#Bro did not deserve what happend to him

[swanluvrr]

Lonny crane if he never joined the Belko company :

[sirthisisa-wendys]

I AM BITING MY FIST AND SCREAM ABOUT HAND HER OVER II. WE NEED PT2🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻

Let's say what happened after pt - since Koko has money & connections, Inupi & his wife were able to escape safely (or maybe not)

Omi's relationship with his wife crashed really bad after what happend. As a big bro,he always took care & protected who was younger - so he felt very ashamed and guilty that he wasn't able to protect his little wife. He know deep inside that what his wife said wasn't true,she didn't blame him but feel that she doesn't deserve so caring and attentive husband and cries a lot. So he do what he should - make sure she know that he madly in love with her and his number one priority

Well, about Mochi. I am afraid of my imagination, so leave it to yours

I think I'm going to leave Mochi's as is! It seems pretty obvious what happens, no thanks to Sanzu.

Hand Her Over II Part 2: Hajime Kokonoi/Takeomi Akashi x Fem!Reader

Hand Her Over Megapost

wc: 2.1k

tw: angst, Koko is in a poly relationship with Inupi and reader, Inupi is the "hinge" in the V, angst, fluff, angst

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Hajime Kokonoi

Inupi sits on the couch, furious.

"It's gone too far," he breathes, holding you close. "Mikey's gone too far."

"I know," Kokonoi echoes, looking down at his feet. He can't be on the other side of the room with his lover. He can't even support the two of you like he wants to. It's a shame; he's not sure how things got this bad, but...

"Listen," you add, sitting up straight. "If Mikey can't control himself, we might be in more danger than we originally thought. I'm not sure we can run forever."

"We could," Inupi murmurs, looking over at you with a sad stare. "But it would cost us."

Kokonoi sighs. He shifts his head onto his hands and tries to think. Where did Mikey stop, and where did the real world begin?

"America." Inupi and you inhale sharply. "I have contacts in America that will help for the right price." Koko stands and twists his long hair around his hand briefly. A bad habit he has to get rid of eventually. "I'll send you both that way and then ensure your tracks are covered."

"You're not coming with us?" The question makes Kokonoi flinch. He could never travel with either of you without Mikey knowing. There was too much hinging on his importance to Bonten. Which is why he can't tag along.

"No," he finally admits. "I... I won't be able to go with you." You burst into tears. Kokonoi's heart wrenches in two; he loves you. He really does. And he loves Inupi. But there's no way that he can go with you two without putting you in danger.

"I'll make sure you two won't have to lift a finger while we're apart." Inupi pulls you into his chest, where you sob. "And..."

"Koko," Inupi breathes. "You don't have to stay."

"I do," he repeats, standing firm. "I'll stay behind to make sure the both of you have the best chance at staying alive and safe." Your tears don't stop, not even when Koko presses a kiss to your forehead and wipes them from your eyes with gentle thumbs. "Take care of Inupi."

You clutch him even closer, and that in itself is a comfort to him. He's felt loved before, but your reluctance to let him go makes him feel adored. "Inupi, take care of her."

"I'm giving you a month to come get us." Inupi stands just a foot away, but it couldn't be any further. Koko already feels the distance in his heart. And it's a raw ache, the type he knows he might never recover from in this lifetime. Inupi joins in, hugging Koko tightly and inhaling his scent one last time.

"Don't forget about us."

"Impossible," Koko laughs, though his eyes prick with tears. "I would never forget about my favorite people in the entire world."

Kokonoi wouldn't be a good partner if he didn't see you two off at the airport. He holds your passports with an iron grip, praying you two would turn around and stay and fight with him. But when he hands them over, Kokonoi understands he's to face his fines creation - Bonten - on his own.

"Call me when you make it," Koko murmurs, adjusting Inupi's scarf and your jacket. "I'll be waiting by the phone."

"Get some rest," you urge him, touching his cheek gently. The ring on your finger will stay there; it's still a symbol of the promise Koko made to your family to provide for you and keep you safe.

"And don't linger by the window," Inupi adds, his own hand sporting a golden band - from Koko, but to anyone outside of the three of them, it'd look like they were a married couple. Koko nods.

"Your flight will be leaving soon." Inupi ushers you away, and Koko watches wistfully, touching his own fake passport in his pocket. I could still go with them. Kokonoi looks at the ticket counter, eyeing the various people clicking away at the keyboards and weighing baggage.

"Wait," Koko whispers, looking back at your retreating figures. "Wait!" You hear him first, turning around to stare at him hopefully. Koko hurries up to the two of you, his hands shaking and his mouth forming soundless words. Inupi frowns as Koko stands in front of you both, his eyes trying to drink their fill of the couple.

"D-don't..." Kokonoi isn't sure if he can say it. "Don't..." You both stand there expectantly, and Koko can see the desire in your eyes. You want him to go with you. And maybe...

"Don't--" Koko's phone begins to buzz angrily. He stops, sucking in a harsh breath. "Don't forget about the time change." Your shoulders slump. Inupi grunts. He reaches into his back pocket and pulls out his phone, seeing the name scroll across the top. Your teary hiccup is the last thing you muster before pulling free from Inupi and walking toward security. Inupi, ever the cynic, exhales and turns around, but not before muttering,

"You'll always choose him, won't you?"

When Koko picks up the call, Inupi turns away, scrubbing the tears from his eyes.

Takeomi Akashi

It's not like Takeomi to come home drunk in the middle of the day. But he staggers over the threshold, holding himself up by a thread. He hadn't been this bad since Shin died, and yet--

Something shatters when he opens the door, and Takeomi swears. When he looks behind the wooden frame, he sees a little project of yours lying on the floor in a million pieces. Whatever it had been, it's destroyed beyond repair.

"I'll... I'll... fix it," Takeomi mutters, closing the door behind him and gripping the wall for the strength to stand up.

"Not again." An exasperated sigh comes from the kitchen, and Takeomi slides down the wall, trying to take his shoes off. "I'm caring for you every day," you gripe, stomping to meet him in the foyer. "You're a lazy, drunk old man."

Takeomi burps, forgetting his efforts to untie his shoes and leaving them on as he sprawls on the floor. You approach him, face set in a grim line.

"Shoes," he slurs, pointing at his feet. "Can't get 'em off." You silently fume, but your fingers pluck at his laces, untying and undoing all of the work he'd done on them before.

"You come in drunk every day," you hiss angrily. "I have to... clean up after you, and for what?"

"Thanks," Takeomi whispers slowly, feeling your hands tug his shoes off. "Thanks, beh-beh. Shoes were really tight. Hurt." You stoop low and pull him up off the floor - your strength never ceases to amaze him - and he stumbles along with you to the bedroom. He hiccups a few times as he drags his feet, but Takeomi's mind is working at a mile a minute. It's his body that isn't responding properly.

"Y'know," he begins, wiping his mouth. "I could... we should do that thing people do when they're... together." You slide him onto the bed without responding, your eyes averted from his face. "We could... should... watch some TV and trash talk... shitty people."

"No TV," you murmur, taking off his tie and tossing it aside. "You need to watch TV like you need another hole in your head."

Takeomi laughs, pointing at each hole - two ears, one mouth, two nostrils... he has five already! "Maybe I need an extra one to round it out," he replies, leaning back on the bed and sighing. "Could use another one for all of these thoughts." You don't reply again, shifting him onto the bed fully and covering him with the sheets.

"Sleep it off," you command Omi, and he obeys, pretending to fall asleep immediately while making loud snoring noises. You grunt, putting a pillow over his face, and he laughs as he takes it off.

"Funny girl." You shake your head, the look of displeasure still on your face, and get up from the bed all in one movement. So graceful.

"I'll be in the kitchen. Shout if you need me." Takeomi opens his mouth to shout, but you add, "If it's an emergency."

"It is," he whines. "It's an emergency when you're not here."

"I'll be in the kitchen," you say again. "Five-alarm level emergencies only."

"What about six alarms?" You roll your eyes and give him a playful swat before leaving the bedroom. Takeomi debates on whether he should shout your name for the hell of it or just keep quiet and let you work on whatever you did when he wasn't here. He opts for the latter and lays back in the bed. His head is thumping with the blood that's pumping behind his eyes.

"Ugh..." Right now, Takeomi wants to swear off drinking for good. The hangover is never worth it. Takeomi exhales sharply, then resigns himself to sleep, like he should.

He wakes up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat. It's hot in the room, and... his hand feels around in the darkness. You're not there.

"Baby?" Takeomi gets up out of bed slowly, trying not to trip over himself or anything else he may have left on the floor. "Babe?" His throat is parched, and he feels like death... but he needs to ensure you're okay first.

Something tugs in his gut when he hears a soft sob, and he opens the door fully before stumbling into the light of the foyer. He holds his breath and peers around the corner, finding you at the kitchen table, holding your phone to your ear as you cry.

"No, no," you choke out. "It's just... I know everything is weighing on Omi. He comes home drunk most afternoons, and I..." You break off, then sniff. "I take care of him because I know everything was so stressful, and I love him. I just don't think he loves me anymore." Takeomi clenches his jaw. Here you are, worried to death about him when your assumptions couldn't be further from the truth.

Takeomi enters the kitchen nonchalantly as if he hadn't heard what you just said. He yawns, wiping his face, then sees you wiping your eyes quickly and whispering, "I'll call you later" into the phone.

"You alright, Omi?" you wonder, standing up from the kitchen table. Takeomi shrugs, opening the fridge and grabbing a water bottle.

"Throat's sore as hell." He takes a few swigs, then turns to you.

"I can make you some tea if you want," you reply, smiling. Your nose is still red, but Takeomi can forgive that.

"I need a hug and a kiss." He opens his arms for you, and you oblige, leaning into his embrace and tucking your semi-wet face into his skin. "And a kiss?"

At his reminder, you lift your face, close your eyes, and pucker your lips. But Takeomi doesn't kiss you. Instead, he wipes your wet eyes, staring down at your puffy face in adoration.

"Why do you cry, my sweet?" he whispers, and you open your eyes. You look so sad, so forlorn, so dismayed. Takeomi's heart stops at the sight. "Are you upset with me?"

"No," you affirm, shaking your head. "Never."

"Then why are these tears running down my baby's face?" Takeomi wipes the fresh ones and clicks his tongue as you press your face back into his chest. "This won't do," he coos at you, stooping to pick you up. He scoops you into his arms and carries you to the bed, holding you against his chest even as he sits down on the comfy king. He positions you so your head is on his chest and you're straddling him; his hands run over your back and caress whatever he can touch.

"You know," Takeomi begins, regaining some sensibility. "I once had an awful time with my brother. Couldn't take care of him for shit. The guilt ate me up for years." Takeomi swallows hard. "Thought I had gotten past it." The unspoken fact that he still hadn't gotten past it didn't need to be mentioned. You knew already.

"Anyway, you shouldn't beat yourself up over all this." Takeomi strokes your hair carefully, leaning back onto the headboard. "This one was all me."

"Omi," you whimper, but he shushes you.

"I can handle it." His shoulders slump. "I'll take the blame for this. But you're my number one priority."

"But you'll drink--"

"No," Takeomi asserts. "It's not helping." You pull away from him, leaving his chest a wet, cold mess. You sniff and look up at him, holding his face between your hands.

"We should see someone about this. About everything."

"I'd do that for you." He takes your hand and kisses each fingertip, savoring the feeling of the unique fingerprint rubbing against his skin. What would he have done if you'd been taken away from him like Shin? "For us." He tilts your chin up with tender fingers. "And I still love you." And he kisses you like he means it.

[alexbruh2875]

I watched new eps in SML (yeah I wake up early before get notif from it-)

I saw what happend there it happend waaay before, but you can look yourself (I won't give spoiler)

Anyways, poor Jeffy and Feebee, they had bad childhood, they didn't deserved it :(

And also Jeffy did the right thing to kill CJ (the bad guy) and i'm happy for him! :D

Mostly funny part isss, Brooklyn Guy just eating Jeffy's cake looked at Jeffy (bros was lazy to go change cop outfit and stayed as Doc outfit XD)

[fics-n-stuff]

Some Random OBX3 Thoughts and Opinions (full spoilers)

This whole season was on crack. It was fucking wild and I loved it

Put me on Poguelandia. That was so sweet. I want to see what that month looked like, I want to experience that with them

I wanted to see more Wheezie :(

I'm sorry but Big John was so annoying, tryna keep the Pogues out of the loop after they've already been through all this shit

Pope and Cleo are super cute, very sweet relationship. The way she's always teasing him? The fact that his parents immediately love her? Immaculate

What they did with Ward this season was... interesting. I will say though, I'm okay with that being the way he goes out. I'm glad he's actually dead now

Rafe × Barry is alive and well

Topper interlude:

Topper really should have got a clue. Sarah moved on babes, you should move on too

I really thought we were on our way to a Topper redemption arc when he helped them with the train robbery - and I was super happy with that - BUT OH BOY WAS I WRONG

Topper deserved to get his shit rocked by John B. His little snarky comments are absolutely a punchable offence

Everyone was freaking out about John B punching Topper while he was down and I think everyone forgot that Topper literally tried to DROWN JOHN B in season 1

HE BURNED DOWN THE CHATEU!?!? HE WAS PISSED AT SARAH SO HE DECIDED TO ATTEMPT TO MURDER SIX PEOPLE!?!? THAT'S NOT JUST PETTY THAT'S PSHYCHOPATHIC

On the other hand, Sarah should have really just let that boy have some peace and stop stringing him along. Like, I get it it was for the greater good and maybe it was their only option but it was still a bit mean (not that I cared much after Topper attempted to commit SEXTUPLE MURDER BY ARSON)

Sarah was so wrong for kissing Topper. You get in one fight with your boyfriend and you run back to your ex? After everything you've gone through? Weak

When Rafe melted down the cross I died a little inside bro that was so upsetting

SOMEONE GET RAFE SOME THERAPY JESUS CHRIST

Jiara. Was. Great. The looks, the hugs, the lingering moments, the slow build up to the final payoff. Loved it

Jiara's first kiss! Idk if this is controversial but I loved that they had an audience cheering when they kissed, it felt like a little inside joke with the fandom. Like a little "wink wink nudge nudge, we know this is how you at home are feeling rn"

Bit harsh that John B got his dad back just for him to actually die, but at least he got to say goodbye this time

18 month time skip? What happened in that time? What did they do with the gold and how did they get everyone to believe their stories? What happend with the charges Topper filed against John B? How did Rafe react to Ward's death? What about Rose and Wheezie, what did they do? The Pogues are still minors (before the time skip at least) and like half of them don't have legal guardians, I know they're rich now but how did they sort that out?

HOW DARE MIKE AND ANNA SIT IN THE FRONT ROW SMILING AND CLAPPING AS IF THEY DIDN'T TRY TO STOP KIARA FROM ACHIEVING THIS EVERY SINGLE STEP OF THE WAY AND SHIT ON ALL OF HER FRIENDS IN THE PROCESS

ARE WE SERIOUSLY ENDING WITH A BLACKBEARD NAMEDROP?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!? When I say I sat in silence and laughed for a full two minutes after that ending, omg

[themistymountainscold]

i just watched unthinkable (2010) staring michael sheen, carrie-ann moss and samuel l jackson. i highly recommend it. the film is r18+ and extremely graphic in terms of torture.

talking about it under the cut for anyone interested.

just holy shit. the acting was phenomenal. if i was sitting i'd have been on the edge of my seat.

the only thing i can't get behind in the ending. why have all this lead up, about the bombs, then the secret 4th bomb, yusuf just straight up shooting himself (that scared the absolute shit out of me i was not prepared for that) then for just... the movie to end? what happend to the bombs. did they disable them? did the forth one go off?

but omg i'm deeply attracted to michael sheen guys. i know he was being tortured but bro. fuck he's hot. and he knows it. anyway.

he's a fucking genius. he knows this and he isn't afraid to show it. getting the military and fbi to blow up the mall was brilliant. he's bad and killed 53 people i know. but you can really see how planned out this was. it really unerved me how "prepared" he was for the torture. he would scream and scream and then just "i deserve this, i'm prepared."

and even though he was so fucked up, his family was his only tipping point. whatever happned to him didn't matter. but his kids? bro just shit.

chilling.

also samuel l jackson as h. the licenced torturer. just wow. i don't even have much to say about it. like when he killed yusuf's wife? i audibly gasped.

just wow. i highly recommened it though. it was just wfgshfoukghfiuhgf

[gangbae]

//Arcane spoilers

Vi will never be the same.

She grew up in Zaun, a place where is def not good for a child.

She had to see her parents' dead bodies. They were killed by enforcers.

She had to do parenting for her sister and adoptive brothers.

She had to take everything to herself like the way Vander said "If something happens to these children, everything on you Vi".

She wanted them to turn her in. She sacrificed herself to the cops for her sister and bros.

Vander told her she got a good heart right before Silco took him.

She kinda saw what happend when they took Vander.

She tried to save him.

She watched her adoptive brothers' death while she was also crashed down because of rocks.

She saw her sister' toy(?) and probably thought she is dead too.

Her "father" died right front of her and right before he died he told her that he proud of her.

She learned her sister did all of this and slapped her and left(!) her.

She saw Silco right front of her sister but she couldn't do anything because Marcus kidnapper her.

She stayed in prison for years and cops (idk if its really them but lets say that) abused her everyday. They even don't know how many times they abused her.

Caitlyn saved(!) her.

When everything was going kinda well (because she learned her sister is alive);

She learned her sister is working for Silco and she's like his daughter (do not even dare to tell me that's not a big thing. Silco is the reason why Vander and bros aren't with us now).

She got stabbed.

She found her sister and hugged her but noooooo, they kidnapped her again.

Ekko told her that her sister isn't her sister anymore but she kept belive in her sister is there.

She watched many more people die.

She already knew that topside didn't care about them but they literally prove it right front of her.

She had a chance to took her sis back but guess what??

No, it did't happen.

(Btw in my opinion if Vi would be real she would say she loves Powder with who she is now too. They literally made her shut up there which was kinda bad to me)

She didn't want Cait (the person who listened her, cared her and the first person who said "You have a good heart" after Vander said and Vi) about her but her sister wasn't thinking like that.

She lost her sister again.

I forget some things but Vi will never be the same. All she wanted was a better life for her sister because she grew up thinking she's less than Topsiders.

When she screamed it wasn't only for Jinx. It was for all of these things.

She tried to took her pain out.

And yeah, she will never be the same but she tried and kept her promise.

Ily Vi, you are a legend and you deserved better.

(Pls don't comment on this post)

[the-paris-of-people]

Hi. This is really not a question but more of a rant. A really really long one. I apologize in advance. I honestly care waaaaayyyy too much about this show than I should. Clearly too bored🙈.

After reading people's comments on this show and the ships, there are so many things that irk me and I thought I'd share even if I might get crap for it. So here goes:

1. "Ben only wants Devi when she is with Paxton." I.e. it's about Paxton. Lol people are funny. As though Ben thinks he can compete with Paxton on a social level. He's not stupid, he knows full well he can't. It's about Devi and in part her obsession with Paxton. People don't like thinking about things from Ben's perspective because they just don't like him. He's the one that finds out Devi is cheating, she runs after Paxton at the party ( now granted before she runs out, she's intensely staring at Ben and then realises Paxton is leaving but Ben's not gonna remember that) and she was busy chumming it up with Paxton in episode 3 in front of Ben with absolute disregard for him. So his natural defence is to guard himself and have his walls go up. It is a valid response. He burries his pain (exactly what Samberg said). And does not let his guard down around her romantically until episode 10 when Paxton literally rejects her at school. At the school dance, sparks are flying between those 2. Is Paxton around at the time...Uhm no (I'll get into the whole Aneesa thing). In his mind Paxton is out of the picture and it's like he can almost trust her again. And then when Paxton shows up with Devi, he basically feels like a fool for ever thinking that he was ever something more than 2nd best or sometimes anything at all ( especially considering Devi still wants Paxton after Devi and Paxton's last public interaction that Ben witnessed- I mean he does not get to see the shit behind closed doors). But then when Eleanor spills the tea, that look on his face is disbelief, yes a little bit of jealousy but overwhelmingly heartbreak. He is essentially watching the chance he never knew he had go away. Now you could argue that he should have known that she wanted him back but she broke his trust and does not explicitly say, " I want you back". Ben's not trying to get burnt again based on some assumption/hunch. He has been wrong before.

2. "How dare Ben be upset that Devi is with Paxton when he is with Aneesa". Fair point. Just like how dare Devi be upset and lose her shit over Ben and Aneesa. But yet it still happend. Devi gets 5 episodes allowing her to be upset and Ben can't even have one moment when a firkken bomb gets dropped on him.

Aneesa and Ben should have never date. Everyone knows that. He was never over Devi. He just pushed those feelings down to make him believe he was over her. I obviously don't agree with this. Aneesa doesn't deserve that. Ben needs to go to therapy. He needs an outlet. He is similar to Devi in that he doesn't want to process what happened and would rather move on and react. However, his reactions are far less impulsive/severe as Devi's. Him dating Aneesa is unfortunately a reaction. He didn't give himself time to really process how he feels. People say he dated Aneesa solely to spite Devi which is not true. Is there an element of " you never wanted me but someone else does"... absolutely but Aneesa is also very kind to Ben, they get along really well and she puts him first. Technically what's not to like. I mean if it was just to spite Devi, could he have not tried to hustle his way back in with Shira?? Problem is that dumb dumb didn't work through his Devi feelings and let's just be honest, the same spark and chemistry he has with Devi, is missing with Aneesa. It often feels forced, especially in regards to the pace of the relationship. I so wished Aneesa remained friends with Ben. That's what he needed...not another relationship.

3. "Aneesa is so amazing, she doesn't deserve to get hurt." I agree. She absolutely doesn't deserve to get hurt just like Ben and Paxton didn't deserve that crap Devi pulled. I think Aneesa is a great addition and I like that Devi has someone within her community to connect to. I'm South Asian myself and I genuinely value this aspect of my own life. I mean she is pretty great, kind and the anorexia rumour Devi unintentionally started was pretty heartbreaking. That scene where she talks to Devi at the relay about it, is so sad (especially coz we as viewers know Devi messed up). Now that being said is Aneesa also low key shady? YES. And it's not because she dated her friend's ex. It's because she started dating him knowing that Devi started the rumour about her because she was jealous about Ben and her. How does she think Devi would go from being so jealous that she starts a rumour, to the next week becoming their biggest "Stan". Come on girl. But there was no way Devi could say no after the crap she pulled with Aneesa. Ben did ask her out so if there is blame, he absolutely gets it too but he didn't know why Devi started that rumour (based on his surprised AF face when Eleanor spills the tea). Which leads me to my next question. Why didn't Aneesa tell him? Aneesa said Ben was supporting her through the rumour. She probably told him Devi started the rumour but didn't tell him why? That is odd? Clearly if Ben had known, he may changed his perspective on Devi actually wanting him instead of ignoring his feelings.

Lastly Aneesa knows there are unresolved feelings between Devi and Ben. This is evident from that dance scene. She literally runs to cut in their pretty intense conversation. Like why you running girl? I didn't think much of it at first but coupled with another moment, it makes a lot of sense. When Ben agrees to dance with Aneesa, he looks back at Devi and lingers and Aneesa picks up on this and pulls him away. It's a blink and you will miss it moment but it is there.

Now all of this doesn't mean she needs to get hurt but they probably need to break up. Ben needs to be single for a while and work through how he feels about Devi, Aneesa and most importantly himself. Whilst I don't particularly enjoy their relationship, you never get to see it from either of their perspectives. Maybe that could change things but honestly I just prefer Ben and Devi.

Also can everyone stop acting like Ben is dating Devi's best friend. Being brown doesn't make you automatically best friends and Ben and Devi met Aneesa the same week. People are acting like he is dating Eleanor.

4. "Devi chose Paxton". Please! The only thought through decision that girl made in regards to these 2 boys is when she chose herself and decided not to be Paxton's little secret. I mean in episode 1 and 2 she can't decide so she dates both. In episode 3, she interacts with Paxton because of the whole tutoring thing. He says they don't makes sense. While she seems a bit sad she doesn't seem too upset like she is season 1 and she isn't looking for any opportunity to spend time with him (unlike season 1). Episode 4,5,6,7 and 8 she is losing her mind over Ben. Half way through 8 she knows she has no choice but to let him go. But even after that she doesn't pursue Paxton. He does that at the end of episode 9 when in all honesty she hasn't really thought about him in a while. Then of course Paxton does what he does and she finally choose herself, issuing an ultimatum essentially. Paxton does eventually show up...but it's a choice by default. She just yo-yo's between them. She also needs to be single, deal with her loss, love herself and think about what she wants.

5. "Devi loves Paxton". Sure bud. Does have Devi have feeling for Paxton? Duh! But is it love. Nope. People like to confuse infatuation for love. She has been infatuated with this boy this the 3rd (she knew squat about him). When her dad died, she turns that infatuation into an obsession. It like becomes a full time hobby in season 1. She ruins relationships over it. In season 2 you can argue there is more depth to it and Paxton does grow in Season 2. But somehow she is still fixated on the fact that it's Paxton Hall-Yoshida. I mean she smells him (totally normal), Mc Enroe's comment at the relay was, "did this hunk of beef just say he likes spending time with her", when she breaks up him she says , "you are very good at kissing" not possibly any of his other good qualities. And at the end she says , "I guess I'm Paxton Hall Yoshida's girlfriend now". This boy is so far up a pedestal that if he fell of it, he'd break something. Now granted if he fell of it in Season 1, he'd be dead. So progress I guess...

Maybe the relationship will change in Season 3 and she genuinely falls in love with him. I mean Id be sad but obviously a real possibility. But also that relationship needs to move on from being just the "Paxton project" which it was basically all of season 2. Maybe actually talk about her every once in a while.

Also people who find the ending so amazing because he shows up...bare minimum bro. I understand his perspective, how does it look to go back with someone who cheated on you. Fair point 💯. However she didn't start this shit up again. He did. He liked her so much that he had to make out with her In the middle of the night out of the blue but not enough to respect her publically. That's some BS right there. If he started it, he should have thought it through instead of guilt tripping her. But he is a teenager and ALL of them make incredibly stupid decisions (we all have). Devi messed up big time too and she apologized. The same compassion must extend to him but in no way is it a grand gesture, it's the bare minimum...like her apologies

6. "Paxton forgave Devi forgave Devi so quickly whilst Ben didn't and was so mean". He did forgive her pretty quickly. Good for him. However let's not act like circumstance didn't carve the way for that. They were pushed together because of the whole tutoring thing and he knows that they have to see each other all the time. So logically just makes sense to keep the peace. But still mature oh his part. Also he wasn't as emotionally invested as Ben. Did he have feelings? Yes. However, based on his inner monologue (Gigi Hadid) his ego took more of a hit because how could Devi, the "weirdest girl" he ever liked two time him with Ben Gross. Did his feelings deepen by the end? Yes. But at the start...it isn't that deep.

Also it's great and all that he "forgave" her so quickly but he sure did like bringing it up a lot. Like at the relay guilting her, upset at the end of 6 because he failed...I mean wtf girl you owe me- I don't really care what else is going on in your life, again in episode 8 in the car and finally we all know the mess that is episode 10.

In regards to Ben. His anger is justified for reasons stated in point 1. In fact his reaction seems more real because he is deeply hurt by Devi. Do I like some of his reaction (i.e. nose piercing-will discuss this further) ...nope but she only sincerely apologises to him in episode 8 vs 3 for Paxton. He accepts it. People acting like they would be so calm and chill about being cheated on. And yes he did cheat on Shira. He tries to kiss Devi at party twice but apologises that day and the following week. He doesn't try anything with Devi the whole of episode 10 until she kisses him. He acknowledges that it was wrong and immediately breaks up with Shira. Although cheating is not something we should condone can we actually acknowledge that Shira was the worst and doesn't even remember Ben's name. Compare that to Devi's premeditated cheating. Her Eleanor are literally laughing at how amazing they are for pulling it off and Devi didn't care about either of their feelings cause she was going to be India. Sorry but that is far worse. She also thinks she can bullshit her apology with Ben. He isn't here for that...which is fine! He kept trying his level best to avoid her but even that she wouldn't let him do.

7. "Ben is Horrible". Has Ben done some shitty things. Absolutely. People complain that he has never apologised for anything. Fair enough. He needs to apologize for the UN comment and the psychosomatic comment. It was incredibly hurtful. However, no one does call him out of it. Now you could argue he should just do it. Please... have you watched these particular set of teenagers? None of them apologise without being called out on it first(except maybe Fabiola). And you only get called out my your support system ... which Ben does not have. He practically looks like he raised himself. He doesn't have parents to put him back in line or a sister to call him out on his shit. Devi has her mom, cousin, grandmum , Elanor, Fabiola and her therapist. Does she ever listen to them the first time? Nope. And her first time apologies are such messes. She only gets it right the 2nd or 3rd time. All of them have some form of support but not really him. And it is heartbreaking. It's why I genuinely believe he needs to go to therapy. He needs an outlet to express everything he feels. He also needs to be held accountable for those comments and understand the root of it (ok let's be honest Devi even in their rivalry was probably the most constant person in his life, and fighting with her meant she stayed close by- it's a subconscious thing). He should apologize to her and also find better ways to communicate what he is feeling. The nose ring thing was manipulative. I agree. He should apologize. But I'm not gonna lie, it doesn't piss me off as much because I think it's pretty messed that it took that for her to realise how much she hurt him. Also tbh if you were willing to alter your body on a 2 minute thought out dare, you wanted to do it anyway. But again not a healthy way to emote on Ben's part. The David thing doesn't upset me because he knows how to pronounce her actual name. It's not like he doesn't know how and doesn't bother to try. It was part of their rivalry to irritate her. I honestly find it quite endearing as part of their friendship and think Devi does. I may be wrong and she may not like it and in that case he needs to stop and apologize.

I am not upset by him coming over to her house and calling her out about Aneesa. She deserved it. Also if she was that uncomfortable she could have taken him outside to talk like she did with Paxton. She is clearly comfortable enough to have him in the house. And her therapist agrees with Ben. If he hadn't, she wouldnt have known that Aneesa was leaving. Her mom took away her phone. And even then her first attempt at an apology was soooooo bad. And I don't think Ben did it solely to get Aneesa to stay so he could date her. This is Ben, he was willing to do long distance with Devi from India, I think he could have done the same with Aneesa from like the same town 🙄

I genuinely like Ben because he is a good kid. He makes mistakes like they all do. His personality is hilarious to watch but also his and Devi's relationship is so special. Me liking Ben and Devi has nothing to do with what Paxton has or has not done. I just like the dynamic between the two. They obviously care deeply for each other. Their conversations are hilarious. I love their banter. I love how comfortable they are with each and am sometimes surprised by the depth of their conversations. But also they have amazing chemistry. All the jealous looks and angst are between these two idiots pining for each other. I think she does have chemistry with Paxton but it's more because he is PHY, school Adonis. I mean let's be honest, he'd probably have chemistry with Fabiola solely cause he is PHY. The two nerds just match each other and it's so funny how often they are in sync. It's honestly adorable. They just get each other. That bathroom scene was the sweetest thing and also proves he's not this terrible person. She only comes out of the stall because of his support. He is genuinely hurt for her when technically it should have been a great moment for him.

I do believe the two have to be single for a bit before admitting their feelings for one another and moving forward. That's why my main thing for season 3 is that he absolutely cannot interfere in her relationship with Paxton. He needs to give her the space to figure that. Do I think there will be moments between them... absolutely but no cheating please. Everyone needs to move on from that. If they do it...I honestly think il be done with the show.

Anyways sorry for the really long ramble. If you made it to the end thanks for your patience 😌

Thank you for this beautiful masterpiece, I pretty much agree with everything and need to put it out there for the world to see

[whumperooni]

Shaming Natsuo? I'M HERE FOR IT, I imagine it taking place in your fuckboy natsuo au after sis turns to papa enji and natsuo literally BEGS her to take him back, to allow him back into your life, but sis is being a bit manipulative and being like 'now you want me back natsu-nii? what happend to all your,,friends?' And he really tries to get her to spend time together again but put into this our posessive papa who says natsu has no bussines around his innocent sister anymore (1/2)

(2/2) and who is our baby girl to deny her papa? Cut to natsuo almost degrading himself in front of you to get you back and sis being like 'well, you have to try harder, daddy for example-' it's always daddy daddy daddy, never him, and it's so frustrating for him but it only fuels him to try almost stupidly harder to get you back, meanwhile sis can only smile to the thought of her desperate bro while still panting, tired but sated and well loved in bed cuddling with her smug posessive papa 💜

In this house we Shame Natsuo Constantly 👊

I love this a lot, nonny- you’re big brained af 💕

This is a continuation of this ask!

tw: incest, manipulation, toxic relationships, cucking (kinda)

It makes you feel a little sick to have your big brother beg you so desperately for your affection.

Sick. Angry. Sad.

Vindicated.

You want to forgive him for abandoning you. You want to forgive him for hurting you.

You want to forgive him...

but you don’t at the same time.

Natsuo-nii abandoned you just to make daddy mad. You had to suffer through his hookups and loneliness and so many awful fights because he wanted to act like a spiteful brat.

You’re still hurting and it’s not easy for you to forgive him right now. There’s some upset, mean part of you deep down inside that wants him to keep begging you for your attention and forgiveness- a twisted little streak rarely ever seen that thinks Natsuo’s pleading is just desserts.

There’s satisfaction under your hurt and despair and it disgusts you. But...but you can’t help but feel that it may be a little justified.

Even if watching your older brother turn so pathetically desperate makes your stomach twist in knots.

“-I know you wanted to see it. We can go get coffee after, too- your favorite place! And maybe pick up some ice cream on the way home?”

Your upper lip threatens to curl and spite chokes at your weak desire to say yes to Natsuo-nii, strangles it and makes you look away from your older brother with his sad eyes and pleading expression. It makes you feel bitter, this, but anger reminds you of whenever he ditched you to fuck a girl in daddy’s car and frustration floods over the sour feelings making your stomach churn.

“...why are you asking me? What about all of your friends? You were more than happy to spend all your time with them just last week.”

The words come out cold- cool and callous and more icy than anything you’ve ever said in your life. Natsuo flinches from them and that breaks your heart, but it makes the mean part of you think good; you better be sorry.

“Angel, please. I am so sorry. I-”

“Shouldn’t be talking to her.”

Your father’s voice makes you both jump, but Natsuo’s face drops even more from it. You look over his clenched fists and Enji places his hands on your shoulders and let your father pull you back against his chest, keep your eyes on the jealousy and frustration twisting your brother’s expression.

You don’t say anything while Natsuo fumes and you only close your eyes when vindication zips through you, lean further into daddy’s chest and let his warmth soothe you.

“You have no business being around her,” Enji continues on- voice rumbling in anger and his hands tightening on your shoulders. You open your eyes to catch Natsuo’s reaction and let yourself watch his face contort in guilt, fury. “You do not deserve to be around her. Your little sister doesn’t need another bad influence in her life.”

Natsuo’s mouth opens like he’s going to snap back at Enji, but you’re whisked around before anything can be said- your daddy’s arm wrapping around you and nudging you to walk away with him.

You don’t fight him. Daddy’s right, probably. And he’s...he’s the only one that’s been good to you lately. He’s the only one that has never let you down.

Daddy has always been there for you.

You let your father lead you away and something dark in you pulses whenever a faint, choked, anguished sob sounds behind you. _____________________________________________________

Natsuo keeps coming to you even after that rejection.

It makes you angry that he keeps coming to you even when acting like a kicked dog, but it makes something in you feel satisfied too.

It’s not nice having to beg someone for attention, is it?

You want to be snide and ask him that, but there’s the part of you that still loves him truly and deeply that keeps your nasty, hurt feelings in check.

If you’re being honest with yourself, the cruel little thoughts scare you a bit- you’ve never wanted to be mean to Natsuo-nii before.

But...well.

If you keep being honest with yourself, it’s vindicating to keep seeing him try so hard. It rubs a smug streak that you never knew existed when he brings you gifts and trinkets, when he grabs your hand and begs for just an afternoon together- a trip to the amusement park, a date to the cafe, even just to watch a tv show together.

You accept the trinkets mutely and put them away somewhere you don’t have to see them.

You don’t accept his pleas for time together.

He breaks down one night and demands to know why daddy- why not him? He’s so sorry and he’ll do anything to get you back, but please please not Enji anymore.

And all you can is smile at him- a little tired, a little sad and so very frustrated.

“Daddy has never abandoned me. He’s never ditched me for his friends. He’s never brought anyone over and let them be mean to me. He’s never made me sleep alone before. Daddy cares for me- he doesn’t let infantile spite get in the way of loving me.”

It’s harsh and cruel, but it’s true. Natsuo knows it’s true as well- even if it has his face scrunching up in anger and frustration.

“Angel, I- I love you! I never stopped loving you! I was just-”

You leave before he can say anything else and go to your daddy, sit yourself in his lap and curl up in his warmth. He’s satisfied whenever you tell him about what happened- possessive, too. Enji kisses you and he tells you that you’re a good girl for denying your brother, that you’re his sweet little one and that you only need him to love you.

And you let him do just that- you let him love you by mouthing over your neck and curling his thick fingers into your cunny, filling you with his cock and cum until you’re a sleepy little wreck against him with a sore throat from being made to cry his name out again and again and again.

You wonder tiredly if Natsuo-nii heard.

You hope he did.

It’s punishment and it’s twisted, but it makes your big brother try even harder to earn your forgiveness. He does everything for you in the hopes of winning you back- chores and cooking breakfast, lunch, dinner; buying you expensive jewelry and pretty flowers and cute plushies; gifting you tickets to shows you want to see and giving you money to go shopping with your friends.

He does so much for you- is wearing himself down to the bone- and...well...your anger is starting to fade.

But so is your guilt over your anger.

It just seems right for your big brother to be panting and begging after you now- you’ve done so much for him over the years and now it’s finally time for you to be paid back.

And it’s...well...as horrible as it may be, it’s starting to get satisfying reaping the spoils of your brother’s hard work only to deny him and go to daddy instead. It’s starting to get satisfying knowing that Natsuo-nii is forced to listen to daddy fucking you brainless while all he has is his hand and your loud whines to get him off. It’s starting to get satisfying to lay on top of your daddy after being stuffed with his cum and get your hair petted, hear him murmur about how he’s going to take you somewhere nice and buy you a pretty dress and new shoes and all the things his little one deserves. It’s starting to get satisfying being spoiled by daddy and waited on hand and foot by Natsuo.

It might make you a bad person but, if you are, it’s Natsuo’s fault for hurting you in the first place. And, besides, he’s the one that keeps coming back to you- he’s the one that’s a glutton for punishment.

It’s his fault that he gets nothing but rejection while daddy holds your heart and gets to be with you in bed, gets to have you wrapped up in his arms.

It’s his fault that you belong to daddy now- you had always been your big brother’s ever adoring little sister but now you’re daddy’s girl through and through.

Natsuo is just going to have to keep trying again and again- keep pleading you each and every day until you decide to give him a crumb of affection.

Maybe one day you will but, for now, you’re going to stay content in your daddy’s arms- a smile on your face as your father plugs his cum inside you with a thick finger, as you drift off to sleep wondering just how your big brother will try to prove his love and devotion tomorrow and the day after that.

[mayraki]

CHAPTER FIVE

“partners in crime”

CHAPTER FOUR

SERIES MASTERLIST

MY MASTERLIST

who is max belinsky?

concept boards for the new characters

summary: Max Belinsky and JJ Maybank are the two troublemakers of Outer Banks. Going to parties, getting into trouble, having an attitude and being the two people you don’t mess with are the perfect ways to describe them. What would happen when the two people who seem to have trouble follow them around meet? One thing is fore sure, they didn’t expect this outcome.

“What the fuck happend?!” Max asked once she saw Pope’s state.

He had blood all over his mouth and little scratches on his forehead. Max walked closer to him and noticed that his shirt was also ripped, his trousers were covered in dirt as well as his shoes. Kie helped him sit down on the couch and he complained, grabbing his stomach in the process.

“Was it Rafe?” Sarah asked concerned. Rafe Cameron. Max knew about him, because of his dickhead attitude and the way he would walk around the beach, thinking he owned the entire island. The amount of times she heard about him, messing with some Pogues, or what he did because he was under the influence of drugs, she couldn’t wait for the opportunity to mess with him and gave him what he deserved, but this time wasn’t it, since Pope shook his head responding to Sarah’s question.

“I can’t fucking believe this shit!” Kie said throwing her hands into the air frustrated.

“Who did this Pope?” JJ asked angrily. “I swear to God I will fight whoever-” JJ was saying but Pope cut him off.

“Don’t JJ. I don’t want you to get in any trouble.”

“Who says he’s going to get into trouble?” Max asked. Everyone turned to her confused. “To get in trouble you have to be caught first. Nobody messes with the Pogues, they attack... we strike back. That’s the rule.”

“What do you have in mind?” Sam asked her.

“No, Max.” Pope said shacking his head. “I don’t want you two to do anything. You and JJ already have been to the Sheriffs Station this week, I don’t want you both to go back there and get into more trouble for me.”

John B appeared on the living room with the first aid-kit and started to clean Pope’s wounds.

“Pope, they have to pay for what they did bro!” JJ said.

“It already happend, what can you do about it? They’re long gone.” Pope said. “Ouch.” He tried to get away from the alcohol but John B grabbed his cheek pulling him closer.

“Would you just stay put?”

“It fucking hurts bro.” Pope complained.

“Hey, look at you!” JJ pointed at Pope’s forehead. “We can’t let them get away with this!” Max looked at JJ. He was starting to see the JJ he claimed to be, the one who would do anything for his friends, who would put up a good fight, the one you don’t mess with.

“JJ stop!” Kie yelled. “If Pope doesn’t want you to do anything, then don’t.” He let out a big angry sigh get out from his mouth and his jawline clenched.

“Alright then.” He said and then walked outside the house, closing the door with a loud noise.

“I’ll make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid.” Max said and everyone nodded, without breaking their sights from Pope.

She opened the front door and JJ appeared on her sight, he was standing with his back facing the house, watching the water while his arms were across his chest.

“If you’re here to talk me out of something, then don’t even try.” JJ said and Max lifted her eyebrow.

“I don’t think you’ve realised who you’re talking to yet.” She shook her head and he turned to her. “Nobody messed with the Pogues, right?”

“Nobody.”

“That’s what I like to hear.” A little smile appeared on her face and then she faced forward while her mind was already thinking her next move.

The day was beautiful. There was barely any clouds and the sun was shining like there was no tomorrow. The Pogues decided to spend the entire morning at the beach, the waves were the perfect ones to surf.

As Pope wanted, no one was going to talk about what happend the night before. But Max and JJ had other plans. After everyone went to bed, Max stayed at the Chateau and started to prepared a little plan that she had in mind with JJ. In the morning, the only thing that JJ had to do was found out who did it, wich, successfully, the last name Harriet appeared on the conversation.

The Harriets. The annoying Kook twins. Max had seen them multiple times, walking like they were better than anyone else around them, having a drink on their hands and wearing those ugly golf shorts. Golf. They loved golfing. They couldn’t spend a day without going to the Club and hitting some balls. And too bad for them, Max knew that.

“Wow!” JJ said once they were out of the water with their surfing boards next to their bodies. “You’re pretty good dude!”

Max let out a little laugh while they two of them were walking back to their stuff on the sand. “Thanks man!”

They both let their boards on the sand and sat down on top of them, while watching the others surf on the water. JJ turned to Max and noticed the little star tattoo he saw when he first met her. He realised that he didn’t knew anything about her, only that he had a brother. He had never seen her with her parents, she was always alone or with Sam.

“What’s that little tattoo?” He asked and Max turned to him.

“It has to do with my family... not big deal.” Max let out a little smile and then went back to the ocean. She didn’t like to talk about the subject and JJ noticed. But that didn’t stopped him from having questions in his mind.

“How did you learned how to surf like that?” He asked and Max looked down. JJ cursed himself on the inside, it was like he was asking all the questions that would make her feel uncomfortable.

“I had a pretty good teacher.” Max said and JJ nodded with a smile. “I guess since everyone is focused on surfing, we can talk about tonight.” JJ was glad that Max changed the subject to something she wanted to talk about, he didn’t want to fucked it up for the third time.

“Yeah, sure. How are we going to get into the Golf Club?”

“I know a place.”

“How do you know this path again?” JJ asked while they were both walking through some bushes on the side of the Golf Club.

“Sam and I used to mess with the golfers a while back, we would hide on here and if the ball would come closer to us we would grab it, and hide it. There’s no cameras around here, so I told myself back then to never forget this place.”

“Well, we have to thank your past se-OUCH!”

“Would you just shut up?!” Max yelled turning around to see JJ. He was grabbing his arm and Max noticed a little scratched in it. “Don’t be a baby and let’s go.”

“I’m not being a baby! I would like to see you walking around while you’re bleeding!” He complained.

“JJ, I do that every month.”

“Wha-Oh, Yeah, you do.”

Max rolled her eyes but a little laugh escaped her mouth. She let out a bit sigh once the bushes were over and she was able to see the golf course. It was a night full of stars and a little wind would occasionally blew her hair.

“We’re in Kook territory now.” JJ said and Max nodded with a smile.

“We have to be quiet, I’m pretty sure the Club is closed now but, who knows what this Kooks do on a Tuesday night?”

They both started to walk carefully to the building on the other side of the Golf Club. Max knew where the cameras were so it was easy to avoid them, pushing JJ to the side when he was being careless.

“Dude!” Max said in a whisper when she grabbed JJ by the neck of his shirt and pulled him against the wall. “Is it that hard to follow me and stay close?”

“Wow, Max..” JJ said with a smirk looking at her hand on his shirt. “I don’t know that you were actually into this sort of stuff..” Max punched him on the side of his arm and he grabbed it in pain. “Ouch dude!”

“Ouch dude!” Max imitated JJ’s voice to make fun of him. “Don’t mess this up!”

“You like being the boss... I see..” JJ said and Max let out a big sigh.

“I should’ve done this with Sam.”

“Oh, c’mon!” JJ let his arm go around Max’s shoulder while she was looking around, making sure there was no one around. “We make a great team!”

“Members of the same team don’t flirt with each other.” Max said annoyed.

“You were the one who pushed me against he wall! That was some kinky shit!”

“I pushed you because there was a camera right there and I don’t want to get caught, because what we’re doing here is kinda like super illegal, in case you didn’t know.”

“Alright, alright, I don’t want to get caught either. You’re rig- no, I’m not going to say it because I’m never going to hear the end of it if I say it.”

Max let out a little laugh. “Well, we agree on something.” She said while taking her back to face the wall. JJ did the same and she turned to him after popping her head over the end of the wall. “The lockers are right ther-” She was saying but was cut off by JJ grabbing her arm and pulling her inside a room next to them. JJ quickly closed the door and Max looked at him confused. “What the-?” JJ put his hand over her mouth and Max immediately heard some steps walking next to the door.

They both stayed in silence while listening to the steps get farther away. JJ let out a relief sigh once they couldn’t hear the steps anymore and Max closed her eyes.

“Guess I just saved our asses back there, you can thank me later.” JJ said with a proud smile but Max just rolled her eyes while opening the door.

They both walked towards the locker rooms and once they were inside, JJ closed the door after making sure no one saw them while Max was looking for the name “Harriet” on the lockers.

“Here.” Max called JJ and he walked closer to her. “This is one of them. We just have to pick the lock-”

“Let me.” JJ said moving Max aside. She lifted her eyebrow but didn’t say anything about it, she wanted JJ to have his moment. “Picking a lock is not as easy as it seems.” JJ started to work on it without realising that Max walked away to look for the other locker. “It’s like art. Once you see it, you’re like ‘yeah, I can do it.’ But when you try, it’s hard as fuck. Only a few people can do it, and lucky for you, your partner in crime for the night is one of them...”

“Done.” Max said a couple of steps away from JJ. She opened the locker with ease while JJ was still struggling with his. “Better hurry up with that one, we don’t have all night, partner in crime.” Max let out a little proud smile and turned her head to see what was inside while JJ tried to understood how she did it so fast.

Golf sticks were broken in half, shoes were filled with cream, and stupid golf shorts had a huge hole in the crotch area. Max and JJ were happy with their results, giving each other a high five while watching their mess like a masterpiece.

“I’m really proud of us right now.” JJ said giving an approval nod.

“Wait, there’s something else.” Max said while looking in her backpack. “This morning, when I was looking for things to bring here, I found this..” she took a red spray bottle and a little smile appeared on JJ’s face.

“How about ‘asshole n1.’ and ‘asshole n2.’?” He asked and Max nodded with a smile.

“You know? We’re starting to get each other.” She walked to the lockers and started to paint with the spray bottle.

“It’s looking so good..” JJ said after a laugh excited.

“Done!” Max said while looking at the lockers and a smile appeared on her face. She turned to him who was looking at her. “We did good, bro.”

“We sure did.” They both fist bump and quickly, grabbed their backpacks and headed to the door. “Do we still have to be so quiet? It’s two am in the morning, I don’t think-” JJ was saying but was cut off by an older couple walking towards them. JJ widen his eyes and Max cursed on the inside.

“Hey, you two, what were you doing in there?” The old lady asked with a smile. She seemed nice and not suspicious of them at all.

JJ turned to Max, a million excuses where going through her mind, but at the speed they were going she couldn’t say one at loud, until without thinking, she said with the biggest smile: “We were having sex!” She bit her lower lip as soon as the words came out of her mouth. JJ widen his eyes at the surprise and he was trying to not let out a loud laugh. The old couple looked at each other and Max wanted the earth to eat her in that moment, making her disappear. “You know... teenagers. We can’t keep our hands off each other.”

JJ nodded and let his arm go around Max’s waist. She wanted to move his hand, but controled herself. Since it was going to look weird is she did it. “We’re in love, you know?” JJ and Max cringed on the inside and they wanted to stop, but then the old lady added;

“Young love! You two make a really cute couple together.” She smiled and Max quickly nodded with an awkward smile on her face.

“Thank you!” JJ answered with a smile.

“We know what it’s like, you don’t have to worry it. Being young, ending up in the weirdest of places..” the old man said while giving a little smirk to his wife. Max and JJ nodded with fake smiles. They both couldn’t believe that they were talking about sex with a couple of old people. “We’ve been ther-”

“We have to go now, you know, our parents are going to get mad if we don’t show up!” Max grabbed JJ’s hand and started to walk away.

“I hope you two are using protection!” The lady said and Max turned and started to walk backwards.

“Don’t be silly wrap your willy, am I right?” She turned around and slapped herself in the forehead. “Max, just stop, stop talking.” She said to herself while JJ was trying his hardest to not let out a big laugh. “Not even a word Maybank.”

“I don’t think I’m going to say a word right now, because I’m still trying to fully process it.” He said and then his mouth went slight opened, thinking about what just really happened.

“Then never process it.” Max said before going back to the Cut.

The walk back was filled with silence. Max was ready to punch JJ on the arm and say to him that they would never mention what had happend on the Club, but JJ just let out a smile and nodded.

“We make a good team.” Max nodded without making eye contact with him, she was staring at the ocean from a far. “You make the plan, I follow you, you hate me for flirting with you, we get the job done, and then you flirt back with me. It’s a pretty good theme if you ask me!”

“I was not flirting with you, dumbass. And I told you to never process it.” Max said and a little smile escaped her mouth. She didn’t understand why she wasn’t punching JJ, or why all of the sudden, smiles escaped her mouth, maybe was the night full of stars or the peaceful hot wind that was blowing that was making her more calm, but she just wanted to enjoy this little walk they were having and don’t get to the end of it.

“Too late, princess. I already processed it.” Max shook her head and JJ let his arm go around her shoulders. “I know what I’m going to dream tonight.”

Max grabbed JJ’s arm and moved it back to his side, and then she punched him with a disgust expression. “Ew! Dickhead, don’t say that! You’re disgusting!”

“You were the one who said it, dude!” JJ pointed at her but she pushed his finger away.

Max saw her house on the left and she turned to JJ. “I have to turn here.”

“C’mon, I’ll take you.” JJ started to walk but Max stopped him by putting her hand on his chest. “What?”

“If my brother sees you, the questions will never stop. I’m just going to avoid that.”

JJ furrowed his eyebrows and asked confused; “What? Cody?”

“No, Fred. I have an older brother too. And, he was not so happy when he found out you were at my place that night after the party.”

“Uuh, the protective brother. I like that. We have to sneak around and-”

“Don’t even start..” Max shook her head.

“Just admit it, you looove me, you can’t deny it now after everything you said back there. You know, teenagers, can’t keep their hands off each other.” JJ said imitating Max and a little laugh escaped her mouth.

“You just wait, you’re going to say something that you’ll regret and you would never hear the end of it. I’ll make sure of that.”

“I like this, you and me flirting forth and back, my predictions of you falling for me are starting to come true.” He said with a proud smile and Max just shook her head before walking some steps backwards to her house.

“Goodnight, Maybank.”

“Thanks to you, it will Belinsky.”

CHAPTER SIX

TAGLIST

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X-Men Evolution Reviewcaps: Rogue Recruit

My series long look at X-Men Evolution rolls on as eveyrone’s favorite goth reworking of everyone’s faviorite southerner debuts. The X-Men and Mystique race to bring Rogue to her side after her powers accidently coma a boy. The X-Men try the usual compasion.. while Mystique just tries attempted murder and gaslighting while wearing a wolverine costume. Mother of the year! Meanwhile Kurt tries to get Kitty to likes him, Kitty does something profoundly stupid to prove Wolverine wrong that ends up proving him right, and Wolverine grumbles and is kind of an asshole. Well at least one of those is just an average tuesday for him. We’re going Rogue, Rogue, Rouuuuggeeee under the cut. 

Onto episode 3 though this time I did actually get around to watching a few in a row, so while i’m not MILES ahead of this episode, I do have a better sense of where things are going and where this falls in line with everything else. And this is a big one as it’s the debut of Rogue, easily one of the shows more popular characters from what I can tell and it’s no real suprise. In most incarnations Rogue is a huge fan faviorite, with a tragic but very useful and intresting power that makes for good stories.. and okay in the comics and carton she’s also fanservice incarnate, but that’s not exactly a factor here so moving on.  And here is no exception as naturally, with her goth apperance, and general moody outsider atittude, she was a huge hit with goths and emos one and all! And eveyrone really, it’s a good take despite being almost the oppsite of the angsty but still fesity and funloving 90′s version.. and the ironic part is BOTH are entirely accurate to the comics. And yes like the last time about to dive a bit into the comics.. but unlike the shiar thing this is throughly relevant to how the character is portrayed here and a neat history less for those not in the know, so buckle up. 

What’s intresting is both adapt the character.. just at vastly diffrent points. See most probably think of Rogue as she is now: Bubbly, Scrappy and able to throw a man into a mountain, if still understandably mopey about not being able to touch anyone, thoguh that issues come and gone a dozen times by now because comic books can’t resisit undoing things to meet fan expectations despite most dedicated fans wanting some fucking change once in a while. 

But that’s due to years and years of character development: When Chris Claremont first intorduced her, in an avengers annual no less.. she was a villain, a member of her adopted mother Mystique’s brotherhood of evil mutants, and unlike here, we’ll get into that, she was a fully willing member at first, gleefuly following her mama’s orders to drain the powers of one of Mystique’s most hated enemy: Carol Danvers, aka Ms Marvel and the future Captain Marvel. Yeah this one takes some explination for you non-comic fans, and even some of you comic fans who might not get how one of the more iconic x-men villians has personal beef with Carol.... granted i’m pretty sure half the marvel unvierse has personal beef with Carol in present day after Civil War II, especially tony for murdering him, but story for another time.  It’s actually pretty simple: Chris Claremont was writer of x-men for a decade and easily the most important x-men writer period who created a ton of iconic and well loved characters and shaped Cyclops, Charles Xavier and Magneto into the characters fans know and love among others. And around the same time as his x-men run’s early years in the late 70′s, he was writer of Ms Marvel, and took Carol from a half hearted girl counterpart to the first Captain Marvel with a wonky two identties gimmick, into the asskicker and feminist icon we know today. As such Mystique debuted there and when that book ended, Claremont slided her over to the x-men and the rest is history. And this wasn’t an isolated incident: Sabertooth, aka wolverine’s arch enemy and one of hte more famous mutant baddies, debuted in, of all comic books, iron fist, with Claremont bringing him back years and years later as part of the mutant massacreing Marauders, while Misty Knight and Coleen Wing were breifly supporting characters in x-men inbetween Iron Fist’s cancelation and Iron Fist becoming bros for life with Luke Cage and forming the heroes for hire, bringing the two along as supporting characters in the process. It’s a process writers have contiuned to this day; Bringing a character from other unrelated comics in to keep them out of comic book limbo and one i’m in favor of: as long as their writing the character well and they fit why not.  And like her momma Rogue DIDN’T debut in the pages of X-Men, but in Avengers Annual #10. And no Chris wasn’t writing avengers, though it wasn’t really unusual for another writer to hop in for one annual to pinch hit for the regular writer for whatever reason, with Chris Claremont being one of the few who wrote every annual himself for his run on X-Men. What was is he did so for one reason and one only: To get justice for Carol Danvers after a recent story had screwed her over BAD. Two things before we start: If you haven’t heard of this debacle, my apologizes and rape and abuse trigger warning. If you want to skip this portion of the review just ctrl f HIGHER FASTER FURTHER MORE and you can move right on past this clusterfuck and the aftermath. Anyways in Avengers 200, Carol gave birth via terribly contrived mystical pregnancy to Marcus, son of avengers foe and sometimes ally immortus and creepy asshole. Marcus is revaled to have brainwashed carol into loving him , and making love to him so yeah he raped her physically and mentally and the story ends iwth the “Happy ending” of him whisking carol away with him to his limbo dimension while everyone else is fine with it despite him admitting to using the “subtle manipulations of his machines” to make her love him. So yeah, he kidnapped carol to his limbo dimension, mind controlled her, had his way with her, had her give birth to him so he could come to earth then took her back with him.. and not ONE avenger raced a hand, shield, repulsor or hammer, and yes the big three avengers were very much present for this debacle and very much cuplable. IT’s a throughly disgusting hideous story i’ve only see played out thanks to Linkara, long time comics reviewer and all around sweet guy, reviewing it, though with the panels show to show yes all of this is there, and have no intrest in EVER reaading this vile piece of garbage. If your still curious or after just hearing about it want to see it torn to shreds, here’s the review for you. 

It’s terrible for a variety of other reasons. Naturally Chris, who’d put a LOT of time into building up carol and like any creator who sees their character throughly dragged through the mud, was PISSSSSED.. and so were fans who rightly rioted at the issue, so editorial was more than happy to let one of thier biggest draws  right the ship and also allowed him to take Carol back home to the x-men with him. As for how that happened, after Rogue stole her powers, Carol fell in a river and was rescued by her best friend and fellow Chris Claremont alumnis Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, who brought her to the x-men since she was a friend of theirs, where charles fixed her mind, though Carol was left with no emotoins attached to most of her memoreis. When the avengers, after scrapping with the brotherhood in some neat bouts, came to visit their friend.. Carol instead laid into them for letting Marcus take her, poitned out just how fucked up it was as well as how, and this actually happend, the avengers downplayed her concerns and tried to get her to connect with her demon spawn instead of worrying about her while others made jokes. Basically just one long page of chris claremont unloading on the issue and Carol unloading on her former friends before staying with her new ones. And to the issues credit the rest of the team. .takes it, is utterly devistated to realize what they’d done, and reflects on if they can ever make up for it or if they even deserve forgivness. She would eventually, mostly because people wanted to forget this story after that for good reason, but it’s still a damn cathartic moment.  HIGHER FASTER FURTHER MORE.. so yeah Carol was now with the x-men, who did end up meeting Rogue during a mission to wipe themselves from goverment records for good reason. And to his credit Chris not only used Carol’s lack of emotions tied to her memories for good drama but gave carol a huge power upgrade as binary, if your curious as to where her glowy headed distctrugion of an entire starfleet in her solo film came from. So okay after about a paragraph not really involving her we get into why this is so important to rogue’s character; Rogue now had Carol’s personality and memories trapped in her head and her mind was blurring between them, something this episode would use, and was falling apart as a result and with her moms Mystique and Destiny unable to help a despearate scared and repetnant Rogue went to her last hope for help saving her sanity and her soul: The X-Men. The X-Men, having both fought her and bonded heavily with her victim, naturally were less than pleased about this, and Colossus outright attacked Rogue before charles stopped him, not unresonably given the circumstances. However after talking with her and realizing both how badly she needed her help and how genuinely she wanted to change, going from a brat in love with her own power to a scared young woman terrified of what she’d done and what she was becoming, decided to roll her into the x-men. And everyone revolted: Carol was understadanbly piss and famously punched Rogue into orbit, while the rest of the x-men threatned to walk. Charles however refused to back down and gave one of his finest speech and one of the characters best moments:

To me this is Charles Xavier, a man who will accept and try to help anyone, regardless of their past, because it’s the right thing.. because they deserve a chance and he will GIVE IT TO THEM. It’s a powerful and well done moment and the x-men relucntantly take her in as a result, eventually seeing her as family as she proved herself.  So yeah  THAT is why I took so long to get here and went through ALL of this: Because this series adapts this period in it’s own unique way, taking out Rogue’s outright villiany mind, but leaving in her being a moodier, more closed off person who is constantly afraid of once again stealing someone’s very soul. She still has her confidence, as idd the comics version, it’s just tempered by a wall she puts up between her and everyone else that wasn’t as present by the time the 90′s series adapted her. And there are other bits i’ll get to as we go and in future episodes, I just felt this story was important as it colors Rogue’s journey here, hence me taking a good portion of the review to dive into it and even then I have more bits to give as we go. So with all this exposition that’s probably lost ya’s out of the way, this is Rogue Recurit. Pitter Patter.  We open in the mighty Missisipi, neighbor to my home state of missouri and home of the deep fried shoe. No wait that’s connecticut my mistake. We meet our unfriendly neighborhood goth moping outside, not really enjoying the dance and probably only having gone because her mom told her not to.. Destiny not Myistque mind. More on that in a minute. She’s being watched by two guys: Cody, who if you know your x-men lore you know this never ends well for him, and his friend uh.. let me check my noootes (Checks wiki while shuffling papers to simulate notes) Ty. Turns out Cody’s been starring at Rogue all week but dosen’t even know her name which to be fair, minus the muscles and being on the football team, is pretty much me in high school and is just as pathetic in 2000 as it would be from 2007-2010. I mean if I just went for it I PROBABLY would’ve been shot down, and the one time I did I indeed was, but at least I would of went for it and maybe learned more about women and not been such a dipstick for the next decade.... “sigh”

Point is Cody awkwardly asks Rogue to dance but like most cool kids, including the kind I hung out with in high school and tended to crush on, she’s there to look COOOOL and mope a bit.. and again tell her mom she can’t tell her what to dooooo. But Cody’s awkwardness and sincerty gets her to say why not, he means well.. a little pity dance can’t hurt. So they dance and then Ty causes this entire episode, yes really, by shoving Cody into her because they happen to be dancing seperatley because Cody’s a goddman gentleman ya maroon, and is respecting her personal space, and IS actually hitting it off as she seems to be enjoying herself. Had he not done that, he at least MIGHT have gottne a kiss before what happens next.. during the fall he accidently touches her skin, which had been mostly covered up and goes into a Coma while Rogue is now stuck in a stupor wondering who she is. Yeah as I omniously hinted at Cody is the guy in every version of Rogue’s origin story,  including I assume the 2000′s one where until doing some research i.e. going to wikipedia then letterboxd to find out if his name was given, who she has her first kiss with.. and thus the poor sap who first gets hit with her absorbtion power and traumtizes her. And here it’s no exception. Cue the opening credits. Which despite this setting up the slow arc of Rogue joining htem.. has Rogue in an x-men uniform with the team. Not that the arc is particuarlly subtle about hiding it, we’ll get there but still.  After the credits Ty is wondering what she did to him.. even though she barely moved when he fell on her, and Ty shoved Cody into him, and for all we know Cody just went into shock. He also easily could’ve fell on an epi pen or something.. I mean she could’ve stabbed him wiht one but that’s more of a candian thing than a southern thing. 

So Ty, who while understandably given Mutants aren’t public and Rogue herself had no idea still casued this by shoving Cody into her without thinking about if either had any medical conditions or if Rogue you know WANTED to phsyically touch him that soon, and yes diffrent standards and all but even 2000 this was stupid, decides to mess up things further when Rogue tries to run and tries to block the way. Now granted I get it on some level: For all he knows Rogue drugged his best friend and she needs to be there anyway to answer the police.. but counter arguments 1) She may have a record (She dosen’t) and while not having DONE anything may get brought up on charges anyway.  2) If she DID drug cody with a needle of something WHO SAYS SHE DOSEN’T HAVE MORE AND CAN’T JUST STAB YOUR DUMB ASS 3) she’s got a VERY distinctinve haircut with a white streak, wears a very specific outfit she probably son’t have time to change out of , and everyone there saw her. YOu can tell the police what she looks like. They will find her.  No instead she tries blocking her and she football tackles him.. because Cody is a footballer because this show, much like Tommy Wiseau, weirdly loves football. though unlike the room most instances it comes up, the first episode, cody being one here, and a future episode where the objective is to get the ball from your opposing x-man, all make some sense versus “Let’s go put on tuxes and play football because that’s what friends do huhhhhh?”. But yeah THIS is why I brought up Rogue’s past: becuase this episode heavily uses the part where she had Carol’s memories.. and would occasionally get messed up between who she was, with one issue having her lapse into being carol to rescue her ex from capture, which he dosen’t take well for obvious reasons. This episode uses something similar with Rogue’s brain a bit fried from taking in cody and thus not being sure where she ends and he begins, which is a very intresting idea and was a cool wya to go about having her powers activate. I mean sure it’s the second time in two episodes a mutant’s powers have traumatically awkaned. but both were distinct and interesting and it’s a staple of x-men stories to have this sort of thing happen. 

Meanwhile Rogue’s caretaker Destiny, who we flashed to a bit during the awakening of her powers, calls Mystque. I mentioned her ealrlier in jokes but for those unaware both here and in the comics Destiny is a pre cog, although sh’es an elderly woman in the comics, or rather was having died decades ago in real life, meaning she can see the fuuuuttureeeeee. And thus she saw what was about to happen but couldn’t prevent it. Mysitque is apparently railing her out on the other end over it.. and not in the fun way they usuallly do. And that’’s not crude ininsiuation.. in the comics.. Chris Claremont wrote them as a gay couple and only didn’t explicltly say anything because Jim Shooter was a homophobic moron, even if he had the common sense to stop the kitty and colossus thing because dear god why was that a thing, chaste or not dear god why. The point is Chris fully meant both as lesbians though Mysitque became bisexual under other writers, and the two finally kissed on panel, in flashback last year and Msique wanting her revivied, the x-men can come back from the dead now in comics and Xavier and Magneto refusing for complicated reasons I won’t go into here, and Desitny herself knowing they might not and telling her to burn Krakoa to the ground if she dosen’t get to come back is a major bubbling plot point that got set up earlier this year. So yeah I fully see them as a couple here. ANd yes mistue was with her even as an old lady, it’s really sweet and misty is also immortal so they’ve been together a long time. Also fun fact you probably dind’t need to know: Chris Claremont FULLY inteded to have it turn out the two were Nightcrawler’s biological parents. Mistque is a shapeshifter and can become a man after all.. I like to think that’s what happened here since thankfully the show decided NOT to go with the “kurt’s dad is a demon” explination from around the same time.. and yes that’s a thing and yes it’s fucking stupid and only ever worked under jason aaron who made Kurt’s dad into a pirate who raided heaven and lead to the x-men pirating up alongside a about to come back from the dead nightcrawler to kick his ass. And yes much like the misqute shapeshifting a dick to make a child being shopped around, this actually happened. Comics are awesome sometimes and I genuinely wish Destiny was kurt’s mom. Also yeah spoilers Mystique is nightcrawler’s mom here as usual, including possibly in the movies but it’s kept vauge in both timelines. 

Destiny explains that while she kept Rogue’s powers under wraps, giving her a phony skin condition and having her wear skin covering clothes, she couldn’t keep her away from teenage things forever and figured she’d be fine.. she was wrong but hey her precontion isn’t something she can control and she can still see the fucking future, so it’s not like it’s a bad trade off. Myistque is of course coming to collect her but Destiny warns her that, naturally, the x-men are going to be there soon. 

Speaking of the X-Men, Wolverine is breaking into the x-men mansion in a ninja costume while storm tries to thrwart hm. Yes there is actual context to this and he is a trained ninja so this fits.. yes really he apparentlyt rained with ninjas as part of his backstory and later had a samurai sword fight iwth his girlfriends dick of a dad twice and has had many since then since even with his claws the image of wolverine wielding a sword is fucking awesome. He crawls through the vents but Storm freezes them and he’s forced to enter the danger room and then tears some machines apart because chuck stops him because APPARENTLY their expesnive.. even though he can afford to buy his teenage son a sports car and himself a fucking rolls, so no Chuck I don’t see why Logan would assume you can’t afford to buy more death machines. 

Scott rightly asks what the hell their supposed to learn from one of their teachers putting on his ninja robes and trying to sneak into his own house while another teacher tries to murder him. And yeah with enoguh episodes I can fully say my assement was accurate, and not only that this scott has a bit of a temper at times, being a bit quicker to fly off the handle while also having a clear sarcastic streak, something his comics counterpart would thankfully soon pick up and that’s come back in full under jonathan hickman:

It’s.. a long story.. a bunch of racist genocidal scientests decided to inject themselves with devolving serum to protect their project from the x-men.. okay maybe not that long a story. BUt I LIKE that this scott is flawed, but not enoguh to make him unlikeable just enough to round him out: He’s charming, empathetic and a tactical genius.. but he can also be hot headed, sarcastic and impulsive. I’ts a nice ballance that dosen’t prevent him from being likeable or useful to the team, but keeps him intresting and gives him room to grow.  What I really am liking about the series so far is the team is fairly fleshed out.. except Jean and Storm unforuntantley as Storm really hasn’t gotten enough screne time to shine like her comics counterpart and Jean is just sort of “popular girl type a who’s sweet to everyone, but also still badass”. She’s still better than the 90′s cartoon, as she can actually do stuff more often and is a vital member of the team, and has mor eof a personality, but I hope we get more to her as we go. But otherwise the characters are layerd, flawed but likeable, and enjoyable to watch, and it helps with these earlier more awkard episodes, papering over the weaker aspects with strong character. 

Anyways Logan explains why they did all this: both to show the kids how to infiltrate big complexes, which given most x-missions are “investgate a base of some sort wher eno good is coming of anything”, case in point the mission in the picture above, it’s a valid and useful skill, and to test the mansion’s security, suggesting since the vents are crawlable to electrify them and add poision gas. Storm objects to the poision gas part as well.. their only enimies besides mystique are two teenagers who while dicks don’t really deserve to choke to death. Wolverine’ relucntantly agreers.. he’ll get em next security update. Next timeee.  Kitty meanwhile wonders if anyone else is freaked out and just gets blank stares.. a great gag and a great bit of character as she just joined and had a fairly normal life before all this. Kurt assures her she’ll get used to it, but his telporting over and offering popcorn fails to impress her and she nopes out of there, though Jean reassures him chicks will dig the fuzzy eventually. This is a nice nod to the comics where , with Kurt being the only non-human passing x-man, Kitty was afraid of him for some time, but slowly came around going from being horrified to him to defending him to evelangenlical lunatic reverend stryker, he was a preacher in the comics but no less vile or murder happy, telling him that kurt was one of the noblest souls she ever met after he angrily lambasted him as not in god’s will because you know, he looks like a demon.. and apparently is half of one but let’s ignore that bollocks shall we? Here i’ts more he’s coming on a bit strong on top of that, but it still works reconfigured like that.  Anyways enough teen romance, to me my x-men as Charles needs the full team for a mission and it’s the first time we’ve HAD a full team mission which makes sense: Episode one only had two active x-men and one who just joined and episode 2 only needed a smaller team for both subplots so we split the team minus storm in half. Here we have our first full mission: To find Rogue as Xavier believes she’s a danger to herself and others.. which isn’t exactly wrong when her power can abosrb at a touch and she has two entirely diffrent minds overlaping in her head. I do questoin however going in full combat gear, as they do. Bringing it, no sweat what if someone shows up to attack them, their apparently aware of the brotherhood as of next episode... which makes little sense but whatever. But when they land they go out in full superhero gear which not only ends up playing into myistques hands , more on that in a bit but makes htem look super supscious. And this could just be wanting more costume action early on which would be fine.. if the previous episode hadn’t had jean in plain clothes to talk to kitty, because yeah most people freaked out about their powers probably wouldn’t assume the best of someone in tactical gear iwth a big x on their costume! Gah. I”m glad I went ahead simply to know the x-men do get smarter.. a little. 

Anyways, that stupidity aside on the jet Kurt is flying for the first time with Scott proud of his skill saying he’ll be an ace.. and taking it back when Kurt starts driving with his feet.. even though to me that’s just as impressive as while he has that classic arms behind the head relaxed pose, he is still paying attention, has his feet on ten and two and, and it’s a fact that I forget sometimes: His feet are just as, or at least, almost as good at gripping as his hands. It’s why he can wall crawl like spiderman. Their llike gorilla feet but better. So yeah that joke dosen’t really land.  Meanwhile it’s time for what an older man thinks two teenage girls talk about.. and I just noticed looking at the credits this episode is written by Simon Furman, one of the more renowed transformers creators and write of the UK comics and later the US comics, as well as the first few mini series and one shots for the first idw continuity.. granted the latter is a bit infamous for what he did to arcee, which I both don’t know enough about and don’t have enough time to get into here, nor have I read enough of his work to gush, but I sitll felt it worth mentioning. ANd it’s not uncommmon for comic book writers to write for animation: Greg Weisman started in comics before moving to animation with Captain Atom’s post-crisis solo series, Dwayne McDuffie had a rather sizeable career in comics as a writer and editor and returned to writing comics in the 2000′s for a stint, and Marv Wolfman helped make the treatment for beast machines, while Peter David’s done scattered episodes of various shows, most memorably for me Ben 10. So not a HUGELY uncommmon thing but still worth noting.  Anyways legend or no, he still makes the rest of this scene awkward as Kitty fawns over scott, Jean ends up agreeing and in annoying fit of jealously kurt ports to the roof to do .. some sort of stunt to impress kitty and end sup having to come back in due to wind resitance, teleproting on her by accident and pissing her off. It’s not a terrible scene, as it shows some vunerablity in kurt and furhters the jean scott love triangle but in revisiting it it just feels a tad awkardly put in there, especially since so far kitty having a crush on scott goes nowhere and love triangle wise it’s more Jean, Scott and Rogue.. more on that next time. Wolverine mutters about kids in annoyance.. so for the first and probably last time in my existance I feel the exact same as wolverine for one shining moment. 

Mysitque arrives and is angry at her wife for letting their daughter get away, Irene reitrates the dance thing.. you get it. Luckily having a precog for a wife is handy for more than timing your orgasms to happen at the same time, and Irene knows she’s going to Cody’s hosue which she thinks is her own and that’s where we see her next. Now while this episodes quality is mixed... I do like this element of Rogue torn between two identites not sure which is her.. it’s thorughly intresting and hasn’t been used enough in adaptations, though the 90′s series did do a good job with it’s own take of having Carol and Rogue fight for Rogue’s body. 

At any rate wolverine attacks.. wow jesus wolvie I know you don’t like kids but this is a bit far.... at least go back home and take it out on duncan if you need to murder a teenager sheesh. Of course it’s actually mysitque whose trying to make her afraid of the x-men, shifting into storm next. It’s not a terrible tactic.. it has specific faults i’m saving for the end, but in the short term using the x-men in costume to scare her, then having Irene show up and tell her their mutant hunters.. it’s not bad. It also nicely back fries when the x-men arrive, charles unable to pointpoint her due to her brain being scramble, and end up going down the alleyway with Wolvie in tow causing her to book it. 

Kurt, whose really on the ball outside of the plane stunt this episode, comes up with a better plan than “Chase the frightened teenager around missiipi and hope it works” and realizes since she’s clearlys cared of logan, even if they don’t know why he can try talking to her while in inducer form. Logan relucntantly agrees but tells kurt to keep an the rookie, i.e. kitty which pisses her off. Remember this for a second from now. 

So Kurt.. actually succeeds in calming her down, pointing out he like her was once freaked out, that being diffrent is okay etc, usual line but it works.. then ... yeah that second from now is now now as Kitty decides “she dosen’t look so tough” AND TACKLES ROGUE. Who they know has the power to absorb things by touch even if she’s mostly covered, and who was about to turn to their side. Just because Logan, it turns out CORRECTLY, insulted her. Just.. jesus this is bad writing.. Kitty isn’t this obnoxious or usless later on and while she could sometimes fuck up in the comics..it was less noticable since she was the ONLY teenager, and still once fried a demon with a jet engine. Here? She hasn’t done any of that so she just comes off as a dumbass brought on a mission too soon who causes her friend to not long after this get his powers absorbed by rogue.. though weirdly she dosen’t get his blue skin, which annoys me a bit but whatever. Animation budgets. Point is kitty lost their target and got kurt comaed.  Kitty paniced realizes she can reach the professor telepathically, and we do get a great gag of her doing so too loud, while Logan grumbles about not going with them.. which is a godo point.. why didn’t he just.. you know take the costume off. even if she panicked if she learned who he was later, they would at least have her on the plane and could easily knock her out gently, especially logan since he recovers fast and would the instant his healing factor came back, and then deal with her panic and her fear of them they didn’t know about back home versus here. He didn't even have to come with her just hang towards the back in plainclothes. Instead his telling Kitty she sucks caused her to prove that assessment accurate. So Charles goes to help while Storm, Cyclops and Jean continue the search They find her and Jean shows her empathy again, and I have to admit the character really isn’t that bad in moments like this.. the only reason I ragged on her coming to kitty last time is she made the rookie mistake of telling Kitty about her telepathy, which, while better sooner than later, was done so clumsily it backfired. Here.. she genuinely and softly talks to Rogue, and offers her a communicator which looks like a neuralizer for some reason.. seriously why not just hide it in a compact or a watch or something Chuck? But that aside i’ts a nice moment.. that storm accidently ruins by showing up and terrifying her away. Yeah that’s PART of my problem with the episode right there is jwhile it changes up setting and what not it’s still just “The x-men find Rogue , get her calm, then she runs when one of the x-men mystique traumatized her with shows up”. It just gets old fast despite some clever switches here and there. 

Thankfully we’re at the climax and since Mystique saw all that she shifts into Cyclops.. and up until now I haven’t mentioned this but it becomes a glaring issue here: Mystique’s dialouge when shapeshifted when coming up is basically variations of I’M GOING TO KILL YOU. Which not only is a bit dull, as she apparnelty knows the x-men and at least could make them sound like evil versions of the people we know but also REALLY dumb... again i’m saving this for the end of the episode because it all comes together with her endgame for Rogue, but even if you haven’t watched the show given what’s happened with Toad and Avalanche you can probably guess. But yeah while watching I WAS going to lambast her for not using Jean.. but she’s actually clever here, using Scott who Rogue hasn’t met to unerve her already, then shifting into Jean to take back the chance she offered. IT scares Rogue out who naturlaly books from Jean. 

Rogue then touches storm.. and Cyclops promintently craps himself as he realizes “Oh shit an already scared and psonically scrambled teenager just got an omega mutant’s levels power but with none of the experince and 80 times the angst”. So yeah Rogue’s powers spin out of control in what’s a great sequence and she hit sa transformer but ends up running. Xavier decideds to call this one a wash, and can’t find her anymore anyway as Cody has faded and decide she has to come willingly. Kurt reawakens to Kitty’s delight. Yay that mildly annoying subplot is done.  We end at the school and this is what i’ve been building towards folks: Myistque enrolls Rogue in the school, comersrates on magneto on a job well done and Rogue looks at her commincator. And now for the reason I was a bit patient on this: Mystique’s plan is really shortsighted and dumb. Now pretending to be the x-men, that works.. but her impersinations are so shallow, ESPECIALLY for an experinced shapeshifter that the minute Rogue gets to know any of the x-men, her entire facade will start to crumble. Or if she touches one of them and gets their memories.. which never happens even when she borrows one of their powers next time but hey. Instead of making the x-men seem like gaslighting manipulators she makes them seem like petty murderous villians.. when 5 minutes with Scott or jean or just watching either will cure that. And sure as we see next time she TRIES keeping her from talking to them for too long.. but as we also see school projects happen and she can’t control EVERYTHING without raising some red flags with her faculity. She’s principal, if a teacher’s supscious she’s abusing a student she brought in, they hopefully won’t hesitate to call someone to look into it and as a shapeshifter running a dodgy mutant milita made up of students you brought in that’s the last thing you fucking want. It’s really not even a remote surpise this only lasts three episodes before she turns, and makes me question why do this arc if it’s going to be so half assed? In the comics Myistque was not only a master planner, even getting her team jobs as goverment enforcers when she realized being anti-human terrorists in a very racist climate was just going to get them all killed, but she also CARED about Rogue and her using empathy and kidness on TOP of the manipulation would make Rogue trusting her so much make more sense than “Well it’s you or the attempted murderers”. It’s just really fucking sloppy and to it’s credit Wolverine and the X-Men ended up doing this sort of plotline 80 times better, with Rogue being a villian for a while AFTER the x-men had broken up, left her with nothing, and things had only gotten worse for mutants.. and I think bein ga double agent, it’s been a while, but her reasons for turning there feel natural in comparison to this. The x-men aren’t much smarter as they only connect the dots that maybe it’s a shapeshifter, a shapeshfiter I belive xavier, storm and wolverine alread know about and coul’dve told the students. Gah. 

Final Thoughts:  This episode isn’t very good and in reviewing it I really realized it when it took me 4 or so diffrent sessions to finish this thing. While it has good parts, like a lot of ROgue’s stuff, the danger room break in, it’s held back by stupid decisions, a stupid villian plot, and a waste of great POTETIAL stories for a half assed one from a writer who clearly can do better and a show that will soon enough. Glad to finally be done with this one.. I might not come back to evolution for a second, but when I do I promise it won’t take this long. 

Next Time on X-Men: Evolution: Blob debuts, crushes on jean to an obssesive and quickly very stalkery degree and also nearly murders duncan with a locker... so he’s clealry a mixed bag. Meanwhile Scott and Rogue get paried up on assigment and Paul wears out his welcome Like this if you enjoyed it, I have other x-men evolution reviews in the x-men tag on my blog, as well as other animation goodness, and if ther’es an episode of another x-men show, including the gifted and legion as i have hulu, or marvel show in general you’d like me to cover just drop me a pm to comission it for a reasonable fee. ANd until next time, courage. 

[eri-corn]

Hair braids and old wounds

(TW for mentions of child abuse)

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It was silent in the yazuka base, Tengai had just patched up Rappa (for the second time that day) even when the larger man grumbled somthing against it. Both men sat in silence at the couch, not noticing when a small white haired child snuck out of her room with a tiny pink bag

Eri looked around and smiled when she found the large man she had been looking for. She stopped and frowned however when she noticed the bandaged arms. She jumped when the blond man spoke up, one eye open and looking at her

”Eri? What are you doing here? You should be with Mimic”

The small child looked down and hid the bag behind her back, her white hair falling infront of her face

”Y-yes but.. I-I.. I wanted too..”

She murmured out somthing neither could hear, the blond noticing that she glances up at Rappa and his arms

”U-Um.. w-what happend?”

Eri pointed a finger at the pink haired mans arms while looking at Tengai

”Ah.. that..”

He sighed and rubbed his head while closing his eye

”This idiot got into a fistfight with some mean man today. He will be fine so dont worry”

Eri noded and looked over at the hurt man, his head was low with hair covering his face. She had figured out that he lost

”U-Um.. Rappa-nii?”

Kendou looked over at the small girl infront of him

”...yes kid?”

She looked down nervosly again while showing the bag

”Can I d-do your h-hair? P-please? I.. I wanna make you feel better..”

Rappa could not help but chuckle at that. This girl was too for them, so kind and caring

”Yeah sure kiddo”

The smile that she gave him was heartwarming as she switched places with him

Tengai watch the two interact with the smallest smile on his lips as he got up to make some tea

”Why did you fight that man?”

Eri asked while she brushed his long hair carefully

”He deserved it”

At her worried look he chuckled again

”Not everyone is kind in this world Eri. Some people are very mean and deserves punches”

”J-Just like mom?”

He bit his lip at that. He and the rest of the preseps did not know much about the girls life before she got adopted by Overhaul. He did know that her mom had abused her and left her for dead after her quirk showed itself

”Yes Eri, people like that”

He turned around to look at her when he feelt her small finger leave his hair and a small sob left her

”Is.. is what she said true? A-am I just a-a curse?”

His heart sank at those words. Rappa may be a cold fighter but he would do anything for his family

”Of course not!”

She jumped a little at his loud voice. He sighed and put his large hand on her head softly

”What I mean is that she was a idiot that dont know shit and deserves to get punched hard”

Eri was silent for a moment before Rappa feelt a warm mass on his back

”T-Thank you..”

Came the childs quiet voice, he smiled a soft smile as he hugged her

”Of course kiddo! Big bro will always be here! Now do you wanna finish my hair?”

Eri noded and smiled as she continued with his hair as Tengai came back

”One more thing”

”Yeah?”

”What is ”shit?”

[barin-mclegg]

Pain chapter 2

"AAAALPPPHHYYYYSSS!!!!!" Undyne screamed, she ran into the lab and stopped immediately when she saw Alphys coming out of the elevator labeled as bathroom. She was shaking. "Alph are you alright?" Undyne asked with a worried face. "I-i-i'm f-f-fi-fine..." Alphys said. Undyne didn't even consider this might be true, she just walked up to her and hugged her. "You know you can tell me anything right?" Undyne said, Alphys blushed, she wasn't fine. Undyne knew that of course, Undyne always knew how she felt. The amalgams where only acting weirder, she thought that maybe they would stat acting normal again over time but it didn't work. And ignoring them also didn't work. Leaving the true lab was only getting harder, this time for example, Endogeny, Ms Snowdrake and reaper bird tried to hold her against the wall while Lemonbread went to get something.. She didn't know what because Memoryhead stopped them but she doubted she would want to know... Ofcourse, Undyne didn't know about the true lab or the amalgams so she didn't know what was happening. "Do you want to talk about it" Undyne asked, completely unexpected for Alphys. Alphys replied with "I-i... I c-cant... I-i s-sh-shouldnt...." "It's fine, you don't have to." Undyne interrupted her. "BUT HEY! GUESS WHO BEAT UP THE CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL GUARD TODAY!!??" Undyne screamed, releasing herself from the hug with a big grin from ear to ear. "W-who?" Alphys asked. "COME ON! GUESS!" Undyne replied excitedly "P-pa-papyru-" "PAPYRUS!!!" Papyrus slammed the door open "YESSSS???!!!" he screamed. Alphys was caught completely off guard, "YEEPP" she screamed, it was like there was a screaming competition going on, Papyrus started screaming, Undyne started screaming, Alphys screamed everyone deaf... The guards outside came in to check on them and as soon as they saw Undyne was screaming they left again. Everyone knew Undyne just liked screaming. Sans woke up to screaming from the lab, he was at his Hotlands post and decided that if they could wake the undead there was no point in trying to sleep and grabbed some ketchup... In town they could hear the sound of screaming, Mettaton, who decided on visiting heard the screaming, and with them being who they are and having to be better at everything smashed throught the wall and started screaming too, as soon as the walll broke open everyone stopped screaming, making Mettaton seem awkward. After a solid ten seconds of Mettaton screaming they stopped, saying "So darlings, why are we screaming?" on which only Undyne replied after a few seconds with a "I am NOT repairing that wall.".

All was calm now, Undyne talked a while with Alphys while Papyrus was making way too many selfies with Mettaton, when everyone left Alphys called someone to repair the wall, problem was it was midnight by then so no one was awake. She decided to check on the amagams again and went down, nothing interesting, except that she thought to see a flash of yellow in the corner of their eye. As soon as she looked, it was gone. Alphys thought nothing of it and left before the amalgams could notice her and become aggressive again. She went to bed and thought of everything that happend that day, she didn't get it even now. Meanwhile Flowey was looking how Sans was talking to Papyrus nothing interesting, just some things about watching Mettaton’s show at a time like this. His mind was somewhere completely different... He was thinking about how those amalgams where acting... It sure was an interesting development, maybe they could remember... It would make sense, they wouldn't be the only ones. Also with so much determination that they were practically molten.. Maybe that was why? No it couldn't be.. Where would THEY get determination? Oh well, who knows. There are a lot of weird theories going on about another human that should have fallen before he became Flowey and after he was Asriel.. That would be the "curiosity soul".... "Pfft, pure bullcarp." Flower thought out loud. Sans immediately stopped talking and Papyrus fell silent too. "Where did that?" Sans said. Papyrus replied "I personally think Mettaton’s cooking show is great! Also, that word can be really offensive to people mysterious voice!" Sans chuckled. "Are you really talking to a weird voice that came out of nowhere?" he said. "Why of course brother! Didn't you hear me?" Papyrus replied. "Yeah bro i did hear it's just-" Floweys thoughts dwelled off again... If another human had fallen down their soul would of course be used to free monsterkind! Not for some kind of mysterious project with taking too much determination or something! Right? He had questioned where the determination used to make him conscious was achieved... On the other side, Chara always was mysterious about her frequent visits to the lab to meet up with her "friend". He could never come with them. "Maybe.. Let's just leave it at a maybe." he thought. That was enough. He went back to his underground burrow and curled up on his blanket. Enough for today. He'd continue thinking about this tomorrow.

*thinking about this interesting development fills you with... DETERMINATION.

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LOIKE IT?

I hope you do. Tumblrlogic ruined the text i typed here so now i'm typing it all AGAINNNN. Doesn't matter though. This one has loads of bad jokes and stuff. Because humanity only deserves the worst of the baddest of the puns. And Sans was included so humor was needed.

MWU. HAHAHAHAHAH. HAAAAAHHH. Next chapter will be PURE. PAIN. also, bananas. nowimgonnaincludebananastooinsomeweirdway.

[msravenclawgrl]

SPOILERS 13x23

CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON.

I can't belive i made this far without dying.

Can't really say the same about the Winchesters

Wweeeelll i have to many things to say about this.

I have to admit that i was shaking the hole chapter because i thought that something bad was gonna happend.

We have to wait 5 months but i bet is gonna be totally worth it

OMG THIS WAS AWESOME

Okay not likeeeeee that, a couple of things happend, nothing that i wasen't expecting really.

I MEAN we we're so close, i actually belive that we got read of the hole Dean/Michael sword thing.

But no, after 8 years it came back.

Im not saying that i don't like it, actually JENSEN LOOKS SO FUCKING HOT LIKE THAT. God damn it.

Jack was always one of my favourites (for always i mean since 12x23/13x01) so idk, it was weird how he was slowly falling into Lucifer's plans, and the way that he said why do you keep hurting people broke my heart, he is so pure and innocent. And yes he is like his mother.

Lucifer on the other hand, i thought he had change but no bro he didin't he only wanted Jack's powers. BUT HE DID CRYED LAST EPISODE SO I DO THINK THERE'S WAS A LITTLE OF HOPE IN THERE.

Sam you are a precious human being, i love you with all my heart.

Dean, you been always my favorite since 1x01, i have nothing to say exept that i love you and i think you deserve a hole world of happines.

YoU ShoOt mE.

Cas why we're you always sad here? My god someone give him love please (Mmmm Dean).

LikE sTaR WaRs hell yeah

Omg so Lucifer did promese the stars to Jack (like those cheassy love phrases lmao)

Why do you see if we go to the intresting part???

THE FINAL OF THE SEASON 13 BUDDYS:

I ain't gonna lie, i did laugh a lot with the fight. I MeAn ThEy We'Re FlYiNg.

JACK WAS ABOUT TO KILL HIMSELF to save Sammy and the rest of his family.

So Lucifer Stole Jack's powers.

And guess what

Lucifer is gone now.

Sooo we're nowhere.

Again.

Dean saying yes to Michael after 8 years, and Cas was like "i didin't convence you not to 8 years ago and now your fucking doing it"

All Dean wanted was to save his brother, always.

Oh Chuck, Lucifer was in my top 5 of favorites, i loved him so much, and now he's dead. Im just hoping to the spn world to bring him back, i think he is necessary in the story line.

"Whatever you do, you will always end up, here. No matter what choices you make, whatever details you alter, we will always end up, here."

And he was right.

AHHH MICHAEL YOU ARE A BIG BAG OF DICKS

Still the plot for the 14 season is gonna be god, yaaaas.

I probably let so many this out in this post but well.

Anyway, i think is time to say goodbye for at least 5 monts.

Thank you supernatural for this amazing season.

[xocowilde]

Long post but nice

aqualianbird replied to your post “I never thought in this. Rhada doesn’t want to follow the order of...”

Mythologically speaking, it's because it was said a lot of minor gods lived in the underworld. Not under Hades' orders, but they lived there. So you know, Kuru making half researches on topics ...? Or he realised Hades was not the god of death, but Thanatos. Or he realised Hades was not as conflict driven as other gods. No really the real question is, why isn't Persephone at the head of this holly war (1)

(Ohhhh but sts made Athena "have" Nike, who is a goddess. Not what you meant tho indeed. Well I guess that will please Shiva she probably will apply to "rectify" this injustice)

(Although I like the idea of Athena fighting alongside humanity so without other gods =p And in mythology she really has mostly been protecting heroes/humans. But you could find her a heavenly owl assistant maybe ~ And make Nike a reincarnated goddess too) (2)

Ahh but Pose could have an interesting crowd. He has a wife too a a bunch of kids like Triton that could be interesting to place at his side. There is also the Titan of sea that was good so Zeus did not kill them too to use, and and and yeah I have a lot of ideas about Pose army but mostly nerdings from greek mythology ahhh sooooorrryyy 

You know what was really disappointing in Pose arc ? No fight between Chrysaor and Pegasus. They are both sons of Pose and brother born from Medea I meeeaaaaaaaannnnn (3)

Well so if you want to make a spin off telling stuff from Pose's side the protagonist should be the Chrysaor general. He not a horse but he linked to Pegasus =p

You see knowing too much about greek mythology in sts is a mistake ...

Now, humans, can see why I love this being. You deserve a Benedict gif~

I want to fucking comment even if we both know I’m terrible in myth (I mean, in comparasion with you and others around) but I love your hcs, and you know I love your hcs and let’s just talk about it.

(1) It is quite interesting, I didn’t know/remember that part of others Gods living with Mista Hades, and maybe it was indeed something like “Oh shite Thanatos is the death but isn’t like the Holy Three (Zeus,Posepose,Hades) ok so let’s take Hades and let’s make him evil~ even if was the nicest of the three”. So that would explain why he decides to take Hypnos as well? Because well, bros, twins. Black/White. Handsome twins. And yes! I remember when child being like “didn’t Hades have a wifu?” and for what I know, she was badass. It would be interesting to see the holy war between Athena AND PERSEPHONE! or well, at least having her as high command, maybe like Pandora? Maybe Pando would be down her in the ranks. WHo knows? But as well, we need to remember Demeter. Do you think persephone would fight her own mommy?

(2) The other day I had an idea abuot Shiva and just remind me but hey that’s other topic. Anyway, pass it on. Yes, Athena has Nike but... I mean... you got it, so I don’t need to understand it. I would like maybe that she was a real human being, ok no human lol, but having a body~ even only as reincarnation or something? A dog! no? sorry Gestalt. And she still can fight with the humans, because other thing that bothers me a lot, and you already know, is that looks like all the Greek gods except Athena are big a-holes! I mean, even Odin was a nice guy (*high five to Hilda*) but with SoG I hope they doesn’t want to follow the idea all the Nordic babies are a-holes as well. So, imagine, if in some battles Athena could ask help to OTHER goddes/god with some of their army warriors. I hadn’t read ND, does it happend? I don’t know. But I would love to see it.

(3) Pose made me the same question than Hades, “didn’t Pose have a wifu?”, but he got a fish. A pretty one btw. But c’mon... ALL HIS SONS~ and a bigger army? Remind me if htey have guards as the Sanctuary or Asgard. But I don’t quite remember. They need that, maybe have Atlantis again? I know is broken and shit but hey, maybe? they are under the sea~ they can live there again. No? And omg xD that would be quite interesting. Someday someone needs to make them siblings or something like that.

But another ask is, if something like that happens and Athena has another ally, does the Saints wouldn’t mind and obbey them? Like if this ally says something they will be like “oh yeah, with extra potatoes”. And all the gods have armies? Or maybe between husbands and wives has their own? ammm KURUMADA WHY YOU TOOK SUCH BIG TOPIC

[1upmushrooms]

Mario is Missing (1up Deadfic)

Yes, I even tried adapting a shitty NES game. In this adpatation, Yoshi and Toad join the fun in touring the world with Luigi. 

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Chapter 1: Not him but him.

Today was already starting to be a good day for Luigi. Why? Well for many reasons. A, He hadn't recieved any calls from people who were either asking who he was, or thinking that he was his brother Mario. Those calls always annoyed him to heck.

B, Mario was on his honeymoon with Peach (they got married you see), meaning Luigi had the house to himself and he could all the things he wanted, which was cleaning up the place and doing all those chores he promised to do last year but didn't get around to doing so.

Finally we came to C, the moment you've been waiting for! Today, Luigi was checking his mail box when he heard a huge "MAIL CALL!" and got hit by a Parakoopa! Luigi got off the grass and turned to the Parakoopa.

"What did you do that for?!" Luigi shouted,

The Parakoopa just shrugged, "From the bird's eye view you looked like you were part of the grass. Anyway, here's your mail...uh...um...uh-"

"It's Luigi." Luigi said with a certain annoyance to it, now that moment may sound like example A from above but there's clearly a difference, it wasn't a call now was it? Be honest was it a call?

Anyway, the Parakoopa handed Luigi his mail and flew off. Luigi then looked at mail and scanned through it.

"Mario fan mail," Luigi said, "Mario fan mail, Mario fan mail, Mario fan mail, Mario fan mail, bill, bill, bill, Mario fan mail, bill, bill with included Mario fan mail, Free World trip for me-"

Luigi stopped there and looked at that particular letter to see if he read that wrong. And yet there it was in gold letters:

"Luigi, you have won a FREE world trip around your homeworld! Including places like Moscow, New York, Paris, London, San Fransisco, and more! Just appear at a big dark scary castle and wait for further instructions that will be in the building! Directions are included with this letter. You can also bring fiends! Did I fiends? If I did then I must be an idiot, because I meant friends! Anyway, you can bring friends too!

Sincerely Mr, Trip Man!"

Luigi read that letter five times and he still didn't believe it! Talk about random luck! Now, of course there were several questions to be answered. Like how did the sender know that Luigi wasn't from the Mushroom Kingdom? Why did Luigi of all people get this prize without even entering a contest? And what kind of name is Mr. Trip Man?! I mean I can understand it if Mr. Trip Man was like a mascot or something but it never says so. I mean what the hell?! It's like this letter was made from a bad guy who wanted to trap Luigi in some hellish virtual reality or maybe the bad guy wanted to trap him or something like that, I mean granted I don't care what the bad guy wants to do but good god, could they at least put some freaking effort into stuff like this?!

But I digress.

Anyway, Luigi phoned Yoshi and Toad who apparently were together at Toad's house, (Whatever your thinking stop, this is a family thing for Pete's sake!) and told them the big news.

"Wow!" Toad said, "That's awesome!"

"It sure is!" Luigi said, "You wanna with?"

"WE'LL BE RIGHT OVER!"

Luigi then started packing up as he suddenly decided to call his bro and see if he wanted to go. While Mario most likely didn't deserve it considering that he was already rich enough to BUY the entire world, he was still family and to Luigi, you always had to include them. So he called Mario's phone but for some reason, it went to his answering machine, this never happend when Luigi called Mario. Normally, Luigi would just leave it that but this was pretty big news so he called again. No answer, so he called again. No answer, so he called again. No answer, so he called again. Still no answer but you get the idea what happens next.

Luigi just shrugged, got his luggage and left his house. After following careful instructions, Luigi finally made it to the big dark scary castle. Along the way, he picked up Toad and Yoshi, and had to go through a pipe to get there! There was also an epic fight with an evil Yoshi along the way but that's for another story. Anyway, they were there, and boy did it look scary.

"Its huge!" Yoshi said!

"Well," Luigi said, "Let's go in."

With that, they all entered the castle as ominous music played. OoooooooooooooOOOOOooooooh!

Once they opened the big door, Luigi and the gang found that there were many warp pipes among the place! Plus there were some gates that led to dungeons or something like that...hey they weren't paying attention that much why should I?

Luigi then looked at the instructions board that was ahead of them and read:

"Ahem, 'To begin your tour grab the items from the item desk and hop in one of the pipes.' Eh, simple enough."

Luigi then grabbed the items, and handed some to Yoshi and Toad. It wasn't anything special, just a camera, some maps, a pamplet that described each city that they would travel to and a bag.

Luigi and the others got excited and hopped in the first warp pipe that led to New York City, ready for a fun adventure! Though why they would first go to New York with that goal in mind is anyone’s guess.