a good justification for doing so. 34. Most visited website: Probably Tumblr/YouTube/Twitter/Reddit, too lazy to figure out which one of those it is.

Jaewhy put in random questions here because they were missing for some reason, so I guess I’ll continue those: 35. Mole(s): I have a few around my face, but other than the one on my right cheek I don’t think they’re that noticeable? I don’t spend a lot of time in the sun like other Californians. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 36. Mark(s): I have a birthmark on the backside of my right shoulder that I’m sort of self-conscious about. It’s the perfect shape for getting a tattoo of a sunflower around it, so maybe I’ll do that some time in the future? 37. Childhood dream: Lawyer. 38. Hair color: I feel like I’ve answered this in a previous chain post, but it’s black. Duh. Though if you hold it up to the sun, some of the ends are more like dark brown. 39. Long or short: Long. 40. Do you have a crush on someone: See #16. Nope. 41. What do you like about yourself: I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time staring at computers/video games and I still don’t need glasses. :D 42. Piercings: No, but I should probably get my ears pierced at some point? 43. Blood type: O. 44. Nickname: Yujacha, but a lot of people shorten it to “Yuja”. 45. Relationship status: Single. 46. Zodiac: Libra, Dog. 47. Pronouns: I feel like it’s obvious what gender I am, so just go with those. 48. Favorite TV show: I don’t really watch TV these days, but if I’m kicking back with some hot cocoa at like 2am I might watch Criminal Minds or something. 49. Tattoos: Nope, but like I said in #36 I’ve been thinking about it. 50. Right or left hand: Right. 51. Surgery: Wisdom teeth removal is technically dental surgery. 52. Hair dyed in different color: I had highlights in my hair a few years ago, but they faded real quick. I’m vaguely considering dyeing it brown in the distant future...? 53. Sport: It’s fun to watch the occasional match when there’s a World Cup or Olympic thing going on, but otherwise I have no interest. 54. (A question I came up with since #54 was missing) Extracurricular activities: I was a debate kid for most of my school life, and in college I was in the Korean Club and Student Union. 55. Vacation: Does the 2nd Live DV later this year count? 56. Pair of trainers sneakers *American anthem plays in the distance*: I actually need new ones because I’ve tripped while hiking on at least two separate occasions due to my shitty old sneakers.

More general: 57. Eating: Haven’t yet. 58. Drinking: Wasn’t this literally the first question? 59. I’m about to: Eat. 60. (This question was missing so I'll make one up again) Thinking about: What to eat lol 61. Waiting for: 2nd Live DV~ 62. Want: Money tbh 63. Get married: I’d like to at some point, but at the moment I’m kinda tired of hearing about it from every middle-aged woman who talks to me (including my own mother). 64. Career: Working on it.

Which is better: 65. Hugs or kisses: Hugs, because they’re warm and comfy and can be shared by complete strangers. 66. Lips or eyes: I was gonna repeat a previous answer and say “eyesmiles” but since this is “lips or eyes” rather than “smiles or eyes”, I guess my answer would fall more under “eyes”. 67. Shorter or taller: Bruh, if someone’s shorter than me then I’d need to check their ID to make sure they’re not jailbait. Taller. 68. Older or younger: I’ve never dated anyone so I honestly wouldn’t know, but I’d probably look for someone close to my age first? 69. (Lmao why was 69 missing :3c I’ll just make something up again) Outgoing or shy: The former, since I’m lazy. If someone doesn’t drag me to places I’ll just lay in bed all day. 70. Nice arms or stomach: It’s actually really hard for females to have a toned stomach, so any gals with abs are like ooh~ 👀 But I actually like hands! I have smol stubby fingers so I really dig people with nice hands. 71. Sensitive or loud: The former, because I don’t need the entire neighborhood to know when I’m gettin’ laid kthnx 72. Hook up or relationship: Relationship, because sure why not? 73. Troublemaker or hesitant: Maybe the former, but if they’re being too much of a lil’ shit then I’d go for the latter instead. I’ve dealt with friends who take like 20 minutes to decide what to order from a menu so I know that feel. :’)

Have you ever: 74. Kissed a stranger: Nope. 75. Drank hard liquor: Yup. 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: I’m pretty sure I annoyed half of ONIBE during AX when I went “haha y’all are blind af” after I found out I was pretty much the only one who didn’t have corrected vision. 77. Turned someone down: I was about to say “no” and then I got a sudden flashback to a certain incident in college, wow thanks for making me remember something I had tried to forget...sooo, uh, yup. 78. Sex on the first date: See #6. 79. Broken someone’s heart: IDK if turning someone down counts as breaking their heart. 80. Had your heart broken: ...yes. I think? 81. Been arrested: Nope. 82. Cried when someone died: Do fictional characters count? 83. Fallen for a friend: Uhhhhh...kind of? It was complicated.

Do you believe in: 84. Yourself: I’d like to think that I do. 85. Miracles: KISEKI DA YO~ ...sorry, I had to. Yeah. 86. Love at first sight: Shukashuu is living proof of this. 87. Santa Claus: Nope, sorry Maki!!! 88. Kiss on the first date: Sure.

Other: 90. Current best friend(s) name: IDK if I have one. :’) 91. Eye color: I’m Asian, take a wild guess. 92. Favorite movie: I don’t really have a favorite, but I did like “Kimi no Na wa.” (Your name.) so much that I made it my phone’s lock screen.

Tagging: I've only tagged people the first time I did one of these and I’m gonna try to keep it that way. If anyone who reads this wants to give it a go, feel free~

[andwesurvive-blog]

🌷 what do they have in their wallet? | ♈ a description of their home - apartment building or detached house? how many rooms are there? colours of their walls? any decorations? | ♉ what are their neighbours like? their relationship to them? (i rly want some headcanons for our verse too on that last one bc i wanna see what you'll come up with for neighbours >:3c) 🌹 what’s the colour of your muse’s underwear right now? (im laughing so hard at this one yes i know im immature >_>)

Cute but useless details

In Kather’swallet you can usually find his ID, drivers license, a picture of his most recent date, his debit card and some cash. It’s nothing really fancy either just a typical dark brown leatherwallet that he found at a junk shopwhile exploring the city one day.

As for Veasna’swallet you can find about the same except instead of a picture of her date there’s a picture of her family and she keeps her gym membership alongwith several gift cards in it. Herwallet is a blue jeanwalletwith an orange koi fish painted on it that she found at a garage sale.

((Rest under cut because they’re stupid long XD))

Kather’s apartment is actually more of a loft. His parents bought it for him as away of showing off their money and it’s one of the top lofts in a very rich apartment building. The loft is split up into four rooms the main room/living room, his bedroom, an office and a kitchen/dining room. It also has two bathrooms, two closets and a balcony. Thewalls are all pure whitewith black andwhite photographs on them except for his studywhere he has his personal paintings hanging most ofwhich are extremely red and dark though. He has a lot ofwindows in the apartment too and keeps a lot of plants around though he’s allergic to some of them.

Veasna’s apartment is considerably smaller though still in a safe part of town. Her family all chipped in to help her buy it as a birthday present because she’d beenwanting to buy it for over a year. Her apartment has a bedroom then a large living room area that’s also attached to the kitchenwith only a small breakfast nook separating the areas. Though herwalls are just a regular cream color she has them coveredwith paintings, shelves full of knick-knacks and posters. Her apartment is full of colors due to the decorations she keeps around the house. It has two bathrooms and only the one closet for her clothes. Her apartment doesn’t have nearly as manywindows as Kather’s but she makes up for that by putting colorful fairy lights up.

Specifically set in our verse just for you 😘

Kather sells his apartment and moves inwith Steel because his apartment holds way too many bad memories. Their neighbors are interesting to say the least. Currently the apartment to the left of them is for sale.

But the apartment to the right of them is occupied by a person known only as Star. Their gender is a mystery, their job is a mystery, they are a mystery. It’s a rarity to see them leave their apartment and they never contact their neighbors. If they need something from the neighbors they’ll send their boyfriend Illion over. Their boyfriend is a very friendly and very happy individual. He’s short though extremely muscular he once punched a hole in thewall because he got too excited over a soccer game. That’s the most trouble they’ve ever cause though, typically they’re very quiet and good neighbors. Except sometimes(when Illion isn’t around) at night odd chanting like noises can be heard coming from their apartment.

The apartment across from them is occupied by a single old lady that owns a chihuahua and a yorkshire terrier. She’s harmless for the most part but extremely gossipy andwill drag you into stories aboutwhen shewas a young actress if you let her. Every Sunday she has her friends over to gossip about the news around town. Kather thinks she’s a nice old lady and she doesn’t bother them unless it’s because the cats have snuck into her apartment. The terrier and Mr. Meowstein do not get along but Cather and the chihuahua have been caught playing and even cuddling. She never bothers them except for occasionally pulling Kather into the apartment for tea and cookies and to tell him stories fromwhen shewas young.

Veasna made it her mission to meet all of her apartment neighbors. The only ones she talks to on a regular basis though are

The one living to the left of herwho is actually Kather’s ex-crush/girlfriend and his current best friend(other then Steel of course), Bes. She hates everything and has anger management problems to rival Crimson’s. She isn’t very social but hangs outwith Veasna because her roommate does. Her roommate is a very social very happy go lucky girl named Emmy. Emmy’s studying to be a fashion designer and a total party girl. She and Veasna hang out a lot thus making Bes hang outwith Veasna a lot.

Her neighbor across from her is a grumpy old man thatwants nothing to dowith her. He glares at her every time she approaches and refuses to open the door for her. His name is Vance and the only time she’s ever seen him smile is when his daughter Ophelia comes around. His daughter Ophelia is a quiet girl that Vea’s convince is secretly a robot and probably not his biological daughter.

Her neighbor to the right of her is actually her sisters’ crush, Bianca. A very, VERY shy girl that doesn’t talk much then sounds like a mousewhen she does talk. But if you get her talking about bears she could talk your ear off. Her sister has been crushing on Bianca for literally years but only recently got the nerve to ask her out. Bianca actually doesn’t talk to Veasna very often because Veasna’s too excitable for her.

Kather’s are a white t-shirt(he wears a t-shirt under everything tbh) and a pair of regular black boxers. He’s got nothing special on.

Veasna’s are a red brawith black polka dots and a pair of rainbow woman’s briefs. She’s not expecting anyone to see her in mismatched undies.

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ill delete this soon

bad cop hogwarts au

@pouncival

points to cover: houses, prefect stuff, meetings, classes, Naughty Stuff, other cats, pets, life after hogwarts, quidditch >:((, HYDRATION, teachers, uhhhhh and anything else i can think of

HOUSES: rumples a gryffindor. the sorting hat took about three seconds. alonzos a hufflepuff even tho his family have always been ravenclaws and he desperately wanted to be a gryffindor, he cried after the sorting ceremony also: jenny is huffpuff head, skimble is p much hagrid, jelly is raven, gus is gryffdor and grizabella is slytherin,,, headmaster deuteronomy lmao

PREFECT STUFF: alonzos a prefect. Obviously, i mean come on. he takes it so seriously,,, hes already dating rumple when he becomes one and she delights in the fact that he can sometimes b persuaded to let her go with a warning bc yo thats what u get for fucking a prefect,,, once she wanted to get in ravenclaw tower and she didnt know the answer to the riddle so she was like "LONZYYY I HAVE A RIDDLE THAT I NEED TO FIND THE ANSWER TO FOR HOMEWORRKKKKK" and hes a library fiend so he spent like an hour looking it up and then he told her and she was like "ok thanks im going off 2 ravenclaw tower now" and he was so distraught he took ten points from hufflepuff for helping her. the other prefects Donut Understand their relationship ghdkhgd bc mungo and rumple r worse than fred and george but eventually it gets to the point where they catch her doin some rulebreaking and shes like... do u seriously feel like dealing with me so they just go get alonzo. she gets drunk on firewhisky one time and he takes her back up to gryffindor tower and spends ten minutes trying to get the fat lady to let her in but the fat lady is annoyed and refusing and it goes like "rumple tell her the password" "nooOooOoOooOo" "do you know the password" ">:3c" "rumple teLL HER THE PASSWORD" for another half hour and eventually gives up and decides to wait for the next gryffindors to come along and let her in but the next one to come along is mungo and then its twice as bad when alonzo becomes head boy (munk is the year above them) he cries, and rumple opens her letter like I GOT HEAD GIRL??!!!!????? and hes like. What. and shes like hehehehehe just kidding who the fuck do u think i am,, also. prefects bathroom. he ends up letting her find out the password and then shes constantly in there and then Somehow (i wonder how) mungo finds out and then they have to change it before the whole school knows,,, oh my god the other prefects tease him so much and at first hes like eh..heh...yeah but after a while hes like fuck off please, stop shittalking my girlfriend to me, and he gets a wee bit defensive about it so they give up especially in their final year when hes head boyyyy

QUIDDITCH: OKAY so alonzo wanted to play quidditch as a seeker bc ofc he did right?? i mean theres so many rules. such nice uniforms. but he never made the tryouts bc he wasnt willing to take the risks needed to get the golden thingy (also, vitiligo, hes got autoimmune shit and he has 2 b careful w his health),,, rumple however. rumples grown up loving the harpies and desperately wanting to be a beater. then she meets mungo and the two of them are fucking terrifying beaters, they are So Good, its honestly the only reason why gryffindor hasnt lost the house cup every fucking year, them helping win p much every game kind of balances out all the points they lose for being shits lmao,,, we had a thought that she gets hurt sometime in a game, and alonzo is. so terribly smothering he brings in all his books to study by her bed in the hospital wing and takes notes for her and is way too cautious after that and begs her to stop playing and she just. Looks at him. :| anyway she does eventually become quidditch captain nyehehe and so shes captain, hes head boy, they are a glorious power couple,,, the nerds love alonzo, the delinquents and sportheads love rumple, together they are So Respected,, it also means she gets actual access to the prefects bathroom which changes very little except for how sneaky she has to be to get in

MEETINGS: okay so in true hogwarts au fashion they first meet on the train as first years,,, rumple: hi can i sit here (she says as shes sat down) are u muggleborn im a halfblood alonzo: im from an old wzarding family my name is draco malfuck you rumple: wow u sound like an asshole. what house r u gonna be in. im gryffindor alonzo: me too rumple: u dont seem like one alonzo: you do :// rude fuck. this is my owl her name is aegolius im pretentious rumple: cool name. this is my cat her name is gwynog GO HARPIES alonzo: ive never had physical contact with a living thing in my life can i pet her rumple: sure alonzo: soft anyway after they get sorted they never talk again. End Of Au. jks but forreal they dont talk for years until they get their electives and theyre partnered in care of magical creatures and finally talk again and it goes like rumple: hey youre that kid who cried at the sorting ceremony alonzo: rumple: sup somehow the whole Falling In Love part is the one bit we havent really talked about but it happens and its cute

id also like to add that alonzos parents are an old italian wizarding family but they pride themselves on being chic, modern wizards who incorporate certain muggle things, mostly fashion, his mums a fashion designer, so all his clothes are beautiful and tailored and more Modern than most,, ANYWAY they also Want The Best for him and when he tells them who hes dating (A HALFBLOOD RAISED AMONG MUGGLES??? A GIRL BEATER???? LOOK AT HER SCHOOL RECORDS DARLING SHES A DELINQUENT!!!!!!) and they refuse to let him stay at her house or let her come over,,, until he writes home one day like. shes captain of the quidditch team what more do u want shes going to do it professionally) and theyre Sporty Folks who are So Fucking Into Quidditch and by this point theyve realised that she's not turning him into a Bad Kid so they finally accept her

CLASSES: ive forgotten like all of their classes kmn anyway alonzo wants to be an auror. thats all he wants. thats his ambition. so he studies his ass off from day one and gets perfect grades and is a model student. rumple is. perhaps not. just think fred and george thats her and mungo, shes a terror but somehow she still manages to pass everything through an annoying natural talent. alonzos kind of hellbent on making her get good grades and they spend much of their time in the library, hes in there Every Day, he pretty much has a reserved table, rumple sits around practicing jinxes on any unfortunate passerbys and trying to pester him and/or make him kiss her he loves presentations, hes so good at them, he prepares for weeks and then the entire time rumples in the back of class making Naughty Gestures. he chokes on his water when she does presentations theyre short but shes really charismatic so he just kind of sits there staring at her like an idiot because gosh she has a nice voice rumples a pro at brooms obviously, alonzos Hella Nervous on them, he has the best and safest model, she offers to give him private lessons but really its just an opportunity for dick jokes what can u do. he gets her a really good really SAFE and fast broom for christmas one year bc what else does a rich boy get his girlfriend who kicks ass at quidditch which brings me to

NAUGHTY STUFF: kittens look away! look for like. a full three months hes like Im Not Having Sex At School Its Against the rRULES!!!!!! and rumples like. well then we either abstain until we graduate or we can do it at your parents place and. No. The Horror. he changes his mind very quickly. they happen to stumble across the room of requirement a few times when.uh. the need is great. u know how it goes. im also gonna go out on a limb and admit that alonzo is rather fond of the Luxury Baths in the prefects bathroom and rumple is very good at catching him when hes in there and enchanting the door or some shit so nobody disturbs them :-)) this is from one of those hogwarts au headcanon posts but i love it, he gives a presentation on sex ed and shit (lets pretend hogwarts is better than it is) and rumple sits in the back asking the worst questions and inside he wants to scream u KNOW what that is we did it last nIGHT

other cats: yes ok here we go. in their year is misto, victoria, admetus, mungo, coricopat, tantomile and im sure im missing people here, year above them  is munk, tugger, deme, bomba, cassandra, macavity (???!!!???) and everyone else is younger by a year or two, also worth mentioning is etcetera being rumples younger sister and theyre adorable and lovely etcetera for president of the world munk and cass or deme are probably head boy and girl of their year,  cass is dating tantomile, bombas dating demeter, alonzo has the biggest crush on munk as well (optional polyamory for u fucks) (worth saying that the reason rumple went to sneak into ravenclaw tower was to see victoria btw),,, alonzo and victoria are head boy and girl of their year, and probably jemima andddddddd idk maybe g eorge fuck me man idk admetus is another prefect, so's tantomile tbh,,, id say victoria but she wants to focus on her studies

PETS: alonzo has this beautiful eagle owl, scariest of all owls, her name is aegoleius (pronounced ay-JEE-lee-us) it means bird of prey and he adores her. shes beautifully trained. rumple has a kitty that im personally in love with who is basically rumpleteazer as a cat lol shes a calico but her name is gwenog after the famous beater of the harpies <33333 eventually they'll get another cat thatll be a suspiciously familiar black and white patched triangle shorthair named Faolan (sorta like FWAY-larn) even tho it means little wolf because he thought it sounded cool and he read it in a book and thought it was pronouned faow-lahn, honestly they probably end up getting a whole ton of cats

LIFE AFTER HOGWARTS: WOO im excited for this bit. okay. so. alonzo wants to be an auror. hes spent his whole life training for this. he immediately applies after graduation and gets in and starts his rigorous three year training process. in the meantime rumples gone into professional quidditch, and shes really really good at it but shes like.... this isnt fun anymore. bc its not just a school game anymore, its a professional sport, and what do u mean u cant jinx the opponents!!!! so for a while she just helps him train "ok so if you walk like THIS and use this charm your footsteps will be totally silent blah blah boh my god i should be an auror" and hes like. You. want to be an auror. and shes like. Yup. and its a damn good thing he was so obsessive about her getting good marks bc her newts are good enough that she can apply. they do a criminal record check, but mind u that altho rumples done naughty stuff, shes never actually. Been Caught doing anything particularly bad. so her record is somehoW CLEAN and she gets in. its a miracle. "what did you do. who did you blackmail" "i sucked every single aurors dick lonzy" "HOW DID YOU GET IN" "EVERY! SINGLE! DICK!" but hes also really really prouD AND THAT MEANS THEY CAN HELP EACH OTHER TRAIN!!!!! cue training montage. rumple pulls a tonks and coasts thru a lot of it rlly easily and almost fails some but they both eventually graduate and become aurors and work together and she covers her trenchcoat in patches and he keeps asking if he has to wear his because sweet jesus it is ugly ITS BROWN, and at this point his parents r more than content with rumple lmao, anyway they live together in a lovely little house that is kept in perfect order, rumple enchants EVERYTHING to talk, its cute, fucking domestic shit yes please

HYDRATION LOL look this isnt even important but alonzo is so deeply into that health shit. he only eats dark chocolate, and most importantly he fucking loves spending time in the kitchen with jenny. she cooks, he makes custom face masks, and also infused water. so much infused water. he has different """recipes""" and he always has a bottle of lovely chilled water with fucking apple and ginger and lemongrass shit in it that he made the night before, and since rumple fucking hates drinking anything thats not tropical sunshine punch fruit juice he constantly is trying to figure out a recipe of infused water that she'll drink becUSE ITS NOT HEALTHY RUMPLE!!!!!!!! YOU NEED WATER, but she thinks its disgusting and eventually he gives up and carries a bottle of juice with him in case he sees her because its better than nothing,

yeah ok im,,,,, i assume there will be more to come but for now this is what u get