#IM SORRY I WANNA TAKE CARE OF HIM

[lostreverb]

sent from above

(kai anderson x reader) in where you try to make your boyfriend's day a little sweeter

content: angst, use of knives (nothing crazy)

a/n: kai brainrot + maternal instincts combo goes crazyyyy

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You sit on Winter's bed, watching as she sifts through boxes from her closet.

"You really do like my brother, don't you?..." She says with a solemn cadence.

You nod. "I do."

With a sigh, Winter hands you a faded piece of paper. It feels delicate, like it might crumble in your hands. "This is it…"

You trace the faded cursive carefully. "I won't tell him. I'll say I found it while cleaning. Thank you so much Winter."

"Uh- Yeah, no problem. Just… remember that he’s—"

"I know."

For weeks, Kai's paranoia has been ramping up, and you wanted to do something—anything—that might ground him, even briefly. So you'd gone to Winter, asking if she still had one of her mother's old recipes.

As anything was with Kai, this was a risk. This gesture could easily be turned against you; he might even accuse you of using his mother’s memory to manipulate him.

But for some reason you don't care.

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Later, you're plating the dish when you hear the heavy clomp of combat boots, quickening as they approach, then coming to an abrupt stop.

"Perfect timing." You look up at your boyfriend and smile, holding the dish up slightly. "I made something for you."

Kai slowly walks to you, silent, calculating. He steps close—so close there’s barely space between you, with only the plate in your hands separating you.

"Apple Pie. The all-american dessert." Your words come out in a low murmur.

"Correct." He flicks open his pocket knife, carving off a bite and balancing it on the blade. "Open."

You part your lips instinctively, and he guides the piece to your mouth. As you bite down, the sweetness of the pastry mingles with a faint metallic tang from the knife's edge. Kai pulls it back with a slow precision, leaving a sharp taste lingering amid the warm notes of apple and spice.

Then, in a slow, deliberate motion, he turns the knife around, offering the handle to you. His eyes hold yours, dark and watchful, as you take it and mirror his gesture, bringing a piece to his lips. He leans forward, just enough to take the bite. As the familiar taste hits him, there's a shift—a crack in his steely facade. And for a split second, you see the boy he used to be, before everything turned dark.

Without a word, he raises a hand, a silent command for his guards to leave. They exchange glances but obey, slipping out of the kitchen.

Now, it’s just the two of you, alone.

He speaks in a whisper, but each word drips with a mix of wonder and suspicion. “She sent you… didn’t she?”

The words hang in the silence, and for a moment, his intense gaze softens, his brow knitting as if he’s trying to make sense of what he’s just said. “I knew it,” he breathes. “I knew she…”

He pauses, staring at you with a vulnerable intensity you've never seen before, like he's fighting to believe in something beyond his hardened reality. It's as if he's convinced that his late mother, somehow, some way, has sent you into his life—an angel, perhaps, to guide him, to protect him from the shadows he can't escape. The idea fills him with a fierce, quiet hope. His mistrust, his paranoia, all of it seems to melt away as he stares at you, searching for some sign, some proof of his mother.

You set the plate carefully on the counter behind you, keeping your movements slow and gentle, as if any sudden motion might startle him. Stepping forward, you raise your arms and slide them around him, feeling the tension that coils through his frame. Your hands find their way to his back, moving in soothing, slow circles, the warmth of your touch grounding him.

At first, he stiffens, caught off-guard by the unexpected embrace, his arms remaining at his sides. But gradually, as your hands continue their gentle rhythm along his back, he softens against you, letting the rigidity melt away. His shoulders drop, and you feel the faint rise and fall of his breath, a steadying rhythm that seems to settle him, little by little. Your touch is careful, maternal—each motion reassuring, as if you’re somehow reaching into the lonely places he’s kept hidden, places starved of comfort.

You press your cheek lightly against his shoulder, and the silence stretches between you, filled with a sense of calm that seems almost foreign to him. You can sense him leaning into the embrace, accepting the warmth you offer, maybe even craving it, though he would never say so.

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tags (ask to be added or removed anytime!): @fear-is-truth @juliamaximoff @jazz-berry @violetsghosts @quickreider @tiffysdeath @honeymoon8 @wcnderlnds @lacucarachapisser @xrag-dollx @oceanblvd111 @andiloveher @vi0l3tgard3ns

[puppyeared]

my stardew farmer ^_^ he doesnt have a green thumb for shit so he keeps animals and does mining

some tidbits i came up with while playing hehe

reclusive and doesnt really go out of his way to talk or visit people unless its an errand. but he also doesnt try to befriend others to get something out of it, so he has a very easygoing approach to making friends. on good terms with linus and sebastian since he runs into them most often.

if he respects or takes a liking to someone, he'll greet them with miss/mister (name). if you get close to him he starts using first name basis. if he doesn't like you, he'll refer to you by your title without using your name. only a few people have caught on to this.

the farm he inherited, Milky Way Farm, was the site of a meteorite crash and sometimes you can find shards of meteor debris littered around the farm (i picked the hilltop farm bc of this lol)

lost his sweater and pants a long ass time ago and doesnt have the time to look for them, so hes been working in his sleep clothes ever since

isnt actually grandpa's real heir to the farm... ;)

[moonilit]

Do you think Dick is Kory’s primary medical… assistant (??) as in he is the one who gives her her vaccine shots and get blood samples? Because of her Trauma of being test subject she canonically hates anything that reminds her of labs and such but she still need a medical record? She can’t be just immune to everything on earth and even if so there is a whole space out there (i assume she could be allergic to something at least), my point is she still need some kind of medical records with whatever information she is willing to give and what the team could learn from other Tamarians physiology, and I assume its Dick who is being her assigned medical assistant (doing the needle work, doing her X -rays and screening etc at least being in the same room or on the microphone maybe hold her hand in  dental appointments lol) like she probably have PTSD about being experimented on and i assume Dick didn’t just think they can avoid hospitals and medical care forever lol 

Yk, Part of how Dick also helped Kory and it wasn’t just one way thing

[lecliss]

The choice from Sunday is kinda weird cuz the options are build a cage in the house for the bird or build a nest where it fell and one leads to the bird growing up but dying once its set free and the other one probably leads to it dying much sooner. They both feel like the same option and even tho obviously the most kind, caring, morally right thing to do is keep it inside so at least it lives longer even if it's in a cage. But like to me both options suck and are basically nothing cuz I'm sorry if I look like a bad person for this, but I'm not sorry, but I'm not fuckin touching a wild animal. Even if I knew it was there even if I bothered to check out the sound to find a bird, which I wouldn't, I'm not touching it. I'm not even getting close enough to find out it's too young to fly yet. Whatever happens to it happens man and I'll never know what happens to it cuz I'm not even gonna look at it. Like, where's the 'you seem like an asshole but really it's quite a normal choice' in this whole trial thing??? That's usually an option you can pick. Sunday!!! Sunday, listen!!! There are more than two choices!!! You don't have to always do something!!!! You can just walk away!!! You don't have to try to do something for everyone all the time!!! Think about yourself sometimes!!! It's not selfish I promise!!! SUNDAY!!! OH MY GOD HIS WINGS ARE COVERING HIS EARS HE CANT HEAR US!!!!

[sadisthetic]

this isnt a question about which you think is better btw. simply pure opinion

[thevalleyoftriumph]

had a roach attempt an escape today ☝

[widevibratobitch]

so i am singing that vitellia in the end... but at what fucking cost.

'you gotta sing this softer'

'what'

'this is mozart'

'this is vitellia'

'this is mozart'

'im singing about how much i hate this mf and want him dead before the end of the day'

'this is mozart'

'i wanna murder a guy'

'this is mozart'

'...'

'softer. gentle. mozart'

'...ok'

[thedevotionaltour]

i havent even read enough gl to justify the feelings and emotions i have about kyle i just have the lovers heart and also something wrong with me. and my projection. in my mind he's just like me. and he would have loved college vending machine frozen cheeseburger and heating it up in the microwave at 1 in the morning because he was bored and didn't want to work on a drawing assignment on 20" x 30" paper that was due tomorrow in his freshman year. he would have loved going to the club to push off finals work that's creating the worst stress known to man in his brain. and he would love to annoy the fuck out of his roommate when high and avoiding homework on a saturday.

[triglycercule]

i want to headcanon the mtt having absolutely terrible hygiene and struggling to keep themselves clean (this MAY... just QUITE POSSIBLY.... only in the SLIGHTEST bit be projection) but i think it would be too gross and man EVEN I dont wanna think about that

also killer canonically smells good and i actually really LIKE that idea so oh shit there goes that idea out the window. horror and dust youre my only hope please let me make you smell bad for reasons you won't understand

[musingmycelium]

. noncoherent but also thoughts

[gachaparadise]

ahhh the Penacony leaks are really coming in now.

*chuckles* I'm in danger.

[lcpmon]

idk how other ppl learn to read characters but even when someone has very few lines, if they're not a few throwaway lines and have a smidgen of thought put into them, you can really deduct a lot of things from what they say without mountains of dialogue and array of actions they take.

cIaus, even Iucas via his few lines and interactive dialogue, is so easy to understand and learn what hes about from the dialogue you are given. it shouldnt be hard to mess him up

and even tho these are more active characters in the story with goals to achieve and story beats to hit, u rly can apply the same to lngo and 3mmet. u can make assumptions or deduct possible aspects about how they act from breaking down their dialogue and possible routine. some things might be completely speculative and pulled out of thin air but as long as it matches the characters general front its hard to go wrong

[todayisafridaynight]

i think i would have gone loco if jo and aoki got to meet up just once after ichi breaks through to him like. the damage to my psyche id have wouldve been immeasurable, irreparable even

[possiblynotpayingattention]

Lol I wish Malenia came flying out of nowhere to save the day! 😭

Tbh, I have a headcanon about something similar.

Malenia, being Miquella's twin and also an Empyrean, is immune to her brother's bewitching/charming ability. She is also aware of when it happens or has happened to others, recognizing the signs, sensing her brother's powers at work and knowing Miquella's motives/personality well enough to discern the truth.

For that reason she tries to nip this behavior in the bud by either talking Miq out of it, finding an alternative way for whatever he is planning or flat out requesting he stop this.

Now, thanks to SOTE's ending, it's become rather evident that Miquella is a extremely morally grey person. He's not evil but he is an anti-villian— an antagonist who does bad things for the right reasons (I love this trope so much but it took me a while to realize Miq fit this trope perfectly).

He doesn't want to hurt anyone or cause pain- which why he just removes that possibility by bewitching his "allies" and being kind to everyone he crosses paths with (I don't think he charms everyone he meets but he does probably play up the "Kindly Miquella" persona, which is still part of his real personality, however if all else fails, he brings out the big guns and *KABLAM* you've been brainwashed). He wants so badly to create this perfect future of his, that he resorts to the "by any means necessary" that many typical anti-villains perpetuate (think Magneto from X-Men, Gellert Grindelwald from Fantastic Beasts and Jinx from Arcane). Despite Miquella's lofty dream of this wonderful future and new age, his way of achieving it is definitely suspect and morally wrong.

Malenia knows this and she is aware of the lengths her brother will go to accomplish his goals.

This could be why Miquella left her out of his plan involving godhood and the Land of Shadow.

He knows she'd disapprove or try to stop him (not physically but to talk him down or reason with him and at this point, I think Miquella has no intention of being "reasoned" with). He's desperate for this to go off without a hitch because this plan has likely been several centuries in the making. So he leaves his sister out of it, likely resolving to return to her after it is all said and done. With his new status as a god perhaps there is a greater chance of curing Malenia's rotting sickness. Malenia would only get in the way despite his intention to cure her ("I wanted your help but not like this" vibes) and he doesn't want her to get hurt anymore for his sake (it is probable that he's painfully aware of what state his sister is in and knows she's mentally compromised). Unfortunately for him, he wouldn't be able to charm or bewitch her into sitting on the sidelines even if it was just with her health and condition in mind and not the getting-in-his-way part.

In this event, it is probable that before Malenia and Radahn fought each other to a standstill in Caelid, Miquella gave Finlay instructions that if and when his sister became compromised (aka blooms into Aeonia), to take her to the Haligtree and keep her there. Miquella is hoping Malenia will be protected there but also unable to stop him from carrying out his plans.

Everything falls into place, Mohg "steals" Miquella away, he makes it into the Land of Shadow and begins his journey with Malenia none the wiser, using his bewitching ability to secure his allies without anyone to stop him.

He always planned to go back for his sister and in the last battle when he's defeated, it probably occurs to him that Malenia's fate is sealed with his death. She'll never be cured and she'll die waiting for him, having depended on a lie to keep her going just like everyone else in Elphael.

Personally I'd like to think one of the biggest reasons for Miquella's transition into that of an antagonist is because of Malenia. That his determination to achieve godhood was centered around trying to cure his sister (and perhaps find a way to help Godwyn as well).

I mean, his whole personality and plan revolve around helping people even if they don't want to be helped (in the bewitching case, forcibly so).

Miquella leaving Malenia behind is also very similar to his discarding of St. Trina. She knows Miquella can't be allowed to achieve godhood and she also likely knows (just like Malenia) that his methods are wrong and would only come back to bite him later. Malenia wouldn't want this, St. Trina doesn't want this but both of them love and understand Miquella all the same— they are two people who love him so much, they have to stop him.

Over all, Miquella really is the perfect anti-villian... benevolent in his goals but his methods are morally wrong.

Miquella has to be stopped by someone regardless of his reasoning and his altruistic goals. He's desperate and very alone (sorely lacking real allies and friends who aren't bewitched). With his twin sister and other-half safely out of the way (that's very important— that they are safe, seemingly awaiting his return), it falls to our Tarnished to stop him.

I don't want to undo his anti-villian arc but I do wish there had been some sort of saving grace moment in the final battle instead of more slaughter. Perhaps a way to cure Malenia is given to us by Miquella or even some additional dialogue from him explaining his reasoning further so it is flat out established that he's not evil, just very misguided, so the player feels conflicted for killing him and Radahn. It would've at least saved him from getting labeled "evil" by everyone who isn't a Miquella fan.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk about why Miquella left Malenia behind! 🙂🥲

Miquella the brat

[slashersweethearts]

if i had a nickel for every time i had a 5cream oc who was an absolutely 100% fruity girl who kept hitting on white boy wes w ZERO intention of actually following through on anything i’d have TWO nickels. which isn’t a lot but its weird that its happened twice right.

[irondefendersart]

just finished watching a playthru of mouthwashing

would I be killed with a thousand hammers if I claimed curly as an f/o