#Eternal Awake

[patolemus]

double-whammie wip (not) wednesday

got tagged by @novasillies (still freaking out over their current wip update!!) and i have a bit of the newest chapter for my time travel au to share

“Hey, Stiles?” he calls out to the older boy. Stiles hums distractedly, and Derek knows he’s not really listening to him, too caught up in whatever he’s doing. “Can I ask you something?”

“Sure,” Stiles says. His back is turned to Derek, and he spends a moment appreciating the way Stiles’ muscles shift underneath the fitted shirt he has on as he mixes up his herbs. Stiles still doesn’t look like he’s paying all that much attention to him, but oh well. Derek will take what he can get.

He props himself up with his right forearm, half sitting as he puts his weight on it. “You like me, right?” he asks, sounding calm even though his heart has started beating faster and faster by the second. Derek doesn’t regret asking, though.

Stiles goes taut almost as soon as the question registers. He doesn’t turn around so he can’t see what kind of face he’s making, and his scent doesn’t betray anything, but Derek knows better than to trust it when he knows Stiles knows ways to manipulate it. After a few moments, though, his posture relaxes again and he goes back to mixing up things in the mortar.

“Yeah. Of course I do,” Stiles says. There’s a sort of vulnerability, a softness in his voice, and Derek feels his heart soar. 

He didn’t lie. Stiles didn’t lie. He likes Derek, Stiles likes Derek.

Don’t fuck this up, he thinks, only a little desperate as he tries to keep his heart under control. Not for the first time, he thanks whatever higher being is looking out for him, because if Stiles could hear how fast his heart is racing right now he’d think Derek is the lamest person ever. Which he is, but Stiles doesn’t need to know that.

“Cool,” he says, immediately regretting it. Cool? Who the fuck says cool to something like that? “I mean, I like you, too,” he adds hastily, fully sitting up as Stiles finally turns around.

“I know,” there’s the ghost of a smirk dancing on his lips and mirth in his eyes.

Derek starts to smile, then frowns. “Did you just Han Solo me?” he asks, not knowing what to feel when Stiles just bursts out laughing right there and then.

It’s a beautiful laugh. It takes his breath away. Derek doesn’t think he’s ever heard Stiles laugh like this before. Chuckle, maybe, definitely an amused huff here and there. But never an outright laugh like this one. Derek wants to hear it forever, wants to record it so he can play it back again and again and again, all the time.

He’s so gone on this boy. So, so gone. Derek feels overwhelmed by the sudden rush of affection that overcomes him, a hot, fluttery thing that leaves him tingly all over.

couldn't not do the star war's reference i mean IT WAS RIGHT THERE. anywayssss take the rare angst-free scene. no pressure tags: @dontcallpanic @hedwig221b @salty-fryingpan @oldefashioned @endwersed @dear-massacre and of course anyone who wants to do it

[godslittlesadge]

[herearedragons]

The Dreaming Detective + The Revolutionary Firebrand + me webweaving song lyrics to explain characters to myself, again

IAMX - Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction / Fall Out Boy - Last Of The Real Ones / Twenty One Pilots - Chlorine / IAMEVE - Temptress / Tom Odell - Another Love / Stray Gods - The Ritual (Red)

[rollthewhatever]

this is just a rant post

heavy spoiler of...whole OUAW and Prime I guess

I read about Remy Garou from the Avantris wiki.

I was worried a bit about Kremy's life but now that anxiety multiplied 100000times. Also everything makes perfect sense. why Kremy's so afraid of him? duh. calling 42 years old man "boy"?(it was an illusion, but yk) yeah like he is an enfant from Garou's point of view lol

Im not sure but Kremy said something about...what was it??? Garou might be not just a human? btw I'm on ep 29 for now but I'm just reading every spoilers as many as I can, don't care much. ANYWAY I think Kremy maybe know that Garou is not just a human but doesn't know the full truth of him. cus he went back to Agwé. technically it's Garou's "lair". And Kremy technically took something from dragon's hoard. or well...himself might be one of the dragon's hoard. idk

I need every detail. why did Kremy run away? ?? ? what happened????????? also what's gonna happen after the whole quest?????(assuming they survive....) Kremy Lecroux I knew your life is kinda fucked up but I didn't expect THIS MUCH

btw his form of dread. it blocks the fear condition (for a while). It's kinda cool. I wonder what Baron Samedi thinks of him. tiny gator man. doesn't know what he's dealing with. idiot.................

[thepurplebacon]

💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼

[bookwyrminspiration]

I imagine the only reason Vespera wasn’t sentenced to eternal sedation was plot convenience. what’s even the point of having a pseudo death penalty if they won’t even sentence their worst criminal in history to it?

[buggy1999]

Volunteering at a library rn and they have those automatic sliding doors that sometimes moves on its own and every time it does that I scream whisper “Ghost door!!” In my head

[kuruna]

AZ as a kid struggling to socialize because it seems like everyone finds him "strange" and he doesn't really understand why. When he's with his family he doesn't get that sense at all, but growing up he starts to learn that that's because those in his family are considered "strange" as well, though that only confuses him more. He finds that he can connect with others who like him are outcasted in one way or the other for traits that (again) seem perfectly normal to him. While he has a shocking amount of confidence, being consistently treated like an outsider has made him somewhat misanthropic and distrustful as those around him.

Feeling like an outsider in the way he does, he often wished he'd been born as something Other than human. A lot of his childhood fantasies revolved around the idea of one day being transformed into a Pokemon, and having the freedom that would come with it. He is closest to his Floette more than anyone, a gift from his mother that he cherishes. His dearest friend. With her, he feels like he can do anything. And she loves him just as deeply.

As he exits from his teens into his young adulthood, something huge happens-- and suddenly those who avoided and shunned him in the past are praising him. He is seen as someone noble and virtuous and Great, and later, he becomes the founder-king of modern Kalos.

He enjoyed the attention for a time, but now there's these expectations placed about him, and he finds he dislikes it. He used to invent and create for the people dearest for him, his family, his Floette, the few friends he did have. But now he's expected to use that power for the good of Kalos. And he does try for a time. Despite being fairly poorly socialized and despite struggling when it came to small matters, he tried. But the more he gave, the more was demanded of him. He didn't know what to do. Eventually the stress became too much, and he became withdrawn again. He allowed his younger brother to work on the things he struggled with, the people aspect of his kingship, even some of the political matters, while he would hole himself up and Create.

In time, he found peace again... but some, including his own brother, were still frustrated with him. His brother in particular couldn't wrap his head around his unwillingness to even face the people who support him, and for AZ, he didn't have the words to describe what he was feeling. And so this lack of understanding led to arguing, and this arguing led to distance. As time went on and certain events happened, this arguing became worse, and AZ eventually released his younger brother from his position.

Without his younger brother, one of the few people who he was actually close to despite the fights they had, AZ becomes even more withdrawn. He is lonely and depressed, barely able to act without being forced to. And in the few years after his brother's departure... a war comes. Now hurt by his brother's betrayal, AZ becomes despondent. He already relied on Floette for much, but at a point she was the only thing keeping him sane. Floette's own stress grew exponentially, frightened of what AZ may do if one day she disappeared...

Some years into the war, the worst happens. Floette is stolen from him and made to fight, in the hopes that the immense power stored within her small body would change the tide of the war. With her gone, AZ's mental health rapidly deteriorates even further. He harms himself, refusing to eat. At times he seems more like a corpse than a living person. A shell of the person he was. And some time later, his Floette is returned to him in a coffin. He is devastated. Already half-crazed, his mind reverts to it's childlike, misanthropic state. If this world is so cruel to take away what he loves most, then what good is it?

Despite how weak his body is, he manages to drag himself out, away from prying eyes. He begins construction on a machine. By any means necessarily, he will bring back the one he cares for most. Eventually, this process is complete. A machine and a key are made.

He uses it first to bring back the one who was taken from him, draining life from the world in the process. Then, once she is restored, he reverses the machines function, releasing destruction and chaos onto the world-- his anger turned upon his own people, upon a world that allowed this tragedy to happen.

And then... the world is silent. He is alone. Just him and Floette, which is what he wanted all along.

But Floette cannot tolerate it. His hatred and cruelty. He is no longer the man she knew, but a stranger wearing his face. She leaves. And in that moment, he has no one else. Those who may have once loved him have been forgotten and spurned, and now, he can only watch as Floette once again disappears.

[arielluva]

waking up early is so weird bc i feel like i've been awake too long but its only like. 4 pm. i feel kinda antsy im not used to being awake for this long

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

me n who

@gaystappen (i need to rant to u sm bestie ughhh)

[lesbiangiratina]

[spidrboots]

listening to this song & thinking of angel & molly ……. no one look at me

[loving-delusions]

i am making something............ for them <3

not done yet tho

[himbopunk]

i think i've said this before but i keep playing more and more with the idea of hakim more directly romancing illario in his companion au... both in the way of making their past fling a bit more emotionally involved and also exploring how thatd make them engage each other during the time of datv... i think it would be interesting also in the context of lucanis' stuff if its like. Hey hakim you have a history with the guy too and hakims like year i care for the guy but i still think he's up to no good. And whatever decision lucanis makes he still has contact with hakim but hakim lets the decision happen. and maybe that causes issues between them, that hakim didn't side with him but then hakims also like, you know me, you know where i came from, in what world did you think i was going to let the venatori dig their disgusting fingers into this, you're lucky you cousin didn't kill you for that one, because no amount of love, or whatever fucked up thing you claim to have for me, would ever stop me from my freedom, and i would've sliced your throat with no hesitation to keep it that way.

their potential relationship during vg in a canon where hakim doesnt end up with lucanis & neve is so like. Messy in such a specific way to me because hakim really doesnt like or believe in or stand by anything illario is doing really, but he does believe people can get new starts at the same time. if anything so much of what illario is like in vg is probably a result of the same digging in his heels that wouldve led to hakim ending things before...

[jestersdlc]

cgvhdyhig gender..../neutral....ish

I should probably go to bed....especially since I almost posted this to Wcs blog....

[holomoto]

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