#Julius and Carter

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"He suddenly stopped and Carter bumped into him eliciting a soft growl. The vampire wasn’t too keen on being touched by humans, even if it was an accident and especially if it was her."

Carter used to be the heir to a prominent hunter family, helping to protect their territory from the parasitic creatures of the night. To her misfortune, not all her encounters with vampires go as smoothly as planned. One time, she misses the target with the stake, and the creature stays alive, granted he's pissed off and takes his revenge on her. It's a tragedy through and through, read the warnings.

Content warnings: vampire whumper, human whumpee, blood drinking and associated gore, depression, mind control, minor and major character deaths, unclear character status, unhappy ending

First Part

1 - Ray of sunshine (Julius & RJ)

2 - Fall (Julius & RJ)

Monster (Julius)

3 - Forever cold (Julius and RJ)

--- interlude ---

Thrill Picture perfect

Second Part

Chapter 1

Bite me!

Burn

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5 pt. 1 | pt. 2

Alternate endings (to be posted)

vampire!Carter AU

Resolution

The Theseus curse (mythology AU)

Out of character AU 18+ (honestly just ignore this)

Art:

Season's Beatings Gift drawing and poem

EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS⏫⏫⏫⏫

Julius

Julius and RJ vibes - song - picrew

Carter picrew

[watermelons-dont-grow-on-trees]

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

I can't express how much this means to me, I adore the drawing and the poem, this is the best gift ever and i'm tearing up with joy 🥹

this is absolutely going on the masterlist

thank you so so so much

Happy holidays, @watermelons-dont-grow-on-trees!

From your gifter: I absolutely adored this story so much that I felt like none of my ideas would really do it justice. To be honest, I'm not great at either drawing or poems, but they mean a lot to me. I tried to show how genuine my love for this story is.

I have been in a whump reading slump for a while to be honest, unable to find any new material that I really got into. But this? Reading it felt like I got my present early.

Such phenomenal work. I feel like even this letter isn't explaining how much I liked it. I often pace around the room when I'm really excited and believe me, there was a lot of pacing done this past month when I re-read this over and over.

Julius is such a compelling whumper and the way you write the mind controlling is just so good. His POV is also so much fun. I like the way he thinks about things.

It was an honor to be able to make something for this and I hope you like them. Also, there will probably be more fanart to come.

No Safety:

A knife was in the monster's hand.

He beckoned her, a controlling compulsion.

She couldn't say no, couldn't fight, couldn't escape.

And there was no safety in the moment.

At the monster's command, a painful smile stretched over her face.

Skin pulled too tight over bone, a deception, a ruse.

A way to hide the to the horrors happening in that corner.

The light of the restaurant touches her, pets her, like precious sunlight.

The wood of the table and chairs are like mighty branches cradling her.

But there is no real sun here.

There is no wooden death buried in the monster's heart.

And there was no protection in the moment.

Hand over hand, knife over meat.

And the metal dug inside and tore out its treasures.

Like glittering rubies, it flowed into the cup.

And there was no wholeness in the moment.

And the monster was victorious.

[cryoverlife]

Julius and Ruby Kane aren’t good parents. Not because they aren’t capable of being good parents but simply because they care more about the world than their children, in this essay I will—

[dysany]

Anubis and Horus are Osiris' children

Carter and Sadie are Julius' children.

Julius and Osiris have become one (understanding their consciences and memories, but one

This means that Anubis, Horus, Carter and Sadie are chaotic siblings by magic consequences.

Rick you lost gold with Anubis and Carter tired older brothers, and Sadie and Horus burning all around

[thatgurlbey]

Beyoncé 4.1.24

[demiaseranmage]

I’m rereading “The Red Pyramid” for the (probably) millionth time, and on page 3, Carter mentions a spatula attack during the Faust’s (Carter and Sadie’s maternal grandparents) and Julius’ custody battle for them, post Ruby dying. My question is, does anyone know of any good fics, or fics in general that flesh out the custody battle, or at the very least the spatula attack?

If you do, please drop them in the comments or reblogs.

[angelic-writer]

The Mimicry Project - Escape the Hellfire

Day 11 of @augusnippets

Prompts: Escape/breaking the conditioning/safe and sound

(Spoilers for Vol 2)

"Julius, come on!!" Carter shouted, reaching his hand out.

All he could do was stare. Why is he being so nice? Didn't he want nothing to do with him? After what he did...

"I..."

"We'll talk later!! C'mon, the building's gonna explode!" The look in his brother's eyes said it all. He is sorry for what he did. Where he expected malice in his voice, he found none. Despite his crimes, he still valued him as someone very important.

Carter and Micah... And everyone else he met... They all valued him as their friend. For Carter, his long lost brother. For Micah, his lover.

Julius took his hand and they both ran down the hall, the flames growing behind them. He could smell the smoke from a mile away. This is not good.

As they trailed behind the stretcher that contained a barely breathing Mavis, he could only hope that everyone else gets out okay. If there is, he'll make sure they get out safely.

If the building does explode while Julius is inside, he won't die. No matter what life throws at him, he will never die.

[bonnielunkas]

hey uhhh sorry the main antagonist of your fazbear frights story? yeah the one who was bullying the protag and became a zombie robot??? uhhh, she's a girl now. yeah, her name's sophie now. sorry.

[dare-g]

The Enchanted (1984)

[watermelons-dont-grow-on-trees]

Burn

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TW: vampire whumper, human whumpee, mind control, vampire attack, home invasion

Carter spent her entire day away from home, being dragged left and right by other hunters, to map out new vampire lairs that sprouted up from the ground like weeds in the spring, and to plan raids.

When she busted through the door that morning, disheveled and barely having slept, she wanted nothing more than to explain, for anyone to tell what happened the night before. But the words didn’t seem to come. She was met with a few questioning glares, and some knowing smirks, of course her colleague’s minds went there, and she muttered a meek sorry for entering with such noise and sat down on a chair, just a few feet away from everyone else.

She took a deep breath and tried again, but before she could speak she bit down on her own tongue. I was attacked again.

Again? She questioned herself. She would have to explain what happened at the restaurant. That the monster walked among them and she did nothing. 

Deep down she knew that was not true, she did what was best to protect her family from the creature that seemed to lack any fear being around a group of hunters and would easily tear a couple of humans to shreds before they kill him if it meant he got revenge on Carter.

I was attacked last night. The words died on her tongue before she could utter them. Something was wrong. She spent the rest of her day trying to figure out how to let anyone know. The hold on her tongue never let up, not around the abandoned buildings they searched for any monstrous presence, not back in the safety of the office space they rented.

She was exhausted by the time she got home. She kicked her shoes off and walked upstairs to finally get some well deserved rest. She didn’t bother to rid herself of her gear, a set of stakes secured to her hips and thigh with a thick leather contraption, no matter how uncomfortably they pressed against her through the rough denim jeans. She just needed to sleep, she’d worry about comfort later.

Carter woke up in the middle of the night, freezing. Of course she lied on top of her blanket, but she was fully clothed and simply being cold didn’t explain the breeze on her face. She blinked a few times, to clear her vision as much as she could to look around in the room dimly lit by a streetlamp just outside. She didn’t remember opening her window that was now opened wide. She got up and closed it, and almost dropped back onto her bed when she saw light coming from downstairs. 

The remaining sleepiness left her mind in an instant, and Carter knew she could not afford to panic. Somehow she knew it would be the vampire again, but the fact that he didn’t attack her set her on edge worse than if she woke up with a set of fangs lodged in her throat. 

She took a stake in hand and raised it above her shoulder, ready to defend herself, and started her descent down the stairs.

The living room was empty, no indication of an intruder’s presence. The windows were thrown wide open from the crosswind, it lifted up and tugged on the white curtains, that even in the light of the bright ceiling lamp looked like ghosts. She rushed to close all of them. The windows were old and locked badly anyway, and she had been so tired, she might have left the lights on-

“It’s really cold in here isn’t it?” She jumped, looking for the source of the voice raising the stake back up above her head. Julius stood in the entryway, casually leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed in front of him. He was too far away for Carter to chuck the stake at him with any real effect, but she didn’t want to risk getting closer to him either.

“I’m not too bothered by it, but I’m sure your body needs to be kept warm for that sweet blood to keep flowing”

She wasn’t sure if the tremors shaking her body were caused by fear or the cold. It was so stupid. She felt stupid for becoming this easily startled by the creature. She’d faced many of them, killed a couple without giving a second thought to being afraid. 

This was different, Julius stood in her own living room as if he owned the place, waiting for her next move with a smirk as if this was some sort of game to him. Carter didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of reacting out of fear. She stood still and stared back at the vampire.

He glanced up at the stake in her hand.

“I see you have some nice firewood lying around, how about you warm up the place?”

Carter lowered the stake and ripped her eyes away from Julius’ gaze to look at the weapon in her hand.

She felt like she was in a dream, as she considered what he said. She was so cold. The windows had been open for hours letting the cold autumn air in, freezing her to the core. 

She unclipped the leather strap mindlessly from her belt and took all of her stakes out, to place them on the iron grate in the fireplace.

“Get all of them from the house, this won’t warm you up” Julius’ voice was barely louder than a whisper in her ear. She looked around and obeyed the suggestion eagerly. It was so cold. She grabbed at least five more stakes from a beat-up duffel bag, some spares from behind books on the shelf above the couch. She was thorough, ripped up the loose floorboard just in front of the mantel, to get to an emergency stash, and placed all of them in a neat pile, before going upstairs to retrieve the few she hid around her room. 

The vampire watched her with cold, distant eyes. He grew more resentful by the second eyeing the stakes gathered in the fireplace. His back ached where the splinter was still lodged dangerously close to his spine.

“Is that all?” he asked Carter when she stopped piling up the firewood. She nodded, another cold shiver ran through her and she swayed gently back and forth on her feet. Julius was sure she felt like she was in a dream, fully dazed and oblivious to what was happening.

“Good” he pushed himself away from the doorframe and picked up the matchbox on top of the mantel, lit a match and threw it on the pile.

The dry wooden stakes caught on fire with roaring flames in no time. Carter looked mesmerized by it, and instinctively reached her hands to get closer to the warmth. 

Julius scoffed and pulled her back by the shoulder. She whined softly, but didn’t protest. 

He grabbed her hair and tilted her head to the side easily. He noticed the thin silver necklace protecting her just in time before he bit down and he laughed. That was smart on her part, but not nearly enough. She'll have to get rid out of it soon.

He ran a hand down her arm and checked for any silver bracelets. There were none. He pulled the sleeve of her jacket up a few inches and lifted her hand to his mouth.

[pharaohcarterkane]

Unpopular opinion but I kind of don't want tkc to get adapted

[readingandwritingandreading]

State of the Blog Address

Another fic done, another status update.

First off a special shout out to my bestie and storyline coordinator @pioched. None of this would happen without her. You guys have no idea how much work she does behind the scenes to help me out.

Completed:

Hold You Up - Marcel Barthel x Kiya Bryant x Fabian Aichner

Heartbeat - Ethan Carter III x Adalynn Strowman

Yours - Dominik Dijakovic x Skye Simmons

The Day Before You - Ridge Holland x Lyssa Hutchinson

Long Time Coming - Bucky Barnes x Carina Rivera

In Progress:

From The Ground Up - Drew McIntire x Cassidy Riley 

Coming Soon (In no particular order):

Finally Home - Ari Levinson x Brianna Collier 

Rescue Me - Marcel Barthel x Sofia (Reese) x Fabian Aichner

Cross Every Line - Marcel Barthel x Alina Lawson x Fabian Aichner

What If - Julius Creed x Fiora Osborne

Some Hearts - Jack Reacher x Morgan Stone

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[cryoverlife]

So I made a brief post talking about Ruby and Julius Kane being bad parents and uh... here's the essay.

(quick side rant, omg this post is going to be long)

honestly I really should make a series about it, because after really thinking about it, the Kane Siblings have a severe lack of any good parental care in their life. This isn't exactly abnormal in the Riordanverse, but compared to the other series, which have minimal adult characters (that aren’t dead or immortal), the Kane Chronicles have many adult characters and many of the important ones were there to take care of Sadie and Carter.

Yeah that didn't work out.

I mean there's a lot of facets to the Kane siblings relationships with parental figures. From the... interesting and like definitely racist environment Sadie had to deal with while living with her grandparents to Carter's mental state and identity(?) while living with his dad. there is so much I could over analysis, and I'm not a fan of these books to sit around and reread all day so uh, I'm gonna over analysis all of it.

Eventually, but this post will be long even talking about the more aspect I want to talk about with out dragging the rest of the things I find interesting into it soooo.

When first reading the Kane Chronicles, Ruby and Julius actually seem like good parents. they certainly made mistakes but they do love their kids. and even now, I don't doubt they love their kids. It's just an incredibly interesting scenario where the parents, no matter how much they love their kids, are capable of putting the well being of the world first.

And that's the crux of the issue. Ruby and Julius are capable of being excellent parents, but in the situation they were in, they decide it was either the world or Carter and Sadie and they didn't hesitate to choose the world.

In fact, I'm pretty sure Bast said something very similar to this.

Anyway, I'm gonna start with Ruby and Julius's deaths. Personally, I think saying they abandoned Carter and Sadie isn't actually wrong here. I'm definitely not saying someone dying is abandoning the people they love, but it's the way Julius and Ruby both die and how both situations are almost planned.

Now there's not a lot of cannon conformation about Ruby's death, but I, personally, inferenced that Ruby and Julius predicted that it was a very likely scenario that freeing Bast would mean Ruby's death. Or at the very least they definitely knew the dangers of it.

Unlike Julius, Ruby didn't choose to die, but she did put herself in a situation where it was likely. Did she do it with the best intentions? sure. But I find the whole "we had no other choice" thing dumb. Diviner doesn't seem like an incredibly reliable source of information, and unlike the greek pantheon I'm not aware of any being in Egyptian Mythology that specifically controls fate (feel free to prove me wrong here). The idea that they couldn't have done anything else, is kind of absurd.

I mean they convinced Iskander that banning gods was wrong so like? maybe they should have leaned more into that angle.

Also like, they freed Bast, which good for Bast, but doing that sped up the process that allowed Apophis to get free. Ruby had a couple of visions and the two of them spent the rest of they're lives deciding to not just prevent the apocalypse, but to put that burden on their children's shoulders.

Personally, I think Ruby's death was while unfortunate not a surprise to either of them, considering she didn't really seem to try to survive, denying both Isis's and Bast's help. Maybe she wouldn't have been able to handle the power, but like, she could have tried.

Now the bigger Issue I have is Julius's death, cause Ruby's is mostly speculation on my part, I could be wrong, but uh, Julius planned his death. He brought to kids into what was going to be an incredibly dangerous situation. And yes, he did ask them to stay out of the room, but the idea that he used them to help him accomplish this which would leave them without their one living parent while also implicating them of any potential crimes the mortals might decide had happened (which is canon) is horrible.

Arguably, We have no idea weather or not Julius planned on releasing Set, and having Carter and Sadie host Horus and Isis (though those amulet are suspicious). Personally I believe that he had some idea what was going to happen, he's not stupid, but similarly to Ruby's death he decide to take that chance anyway.

Was it for the good of the world? sure. Was it for the good of Sadie and Carter? no, absolutely not.

Even if the situation hadn't thrown Sadie and Carter head first into a deadly quest it would've have severely traumatized them. They could feel guilt for helping their dad commit a crime (especially if they had no idea what was going on) or get himself killed. It doesn't help that Sadie already had abandonment issues due to him.

But more importantly, (not to say his relationship with Sadie isn't important, but his death has a far larger impact on Carter), he left Carter with no one. Besides for maybe Amos, but not only are the two of them estranged but I can't really think that Julius would've thought Amos would take Carter in. And honestly living with the Uncle you barely remember isn't much better than living with stranger, there no one for Carter to go to.

Julius was Carter's single guardian and his only form of stability and familiarity for six years. Do I think he was a good support system of Carter during those six year? not really, but the fact that Julius was willing to throw Carter to the wolves (the government and the foster system) isn't a good sign.

so yeah, the fact that both Julius and Ruby basically went willingly and knowingly to their deaths is kind of abandoning their kids.

I wish I could say (that's a bad way to phrase this) that Julius had planned the quest to defeat Set but I kinda think that would be speculating a bit to much.

Luckily, it's basically canon that they expected Sadie and Carter to save the world so anything I might say about that isn't at all a stretch.

My biggest problem with them though is that neither of them even mentioned the idea of being magicians to Carter or Sadie. And it;'s not because they're to young, because many magicians learn what they are at a very young age.

It could've been to protect them from The House of Life, but considering how violent and uncontrolled they're magic can get with zero knowledge of it it's seems weird that they wouldn't try to teach them how to control it.

(also It was denying Carter and Sadie a large amount of knowledge about their family and even culture to some extent)

Both of the parents fully understood that Sadie and Carter would have to save the world, and yet despite that both of them died without even hinting at Sadie and Carter's abilities.

And there's a big difference between this and what many of the better parents in the Riordanverse did by trying to avoid telling their kids about their heritage. People like Sally and Natalie Chase did it with the intention of trying to protect their kids as long as possible. Sure, it didn't help but they either weren't given a chance to fully explain when the kids were old enough or tried to but it came a bit late (for reasons they couldn't control), Ruby and Julius fully understood that Carter and Sadie would be put in a lot of danger and didn't even inform them of that the gods existed.

Yeah technically most of the Riordanverse parents did that, but there is a big difference in the lives of demigods vs magicians. Telling a demigod about the greek god would also mean having to explain the fact that they being hunted down by monster, which is not something you should tell your seven year old, especially if the real danger is going to come a bit later. Magicians don't actually have a lot of danger associated with them, Carter and Sadie are sort of an exception to that. Like sure, don't tell them about the saving the world part until they're older (Not that Julius even tried) but like tell them about the magic part, my goodness.

Sadie and Carter learned all of this on a really dangerous quest, while trying to save their dad who had planned his death, and in the end they were forced to make a decision between their dad and the world. A decision they didn't really get to make because of the situation and Julius's plan had already made it for them.

Sadie and Carter were shoved into a dangerous world with arguably less help than any other Riordanverse character (excluding the MC series, cause they all died to find out about Norse gods). Like at least the demigods had a camp to go to, Carter and Sadie had a world wide society on their heels, a possessed uncle, a clay person having an identity crisis (which wasn't even over the fact she wasn't real) and a single cat goddess who was forced to ditch like half-way through the book.

Julius legit went "Hey sorry I planned on dying, why don't you almost die to try and save me even though it's useless and than find out me and your mother planned out the worst way to give you the burden of saving the world along with a bunch of responsibilities you don't want *cough* Carter wanting nothing to do with being in charge *cough*.”

I could complain that they also encouraged and helped Sadie and Carter do dangerous stuff (give them a dangerous criminal while knowing he would escape) but unfortunately that’s a common thing parents in fantasy books do.

Like, if they’re kid is already in a dangerous situation and they can’t get them out of it or the kid has to much of a guilt/ hero complex, then better they try to help their kid as much as possible to try to protect them, then forbid them from doing anything which will lead to the kid trying to do everything themselves and getting into more danger.

course the reason Carter and Sadie are in so much danger is because of their parents.

actually Ruby and Julius have a lot of similarities with the gods when it comes to parenting. Cause problems, help your kid a minimal amount after forcing them to fix the problems you caused for you.

Are Julius and Ruby bad people? No. In the end they’re doing what they think is best for the world, which no one can really blame them for that.

they simply faced the love one vs world challenge and had to choose the world.

The thing is being a bad or good person doesn’t usually have anything to do with being by a good or bad parent.

a bad person is capable of being a good parent and a good person is capable of being a bad one.

Trying to save the world does make Ruby and Julius good people, but at the expense of their kids mental, emotional, and physical health. And no matter what the reason, anyone who willingly chooses to put their kids in that type of situation, isn’t a good parent.

anyway, that was really long, so any of you that actually read that entire thing, thx for reading my over analysis.

[jjpsc]

The second Chapter of my fanfic of my Egyptian AU

[bylersboy]

i can not shut up about how the riordan verse characters relate to my trauma so i présent to your taylor swift lyrics representing the kane chronicles

okay so obviously the first lyric “i can go anywhere i want just not home” is carter. he has no home he feels displaced he doesn’t have friends he’s so isolated and in carter i really see myself because he just feels like he doesn’t fit in and he wishes he had this different life sadie’s life here is where we go into the next lyric “you can aim for my heart go for blood but you would still miss me in your bones” i feel like this represents carter and sadie’s tension and resentment with each other and lowkey (highkey) me and my sibling. we both have the life that the other one wants and so it leads to this kind of anger but deep down sadie and carter actually really miss each other and they want to just be a normal family and be able to live together and all that stuff #sameguys

now the last two lyrics are more about their parents and the whole problems with the gods and goddesses. taking “and i still talk to you when i’m screaming at the sky and when you can’t sleep at night you hear my stolen lullabies” and putting this into a real life situation, i think that it’s this idea that they’re both haunted by their trauma from their mother dying. of course they didn’t know her very well but that’s part of it they feel so lost and confused for grieving someone who they barley met. so they talk to the sky screaming at the god/ess’s and the universe wanting answers of why they would ever deserve this pain. okay rant over i really love folklore.

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