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[amxrany]

Kpop x Twst Prompt: SebeSil (Sebek Zigvolt/Silver) x Only

Reposted cuz ain't no way this prompt flopped I worked hard on it

Character/s: Sebek Zigvolt and Silver (you can feature other characters as well)

Song: Only by LeeHi (video comes with english translation)

Relationship: Sebek Zigvolt/Silver

Prompt: Silver was always associated with white flowers, as a symbol of innocence and purity. Sebek has always seen animals gift Silver these beautiful flowers, and he never understood why. As they grew older however, their relationship became even more complex with their fights and flaws. But they managed to get through all of those trials together, as every step they took felt like a dance that they only knew the steps to; learning what it's like to be in love and be loved. As a new chapter of their intertwined lives begin, Sebek now understood why Silver looks beautiful walking down the aisle with a bouquet of white flowers.

Previous: First Years x Ditto

[h0neyyn]

hello. hi. i was sad so i wrote a drabble. uhhhhh i hope you like it? 💓

warnings: tw depression?, reader is sad (lol), soft, no smut but kinda ?????? idk not nsfw but it gets intimate 🥺

jimin/yn / 1700 words

please enjoy n thank u if u read it 💘

You always end up here. Sad. Self deprecating. Crying. For what reason? It slips your mind every time.

You’re so tired of it. Of the sadness. The loneliness. You just want a break from your mind.

you’re not pretty enough. you’re not good enough. you’re too fat. too squishy. your smile isn’t bright enough. their skin is clearer than yours. you’re annoying. you bother everyone.

Please stop. You’re crying out to no one.

You’ve shut everyone out, like you always do when you get like this.

You’ve turned your phone off, not that anyone cares.

He’s texted you 10 times. You usually answer by at least the third time, if not the first.

He calls you.

Straight to voicemail…?

That’s not like you. Unless you’re in one of your fits of depression.

He knows you handle it the best you can, but sometimes it just gets too much.

He really doesn’t like leaving you alone with your thoughts, so he does the most logical thing he can do.

He goes to find you.

He’s your best friend. (and unknowingly the love of your life. but that’s another discussion for another time.)

So he has a key to your apartment because there’s no one you trust more than him.

It’s quiet and dark when he arrives.

Nothing is on when you usually at least have some sort of background noise on. You always hated being alone in your apartment.

“Y/N?” He softly whispers out to the room.

He doesn’t want to startle you, but he wants you to know he’s here.

He hears some shuffling and follows the noise to your bedroom door. It’s slightly ajar, and he takes a peek inside.

It’s as dark as the rest of your home, but he can’t seem to make you out. Then he takes a look at your bed.

Right in the middle of it there’s a lump of blanket and sniffling.

You haven’t noticed him yet, and he slowly treks his way inside.

“Y/N…”

You freeze. And then you try to wipe your tears away so he won’t see them. Why is he here? Why does he always come when you’re at your ugliest?

“Sweetheart, what’s wrong?”

He’s talking so softly your chest aches even more.

You just want him to go away. You want to be alone. (but do you really, though?)

He sighs softly, knowing he won’t get a peep out of you.

He starts to take off his shoes and his jacket.

He digs through your drawers knowing he has some sweats in there. He’s always here and sleeps over all the time so he just leaves his things here for times like this.

“Scoot over, angel.”

A fresh wave of tears falls out of your eyes.

It hurts so much when he calls you cute pet names. He doesn’t know that they actually mean something to you. (and you don’t know that he actually means them.)

You unwillingly move over so he can lay down next to you.

He pulls the blankets up so he can wrap his arms around you and you get a whiff of his clean scent.

He smells like sunshine and home and it makes your eyes clench.

“C’mere, angel.”

You hide your face in his arm so he won’t look at you.

He plays with your hair in that soothing way he knows you adore.

He’s humming and you feel yourself slowly relax until you finally rest your head on his chest.

“Do you wanna talk about it, lovebug?”

You take a deep breath before shaking your head, “Not yet, Chim. Keep petting me please.”

He lets out a chuckle and kisses your forehead. You try to stop the tears but they’ve already fallen.

He whispers so softly you almost didn’t hear it.

“Anything for you, baby. Anything at all.”

You wake up a few hours later, disoriented.

You didn’t even know you fell asleep.

Jimin has his arms wrapped around you protectively, he lips ghosting against your skin.

It gives you goosebumps and makes your heart throb in your chest.

He looks so beautiful and so content when he sleeps.

You’d give anything just to peck his soft lips.

You squash it down, no point in thinking about something that’s never going to happen.

You slip away wanting to cleanse yourself from the pain and tears.

You start a bath and fill it with your favorite smelling bubbles and oil.

You’ve just slipped into the water when you hear the door open.

“J-jimin?! What are you doing???”

“You left me. I was lonely, so I wanted to see what you were up to…”

Then he realized what he walked into.

You have your hair up in a loose bun, you put so many bubbles they cover up your private bits and it burns him inside.

He’s so close yet so far…

You’re steadily turning pinker and pinker and getting more embarrassed by the second.

Why is he just staring at you?!

His eyes are glinting and he starts to strip.

“Jimin! What are you doing?!”

You clench your eyes shut as tight as they can go.

He smiles sweetly at your flusteredness, but you can’t see him.

He laughs, “Scoot forward, sweetheart. I’m coming in.”

You’re so shocked you don’t even realize what’s happening until it’s too late.

You’re naked. In your tub. With your best friend. And lifetime crush. Who is also naked. In your tub.

You stop functioning.

His thick, strong thighs are surrounding you and you keep your limbs as close to you as possible.

You’re trying to control your breathing, because there is absolutely no way this is actually happening.

He’s staring at your back watching droplets race down.

He bites his lip and grabs you so you lean back on him.

You squeak so softly, he thought he imagined it.

He slowly wraps his arms around your belly and rests his head on your shoulder.

He peeks down, but all he can see are bubbles.

Is he disappointed? Yes.

Do you need to know that? Probably not.

He’s humming and you’re still frozen.

“Babe, relax. It’s just me, isn’t it? We’re friends, aren't we?”

Which is arguably the wrong thing to say because you choke back a sob.

“Friends? Jimin, what kind of friends bathe together?”

He laughs at that.

“Yeah… What kind indeed…”

You’re so confused by his answer you don’t realize where his lips are before it’s too late.

And then he’s softly kissing your neck and you short circuit.

You let out the softest little moan and he grins like the cheshire cat.

“Oh? What was that, angel?”

You’re so embarrassed you try to ignore him.

“I just wanted to take a bath with my favorite girl. Is that so wrong?”

Yes. You think.

“I guess not…” you say instead.

You doze off in his arms surrounded by your favorite scent and your favorite person.

He’s so happy to be this close to you, this vulnerable with you, if only for a little bit.

He wakes you up and wraps you in your towel.

He admires how beautiful you are naked and wants nothing but to worship you like the goddess you are, but you look so happy and warm he doesn’t push it.

You’re in such a daze you don’t even realize he just saw your body naked.

If you did, you’d be running for the hills.

But you’re so happy and warm, and being surrounded by Jimin makes you feel fuzzy all over.

You bask in it for as long as you can.

You both end up in your bed again while some show plays on the tv.

You’re not really paying attention, what matters is the way Jimin is playing with your fingers.

He slips his fingers in and out of yours, caressing your hand, bringing it to his lips every now and then to place soft kisses.

You don’t understand why he’s kissing your hand but you’re not about to question it.

It makes your heart beat a little faster every time he does.

Then he’s turning towards you smiling that beautiful smile you adore.

“I love you, Y/N.”

Your eyes go wide and then you close them.

“I love you, Chim.”

Your eyes are closed so you don’t see the exasperation on his face.

“No. No, sweetheart. Open your eyes. Look at me.”

You reluctantly open them and gasp and how intense his gaze is.

“I love you. I think I’ve loved you for as long as I can remember. You mean so much to me, angel. All I want to do is soothe your worries and show you I’m here. And I will always be here.”

Before you can murmur a word his lips are on yours.

He kisses you hesitantly and softly, and you’re at such a shock you don’t react immediately.

As he starts to back away, your brain kicks into gear.

You bring his lips back and it’s everything you’ve dreamed of.

He’s so soft and sweet and kisses you like he never wants to to end.

He nibbles on your bottom lip and you gasp out.

He takes advantage of this and slips his tongue inside.

You taste like heaven. He swirls his tongue along with yours and he could do this forever, if you only asked.

He makes his way down to your neck and leaves a trail of wet kisses.

Then he’s nibbling and biting, and oh the things he wants to do to you.

He makes his way back to your mouth and ends it with a sweet kiss and you look so blissed out he wonders why he didn’t kiss you sooner.

He pulls you close to him and you press your lips against his neck.

“I love you. I love you, I love you. I love you so much, Jimin. You have no idea.”

He chuckles and places a sweet kiss to your forehead.

You melt inside.

“Oh I think I do, angel. I think I do.”

You fall asleep to the rise of his chest and his fingers tracing the skin of your back.

You can’t wait to see what life has in store for you next.

[mirageofthecrystal]

Okay, time for my impressions of what I consider the primary features of 6.1 and my experience with them. Below the cut, because obviously we have some spoily-boiz.

ADVENTURER PLATES

Adventurer plates have been, from what I've seen, a very positively received feature. And for good reason! They're incredibly fun, especially if you're a creative type, they allow you to display both useful information and your personality in a way for others to check out, and they really sit well as a new social feature. I'm really excited for the future potential of using elements for these plates as rewards for content and achievements (something we know is coming and already see in the form of the PVP series rewards plates, as well as the ones you can buy for crystals). I'm hoping for a very wide array of options in the future, not just new backgrounds or certain elements. I want new frames, new borders, new EVERYTHING. And I hope that in the future there is more content that allows for a display of your portrait or plate as an introduction (sort of like how it works for Crystalline Conflict). It was absurdly fun for my friend and I to run around Ul'dah for like an hour or two just looking at people's plates and seeing what sort of wackiness they come up with.

My only real problem with it is how few poses I feel like the portrait function supports. Obviously, they intend it to be a portrait of your character (a requirement for a face showing that some folks have actively got around), but I'd have liked it if more emotes and poses were incorporated, similar to G-Pose, where you could just pause the animation where you wanted it and get really outlandish with some of your portrait poses. I suppose there's also some issues with how gear sets, portraits, and all that work because I feel that it isn't really intuitive. I think a clearer way of assigning an entire plate to a gear set would be nice, unless I'm just too smooth-brained to utilize this function properly.

CRYSTALLINE CONFLICT AND PVP CHANGES

FF has never been a PvP game. I've played a lot of other MMOs that had more of a focus on it as a game mode, such as WoW, where the PvP was its own enriching, rewarding, and also toxic as hell experience. My only real experience in FF PvP before now was Frontlines, which I abhor for the most part, and one game of Rival Wings that I was meh about. And so to that end, I would like to say... I LOVE Crystalline Conflict. It is so fun and addictive, where I definitely got stuck doing it for the first two days of the patch in a 'one more game' mentality. I like the five minute matches, as even a grueling loss doesn't feel that bad when you've only spent a few minutes in the match and can move on to the next one. The maps have some fun dynamic bits to them, and there are some really niche bits of strategy that can be super important to winning or losing a match.

However, it is not perfect. Class balance needs another pass, as they cut down the amount of abilities (good move), but have definitely made some missteps with healers and some classes absolutely not being optimal for this type of play (my opinion, of course). There's also the lack of team balancing, where certain comps can crop up that will definitely stomp the other team because it's all basically random. This will probably be smoothed out with time, since this is the first big PvP shakeup there has been for this community and there are definitely growing pains.

I also don't like the fact that it's solo queue only. I get it, it means that we don't get premades stomping everyone, but I would hope for at least being able to duo queue in casual, because what's the point of adding an entire game mode into the game that I can't play with my friends? I don't even HAVE many friends that play, and the few I do have would love to have some intense PvP nights. I absolutely had another thought to put forth, but my ADHD devoured it when I got distracted for a single second. OH WAIT I REMEMBER NOW! The lack of chat is both a boon and a curse to the mode itself. Toxicity was obviously the thing they wanted to avoid, and I will admit that I've gotten a little tilted in a few games where I wished I could just scream 'FIGHT ON THE CRYSTAL'. But ultimately, a non-toxic experience is much more important than nice strategizing and chatter. I do wish the pre-built emote-like functions were a little more flexible though.

I think the pruned down abilities is a good start, especially with added anti-CC and self-healing for everyone. However, as I said earlier, it needs a hard balance pass, and maybe a few more abilities to give each class a more niche role that gives them a unique spin. Honestly, it sounds like healers are now just supposed to be little glass cannons in PvP, and I think that a refocus on what they bring to the table would be good.

Other than that... PVP series rewards are excellent. I love the system, I love the upscaled artifact armors that you can buy, the new plate stuff, all the other shenanigans. I even got the Fenrir pet that I believe was originally a random reward from participating in the Feast! And the rank 25 armor set for the Series 1 is just... incredible. HOWEVER, I hope they revisit the thought that rewards can only be bought for one additional series afterwards. FOMO is one of the worst parts of an MMORPGs design. Make them incredibly expensive if you have to, maybe raising the price by a little each additional Series to a reasonable cap, but let people go back and purchase any Series rewards no matter how long its been. It will encourage people to play more PvP if they can do a little extra work to go back for some rewards they may have missed.

MSQ AND ALZADAAL'S LEGACY

My first two reactions for the MSQ, in the first dialogue section and cutscene no less was simultaneously, "I am home" and "WTF IS HAPPENING?!?". It truly felt like coming home after a long time away to settle in for tea with an old friend, meeting back up with Tataru and catching up. And then all that foreshadowing of what comes next... hoo boy, we're probably in for quite a ride. I'm not gonna talk about length about every story element, but I will say that 6.1 continues to proud tradition that Endwalker practically perfected: taking its time with characters and character moments so that these characters are true to themselves and to all the development they've been given. The characters here, from G'raha's body-stiffening, ear wiggling amount of pent up excitement to all that froth and foam, were perfect. Estinien's new policy of financial efficacy with a side of seeing himself in every orphan and suffering child, frosting on an amazing cake. And the way that they continue to humanize the dragons and their struggles, really going to great lengths to making us realize that man really is always the greatest enemy, even of themselves. At least, that's my take away. Anyway, I think that the patch hit a perfect balance between cozy beats, sowing seeds of future story, giving use further character insights, and just getting us salivating for what's next.

The dungeon was also really cool. I loved the opening cutscene, I think the glyph of passage bit was awesome, the visuals and music are ALWAYS top notch. Of course, there is part of me that has gotten really used to FFXIV dungeons and felt that it was a bit TOO same-y in its approach. Being formulaic isn't a bad thing, per se, but my mind is always drawn back to standouts like Bardam's Mettle and Ghimlyt Dark. Things that somehow transcended the formula while also honoring it. FF dungeons are just mostly "oh kill a group of mobs, move up, kills a group, move up, kill a boss". They've drawn down into a more linear fashion than ever before. And the first two bosses didn't really do that much that was mechanically stunning. However, they were fun, and the mechanics were engaging and interesting, if still sort of iterations on mechanics we've already seen. I, however, really enjoyed the final boss' mechanic of spinning our characters and then forcing us to navigate the hazardous terrain for a pretty big chunk of time. I thought that was a fun use of the environment and the boss. All-in-all, Alzadaal's Legacy is as great dungeon... but only because pretty much all of FFXIV's dungeons are high quality. It just doesn't broach the quality of some of its best.

Honestly, looking at where we're going in the MSQ, I kinda hope that our entrance through the Voidgate is a dungeon. Imagine, if you will, something in the vein of Ghimlyt Dark. Because according to Vrtra, there is a veritable army of voidsent on the other side... so imagine the dungeon being us fighting for every inch of progress through a warzone of dark beings, clawing out something of a foothold in this entirely foreign and desolate territory, and then post-dungeon it's basically us doing our best to maintain our hold of our side of the gate so that nothing slips through, but also so the voidsent down reassert their dominance and make every passage a conflict.

MYTHS OF THE REALM

First up, I actually preferred less exposition and build up pre-raid. Some of the Alliance raids had so much grueling quest content beforehand, that while interesting, really made it a struggle to just get into the raid. I think putting the quest stuff AFTER the raid works much better, because you've done the piece of content that you need to queue for. You've gotten your weekly reward (possibly). And now you can settle in for the questline. I will say that I concur with a commentary by Zepla that Deryk is sus. I don't trust him. I don't trust the whole convenience of the situation.

I think what strikes me most, and repeatedly, about FFXIV is how new content CONSTANTLY uses old locations, calls back to or involves old characters, and just constantly pulls things together into a singular, cohesive world. The entrance to the raid is somewhere we've been many times. And the name of the bar in Mor Dhona, which I previously figured was just a FFVII reference, takes on a whole new meaning. That's great storytelling. Utilizing a familiar zone for a new purpose is such a nice touch that I can't get over how much I love it.

For the raid itself, the environments are 10/10. The music, especially the Nald'thal fight, absolutely stunning. The designs of the Twelve, at least the ones we've seen, are not only AMAZING, but even the elemental and visual similarity of say Rhalgr to Ramuh is brought up IN the questline. They nailed the balance between giving us information and having us begging to know more. What are the Twelve? How much as their existence influenced other peoples and events? What is the truth of Algaia? And why have we not seen the Twelve earlier? Why does their conduct preclude them from interfering? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

The fights were also incredible, and not SO ridiculously hard to figure out that you couldn't go into them blind and still make it out. I will admit that I thought the scale bit of Nald'thal required quick math, but apparently you just watch the scales and go from there, and I think that the mechanic is a perfect translation of intent and storytelling to mechanics, as they measure your worth in a way that is very synonymous with other underworld deities in real life mythology. My only regret is that I rolled on gauntlets dropped by Byregot and didn't get the chest piece at the end. Oh well, there's always next week!

CONCLUSION

And there we are. My thoughts, feelings, and opinions on this wave of 6.1 content. It isn't exhaustive, and I know I'm a bit ramble-y and unstructured, but Endwalker was my first expansion where I played it as current, and this patch is the first one in my FFXIV career where I can say the same, and I had very strong feelings about most of it. Whether or not you agree or disagree or whatever, I hope everyone is enjoying the new content and getting everything they want out of it. FFXIV continues to blow me away with every facet of it I see, and I'm so glad to be a part of this game and community.