#I'm addicted to that angst but I tried to give him a somewhat happy “ending”

[fiepige]

Hobie Brown variant OC:

I finally decided to make Symbiote!Hobie (nicknamed SH by Hobie, which over time turned into Sage) his own thing, cause I've made so many changes to him that I've decided he's just gonna be another version of Hobie from another dimension.

I basically came up with him when thinking about what it would take for Hobie to truly bond with a symbiote and this is what I came up with.

While he's technically Hobie too I'm gonna refer to him as Sage in this post to avoid confusion <3

Gonna start with his appearance and then move on to his origins and how he got involved with the Spider-Society:

Disclaimer: I cannot draw so I haven't even attempted at drawing his face cause I know I'd never be able to draw him in a way I'd like- So I did the next best thing:

(He has a normal face I just tried to find a way for me to draw him without drawing his face lol)

Pictured above is Sage and his symbiote K.A.T (and their symbiote form- yeah it's the same as Venom!Hobie cause I like the design lol)

He looks like Hobie but younger- he's around 11 when he's bitten by the spider and fused with K.A.T - he's around 12 when he gets introduced to the Spider-Society

He's got short hair as it was completely shaved off when he got caught by Oscorp - more about this under his origins - he wants to let it grow out after meeting Hobie and being inspired by his approach to his looks (he really looks up to Hobie but don't tell anyone I said that!)

His left iris is white as a result of the symbiote DNA being fused to him. He can make it match his right eye if he concentrates but only really bothers to do so if he feels it draws too much attention

After meeting Hobie he helps Sage get a few piercings of his own

He usually wears a hoodie and/or a mask to hide his face - he's super paranoid and does his best to hide himself from others

Never goes anywhere without his noice cancelling earmuffs - he's got enhanced senses due to his spider powers but they can be a bit of a nuisance since he's also sensitive to loud noises due to his symbiote...

He also usually wears sunglasses to shield himself from sensory overload as he was subjected to it a lot as part of the experiments he was put through at Oscorp - and thus getting his senses overstimulated can result in panic attacks, so he does what he can to avoid it + it hides his eyes as well

K.A.T (Killing Authority-opposing Targets) is Sage's symbiote

It usually stays hidden unless they're alone or around people they trust/already knows about its presence.

If it does show itself it'll usually stay on Sage's shoulder or sit in his lap, it's still tethered to him so it can't go that far without him - not that it really wants to anyways

The reason K.A.T takes this form is that Sage is a cat person and it used it as a method to make him like it more when they first "met" + petting it helped Sage calm down and still does

K.A.T is still made of the same goo as regular symbiotes so it does not feel like petting a cat at all- Sage doesn't mind but most other people get suprised when they first touch it

If it likes someone it'll rub itself against their legs and mimic purring noises - if it dislikes someone it'll hiss and arch its back at them

K.A.T is a more animalistic symbiote and mainly communicates with Sage by letting him feel its emotions instead of speaking to him

To avoid making the post even longer than it's already gonna be I'll link to this post where I go into more detail about the design of thier Symbiote form instead of describing it here too ^^'.

This was originally supposed to be a short summary but I've realised I'm incapable of making short posts when it comes to stuff like this:

Origin:

Sage is a younger version of Hobie Brown. (11 years old when bitten by the spider and fused with his symbiote)

Sage and K.A.T "met" at one of Oscorp's labs

He was living as a homeless kid (having escaped an abusive household a few months prior)

He was bitten by a radioactive spider while looking for a place to spend the night.

He got very sick from the bite and was easily captured by Oscorp goons looking for new test subjects in the streets

Despite his young age Sage is a more ruthless Hobie variant, in part due to his upbringing and due to his symbiote (and the trauma they both go through at the hands of Oscorp)

K.A.T was a new kind of experimental symbiote that was set to be terminated due to it killing all its previous hosts - Sage was their last attempt at fusing it with someone

They decide to fuse it with Sage as he was deemed indisposable due to him seeming more dead than alive - suffering from the venom of spider bite at the time - and thus it wouldn't be a problem if the symbiote killed him too

Since the spider bite was still changing his DNA as he got fused with K.A.T some of its DNA got fused with him as well as a "side effect" during the process

Due to this it's incredibly hard (if not impossible) to seperate the symbiote from Sage without severely hurting them both

His body develops organic web shooters when it fuses with K.A.T - the webs are black and can be shot from either of his 4 arms when in his symbiote form (they can also be shot regularly while in his human form)

Sage develops enhanced senses and a taste for human flesh after being fused with K.A.T - he also has enhanced senses from the spider bite - making it easy to overstimulate his senses and overwhelm him before he learns to get it more under control

Since Sage's gotten powers from both the spider bite and the symbiote they quickly become the subjects for many inhumane and painful experiments as the scientists futilely try to figure out how to replicate the symbiote (as they're unaware of the spider bite, thinking the symbiote alone is behind Sage's new powers)

The main scientist behind the experiments is this dimension's version of Peter Parker!

Sage eventually manages to escape the lab during one of their many tests- killing as many guards and scientists on his way out as possible - and eating some of them as well

As a result of their treatment at the lab + his past with his abusive foster family, both Sage and K.A.T have developed a deep distrust to other people - at this point they both consider the other their only friend

Sage goes back to living as a homeless kid, avoiding people as best as he can, but he's also got an insatiable taste for human flesh as well!

He will usually target anyone associated with Oscorp when he's hungry (if none are available cops are the next best thing- his dimension is just as corrupt as -138 Hobie's dimension)

He doesn't feel bad about killing but will still try not to harm civilians (emphasis on try- sometimes the hunger gets the best of him)

Due to his senses being extra sensitive + his paranoia from his experiences at the lab and his foster homes, he tries to avoid crowded and noisy places - This all leads to him being more active at night while he usually tries to lay low and hide during the day.

He lived like this for months until a certain event changed that:

First encounter with the Spider-Society

Sage's dimension is blacklisted meaning people from the Spider-Society aren't allowed to go there (cause a spider-person who's embracing their symbiote instead of resisting it is deemed unsafe by Miguel and thus best to be avoided)

Sage does still get introduced to the spider-society albeit through a rather unconventional way:

- One day a portal opens up and pulls Sage through it, sending him to another dimension as an anomaly

Having no idea about what's going on, and being scared and confused about the whole situation, he does his best to lay low and avoid other people.

Because of this he spends a lot of time in the other dimension before the society discovers signs of an anormaly - glitched objects like seen when Kingpen uses the collider in itsv, or the museum that the Vulture appears in in atsv

Sage eventually has his first run in with other spider people when his hunger gets the best of him and he becomes more careless as he turns into his symbiote form to go look for prey

Here he encounters Gwen and Peter B as they're looking for the anomaly causing things to glitch out in the dimension

Not knowing he's a spider person and an actual child, Peter and Gwen attack him as they always do with anomalies - it also doesn't help that Sage doesn't exactly look friendly when in his symbiote form.

He fights back cause these masked people attacked him for no reason so they must be bad guys and of course he's gonna defend himself - it also doesn't help that he's starving and thus not thinking clearly at this point.

Unfortunately for him, these guys have high frequency equipment to deal with symbiotes and thus they manage to subdue him, but not before he manages to fight back, revealing his organic webbing which tips Gwen and Peter off to him having spider powers as well

He's subdued and forced into an electric cage (which brings back a lot of unpleasant memories from his time at Oscorp) and sent to the Spider-Society afterwards

When he arrives at the Society he quickly gets overstimulated and has a panic attack and lashes out in a desperate attempt at escaping his electric cage - also seeing the face of the scientist who tortured him for months everywhere certainly didn't help

Gwen then uses a high-frequency device made to combat symbiotes to force him to revert back to his human form

She immediately recognises him as a young version of -138 Hobie

Her and Peter both panic cause 1. They realise they basically beat up a kid and locked him up. 2. That kid has a symbiote! 3. That kid is a younger version of another spider-person they both know (and who they both know has a very long and strained history with symbiotes!)

Miguel gets involved and a discussion begins about whether they should try and seperate Hobie (Sage) and his symbiote

- The other spiders mean well by this but Sage and K.A.T both panic at the thought of being separated - at this point they really view the other as their only friend as it's been them against the world ever since they fused

Sage, still panicking, tries to protest but they won't listen as they view him as a kid who doesn't know what's best for him

Sage is taken to the room with all the villains while they discuss what to do with him

Here Margo sees Sage and K.A.T comforting each other, K.A.T manifesting physically in Sage's lap, being hugged tightly by Sage as he promises it he'll never let anyone separate them

Seeing this, Margo takes pity on them and 'accidentally' sends them home before the other spiders get a chance to try and remove K.A.T from Sage.

Relationships with other spider-people

Some time later Sage has an encounter with Hobie who found out about the whole mess - despite Miguel ordering Gwen and Peter not to tell him

While Hobie isn't exactly a fan of symbiotes he first and foremost sees Sage as a traumatised homeless kid in need of safety and stability

Hobie offers Sage to stay at his boat whenever he wants (as long as he promises not to eat anyone while he's there), he also gives him one of his bootleg watches so he can come and go as he pleases (and explains that he can also use it to get home to his own dimension if he's ever unwillingly sent to another dimension again)

Sage declines at first but over time he slowly opens up to Hobie and begins to trust him

(He also secretly looks up to Hobie once he trusts him, cause who doesn't? He's an older version of himself who's got a place to call his home, one that he opens up to strangers in need such as himself, he uses his powers for good and not just to survive. He's not afraid to be who he is and draw attention to himself - something Sage has been too afraid to do ever since his time at Oscorp. He's got friends and people he trusts. - all things that Sage wants too but doesn't believe he'll ever have) Also he'll never admit that he looks up to Hobie but he can tell anyways

Hobie's the one that gives Sage his nickname, it started as SH but over time it turned into Sage instead, though he doen't mind being called Hobie as well, it's just easier to go by Sage when both he and Hobie are present.

He still doesn't trust people, especially not the Spider-Society after their first meeting, which made it very awkward when Gwen showed up to visit Hobie while Sage was there - luckily Hobie managed to interfere before they beat each other up too much...

(He trusts Margo a bit as well since she 'saved' him from the Spider-Society - also it's nice to be around someone who doesn't smell like food since she's an avatar and not made of flesh and blood)

He currently lives at Hobie's boat, switching between it and his own dimension as he pleases

Hobie did his best to hide it but he was rather freaked out by K.A.T's presence in the beginning, he did his best to supress it cause he genuinely wants to help Sage

Hobie mentors him in how to use his Spider Powers and tries to give him a moral compass to at least prevent him from eating civilians when he gets too hungry - He usually targets cops or people working for Oscorp but the hungrier he gets the less picky he is

Another reason Hobie took him in is because he knows ostracising someone won't make them a better person and while Hobie doesn't believe in deciding what's best for others he still knows life will be a bit easier for Sage if he doesn't just kill whoever he wants whenever he wants - impulse control is important when you have a cannibalistic symbiote in your body.

- Hobie still dislikes symbiotes but he respects Sage's choice to keep his and does his best to help him control some of the more violent urges that come with a symbiote.

Hobie introduces Sage to his punk ideologies and slowly introduces him to the punk community

Hobie also introduces him to some of his friends but it's a slow process due to Sage having a hard time trusting people - especially spider-people after his Spider-Society encounter

Some of the spider-people also have a hard time opening up to him because of his symbiote

But Hobie's good at making a safe space for Sage to feel like he can slowly start to open up to others

For the first time in years Sage feels like he has someone (besides K.A.T) he can trust and over time he starts to view Hobie as his older brother

And that's that folks! (at least for now)

To the one person who actually bothered to read all of this - know that I'm infinitely grateful that you took your time to read about my boy <3

- I initially tried to keep this short but I gave up cause Sage has been living rent free in my head for weeks and it feels so nice to finally flesh him out and write about him!

You know I couldn't resist making my first oc angsty - but at least he ends up doing better than where he started.

Hopefully you guys like him too! If you have any questions please let me know, I could talk about him forever <3

[h0rr0rsaxo]

Hello....I am here for more angst. Part two to the Anni leaving fic....and I have ideas. Could you also do the before the other request?Unless you already started the other one.....but Buckle up. So you can use the info from discord, I don't want this ask to be super long....

But to summarize, Anni works for the FBI, she gets involved with a huge case involving Slender and the others and Anni has to play dumb. Slender finds this out and tasks Varrick to watch her since Varrick knows her the best. Now this is where you can use the inspo from the clip I sent you on discord...but Anni is trying to talk to someone about the murders and turns out they aren't keen on talking and Anni ends up having the worst day of her life and she gets peppered sprayed, almost killed by the person who maced her, but she manages to shoot them before anything happens and she ends up in the woods. Varrick finds her and asks why she didn't expose them all and she says she'd never do that and then they start talking and she ends up saying, "I always loved you Varrick, in fact..I don't think I ever stopped....but just let me go...I mean if you really are happy with Amber...then i'm happy for you.." Anni saw Varrick's phone at the diner and connected two with two.

Then speaking of the devil, Amber was spying on them, she was wondering what Varrick had been doing in the human world so much and Anni says some funny insult. "Oh, your still alive. Then again i'm not surprised, you always reminded me of a roach, nothing is ever able to kill them.." and Amber tries to kill Anni, punching her and then using her own gun against her, but Varrick stops her and tells Amber that he'll kill Anni he points the gun at her and Anni says. "I don't blame you...just go ahead..." and Anni actually gives up for once. Varrick just looks at her, his face unreadable and he kills Amber instead.

The rest is up to you....I love how I said I didn't want this to be a book and yet I still wrote a book...sorry, if this is too much then don't worry about it..and if you have any questions then shoot them over to me.

[ remnants of smoke. || simp party. || p2. ]

Warnings: Violence, death, it's somewhat implied that Aris is obsessed with her and angst.

Tags: @insane-horror-movie-addict

A/N: I hate Amber for realz. She's such a bitch. Also, this didn't turn out exactly how I wanted it to? Sorry about that--

Word count: 3,773

Anni walked down the snow-ridden yard with two escorts by her side. Her hair was pinned up on the back of her head and she wore a tight black skirt along with a white blouse with tall, black high boots clasped on her feet. A pair of slightly thick rimmed, sunglasses glasses situated themselves on the bridge of her nose and a soft glare of pink lip gloss glistened off her lips. She came to a halt when police tape covered the house and one of her escorts pulled it up. The three entered the scene and Anni pulled off her glasses, setting them down on a table cluttered with papers and books. Anni walked up to a man clad in a gray suit staring through a one sided window of the house,

"Good afternoon, Leon." She placed her coat down on the table next to her glasses. Leon looked over his shoulder and turned with a smile,

"Ah, Anni, good afternoon." The two shook hands and Anni walked to the window, staring at her , "You're early."

"I thought that I should get here early for a good start. I was reading over his file last night again before bed, he's quite the handful."

"Aris Hexton, AKA what is known as a "Giggler", possibly responsible for twelve deaths. We can't take him until we've proven that he was involved with these sick cases. He is just a piece of what we have so far on the 'Slenderman file.', or whatever it's called." He looked over at her and his face held solemnity and concern, as she pretended not to know a Giggler was. "No other member will observe him; you are brave to take him on yourself, and the first woman." A small smile formed on Anni's lips as she nodded,

"I'm not scared."

"Are you ready to go in? I'm going to send three officers in with you for your safety." Anni shook her head and looked over at Leon, a piece of hair falling in front of her face,

"No, sending in officers this time won't let me try and complete my duties. I need to earn his trust, get inside his head, or I won't gain the information I'll need to interrogate him." Leon walked over to a car and pulled out a journal book. He handed it to her, complete with a pen, with a smile,

"Here, your own journal to record your findings. I know you're incredibly good at recording information in your head, but just in case." Anni took it in her hands and smiled,

"Thank you." She walked through the next layer of police tape around the house and pulled it up, stepping into the room. She turned and put her hands down in front of her, staring at her patient. His head hung low with his eyes closed and she noticed his hands were cuffed, "Hello again, Aris." His hand let out a small twitch and his head rose, a pair of pink eyes staring straight at her. She walked over to the chair across from him and placed her notebook on the table, the pen right next to it. He watched her every movement and the movements to him were as if time stood still. Anni stared at him, retaking all his features.

He had pink occupying his face from weeks and months of being unable to shave or handle a razor. He had Akuma's symbol on his forearm. The one thing that scared Anni about this guy were his incredibly piercing eyes. They were pink, no pupil and no iris coloration in them whatsoever. She was trained to read the eyes of the people she interrogated, their motives especially. But she could see nothing in his eyes, only an unknown lust.

She felt those pink eyes stare right through her soul.

"Anni……what are you doing here?"

"Just came to talk Mr. Hexton,"

"N—no, you c—came HAHAHA— to try and get inside my delightful mind, isn't t–that right?" Anni tapped her pen on the table as she thought for a moment, contemplating on where to start first. She put the pen down and clasped her hands together, leaning forward on the table with her elbows resting against it. Aris narrowed his eyes as he fumbled with his fingers, his movements becoming slightly erratic,

"Well, I didn't get to talk to you much last time; your self-induced seizure got in the middle of that."

"I wasn't feeling very good that day. Didn't feel much for talking." His pink eyes began to glaze over and they widened at her features. Anni took a breath,

"Well, are you going to comply with me this time?" She asked politely and heard him chuckle lightly a smile creeping along his cheeks as he stared at her,

"I'll do my best." His husky voice echoed in the room, causing a small shudder to go down her spine. Anni opened a notebook and began to jot down a few words,

"What was your family like when you were younger?" She asked and his eyes moved down to his hands, his face began to twitch slightly. There were a few moments of silence before he spoke,

"Not much to my family. I wouldn't be here if we all lived happily ever after. I don't remember them."

"Just give me a brief decree on what it was like so I can help you." Aris stopped and looked up at Anni with a snarl that had turned into a smile. He laughed a bit and fiddled with his hands, picking at the scabs on his skin as he licked his lips. Slowly, his pink eyes stared up at Anni once again, making another shiver go up her spine with unease,

"Let's talk about you, Anni…." Anni's eyebrows knitted and her eyes narrowed,

"Why would we do that? This interview is about you." He snickered to himself and looked back down to his hands,

"Do you know what's so great about killing, Anni? It's the adrenaline, the excitement, and the liberation I get when I listen to my victims' plea for their lives. Oh, and when that blood hits my hands… it's like sticking yourself with meth for the first time… it's the greatest high I can get." He clasped his hands together, leaning forward as his black eyes glistened, clear excitement washing over his face, "But I'm sure you know that. You know that all too well. Weren't you a Slenderman proxy? I remember you." He smiled and Anni shifted uncomfortably from where she was standing. She didn't really realize what she was in for, "I remember you so well… you bleed so, so gorgeously and gracefully."

"We're not talking about me, Mr. Hexton. Please, stick to my questions."

She asked politely once again and he leaned forward even closer to Anni. She looked up from her journal and saw the evil smirk across his face,

Everything seemed to move faster than Anni expected and shock filled her body, rendering her completely defenseless and unknowing to what was going on. He charged at her and had pulled out pepper spray, spraying her eyes and throwing her to the ground roughly. He didn't have much time to try and end her life as much as he wanted when Leon and Chirs entered the scene to stop him. Aris then gripped the handle of the knife and jammed it down as hard as he could, feeling the guards grabbing him. Just as they yanked him away, he forced the knife down further into her body and it cut through her shorts, meeting with her skin and slicing deeply into her hip. She gasped out in pain as Aris shouted and fought against the grasp of the guards, "L—let me go! I-I-I want to w—watch her bleed! She left me! She left us! You can't do this to me— YOU CAN'T RUN FROM ME FOREVER." They hadn't questioned what he was saying about Anni, they assumed he was being hysterical.

The men dragged him out of the house he had been staying in and Leon ran to Anni's side, "Anni-!"

Anni slightly pushed him aside— stumbling her feet in the snow and limping as her hands tightly grasped her eyes, squinting and desperately trying to blink the pain from her eyes. She ran into the forest, as her vision blurred drastically.

— . — . —

Varrick was about to leave the human world when his eyes caught a familiar figure in their line of vision. For a second, he remembered when he thought had gotten it wrong but there was no way he would mistake the face he had missed so much – hers. Anni looked so healthy, so happy. Gone were the days when her aura emanated a certain fatigue, gone were the days she was hurt because of the mansion— because of proxy work— because of him. Anni looked so much better than when she was with him. It was understandable, really. He had been a prick to her after all; she deserved the happiness after all he put her through all those years ago. Leaving her at the mansion to fend for herself, to overhear her cries while he worked with Zalgo, to see her become victim to the slender-sickness. Perhaps this all was punishment to him— punishment for his cruelty towards her.

He remembered how his free hand clenched into a fist as he watched her smile, with a man that was not him.

Before, his father was the only person he could think of when he unconsciously craved such support.  

Before. 

Before her. 

He saw her, wherever he went, with the slightest flash of brown hair or the gentle tint of auburn eyes that anyone carried within their features. His mind would piece together these diminished details and morph together her face, even if the person that bared the slightly similar traits looked nothing like her. And when Amber would kiss him, his eyes would close and he would be unable to focus on the lips against his, he would try to trail his thoughts elsewhere because he knew that if he let himself fall into the feeling of the kiss...he would see her instead of his girlfriend. It was bad. It might have been one of the reasons why was he so anxious in his relationship with Amber, because somewhere inside he knew that she was not the one he wished to hold.

Granted, he knew he didn’t deserve her. Not after all the shit he pulled in his younger years. The tears she shed were wasted on the likes of him. On scumbags like him.

Varrick became conscious of the value that his luck, the privilege to be loved by her, back then held. The feeling in his chest suffocated him. I deserve it, he thought.

Although he was selfish to no end, he recognized that she definitely deserved someone better than him.

Someone who treasured her more than themselves,

Someone who treated her right,

Someone who would and could give her their entire world if needed,

Someone who managed to grace her face with a smile instead of tears,

Someone who didn’t break her heart.

Someone who wasn’t Varrick Smith.

Tears ran across his face. Her words resonated deeply in his heart. As if he could feel the pain that she had gone through because of him, he broke down, sobbing uncontrollably. The realization came too late.

A thousand words – no, not even a trillion words of apology could reverse the damage he had done to her.

Loathing his existence and what his younger self had done to her, the broken man found himself sobbing even harder. Eventually, Varrick fell depressed with crystalline tears dropping from his eyes.

He wanted to feel the calmness that came with her touch, so much so that sometimes it would manifest in his mind and play tricks on him to make him believe the memory was real, that her touch was real. This was something he was so used to. When he had nothing else to think of when he held Amber's hand or held her in his arms when he became too angered and needed to calm down. So it was no surprise that, as he walked through the forest, he saw her. 

From the bottom of his heart, he wished for hsr happiness. And if her happiness meant him never appearing in front of her eyes ever again, he would gladly do so.

The gentle gaze of her scarred skin, the sudden wave of peace as if he suddenly felt like it would all be alright, the disappearing self-doubt, it was something he had imagined plenty of times during his time back home. But this time it was different, in place of the false reality his mind had created of the calming but cold touch was a real sensation. The warmth of an actual human hand and not the replacement of a memory. He stopped, snapping his head around quickly and looking back, trying to confirm to himself that this was in fact real.

The intonation, the leveled voice, the formation of words, it was all exactly the same and yet somehow so different -but he would recognize it anywhere. Varrick took a slight step forward, leaning his weight to the side a bit to try and examine the face of the speaker. "You...Anni? Is that…you?"

At this the figure's head lifted, allowing light to fall over the shadows her hair casted over her face. His heartfelt as if it suddenly began clenched as if he had skipped a bit as the gentle features of the familiar girl came into view. She seemed different, and she was about to speak when something came over her face. Anni sighed, "Yeah…it's me."

It felt like hours had gone by and the cold air bit at Anni's skin through the open front of her jacket. Her eyes burned like an intense fire and her chest grew incredibly sore from her over working lungs. Softly, the first peeks of the daylight began to paint the forest around her as she mentally thanked the morning hours. For the first time in a while, she could see where she was going, but to her misfortune, she didn't know exactly where she was. All the trees began to mesh together as she jogged down an old deer path, her feet crunching against the leaves below her feet. Her panting was steady and tiring as she slowed, looking over her shoulder and seeing she had gained some distance between her and a small strain of her co-workers that continued to search for her.

Varrick's face haunted her mind and the look her had when she jumped over the face almost made her break out in tears once again. 

"What the hell are you doing here?" She looked up when she heard Varrick's scruffy voice aim itself towards her. He stared down at her with his amber eyes, leaning down and grabbing her journal from off the ground. 

"I got pepper-sprayed while working. Ended up here, I guess." Her voice was soft and frail from the pain in her body. The wound she suffered from was still not completely healed and her weak immune system constantly made her sick. Varrick's eyes took notice to her shivering skin and he quickly stripped off his jacket,

"Here, take this."

"No, Varrick, I'll be fine-" He yanked her stained jacket off her and slid his jacket over her shoulders, silencing her with the sudden heat. His warm skin incubated the jacket and she shuddered from the sudden warmth, gripping onto the flaps and pulling it closed. Her eyes were thankful as she stared back at him,

"Come on, there's a bed in there with your name on it." Her thumbs rubbed up against the soft leather of Varrick's jacket and a flash of the angel wings burned through her eyes. Anni attempted to atand, cautiously stepping up the snowy steps of the path leading back to her co-workers. Her foot caught an edge and she tripped, sliding across the snow and feeling the stinging cold of ice eating at her skin.

"Are you alright!?" She felt warm hands on her shoulders and turned to meet his eyes, seeing her crouching down to help Anni to her feet. "Give me your hand." Varricj gripped Anni's hand tightly and her weak muscles strained to get back to her feet. With whatever sickness she was suffering from, it made her very weak and tired.

"Get that jacket back on you before you get sick." Anni looked down to see Varrick's jacket lying helplessly in the snow. She narrowed her eyes and she quickly retrieved the jacket, smacking all the powdered snow off and resting it over her forearm. The jacket has succumbed to the snow's wetness and was no longer useful in warming her skin.

"You….you got hurt for…us." Varrick started, anxiously biting the inside of his cheek as he narrowed his eyes at the bright snow, "Why?"

"I didn't—" Anni attempted to skillfully lie through her teeth, before Varrick irritatingly shook his head.

"You did. I know what your new job is looking for, and who you interrogated. I saw it all. And yet…you didn't say anything about what you actually know. You didn't even give them a lead on the Gigglers, because you knew they'd eventually find out about the mansion— you must have known it would eventually get you hurt. So….why?" Feeling a set of incredibly warm hands latch onto hers, she opened her eyes to see Varrick knelt down in front of her. He cupped her hands in his and breathed slowly onto her skin, trying to warm her hands up. Goosebumps fluttered up her arms as his hot breath managed to break through her cold flesh. His lips made her hands tingle and his presence made her feel utterly secure. She curled her fingers and he looked up into her brown eyes as he leaned her up against a tree.

"You know I'd never do that. You guys..were like family to me." She whispered and he slowly dropped their hands into her lap, staring into her eyes. He caught himself quickly and stood back to his feet,

A tear immediately slides down your left cheek, and you didn’t even realize you were on the verge of tears until Anni finished speaking. He can’t even properly respond to her, "Then…why did you leave all those years ago? You left us all, without a word— and never seemed to look back."

"I wish I could give you a solid answer. But things like these…they're more complicated than that, things don't just…happen— they build up. It's not like I left just because I felt like it, it was more to that," Anni takes the time to inhale a huge breath, oxygen exhausted from her trying to speak through her hot and sad tears, "Just because I left, it doesn't mean I don't care. I don't see why it would matter to you. You should be happy with her, Varrick. Just…move on." 

"What? What are you talking about?" The words feeling foreign to him as he whispers them. He cocks his head in confusion at her words.

"I'm not stupid, you know. I saw who kept calling you at the diner. I always loved you Varrick, in fact..I don't think I ever stopped....but just let me go, I mean if you really are happy with Amber...then I'm happy for you.." Wiping her eyes quickly, Anni sees Varrick giving her an uneasy but still costive expression. Varrick doesn’t make any movement, not knowing what to say, and she decides to end it here for him, "I don't have the heart to ruin the nice thing you have going with her. I've ruined enough." 

"Damn right. And if I were you, I'd run back to your little job before this gets fucking ugly." Amber appears out of literal norwhere— clenching her jaw tightly and grinding her teeth. Her teeth clenching as a wave of emotions wash over her, her boyfriend only stares at her in shock. She refused to lower her voice under any circumstances but here he was on the receiving end of it.

"Oh, you're still alive. Then again i'm not surprised, you always reminded me of a roach, nothing is ever able to kill them.." Anni smirked. Amber could feel her hands beginning to tremble. Not from shock, but from utter rage. She kept it internal the best she could. Somehow, she had always managed to stay alive, and Anni was bound to find out how she did so. Like Anni always said, Amber was far too stubborn to die.

Amber growled and moved her arm up, charging at her and reeling her fist back, before nailing it into her face.

"Amber, stop it!"

"I don't blame you...just go ahead..." Blood cascaded from her nose, little droplets of blood falling against the snow as Anni looked up at her, eyebrows slightly furrowing as Amber only smirked.

"Gladly." Amber sneered. Anni finally managed to take a breath of fresh air as the onslaught of punches to her face halted, her brown eyes opening and taking a look. Her fingers grew numb against the influence of the cold snow, Anni leaning up as she stared down the barrel of her own gun. A sly smirk brewed on the lips of the demon as she watched Anni look through the barrel of her gun, seeing no sparks of fear in her eyes. Anni choked down whatever was in her throat, nothing but Varrick, Cassie, and the rest of her friends flying through her mind in her last seconds of life. Her jaw tightened and he gritted her teeth, closing her eyes and just waiting for it all to be over.

Amber's sharp cries echoed through the air and Anni's eyes popped open, seeing her fall to the ground and blood seeping out of a back wound. Anni looked up at her savior, watching as none other than Varrick ramming the wooden hilt of his knife against the back of her head, knocking her to the ground before literally stabbing in the back— then the head. A bloody knife was cradled in his hand, his chest heaving in pants as his golden eyes stared back at her. Anni couldn't believe how undetected he was; the way he came out of nowhere at the last second to save the day. In her last dying moments, he glared down at her, "I'm breaking up with you."

[demonslayedher]

More, because apparently this "Low-key Married The Whole Time" AU is wanted I needed to finally get invested in GiyuShino. Tl;dr, their dynamic is that they are colleagues as Pillars first and spouses second, not much changes in their behavior at work or in front of other people. They like the comfort of being married, but Giyuu never mentions the Kamado siblings and Shinobu never mentions her plans for Douma, so they have issues.

It gives me angst! And fluff. It's addictive like something sweet and salty. It's become my mitarashi dango pairing.

Other headcanons I didn't draw:

1. They don't talk much while eating, because both find it strange how rare it is they can just sit and enjoy each other's company around the table. It reminds them of peaceful times when their families were still whole, which then reminds them of how their older sisters would had liked being married, too. And then they get sad together but don't talk about it because they don't want to draw the other down.

2. Since they are usually apart, they write short letters to each other, mostly simple updates to keep tabs on each other. Giyuu mostly writes the basic details of his missions with the occasional and somewhat formal 'I look forward to seeing you' at the end, Shinobu will also write updates on what the Butterfly Mansion girls are up to.

3. Kiyo, Sumi, and Naho were really torn over how to address Giyuu, whom they formerly knew as Water Pillar-sama or Tomioka-sama. They settled on "Giyuu-sama" to go along with "Shinobu-sama."

4. Giyuu feels bad he can't talk more like Shinobu bugs him to, so he tries out a different love language for her. One day when she goes in to playfully poke him and be annoying, he beats her to it with one big poke to her side, which clearly hurt, but she's too dumbfounded to say a thing. Giyuu very quickly exits, excusing himself to go on a mission. That went terribly, and he has to calm himself down by repeating 'I'm not disliked, I'm not disliked' in his head.

5. In this AU, SaneKana had just become a thing right before Kanae died. It was been so recent that Shinobu didn't get to know Sanemi well in that context, but she recalled how happy it made Kanae, which was part of why Shinobu figured 'might as well' when she realized she liked Tomioka-san. It all comes back to wanting to live like taking up Kanae's role in the world, and accomplishing the things Kanae couldn't.

That's it for now, this AU might bite me again in the future, as it has been prone to. It really did all start for the sake of making a joke.

So, I made a GiyuuShino thing. 

Omake: 

[hannigram-a-b-o-library]

Oh MyGOSH the list is everything I could ever want and more! But you tempt me with wildly AU fics and rarepairs. You fiends I love you give it all to me! Please and thankyou xoxo

Hey @whataboutthefish​ :)

Sorry it took a while to get to this! Following on from the last rec list we made you which featured mostly canon-ish and a couple of AUs, here are some AU and rare pair fics for you. We’ve tried to include a selection including some on the longer side and perhaps our readers can recommend more.

As always, we’ve only included selected tags, so please heed the tags when you land on AO3.

Hope you enjoy!

Recs Under The Cut

Hannigram AU:

Burn Through the Night by bymoonlight @mads–hatter​Explicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: Underage, Size Kink, Age difference, Warlord!AU, Mpreg, Alpha!hannibal, Omega!will, Eventual Fluff, Shameless SmutSummary: Hannibal, a leader of a fierce, nomadic pack, comes across a rare gem during one of his raids – a male omega.Words: 9,552 Chapters: 4/4

Consortio by kelex Explicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: AU, prima nocte, Alpha!hannibal, virgin omega!willSummary: Every Omega in the land is brought to the lord on the evening of their first heat. Lord Hannibal usually doesn’t choose to exercise that right, but this night’s offering is too much for him to pass up. A virgin Omega in his first heat, with brown hair, blue eyes, and a spirit that can’t be broken.Words: 23,088 Chapters: 4/4

The First Second Chance (series) by TheMarvelousMinniPinExplicit, // F/F, M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Alana Bloom/Beverly Katz, Bella Crawford/Jack Crawford, Abel Gideon/Matthew Brown // Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Alpha Hannibal, Omega Will, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hannibal is a Cannibal, Possessive Hannibal, Dominance, Submission, all consensual, No Rape/Non-con, Hallucinations, Anxiety Attacks, Trauma, Will is in the Loony Bin, Sugar Daddy Hannibal, Reluctant Sugar Baby Will, Mating Rituals, Mating Cycles/In HeatSummary: Will’s life is falling apart, as per its usual habit. He has been selected as a prize Omega in the Alpha Dominance Fights. He’s waiting for the worst to happen; he will be claimed by the victor, forcibly mated, bred, and kept away from any real life outside of the home.Hannibal is rather unwilling to let that happen. He missed his chance to tell Will his true feelings, but he may be redeemed. There is only one way to get an Omega out of a Dominance Fight: Win.Words: 42,090 Works: 3

Fortunate Souls by HotMolasses @hotmolassesExplicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: Rape/Non-Con, Underage, Tentacle Sex, Underage Sex, Will is 16, dubcon, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Mpreg, Bonding, Soulmates, Mating Cycles/In HeatSummary: Angry at his father, the omegan merman Will seeks the help of the sea-witch, Hannibal, to give him legs so he can escape the sea. Hannibal, seeking revenge on his nemesis, King Crawford, sees this as a golden opportunity. Neither gets what they bargained for, but both come away much richer instead.Words: 3,400 Chapters: 1/1

Omiai by extremelyperturbed Mature // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham/Nigel (Charlie Countryman), Matthew Brown/Will Graham // Tags: non-cannibalism AU, Dramedy, Light Angst, Romance, Alpha Will, Omega Hannibal, Omega NigelSummary: Created in response to this kinkmeme prompt: Nigel and Hannibal are Omegas and Will is their Alpha. However, I decided to add a lot of other things like Uncle Robert trying to find someone suitable, an amused Mischa. Words: 13,562 Chapters: 10/10

Picture Imperfect by shiphitsthefan @shiphitsthefanExplicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alpha Will, Omega Hannibal, Photographer Will, Musician Hannibal, True Mates, Virgin Will, First Kiss, Scenting, Oral Knotting, courting, Tooth-Rotting FluffSummary: Will Graham has made a name for himself in the magazine industry for being the one and only alpha photographer that can be trusted. It isn’t that he doesn’t have hormonal urges; Will is simply able to control himself. In a society run by omegas, Will’s empathetic nature is a gift; he can easily assume the omega mindset, almost as if he shares their biology, their behavior. Omegas feel safe with Will, because he isn’t innately predatorial.He’s just walked into a photo shoot with concert harpsichordist Hannibal Lecter.He’s about to ruin everything.Words: 13,645 Chapters: 7/7

Seek Your Enemy by Della19 Mature // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: Cannibalism, Alternate Universe, Summary: William La Fontaine hates the opera. The music is fine, but the people are unbearable. All the backstabbing simpering society climbing omegas that look down at him for the – unwanted – attention he receives from the boorish, old money alphas, who look at him like he’s a piece of meat, caring only for his body and his last name.Also, he might have just imprinted on some alpha doctor with a foreign accent and beautifully tempting monsters in his compelling dark eyes, whom his sister thinks has a ‘serial killer face.’Will thinks it’s possible that she’s more right than she knows. It’s also possible that Will could care less.Will is going to need something much stronger than this champagne.William La Fontaine hates the opera.A Wage Your War AU, based on the idea of what if Will’s mother hadn’t left Will and his father when Will was three, as in that fic, and that he was raised in his mother’s rich household. You should read that fic first, as otherwise this one won’t make too much sense. Hannigram A/B/O.Words: 9,720 Chapters: 2/2

Tribal Relations (series) by Entity_Sylvir @tumbleweedforyouExplicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: Alternate Universe, Vague historical-esque setting, Denying sex, mild violence, Possessive!Will, Will has a cool dad, Dash of politicsSummary: Hannibal pays a diplomatic visit to the leader of neighbouring tribe, and is treated to a somewhat unusual brand of negotiation. “Hello?” Hannibal greeted a little quizzically. “Do you have a message?” “Um,” the boy replied softly, seeming to have a little trouble getting his words out. “No. I—I’m here on behalf of our tribe. And our hospitality.” He gave a little hesitant smile. “Compliments of the chief.”Words: 22,560 Works: 2

Unexpected Heat Series (series) by HotSauce418 @hotsauce418Explicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: Alpha Hannibal, Omega Will, Heat on a plane, Making friends mid air, True Mates, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Mating BondSummary: Hannibal is flying home when the flight is almost landed due to a distressed omega.Words: 4,551 Works: 2

What We Do Is Secret by IWillBeTheEndofYou Explicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter // Tags: Sadness, Smut, Courtship, Loss of Virginity, Mating, Heat Cycles, BondingSummary: Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham. Perfect strangers in an imperfect world. When Hannibal wins Will in a hand of poker, he has to convince the Omega to love him.Words: 16,750 Chapters: 12/12

Will and Hannibal’s Eggcellent adventures (series) by dandelion_wishes Mature // M/M, Multi // Series in Progress // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Matthew Brown/Will Graham // Tags: Underage, Alternate Universe - Teenagers, Alternate Universe - High School, Fluff, Romance, Gangs, Drug Use, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Murder, Child Abuse, Drug Addiction, fluff lots…, Running Away, Angst, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Awkward Flirting, Bullying, ViolenceSummary: Health class, sex ed and egg care. Joy and trials of High School. Words: 49,356 Works: 4

Rare Pairs:

Canis Majoris (series) by LectersDaughter, LittleSpacePrince Spacedogs - Nigel (Charlie Countryman)/Adam RakiExplicit // M/M // Tags: Alpha Nigel, Omega Adam, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Breeding, First Time, Autism, Mental Health Issues, Asperger Syndrome, Mpreg, Fluff and Smut, Outdoor Sex, Pregnancy Kink, Soulmates, Bottom NigelSummary: All he knew was the biological need to be taken and bred by an alpha, by Nigel, and that he was afraid.“Nigel… Nigel, I… I'm… Nigel, I think I presented.” Adam whispered shakily, grabbing tight to Nigel’s hand.If Nigel thought he was shocked before, he was terribly mistaken. His heart all but stopped altogether when those few words slipped from his angel’s lips.He inhaled deeply, scenting the air for that unmistakable smell. He sat up abruptly when he found it, the scent of an omega. His omega.And his omega was in heat.Words: 68,014 Works: 4

California & Beyond by TigerPrawn @desperatelyseekingcannibalsSpacedogs - Nigel (Charlie Countryman)/Adam RakiExplicit // M/M // Tags: Accidental meeting, Nigel has amnesia, Adam is pretending to be a beta, set after both movies, Fear/Comfort, making new friends, Wooing, courting, Dating, shirt swapping is a thing, Nigel trying so hard not to be bad, Unexpected Heat, Alpha Nigel, Omega Adam, Established Relationship, Nigel is violent, Protective Nigel, Hurt/Comfort, Nigel recovering his memories, Vulnerable Nigel, Bonding, Mating, Fluff and Smut, Happy Ending, True Mates, tiny bit of angst/hurt, discussion about pregnancy (female pregnancy), No mpreg, Anxiety, Anxiety Attacks, Fluff and Angst, revisiting the past, Canon-Typical Violence, Wedding Fluff, Honeymoon, so. much. fluff.Summary: Spacedogs ABO series - NOW COMPLETE. Set after the events of both Adam and Charlie Countryman.Omega Adam is moving to California to take up his new job. Alpha Nigel leaves Bucharest with a head injury and amnesia and is off to start a new life in the States. The pair meet by accident and may find their lives become entwined… Charting their relationship from first awkward meeting, through shirt swapping and various trials (not least Nigel dealing with his past), to their fluffy happy ending!Words: 72,923 Works: 8

A Companionable Silence : #ValhallaEnchanted Series (series) by HotSauce418 @hotsauce418Valhalla Enchanted - Prince Charmont (Ella Enchanted)/ One Eye (Valhalla Rising)Explicit // M/M // Tags: Alpha One Eye, Omega Prince Charmont, First Meetings, Violence, Past use of suppressants, first heat, Mating Bites, Semi graphic violence, submitting, Consensual, Mpreg, Male Lactation, Lactation Kink, Mating Cycles/In Heat, heat sickness, Omega Char was raised an Alpha, Unplanned PregnancySummary: Alpha One Eye rescues Prince Charmont - neither could have anticipated the relationship that blooms between them. Words: 26,151 Works: 3

A Fair Fight by HotSauce418 @hotsauce418Young Boots - d'Artagnan/Comte de RochefortExplicit // M/M // Tags: Omega d'Artagnan, alpha Rochefort, Scent blockers, True Mates, Claiming, BondingSummary: Young omega d'Artagnan decides to leave home and join the Musketeers.Words: 3,377  Chapters: 1/1

Hop and Howl (series) by nightliferogue @slashyrogueSpacedogs - Nigel (Charlie Countryman)/Adam RakiExplicit // M/M // Tags: Alternate Universe - Shapeshifters, Bunny Adam, Wolf Nigel, Alpha/Beta/Omega elements, Jealousy, Animal Ears, Mating Bites, Bunny Heat, mentions of mpregSummary:  It all starts with a bunny shifter who has been stealing wolf shifter Nigel’s underwear. He has no idea who the thief is until they meet quite unexpectedly. Words: 5,724 Works: 3

Never Have I Ever by shiphitsthefan @shiphitsthefanBearDogs - Lee Fallon/Nigel (Charlie Countryman)Explicit // M/M // Tags: Alpha/Alpha, Alpha/Omega, Alpha Nigel (Charlie Countryman), Alpha Lee (The Big C), Casual Sex, Dirty Talk, Roleplay, Trans Character, (Hannigram In Last Chapter)Summary: After finishing an entire day’s worth of the rehabilitation required for violent alphas, Nigel hits the bar in hopes of finding a nice omega to take home with him to his cousin Hannibal’s safe house. Lee, another alpha, convinces Nigel to sleep with him, instead. Nigel’s never fucked an alpha before, and Lee is certainly easy on the eyes.Turns out there’s more to this encounter than just a simple fuck, and Nigel’s about to find himself in the right kind of trouble for a change.Words: 7,592 Chapters: 4/4

Nice and Weird by victorine @victorinebSpandexChickens - Elias (Men & Chicken)/Grigg HarrisGeneral Audiences // M/M // Tags: Alpha Elias, Omega Grigg, True Mates, First Kiss, gratuitous literary referencesSummary: Grigg’s a nice guy. Elias is a weird guy. Somehow, that might just result in something wonderful for both of them. Or: Elias joins Grigg’s book group, and manages to irritate every member. When Grigg decides to help the alpha win them over, he finds himself getting unexpectedly attached in the process.Words: 4,871 Chapters: 1/1

Oops… (Griggel ABO) (series) by TigerPrawn @desperatelyseekingcannibalsGriggel - Grigg Harris/Nigel (Charlie Countryman)Explicit // M/M // Tags: Alpha Nigel, Omega Grigg, drunken kisses, Accidental Bonding, Nigel stalking Grigg at his job with good reason!, Getting to Know Each Other, Separation Anxiety, Angst, Bonding, Sick Character, Reunions, Little bit of angst, this might be a romcom, Mating Cycles/In HeatSummary: Grigg and Nigel meet one drunken night and end up accidentally bonded, it could be the start of a horror movie, but they find they might just be meant for each other.Words: 16,441 Works: 4

Personal Interest by shiphitsthefan @shiphitsthefanBasic Chickens - Elias (Men & Chicken)/Adam TowersExplicit // M/M // Tags: Alpha Elias, Omega Adam, Humor, Accidental Voyeurism, Masturbation, Crying, Wet & Messy, Truly Unnecessary Amounts of Come and Slick, Vaginal Fingering - omega males written as intersexSummary: All Adam Towers wants is to be taken seriously as a journalist. Unfortunately, he’s an omega, and that means he’s doomed to all of the assignments the alphas of the press pool don’t want. So here he is, on his way to interview Elias Thanatos, a reclusive man who builds dollhouses for birds.This assignment is a fucking joke.Elias, however, very much isn’t.Words: 7,368 Chapters: 1/1

Why are you smoking? by HotSauce418 @hotsauce418DogsDogs - Will Graham/Nigel (Charlie Countryman)Explicit // M/M // Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, also Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Alpha Nigel, Omega Will, Alpha Hannibal, Mating, Mating Bond, Manipulative Hannibal, Jealous Hannibal, Possessive Nigel, suprise bond, set during season 1, Stress induced heat, KidnappingSummary: “Why are you smoking?” Wills voice came out raw and deep. It had definantly been a wild night. Will furrowed his brows at Hannibal, watching the smoke slowly waft from his nose and lips seductively.The man looked at him quizzically. “You didn’t complain about that before, gorgeous.”Will heard the honeyed voice and his eyes widened.“You don’t know who the fuck I am, do you?”Words: 27,715 Chapters: 7/?

The Wolf and the Artist by Hannigrammatic @hannigrammatic Chocolate Dogs - Aiden (Blood and Chocolate)/Nigel (Charlie Countryman)Explicit // M/M // Tags: First Meetings, Werewolf!Nigel, Knotting, Rough Sex, Mating BitesSummary: “I saw you here yesterday,” Aiden spoke as he worked. “I wanted approach you but you looked like you would have bitten me.”“And I didn’t look that way today?” Nigel asked curiously, not moving an inch.“Less bitey and more glarey,” the artist said with a shrug. “I decided to risk it today.”Nigel meets Aiden and finds himself very interested indeed.Words: 6,810 Works: 2

We hope these keep you going for a while! You may also like this ongoing series by one of our mods which is both Hannigram, Hannigram AU and rare pairs -

Trope Trope: Exploring fic tropes in an Omegaverse setting (Series) by TigerPrawn @desperatelyseekingcannibalsWill Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Nigel (Charlie Countryman)/Adam Raki, Will Graham/Nigel (Charlie Countryman), Aiden (Blood and Chocolate)/Le Chiffre, Mortimer Granville/Jon Jensen, Adam Towers/Elias (Men & Chicken), Prince Charmont/One Eye (Valhalla Rising), Galahad/Tristan (Arthurian)Summary: Series of one shots and short(ish) fics, exploring different fic tropes in an Omegaverse setting. Various pairings and ratings. Words: 85,288 Works: 12

Be sure to check back in July and see what everyone has come up with for #SummertimeSlick fest!