#I need a name for this au gdi

[dark-elf-writes]

I literally threw my hands up like I was starting a wave at a game. This is so perfect.

*slaps omegaverse agszc* you can fit so many kinks in this baby.

[socksandbuttons]

DROPS THE SPACE BLOODMOON DOODLES A couple things, you can probably tell whats going on with him but I'll let ya guess! -He meets @nekojaf's Ruby Y/N on his destructive path through space (in the one sector that garners much suspicion). He breaks onto her ship. -He claims he was made for destruction but never says who made him.

-Ruby was probably the very few who got him to stop. Purely cause he never did stop to listen to anyone on the planets he wreaked havoc on. Literally thats all it took. (Also helped Ruby wasn't screaming like others. He thought that was normal.) -Anyway, he's been Sat down to learn properly cause this man got no manners! Also shoved into a suit cause he really did just zoom around space without much else. (He is a robot afterall!) -Also a height chart! To figure out some stuff. Bloodmoon's like maybe an inch shorter than Lunar. Likely the same height.

-Out of all the characters. He would be the strongest. Has the most power, and capable of planetary destruction at a snap. (He just likes how it go boom, and everyone screaming.)

-Is he one or two? That's a future problem that I'll think about later. I might be forgetting things! But feral comet boy whomst causes too much chaos. I sort of based him on a comic i read.

[emry-stars-art]

Next person to apologize for adding to my posts/ranting in the tags gets left in the stocks ‼️ stg! Tag rants and additions and asks are the only things that have been motivating me to keep creating like this!! Please never stop yourself if you have thoughts!!!

[kritischetheologie]

Ok you have me hooked on the ultimatum au!!!! I’m so curious to see where it all leads!!!

GDI @f1rstyasfk asked for #27 and here we have this. Surprise, kiddos, you get more ultimatum au. Bone app the teeth.

[Previously, in episode 7 they returned to their original partners for trial marriages. ]

Episode 8: the decision approaches

The DM from Max has been sitting unread in Daniel's Instagram notifications for four days when he finally cracks. He'd seen it when it popped up, in the preview-- hey I know this is against the rules of the game or the show or whatever you call it but I just need to know if I'm the only one who feels--

He hadn't opened the message, so he doesn't know what, exactly, Max feels. It's easier to tease Lando about moaning Jenson's name in his sleep if he imagines that the message ends with like we should put everything behind us and go back to our original partners.

But four days later, Daniel comes back to Lando so deeply immersed in a game of Halo that he doesn't even notice Daniel greet him, sits down on the couch, and opens the direct message thread before he can talk himself out of it.

like I'm never going to feel again for the rest of my life the way I felt with you, Max has written.

you arent, Daniel replies.

the only one, I mean, he clarifies.

Max's reply is instantaneous, though it's dinnertime, and he and Charles are supposed to be sitting down to a meal, the sort of family shit Daniel's never minded not being any good at. I'm not going to feel this way again either, he's written.

--

Nico is bored. He'd been bored with Jenson practically since he met him, something he's been quite open with his therapist about. They've been trying to dig into the roots of why nothing is ever enough for Nico. Nico likes to bring up the idea that maybe, most people truly just are boring, once you get to know them, because it makes his therapist squirm. Therapists aren't supposed to say there's something wrong with you, but they're supposed to nudge you in the direction of saying it yourself, so when Nico just outright refuses to play along... that, at least, isn't boring.

Jenson is bored too, though. Or-- he's not bored. He's just elsewhere. Nico knows what it looks like when you're thinking about someone else in the bedroom, because God knows he's doing it most of the time. And it's insulting. It's not like Nico can't keep up with the twentysomething little twink he'd gotten bent out of shape over. Nico does a lot of pilates.

Winning Lewis over from Sebastian, getting him to betray himself to his own desires, had been a thrill and a challenge. Winning Jenson back from Lando Norris is neither of those things. It's tedium. Nico is tired of it. He deserves more.

--

"Alex, I don't understand you at all," George spits. If it comes out harsher than he means it to, it's only because he's sick of having the same fight, again and again. "You and Charles had no chemistry, you didn't do anything together, so what exactly was it about your time with him that made you suddenly not want to marry me?"

"I never wanted to marry you, Georgie," Alex sighs. It's the first time Alex has said that without the comforting yet. It lands as softly and murderously as a sudden whiteout blizzard on a ski slope.

"Well. I guess that's that, then," George says, and quietly walks into the bedroom to pack his suitcase.

--

Lewis slinks back to his and Seb's apartment as the sun is rising. Roscoe is asleep on his pillow, snuffling his breaths into Seb's face, like he always does when Lewis is away. Lewis edges him off the bed and snuffles against Seb's face in imitation.

"Oh, Roscoe," Seb moans, quiet and half-asleep and an absolute terror nonetheless. "Oh baby, we shouldn't. Lewis will be home any minute."

Lewis has to press his lips to Seb's forehead, furrowed with worry even like this. To his cheeks. And finally, only once Seb bends his mouth up, tilting toward Lewis like a flower toward sunlight, to his lips.

"I'm sorry, love," Lewis says, between kisses. Seb still hasn't opened his eyes, but he's reaching for the button of Lewis's pants. "I'm scared."

"Don't care," Seb says, reaching into Lewis's underwear. "'Sno excuse."

Lewis bats Seb's hand away. "I thought you wanted to talk about this, man."

Seb pulls Lewis even closer, sucking on his bottom lip, releasing it so sharply Lewis tastes blood. "Wanted to talk about it last night," he says. "Just want you right now. We can talk in the morning."

He wraps Lewis up in his arms, the closest thing Lewis has ever let himself feel to home, and Lewis lets Seb carry him away.

--

Charles had never imagined himself going through a partner's phone, let alone someone as blunt and artless as Max. But Max starts texting someone, blushing petal-pink and biting at his lip every time his phone goes off, and Charles knows, and somehow that makes it even worse. Maybe it's worse to violate his privacy for confirmation of something obvious. They can figure that one out if Max doesn't leave him for Daniel.

It's not even that they've been texting, though. It's the sweetness, and more than that, the passion. Charles has never seen Max burning, or pining, or yearning, or longing, for anything but a promotion at work or victory on the soccer field. He hadn't realized Max could even feel the things he's saying to Daniel, let alone express them in words.

Charles is still holding Max's phone, jaw slack, when Max finds him.

"You were the one who proposed to me," Charles says. "You were the one who said that you wanted to be my family. That you wanted to have our own kids, to be the dads we don't--" he chokes on a sob, can't finish the sentence. "How do you go from that, to this, in two weeks."

Max looks helpless, another thing Charles didn't know he was capable of being. "I don't know," he says.

"That's not good enough," Charles says. "You don't even sound like yourself. You sound like you're on drugs, Max."

"It feels like I am," Max says. "I can't think straight, when it's about Daniel."

"That's not healthy," Charles says. "It's not sustainable. It's not safe. You're the one who told me that marriage is about being each other's safe places. Daniel can't be that for you, if this is the kind of shit you pull about him. You get that, right?"

Max is crying too, now. "I know that," he says. "But you said you weren't ready. You said you weren't sure you wanted a safe place. You said that ships in the harbor are safe but that's not what ships are for. I bought a ring, and I proposed, and you weren't sure."

"So you're punishing me?" Charles asks. "I don't do exactly what you want, so you decide to withhold your love entirely? Maybe you're more like your father than you--"

"Don't fucking say that," Max interrupts. "Take it back, Charles. Take it back, please, you don't mean it, you--"

"I don't mean it," Charles says, hurriedly, frantic. "You're not like him. You're nothing like him. You're kind, and responsible, and caring, and I should have said yes, when you asked me to marry you."

Max looks up at him through his tears. He looks so small, suddenly. Charles wants to wrap him up in his arms and protect him from the entire world, forever. Maybe that really is how you're supposed to feel, when you decide to marry someone, he thinks. Maybe that's why you do it.

"I could ask you again," Max says, suddenly hopeful. "In a few days, when we have the final decisions, I could..."

"I'd say yes," Charles says, as Max lays his head in his lap. "I'd say yes," he repeats, again and again, stroking Max's hair back from his forehead until he falls asleep.

[zhongrin]

Rin if you want lore for the fatui zhongli au. You have a power that helps grant someone some control against karma but not remove it. You are a reincarnation of an adeptus that had the ability to remove karma. Xiao feels warm and safe when he's beside you.

Zhongli actually has fully been corrupted by Karma and his personality is that of a much more evil young morax. You know in his archon outfit his arms look like it has geo power flowing through him. Yeah imagine it through his whole body. The only reason why his face looks normal is because he chooses for it to be like that but he can make it cover his whole face to scare you. He changes his name to Жадность or Zhadnost when In public.

In this au, Xiao was raised as a weapon his whole life and the only love he has ever seen was between you and Zhongli. He thinks this what love was. Maybe you can teach him a different kind of love. Xiao being an adeptus has two delusions which electro and geo. When he uses those delusions, he actually wears a mask that looks like the Yaksha that matched that element. (Electro-Bosacious, Geo Menogias)

Xiao in this au has karmic corruption that effects his arms, eyes and face. It coated his arms in a black color and his eyes glow green and his face starts to have grown horns and it looks like his mask starts to become his face on the top half of his face. Your husband has a special ceremony for Xiao if his karma fully corrupts him. This ceremony is when he either becomes a harbinger or takes Zhongli's place as he has just become like his father and embraced the corruption. His name becomes Испорченный or Isporchennyy.

You can convince your husband to sign adoption papers for xiao but your husband as he says Xiao is too old for that.

Nakazanie has some differences between him and Al haitham. Al haitham has some morals Nakazanie doesn't. Nakazanie is a better fighter than Al haitham. You see scars on Nakazanie'd body. Nakazanie is much quieter too the point you might he is a statue. You also can see something weird with his eyes, his eyes actually switch colors. Your husband has a special control over him that instantly makes him follow orders from Zhongli only.

He has one other mask besides the one you chose the design of. This mask is when you have done something wrong.

When you did something wrong, He is forced to wear this mask which has a voice modulator that makes him sound exactly like Zhongli. The mask that has an eye that has the exact hue and eyeshape of Zhongli's but with a much bigger size Zhongli's. The patterns around the eye are similar to that of king desheret's symbol but with chains. It also has a built in camera where Zhongli can watch you with.

Weird thing that happens in lore, If Zhongli is jealous that Nakazanie is getting too much love. He makes Nakazanie put on the mask (the one you didn't design) on and makes him watch when you and Zhongli display affection silently. If you make zhongli extra jealous, Zhongli does it with his (Nakazanie 's) mask on and makes Nakazanie wear his (Zhongli's) mask on as he clearly thinks you love him more than your first husband.

The eye colors dictate his mode with Nakazanie

Nor Combat personality-Red and green

Your husband's brainwashing-Amber

Agreesive-red

……. brosch i need to. i need to rattle you for this, this is such a good au i'm shdlfhwouedijaonuhedkjasd i've hoarded this enough, it's time to release it to the world 🤲🏻

evil young morax? sign me UP- i mean what /hj

Жадность.... greed hmm. fitting. i imagine with him in place, pantalone will become his subordinate instead of a fellow harbinger bc northland bank would be under his supervision instead?

xiao learning 'love' from watching zhongli's deranged obsessive love i'm 😭 i'm squishing him he deserves all the parental affection he's been deprived of...

GDI ZHONGLI LET ME ADOPT HIM >:T

........ i am beginning to regret accepting al haitham ;;;; he's suffering through so much orz

(some doodles utc bc this au made me brainrot a bit too much 👀)

there's an old snezhnayan saying that's been passed down for thousands of years in the villages near zapolarny palace.

"if you see a lady bearing a fatui insignia in a coat embroidered with a golden dragonー"

"ー run. run, and never look back."

" t h e y a r e w a t c h i n g . "

[fivemetersofawesome]

OUUUGHH I WAS THINKING OF A DINOTOPIA AU FOR SBI RECENTLY WHAAA

My AU I was gonna take creative liberties and have Techno grow up in the Rainy Basin with a carnivore group (Allosaurs maybe?) , but either way 🤝 Techno being native to Dinotopia while the others aren’t brainwaves

Such a big brain move to have Brian as a microraptorrr. Will Phil end up being a Skybax rider :0?

LETS GOOO DINOTOPIA SUPREMACY!!

I love that so much <33 Techno would hang out with the carnivores you’re so right. In my au he does a bunch of odd jobs around the island, and one of those includes navigating and guiding people through carnivore territory! I did change a few things to how the Dinotopia world works- namely what gets eaten.

Dead bodies aren’t buried, they’re given a memorial by family/loved ones and are brought to the carnivore territories to be eaten (transporting bodies is one of the jobs Techno does, which has got him quite the reputation). I’ve also declared that the residents of Dinotopia eat bugs and occasionally unfertilized bird eggs because people need protein gdi.

Tbh, I didn’t even consider Phil becoming a Skybax rider, but now I can’t think of anything else. I’ll have to draw that when I get the time!!

[andrea-lyn]

wip update, bc of the moving, the shaking, the posting, etc.

things that are done and ready to be edited and/or posted:

Chapter 4 of the declan + ronan fic (prob early next week bc I have dentist appt + surprise parties + father's day this weekend)

Fitzcrozier genie reincarnation fic! Debating if I'm splitting that one in two or three, but will be coming up very soon

At the rate I wrote amnesia, though it's only just been plotted, I anticipate posting the prequel/sequel to that Roy/Jamie before I leave for my vacay at end of month (it's a twist on 'the team finds out')

And the rest:

The outlander time traveller's wife old guard au which is daunting and scary and every time I open it, I ask myself if I'm ever going to finish it. I might need figure out what I would enjoy most, because it's probably a 50k+ piece and even though it's already at 15k, it just feels so overwhelming

Joe/Nicky crackfic about them being unsuspecting henchmen for Merrick (AU), where they are desperate for work and think this is just a security gig. They make a lot of problems for Merrick and soon they are getting poached

RNM Michael-is-a-jeweler!AU, where there are still aliens, and he meets the man of his dreams (who is getting married). Yes, the inspiration for this is Hallmark

Cowrite with Christi! We officially abandoned the second one bc honestly, see point about the 50k old guard fic -- too daunting, but gdi, determined to get this one out

My Blue/Gansey Pushing Daisies AU (with side Pynch) which is a bit closer to finished than I thought! It just needs some plotty wrap-up scenes and more flirting, but that's the fun part to write

The Hangster Much Ado About Nothing inspired future fic, which is also probably closer to done than I think, but I just work on this one so infrequently. I also need to figure out if I'm really going to keep their call signs in the prose or use their names and I honestly have not decided

I have four different Zukka fics, help, including: Bad at flirting (should be done soon), marriage pact with a twist, timeloop with a twist, and cracky Galavant inspired fare

Annnnd then there's a Xenk/Edgin bc I'm weak

And I say all that, knowing that if another Roy/Jamie idea bit me, this list would just grow exponentially, but that's me

[tricobicoart]

su half agate si au 3: amnesiac chaos trio mae aka i need a shorter name for the tf2 mae au that still emphasizes that she got amnesia

summary & ramblings between me & atlas under the cut!

Basically mae takes a big hit to her head & a little to her gem (which may or may not be related to Medic fiddling w it when they find her & stopping immediately when it starts to crack like "oopsie", haven't decided yet), loses all her memories past landing in the danvs universe & giving less shits/relapsing into depression self-destructive habits, is taken in by the mercenaries, and then is super suspicious when apollo & dan show up to rescue zer

ath: SHE GETS IT ALL BACK EVENTUALLY BUT NOT BEFORE WHEN THEY COME FIND HER & ARE AGGRESSIVE TOWARDS/OPPOSE THE MERCS SHE GETS SUSPICIOUS & AGGRESSIVE AND THEN SHE HAS A NIGHTMARE ABT THE TWO GROUPS HURTING/KILLING EACH OTHER PERMANENTLY & IS LIKE "WHY WAS THAT UPSETTING I DIDN'T EVEN KNO--HMMMMM"

atlas: EVIL!!! ABSOLUTELY DETESTABLE/LH YOU KNOW APOLLO FUCKS THE MERCS UP A FEW TIMES BEFORE THEY GIVE UP ON KILLING HIM AND MAE IS LIKE "STOP HURTING MY FRIENDS!!!" AND DAN IS LIKE "YEAH! STOP HURTING US!" "WHO TF ARE YOU TWO?? YOU'RE NOT MY FRIENDS, I DONT EVEN KNOW YOU!!"

ath: KJFSDGFKLJG YEAH EXACTLY!!!! LSDJGK MAE, WELL-VERSED IN STORY CLICHES AND HOW MANY OF THEM HAVE APPLIED TO HER LIFE(COUGH COUGH ENTIRE SU SERIES COUGH COUGH): NICE FUCKING BRAINWASHING TRY, PEOPLE WHO ARE CLEARLY MY ENEMIES JUST TRYING TO GET ME ON THEIR SIDE!!

and then later back at the base she's like "that scrungly guy was kinda cute tho" engineer: what adjective did you just use to describe him??????

atlas: JDSFHJKSDFGHJKHSDGJHSDGSDHFGSHJDFG apollo, leaning towards dan and whispering: should i tell her that i can actually control minds? JKHGDFJHGSDFJHGSDFHGFS ENGIE JUST "what in tarnation"

ath: JFJDSLKJGLKJH Dan: Don't see why not SPY JUST WALKING BY GOING "what horrid ""tumblr"" phrase did you spew at him this time"

atlas: SLAJKDHJUKASDFGJHDFGGHJDFGHGJDFGHSJDFGGHSDF Apollo, just boosting up his 'charm', walking towards Mae with a cocky grin: oh sweetheart, if i wanted to mind control you, i already would've done it. <3 KJHDSFKJHSDGFJHSGFDJFGSDJHDGF "i just said the scrungly guy was cute!!!" ".....which one is that supposed to be?"

ath: Mae, finger and thumb on her chin: As terrifying at that statement is, it is true. *grins rudely* You especially coulda done it when i was beating your ass earlier.

"bsdf--wha--THE SCRUNGLY ONE OBVIOUSLY!! WITH THE SCRUFF AND SCRUNGLE!!"

atlas: APOLLO JUST WHEEZING AND SPUTTERING BC GDI, HE LOVES THIS ASSHOLE/POS "OHHH, the short, irate one with bad facial hair?" "HES CUTE!! IN A SCRUNGLY WAYYYY!"

ath: SDL;GKHSGH YEAH AND HER GRIN'S LIKE. BARELY MENACING BC SHE'S CLEARLY SO PROUD OF HERSELF FOR THE ROAST/POS JSHGKLJSF LKMAOOOO MAE GETS HARASSED FOR AHVING MEDIOCRE TASTE/J/LH

atlas: APOLLO KNOWS HER TOO WELL!!!!!!!!/LH/HJ ADHKDDJKDDHJDF MAE POINTING AT A PICTURE OF AMBROSE: if my taste is bad, what does it make yours?

ath: YEAH!!!!

KDGJNJFGKFDSLJGKFG SPY JUST SPUTTERS

atlas: SPY CAUGHT IN 4K

So basically Mae gets taken in by the blu mercs, they become fond of each other, she graduates from on-base intern to in-battle backup to a scout(they nickname her Flanker or Midfielder to tell the two scouts apart), sometime along the way they meet Apollo & Dan, and then the events of the comics happen after the chaos trio gets separated again by some plot device or another. Also zhe definitely fuses with Scout at one or more points, and maybe some other mercs.

[falconcoast]

thin ice | childe x reader | afterword.

masterlist to the series

a/n: this is a rolling document, so if you have any more questions, i can still add them here :D

congratulations for completing this 100,000-something word monster of a fic. whether you read this as it was posted, or as an AO3 nightly binge (bless your heart), i want to sincerely thank you for taking the time to read thin ice.

it has been an absolute pleasure to interact with you all. i’ve seen all of your kind words, screaming “please don’t break them up” or “gdi grace are they gonna ever confess or not”, and incoherent sobbing.

at times, i thought i would never see the end of thin ice, because, well, it’s long! everyone’s support motivation was the reason why i saw through the end of thin ice. you all have given me such kind words, and i hope that thin ice has lived up to at least some of it.

i would like to give a brief thank you to some folks:

piper, you will never read this, but this whole damn thing is dedicated to you. if y’all don’t know who she is, piper is one of my good friends who plays hockey. piper served as my muse for both childe’s technical hockey terms and y/n’s blunt and fierce personality.

my wonderful beta, thank you for proofreading this whole thing so some of it makes sense.

and of course, to all my moots, especially @wolfhookk​, for always being there when i needed you most :D

now, i asked for some of y’all to send in questions for a q&a, considering the time it took to write thin ice has been approximately 643 days. here are your answers.

Q: what made you write thin ice?

A: it was a combination of a lot of things tbh. piper is the obvious answer, but the earliest, i think, was my crush on this hockey guy in seventh grade. i was absolutely in love with this guy, he was respectful, kind, intelligent, and his only flaw was that he played hockey (never date a hockey guy. they are walking red flags. unless they’re named childe). anyways, to get his attention, i started watching hockey. i unironically love hockey now tho.

there was also this online web comic series called check please! that i really adored and loved :)

i was also making thin ice as a way to write enemies to lovers, which was one of my favorite tropes to read. plus, nothing wrong with a good slowburn :D

Q: did any movies or books really inspire you to write thin ice?

A: hmm outside of check please!, not really! i will say i watched a couple of documentaries about hockey, and the mighty ducks a couple of times, but that’s about the extent of my inspiration.

also while in the middle of thin ice, i was looking for books to read about hockey and found so many not safe for work novels D: was not a fun time

Q: what made you write y/n and childe’s love story the way you did?

A: i’ve always enjoyed reading enemies to lovers, no matter the au. so!! i just transferred that love into this fic :)

i also wanted to display everything that builds up into a relationship, because realistically, i don’t think love builds overnight. everything, from the first “what the fuck you taught my brother how to skate” to “what the fuck why did you injure yourself” to “what the fuck i kind of love you” to “what the fuck i want you to marry me and i want to spend the rest of my life with you”, was something that i truly believed could happen in real life. small, quirky things, like when y/n gave childe the soup or when they walked in on childe taking an ice bath, are what i loved writing about their relationship the most, and again!! realistic slowburn y’all!

(also y/n and childe never stopped their banter because that was always their way of showing affection for one another, and like. it made more sense to me over them being all over each other; that’s a pretty sharp turn of relationship lolol)

Q: What’s your favorite thing about thin ice? maybe a scene or an experience while you were writing it?

A: i really really love the dialogue in thin ice!! i think it gradually improved over the course of its existence, which i am super proud of :D

my favorite scene would be the entirety of chapter 22, the kiss scene on the ice (had that planned out from the third chapter), and the scene where y/n and childe sleep together on the couch (personally i call it the “stay” scene :D)

my favorite experience would be teasing some angst. love seeing y’all cry in my inbox <3

Q: where did you struggle with thin ice?

A: i definitely struggled with technical terms as i’m not really a sporty person lmaooo i do speech and debate, mun, and literally every other extracurricular except for sports LOL so i struggled with how hockey technicalities works (ironic since i watch it every wknd) and figure skating jumps and spins too ^^; eventually i got the hang of it, but thin ice is not 100% accurate to ice hockey or skating

Q: around what age is y/n and where are their parents?

A: for most of thin ice, y/n is 22, as they are a senior in college. towards the end of it, they would be around 25 in chapter 25 (as it’s been three years since childe and y/n got together), and about 26 in the epilogue because they got married a year later.

as for their parents, i wanted to make sure that y/n was able to be anyone and everyone. since not everyone has a great relationship has a great relationship with their parents, i left them out of it. whether or not they actually have parents is completely up to the reader.

Q: got any writing rituals?

A: ooh i actually really love just writing in bed !! am i aware that it’s not good to write in bed bc you end up sleepy ?? yeah,,,, do i really care ?? absolutely not !!

i also like tea and some background music when writing :D usually puts me in a good mood!!

Q: why did thin ice take so long?

A: imo i think it took so long because of my writing process. for me, i don’t sit down and write out a plan and get at it. i often have to spend a couple of weeks figuring out what i want for this next chapter and write it up in a few days' time. i had a very brief outline for thin ice a couple of months after i started writing it, but mostly let the whole thing unfold with time.

Q: will we ever see a sequel?

A: nope! can confirm that this is is basically the end of thin ice and i will not be returning to write up another sequel. i feel like the story is complete as it is, and honestly i cannot think of anything that would induce a sequel. i would be willing to write a drabble or two, but no more full-length series from here y’all.

Q: like y/n and childe, where do you go from here?

A: again, no sequels for thin ice as far as i’ve planned ^^; i think i’m just gonna do a few fics and headcanons here and there while i plan for my next series. but first and foremost i will be taking a nap after this

lastly, thank you all so much for reading thin ice. i hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day! :D

grace falconcoast. <3

p.s.: the next series is, in fact, another childe x reader fic! the au can be found ~somewhere~ in my tumblr tags. happy hunting!

[jeongwife]

It is like 9:30am where I am but gdi if I can’t have a secretary!chan and rich heiress fantasy I’m gonna lose it. He’s so fucking respectful yet treats you like his little fuck thing if he can help it when he gets you alone. His favorite is when he presses you against any smooth surface (like a desk or a glass window) and rams into you like no tomorrow. His glass falling down to the bridge of his nose and looks at you through though lenses as they fog up, treating you like you’re some spoil rich girl that likes get spoiled with cock more than money.

hello your local annoying dinonara is finally back 💗 i finished business proposal and it only made me Yearn Intensely for a businessman boyfie who will treat me right </3 and this ask is also making me Yearn A Lot 😞

secretary!chan who’s assigned to help you as you’re set to inherit your family’s extremely successful company one day. by day he’s the perfect secretary: always respectful, pays attention to your needs, is thoughtful and reliable. everyone knows him as your trustworthy secretary who gets the job done, but what they don’t know is that behind closed doors he treats you as though you were nothing but his little slut, and that you wouldn’t have it any other way.

his favourite part of the day is staying behind in your office late at night to “discuss” your schedule, when really he’s bending you over your expensive hardwood desk, your hands secured behind your back with his silk tie while he pounds into you. chan urges you to be loud for him, hands gripping your hips so tightly it’ll definitely leave marks the next morning as you let out broken moans from how his cock fills you up.

he also makes you tell him how good he is, your incoherent babbles only encouraging him to ram into you even harder. it turns him on so much to see you completely ruined under his touch when you’re usually so put together and poised: lipstick smeared from how roughly he kissed you earlier, eyes hazy and brimmed with tears of pleasure, inner thighs soaked with your combined releases.

after he cums in you, he’ll untie your hands and flip you over, wrapping your shaky legs around his waist before sheathing his cock inside your sensitive pussy once again. he carries you over to the floor-to-ceiling windows of your office, pressing your back against the cold glass as he starts thrusting in you again, fucking his cum back into you while murmuring the filthiest things in your ear.

“you’re so greedy. always want my cock, hm?” he mocks, chuckling into your neck when you let out a whine. “needy slut can’t go a day without my cock? what would your parents say if they knew just how fucking filthy their perfect angel is?” you’re so far gone from your multiple orgasms that you can’t form a coherent sentence, screaming his name over and over as you cum around his cock yet again.

— admin lily (business proposal ruined me and this au is making me want to eat rocks 😄 i want him now)

[depressedhatakekakashi]

I know that you mostly a KakaGai shipper, but what do you think about this post? Their take on KakaYama is.... interesting

I don’t really care for the ship war stuff. Each age appropriate Kakashi ship has its draws and downfalls and i won’t even touch on Kakashi/His students

That shit is never acceptable and i will never interact with it even in Au’s (and that goes for kakashi with his own sensei as well. That’s actually worse cuz minato started training Kakashi when he was five and died when he was 14. The only time Minato knows adult Kakashi is for a day in the war arc, when he is dead)

That being said, If i’m turned away from an age appropriate ship it is 100% because of Fandom. The only age appropriate ship i hate for Kakashi on its own without fandom interference is Kakashi/Rin.

And one of the main reason’s I as a writer don’t read a lot of fic is exactly because of the OOC bs that comes with a lot of shipping.

The competent Iruka/ Incompetent Kakashi

Perfect good at everything Gai/Depressed nothing to his name kakashi

The just… the whole Kakashi/Yamato is the only good pairing and everything else sucks or has no where near the same ‘value’ from that fandom. I love Kakayama but gdi that’s such a mood kill for the ship.

I sit in my corner and do my own thing because i can’t stand how OOC Kakashi and others get twisted. I like them for who they are in canon and i’m not interested in these terrible twisted takes that make them into people they simply are not.

Their take on Kakayama is one i don’t really see. Ya Yamato saw Kakashi’s darkness and is more trusted with the shady things, that’s not a good thing in my opinion. Anbu was terrible for Kakashi in canon. That darkness did not need support and fostering and understanding. Kakashi needed help and Yamato is not equiped to be that help because of his own trauma’s. I like kakayama when they’re older because they have a chance to grow apart and find their own place. Yamato has an opportunity to really seperate himself not just from danzo but from kakashi

Because Kakashi replaced Danzo in a lot of ways. Not as Yamato’s teacher, but as Yamato’s life line. Yamato had bo other friends or connections to fall back on when he was pulled from Root

He had Kakashi. Just Kakashi.

They needed to be separated for Yamato to grow and become his own person and not just realize how different him and Kakashi were but accept it.

Kakaobi is interesting in the twisted unhealthy ‘this will destroy them’ way for me. Nothing good can come out of this pairing in canon. They are not healthy for each other and they understand this.

They relish in this.

Kakashi feels he needs to be punished for failing Obito and Obito needs someone to punish. I don’t think Kakashi would just give into Obito like a lot of the fandom

I think there would be a lot of scrapping and screaming and anger

It would be bloody and dangerous and so beautiful but so very unhealthy

KakaIru is a fun ship because Iruka is an outside force. Hd’s a balance for normality that even Gai can’t give Kakashi. He’s the dude who’s not a big special character and never saw Kakashi through his darkest times but who still looks at this broken man and see’s worth. Something he can love. That’s interesting to explore. I hate ‘Iruka’s secretly a badass’ because Kakashi has enough badass’ in his life. He doesn’t need another one.

Iruka is a pairing where we can explore Kakashi having someone to come home to. Someone he doesn’t worry about being out on missions. Who he doesn’t feel that stress of impending loss with. Because Iruka is an Acadamy Sensei. He doesn’t do missions.

His life isn’t in immediate risk almost all the time and for once Kakashi can relax.

Kakagai is my favorite because Gai was the first person to step up and offer Kakashi both a challenge and a support. Gai fought against the system that wanted so desperately to turn Kakashi into a weapon and tried to keep Kakashi human. To help him retain his kindness. Gai was the first person to see how bad Anbu was for Kakashi and fight for him.

I have issues with Gai volutelling Kakashi as a Sensei, but that came out of desperation. He just so desperately wanted to save Kakashi he would hse anything, including a job Kakashi was not suited for but was better than Anbu.

Kakagai is my favorite because Gai saw Kakashi’s darkness and didn’t try to change it or take it away. Gai knows Kakashi’s darkness and accepts it and offers him a place where it doesn’t have to exist.

Also you can just tag @huskymaine XD they follow me so they’ll see this anyways most likely

[justkpopjokes]

Found You || OnlineRival!Felix

AU: online gamer friends + college + rivals to lovers

Anon: know it's a common au cliché but I've been craving some college au's of felix, maybe enemies to lovers ?? but enemies in a playful, competitive sense of course. I'll leave this vague so that you have more creative freedom, idc if you write in para. style or bullet point, I'll eat up anything you write skskj

A/N: I HAVE RETURNED!! Hope you enjoy this anon~ still can’t believe you’ve been following me since 2017 oml

If anyone else has lowkey specific requests for skz I’ll take them!! It can be any type/medium(?) of writing lol I just don’t want to write elaborate plots rn

You’ve been playing this video game recently

(I’ve been playing Valorant lol so I’m basing this off of that)

you’ve been playing solo for a bit

One afternoon, you match with a nice team that’s doing well

it’s a good game; you’re pretty evenly matched

you end up the last player standing, win a round for your team, & they applaud you for it!

But then—ohoho and then—

—you hear the deepest freakin Australian accent on voice chat

saying “ayy nice!!”

you say a polite thank you back to him

meanwhile the other people on your team are like

“holy crap bro your voice is low af!”

you get to hear this boy speak for longer lol

His username is #1Aboji or BrownieBoi915 or smth idk so you call him Brownie

and y’all get to talking lol

you send him a friend request on a whim because he seems nice

he accepts, sends you a party invite, and you play a few games together!!

Over the course of a couple months, you play together every time you’re online at the same time

(which is often bc ur timezones happen to be the same hehe)

It’s funny because although you’re friendly with each other, you’re competitive af LMAO

most of your games are spent competing for who can get more kills and who can be MVP of the team/entire match

it’s friendly competition but competition nonetheless

eventually he asks for your Tumblr/Twitter/whatever so y’all can chat a bit more :D

his @ can still be @/BrownieBoi915 lol

Brownie’s fun and you share some interests!!

your music tastes are similar too, so he sends you song recommendations, then you yell about them

You’ve been chatting a lot and reply to each others’ posts/tweets often, especially when you’re just posting about weird sh!t happening in your life

But one day… you post about something that happened at your college

something like “icb this ajlsdhf there’s this girl in one of my classes and she just sCALED THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING SO SHE WOULDN’T BE LATE TO CLASS”

less than a minute later you get a text:

“AHJKFLDSA WAIT YOUR MOST RECENT TWEET—

DO YOU MEAN VANESSA??”

and then

wAIT THAT’S BROWNIE TEXTING

HE KNOWS VANESSA?!?!?

So, naturally, you text him back

Then Brownie gets you to agree to another silly competition:

see who could identify the other first on campus!!

the 1 rule is that you have to find each other in-person

(there is a 2nd rule that you can’t ask exactly where the other person is, but that’s pretty obvious lol)

But because of the main rule, occasionally you’ll get a vague text like

Brownie: “Hey are you wearing a red flannel right now”

You: “No I’m not even outside lmao”

Brownie: “Dammit I thought I felt the vibes”

It’s a nice lil challenge because the only thing you know about Brownie is that he identifies as a guy and has an Australian accent

(but that may be unimportant depending on where you live lmao)

meanwhile the only things he knows about you are random details, your voice, and that you have a class with Vanessa lol

And it’s FUN!!

but you both start to get suuuuper competitive

mostly because of the 1 rule

there have literally been times you’ve probably found Brownie when you hear an Australian accent in the distance

however he always leaves before you can get to him, so it doESN’T COUNT GDI

Brownie tho lmao—he’s always putting on his detective hat and trying to track you down on campus

whenever he’s chilling after class he asks for where you are generally

he’ll ask you “Hey wyd”

You: “Studying”

Brownie: “In the library?”

You: “…Yes”

then he starts to narrow down where you could be based on less-specific questions

Of course, that’s not the only thing you text him about

you’ve grown pretty close to Brownie

the competition has helped with that!!

and ofc you still play that game together lol

Honestly, you really want to meet him

he’s just super charming + considerate

Also he mentioned he likes baking

you suggested “we should bake together!!”

Brownie: “Gotta find me first ;)))”

so,,, yeah you daydream about baking with Brownie

you really want to know his name

I mean, c’mon, you’ve gotten his phone number at this point, but you still can’t find him??

it’s starting to get frustrating

to the point where he can hear the frustration through your texts

HIS NAME IS FELIX!!

YOU HAVE A NAME TO WORK OFF OF NOW!!!!

That small piece of information motivates you for the rest of the week

you give Felix your name in return, but he insists that neither of you should ask around for each other

(you can’t ask your friends if they know someone named Felix

but if you hear someone say “Felix” while you’re out and about, that works)

you’re still unable to find him for some time, but knowing Felix’s name makes you feel closer to him

You can’t video call Felix but you normally call him at least once a week

after knowing him for at least half a year, you get this warm feeling in your chest every time his name pops up on the top of your phone

One of your phone calls sounds something like this:

Felix: “Hey, y/n?”

You: “Yes?”

Felix: “Do you want to go out for lunch? I mean, once we find each other.”

You: “As in a date?”

Felix: “Yeah—I mean, if that’s okay!”

You: “Yes please!! So can you find me already istg 🙄”

Felix is itching to meet you too

…so he sends you a selfie

with a filter though! that way you don’t see his entire face

you send him 1 in return (also with a filter)

Felix immediately says “aww ur cute uwu”

and your heart m e l t s

you’d think, hey maybe that’ll help me find him

SPOILERS it doesn’t really help lmao

Your close friends really want to help lmao because they’ve been hearing about this “Brownie” boy you like

however, you & Felix are adamant of winning this competition because the person who wins doesn’t need to pay for your 1st lunch date lol

It’s the last Friday afternoon before you have a week-long holiday, when you’re hanging out in front of one of your friend’s classes to pick them up

you’re standing outside the building chatting with one of your other friends when your phone starts ringing in your pocket

other friend is like “ooOOOH is it brownie boy??”

You: “Oh yeah rip he’s probably calling because I missed some of his texts, give me a moment."

You’re about to pick up when the call drops

so you’re like ?? bruh what and are about to unlock your phone to see what Felix’s texts are about

That’s when you feel a tap on your shoulder

and a low Australian voice behind you says your name

your head whips around to find this cute face with freckles and a giant smile on his face

“Felix?!?”

“Heh, I found you~”

Dude doesn’t hesitate to hug you, pick you up, then spin you around

your friend is watching with a goofy smile but he doesn’t care

after he finally puts you down, you cup his face with both your hands

“The filters always hide your freckles… they’re like stars, Lix”

instead of a lunch date, Felix takes you out for dinner :DD

even though you lost he insists on paying :’))

your friends don’t even care that you’re ditching them ajlkfdhs they literally push you away to go eat with Felix lmao

and you return home with that warm feeling in ur heart still there

needless to say, he will arrange another date so he can bring you some homemade brownies

he is the brownie boy after all!!

[lewis-winters]

(gif by @lyselkatzfandomluvs)

oh? me? writing about single dad!lewis who is a disaster human being but a good dad to a precocious little girl named Bea who adores him but at the same time thinks her daddy is the silliest person to ever exist?

you bet your ASS i am.

anyway, here have this headcanon list:

Bea is Lew's little girl from a one night stand. her mom didn't want to abort, but she didn't want to keep her, either. Lew considered putting her up for adoption, but the second the doctors let him hold her he knew that that just wasn't an option.

at that point, Lew never really knew what love was. not really. but looking down at that lil bundle in his arms that resembled more a bean than human, he decided then and there that that is exactly what true love feels like.

Bea is AMAB and has always known she was a girl. Lew always indulged her, especially when she finally learned how to talk and walk and have opinions. if Bea said she wanted to wear a dress or play with dolls or grow out her hair, he'd let her and he'd sass down anybody that let her feel like she couldn't. bc of that, Bea never thought that she was anything but a girl for ages.

i mean, the only thing she truly hated was her name. bc it was a boy's name and was therefore very ugly.

when she was four, she told Lew and everybody that would listen that she wanted to be called Beatrix-with-an-X instead of the name they gave her. she heard it on tv one day and loved it so much, she just decided to use it and that was that.

I wouldn't say Lew didn't have his moments of crisis over it-- he had a whole paradigm shift, and he definitely had to read up some stuff and talk to people, but he never let Bea know it. that's his baby girl. and he loves her. he'd never forgive himself if he'd ever let her feel otherwise.

he calls her BumbleBea on a regular basis, but in his head and when referring to her to anybody else, he calls her Little Miss Nixon

occassionally Little Miss Hypochondriac if she's being particularly fussy that day

bc Bea is VERY fussy

she's under the belief that her daddy doesn't take care of himself very much. she is right. Lew does not like to admit it.

she prepares his vitamins and reminds him to drink water and eat his veggies

they take care of each other a lot

Lew makes sure Bea does her homework and is polite and gets dressed real nice and is making the right friends

Bea makes sure Lew remembers to brush his teeth or eat breakfast or drink water or dress up warm during the winter

their little mantra in the morning is--

Lew: Be good, but if you need to be bad--

Bea: Don't get caught!

Bea also understands sarcasm a bit too well for a baby child

Lew says it's the natural Nixon gene. Blanche says it's bc Bea spends way too much time with Lew.

Bea calls Lew two things: Daddy, on the regular, and Dada when she wants to be cuddled or carried or held or comforted

Lew has NO idea why she does, but every time he hears her call him Dada while holding out her arms in a silent request to be picked up, he melts into a puddle

George, Lew's old college buddy and Bea's godfather, and Blanche are her regular babysitters. she loves them both so much but she definitely loves Blanche more because when she's with Aunt Blanche she gets presents

George treats her like a mini adult, which just kinda reinforces why she's so fluent in sarcasm to begin with or why she's half as mischievous as she is.

Bea is a morning person. Lew is a night owl. when Bea was a baby, this was definitely a problem, bc she'd have Lew running to her side at 3 am, so much so that he just moved her bassinet to his room and then just little by little let her migrate to his bed and let her serve as his alarm clock.

but when she started to walk and talk and become big enough to do things on her own, they've come up with a system where she'd get up, try her best to make Lew coffee, then wake him up with kisses

the coffee is never good but Lew swallows it down anyway

Lew is very good at braiding hair for some reason

Bea always did say that her Daddy is fit to be a stay at home husband bc he keeps track of their household stuff better than his at work stuff

Lew doesnt work at the plant-- Stanhope didn't like the name Beatrix, let's just say. Lewis told him to go fuck himself. thankfully before doing that, he saved enough money to sustain him and Bea until he could find a job. also, he has a group of very good friends and an amazing sister who stuck by him and Bea, so really, leaving Nixon behind to get a fresh new start in New York with his baby girl was the best decision he has ever made

(Lew always says Bea saved him somehow-- taking care of another human being helped him learn, little by little, how to take care of himself. how to function. he wants to be a better man for Bea, wants to be able to be somebody she's proud of. and by wanting that and doing everything to be that, he's managed to heal himself. day by day. it hasn't been easy. but it has been worth it.)

(he still drinks, though. but never in front of Bea. and never more than a glass. he can't afford to go down that road right now. not with Bea.)

Bea meets Dick first. she's seven years old in a brand new school being run by her dad's college friend and her godmother, Kitty and Dick, fresh from his last tour in Iraq, is there to visit Kitty's boyfriend and fellow teacher, Harry, who is his old college buddy.

Bea likes Mr Winters very much and talks about him to Lew when she gets home

Dick, of course, is easily charmed by this precocious lil girl with an inquisitive nature and an oddly dry sense of humor. He's planning on getting a job in the school's administrative branch so he's there quite a lot. Bea always stops to talk to him, and he never fails to humor her. He rather enjoys her company.

Lew, otoh, is getting very jealous

all Bea can talk about is Mr Winters said this and Mr Winter said that and ooohhh did you know Mr Winters was a soldier? that's pretty cool

Lew has a 9-5 desk job. Bea doesn't think that's very cool.

bc of this, Lew does not like this Mr Winters on principle

All of Bea's godparents (George, Kitty, Lip, and Ron) and her Aunt Blanche think this is hilarious

Everytime Lew sees them, he grumbles about Mr Winters. This, of course, drives Kitty to find a way to introduce them.

so, during during the Parent Teacher Conference, Lew meets Dick. and he finds he does like Mr Winters after all. he likes Mr Winters a lot.

Dick, otoh, sees Bea light up and run into Lew's open arms, giggling when Lew peppers her face with kisses and raspberries, and immediately knows he is very much In Trouble.

Bea, being perceptive as she is, picks up on their mutual crushes on each other and thinks they're meant to be (she's right, of course) and immediately starts trying to push them together.

Bea: Mr Winters, do you like bad boys?

Dick, who most definitely has always had a thing for dark haired, rakish characters with hearts of gold and is also blushing very hard: Uh... sure I do

Bea: Great. Because my daddy is bad at everything.

it becomes Bea's mission to get her daddy and Mr Winters together

she doesn't have a plan for it. she just waits to throw them at each other at every opportunity until something happens.

she's very determined. Lew would stop and admire her ambition if only he wasn't busy fumbling into this new relationship with Dick while also doing his best to be a good dad.

and it's all very cute and fluffy and nothing bad ever happens ever bc this is my au, gdi, and i'm allowed to be as indulgent as i want, thank you.

[rhetoricalrogue]

Brain is tired and I can’t fully articulate my thoughts, but I’m having Nate/Moira AU feelings again.

Basically, it’s the AU where neither of them become Wardens, but

Nate surprises Moira by coming home earlier than expected and instead of stopping in Amaranthine, he goes to see his Best Girl first because years of exchanging letters and missing from a sea away are just too much to stay even one night away.

This is, unfortunately, the night that his father attacks Highever, 100% unaware that his eldest son is home. Nate and Moira (and Gilmore because if I’m doing an AU, Moira’s BFF Rory lives, GDI.) escape and are absolutely gutted with grief and feelings of betrayal

Something something “my father needs to be stopped”/“your father needs to be *destroyed*”/“that too” coping with the aftermath and figuring out what to do next leads them to Ostagar, where Moira’s brother was last headed to.

Meets Alistair and the Warden, can’t find Fergus, decide to head up north to Lothering before the horde sighting. Meet back up with the Warden & Co. and decide to join forces. Moira and Nate are nobles, they can gather allies in Redcliffe before moving into Denerim while W&Co. head to the Deep Roads

“Oh hi, fancy meeting you here” in Haven after checking in at Redcliffe = the Arl needing Andraste’s ashes and Team Highever already on the trail. Brief team up before splitting back in Redcliffe after curing the Arl. Game plan is for Team Highever to head to Denerim and gain favor while W&Co. take on the Brecillian forest.

Pit stop in Amaranthine to check in on Nate’s siblings, keeping a low profile to get a reading on the city’s mood re: Rendon Howe

Something something “oh hi again” while trying to free Anora. Big boss battle with Rendon. “How could you turn on me, I loved you!”/“No, father. Bryce loved me like a son. You only loved the idea of what kind of status I could bring to you.”

More fallout from Big Boss Battle re: revenge and most of Moira’s original story arc. They gladly turn Amaranthine over to the Wardens since Gwaren is without a Teyrn and oh HEY, what do you know, you have two people who’ve been trained since childhood to run a teyrnir!

More tying up loose ends go here before The End. Some full circle moments with “Eleanor would be a nice name, should we have a girl.”/“I don’t know. I think this one should have a fresh start with their first name. I would like to use Bryce as a middle name, should we have a son.”/“I think that’s a fantastic idea.”

[ethelphantom]

Love You Like Nothing I’ve Had Before || chapter 1

Hey yeah, here I am, unable to not write about soulmates because gdi soulmates are great ok. This is the prompt fill for day 9, soulmates AU. I hope you enjoy it! If you want to be tagged to my Daminette December prompt fills, just hit me up, and if you only want to be tagged to this once I get the next chapter done (the fic got a little out of hand and I decided to cut it for now), you better say you only want to be tagged to this. 

Ao3 || Chapter 2

This is Maribat fanfiction. Don’t like; don’t read.

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There was a meter that told something about one's soulmate printed somewhere on everyone's body. Everyone had one, whether it be romantic or platonic, but just because everyone had a soulmate didn't mean that everyone had a happy ending. Life was cruel, and sometimes you lost all the colours in your vision before you saw them, sometimes your soulmate's name got smudged and their meter went to zero before their time. Sometimes people lost their soulmates much before they ever even had the chance to meet them. Even children knew this, but it was rare that parents told their children what the meter meant until they were older. There was a reason to it, and a good one at that.

That was also why a little girl with black hair tied into pigtails looked at her wrist with confusion and bewilderment before she walked to the kitchen where she knew her parents would be.

“Huh…? How is my meter so high… Maman, what does it mean when your meter is full?”

A simple, innocent question asked by a young child, likely no older than five years of age, who only knew the pattern on her arm was a meter that told something about her soulmate. She didn’t know what it was for, her parents had never told her.

There was also their first name under the meter, but Marinette couldn’t read it. Originally she thought it was because she just didn’t know how to read in general, but then she learnt the alphabet well and realised they weren’t even the same letters they used in France.

Her papa had told her that was because her soulmate’s native tongue wasn’t French or any other language she spoke. They had different letters in their language, he said.

“Are you sure it’s high, dear?”, her maman asked, never once stopping to look at her daughter. It was understandable, she was baking, but maybe, just maybe, little Marinette would have wished her maman would have paid more attention to her.

“Yes, maman. I drew a picture, too.”

That was right. Only she could see the meter or the name on her arm, that much she knew since she had tried to ask her parents about the name but they told her they couldn’t see it. You could only see your own and your soulmate’s one.

She also couldn’t see her parents that well.

Well, of course she could, but they looked so boring to her. They were colourless, just like everyone but herself. Herself she could see in colour, the bright blue eyes and the black hair. Only after meeting her soulmate would she see the world in colour, but even then other humans would remain monochrome, stay in the eye colour of her soulmate. She could only ever see herself and her soulmate in full colour, or so she was told.

And who was she to say her parents, her grandparents, teachers, everyone, was wrong? She was still a child, she didn’t know much, just like all of them always said.

“Let me se—” Her maman just stopped as Marinette handed her the drawing. She’d made everything as similar as she could, and finally, finally her maman looked at her.

Marinette did not like that horrified look in her eyes.

“So, I suppose it is time we explained what the meters mean, honey. It tells you how dangerous your soulmate is. Perhaps not to you, but in general. It can get lower and higher over time, depending on how dangerous your soulmate is at that moment. Usually the meter gets higher over long periods of time, and they only get to this level if the person does martial arts, but I have never heard of a meter this high on a child. That is a little... concerning. I wonder if your soulmate is alright.”

“What does dangerous mean?”

“If someone or something is dangerous, it means they can cause you harm and hurt you really bad. For example, touching a hot oven is dangerous if you don’t have oven mitts. Going with a stranger is also dangerous.”

“Oh okay. Can I have a cookie?”

“Sure, dear. You can have one.”

⬷۵⤐

The next time Marinette thought about her soulmate more was when she met a person who was writing something that looked a lot like the name written in shining blue ink on her wrist in the park. A nine-year-old Marinette was aware of the stranger danger, of course, but she thought it wasn’t too bad if she asked the person if they could help her find out what the name was. It was her approaching them, she was in a public place and she wasn’t going to go anywhere with them, it would be fine.

“Excuse me, monsieur, but could you maybe help me?”

The man in question looked at her before he smiled at her and put his notebook aside. “Of course. What do you need help with?”

Marinette sighed in relief and sat down on the bench next to him. “Well, I saw what you were writing and it looked a lot like the name on my wrist. If I tried to write it down for you, could you tell me what their name is? I cannot read it and I don’t even recognise the letters so I cannot look it up myself”, she explained with a smile, hoping the man would help her. She didn't know what else she could do to find out their name. The man handed her his notebook and pen and told her to write the name there. She did. It took her a few minutes, but she managed.

“I’m sorry it probably doesn’t look very good, it’s difficult for me to write”, she apologised as the man read the name.

“Don’t worry, mademoiselle, you wrote it just fine. Anyway, their name is Damian. I wish you the best of luck with finding them, child”, the man told her. He was kind, she decided, so she pulled out a box of macarons and offered them to the man.

“Here, you can have a few as thanks. They’re from the Dupain-Cheng patisserie, and it’s the best in Paris!”, she said happily and stood there, waiting for him to take up her offer.

He did, eventually, which made her happy. Especially the expression he made when he took a bite was great, he seemed to enjoy it a lot. Marinette was glad, she loved seeing people smile. If there was something she found worth living for, it was making people smile and helping them find joy in life.

She waved the man goodbye before she left. After all, she’d agreed to meet Nino soon, she didn’t want to be too late.

⬷۵⤐

Marinette woke up with a choked gasp and shot up in her bed. She was panting and had her pajama shirt in a tight grip. She felt like choking and could almost taste blood in her mouth. There was a piercing pain in her chest. It almost felt like someone had impaled her chest with a sword and tried to inflict as much pain on her as they could.

It took her quite the while to be able to focus her vision on anything. Everything was blurry and dark. But, when she was finally able to see something, the first thing that caught her eye was that her meter had gone down and the name under it was smudged. She had studied the Arabic alphabet, so she could now read it by herself, but there was no way she could understand the name anymore.

Then she realised she couldn’t see the colour of her shirt or hands anymore.

Marinette’s eyes widened and an ear-piercing scream escaped her lungs. Her parents rushed to her room and found their little girl in her bed, crying so much her tears ran freely down her face. She was hyperventilating and clutching her shirt in her hands, her tiny body outright trembling.

Her maman ran to her and lifted her chin up with her hand, horrified when she saw her eyes were glassy and unfocused. It was most definitely worse than a simple nightmare. There was something actually wrong with her.

“Qiānjīn, breathe. Talk to me, please, tell me what’s wrong”, her maman told her, pulling Marinette in her embrace and squeezing her tight against her chest. She kissed her forehead and wiped her tears away as her papa turned on the lights so they could see better.

“They— he— his name— I can’t read it! It’s smudged! And I can’t see colour… The meter went down— he’s… He’s... gone.”

She could barely get the words out of her mouth, but she somehow managed by summoning all her will power, her voice quieting down with each word. The last word Marinette could barely even breathe out. Once more she broke down sobbing and buried her face to her knees, curling up in a ball.

Her maman and papa didn’t know what to say to that — their little girl, merely ten years of age, had woken up only to find out her soulmate was dead.

There was truly nothing they could say to make it better, and so they just stayed there and let her sob her heart out.

⬷۵⤐

A numb emptiness had settled itself in Marinette’s chest after her soulmate died. She couldn’t dress in her favourite clothes because they were all bright colours and she couldn’t bear to dress in such things when she couldn’t even see them well. It hurt too much to remember that the one she was destined to be with was gone forever.

“What happened, ‘Nette? I can’t remember the last time I saw you wear anything but these dark colours — is it all black?”

That’s what her best friend asked her one day in class. Nino was worried about her well-being. She could barely get the words out to tell Nino that her soulmate was gone, that she would never meet them again (it felt too final to say it out loud), but when she finally managed to, Nino smiled at her sadly and hugged her tight, saying he was there for her. He was. He kept coming over to talk to her and do her favourite things with her. Even if it didn’t make her smile, she appreciated it.

A few weeks later, her teacher had one day pulled her aside and asked how she was doing, concerned about her as she’d noticed Marinette only ever dressed in black now and there was never a smile on her face anymore. She still never failed to be kind to others, but that kindness no longer included a smile to everyone. Chloé had toned it down as well for even she knew that losing one’s soulmate was a horrible ordeal, something no one should ever have to go through — and especially not at such a young age.

Marinette started wearing gloves at all times, scared that if she caught a glimpse of the smudged name on her wrist, she’d break down crying and that she’d no longer be able to stop. Sometimes it happened regardless, and during those times, it took Marinette her all to ignore the aching in her chest and the burning tears in her eyes. And each time, each time she tried not to choke on her sobs.

In bed, she often curled up in a ball and tried to cry, but she’d run out of tears a week after her soulmate’s death. She dragged her nails down her legs, hoping to distract herself from the burning in her throat, but it never helped.

She was hurting, and there was nothing that could help her feel better.

⬷۵⤐

It took a her a few months before she dared to look at her wrist again. She’d refused to do it under any circumstances, but after those months, she told herself she needed to bid her soulmate adieu.

And so, she took off her glove and pressed a light kiss on the meter. Marinette looked at it and forced a small smile on her face, hoping he wouldn’t be too mad at her for faking a smile. After all, she was doing it for him.

But, once she managed to bat the tears away from her eyes, she could clearly see the name on her wrist again. The meter’s levels were high again, which then prompted her to pay attention to the colours on her. At first she thought the universe had chosen her a new soulmate, but the name was exactly the same in the exact same handwriting, so no, her soulmate had simply come back to life. And…

She had a chance to see them again.

Either they’d only now come back or she’d been unable to notice them. It wouldn’t have been surprising, she had been trying to ignore the missing colours to the best of her abilities, after all.

Marinette rushed downstair to her maman and papa, smiling more brightly than she had in weeks, in over a month. They were surprised to see her be so happy but they were glad about it regardless.

“So, what made you so happy, honey?”, her papa asked her as she danced around the living room before stopping in front of her parents.

“He’s back! The meter shows high levels again, the name is back and I can see colours again!”, she laughed and threw herself at her papa, hugging him as tight as she could. Her maman came around and hugged them both, smiling into her hair.

“I’m happy for you, qiānjīn. Your soulmate better never do this again or I will have to find them and exchange a few words with him about making you sad”, her maman told her as her papa squeezed them both. Marinette laughed at her mother, imagining her short mother glare at her soulmate she suspected was taller than either of them as she scolded him for hurting her little girl.

Marinette knew she once again had a good chance at finding happiness, and so she smiled. A tear escaped her eye but, for the first time in a month, it wasn’t a tear of sadness, no. This time, it told the world of her happiness.

⬷۵⤐

Years later, when she was 16 years of age and suffered under Lila’s reign in the class, she ran into a young man while trying to find the Wayne Enterprises and fell down on the ground. Her class had left her behind, but that was fine.

Well, it wasn’t, but she got to see more of the city, and that was certainly nice.

Besides, better it was her who was left behind rather than anyone else, as she was the only one who could for sure defend herself if necessary. After all, she was Ladybug, she had been that for years already — she had enough training.

“Je suis vraiment désolé— I mean, I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to run into—” And then she had to cut herself off because the world shouldn’t look like what it did.

There were colours.

There were actual colours all around her.

She could see the blue of the sky and the green of the trees. The cars that were of oh so many different, beautiful colours.

And, when Marinette looked up from where she was, she could see the young man towering over her and offering a hand to help her up had frozen in place, but what truly mattered was that she could see him in colours. His green eyes stared at her before they softened at the sight of her as he understood who this was, and Marinette could feel her cheeks hearing up.

“Does your— Does your name happen to be Damian?”

The man nodded before asking a question in return, “And can I suppose you are Marinette?”

Marinette smiled and gave him an enthusiastic “yes!”, grabbing Damian’s — her soulmate’s — hand and let him pull her up to her feet. “It’s lovely to finally meet you, soulmate.”

___

@ladysblackcat @daminett4life @tinyterror333 @annabellabrookes @theyellowfeverexperience @thethirdwheelfriend @daminette-december2019

[andrea-lyn]

Tagged by: @lambourngb, and this is the perfect thing for a lazy Sunday

Name(s):  Manda, but my pen-name is AndreaLyn because I’m all about branding and I’ve written under this name since the start

Fandom(s): Ones I’m producing for right now are The Old Guard, Roswell New Mexico, and Red White and Royal Blue, but other mains that keep popping up include Magnificent Seven, Star Trek, Star Wars, and early days of H50

Where you post: AO3, and the occasional tumblr drabblet/ficlet that inevitably ends up there

Most Popular One Shot (by kudos) 
this year :  hallelujah, you're still mine for The Old Guard, which is four of Joe and Nicky’s sleepy mornings over the last 1000 (ish) years; Overall:  ready for my close up, mr. dameron which remains my most popular fic to date. 


Most Popular Multi-Chapter (by kudos)
 Overall: See above! It’s a three-parter. 

Favorite story you’ve written so far:
 Forever and always,  A Love Like the Sea, a Band of Brothers post-canon AU which I will always aspire to do better than

Fic you were nervous to post: This year? The Old Guard foursome fic, because smut isn’t really my natural inclination to write (...next Sunday’s Big Bang has a scene in it that was like pulling teeth because of this), so I was genuinely super nervous and close to a touch of anxiety to the point I had to go for a drive because I was nervous it was just bad 

How do you choose your titles?: Unless there’s a turn of phrase in mind, it’s always a song lyric and from something that embodies the feeling of the piece

Do you outline?: Yes, but only in that I need to know what the ending is. I’ll outline through the middle, but that can change and ebb and flow, but I need to know where it’s going 

Complete: This year? 52 works (....yeah, it’s been a lot), and on AO3 for all my years, 409.

In-Progress: Mostly Big Bangs. Two RNM ones that are about to be posted, one TOG mini bang, a TOG big bang (for January), TOG gift exchange (done, thankfully), my Yuletide contribution, and then three fics, including: - A sequel to the mind reading Joe/Nicky, which involves Booker reacting to their new ability - Modern AU in which Nicky mistakingly thinks Joe and Booker are dating - Cowrite with @christchex that we will finish, gdi

Coming soon/not yet started: Another cowrite with @christchex once the existing cowrite is done, and then, strangely, nada. The plan is to finish up all the WIPs and then shift over to my two original novel ideas for the new year. I’ll likely do some tumblr ficlets at some point, but I really need to get serious about finishing at least one of the two novels. 

Prompts?: I usually will announce when they’re open, just in case I am drowning in exchanges (...like, now), but as mentioned, I suspect I will open them up some time next year

Upcoming work you’re most excited about: I’m actually really getting into the TOG Big Bang, because I got past the exposition and we’re into the frantic action now, so I am super excited! 

Tagging: @kaydeefalls, @queersirius, @christchex, @morallygreywaren, @aewriting, @insidious-intent if you wish!