#I'm actually quite proud of it probably because it's my first time attempting a.... comic?

[thevoiceofdesertbluffs]

Saw this post in a comp and immediately thought of, yeah, you guessed it, Kasper. Anyways this took a lot longer than i thought it would

(original post below the cut)

[jpeg-indulgence]

Celebrating rn...

Do you have any songs that you relate to you and Vergil? Do you have any date ideas that you think he'd specifically do for your sake alone? What's your favorite headcanon(s) about him? Do you have a ship dynamic that you consider the two of you to have? Can't wait to hear 🎉

- @brutally-loving

HEHEHEHE OKAY HERE WE GO 👏

1) There are a few, and a lot of them are kinda bittersweet sounding because I guess that's just the aesthetic we have. Depressioncore. (Don't worry I'm doing fine I just like slower sounding songs)

Me and My Husband by Mitski is a big one. I actually have a vent comic thing I made a bit ago that I'm going to reblog right after this since I have more followers now and I'm proud of it. It just gives the whole "I may be stupid but I got myself a big sword man and that's gotta count for something."

Eyes Blue Like the Atlantic by Sista Prod is one of the more aesthetic ones. It's slower and softer, but hints at deeper feelings, which fits our dynamic really well. More on that later. (Also we both have blue eyes and it's a duet so you knowww)

I have so many but I'm going to keep it short and finish with THE quintessential Jpeg and Vergil song which is HEAR ME OUT

Perfect Girl by Mareux

Okay. So. This is the song that I was listening to on repeat when I realized that oh no I was really in love with this fictional man.

There's a lot more backstory but it's kinda personal so I won't dig too deep, but the main point is that not only is the aesthetic of the song OUR AESTHETIC AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, the lyrics actually really convey really well what it was like to slowly realize how deep the whole attraction thing went. It felt like a slow burn. Nngngnorwk I love it so much it's such a good song. Kind of awkward because most of the other yumeshippers songs are usually wholesome love song ballad things and mine is mf Mareux. I haven't actually done those "our aesthetic" yume templates because I don't know how I'd explain that. 😭

2) I think HONESTLY he'd be forced to pick up gaming. When it comes to going out for dates sure yeah I'll do whatever but sooner or later Vergil knows one of these days I'm going to ask if we can stay home whilst picking up the controllers for some super smash bros and the poor man is going to have to randomly jam buttons if he hopes to survive.

At some point I'd feel bad for him and start faking my losses in hopes he wouldn't notice (he would) or just suggest a card game after like the fourth round of him nearly cutting the tv in half out of pure rage.

On the other hand, knowing him, it would probably bother him so much he wouldn't do much else except train to get better at the game until he started demolishing me at it. Then I'd be the one rage quitting. Poetic justice.

Also I main him in MVC3 so he'd essentially be getting beaten repeatedly by himself which would probably drive him insane.

SORRY I RAMBLED THIS IDEA IS JUST SO CUTE TO ME 💙💙💙

3) There's a few, a couple of them being:

According to his voice actor, he'd actually be a good dad. He's naturally very protective and would probably be an almost helicopter parent and the idea of this big tough warrior man who can cut apart a giant demon by simply flicking his wrist running around and attempting to look after a baby is so adorable to meee.

There are so many jokes about him being a boomer who struggles with technology and I love the idea of walking in and realizing that he's been attempting to figure out how to attach an image to an email for the last hour.

There was a YouTube video where he tries ice cream for the first time since childhood and gets hooked on mint chocolate chip. This is canon to me.

4) So AS FAR AS SHIP DYNAMICS GO, this is actually kind of oddly embarrassing because when I first fell for the guy I was like "why him lol we have nothing in common" only to slowly realize, wait, no, we have waaaay too much in common and my heart just figured it out faster. Props to what is probably undiagnosed autism in the disguise of hormones.

We both are very similar in terms of how we would show affection, since we are both extremely introverted and struggle with physical touch, so I'd reckon in the beginning we'd both feel like we HAD to constantly express feelings, or hug and kiss, but after realizing we both struggled to do so, relaxed more and let it happen naturally.

We'd probably both not express too much outwardly, since we struggle with words, but pick up on patterns and demeanors the other one did when trying to.

Same thing with physical touch. We might not hug and kiss all the time, but we would when we both felt comfortable and loved, which would make it all the more special.

OKAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME RAMBLE THIS HAS BEEN SO FUN FOR ME I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!!! 💙💙💙

[theartfulmegalodon]

Well dang it, I've had a nibble of engagement, and I'm finally letting it tempt me. Wanna read my comic scripts? I'm really hoping you do!

It is planned as a 30-issue comic series. I have chosen to write the entire thing and make it as good as I can before I attempt to draw any of the actual pages. Partly this is perfectionism, and partly it is because I know how long it would take me to attempt to draw it, and how unlikely I'd be to ever complete it. I wanted to focus on completing something, and I've chosen the writing.

I have written 15 (half!) of the 30 issues, and they have already seen many, many revisions. (Much thanks to the three people who have read them and given me feedback!) I am quite confident that these first 15 issues are very close to their final forms, and they are definitely good enough for me to share with you all.

I have also done a few sketches and bits of standalone art for the characters*, so while I have no comic pages drawn yet, I will occasionally include some of these sketches in with the script, just to give your optic nerves more of a workout. It's the least I can do! I'm thinking I can post one issue script per week? That's 15 weeks of new content for ya, with more to eventually follow!

*All designs subject to small changes down the line.

I post these issues mainly to share them. My experience has been that people almost never want to read a comic script, but sadly, the writing is as much as I can do right now, and I am in fact proud of what I've done so far, and very much looking forward to tackling the second half. However, I am always looking for feedback, and I will be WIDE OPEN for questions, critique and suggestions. Not saying I'll necessarily change things based on your feedback, but I do welcome it! Also, of course, I'd love it if you shared these around, talked them up to your friends, if you like them!

Read on for more about the story itself!

River & Ash is a slow-burn supernatural gay romance, set in an alternate version of our real world. The material is treated maturely (I like to think) but with only about a PG-13 rating. (No smut, no super-strong language.) There is angst in parts of it, but there is also a lot of wholesome shmoop. And while the focus is mostly on the evolution of the relationship between the two main characters, there is also plot, and mini-arcs, with minor superheroics, alternate history pop culture, and an original mythology and history that is teased and then slowly revealed over the course of the story. It also happens to have a very proactive, driven individual for a main character (River). I say this just in case, like me, you don't love when magic/the supernatural just sort of happens to the protagonist to kick off a story.

Ripped from the introductory page that begins every issue…

"Once, the world was full of magic… because humanity once shared the world with demons. History tells that for thousands of years they coexisted, sometimes happily, sometimes not, but one truth never changed: any human who made a deal with a demon would be granted incredible power of their own… for a price.

But in the Middle Ages, during the rise of the Catholic church, a small pocket of humanity attempted to purge these magical beings from existence. The details were lost to time, but what is known is that the demons who survived collectively renounced mankind and disappeared, removing themselves and their influence. 1101 became known as the year magic vanished from the world.

Centuries later, on the same day he suffers a horrifying loss, River McAllister is given what appears to be a real demon book. These rare, indestructible relics have been mostly hoarded away, and there hasn't been a confirmed demon sighting in over a thousand years. It seems impossible. He knows it probably won't work. But if he can find a way to translate it, he might just be able to summon the demon that belongs to it… and maybe make a deal of his own."

The first will be posted forthwith. Thank you in advance so very much!

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

Happy new year everyone 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I know 2020 has been hard for everyone.

And I want everyone to know, suffering isn't a contest and we all suffer in different ways. But I feel I should give my year in Review. Just some things that happened to me personally.

This was an intense, and long and spiritual and emotional journey for me...

I really discovered what it meant to have community, family and what my life means to me.

But I feel I need to get this in writing cause I can remember the year with vivid detail and I will probably forget if I don't get it down.

Do I have to share this publically online to my tumblr account for a bunch of strangers to see? not really.

Do I want to?

Yes. I think so. Just from how so many people on tumblr and real life have touched me.

This is kinda long and no one needs to read this.

(idk how to do a readmore on mobile. But this is where I would add it later. No one needs to read if they don't want to.)

January/February: (and some background on the last five years of my life cause.....well. it's important.)

As people knew, I got way into Invader Zim last summer. I spent most of my waking life working a dead end job at a grocery store. I lived a sad lonely life, going straight home to a single dark studio apartment. With not many material possessions outside of games, my laptop and my tablet to my name. Half of my material loves, such as home furnishings and books were still in boxes from when I moved in. In case I ever had to move again, or get some "big screenshot or copywriter" job in the city.

....

I lived in that city in the same dead end job and apartment for five years.

No friends. No social life. I often refused to make doctor appointments or attempt to establish myself in that city. I didn't even talk to anyone in my workplace.

Work. Go online. Go to sleep.

I lived like that for five years.

I thought it was good.

Even my therapist thought I was doing well.

When I really wasn't. My main character flaw I struggle with is motivation.

I can talk to someone about very detailed plans I have to fix a problem... But I tend to never follow through.

Just because I can describe in detail how to fix my personal problems, it doesn't mean I will do it.

(I have gotten better at this but it's a major struggle)

I might have been a Zombie during the day...

But by night I was pouring my soul into my AU and my analysis.

After being so thoughly ignored or overlooked by the Naruto fandom and the Undertale fandom, I felt like I had finally found my home and was settling into a community there.

I just loved that people loved what I had to say.

Especially my AU.

It's no secret that a lot of themes in my au revolve around found family, grief, and loss.......

Fatherhood, in particular.

What it means to be a father, how much do you need to try when you mess up, how willing should a child forgive their parent, especially those that have wronged you and how much of it is factually accurate and simply a self projection of what children want their parents to be and visa versa... What amount of forgiveness and change is nessasary...is it needed?

....

It's no secret that a lot of my AU is a giant coping mechanism for my Dad's death. Espessially the falling out and growing closer with a lot of my family members throughout the years following his death. (Most of the time I keep it ambiguous to how it relates to my personal life unless I include a readmore that states so outright. I feel my au can be enjoyed by a variety of people in the fandom who don't need to know me as a person or my life story.)

My Dad passed away in 2016 in February and my family still feels the aftershocks to this day.

It's part of the reason I moved to the city, alienated myself from my family and people that loved me and refused to experience life for five years.

My entire world was Zim, and I was okay.

March: When America finally realized and started to feel the effects of the pandemic....

A lot of people got scared.

Me included.

I didn't have any streaming services or access to the news. So I only heard accounts from my mom.

I didn't understand why the store was so dead quiet and empty for a few days, then it went into mass chaos and panic in the span of two days.

It felt like Retail black friday in the worst way. Everyone was packed like sardines. Everyone was yelling. The lines at the registers bled into the clothing department.

I was witness to customers shoving others for toilet paper, being rude to cashier's and just overall unpleasantness.

At the time, I didn't even fully grasp what the pandemic was, and I feel a lot of people at the time didn't either.

I ended up absentmindedly scratching my eyebrow in front of a customer and she screamed and villanised me for it. That they didn't want groceries touched by my "unclean hands"

I ended up breaking down into tears.

The customer behind me gave me a hug and told me I was doing a great job.

But the damage was done. It was the final straw, I couldn't stop crying and I was breaking apart.

Thankfully my Boss (the one who likes me) pulled me aside and asked what's wrong.

It was then that I quit. No notice. Same day. I had to get out of there.

I was planning to move to an apartment with my sister in the summer, but my Mom offered for me to move back in with her temperarily just so I can get out of the city and away from the pandemic.

So I did.

I got scared, broke my lease a month early and quit my job of five years that gave me nothing back.

He told me, "take care of yourself and your family, I won't keep you here, do what you need to do."

So I did.

April-June:

A very eventful few months.

My mom offered for me to live at her place, but for some reason she was acting like I would live there forever. That this wasn't a temporary arrangement, and that I didn't have an apartment set up already.

This was in large part to my sister, who had lived with my mom taking advantage of her for years.

Even though my sister and I were going to move in together, I was just never sure about it cause of how she never packed her stuff or made any effort to find a job.

My mom often acted like I was lazy and not searching and was treating me like... Well, an unruly teenager instead of a woman of 29 years. She acted like I was a failure for returning home when it was her idea in the first place.

I would have just been petrified in the city.

Like usual, I retreated to my au again.... And in the spring, something eventful happened.

In may, 8th 2020:

I was invited by @rissynicole to join an invader zim discord.

Now, I've never really used discord before. I always thought it's interface is too confusing.. and I'm a member of a few other iz discords and I usually don't follow them that closely.

Rissy assured me it was different cause some friends of thiers made it and it was smaller.

Before I knew it, I was sharing memes and getting to know everyone there.

It wasn't long after I invited my partner in IZ crimes, @paketdimensioncomic who was genuinely wary of iz servers due to a bad experience with the last one they were a part of.

But soon they were sharing memes and laughing with everyone else.

My eyes were starting to open and I was able to connect to fans of my work in an interpersonal way. And I was able to discover new artists and aus I never knew about.

I was also able to meet so many others of the community and invite them to the server myself.

The moo-ping 10 server kept me sane while I was living with my judgmental mother.

Not only that, the summer was very productive for my au.

Drawing was all I did, and it was a huge break from the job as a cashier I had.

Not only that, June came, and with it, me and Ceph's first collab fic:

A result of us just going back and forth in our DMs constantly about Professor Membrane and how he changed in ETF for the better and how much we adamantly stan "trying-to-be-a-good-dad-brane" and how much of his ETF development has to be implied off screen in order for the emotional resolution in the movie to matter.

The only reason I never professed my love for Membrane as a character in the fandom before the fic dropped was.... Well....

Membrane can be a decisive character in the fandom and I was so worried people would hate me if I did an analysis on him, simply because he's not the best parent in the world. (As an understatement)

Ceph and I really encouraged each other to scream our love for the science himbo loud and proud more frequently and so often.... I actually start to see less Membrane hate posts and breakdowns then their used to be.... I like to think it's a combination of Me and Ceph's influence, along with ETF and the Quarterly's painting Membrane in a slightly more nuanced light then he was previously.

I never wrote a collab fic before and it's such a rewarding and fun and unique experience that I don't think I'll ever have again. And I love working with Ceph on our fics so much.

So much so we did it again...

July-August:

I never thought I would be one of those people who writes NSFW IZ fic... But here I am.

The Brainbrane au started.... An au of my au where Membrane and the Computer fall in love and Membrane makes him a body.

This ship was based around the idea where we joked that Membrane and Zim's Computer would have funny interactions if they ever met, under the pretense Membrane thinks Computer is Zim's parent.

Our headcanons morphed and shifted until we just full blown started shipping them.

Just because Membrane and Zim's Computer have overall REALLY entertaining chemistry.

It's a character dynamic never seen in the show or comics (yet) and I imagine thier interactions to be nothing but entertaining banter.

The fic was also born from spite... Making fun of the troupes and cliches that we found personally destestible in some questionable zadr fics.

So an angry ace and a demi-bisexual collab on a porn and end up blessing the fandom with

Compapa headcanons,

Computer being recognized as a more common used fanon character,

The ship of Brainbrane.

The fandom having a crisis of "oh God, not only are we xenophiles we're technophiles too!!!" Or "why you gotta give Zim's Computer an ass"

More android Computer designs

It was an eventful summer.

In the midst of all this, I moved into my new place, got a new job, and I was able to see my friend (who is def my platonic straight soul mate) who lives in Indiana.

She came to visit, showed me how to decorate and how to take care of my body better! Things were looking up! It was great.

September-November:

My job was at a boat store. If was approaching the fall and my hours were being severely cut.

I was getting into a rut of depression again.

I thought things were changing but the same routine I was trying to escape from was the same thing coming back.

But instead of letting it take hold, I decided I was going to do something about it... I was gonna visit a museum and go with my sister. Just... variety stimulation.

Well that didn't happen.

I talked about this shortly in my au itself...but..

My sister had a complete mental breakdown.

She stopped taking her meds, went off the deep end and was in the hospital a total of five times throughout November.

A lot of it was acting out and the perfect storm of environmental factors that made her scream and act out so she would keep going back to the hospital.

It was traumatizing for me.

I just can't explain what it's like. For her and for me to be in that position.

I'm not telling the full story and a lot of bullshit things happened I won't share here.

She got diagnosed with bipolar one and my mom expected me to be a caretaker for her.

I threatened to disown my family and move away out of state.

It was just too much for me to handle.

So much I was a nervous wreck.

I tried to pick up a second job... Cause my sister was in the mental ward so frequently and couldn't pay the bills.

But I was fired within a week cause I was so stressed I couldn't retain the basic information they were training me for.

It was an office job.

My dream.

It could have been.

I was fired from something I really wanted.

I was only there for three days.

I could not retain any information.

I was a mess.

My sister was a trigger, my mom wanted me to live with her. I couldn't live like this.... I had to get out.

I had to get out.

December:

Remember my Indiana friend?

Well the first week of December is my birthday.

My 30th to be exact.

While I did pick up a seasonal position at Target (not my first pick)

I took the first week of December off so I could spend time with her. Cause she agreed, I needed a break from this crap.

Surviving 30 years is cause to celebrate and if I had to celebrate with my sister I would have cried.

I know there was a risk traveling out of state during a pandemic...

But I needed out, I needed a friend..

And I kinda wanted to look at the place since I was considering moving there.

My friend's mom was sick so she avoided me and her daughter and got us a hotel room.

It was fun! I got to swim in a salt water pool, we talked about Naruto, I showed her the iz and su art books I brought, also Computer and Membrane tea.

I also got to meet her other friends and get crunk. And her bf who is super nice and funny!

I had a super fun birthday....

Until her mom told my friend that her grandparents had covid and that was what she had. And my friend got sick within that same day.... As did I.

I owe so much to her family.

I was an entire state away...about a ten hour drive from home.... She let me stay at her house. "The covid house" we called it.

Cause everyone (except the father. He avoided everyone and booked a hotel immediately cus he was an ER doctor) had covid within a day.

I called in, the test results were positive and I had to stay with her family for ten days quarantine before I could work again.

Which would have been fine....

If my tumblr didn't log me out perminately of my old account. @dana-chan325 .... Which really sucked cause I had a constant headache and was too sick to engage with tumblr or much of the fandom. I didn't want to make a new account when my head was in a bad fog and I could barely breathe or smell.

It's not like I saw much of my friend either.... We all slept at different hours and she had more symptoms then I did.

It was just netflix, danganronpa v3 and cry.

I was miserable, but at the same time.... Not?

I really feel like God himself was the one who pulled me off from tumblr, and my living situation.

Maybe a whole extra week feeling like a bobblehead was what I needed.

It gave me some much needed clarity on my relationships with my mom and sis and friend.

Running away to Indiana was not the solution here.

Once I was better within ten days and no longer had a leave of absence, I drove home.

I am glad I fully recovered (but from how I understand it, my dear friend is still ill. I'm praying for her)

I might have gone to work a bit too soon, cause I had an asthma attack after trying to unload a single cart in the span of six hours.

My boss lectured that my speed was unacceptable, and even though I explained the covid situation and breathing problems many times, she threatened that I'd be fired if I'm that slow again.

Que the next few days of work where they put me on register.

Instantly I was sent into a panic remembering the last time I was on the register and how that panic attack caused me to quit.

I even asked if I could go back to stocking, since my breathing had improved. My boss assured me that I was put on the register cause they needed help and nothing to do with my covid thing.

Then as December concluded and the new year began, my boss said that this was the last shift for me cause my position was seasonal and they were letting a lot of people go.

I then asked why I was on the schedule for Sunday, and he told me to ignore it and I'm free to reapply for full-time.

I mean.... They can act smart about it...

But putting your general merchandise stocker onto register after she had an asthma attack and missed working the first two weeks of December due to covid.....

Not a good look.

So once again, I'm jobless once more.

Will probably continue to live with my sister for awhile.

But I do not feel as if it's a bad thing....

I met so many good people this year....

My friend's family even gave me 500 usd to cover my rent since I couldn't work for a majority of December.

I've seen evil and good from humanity this year. I've seen acts of god, good friends and what my real family means to me as well as friends I consider family.

This year really made me look back at the person in the mirror and say,

"I deserve better."

And actually worked for it this time.

Oh and after Christmas I got a horrible yeast infection that burns over most of my body currently.

Very accurate doodle to the pain I'm in right now.

(seriously my body is a fungus.)

But hey, good news, I respected myself enough to go to the doctor about it!!

So that's progress.

I really hope 2021 holds good things for me.

Thank you to the mooping 10 server for always being there and keeping me sane,

Thank you tumblr for liking my au and everything.

AND A SUPER SPECIAL THANK YOU TO @evartandadam and her family for housing me and my dumb diseased ass. Everyone, she is an angel and I can't express how much she means to me. Please check out her art and buy her stuff on redbubble.

Anyways... Byebye 2020.

I look forward to what I can accomplish for myself this year.

[onceandfuturehimbo]

I have been tagged by @winterfrosted to pick 5 of my favorites creations and tell you something behind the creative process 💛

as always I'll add the obligatory keep reading to save you from the long ass post this will inevitably turn out to be because ✨I literally can't stop talking✨

so, in no particular order:

this the queen's gambit edit I wouldn't say I'm particularly good at coloring gifs, usually the opposite actually 😂 but I'm quite proud of how the colors in most of the gifs in this set turned out. As a redhead myself, I know the best color combo for red/orange hair is green because it looks amazing, and the execution ended up looking even better than I thought. I even saved a screenshot of the before and after of the first one because I liked it so much. tbh you never realize how dull and dark movies/shows are until you try to gif them 😳

this mazikeen edit The way I fought with davinci resolve for an entire day just to get that text effect. It's been a week and to this day I still don't understand what I did to get it to look like that, I have not been able to replicate it even after tracing back all my steps and at this point I probably never will 😭 my leading theory is that I clicked so much random shit to try and get it that the program took pity on me and did it by itself because otherwise it makes no sense. Other than suffering over the text and other davinci woes, I thought it'd be cool to do the dc comics parallel with the scene in which she's wearing her og mask, and I love that color scheme for her 😩👌

this merthur x shawn mendes lyrics set while I don't think the entire ensemble of gifs work particularly well together (all my gifsets 🤝 being incohesive af), I actually really like them individually! The blending is a huuuge improvement compared to a couple months ago when I was first starting out giffing. It was also the first time I tried working with a bigger size, almost square instead of the usual rectangular, and I don't think I did that bad of a job tbh.

this star wars edit I actually don't like how the first gif turned out, it looked much metter in my head but I think the rest of the set is pretty cool. This was my first time ever giffing star wars, and that scene isn't the easiest, what with all the red. I like the font I used, surprisingly enough. And also I'm quite proud of the blending in the anakin gif in particular 😍 (I may be biased bc I love anakin though, who knows)

this bbc merlin + nature set my first attempt at unnatural coloring, also I'm obsessed with shots of tiny people completely immersed in nature in general. All in all it's very calming to look at, I like how it turned out.

I'm tagging (no pressure of course!!) @mxrisacoulter @mouffetard @camelotsheart @screenwritr @arthurpendragonns @ughmerlin @witchmd13

[exordiumed]

bananas and other things

↳ college au

pairing: park chanyeol & you (featuring: the rest of the beagle line)

genre: fluff

word count: 1.49k

summary: sometimes, love comes out of nowhere

Park Chanyeol always prided himself as a guy who had immaculate intuition. Someone with great gut feel. That friend who always says, "I told you so.”

He always seemed prepared for everything; it was almost comical. Always had a plan, always knew what to say, always prepared. Until he met you.

Being late to his lectures was definitely not Park Chanyeol fashion. He silently cursed himself as he sped-walked toward his lecture theatre and, as luck would have it, bumped unceremoniously into someone. You.

"Fuck, I'm so sorr-" He started, but cut himself short when he saw your face. How had he not noticed anyone this beautiful in campus before? Your hair pushed back and tied up, your flyaways managed to be tamed by the amount of sweat on your forehead. Your eyes, bright and wide, as the two of you continued staring at each other in shock.

"I'm sorry, I should've looked at where I was going." You offered as an apology. You were quite proud of yourself for managing to spit the words out of your mouth because, wow, you have never seen a guy more beautiful than the stranger standing right in front of you.

It felt like one of those cliché romance novels where the main characters stare at each others eyes and marvel. It wasn't too far off from reality; it was exactly what you were doing at that moment in time. He, much like you, had been sweating profusely but, you had never seen anyone look this attractive while sweating. Ever.

"Yeah, uh, no trouble. It was my fault, really. I should've looked at where I was going," Chanyeol lamely replied. Inwardly cursing himself for having his first words to a pretty girl be a half-assed apology.

He felt his face heat up and felt his hands grow sweaty. Again, he cursed at himself. Chanyeol always prided himself as a calm, composed guy. Someone who had everything under control; always prepared. And this girl, quite literally, came out of nowhere into his life.

"I guess I'll see you around....?”

"Chanyeol. I'm Chanyeol.”

"Then I guess I'll see you around then Chanyeol," and with that, you bid the slightly starstruck boy adieu.

Chanyeol shook his head and quickly walked off into the direction of his lecture theatre, in the hopes of arriving on time, and mostly, vainly trying to get you out of his head.

After a rather long and tiresome lecture, where, Chanyeol literally did not learn anything as he had correctly guessed, he was busy thinking about you. And it occurred to him that he never got your name.

He was spacing out (something he didn't do often, damn you), when his train of thought was disrupted by the image of someone's palm coming into his line of vision.

"Jesus Yeol, what the Hell? I've been calling for you for the past five minutes! What's gotten into you?" Baekhyun's damning voice made its way into Chanyeol's ears.

Slightly dazed, Chanyeol stops in his tracks and (attempts) to recollect himself. He shakes his head slightly.

"Sorry, I've just been.. thinking, I s'pose.”

"About what? A girl?" Another friend, Jongdae this time, jokingly said.

"Yeah, as if. Chanyeol has as much game as my left foot," Baekhyun joked, but kept his eyes on Chanyeol, wanting to see if Jongdae was indeed, correct.

"It's really nothing. Forget it. Hey, isn't there this new cafe in town? I'm kinda hungry.”

"Seconded.”

After what seemed like hours of walking to the city centre, which was only a 15 minute walk in reality, the sweaty gang of boys had finally reached the new swanky cafe that has just opened. It was cute, to say the least. Everything was banana themed.

"Finally! I'm starving." Baekhyun all but groaned the moment they stepped through the doors of the chic bakery. The air-conditioned room was much appreciated escape from the sweltering heat outside.

The group of boys took a few seconds to fan themselves and cool down before walking towards the front counter to decide what to order.

Chanyeol quietly studied the overhead menu before deciding on a banana milk soft serve ice cream. And then his eyes trailed down to the front of the line to see..

You?

He shook his head. That couldn't be you, could it? But of course it was you, chatting with your friends who were also in line. He noticed how wide your smile was and how the apples of your cheek were slightly pink from the heat and he noticed the way your eyes turned into half-moons when you smiled too hard or when you were laughing at something silly your friend said.

He must’ve been staring for quite a while because, your eyes met and you gave him a tiny wave.

Chanyeol gulped and he waved back at you, slightly in a daze mostly because he didn’t believe he bumped into you here of all places.

“Who did you wave to?” Jongdae asked him.

“I knew it! You were thinking of a girl earlier!” Baekhyun cut off before Chanyeol could reply.

“Why didn’t you tell us? How long have you known each other? What’s her name?”

“Can y’all slow down, we only met today geez,” Chanyeol mentally groaned. “And her name is...” 

He never did get your name. What an idiot, he thought.

“Her name is...?”

“Uh, I never got it.. actually.”

“I don’t know if I ever told you this, but you’re an idiot.”

The taller male, well tallest actually, was about to retort before Baekhyun said something quite brilliant.

“Well, you can ask her now can’t you? Just casually slip over there and ask her for her name and get to know her and I dunno maybe score a date?” He ended his suggestion with a waggle of his eyebrows. 

“Y’know, coming from you that’s actually not a bad idea!”

“Thank yo- Wait a minute!”

Chanyeol didn’t get to hear the rest of their bickering because his feet was moving faster than his mind could think and his feet brought him right next to you.

You could feel his presence right next to you and you slowly turned to greet him, but of course, again, you were stunned by how good this man looked. It’s unfair really, for someone to be this cute, with his big eyes, his floppy ears, his really cute fluffy hair that you wanted to reach out and touch. 

“Hi,” you said.

“Hi,” he replied. “I never got your name earlier.”

“Oh! Right, I’m uh (Y/N)!” You tried not to let your nervousness show from your voice and you thought you did a pretty decent job.

Though, you couldn’t help the way your heartbeat quickened when he repeated your name, testing out the way it sounds on his tongue before he smiled at you and goddamn, you thought. You would definitely not mind if you saw that sight every morning when you woke up, and every night before you went to sleep. You were in serious trouble; having only met this guy today and you were already this whipped? But can you really blame yourself? He’s too cute.

Little did you know, Chanyeol was feeling the same way about you. He also realised, he had no idea what to say now. He didn’t really plan this far.

Thankfully, the cashier saved the both of you.

“Welcome to the Yellow Cafe! What would you two lovebirds like to order?”

“We’re no-”

“I’d like to have a banana soft serve ice cream please,” You turned to Chanyeol, eyes wide because, well, the cashier just called you two lovebirds and he didn’t deny it and this whole thing seems really rom-com-y right now.

“Sure! And what about your girlfriend?”

Taking in a deep breath to calm your heart, you managed to order a banana latte. Somehow Chanyeol had beat you to the payment. And somehow the two of you were seated together in a booth near the window. 

“Are we on an impromptu date or something?”

Chanyeol’s ears turned red at your question and you found it extremely endearing. He nervously ate his ice cream before replying: “Do you... not want it to be one?”

“No, I do want it to be one.”

Chanyeol, only having heard you saying no, sighed.

“Oh, I’m sorry I tho- Wait did you say that you.. wanted it to be a date?”

“Mhmm.”

This time, Chanyeol gave you the brightest smile you had ever seen and you thought it could give the Sun a run for its money. You liked it. You liked him. And you really wanted to see more of him.

“I would really like it if we could do this again,” you said.

“Me too.”

And this time, it was your turn to give him a dazzling smile.

Chanyeol was always prepared; until you, quite literally, came out of nowhere and that was probably the best unplanned thing to ever happen to him.