#I AM SO LATE HELP ME

[mellowwhumps]

Whumperless Whump Event Day 9: Coughing up blood / Can’t speak

OCs: Ida, Ibys, Yuuto, Elowen (AU)

CW: blood + heart attack but also not really

first actual writing of my new ocs! insane…yuuto!! is by the cool n very awesome @qiuthewhumps !!! check em out

@whumperless-whump-event

Ida started his work day feeling particularly uncomfortable and chalked it up to the recent rainy weather giving him some pathogen; certainly not the sterile environment he was currently in. He stumbled his way to the office, nearly turning the wrong direction. All the corridors looked mostly the same with fog seeming to cloud his mind.

He nearly stumbled right into his assistant, struggling to grab his chair to sit down and catch a breath. It felt like he was dying, just like back where his home was. Again. 

Ibys was saying something. He couldn’t catch it with the ringing of his ears. Instinctively, he opened his mouth to say something. His throat had something clogged up in it, and when he attempted to clear his throat, violent coughs came out instead. 

One hand clutched at his chest as though that could somehow curb the pressure in it, the other covered his mouth. His heart was a mishmash of wires. He was, perhaps, the first to ever use such technology; it was bound to malfunction some time in his life. When he pulled his hand away, he was met with crimson. 

Hastily, he hid it from the other, taking out a cream-coloured handkerchief and wiping his hand on it. He could wash that later, but right now he needed to…he needed to…

It was hard to breathe. More than that, he realised, his heartbeat was erratic, stuttering as it sped up and slowed at random. Something was wrong. 

The next cough made him fall out of his seat, black spots clouding his sight. There were voices above them, chattering incessantly. Suddenly, he felt weightless, the ground no longer in contact with his body, disorientation rendering him no longer able to keep his eyes open and shouts fading away into nothingness.

——————

Ida woke up with a start, instinctively putting his left hand on his chest. Still thumping away, beatbeatbeat. Still alive. He was fine. 

Then, he caught a glimpse of the operating table and thought otherwise.

“Ida. Calm down before your heart faults again. It’s a new version, but you still need time to adjust.” He was calm, he was — oh. Breathe in, breathe out. It was fine. He never did anything wrong to trigger any failsafe. 

The taste of iron in his mouth was all too familiar. He felt like expelling it all out of his body, at that moment, but looked up to three pairs of eyes staring at him and thought otherwise. He slotted the prosthetic arm lying by his side back to its original place and buckled the clasps, fidgeting with its digits as an attempt to ground himself. Clearly, it doesn’t work.

“Water,” Ibys, the person closest to him, said as they held up a small glass. His assistant. Just that thought sent him reeling. How much had they seen?

Ida took the glass from their hand, downing it with two large gulps, nearly choking. He wanted to ask for more, but his throat felt choked and his lungs were still struggling to register that he was alright. He looked at Yuuto, the one person who hadn’t spoken, and pointed at his chest in question.

“Don’t worry,” Yuuto stated, a strange undertone in his voice Ida couldn’t recognize. “The only ones who put a finger on you are the only ones present here right now. The problem was swiftly fixed, and should not happen again. You’re lucky the subject was present with you. Take it easy for a while, but there’s no need for an extended bed rest.” 

Yuuto’s mouth opened and closed once more, then settled on nothing but a small apology. For what? Not like it was his fault. If the entire situation wasn’t already odd, it certainly was now.

Ida gestured at the door, a silent request. Elowen nodded, pushing it open; he settled on forcing his legs to take a slow walk forward instead of running right out of the room. Ibys trailed behind them, and if they walked closer than usual to him or disappeared for a while to turn someone else’s gaze away, he pretended not to notice. 

The morning had already turned to dusk by the time he returned to the office. Food was left on his desk, long since cold. His mouth tasted like iron. 

He stared at the unopened styrofoam takeout box listlessly, and eventually pushed it to the side, picking up a random sheet of data to work on instead. Later. Later, he would deal with it.

The box ends up in the trash. Somehow, that made him feel even more sick to the stomach than before.

[vaguely-concerned]

there's something so incredibly sweet about how many times davrin notes in his journal that talking to rook helped him with something. he keeps bringing them out to touch grass and gaze at nugs out in the woods with him which I think must be very good for them, and their company clearly helps him work through and get more clarity on things he's been stuck on emotionally. it's just kind of lovely and a great little nuance in that relationship.

[iamhereinthebg]

Annual drawing of the Mystery kids as a gift to myself 🎉

[paperglader]

they really put alicent in bridgerton blue on the reunion and genuinely expected me to think that she didn’t in fact march all the way to dragonstone to get wifed up? bfr

[javierduffy]

different.

[ladyhavilliard]

mo dao zu shi tarot

the hanged man:  pause, surrender, letting go, new perspectives

wheel of fortune | jin guangyao

death | wei wuxian

the tower | jiang cheng

[goosehadfood]

Hivewing sketch… may turn it into an adopt… *passes out*

[beneathsilverstars]

i’ve seen plenty of alt-looper AUs where sapfrin’s wish resulted in someone else looping, assisted by starry loop. and i’ve seen plenty where isatfrin or one of their party members made some kind of wish that resulted in additional people remembering the loops.

but

how about an au where sapfrin’s wish resulted in someone else looping, while sapfrin remained in the role of siffrin? either now there’s two loopers in the party, or, the ability to remember new loops is what transferred, so siffrin wakes up every time with their last memory being the wish for help.

this siffrin is just so ground down and not siffrin anymore. but without becoming loop, they’d keep trying to act the part, which is easy enough when they’ve got a script, but… the more the other looper switches things up, the more siffrin will struggle. the other looper will want to help them, but what can even be done when they're still stuck in the loops??

if siffrin still remembers new loops, then they have to keep going through the fucking house even after they reached their breaking point. but at least there’s hope now? but is there really? and now, for the first time in years, they have to deal with someone else being able to remember their actions, and this person knows about the time loops. siffrin definitely isn’t going to be jumping to confide in them, despite how desperately they need the help — will they even tell them that they’d been looping for ages already?? even if they try not to, it’ll eventually become obvious something is going on.

or if siffrin doesn’t remember new loops anymore… how would the new looper handle it? how many times do they explain that they’re looping now instead before they stop bothering with it? or does not explaining means siffrin freaks out too much at the looper abandoning the script entirely for no apparent reason? but there’s no way they won’t freak out upon learning that they’ve just doomed someone else to live out this hell in their stead, that’s quite the news to have to break every single time. perhaps there’s an in-between that would work?? lying about what’s changed, or following the script until they suddenly deviate, then immediately loop back once done with the deviation? they have all the time they need to workshop it, at least.

either way, this siffrin is probably gonna be even less help than loop was. at least loop got to chill out at the favor tree and think — siffrin doesn't have that luxury. and while the new looper will be bringing in a fresh perspective, they simply don't know the things one needs to know about siffrin in order to figure out these siffrin-based loops. and, at this point, siffrin might not anymore either! it's been years since they made their wish. that doesn't make it unsolvable, especially since it's possible to get out by pure chance. but it'll be hard, especially since siffrin has even more intense reactions than isatfrin, as evidenced by them not even making it to euphrasie before looping back.

what a fun little bad time for everyone ^^

[clownsuu]

I give you an

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Also I stole this ask just so I can post this fuggin weirdo I made smhh (I raise from the dead just to post an oc again LMAOAOAOAO)

Hopefully this will be my last one in a long while I can live with 7 fuggin wh characters HHFHFUDJSNKSSJ- well- technically 8 if you include Betsy-

But to keep it (somewhat) short and sweet- my loser- a ye ol Milkman- Zachary Milksop (chronically lactose intolerant) and Betsy (a lil mascot moo sentient puppet)

Another character made almost spur in the moment again (like Mari) though thankfully not another bUG, but just some average human smhh. He’s a really simple guy, a loser, is as interesting as normal milk— he’s just the ye ol milkman who delivers you that gud shid smhh— enjoyer of the finer things in life (lunchables). A lil flirty and charming (in possibly the cringiest way possible) however he doesn’t really seem to pick up anyone besides the local cows that constantly harass him (and eats his pants). He enjoys watching them though, from v e r y m u c h afar——

hes just kinda, “that guy”

Also Betsy- a very sweet woman! She always greets everyone and has the friendliest extroverted personality ever! Always the type to bring (albeit tiny) gifts for her favorite neighbors and always leads when talking to anyone. Not like she would allow Zach to say anything anyway, she hates his polyester guts (and only him smhh)

[nechto221b]

[omegalerc]

RICKY YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS HES SO CUTE OH MY GOFISKSNDBDD DD I LOVE HIM SO BAD

https://x.com/leclercsstreet/status/1883924777250992557

he is sooooo dainty.. truly like a little princess. i love how everybody just surrounds the omega like an all-adoring crowd, as they should!!

[measurelessdreamer]

One of these scogan Post-X-Men: Days of the Future Past fics where Logan changes things so everyone from the original timeline is alive and he’s back at the school and about to find out somehow that he and Scott are a thing in this new timeline, but first, after Logan is done explaining himself to Charles, Scott is charged with showing him the way to his room and they talk sort of but not really and all of a sudden they both hear a very happy “Dad!” screamed through the hallway and they both turn and there is a little girl of age four (or more), smiling and running towards them and Logan doesn’t get it because he hasn’t seen her before and he had no idea a child so young could even be at this school and someone here is her father but who? Cyke himself? And he’s about tu turn to see if someone else is standing behind them when all of a sudden the girl slams herself against his legs with such force that it wavers his stance for a moment and surely she hurt herself just now because there is adamantium on his skeleton and there isn’t any on hers and she is only a child after all but then he looks at her and not only is she completely okay, she is also staring at him and she is smiling and as much as it doesn’t make sense, it slowly dawns on him and just as he is about to accept it, the girl lets him go and then hugs Scott, more gently but with no less amount of affection and Scott is affectionate right back but he is also trying to send her away. Only for a moment, though, so he can talk with Logan, and the little girl frowns and doesn’t like it but caves in when he promises to get her some ice cream and Logan doesn’t get it yet again and as if it wasn’t already bad enough, the girl finally smiles again and nodds and then she says, “Thanks, papa!” and runs back where she came from, leaving Logan so awestruck it feels as if he’s a mere breeze away from losing his balance.

Part II | Part III

[iamhereinthebg]

I had a vision

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Master manipulator vs Master manipulator

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[sunlit-mess]

sick(?)

[weirdocat83]

Spoilers for arcane!!

I wonder if Ekko ended up getting curious abt the father/daughter relationship between silco and jinx. I mean, in episode 7 we see a whole alternate universe where silco and jinx are good. I call bullshit if you’re telling me they’re not close over there. So imagine Ekko seeing this and suddenly recontextualizing basically everything he knows abt jinx. Especially if Ekko ends up talking to Silco and realizing he’s not actually that bad of a guy when he’s just hanging out.

I mean, for one, the silly potential of alt!Silco being like “I was a giant dumbass and I needed some damn therapy or at least someone to talk to” and Ekko slowly realizing that maybe the reason Jinx is so fucked up is because her and her evil dad were equally fucked up at the time and just trying to achieve their goals whilst coping, but he can’t say that aloud so what he does say is “huh.” Meanwhile silco is looking at him strange because the dude has the look of someone who just solved the world’s greatest mysteries despite him having heard this info before (in his perspective, at least.)

For two, the angst potential of “hey so I went to another universe where you and your dad Weren’t Evil and he was actually lowkey chill so I wanna know what he was like for you” and for a moment jinx just looks at him in a “wtf” kinda way but then she just accepts it bc That Might As Well Happen (also the added evidence of his little machine and injuries that Were Not There Before) and starts telling him stories ranging from stupid to cute to sad and she’s breaking down halfway through them because lately she hasn’t had that much time to grieve him properly especially since a lot of people hated him so to reminisce with someone who she actually cares abt who is willing to listen and not write her off is therapeutic. Also I just think Jinx absoLUTELY has some hilarious silco stories. They probably bond over the course of the whole thing.