#DO NOT LET OTHER PEOPLE'S IDIOCY GET YOU KILLED!
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favorite da2 battle lines in no particular order
i'm listening to a compilation by danaduchy on youtube rn so
literally every fenris line bcs everyone else is YELLING and he's just speaking in his regular quiet-ish voice. king what are you saying i can't HEAR YOU
except for when hawke goes down. THEN he's loudly upset.
"hawke's down! time to panic!" (isabela)
"the tame elf is down" (varric - what the fuck omg don't call fenris that)
"your pet elf has fallen" (carver - WHAT THE FUCK OMG DON'T CALL FENRIS THAT)
"that moody mage is down" (aveline)
"ugh, can someone pick up fenris please?" (merrill)
"isabela's on the ground... appropriately" (aveline - HELLO?!?!?!?)
"merrill! oh, blood mages are so dramatic" (isabela)
"aveline has fallen?" (fenris - why is this a question babe)
"they got whatshisname, the mage" (varric - i continue to believe he doesn't know anders' name until act 3)
"the dwarf has dropped a few more feet" (sebastian)
"dear varric, please learn to parry. love, your innards" (varric)
"do you have something for this, because it hurts" (carver)
"even my teeth hurt" (anders)
"i've got so many bruises now they've got names and families" (merrill)
"ugh, i have dirt in my mouth" (sebastian)
"you're going to let me walk around injured?" (carver)
"being close to death is very bad for my morale" (isabela)
sebastian describes his wounds as "oozing" or "seeping" more than once
"i know dalish are meant to be close to the earth, but we don't mean literally" (merrill)
"i'm alright, who needs kidneys anyway" (isabela)
"hawke. varric. i think this is bad." (merrill)
"stop being you and fix me up" (carver - BABY. BABY BROTHER.)
"that really gets the blood flowing" but also "i will fight and pray for forgiveness later" but also "this is much more exciting than the chantry!" (sebastian - what is wrong with you <3)
"my face is not a shield!" (hawke)
"and they say drinking doesn't solve anything" (isabela)
"haawke i can't mooove" (sebastian)
"i'm too far away, what do you want me to do? shout at them?" (isabela)
"i'd have to fly to reach! of course, i've always wanted to learn to fly" (merrill - she's literally the funniest person ever)
"alas, no" (fenris)
"my faith is my armor! my cause is my shield!" (sebastian)
"if we kill them, we get their stuff!" (isabela)
"andraste's knees, it's like herding cats!" (isabela)
"AFRAID YET?!" (anders)
"RUN! WHILE YOU CAN!" (anders - he's so loud i love him)
"another one for me! how many have you gotten, hawke?" (varric)
"ah. a shame that you're going to die, no?" (fenris)
"you. me. and an audience. that's what this is all about!" (carver)
"may the creators have mercy on you! i certainly won't." (merrill)
"destructive forces of nature, coming up!" (anders)
"suck on a fireball!" (anders)
"NEVER TAUNT A MAGE!!!" (anders)
"a thrust, now a parry" (fenris)
"i'm gonna taunt you in elvish now! durgen'len! aravel! vallaslin!" (merrill)
"hello, i'm merrill, and i'll be your distraction." (merrill)
"I'LL SHOW YOU WHY MAGES ARE FEARED!!!" (anders)
"maker please forgive your children" followed immediately by "DID YOU SEE THAT SHOT" (sebastian)
"WANT TO SEE WHAT'S UNDER THESE ROBES?!?!?!" (anders)
"I'M RIGHT HERE! HIT ME!" (isabela)
"maker, the idiocy" (bethany)
"MAKER BLESS YOUR CHILDREN IN THEIR HOUR OF NEEEED" (sebastian)
"my weapon does nothing??" (fenris - he sounds so puzzled help)
"this is SO not working" (anders)
"if the pointy sticks don't work, try the other pointy sticks" (isabela)
"ah, dear. why doesn't anyone ever want to be nice to us?" (merrill)
"is there an end to the people who hate you?" (aveline)
"looks like we've got a few more puppies to kick" (isabela - HELLO?!?)
"take a step, kill, repeat repeat repeat" (carver)
"the hate you inspire is unfortunate" (fenris)
"another twenty steps, another batch of deaths" (anders)
"nobody seems to like you. do you get used to that?" (merrill - ouch. brutal hskfjhgksdjfhg)
"i can't take credit for all of this. hawke helped a little bit" (isabela)
#i wanna know everyone's favorite lines pls tell meeee#max.txt#dragon age#dragon age 2#kirkwall squad#hawke#fenris#isabela#sebastian vael#anders#merrill#aveline#carver hawke#bethany hawke#varric tethras
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canât afford to fail.
synopsis ďšyour arrogant n self centred professor helps you get your grade up !
pairings ďšdr. ratio x f!reader
cw ďšnsfw MDNI. professor x college student ămild age gap (dr ratioâs abt 28 while reader is 19-20) ădegradation ădesk s3x ăheâs a lil mean here :( ăuse of nicknames ăpussy slapping (there ws like . . two!) ăt!tplay ădirty talk ăreader implied 2 be smaller ăslight spanking ăunprotected s3x
note ďšbeen too long since i wrote anything n i thought abt this . . iâve BEEN thinkinâ abt it for awhile n i jus get so . . i get so giggly thinkinâ abt it LMAO i hope this is fine ! letâs hope i proofread in time ! reblogs r highly appreciated, feel free 2 send me an ask ! â millie âĄ
âutterly ridiculous.â dr ratio replied mockingly, an eyebrow raised as his taller form towered over yours, his gaze on you was firm and serious, like he was trying to scare you away. âdo you see what iâm seeing?â he raised up one of your marked worksheets you handed in the other day, in pure honesty . . it wasnât even your fault! you wanted to curse at him for not even bothering to give you and your fellow students more time to study, it was his fault in the first place for making you all stress! thatâs what you wanted to say, but he wouldâve had your head for that.
â . . . yes prof.â you muttered with a small nod.
âtell me what you see then.â
you glanced up at him, your eyes slowly trailing from him to the paper he held . . failed?! again?? gosh . . you knew this would happen either way, you wanted to scream, clench your fists and beg for another retake but knowing the type of professor dr ratio was, you knew you werenât getting any of that, no . . not anytime soon.
â . . i didnât do that good.â
ââdidnât do that good is an understatement, you did terrible. your idiocy is all i see written on this fail-worthy of a sheet, your work habits in class are worse than those other idiots i teach.â the professor sighed and steepled his fingers, leaning forward. âwhy are you falling off in my classes? are you afraid of asking me for help, is that it?â his eyes narrowed with a condensing glare, the tension in the room grew heavier.
yeah well . . if i ask you for help, youâd insult me and get annoyed anyways, was what you wanted to say. i mean, you werenât wrong . . you were certain dr ratio had some sort of short temper or something, no matter what he says or what you do, he is the last person youâd ask for help. âsomeone with major idiocy like you should be grateful iâm taking time out of my day to speak to you about your dismissive performance, you know how much people would kill to have my attention right now?" dr ratioâs voice took on a harsher tone as he watched you react to his words. âeven your classmates are so much more adept, why are you even in my class?"
your body jolted at his words, no matter how tough you tried to act you were secretly trying your absolute best to hold back the tears that threatened to leave your eyes, it was hard to take in his words . . itâs hard enough to not be his top student!
dr ratioâs eyes widened slightly seeing how your body jolted at his words, he took a quick breath and thought about how he would address the situation with you with a more gentler approach. "please, humor me." he took a deep breath, trying to be patient and understanding with you. he was already noticing a slight difference in your behaviour. "iâve spent nearly a decade teaching in this institute," he continued in a slow yet low tone, âi promise you, i know what I'm talking about. how about i help you right here right now and letâs see where to go from there, got it? tell me what you donât understand and what you do understand.â
â . . alright.â
â ⥠â
. . it seems you both had a different idea of âhelpingâ. you hated yourself for enjoying it, he was your professor for heavenâs sake! now you were on your knees, your mouth wrapped around his wet cock as soft grunts left his lips. you couldnât lie . . he looked absolutely stunning from this angle, the way he threw his head back when you swirled your tongue around the slit of his dick. dr ratio groaned, his voice deep and husky as he leaned closer to see how well you were sucking him off. " . . . u-ugh . . fuck, this mouth of yours needs to be punished . . considering how many times you talked back to me in under an hour.â
before you could pull away from his cock on your own, dr ratioâs free hand slipped downwards, grasping firmly at your head, tugging it upwards. you were roughly pulled away with a gasp, you were almost out of breath as your professor pulled you closer against his chest. âa slut like you needs to learn how to be fucked properly. maybe thatâs how i can help you, fuck the information in you.â
he leaned down, his lips brushing against your neck before trailing upward, his tongue tracing along your jawline and then claiming your lips forcefully. his hands moved downwards, his cock throbbing even harder in his pants. he stepped closer, reaching out to fondle one of your breasts, squeezing it softly before running his thumb over your hardened nipple . . massaging them firmly as your tongues tangled together, your moans muffled by his mouth. dr ratioâs eyes widened in awe as he pulled away from your lips, a line of saliva connected your lips and his as he admired the sight of your breasts, now fully exposed for him to feast his eyes upon. he bit his bottom lip, unable to tear his gaze away from them as they were truly a sight to behold, heavy and perky, nipples erect and begging for attention. âtell me, [name],â he licked his lips, reaching down to flick his tongue against one of your nipples.
"why can't you be as skillful as the others? do you not have the intellectual capacity?" he smirked against your nipples, watching you intently as he waited for your response. âyouâre nothing but an idiot, are you not? canât even pass any of my damn classes.â he stepped closer to you, placing one hand on your shoulder, gently pushing you towards his desk. "undress yourself slowly," he commanded, his voice husky with desire.
â . . prof, we canât do this . . iâm your student, youâre my professor, youâre seriously overdoing thisââ
âdo you want to fail my class completely or not, princess?â dr ratio muttered, raising a brow. âdo you even understand the situation in front of you? youâre a failing student and should be begging me for help.â he grabbed you by your thighs, roughly slamming you on top of his desk. âyou know what you should be doing? you should be on your fucking knees, groveling for me to give you a second of my attention. instead, you're refusing to let me help get your grade up. besides . .â he leaned in closer against your ear, bringing his voice down to a whisper . . âi know that a dirty slut like you is enjoying this as much as i am.â he raised his hand, slapping your cunt that was clothed by your pink panties as hard as he could. âshow me this pussy or itâs an automatic zero.â
your eyes flashed with shock and a hint of pleasure, dr ratioâs voice seething with contempt as it sent shivers down your spine . . it was obvious he wasn't going to let this go easily. you gave in . . wrapping your arms around his neck, â . . prof . .â your face flushed red, nuzzling against his neck. âcanât . . âs embarrassingââ
âveritas.â
â . . pardon?â
âcall me veritas, moan it while i fuck you.â
your professorâs heart skipped a beat at his own boldness, his hand slipped down towards your lower region, grasping firmly at the hem of your skirt and tugging it upwards, revealing your lacy pink underwear underneath. with one swift motion, he ripped them apart, exposing your wet glistening pussy to his hungry eyes. "sit on the edge of the desk," he ordered, his voice low and commanding. "spread your legs wide and let me see that pretty cunt.â
you bit your lip, gazing up at him with those sweet eyes of yours as you were hesitant to even do anything under those hungry eyes of his own, â . . do i have to? thatâs . . thatâs too embarrassing.â
âdo you want to completely fail my class or not?â
wincing at his words, you slowly obeyed his demands . . spreading your legs with a sense of embarrassment and shame as he humiliated you completely, it was like . . he wasnât even aware he was humiliating you! spreading your legs in front of your own damn professor? you didnât even know what was going on in your mind at this rate! but yet . . your pussy pulsed around nothing, you craved for this and you hated that the most. the dark haired male reached down, unfastening his own pants and boxers in one swift motion, revealing his massive cock, veined and thick, dripping with precum . . it stood tall and proud, ready to claim whatever it desired, you werenât even sure if it could fit.
"turn around," he ordered, keeping his tone low and seductive. "show me your ass." you obeyed, slowly hopping off the desk as you bent over . . your ass in his full view. your body flinched, eyes wide as he gave your cheeks one mean yet harsh slap. âtry and guess how many times you nearly failed my class.â his hardened member brushed against your entrance teasingly, he couldn't resist anymore. with one swift motion, he positioned himself between your spread legs, aligning his cockhead with your tight hole from behind. âgo.â
he pushed slowly, his head sliding past your tight ring of muscles, eliciting a soft moan from you as your eyes rolled back . . your pussy spasming around his thick cock almost instantly . . it was like it belonged there. âpâprof . .â
âah ah.â he shoved his fingers inside your mouth, pressing the pad of his fingertips against your tongue. âwhatâs my name, slut? tell me. what did i say.â dr ratio pushed forward, stretching your hole even wider than before . . filling you up inch by agonizing inch. you couldnât lie, each thrust of his felt like heaven, as if you and him were finally becoming one.
âvâveritas . .â
âgood fuckinâ girl.â once fully buried to the hilt, he paused, taking a moment to savour this forbidden moment. his hands gripped your waist tightly, holding you steady as he began to move rhythmically in and out of your wet cunt, hitting your g-spot with a sense of urgency and desperation each powerful thrust. âguess how many times you almost failed my class, come on . . speak up, or are you giving up already?â
ângh . . three?â
âwrong.â SLAP!
he ran his hand down the fat of your ass, slapping it loudly as you could feel the sound reverberating through the entire room . . your tongue lolling out your lips as another slap came down, even harder than the first. âkeep guessing.â
âah!â u-uhm . . five?â you moaned at the mere feeling of him picking up the pace, his hips rocking in sync with his thrusts. his cock throbbed harder inside your tight channel, stretching and massaging your insides in a way that drove you both wild with pleasure, itâs like . . he was trying to fuck you dumb, fuck you till you couldnât think. âwrong again.â his voice ran through your ears, moans and gasps filled the room yet muffled by each loud thrust. sweat trickled down your professorâs back as he increased his rhythm, pounding into your hole faster and harder, building towards climax until the tip of his cock slammed against your deepest areas.
his hands roamed freely over your body, cupping your breasts roughly, pinching and tweaking at your nipples until they stood erect and hardened once more. dr ratio bit down on the flesh of your neck, leaving a mark that would serve as a reminder of this moment later on. "see how good iâm fucking this pussy?â he growled, his voice hoarse with desire. âcome on, keep going . . stay focused.â he was lost in the feeling of your cunt, pounding into you like it was his last as his thrusts become even stronger as he reached his peak again. dr ratio groaned loudly, his cock throbbing violently inside you as a huge glob of cum shot out, yet his thrusts never yielding.
âmmh . . ah! veritas . . please!â his hands roamed over your body, trailing along your arms and shoulders, stopping at your pretty breasts once more. "fuck, this is the best pussy iâve ever fucked.â he panted, pulling on one nipple, then the other in turn. "so fucking perfect." your moans and gasps became louder, filling the room with a symphony of pleasure. your bodies moved together in sync, hips rocking in harmony with his thrusts.
SLAP! âcome on, baby.â
âsâsix . . seven?! fuck . . ah!â piles and piles of paper fell off his desk when you were pushed forward, back arched with your eyes rolled back. âveritas . . i think this is enough . . someoneâs gonna hearââ
veritas chuckled mockingly, his eyes glowing with malice as he grabbed hold of your chin firmly, tilting her head back in submission. his lips crashed forcefully against your own, tongue thrusting into your mouth roughly, claiming ownership over your body. "oh, i think you and i both know this is far from enough," he growled between kisses, his hands roaming freely over your lithe figure. "you know damn fucking well . . you donât want me to fail you, right? so, accept it. your bodyâs damn made for this, princess . . see how well your body is responding to my cock? câmon. look at me directly and tell me straight up you donât enjoy this.â
drawing out soft whimpers from your throat, your professor continued his dirty work on your sensitive spots until you squirmed helplessly beneath him, unable to resist any longer . . your voice stuck between your throat as you couldnât even find the right words to retort, accepting the way he took you against the desk, his rough thrusts forcing you to push your body against the cold surface as a puddle of cum formed on the floor from your professorâs previous orgasm, so fucking messy . .
âmy point taken.â he savoured the feeling of being deep inside your warm, wet hole . . he knew he was gonna have dreams of this pretty cunt of yours, each time he pulled back, a low growl escaped his throat as your bodies slapped together, creating sounds of lustful pleasure. veritasâ hands gripped your hips tightly, holding you steady while his cock continued its relentless exploration of your gummy walls. in sync with each thrust his hips rocked against yours as well, grinding his pelvis and your ass together, the sensation was unlike anything either of them had ever experienced before . . raw, primal, and addictive. you couldn't think but respond to him with your body, your moans becoming more pronounced and needy.
âlisten to me,â dr ratio gave your ass another mild smack. âyouâre gonna take this dick while you tell me exactly what youâre having trouble with in class, understand? âgonna fuck everything through your head just like i said . . afterall . .â
âyou canât afford to fail, can you?â
#millieâs writings âď¸#honkai star rail x reader#honkai star rail#dr ratio smut#honkai star rail smut#dr ratio x reader#hsr smut#hsr x you#hsr x reader#dr ratio x you#heâs so dreamie . . . he is. soo dreamie .#dr ratio is so dreamy . . itâs acc phenomenal (âá´ÍËŹá´Í)
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I saw your post about writing for Coriolanus Snow Andi was thinking classic enemies to lovers nsfw Iâll give you free liberty with everything else đ
'I hate you' is new 'I love you'
Pairing: Coriolanus Snow x capitol!reader (gender neutral afab)
Summary: When your professor tells you to come to an agreement with your enemy, and you take 'come' too literally.
Words: 3.2k
Themes: smut, nsfw
Warnings: using of 'you' to reader, set before events of tbosas so no actual spoilers, more like academic rivals to lovers but they want to fight at some point so I guess it counts, NSFW | public sex (or more semi-public), unprotected sex (wrap it before tap it), p in v sex, kinda toxic but it's enemies to lovers, more like enemies who fuck, Coryo is pretty rough and possessive, marking, making out, idiots in love but they prefer fighting with each other
Author's note: I found some free time between studying, so I decided that I can no longer delay. English is not my first language so i hope that i didn't do too much mistakes. It is possible that a single "she" or "her" will appear here because I changed the concept during writing and I do not know if I got rid of everything. Let me know whether to stay with the use of 'you' or maybe replace it with personal pronouns or 'y/n'. I hope it's not written very awkwardly and you will like it!!
Coriolanus Snow is a peculiar person. Most people love him. Nice, classy, handsome and rich from a wealthy family. What more could one want? However, one of Coriolanus' traits that everyone seems to turn a blind eye to is his two-facedness. Some say this is merely a symptom of his cunning and wits. He knows when and how to behave to make his counterpart happy. You are not one of those people. Saying that you and Coriolanus Snow don't like each other is a huge understatement. You guys hate each other. From the very beginning when you both met at the academy it was known that you would cause a lot of problems. Too much of a character difference, or perhaps too much of a similarity between the two. However, this is not what is crucial. Whatever it is, it makes you two most likely to kill each other if you could. Every move you make you do to screw each other up. To prove who is better.
Professor Satyria's pleas for you to finally come to an agreement are of little use. The conflict must go on, and neither of you has any intention of giving up.
You like the way things are working out. At first, Snow was annoying and you didn't understand how people couldn't see him for what he really was. Fake. Now he is still annoying, but getting under his skin has become a sort of routine. Quite a pleasant one.
"You have to get along with each other and set a good example as rightful citizens of the Capitol, otherwise the Academy will draw out the consequences."
Professor Satyria's words continue to ring in your ears as you get ready to go home after finishing classes and doing punishment work. On the one hand, you don't want something as silly as arguing to weigh on your future, but on the other hand, reaching out to agree is like admitting you were wrong. Failure.
"Wherever I am you must also appear. Are you obsessed with me?" Behind your back, you heard a familiar, annoyingly kind voice, in which you could sense some arrogance. You groaned turning around to see no one else but Coriolanus.
"Don't you have anything better to do? People are finally getting tired of your idiocy?" Your words, however, did not budge the blond. His expression remained unchanged. One that might make most people think he is a nice person. You, however, have known him long enough to see right through it. Perfect. Too perfect.
"We need to talk. A positive outcome for both sides. It will interest you." Well, the threat of Satyria. He is the first one to extend his hand for agreement. Where is the trick? You look at him suspiciously without saying a word, and so Snow takes it as a sign that you are thinking about the proposition. "Do you have free time? Maybe we could go out somewhere together?"
The suggestion makes you burst into laughter. "With you? No thanks, I'll pass on this pleasure."
Coriolanus is not surprised by your answer. He knew it wouldn't be that easy. Accepting rejection, however, is not his strong point. He is annoyed by your behaviour, but he bites his tongue to avoid responding in the same spiteful way. Instead, he doesn't give up.
"I know we were never on good terms, but I want this war between us to end. I hope we can put behind us all the bad things that happened between us and start fresh. What do you think about this?" he says, sounding quite sincere.
"Let me think." You say and sigh, pondering the answer, which is obvious, but you can't let go of a little malice. "No."
The expression on Snow's face became more serious. It seems that your refusal offended his pride. But he doesn't show it in his tone of voice.
"Why not?" he asks and you notice how he clenches his jaw and his gaze becomes unpleasant.
You enjoy the view and it fills you with satisfaction. "Because you think that with a pretty face and fake politeness, you can get anything. Maybe it works with others, but I'm not that stupid. Additionally, you are damn annoying. That's why."
The expression on Snow's face becomes dark. Typical when he fails to get what he wants. His usual tone is completely gone. His face is twisted with anger. He still tries to maintain a polite voice. The attempt fails.
"Do you want to repeat it?" he asks through his teeth. It's obvious that you've hit one of his sensitive points. That was the plan.
"Exhausting, isn't it? Hiding behind the mask of a nice and put-together boy from a highly placed family who is a veritable ideal is tiring, isn't it?" A mockery can be heard in your voice. Coriolanus is very sensitive to it.
"What do you think you know about me?" He asks through clenched teeth, his tone no longer artificially polite, it is filled with rage. Your mockery has really gotten to him. He tries to calm down, but it's all in vain. Coriolanus has never had problems with self-control, but something about you makes him ready to abandon everything. You manage to get him off balance with ease. In his head, he has one plan. To destroy you.
"Do you think you pretend so well?" You burst out laughing and shake your head. You know you shouldn't say such things. The academy is practically empty, and Coriolanus's angry enough can be unpredictable. However, you can't help but point out everything that annoys you about him. "It's actually quite easy to see what kind of person you are. You look at people with disgust, but when they look in your direction, you suddenly change dramatically. how fake you are to everyone. I wonder how they don't see it. How empty and shallow you are."
"You don't know anything about me!" Snow shouts at you, his face twisted with rage. He is barely able to control himself. He doesn't even try to hide it anymore. He stares at you with hatred in his eyes.
"Don't you dare assume that you know everything about me. You don't know me one bit. You don't know what my life is like. Don't think so highly of yourself. You aren't better than me." He continues, his voice getting louder with every word he says. You really hit his sensitive spot.
"I don't know everything and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. For me, the most important thing is acts, and in your case, they are fake and two-faced. You despise people, and you yourself are at the bottom." Irritation takes over. You know that at any moment you can say one word too many if you haven't already. However, someone has to talk it all out for him. Adrenaline makes you take a step closer to the upset boy without considering the possible consequences.
Snow seems to be on the verge of a breakdown. His fists are clenched and his eyes are wide open with rage. He is breathing hard, trying to control himself. He's not used to being treated this way by anyone. He has come this far over the years, solely because of himself and what role he has taken in society. You really succeeded in hurting his pride. "I warn you right now. Don't mock me any further."
"Why? What will you do? hit me? do it, I dare you. Then everyone will see how "perfect" you really are." You know the situation is starting to get dangerous. However, you come closer. It's stupid, you know it, and yet you do it. Maybe it's the way his reactions give you satisfaction, or maybe it's the way he looks at you.
You can see the hatred oozing from his eyes when they are locked on yours. His face is full of rage, his breathing heavy and his muscles tense.
He takes a step toward you with a clenched fist. You can see his knuckles turning white. He grabs you and presses you against the wall, his body against yours.
A second later, you feel him pressing you against the wall tighter than before, and his hand grips your throat.
You feel the warmth of his breath on your lips. Your heart is pounding as if it wants to jump out of your chest. You feel a strange sensation in your lower abdomen. His eyes are cold, yet they make a pleasant shiver run through your body. His face is right next to yours, flesh pressing against yours. It was a matter of split seconds as you two pressed your lips to each other in an aggressive and hungry kiss.
He returns the kiss, wrapping his free hand around you. He seems to enjoy the kiss as much as you do.
You can feel his body trembling as he still tries to keep control of his overwhelming emotions, or maybe it's because of the situation you're in.
The two of you kiss aggressively. Snow's body shakes as he fights between his desire and how much you get on his nerves. You feel how rough but passionate his kiss is.
He draws you closer and your bodies press against each other. The friction of your bodies makes you uncontrollable over the muffled whimpers you make. You feel the bulge forming in his pants rubbing against your body.
The situation seems hazy, and only fragments register in your mind. How you both enter the bathroom without stopping your hungry and clumsy kisses, and your hands work to get rid of clothes that only makes it difficult. How Coriolanus presses your body against the wall slamming his hips against yours.
All this is to express yourself and give vent to all the negative emotions you have been holding for years.
Snow's body is now almost completely controlled by his emotions. His movements seem full of hatred and at the same time passion. He just wants to express himself using his flesh to claim you as his own.
You feel as if you are on fire, your body moves and reacts according to your desires. The tension that has built up between you for years is finally released, and it all comes out as raw passion.
His fast and aggressive movements make the place where your bodies meet burn in a pleasant way, and you think to yourself that it will be a miracle if you walk normally tomorrow. His dick stretches you nicely and his movements make your inside sting slightly. It's not a problem for now. Not now when your legs are wrapped around his waist and the only sounds you can make right now are moaning and repeating his name like a mantra.
Your body trembles at how rough his movements are, but you don't care now. The most important thing for you now is to show him how much you hate him. A broken moan leaves your lips when he reaches deeper.
Coriolanus feels your legs tighten around him. He moves slower now but is more passionate and rough. He holds your hips tightly, not caring if it is uncomfortable for you. His lips move to your neck, where he bites as if he is trying to unload all the emotions you are causing you this way.
His hips buck firmly against you. Each thrust makes your body more tired and aching but at the same time, it makes the whole experience even more pleasurable. If someone told you that you would end up having sex with your biggest rival in the academy bathroom, you would laugh in that person's face. There you are, panting, with your arms around his neck when Coriolanus Snow is abusing your cunt sensitive from too much friction.
Coriolanus brings his lips closer to your ear. His warm and irregular breathing makes a shiver go through your body. "Do you like it when I claim you as mine?" He purrs, his voice still filled with desire.
"I hate you, I hate you so much," You exhale in a trembling voice that takes a lot of trouble to keep from cracking. You bite and suck at the smooth skin of his neck, leaving there dark marks. "I hate you, Coriolanus Snow."
"I hate you too," Snow says with a low growl as he continues to hold you. He bites your shoulder, leaving marks on your skin. His moans are muffled by your skin, which he touches constantly, as if afraid that at any moment you might escape and leave behind only a faint memory.
You hate him, but you enjoy him. You are pleased when he takes you as his own. You are excited when he uses your body. You feel his passion and desire through his body. You feel his raw passion and it's hard to hate him now.
"oh go to hell" You hiss and bite your lower lip to stop your moans, feeling him moving faster.
He doesn't care if he hurts you or not. All he cares about is that you belong to him right now. His hips slam against yours in an aggressive peace. The bathroom is filled with sinful noises because you don't even think about the fact that someone might come in and hear them.
"you may have already fallen in love, but with me, it's not so easy" A trembling laugh leaves your lips. You feel your head getting foggier and foggier. It's hard for you to put together a meaningful sentence, "but you're doing a good job" a loud moan leaves your mouth. you close your eyes and throw your head back "mmm my sweet toy."
He hears your moans of pleasure, and his eyes close with a smile. He has won and he knows it. Snow always lands on top. He presses you against the wall with his body even tighter. His movements become more sloppy and deeper as if he wants to bury himself inside you. His body trembles as his lips leave broken moans and whimpers.
Passion is so strong that you can almost forget about hatred. You can almost fall in love with Coriolanus Snow. Almost. But you know that what you feel now is only lust, and you know that it's all temporary.
Not him. Not the arrogant boy whose whole life is based on lies. Not that boy who doesn't care about anyone. Not that boy with a beautiful face and mesmerizing blue eyes. Not him.
You press closer to his body, almost clinging to him as a wave of pleasure sweeps over your body.
Coriolanus lets out a raspy throaty moan feeling your walls pulsate around him. His voice is low and shaky. He doesn't seem to notice anything except the way you cling to his body. He moves faster and harder, making sure he satisfies you completely.
Snow is fully immersed in feelings. He can't think clearly or rationally. He only knows that he has to claim you, that he has to satisfy his needs. He wants to feel you and make the most of the situation. All his thoughts and desires are focused on you. His hip movements speed up as he reaches the climax. He hides his face in your neck to muffle his moans. His body stiffs as he comes inside you.
Your arms wrapped around his neck, while his wrapped around your waist. you cling to each other, still not making contact with the real world as your breathing slowly calms down.
What happened in that bathroom is over, they both return to reality. Snow steps back slightly and helps you stand on your own two feet. He looks at you with heavy eyes. All the emotions he had been hiding inside him had finally been released.
He has won and he knows it. He has succeeded. But what now? Was it really worth it? This is not a question for now. Coriolanus does not look far into that future with his thoughts.
You look at each other in silence. Slowly you begin to realize what you have done and now you look at each other awkwardly and somewhat panicked.
Coriolanus is the first to break the silence. His cheeks are flushed and his breathing is faster. The passion he felt a minute ago still lingers in his heart, something he tries to hide from you. He looks at you with a somewhat absent and uncertain gaze
"Do you think we should forget what just happened?" He tries to make his voice sound normal as if nothing had happened.
"Definitely." The words leave your lips before you have time to think. You stare at each other in silence for a few more moments and begin to quickly put on your clothes.
Snow is surprised at how quickly you agree with him. He needs to make sure this is the end of what just happened between the two of you, so he adds.
"If anyone asks, it never happened." He now looks at you with a somewhat panicked expression on his face.
"You don't have to tell me," you scoff, buttoning your shirt, "if you tell even one soul, I'll kill you, I swear."
Coriolanus looks at you with small amusement while fixing his jacket. "I hope you won't become obsessed with me after this."
"Maybe in your dreams," you say with a slight smile fixing the collar of his shirt. " you better be careful that you are the one who will be lost in memories of me." Before you leave the bathroom you stop in front of the mirror and fix your uniform and hair. Coriolanus smiles for a moment but then quickly clears his throat and tries to look cold.
You both come out of the bathroom, look at each other and part your lips, as if to say something to each other, but you look at each other in silence "Now everything is back to normal. We can still hate each other," you say, but this does not improve your mood at all.
"It never happened," Snow says trying to look you in the eyes, wondering if you're thinking about it too. He wonders if what he feels is real, or if it's just a moment of passion.
"Never" You agree by nodding your head. Your gaze goes down to his mouth. As you look into his eyes again without a moment's thought you move closer to him and press your lips to his in-hungry kiss. He kisses you back wrapping his arms around you to bring your body closer.
You parts away after some time and you both catch your breath for a moment after this passionate kiss. Coriolanus is completely consumed with passion and there is nothing in his mind but you.
You move away and nod to each other as if you have just made a deal and each is walking in your own direction in a much better mood.
Maybe that's not exactly what Professor Satyria meant when she said you two should come to an agreement, but it certainly worked.
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Basic Training XVII (Peter Parker x Reader)
Warnings: NON-CON, DUB-CON, mentions of MURDER, violence, kidnapping, captivity, public sex, degradation, forced pregnancy, forced marriage, stockholm syndrome, ptsd, housewife kink, cop!Peter
⼠banner by @vase-of-liliesâ | divider by @whimsicalrogers
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summary: A pit stop during a road trip ends tragically when a small town cop sets his sights on you. Youâre the newest addition in a long standing fucked up family tradition.
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You stared into the darkness of the basement for what felt like too long.
It was quiet down there, but not the kind of quiet that felt comforting. It was the kind of silence that felt suffocatingâtaunting. It was so loud in its taunting, snickering at you and your idiocy and naivety. Even as you laid on the floor, feeling like the lowest of jokes, you couldnât bring yourself to regret the decisions that brought you here.
Nat was your friend. Or at least, you liked to consider her one, and even faced with the threat of the worst punishment Steve could muster, you just couldnât imagine yourself doing anything differently. You couldnât imagine yourself waking Peter up that night and telling him you saw the redhead escaping, effectively alerting the other husbands to her presence, leading to her subsequent capture. It just wasnât in you, and clearly none of these menânot even Peterâknew you at all if they thought it was.
The first time you tried to move, you couldnât, and for a brief moment, you thought that Steve had injured you in his delight to toss you down the stairs like a sack of flour instead of a person. However, you quickly came to realize that wasnât the case. You could move your fingers and toes fine, even twitch your leg, but you just couldnât find the strength to move. You felt beyond defeated, and when you blinked, you werenât shocked to feel a sting behind your eyes.
There was the most awful aching feeling in your chest, both heavy and hollow even though you didnât know how that was possible. You wanted to cry and scream, but you also never wanted to utter another word ever again. You wanted to let out everything you felt since the moment you came here, but in the same breath, you desperately wanted to feel numb. If you didnât feel a thing, then you couldnât get hurt, and you hurt so much, right now.
Peter killed Michelle.
He didnât help kill her, but he did kill her, and in the grand scheme of things, maybe that shouldnât make a difference. After all, youâd still been under the impression that he did nothing while his brothers did. Youâd still been under the belief that he allowed it to happen at best and helped it happen and cover it up at worst. So, why did Peter pulling the trigger make all the difference in the world to you?
Was it because you thought you were falling in love with him?
That thought had you squeezing your eyes shut, so tight that it hurt, and it was hard to hold back your sob. Your nails scraped against the hard floor as you shook, struggling to breathe as your stomach turned. Once you started it was so hard to stop, and it wasnât long before the sound of your choked cries were filling the basement. It was a thought youâd considered before, but that was when he wasnât a murderer.
That was when he hadnât murdered your best friend.
How could you possibly rationalize it now? Deep down, you knew that this wasnât your fault. Deep down you knew that there were names and studies dedicated to people in your position and the psychology behind it, but that didnât make you feel any better. Peter had murdered your friend in cold bloodâŚ
âŚand you thought you loved him.
The thought made you want to be sick, and with horror, you could actually feel your stomach turning. You hurried to sit up, pressing the back of your hand to your mouth as you struggled to keep it down. The bathroom only some feet away was lockedâwouldnât be unlocked until someone came down to open it and let you inâand you didnât think you could handle sitting in a room with your vomit just stewing in the corner.
Struggling to get to your feet, you pressed your other hand to your stomach, trying to settle it. Keeping your mouth closed, you breathed through your nose, lashes fluttering, and after some time, you slowly stumbled towards where you knew the bed to be. You didnât care about turning on the light, finding no need, and when you sat down, your head drooped in defeat.
There was really no telling how long theyâd keep you in here until they figured out what to do with you, and while you knew that Peter would try his damndest to get them to go easy on you, you also knew that they wouldnât consider a word that left his mouth. Youâand also Peter by extensionâhad proven Steve and the others right, and you found it unlikely theyâd ever listen to another suggestion from Peter about you ever again. Or at the very least, not for a long time.
Besides, Peter wasnât the aggrieved party.
Bucky was, and such a thought made you shudder. Youâd done well to avoid attracting Buckyâs ire even though he reminded you of Steve in some ways. Although, unlike Steve, Bucky didnât seem the type to look for any and every excuse to punish you as heâd prefer in a contrast to Peterâs methods. Bucky seemedâif nothing elseâfair to you, and thatâs what scared you the most.
Bucky now felt wronged by you.
So, there was really no telling what was in store for you.
You recalled the way heâd reached for you, desperately trying to get past Peter in his efforts to get his hands on you. You didnât want to imagine what he wouldâve done had he succeeded, and you swallowed as your mind went rampant with the possibilities. Your hand came up to graze the tear in your sleeve, wincing at the slight sting you felt when your finger came in contact with the skin. Some part of you knew that had Bucky succeeded, he just might have killed you in his rage, and where you once wouldâve welcomed such a thoughtâŚ
It only made your heart ache, now.
You didnât want to die, and when you thought about why, your stomach only twisted into knots once again. Wrapping your arms around yourself, you keeled over, throat tight as you tried to swallow down another sob. Your chest hurt so much, feeling like someone had an iron grip on your heart and was just squeezing and twisting it to their content. When you gasped, a cry escaped with it, and the only other time you could recall feeling like this was the day you realized your friends were dead and you were all alone.
You cried until your throat felt raw, and you didnât fight your body as it started to collapse to the floor, sliding off of the bed in a heap. Covering your face with your hands, your lightly dragged your nails down your skin, frame shaking as you rocked back and forth. Your stomach wouldnât stop hurting, and you couldnât stop shaking. In fear or anger or despairâyou didnât know.
You did know that this was all Peterâs fault. He was the one who decided he had to have you, as if you were some thing to be acquired instead of a human being with a life and feelings and autonomy. If it werenât for him, your friends would still be alive, and you wouldnât even be here. If it werenât for him, you wouldnât be feeling ripped apart by how you felt about the man who kidnapped and raped you. All of this was Peterâs faultâŚand even stillâŚmore than anythingâŚ
All you wanted was for him to hold you.
It was hard to say how long you stayed in the basement. The darkness and silence was endless, and it felt like months, but in reality, it was probably mere days. You did know that it was long enough for your stomach to ache from more than just fear and for your nightgown to stink from more than just sweat. You didnât think you were capable of feeling embarrassed about that anymore. After all, Peter never made you feel like it was something to be embarrassed about, but that was before you heard the sound of the locks on the basement door.
Despite your shame, you couldnât bring yourself to move.
Until the light from the top of the stairs outlined a familiar silhouette.
You merely stared at him as he stood on the first step, yours on him and his eyes on you. You couldnât hear any noise coming from the main part of the house, and you said nothing when he closed the door behind him. Peter wasnât good. You knew that since the beginning when he told you that everything he did was so that he could have you, making it all okay. Peter had never been good.
So, why did looking at him now hurt so much more than it ever had?
As soon as Peter was close enough, the first thing he did was take your face into his hands. You couldnât really feel them, realizing that you got your wish to feel numb, and that just made your chest ache more. Just days ago you were desperate to feel the comfort of Peterâs touch, and now you couldnât feel it, at all.
âHey, pretty girl,â he murmured, face a mere inch away from yours.
When you didnât say anything back, you noticed the way his face fell, lips pressed together as he eyed you. His gaze lingered on yours for the longest, thumbs just grazing your skin, and you watched the way his tongue darted out to swipe between his lips.
âWe need to get you cleaned up.â
His words had you blinking, and it was only then did you notice the fresh dress resting on the crook of his arm. You didnât ask him what day it was because it didnât matter. You only knew what would be happening today, and itâs why the dress on Peterâs arm was so pretty. It was why youâd been locked in the basement for days. It was why Peter looked at you the way he did as he helped you stand.
âIâm so sorry,â were the words he murmured into your hair as soon as he leaned you against him.
What was he apologizing for exactly? For killing Michelle or lying to you about it? For taking you and ruining your life in the first place? Or for failing to protect you from the wrath of the other husbands? Maybe he was apologizing for what was to come, and that made you shut your eyes.
âIâm sorry,â he whispered again as he brought your head to rest in the crook of his neck.
You didnât respondâdidnât know how toâonly allowing him to guide you into the bathroom after unlocking it. You couldnât really say how you got naked, only feeling as if you blinked before finding yourself sitting in a tub of hot water with Peter raining water down over your head. He was talking to you, saying something that went in one ear and out of the other. All you could focus on was that dress on the toilet, wondering what they planned to make you do while wearing it.
When you felt the weight of Peterâs gaze, it was only then did you take note of the silence. You didnât know if heâd asked you a question or if he simply opted to stare at you, but when his hand came up to graze the side of your face, you assumed it was the latter. Perusing you, you watched as his gaze became distracted by the shallow scrape on your arm from Buckyâs nails, and when Peterâs jaw tightened, you knew that he realized where it came from too.
âPeter,â you softly forced out, throat tight.
He gave you his undivided attention, and you licked your lips.
âWhat are they going to do to me?â
Your question came out almost inaudible, just barely above a whisper as you found yourself almost too afraid to askâtoo fearful to want to know. When Peterâs face fell some, your own frown deepened, and when he sighed, your heart sank.
âI donât⌠I donât know,â he slowly told you, and you could see that he was telling the truth.
You knew that Peter would have no say in this, youâd known that, but faced with the knowledge that was completely in the dark only served to make your stomach twist more. Only this time, you werenât able to stop it, and it was Peter who kept you from falling as you hurried to get out of the tub. You only just made it to the toilet in time, and with nothing in your stomach to throw up, all you expelled was bile.
One of Peterâs hands were on your waist, the other soothingly rubbing your back as you vomited again. With every heave of your stomach, you shook more and more, and when you were done, you could only stare at the wall behind the toilet.
âYouâre sick,â he said, tone strained with worry.
You shook your head.
âNo, Iâm just⌠Iâm scared,â you honestly told him, lifting your gaze to meet his. ââŚand heartbroken.â
Peter sadly tilted his head, and your lips quivered.
âWhy did you lie to me?â you breathed. âWhy did youâŚ? Why did you minimize your part in it?â
You continued before Peter could lie some more.
âWhy did you hold me and comfort me and tell me you werenât as bad as them when youâre much worse?â
âIâm not,â he argued, grabbing your shoulder.
ââŚbut you are,â you said with a frown. âAt least with Steve and Tony and Bucky I know who they are. I fear them because theyâve shown me why I should.â
Peter pulled you closer, resting your head on his chest as he rocked you.
âYou made me love you.â
The words came out small and choked, your face crumbling as Peter stilled, and youâd stupidly thought you had no more tears left. Your body proved you wrong, frame shaking as your chest tightened, a cry escaping you in the otherwise quiet bathroom. Peter didnât respond right away, just holding you as you cried.
âIâm still the same person I was before you found out,â he whispered, rocking you. ââŚthe same person you begged to run away with.â
You squeezed your eyes shut.
âIâm not proud of what I did,â he confessed. ââŚbut itâs why I can hold you every night for as long as I want.â
He leaned down to gently kiss your forehead, and your vacant and tearful gaze was on the bathtub, now.
âYou donât have to agree with it, even I donât agree with it, but it had to be done if I wanted you all to myself.â
You knew that justified it all in Peterâs mind, and the part of your brain that was conditioned to normalize your new reality wanted to pull him closer, but the part that desperately missed your friends and family and old life only wanted to be sick.
When Peter rinsed you off and dried you, his fingers grazed your skin as he helped you get dressed. Soothing words left his lips that didnât really mean much because how could he calm you against something that was unknown to him too? He didnât even know what he was comforting you from. Once dressed, he stood before you, looking you over with his fingers grazing over yours.
When your eyes met his, his gaze softened, and you didnât stop him when he leaned in to press his lips to the corner of your mouth. Like every touch and kiss of his, now, you didnât really feel it, and when Peter pulled away, you felt that the numbness that consumed you reflected in your own gaze. He heaved a sigh, fingering the ring on your finger.
âI still love you,â he assured you, looking at you from beneath his lashes. âThatâll never changeâŚand even⌠Even when I have to do whatever it is I have to do today, Iâll be doing it with love.â
Those words didnât exactly comfort you, and your eyes briefly closed when he walked you out of the bathroom. The stairs were hard to take, courtesy of your lack of food and what little sleep youâd managed to get. You shook beside Peter, and you knew that it was from more than just not eating. In fact, you were sure you were going to throw up again.
The house was unusually quietâas well as emptyâand that did nothing to alleviate your uneasiness. Peterâs hold on your hand was gentle, and as much you loved to hate him in this moment, you appreciated that he walked outside with you instead of walking you outside like a prisoner. You were surprised by how early it was in the day, bringing your hand up to shield your eyes from the rising sun. Days in the darkness had them hurting from the harsh natural light.
Just as you got used to it, a familiar and intimidating voice spoke.
âLeave her right there.â
Only, it wasnât the voice you were used to being on the receiving end of. Your eyes met familiar blue ones as Peter was forced to step away from you, Buckyâs gaze very much transparent as he looked at you. His anger and disgust were palpable, and you found that you couldnât hold his gaze.
That was a mistake.
âYou will look at me,â he sneered, hurrying over to you and harshly gripping your chin.
Behind him, you could see Peter take a step forward only to be stopped by Sam. Buckyâs fingers were painfully pressing into your skin, and as difficult as you found it, you held the brunetteâs gaze. It was in that moment that you realized why the house had seemed so quiet on your way out. You noted that the only person missing was Jane, and you guessed with her pregnancy and a need for someone to watch Margaret and Sharonâs children, they decided to kill two birds with one stone.
They clearly didnât want to stress her, and that only made you more fearful of what was in store for you.
âWeâre not stupid, you know,â Bucky said to you, and you swallowed. âWe expect the odd escape attempt here and there.â
You werenât used to being on the receiving end of Buckyâs venomous gaze, blue eyes icy.
âWe look forward to it even,â he confessed. âNone of you will ever succeed, so it helps you realize that, and you get it out of your systems.â
You blinked back tears, and Bucky took note of them, lip curling over his teeth.
âIn factâŚwe had been anticipating yours from the moment we let you out of that basement, but I guess you really were too docile to fight back properly,â he continued, voice growing bitter. âToo docile even to tell one of us when our wife was trying to escape.â
When you blinked again, a tear finally escaped, and you didnât know if you were supposed to respond. Evidently you were.
âWhat?â Bucky wondered, roughly letting your chin go. âNothing to say for yourself?â
Your chest heaved with a deep breath, and you started to glance around.
âNo, donât look at them. Look at me,â Bucky ordered. âAfter all, it was my wife who anything couldâve happened to.â
When your gaze met his again, more tears spilled over, and you sniffed.
âIâm sorry-.â
âWe expect you to fight backâŚtry and make a run for it⌠What we donât expect is more loyalty to a traitorous wife than the men of the house,â he interrupted you, spitting the words out and making you flinch. ââŚbecause anything could come of that. You could kill one of us.â
âI⌠Iâm sorry,â you said again, knowing it wouldnât change anything but also knowing it was what he wanted to hear.
Bucky stared at you for a long timeâtoo longâjust looking down his nose at you as if he could barely stand to look at you. You were all too aware of the eyes on you, all too aware of the example being made out of you. You were in the dark about what was going to happen, now, and it made you want to be sick. However, of all the things you expectedâŚ
You didnât expect Bucky to quickly grab your arm, twisting itâand you with his other armâbefore violently shoving you to the ground. It happened so fast that when you finally cried out in pain, clutching your wrist, you were already looking up at him from the grass. He wasnât looking at you though, hands behind his back as he stepped away from you.
âThere are two outcomes for you today,â he started, making his way towards Peter who looked like he was moments away from committing murderâagain. âPersonally, Iâm partial to either outcomeâŚâ
When you started to push yourself to your feet, the dark-haired man heard it, pausing to look at you with a wag of his finger.
âNo, no. You donât get up yetâŚâ
Heart sinking, you sat back down, clutching your arm to you as you looked between him and Peter.
âThe first,â he dragged out, resting a hand on Peterâs shoulder. âWe finally get to see what Peter has in himâŚâ
You froze, skin growing cold and heart dropping to your gut.
ââŚsee if he has what it takes to make youâŚâ Bucky turned his gaze to you, eyes glinting wickedly ââŚbeg him to stop.â
You couldnât stop more tears from spilling over, the realization of what this day could possibly bring crashing down on you like a wave. When you glanced over, your eyes met a familiar green pair, and Natâs disgust and regret was plain as day on her face. She looked at you like she wanted to take your place in a heartbeat, but you both knew that wasnât going to happen.
You couldnât hold in your sob, pressing your hand to your mouth.
âYou canât cry, now,â Buckyâs voice reached you as he neared you. âWe havenât even started yet.â
He forced you to your feet, and his hands were the only thing keeping you from collapsing.
When you first got here, Peter promised that that would never be you. He told you that he would never, but considering the circumstances of your offense, that choice was no longer up to him. You couldnât stop sobbing, choking noises climbing out of your throat as Bucky continued.
âThe other option is two months in the basement.â
When your eyes met Buckyâs again, there was a gleam in his eye and a curve to his lips that told you it wouldnât be so easy as choosing which youâd prefer. You didnât even want to say that the choice would be easy if given one because while your worst fear was recreating what Margaret had to go through during your first days hereâŚyou also knew that two months down in that darkness would break you beyond belief.
Two months down there, and you were sure you wouldnât even be yourself when you emerged.
âIt all depends on who gets to you first,â Bucky softly said, making you frown at him.
When he stepped away, you swayed on your feet, but his hand met your arm again when he turned you towards the small pond, free arm gesturing towards the dense trees behind it.
âThose legs that are near and dear to Peterâs heart are going to take you as far as you can goâŚâ
His whispered words made you frown.
âNow, donât think that youâre getting awayâŚâ he looked at you and you slowly looked at him. ââŚbecause youâre not. Someone will catch you, itâs only a matter of who, and that determines if this pretty little dress is coming off or not.â
His reminder of one of the possibilities made you lightheaded, and you pressed your hand to your chest when he walked away.
âIf Peter catches you, then Peter will do what he has been instructed to doâŚâ
The man in question spoke up, quietly pleading with Bucky, but the older man ignored him.
ââŚand I was going to participate in this little game,â Bucky said, jaw ticking as he looked at you. ââŚbut you deserve to be terrified after what you did.â
You pressed your lips together, blinking away tears as you wrapped your arms around yourself.
âSoâŚâ he backed up, a small smile on his pink lips. âIf Steve catches youâŚâ
You couldnât stop your knees from buckling, world spinning as you caught yourself on your hands and knees. Your skin pricked, and you felt almost on the verge of a heart attack.
âHe gets to put you in the basementâŚâ a pause. âAgain.â
The sounds of the world were going in and out, and once again, you felt like you were going to throw up. Both options were the last thing you ever wanted, and once you ran into those trees, you didnât know what would relieve you lessâthe sight of Peter or the sight of Steve. It was sick, really, because obviously you would rather be caught by Peter, but not if it meantâŚthat.
âŚand if Steve caught you, you just knew it wasnât going to be that simple
âWhenever youâre ready.â
Buckyâs words were mocking, filled with a mixture of disdain and satisfaction, and as you looked up at him, you didnât know who you hated moreâhim or Steve. The blond in question was someone you had avoided looking at since you stepped outside, bitter to see the sick satisfaction that no doubt covered his features at your humiliation.
Your comeuppance.
Pushing yourself to your feet was a struggle, and you didnât look at Peter, too afraid to realize that he might be who you wanted to catch you, after all, even if it did mean public humiliation beyond comprehension. You felt beyond alone as you walked down the small decline, the dewy grass so nice against the soles of your feet despite the circumstances.
It was only when you got to the tree line, staring inside, did it hit you.
You were going to be hunted and chased down like some animal, and depending on who caught you first, that was what your punishment would be. Both options were enough to make your stomach flip, and for the life of you, you just couldnât decide which was better. With a panicked sob, you forced your feet to move.
Every tree looked just like the other to you, and there was nothing in these woods to signal some kind of progress as you ran. It was crazy to think that there had once been days when you dreamed about being in these woods, closer to freedom and away from the craziness youâd been forced into. Now, however, you were in said trees and all you could think about was who would get to you first.
Buckyâs words echoed in your mind.
It wasnât a matter of whether either of them would catch you. Both of you knew that you werenât getting away from here, let alone from Peter or Steve in these woods. One of them was going to find you first, and even as you brushed past harmful branches and stumbling vines, you still didnât know which choice presented to you was better. More than anything, you wanted it to be Peter to find you, but could you be okay with being raped for the whole household to see? This wasnât like that day with MargaretâŚ
Both Steve and Bucky wanted to make the biggest example out of you, and so the entire household would be there to witness your humiliation. HoweverâŚit was one day. One hour even at the most of Peter doing what he normally did whenever you were aloneâŚjust in front of everyone else. If Steve caught you on the other handâŚ
Two months in the basement was a thought that actually made your knees shake, causing you to stumble against a tree. You knewâyou knewâthat you couldnât handle that, and you knew that Peter knew it too. One option was just one bad day, that was all, but the other option would turn you into even more of a mess than you already were. Youâd spent less than a week down there at the most, and both times were hell for you.
The second more so than the worst, and you didnât want to unpack why that was.
When you heard a tree branch snap, you felt yourself freezing. The tree you were next to was larger, much larger than you, and you remained perfectly still as your hand rested against it. You had only stopped for a few moments, and the whole time youâd been lost in your thoughts, you hadnât even heard any footsteps. In fact, something in you told you that you were supposed to hear the snap of that branch.
When you dared to peek around the trunk, all of your breath left you.
The sight of Steveâs blond hair and back was a stomach turning one, and just as quietly as you peeked around, you hid yourself behind the tree once more. With one movement, you could end this torture and not have to be fucked for the whole household to see, but no matter how much you didnât want thatâŚyou couldnât bring yourself to move.
âŚbecause you didnât want the alternative either.
Steve terrified you beyond beliefâsomething Bucky had acknowledgedâand something in you just knew that he wasnât going to find you and take you back to the house as easy as that. Outside of raping Margaret, you had never heard of Steve doling out any kind of physical abuse, but you had a sneaking suspicion that Steve would strike you square across the face if he could get away with it.
Peeking around the tree again, you watched him walk away, scanning the area before him for any sign of you. Your nails pressed into the trunk, and with a sinking heart, you both accepted and hoped that Peter would find you, making peace with what that meant for you. With Steve completely out of your sight, you didnât know which way to go, and so you went forward, adjacent to the direction Steve went.
You felt like you were getting so turned around the further you walked, and you wondered what would happen if you just decided to go back to the house. You wondered how the punishment would be decided thenâprovided you actually made it back without being caught. The thought of being caught by Steve prevented you from remaining calm and thinking clearly.
Or maybe it was everything else that did that.
You could feel a familiar burn behind your eyes, and you struggled to swallow, throat feeling incredibly tight. Youâd thought that you cried enough in the basement, but that kept proving to be untrue. A few tears skipped down your face before many more followed behind, and you took in a shaky breath.
How was it that you hated Peter so so much for what he didâŚwhile also wanting nothing more than to just return to your bedroom with him when this was over? You didnât want to go back down there, alone and bathed in darkness. You wanted to sleep in your bed with Peter and you wanted him to hold you while you cried about the very thing heâd done that caused the tears.
You hated him, but you wanted to be near him.
You didnât want to hate him from afar. You wanted to hate him while staring at his face every night and listening to the sound of his breathing and feeling his hands on your shoulder as he sat behind you in the bathtub. You hated Peter so much for what he didâand lying about itâbut it just wasnât the kind of hate where you couldnât stand the sight of him, and you hated him all the more for that.
You were pulled from your thoughts by the sound of footsteps, and considering youâd gone in the opposite direction of Steve, you were prepared to meet your fate when your gaze would meet that of a familiar brown one. Only, the eyes that met yours werenât brownâŚthey were blueâŚand you felt your lips part.
You didnât hesitate to run the other way, a scream climbing out of your throat when you were tackled to the ground. Steveâs hand was pressed to the back of your head as he slammed your face against the leaves and sticks, making you gasp, and when his arm snaked around your neck, a choked sound left you.
You werenât surprised when he threw you to the dirt again.
âI knewâŚâ he started, slowly following you as you attempted to crawl away. âFrom the moment Peter gave us that crock of shit about a gentler method, I fucking knew.â
You clawed at the dirt when Steve reached down to pull on one of your legs.
âI knew then that he was being too soft with you,â he spat, flipping you over. âI knew that it would come back to bite us.â
Steve squatted over you, one hand tightly curling around your throat, and you struggled to breathe as he slowly forced you to your feet. Your scraped at his hand, gaze tearful and pleading as Steve stared you down, nostrils flaring. His blond hair was a mess, an unusual sight for you, but those blue eyes were as cold as ever.
Steve really hated you.
âBucky is better than me,â Steve hissed at you. ââŚbecause if Margaret had gotten as far as Nat did because of you, I wouldnât make Peter stop until you were begging for him to put you out of your misery.â
You pushed at his hands, panicked, and he only shook you in response.
âYou think heâs your best fucking friend,â Steve breathed through clenched teeth, sizing you up. âInstead of the man who owns you.â
When he threw you down, your head spun, and you struggled to right your vision. You pressed your hands to your temples as you cried, fighting the urge to curl in on yourself.
âThat ends todayâŚâ
Steveâs words were spoken with finality, and you didnât quite understand the meaning of them as you heard approaching footsteps. You heard Steve exhale, and when you dared to look up, your heart skipped a beat at the sight of Peter.
âPeter,â he acknowledged. âLove that timing of yours.â
Peter didnât hesitate to hurry towards you, placing a hand on your head as you sobbed. As youâd suspected, you knew it wasnât going to be that simple if Steve caught you instead, and you realized just how complicated it was going to be at the sound of his next words.
âWe need to make sure nothing like this happens again, Peter,â Steve told him, and they shared a look, something unspoken between them that had Peterâs jaw clenching.
âSo, is that why you forgot who she belongs to? Is that why you treated her like you used to treat Peggy on her really bad days? Sheâs already terrified of you. What more do you want?â he sneered at him, briefly looking at you and brushing his thumb over your cheek.
âI need her to be terrified of you,â Steve answered, hands on his hips. âI told you from the beginning that you were too soft with her. I told you what needed to be done for her to get it.â
âYeah, Steve, alright, I get it-!â
ââŚbut you donât,â Steve yelled at Peter, staring at the younger man just like a brother would. âYou donât get it because if you did, this wouldâve never happened.â
Steve gestured around, cutting you a scathing look that made you wither.
âShe wouldâve never felt more loyal to Nat than the men who run this household. She wouldâve understood that she exists to serve you and the house as a whole by extension.â
You hated the way Peterâs hands slowed on your face, and when you looked at his own face, he looked to be deep in thought.
âNot just the wives and whatever they think is best, but whatâs best for the family,â Steve paced. âYou are going to make her understand that sheâs not your friend and certainly not your fucking equal.â
You watched Peter defeatedly exhale, eyes falling closed.
âYou are going to make her understand that, right now,â Steve snarled.
âSteveâŚâ
Peterâs tone was pleading, and that was when you finally sat up, looking between them with a racing heart. You scooted back, but Peterâs hand on your arm prevented you from going far. When your gaze met his, his eyes had softened, something in them pleading with you.
âI will make you, Peter.â
Steveâs tone was scarily calm, and you glanced at him, lips shaking at the malice in his eyes.
âDo you understand me? I will not rest until I catch her slipping up again, and depending on my mood that day, I just might make you fuck her right there in the garden for all to see,â he quietly told him. âSo, itâs either now or itâs laterâŚbut it is happening. You decide.â
In truth, you didnât know why you were crying. You had already accepted that youâd rather get the bad thing over with than drag it out for two months. However, that was the thing, wasnât it? Steve was going to make Peter do this and still turn around and throw you right down in that basement. Even though there was less humiliation involved, it still seemed unfair.
âDo this andâŚmaybe I can convince Bucky to only leave her down there for a month,â Steve proposed, and by the tone of his voice, he knew that heâd won.
You barely had time send Steve a scathing look of your own before your back roughly met the ground.
Peterâs mannerisms were rough, and while you knew it was because Steve wanted them to be, it didnât mean you had to like it. You didnât think Peter had ever been rough with you, and you cried out at the harsh pull on your hair, his other hand painfully digging into your waist.
âSee, you need to understand, sweetheart,â Steveâs voice reached your ears as he circled you. âThat you belong to Peter. You exist as an extension of him, now. You exist to exalt him, and the only way that you will get it in your head that youâre his propertyâŚâ
Peter had flipped you onto your stomach, now.
âIs if he treats you like it.â
You yelped when your chest was forced to the ground, Peter manhandling you in the way he knew Steve wanted.
ââŚand what better way to do that than to show you that he can and will take you wherever and whenever regardless of who is around to see it,â he slowly said, making sure he was heard loud and clear.
The humiliation of feeling Peter push his cock into you before Steveâs very eyes had you squeezing yours shut, a harsh sob escaping as Peterâs skin slapped against yours. His hand was on your throat, and you clawed at it, gasping when his teeth pressed into your shoulder.
âYou donât have autonomy over your body anymore. You donât exist independently of Peter, and that extends to this familyâŚâ
Peterâs harsh thrusts made your toes curl, and what was once a rough entry had become much smoother. With no warning and feeling wholly unprepared for this turn of events, tears escaped your eyes, and your fingers dug into the grass and dirt. The feel of Peterâs cock pushing into your walls was a familiar one youâd grown to love, but the sound of Steveâs pacing steps and voice made you want to crawl in a hole.
You felt torn apart.
âHad you previously understood that, all of this couldâve been prevented.â
Steve sounded pleased with himselfâand Peterâand the thought made you sick. When Peter pulled your head back, you winced, and you started to move away from him, wanting this earlier and regretting it nowâespecially since you were going back into the basement anyway.
When Peterâs lips grazed your ear, you shuddered.
âIâm sorry,â he whispered to you, hand painfully pulling at your hair, making you cry out again.
You recalled Peterâs words from earlier, and you knew why this was happening. You understood the hierarchy in the household, understood that what Steve said went, and you knew without a shadow of a doubt that Steve wouldâve absolutely made this happen for the whole house to say. You understood that this was the better alternative, but that understanding is what made you cry more.
This wasnât something to be understood. The man thrusting into you had killed your friends and kidnapped you, and the man before you had helped. Peter wasnât your husband or your lover but instead your captor and rapist. Nothing about any of this was right, and in this moment, you shouldnât be rationalizing or understanding anything.
âŚbut you did.
You understood why Peter grabbed you with no hesitation and proceeded to fuck you under Steveâs watchful eye. You understood why being raped for all to see had briefly been the better choice to you than being sent back into the basement. You understood why Peter was murmuring sweet nothings and apologies into your ear as he roughly held you down and plunged his cock into you.
You understood it all, and you hated it.
You didnât want to simultaneously hold Peter closer and push him away as he roughly fucked you against the grass, face to face with you, now. You didnât want him to obey when Steve told him to fuck you harder. You didnât want to understand that Peter didnât actually want this because if that were true he simply wouldnât do it, right? You didnât want to accept that this house didnât follow the rules of the outside world and that so long as you were hereâand you would be here foreverâneither would you.
âAre you sorry, now?â Steve wondered, somehow able to hear his voice over the sound of your cries. âHmm?â
You didnât give him the satisfaction of an answer, but you knew you gave him that anyway the moment you started crying. When Peterâs eyes met yours, he shushed you, a poor attempt to make this better somehow, and his next words made you blink.
âDo you see how much worse I could be?â he whispered, too low for Steve to hear. âHow much worse they want me to be?â
You stared at him, nails digging into the skin of his arm, and with another harsh sob, you nodded.
âDo you understand what Iâve been trying to protect you from?â
Again, you nodded.
Peterâs nose grazed your own.
âDo you get it now?â he sadly asked you.
When you nodded again, unable to find your voice between cries, Peter shushed you. His fingers pressed into your skin, and his hips painfully came down against yours. When his lips pressed against yours, they swallowed the noises that escaped your throat.
âI never wanted this for you.â
âŚand you knew Peter was telling the truth.
#peter parker x reader#dark!peter parker#dark!peter parker x reader#peter parker fanfiction#dark fic#peter parker imagine#marvel fanfiction#marvel imagine#cop au
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Anglophone Greek Myth retellings demand money from you, and then they have this much nonsense in just one page......
1. Patroclus' name is shortened to "Patro" and the writer believes it to be the coolest name. Meanwhile it's like shortening "George" to "Geor" đ
2. He's also called "Sex" and "The Son of Sex" which sound weird even in English. Idk if it's supposed to come from the Latin "sextus" but in any case the logic and the sound are horrible.
3. Why is Patroclus adjacent with anything Spartan, and even called Spartan?? And his House is Spartan. Perhaps he was born in this life as a Spartan (whatever that means) but og Patroclus was characteristically not Spartan. Do Anglophone writers die when they write about other Greek cities except Sparta, Athens and Thebes?? Genuine question because I don't know at this point. Would it kill the author to have here the name of the region Patroclus is from?
Actually I even doubt that the author did a basic Google search for the origins of the character who inspired her. Not to mention she uses "Spartan" like it's a faction or a family, as if Sparta and Spartan people are not real today.
4. Nemean jaguar?? (as in, from Nemea, Greece). Is "Nemea" another gang so all their animals are described by Nemean? I doubt it, cause the phrasing "Animal Protector: Nemean Jaguar" makes it look like "Nemean" is the animal's origin. Has future Greece been populated by a distinctly American animal? This is probably a play on "Nemean Lion" and it sounds quite stupid.
Excuse my harshness. I don't speak like this to writers I consult. BUT this is a published work??? And hear this: The problem is not the fantasy/futuristic setting or any other creative thing the writer has thought. But there are elements of a real culture there, and they're written like shit. If one page is like this, I can't imagine how nonsensical the whole work is. And she wants us to pay for this book??
How do you spend months or years writing and then publishing something for money without getting it fact-checked?? How can you just write nonsense and sell it as if Greeks don't exist out there and as if your audience is stupid?
Writers who don't want to write elements of another culture accurately are like the comedians who complain they can't do comedy anymore because of "cancel culture".
Anyway if you don't want to end up writing a fuckfest of idiocy, please let me (or someone else) be your Greek Cultural Sensitivity reader because we Greeks are ddyyyyiiing out here with all the bullshit we see every day đŤ
#retellings#writing#books#blood of Hercules#greek mythology#history#greece#Patroclus#achilles and patroclus#hellas#representation
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Let's talk about Polites in EPIC: The Musical...and Eurylochus.
I do not get the hype for Polites. Yes, heâs supposed to be this sweet, trusting, âopen armsâ guy who exists to show Odysseus the value of kindness, but heâs an actual walking disaster. Heâs a hypocrite through and through. This man fought in the Trojan War â thereâs no way his hands are clean â so his sudden push for peace and âletâs all trust each otherâ feels completely illogical. You donât get to be a warrior and then act shocked when the world bites back. Hereâs what gets me: Polites doesnât even suffer the consequences of his own idiocy. He dies immediately, leaving the rest of the crew (especially Odysseus) to clean up the mess. His naive, sunshine-and-rainbows approach literally causes everything to fall apart. Itâs because of his influence that Odysseus shows mercy to the Cyclops. Look, Polyphemus wasnât just some big guy with sheep; he was a monster who ate people alive. Odysseus could have stuck to what he does best â being clever, ruthless, and surviving â but instead, Politesâ âletâs be kind and reasonableâ act softened him. What did that get them? Poseidonâs rage, storms that killed dozens of men, and an endless chain of suffering. I donât even feel bad for him because heâs the one who got them into that situation. He got bludgeoned to death, and Odysseus was left holding the guilt and the trauma. Polites did more harm to Odysseus than any monster, god, or storm combined. His naive âopen armsâ nonsense shattered everything Odysseus built.
His âopen armsâ philosophy doesnât even fit the world they live in. This isnât some cozy, peaceful land â itâs a brutal, war-torn reality where gods toy with humans for sport and monsters eat you for dinner. Odysseus knows this. Heâs been through ten years of war, and his leadership is built on cleverness, caution, and yes, ruthlessness when necessary. Polites telling Odysseus to just trust people is like handing a lamb to a lion and acting shocked when it gets eaten. Itâs ridiculous. And for all the praise he gets for his ideals, what do they actually accomplish? Nothing. They just put everyone in danger. I care about the impact he had on Odysseus, of course, but not him as a person â because his ideals were dangerous, and his death came way too soon for it to feel meaningful. He was a plot device, not a hero. Meanwhile, Eurylochus gets called selfish, but at least he wasnât stupid enough to greet the Cyclops or a pretty witch with open arms (and legs).
And keep in mind that, in the original epic, Polites is barely even a footnote â a guy who gets name-dropped once or twice and thatâs it. He wasnât Odysseusâ best friend, he wasnât some great philosopher of peace, and he definitely didnât have this huge impact on Odysseusâ leadership. He was just another member of the crew. Yet, for some reason, Jorge decided to pluck him out of obscurity, slap on some manufactured âkind soulâ personality, and act like heâs this beacon of morality who changes everything. And for what? Politesâ entire presence in Epic feels like a forced excuse to make Odysseus feel bad about everything. Polites wasnât important in The Odyssey, so why does Epic act like losing him broke Odysseus? If the story wanted to explore Odysseusâ guilt, fine â but why pin it all on some guy who didnât even matter in the original myth? At least Eurylochus had a real role in the Odyssey. He was Odysseusâ second-in-command, brother-in-law, and actually did stuff. Speaking of Eurylochus, my man deserves some credit for being an actual human character. Eurylochus makes bad decisions, but at least his choices feel human. Polites, on the other hand, is just...there. A one-note plot device designed to give Odysseus trauma.
I call Polites a hypocrite, while everyone slaps that title onto Eurylochus. But honestly, if anything, Eurylochus is the only crew member who shows consistent growth throughout the story. Eurylochus doesnât just blindly follow Odysseus or cling to pretty ideals like Polites. Instead, heâs pragmatic, deeply flawed, and painfully human â exactly the kind of person youâd expect to survive years of war and suffering. And honestly? Heâs the only one who sees through Odysseusâ contradictions and calls him out when it matters most. Letâs start with the wind bag incident. People love to blame Eurylochus for this, but letâs look at what really happened. Odysseus did tell the crew what was in the bag â he made it clear: âThis bag has the storm inside, we cannot let the treasure rumor fly!â
But by that point, the crew was exhausted, starving, and suspicious of their leader. It didnât help that the Winions planted the idea that the bag contained treasure. Thatâs what drove the crew to act â greed and distrust, born out of their suffering. And despite the fact Eurylochus didnât act alone, he often gets singled out as the scapegoat. But reminder that Odysseus refused to let anyone carry the bag, didnât share its burden, and still kept himself separate from the crew. The men were barely hanging on, and their captainâs secrecy â however well-intentioned â made it easy for paranoia to fester. Was opening the bag a mistake? Absolutely. But it wasnât just Eurylochusâ fault. It was the natural result of a crew pushed to their breaking point, fueled by mistrust. And when everything blew up â literally â who carried the blame? Eurylochus. Because thatâs the role he always ends up in: the fall guy for everyone elseâs failures. Then thereâs Circeâs island â another moment where Eurylochusâ actions get unfairly criticized. When the men are turned into pigs, Eurylochus does something incredibly human: he panics. He doesnât want to rush back into danger, and his instinct is to survive. And thus, he suggests abandoning the men and sailing away with Odysseus, which is a harsh and selfish choice. But when he suggests leaving the men, itâs because the situation with Circe is impossible, and the men are trapped. He doesnât want to abandon them out of cruelty. And letâs not forget that Odysseusâ response is pivotal here. He tells Eurylochus this:
âThereâs no length I wouldnât go if it was you I had to save. I can only hope youâd do the same.â This line changes everything. It plants a seed in Eurylochus that will shape his future actions and, more importantly, his expectations of Odysseus. From that moment on, Eurylochus believes in the idea of loyalty â of never leaving a man behind. He takes Odysseusâ words to heart and learns from him. Thatâs why what happens later, at Scylla, feels like such a betrayal. When Odysseus sacrifices six men to Scylla to save the rest of the crew, Eurylochus is furious, and rightfully so. From Eurylochusâ perspective, this is hypocrisy of the highest order. Odysseus, who taught him to value every life, now coldly sacrifices six of their men without even warning them. He plans their deaths. âIf you want all the power, you must carry all the blame!â This line hits hard, because it exposes the truth about Odysseusâ leadership. Odysseus demands loyalty, respect, and obedience, but he doesnât want to share the weight of his failures. Eurylochusâ anger isnât hypocrisy â itâs justified. He held Odysseus to the same standard Odysseus set for him on Circeâs island, and when Odysseus fell short, Eurylochus refused to stay silent. This moment is a turning point: Eurylochus transforms from the scared, self-serving man on Circeâs island to someone who believes in loyalty and accountability. He learned from Odysseus, only to realize that Odysseus doesnât always live up to his own ideals (hmmmm who does that sound like, oh I wonder).
And to make matters worse â because of course Polites' chaos wasn't enough â we have the cattle situation, which is basically Eurylochus and Odysseus reaching their absolute breaking points. Letâs get one thing clear: what happens with the cattle of Helios? Thatâs not Eurylochus being weak or selfish â itâs Eurylochus being human. By the time they get to the island, the crew is starving, hopeless, and barely hanging on. Odysseusâ guilt, Poseidonâs fury, everything else, it broke everyone, including Eurylochus. So when he sees those cattle, he cracks. Itâs not just about hunger. Itâs about everything thatâs led them there: the death, the constant danger, the years of being dragged across the seas because of Odysseusâ mistakes and gods playing games. This is where the lyrics hit like a gut punch. Look at the difference in lyrics: âI need to get home!â âHow much longer must I go about my life like this, when people die like this?â And that right there? Thatâs the heart of it.
Odysseus is fixated on his goal, on getting home, because thatâs what keeps him going. But Eurylochus? Heâs stuck in the present. Heâs surrounded by death and misery every single day. Politesâ naive optimism is long gone, and whatâs left is the harsh reality of survival. Eurylochus isnât wrong for saying âenough is enough.â Theyâve been starved, cursed, and hunted; the gods have abandoned them. Why wouldnât he break? And Odysseus loses it. âYouâve doomed us all, Eurylochus!â And yeah, itâs easy to say that when youâre the one in charge (since Odysseus did not kill the cattle, he holds none of the blame). But Eurylochus was broken by everything thatâs happened. The way Odysseus says âI need to get homeâ feels so disconnected from everything Eurylochus has been going through. Odysseus still sees home as the end goal, while Eurylochus has already seen how much it costs to get there. And when Eurylochus calls him âCaptainâ instead of âOdyâ at the end, it shows that everything between them has changed. Thereâs no more camaraderie. Thereâs no more brotherhood. He knows what heâs done, but he also knows that Odysseus will never be the same after this. That shift in how he addresses Odysseus shows how much their relationship has deteriorated â and how much Eurylochus has lost. And let us not forget, Odysseus was doomed from the start.
Polites set the curse in motion. Poseidon was already out for blood. The gods were never going to let them off easy, no matter what Eurylochus did. So letâs stop blaming him for one moment of desperation when he was already broken. People always point out Eurylochusâ flaws, but they forget one key thing: heâs the only one who really gets it. Heâs the one who challenges Odysseus when he sees his leader making reckless choices. Heâs the one who has the courage to question Odysseus, even when everyone else is too afraid to speak up. If you ask me, Polites represents the idealistic lie â this idea that kindness and trust will save you in a world ruled by cruelty and chaos. Eurylochus, on the other hand, represents the harsh truth of what it means to survive. Heâs messy, flawed, and emotional, but heâs real. And unlike Polites, who dies early and leaves everyone else to clean up his mess, Eurylochus stays until the bitter end. He bears the burden of Odysseusâ choices, and when he breaks, he does so in a way that makes you feel for him, not judge him.
Eurylochus never gets the credit he deserves because everyoneâs too busy crying over Polites. Polites, who gets to die early and leave Odysseus saddled with guilt. Polites, who delivers one cheesy song about âkindnessâ and then gets bludgeoned in a cave. Iâm supposed to feel bad for him? Sure, his death is sad, but the impact he left on Odysseus and the crew? Utter chaos. Heâs the reason Odysseus showed mercy to Polyphemus, which kicked off Poseidonâs revenge. Without that storm, they couldâve sailed back home after the cyclops incident. No Circe, no gravity killing Elpenor, no Scylla, no Zeus obliterating the last of them with his thunderbolt. Polites may as well have killed the 599 men himself. Eurylochus deserved his place in the story. He earned it, and he deserves more credit than anyone is willing to give him. Polites was just a naive dreamer who died too early, leaving everyone to deal with the mess he made.
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Hi Gina. Happy New Year ! ( hope I won't offend anyone with my message and my poor english).
I was here during BG and I was firmily convinced of Larry and that Louls was not the father. Like many people, I'm back now, after the news about Llam - and I still have very strong falth in Larry (especially after studying the recepts of recent years). What I want to say as a BG witness in real time: It was complete nonsense, full of contradictions and idiocy, fakes and lies. And I (like many people here) had only one thing beating In my head: Louis would never let his child go through this. But now, after years ... the biggest shit Is that Louis would never allow himself to use the kid the way F is being used, to make him a target on social media, to make a movie, to bring him to family, whom he protects, and I really think they are kind of simillar.
That's the fucking shit. It's just killing my mind.
I know, I believe that Louis is a wonderful person who could make mistakes, but he is a very, very good person. And all of this shit together just doesn't work in my head.
Neither of the two theories - Louls Is the father, Louls is not the father - just doesn't work for me. Although there are only two options: he's dad or he isn't dad (LOL) But both options are pointless for me.
So now I'm taking a step back from BG, I think (an you said) that Louls' fatherhood and Larry is olny Indirectly related to each other. I believe that Louis and Harry are finding ways for each other, that they are still strong. And everything else... well. I don't know the truth and just hope we will find out one day.
And YES, I think Louls - is one af the best people in the world with heart of gold. I'm not going to lie, it seems to me that some things need to change, and I hope it happens to both Louis and Harry (and already changing right now).
I think, darling, the very sad part of all of this is we just have to admit that Louis has made some sort of peace with using this child for whatever purpose he needs him for.
Whether itâs to avoid getting into legal trouble, to stop people investigating, to raise his profile⌠I truly have no idea. But itâs very clear something changed a few years ago.
I donât think Louis is a bad person. But he and his family are using this child just as much as the Clarks are (more, if you consider that he has a much bigger audience).
As a parent, myself, I donât understand any of it. Why do they have to drag the actual child into it? Post a photo now and then. Talk about him if you want. But donât put the child into your documentary and donât parade him around on your social media. Weâve never seen Bear. Weâve never seen Khai. Itâs not necessary.
Iâm so revolted by the whole thing.
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Wars got tuned lol
Usually Tune never says anything to Wars during Hyrule warriors (because timeline and everything)
But what if Tune was just thinking that he can win his older bro over without telling him they once were brothers
Because Warriors managed it as well so he would figure it out too he will just be affectionate and shit (Warriors was doing the same so he obviously has to prove that he can do it better)
So when Wars met Tune
Tune was just acting like they already knew each other for years and then proceeded to wipe the floor with Cia
(he overheard time and Warriors talking about her and now that he is in on the conflict he ain't letting her into a 30 mile radius of Wars if he can beat her beforehand)
So Wars pushed him away in the beginning out of anxiety because his only other stalker was Cia and he knows how that turned out (an entire war)
That convinced tune to try harder because he ain't losing to baby time at being the best younger sibling
So Wars had to deal with Tune giving him fairy food (which made wars question how and why he has the exact same measurements of HIS own personal fairy food recipe )
Creepily hovering next to his window with his face pressed against it and awkwardly attempting at making conversation with him (Tune was busy fighting Lana for this spot lol he EARNED the right to protect his brother from her likes)
Break into Wars apartment and then raid the fridge like he lives there yet leaving when asked because he respects the otherâs privacy (considering how much he breaks in he might as well be no matter how often Wars changes the locks )
And asking if he can be friends with him at every single opportunity
Wars was NOT enjoying Tune's company at all (Tune was hearth broken lol)
But because Tune was reliable and unsettlingly ready to DIE for him when necessary and loyal to an undesirable degree (like Lana but more effective)
He would just have to accept that he is friends with a lunatic who has a very bad habit of asking him if he can join him in his fucking bed (Wind wants comfort he really doesnât realize that he sounds like an absolute maniac)
But accepting Tune is a force that canât be stopped gives him a few advantages
For example Lana is afraid of Tune so if he stays close to the maybe serious criminal then she will stay in line
That applies to every single person in Hyrule who has a crush on him
At first he thought that Tune also has a crush on him but Tune quickly corrected him because in his words âthat is fucking disgusting you are so disgusting ew,⌠ewwwwâ
So because it is not a creepy crush he really has no idea what that guy's deal is
Because what else is there that would explain why the other wants to go kill somebody for him just because
But at some point he decides that the pros of having someone crazy that asks very intrusive questions but respects decisions like NOT getting to stay at his place
Are better then the cons of having no crazy friend to scare away undesired other crazy people
So Tune forcefully got to make friendship bracelets with wars
Wars pointing at Tune : sometimes you need a crazy friend to scare away other crazy people
Tune not explaining shit to him : We are friends finally :3
Wars : how the fuck are you still in my apartment !?,â,!? I changed the locks twenty times already!
Tune : ;) friendship
During linked universe Warriors had the biggest realization of history because why the fuck was Wind so bad at keeping their relationship from the future (past..itâs complicated) a secret
He obviously was much much better at it (.. he isnât Wind just has no sense of boundaries and doesnât care if a random guy is offering him a scarf in his sadness so warriors is correct in his books)
Time is disappointing in every single aspect of their life but learned from his own adventures that telling those idiots that they are idiots doesnât diminish their idiocy
#linked universe#lu wind#lu time#lu warriors#lu four#lu legend#lu sky#lu wild#lu hyrule#lu twilight#the wind waker is just a magic wand and wind can do whatever with it#wind is baby#but#wars is judging him tune is disappointed#hw tune#lu mask#lu tune#tune came across as a very insane lunatic#wind warships his role model#lu wars#does NOT want to be worshipped#time is very disappointed in everything#hyrule warriors#hyrule warriors characters#lana and cia#are afraid by the fact that someone out crazied them#wind doesnât understand that you canât just be affectionate to someone with apparently no relationship prior#wars does not understand it either#wind waker#wind has the preservation skills of a wet paper bag sitting in the rain
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BEYOND THE STORM ,
a sentence starter prompts list comprised of quotes from the novel a sky beyond the storm by sabaa tahir. please be advised that this list may involve topics including, but not limited to, murder, death, and violence. change verbiage as needed.
we are, all of us, just visitors in each otherâs lives. you will forget my visit soon enough.
emotion is the enemy. love, hate, joy, fear. all are forbidden.
you will not win. i do not care what it takes, nor how long. i will defeat you.
death is not good, nor evil. there is no right or wrong with death. death is death.
murder is not the answer to everything.
worrying wonât help, but talking about it might.
defeat in your mind is defeat on the battlefield.
men are a terrible waste of air.
the worldâs not only full of bad things, you know.
you of all people understand what it means to have the love of your life turned into someone else.
donât let me fall, you idiot. unless you want to carry my carcass the next hundred miles.
it is torment to love someone hopelessly, with no chance of requital. there is no salve for it, no cure, no comfort.
your heart is the only thing that can be trusted.
i canât change your mind, can i?
for me, [name], desire is not simple. it is not shelter. it is not warmth. it is a fire that offers no light, only heat, ruinous and consuming. the longer you deny it, the hotter it burns. you forget shelter. you forget warmth. there is only that which you want and cannot have, and the desolation that follows.
your wishes do not matter much to me.
you will not touch me. you will not even think about taking me anywhere without my leave.
may death claim me first.
when you look at me, what do you see?
youâre brave and wise. you just have to be patient too.
i am sworn to protect you.
i need you to disappear. to never leave. i need to have never met you or felt you. you. you. you. i need you.
why do you stand there like a moonstruck doe? if they catch you, they will kill you.
can a worm hurt a wolf, or an ant kill an eagle? no matter how badly you want me to die, i cannot.
i want to fight. i want a battle that isnât in my head.
do you even remember those youâve killed? or are there so many that their faces fade together?
greetings, death. you come to claim me at last.
i could not live with myself if more suffer because of me. stay away. leave me in peace.
there is no safe place for me in this world. not unless i create it for myself.
one day, youâll have to reckon with all the things you try to hide from yourself. the longer you wait, the more it will hurt.
forgive me. laughing hurts less than facing what happened.
when i thought i was going to die, i thought about you.
there is no honor in death by idiocy.Â
for the living, death is the only guarantee. it cannot be defeated.
war is your past. war is your present. war is your future.
a commander who has tasted the bitter fruit of war is the only one worthy of waging it, for they understand the cost.
i have missed you, my love.
get away from me. i will tell you nothing.
we are doomed, you and i, to offer more love than we will ever be given.
youâre a man of few words, so donât waste the ones you do utter on things i already know.
this is my city and as long as i have breath left in my body, i will fight for it.
do not give me some sad story about love and loss and your broken heart.
you and i are more alike than you know, and that is not a compliment.
youâre in a position of great power. itâs a lonely place to be. most leaders spend their lives using others and being used. love isnât just a luxury for you. itâs a rarity. itâs a gift. donât throw it away.
you are lucky enough to love someone who loves you back. they are alive and breathing and in the same vicinity as you. by the gods, do something about it. for however long you have, for whatever time you get. because if you donât, i swear that youâll regret it. youâll regret it for all your years.
mangoes are not as sweet if you are not sharing them with someone you love.
i didnât care about them. not like i care about you.
iâd tear apart the world if anything happened to you.
you cannot make me stop loving you. not when i know that somewhere in there, you feel the same.
do you not understand why? i do this because I love you.
itâs so good to hear you laugh. you donât laugh enough.
memory will make you weak and emotion will not serve you well.
you are broken, but it is the broken things that are the sharpest. the deadliest. it is the broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated.
i have seen what happens to those i love.
can i kick him? iâm going to kick him.
i still loved them. i shouldnât have, but i did.
every time i touch you, i fall deeper into a place i know i will not be able to emerge from, should I lose you.
my soul aches with all that I should do. it weighs on me like a mountain, and i cannot bear it.
all my love goes with you.
i do not know if i will be able to do what must be done.
there are some things that do not die no matter how many blades we put into them.
love is why i still live.
come to me in the darkest hour of the night when the stars still sleep.
still flirting at inappropriate times, i see.
how many have died because of a kingâs greed or a commanderâs pride?Â
how much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain back?
how does one move past such huge sins?
sometimes, it is better to die than to live as a monster.
thereâs no one iâd rather have at my back.
love can be more powerful in a battle than planning or strategy. love keeps us fighting. love drives us to survive.
you donât get to decide if you deserve my love or not. i decide that. you are worthy of my love.
your mistakes only define the rest of your life if you let them. donât let them.
i want a life with you. adventures. meals. late nights in front of fires. a thousand rainy walks. you talking me out of my clothing in inappropriate places. i want more.
you cannot go first. i could not make sense of the world if you did.
there is not a single person alive who i trust more than you to do what must be done today.
all that i do is driven by love. love of all that was taken from us. love of what is left.
how do i go on when iâve wrought such devastation? when all i have to give is death?
perhaps you and i are doomed to always be hurt. what we do with that hurt is our choice.Â
how do we trust our happiness? how do we go on if we donât know if it will be taken away?
i wish i could live a thousand lives so i could fall in love with you a thousand times.
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drunk | pierro x male!reader
warnings | strong language
"FUCK ALL OF YOU!"
Y/n slurred his words as he clung to the doorframe of the front entrance of the bar. His fatui uniform was unbuttoned and he had long lost his shoes when he and his fellow comrades were bar hopping.
He currently had a half emptied bottle of the strongest alcohol in all of Snezhnaya in one hand while his other, as mentioned previously, was clinging to the already loose frame.
His comrades merely laughed at his outburst though.
Fuck them all? Please, he was just angry over what they were saying. He'll forget by the morning.
"Come on, you know we were joking Y/n! Come back and knock back a few more drinks with us!"
"No! Go stub your pinky toes on coffee tables!"
Y/n turned then as he let go of the door frame and stumbled his way through the door. His hands now hugging the bottle closely to himself.
"Ah, shit. We better go after him-"
Though his comrades were effectively cut off by the introductions of more glasses of alcohol and pretty ladies serving them.
A drunken Y/n stumbling along the sidewalks at the dead of night in the snow was long forgotten about.
"Those complete assholes," y/n muttered. His vision was blurred, his mind wasn't working right, and he was offly drunk. Anything could go wrong in this situation. He could pass out and die in the snow. He could get robbed and possibly killed. He could-
"What. Are. You. Doing. L/n."
Sniffling, y/n blearily looked up. His eyes scanning the face of his superior officer, Pierro. Also known as the Jester, the first of the fatui harbingers.
"Walking," he said with a hiccup.
Pierro scanned over the bottle he clung to and gritted his teeth. He had no time to deal with idiocy, but he also didn't need to lose on of his best soldiers to a drunken stupor.
"Follow me."
Y/n didn't need to be told twice despite being drunk. Then again, many people told him that he was always compliant with a bottle in hand.
.
.
.
"Where are we," he muttered. His eyes gazing around a rather warm room. A fire was lit. And candles illuminated the darkness. Y/n could fall asleep in here, if he was being honest.
"My personal quarters," the Jester answered simply.
Speaking of the Jester, he had harshly grabbed Y/n's arm and sat him roughly on the couch while also yanking the bottle out of his hands. Y/n didn't let out any protests as he was still focused on analyzing the room. Pierro was impressed that the soldier before him still had a state of mind to actually look everything over considering the fact that he stunk if booze.
"Now."
Y/n was immediately drawn to Pierro's voice.
"You aren't one for drinking. Care to explain your reckless behavior? Or am I going to have to wait for an explanation till the morning?"
"No .. I can explain," y/n stuttered a bit as he scratched the back of his head, "one of my friends had a promotion yesterday, so we decided to celebrate tonight. I'm not one for drinking, but .. as the night went on and the conversations got too personal and angering, well, I didn't want to think anymore."
He tried to summarize the events as best as possible while slightly hoping Pierro wouldn't pry anymore.
Pierro, on the other hand, pried some more.
"The topics you didn't want to think about. What were they?"
Y/n sighed as he leaned forward, his elbows resting on his knees as his eyes focused on the floor.
"My friends are so mean," he slurred, "they know I like you, but they keep telling me I have no chance and that the Tsaritsa is the only one you think about," he hiccups a bit and continued, "not to mention I'm a man. If only I was a girl. A pretty one. Maybe you would look at me then."
Y/n fell back into the couch, his eyes drooping a little as he yawned.
"But .. I know where my place is. Its on the battlefield. With a weapon in hand. There's no time to think about life as a girl and how it would be being by your side," he muttered as he fell gently onto his side. The cushions encasing him in warmth as he began to set himself into a deep sleep.
"But at least .. I can fight with you .. every so often," y/n said trailing off. His breath evening out as sleep took over.
Pierro, on the other hand, watched y/n for a moment before getting up and walking over to him. His hand lightly pressing against Y/n's forehead and pushing his hair out of his face.
"I truly do hate it when you're drunk."
#genshin impact#genshin#pierro x you#genshin pierro#pierro x reader#pierro genshin impact#pierro x male reader#genshin x you#genshin x reader
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â âIN THE WATER.â
SHIP: bakugo x fem reader
DESCRIPTION: one year unexpectedly turned into two, you start to think all hope is lost in the apocalypse. spoiler warning: the real danger in the zombie apocalypse isn't the dead, it's the living.
TW: short series, apocalypse au, rawr rawr zombies & mild gore, descriptions of a panic attack, friends to lovers, main character injury.
ăăI. WHO ARE YOU?
âplease let there be something other than canned beans.â
you stood watch in front while he was looking around the back aisles. you two were in search of food, but everything else has been wiped out already. you werenât excited about moving onto the next town.
it was cold out, you bury your face in the scarf around your neck when a shiver runs down your spine. occasionally you would see a few undead stumble towards you, empty eyes and its jaw hanging loose. you always took care of them quickly, you just have to aim for the head. âkatsuki.â
itâs been years since everything turned to shit. when the bitten were who you feared and everyone you knew was gone. sacrifice or idiocy, it didnât matter. but sometimes, youâll catch a glimpse of the survivors âthey always traveled in groups and you wanted to avoid them at all costs.
you had to remind yourself what kind of people would be left over, what morals they have.
the screams met deaf ears when katsuki saved you from this other man, grabbing his neck and throwing his body on the ground, the eyes of horror before getting a shot to the head. you shift slowly, shards of glass dig into your hands as he comes closer.
âyou killed them.â you hated the way your voice trembles. blood leaks out of the holes in their heads, your throat tightens and aches like youâre about to cry.
it was like static noise on television, the buzz of city life only a memory in the back of your mind. now all you hear was the groaning of the undead, and the screams of those who werenât resourceful enough.
your small moment of peace doesn't last long, broken by the slide of the glass door behind you and a pair of footsteps. you don't need to look over your shoulder to know who it is. âthereâs nothing but dog food. some fucks must have found our stash.â
you canât hide the disappointment on your face and it makes katsuki roll his eyes, pushing up the safety lever on the beretta 92 before sliding it back into the band around his waist. âi see more revenants coming this way, letâs go.â
katsuki holds out a hand and you take it.
the man took a glance at your arms and legs and you knew what youâd see from the excruciating agony. âyeah, should i have left you for dead?â he kicks your leg with his shoe, âmaybe iâll shoot you anyway, just in case.â
in case you were bitten? you were bleeding too much for it to be a bite.
ânoâ of course not!â
you hold your breath, bruised cheeks burning and you felt dizzy when he raised the pistol again, unblinking and focused. âstop yelling, jackass.â you canât even look at him directly.
youâre shaking and everything hurts, and the blood everywhere makes you so scared, the gun pointed at you makes you so scared. it was the ease with which he saved your life, the complete lack of hesitation.
âkeep zoning out and youâll get lost again.â
âthat was one time.â you take a deep breath, the smell of wet grass doing little to calm your nerves about being in the open like this. âhow much further?â
âjust a few miles.â katsuki says quietly, not a hint of hostility in his voice for the first time, and you nod, fighting to get your breathing under control. you wished, more than anything, that you had your anxiety medication.
âhey, relax. before you make yourself pass out,â
it took a long time to gain his trust, having to pack up the bedding while he took care of the rest before you two made it to the city, in case you made a run for it with days worth of food. the hours and hours on your feet and the whining while this man told you to shut up, struggling through a harsh winter.
but he was true to his word.
âit looks abandoned.â you look up at the house with boarded up windows and a wooden fence, it was too quiet. âwanna do it?â the sky was pretty and clear, finally warming up but that meant the undead would venture out again, too. katsuki sighs, âwe canât be too sure, be careful.â
you duck behind the car halfway up the driveway and creep up the stairs of the front porch.
the slits between the boards give you a limited view inside, seeing only the first room but there was a gate leading to the backyard, though it was chained up. katsuki kept watch while you tried the knob. it was locked, of course.
you share a glance and he held his gun at the ready with a nod. pulling out the crowbar from your backpack, you pry at the door as quietly as possible, the sound of wood splintering. it took a few tries but you finally eased the door open.
you two searched the house, both floors came up empty besides a few dead animals. there were four bedrooms, one belonging to a young girl and you wondered about the kind of family who once lived here.
smudged pencil marks on the door frame, glittery princess stickers peeling off the yellow walls. you find out the girlâs name and it didnât make you feel any better.
the sun was setting so you two settled in for the night, putting your sleeping bags down in the living room and lighting a small candle. the house was empty and wasnât completely falling apart. âhere, take it.â
he was giving up his share. you offer half of the jerky and he reluctantly takes it, the grumble of his stomach enough to shut his mouth.
âthanks.â
for miles all that could be heard was the sound of running water and kicking a stone on the road, that random tune that got stuck in your head last night.
the sun was high in the sky and it reminded you that youâd have to meet with katsuki at noon. you were the one who suggested the split up to cover more ground even if he was reluctant.
âis it too early for lunch?â you asked no one, digging through your bag for the last of the jam and bread you packed before leaving home. things were getting harder every day, and you two were getting more and more frustrated when you came back empty handed.
you take a bite out of the bread and savor the blueberry jam, rich and sweet. katsuki would always tell you to make it last, maybe youâll save him half.
you finally made it back to the market. those things always wandered about, and the place was too big to just walk inside hoping for the best.
so you knock your crowbar against the tile floor to call out any more undead but there was only silence. you start to go through the mess. sunflower seeds, some dented cans of tuna and fried apples, it must have been luck.
you were looking at the arrangement of dead flowers and think about taking a magazine with a cover that caught your eye, but then you heard a scream.
thereâs gunshots and names thrown around as you rush over to see the commotion. you quickly see more undead thanks to all the noise, hoping katsuki wouldnât come this way, because you could be stuck here for a while.
two kids were cornered just across the street, it used to be a barber shop, those disgusting things getting closer and closer. leave them or give into the last bit of humanity you had. âhey, this way!â
you call out to them from the other side, it was a little girl standing in front of the boy, who you assume was her brother. she cried in frustration when the gun clicked each time she pulled the trigger. revenants are fast, but theyâre clumsy, so you could be faster.
you stab two in the head without breaking a sweat, they fall to the ground with a hollow thump. you make a run for it since more were drawn by the noise. âcome on!â
they caught up quickly, the scraping of that girlâs shoes against the cement makes you want to cover your ears. âkatsuma!â you hear from behind, turning to see her pick him up from the ground. he tripped.
âhurry!â you might have pushed their backs too hard if the squeak that left the boyâs mouth was any tell, struggling to keep up with their small legs. then you notice the alley, taking a sharp turn and yanking their arms to pick them up.
suddenly you were inside a heavy metal door, it was dark and they whisper as you slide down the handle and thereâs a click.
âquiet,â you shush them, using your own body to shield them if worst turns to worst. you feel the boy bury his face in your shirt, grossed out by tears and snot, and the little girl squeezed your hand, so tight it felt like itâd bruise.
you were horribly out of breath, maybe even scared. but the undead finally passed âwaiting a few minutes wouldnât hurt. you listen as the groans and growls get far enough, taking a deep inhale and slowly moving away from the cool surface.
it was alright.
âweâre safe now.â but you can't even turn back before there is something cold on the back of your head. this time she holds the gun with confidence, fingers on the trigger.
âput your hands up and close your eyes.â you feel your blood boil, the tone of this girlâs voice not sitting right but maybe that was the point. âdonât do anything dumb.. take the bag.â
you noticed the boy, katsuma, had dried the tears from his face and started to walk over while you slowly took off your backpack, which he took with shaky hands. âso i just saved you and now youâre robbing me?â
he must have been surprised it felt so heavy.
the girl snatches it from him. âwe were fine, didnât ask for your help.â sure seemed like it. you turn your head and watch her digging around in your backpack and you know katsuki will kill you.
âweâll just take this, thanks. keep your eyes closed and count to fifty before you go.â she said, and for some reason you did.
the silence after their small footsteps fade out, even with your keen ear. you finally found katsuki waiting for you anxiously outside of the market.
âi heard the gunshots. what happened?â he was quick to ask and you were never one to hold back from him. too bad he was as upset as you expected. ââbut youâre alright?â
the question made your smile get bigger, and you feign a small limp. âmm, i twisted my ankle so bad.â katsuki didnât look impressed. âanyway.. katsuki, they could have been with a group, donât you think? maybe they got separated.â
you made it home before dark. when you finally are able to shake off the feeling of being watched, you collapse on a chair in the dining room, the legs scraping against the floor loudly. katsuki drops his bag on the table and you make grabby hands, âso, whatâs for dinner?â
âbeans. and more beans.â
the look you give him makes katsuki glare back, opening the lid of one can. âdonât complain! next time, donât let some kid take our shit.â
you snatch a can of beans and katsuki rolls his eyes, spoon flinging a bean at you from across the table. âdidnât your mom ever tell you not to play with your food?â but katsuki only gives a half smile, and it makes dimples dig into his cheeks. you swear you havenât seen him smile before, or maybe you never noticed.
you two eat in silence and start to get ready for bed, doing one last house check and finally putting out the light. you stayed up a little longer though, wrapped in a small matted blanket as those kids have yet to leave your mind.
glancing out the window, stars bright in the unpolluted sky, you hoped they had a safe place to sleep tonight. you sigh and finally close your eyes, not that it makes a difference in the dark.
#bakugou x reader#bakugou katsuki x reader#mha x reader#bakugou x you#apocalypse au#bakugou fic#mha x you#bakugou angst#mha x y/n#my writing
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Frayed - Part 2
Summary: There are so many new things happening in your life that the only two things you can count on are your boyfriend, Mace, and that your life is almost always in danger.Â
A/N: Reader is female. No physical descriptors used.
Word Count: ~1.2k
Warnings: Implied death and violence. Please let me know if I missed any!
Part 1 -- Part 3
Series Masterlist
The heat wave hit hard and it affected your work almost as much as Mace's. The free clinic received an influx of people suffering heat sickness and it was all hands on deck. Your job priorities quickly changed to focusing on the machines that helped patients with temperature regulation and hydration.
You also found yourself helping out with some of the kids of patients. They were often scared about what was going on and rarely got answers. You and one of the nurses would provide or fix up toys to help soothe them a bit. You did enjoy showing the kids how you were fixing their electronic toys. Some of them would hold your arm tight as you showed them what you were doing. It broke your heart but there were a lot of people needing help and you had to do your part.
By the end of your shift, you're exhausted physically, emotionally and mentally. You just need to get home and collapse.
Mace's day hasn't been any better than yours. The heat wave was putting a lot of pressure on the power grid and a lot of residents were feeling it. There were a number of power blinks throughout the day, throwing off everyone's air conditioners, sometimes even circuit breakers. Some of the residents, whether out of desperation, idiocy, or anger, tried fixing things themselves, only making them worse.
He hated that he had to text you that he wouldn't be able to pick you up. The work was keeping all of his employees busy. When you read the text, you're disappointed. You didn't want to walk in the heat and humidity at all. But you recognize his work as important. Thinking about all the people that visited the clinic and how Mace is doing his part to keep more people from having to go.
You decide you're going to go ahead and treat yourself to some ice cream at one of the restaurants along the way. You've worked hard and you deserve a treat, dammit. The ice cream parlor is surprisingly, but thankfully, pretty empty. Just you, a few customers and some teens working behind the counter. The ice cream and quiet atmosphere really help you to feel better. You figure Mace could use some cheering up of some kind as well so you decide to send him a joke.
âAre you made of copper and tellurium? Because you're CuTe.â It's a dumb joke, but hopefully it'll help him smile.
As you wait for his reply, someone sits across from you. You try not to gape at the scars on his face. He's big and tall with dark hair and one blue eye. The other is white, likely a result from whatever scarred him so horribly. You set your hand on your purse where your taser is.
âYour testimony led to a friend of mine getting killed,â he says with an accusatory tone. âTell me who killed him and your safety is guaranteed. You're just a pawn, after all.â
âNo one got killed because of my testimony,â you state. You really don't know what he's talking about. Your testimony saved lives. Mace, Scott, Teach, none of them said anything about problems or killings while you were on the stand.
He leans forward and your hand goes into your purse, gripping your taser. âI suppose they wouldn't have told you,â he sighs. âJust tell me a name, someone who kept you safe, and I'll leave you be.â
âI was protected by the police, witness protection. Standard stuff,â you partially lie. It was Scott and his team at first. They didn't need The Family's help until it was discovered there was a mole.
He turns his head to the side a little, giving you a very good look at that bad eye. âI suggest you think over your loyalties. When you're ready to tell me something, come back here.â
He gets up and leaves and you finally let yourself breathe. It's all you really can do.
You know you're being watched. If you text or call Mace, he'll run over to get you but that would put him in danger. Possibly more than just him. You decide to text Teach. A call would be overheard and you want to keep this as contained as possible.
Well, what you really wanted was to cry and run home but the logical part of your brain was being put in charge. It's part and parcel with being employed by The Family. And that's what you had chosen all those months ago after the trial.
Message Teach, wait for instructions. You can do this.
Mace practically pounded the door to the apartment. Curtis had called and told him what happened and that you were being kept safe at their place. The second there'd been a lull in work orders he dropped everything to get to you.
As soon as Teach opened the door he pushed past her and grabbed you while you were getting up off the couch. He held you tight and you finally let yourself cry knowing you and Mace were safe.
âWhy didn't you call me,â he gently chastises you.
âBecause you'd be spotted and they'd know you were in on everything and then you'd be in danger and I didn't want to risk that.â
He chuckles, âeven when you're scared you're thinking logically. I love that about you.â The hug is interrupted by Curtis giving a small cough. Mace turns to Teach, âsorry about rushing past you.â
âIt's okay,â she assures. âI very much understand. And so does Curtis.â Teach smirks at Curtis as his glare towards Mace lessens with the accepted apology.
You and Mace sit down on the couch as Teach and Curtis pull up chairs.
Curtis starts, âfrom the description DC's given us, we know the man who approached her is August Walker. He was a lackey for Kent but must've recently had his leash loosened.â
âMakes sense,â Mace replies. âKent's too busy working on his reputation and lawsuits to keep hold of everyone who works for him.â
âThere's still something I need to know,â you speak up. âWalker said someone was killed because of my testimony?â Curtis, Mace and Teach exchange looks. Their silence speaks volumes and you filled with rage and horror. âWhat the hell? Why didn't you tell me?!â You pull yourself away from Mace and start pacing the living room.
âThe less you knew about it, the less culpable you were,â Teach says as gently as she can.
âNo,â you argue, âthe less I know, the more open I am to surprise, the less capable I am!â You turn to Mace. âYou knew about this, too, didn't you?â
âYes,â he admits quietly.
âMy testimony was supposed to help people, not get them killed!â
âIf it helps,â Curtis cuts in, âthe man who was killed was a bad man.â
âHow do you know?â
âHe was an assassin from Wilford & Gilliam. He and his brother killed my brother.â Teach gently rubs his hand in an attempt to comfort him. This isn't information he shares with just anyone.
You sniffle, still angry. Still scared. Still overwhelmed. You look at Mace, âI...I can understand why you didn't tell me any of this. But I'm going to be mad at you for some time.â Mace nods in agreement. You turn to Teach and Curtis, âso what do we do now?â
Part 1 -- Part 3
Series Masterlist
Tagging everyone who had asked to be tagged in Sparks Fly. Please let me know if you'd like to be added or removed from the list.
@alicedopey; @chibijusstuff; @delicatebarness; @fluxxdog; @icefrozendeadlyqueen; @jamneuromain; @jaqui-has-a-conspiracy-theory; @rebekahdawkins; @ronearoundblindly; @texmexdarling
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One quote from Enid Sinclair per every chapter of Kooky Spooky in which she has been present.
(Note: She is present in Ch.6 & 7 but in a total wolf out, so she has no dialogue).
"Yeah, yeah... relax. The knife-throwing contest is still on. I already made it clear to Wednesday that she could only use volunteers as living targets. Yoko has offered." (Chapter 1)
"I think she's mine and Wednesday's daughter, but not from around here." (Chapter 2)
"Sigh... as tempting as it is I'd ask you both not to maim her just because of her bad habit of spouting occasional idiocy." (Chapter 3)
"They've captured our Friday. Let's go find her and then you'll teach me what's the most painful way to rip off the head of the person responsible." (Chapter 4)
"Sorry, I just⌠I don't feel like wasting time with this ceremony right now..." (Chapter 5)
"OMG! Why do I always forget this now when I return to my human form!!??" (Chapter 8)
"Holy shit, I'm a hunk." (Chapter 10)
"Aaaw, I think it's very cute. I'm sure deep down your Bruno appreciated this kind of attention." (Chapter 11)
"Are you very fond of this nightgown?" (Chapter 12)
"And I smell people, and pollution, lots of pollution." (Chapter 13)
"Gosh, you're a year older than us now. This is disconcerting." (Chapter 14)
"Wednesday, don't talk about your parents as if they were rabbits." (Chapter 15)
"I'm sorry... I..." (Chapter 16)
"You threw me against a building and caused me to terrify a family! That's very rude!" (Chapter 17)
"At least you're not a racist nutcase who would use her personal Hyde to gather bits of human remains for resurrection rituals." (Chapter 18)
"Your sister told us a little about you when we met her. Well, she told us that you liked to be thrown with catapults..." (Chapter 19)
"I'm not going to fight you! We don't have the time!" (Chapter 20)
"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" (Chapter 21)
"Uh, I should say something, but just for calling Tyler a dime-store Hyde I'll let you have a pass." (Chapter 22)
"Wednesday and I are keeping our names because our dimension was the one originally visited by the others... Pure convenience but it was all by mutual agreement between all parties." (Chapter 23)
"What happened to my local counterpart?" (Chapter 24)
"God, it's a little trippy to think of myself as dead." (Chapter 25)
"Principal Weems! Or maybe I should say director... uh... because of the... Yeah, I'd better shut up." (Chapter 26)
"Uh... yeah, it's something I usually do, Wednesday. You used to love to complain about it." (Chapter 27)
"For your own sake, you'd better..." (Chapter 28)
"They will have no hesitation in killing any of you." (Chapter 29)
"You're going...to pay...for..." (Chapter 30)
"Oh... erm... apology accepted my... err... my lord?" (Chapter 33)
"But wait a minute, if they're a confederation of packs how come there's a princess?" (Chapter 34)
"I'm sorry. There's nothing wrong with your last name. It's just that... well, in my reality a counterpart of you is one of my best friends." (Chapter 35)
"Ok, the doppelgänger thing I can get, but what's with the homunculus?" (Chapter 36)
"And now... now I get this story that I'm some kind of... multiversal warrior who reincarnates, like a cheap copy of Avatar: The Last Airbender!?" (Chapter 37)
"Ah, ah. I already know the electricity trick." (Chapter 38)
"We're going to breach The Bright One's defenses. And we won't use magic to do it. What we need is science. Mad science." (Chapter 39)
"What do you say about finding a way to inter-dimensionally travel to a magically sealed universe to rescue Wednesday and Friday and deal with an army of supernatural monsters?" (Chapter 40)
"Six months, my love. It has taken me six months to be able to come back to you." (Chapter 41)
"It's just that if you leave me stranded in another universe I have a bad habit of trying to find my way back." (Chapter 42)
"Oops, someone's a wee bit cranky." (Chapter 43)
"It's just that⌠Look at her! We're not even talking about being just a MILF anymore. I'm going to be totes a GILF, for real." (Chapter 44)
âMy name⌠is⌠Enid Addams.â (Chapter 46)
"Fuck, Weds, getting stabbed by a saber shouldn't feel so good!" (Chapter 47)
"Who are we? Right now and right here, we are the Addams family." (Chapter 48)
"Well...I mean...the truth is...erm...Ireallylikeyourhairandyourloosehairdoesthingstome." (Chapter 49)
"Six months, Weds. I've been six months away from you. The word insatiable doesn't even come close to describing how I feel.â (Chapter 50)
âYou know, if you keep calling them that they're going to end up being born with horns and wings.â (Epilogue)
#enid sinclair#wednesday addams#wenclair#wenclair fic#wenclair fanfic#wednesday netflix#wednesday#the addams family#wenid#quotes#quote#ao3 link#archive of our own#fanfiction#kooky spooky
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House of the Dragon "peace arc" was generally cringe though with a bright spot at the core. Rhaenys came off the worst for it; sitting in a council meeting getting news that the enemy has marched an army, taken two of their castles, and sacked a city and calling those wanting to respond to that warmongering idiots is an amateur hour moment. It isn't like Rhaenyra was heading to King's Landing to surrender or anything, she wanted a negotiated peace. To get that, you need a position of strength - otherwise your enemy is less likely to make peace with you, as the cost of killing you is so low. "War begets war" is an aphorism, not an iron law; this cowardice in the name of conflict avoidance serves neither peace nor their war. Smack their advancing army with a squad of dragons and show them "hey, this is what More War is gonna bring - let's give peace a chance hm?" You only make peace with your enemies, after all, reminding them of that fact is not the barrier to peace naive instinct thinks it is. And then you also aren't telling your own vassals you are going to ditch them in the face of fire, bonus!
The way she seems haughtily superior to the "squabblings of men" while making a fool or herself is a real directorial fail, it is almost accidentally sexist - poor wimmins can't understand Clausewitz. Though I gotta give the actress Eve Best some unintentional credit:
I guess she fucking nailed it.
While I am bashing Rhaenys, the framing of the Vhagar/Meraxes fight is very strange - Rhaenys has clearly won the battle, because Sunfyre is pretty much dead, and you would likely bet Aegon with him, and the way it is shot strongly suggests Rhaenys successfully retreated while Aemond is not at all in pursuit. The whole battle was clearly a trap that she had just dodged. Then she doubles back anyway against a much stronger foe and loses while dealing no apparent damage. Why do that dumb thing? It's both way too risky and also strategically foolish - Meleys as the Black's strongest dragon is highly needed as a deterrent force. It would be more reasonable if Rhaenys was a proud warrior type, proud warriors do that kind of thing ("I can't abandon Rook's Rest!"), but she was defined by her caution up until she chose suicide-by-dracarys.
In the books she is ambushed by a cooperative Aegon/Aemond and dies fighting, easy peasy. The logic is sound, it is a weird change to make.
Speaking of bad tactics, why only send one dragon? If the other dragons were busy that would be one thing, but they mainly aren't, they are doing nothing of note at the time, you have like 4 of them. In the book Rhaenyra is being a bad leader, too grief-stricken or cowardly to go herself, and too possessive of her sons to let them fight; it is shown as a mistake. In this show it is shown as a moment of Rhaenys's courage; she is like "I will go your grace" and everyone is like "oooh" and the question of why this is a solo mission just gets swept aside. Again, you know Vhagar is stronger than you, teamwork is the only real chance you have, while having more dragons is your primary advantage. The Blacks can and should make mistakes, but it has to be framed as mistakes by the show.
This is of course downstream of the "make Rhaenyra the Good Guy" decision; but beyond the Rhaenys idiocy I think this worked great for her here. She didn't hesitate to help her allies; the moment she returned from her failed peace mission, she got right to work. Trying to make peace was idealistic but people are sometimes. And meanwhile I continue to support the Aegon's Dream choice - it really does give her this solid motivation beyond power for her commitment to her inheritance. It is framed really well - like she herself only half believes the prophecy. She is choosing to believe it because she is stuck now and needs moral certainty for the choices she is going to make. That is a very human thing to do, and insightful to essentially admit her own biases out the gate. It makes her likeable without giving her a moral pass for anything.
I do think the show has tipped a bit too far into the "greens = bad guys" camp in comparison though. I would have fixed that by making Rhaenyra more directly complicit in past crimes like killing those who called her children bastards, show she is too committed to this whole "law & prophecy above all" bit, and that the Greens have some legitimate grievances against her. But we may see her get corrupted by the war yet; hopefully they have the courage when it matters most.
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38 Character A pressing Character B against the wall and kissing them senseless
âRavio, Iâm going to go help them!â
âLike the three bitches, you are, you are in no shape to help anybody!â Ravio shouted at the stubborn hero. Blessed be the rest of the chain were off fighting a local monster infestation, while Link-Legend had been left at his own house to recover from some broken ribs.
Sadly, his Link was never one to take orders. Or follow common sense. Or really just make good decisions generally.
âThatâs all I can be for them, someone who keeps going fighting for them!â Link yelled at him, still pulling his gear together, getting one Pegasus Boot on only after at least three tries working through pain.
âYouâre more than someone who can throw their life away for others!â Ravio screamed at his idiocy.
âYouâre wrong! Thatâs all I am, I go on adventure one after another to help other people, thatâs what I do, help people who need me!â Link yelled after getting the second boot on, grabbing his sword. By the three he hasnât even got his magic tunic on straight. He was storming out and Ravio was keeping with him.
âYouâre wrong, theyâre not the ones that need you! Link! I need you! Please, donât throw your life away!â Ravio pleaded.
âYou donât need me, the house is yours if I die, youâll be fine without me. You can finally sell my shit!â Link growled, pulling the door open to run off.
Ravio slammed the door shut, spun Link around and pushed him into the door, and pressed his lips to Linkâs. It was a kiss of desperation, deep love and caring, of not wanting to see Link run to his doom, and wanting him to stay with him, or for him. It was not a great kiss if Ravio is being honest. Too much force, hardly their first but perhaps the most desperate theyâve had. Ravio pulled away, Link getting that misty-eyed look.
âYou idiot. I donât live here because itâs a free house. I live here because itâs our home. Without you, it wouldnât be a home anymore, just four walls with too few memories.â Ravio whispered, leaning his head into Linkâs neck, just wanting to feel that heâs still there.
âRav, I-â
âI donât care about the others, right now. They arenât hurt, and they can face some monsters without you, for once. Just⌠stay. Rest. Goddesses know youâve earned some. Theyâll be back, we can wrap up any unjurues, you can ink each otherâs wraps, just stay.â
Link pulled his face up to kiss him again. He took a moment to speak after they separated again. Ravio loves being the one that can kiss Link senseless.
âOkay, Rav. Iâll leave it to them.â He acquiesced, putting his sword scabbard in the umbrella stand. Ravio felt his face brighten up.
âGood. Letâs get you back to bed.â
âOh, RavâŚâ oh heâs gonna kill this man.
âShut up.â
#ravioli#mutuals beloved#that turned slightly angstier than I was aiming for#i think it turned out pretty good
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City of Bones: A Summary
I made this shitty stage play of City of Bones (book one of The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare) for giggles. It's full of expository statements and idiocy but I think it's funny. And it's still better than the books.
Spoilers for City of Bones. Obviously.
EXT. PANDEMONIUM CLUB
CLARY:Â
Come on, Simon, letâs use our fake IDs to get into a club called Pandemonium. This couldnât possibly go wrongâ Woah! Who is that hot blond guy?
SIMON:Â
What hot blond guy?
CLARY:Â
Are you gaslighting me?
SIMON:Â
About what?
THEY STARE AT EACH OTHER SUSPICIOUSLY.
JACE:Â
You can see me?
CLARY:Â
Duh. Quirky Girl Sarcasm Intensifies. HAIR FLIP
JACE:Â
Subtly Worried Brooding Silence
SIMON:Â
Letâs go, Clary. I donât like you hallucinating hot guys. Heâs probably not even a natural blond.
INT. PANDEMONIUM CLUB
CLARY AND SIMON ARE DANCING.
CLARY:
Dance Dance Dance.
CLARY POINTS DOWNSTAGE RIGHT AND STOPS DANCING.
CLARY:Â
The hot blond guy and another guy are following that blue-haired kid and the girl into the storeroom. And he has a knife! I should follow them. Go get help, Simon.
SIMON:Â
I donât know whatâs happening but Iâm so whipped that Iâll do whatever.
CLARY MARCHES DOWNSTAGE RIGHT AS SIMON EXITS DOWNSTAGE LEFT.
CLARY:Â
Hey, you! Donât stab people!
JACE:Â
You idiot! You stopped me from killing a demon!
ISABELLE:Â
Donât worry, she didnât stop me and Alec.
DEMON:
Demon Dying Noises.
SIMON ENTERS DOWNSTAGE LEFT WITH SECURITY.
SIMON:Â
Clary, I got security. Why are you standing in an empty room?
CLARY:Â
To isolate me in the narrative.
SIMON:Â
OkayyyyyyâŚ
INT. FRAY HOUSEHOLD
JOCELYN:Â
I have to tell her, Luke. Itâs only a matter of time beforeâÂ
CLARY ENTERS UPSTAGE LEFT.
JOCELYN:
Oh hi honey!
CLARY:Â
Hi Mom, whatâs going on?
JOCELYN:Â
Honey, weâre moving to the country to live with Luke, who I am not in love with.
CLARY:Â
Nooo, Mom! We canât move! Then everything wonât be about me and my struggles!
SIMON:Â
Letâs go do poetry. Iâm in a band.
EXT. ROAD
SIMON AND CLARY ARE WALKING TO JAVA JONES.
SIMON:Â
Hey Clary, your Mom has weird scars.
CLARY:Â
No she doesnât.
SIMON:Â
Yeah she does, Iâve seen her in a bathing suit. Your momâs hella fine.
CLARY:Â
What.
INT. JAVA JONES
CLARY AND SIMON ARE SITTING AND LISTENING TO ERIC READING POETRY.
CLARY:Â
Simon, youâre not gay, are you?
SIMON:Â
What?
ERIC, OFFSTAGE:Â
TWIRLS ACROSS THE STAGE Poetry Poetry Poetry.
JACE:Â
Hello there.Â
CLARY:Â
OMG, hot blond murderer. Youâre stalking me. Thatâs not suspicious.
JACE:Â
Iâm a Shadowhunter, which means I kill demons. You can see me, which means you have the Sight and need to come with me.
CLARY:Â
Iâd love to butâ STANDS AND DASHES AWAY WHILE PHONE RINGINGÂ
CLARY:
TO AUDIENCE Hold that thought. What? Mom? Donât come home? Tell Luke that âheâ found you? Whoâs âheâ? Mom?
SIMON:Â
JOINING HER Clary, we should go find Luke and not go home.
CLARY:Â
Letâs go home.
SIMON:Â
Okay.
JACE:Â
STILL SITTING Okay bye. Just shattered your world view and told you about a whole secret universe, but go off I guess.
EXT. FRAY HOUSEHOLD
CLARY:Â
My home is shattered and my mom is gone!
DEMON:
Demon Noises.
CLARY:Â
AHHHHH!!! Stab Stab Stab! SLOWLY FALLING BACKWARDS ONTO GROUND
JACE:Â
LURKING WITH ARMS CROSSED Wow. Good work killing a demon.
CLARY:Â
ON GROUND You followed me again? I guess Iâll trust you over my best friend of ten years.
JACE:Â
KNEELING Great. But youâre dying. I will heal you with my magic wand that will kill you if you arenât a Shadowhunter.
CLARY:Â
Wait but Iâm not a Shadowhunterâ
JACE:Â
PRESSING STELE TO NECK Huh it worked. Guess youâre a Shadowhunter.
CLARY:Â
That was a lousy experiment.
INT. THE INSTITUTE
CLARY:
We Go To The Institute, Where Like Five People, Three Of Which Are Teenagers, Purge The Biggest City In America Of Demons All By Themselves. We Do Nothing, Then Leave The Institute.
EXT. FRAY HOUSEHOLD
CLARY:Â
Letâs go back to my messed up house and find things. Oh my gosh itâs my neighbour Dorothea, who didnât get kidnapped because the TV show is really weird and full of unnecessary plotlines.Â
INT. DOROTHEAâS HOUSE
CLARY:
Dorothea, are you a witch? âCause you are serving witch. Alright, good talk, letâs jump through this mysterious portal that you told us not to jump through.
INT. PORTAL
PORTAL:
Portal Noises.
EXT. LUKEâS HOUSE
CLARY:Â
Weâre at Lukeâs house. Huh. Letâs be super sneaky and HOLY CRAP WEâRE BEING ATTACKED.
SIMON:Â
Hi!
JACE:Â
Dude why were you in the bushes thatâs super weird.
SIMON:Â
Says the stalker.
INT. LUKEâS HOUSE
CLARY:Â
Weâre in. Wait, hide! Somebody's coming.Â
JACE:Â
The men who killed my fatherâŚ
CLARY:Â
Theyâre looking for something called the Mortal Cup that my mom stole from Valentine, but Luke says he doesnât knowâ wait WHAT?
JACE:Â
No further context required⌠I need to maintain an aura of alluring and brooding mystery.Â
SIMON:Â
Youâre a traumatized sixteen-year-old. Also, why do we all have dead dads?
JACE:Â
Iâm Batman.
INT. THE INSTITUTE - LIBRARY
HODGE:Â
I am Hodge, leader of the Institute. Your mother was a magical Nazi, and your father is dead.
JACE:Â
Omg twinning.
CLARY:Â
I knew that.
HODGE:Â
No, your REAL father. Your mom made up the dead dad. Your real dad was THE magical Nazi, Valentine. Actually all the adults here were once magical Nazis. But we got better. PUTS BANDAID ON FOREHEAD
CLARY:Â
Are you sure Valentineâs dead? He seems sort of alive.
HODGE:Â
He is definitely totally dead.
CLARY:Â
I donât remember anything about anything. Letâs go to some scary monks and have them break my brain.
SIMON:Â
I donât think thatâs a good idea.
JACE:Â
Nah it sounds legit.
INT. THE SILENT CITY
SILENT BROTHER:Â
ACTOR ONSTAGE BUT VOICE DOESNâT COME FROM MOUTH There is a block in your mind that we cannot remove. But the mysterious person who put it there signed it âMagnus Bane xoxoâ so go find him.
ISABELLE:Â
Letâs go to a party.
INT. MAGNUSâ PARTY
CLARY:Â
Hello, Magnus Bane, High Warlock of Brooklyn. Please remove the block from my mind.
MAGNUS:Â
I canât, but it will fade naturally. Donât worry. Also your Jewish friend just turned into a rat. No weird subtext there.
CLARY:Â
Holy crap vampires just took Simon the rat.
JACE:Â
Letâs rescue him. I hope there are no lasting side effects from this traumatizing voyage.
THEY FIGHT THEIR WAY ACROSS THE STAGE.
INT. THE INSTITUTE
SIMON:Â
Wow, I think there were some lasting side effects from that traumatizing voyage.Â
CLARY:Â
That can wait until book two. Right now itâs my birthday.
JACE:Â
Letâs have a picnic in the middle of the night.
CLARY:Â
Okay.
JACE:Â
Letâs kiss.
CLARY:Â
Iâm in love with you forever.
SIMON:Â
Iâm still here, you know.
JACE:Â
Iâm gonna be really mean to everyone now.
INT. THE INSTITUTE - CLARYâS ROOM
SIMON:Â
I hate Jace.
CLARY:Â
Why?
SIMON:Â
Iâm jealous.
CLARY:Â
Why? You have Isabelle.
SIMON:Â
I donât want Isabelle.
CLARY:Â
Then why do you flirt with her?
SIMON:Â
To make you jealous.
CLARY:Â
Why would you want to do that?
SIMON:Â
Are you genuinely, actually stupid?
CLARY:Â
I might be. Iâm going to go draw Jace as an angel some more. Thatâs not foreshadowing anything.
INT. THE INSTITUTE - JACEâS ROOM
CLARY:Â
JACE WAKE UP JACE WAKE UP!
JACE:Â
What is wrong with you?
CLARY:Â
I just made a drawing come out of paper and I think my mom hid the Mortal Cup in Dorothea the witchâs tarot cards.
JACE:Â
Cool.
INT. DOROTHEAâS HOUSE
CLARY:Â
Yay we got the Mortal Cup and HOLY CRAP DOROTHEA IS A DEMON.
JACE:Â
I like tea. Also I donât like Simon and Iâm going to make fun of him.
CLARY:Â
You know, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.
JACE:Â
Iâm not gay. Everyone hates me.
ALEC:Â
I am gay. I donât hate you. But I donât really love you, I just tell myself I do because youâre a safe option because you are unavailable. Also Iâm very wounded and slightly delusional right now.
SIMON:Â
I just shot a demon to death with arrows as a powerless human but everybodyâs still going to underestimate me for the next four books.
INT. THE INSTITUTE - THE LIBRARY
HODGE:Â
Thank you for giving me the Mortal Cup. I am still a magical Nazi and I will now give it to our leader, who is not dead.
CLARY:Â
Woah, who could have anticipated that plot twist?Â
EXT. ALLEYWAY
CLARY:
Iâm going to chase Hodge down this alleyway and goodness gracious me who could have predicted that a grown man could overpower me, a defenseless fifteen-year-old girl?
LUKE:Â
I will save you with my werewolf powers, Clary.
CLARY:Â
Luke! Youâre a werewolf!
LUKE:Â
Go find your mom who Iâm in love with while my pack fends off Valentineâs army.
CLARY:Â
Okay.
INT. VALENTINEâS BASE - ROOSEVELT ISLAND
VALENTINE:Â
Hello, my son.
JACE:Â
Dad? Youâre not dead?
CLARY:Â
Jace, thatâs MY evil Nazi dad.
JACE:Â
Omg we really are twinning.
VALENTINE:Â
Come home with me, son. I love you.
JACE:Â
No, you abused me really bad and made me think you were dead. But Iâm gonna be indecisive about it for five more books anyway.
VALENTINE:Â
Okay. Magic portal activate!Â
PORTAL:
Portal Noises
INT. THE INSTITUTE
CLARY:Â
Wow great adventure.
JACE:Â
Valentine literally has the Mortal Cup and we are siblings.Â
CLARY:Â
Details. Letâs debate the morality of us dating for the next two books and be inconsistent about whoâs for it and whoâs against it.
JACE:Â
Sounds like a plan.
SIMON:Â
Am I the only one who thinks incest is bad?
*WHAT A GREAT FIRST BOOK. YOU COULD MAKE A TV SHOW AND MOVIE OUT OF IT, PROBABLY*
#shadowhunters#the mortal instruments#stage play#writing#summary#city of bones#cassandra clare#jimon#jace lightwood#simon lewis#clary fray#alec lightwood#isabelle lightwood#tmi
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