#It seems to be only Kara having new info

[y2sims]

16 (+1) Lidiqnata Meshes in The New Hair System.

colors by pooklet.

textures mostly remi v2 + poppet’s wavy.

binned, tooltipped and compressed.

all the meshes are included.

hey! i wasn’t supposed to do a full hair dump but this happened! some of them were requested, most of them weren’t. i was just happy to notice how easy most of these were to retexture, hah. binning was a completely different story, though, as most of these hairs make the hair binner crash. @profesionalpartyguest had the same problem and i found out that it’s because the hairs have some 1x1 texture files... anyway, i managed to bin them all, but they aren’t familied and some hairs have separate grey colors, some have it linked to black. most of these also have separate files for all the colors, because i didn’t want to start merging them separately 😬

all these hairs are pretty old but look very nice (with pretty low poly counts!), at least on bodyshop. i haven’t tested how the animations etc. look in-game, but hopefully there won’t be any problems!

! please note that there is an issue with elisabeth and helena meshes, they seem to conflict so you can only have one of them in your game at once !

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↓  more info and individual previews under the cut ↓

Lidiqnata Alice

(preview)

ages cf - ef

3986 polys

Lidiqnata Amelia

(preview)

ages cf - ef

2660 polys

i used @deedee-sims retexture as a base for the scalp bc i got too lazy to try to make it look decent 😩

Lidiqnata Charlotte - two versions

(previews: 1 & 2)

ages cf - ef

3028 polys

two versions: one with longer alpha and one with shorter

Lidiqnata Donna

(preview)

ages cf - ef

3060 polys

Lidiqnata Elfy - no flowers

(previews: 1 & 2)

ages yaf - ef

2979 polys

Lidiqnata Elisabeth

(preview)

ages yaf - ef

3912 polys

note!! for me at least, this mesh conflicts with the “helena” mesh. idk why, but if i have them both in my downloads folder, both hairs show up in bodyshop either as elisabeth or as helena, depending which mesh has loaded first. 

Lidiqnata Ellyn - plus male version Teodor

(previews: 1 & 2)

ages cf - ef / cm - em

2750 polys

Lidiqnata Helena

(preview)

ages cf - ef

3884 polys

note!! for me at least, this mesh conflicts with the “elisabeth” mesh. idk why, but if i have them both in my downloads folder, both hairs show up in bodyshop either as elisabeth or as helena, depending which mesh has loaded first. 

Lidiqnata Jessi

(preview)

ages cf - ef

2979 polys

requested by anonymous

Lidiqnata Kara

(preview)

ages cf - ef (no young adult state bc i don’t know how to add one myself lol)

2962 polys

Lidiqnata Lily Ordinary

(preview)

ages cf - ef

2582 polys

Lidiqnata Michelle

(preview)

ages cf - ef

2332 polys

retextured by @jellymeduza, i just recolored this one

requested by anonymous

Lidiqnata Nadia

(preview)

ages pf - ef

2266 polys

Lidiqnata Silver

(preview)

ages pf - ef (though, i only now noticed that the toddler version is pretty wonky...)

4384 polys

there’s also a male conversion of this hair but i couldn’t find a version that would have allowed me to extract it in bodyshop so i didn’t do that

Lidiqnata Stella - two versions

(previews: 1 & 2)

ages pf - ef

3490 polys

two versions: one with longer alpha, one with a shorter

Lidiqnata Victoria

(preview)

ages cf - ef

3486 polys

[sunny-deejee]

Kara having spoilers on her wiki and Rudy’s being almost blank should be counted as a hate crime 

[marumafan]

Helloo! Takabayashi sensei posted this on twitter about Yuuri dating a girl, and now I'm a bit confused about that? Did Yuuri really have a girlfriend in the novels?

Hi there! Yes! And I'm super excited! Takabayashi sensei has been updating a lot of fans on things that happened in the novels, because a lot of new and old fans haven't read the novels. (She also mentioned on twitter about his name being derived from the German Juli, which is also deep fan info). Novel 9, the beginning of the Seisakoku arc, where most of the yuuram relationship development takes place, starts with Yuuri 'getting a girlfriend'. The girl (Hashimoto) talks to him for a while, and when Yuuri says 'he has no girlfriend ', she decides they're dating and says they're going on a date that afternoon, and then Yuuri travels to the other world, disappears forever and never returns to earth. XDD (canonically, Yuuri hasn't returned to Earth yet) Days go by and Murata travels to America, and a bunch of things happen. So yeah, poor Hashimoto was stood up.

Not only that! But in novel 9 we also find out that Yuuri, who has always claimed to have never had a girlfriend, has had 'people who asked him if they will choose them or baseball' and that Yuuri has always said 'baseball' which is why he's never had a girlfriend. -> Call me biased , but if someone's asking you to 'choose between them or something else... aren't you already kinda dating?' XDDD So anyway! It's interesting! It makes me think that PERHAPS! This is how Chapter 1 of KKMS will go!

That perhaps we will FINALLY get the Seisakoku arc (the most yuuram arc ) adapted! And yes, the most yuuram arc starts with Yuuri "getting a girlfriend". I'm excited! I REALLY hope it's the Seisakoku arc! PS. After that novel where Yuuri 'got a girlfriend' there was so much backlash from the fans that sensei promised Hashimoto would 'never appear again' . Seems like sensei is determined to have that part of the novel in. I have my ideas as to why, which I will include after the cut, because this is getting long. (also spoilers below)

As I've said, Seisakoku arc is the most yuuram arc of all. These are novels 9-15. (Here for yuuram moments in them: |9|10|11|12|13|14|15|) Why did Yuuri get a girlfriend? *(and why Takabayashi is brining it back despite the horrible backlash it got the first time) It's for character development. This is the ONE thing he kept complaining about. That he had 'never had a girlfriend'. But after Hashimoto declares they are dating, he got his 'non girlfriend status revoked'. Despite all of that his feelings for Wolf explode during the Seisakoku arc. They spend weeks sleeping together in a 'little bunk bed' . Yuuri develops an intense trauma after Wolf was 'killed'. Yuuri 'sees' Wolfram everywhere once they're separated. When he reunites with Wolf (in a horrible way), he's pretty much begging for Wolf to even talk to him, acknowledge him. Then they sleep together in Wolf's bed. Yuuri asks Wolf if a punch he gives him means 'divorce'.... meaning in his head, he thinks of himself as married to Wolf. When he sees Wolf is in danger, again he looses his cool. Finally, not in Seisa arc, but in the prison arc, in the last novel we get from sensei, Yuuri remembers what happened in Seisa, andhe says that "he almost lost his 'most important person' because of wardrobe...". Most important person: his 'taisetsuna hito' in maruma is 'the person they're in love with." AND ALL OF THIS happens in Seisakoku arc. Best arc. For anyone who still doesn't understand the Yuuri and Wolf dynamic, here's an explanation: https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/163985363669/english-version-of-kyou-kara-maou

[yaoisex]

Yep, you’re seeing right! 

KOBAYASHI CHIAKI X KOBAYASHI YUSUKE!

I totally thought it’s an April Fools’ joke at first. I learnt not to trust anything I see on Twitter on that day. But seems like it’s real. It’s a new channel that’s going to deliver us voice comic series! 

They’re going to upload 3 stories. This one here is the first one: Suki ni Sasete Miseru Kara!. If I understood right - we’re going to get the full manga in this version of voice comic! That was the 1st ep which covered the 1st ch. 

Before watching this vid I tried looking for the translated manga and found only the first 3 chs, so I read them. 

THEY ARE SO CUTE!!! The characters AND the seiyuu! Whoever chose the cast for this - thank you. You did your work well! You chose the most precious seiyuu for such precious characters!

THIS IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE BOTH OF YOU!! ;___;

Can’t wait for future eps!! 

They haven’t released the cast for the other 2 stories yet. Tbh, I think I’ll only be interested in watching them if I like the pairings. So we’ll see when they release the info.

This is not the first time I watch a voice comic. There have been quite a few recently. But for me: BLCDs >>> voice comic. You could say that it’s the same as listening to a BLCD while following and reading the manga, but it’s different. Because it feels like they don’t record those voice comics fluently like BLCDs. The transitions between scenes often feel off. The bgm suddenly cut and changes to a different one or to nothing at all, etc. It sounds like they record every frame separately so there’s no flow most of the times. So for me that version of experience feels quite different and I prefer BLCDs 100%. But of course that I’ll continue watching this story because of the double, precious Kobayashis!!! 

So funny having them together as a couple after they just won an award for their radio together. They’re cute! ^___^

(At one point the bgm that was playing was the same one Whitey is using in all of his vids. I had to giggle xD)

[ynscrazylife]

Hey, I thought I'd switch things up & ask for a Lena Luthor x Reader. This completely ignores Crisis & set around S3. Also, let's pretend Lena knows Kara is SG. Reader is from E1 & is a metahuman who works on Team Arrow. Reader comes to E38 to help Kara & the DEO. Please & Thanks.

Yes! I love love love Lena

Falling For You Fast

Summary: Due to multiverse threats to Earth-38, Team Arrow sends Y/N, a Metahuman with solar energy related powers, to help out the DEO and Supergirl. There, she meets someone she’s interested in, Lena Luthor.

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(IMAGE ID: Lena listens to Sam with a kind and understanding expression on her face and then says something to her)

Lena Luthor nearly spit out her coffee - which would have been very unprofessional - when she saw a new woman she had seen before enter the room, for she was stunning. She was practically glowing - and in the world Lena lived in, she wouldn’t be surprised if the woman did glow. She had gorgeous (Y/H/C) hair and was wearing  . . . a Team Arrow suit? 

Lena leaned forward in her seat, remembering the logo on the suit. Since she began helping out at the DOE, Kara had told her about Team Arrow in Earth-1. Was Team Arrow here? Was this woman a member of it? 

“Y/N!” Kara’s chirpy voice drew the businesswoman from her thoughts, and it took Lena a moment to realize that Kara was addressing the new woman. The brunette smiled as she sipped more of her coffee, marveling at how pretty the name was. “I’m so glad you’re here.” 

Kara pulled Y/N into a hug and Lena stood up from her seat. When Y/N pulled back, she had the biggest smile on her face and she and Lena briefly caught each other’s eye, causing the usual composed woman to nearly fall back in her chair. 

God, Y/N was charming. 

“Everyone, this is Y/N. She’s a Metahuman from Earth-1 and is here to help us with our latest multiverse threats here - basically people from other universes attacking this Earth - who knows why. Y/N has solar manipulation and energy manipulation. Our powers are a tiny bit similar, but the good thing is that if I give hurt, Y/N can give me the solar energy I need to heal. Now . . . introduce yourselves and I’ll go see where the latest attack is from,” Kara explained before walking off to meet with Alex and J’onn. 

The whole group stood up to meet Y/N. Lena, however, lingered back. She waited until everyone else had finished to talk up to her, wanting to engage in a longer conversation than just introductions and saying hello. 

“Hello. I’m Lena Luthor,” Lena said, reaching out her hand for Y/N to shake, which Y/N did. When their hands came in contact, butterflies swarmed Lena’s stomach. 

“I”m Y/N - Y/N Y/L/N,” Y/N said, a big grin on her face, until she giggle and looked down. 

“What?” Lena asked, suddenly uneasy. Had she done something?! 

“Nothing, nothing . . . I’m sorry. It’s just - I giggle around pretty women,” she said, rushing the last part, and giggled again as a blush overcame her features. 

Lena’s eyes widened and she smiled, shocked but happy about what she heard. They continued talking for the next couple hours, mostly casual with some occasional small flirts as they did their work. That was until Kara needed Y/N for a mission and Lena had to stay behind to work on something for the lab. 

While Y/N was excited to go on a mission, Lena couldn't deny her sadness. They had been making progress and Lena was already falling for her. Not to mention her worry that sprung from it - what if Y/N got hurt? 

She busied herself in the lab with the reassurance that she made Winn promise to give her updates if anything happened. However - Winn didn’t keep it. 

When Lena left the lab she was shocked and concerned to see James helping a struggling and exhausted Y/N to medical. “What happened?!” Lena demanded, rushing over to help James with Y/N, directing her question at Kara who was following them. 

“’Mm fine,” Y/N slurred from pain, leaning against Lena and putting almost all her weight on her so James had to just pick her up and carry her. 

The Kryptonian seemed to have a guilty look on her face as she followed the trio. “Y/N healed me with her solar energy but because she was distracted she got hurt by someone with powers and they got away,” the blonde explained. 

Lena’s hands tightened info fists, unable to contain her anger that Y/N was hurt and it was because of Kara, even if she knew it wasn’t directly Kara’s fault. She tried to calm down but her anger wasn’t mixing well with her worry, and the only thing that soothed her was when James had laid Y/N in a medical bed and the doctor on-hand informed them that she’d be okay, only exhausted.

Lena sat at Y/N’s beside. Despite only knowing her for a couple hours, she had become protective, and refused to leave her side, watching Y/N in case she woke up and needed anything. The woman was so focussed that she didn't even notice that Y/N had woken up until she said something. 

“Lena . . .?” Y/N said tiredly, eyes clouded with confusion. 

The Luthor barely fell out of her chair from the surprise. “Y/N! You’re awake! How are you feeling?” She asked hurriedly, glancing over at her to see if she had any visible injuries or was in pain - which she wasn’t. 

“I’ll be okay,” Y/N murmured, looking around. “You know . . . You’re really pretty and nice.” 

Lena's lips formed into a small smile, extremely excited on the inside but, on the outside, she knew this was probably the exhaustion in Y/N talking. Nonetheless, she replied with: “Thank you, so are you.”

“Wanna go on a date?” Y/N asked quietly, closing her eyes. 

Lena put her hand over her mouth to cover her smile and to prevent her from letting out a high-pitched squeal. She had been wishing for that ever since she met Y/N and got to know her. “You have no idea how much I would,” Lena murmured, leaning back into her seat.

[kuekyuuq]

Timeline Issues /w Supergirl

Today’s topic: Lena's age

I am aware, this topic isn’t new, but it bothers me and to my knowledge it’s been a while since it’s been looked into thoroughly - and it’s the s06 mid-season hiatus, so plenty of time to look at things closely... So, let’s dig right in:

"According to the official CW website, Lena is between 25 and 32 years old since her first appearance." 

[Source: Wikipedia, which links to a source from November 2018, but there's no mention of Lena's age in that source o.O]

...I am not sure what to make of the lack of source / credit / quote here, so what else do we have?

According to arrow.fandom.com Lena Kieran Luthor is born on October 24, 1993 [Source: Supergirl: The Secret Files of Kara Danvers, a companion book for Supergirl written by Warner Bros. Television, dubbed The Ultimate Guide to the Hit TV Show;  page of reference. ]. This much better credited source ties in with her graduating from MIT before 2012, when at the age of 19 she met and befriended Jack Spheer. And taking over LuthorCorp after Lex got convicted - at the sweet age of 23 - in 2016, and meeting Kara. She was young, but it’s a family business, she’s really smart (has 2 doctorates) and rich and her last name is Luthor, so board-members may have fought her every step, but really had to at least give her a chance, I guess.

And for some episodes and flashbacks those dates internally made sense (outside Katie McGrath being a whole 10 years older than her character ...presumably... Katie keeps her personal info very, well, personal) - and for many others it was / is inconsequential.

In episode 2x12 - set early 2017 - the title card for the flashback of Lena being brought into the Luthor mansion says "20 years ago" and we know Lena was 4 years old when her mother vanished into that lake (a theory for another day) and Lionel Luthor 'adopted' her. Which again puts Lena at being born in 1993.

But then, there's episode 5x06 (set in 2019), which features a flashback with the title card "15 years ago" and shows a teenage Lena and Andrea meeting at Mount Helena Boarding School and go (illegally) drinking. Which would set the flashback in 2004/05, and Lena being 11/12 years old - and in NO WAY would pass for drinking age and sneak into a bar with Andrea!

(Young Lena's actress, Lucy Loken, is born in 1999, making her 20 -!- at the time of filming of that episode. If the actress' age was any indication, Lena would have been 32 in 2016 at her first appearance in the show - which already exceeds the only other not-really-a source for her age.)

Yet, the rest seems to fit her vintage of 1993 again...

A 21 year old Lena, who has been working with Jack in their garage to cure cancer, while advocating at LuthorCorp, gets fired by Lex (who taunts her to go work at Jack's family business, Spheer Industries).

She takes a little time off instead, to grab Andrea and go on their treasure hunt in the Costa Rican jungle.

Their search for the Acratan medallion is set as "five years ago" according to the title card from 5x06 (set in 2020) putting the event somewhere late 2014 / early 2015, just before the series' very pilot.

A short while after that, Lena and Jack start a romantic relationship (3 years after meeting him, putting her at about 22 years old).

In 2016 (four years before the events of 5x06) Lex kidnaps Lena, ties her to a chair and brags about how he turned the sun red.

Lex is taken in by the police / gives himself up (?)

Jack comes running in, comforts a shaken Lena, he invites her to London

In London Lena meets Andrea again, who wears the medallion...

A few months later, Lex is convicted to 32 consecutive life-sentences and sent to Striker's Island

Lena (23) sees Supergirl on TV and ends things with Jack in Metropolis

Lena moves to National City, takes over LuthorCorp and gets interviewed by Kara (and Clark)...

So... yeah. Most mentions of times and dates are vague, at best. Sources are hard to find. Assumptions are easily made.

Could Lena indeed be older than stated in the only tangible source that I could? Sure. That would mean instead of just assuming Lena meeting Andrea was timestamped wrongly, several other mentions of dates and time-frames were wrong / off by some years, but it could work.  

What else does that mean? Kara's born in 1966, was 13 in 1979 when Krypton exploded and her pod got stuck in the Phantom Zone. Not one, but two decades later - in 2003 her pod landed on Earth, she's still 13 years old... (putting her year of birth in fake documents at 1990) And in 2015, in the pilot, Kara's 25. Kara is 2-3 years older than Lena.

...or 49 years old and 26-27 years older than Lena, if you add the PZ-years .-.

Then again, now we have to deal with a completely new past and changed series / circumstances of past events thanks to Crisis (since 5x09)...

...

I am not trying to shame the writers on doing anything wrong, the show mislabeling things or the creative heads of not knowing their own timeline. I could have missed something or may take the wrong source(s) or shown references to be valid! I - a crazy fan who looks at all the given details - am just trying to make sense of the given facts and the implied timeline.

Is all that really important on the bigger scale of things? No. It really isn't. But, for anyone who wants to write fanfics and keep their facts straight, wants to remain somewhat in-canon and make certain points plot-points, or just get their references right, this IS a point worth looking into.

So, I hope that helped some of you or helped to re-evaluate some things. Or that some of you can add to this and / or correct any mistakes or faulty assumptions I made, so I can figure this inconsistency out and rest more easily.

Kue out.

[all-might-can-smash-me]

Motherly Instincts, Human Emotions, or Just a Quirk?

Aizawa Shouta/Eraserhead x Reader

Summary: A feeling is haunting you and it seems to just get even more complicated as the number one hero Endeavor is now out of his hospitalization and the world is at an unease. Is it just your motherly instincts that you feel towards your beloved class 1-A? Is it just a normal occurrence of emotion within any person? Or is it your quirk now picking up something new that you can’t quite see yet?

What I listened to while writing: Detroit:Become Human soundtrack, especially Kara’s Theme.

We are finally here! The fifth season of our beloved My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia has finally arrived! And with that also comes some writings! I’ve been swamped with my new busy schedule that comes along with being in cosmetology school, don't ever under estimate those students because we sure go through a lot each day! Please enjoy this short, on the whim writing for a humble celebration.

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A chill had risen up your arms as your typed away at your computer, the hurried and petrified voice of the news caster raging out even if your tv was brought down to a hushed volume. 

“Number one hero Endeavor is is currently defeating a villain. Much damage has been caused to the area. No fatalities as of right now....” Though whatever they had left to speak out to all of Japan or even the whole world did not matter as your chair had clattered upon the ground as you reached for your house coat. the bright light of the hall blinding your eyes as wisps of hair that had fallen from your hair tie floated amongst the wind you created with your nervous steps down the stairs. Shoto had fallen to the ground and your colleague was already there hovering over the teen, the rest of the class either crowding their fellow classmate or staring in shock to the news blaring from the tv.

That day the world changed and not even the world’s most naïve person could ever deny such a thing.

“Here is your jacket, Shoto...” You spoke out softly as you stood in front of the boy, hands reaching to straighten out the collar, the young man only silently standing before you expressionless as usual. Though you could have sworn you felt a tremor. Whether it was you or him, that could be debatable. “Just remember the time we set, ok? If you feel uncomfortable don’t be afraid to just excuse yourself so Mr.Aizawa and I can bring you straight back to the dorms, they will understand that if you have too.” assuring you hoped your words would sound to the boy, but that forever blank expression only looked back to you. 

“Ok...” he softly spoke out, you nodding your head as you stepped out from his path.

“Ok” felt like the only appropriate response as you watched him step up to the house, disappearing behind the very daunting front door. 

You didn’t want to come off as one of those crazy conspiracist types who always had a foul theory about a hero, villain, and their families, but with your quirk helping you feel the atmosphere or vibe of people, places, or things, you couldn't help but silently be one. Shoto always carried something awful, something that made your heart become heavy despite his neutral expressions. It always perturbed you to no end. It wasn’t like you have never felt this before either. With your previous job being interviewing and helping rehabilitate “troubled” children and mentally stricken heroes and now being the counselor of UA, it was something that always came. What bothered you though was that it was coming from the son of the nation’s number one hero, a family that would seem normal to all of Japan and the entire world because, well, it was a family of a hero. A had on your shoulder made you snap out of your racing thoughts, now looking over your shoulder and to Aizawa.

“Are you ok?” He questioned, almost a bit awkwardly. You didn’t blame him, your reaction to the atmosphere around was probably strange and maybe even frightening. “I know your quirk can...”

“I’m just worried...” You spoke out with a sigh as rested a hand over his before moving away from his touch to lean against the hood of the car, hands now sitting in your lap as you twiddled your thumbs. “And I’ve been picking up something weird, but who knows, maybe its just that this house probably too damn old and spooky” you tried to joke with a meek laugh, though he only stared with a knowingly look, yet did not press any further. You had to be thankful for that, he sure knew when to back off sometimes, maybe not when it came to his own homeroom students, but for you? He did and you didn’t really care to know his reason for why like whether or not he thought you were too weak to handle it or some other seemingly offensive reason. “Shit!” You exclaimed as a fowl hiss came from the side walk in front of you. There a scared cat arched and puffed it’s body out, though Aizawa paid no mind with a lazy look as he calmly approached the cat, slowly reaching out a hand to let the feral beast sniff, quickly gaining his trust. You couldn't help but let out a giggle as the man scooped up the cat in his arms, now leaning against the car next to you where his hands loved up upon the cat’s dirty fur, his black hair falling to hide the sides of his face. Sometimes you would sit there and imagine what he would look like with that mane of his trimmed and tidied during the sleepless nights you shared playing card games, doing paperwork together, or doing a quick patrol around the dorm to check upon the beloved students of class 1-A. 

“Huh, you sure your quirk isn’t taming wild cats?” You teased as you reached a hand to give the old cat a scratch under his chin. The little chuckle that rumbled through rumbled through you before he began to speak.

“I wish, creating a cat sanctuary of street cats seems like the life best suited for me..” He spoke out lowly with the purrs of the cat. You knew he was joking however which brought a small lift to the corners of your lips. 

It didn’t take him much thought to know that something was still bothering you as the cat jumped from him arms to land back to the ground with what seemed to be a small meow of thanks as it ran off into the night only leaving behind the pesky cat hairs on his all black costume, but he didn’t mind at all. 

“Look at you, covered in cat hair...” Your voice came out in a whisper which you weren't aiming to do as you reached a hand to try to dust away the short hairs in vain, though his rough hands wrapped around yours in order to stop you, a knowing look upon his face. That look made you sigh as you retracted your hands from his.

That damn man. He knew when to not press about things like he did to others, but when it got to a certain point in his eyes, he always intervened. You were foolish enough to think you would be able to suppress and hide it enough in order to trick those fatigued eyes of his. Not this time, the feelings that plagued your heart and continued to poke at you were too strong and too bothersome. 

“Shoto always carried things such as sadness, anger, determination, trauma, just a lot more than I could swallow sometimes.” You began to explain, now looking up to the house watching the shadows dance across one of the windows lit up by the soft light within. “And this whole area is filled with so many bad things...but right now it kind of confuses me” You said as your eyebrows scrunched at the new shift. “Change is happening, which is normal to see in a person once they go through the proper treatment or therapy, but judging by how bad it was before, it is going to take a lot...” You said with a sigh, lowering your gaze from the house, trying your best to shut off the swarm of emotions before you and to end your reading, now looking to Aizawa. “It just saddens me, Shoto seems so aloof, but that boy has went through so much, I guess I’m just worried from him, scared for him..” You explained.

“Doesn’t make since why he would come back?” He asked softly, you only staring back up to him to roll that thought within your head before nodding your head. Aizawa only nodded his head back, his arm now reaching to wrap an arm around your dropping shoulders, you now leaning your head against his shoulder. The embrace was comforting and you appreciated his understanding, but you still had such an anxious feeling in your gut. 

“I know this world preaches forgiveness and for us to fix the wrongs we commit in our life, but even for me who helps those people forgive and seek forgiveness, its still hard to do it myself sometimes. It also goes to show that even a family like this can hold all these...foul things” You explained further as you looked p to the moths and bugs that swarmed the streetlight up above and soon past their mindless flight and to the dull stars above. The tears pulled at the brim of your eyes, your chin beginning to strain with the sensation that came with crying. “These kids are like my babies...” you soon shakily spoke out, fighting back the horrendous expression you knew would come too with your tears as you looked to Aizawa “And right now I can’t fight off this feeling in my gut ever since the Endeavor incident..” Your trembled whisper almost seemed fearful. 

A door slamming made Aizawa’s head snap to the source of the sound where the both of you sat in the silence, bodies tense as you waited. Finally with a deep sigh his body relaxed as he looked back to you, a hand reaching to brush away those tears that could move him to tears if he was off guard, though sometimes that wouldn’t even work and that would definitely not go past you. 

Your hands reach to cup the lower, stubbled half of his face upon seeing that familiar wetness gently pool in his eyes, but it was not enough to fall upon his cheeks and betray his wishes of not wanting to cry. You guessed you were not alone with these feelings

“I know...” He spoke out quietly with a sad smile. “We just have to prepare them as best as we can. Shoto, Izuku, Eri, Shinsou, all the others” Aizawa continued on as he was no fully turned to you, hands holding your upper arms, one of them moving away to reach for a piece of hair that was caught onto your sweater to pluck it off and let it float gently down into the darkness of the night. 

“But they are just kids...” 

“I know, but they chose this path, besides, they have already accomplished and achieved so much. Who knows, maybe whatever is coming will be another thing these students will once again defeat and make us adults look stupid again” Aizawa was trying to joke, trying to lift that melancholy looked that wrinkled your face, but it was no use. With a sigh he stood up straight, those warm hands of his sliding away as he opened the passenger door for you, those eyes seeming to look even more exhausted if that were even possible. “Come on, lets get the car started, its almost time to bring Shoto home.”

Motherly instincts, human emotions, a quirks power....was it simply not a good mix or was it simply something big was coming? How those thoughts came in typhoons within your mind as you sat in silence in there car. 

How you will never be able to figure that one out....

[triysn]

info dump of all the bits and pieces of info I got from rewatching adjl

In the episode bodyguard duty where Jake has to guard Sara and kara, they make a prediction he gets hit by a boulder going 180mph. Later on, there’s a straight up analysis that tells us, though he did get hit by a boulder going 180 mph, he’s flying at 179 mph. That’s 317 km per hour. The average speed of a car is around 70, I think, though that isn’t looking at race cars. The fastest bird in the world, the peregrine falcon, hits 186 mph when diving or stooping. What’s more, the commentator says this is cruising speed. That means 179mph, for Jake, is below maximum speed and is actually a pretty comfortable flight speed for Jake. 

Plus there was that episode where Jake flew a round trip from New York to the Thule air base in Greenland and back, in Hairy Christmas. I have no idea where exactly the air base is in greenland, so we can’t name exacts, but at the very minimum, the way the crow flies, to hit the very border of Greenland is 3000km. That’s 6000km, minimum, in one night. In 6-8 hours, probably way less, if the colonel managed to fly back from Greenland and reach New York by morning. A commercial airline takes ~5 hrs to get from NY to Greenland and the cruising airspeed for those planes is about 575mph, or 926 kmh. Jake had to hit speeds at least three or four times higher to make it there and back in time, without stopping. That kind of speed and stamina is insane. I half think maybe he had some portal help, but there’s no indication of that, so… (also, how the heck did he even know where the base was? It isn’t public information, as far as I know.)

And, in The Rotwood Flies, when Jake beats up the magical bugs in the school boiler room, he performs the pretty impressive physical feat of jumping a couple dozen feet into the air and roundhouse kicking three gigantic bug-monsters all at once, knocking them out. I mean, clearly there was dragon strength thrown in there, despite him being in his human form, and right after that, he states (jokingly??) that he calls the move “The Windshield” because it goes 90mph and “flattens bugs”. IDK how much of that was true, because last I checked, people can’t arbitrarily discern the speed of their kicks without equipment handy, but if that was accurate, it would be impressive. And really fast. 90 mph is the sort of speed baseballs players spend their entire lives trying to hit in their baseball throws. And Jake just. Kicks someone in the fact at 90mph. You know I’m pretty sure if that happened to a normal human, their skulls would be watermelons under a baseball bat. 

We’ve seen a couple indications of Jake’s strength, but Family Business is quite impressive, if you think about it. Jake managed to hold up the equivalent of 9-10 people on his back at once. Not to mention the giant. A WWE wrestler weighs about 124kg, but considering it’s a giant, and we’ve seen in Ring Around the Dragon that a child giant is around the same size (and stature?), so an adult giant could weigh up to two or three times as much. And considering that the giant jumped on him, adding to the pressure, and therefore the force, and therefore the weight, that Jake experienced compared to if the giant had merely sat on top or something. He still managed to brace the impact without much trouble. The only thing that went wrong was that the floor gave out, not Jake. He was in his dragon form for this one, though, but it’s still impressive. 

Plus, there are tons of other small scenes that give us indications of how competent Jake’s martial arts and hand to hand is, plus his general dexterity in the field. The times he does fail badly or something is usually when he tries to show off and something goes wrong. Also note that training scenarios and actual fight scenarios are quite different. Training scenarios are the equivalent of a sterile lab environment when conducting a test. Everything is better. You’re probably not under immediate threat or especially exhausted or emotional, making it easier to focus and push through, and you’re generally just likely to perform better. In a real fight scenario, though, there are a lot of other factors that could affect how you perform, regardless of how much training you’ve had, like fatigue, injuries, an especially chaotic environment or just plain fear. So one isn’t indicative of another. While Jake does mess up in both, he seems competent in the field and adaptable to circumstances. Though he does have a tendency to showboat that leaves him upstream without a paddle, so to speak.

[oftomorrow]

Headcanon — Kryptonian Naming Conventions

It’s always bothered me that Kryptonian names don’t seem to follow any consistent pattern, and while I could find info about other parts of Kryptonian culture, there doesn’t seem to be anything set in stone for their names. So I sat down and looked at family trees and googled and added a bit of flair where I liked it. Now finally have a naming convention that I think is cool, and that fits for most major characters — though some minor characters do have their names adjusted following this method.

Feel free to use this if you want to, and ignore it if you don’t. Like I said, the inconsistency just bothered me and I wanted something that made a bit more sense.

For men — Kryptonian men have a given name, which is hyphenated to their house name. This name remains unchanged for their entire life. Examples:

Kal from House El — Kal-El

Dru from House Zod — Dru-Zod

The house name doesn’t function exactly like a surname, however. In formal settings it’s expected to refer to a man by his full name out of respect. But in private a family member or close friend might drop the house name and simply use the given name — like how Kara often just calls her cousin Kal rather than Kal-El.

For women — Kryptonian women have a given name which is standalone, and does not change throughout their lives. They also have a surname, which does change when they marry. An unmarried woman will take her father’s full name and use it as a surname. A married woman will take her father’s house name and hyphenate it to her husband’s house name, using that as her new surname. Examples:

Kara, daughter of Zor-El — Kara Zor-El

Lara, daughter of Lor-Van, wife of Jor-El — Lara Van-El

These are only the traditional naming conventions, and just like our world, there are plenty of reasons why someone might disregard them or not follow them entirely. If a person or couple isn’t cishet, they may pick and choose which parts of names they prefer. If a woman wishes to distance herself from her birth family, she may choose to drop her father’s house name and only use her husband’s. If a woman is serving as a house matriarch, she may wish to use a more masculine naming tradition to garner respect. And many more.

Based on all of that, this is how Clark/Kal’s and Kara’s family tree would change. Names marked with * have been altered from their traditional canon, and names marked with ** are ones I just completely made up to fit.

[stranger-who-writes-fiction]

More musing on Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow because ART. We’ve got ART! (And also the July Superfam solicits but more importantly ART!)

LOOOOOOK AT THAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRTTTTTT

Source for the pic

So like, I was already on board, because you know. Evely and Lopes. But this, as well as what King says in the tweet, sells me on it more so than...anything else we’ve seen thus far. 

Like. This image immediately tells you just what kind of hero Kara is, the way she totally and completely puts herself both in front of the laser/gunfire, and protectively wraps herself around the kid in this scary situation.

It’s just...refreshing to see? This particular type of heroism from Kara has been largely absent from the Supergirl book, which was at the mercy of several different crossovers/events for a while.

Now it’s entirely possible that we could get text for this and it just RUINS THIS BEAUTIFUL MOMENT but IDK, this at least seems like a heck of a solid start.

(Also the child actually LOOKS LIKE A CHILD which is a rarity in comics.)

(Man how old is Kara now? I’ve just been assuming she’s still 16 but it’s possible she’s aged since the Rebirth run.) 

Also oh my god, the way Evely draws hair is just.

Look at it. The shape language. HNNNGGG

And frames within frames! Very nice. 

We also now have the solicit text for issue two and while there is a visual motif on the cover of #2 that gives me some pause (more on that below), I do like that it’s starting to sound less like Future State. 

Speaking of! Here is a brief rundown of the two solicits: BASICALLY, Kara meets a kid whose planet has been destroyed. Kid is looking for revenge/justice, Kara opts to help her out, they go on a space journey (with Krypto!) and there’s also a space bus.

Said kid is a new character named Ruthye.

They’re after a guy named Krem, who sounds like bad news. 

In terms of info outside of the official solicits, King has teased a ‘treat’ for fans of the Peter David run. No clue what shape that will take. (My money is on a variant cover, but we’ll see.)

King has cited both All-Star Superman and Superman: Up in the Sky as points of comparison.

(I re-read Up in the Sky and yes, the creative decisions made in the Lois issue are just flat out bad. However, the final issue in the limited series? Some of the best Superman writing out there, IMO.) 

(Soooo...could go either way! XD) 

Thus I refuse--REFUSE--to get excited for the story. Got burned real bad by Future State. 

(But on the topic of story...I NEED King to start doing some press for this thing--I wanna hear more about his history with the character. I’m just intensely curious.) 

(I mean he’s referenced PAD’s run, but that wasn’t Kara, so.) 

Anyways...more art, because YEAH, YEAH:

(From Mat Lopes and Tom King’s twitter accounts, respectively.)

(Evely has some progress stuff as well on her IG, mostly close crops of pencils.)

I do like that King describes Kara as the heart of the DCU. At first glance, it perhaps sounds like an exaggeration, and I think...if you’re only looking at current comics, you'd probably be right.

But if we go back to Crisis...I mean, I think an argument could certainly be made!

That said. Still...cautious.

...Future State broke me.

Speaking of, that serpentine/dragon design element on the cover of issue two is the thing that’s got me like...wary. XD Because Future State featured alien eels quite prominently.

(I’m honestly starting to wonder...what with the announcements about the other Superman titles and the direction of DC’s mainline books as a whole, as well as the speculation that Future State was a fill-in event to test the waters as they prepared to roll out the ‘real deal’ later in the year...if they had the bare bones of King’s pitch, handed the details over to the Future State team and said, ‘hey, incorporate these elements, because this is where we’re going with the character, eventually.’ 

Like. It’s perhaps a bit of a stretch, but not NEARLY as weird as, ‘we just so happen to have two nearly identical but TOTALLY UNRELATED pitches happening within half a year of each other.’) 

So, in summary! 

The art: AMAZING. 

The story: It could be okay!

The covers: Included here because they’re lovely! (I think the second one is a Lee Weeks variant.)

[mikereads]

What S5 of Supergirl should have focused on.

I wanted to post this before the season finale, just because it may have a good finale that doesn’t make up for all the mistakes the show made along the way, especially the ones that could have been easily fixed with some proper storytelling that not only pleases the fans but better suits the story your trying to tell. 

1. Kara and Nias friendship/ mentor ship. This season preferably 5B is somewhat focusing on Kara trying to catch Lex. Get proof on him that proves he is not what he seems to be. One of the ways she is doing this is through journalism. Instead of having Kara work with William she should have worked with Nia and here’s why. Not only does it make sense but it would improve the plot the only thing William has is a bad feeling about Lex and as good as that can be think of Nia who not only has the same feeling but knows he’s bad because she has her memories from Earth 38 while to back that up while on the other hand William does not. It’s a wild goose chase with him he doesn’t know what he’s looking for but Nia does. I mean just think that through who would make more sense for Kara to work with Someone who simply has a biased gut feeling that he’s bad because of what happened to his friend vs someone who has all of her memories and knows he is bad so she simply knows what to look for and can investigate what Lex changed comparing her new vs old memories. Its logistically makes more sense to use Nia. As important as diversity is and as much as the show should value its woman more above all that it just makes sense. When they first introduced Nia they implied they wanted them to have a similar relationship to Supercat this time reversed having Kara be the mentor which is great. It can show how much Kara has grown since season 1. Last season they started to do that but that’s been mainly dropped since 4B and its a real shame. They could have a similar type relationship if the show focused on them more but if they don’t then they won’t be able to because it won’t have the same amount dept. They’re showing vs telling but then again the show has been having a big problem with that lately with many characters/aspects of the show. 

Also hes not even a good reporter/journalist Lex said he has been spoon feeding William all his info. It’s such a joke the show tried to amp him up as being such a good reporter yet he’s awful heck Winn could have done a better job at reporting. 

2. Karas past/ trauma 

Kara has been through so much this past season and it isn’t even finished yet. The fall out of her relationship with Lena. Lex rising to power once again and lastly LOSING HER ENTIRE PLANET AND FAMILY once again! The show really hasn’t discussed/ tackled Karas trauma/ past since s3 and even then it was only briefly and contained to one episode arcs vs in s1 when it was dispersed throughout the entire season. With everything that has happened this would have been a perfect season to do that and go back to its roots of S1 but in true Supergirl fashion they didn’t. So far has contained Kara only mentioning her past when it comes to Hope speeches which even those are rare now a days. Since crisis ended I think Kara has only mentioned it twice if at all and that’s when week of the villains forced her to (other Brainy bottling his earth). Kara has lost everyone once again in s1 it was Karas main mission to make sure that wouldn’t happen again she would save earth like she couldn’t save Krypton at whatever means necessary. Then in crisis she wasn’t able to do that and despite everything she did she wasn’t able to do so and lost everyone. Her sister her moms her friends everyone. She succeeded in getting everyone back but it shouldn’t be dismissed that she lost everyone yet it is. 5B should have heavily focused on this through the main of the week plotlines/ through her relationships with her friends and family. Like Melissa wants this finally should have been the season where Kara goes to therapy. Like I genuinely don’t get this show Kara lost everyone yet its barely mentioned Kara and Alex only share one scene discussing it and that was during the crossover in the legends episode it wasn’t even an episode of Supergirl that did it (big sigh) when another show does better things with your characters then you do that’s a problem. She lost her mom Eliza yet they have shared no scenes well none outside the funeral which had nothing to do with her and was another example of them not letting her grieve. Its so unrealistic that Kara wouldn’t have flown to Midvale the minute she was able to do to give Eliza the biggest hug it doesn’t matter if Eliza wouldn’t have her memories Kara would (the actress returned this season so she was clearly available to shoot more scenes yet didn’t because this is supergirl after all). Sidenote can they have Kara call Eliza mom more often like having her call her mom doesn’t make Alura her mom anyless she can have two moms because she actually does I know mind blowing. She lost her mom Alura twice yet they refuse to mention outside of a line or two that’s there more so to move along the plot. This has been a problem ever since they had her return in s3 but Kara has so many unresolved feelings and now she’s lost her twice and yet they still refuse so address it which is not only frustrating but sad for Kara as a character. She should be able to address these feelings about how she’s mad at her/ how she felt abandoned by her and still love her a the same time. Them showing Kara be mad at her doesn’t mean she loves her anyless and would be more healthy in the long run yet they won’t do it. 

3. Lenas past, ptsd, and her mother. 

They have been teasing for years whether not not Lena would turn truly evil but hinting at things over and over again and even though everything Lena has done proved the opposite it was still a lingering question. This was supposed to be the season that finally tackled this subject headon and show where Lena would land now knowing Kara/ Supergirl’s secret. I’m not upset Lena did questionable things going into this season I knew they would do so more then ever and from 5x01 that was adamant and I think it was very important to finally do for her character going forward to finally confirm that Lena was good/isn’t Lex. If they wanted to show and contrast how different Lena is from the Luthors there is so many others ways to do that, by just letting Lena be Lena is one of them. You’ve have been writing her that way for 4 YEARS, don’t change that by trying to make the show more interesting by adding “drama” you began to ruin it and an amazing character. That being said the way the show executed that was very poorly 5A was okay but 5B like it did with a lot of things was ultimately the down fall for this season. They’re first big mistake being Non-nocere. Now seeing 5x18 I get its overall idea and reason for being there but it still only should have been a side plot that was around for 4 to 5 episodes tops in the beginning of the season. It also really proves that it was never truly there for Lena it was a plotline made for Lex and to show just how manipulative he can be over which is so frustrating because once again they throw their main women characters to the side to help the men which are guest/minor. It was dragged on to long and stayed way past its prime to the point where it was unenjoyable even Katies amazing acting skills can only carry a bad plot line for so long. Non-nocere should have been there to help Lenas plot line not the other way around. It should have revolved around her story but not be her entire plot line for the season. I think them just going over Lenas trauma, abuse, neglect and abandonment issues would have been enough and a much more effective storyline then Non-nocere but if they wanted to use it then I think they should have atleast called back to Lenas past storylines. When Lena found about what Jack was doing with Biomax she was not only disgusted but terrified her feelings on that wouldn’t have changed so instead of it being nearly implied it should have been mentioned and it should have been one of the things that helped her realize how bad it was sooner. Her getting over the lo0se of Non-nocere and how she feels as though she failed once again would have been much better than the actual story of her using non-nocere itself. She was so afraid in season two that her feelings would get the best of her “I am very, very afraid of the person I might be”. This should have been explored way more and lastly instead of them only focusing on her mom for one episode for the plot (the medallion) it should have been a recurring storyline all season. Not only that she misses her but how her death affects her and how she puts her mom up on a pedestal because she never really knew her only what she remembers about her which isn’t a lot. The guilt she feels over her death etc. If they wanted to use it to move the plot forward they easily could have done that. There was a fan theory Lena’s mom was not only alive but behind Leviathan and that would have been so interesting. Here’s a woman she’s held up to such high standards all her life it would be interesting to see the effects of that. That maybe her mom wasn’t who she believed she was to be and that combined with Karas betrayal could have launched her going to the “dark side”. Also I love Katie and I love seeing more of her on my screen but they really couldn’t find another actress to play her mom or better yet not use a shitty wig. A wig isn’t gonna change anything we all know its Katie. It’s fine you used her many shows use there actors for multiple parts the wig was so unnecessary especially when it’s that bad (thank god Katie could pull off any look, ugly outfits and party city wigs included). Using her to play the mom wasn’t bad and would make a lot of sense as to why Lillian hates her so much she’s a spitting image of her mom. It doesn’t excuse the abuse Lena was a child but it makes sense. I mean she did say Lena looked so much like her etc. Then again shitty wigs are the least of their problems, fix your storylines above all else. 

Bonus: You know your fan favorite couple is Lena and Kara and since this is supposed to be a season about their relationship just lean all in don’t tease and then not have them interact for 5 episodes in a row it’s frustrating. 

This post is becoming a little too long so I may make a part 2 because I sure have a lot more to say. 

[nightshadeshadow123]

Paw prints on the Agent's heart🐾part 4:

Alex Danvers x reader🔫🐾

Sorry for the slow progress of the story guys.

Tag list:

@retro-aesthe @blackluthxr @samustar @aznblossom @ibe-anne @lezzzbehonesthere

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"Not so tough now aye Princessa?" You chuckeld into her ear, not failing to notice her breath hitch and heart beat picking up a pace.

"Midnight. We meet again." Came her reply, trying to keep still in your hold.

"Mhm, what a pleasurable coincident." You purred. You'll admit that you did find her very attractive, and the way she seem to shiver when your lips ghosted ever so slightly against her ear and they way your breath fanned against the back of her neck had her hair raising had you smirking devilishly.

"Enjoying yourself Princessa?" You cooed.

"In your dreams, bad wolf." Alex breated out, hands now firm on the arm around her neck.

Kara stepped closer this time, keeping a tentantive eye on you.

"(Y/N), you can let her go now. She means no harm." Kara assured. "And you can come with us now."

"Meh, where's the fun in letting her go. She doesn't seem to mind it either." You chuckled at them.

Kara looked to Alex and with that distrataction you whispered an inaudible thing in her ear and shoved her towards Kara.

Kara let's out a spueek but easily caught her sister, helping her to stand upright.

"Well playtime was fun but I'm afraid I must go, see ya later querida." You winked at Alex before turning into wolf form and running off into the shadows of the night.

They both stood dumbfounded and baffled, trying to process what have just happened.

"What just happened?" Kara managed to get out, looking at her sister.

Alex stood wide-eyed, before calming down.

"Just...woah. I don't even know." Alex breated out.

Kara suddenly amusedly smirk at her sister.

"Oh, you like her." Kara laughed heartily at her sisters perplexed expression.

"I....do not!" Alex yelped, trying to hide the blush rising towards her cheecks.

Kara laughed even harder at this. "You so do have a crush."

Alex playfully shoved her. "Shut up blondie."

"What did she whisper in your ear?" Kara asked, a smug look on her face.

"N-nothing." Alex blushed, glaring at Kara.

"Oh Rao, am I hearing wedding bells?" Kara bursted out laughing.

Alex glared even harder at her. "Shut up!" And this time punshed her shoulder lightly.

"And how do you know her real name?" Alex questioned Kara.

"Well, turns out she's my childhood friend from Krypton. That's why she looked familiar." Kara explained, standing infront of her sister.

Alex smiled at her sister. "Woah, that's nice. You aren't so alone anymore."

Kara smiled back. "Yeah, I'm glad she survived. I was heartbroken when I thought she have died with Kryptons destruction."

"Are all Kryptonians so foward and flirty." Alex smirked.

This time it was Kara's turn to blush. "Ehehe, not everyone, just males and Alpha females."

"Ha, knew you were a bottom." Alex laughed, causing Kara to elbow her playfully.

"So that means she's an Alpha wolf?" Alex suddenly asked.

"Yep, she is. Born pure Alpha. Why you asking? You wanna be her bottom Omega. Or are you a top." Kara wiggled her eyebrows, giving her a cheecky smile when her blush returned full on.

"You Kryptonians or so unbelievable." Alex grumbles, arms folded.

"And just so you know, Krytonians eat alot so make enough food for us all."

"KARA!" Alex yelled. "She haven't even joined and you talk like this."

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Alex, Kara and J'onn were in the main computer room at the DEO facility, talking about the wolf they now know as (Y/N).

"I still believe that she'd join us if we keep on trying. We can't give up now." Kara said, determination in her voice.

"I agree with Kara." Alex smiled at her sister.

J'onn nodded. "I know. She've been through a lot and it might take her time to fully trust us. But we have to prove to her that we aren't like CADMUS." He explained.

Just when he went to talk more Winn came running from his desk frantically, almost bouncing with excitement.

"Please tell me good news Winn." J'onn looked at Winn, waiting to hear what he have to say.

"Sir, I've find a way we can know who've helped (Y/N) escape. But the file is located at one of their hideouts." Winn explained.

J'onn narrowed his eyes, rubbing at his chin in thought. "Well just give me the location then and I'll work out a plan."

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"Agent Danvers. I have a new mission for you if you are up for it." J'onn fell into step next to Alex that is busy talking.

Both Alex and Kara's attention snapped towards him, greeting him.

"A new mission? What is it Sir?" Alex asked eagerly, just wanting to do something fun other than be stuck listening to Winn's weird theories he seem to have lately.

He held a piece of paper out towards Alex. "I want you to go search this location. One of CADMUS hideouts. Apparently it holds the information of the wolf we need. We can learn who helped her escape, her abilities, strength, weakness etc. But this is a stealth mission, just sneak in and get the info then get out."

"Hell yeah, I'm up for this mission." Alex accepted eagerly.

J'onn give her a small smile. "But just be careful Alex. You are our best agent. We can't afford to loose you. I would've send someone else out but I only trust you with this."

Alex nodded at him, giving him an assuring smile. "I'll try my best Sir."

J'onn gave her a pat on the shoulder. "Suit up and get ready to leave. We need that info as soon. I'm going to have a freak fit if we have to clear up onther mess CADMUS made." With that he left the room.

"I would have loved to go and help you out but Miss Grant will have my head if I do plan her famous Gala tonight then I also have to attend said gala." Kara grumbels.

"You go do that sis, it's only a sneak in mission and get the info then get out. I can handle that." Alex assured her, nudging Kara's side.

Kara smiled softly at her sister, pulling her into a hug before flying off in a hury.

Alex immediately went to get ready, already dressed in her DEO outfit, hostering two pistols at either side of her just in case something goes wrong with the mission and she might have to defend herself.

"Let's hope this is worth a shot." Alex said to herself once outside the building, getting onto her bike.

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"Oh, how orginal." Alex muttered under her breath when arriving at the location, seeying it's an abandoned warehouse.

Taking a quick scan over the place, Alex could see a few guards guarding around the eerie warehouse, unsetilling drilling sounds filling the slightly windy dark air along with the sounds of hammers on metal as a few guards make small talk off in the distance.

"Sir, I don't think this is just a regular abandoned warehouse." Alex said through her ear piece to J'onn, the few hair on her arm raising.

"Agent Danvers, what do you mean? Winn said it wasn't a big deal." J'onn ask in concern and confusion.

"This place is dark and eerily creepy but it seems like an active place, they are certaintly doing something very bad here." Alex explained softly.

"That sounds?" J'onn asked knowingly after catching the faint sound, imagining just how much harder it must sound in person. "I wonder what secret dark stuff they are up to this time. I'll have Winn make more scans over the place."

"Yeah, he clearly must have missed something when he scanned the place." Alex agreed, making sure to stay hidden and keeping an eye out for any guards that might be guarding near.

"Agent Danvers, you can come back to the DEO. Leave that place."

"No Sir. We are so close to getting the information. I can't just throw that away just because of an creepy warehouse." Alex firmly said despite the fear that slowly grips her heart.

J'onn let's out a heavy sigh, knowing it's useless to try and argue with the stuborn agent.

"Alex...just please be careful." J'onn said worriedly making Alex sinceriley smile to herself.

"Will do."

"Come back to us alive and in one piece Agent Danvers." J'onn chuckled out, greately worried about her.

"I'll try my absolute best Sir." Alex assured."I must get going."

"Be safe. If anything goes south don't hesitate to alert me or your sister. Don't try to take on too many danger yourself. You aren't invincible like Kara or me." J'onn said in a stern voice.

"Yes Sir. I know but just know I'll try my best." With that she disconnected the earpiece.

Alex quickly but silently found a way to sneak down from the low cliff she was on, hiding behind what appears to be broken weapon that's mounted in a wall, peeking around the corner and scanning for guards, spotting one near.

Alex let out a soft huff, looking at the dirty ground, spotting a medium sized rock, bending down to quickly grab it and pressing herself back against the wall.

"This better work." Alex said softly under her breath, clutching the rock tightly before she threw it against an empty tank with a hole in a good few feet at the guards left, creating a clank sound, immediately gaining the guard near hers attention.

Alex held in her breath as the guard slowly walked in the direction where the sound came from, gun pointed and ready to shoot, one hand going to active his ear piece but he didn't get far before Alex sneaked up behind him, hitting him behind the head to knock him out, letting out the breath she was holding in as the guard lay passed out.

She dragged him behind the wall she first used, making sure he wouldn't be spotted before she dashed to the side of the warehouse, hiding behind everything she could, keeping an eye out for more guards but spotted none, figuring that most have went to talk with the other two guards that were talking and joking loudly.

Alex noticed rusted faint blue stairs at the side of the warehouse that led to an second floor entrance.

"And there's my way in." Alex said to herself softly, palm pressed against the cold metal container she's hiding behind as she did another quick scan of her surroundings before she made a fast paced run for the stairs, hands gripping the cold metal railings as she softly made her way up them, the hairs on her neck raising as the sounds grow even louder now accompanied by an eerie faint shimmering swooch sound that grows louder with each step.

Alex lifted her hand to the rusty knob, pushing it open when realizing it isn't locked, making sure there aren't any guards nearby before entering.

"Some security they are." Alex said sarcasticaly.

She kept hidden in the dark corners, trying to focus on the task at hand instead of the awful steely stence of blood that fills the air, even noticing said dried blood along the rusty floor, making her even more on edge.

Upon walking past a huge crate she could see various alien weapons, a few barrels with a glimmering green substance in, cages with dead alien people in that makes her pull a distsgusted face, briefly closing her brown eyes in sympathy for the aliens before moving to look over the railing that goes down to the first floor, spotting more weapons, guards, diffrent substance in racks of vails and more cages filled with aliens with some tied down to chairs while the scientist were performing diffrent opperations on them, dread filling her heart and rage at the people for doing such things.

Alex spotted a blue cube office near the corner on the other side of the stairs.

"Bingo." Alex said to herself, having a good guess that the information she came for must be in there.

When she went to take a step down the stairs she was suddenly knocked down the few stairs by a force from behind, landing on the rusty cold hard floor with a loud yelp.

"Well, well. What have we here? A lost DEO girl scout." A male said in a manic voice as he stepped down the stairs making Alex flinced at every clank the man's dirty boots made against the metal stairs.

Alex pused her palms against the floor, trying to get up but another man came from behind, kicking her back down with his foot, keeping it pressed down on her back hard as the barrel of the the other guard's gun pressed against her forehead, growling lowly when the guard behind her yank her head up with her hair, forcing her to look up at the one that have pushed her down the stairs, a sinister scowl/smirk present as he kept his gun against her temple.

"Time for some fun." The other one snickered, grip tightening on her hair.

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Whoop another cliffhanger for ya'll lovies. Sorry for the long wait, it took me a damn long time to get insperation to finish the chapter, hope you guys enjoy it.

[marumafan]

hello! im new to kyou kara maou, maruma and yuuram, im almost finishing the anime and wanna read the manga and novels, i'm just curious, is the manga faithful to the novels or they modified the story like in the animation? would you recommend me reading it? p.s. love your blog

Hello anon!

And welcome to our little fandom~ The original manga was sorta faithful to the novels til chapter 96ish (minor modifications before that), but after that chapter it's completely different from the novels.

Over all, both the manga and anime failed to adapt anything after Novel 8. So the original hasn't been adapted to those formats starting from novel 9 (which is a shame because that's when the REAL yuuram starts).

The original manga wasn't written by the novel author (Takabayashi-sensei), but it was illustrated by the original illustrator (Temari sensei), and the script was adapted for the manga by the editor of the novels (GEG-san).

Adding info: A NEW maruma manga is coming out very soon, as in, this summer 2021. It will be released online. The script will be written by the novel author (Takabayashi sensei), and so far we have no clue what it will be about. But since the novel author is writing it, it's the REAL deal.

In case you're interested, here are the first illustration and short mangas of the new manga release called: Kyou Kara maou S!

https://comicbushi-web.com/episode/13933686331795933166

PS. OMG ! Yes! Read the og manga, but do it before you read the novels. That way you'll go from worst to best: anime < manga < novels. Thanks for the kind words :D

Adding yet more info about canons and such under the cut:

This series has quite a few adaptations and 'canons' so to speak. Here goes my biased summary:

NOVELS The novels are the original work. Written by Takabayashi sensei in all her madness. I'm a huge fan of the novels because: a) character development and story are better b) more yuuram than you can fathom c) I like the author's style d) the novel 'format' allows for a better understanding and developing of characters and relationships and e) the scenes get really INTENSE, which you don't see in any other format. (every other format has 'baby-washed' the original story A LOT).

SHORT STORIES AND DOUJINSHI (original work written by the author)

They're as canon as the novels. (except for the stories where the author explicitly says they aren't canon, which is like 2 stories from the first doujinshi).

MANGA (2004-2016)

The manga is 'pretty'. You can see a lot of the original work in beautiful illustrations. But much like with the anime you 'lose' all of the depth that the novels can provide. Also the original manga changed the story after chapter 96 and never adapted the best arc, the seisakoku arc. I cri.

ANIME (2003-2009)

The anime is popular. It combines a nice story (for the first 30 chapters), with incredible voice actors. It's also easier to consume. The format doesn't allow for intimate knowledge of the characters or their relationships. Also it was made for NHK, public broadcasting of the 2000s, which means it censored a lot of 'adult' themes in the original.

DRAMA CDS (2001~ ongoing)

There's a multitude of drama cds, some written by sensei some not.

The novel canon drama cds (like the URAs, behind the mirror, project B and such) are as canon as the novels. Others (like the ones accompanying the games and special tv programs) are absolute trash written by randos. Others (like the radio shows) are original and have nothing to do with the novels written by randos. Others (like 'some' of the anime ones), are connected to other canons, which aren't the novels, but it seems like all the anime ones have been written by either Takabayashi sensei or GEG san.

(GEG san is like maruma's dad. Takabayashi sensei is like maruma's mom. Temari sensei is the aunt that doesn't have a say in maruma's upbringing but she's part of the family.)

MUSICALS (2013-2017)

The first two weren't written by Takabayashi sensei, but were adapted by some random person to musicals. The second one deviated from the original novels. THE THIRD AND LAST MUSICAL HOWEVER WAS WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR! And she fixed the ending of musical 2 and also WROTE A NEW CANON FOR THE MUSICAL. (It's my personal opinion that musical 3 is what the author would have done with the novels if she had a chance to re-write novels 3-8. And it's a masterpiece, if I may add, that skips a lot of 'mistakes'... again, this is my personal opinion.)

NEW MANGA (2021~ hasn't started yet)

This manga will have Takabayashi-sensei scripting, GEG-san editing, and Temari-sensei illustrating, much like the novels. Anything with Takabayashi-sensei writing for it is (in my opinion) NOVEL CANON. ORIGINAL. THE REAL THING.

We have no idea what they'll do for Kyou kara maou S. Will be a continuation of the original manga? (will they 'fixed' the ending like they did with musical 2?) Will it be a continuation of the novels? If so, will it have the elusive ENDING we've been waiting for 10 years? Or will it be simple random collections of stories like the gaidens?

In my opinion: it would make more sense to have the chapters of the new manga be gaidens, extra stories. Or even adaptations of short stories that come from the novels.

Having said that, the latest drama cds and doujinshi really seem to be trying to 'wrap up the story', so I can't help but wonder.

Also, for those who are only hearing about this. The manga has only promised 12 chapters. One per month, for a year. My guess is that if it becomes popular it may increase the chances of more manga chapters, but we'll have to wait and see.

To you and to anyone else confused or who needs help with maruma and yuuram, I'm here! Let me know if anything gets confusing or if you wanna chat. My DMs are always open to maruma friends!

[hesokuri-wars]

✨ Version 5.0!

Boy, this is a big update. Here are most of the important changes and updates! More in-depth guides on new features will come later.

► The Home Page and Menu

Instead of jumping into stage selection, Heso now has a Home page! 

You can return to this page anytime by tapping the "Home” icon

Stages are found via the “Battle” icon

Your NEET resume and settings are behind the “Misc.” icon

Tocollect your allowance from mom, you will need to go tap the NEET room button on the lower left. In there you will also find Tappymatsu’s new location.

The menu overlay is now available on just about every page. You can unhide or hide it by tapping the Menu button in the upper right.

► Konnichiwork

There are two new tabs in Konnichiwork with new achievements and rewards.

The very first red tab is the “New Employee Training” tab. There are some very simple tasks here mainly meant to give new players some guidance on what to do.

The second purple tab is for “Returning Workers.” It seems like this tab has special tasks specifically for players who have been away from Heso for a while!

Translations of these tasks will probably be added to our Achievement page in the next few days.

► Character Stories

Each of the sextuplets has a unique story to unlock! Simply put the specific character you want to unlock on your team when you play and the progress will increase! 

The first story requires you to play with that character a total of 100 times. The second story asks you to play with that character another 1,400 times.

Each unit is only counted a maximum of 100 times, so you’ll need to rotate out your units to continue progress. You can see how many times you’ve used a unit at the end of a level by tapping the pink button.

► Chibita’s Event Point Shop

Chibita has a new shop that accepts Event Points as currency! If the event gacha is just not giving you the one unit you need, you can spend 10,000 Event Points to directly purchase the event unit you want! Like the Event Gacha, the points are specific to their respective events, you cannot use points from a different event for units.

Also available for purchase with Event Points are Diamonds (50 for 50,000 points), Gold Flags, Limit Breakers, and Rainbow Emotites (more on those in a sec)

You can access the Event Point Shop by tapping the rightmost speechbubble over Chibita’s head. His Golden Oden Shop is still available through the left speech bubble.

► Emotites

“Emotites” are a new currency found from Trashneyland buildings. They can be used to feed a giant Dayon balloon for rewards, or you can save them to power up your units beyond level 70! 

More info on this will have to come later as we play around with the feature and understand it a bit better. Expect a proper tutorial soon!

And on the topic of buildings, the building missions are gone! Buildings will no longer break down and will not ask you to complete tasks to level them up. Instead, they seem to level up on their own over time as you collect their Emotites. 

WHEW. That’s a lot. And actually it’s not even everything... Expect some guides on new features in the near future, and hopefully I can get the starter guide updated within a week or so. Have fun in Heso, everyone!

💙 Mod Kara

[toalltheficsivelovedbefore]

Blind Date || johnny

childhood friend!johnny x fem!reader • fluff, tiny angst, friends to strangers to lovers, mention of cheating (not between the characters) • Your best friend sets you up on a blind date, but when the date doesn’t show up, Johnny swoops in to the rescue!

“I already told you no.”

“C’mon, please? It’s just one date!”

“Yeah, you said that last month too. And a couple weeks before that. I’m done meeting strangers.”

Kara, your best friend, pouts, flopping backward onto your bed, so she’s looking straight up at you. Luckily you moved your laptop in time or she would’ve fallen on it.

“Please? I swear this’ll be the last one. Hyuck vouched for him! He’s really nice and super sweet. And he’s not even anyone’s reject as far as I know.”

You quirked an eyebrow up, eyes still focused on the email you’re composing on your screen. “Obviously he is, or he wouldn’t be single. And like I’m gonna trust your boyfriend’s taste in men?”

“Going through a breakup and being rejected on a first date are not the same thing.” She sits up, folding her legs underneath herself so she’s crisscrossed. A hand comes to rest on your knee, finally dragging your eyes away from your work. For the first time, you notice how concerned your best friend looks. Concerned and worried for you, but you honestly don’t know why. “YN, it’s been so long since you broke up with… him. You keep refusing to put yourself out there and let someone love you. And refusing to let yourself fall in love again.” She patted your knee gently before standing from your bed, headed toward the door. “Just one last date, and if it doesn’t work out, I’ll never set you up again.”

————

The date is set for a Saturday, and Kara happily helps you pick out the perfect outfit and decide on makeup. She drops you off at the restaurant and promises to pick you up if you need it. You’d agreed to meet him at the bar, and now you’re wondering why you didn’t push her for more info on the guy. You were going into this practically blind, while he knew your name, face, and occupation. But Kara trusted him, so you just had to trust too.

No one stood out at the bar, no heads wagging around to get a look for any newcomers, so you found two open barstools. Your butt claimed one, and your purse the other.

Ten minutes passed without anyone coming up to you, so you ordered a drink. Maybe the wine would distract you from the fact it looked like you were getting stood up. Or walked out on. That was really the thought weighing on your mind, so of course, you didn’t turn the bartender down when he offered to refill your glass.

“YN?”

Oh, thank god! With a smile plastered to your face, you turned to greet who you assumed could only be your date. But the smile dropped when you saw the tall man occupying space next to you.

He was just as tall as you remembered, maybe taller. And he’d filled out in the shoulders and arms. Even though he wore a dark button-up, you could tell he’d added definition to his upper body over the years. Not that you were checking. And you definitely weren’t totally entranced at the way he had started styling his hair back with gel, a single piece slipped out to rest on his forehead. That one strand of hair calling back memories of being teenagers and carding your hands through his shaggy, overgrown hair while you told him he needed to start using gel to tame it. Oh, and that grin on his face, that caused whisker-like wrinkles that had always made you laugh and poke his cheek.

This could not be happening right now.

“Johnny Suh, I thought you were living in South Korea.”

You didn’t mean for your voice to sound so aggressive, but it did, and that gleam in his eye was disappearing.

“I thought you had moved away too.” He just stood there, looking over you, the grin faded, but still smiling. Always happy. Usually anyway.

“I moved back a few years ago.” Johnny looked at the stool you had your purse on, obviously signaling that he wanted to sit. Your watch told you that you’d been here for 30 minutes and there was no sign of a blind date. So with a sigh, you removed your bag, and let him climb onto it. Or slide onto it rather.

“Were you saving it for someone?” He waved for the bartender, his shirt sleeve slipping down to show he still wore that silver linked bracelet he’d got when you were 15 years old.

“Apparently not.” Your glass was empty again, and you let the bartender fill a third glass while Johnny ordered. “When did you move back here? Or are you just home for a visit?”

A cool, easy smile splashed across his face. “No, I’m here permanently. About a year ago I got offered a job here, so I made the trek home.”

“What kind of job?”

“Photographer for a magazine.”

You nearly spit your wine all over his expensive looking shirt. “P-photography?” He looked over at you confused, handing you a napkin to wipe your chin, a nod in answer. “But you said you were going to school to be a doctor. We argued over that for so long and then you just—” You cut yourself off. No reason to dig back into those old emotions.

He nodded again, understanding perfectly where you’d been going. He’d always been good at that. “No, yeah, I was originally going to school for that. Make the parents proud kind of thing. But once I got there, I realized it didn’t really matter. My parents would be happy as long as I was happy.” You nod. “Yeah, you told me that plenty of times. So I changed to an arts university but stayed in Korea. I liked it there and I’d already started to make friends anyway.”

It’d been too late, but at least he had finally taken your advice.

You looked over at him. He was drinking from his bottle of beer, and for a moment you remembered being 16 and sneaking into your parents’ liquor cabinet to try vodka for the first time. Johnny had nearly thrown up, and you’d told him you loved him for the first time. Your face went red at that memory.

“You should’ve told me. I would’ve been so proud.”

Johnny’s eyes found yours, a sad lift to his lips. “I tried. You blocked me everywhere, remember? Not even your friends would get a message to you from me. I gave up trying after your parents told me you’d left for college.”

You wanted to hang your head in shame. All those years of friendship down the drain because you were too stubborn to unblock him on social media. It occurred to you that he was still blocked, no wonder you hadn’t heard the news he was back.

“I’m sorry,” you mumbled. You’d never been very good at admitting when you’re wrong.

But his eyes perked up none the less and a grin found its way back to his mouth. “I’m sorry, what was that? What’d you say?”

You rolled your eyes. But a smile had crossed your face too, so you relented, just this once. “I said I’m sorry. For just ditching you back then. I should’ve been okay with the choices you made, even if they took—” You snapped your mouth closed real fast.

His eyes were nearly twinkling. “You’re not gonna finish that either? Nearly 10 years later and you still can’t admit that you cared for me?”

Brows furrowing, you turned to fully face him, a finger coming up to poke his chest. “I couldn’t admit my feelings? Are you actually being serious right now, John Suh?”

“You wouldn’t even tell me why you were so mad that I was leaving, just that it changed the future. What was I supposed to understand from that?”

“Are you saying that if I had told you I was in love with you, you would’ve stayed and gone to Northwestern with me like we planned?”

His face fell a little.

“Yeah, that’s what I thought.” You turned back to the bar, glad to have the break so you could take another sip of your wine.

You nearly jumped when Johnny’s hand brushed yours on the bartop.

“No, I wouldn’t have stayed. But we could’ve tried to work things out.”

You sighed.

This is not what you had signed on for. This was supposed to be a night out to meet a stranger and have a drink, not to open up wounds from the past. “Johnny,” you hesitated, took a breath. “I did tell you. I told you a lot that last year.”

His eyes went wide, mouth slightly falling open. “What are you talking about? When?”

A blush covered your cheeks. “Every time we got drunk and you kissed me.”

He looked like his eyes were going to pop out of his head. “What?” He pulled away, trying to think back to being 17 and 18 years old, getting drunk in your basement. Something seemed to click cause his eyes shut and he took a long swig of his beer. “I thought I made that up.” Another drink. “I thought I imagined the kissing and the confessions because I had gotten so drunk.”

You couldn’t help the laugh. With his eyes squeezed so tight, it was like he was trying to prevent them from falling out. “Nope, those were real. I thought you refusing to acknowledge or talk about it meant you didn’t actually feel that way.”

His eyes finally opened and he looked down at you, all soft and open and warm. “That explains why you had as much of a breakdown over it as you did.”

“I did not have a breakdown.” You felt indignant for all of 5 seconds before his eyes were calming you down again. “A tiny one, really. And like you said, totally justified. Mostly.”

He laughed then, and you felt like you could drown in it. You didn’t even know you could miss a sound so much.

Things were smooth from there. Johnny told you all about Korea and school, the friends he’d made, the jobs he’d worked. He told you about his two short, failed relationships, and about how he got the magazine job (“They liked my Instagram more than my portfolio!”). His parents were doing well, nearing retirement, and they were happy he was home (“My mom basically had a party the first night I was back, can you believe that?” Yes, you totally could.).

But then it wound around to you. You talked about school, how you’d decided to try California since you didn’t have a best friend for Northwestern anymore. You shared your horror stories from the part-time jobs you worked, and the excitement when you finally got hired as an intern at a publishing company when you’d moved back home after graduation. You’d worked your way up to assistant editor, and things were looking bright.

And then he asked the question you’d been hoping he wouldn’t know to ask.

“Now, I thought I had heard you were getting married.” You wanted to choke on your water. “But, no ring, you didn’t mention anyone, and you’re sitting at a bar alone on a Saturday night. What gives?”

A big sigh. You hated talking about this. But, maybe it would be nice to get it off your chest to someone who had never even known him and wouldn’t find some way to defend him. You gave Johnny a smile.

“Yes, I was engaged, almost two years ago. Things seemed good.” You shrugged. It wasn’t that you were sad about it, but the sting still felt fresh. “People tell me I worked too much and drove a wedge between us. Some people say they saw it coming a mile away. Which, if someone knows your partner is going to cheat on you, shouldn’t they tell you?” Johnny stiffened at that. You sighed again. “Some combination of us not being right, me working too many hours and not giving him enough attention, and him… not being ready to settle.” You looked over at Johnny, who sported a sweet frown and furrowed brow. “Honestly though, I don’t think we ever really loved each other.”

It felt like a boulder lifted off your shoulders. It was the first time you’d been able to get the words out. And you didn’t worry that Johnny would judge you.

His hand brushed over yours. “Why’d you say yes?”

“Cause I thought I had to. That’s what was expected of me after three years with someone.”

He nodded, but you could tell he didn’t really understand. Not that he needed to.

You let out a big breath and a giggle. The four glasses of wine were maybe starting to hit you now. But not too bad that you would regret your words tomorrow. “I don’t think I’ve loved anyone since you. You were the first boy I ever loved, and I don’t know that I’ll find someone worthy again.”

Johnny bloomed right in front of your eyes. His smile was blinding and his eyes soft, and you just wanted to bask in him for a bit longer.

But the bar was closing, and Johnny was offering you a ride home, and you accepted.

He walked you to your door, exchanged numbers, and promised to message soon so you could maybe have lunch. Before he could leave though, Johnny grabbed your hand.

“You know… I’ve never loved anyone but you either.”

His goodbye was a kiss to your forehead and a shy wave as he headed for the stairs.

————

You hadn’t even unlocked the door yet before Kara was calling. Her voice seemed exceptionally loud after the quiet goodbye from Johnny just a moment before.

“So? How was it? Did you have a good time? He’s cute, right?”

You laughed, sticking your key in your lock, and pushing your door open with your shoulder, just a bit wobbly. “He never showed.”

“What? What are you talking about?” She sounds absolutely scandalized. You’re sorry to ruin your friend’s (and her boyfriend’s) perception of this guy, but you weren’t going to lie to spare her feelings.

“He didn’t show up. I sat at the bar waiting for him until I was joined by an old friend. I kept an eye out, and no one ever came looking for me. Maybe you didn’t show him a good enough picture and he couldn’t recognize me.” You shrug even though she can’t see. Your shoes are kicked off by the door and you reach around to try to wiggle the zipper of your dress down.

“That—that doesn’t make any sense, YN.”

“I’m sorry babe, but that’s the truth.”

“But… YN he just told me he had a really nice time.”

You froze in the middle of your room, dress dropping from your shoulders. “What? But I didn’t talk to anyone else.”

“I swear. He texted me that he’d found you, that you shared drinks, and that you talked for hours.”

The both of you sat in silence for a moment, trying to process exactly what was happening.

“What’s your friend’s name? The guy you set me up with. You never told me his name.”

“His name is Johnny Suh.”

The noise that escaped you was halfway between a laugh and a sob.

“YN? Are you okay?”

“Hah, um…. I don’t know.”

“C’mon, talk to me. What’s going on?”

You ran a hand down your face, feeling hot and cold, and a little bit agitated. It would be just like him to pull something like this. “That’s who I was with. That’s my childhood friend.”

“Really?!” You pulled the phone away at her shrill voice. “Why didn’t he say anything? He recognized you? Why didn’t he say anything to me? I don’t understand...”

You laughed this time, finally moving toward your dresser to pull out pajamas. “Yeah, well that’s John Suh for you. He’s quite the enigma.”

She’s quiet, thinking over something quite hard. “What do you want me to do?”

“What do you mean?” You drop onto your bed, pulling your laptop open to search for his profile on your social media site. You’d got his number tonight, it was probably time to unblock him.

“He messaged me earlier, asking to set the two of you up for another date. What do you want me to do?”

You’d found his account. His profile picture was of him and his mom, and you couldn’t help the little smile that came to your face. After all these years, Johnny had been able to maintain a spot in your heart. Maybe you could give him the second chance you’d both been craving for so many years.

Even though the dork had just promised to set up a date while asking your best friend to do the same thing.

You let yourself smile more widely at the thought. “Yeah,” you said, closing your laptop and shoving it away. “Set us up.”

MASTERLIST

[punkscowardschampions]

Zelda & Zach

ihatemyguts: Good thing you told me how bubble boy posi Robyn’s ‘rents are

ihatemyguts: ‘cos that felt like such a brush-off

ihatemyguts: I feel kinda bad, it’s low-key just upset her with no shopping trip pay-off 😬

inandout: your first date was today

inandout: the insane jealousy must have forced me to forget

ihatemyguts: Obviously

ihatemyguts: moping and staring out of open windows would be bad for your health

ihatemyguts: probably

ihatemyguts: can’t have that

inandout: mope hard enough and fling myself all over the house, they’ll call it exercise

ihatemyguts: I’d let Rob know but her parents would probably sue me

ihatemyguts: I did some research

ihatemyguts: and yeah, flare-ups fucking suck, but if she was struggling that bad rn she’d be in hospital getting her 💉 on

ihatemyguts: makes me ⁉️ if the meetup will happen

inandout: makes me wonder if her brothers are allowed out

inandout: if they are maybe they can help us smuggle her to the meetup

ihatemyguts: not just a pretty face

ihatemyguts: that’s a damn good idea

ihatemyguts: I can slide in their DMs

inandout: Cranking up the jealousy metre to give me a full work out, I see, are you gonna be a PE teacher when you grow up?

ihatemyguts: *prays they aren’t like 12*

ihatemyguts: imagine if that was my life’s ambition

ihatemyguts: wear unflattering sportswear and give kids complexes

ihatemyguts: even without the potential life-shortening illness, I’d reconsider that

inandout: it tracks that you’d wanna make them 💩 and bringing back the bleep test could work

ihatemyguts: okay I’m not 🦹‍♀️ or 🐯 levels of sweet but is that what you really think of me? 😏

inandout: I think there’s only one rebel teacher coming to mind and I haven’t watched that film so all I know is they stand on desks

inandout: probably not a perfect fit for you

ihatemyguts: I could force you to watch it for our first date

ihatemyguts: and ask you, what your dream job would be

inandout: Netflix and chill or cinema screening of the ‘classics’?

inandout: we could do a drive-thru

ihatemyguts: hmm 🤔

ihatemyguts: there are pluses to ‘em all

ihatemyguts: cinema, we could laugh at all the snobs and 🤓s

inandout: Cool, reach out to me with the time + date when it’s showing

inandout: Are you allowed 🍿?

ihatemyguts: oh hell no

ihatemyguts: have to find another way to hold my hand

inandout: 🦸‍♀️ said she was gonna look up ice breakers and stuff, hopefully it was a fruitful search and she won’t mind sharing the info

ihatemyguts: do you think she legit didn’t realize how thirsty that boy was for her

ihatemyguts: or is it all uwu coy-ness

inandout: It’s hard to tell

inandout: but if I remember my glasses I’ll do my best to decode her body language from 6 ft away

ihatemyguts: aside from hospital, have you ever met someone else with cf?

inandout: Nope

inandout: jokes aside, it really is discouraged

ihatemyguts: that’s a hard one to get your head around

ihatemyguts: far as adjustments go

inandout: getting Robbie at this meetup won’t be easy

inandout: separate ones mean we might not have her there

ihatemyguts: I reckon we can trust you and Kara to keep the teen love story fictional

ihatemyguts: for all our sake’s

inandout: She’ll get her man

inandout: it’s not like bad advice and dating pitfalls are just a click away

ihatemyguts: cosmos never steered ANYONE wrong

inandout: Yahoo answers neither

ihatemyguts: might be confused as to why they’re not related

inandout: [I like to think he’s just sending his fave yahoo answer answers now for the lols]

ihatemyguts: [meme back and forth lads]

ihatemyguts: if she gets her date we could go into the matchmaker business

ihatemyguts: start at home

ihatemyguts: 🤖 don’t last forever

inandout: Rob’ll need to be next or she won’t forgive us

inandout: and we’ll soon get tired/guilty of seeing the amount of 😿💔 spam the chat

ihatemyguts: we’ll have to liberate her first

ihatemyguts: in a literal way

ihatemyguts: not the pretentious, free your 🧠 type of vibe

inandout: Kidnap’s playing into her parents’ fears but we don’t have a better option

ihatemyguts: now it’s my turn for a potential 💡

ihatemyguts: what if that is exactly what she should do

inandout: jump scare them?

ihatemyguts: if she did some actual wild shit to show them they’re being suffocating, ‘scuse the mention, then they’ll have to compromise and let her do normal kid things and everyone will win

ihatemyguts: I realize getting her to wild out might be a problem

ihatemyguts: catfish it though?

inandout: 💡⭐️

inandout: getting her to agree to do it for real would take longer than we have but you’re right, faking it wouldn’t take any time at all

ihatemyguts: get Lauren to picture whatever the hell she’s up to

ihatemyguts: sorted

inandout: + there’s your next photo challenge ready to be accepted, dressing as if you were going on a date with 👵🌈✨ instead

ihatemyguts: hold my neon

ihatemyguts: and think, do we clue Rob in on this plan now or do it on her behalf first, ‘cos we could hit up her house phone with some madness to get ‘em sus now and when she’s like wuuuuut it’ll sound even more

ihatemyguts: or is that a bit evil genius instead of 🦹‍♀️

inandout: Does she even have a house phone? We don’t

inandout: you’ll have to find another way to trick my parents into believing I’m a badass

ihatemyguts: I bet they do

ihatemyguts: can’t trust a mobile

ihatemyguts: and I bet they don’t have a microwave, they’re that sort

ihatemyguts: obvs I’ll just direct them to Lauren on your friends list with a 🤔

inandout: We should probably warn her, in case she takes it the wrong way

inandout: or decides to stand up to them for her YA movie moment

ihatemyguts: yeah, you’re right

ihatemyguts: if she doesn’t go for it, her brothers might be of use still

ihatemyguts: have to focus my evil energy elsewhere

ihatemyguts: such as…

ihatemyguts: 🥁

ihatemyguts: [one of the crazier lewks from babyteeth for the photo challenge]

inandout: 🤞🏻 one of them is old enough to drive the people carrier

inandout: Uhh… that was a suspiciously fast transformation

ihatemyguts: didn’t know you was challenging a pro?

ihatemyguts: and someone with a lot of time on her hands

inandout: I do now

inandout: and I’m guessing it’s not every day you get stood up based on what else I know about you

ihatemyguts: it’s a first

ihatemyguts: not that I constantly ask people out

ihatemyguts: but that is what I’ve put across so fair enough

ihatemyguts: what am I interrupting for you?

inandout: I’m waiting on friends

inandout: this could end in both of us being stood up

ihatemyguts: am I a drag you down with me type?

ihatemyguts: hmm

ihatemyguts: nah, I’ll cross my fingers that your friends aren’t flaky

inandout: Late, but I’d be too if it wasn’t my house

inandout: What are you gonna do now shopping’s off?

ihatemyguts: life is one big photo challenge, right

ihatemyguts: yours is ‘whatever will make your friends double-take when they open the door’

ihatemyguts: it’s a good question

ihatemyguts: we’re going to virtual shop tomorrow but she wasn’t up for it today

inandout: Wait for it and their faces

inandout: + you’re virtually invited to watch movies and play games, you won’t be the only one who isn’t here in person

ihatemyguts: 👍

ihatemyguts: cool

ihatemyguts: meeting new people is my new thing, as long as your mates are down/not the level of nerd that they might get a nosebleed if a girl is about

inandout: Some of them are girls if that helps

inandout: and my brother won’t be there to bring down the cool

ihatemyguts: low-key a shame

ihatemyguts: have to meet him before the first date though

inandout: I’ve got a father you can ask for permission if you’re feeling old-fashioned

ihatemyguts: full set

ihatemyguts: fun

ihatemyguts: mines in scotland so we’ll let you off that trek

inandout: But a road trip is a coming of age movie staple! 😫 Has Netflix aired any YA without one + are you willing to take that risk?

inandout: mine’s a workaholic but we’ve got years to catch him

ihatemyguts: forget the meds, see who gets fucked up first

ihatemyguts: it’d be a journey, for sure

ihatemyguts: do you know what he does? ‘cos so’s mine and I couldn’t tell you, tbh

inandout: Or mix them up and see what happens when you take the ones for my 💩

inandout: He’s a sales manager, he says, but why so vague?

ihatemyguts: sounds like something they’d do at cool parties

ihatemyguts: and that sounds suspish

ihatemyguts: they should have this 🤓 but with a moustache instead of the buckteeth

ihatemyguts: dads are elusive creatures… conspiracy time, what are they all up to

inandout: Not sure that’s the topic Rich has been watching vids on but I’ll ask

ihatemyguts: he can always tactfully ignore you if he’s 😳

ihatemyguts: like he does with 👵🌈✨ when she’s extra

ihatemyguts: more than usual

inandout: Be harder to do that in person

ihatemyguts: I think everyone will still get on

ihatemyguts: unless fibrofog shows, then that’ll be teen show worthy drama, of course

inandout: I think he’s genuinely blocked, he’d need a 2nd account to find out about it

ihatemyguts: hope he’s seen catfish too

inandout: He’d be a fan of the one where the man refused to believe it wasn’t Katy Perry

ihatemyguts: it does seem like the sort of thing she’d do

ihatemyguts: poor bastard

inandout: 😂

ihatemyguts: ultimate photo challenge, catfishing everyone and then going for the ruveal

ihatemyguts: might need more than just a wig 🤔😏

inandout: Dressing like her would make my friends do a double-take

inandout: [pics of some of her outrageous lewks with his head put on]

ihatemyguts: 😂😂😂

ihatemyguts: you suit the 🍦🧁🍭🍩✨

inandout: We’ve probably got a can of squirty cream lying around for hot chocolate

ihatemyguts: inhaler but make it ~sExxxIii~

inandout: [a lil video of his failed attempt to re-create that in her insta DMs or wherever because idk if they can send stuff like that here]

ihatemyguts: Katy dat you 😍😍

inandout: I’ve agreed to only string you along for 4 years not 6 and I don’t have any savings to spend 25% of on a 💍

inandout: looks like the comparison starts and stops with our black curls

ihatemyguts: not much of an orlando bloom clone myself so it’s alright

ihatemyguts: pirate is always an excellent disabled-friendly costume though so add that to the ideas board we should start

inandout: If we decide the next meetup is fancy dress, Lauren will never go back home

ihatemyguts: that’s the mood

inandout: [sends her whatever he did for the photo challenge and his friends reaction to it because why not say they’ve arrived and there’s a similar feral mood here]