#And don't think I didn't notice how we make these jokes about Gus but almost never Munkustrap during 'The Pekes and the Pollicles'...

[mythical-illustrator]

Okay but, hear me out.... Helena and Thorn 👀 I would very much like to see some thoughts (or thots!) On that!

Hello friend I promise I didn't forget this I just had to do Thorn research

But here we go. 😁

Thots and thoughts a head.

So I like to imagine that as a soon as Thorn learns who and what a Spider- woman is. He's her biggest damn fan. He thinks this is the greatest thing - even if Fox is being a grumpy gus about it.

He reading up about her exploits on the holonet. He's telling the men to let her help them if they spot her around. Waving like a loon when he sees her himself.

He takes selfies next to her stung up bad guys when she leaves them nice presents.

Fox is exasperated with his brother- Thorn thinks this is an underated tool they should use to their advantage. Gosh fox- we are over worked and this super hero likes and wants to help us.

He ends up figuring out she is listening to their police radio and starts setting up a system and basically becomes her inside man.

Calls her if they need back up, gives her cool code names over the radio.

Takes the opportunity to flirt when being rescued.

She rescued him a few times when he got so caught up in savings his brothers that he missed almost getting killed a few times.

He takes the opportunity to flirt.

Finger guns, they have pun battles

All the other guards are groaning because she's encouraging his bad jokes and even playing along.

(Dialogue courtesy of @sev-on-kamino

"oh you saved me how ever can I repay you? And yes what your thinking is definitely on the table. I am also willing to be on a table if that's your preference "😉

He will play up the whole damselin distress situations

"I love a woman who could snap me in half!" "Do you know many of those?" "No so you have no competition Cyar'ika."

Fox is getting second hand embarrassment.

Now this is where the trouble is

Helena has had a massive crush on Thorn since she met him

Helena works for a military consultant who makes weapons and ships and others. She's an engineer. She is around the guard constantly. She thinks Thorn is funny and kind and cares for his brother and takes his job seriously.

She keeps getting flustered around him because of his general unique ness, competency and his puns. But also him being her alter egos big fan

She keeps blushing when he talks to her- just talks. Her voice gets high, shes dropping things and running away as fast as she can.

She's looking at herself in the mirror embarrassed like "you are spider- woman, you are strong. What are you doing, get a grip.

She's normally very confident but around Thorn- out the window.

Thorn is perspective though and notices her nervous nature and is trying to make her feel relaxed but talking to her more

Like out of his way talking to her.

"how was your weekend Cyar'ika ? Did you do anything fun? Ever been to 79? Do you want to go? Save a dance for me okay?

She is okay punnist and flirting with him in the suite but not as herself and he's constantly talking to her as both and she's dying Inside.

Fox is also dying inside- please just ask her out and put me out of my misery.

Bad thing is- Thorn is perspective. And the more he hangs around Helena the more he notices things.

She's strong, she seems to know something is going to happen before it does. When she thinks no one is watching, she's got a grace about her most nat borns don't have. Her humor is familiar. Her mannerisms are familiar.

So he starts a little experiment.

He witnessed her catch something heavy that fell, then fake fumble it and drop it like "oh no how heavy"

Him: yes...how heavy

Insert B99 shenanigans.

Thorn is throwing things at her now, sometimes himself. And if she's paying attention - she falls over or drops it

The first time she catches him then dropped him. Fox is alarmed, Stone is confused and Thire thinks this is the funniest thing and he can't wait.

So he starts doing it when she's distracted or busy. She caught stuff without looking, she caught him then blinked before dropping him once she remembered he's supposed to be heavy.

He once handed her his Z6 when she was in the middle of presenting information to Fox. Arms full and one hand free. "Just hold this" and handed it over. She held it one handed for a few minutes before she realized what it was.

He's got all his brothers doing it though they don't know why. Just "throw things as her and tell me what she does"

Fox is alarmed and too tired for this shit.

Tries to pull the "stop fucking around with the civilian."

"I'm doing science"

"science is writing it down, you're just fucking around!"

*I'm writing it down mentally brother."

Now Helena is paranoid because what is the clone doing. Why is he constantly hanging out in her office? Why are the clones throwing things at me?.

Thorn is throwing her off by talking to her more. Hanging out in her lab, smiling and flirting and asking her to come with them to 79 please. You work just hard as Fox and sleep just as little. Please Cyrika 🥺

He really makes a decision when after a fight with spider woman- he just looks at her mask and says "see you at work tomorrow Helena"

Her not paying attention and tired " yeah see you tomorrow Thorn."

And he grins and walks away and she stands there for a second before "!"

She goes to find him later, shoving him into a closet. All -you cant tell anyone!

Oh Cyar'ika if you wanted me alone you could have just asked. 😁

Helena is upset and paranoid and confused and he just takes her face in his hands.

Mesh'la, I've known for a while, it's okay. Yeah I flirt with both, but that's because I think you're one of the strongest most amazing nat-borns I have ever met and I want you to be safe and happy and sleep. Please take a nap. Mesh'la! I sedate Fox, I'll sedate you too! And maybe dinner with me, and I definitely want to try kissing you upside because I saw it in a film. And you're cute and funny and please go out with me?"

Helena just stunned and standing there with a blue screening.

But you- you flirt with everyone?

Not since meeting you. Mesh'la if I had a Star Everytime you brightened my day in and out of that suite. I'd own the whole galaxy by now.

You'd be a better owner than the Chancellor.

"I would wouldn't I? What ya say Mesh'la, we're already in the closet, we might as well get dinner to?

...is that professional?

Kiss her cheek then closer to her mouth. Just the barest brush of a kiss. Pulls her closer, with one arm, cradling her head with the other.

I can bribe you with kisses, does that help

More blue screening for Helena.

Come one mesh'la, you rock my world, let me rock yours? I'll wine and dine you and even promise to stop throwing myself in danger.

Liar

Ah you got me, but still, just one date? I know you like me, the way your face goes all red and your voice gets high. I like it, that's why I wanted to talk to you all the time. It's adorable

I can break you with a single hand.

"promise? Mans handle me mesh'la- I promise to be a good boy?

Eventually they do come out of that closet 😉 but Thorn promised to be a good boy and Helena took him up on that offer

They'll have dinner later.

Thorn kicks in the door to the officers room, and announces he's got a date! He definitely also looks freshly fucked too. Thire high fives him, Stone and Hound just, roll their eyes and congratulate him.

Fox is just tired and mutters something about please stop fucking in closets.

Thorn still flirts with Spider-woman on missions now, but he talks about Helena so much more now around his brothers

(they will all eventually figure it out. ) and Thorn will be smug about his engineer super hero who can lift him one handed while he's carrying his Z6.

They definitely do the Spiderman kiss. Thorn is delighted.

Palpatine sets of all of Helena's spider senses and she starts investigating that.

Fix it- she saves Fives during the whole hunt him down on Coursant and he explains the chips to her and she's able to kidnap Rex and the three together save the clones. .

Thank you for the ask

I love Thorn now. And thank you to all the people who helped figure him out.

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[obsidiancreates]

*cracks knuckles*

As a general piece, Shawn has just a lot of small moments where he notices something that's extremely random for him to notice, even with his training and memory. Obviously he has great intuition and gut feelings but some of them are serious stretches.

More specific, I like to point to American Duos qnd the scene where Nigel goes to smoke. Shawn stops him with urgency and tells him "Don't!" but he says it almost unthinkingly, and then is immediately confused by his own insistence and covers it with "Don't... smoke, it'll kill you." It's only AFTER this that he even notices the electrified water nearby.

Another early seasons piece of evidence that I just noted in my current reqatch is in Gus's Dad May Have Killed An Old Guy. When we're introduced to that realtor lady, there's genuinely no reason whatsoever for Shawn to doubt her guilt. She's literally a perfect suspect! Yet he does, visibly, and we never get an explanation on why b3cause he also seems unsure as to why he do3snt think it's her. This is one of those moments where his Gut Feeling seems so out of nowhere and so reasonless that it could definitely be some Minor Psychic Vibes.

In the dinosaur murder one, Shawn says the T. Rex theory entirely as a joke and dramatic display and then later realizes that it actually makes a lot of sense, and Gus even comments on how unbelievable it is that Shawn's now on board with his own, quote, "joke theory".

I'll admit I'm currently blanking on my own mid-to-last seasons evidences beside the above mentioned episode and, of course the one after the Shules breakup (which I'll get into last after I talk about The Movies). There's moments in 4-8 that I know are there but I just can't recall them as, alas, I do NOT have an eidetic memory. Just undiagnosed Autism.

Anyway, the movies. The obvious point. Mary Lightly keeps visiting Shawn, and giving Shawn actual information and clues that pertain to the real world that Shawn has no way of knowing and no reason to suspect. The whole Allison Road thing SCREAMS Psychic, in my opinion.

It's been some time since I watched Lassie Come Home (strokes are something I have some trouble watching media of for personal reasons) but if I remember correctly, Gus also sees Mary in that one, reacts to Mary outright. That ticks off a 'ghosts are real' box, which lends itself pretty heavily to our theory here.

This Is Gus had less I can draw on, since Mary isn't in it and it's more Gus-focused anyway, from my memory.

SO! The post-Shules breakup where Shawn gets a concussion and spends the episode inhabiting two different timelines. One where the breakup happened, one where it didn't. And he gets accurate information in both timelines that he can't possibly know without experiencing both. The episode literally opens with him experiencing this split and waking up confused saying "What just happened?" so this isn't something he's experienced before. He solves it in the Real Timeline using information he never discovered there and only ever had an opportunity to discover in the Wishful Timeline! THAT'S PSYCHIC AS HELL!!!

Next time I rewatch I should start a document noting these moments because I know there's more I just can't remember off the top of my head.

Okay so the Jimmy Nickles episode and the part where he recalls The classroom and chats with his younger self and reexamines Jimmy's straw is going in my list of "That Idiot Is Actually Psychic And Has No Idea" evidences

[theimpossiblescheme]

Okay, I’m super not done talking about Gus and the Racist Grandpa jokes...

So there’s this concept called the Thermian Argument, which basically takes a controversial element of a story and tries to explain it away using in-universe justifications.  You’ve probably heard it used by some dudebro trying to explain why a female character in a video game wears a chainmail bikini instead of full armor--”it’s not gross because she decided to wear it!  It’s the character’s decision!”  But the problem with that argument is that characters aren’t real.  They’re completely beholden to the whims of their creators.  That video game character didn’t decide to wear that bikini because of whatever reason--her creator did because they thought it would look sexy.  The Thermian Argument is basically a way to fend off criticisms of a work’s creators by appealing to its internal lore.  And it’s also why “separating art from the artist” is always going to have pitfalls because a creator’s worldviews and prejudices will invariably seep into their work somehow.

The Cats fandom has presumably always known about T.S. Eliot and Andrew Lloyd Webber and what scummy people they were and are.  And yet... for some reason we still blame Gus for “Gr*wltiger’s Last Stand” and the old racist lyrics in “The Pekes and the Pollicles”.  Gus the Theatre Cat... a fictional character.  Who is only singing the words that the lyricists put in his mouth.  It’s good for jokes and memes, sure, but it’s not a very productive way of engaging with these extremely problematic (I hate using that term, but I’m using it very specifically here) elements.  If we want to see those elements go away for good, we need to attack them at their source.  There’s nothing we can do about a dead English poet, but we can stop encouraging the show’s still very much alive composer and the directors he works with to stage it.  We can insist that we don’t want to see Gr*wltiger or any other offensive caricatures of Asian people.  Audiences didn’t like the offensive stereotype that was Rap Tugger, so they spoke up about it, and before too long Tugger was back to his usual self.  That’s the sort of action that gets creators’ attention.  Not Racist Grandpa jokes.  Those only let ALW and company off the hook.

ETA: And to be perfectly clear, I’m not saying that letting characters that hold racist beliefs off the hook Because Bad Creator is a good idea either!  Obviously that’s a very disingenous way to engage with a work as well.  But in the case of Gus’s songs, where the offensive elements don’t affect the story and all and can be so easily taken out and in fact have been as recently as last year (though why it took them so long is its own problem)... why do we insist on keeping them for the sake of Joakes at the character’s expense?

TL;DR--Blame the shitty people who wrote those lyrics to begin with, not the fictional characters who have no choice.

[5csbin]

HAUNTED HOUSE !

HALLOWEEN TXT EDITION!

txt x neutral reader !

WARNING !: cursing! knifes! haunted house! JYP AND 6IX9INE!

a very crack and dumb one shot i made.

“MANE IF YALL DONT SHUT THE FUCK UP!” taehyun shouted as they were walking up to the line since everyone began to nag.

"this is why i wanted to go trick or treating instead." beomgyu pouted and folded his arms as he and the rest of the group waited in line to go inside of the haunted house.

well it was more like a haunted barn, where they would all get on a hayride and be driven throughout the barn and be spooked supposedly. "trick or treating?? how old are you again?" kai mocked him,

"no offense but i'm starting to think you were right when you said beomgyu was still mentally 9 years old because.. this is starting to get worrying. what 19 year old is trying go trick or treating?" yeonjun added in agreement, while taehyun shot him a dirty look for throwing shade at his best friend.

beomgyu’s first instinct was to scoot closer to (y/n), but he then fired off a clapback of his own. "the only thing that's worrying is that wig you're wearing, who the fuck are you even supposed to be? lord farquad on crack?" gyu fired back at yeonjun, who was now touching the short black bob on top of his head.

soobin couldn't help but laugh, even though it was his own boyfr- bestfriend getting flamed and soon, everybody else in the group let out laughter at gyu’s clapback. even taehyun, who couldn't stand beomgyu, was practically crying laughing at what was said.

"actually, i'm supposed to be dora," yeonjun replied, gesturing to his pink t shirt and bright orange jeans. "and soobin is.. well diego." he pulled soobin closer to him after saying that and kissed his forehead, before ruffling his blueberry curls a little.

"wait.. ain't dora and diego supposed to be cousins?" taehyun asked, his mouth curling in disgust, "i don't think that's positive..." kai added.

“cousin lovers.” (y/n) said making yeonjun smack their arm.

it was a wonder how they didn't annoy the others waiting in line for their ride, since they would fight every second. meanwhile as the group turn drew closer and closer, beomgyu found himself regretting agreeing to come here.

it was weird.. he loved horror movies, but he despised haunted houses because even though both were fake events, being in a haunted house was just so up close and personal you know?

if it wasn't for it being (y/n)'s birthday (lets just pretend ur birthday was on halloween.) beomgyu wouldn't have came, and he would have probably just stayed at home and took pictures of his costume for instagram before going over to hyunjin’s to watch scary movies.

(y/n) noticed that beomgyu looked uncomfortable amongst all of the roasts and jokes flying amongst the group and they decided to ask what was wrong.

"gyu, why do you look so sad? being sad is my job," (y/n) asked as the group continued to move up in the line. "i'm not sad," beomgyu answered. "i'm just nervous, i don't like haunted houses.. i had a really bad panic attack the last time i went to one, and i don't wanna have one and ruin your birthday or anything.. i probably should have just stayed my ass home."

"nah, you not going to ruin my birthday, you're my friend and i care about you... it won't be that scary, it's literally a haunted barn. you know what barns have? cows and chickens. now who's scared of cows and chickens? nobody. except blades of grass."

the little pep talk made gyu feel slightly calmer. "thanks," he replied, fumbling with the thick leather choker around his neck. "your costume is really cute by the way. i like the face paint."

"thanks, it was kai’s idea actually," they responded with a chipper edge to their voice. (y/n)' costume consisted of a sweatshirt and sweatpants with a skeleton printed on the front, and his face was made up to look like a skull.

after beomgyu was calm, he found himself overhearing a conversation between hueningkai, taehyun, and his knives.

"no tae, you can't bring your knives in here with you," hyuka shook his head as taehyun kept asking if he could run back to the car real quick and grab his knives "cmon kai, just in case a demon wanna try some shit"

"well.. can i get my ouija board?" tyun asked, his lips twisting into a devious smile. "i just wanna talk to the demons, it's halloween, and if it's any day i should be allowed to do this, it's today."

"ain't there no demons.. this is a barn. you wanna talk to demonic horses and shit?" yeonjun pokes in the conversation and raised an eyebrow.

"yes? of course i do, the fuck do you think i am?" taehyun whined, pointing to the devil horns on top of his head as the group finally made it to the front of the line and were waiting for the tractor to come back so that they could get on the hayride.

finally, after they all stood around and handed in their tickets to the clerk in front of the line, their tractor was ready, pulling along the hay covered cart as it came to a stop in front of the barn entrance, waiting for the group to board it.

"wait, hay? y'all ain't say there was going to be hay..." soobin complained, his skin already itching just by looking at all that hay. "y'all do know i'm allergic to hay right?"

"bitchhh, we been said it was a hayride involved," hueningkai snapped, "what you done caught the (y/n) disease where you forget everything every minutes or what?"

"aye i don't forget everything, i just be high," (y/n) cut in as they handed in their tickets to the clerk. "and i'm allergic to hay!" soobin cried out, scratching his forearm.

soobin actually is allergic to hay, but it wasn't something severe, he just got irritated by it and it caused his skin to rash up, not like his skin didn't already look as if it was full of rashes.

(that not true btw)

"oh well," hueningkai replied in a deadpan tone, shrugging. "guess you'll just die then."

after they've all handed in their tickets, everyone began to board the hay filled cart, with everyone obviously choosing to be closest to their besties.

when they got onto the cart. soobin was snuggled up to yeonjun, playing with his diego the explore backpack trying to ignore the itchy feeling the hay gave him.taehyun was resting his head on (y/n)’s shoulder, whining about his knifes, beomgyu was clinging onto kai for dear life, because he was still scared after all.

"i better not hear none of y'all screaming like no pussies after we get in here," yeonjun started after the tractor began to start up and drive them into the dark, cool barn. "how y'all gon be scared of demons when i'm taehyun a whole demon. y'all scared of him now?"

"actually, yes, i'm scared of him just a little bit," beomgyu answered, his tone groggy.

"considering he tried to kill me on multiple occasions and almost succeeded, yes yeonjun, i'm scared of taehyun and he make me fear for my life." soobin added on, slightly flinching at just saying the word taehyun.

"that was before i became positive," taehyun suddenly flashed soobin and beomgyu a toothy smile, "just like i'm positive that none of these demons or zombies or whatever the fuck is in this barn is gon' do shit to us."

"tae if you don't shut your ass up, there’s no demons in here, nor is there any zombies, they are paid actors. you wish you was in a horror movie so bad," hueningkai cut in, once again ruining tyun’s fun.

as of right now, nothing scary was going on. just the typical music playing throughout the barn, random screams, and plastic skeletons appearing out of nowhere. shit that made little kids be scared of, but anyone else wouldn't be phased. not even beomgyu was phased by what was going on, and he was the main one who was scared to come along.

but then.. things started to get more spooky. the people who were sitting on the edge would start to get grabbed and poked without warning, and people would come up on side of the cart out of nowhere and scream or otherwise bring attention to themselves, which would catch them off guard obviously, but shit like that was to be expected at a haunted house.. or in this case a haunted barn.

but soon though, things began to get downright creepy.

as they were sitting in the cart, slightly startled and caught off guard by the jumpscares, but not too shaken up, not even beomgyu was that scared, as he made sure to sit in the middle of the cart to avoid being randomly grabbed or touched by these strangers in costume, and it was just amusing to people like taehyun or (y/n), they weren't prepared for what started to happen next.

soon the music that sounded as if it was from a demonic nursery cut out mid note, and it was replaced by an old, gravely sounding voice that began to sing happy birthday very terribly and off key.

and they thought this was creepy, considering it was gus' birthday, but they considered it was a coincidence. "damn (n/n), they singing happy birthday to you, that's wild," yeonjun noticed, laughing at the 'coincidence'.

"see, i told y'all they’re really a skeleton, how else would they know that we're here for their birthday, hmm?" beomgyu added matter of factly causing the others to let out laughter.

so even though it was somewhat unsettling, it didn't become horrifying until the voice replaced "happy birthday to you," with "happy birthday (y/n)."

the place then became a chorus of "did yall hear that shit?" and "yeo what the fuck?!" after they noticed that, with (y/n) in particular being especially shook that there seemed to be a demon singing specifically to them, and their eyes went wide as the voice continued to serenade them, albeit poorly.

"see, this ain't it no more." soobin announced and hueningkai nodded in agreement. "h-how do they know it's (n/n)' birthday? much less who (y/n) is?" beomgyu asked as he held onto (y/n) even tighter than he was before. "i'm scared now."

"that's what we all want to know," yeonjun answered before reaching up to adjust his wig, before feeling nothing but his real hair tied back. he knew his wig didn't fall off or get snatched off, he had it secured with bobby pins, because it was one of his mother's wigs and he didn't want to lose it, but it had just completely disappeared.

"uh...my wig is gone," yeonjun announced and soobin just nodded. "same."

"no i mean it's for real gone... my dora or lord farquaad or whatever the fuck wig i was wearing earlier just.. disappeared into thin air." yeonjun continued to explain as he continued to search the surrounding area for it, just in case it fell out of his head but it was actually gone.

"see, i told y'all asses there were demons in here, but y'all didn’t wanna listen now y'all getting your shit taken, and demons are singing happy birthday to (y/n) and shit, and now y'all shocked," taehyun added with a huff.

"tyun, ain't no demons in here. if there were demons in here, they would do a lot worse than steal hats and wigs and sing happy birthday, believe that. they'd be torturing us psychologically, and- wait, where the fuck is my sheep hat?" hueningkai touched the top of his head, where his costume top was missing from, and now he was heated.

"yeah, we gotta get outta here."

more shit like that continued to happen with the voice continuing to reference them by name, and reference stuff that only people that know them would know, like soobin almost running someone over once, or yeonjun’s furry suit,and then, near the end of the ride, it all came together in the worst possible way.

a single echoing voice with a thick new york accent screaming "SCUUUUM GANGGGG!" followed by a laugh in the distance that sounded a lot like jyp’s laugh.

and in that moment, all of them literally hopped off of the cart and ran towards the exit.

[colemacgrathtkz]

Ah, memories

Disclaimer: I went past the character limit. This one might be hard to read due to formatting.

Previous. Next

[Human realm, three weeks BBI]

Luz crouched close to her task. Eda's lesson really came in handy. Picking a door lock, she never thought she'd be so grateful for an unmodern store. Standing by her side, only perceivable to her, the empress stood watching her progress.

Empress Luz: "I know you want to say it, just say it. What do you want?"

Since they came back, Luz's glyphs hadn't worked once. At first, she thought magic didn't exist here. But if that's the case, why was her angry counterpart still stuck to her.

Luz: "How come you're still here? I mean, my dream of being a witch is dead on this side, right?"

Empress Luz: "Ok, let me put this in terms you can understand. Congratulations, chica, you're an astronaut. Let's think of the Boiling Isles as earth and magic is the air we breathe. This side is the moon. On the Boiling Isles, magic is everywhere. Here, looks like we're S.O.L."

Luz: "So, you're what?"

Empress: "Holding my breath for you... to finish the job."

The tumblers finally obeyed the thief working on the outside. Luz didn't have much aside from some old clothes from home and the Empress' outerwear. The store inside should have some cash and new stuff to try on. She needed to avoid being recognized. Also, she kept getting glares when she entered stores during the day.

Luz: "Does that mean, if I wait long enough, you'll die?"

An note of optimism was detected.

Empress Luz: " You should be so lucky. No, I don't think so. I'm the only magic you brought over. So, WE'RE holding our breath."

The cash register was the first task they needed done. Emptying the register, they now browsed their options.

The place didn't look like anything exceptional. But one jacket caught Luz's eye. She put it on and felt... something.

Luz: "What do you think?"

Empress: "A little big, don't you think? And do you really like the color green that much?"

They both realized what this jacket was to her. For whatever reason, this jacket made Luz miss the others less. Almost like a sort of comfort cloth.

Man: "Who's there?!"

A flashlight broke through the dark and nearly blinded Luz. She dove for any cover that would keep her out of sight, bumping into something.

Empress Luz: " What are doing?! Let me tak..."

Almost like hitting the mute button, something landed on Luz's head. In that instant, she noticed her partner disappeared. She raced out the door and as far away as she could get. Once she was clear, she examined the hat on her head.

Empress Luz: "Stop ignoring me!"

The instant she took off the beanie, her partner reappeared in front of her.

Now there was some magic.

It would be another three weeks before she'd make it back to Bonesborough. But they were clearly on the right track.

[Present day, Blight manor]

Amity stirred awake in her old bed. She felt like she'd dreamed about something important.

The first thing she noticed was her old room, not remembering how she got there.

Luz: "No, wait, you can't!"

Her girlfriend's voice echoed from somewhere in the manor. She bolted out of bed and ran out to find the source.

Willow: "It's only fair. After all you put us through, this is the least you can do."

Gus: "I wouldn't call myself a 'vengeful guy'. But I do want to see this."

Amity practically jumped the stairway to see what was going on. Luz sat, tied up by vines, while her friends stood around her. Willow had a pair of memory tweezers while Gus held a memory print.

Amity: "What're you doing?"

Willow: "Luz wants to make amends. This is it."

Gus: "But you should be here, too. Take a look at this."

Snickering, he handed Amity the prize in his hand.

Luz: "No, come on, give me a break."

Willow: "If we wanted to settle things, once and for all, we could go fishing in her memories. That's what she said."

Gus: "We didn't find anything nefarious. But we did snag these nice beauties."

Scratch that, he handed her the prizes in his hand.

A few memories of Nevareth Bladestrife, teen Prince of Angstmore. Amity didn't say a word as she examined the recollections in her hand.

Luz: "Ames? You ok, linda?"

Amity: "So, who's this?"

Luz( visibly nervous): "No one, really. He's not even real."

Amity: "You sure? It looks like you think about him a lot. You had an imaginary boyfriend?"

Luz: "He's just... not even worth mentioning. I mean, he's got nothing on you, Ami."

Unfortunately, Amity flipped the print to reveal a small note written in ( what looked like) Luz's handwriting.

Goodbye, flawless pecs

Amity stared Luz down with one of the most menacing glares she'd ever seen.

Amity: " Well, if you say so, then it's fine. If he's not worth mentioning, he's not worth remembering, right?"

She lit a small fire in her other hand and dangled the pictures over it.

Luz: "Wait! You don't want to do that."

Amity: "Why not? You want to make amends, right?"

Luz: "Right! Let me out of this chair and I'll tell you all the truth."

Willow and Gus stopped snickering amongst themselves. Luz's proposal seemed like something worth seeing. Her friend undid the vines and let Noceda take a step forward.

Luz: "The truth is..."

In a swift moment, she surprised Amity with a kiss. Stunning her girlfriend, she swiped the memories back and placed one arm around her.

Luz: " We're official! Amity and I are dating. There's no reason to bother with these. So, I'll just take them back and we don't have to talk about him ever again. Agreed?"

Luz would later understand the wrath of a Blight, later. For now, she pocketed the memories.

Gus: "Wait, when did you figure it out?"

Luz: "Well, last night...wait, what do you mean by that?"

Her two best friends looked at each other, awkwardly.

Willow: "It just seems like... you were the last to know."

Luz: "...."

Gus: "You kind of already acted like a couple. I mean, when did you find out she liked you?"

Luz: "Right after..."

Her pause might have made anime fans proud.

Luz: "Point is, we're both where we want to be. Right, Ami?"

Amity: "When did you start calling me that?"

Luz: "Last niiiiiiiiiight."

Last night? Last night was a blur. She remembered grudgby and dancing but that was it. She didn't even recall how she got back last night.

Gus: "Um, speaking of last night, are you just getting out of bed? It's past noon."

Looking down at herself, she was wearing an orange and white striped pajama top with purple pants.

Amity shot a death glare at the last person she remembered being with.

Luz: "I swear, I didn't do anything weird! You were really tuckered out. I carried you home and that's it, I swear!"

She redirected her wrath to the others.

Amity: "Don't you all have somewhere to be?"

Gus: "Not really."

Luz: "You told me to quit my job."

Willow: "My boss didn't come in this morning."

Amity: "Get out!"

Just as they were leaving, Luz sheepishly tried to be cute.

Luz: "So.....stripes?"

And with that, Willow had to pry her boss off while Gus pulled Luz to safety.

[Last night, Hexside's gymnasium]

Luz: "I think I want to tell you where the staff is."

Taking a step back, Amity knew she was being sincere.

Amity: "Where is it?"

Luz: "With you, carino."

Not realizing what she meant, Luz poked her forehead.

Luz: "In here, with the witch I trust the most."

Amity had mixed feelings about this.

Amity: "No, you need someone to cast that spell on you. Who pulled you out? When did you even do that?"

Luz: "I'm kind of two for one package deal now. Not to mention, a quick study. Remember when you caught me in your room and I sent you a snoozing? It was after that."

Amity: "You knocked me out and went into my head?!"

Luz: " I'm getting the impression you're angry."

After taking one deep breath, she grabbed Luz by her face and pulled her close.

Amity: "Just, please, give it to me and we can go from there."

She was being pretty bold tonight.

Luz: "I can't say 'no' to that face. Especially like this, keeper of the staff."

Knowing full well that was a bad joke, she proceeded with Amity's request.

Amity(thinking to herself): "Please don't do anything weird. Please don't do anything weird. Please don't do anything weird. Please don't do anything weird."

Luz(echoing in Amity's head): "You know, I can hear you, in here. It's really a lot like what I've been living with on a day to day.."

Amity: "LUZ!"

Luz: "Right, right, we can talk about that later."

Popping out, Luz stood in front handing out the staff.

Luz: "One sure fire proof of my trust of you.. for you."

Her most trusted companion took the gift in her hand.

Amity: "It's the real thing. You actually meant it."

There was no mistaking the smug look on the latina's face as she placed her hands behind her head.

Luz: "Yep, we can be honest with each other."

Amity cut her off by raising her arm up. Now, the room had a serious tone shift.

Luz: "What're you doing?"

Amity: "You'd never lie to me, right? With or without this thing?"

Luz: "Bebe, this isn't funny."

Fear, once again, gripped a member of the Blight family.

Amity: "I order you to tell me the truth, what are you doing here?"

Luz: "I'm on a date with you."

Luz couldn't stop herself from answering, but she tried tweaking her answers.

Amity: "Why did you come back to Bonesborough?"

Luz: "I wanted to be with you all again."

Amity: "Are you planning something behind my back?"

Things were getting worse as it became apparent that Noceda didn't want to answer.

Luz: "Our second date, maybe. Now, can you give me that back, please?"

Amity: "One last thing, the empress is still in you, right? Neither of you are going to hurt anyone, right?"

This time, Luz covered her mouth, muffling her response.

Amity: "Take your hands off and tell me the truth!"

This feeling of once again not being in control of her own body; brought tears to her eyes.

Luz: "I don't want to hurt anyone. But I can't say the same for her."

Empress Luz: "GET THE STAFF!"

Amity found herself gripped from behind by a giant abomination hand. She looked back to see the Otabin mutant was still there.

Amity: "Wait, how are you doing that?"

The empress simply took back her staff and looked disgusted at what just happened.

Empress Luz: "I think I'm done answering questions."

Luz: "I pulled out all the stops for you, carino. It's my own 'little' mix of abomination, plant, illusion, and potion. Something that can keep on going, even if my finger stops spinning."

She just gazed at the object in her hands.

Luz: "I gave this to you because I trusted you."

The goo around Amity hardened; preventing her from moving a finger.

Luz(sadly): "You just couldn't help yourself, could you?"

She reached into the almost solid goo and searched Amity's pocket. Pulling out the tweezers just before the muck became rock hard.

Luz: "Thanks for the date, bonita. I'll be sure to remember it."

She held Amity's head still as she pulled out her memories of the date. Contrary to her pleas, Luz burned the ones that held the night's closing events. Her girlfriend felt the effects and passed out.

Empress Luz: "We'll have to clean this up."

Luz: "Hold on, I don't want to leave her like this. This could seriously damage her mind."

Luz used the tweezers on herself and pulled a couple memories. She done this before, unbeknownst to anyone else. When Willow's memories were burnt, her personality changed. Luz discovered that she could sort of keep that from happening by putting place holders.

After she had done the deed, she picked up the sleeping green haired witch in her arms, princess style.

Empress Luz: "Even after all that?!"

Luz: " You feel the same way, right?"

The two had gotten unbelievably good at switching control between them.

Empress: "What about the staff?"

Luz: "It can wait. I want to take her home and just forget this ever happened."

To her dismay, she knew her partner wouldn't simply "forgive and forget".

Empress: "Before we go, I think we should check her memories. I mean, it's only fair after what she just pulled."

Complying with her internal partner, they discovered the two other conspirators. She took the staff and hid it. She also took Amity home, but not before she made sure the coast was clear.

Willow and Gus would have no memory of their findings. They would be left to believe their investigations had come to a dead end. Reporting to Amity only that Luz Noceda had nothing to hide.

Author's note:

I just want to make two things clear.

1.) In "Understanding Willow", Willow's brain appeared to be faulty after her memories were burnt. I figured Amity might unknowingly experience something similar AFTER Luz left her in her room. No funny business. Amity was half asleep and disoriented when she changed into her new attire.

2.) I've wondered, how Amity might react to Nevareth or Luz's other crushes? I just wanted to throw that idea into the hat.