#Or any ship out their were the proclaim the other their ‘eternal rival’

[breezeowci]

umbrella academy season 4

five and lila, context

I’m so happy i wasn’t the only utterly grossed out and disgusted by Lila’s and Fives relationship.

Five didnt even get out of his school boy uniform till season 3 now your throwing him in a relationship with a woman 15 years older than him. This isnt the early 2000’s anymore, and lots of your watchers have already gone through their Pretty little liars faze and realized how disgusting and toxic arias and Ezra's relationship is.

Also still dosent work the other way cause now you’re throwing a 58 year old man at a 35 year old woman. Still 15 years senior, just slightly less disgusting because at least in that case shes not barely legal anymore.

additional context.

Rita (lillas actress) born; 1988

aiden (fives actor) born; 2003. (I feel like that says it all)

season 2 release 2020

filming 2019

aiden 15-16

rita 30-31

Five is still in his school boy uniform

first introduction between the two characters.

season 4

released 2024

filmed 2023

aiden 19-20

rita 34-35

they had a grown ass women kiss someone she met when he was freaking 15.

[mitigatedchaos]

Super-Governance

The chief question of super-governance is, of course, how to create a functional government when the ability to vaporize houses is distributed throughout the population at random.

The Super-Emperor’s Super-Feudalism

As super powers are effectively distributed randomly, there is no way to ensure that only those loyal to your regime will receive them.  As someone keenly aware of how his superhuman abilities allowed him to come to power, the self-proclaimed “New Tsar” sought to manage this.  All superhumans in the territory are tested according to a system that determines their martial power.  Lesser superhumans serve superior ones under a few ground rules set by the New Tsar, until the least superhumans serve as officers ruling the ordinary humans.  They are given wide authority to do as they will with the mere humans under their command.

A subject may formally challenge their superiors to show their martial prowess and advance in rank, including mundane humans.  In practice, most of those who have risen the farthest have built powerful organizations which support themselves at a level beyond that of their super powers, generally shaping their subordinates into martial units.  Neo Russia has become a mix of various fiefdoms of wildly varying technological and economic capacity.

Trade is generally allowed, but not if the New Tsar believes it will undermine the super-feudal system.

States: Neo-Russia

The Eternal Chairman’s Super-Communism

With the emergence of “super powers,” assigned seemingly at random, the Eternal Chairman recognized that these metahuman abilities could not be allowed to concentrate in the hands of a few, or they would form a ruling class from which not even Communist revolution could liberate humanity.

The Eternal Chairman died leading the revolutionary vanguard, but the vanguard soon found themselves subject to a powerful psychic link which evenly distributed metahuman ability between them and connected their minds, and prevented intrusive counter-revolutionary thoughts.  They reached true understanding between human beings, becoming able to work in nearly perfect coordination, free from the corruption of selfishness and greed.

They now diligently work to liberate all of humanity by connecting them all to this link, which has placed them in a state of conflict with most other major powers.  Fortunately for them, the power of the link has made human wave tactics viable against super-powered enemies.  Reports by experts indicate that psychic manifestations of the Eternal Chairman have been becoming slower but more powerful as Super-Communism has expanded.

States: People’s Republic of Southern China

Psycho-Technocracy (Lastau variant)

Mundane humans have weak but non-zero latent psychic potential.  A weak bidirectional channel is formed with those who accept it, with some degree of control over its influence - it might weakly communicate feelings or intuitions, but not true thoughts or words.  This allows the distribution of latent psychic energy to both mundane human citizens and metahumans in order to meet peak demands - valuable for the citizens, since a small boost can mean the difference between life and death.

A small group of high-psychic-potential technical experts are the receivers in this system, who shape the flow and are shaped in turn.  As the focal point, the effect of the others’ thoughts is much stronger on them than what they exert on any individual, but it enables them to act, and therefore govern, with hyper-intuition, chewing through enormous possibility spaces or rapidly evaluating the potential effects of a policy before implementation.

The psychic guidance has reduced the emergence of supervillains in Lastau, making it a major political power simply due to infrastructure not being destroyed as often, even before its efficient administration and technical innovation are taken into account.  Though not unified, superhuman abilities within the territory have started to converge on various themes, allowing some standardization of equipment and military roles.

States: Lastau (a mysterious landmass in the Southwest Pacific)

Super Republicanism

All citizens are tested in order to determine their super aptitude.  Those testing above a certain threshold are the only ones permitted to hold public office, or delegate their authority to someone who will hold this office on their behalf.  These super-citizens are elected by the mundane public, and also carry a number of special obligations, such as military service, which enables the country to draw up enough super-martial-force to prevent its domination by super villains.

States: Greater France

Super Liberalism

Blessed with a relative surplus of superheroes relative to its number and capability of supervillains for reasons that are still unknown, including the most powerful superhero of all, the United States has remained a country where superhumans hold effectively the same legal status as ordinary citizens, with the exception of various programs that deal with the complications of “good samaritans” with superhuman abilities and so on.

The United States fought valiantly to bring an end to Super-Hitler and has, in general, used its relative surplus of super-force to combat potential world-ending threats - though the sheer amount of major threats to combat prevents the Joint Super Team from dealing with lesser super-violence that continues to crop all over the world.  The relative lack of destruction has helped America retain its economic lead compared to much of the world.  Many metahumans are also involved in the super-construction industry that rebuilds infrastructure after monsters get punched through it.

Politicians are unusually focused on performing effectively, perhaps out of inspiration from and respect for the noble diligence of the world’s greatest superhero, or perhaps out of the terrifying fear that if they don’t, superheroes will decide to get involved in politics.

States: United States of America

Crypto-Super-Oligarchy

A test is administered to all citizens.  Those who test positive for superhuman abilities are inducted into the secret order that runs the country.  Anyone who uses powers with their identity unhidden is generally either exiled or destroyed.  Representatives acting on behalf of the secret super-order run the day-to-day tasks of the country.

States: Australia-Hungary

The World in 2014

It has been one hundred years since the first superhuman abilities emerged near the end of the Great War and threw the world into chaos.  The geography of the Earth has changed.  Technology has advanced rapidly in the areas where it could afford to, while repeated waves of destruction have left large areas under-developed and with nearly medieval technology levels.  Birth rates remain relatively high, even in many developed countries, as it is a routine event for tens of millions of people to be killed once every 5-10 years by invaders from space, or from the underworld, or from some lost future.  Combined with the destruction these conflicts bring, this cancels out a lot of the economic growth that would otherwise be expected from applying super powers to economic production, which is regularly carried out to avoid large-scale famines.

Life has become, in some senses, significantly more random.  While it seems as though some of the promises of mid/late-20th century were met in this world, mankind’s first orbital space colonies were obliterated without warning by aliens seeking the head of a rival alien territory’s prince that was hiding on Earth.  Enormous quantities of materials are sometimes zipped across the surface of the planet in a matter of minutes, while at other times relying on a more conventional surface container ship fleet that might take weeks or months to arrive.  Cities have been dispersed into smaller cities in an effort to make them harder targets, and over half of Europe has fled as significant portions of the continent have been taken over by feuding mad scientists.

It is said that there may be a path to a world where super powers do not exist.  To this day, there are those who seek to find it.

[kunoichi-ume]

20 for the I want the k thing kakagai

send me ‘i want the k’

Bless you, a ship I don’t write (or read) near enough and free reign to choose any prompt I want? Fantastic! This one was so much fun to write, and I love the ending to this one. For the sake of suprises, I am not going to tell you which kiss type I chose. It should be apparent by the end.

When Kakashi decided to find Gai, that it was time he finally confronted the man about whateverthis was between them, he knew he would find the man doing some sort oftraining. Over the years he had seen the man do many crazy things for the sakeof physical strength and, if Kakashi was being very honest, physical perfection. One handed pushups, climbingcliffs with no chakra, running laps around the village, running laps around thevillage on his hands, but this was a new one.

Gai was hanging off a tree branch by his knees doing invertedcrunches, an exercise that was great for toning abs but Kakashi wasn’t sure Gaineeded it.

“579….580….581….582…. OH HELLO MY DEAR ETERNAL RIVAL ….588….589…..WHATYOUTHFUL ACTIVTY ARE YOU OFF TOO…..593….597…….”

Kakashi was impressed that Gai could should excitedly at himand still not mess up his count. How people wrote him off as an idiot when he hadmoments like this was a mystery.

“Yo,” Kakashi greeted, giving an eye smile over the edge ofhis book. “New exercise?”

“You have a most perceptive eye my Eternal Rival!” Gai proclaimed,never missing a beat on his reps, “just as expected from someone in the SpringTime of the Youth! Would you care to join me?”

Kakshi shook his head, smiling behind his book as he got an idea.

“I was just looking for somewhere to read my book,” he saidbefore gracefully plopping himself down to lie on the grass directly below Gai.“This looks like a good spot.”

“That is a perfect spot,” Gai said flashing him a sparklysmile in between reps, “from there you can best admire the power of my youth!”

Kakashi gave a soft hmm of agreement before pretending to goback to his book.

Okay, he thought, I am here. What now? It had been mucheasier to decide to confront the spandex clad man when he was at home but nowthat he was here he couldn’t help but think about how it would be so mucheasier to just leave things as they are. He liked his friendship with Gai, the rivalrystuff amused him and what if telling Gai he wanted more ruined those twothings. Not all confessions are accepted after all, in fact he would wager mostcaused more harm than good.

No, you cannot talk yourself out of this, he told himselfsternly, not again.

This was far from the first time Kakashi had sought out Gaiintending to make a move. Over the last few years hugs had been unintentionallydodged, vocal confessions had caught in his throat so often he knew their tastebetter than even eggplant, and the one time he had decided to just kiss theother man he had simply chickened out.

But not today. No today he was going to do it, and then hewould finally know if the other man felt anything more than friendship for him.

“Kakashi,” Gai’s voice broke him from his musing and hemoved his eye from where it was burning a hole into his book to meet his friend’sconcerned gaze.

“What‘s up?” He asked, setting his book aside and trying toappear as casual as possible.

Gai had paused his reps to stare down at Kakashi, “you seemdistracted my cool and hip rival, is something on your mind?”

If only you knew, Kakashi thought but instead said, “Whatevergave you that idea?”

“You have been staring at your book.”

Kakashi eye smiled at him, “I know. It’s called reading Gai.”

The dark haired man frowned down at him, “I know that, butthat’s not what you were doing.”

“I was just thinking,” Kakashi said.

Gai gave him an expectant look, prompting him to continue.

“About…” Kakashi paused, this was it. He could say it rightnow and it would be Gai’s doing. He’s asking, it would be wrong to lie, wouldn’tit? Kakashi took a deep breath, ready to say the words he had been practicing allmorning.

I think I’m in lovewith you.

It was the perfect sentence to convey his feelings, not too confidantincase things went poorly, but strong enough wording to convey the real depthof emotion he felt for the man. This would solve everything, the anxiety, andthe long debates with himself. He would finally know. Does he, or doesn’t hefeel the same.

So of course what he actually said was, “I’m thinking aboutgetting a puppy.”

The smile Gai sent him was near blinding before he startedhis reps again, “621…622…That is a splendid idea Kakashi! 629….630…. You havenot gotten a new dog in ages, have you spoken to the Inuzuka’s?”

He continued on, giving Kakashi various pieces of adviceabout picking a puppy that would work well with his other dogs, but Kakashi didn’thear any of it.

That was the perfect moment, his mind was screaming, howcould you let this pass. And watching Gai moving above him was not helping, hewas trying to think of a way to salvage this situation. That damn spandex leftalmost nothing to the imagination andKakashi could almost see the definition of Gai’s perfectly sculpted abs throughthe thin material and he just couldn’ttake it anymore.

As Gai straightened down, hanging perpendicular to theground, Kakashi sat up quickly, one hand ripping his mask away from his face,the other grabbing the back of Gai’s head to hold him in place. He saw Gai’s surprise,a quick gasp, and then their lips met and Kakashi melted into Gai.

For all his talk of passion and youth, Gai was so stunned byKakashi’s actions that when the other man pulled away he had yet to move. Hestared at Kakashi, face red for more than one reason, and swallowed with an audiblegulp.

Taking advantage of a moment when Gai was apparently stunnedsilent, something Kakashi had never seen before, he started talking quickly.

“That’s what I was really thinking about, actually it’s whatI think about all the time, and I’ll understand if you don’t feel the same, andjust say the word and I’ll never do that again but I just had to know…” Kakashi’srambling trailed off when he noticed Gai grinning upside down at him.

“You kissed me.” He stated, his voice smug.

“I did.”

“Does this mean you like me Kakashi?”

Kakashi eyed him suspiciously, in all the time he had playedthis out in his head this was not how he expected the other man to react tohim. Tears, random sunsets, declarations of young passionate youth, or an appalledexpression and a demand to know why he would conduct himself in such anunyouthful way was more what Kakashi predicted on either end of the spectrum.

This calm smugness was not expected at all.

“Yes,” he finally said after a long moment.

At that moment there was a tremendous cracking sound as thebranch holding up Gai snapped, toppling the heavy man on top of Kakashi who inturn had the breath knocked out of him when Gai landed on his abdomen. Theylaid there in a tangle of limbs while Gai processed the bombshell Kakashi hadjust dropped on him and Kakashi gasped for air.

As soon as he caught his breath Gai gave him another kissthat stole it away again.

[animalruth19-blog]

The Definitive Guide to knights

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