#Anti kid omega???

[wanderingmind867]

Besides Emma Frost, Madelyne Pryor and Mystique, I kvoe everyone here. Honestly though? Madelyne Pryor just reminds me that Chris Claremont killed off Jean Grey. And it's stupid that he did that. And I hate him for doing that. And I will not forgive and forget. Him doing stuff like that means I refuse to read any X-Men comics after the original Stan Lee/Arnold Drake/Roy Thomas run on the book. But that run made me love Jean Grey, Professor X, Cyclops and Quicksilver. And while Rogue and Kid Omega are newer characters, I've either stumbled upon them in modern comics and/or seen them in movies and tv shows. And those things have helped me grow to love them too. So yeah, I love all but three of the characters here.

What are some commonly disliked x-men characters that people love? I had to go to random-ass websites and stuff because all I could come up with was Jean (unreasonable hate imo) and Charles (wanna kick his bald head, but there isn't much malice in this statement, more like mischief???)

Yes, I know they are technically loved, but so are the animals in that picture.

I'll reblog the original, because I can't fit more pictures here

[urdreamydoodles]

MARVEL COMICS MASTERLIST

Fluff / Domestic (🌸)

Angst (🖤)

Smut (❤️‍🔥)

Request (✨️)

HEADCANONS

MULTIPLE CHARACTERS —

Marvel Comics Characters Receiving a Dirty Picture from You in Public 🌸(❤️‍🔥)

Marvel Comics Characters Realizing They Are Jealous 🌸

You Protect The Marvel Comics Characters By Punching Someone Who Speaks Badly About Them 🌸

Marvel Comics Characters with a S/O who is shy and has social anxiety 🌸(🖤)

The Marvel Comics Characters babysit your dog, Mr. Pickles 🌸

You are in a toxic relationship with the Marvel Comics Villains 🖤(🌸)

Your lover learns that you are a mutant, and decides to act against the world that hates your kind 🌸(🖤)

You are clumsy and hurt yourself all the time 🌸

Your childhood was abusive, which caused you to have PTSD and your lover helps you through it 🖤🌸

Your first kiss 🌸

Mr. Pickles, your small fluffy dog, has disappeared and your lover goes on a hunt to find him 🌸

You are in a toxic relationship with the Marvel Comics Villains 🖤

You kiss them when they least expect it ✨️🌸

One of the underlings hit you and your partner finds out (Marvel Comics Villains) ✨️🌸🖤

X-MEN CHARACTERS —

How they handle your relationship with your dog (Part.1) 🌸

How they handle your relationship with your dog (Part.2) 🌸

Your partner having to pause and tend to you because you burnt your finger while cooking (Part.1) 🌸

Your partner having to pause and tend to you because you burnt your finger while cooking (Part.2) 🌸

You trip a little because you were too busy staring at your crush (Part.1) 🌸

You trip a little because you were too busy staring at your crush (Part.2) 🌸

You die in their arms (Part.1) ✨️🖤

You die in their arms (Part.2) 🖤

You die in their arms (Part.3) 🖤

You smacks their ass as they walk past (Part.1) 🌸

You smacks their ass as they walk past (Part.2) 🌸

You smacks their ass as they walk past (Part.3) 🌸

Chaotic Monopoly night with the X-Men 🌸

They accidentally hurt you (Part.1) 🖤

They accidentally hurt you (Part.2) 🖤

You're a smart ass ✨️🌸

How they handle your pregnancy ✨️🌸

How you became official 🌸

How they handle your frustration of failing during training ✨️🌸🖤

A chaotic night at the carnival with your boyfriend (Part.1) 🌸

A chaotic night at the carnival with your girlfriend (Part.2) 🌸

You leave them speechless with your bikini (Part.1) 🌸

You leave them speechless with your bikini (Part.2) 🌸

You have chronic hip pain and they find out about it ✨️🌸🖤

You tell them that they are perfect just the way they are (Part.1) 🌸🖤

You tell them that they are perfect just the way they are (Part.2) 🌸🖤

Your mutation is to make people instantly happy by touch ✨️🌸

You crochet little clothes for Mr. Pickles ✨️🌸

How they deal with their drunk s/o (Part.1) ✨️🌸

How they deal with their drunk s/o (Part.2) 🌸

They are being mind-controled by a villain and they believe you cheated on them (Part.1) 🖤

They are being mind-controled by a villain and they believe you cheated on them (Part.2) 🖤

You are being mind-controled by a villain and you believe your lover cheated on you (Part.1) 🖤

You are being mind-controled by a villain and you believe your lover cheated on you (Part.2) 🖤

How the X-Men react to their gothic s/o ✨️🌸

You get kidnapped by an anti-mutant organization ✨️🖤🌸

You think the enemy killed your lover ✨️🖤

You forget to take care of yourself ✨️🖤🌸

You struggles with verbal communication ✨️🖤🌸

You protect them during a fight (Part.1) ✨️🖤🌸

You protect them during a fight (Part.2) 🖤🌸

The X-Men Receiving a Dirty Picture from You in Public 🌸(❤️‍🔥)

X-Men with a S/O who is shy and has social anxiety 🌸(🖤)

A year after your death, you are resurrected on Krakoa and reunited with your lover ✨️🌸🖤

Your first kiss 🌸

You kiss them when they least expect it ✨️🌸

You bite them playfully ✨️🌸

X-Men with a very muscular S/O ✨️🌸

X-MEN CHARACTERS & THEIR KIDS —

How they handle your dating life (Daughter!Reader) 🌸

Their relationship with you—a omega-level mutant (Kid!Reader) ✨️🌸🖤

Their relationship with you—a omega-level mutant (Kid!Reader) (Part.2) ✨️🌸🖤

You lose your zest for life after a traumatic event (Kid!Reader) ✨️🌸🖤

You are their DNA child (Child!Reader) ✨️🌸🖤

You tell them that they are not your dad/mom during an argument ✨️🖤🌸

You are a wild kid due to your parents' neglect ✨️🖤🌸

You leave the X-Men and the person closest to you to join Brotherhood after you lost a friend to mutant-hate (GN!Teen!Reader) ✨️🖤(🌸)

SPECIFIC CHARACTER —

Jealousy (Wolverine) 🌸🖤

Logan rivalry with your dog (Wolverine) 🌸

Laughing at every jokes he make (Gambit) 🌸

Remy checking you out (Gambit) ❤️‍🔥

You're a little drunk but under the protection of none other than The Gambit (Gambit) 🌸

How is Remy when you are sick (Gambit) ✨️🌸

How Scott treats his short S/O (Cyclops) ✨️🌸

How is Hank in a romantic relationship (Beast) ✨️🌸

How is your relationship with Remy and Rogue (Poly) (Gambit & Rogue) ✨️🌸❤️‍🔥

How Kurt reacts to his partner having a tail like him (Nightcrawler) ✨️🌸

ONE SHOT

THE WILD & THE SOFT — A Logan Howlett One Shot 🌸

Description: How your relationship with Logan begins and evolves.

WHERE THE SKY IS WIDE — A Warren Worthington III One Shot ✨️🌸

Description: You are Warren Worthington III's childhood friend, and one day you escape from your prisons together and confess your feelings.

[novella-november]

See, here's the thing about generative AI:

I will always, always prefer to read the beginner works of a young writer that could use some editing advice, over anything a predictive text generator can spit out no matter how high of a "quality" it spits out.

I will always be more interested in reading a fanfiction or original story written by a kid who doesn't know you're meant to separate different dialogues into their own paragraphs, over anything a generative ai creates.

I will happily read a story where dialogue isn't always capitalized and has some grammar mistakes that was written by a person over anything a computer compiles.

Why?

Because *why should I care about something someone didn't even care enough to write themselves?*

Humans have been storytellers since the dawn of humankind, and while it presents itself in different ways, almost everyone has stories they want to tell, and it takes effort and care and a desire to create to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard or speech to text to actually start writing that story out, let alone share it for others to read!

If a kid writes a story where all the dialogue is crammed in the same paragraph and missing some punctuation, it's because they're still learning the ropes and are eager to share their imagination with the world even if its not perfect.

If someone gets generative AI to make an entire novel for them, copying and pasting chunks of text into a document as it generates them, then markets that "novel" as being written by a real human person and recruits a bunch of people to leave fake good reviews on the work praising the quality of the book to trick real humans into thinking they're getting a legitimate novel.... Tell me, why on earth would anyone actually want to read that "novel" outside of morbid curiosity?

There's a few people you'll see in the anti-ai tags complaining about "people being dangerously close to saying art is a unique characteristic of the divine human soul" and like...

... Super dramatic wording there to make people sound ridiculous, but yeah, actually, people enjoy art made by humans because humans who make art are sharing their passion with others.

People enjoy art made by animals because it is fascinating and fun to find patterns in the paint left by paw prints or the movements of an elephants trunk.

Before Generative AI became the officially sanctioned "Plagiarism Machine for Billionaires to Avoid Paying Artists while Literally Stealing all those artists works" people enjoyed random computer-generated art because, like animals, it is fascinating and fun to see something so different and alien create something that we can find meaning in.

But now, when Generative AI spits out a work that at first appears to be a veritable masterpiece of art depicting a winged Valkyrie plunging from the skies with a spear held aloft, you know that anything you find beautiful or agreeable in this visual media has been copied from an actual human artist who did not consent or doesn't even know that their art has been fed into the Plagiarism Machine.

Now, when Generative AI spits out a written work featuring fandom-made tropes and concepts like Alpha Beta Omega dyanamics, you know that you favorite fanfiction website(s) have probably all been scraped and that the unpaid labours of passion by millions of people, including minors, have been scraped by the Plagiarism Machine and can now be used to make money for anyone with the time and patience to sit and have the Plagarism Machine generate stories a chunk at a time and then go on to sell those stories to anyone unfortunate enough to fall for the scam,

all while you have no way to remove your works from the existing training data and no way to stop any future works you post be put in, either.

Generative AI wouldn't be a problem if it was exclusively trained on Public Domain works for each country and if it was freely available to anyone in that country (since different countries have different copyright laws)

But its not.

Because Generative AI is made by billionaires who are going around saying "if you posted it on the Internet at any point, it is fair game for us to take and profit off," and anyone looking to make a quick buck can start churning out stolen slop and marketing it online on trusted retailers, including generating extremely dangerous books like foraging guides or how to combine cleaning chemicals for a spotless home, etc.

Generative AI is nothing but the works of actual humans stolen by giant corporations looking for profit, even works that the original creators can't even make money off of themselves, like fanfiction or fanart.

And I will always, always prefer to read "fanfiction written by a 13 year old" over "stolen and mashed together works from Predictive Text with a scifi name slapped on it", because at least the fanfiction by a kid actually has *passion and drive* behind its creation.

[lexirosewrites]

Hiii I don’t usually go here, but I have had a few Disjointed Thoughts(™) for like WEEKS and I finally decided to share on this, the most holy (hole-y, hah) of days, Slick Sunday.

SO. O!Steve, A!Eddie, shocking. Steve is excruciatingly aware that, physically? He’s not really the Ideal Omega, at least by societal standards. Or his parents’ standards. Or his own, if he lets himself think about it too much, but that’s why he simply Does Not Think About It. Emotionally, he’s pretty solid. He absolutely loves his forcibly-adopted, feral, teenage pups. He’s excited to have his own one day, and to have an Alpha who loves him and their pups. He is always taking care of somebody, particularly the people he cares about, and most of the time it’s not even a conscious choice.

Physically, though?

Physically, he’s taller than an omega usually is. He spent so much time doing sports before he presented, and then after to keep up the image. Plus, let's be honest, he's absolutely keeping himself in shape and strong enough to defend/protect his little chosen pack. No matter how he or other people might feel about it, nothing is as important as keeping everyone safe, even after the UD is taken care of.

He and Eddie have been getting close, though. Eddie made enough anti-secondary-gender-roles speeches in school that Steve's pretty sure he won't mind that Steve is more invested in keeping them all safe than playing the part of “good little omega.” He was certainly impressed when Steve had to bite a bat in the Upside Down, and that's not very Omegan. The problem is, Eddie is such a perfect Alpha. Robin always makes a face when he says it, but Steve can feel it in his soul. Eddie is loud, exuberant, fiercely loyal, and protective of anyone who might need it, particularly when he cares about them. He's good with his hands, between his guitars and tinkering with his van when it has a new issue every month. He bickers with Wayne constantly over bills, trying to get his uncle to let him help more, leaving stray bills in Wayne's pockets when he loses the argument.

If Eddie can be such a good Alpha, Steve can try and be a better Omega, just a little. He does tone his more Alpha-like tendencies down a little, just to be safe- doesn't bring up playing sports/working out as much when Eddie's around, asks Eddie to help move things instead of just doing it himself, lets other people grab stuff from high shelves rather than volunteering himself. It seems to be going well, all things considered. He and A!Robin (who knows about the Omega-image issues, but not that he's been playing a bit more of the helpless Omega for Eddie, because she absolutely wouldn't approve) are sure Eddie's going to ask him to start courting any day now, really!!

To hopefully kick-start the process, Steve eagerly volunteers to help Wayne with some manual labor. Something with the siding of the trailer; it won’t be difficult, but it'll be a lot easier with two people. He'd have helped anyway, of course, but he's very aware that Eddie is devoted to his uncle and wants him taken care of. Surely, if there's anything that would outweigh any distaste from the non-Omega-like behavior, it's helping Wayne. The day of, though, he's on a ladder (Wayne is holding the ladder steady; Steve threw a hissy fit when he tried to go up himself), hammering in the last couple nails when Eddie gets home.

Normally, Eddie seems ecstatic to see Steve in any scenario- at one of their houses, after Hellfire to take the kids home, the few times they've passed each other in the grocery store- but when Steve looks over to say hi, he doesn't look… pleased. He actually looks kind of. Angry? Maybe? His eyes are blank, not filled with the warmth he's used to. His mouth is pressed together in a thin line, jaw clenched.

Steve has gotten pretty good at reading Eddie, knows his facial expressions like the back of his hand, but this is new. New and not happy. It makes him self-conscious, make him want to jump off the ladder and go beg forgiveness from his Alpha for whatever he did, but Steve pushes it down. He's got a job to finish, and if that face is directed at him for too long there's a good chance he's going to start whining- or worse, crying. Eddie gets back in his van immediately, though, driving off who knows where. Steve tells himself he was probably just having a bad day, and didn't want company. That's just a thing that happens. Nothing immediately to do with Steve, surely, and Wayne doesn't seem bothered so it's fine. Definitely.

A few days pass, and the party are all at Steve's house. The pups (who are nearly grown, now, but that doesn't stop them from being Steve's Pups, okay?) are mostly in the pool. The technically-adults are enjoying the sun and calling out warnings when the play-fighting gets a little too rough. Steve and Lucas are practicing basketball a few feet away, trying to nail a particular, super impressive move that even Steve can only do with about 40% accuracy. (I don't know basketball, I'm sure something like this has to exist though, right??? Indulge me lol) The two of them have been at it all summer, to better Lucas’ chance of getting varsity next school year.

Then Lucas nails it. Absolutely picture-perfect form, better than even Steve has ever done it. And they go NUTS. Everyone is looking over, confused but generally amused at their antics. Steve is so proud that he doesn't even think about it, just lifts Lucas up so he's sitting on one of Steve's shoulders, so Steve can hold him up with one arm and gesture wildly with the other while parading Lucas around, explaining exactly why this is so impressive to the non-athletes.

Except. Then he happens to look over at Eddie. And it's the face from the other day. Closer now, he can see that Eddie's knuckles are white where they're clenched around his beer bottle. Steve still can't get a read on it, and Eddie hasn't been in the pool yet so the scent blocker is keeping Steve from being able to tell what's the matter. Again, Steve's first instinct is to figure out what he did, how he can be better. But this is Eddie. He's probably just bitter about a sports thing interrupting whatever nerd conversation he was probably having, and he'll get over it quickly. Besides, Lucas deserves his moment.

Eddie is fine the rest of the night, and it doesn't come up, so Steve manages to mostly forget about it. But a week or two later, Steve is dropping Max off at home after physical therapy, and she's clearly too tired and exhausted for the stairs but she'll never admit it. Steve moves slowly, telegraphing his intentions as obviously as he can to give her an out, but she doesn't take it. So he picks her up, gently as possible, and carries her up the steps, grabbing her crutches as well.

He doesn't push it, even if his Omega would be thrilled to bring her in and make sure she gets settled and drinks some water, because it'd make her uncomfortable and this is already a lot. They don't talk about it, they just say their goodbyes and Steve goes to drive home. He glances over at the Munson's trailer, purely out of habit, and in the window is Eddie. With the same facial expression as before. He turns away from the window before Steve can react, and the curtain is pulled.

Steve has the whole way home to question this, and the only similarity between the two events that could have caused that face is… Steve being too Alpha-like. The manual labor, carrying the pups around. He's too strong, too big. He's not a good Omega, and his Alph- Eddie, who isn't his Alpha yet and maybe now never will be- Eddie doesn't like it. He drops. Hard. He's not sure how he makes it back to his house, or inside. The next thing he knows, he's sitting next to the phone, Robin's voice coming distant but frantic from where it's dangling by the cord next to him.

Then she's there, in front of him. Worried, clearly, but Steve can't bring himself to do anything about it. He just stares. Time passes, clearly, because at some point he finds himself in his own bed, nest haphazarly built up around him where someone presumably tried to make it bigger without disturbing anything, staring blankly at the ceiling with Robin pressed against him.

His face is wet.

His eyes hurt.

Oh. He's been crying.

He remembers why.

His breath catches, and it's enough to get Robin's attention. She scrambles up, holding his face while she takes exaggerated breaths. He matches her breathing until he's sure they're past the risk of hyperventilating. He tells her everything- not just the times Eddie has seemed upset, but every time he's tried to be better, to be less, every time he's questioned if it would ever be enough. She clearly wants to comment, but she lets him get it all out first. When it's clear he's done, she bundles him in her arms. Calls him a dingus, so he'll crack a smile. They slowly transfer back down the stairs, curling up in a mass of limbs in front of the tv to watch whatever they can find without getting up.

Steve drives her home around midnight, knowing she has work tomorrow and he's got the day off. He swears he's fine, that he'll call if something changes. He waves her off, drives away, and heads in the opposite direction of home. He's okay for now, but if he goes home, he'll think about how empty it is, how he may never have an Alpha to help him fill the space and the quiet, and he won't be okay for long.

He ends up at the quarry. Still quiet, and he's still alone, but at least it's intentional here. He's not exactly watching the clock, but he's only idly thrown a handful of rocks down into the water when he hears a noise he could pick out anywhere. Eddie's van is pulling up, faster even than the ridiculous speeds he usually does. The gravel flies up as he slams on breaks, and the headlights are still fading out when Eddie throws himself out the door.

He hurries towards Steve, and when he's close enough, he drops to his knees. Steve tries to ask, tries to pull him up because that can't be good for Eddie's knees, especially when he's clearly in his pajamas and some untied shoes but Eddie grabs his hand and holds it in both of his own. Trips over his words as he tries to explain, rambles that Robin had called him after she got home, that Eddie had immediately run out the door, went to the house first and then drove around to find Steve.

Steve can feel the shame heating his cheeks, prickling in his gut. He's already mentally cursing Robin's overprotective nature. Of course she'd immediately tried to defend him. She'd probably told Eddie off, something embarrassing about leading him on or believing too much in gender roles despite his own nonconformity or whatever else. Steve tries to pull his hand away, but Eddie's got a firm grip and pleading eyes, and Steve's Omega is too desperate for some approval after his drop earlier to try too hard.

Eddie looks like he's tearing up, and Steve is too caught off guard by this whole thing to hold back the whine it pulls out of him. Even if he's hurt, seeing Eddie upset almost hurts his Omega more than anything else. Eddie's eyes go wide, and he surges to his feet, pressing Steve's hand to his chest and letting a reassuring rumble answer. Steve hates himself a little bit for how much it does calm him down.

Eddie rushes to explain. He's in love with Steve. He thinks Steve's easily the best Omega he's ever met, loves how much he cares for the people around him and protects their pups (Steve tries valiantly to ignore how his heart skips a beat at it being THEIR pups. He fails). The face Steve has been seeing has been Eddie straining to keep his Alpha from begging to bond with Steve on sight. Eddie wanted to court him, wanted to take it slow and romance him and do things properly because Steve deserves it, not ask Steve to have his babies in front of all their friends.

He's been waiting to ask, has been making Steve his own battle jacket since he'd liked Eddie's in the Upside Down as a first courting gift. Apparently, tracking down patches for artists Steve likes is a lot harder than finding patches for Eddie's favorites, and hand-sewing them all on has taken even longer. It's everything Steve could have ever hoped to want and so much more, and Eddie's not wearing any scent blockers, so underneath the heady smell of leather and comfort and Eddie, Steve can tell he's being honest.

The misunderstandings are forgiven. They start courting immediately, and Eddie gives him his own vest to wear as an IOU until Steve's is done. Robin is very mildly scolded for spilling Steve's business, which is cancelled out by the grin on Steve's face as he does it and the hug she tackles him in immediately after says she doesn't regret a thing. It's okay, though. Neither does Steve.

-irrelevantbutembarrassing

chomping on insecure omega Steve because he’s so biteable💕

[mayrose713]

Beautifully Cruel World-Chapter 10

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ABO Non-Idol Stray Kids Universe Poly OT8 x Reader 18+ MDNI

Warnings in the Series Masterlist as well as any other information needed

Warning: Smut First time I've ever written smut, so I'm sorry if it sucks (I'm updating the warnings in the series masterlist so this is the only other warning for smut from here on out)

Also want to let everyone know that with holiday seasons coming up, work is getting busier and I'm gonna be working more days than my normal here soon so it's gonna be a bit harder to write. I promise to update as often as possible and I'm gonna start adding dates next to the upcoming chapters in the masterlist on when they should be posted so refer to that.

thank you everyone for reading, now enjoy

Chapter 10

“How was it?” Jisung asks after Y/n walks out of the office he was waiting for her in front of as she was talking with her therapist and psychiatrist and he can see the signs that she’s been crying which doesn’t surprise him. 

“Weird.” She sniffles, wiping her nose with a tissue. “They asked me a lot of mental health questions mostly, and they want to put me on anti anxiety meds for sure and maybe antidepressants.”

“It’s not too bad.” He takes her hand to lead her back to the lobby where Chan is waiting for them. “I was put on the same when I first started coming here. Still take the anxiety ones actually.”

“Really?” She looks at him surprised. 

“Yeah.” He nods his head. “I was homeschooled as a kid so I didn’t socialize as much as I should have and it caused a lot of anxiety because of it. The only reason I know Chan and Changbin is because my dad worked for their dads originally. Really they were my only friends back then.”

“Good to know.” She nods, frowning. 

“What’s wrong?”

“I just realized I don’t actually know a lot about all of you guys, or how you all came to be.” She whispers, looking at the floor. 

“Well feel free to ask questions whenever, we‘ll be happy to answer.” He squeezes her hand as they walk out into the lobby and Chan looks up at them.

“You okay?” Chan stands as the two walk up to him and he pulls her into his side. 

“Yeah, it was just a lot.” She hands him the paper for her anti-anxiety prescription. 

The alpha looks over it and sighs but understands and reads the note about possible antidepressants but they want to have more sessions with her to determine that. 

“I’m gonna ask you like I had asked Ji when they wanted to prescribe him this too.” He moves her to look at him. “Do you want to be put on medication? Do you think it will actually help you?”

“I-I don’t know. I’ve never taken stuff like this before.” She stutters. “But I’m wary because of the injections.” She then looks over at Jisung. “Does it help you?”

“Yeah, I think so.” He smiles at her. “I feel like I’m able to get through the day easier with it. And don’t worry, it’s nothing like how the injection was.”

Y/n nods her head still thinking about it and Chan tilts her head to look up at him. “Hey, you can try them out for a bit and if you don’t like how they make you feel or don’t think they’re helping then we can slowly get you off of it.” He reassures her. “We did that with Jisung for his antidepressants.” 

“Okay.” She whispers. “I’ll try it.” 

Chan goes and gets the prescription sent in to be picked up at the pharmacy in Stayville and picks it up on their way home. 

⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆

“Baby girl.” Chan stops the omega as she walks past his room and motions for her to come in. “I’ve noticed you’ve been in your head since we got home, talk to me.” He shuts the door after she walks in.

She sighs as he leads her to sit on his bed. “I just realized today that I don’t actually know a lot about all of you.” 

“That’s all?” He watches her closely as she nods her head. “Baby, all you have to do is ask us questions and we’ll tell you anything you want to know.” 

“Can you tell me about your family and where you came from?” She asks shyly. “I remember Minho telling me that Hannah visits from Australia a lot. And Dr. Hajoon was calling you Chris.” 

“Yeah.” He smiles and laughs a little as he sits next to her. “My English name is Christopher. I was born here but was mostly raised in Australia. My dad went back and forth from there and here to help Changbin’s dad run the company. His dad retired so he and I handle the Korean office while my dad still runs the one there.”

The omega nods as she listens. “Your brother is an omega. What about Hannah? And your parents?”

“Lucas is our only omega in my family pack too.” He smiled at her. “My dad is an alpha and so is Hannah. My mom is a beta.”

“Would we ever be able to go visit Australia?” She whispers.

“Of course.” He lifts her head to look at him. “As a pack we own a vacation house there so that Felix and I are able to visit our families often.”

Y/n’s jaw dropped. “How did I not realize that Felix is also Australian?”

“I don’t know, baby.” He laughs a bit. “Felix and I have known each other since we were kids. I taught him Korean and after I had moved and gotten settled here with Changbin, Jisung and Seungmin we moved him here.” 

“Ji said you guys were the only friends he had since his dad worked for yours.” She looks over his facial features. “How did everyone else come into the pack?”

“Well, Seungmin and I went to high school together here. I was his senior.” He smiles as she listens closely. “He was a bit unsure of himself when he realized we were fated. I had to go up to him first and tell him about Changbin and Jisung, who I was living with and tell him about Felix back home.”

“Minho had run into Jisung at a caffe not far from the office. At the time Minho was a backup dancer for BTS but after meeting Ji and wanting to court him since he was his fated mate, he decided to stay in Seoul and started teaching dance. And Ji convinced him to meet the other four of us as he knew we were his fated mates too.”

“Min was a backup dancer for BTS?” Y/n gawks. “I don’t believe it.”

“Look up some of their live performances, you’ll see.” And she makes a mental note to do so later. “Hyunjin and Jeongin met each other in school and knew they were each other's fated mates. Hyunjin had started taking classes from Min and even though they both realized they were fated mates, Jinnie was too scared of Minho to talk to him about it and Min wasn’t about courting his student.”

Y/n couldn’t help but laugh at how cute the whole situation is. “So how did it finally happen?”

“Felix.” Chan smirks. “Changbin had dropped him off at the studio one day to bring Minho lunch and Hyunjin fell in love at first sight. After that Lix made Jinnie and Min talk and Hyunjin told them about Jeongin and they told him about the rest of us.”

“That’s all really cute.” The omega gushes. “Best story ever.”

“I don’t know.” He grins at her mischievously. “I think my favorite story is the one about how we met our omega.” He grabs her pulling her onto his lap so she’s straddling him causing her to blush.

“Channie.” She pouts as he holds her hips and Y/n can’t help but to glance down at his lips, thinking about what it would be like to kiss him.

Y/n starts to wonder if they’re gonna claim her soon or not, thinking back to what her brother had told her, about them possibly just using her.

“You’re thinking too much, baby girl.” The alpha grips her hips a bit tighter causing her to whine a little. “Just say it.”

“Please.” She looks back and forth from his eyes to his lips.

“You’ve gotta say it.” She continues to pout though and he lightly spanks her ass. “Come on baby, I don’t know what you’re wanting if you don’t speak up.”

“Please claim me, alpha.” She sounds disparate.

“Fuck.” He growls, pulling her down to kiss her lips. “Wasn’t expecting that.”

The kiss is heated and passionate, he smirks at the small wines she’s making. He spanks her again causing her to gasp and the alpha takes the opportunity to slide his tongue past her lips. She doesn’t try to fight back with her tongue, already submitting to him.

He pulls away from the kiss and starts trailing kisses down her jaw to her neck, relishing in the little sounds she makes. He groans into her neck when she bucks her hips against him, her nails digging into his shoulders. 

Chan buries his nose into her scent gland before switching their positions so she’s on the bed and he’s hovering above. One arm next to her head to keep himself up and the other lightly trailing up her bare thigh to the bottom of her skirt. 

“Are you sure about this, baby girl? Because once we start, I’m not stopping.” He looks into Y/n’s eyes, seeing how desperate and needy she already is as she nods her head. “Words baby, I need you to use your words.”

“Yes alpha, I’m sure.”

“Good girl.” He growls as he pushes her skirt up and cups her sex, feeling how damp her underwear is. “Fuck, my little omega, you’re already so wet.” 

Y/n covers her face with her hands in embarrassment as he continues to rub her through her panties letting out little whines and moans. 

“Don’t hide from me.” Chan grabs both of her wrists with one hand and moves them from her face and pins them above her head. “There she is, my beautiful girl.”

“Channie.” Y/n bucks her hips against his hand. “You’re teasing.”

“Am I?” He fake pouts at her before taking his hand away from her and she whines and squirms as he still holds her in place. “What’s wrong? I thought you didn’t want me to tease you? So I stopped.” 

“Chan, please.” And with a smirk at her begging he lets go of her wrists, moving his hands to her blouse and takes it off and raises a brow at her bare chest. “No bra? Tsk, naughty girl.”

“Took it off when we got home.” Y/n pants. “It was uncomfortable.” 

“Of course it was.” He coos, kissing her lips again and cups her boob, squeezing it a little before playing with her nipple. 

She arches her back, moaning into his mouth as she starts pulling at his shirt trying to get it off. Chan sits back pulling the shirt over his head and she ogles him, eyes roaming over every muscle of his torso. She then notices the bulge in his jeans, sitting up she unbuttons them as he smiles while watching her, helping take his pants off leaving him in his boxers. 

Chan grabs the waistband of her skirt, pulling it down along with her panties before pushing her to lay back down as he looks over her.

“You’re so beautiful.” He whispers, moving his fingers to play with her slit before pushing a finger in causing her to bite her lip. “You’re so tight, baby. If you can’t take my finger, how are you gonna take my cock?”

“I can take it.” The omega moans as he starts to finger her. “Please alpha, I can, I promise.”

“Let me prep you first.”

He pushes a second finger in and makes a come hither motion and she arches her back once again grabbing onto his arm as he speeds up his fingers. 

“Channie, please.” Y/n whimpers as he pulls his fingers out of her pussy, bringing his fingers to his mouth to taste her slick.

“Mmm, you tastes so good. Gonna have to eat you out sometime.” He wastes no time sliding his boxers off before leaning over her, lining up with her. “This might hurt a little, but I promise it will get better, just let me know if it gets to be too much.”

“Okay.” Y/m whispers and gasps when he starts to push in. 

When Chan feels some resistance he gives a hard thrust, completely bottoming out inside her causing her to moan a little in pain and pleasure. He stays still, looking at her face to check she’s okay and wipes away a tear from her eye.

“Does it hurt?”

“A little.” The omega whimpers before grinding against him. “Please move.”

Chan pulls out a bit before thrusting back in causing her to gasp again as he moves. Her expression soon changed from that of a bit of pain into pleasure.

“You’re so tight, baby girl.” He grunts as her hands go to his shoulders, claws coming out and start digging into his skins as she becomes a moaning mess under him.

“Please alpha, more.” And he speeds up his rhythm, rutting into her as he looks down to where they are connected seeing just how well she’s taking him. 

When he sees some blood, which shockingly didn’t make her feel bad for hurting her but turned him on more knowing he’s taken her innocence and now belongs to the pack, to him. The sight of it causes him to harden his thrust and he grabs her hands from his shoulders placing them next to her head and holds them.

“Channie… ah.” Y/n squeezes his hands, head turning to the side as her eyes close, her walls clamping around him.

“Fuck.” He growls, loving the sound her slick makes around his cock. “You close baby?”

She nods in desperation and the knot at the base of his cock starts to swell. “Please, Chan, so close. Want your knot, please. Please claim me.”

Chan nuzzles into her neck for a moment smelling at her scent gland before biting down hard, teeth breaking the skin as he tastes her blood. She screams and cums around him, shaking in pleasure, her juices squirting everywhere making a mess of both of them and the bed. She thought the bite would hurt but instead she just feels a flood of his love and emotions for her.

He stays latched onto her neck riding out her pleasure before his knot inflates all the way and he releases his load into her. His knot keeps him locked in as his cum fills her up, some spilling out around his cock. It isn’t until she’s milked him dry that he lets go of her neck, licking his lips of her blood.

Y/n gazes up at him looking fucked out as he lets go of one of her hands to push some of her hair out of her face. “You did so good, baby girl.”

“Wanna bite you too.” The omega whimpers as she tries to move but his knot still hasn’t softened, keeping him in place.

Chan leans down, giving her access to his neck, the side with only three mate marks and she bites down just under the bottom one. He groans in pleasure and lets her stay there as long as she wants. 

Once she lets go she looks up at him, eyes full of love. “My alpha.”

“That’s right baby.” He coos and kisses her lips. “I love you so much.”

“Love you too.”

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[thatonesonicfanfictionwriter]

could you please make a fanfic where the reader kills people for justice and shadow has mix feelings about it but shadow's words doesn't stop the reader?

ngl I feel like Shadow would try to stop reader in worry for them and less for the bad people

“I Worry for You”

Pairing: Shadow the Hedgehog x Reader

Requested: Yes (by an anon).

Description: You were never really seen as a hero. But that was fine with you; those villains didn’t deserve to live. But your partner wasn’t happy with that.

Notes: I am so very sorry these oneshots have taken so long! I hope I can make it up to you guys by posting a lot today! Hope you enjoy!

(Reader will be gender-neutral.)

(Not proof-read/beta-read.)

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“Anti-Hero.”

“Villain.”

“Murderer.”

Those were some of the names you had gotten used to hearing when you started as a hero.

Your favorite one?

“Cold-hearted monster.”

You were completely used to it, and you didn’t care. You were doing the world a service.

Besides; none of those murderers deserve to live. Especially since your parents were murdered in front of your eyes.

You swore vengeance for them, and you’ve been fighting crime ever since.

Granted, you only kill people that deserve it.

Robbers and thieves typically get thrown in jail.

Rapists, sexual assaulters, and murderers, though? Death.

A lot of people and mobians alike were scared of you.

One that wasn’t, though?

Shadow the Hedgehog.

At first, he tried to reason with you; to help you go down a better path.

But once he heard your story, he understood.

Now, in the present day, you and Shadow share an apartment as a couple, with Rouge and Omega in the apartment across from yours.

While relaxing on your couch, you turn on the news.

“Breaking news! Mass murderer “[Random Name]” has been found dead!” the news reporter says. “Could this be the work of the villain [Name]? Tune in for more tonight!”

You roll your eyes. That guy had it coming, murdering innocent kids for fun.

“As per usual, I’m painted as the villain,” you mutter.

“Don’t listen to what they say,” Shadow says. “Did this one deserve it, at least?”

“Look, everyone I kill deserves it,” you state. “This guy especially. If I hadn’t killed him, his prison mates would have instead.”

“Hm…Fair,” Shadow says. “What did he do?”

“Killed kids,” you state. “Dunno what his motive was if he had any, but even I wouldn’t stoop that low.”

“As much as I support you from afar, remember what you’re getting into, [Name],” Shadow says. “I’ll help you if need be, but know what you’re doing.”

“Thanks, Shads. Love ya,” you tell him.

“Love you too,” he states.

[dreamsteddie]

WIP Thursday??

I'm in a bit of a writing drought, not for lack of inspiration but for lack of time, so I thought I'd share a little snippet from my WIP for day one of @stmarchmm's March Mating Madness. The prompt is "Courting."

Thank you very much to @popmilky for creating the divider I am using

“Hey Buckley,” Eddie says sliding up to the girl where she’s packing up at the bleachers after practice. She gives him a scrutinizing look and clearly finds him lacking, squinting her eyes at him like he’s a little bug landed on her shoulder. Irritating and suspicious. Which, rude. “I was wondering if a fine lady like yourself would happen to know what one Steve Harrington might be hoping for in a courting” Robin clearly wasn’t expecting him to come right out and ask, her blue eyes going wide.

“What the fuck, Munson!” She crows, clearly embarrassed by his lack of tact.

“What!?” He fires back, not understanding what the big deal is. He wants to court Steve and Robin is the best source of information on how to go about it.

“You can’t just ask that, you doofus,” she hisses, lavender scent going smokey like brush fire.

“Why not? I want to court him, like, publicly. Everyone’s gonna know in a couple weeks anyway. Shouldn’t you be glad you’re the first to know?” He huffs. He knows it’s not exactly the done thing to go around telling people you’re going to court someone. You’re supposed to be delicate. Hint at it and build up little courting gifts and don’t look anyone in the eye. It’s dumb as hell and Eddie wants no part of it. Besides, so far as Eddie has seen, that method hasn’t worked on Steve anyway. Eddie may as well go about this in his own way, which includes getting insider information.

Still clearly not impressed, Robin says “You? You want to court Steve? Resident anti-conformist, jock-hating, Eddie Munson wants to court Steve Harrington. Why?” Her tone is clearly disbelieving, which, again, rude.

“Uh, I mean, have you seen him with those kids? He’s wicked hot with that whole mom thing he’s got going on.” At that, Robin gags. “And, I mean, I know he’s a jock but he’s also an Omega and he pretty much said fuck it to Hawkin’s High when he presented and refused to give up his position as captain. That was super fucking metal,” he says all earnest.

“And I like the way he smells, like a fresh cinnamon roll. And we shared an English class once and he asked me about the doodle of a Beholder I worked on instead of taking notes. And I know I’m not exactly a prime Alpha but I don’t think that really matters. At least not to me. I want to kiss him and make sweet love to him and have babies with him and -” Robin cuts him off with a hand over his mouth.

“Ok, I get it. You like him.” She says that, but she’s still looking at him like she can’t figure him out. “Alright…I don’t know if I like you Eddie but I’ll throw you a bone. Just one, got it? And if you fuck it up, I’m not helping you again.” She says, waiting for him to nod before removing her hand from his mouth.

Eddie takes a deep, overdramatic breath in like he’s just breached water. “Got it.”

Robin takes a deep breath of her own. “Steve’s been propositioned for courting 12 times since he presented and he’s only said yes to one. One-off dates not included.” She hasn’t stopped looking him straight in the eye, making sure he pays attention. “Nancy gave him a set of handwritten notes for history because she noticed he was struggling. All the other Alphas got him fancy jewelry, useless house stuff, and generic valentine's day crap.” With that, she gives him one last, long look before grabbing her trumpet and leaving, the sound of metal clanging under her feet following in her wake.

“Thanks, Buckey!” He calls out, waving his hand wildly at her retreating back. She ignores him.

Well, no matter.

He’s got a courting to plan.

[synthient]

Mirror Theory and Reality War

Here's a lens for reading Doctor Who series 15:

"Mirror," as I use it here, means a side character who reflects some key aspect of a main character. This is a useful technique for revealing or foreshadowing something about that main character which would otherwise be hidden.

Every episode of this season has featured a mirror that reflects...let's call them Character X, for the moment.

I say "a" mirror, but each mirror of Character X so far has actually been a double-mirror - either two personas of the same person (like Alan and AI Generator), or two characters who are literally different people, but metaphorically kind of the same person (like Omo and Adétòkunbo, aka the barber and the Barber).

If we examine each mirror, it will tell us something about the finale.

The Robot Revolution's mirror: Alan/AI Generator

Beneath that scary mask, there's a Man Behind The Curtain. It's your shitty high school boyfriend, and he wants you to marry him.

Lux's mirror: Lux as Mr. Ring-a-Ding/Lux as Helen Pye

There's a monster, and you can't stop feeding it. It's an evil cartoon, but sometimes it takes the form of your dead wife. If it tried to leave its tiny prison, the world outside would destroy it. It still wants to be free. It will encourage you to destroy yourself freeing it, so you can burn together. It will do this by saying "Find me."

The Well's mirror: Aliss/It Has No Name

One person made it out of the massacre. She's the survivor, and she's the killer. It would be simpler if you could separate the two out - victim and monster, light and shadow. But you can't. She killed, and she survived, and she exposed her homeworld to contamination, and she wants to see her daughter again.

Lucky Day's mirror: Conrad (undercover) and Conrad (unmasked)

Your perfect new boyfriend is lying to you. He has an agenda. He wants to supplant your reality, to be the one telling the story. And he didn't take the antidote.

The Story & the Engine's mirror: Omo (the barber)/Adétòkunbo (the Barber)

He is not a god. He's lying! It's true, through, that he's responsible for the gods' power. That they exploited him and denied him credit. That one of the gods was an abusive parent to his partner. But even if his revenge quest nearly destroyed the world, maybe he doesn't need to die for his sins. Maybe he just needs a new start, and a new name.

The Interstellar Song Contest's mirror: Kid/Wynn

Is the Doctor right? Is Kid just a monster who loves to kill? Or is he missing vital context? (Also, did Cora and Wynn have a little bit of a lesbian thing going on? And if Wynn and Kid are metaphorically the same person, then why did they make out?)

Wish World: Mrs. Flood/The Rani

We went to high school together. People said we were lovers - can you remember if that's true? We should be friends. It's just you and me, we're the last ones left.

Does all of this feel...familiar?

Discussion questions:

Is there a Man Behind The Curtain? Is someone lying about being a god? If so, who is it?

We keep bringing up the destruction of the time lords. We also keep bringing up a motif of "contamination," refused antidotes, a sickness that spreads. Could those two things be connected? How?

Omega is trapped in the anti-matter universe. If he tried to leave, the world outside would destroy him. What might that mean for our story? What different endings have been offered for our mirrors?

Who is The One Who Is Lost? Does that sound a bit like "find me"? How might the two be related?

If the Rani's plan was to make the Doctor doubt, then why was Rogue's message also about getting the Doctor to doubt? How could Rogue have known that the tables were doing that?

Alan wants a wedding. In what other context have weddings come up recently?

There has been a lot of focus in this run on puns, anagrams, and meaningful names. What kind of name-reveal do you think this story might be able to get out of the name Omega? (Hint: O Mega)

Who is Character X?

[lovestuckstarz]

Since I'm too sick to draw him here's a little thing about my little guy, Berry!

This AU is just called Bad Dads AU, nothing fancy but its essentially a multiverse where Berry never aged to an adult as a genocide happened far before Chara fell and Core Frisk to the OT and the MTT just yoinked him

Heres just a big copy paste from the unfinished carrd :3

P.S. if you draw him i will cry

🥕 Berry is from an Underswap timeline that was doomed from the start. A human fell down before Chara would and did an all complete genocide route minus Berry himself.

🥕 Core Frisk then took Berry to the Omega timeline. Berry was around 4 at this time.

🥕 Months later after Berry turned 5, the Murder Time Trio appeared needing some healing help after a mission. Dust spotted Berry and since he had never seen a kid Sans like this, he asked Core Frisk what his deal was.

🥕 Dust, who shockingly was good with kids, had Berry hang out with the three until they were properly healed. Berry seemed to like Dust so Core Frisk allowed it.

🥕 What Core Frisk didn't allow or expect was the three to kidnap him and bring him back to Nightmare's castle. Their motive was solely because they had their own troubled up bringing, they resonated with Berry and knew no one could understand him besides them most likely.

🥕 Despite this belief, Berry does not remember anything but knew he had an older brother but doesn't even remember his name.

🥕 Nightmare was unaware of Berry's existence for a whole two weeks, assuming the boys just bought a dog until one morning he walked in on Berry eating cereal in the living space.

He reluctantly agreed to keeping Berry there

🥕 Overtime Berry met Error who became his 5th honorary dad due to Nightmare's relationship with Error.

🥕 Saejun would become his 6th honorary dad once Murder Time Trio takes him to Farmtale the first time.

🥕 Cross becomes more like a older brother to Berry over time and is why Berry likes tacos. In turn this would make Epic family as well to him

🥕 Ink, Dream, and Fresh would all become his uncles when they went to the anti void and caught Error and Berry watching undernovela.

About Berry in general:

🥕 Berry's timeline is Underswap #33

🥕 Berry does not remember his Papyrus

🥕 The only thing he has left of Papyrus is the bracelet he never takes off

🥕 When the genocide occurred he was 4 years old

🥕 He is 5 years old when the Murder Time Trio kidnap him from the Omega Timeline

🥕 He has ADHD and HPD

🥕 He sleeps in Nightmare's room for the first few months due to not being able to sleep well plus they needed to set him up a bed room

🥕 He can barely read but not write

🥕 Dust calls him Kiddo

🥕 Killer calls him Bunbun

🥕 Horror calls him Bluebell

🥕 When playing pretend they all call him whatever he wishes for that day

🥕 He is home schooled

🥕 His room is space and bunny themed

🥕 He gets agitated if they make him wear anything but his shoes with the paws on the bottom

🥕 He likes watching the boys spar

🥕 He likes bunnies

🥕 He loves space

🥕 His favorite family member is Error because his sneaks him sweets from Underfell

🥕 His least favorite family member is Ink because of his dads

🥕 He hates being alone

🥕 He likes school because his dads make it fun

🥕 He likes to draw a lot

🥕 He loves swimming and water in general

🥕His favorite location is Nightmare's garden

🥕 He loves being read stories

🥕 He loves playing dress up and his dads are more than willing to comply

🥕 He doesn't like talking about what happened because he doesnt remember so it stresses him out

🥕 He loves hide and seek but the paw's on the bottoms of his shoes him away

Family Dynamics

🥕 Nightmare and him have an odd relationship. Think of it like how a dad says they hate the family dog but spoils them. He says he could care less about Berry but spoils him and puts him before the boys. He also reads to Berry a lot and helps him with schooling.

🥕 Error doesn't like kids due to canonically not liking intense emotions such as crying but over time has gotten use to Berry. Also their love of sweets and space sort of helped Error find a way to make him not as upset.

🥕 Killer and Dust are pretty one in the same as Killer isn't to be trusted around Berry due to being a dumbass with knives and Nightmare doesn't want him to accidentally do something stupid on top of how Killers stages can be. Due to this, Dust and Killer are usually with him at the same time and usually watch TV with him and let him watch them fight one another. They also are bad influences on him.

🥕 Horror isn't that keen on kids like Error but that is because I love big Horror so he's more scared he's gonna pull a Mice of Men and accidentally hurt Berry. They do cook together from time to time, mainly just Berry watching. Berry also uses Horror to threaten those he doesn't like LOL

🥕 Cross is like a older brother to Berry, often getting him not to do stupid stuff Killer and Dust try and get him to do. They mainly just chill and Cross is like those two but not as chaotic.

🥕 Epic is just that cool annoying uncle to him, nothing more nothing less

🥕 Fresh is also this but Berry likes Fresh more

🥕 Dream is also like an Aunt to Berry (I love you trans fem dream) and hangs out with Berry if things at Nightmare's gets too chaotic and Nightmare needs at least one kid out of his tendrils. Berry is honestly the reason these two can even be in a room together mainly on Nightmares end since he wants Berry to be better than them. Berry likes Dream's positivity powers though and I like to think she can make little sparkles out of it and he gets excited over it.

🥕 He hates Ink for literally no reason but because his Bad Sans family telling him to LMAO

🥕 Saejun and him have a sweet relationship due to Berry liking bunnies so let's him take care of them if Horror brings him over and they pick berries together (heh).

[olderthannetfic]

I have so much respect for writers who go against the grain and write " problematic" concepts. Not in the " anti woke" way, but in the " this trans man was transed as a kid as a part of an experiment and what if he detransed now that his duty is dead" or " lesbian couple of omegas have to deal with having a male alpha and how that dynamic affects them"

I feel, and I've also fallen prey to " this HC is popular so I'll add it in anyway" and i know how reluctant and even agressive fandom can get when you go against it. Hell, I've seen fanartists put 1001 disclaimers that a selfie of a male and female chara us 100% platonic for fear of getting hounded by the fand ( toh)

So yeah, i just love it when writers take a concept and explore it, even if it's " problematic"

--

[newx-menfan]

Why Hellion Going Evil in NYX Makes Total Sense

(Finally posting it since I get Q’s a lot about why I am fine with “EVVIIILLLL Hellion”… might do a “second part” to go more into WHY Hellion is different from the rest of the NXM)

I have seen a lot of people argue that Hellion going bad feels WRONG ( https://screenrant.com/marvel-krakoan-hellion-mutant-villain-fan-reaction/)…. AND listened to the Cerebro podcast and others mention that they would have liked to see other NXM characters “Go Bad” as well…

Yet fundamentally…I don’t see characters like “Elixir” or “Surge” or “Wallflower” going down the same path despite the same amounts of trauma��because frankly… I just think there’s just something DIFFERENT about Julian…

Nor do I see NYX as completely a “betrayal of his character”…

Hellion, for better or worse…has a personality and sort of rebelliousness, that taking this kind of path…just kind of makes sense….

So here’s a write-up on *WHY* I think Hellion going rogue, objectively, makes the MOST sense:

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“The Tower”… or why Hellion ISN’T Quentin 

Often when talking about Julian…people KIND of just write him off as simply “privileged white male…sexist…Marvel’s version of Draco Malfoy”….

While he OFTEN gets compared to Quentin Quire- I would argue the whole POINT of Kid Omega was that he was the “anti-Kitty”. The darker version on “the gifted kid”.  The character that brutally represented the flaw of being highly intelligent and thinking of yourself as “mature” when you’re still just a teenager… but whose emotional intelligence and development is still lagging painfully behind. 

Quentin was the “true-r” version to the saying, “too smart for your own good”…

Hellion, in contrast…has a bit more vague sort of a flaw.

He is more “lost” than Quentin. Hellion constantly questions and examines the “social order” of the X-Men. He debates more on what is “moral” and “what is crossing the line” and has more of a “morality crisis” than QQ.

He wants free will. 

We see it in “Mercury Falling”- Julian OBVIOUSLY weighs Laura’s plea to kill Kimura…he just ultimately decides that it doesn’t align with his core values. The same thing happens with the King Maker; Hellion ultimately rejects a life of “Fame and Glory” because doing “what is morally right” matters more.

Julian is truly radical in the way that QQ isn’t, in the fact that Hellion always BELIEVES in what he is saying.

Quentin, in my opinion …is often more “contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian”; you aren’t ever FULLY sure WHAT Quentin believes. He will say whatever will get a RISE out of someone…even if he doesn’t actually believe it.

Julian, is on some level ALWAYS TRUTHFUL…even when he is being brutally mean. He is a character that, for better or worse, will never lie to you. 

Julian also objectively HAS a greater emotional intelligence than Quentin and we see it CONSTANTLY; Julian can be nurturing and a good friend. He is VERY in touch with his emotions…sometimes in a very negative way. 

Where Quentin tries to kind of “divorce” himself from his emotions or downplay them…Julian is a tidal wave of feelings.

Julian is ALWAYS 100% himself.

I think the BEST comparisons to Hellion…would be “Melchior Gabor” from the play and musical “Spring Awakening”, “Don Quixote”by Miguel de Cervantes, or “Jason” from the myth “Jason and Argonauts”…

Julian is more akin to a traditional kind of “tragic hero”; he’s more similar to characters like Oedipus or Othello, than more “modern” character types like Quentin…

In BOTH the play and musical adaption, Melchior’s radical curiosity, rejection of social norms and rejection of religion affect others lives around him; Melchior, while a LIKABLE and sometimes HUMBLE person; fails to consider that other people may have different feelings and beliefs than his own…

Melchior’s fatal flaw isn’t so much his intellect… it’s his emotions, his boredom, and his arrogance. It’s his self-absorption. 

Don Quixote flat out ruins his life to uphold some unrealistic version of chivalry; refusing again and again to listen to Sancho, the Barber, or the Priest…

Jason’s flaw in the Greek epic myth, is obviously his pride. His NEED to be RIGHT and that NEED often obscuring everything else…Jason is CONSISTENTLY BLINDED by the idea that what he is doing IS RIGHT and everyone, including Medea, should just automatically fall in line…

The definition of “Ego” is- a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.

"a boost to my ego"…

The definition of “Pride”, in comparison, is a bit more complex- a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.

"the team was bursting with pride after recording a sensational victory"

The fundamental difference is that an egotistical person BELIEVES they are naturally superior to others…a prideful person WORKS to be superior to others…

Wounding the Ego is a wounding of the “head”…wounding of Pride is a wounding of the “heart”…

Quentin’s greatest flaw is 100% ego…he sees himself as “intellectually” and “evolutionarily” superior…anyone or thing that threatens that belief…gets verbally CUT DOWN!

Julian, in contrast, is just plain PRIDEFUL. Julian on his WORST days is more akin to Don Quixote stabbing at windmills than intellectual elitism.

Hellion fixates on WHO he associates with to an unhealthy degree. If you’re deemed “worthy”, you have his undying loyalty…if you’re deemed “unworthy”…well, get ready for him to be the biggest DICK imaginable to you…

A good example of this was his friendship with Elixir- when he SAW Josh as “heroic”, he was VERY complimentary and supportive TO Josh… 

When Julian found out Josh was an ex-Reaver… that he didn’t MATCH up with Julian’s sense of SELF and IDEALS…he turned completely, refusing to even hear Josh out…

Hellion was ESPECIALLY NASTY to David, in PART, because Julian sees DAVID as someone who didn’t EARN his intelligence…he didn’t EARN his spot in the X-Men…(David IS obviously intelligent but Julian adamantly refuses to admit it!) 

Hellion in the Hellions book REPEATEDLY MENTIONS his parents being new money and self sufficient- he feels PRIDE that his parents built a successful life and business from nothing; that turns out to be TOTALLY UNTRUE, but it STILL SPEAKS to Julian’s core psychology. Julian PRIDES hard work and essentially people “going their own way”…

Hellion FIXATES on winning that damn trophy…on accomplishing THAT achievement…

When Emma has Surge lead- it’s not his EGO that’s injured, (he still fully believes he’s the better choice)…it’s his PRIDE…it’s his ACCOMPLISHMENT that is “stolen”…

He loves Laura… until she essentially turns on him over Karima and acts cold and distant to him…establishing herself as “just like everyone else” and is no longer on the pedestal he put her on in his mind…  

In many ways, I would say PRIDE is a much NASTIER flaw.

The tragedy of ego is its a state of constant suffering; Morrison’s QQ is tragic in the scenes where he’s talking to Beast about fear of growing up or when he’s high on “kick”, because inevitably Quentin will always somewhat suffer from insecurity and doubt in himself. His sense of self is always in turmoil and dependent on his intelligence and powers.

Julian has for the most part, a good sense of self-esteem. Sure, it sometimes takes a couple hits; but for the most part, he is fairly confident in himself.

Julian’s flaw is he believes in himself A LITTLE TOO MUCH. He is TOTALLY blinded by his own self-assurance.

Melchior in the play and musical ends up blamed for Moritz death and expelled; his actions lead to Wendla’s death, and the play ends with him haunted by remorse and debating about killing himself….

Jason in the myth ends up with Medea killing his bride, his children, and dies after falling out of favor with Hera for abandoning Medea…

Don Quixote forswears his chivalrous beliefs and dies alone from a fever..

Julian IS, in some ways MORE INSUFFERABLE because you are dealing with someone who lives by A VERY SOLID CODE. There is no “negotiating” with Julian. 

Instead of insecurity and the “God Complex” Kid Omega has- Julian is constantly afflicted with a “Savior/Hero Complex”. He is CONSTANTLY putting himself and others on an UNREALISTIC pedestal, that is doomed at always tip over and fall. 

If Hellion was a tarot card…it would undoubtedly be “the Fool” or “the Tower”…not because he’s stupid…but because he is perpetually blinded by his own pride and assurance that things will go how he WANTS them to GO…

Idealism can very quickly turn into foolishness, recklessness, or being gullible…

Resisting change can quickly turn into upheaval and disaster…

It admittedly… makes total SENSE that a hard core Savior Complex would go completely array…and end up as a sort of “Magneto”. 

[demonslayerunhinged]

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[britcision]

Can I inflict a thought on you?

Apiary dynamics dungeon meshi party. It's an affliction that's technically non-human in origin. It makes all of their specific tendencies even worse. They can only separate so far. Everyone can only deal with some of the consequences.

-Faer

👀

I mean I’m chewing my way slowly through the omegaverse version so it’s not out of my way

(The elves have weaponized their omegas’ “if the fight gets to us it’s to the death IMMEDIATELY” lack of chill to form the Canaries)

I gotta do a rerun through the levels but off the top of my head I am gonna start unconventional

Chilchuck’s the queen

It’s his dad energy. He doesn’t necessarily accept anyone he works with into the hive, but all the half-foots are his and hooboy does it make him cranky to be away from the guild HQ

But he couldn’t let any of his people go down to the dungeon as deep as Laios and Falin were planning, so he dusted off his gear and assumed it’d be quick

Except

Falin caught Apiary

And Chilchuck has not yet worked out how to get her into his hive-union cuz she’s definitely not a half-foot, but the adoption process already started

(Godiva’s tempting for Falin with her healing to have the nurse/caretaker role, but she’s just so bonk happy I’m going with Arcadia. She likes to go and collect things and gather up the bugs and bring people snacks, she basically did not notice any change

She’s just. Slightly more insistent that people eat the things she brings them. And more likely to run off after shiny things)

None of them know Chilchuck’s a queen, and at first it was only Falin so he was just Suffering but making do

But Falin died

And that’s his goddamn hivemate he’s not going anywhere like it or not - maybe being estranged from his bio kids (they did not agree to move and join the union and he’s. Not up to trying to persuade them.) makes him overly aggressive, or just overly protective and unusually likely to risk himself rather than his hivemates

(He’s still not goddamn fighting and you can���t make him this is what he has hivemates for!)

Senshi is sitting on the Arcadia/Godiva line too, because he is a hive of one but did not question why he fell so easily in with Laios (Chilchuck’s) group

(Chilchuck is not sure how he keeps acquiring all these other definitely-not-half-foots as hivemates (it’s because you keep leaving the hive and miss your kids sir you’re pack bonding with rocks) but dammit he’s got another one)

Marcille and Laios don’t catch apiary until they get hit with the dryad spores in the dungeon’s depths, but they’re both Ivanhoes so there are no immediate consequences if you don’t count them both suddenly getting way more protective of the others

Izutsumi is Izutsumi

Both Flokes are Godiva, Tansu’s the queen and yes this is why they acquire new grandbabies so readily

And because I’m Basic™️, the Canaries!

Cithis is not apiary but she can and will steal every single fucking hive she sees, immaculate queen vibes

Lycion’s a Godiva, natural caretaker who is the tank pretty much by default so he gets antsy when he has to do combat chores rather than tending to his hive

Fleki isn’t apiary but she’s godiva-sexual because godDAMN she needs someone competent to take care of her and she likes belonging

Otta has had shots to prevent catching apiary but they make her read like a Libertine (drone) to the other bees. She is very okay with this

Pattadol has only just got her anti-apiary shots but it might be too late for her tbh

Flamela’s a Quixote, she caught it from her twin after they got a visit from the capital (mmmmmm high rates of apiary among noble elves? Maybe?), her twin was being raised to be the next queen but Flamela’s just waaaaaaay too aggressive and wants to stab everything

This makes it significantly harder for her to work with Mithrun, who was a Quixote before he got broken by the demon and is now a deeply fucked up little Godiva

(because he really does try and save every single dungeon lord. All of them. He wants to help them, get them away and let them recover too. And if they won’t he’ll kill them)

This leads to them butting heads all the harder because Flamela’s instincts insist Mithrun should be the one sticking behind her and letting her go do the dangerous shit, but all of their orders INSIST Mithrun go running face first into danger and she has to hang back

And neither of them are gonna disobey the queen but Mithrun’s just not particularly connected to his gender for anything except the dungeon lords, so he doesn’t act like a Godiva except when he’s around a dungeon, and then he’s full Mama Bear and you stay the fuck outta his way until he determines if this dungeon lord is Baby (to be saved) or Toast

(He still doesn’t feel any of his apiary needs either, but the squad try and feed those for him by eating in front of him and taking care of him alongside their own care routines, so they can make sure he’s alright and he can see they are too

Most of that falls on Lycion as their other Godiva but it feeds his gender needs too so it all works out)

Milsiril’s actually secretly winning the record for Most Broken Godiva though (she hoards children, easy) because she constantly craves a caregiving role, but her own special brand of dungeon PTSD and asocial personality disorder make it extremely hard for her to actually form the interpersonal bonds that would make it satisfying for her

So her serial-parenting of shorter lived folks gets drastically worse, she’s the most helicopter of helicopter parents, and occasionally (regularly) leaves any trip to town with more kids than she started with

Milsiril is no longer allowed to go into town

She also absolutely did try and kidnap Mithrun into her hive rather than letting him go to fight the demon, it was 1000% a trap but because she can’t form bonds well and Mithrun can’t form bonds at all he basically wandered off one day while the kids were being noisy and they both forgot about the whole thing

Milsiril doesn’t remember it until Kabru mentions meeting Mithrun after everything’s over so she does make another vague ploy to kidnap him but Mithrun’s busy making noodles with Senshi and doesn’t notice

Kabru has had every apiary shot and takes his meds every day he is NOT catching what Milsiril got… but he’s real good at spotting it in others and playing it up

Edit: for anyone wondering about apiary:

@faeriekit I dunno if you expected this much but if not you should have by now 😅

[nihildenial]

The Ghoul Squeak by nihil-denial

Rating: Gen Audiences

Tags: Fluff and Crack, Soft Papa Emeritus IV, Nameless Ghouls Act Like Cats

Summary: The Nameless Ghouls are restless when not able to go outdoors to exercise and play. Copia wants to help them, but how can he when an expensive treadmill doesn't work for their needs? Copia will need his brother's help to solve it, though the answer might come from a smaller, cuter source...

WC: 3200ish

Copia smiled as he sipped his kid-temperature latte, relaxing in his patio chair. The sky was clear above him and the sun was out, making the October day a little less chilly. Today he had claimed a good rest day for the entire ministry to enjoy the outdoors before snow dominated the Massachusetts weather for the next few months.

All four Papa’s packs of Nameless Ghouls were out playing in the abbey’s massive acre plot. Their chatter, wrestling, and general frolicking were a wonderful white noise to the current anti-Pope. They sounded so happy.

Phantom, Aurora, and Sunshine, in their somewhat recently made carbon-based life forms, were currently discovering the wonders of the game of Tag. It was a tie over which ghoul was the better evader, as Phantom had the stride length advantage, Aurora was able to predict where each Ghoul was hiding, and Sunshine’s use of her element made her faster.

Phantom yelps as Aurora jumps to slap at his ankle that was accidentally hanging out of the tree in her line of sight.

“Tag! You’re it!” She jogs off towards the trees that surround Vengeance Lake.

The Quintessence Ghoul hops down and scans the shrubbery that leads into the abbey. All he sees is Copia in his lawn chair with a blanket over his lap, Omega and Secondo playing chess at a garden table nearby, and Terzo doing yoga in one of the sunbeams.

He remembers Sunshine went that way but the thought of getting revenge on Aurora was too tantalizing. He drops to his hands and knees and gallops towards the lake.

“Thanks, Papa,” Sunshine giggles and pops out of her hiding place under his chair. Her exposed Ghoul form meant she radiated extreme heat and she acted almost as a space heater while she used him as cover.

“Of course, my dear. Thank you for warming up these old bones.” He kisses her cheek before she trots off.

“Did they have this much energy with you two?” Copia asks out loud.

Secondo curses as Omega takes his rook. “Not really. Omega had them housetrained by the time we became a pack.”

The large Ghoul’s tail wags at the memory. “It was pretty calm until Mist and Pebble. Pebble is a somehow more reckless version of Phantom. I was never interested in running as a pastime.”

“They do it quite a lot…” Copia mumbles. “I feel awful when they’re stuck indoors. The treadmill has not been welcomed.”

He’s referring to the extremely expensive treadmill placed in the common area of the ghoul den for snowy/stormy days when even the Ghouls connected to the extreme elements didn’t want to go outside. On days like that, the restless energy builds until the demons are basically whining and bouncing-off-the-walls toddlers. The era IV ghouls are especially energetic and it’s getting to the point where they can’t go 24 hours without dropping glamour and going on long runs around the property.

Sister Imperator thought the treadmill was too expensive until a restless Swiss accidentally ran into her while running laps of the cloister. She had ordered it before Swiss had the chance to bring her a new cup of coffee.

Unfortunately, the device has not gone over well. It’s awkwardly placed by the kitchenette and partly blocks some of the den nest. Swiss took a liking to it, using it eagerly but the motor emitted a high frequency that gave poor Phantom and Aurora migraines.

Rain complained that the hard surface of the machine compared with the moving rubber track was too bouncy, causing his hips to ache.

Having it so close to the nest meant that those trying to sleep would be kept away by the sounds of exercise, and that Phantom and Aurora couldn’t be present when someone was using it. It was also too small of a footboard for Mountain to use.

Now it sits unused.

“I’m not sure what to do,” Copia finishes his thought lamely.

A squeak got his attention. Over in a little fenced away sat Zephyr and Rain playing with a few of Copia’s rats running around in plastic hamster balls. The rats were also excited to be outside, though there have been some sharp-eyed hawks circling above, so unfortunately Copia didn’t feel safe letting them free roam.

Zephyr laughs as Rigatoni rolls around them in the grass, the rat pausing to nibble at the dandelions that pop through the ball’s gaps. “They really love to run for such potato-shaped creatures.”

“You could say the same thing about Swiss,” Rain grins. “What if we just put Swiss in a giant hamster ball?”

“That would be a disaster. Giving Swiss an object to hurl himself around in? He’d turn it into a wrecking ball,” Omega moves another piece, effectively checkmating Secondo.

Secondo huffs and hands over a $50 bill. He stands and walks back into the abbey, cursing under his breath.

Omega stretches his arms over his head, a shit-eating grin on his handsome face. “Hey baby, I scored us money to go get gelato.”

Terzo’s mismatched eyes pop open. He scrambles to untangle his legs from his yoga pose and eagerly follow his loyal partner back to the abbey.

“I want some!” Copia calls after them. Terzo simply ignores him.

-

With his two elder brothers being of no help at all, Copia seeks out Primo. The Ghouls retire for dinner, the massive group heading into the dining hall for community spaghetti night. Copia makes sure to saddle up to Primo as they’re lining up for plates.

“Buon pomeriggio, Copia,” The eldest brother greets warmly. His Hawaiian shirt is dirty with soil and wet with hose water.

“Good evening, Primo. How is the garden doing?”

He sighs fondly. “We have a hearty amount of radishes left to harvest tomorrow, but other than that the main garden will be dormant from now until February. I left some beets in your room for your little friends.”

Copia blinks, “That’s so nice, thank you, I know they will enjoy them. Speaking off little friends…” He trails off as they look for a place to sit and talk. Once they find a table by some Brothers talking quietly, he continues, “I need help finding something to help the Ghouls exercise indoors.”

“Is the treadmill unfit?” Primo asks.

“Si, there are little issues that overall have made it unworkable for most of them except Swiss and Alpha. I’m a little lost because it was so expensive and I doubt cheaper ones will be any better.”

Primo eats his pasta with a pensive look on his face. “Perhaps you are thinking of the ghouls too literally. They have animal forms, yes?”

“I mean, they could transform to exercise, but from what Aether was telling me it expends the wrong kind of energy. They need to run off physical energy and not elemental.”

Primo eats another forkful, somehow graceful with the sauced noodles. “If only they were the size of your poccoli topi. When I looked after them during the Re-Impera tour, they were on that exercise wheel non-stop.”

Copia chews thoughtfully, “Do they make human-sized rat exercise wheels?”

“Perhaps. I know there’s one at the Science Museum. It would be a good solution; not a treadmill but still able to run them.”

He pulls out his phone and types into Google some search words. A ton of images of blow-up and plush ‘zorb’ing balls fill his screen. “Not many I can find that seem sturdy.”

“It could be a project for the Ghouls to make? Mountain and Omega love building forts and cabins out in the woods.”

Copia nods, “I’ll talk to them. Thank you for letting me ramble through all this.”

Primo smiles warmly at him. “It’s worth it to see how much you love them, and how they love you. I wish I had thought to have a connection with them all those years ago.”

-

It takes the entirety of October, November, and December for the crafty ghouls to create two oversized hamster wheels. Because of Mountain, Aether, and Alpha’s large frames, the wheels are actually twice the size of ones created for humans.

Copia took in the shining metal and wooden contraptions with pride in his soul. All of the ghouls had some hand in either the design or construction of them. “They are stunning! A true machine made for and by the best of infernals.”

Phantom vibrates in his place beside Copia, finally breaking loose and hopping on the slightly smaller wheel, using his four long limbs to gallop. A loud squeak fills the air as he runs.

Everyone covers their ears.

“Sheesh, we need to fix that one up,” Alpha groans.

Copia nods, “Nothing a little oil can’t help. My only issue is…where will they go? They cannot stay on the terrace, since we made them to be used inside.”

Mountain bites his lip and pulls out an extra-long tape measure. He goes around the two wheels and mumbles measurements to Zephyr.

“Yeah…that’s a full ten inches too tall to comfortably be used in the den. It would rub against the ceiling, not to mention too wide for the crypt staircase.”

“How did we forget to measure it?” Omega facepalms.

“I was so excited about the wood for the track…” Pebble admits. “I might’ve erased the measuring task off the whiteboard so we could go chop down the lumber faster.”

Copia sighs, “Pebble…That was very irresponsible. Is there anywhere else they would fit?”

Zephyr consults the architectural plan of the abbey. “The only other place I can think of right now is the main sanctuary, right behind the entrance doors. The balcony of the organ is more than tall enough to accommodate both sizes of the wheels. And, the spiral staircase wouldn’t be in the way. It could work.”

“Let’s try it; but we must be quiet, I need a way to somehow spin this into a good thing when Sister finds out where they’re going.”

-

By the time Mountain, Omega, Alpha, Chain, and Aether have carried the giant exercise machines to the cathedral’s nave, Copia has still not come up with a good reason to tell Sister Imperator. In any case, the two wheels fit perfectly on either side of the nave’s double doors and under the ornate balcony that held the Special Ghoul’s ancient pipe organ.

Sister Imperator’s first deal of business when she became Head Sister was to completely redesign the main sanctuary. Any slight decoration change, paint color, wood repair, or even altar flower arrangement had to be personally approved by her.

Copia allowing them to move these industrial wheels into her detailed aesthetic space was asking for a tongue-lashing.

To make sure they both work still, Copia watches as Alpha happily tests them out. It works perfectly. However, the smaller one stil has the horrid squeak. Aether applies more oil to the hinges and the group heads to dinner.

“Good evening, C and Ghouls,” Copia flinches as Sister Imperator is waiting for them at the doorway to the dining hall. Her gray pantsuit is traded for a pair of jeans and a black turtleneck. “May I ask where you have been tonight?”

Copia meets Aether’s gaze nervously, but all the Quintessence Ghoul does is shrug helplessly. “We were testing out the new Ghoul machines. We call them…uh, ‘Gwheels.’”

“That’s what made you late for dinner? You’re usually the first in line. Anyways, I am glad that the wheel project is finished. I’m sure they are wonderful machines.”

“Yes, they are.”

She nods, “So I assume since there are two machines, the treadmill will have to be moved for them to fit in the den, yes?”

“Er--yes, Sister.” A cold sweat breaks over his brow. Did she see them moving? Cumulus was their lookout and never reported the woman left her office while they were on the move.

“I was wondering if I could take the machine.”

Copia immediately takes an internal sigh of relief. She simply wanted the expensive treadmill and was not worried about the wheels after all. “Of course, Sister. It is a good item and you did technically purchase it.”

She nods, “Good. I’ll be down in the morning to have Special and Cowbell move it out and see these new Gwheels.”

-

Copia is a lucky bastard or he somehow received a special blessing from Lucifer because Sister Imperator gets engrossed in a meeting with Cardinal Tobias for most of the day. By the time she gets out, it’s time for Sunday Black Mass.

Copia sees it as a good thing because she would never lash out during her favorite activity, especially if Copia did well in his sermons. So, he and the Ghouls dress for the special mass and head to the sanctuary. They line up outside the nave’s double doors with the retired Papas behind the Ghouls.

Sister Imperator stands in front of Primo with Papa Nihil, her face still relaxed with the upcoming rites she loves so much.

Copia tries not to let his worry show.

The doors open and the ghouls begin singing Infestissumam’s choir as the processional begins. All of them find their seats, with the Ghouls looping around the pews back towards the entrance by their own rows of pews.

Copia passes Sister Imperator in the front row of the quire box and can literally see as her face twists in confusion at the wheels. She leans over to Nihil who just shrugs and closes his eyes to fall asleep like usual during the services.

Copia quickly begins the invocation of the four directions. It cuts her off and forces her to pay attention for a while, but he sees her turn and looks at the back of the nave several times.

Cirrus quietly gets on the big wheel when he gives her a subtle nod to try out the activity. It’s nearly silent with the heating on and Copia’s sermon. He gives her a wink and she begins to trot in earnest.

Satisfied that the invention works, the Ghouls take turns running on the contraption between hymns, then curling up together.

There are no major distractions for the first time in several weeks. Sister Imperator approaches Copia as soon as Nema leaves his mouth to end the ceremony, her hand turning off the microphone before he could.

“I do not appreciate Ghoul inventions in the chapel, C.”

He leads her to the back of the room as the Siblings filter out. “But wasn’t mass peaceful? The Ghouls are tuckered out from exercise and it barely made any noise.”

She purses her lips, taking in the sight of a content, sleepy piles of Ghouls in their designated nest corner. “I suppose so. However, the machines are unsightly.”

“We could build wooden walls to go around them?” Mountain suggests with a yawn.

“Please do,” She says and leaves without another word.

“Walls would only make them louder, right?” Cumulus pipes up.

“It won’t hurt to try it,” Omega shrugs. “Anything to keep these here. I liked being able to do something during the service that isn’t arts and crafts.”

After a few days of construction, Cumulus was correct. The ornate wooden walls to conceal the two hamster-Ghoul wheels amplified their noise despite soundproofing measures. They would simply have to stay as they were.

Sister Imperator caught on at next Sunday's mass, quickly tugging the stole around Copia’s neck before he could begin his invocation. “Why are those things not covered?”

He smooths out the stole over his chest. “The walls made them louder,” He says simply.

“They cannot just stay there!” She whispers.

“They’ll have to. They help the Ghouls stay calm and they are quiet by themselves back there. It is all fine, Sister.” He moves away nervously and begins his mass.

The Ministry had a blissful four weeks of Ghoul wheels taking the energy out of the hyper demons. Not only were they helpful during services, but there was almost always a Ghoul using them the rest of the time. Between twenty Ghouls, the machines quickly earned favor in the Ministry.

Sister Imperator’s distasteful looks towards the wheels had even calmed back to a neutral expression. The Ghouls were happy, exercised when not able to go outside, and were even more helpful because they weren’t trashing things in hyperactivity.

-

Copia is light on his feet as he approaches the well-worn wooden podium and opens his thick Unholy Bible to the day’s topic. His notes are spread amongst the sinful words. The Siblings in the pews before him are quietly chatting as they find seats and there’s an air of excitement for the first warm afternoon of Spring. He’ll get mass over with quickly so they can all go enjoy it.

The coming of spring means the coming of Ghoul heat and the reawakening of nature has the demons restless this morning. He encourages them to use the wheels and is glad that seems to take the energy out of the most virulent of them (i.e. Phantom, Aurora, and Sunny as the most ‘new’ Ghouls).

Aurora and Sunny take turns on the small wheel, while Phantom stretches from his form on the floor to step onto the bigger wheel. He drops to all fours and begins to warm up with a light walk.

“Papas, Clergy, and Siblings, thank you for coming out this afternoon. I promise to make this quick so we can all go enjoy the warmth of the grounds.”

Primo nods happily, the straps of his gardening apron sticking out of the top of his papal robes.

Copia smiles, “Today’s short mass is mostly a rededication of the Abbey’s grounds to our Dark Lord. Please open to page 69 and follow along. Aether, could you please light the incense?”

The Quintessence Ghoul’s hand explodes into the rich perfumed smoke, dipping the magic into Copia’s open thurible. He stands to the side, proud to serve.

Copia lifts the vessel and lets the smoke drift over the stone altar. “On the first day of Imbolc, we repledge the soil, beings, and air we breathe in a desecration of Earth to the Unholy Banished; we ask Lucifer, Satan, Prince of Darkness to hear our call--”

Creak~!

Copia stops at the noise, concentration broken. He looks around and sees that Phantom is frozen on the wheel and all the Ghouls are staring at him. When the siblings and Clergy turn, he flushes brightly. “Sorry, I went a little too fast I think.”

Copia waves him off fondly. “It’s alright. Where were we…yes, Prince of Darkness, hear our call of sin to protect this cathedral and its grounds from the inquisition of slave-minded religion. We--”

Squeak, creak, s-que~ak!

The painful sound of metal-on-metal permeates the cathedral as Phantom comes to an abrupt halt at the wheel’s noise. “Uh oh.”

“It probably just needs some oil,” Alpha laughs nervously and runs out to find his toolbox.

Oiling it does take away the noise for the next week. However, it comes back softer, and then stays that way. Permanently. With no amount of oiling, lubricating, sanding, does the big wheel stop making small creaks.

Eventually, it becomes known as the Ghoul ‘Squeak’ and becomes white noise to the ministry during services. Sister Imperator eventually drops complaining about it when Copia refuses to take away the wheels. It’s better than Ghouls quite literally running amuck in the nave, at least.

[lexirosewrites]

O!Steve & B!Robin as childhood friends!! Not Nancy Wheeler Friendly bc this is from a protective Robin POV & I needed drama & No Upside Down AU

They meet when Robin skips 4th grade & become friends when they're paired together for a project. Steve is a Henderson bc his mom divorced his sire Richard Harrington & Steve didn't want to b a Harrington anymore he wanted to have his mom's maiden name. He & his mom moved to Hawkins the week before school started.

Steve is chubby & a boy omega (which is rare especially in Hawkins Elementary where only two other boys in the grades below r omegas) which makes him different & he's not very good at reading aloud but he still gets some of the best scores on their social studies or history lessons & his scent is still muted like the kids younger than them. So he isn't popular but he isn't overtly bullied but he is largely ignored by the kids w more social capital.

So he & Robin bond abt being treated as outcasts. They quickly become best friends & spend as much time together outside of school as they can except every other Sunday bc Steve's mom drives a few towns away in Roane County to the nearest Episcopal church.

Robin was raised Buddhist bc her mom is a child of Vietnamese immigrants & her dad was an anti-war protester (especially after he gets drafted into Vietnam, causing him to lose his left leg). The Buckleys celebrate a vague Christmas tht they treat more like Yule with Father Winter instead of Santa, presents still happen but Robin is expected to choose a few of her gifts to give to a nearby domestic violence shelter where some kids stay.

Then high school starts. Steve has his first heat the summer before & so his scent matures to smell like baked apples w honey. He loses a bit of the baby fat, his face gets clearer of acne he'd developed in 7th grade, & his hair is noticeably more shiny. This means Steve is suddenly the subject of new attention by some of the beta boys & alphas of Hawkins High. It all makes Steve uncomfortable so Robin stops trimming her nails & even files them sharper when at home. She shows off her newly sharp nails when she scratches up the arms of an alpha senior who wasn't taking Steve's polite refusals as an answer, tearing up their jacket sleeves, & even ripping a big hole in the bottom of their backpack so all their things tumbled out.

After tht word spread quickly tht Steve Henderson had a guard, Robin Buckley. So the attention turned from a rush to a trickle.

A!Tommy Hagan tries harassing Steve in their sophomore year & calling it courting but Robin tells B!Carol Perkins tht Tommy is trying to cheat on her & together they scratch Tommy so deeply he gets scars. Sophomore year is also when Steve begins babysitting for extra cash. He starts w his little cousin Dustin, then the Sinclairs hire him every other Saturday night, & the list grows till Steve is having Robin help him keep a planner just to keep track of his babysitting gigs.

Then junior year brings abt a Steve who is the uncontested prettiest omega in school & the attention gets worse. Except now ppl know to try to get Robin's approval. She doesn't make it easy & this weeds out the ppl who only wanted a chance to say they'd popped Steve's cherry.

This works till A!Nancy Wheeler sets her sights on Steve. Nancy does practically every task Robin gives her w minimal complaints, so Robin gives Nancy the chance to actually court Steve. Except it quickly becomes clear to Robin tht Nancy didn't seem all tht interested in learning more abt steve outside of who he was in the schools social ladder. Robin would watch how Nancy flaunted their relationship to others to establish a growing social status but would then make eyes at B!Jonathan Byers, The Creep as others called him.

When O!Will Byers goes missing (later being found kidnapped by his father) & B!Barb runs away while the town is focused on tht, Nancy becomes more & more disinterested in Steve. Apparently insisting to Steve tht Barb was her best friend & tht she would've told Nancy if she was going to run away. Robin snorts when Steve tells her this bc it was obvious to Robin their friendship was a one way street of Nancy getting what she wanted.

So of course Nancy embarrasses herself & Steve at Tina's Halloween party the next year, after a year of growing colder towards Steve & leading him on & insisting to them both tht Jonathan is just a friend. Of course Nancy runs off w Byers after the whisper of a lead on where Barb had gone reaches her ears, of course she comes back smelling like Byers in a way tht made it clear she'd had sex w him & only then breaking up w Steve & worst of all is how Steve doesn't get angry with Nancy or Jonathan.

It all gets more annoying when Steve is newly single & knot headed A!Billy Hargrove tries approaching Steve when no one else is around. He never offers to exclusively court Steve & he never approaches Robin abt it either. He just follows Steve to secluded corners of the school or town & makes comments when no one is around to hear him.

Eventually they graduate, Robin decides to put off going away for college opting instead to take classes part time at the Roane County Community College w Steve. Billy Hargrove races out of town after he beats his father in the Hargroves front lawn, Mr Hargrove leaves town soon after but his wife & step daughter the Mayfields stay in Hawkins. Robin only learns most of this thanks to Steve being Max's babysitter now

for two weeks of the summer Nancy tries to court Steve again, claiming she'd changed but this is after Jonathan Byers learns tht Nancy hadn't broken up w Steve till after their fruitless attempt to convince Barb to come home led to them sleeping together & so he breaks up w her unable to believe she'd hurt Steve in the way his own father had hurt his mom

They get jobs at the mall in the food court. Then the larger parent company of their employer Scoops Ahoy gets shut down by the government for tax evasion & tax fraud & a whole list of illegal labor practices so they find new jobs at the Cinema-plex in the same mall. Then the mall burns down bc the construction was cheap & several safety regulations were blatantly ignored. So they find another job they can work together. This time at Family Video, after an interview w Keith (whose parents own the small strip mall where the laundromat & the arcade & video store r located) wherein Robin said her favorite movie was a German silent film she knew Keith would know nothing abt & Steve equally stumped Keith w a samurai movie tht Robin knew didn't circulate in the US, Ms Henderson had gotten the VHS of the movie shipped to Hawkins through friends in the UK.

Time went on, they took their classes at the small community college, Steve still babysat here & there, & the platonic soulmates were even apartment hunting in their free time. Settling on the relatively affordable rent of a 2 bed trailer in Forest Hills.

That's where Eddie Munson pops into their lives. Apparently he'd met Steve once or twice when Steve had come by to babysit Max. Now tht the pair lived so close by Munson he took to being a welcome committee. A couple of months of living in the trailer park, hanging out w Eddie who had begun working at the local mechanics instead of racing out of town like Hargrove, & buying the odd joint from the alpha at an obviously reduced price. Munson made his move & approached Robin on a day tht she was working without Steve.

The alpha was visibly nervous but determined & he didn't even shrink away when Robin glared him down for 5 minutes in silence. So she sighed & gave him a random task tht she knew Steve would like to see. This went on & on, Eddie growing closer w Steve & when Steve told Robin he wanted to b courted by their neighbor she delivered the news to Eddie w her best friend right behind her.

The pair courted for 2 years before Steve sat her down & told her he was pregnant just abt 2 months along & tht he & Eddie were going to exchange bites before the due date & tht they wanted to move in together. Robin was silent bc they were supposed to leave for Portland tht spring, so tht she could attend college & Steve could get a cosmetology license, they were supposed to remain together into their old age. She didn't even realize tht she'd nearly gone into a srs beta drop till it was the next morning & she was being held by Steve in his nest.

Over breakfast sandwiches in bed Steve explained tht she had dropped before Steve could tell her tht if she approved Eddie was going to drive to Portland two weeks before they planned to leave & get a 3 bedroom apartment set up. If she didnt approve Eddie was still going to drive there early but just find an apartment for stobin & another apartment for himself. They talked for hours abt how Steve didn't want to b best friends w anyone except Robin & his alpha, how Robin had been scared for awhile abt Steve leaving her, & it ended w them having a movie night where they ordered Eddie to pick up a pizza & sodas & the biggest order of chicken tenders possible

7 months later after a home birth in Portland Oregon, Robin cried when she got to meet her best friends twin babies & learned tht they'd named the youngest of the baby girls Janis Robin Munson while the older twin was Joan Cathy Munson (Cathy was Eddie's mom's name & coincidentally grandma Henderson's name)

& Aunty Robin became the Munson pups favorite babysitter 🥰

Robin being protective of omega Steve is always so lovely💕💕💕

[malk1ns]

Chicken or egg scenario here: is Geno a stud first or a hockey player first? Like did he show up to the first practice and someone said "hold the phone. I think I know how we can increase his trade value" or is it Geno happens to be an incredibly talented player (which he is) and also happens to also have a giant dick and makes some pretty cute babies

oooh fun question!

we don't know a ton about geno's childhood, but from what we do know they were grindingly poor and his dad worked in the steel factory while his mom did odd jobs. they had to cobble together money and materials to make skates for him so he could skate before he caught the eye of the metallurg magnitogorsk youth team, at which point his talent became a commodity and an asset and was funded as such.

so in THIS world...

he's an alpha and he knows that from the start, everyone does, but preteen years would probably be far too young for him to be identified as a quality stud for hire, so i feel like the hockey came first. russia's athletics have always been intensely militarized, so i'm imagining he got folded into the routine of eat-sleep-hockey, and all the highly structured routines and testing that would go along with it. russian athletes also tend to be introduced to...let's call them 'supplements' to enhance their performance earlier on, so they get blood-tested pretty frequently to monitor for danger and also to make sure they're not going to test hot during any sort of international competition.

so i'm imagining that around age 17 or so, geno's going through puberty, both normal and dymanics-related, and his blood tests start showing elevated alpha hormones, which is an early sign of reliable fertility. maybe alpha results after a certain age get published or added to a register—some sort of stud book—and geno's talent and his hormone profile starts catching eyes. when he's younger the team controls his appointments, but after a while he wrests back control and now he's in charge of his own bookings. and obviously this is part reputational, so once those first couple of kids are popped out and they're growing up as promised with his bloodline contributions, word will spread, and he's going to get more inquiries.

i'd imagine that the anti-russian bias that still exists in the NHL wouldn't be any different, so while he might have been known of, various teams might have been concerned it wasn't worth the risk. but in his younger years geno was ALWAYS getting compared to mario, so i imagine that mario might have looked at his little protege omega and the stud file of an alpha that has some play and talent qualities that said omega lacks and be willing to take the risk.