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DuckTales 2017 - “The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker!”

Story by: Francisco Angones, Madison Bateman, Colleen Evanson, Christian Magalhaes, Ben Siemon, Bob Snow, Tanner Johnson

Written by: Colleen Evanson & Tanner Johnson

Storyboard by: Vince Aparo, Kristen Gish, Victoria Harris, Ben Holm

Directed by: Tanner Johnson

Spin it!

Before doing research when Don Karnage first came to the series, my knowledge of TaleSpin began and ended with me having that awful Genesis game as a kid. I do know that the show took place long before the modern day, which is when DuckTales 2017 takes place, and it appears that the events of TaleSpin in this universe still goes with that. Why do I know this? Because this episode does not start with Baloo piloting the Sea Duck...

...but a grown-up version of his surrogate son, Kit Cloudkicker, who is now running Higher for Hire by himself. However, while things have definitely changed for Higher for Hire since Baloo's apparent retirement, mostly for the worse, some things remained the same. Namely, he is still being tormented by the nefarious Sky Pirate of the Skies, the corsair of the air, Don Karnage. Or Dan, as he calls him much to Karnage's annoyance. The good news is that Kit is now an ace pilot who can easily fight off sky pirates like he did back in the glory days. The bad news is that he can still do what he did as a kid with a giant cargo plane. He even says it, and with most of his dialogue in this cold opening suggests this is going to make him look foolish.

Even worse news for the business is that the fragile box addressed to F.O.W.L. is just sitting in the center of the cargo bay with no security whatsoever aside from a caged chicken and a goat. After rocking back and forth due to Kit fending off against Don Karnage, the box breaks to reveal a rock with a blue lion carved into it, and when that aforementioned chicken and goat touch it, they both turn into some sort of chicken-goat hybrid that Kit has to fight. How is able to fight this goat-chicken while piloting the plane? Simple: he puts a crowbar in the steering wheel, just like Baloo did in the original. Here, the idea is played as silly as it would be to someone who had never heard of TaleSpin. It is doubly sad when one considers Kit treats this crowbar like his only crewmate, because it is.

I do like that this first scene introduces this show's version of Kit very well. He's obviously an incompetent pilot, and not one that is lovably incompetent like Launchpad, and this incompetence is pretty well known among his customers judging by this line:

Kit Cloudkicker: Who's the terrible pilot now, everyone?

He's surprisingly cheerful about that, which, again, makes him look foolish. Despite all of this foolishness, he does appear to still be competent at coming up with plans to defeat his enemies, whether they be sky pirates or mutated goat-chickens, even if those plans end up putting the cargo he was supposed to deliver into the water. This includes that lion stone. He looks onto this and says "my bad" in a way that shows that his business is definitely going to be in the red in a few years.

A few years later, we see that Della is taking Huey, Dewey, and nobody else to Cape Suzette, and she's even allowing Dewey to fly the plane along with her. It is easy to see why Huey is extra prepared even if Dewey is doing surprisingly well, as Huey is not only using extra seatbelts, but having a Safety Boy helmet as well. Huey's also prepared with the knowledge of that Lion Stone we saw go into the ocean in the previous scene, which, you guessed it, is a Missing Mystery of Isabella Finch. Specifically, it's the Stone Of What Was, which was described with the mysterious phrase "what was once two becomes a-new." Huey does not seem to figure that one out. The good news is that it was found, but the bad news was that it was found by F.O.W.L, but the better news is that they lost it, but the worse news was that the stone was made of potassium benzoate. Okay, that last one was made up. There's a few throwaway lines to fill in how Huey even knows F.O.W.L. had the stone in other scenes, and those plot holes are really not that important.

After nearing their destination, which we learn was based on a clue from an intercepted F.O.W.L. transmission from a throwaway line from Huey slightly later in the episode, Della has the bright idea to let Dewey land the plane. Letting a little kid fly a plane? Not a good idea. Letting a little kid land a plane? Also not a good idea. Telling that little kid that there's nothing wrong with a basic landing? May be a good idea in the off chance it could even come up, but definitely not a good idea when it comes to Dewey. To Della's credit, at least it was Huey that did that last one.

After the crash landing, and not a Launchpad-type one, they arrive at Higher for Hire, which shows an advertisement showing its legacy playing on a television screen with plenty of TaleSpin references. This includes one shot of Baloo and another shot of a younger Kit and Molly Cunningham riding on an airfoil done in the style of the original show. This is great for people who were not aware of TaleSpin, which the target audience for this show may not have seen unless they have Disney Plus. Kit, still shown to be the sole employee years later, assumes anyone knocking at his door is the bank demanding payments, but he's delighted to see one of his former classmates at pilot school. He constantly has to tell Della that he is an ace pilot now. Most likely, he's telling that to himself too, as we'll see in the next scene. He at least has reason to believe he's a better pilot than his former classmate, as it doesn't look like her plane is in good shape. Della could have explained that this state was because she let one of her less competent sons fly the plane...and that would have probably made her case about a thousand times worse.

That television commercial also inspires a sort of B-plot that also ties into Kit's character arc, as seeing young Kit cloudkicking makes him want to do it, too. Despite his failure at even mimicking it, Kit is happy to see a fellow cloudkicker and would be glad to teach him the ropes. Della is not too excited by this prospect, but ends up allowing it, because she doesn't want to be the mother that does not support her kid. They aboard the plane, which ends up being a very bumpy ride, and Della goes to investigate, only to find that Kit was in the bathroom, letting his only other employee, the crowbar, be his substitute.

Kit tries to stop what he calls "mutiny" by saying that he's the only one who knows where the cargo could be, only for the crowbar to slip and reveal that he's been keeping a map in the glove compartment. The map actually has some Xs and a circle on it, which suggests that Kit may have been trying to correct his previous mistake, but either never getting the motivation to go through with it, or, more likely, he isn't competent enough to deal with whatever is on that island he circled. Maybe I am thinking about this too hard, but I would say it would be fitting.

Kit decides to distract everyone from him getting kicked out of the pilot's chair by giving Dewey his airfoil and the cloudkicking rope for him to hold onto, and a shot of Dewey's excitement instantly cuts to Dewey screaming for his life, holding on for dear life as he can't seem to. The parallel between a former cloudkicking guy who isn't really a good pilot, and a kid who can actually fly a plane who isn't really a good cloudkicker is easy to notice, and the episode plays around with this. For starters, similar to Kit and his not-so-ace piloting skills, Dewey also tries his hardest to hide how terrified he is at the cool new thing he wanted to do. Of course, it is very possible that Kit is acting the way he does because he's in a certain someone's shadow. Dewey just does it because that's how he is.

Despite that difference, this parallel is enhanced even more when they get attacked by the Sky Pirates, and Kit has to intervene and show that he, at the very least, can get Dewey out of the danger that Kit himself has caused. And yes, Don Karnage's Sky Pirates are now working for the very organization that they indirectly harmed years before by attacking that cargo plane and making them lose that precious stone. That does not come up at all, not even as a throwaway line. What does come up is that Don Karnage is delighted that one of the people after the Stone of What Was is his new arch-nemesis, Dewey. It's a long story that started all the way back in Don's debut in Season 1. It's neat to see these old references. After they all make a landing on the circled island, some more safe than others, they get to meet the wildlife of the island. Let's say there's a good reason why this island was circled, and why Kit could not handle it by himself.

It's a rhino and a gorilla crossed together, either a rhinosorilla or a gorillanoceros depending on whether one likes Dewey's word for it or Kit's. Clearly, this is the result of the Stone of What Was...what was...Wuz...Wuzzles! Admittedly, the Wuzzle was also not a show I grew up with, though that could be because it lasted only a season. In fact, I just now notice the lion carved into the Stone of What Was happens to have bumblebee wings. These animals are a little more realistic here, as they don't talk, and they're not cute or fuzzy like the original Wuzzles were. In fact, the character this gorillanoceros was based on was actually a monkey-rhino. There is a difference, even if they are very similar species genetically!

They eventually get to the stone, only to see that Don Karnage and his crewmates have found the stone first. Hiding, they see Don Karnage command Hardtack Hattie, his strongest crewmember, to lift it up. Unfortunately, she happened to lift it as a bunch of ants were crawling on it, turning her into an ant centaur to her and Don's horror. Despite that horror, and fitting for someone who just wants to finish his mission, he tries to get some of the other crew members to lift it...

...leading to these freaks of nature, which is what Don Karnage actually calls them. DuckTales 2017 isn't too afraid to show the horrifying nature of some of these fusions, continuing with the theme of how they portray the Wuzzles as these monstrous beasts. I would not call it nightmare fuel, but I would not be surprised if it already has an entry on TV Tropes. What makes these even worse is that there is no way for these guys to revert back to their normal forms. There's no "if the stone feels like it, it'll separate you" clause here, that snail-dog is permanently a snail-dog, and that pirate will have to live with a hand for his head for the rest of his days. These guys just end up getting forgotten.

Della tries to sneak by climbing around this horrific scene, only to be caught on some sort of sticky rock. Dewey decides to try to save her with his airfoil-riding skills, much to Huey's disagreement. Dewey's got to Dewey it! Oh yeah, I forgot, Dewey ends up doing "Dewey" puns for most of the episode. It's not funny, but I have a feeling it wasn't meant to be funny, and it's certainly not funny when he ends up falling down near the pirates. Face to face with someone who considers him his arch-nemesis, he tries to save face when he notices Kit stole Don Karnage's plane...which he immediately crashes into a rock.

As for the rock that Della was stuck on, it turns out it wasn't a rock. Nor was it a rock lobster, either!

It hatches into another classic Wuzzle character: the Butterbear, or the Bear-terfly as Don Karnage calls it. They never quite match the original Wuzzle names, and it is not like they would know them. There is one part of this where Kit and the Bear-terfly cross paths, and it almost seems like they're going to bond because they happen to be a similar race. Then, it instantly cuts to Kit running away from a rampaging Bear-terfly. How are they going to continue from this? Have the Bear-terfly get caught in some rope, and have it run in a way that ties up the stone, and have it fly away with Della still on its back. It is a bit convoluted, but it works in the end as it is a way for the stone to travel without it mutating even more people. Whether any of these fusions can use the stone to combine into other fusions is left unanswered, which is for the best.

One may notice I didn't talk a whole lot about what Huey did, and that's because he really didn't do much for most of the episode. He delivered the exposition, he tries to stop Dewey from "Deweying it", and that's about it. However, he does have a major part in the episode: he gets to take part in the scene where the two bumbling fools realize what they have been doing was foolish. Namely, they needed to realize that they should do what they were good at: Kit should cloudkick and Dewey should fly the plane. It is a good lesson that had some good buildup. Sure, they were pretty much failing throughout the episode, but there were scenes where they were surprisingly competent, like the scene where Kit rescued Dewey with his Cloudkicking skills, and Dewey managing to fly the plane in the beginning before he decided to "Dewey it" and crash it. It does not come out of nowhere. Speaking of which...

Dewey: Okay, let's do it.

What would be an unremarkable line actually works really well here, mainly because he decided not to make a pun on his own name, which he did way too much. It does show development, as if this fun-loving showboater is actually learning his lesson throughout the episode. I expect this from DuckTales 2017, and there are certainly cartoons where I don't.

Fittingly for a TaleSpin episode, this all ends with a flight chase scene. No, not the usual DuckTales 2017 fight scene, though there are some fights here and there, especially with Kit and Don Karnage, armed with that crow bar and sword, respectively. The scene actually manages to make Dewey keeping the plane steady an action packed scene, as he has to save his Mom while trying not to let the stone fall into the ocean and make an octopus-fish-squid hybrid that would rival the Eldritch horrors. Again, whether any of these fusions can use the stone to combine into other fusions is left unanswered, which is for the best.

It's not really a spoiler to say the good guys win, but I will say the TaleSpin part of the plot is very much all tied up in the end. If Kit only makes a minor appearance in the finale, and I'd actually be surprised if he didn't appear considering how packed the clips were, it would be completely understandable. Also, there's a cliffhanger and we finally get to hear Don Karnage sing another song, if a very short one. It seemed like he just couldn't do it in his other appearances.

How does it stack up?

With the genius way of using not just one Disney show's legacy, but another Disney show as well, there's a lot to love about this episode, though I wouldn't say it's among the absolute best. Four Scrooges.

Next, Scrooge gets indicted.

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wedreamedlove · 5 years ago

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Xu Mo - Character Study

Preserving this from Reddit. But the comments are always interesting, so I’m dropping the link here.

This post will include content up to Chapter 18. Plus some calls, dates, and ASMR in the CN server. I always quote from JP and CN (because I have major issues with Elex’s translation).

Also, this is an extremely long post. Last I checked it was about 7,500 words so get comfortable if you’re going to read this LOL.

BASICS

First, I don't think I'd be wrong in saying Xu Mo's character is the most polarizing out of the four men and I believe this is due in large part to cultural differences and how the localization handled that. Putting aside my constant harping about subtleties being dropped, I was enlightened by @sharinluna about an aspect I didn't consider, which is Xu Mo's "social class".

Face, social status, rank, and hierarchy are - and still is - very important in Chinese culture. Easy examples people can relate to are respecting elders and the prestige of being a doctor, banker, lawyer, etc. But I can't stress enough the reverence that is given to these "high" social statuses. How this applies to Xu Mo is that he comes from a lineage of literati that would place him as someone in an upper class status, in addition to his own achievements.

Xu Mo was born from a scholarly family. His parents were highly talented and leading researchers.

In the eyes of the public, Xu Mo is a young and remarkable neurologist and a guest professor at Lianyu University. He is serious and persistent towards his scientific research, which is how he's obtained extraordinary achievements. At 26 years old, he has already obtained achievements that most people wouldn't get in a lifetime. There is no other word better to describe him than "genius".

[CN Profile Translation]

The English definition of literati leads you to intellectuals, but this doesn't carry the weight and history of how literati, or basically scholar-officials, were people appointed by the emperor to carry out day-to-day duties and to help govern the country. I guess the equivalent would be a noble who carries out noblesse oblige. Cultured people with scholarly achievements were very respected in historical China and also acted as role models for the common people.

So, going back to Xu Mo, because we're in modern times and he doesn't have an overtly obvious title (to those not in his field of work) he just comes off as a gentle, unassuming, humble, scholar with an air of sophistication and professionalism from his background. Think of a noble, without any airs.

This is reflected in his polite and modest speech (I will be bringing an updated post on this over to Tumblr to go into more detail about modal particles; the important thing is that Xu Mo NEVER smirks unless he's Ares and even that could just be a cold smile). Not to mention all the descriptions about his elegance and refinement. Heck, he even has a Chinese tea ceremony set in his room, including the tools to make tea [CN "In His World" Event].

Xu Mo's classiness, for a lack of a better word, also emphasizes the purposeful contrast of seeing him do common, mundane things. Like watching cartoons to understand humans better [CN Profile]. It's like how Li Zeyan, with his more understandable poshness from his riches, would be contrasted with mundane things. But, if we were looking for another analogy, Xu Mo would be old elegance and Li Zeyan would be nouveau elegance.

Anyway, Xu Mo also has another trait given to him that's a classic in female-oriented Chinese media and that's being a "black belly; 腹黑". For those who are more familiar with Japanese, it's basically the same word as "haraguro; 腹黒".

Black bellies are people who act nice and unassuming on the outside, but they're sly and manipulative (and at times cruel) on the inside or in secret to other people.

Essentially, they're two-faced but while English has a negative connotation with this word it's normal and accepted in Asia (likely because of the concept of face). The majority of male leads in Chinese novels are all black bellies. BTW, the origin of the word comes from how you only notice their black belly after you're eaten up by them LOL.

So, how this works in female-oriented media is... well, there's many combinations. For example, they can be nice to everyone, including the heroine, but secretly vicious against those who hurt the heroine. Or they're nice in public, but show their sly cunning to the heroine. Mix it however you want! They also like to tease the heroine in all sorts of ways, like leading them into verbal traps to see them flustered.

There's some crossover with black bellies being abusive, cruel, or yandere towards their heroine, but it's not necessary for black bellies to be like that. Just think of these as being Venn diagram circles with overlap [example of a sweet black belly is Xiao Nai from the Chinese drama LoveO2O, also a novel].

Returning to the main topic, you can easily see how this applies to Xu Mo. He's nice and elegant... except for when he's not. It's how he can have this gentle and refined air, but then turn around and be a massive flirt and tease with the heroine (flashing his black belly). Then he goes and turns completely black when he's Ares LOL.

Now, after giving background on Xu Mo's character archetype, let's move onto my other sections.

MAN OF JUXTAPOSITIONS

I wanted to call this section "man of contradictions" at first, but then I thought that might mislead people. Basically, this is all about how Xu Mo is a man of dualities.

[Main Story 13-22] The scarred man describes Ares as being the only person who can be trusted in BS, and yet Ares doesn't hesitate to go against Hades and incapacitate him. I'd argue that this places a wrench in BS' operations, so there goes being the most trustworthy person in BS (although, granted, BS sounds like they're a writhing mess of people with their own thoughts and ideas about how it should be run).

Xu Mo is a gentle teacher to MC, patient and taking the time to explain concepts she doesn't understand or provide novel ideas to her; however, he also gives her the worst betrayal and you can almost call this the harshest of lessons.

For all his image of being an intellectual scholar, as I've mentioned in the previous section, Xu Mo is surprisingly "physical". [CN Archery Date] shows that he's ripped and knows a taxing sport like archery, and in [Main Story 16-22] he straight up kills the goons with ice shards (even if it's in a mental arena).

[Main Story 8-23 & 9] bombards you with light and shadow descriptions. Actually, this imagery follows Xu Mo everywhere but it's most prominent in these chapters. He's always standing at the intersection of light and shadow, or light shines down on one of his sides but casts the other in shadow.

[Main Story 9-14] I will be forever salty for Elex dropping the ball here, but Xu Mo's eyes are described to contain a sense of humanness and life. Then, in [Main Story 12-22] he is described to have an expression lacking any emotion and human warmth. Human descriptions contrasted with inhuman descriptions.

Mm, you just have to love delicious juxtapositions and how it emphasizes his duality of being both Xu Mo and Ares. Two sides of the same coin.

Once again, I didn't want to call these contradictions because I don't believe one of these negates the other. It's like how we code switch in different scenarios. You can be a nice person, but vicious when your bottom line is crossed.

These sides of Xu Mo don't overturn the core of his character or his through line: loving the MC, ruthlessly ambitious for the sake of his goals, and naturally gentle (shown in the way he treats animals and people not in the way of his goal).

But, if you do insist on seeing one side of these as lies, then Xu Mo once said:

"Besides, lies have just as much power as the truth. The true nature of things can be indirectly reflected in the world of lies [...] It is because these lies exist, that one can get closer to the truth."

[Main Story 12 Call: Truth and Fiction]

REVERSING "GOOD" IMAGERY

I haven't been quiet at all about how much I love the evocative imagery Xu Mo gets, but an interesting thing I've noticed is how "positive" imagery is twisted into "negative" imagery when it comes to him. It's brilliant.

[Main Story 13-8] MC leaves the building, after interviewing the elevator Evolver man with Xu Mo, and dazzling light shines down on her, yet she can't feel the slightest bit of warmth. This chapter literally sets up Xu Mo's reveal as Ares through positive imagery turned negative. Not to mention warmth disappears into coldness.

In [Midnight Date] there's a rope with thorns tightening around Xu Mo's heart. In [True Love Date] there is a delicate rope tightening around his heart. I will eat my shoe if this isn't a reference to the red string of fate that binds him and MC together. But, as you can see, it's causing him all the suffering in the world.

[Main Story 13-19] Iridescent, the pen, was given to MC and she ends up using it to threaten her own life. Not only is it Xu Mo's symbol of love (more on this later) but pens aren't supposed to be violent weapons. There's the saying that pens are mightier than the sword, because pens write down ideas that are supposed to convince people peacefully. So, a symbol of something non-physical and literary is now a physical weapon of violence and force.

[Main Story 8-23] Xu Mo tucks MC's hands back under the blanket when she's in the hospital, but MC describes a "cold sensation" touching her before she sees that it's his hands. So, Xu Mo has bad circulation or low temperature. Normally, in otome games, the men are supposed to have warm hands (encourages feelings of security, safety, etc.).

[Main Story 9-18] also talks about how Xu Mo's fingertips are freezing, but this is probably more because of the context of the scene.

To be honest, I'm iffy on the last two points about cold hands because it's a common description I see in Chinese novels, where the male lead is described with a cool temperature or cool breath. So, it sort of sounds like it can be a positive descriptor? Of course, there's also male leads who run hot to show how passionate they are LOL.

Or maybe cool descriptions are used to emphasize a character's rationality but when things get hot and heavy they start to burn in temperature and it's supposed to make you go "OOH! HE'S LOSING CONTROL!" or something.

In any case, Xu Mo being of cold temperature is a distinct thing because Gavin is generally described with warm temperatures (because he's a hotblooded military man). The only time I can recall Gavin having a cool description given to him is the tip of his nose in his birthday date, but come on the nose is the extremity of extremities!

Lastly, Xu Mo also needs a special mention for this point:

[Main Story 16-22] The opposite happens here with imagery reversion. Death, normally a frightening concept, is flipped to be a good thing. To escape Xu Mo's dream you need to die. Dying is another way to live.

SYMBOLISM

First, I think it's interesting to note that despite Xu Mo being a "villainous" character and having all this light and shadow imagery (metaphor for his inner conflict), he's ultimately described with light. He has spatial and solidifying light (?) powers that manifest as white light rather than dark shadows.

It's also cute that he shows his two sides with his WHITE lab coat or his BLACK trench coat.

Second, water is pretty much THE imagery to go to for enlightened, virtuous, and refined people. Heck, Lao Tzu in Tao Te Ching, a fundamental text for philosophical and religious Taoism, connects water with 7 virtues:

Dwelling with the right location: water goes to the lowest point, thus a humble person should emulate this. Arrogant people always try to go to the top.

Feeling with great depth: truly virtuous people are like deep pools of water. You can't see everything about them at first, but as you get to know them it's like discovering a treasure and this should encourage you to cultivate depth in yourself too.

Giving with great kindness: rivers flow across the land nourishing everything in its way; once it's done its work it moves on without waiting for praise or recognition. This is the virtue of unconditional kindness.

Speaking with great integrity: water, when calm and undisturbed, reflects its surroundings perfectly and so should people reflect the truth with the same degree of accuracy.

Governing with great administration: water benefits everyone equally, because water doesn't pass judgment on anyone. Give everyone the same level of basic courtesy.

Handling with great capability: water has great versatility and nothing can block its way; it can flow to the left, right, under, over, etc. It's also not limited to just its regular form and can be steam or ice.

Moving with great timing: summer rains never fall in winter, and winter rains never fall in summer. Water demonstrates there is a time for everything and that everything can occur in its own time.

Remember how I said scholar-officials in historical China are basically like role models and nobles who help govern the people under the emperor with noblesse oblige? This is why scholar characters go hand in hand with water imagery, because it's supposed to emphasize their virtuousness.

So, because Xu Mo is a scholar-type character, the same goes for him. He has SO MUCH water imagery going on for him, and it carries the above weight behind it. I've probably missed some, but here's a list of the ones I can recall:

[Main Story 9-11] MC falls asleep on the bus and, as Xu Mo watches her, the emotions in his eyes are like swelling ocean tides at night.

[Main Story 9-14] MC's dream about Xu Mo has her falling into an ocean.

[Main Story 9-22] MC ends up in Xu Mo's memories about the accident that killed his parents and it's raining.

[Main Story 11-6] Xu Mo brings MC Chinese bellflowers and MC feels that they're fragile, as if the petals are thin ice that'll break if she touches them.

[Main Story 13-4] Xu Mo's voice is like the morning fog evaporating in the sunlight.

[Main Story 13-8] During their talk about MC wanting to continue her investigation, calm waves drift in Xu Mo's dark eyes.

[Main Story 13-19] This is tangentially related to Xu Mo because these descriptions apply to the MC, but it happens after the Ares reveal. She feels like she got pushed into an ice cave, she feels like she's drifting in an ocean, and when she thinks about Xu Mo her memories overwhelm her like a flood and she feels like she's going to drown.

[Main Story 16-16] Xu Mo gets to kill Hades' goons with a copied ice ability. The writers didn't have to give the goons an ice ability; they could have had metal powers, or fire powers, but nope it was water-related.

[The Promised Date] Xu Mo's eyes are like ocean tides at night. When he's abroad he experiences heart pains and finds his shirt drenched and stuck to his back, giving him the illusion that he's drowning.

Third, Xu Mo also has a lot of flower language going for him. Technically, the other guys have flowers and plants associated with them too (for example, Gavin with white lilies and gingko leaves), but I think Xu Mo gets more LOL.

[Main Story 9-14] Red spider lilies appear in MC's dream about Xu Mo. These mean sad memories, mutual longing, separation, graceful purity, beauty of death, endless love, a precursor to death, and a call to the netherworld. The sadness and mutual longing is because the flowers and leaves of spider lilies can never touch; meanwhile, their relation to death is because they bloom punctually around the autumn equinox when people sweep graves.

[Main Story 11-6] Xu Mo gives the MC Chinese bellflowers, which bloomed out of season, when she's at the hospital. These mean eternal love, sincerity, yearning, or hopeless love. The reason for this double meaning is because Chinese bellflowers represent happiness, but only some people can seize their happiness while others miss it, are unable to grasp it, or are unable to keep it.

[Blossom Event] Xu Mo gifts a gardenia to MC, which is called Garda. In Chinese, gardenias mean tenacious, eternal love, waiting for you for a lifetime, and our love.

[Blossom Date] Xu Mo and MC go look at peach blossoms together. Not only do they quote a poem all about a bride serving her clan, groom's clan, and her groom (including having abundant fruit if you know what I mean), peach blossoms themselves mean being a captive of love.

[Under the Mistletoe SSR] Mistletoe, duh. Normally, I'd look at Chinese flower language but they're clearly using the common meaning of mistletoe: love and enduring love to those who kiss under it. Plus, if you refuse a kiss beneath it then you'll get bad luck LOL.

[CN Promise You a Lifetime SSR] Xu Mo's wedding card has wisteria in the background. In China, it means intoxicating love, dependence, born for love and dying for love, obsessed with you, the happiest moment, and indulging in love.

[Golden Days SSR] Xu Mo's flower card, but I can't find a consensus on what the flowers are. Some people think its oleander but they only bloom in summer and fall when the card is about being in the springtime. Oleanders mean a curse and to watch out for danger though.

I personally think they're apple blossoms (blooms early spring and summer) and they mean "trap". Apple blossoms are so beautiful people want to eat them, but their body is poisonous. People represented by this flower look loyal and honest on the outside, but they're sharp and have a thorny tongue. Those who get too close risk being stabbed and only smart people will find their viciousness interesting LOL.

Come on, it's totally not a coincidence that all of Xu Mo's flower symbolism is just a neon sign about how in love he is with the MC. Eternal love is repeated like a billion times. The only odd one out is his flower card, but it still suits his character:

Under his elegant and gentle face, there hides an inexplicable dark side which is the most deadliest poison.

[CN Profile Translation]

Lastly, Xu Mo has a fox as his animal representative. Foxes are pretty much universally associated with being tricksters, masters of illusions, and cunning. It's amusing because, in Asian folklore, they also like to transform into beauties and seduce people to consume them. Sometimes, the nine-tailed fox is associated with auspiciousness though!

[Official CN Animal Figures] Xu Mo is a fox, Gavin is a dog, Victor is a cat, and Kiro is a bear.

[CN Dream Flower SSR] Xu Mo's West Moon card shows him as a fox demon and scholar.

[Main Story 9-14] Xu Mo quotes the fox's line from "The Little Prince" and MC imagines seeing a fox bounding through the wheat fields too.

I think people can see why foxes are so fitting for Xu Mo but I also want to add that, despite me going on about how virtuous scholars are, in order for scholars to survive the swamp of politics in court, these scholar-officials needed to be extremely sly and cunning and it's actually a good thing to be a "wily fox".

In fact, in Chinese novels, usually the honest and genuine characters are... not the main characters and they reach a tragic end or, if they are main characters, they have to be protected by other cunning leads because good-natured people cannot survive in a mortal world filled with greedy people and their materialistic desires. Laughs hollowly at how all my honest military men biases die horrible deaths or get ruined because of this blunt personality.

Hey, check it out, with Xu Mo's historical Qixi card, [CN Vermilion Lip SSR], and his West Moon card, there's two explicit references to how he's the scholar character.

STORIES OF YOU AND ME

Now, Xu Mo brings up three major stories throughout the game in various places.

First, there's "The Little Mermaid":

[The Little Mermaid ASMR] I was on the fence as to whether Xu Mo relates himself to the Prince or the Little Mermaid, but now I think he's the Little Mermaid. He's different from humans but longs for them and wants an eternal soul.

[Overseas Date] Here we learn that Xu Mo can't yet understand the Little Mermaid's selfless, brave, and devoted love (sorry, but you're way too insatiable, my dear) however he finds himself understanding her last choice. That he can continue loving someone despite the pain they bring him (the Little Mermaid's pain every time she uses her legs).

It's, uh, pretty somber that the version Xu Mo has in his head is the Andersen one where the Little Mermaid dies. He also ends the story there and doesn't add the part where she turns into a daughter of air and still has a chance to get a soul after 300 years to go to the Kingdom of God.

Second, there's "The Little Prince" and its a damn good reference. So, this book is actually MC's favorite book and it's about a little prince who raises a rose on his planet, B612, and falls in love with the rose. But he catches the rose in a lie and gets hurt and, even though they reconcile, he leaves the planet to go on a journey.

On the Little Prince's journey he meets all sorts of people with obsessions and learns life lessons through them, but the most important one he learns is how to love his rose. He crashes down to earth though and meets the person he tells his story to (thus creating this story), but before the Little Prince can return to his planet he gets bitten by a poisonous snake and that's it. The narrator likes to think the Little Prince made it back to his planet and rose though.

In [Sound of Silence SSR Call: The Little Prince] Xu Mo mentions how The Little Prince is MC's favorite book. He also compares MC directly to being the Little Prince and how she's growing like the Little Prince through her experiences. I have a crack theory that MLQC's story could actually mirror this somewhat, especially about MC learning the meaning of love and how that'll save the world LOL.

In [Sound of Silence SSR Call: Beautiful Moonlight] there's another mention to the Little Prince where Xu Mo asks if she can find B612, the Little Prince's home planet. They both hope the Little Prince made it back home.

In [Main Story 9-14], like I mentioned above, Xu Mo quotes the fox's line and it goes: "The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat".

However, let me explain the context and show the full quote. So, the Little Prince meets a fox in his journey and the fox tells the Little Prince to tame him to "establish ties":

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."

[...]

"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat."

The Little Prince agrees and tames the fox. But when he has to leave the planet:

"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you..."

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added: "Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."

[...]

"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..."

"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

Isn't this conversation good? I remember reading the Little Prince a long time ago and found it super sad, and now that I'm re-visiting this story again thanks to Xu Mo... well, I understand it better but it's still melancholic LOL.

But, anyway, if we replace the Little Prince with MC and the fox with Xu Mo, this conversation is really interesting. See, the fox is indelibly marked by the Little Prince (like Xu Mo by the MC) and they have made this unique connection between them that will hurt both of them when it comes to the end.

However, this pain doesn't mean their experiences wasn't worth it and that it didn't mean anything. Like the fox says, now he has these memories of the Little Prince that makes life worth living. The fox, before he met the Little Prince, found his life boring and monotonous, but now things are given meaning when they didn't have it before.

On a totally random note, in [CN "In His World" Event] people have taken pictures of Xu Mo's shelves and now we can get an idea of his reading material. It ranges from literary classics (Ayn Rand, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Nabokov, Charlotte Brontë, and lots of Chinese authors), to research papers (Genome-wide Polygenic Burden of Rare Deleterious Variants in Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy), to things like encyclopedias on flowers, etc.

It'd probably take you years to get through his reading materials LOL. The other guys also have books in their rooms, but I don't remember them clearly. I do know that Gavin has sci-fi books though! Totally not biased. But, I'm sorry, I don't really like reading sci-fi...

Third and last, the most referenced story throughout the game is probably the one Xu Mo made, "The Artist and the Butterfly". I feel like most of us know it by now, but I'll do a translation for those who haven't had the pleasure of getting [Drowning in Love SSR] and its two calls [Artist and Butterfly] and [The Only Color] and because Elex's version is riddled with errors.

Once upon a time, in a secluded castle, there lived an artist. The artist's paintings only had two colors: black and white. It wasn't because the artist loved these two colors, but because in his eyes there were only these two colors in the world.

The artist believed the world to be depressing, so all the other colors were meaningless. But, one day, a butterfly flew in front of him and the artist saw with shock that on the butterfly's wings were all sorts of beautiful colors he had never seen before. The fluttering of its wings made the colors even more lively and charming, and so the artist painted it for the entire day, never tiring.

But the sensitive artist was also afraid the butterfly would one day grow tired of being beside him, and so he thought about catching the butterfly and putting it in a glass jar. Like this, the butterfly would never be able to leave him.

Then, we move onto the conversation portion in [The Only Color]:

Xu Mo: What do you think of this story?

MC: Um... you can't laugh at me when I say this.

Xu Mo: I promise I won't.

MC: I feel like the artist is very relatable.

Xu Mo: ... Relatable?

MC: Mhm, although I don't understand his actions, I can see that he's really stifled and sad. Now, can you tell me what happens after?

Xu Mo: Actually, this is what happens after. Or rather, this story doesn't have an end.

MC: Huh?

Xu Mo: Are you disappointed?

MC: So, not every story has an ending...

Xu Mo: The artist continues to try and catch the butterfly, and even I don't know whether he caught it or not. If I see him again, I'll ask him for you.

MC: Turns out this is a real story?

Xu Mo: Yes.

MC: If you're able to meet that artist, you have to tell him this for me. That he actually doesn't love the butterfly, does he?

Xu Mo: Why do you not think the artist loves the butterfly? If you love someone, aren't you supposed to move heaven and earth to bind them to your side?

MC: But this is too selfish.

Xu Mo: Hah, yes, even I find it selfish. But if he doesn't do that, the artist will likely lose the butterfly. And then his life will be like how it was before; the whole world would just be black and white.

MC: If he really loves the butterfly, then he wouldn't want to see them suffer. Maybe I'm too simple, but for me genuine love is simply loving that person, as an individual, and I wouldn't need a relationship with them. I'd just want them to be happy.

Xu Mo: If you were this butterfly, and there was someone who wanted to confine you to their side so they could keep you together with them forever... would you be willing?

MC: No... I don't think I'd be willing.

Xu Mo: Indeed... exactly what I thought you would say...

MC: Xu Mo... I want to ask you...

Xu Mo: Mm?

MC: Is this story about you?

Xu Mo: I couldn't be the artist, and I definitely couldn't be the butterfly. But if I really did encounter the one and only color in my life, then I certainly wouldn't let them go.

MC: Why?

Xu Mo: Why?... I don't know why either... You don't need to dig to the bottom of everything.

MC: Xu Mo, I'm a bit sleepy all of a sudden...

Xu Mo: Sleep then. Don't be afraid, even if you have nightmares, I'll be here for you.

Gods, I'm going to be endlessly salty over Elex's butchering of these calls, but whatever. WHATEVER.

This is LITERALLY the story of Xu Mo and MC's relationship. And, with this, we are shuffled immediately into my next section.

COLORING EACH OTHER

In [New Light Date] Xu Mo asks "Can you teach me love?" and in [Main Story 5-6] he also asks "Then, will you change me? If we get along together."

The answer is a resounding YES. MC has changed him indelibly, like the tamed fox, and there is only one unique her in his world; he's left the same mark on her, making him the only unique Xu Mo in her world.

(Not to mention in his [CN 2nd Anniversary VIP message] to the players Xu Mo literally says "It's as if under your guidance I've learned how to love".)

In [Firefly Date] Xu Mo talks about how the lights of the fireflies are a danger sign to other creatures (because fireflies eat everything during their larvae form). Then in [Rainfall Date] he thinks the exact same words, that the colors he's seeing emerge into his world because of the MC are a DANGER SIGN but he cannot bring himself to care.

It is not metaphorical in [Rainfall Date]. He's colorblind!

The "Mo (墨)" in Xu Mo's name (许墨) was once his mother's favorite word. This word represents pen and ink, a literary family, and the black and white world in his eyes.

His world is black and white and only by your side can he see colors.

[CN Profile Translation]

Then in [Afternoon Date] there is this exchange:

MC: What do I look like in your eyes?

Xu Mo: ... Colored.

MC: Huh?

Xu Mo: In my eyes... you're full of colors.

So, now that we know MC literally brings color into his life, I'm going to bring back his pen, Iridescent, that he gives MC [Main Story 13-10]. It's a symbol of his love because there's a line that comes from a movie called "Flipped". The Chinese name for the movie "Flipped" is the same as the Chinese name of Xu Mo's [Lovestruck SSR].

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss... [...] But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

Iridescent is how he sees MC. She literally brought the colors of a rainbow into his black and white world [Rainfall Date].

Now, when we think about his line in "The Artist and the Butterfly" we get... MAJOR ANGST. Because, contrary to his words about not letting the only color in his world go, he lets the MC go again and again and again:

He doesn't catch MC in [Main Story 13].

He saves MC from Hades in [Main Story 16] and then takes advantage of the dream erasing her memories, so she'll have no ties to him or BS (until the next time they meet on the field again, I guess).

Heck, to take this further, in [Memory Palace: The Night Before] Xu Mo traces his previously wounded eye and thinks about how he can barely remember MC's colors and he's going to lose it completely when they meet at the news conference. Then in [Main Story 16-22] MC sees his past all in black and white.

Xu Mo has given up on keeping her colors in his world...

On a side note, I also think he's giving up vividness in his world. In [Rainfall Date] it's implied that the cheerier MC is the brighter her colors are and, I assume, the colors in Xu Mo's world?

There's an intriguing fact in his [CN Profile Translation] too where it says "His sense of taste isn't too sensitive, but it's not completely absent either." What if that fades too when MC isn't around?

Papergames has also mentioned that Xu Mo has glasses he wears to help him see colors (so he can drive safely LOL) but we don't actually see him wear them much except for when he's doing scientific stuff. Perhaps this is a sign about how little he cares about seeing colors in his world if he can't see them naturally (MC-induced colors).

But, hold on, this is a section about how Xu Mo has equally changed MC (it's just, perhaps, more tragic and more obvious with Xu Mo because he only has MC, the sole color in his life, while she has three other guys just lost a friend, mentor, and love interest).

In [Blossom Date] there's an exchange where MC tells Xu Mo that, like how he's told her to take her time growing in front of him [Main Story 9-2], she wants him to take his time going through life. She's echoing his words (and teaching) and, in response, Xu Mo's eyes darken and he thinks about how he's "staining her purity in his colors".

In [CN Archery Date] Xu Mo teaches MC how to handle and shoot a bow and they end up having a mini competition where they both hit bull's eye and get a draw. He's given her one of skills (and a piece of him) again.

Xu Mo continuously gives MC things that he has never given anyone else:

In [Snowy Night Date] he reveals his actual birthday date to MC.

In [Hot Spring Date] Xu Mo reveals that he's never celebrated his birthdays like this, until now with her. Because they probably reminded him of his parents' accident.

In [CN Nightmare's End ASMR] Xu Mo barely remembers his childhood memories (or his real name RIP), and yet he doesn't hesitate to share these memories with MC.

Tangentially related, but I want to throw in here how Xu Mo and MC are described sometimes as having eyes only for each other. I'm sure there's more mentions, but I can only remember these two:

[Main Story 13-8] "Xu Mo didn't respond. He stared at me with a complicated look and I was the only one reflected in his eyes."

[True Love Date] "The girl, with her clear black eyes opened wide, stared at him. The one who was reflected in those eyes was him alone."

My romantic and poetic explanation here is that, because they have pieces of themselves in each other, they're drawn together like magnets!

RUNNING ON PARALLEL TRACKS

In addition to coloring each other with pieces of themselves, MC and Xu Mo are also quite synchronized. He still leaves her confused at times with his intellect, but she can give back pretty good. I will continue to quietly blame Elex for unflattering descriptions of the MC, especially after that call up there, WTF.

For example, [Blossom Date] has Xu Mo quoting a classic poem "Tao Yao" with stanzas 1+2, and MC follows with stanzas 5+6, only for Xu Mo to flirt with stanzas 11+12 (thanks to @love-p for this translation):

1 桃之夭夭 Fresh is the peach tree,

2 灼灼其華 vibrant does it bloom.

[...]

5 桃之夭夭 Fresh is the peach tree,

6 有蕡其実 abundant its fruit.

[...]

11 之子于帰 The betrothed comes home,

12 宜其家人 she serves the clan well.

Then, while Xu Mo doesn't say this unprompted, in [Main Story 13-15] he connects the writing on the wall to 1 Corinthians 13:12. "For now we see through a glass, darkly..."

Then in [Main Story 16-12] MC quotes 1 Corinthians 13:2 at him: "If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."

However, despite being able to follow up with each other like this, [Firefly Date] shows how Xu Mo and MC have philosophies that differ on a fundamental level, and this ultimately puts them on opposing sides.

Xu Mo believes in mistaken Darwinism, the strong survive and the weak perish, and he also upholds a strict utilitarian view about using people's lives for the greater good of humanity.

The progress of science is often accompanied by many failed experiments, and towards those failed experiments Xu Mo will feel regret. But at the same time he believes that it is a kind of honor to contribute to a better future for humankind.

[CN Profile Translation]

MC believes in helping people out, not just leaving them out to struggle on their own, and she respects and believes in the innate dignity of human life and choice.

We see in [Main Story 16-9] that Xu Mo and MC have another debate about their philosophies and it ends without a victor, again, but also them realizing that both of them wouldn't sacrifice the person they love (consolation prize LOL).

There's also an amazing moment in [Main story 16-12] where MC quotes something Xu Mo told her in [Main Story 13-17]: "Only those who have felt pain and despair can reach the truth of this world. So, even if you feel pain, there's no need to give up on what you want to do. Even if that source of light were to disappear, it would immediately regain its light."

It hurts because, what was a motivational speech for MC, is now used against Xu Mo. It further resolves MC about her principles, but the way she throws his words at him to hurt him like that... yikes. To the both of them, honestly, since Xu Mo wasn't playing nice at all there in assuming her hesitance about answering meant she would sacrifice her loved ones.

Anyway, we see that this understanding and knowing (coloring) of each other lets them hurt each other just as bad. I mentioned in a previous post about the [CN Archery Date] that it's interesting to see their relationship as a metaphorical draw. They take and give to each other, constantly, throughout the story and it shows that they're equals. Running to some place, but not being on the same track. We can only hope they're heading to the same place and that they won't branch off and go further and further away from each other (but he's a love interest, so it should be?? okay??).

On a side note, Xu Mo quotes "Graveyard by the Sea" in [Firefly Date] (I've linked an amazing English translation that comes with an analysis of the original French version).

TL;DR is that the poet realizes timelessness does not exist and that, because his mortality is ever looming, he must go out and accept the challenge of life (carpe diem!) because immortality might not lie beyond the grave. You only get this one chance in life and the future is uncertain, so do everything you can to achieve what you want to do.

This is actually another good reference to Xu Mo's ruthless ambition and why in [Blossom Date] MC wants him to rest and take his time moving forward slowly, much like how he tells her to take her time growing with him.

Uh, I realize I may have taken you guys off guard by suddenly bringing up ruthless ambition again but:

[Blossom Date Translation] Xu Mo reveals how much he worked his ass off when he was younger.

Xu Mo: Yes, I skipped grades.

Xu Mo said that casually, without any pride, as if it were someone else's business. But I was deeply impressed.

MC: You spent all your high school years studying?

Xu Mo: At that time, yes.

MC: Why?

Xu Mo: Silly, there aren't that many why's. It's the same as how you were when you were taking your entrance exams, there were things I needed to do.

[Main Story 13-22] "Ares had a smile cold enough to send chills through someone. The blood that flowed to his mouth made him stand out even more bewitchingly, like a flower. He raised his head and ambition roiled in eyes that were deeper and darker than twilight."

[2nd PV] Xu Mo has a line in Chinese that goes "我贪得无厌　想要你的全部" which I believe English translated as "I am insatiable, I want all of you" which is... um, sure. I mean it works! Perhaps it doesn't fully convey how it's like endless greed, the desire and want for more, never being satisfied, and always hungering. That is what insatiable means, but I don't think the word is used commonly enough for people to click onto all of that.

CONCLUSION

LORD, this is massive. Not including this conclusion, whoever has read down to this point has cleared around 7,500 words, so congratulations.

Anyway, obviously, this post isn't supposed to be all "this is the one and only true interpretation of Xu Mo's character" but I wanted to provide some background from a native (?) context that might have been overlooked, because I don't think scholar archetypes are as common in English and Japanese media (the second culture people are probably most familiar with if they're playing otome games?).

Like how you can point out "ah yes, the tsundere, the yandere, the megane, etc." in Japanese media, the scholar archetype is someone you could spot at a glance from a line up of Chinese characters. If I had to choose a similar type they're probably like megane characters... except their EQ and IQ are both high, so they're not cold, logical robots.

Coming back to a summary of all my points, Xu Mo is a complicated scholar archetype and the game also enjoys spicing this concept up with things that contrast sharply against it (the sexuality from his fox characteristics). He's gentle, refined, and knowledgeable, but also has a black belly that shows when he flirts and verbally traps the MC to fluster her (not to mention all his manipulations behind the scenes).

Every scene he appears in seems to say one thing, but show another, and his references make me want to cry when I end up digging too deep in them. Meanwhile, the silence between the lines of his scenes, words, and actions, scream so loudly with evocative and symbolic imagery.

Feel free to dislike him, but I don't think it can be denied that he's a very intricately written character, and that's what all the fun is about liking him and deciphering his raison d'être.

As an aside, I will acknowledge that I've skipped over other references that I couldn't fit into this post but there were things like the [Roman Holiday] movie he and MC watched in [Main Story 5-6] and the song he sings in [True Love Date], "When I Fall in Love", and its relation to [Sleepless in Seattle], perhaps? But @sharinluna has good posts on these already. I haven't watched any of these, so I won't bother to reveal my ignorance on them LOL.

Lastly, I just want to leave everyone with these two lines from Xu Mo, because it draws such a beautiful circle:

So, in his [2nd PV] he says "我贪得无厌" which I mentioned above was something like "I'm insatiably greedy".

Then, there's a call where he says "谢谢你、成全我的贪心，希望你可以相信，无论是过去，还是未来，能让我倾尽所有想要独占的，只有你一人" which translates to "Thank you, for fulfilling my greed. I hope you can believe that, regardless of whether it's in the past or future, the person who's made me want to exhaust all methods to monopolize them has only ever been you."

Such a beautiful full circle, right? You can imagine him saying this at the end of the game or at a wedding, right? EXCEPT IT CAME FROM A KFC COLLABORATION CALL. YES. KFC. I'm crying and I feel like my soul took a hit. It doesn't count... it doesn't count as canon material does it... I mean, he's not talking about the chicken, because this is in response to a confession you get to write as the player, BUT STILL. LOL.

(I secretly laugh at how English would handle that, since they gave him the "I am insatiable" line. "Thank you for satiating me"? HAHA).

Nah, perhaps the true circle is him asking in [New Light Date] if MC can teach him love and then telling us that we've taught him in love in the [2nd Anniversary VIP Message].

#mlqc #mlqc lucien #love and producer #mr love queen's choice #mlqc xu mo #love and produc(ing) meta

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Personal AU Story - “One Last Visit” [Sidlink]

“One Last Visit” | SIDLINK STORY (PERSONAL AU)

Okay so this one is pretty dark, all things considered, but at some point during Link’s path as the Inheritor of Time, he learns (via a clairvoyac insight/seeing into his personal future) that he is going to die. He doesn’t know where or when, only that it’s happening soon and that it’s a fixed point in time, meaning it’s unstoppable.

At this point the Inheritor has been alive for so long that he comes to terms with this inevitability and accepts it. At the end of a “farewell tour” of sorts, he decides the last person he will visit is his life-long love, Sidon...However not as the King of Zorana...but the young, eccentric and at times bombastic Prince that quite literally dropped out of the sky one day...many many years ago...

Side Note | My Link, “The Inheritor” as he is known, has a prosthetic left arm (shiekah in design), the result of a former relationship (pre-Sidon) which ended badly for all parties involved. I’ll upload a full profile of my version of the character later...for now...enjoy the story.

This was written by me, remember. Expect errors, typos and other word bugs (bzz.)

|ONE LAST VISIT|

Link let's out an aged grunt as he drops out of the portal he'd been transiting through. Increasingly as of late it had been getting harder and harder to generate them, to travel. Perhaps it was his age...perhaps it was Time finally catching up with him and taking it's toll. He'd thought long and hard about all of it...and that was before the insights started happening.

He'd had several dreams...clairvoyac insights, into his personal future. There was a fixed point coming, an event that could only be described as an ending. He was going to die. He didn't know how. He didn't know where or when. Or who or what was going to kill him...but it was coming. It was rapidly approaching and that notion terrified him to his core. Not that he'd admit to it.

That was why he was here now...that was why of all the place he chose to come to...this was the last one on the list. He wanted his final moments of freedom before facing his fate to be peaceful, quiet and without incident. He'd taken a massive risk coming here. If the wrong person saw him at the wrong time, the consequences could be absolutely disastrous. He'd given up caring about many things in 20,000 years...but he'd never once stopped worrying or caring about his job. About who he was.

He was the Inheritor. And nothing would stop him from fulfilling his duty to Time and the people who sail it's temporal oceans, only in death would this determination cease....That was coming, it was a few paces behind him. And although he was scared, he was also calm. After such a long and extensive life, he'd come to accept it when it came.

But not before doing a few things...saying a few goodbyes...as one would if they had the chance.

Zora's Domain was bright, brighter than he'd ever remembered it. The Plaza was filled with people, a veritable hive of sellers and buyers, all of them crowding around the Marot Mart, their hands waving bagfuls of rupees in the air. Link wasn't bothered by those people, they were welcome to their haggling. He wasn't here for them.

What he was here for-...Who he was here for...happened to be standing just a few feet from where he's standing, talking to several of the gauardsmen. One of them he recognizes as Bazz, someone he'd never let go of. Bazz was one of the bravest and most loyal warriors the Zoran Race had ever produced. Here he was, so young, so unaware that in 600 years time he'd meet his end during the Battle of Mount Lanayru.

The Others were familiar too. Tarquin and Nimrod. Both of them were very young here, but from when Link last saw them, they were old men, Lords in King Imod's court. It was strange to see them as just a couple of guardsmen, their spears in their hand, ready and game to tackle anything that came their way.

And then there was the person they were speaking too.

Sidon was...something else in this light. A bright red beacon that shone among the dark greys, blues and greens. He was one of the few Zora that were born this color. His scales were immaculate, his dress perfected and his smile, something increasingly more rare on his face in his later life, was infectious. Link couldn't help but smile just seeing it...however it fades as he realizes it's the first time he's done that in far too many years. A pang of unease rests in his stomach...just how lonely has he been? How long was it since-

"Link?"

He snaps out of his thoughtful daze to see Sidon looking directly at him. He finds himself in the rare position of being unable to do anything. He's frozen "like a deer in headlights." One of 'Dorf's old expressions, and one he still didn't quite understand. Was this how it felt? Who cares...he had to say or do something, because-

-suddenly there are large arms around him, and he's practically lifted off the ground. Sidon had moved before he could process it, and was now welcoming him as he always did. Link's arms come up around him, and he rests his head on his chest. The warmth, the sound of his heartbeat beneath his ribs, it was all there.

The Prince let's out a hearty laugh. "Look at you!"

He steps back, his large hands at rest on his shoulders. "You haven't changed a day."

With another laugh, he hugs him again, this time a little less enthusiastically. The bottom of his chin nestling in the short hair atop his head. "I've missed you. Truly."

"Yeah..." Link manages to speak finally, suddenly overwhelmed by a surge of...something within him. "I've been...busy."

"I bet you have." Sidon hums contently, his gills taking in a deep breath. "You smell positively ravashing, I can't wait to hear what adventures you've been on since you left."

Stepping back again, Link almost curses him. He squeezes his eyes closed in some child-like attempt to hide what was happening, but what could cover this up? He hears the Princes' gasp, and before he knows it, he's knelt down on one knee infront of him, his right hand coming off of his left shoulder to rest against his face. "You're crying. Why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying." Link shakes his head, his eyes still closed.

"Look at me." Sidon says after a pause. "Link...Open your eyes."

With some effort he manages to do it, but what he sees doesn't help. Sidon had a very special way of looking at him. A way that no matter how hard he tried to resist it, managed to shatter his emotional willpower entirely. He was smiling, but sadly. How was that even possible? He'd seen it in a few people before, but none as real as him.

"Oh my pearl..." he says his thumb wiping away one of the tears on his cheek. "What is weighing down upon you?"

"I'm-..." Link feels the words fill his mouth, bursting to get out, much like the tears that were so dangerously close to escaping his eyes. "....I'm going to-...."

"You're what?" the Prince tilts his head slightly. "What's wrong? You can talk to me..."

Link lowers his gaze, taking in a deep breath. "I-...I've missed you..."

It's his turn to hug, this time he puts his arms around him, hiding his face in his chest. Sidon closes the embrace, staying with him there for a few moment, before he has to ask. "We're a little exposed here...do you want to go somewhere else?"

A brisk nod is all he recieves in response, and with that he stands up, taking his hand and pulling him out of the plaza. There were several people watching on, but most people were aware of their bond...this was Sidon, remember...everyone knew about his love for the Inheritor. He never shut up about it.

...

"You look older..." Sidon says, submerged to just below his shoulders in sleeping pool. Link laying by it's edge, staring up at the ceiling and looking far more at ease and relaxed than he was a short time ago. "...how long as it been for you since you last saw me?"

"Do you want the honest answer?" Link asks in response. Turning his head to look at him. "Because I can give it to you...if you'd believe it."

"I'd believe anything you told me..." Sidon replies with genuine, warm smile. Link couldn't express just how much he'd missed that sight. "It doesn't matter how much time passes, my love. I will always be here for you when you chose to return."

Link feels his mouth twitch slightly at that. He turns his head again looking back up at the ceiling, swallowing the massive lump that threatened to form in his throat. "...It's been...longer than even I can count."

"How long are we talking here?" Sidon asks, his index finger running in slow circles across the Hylian's chest. He'd stripped out of his armor a short while after they returned to his room. He had more scars than he remembered, and his face was scruffier and more worn. But other than that, he still looked identical to how he was last time he was here...Prosthetic Arm and all. "Centuries?"

"No." Link shakes his head.

"Millenia?"

"Possibly." Link replies, making the Princes' hand stop in it's movements. "...Oh what am I saying, probably."

"What kept you away for so long?" Sidon asks. "How old are you now?"

"I stopped caring...or counting a long time ago." Link sighs. "When you live as long as I do, age just becomes another number."

"But how long has it been?" Sidon presses. "Surely you must have an estimate?"

Link turns his head to look at him again. The Prince seems to flinch at the stare.

"Don't look at me like that." he says, shifting in the water.

"Like what?" Link raises an eyebrow.

"Like...you hardly know me." Sidon says, shaking his head. "There's a distance in your eyes...a cavernous distance, that I could never cross, certainly not in my life-time."

He tilts his head some, another a soft sigh parting his lips. "That and...they are old. Your eyes are so old..."

"By my calculations..." Link takes in a deep breath. "20,000 years..."

This time there's not a shift, but a full on flinch in the water. Sidon kicks back from the edge of the pool, righting himself before he goes under completely. "Twe-! Twenty thousand years!?"

Link nods slowly, before sitting up. He groans as he does. Despite having the body of a 24 year old, he had seen his fair share of scrapes and warzones. It wasn't as easy to move now as it was back in the day. "Yes."

"Why?" Sidon asks after a moment of processing that. "Why wait 20,000 years to come back?"

"I've been back before this..." Link says, turning to face him, his legs partially submerging in the water. "...earlier in my time-stream."

"When?"

"You'll find out..." Link shrugs. "I don't remember much about those times...they were so long ago, I hardly retain them-"

"Hardly retain them?" Sidon stares at him, with rapidly mounting concern. "Where am I in the future?"

Link closes his eyes for a second, his head dropping. When he looks up at him and opens them, the same question is asked. "Do you want the honest answer?"

"It pertains to me." Sidon states. "I'm entitled."

Link could only nod, he respected the truth in those words. "...you're dead. You have been for quite a while."

"How long?" Sidon asks next, unphased by that revelation. It was to be expected, given the nature of who Link was. "How long have I been dead for?"

"About as long as I am old..." Link says, his eyes locked on his.

"So that means you're not the Link that left us a few days ago..." Sidon guesses. "You're from the distant future..."

"That's correct." Link nods. "I'm visiting you at the end of my time-stream."

"The end?" Sidon's eyes widen a fraction. "What do you mean the end?"

Link's breathes out through his nose. "...I'm going to die."

"You're what?" the Princes' eyes widen even further. "When?"

"Soon."

"How?"

"I don't know."

"Where?"

Link reaches forwards, placing a hand on his shoulder. "It really doesn't matter for you..."

"It bloody well does!" Sidon suddenly snaps, shifting back to where he'd been. His arms come up out of the water and he grabs a hold of his hands. "You don't die. You can't!"

"We all have our time, Sidon." Link says feeling his mouth twitch again. "Everything ends...even me."

"No." Sidon shakes his head. "Not you. You don't die."

"Yes I do." Link nods. "I'm just as mortal as you..."

"But you're the Inheritor..." Sidon says, looking him over. "You're immune to the laws of time."

"Time, Yes." Link nods and shakes his head in quick succession. "...of nature? No..."

"How do you die?" Sidon asks again, as if he was going to get an answer.

"I honestly don't know."

"When?"

"You've already asked that." Link points out.

"Yes, I have...but I'd like to know when so I can do something about it." Sidon's grip on his hands tighten. "You are not dying before me...let me make that clear right now."

"If it's any consolation..." Link clears his throat awkwardly. "You've already done that..."

Sidon just stares at him for a few moments, the sense of everything hitting him in one big wave. His grip loosens as quickly as it had tightened. His gaze drops to the water in front of him, at his distorted reflection on it's surface. "...Why did you come back to me, now?"

"I wanted to see you one last time..." Link replies, forcing him to look up again. "I wanted to be with you again...to hold you...to be held by you."

"Why?"

"Because of all the people I've known in my many...many...years of travelling." Link pauses mid-sentence to take another breath. "None of them have ever come close to what you were to me. What you are to me, now. I came back because I wanted to be with the person I love most in this horrific world, one last time, before I go off to see my end."

"Link..." Sidon breathes. "I-..."

"I know." Link sighs. "I had really hoped you wouldn't ask these questions...or notice how old I was...or anything like that."

"You're the most important thing in my life." Sidon shrugs, his shoulders sending ripples across the water. "How could I not notice?"

With that, Link slips into the water, his arms reaching up around his shoulders and behind his neck. He kisses him on the mouth, something that they'd done so many times before. It was the same as it always was, soft and tender, warm and light. It made his scales ripple with anticipation. But before he can return it, Link pulls back. His hands shifting around to his shoulders.

"You don't need to worry, Husband..." Link says, not ignorant to the flinch that the Prince has when he says that last word. "You will see me again, very soon..."

He smiles, hell he even grins in the moment. "...and that's when the real fun begins."

Sidon watches him as he turns in the water and pulls himself out of the water.

The next few moments are a blur, they happen so quickly and Sidon is numb to the world throughout them all. When he finally does come around, Link is long gone. He'd suited up, and taken off just as quickly as he always did. The only thing that was left behind was a small ring that sat atop his writing desk. It wasn't one he'd seen before, but it obviously belonged to Link.

He walks over to it, picking it up and inspecting the design. Then he seems to catch up with what had just happened and he rushes from the room. "Link!"

Making his way out onto the plaza, and down the steps to the bottom floor, he finds no sign of his beloved...until...

-WHOOSH-

Turning around to face the shrine beneath the central platform, he sees Link appear via his Shiekah Teleport. He quickly comes up the steps, all smiles and laughs. "Wow, this thing actually works!"

He meets his eyes and let's out a laugh. "Hey there! I had to show you this new interface 'Dorf installed on my arm! It's amazing!"

Sidon stares at him, unsure of what to say or do. Link stops before him, eyeing him with an element of curiosity. "Sidon? Everything okay?"

"You were just-" Sidon gestures to him. "I-...I don't-"

"I was just what?" Link asks, tilting his head.

"Nevermind." Sidon shakes his head. "Sorry...I'm lost in thought at the moment."

"You're doing that increasingly." Link raises an eyebrow at him, but quickly returns to showing him his arms new interface. "This thing is amazing by the way! 'Dorf is a genius!"

...

TL:DR NOTES |

LINK IS GOING TO DIE, HE DECIDES TO GO BACK AND VISIT SIDON SHORTLY AFTER THEY ORIGINALLY MET. THE LINK THAT APPEARS AT THE END OF THE STORY IS FROM MUCH EARLIER IN HIS TIME STREAM. ...TIME TRAVEL IS CONFUSING AF, I KNOW. (O.O)

"'DORF" IS LINKS NICKNAME FOR GANONDORF, MOST OF THE CHARACTERS FROM THIS AU CALL HIM THAT (TO HIS GREAT CHAGRIN AT TIMES.)

THE RING LINK LEAVES BEHIND IS THE SAME RING HE LATER RECIEVES WHEN SIDON IS CROWNED KING OF ZORANA.

THIS IS FROM A PERSONAL AU/MASH-UP STORY SERIES CREATED BY ERISHDISCORDIA AND MYSELF OVER THE SPRING/SUMMER OF 2020...

#sidlink #stories #link #prince sidon #personal au #link and sidon are married in the future #technically making link a king of zorana #one thing at a time #we're jumping in right at the end #but it's the beginning too #wot?

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ridetherain · 4 years ago

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Febuwhump Day 17

Catching up whie I have power!! Electricity is wonderful!! It's supposed to be in and out until Sunday so I might be late again, but who knows?

Rating: G

Fandom: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Words: 1129

Prompt: Field Surgery

Field Surgery

"Come on, Link," I said quietly, "I'll get the fire going. You need to look after yourself right now."

We had made it to a rocky cliffside with a small cave tucked away under a mossy overhang after a fight that turned sour when rain started coming down. Link took several blows from a pack of Bokoblins before he was able to clear out their camp. His face and shoulder dripped blood and he was favoring his right leg slightly. I grabbed the flint out of his fingers and gave him my most ferocious glare. As usual, he stared back silently with blank eyes.

"Now Link," I said again.

He frowned but turned to dig through his pack for the little medical kit he keeps on hand. He produces the hard metal box and pops it open to display the wide array of supplies he has tucked away. He's more prepared than most knights which I attribute to his friendship with the best healer in the country. I doubt Mipha would let Link walk out of Zora's Domain without a thorough inspection of his kit. It has leather straps keeping his potions neatly stacked to one side and a neat pile of tools on the other. Two bottles, a small spool of thread, and a little tin are all set to the side before Link snaps the lid closed again. He glances at me and frowns once again. I hurriedly turn back to my fledgling flame and rush to feed it more tinder before it sputtered out.

He brings his supplies closer to the fire and sits next to me. The red bottle is opened and an earthy scent emanated from it before he tipped it into his mouth. I kept one eye on the flames while he rolled up his trouser leg to show a ghastly bruise forming over the top of his shin. The little tin turned out to be an ice chu jelly paste that he worked into his leg with clenched teeth. I heated up some of his little pre-made meals over the fire. We ate in silence after he finished with his leg and watched the little fire flicker. I opened my mouth several times to apologize for going on this trip, but I never got up my nerve. We were ordered here by my father, but since I didn't end up with any powers it was pointless. He got hurt because he was following me around on pointless trips through dangerous territory.

We tossed our scraps into the fire and the whole cave smelt lightly of mushrooms. Link pulled off his tunic and undershirt so that he was bare from the waist up without even his armguards. He opened the bottle of clear liquid carefully and splashed a small amount on a handkerchief to dab over the gash on his shoulder. He sucked in a breath when the alcohol hit the open wound for the first time. He twisted oddly and stretched to reach, but it was clear that he wasn't going to be able to finish the job himself. I scooted my way over to him and plucked the cloth out of his hand.

"Let me," I said softly, "You won't be able to reach."

He didn't say anything, but turned to stare at the flames again. I took a deep breath before placing my free hand lightly on his bare back and ignored the way his body shivered at my touch. He twitched when I brought the cloth up again and began to wipe away the blood and dirt that covered the ragged wound. It dug deeply into the muscle of his shoulder and curved slightly towards his shoulder blade, but was short - only a couple inches in length. I pull away when I'm finished and fold his handkerchief so the blood is contained on the inside. It's still a little damp so when he turns to thank me I catch his chin in my free hand. His eyes are shocked and dart about my face as if he can't decide where to look. I tip his head to the side and pat the cut on his forehead gently and try not to blush when he decides to stare directly into my eyes.

"There," I say when finished, "Good as new. You'll need me to sew you up, I assume? Your back is quite deep and while you are certainly flexible, I don't think you'll be able to do that yourself either."

He waits a moment before nodding to me. My eyes are wide with shock when he picks up the alcohol and takes a generous swig directly from the bottle. He shakes his head like a dog at what I am sure was a horrible taste.

"Here, Princess." The spool of thread is handed to me and I slowly thread the narrow curved needle.

"I've never done this before," I warn him. He just nods to me and turns to look over his shoulder at my work.

I set the needle to his flesh and try to control my breathing before gently pressing it into his skin. He is stiff under my hands and I'm certain that he is suppressing the twitches and groans of pain for my sake. I put my free hand on his back again ostensibly to have better control over the needle while I sew. His skin resists with every stitch, but the flesh underneath is easy to slide through and I have to be careful to not dig too deeply, the curved needle helps and I am able to tie neat little knots over each stitch down the cut. My hand rubs gentle circles into his back until I hit the halfway point. I stop for a moment and Link gives a shudder. He tips a little more of the alcohol into his mouth and keeps his eyes closed before nodding at me once again.

My free hand finds a new spot to rest that causes Link to let out another shudder and I follow suit. We don't talk about it but we look at each other, his eyes are unshielded for once and I see pain reflected back at me. I'm not sure if it's from his injuries or from something deeper within. I dig the needle in again and the moment is gone. The last inch is quickly stitched and tied off and I resist the impulse to run my fingers along the line of stitches like I would when finishing a cloth.

Link doesn't pull away when I'm done and I sit with my hand rubbing circles into his lower back while he packs up his little kit. When I finally pull my hand away he lets out a slow breath.

#febuwhump #febuwhumpday17 #loz #loz botw #botw #rain works

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miioouu · 5 years ago

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Todoroki, Izuku and Bakugou with a male crush of the support department. They always say that they need to fix something of their suit just to see him, and when their crush starts getting close and touchy to check the suit they became a bashful mess ❤️

Thank you for requesting!! ❤️💜❤️

Midoriya Izuku 💚

-He really likes you.

- You're nice, outgoing and super kind.

- Whenever he ripped his suit, you always volunteered to repair it.

- It's like you're his special fixer.

- Seeing how careful you were and how you always seemed to improve his suit, he became quite interested in you.

- So he starts going up to you whenever he notices minor problems in the outfit.

- Loose thread, little rip, anything to see you.

- And it was quite obvious what he was doing, because everytime you get close to him to take his mesurents, he becomes a mess.

- Let's be honest, you've fixed his costume so many times before, you memorized all the mesures.

- But you'd never miss the chance to see him flustered.

- You know that Deku has a crush on you, but will you asl him out, or will you torture him a bit more before?

Todoroki Shoto 💙❤️

- He really hated when he ripped his outfit.

- It mean he has to go get it fixed and wait for it.

- But when one time you started to work on it, he didn't mind the process anymore.

- Because you were fast at it and good.

- Definitely not because you were gorgeous, adorable and understanding.

-And definitely not because Shoto started developing feelings for you.

-Though he only seems to trust you when it comes to his suit.

-He demanded that you'll be the only one to fix it or improve it.

-So that's why he spends a lot of time with you.

- He always blushes when you come close to inspect his outfit, looking for any mistakes.

-No matter how many times you've been this close, he still crumbles and reddens.

-Though you didn't mind at all, it was quite a sight to see the normally so reserved boy lose all his composure.

-To the point where you'd let your hands linger a bit too long, just enough to see him let out shaky breaths.

-It's always fun, but what you didn't realize that you might have fallen victim to your own game, now you're the one to become red everytime you had to touch him.

Bakugo Katsuki 🧡

-To have caught the angry boy's attention, it means you were special.

-And you were, it's the first time someone improved his suite this good.

-Interested, he wanted to meet you.

- And honestly he wished he hadn't.

-Now you're running in his mind like 24/7, he just can't seem to focus on anything other that your smile, the way your lips moved everytime you called his name.

-He was head over heels for you.

-So as he realized that, he made a plan to spend as much time as he could with you.

-Even if it means he had to break his own gauntlets.

- And the worse part for him is when your arms would circle his waist, your hands would run down his arms, driving crazy.

-The way his jaw woukd firm up, you weren't sure if it's because he hates it, or was it because he was enjoying it.

- Just wait a little, when the time is right and if his plan goes perfectly the way he wants it, you might be able to find out his real feelings.

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emperorzsmile · 4 years ago

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SiriNoel Fanfiction;; Sick

((hdbvhd this is my first fan fiction I’m posting on here so please bear with me!!))

summary: Sirius is sick and Noel wants to make him feel better!!

Being sick is honestly an irritating thing for many. You cant smell, constantly having a headache, feel like your going to pass out, tired absoulutely all day, angered very easily than before, it's terrible!

Well, sadly the one and only Sirius Gibson, is dealing with that currently. He's sick. The already short tempered male, is sick.

The purple headed male has currently locked himself in his Lover, Noel Levine's room. Even though he was told to isolate himself into his own room, he proceeded to refuse the order. Sirius isn't the type of person to instantly obey an order, especially when the order is to be away from his significant other.

So, Sirius is in Noel's comfortable blue bed, snuggling close to the star and moon pillows they bought each other for Valentines day. Sirius craved attention, considering Noel has been away from his significant for 2 hours.

Why is the blonde away from his significant? He's trying to made soup.

. .

"Noel, turn the stove OFF please!" Claire and Ashe begged, attempting to pry Noel from burning the kitchen.

"I-It is! I swear! I turned it off!" Noel panicked, grabbing the hot bowl of soup and bringing it to the counter, hissing at the instant burn touching his palms in a mere second.

"Noel! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Ashe hurries over to Noel, looking closely at Noel's burned palms. "Yes I'm alright! The bowl was meerely too hot, I'm ok!" Noel spoke through hisses of pain, holding his hands to his chest as they trembled softly.

"Whew, thank the stars! I'll finish up the soup, Miss Claire, can you tend to Noel's wounds?" Ashe asks, putting on kitchen mittens and grabbed the bowl of soup, taking over and finishing up the rest for Noel.

Despite his absolute terrible cooking, Noel did a very well job with the soup, and actually not burning the kitchen down! Ashe was impressed.

"His wounds aren't terrible, just mere burns, they'll heal up in no time!" Claire spoke, wrapping Noel's palms with bandages, before getting up to clean up the small mess in the kitchen. Ashe nodded, and looked at Noel’s slightly worried face, frowning abit.

"Noel, I know very well your worried for Sirius, but he'll be okay! You haven't slept or taken a rest ever since he became sick, let us do the rest.." Ashe begged, grabbing a rectangulaur plate and but the bowl of soup, a small cup of honey tea, and napkins on the plate, putting it on the kitchen table and softly puttng a hand on Noel's shoulder, worried for the blonde.

"I will be alright, honest, Ashe. I do apprciate your concerns, but I must make sure Sirius is alright." Noel said in his soft voice, before getting up and grabbing the plate and excusing himself upstairs to his room.

"Siruis? Starlight? I'm coming in." Noel spoke outside the door, skillfully opening the door without dropping Sirius' meal. When he locked eyes with his purple haired lover, his eager smile saddened when noticing how pale Sirius looks.

"Oh stars, Darling, look at you..." Noel spoke softly, closing the door and walking over to the bed, puttng the food on the beside table and holding Sirius' face in his hands, looking at his now visible freckles that splattered all over Sirius' face. "You, your so pale, are you cold? Hot? Did the cold get worse?" Noel frantically asked, earning a weak cough and chuckle.

"Silly, I'm-" Sirius cuts himself off with a cough, frightening Noel. "Ah ah, I'm perfecly okay, it was just a cough." Sirius quickly reassured his worried significant, earning a pout. "Are you s-sure..?" Noel asked, holding his lover's hand and intertwining their fingers. "Oh, yes of course, dear. Please try not worry so much about this, it's just a mere cold." Sirius reassured once more. Noel sighed softly and nodded his head.

"Alright, if you say so, Sirius." Noel spoke, relieved that Sirius was alright. "However, your warmth would make me feel much better, Levine." Sirius whispered, drinking the rest of the tea and sipping the soup, humming at the warmth hitting his top lip, his eyes closing.

"The soup is, decent. But delicious. I assume you made it, hm?" Sirius smiled, opening a eye to see Noel's bright red face, clearly flustered at the compliment given.

"Y-yes, I did..! I am f-flattered you like it!" Noe spat out, rubbing his hand through his hair, he then cleared his throat. "A-anyways, if you would like for me to hold you, I'd advice finish as much as you can, but do not rush please!”

"I have to finish this, all of it, so I can cuddle my significant? Absolutely unfair, Levine!" Sirius spoke, clearly unhappy with the order given.

"Gibson."

"Alright, alright.." Sirius sighed, sipping more of the soup slowly so he doesn't cough any of it up. A few minutes of silence, Sirius finshed the soup and put the bowl on the bedside table besides him, looking at Noel.

"I'm done. Come here." Sirius requested, scooting over so Noel can get in the covers with him. The blonde haired boy sighs softly at his boyfriend's sassiness and walked over, getting into the covers, and putting Sirius's head on his chest, making sure both of them are very much comfortable.

"Therree we go.~ Hello, Starlight." Noel smiled, gently grabbing Sirius' chin so he can look at him. Sirius' face brightened and his freckles popped up. "H-hello, Levine.." He muttered, getting closer to the blonde haired boy’s lips, looking at them for a small second and kissed them softly, the taller male kissing back almost instantly, the sweet kiss being nothing but love and passion.

"Did you miss me that much? You could have just used the ring, I would have came." Noel smiled, holding his hand up to show the light yellow moon ring upon his right ring finger.

These rings are not just for show. They are rings that can signifiethe other that they are in need for attenion/love/comfort, etc. With the tap of it, shall signify the other that their lover craves you. Like a mood ring of a sort.

"No, I did not want to bother you over mere craveness of your touch, besides, your not leaving this bed no time soon. Henceforth I can hear your heart and feel your warmth for a very long while-" Sirius says befire cutting himself off once agan with anothe cough, this one more painful than the one before.

"O-oh no, Sirius! S-s-shh shh, breathe.." Noel panicked, patting the back of the purple haired male, Sirius’ coughing turning into small hiccups, and then regular breathing, as his pale hand gripped Noel's shirt.

“There you go, Sirius. Shh..” Noel hummed, petting Sirius’ hair and rubbing his back in small circles, in a attempt to relax the other from his coughing fit. “Feeling a little better..?” Noel asked, earning a nod and warm hands caressing his face. “Yes. Now, can I please take a nap with you, My Love..?” Sirius asked quietly.

“Now what type of significant would I be if I simply disagreed? Of course you may, dear.” Noel spoke in a whisper, humming a soft recognizable song to ease the other. “....This song..it’s familiar..” Sirius mumbled, his eyes being droppy, giving him a hard time to open them. Noel noticed this and kissed Sirius’ half closed eye, earning a small smile.

“It’s So This Is Love, from your favorite book and movie, Cinderella. Last I recall, you love this one because it reminds you of you and me, hm?” Noel answered, rubbing Sirius’ back in circles, making small patterns. “Ah, yes, yes I do remember it! Of course it reminds me of us!” Sirius spoke in a proud voice, seeming as though he felt very proud that Cinderella is his favorite movie and book.

“Hmmm, yes yes my Dear. Now rest, you’ve done a great job today, and I am absolutely so proud of you. You need your rest, do not worry I am right here.” Levine whispered, giving Sirius a chill up his back, but he obeyed very much after, drifting off to a dreamless sleep.

Noel was at ease, hearing the soft breathing from the smaller, although he was not tired, he decided it doesn’t hurt to nap for awhile. Before he did, Levine gently kissed Sirius’ head many many times, before singing softly:

“My heart has wings, mmm

And I can fly

I'll touch every star in the sky

So this is the miracle

That I've been dreaming of

Mmm, mmm

So this is love...”

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#witchs heart #sirinoel #sirius gibson #noel levine #fanficiton #fluff #hahah this is my first fanfiction brrrr

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mysticalmaximoff · 5 years ago

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Virgins

Peter Parker x Reader

Age: 18+

Warnings: smut, fingering, oral, sexy times, fluff, some swearing

Word count: 1.8k

Summary: Reader and Peter have been mutually masturbating together because Peter doesn’t want to take their relationship further. Reader is finds this to be torture and opens up to him. Then things get steamy.

I exit the bathroom, flustered from the thoughts of the previous day. “Hey do you wanna repeat what we did yesterday” Peter chuckles. Holding in my emotions I reply “can we not do that for a while” “Yeah, of course. Just curious, and no pressure whatsoever, why?” His question releases the floodgate of tears that were being withheld. “I can’t, I just can’t masturbate in front of you and still not touch you. I mean, I can, but not in the way I want to. I can’t, I can’t” “Hey, hey come here, it’s alright” Peter says as he envelops me into a warm embrace.

“No it isn’t, I just want to kiss your lips. To kiss your neck, I want to be the reason you moan, not your hands, me. I want to make you scream my name. I just want to feel you inside me, and cum because of you. Masturbating in front of you and not being able to touch you in the ways I really want to is just torture, I can’t handle it anymore, please, I can’t.” I sob, laying all my tears and emotions on the table for him to see. “Hey I’m not gonna make you do anything,” he says while gently adjusting my head so we can make eye contact, “I love you, and I know I told you I wasn’t ready, but I am now.”

“No, no I don’t want your first time to be forced. I don’t feel comfortable making you.”

“You aren’t forcing me to do anything. I sincerely want to. I’ve been wanting to for a long time, and I’m really sorry I’ve been making you feel that way.” Peter explains. backing out of his hug, I respond “no, I don’t want to make love to you if you didn’t bring it up, I did, I’m forcing you to do it, no. we are doing nothing, I refuse.”

“Hey, I promise you, I really have been wanting to, I’ve just been really nervous about it. I know you really want to and to be completely honest, it’s been torture to watch you wriggle around next to me from an orgasm that I didn’t help you have.”

“You promise?” I ask.

“I promise.” he responds, waiting a second for the thought to sink into the air. Slowly he leans forward and softly grazes my lips, allowing me to deepen it. I keep the kiss at a slow pace out of nerves. Are we really going to do it? are we really about to lose our virginities? pulling out of the kiss, I explain “do you want to go to my bedroom?”

“Fuck yes” he replies, with love in his eyes.

I lay back on the bed as he climbs on top of me. Lovingly, Peter kisses the side of my stomach while lifting my shirt off, breathing in my scent, he licks and sucks my skin. Starting a hickey. my skin burns, radiating yearning. my god, this feels good. I moan from the loss of contact. Moving my head down I notice where he was moving his head to. “No please, I want to make you moan, I’ve heard of guys cumming from giving their girlfriends head, I really want to go down on you first” I beg.

“I promise you I won’t, i’ll hold it in so I can cum inside you, of course with a condom on, I mean” he explains flustered from my plea. “Okay.”

“Is it alright if I go down on you?” he asks, unsure if I want him to proceed. I nod while giggling. Gently, Peter unbuckles my pants and pulls them down while kissing my thighs. I look away from the insane torture all of this teasing was putting me through. Abruptly, I feel his hot tongue swipe across my clit. “Oh, Peter that feels so good” I cry, god how much I’ve wanted this and now it is actually happening right now. I can’t believe it. Peter keeps it at a slow pace, dragging his tongue from my clit to my hole, back up to my clit. Circling and moaning from my taste. His moans vibrate against my clit and raise my blood by ten degrees. He pulls his head away to ask if he can add a finger. “Of course, please keep going” I whine. Peter smiles and goes back down, working his magic. Peter inserts a finger slowly into my cunt. “I’ve fingered myself before, you don’t have to go so slow” I whimper.

“I want to start off slow” Peter grins cheekily and nudges his face against my thigh. God the way his face looks. He resumes back to lapping his tongue against my clit and starts increasing his speed of fingering me. I begin to arch my back out of pleasure. God the way his fingers feel. Suddenly, Peter begins to suck mercilessly on my clit while inserting another finger inside me. “God Peter, god that feels amazing, please, agh” a moan interrupting my sentence, “please, k-keep going, ah.” My entire body is wound so tight, I can feel an orgasm rising in the pit of my stomach. My toes begin to curl, and the sound of a load moan from Peter sent me over the edge. “Aghh” I scream out of pure pleasure as my sight goes white. As I open my eyes, I notice the streams of tears that coat my face. I must have cried when I came. Looking down at the sight of Peter made me grin. “Hey beautiful, your turn” I smile wider. He looks up at me with a look of concern, “I am so sorry! I thought I could control myself.” Peter explains covering his face with his hands. Confused, I look down at his pants and see the massive wet spot. “Can I clean it up?” I ask.

“What?”

“Can I clean it up?”

“I guess. I mean you don’t have to.”

“I want to.” I sit up and slowly push him onto the bed. He shrinks back onto the bed, embarrassed by his body’s betrayal. I pull his pants down and mention “wow you really made a mess huh” I giggle. “I am so sorry y/n, I really didn’t mean to-oh god, I didn’t know you were gonna clean it up th-that way, agh” he moans from my licking. he was now putty in my hands. I am now the root of his pleasure. I begin to leisurely pump his shaft while making eye contact with him. kissing his v-line evokes a rather large moan from Peter and causes him to throw his shirt off. I start to suck on the region and this causes him to bite his lip. “God y/n that feels so fucking great.” “With a filthy mouth like that, I can’t believe you ate me out” I chuckle.

“And I hope to have the pleasure of doing it again-agh please keep doing that ahh” he cries as I suck on his now hard penis.

“Seems that you have something to be proud of Peter. you can get hard again incredibly fast.” I smile.

“You can make me hard incredibly fast,” Peter praises. His words hang in the air for a moment and then I mention, “by the way, you cumming from just my moans is literally the most adorable thing. You have nothing to be ashamed of. It is the highest compliment I have ever experienced.” Peter blushes a ridiculous shade of red. “I’m glad you took it that way, I was afraid you would be disappointed in me.” “Peter, I love you, we are both new at this and we don’t have to be ashamed of anything that happens between the two of us here on out, okay?”

“Alright, I love you to” he says as he pulls me into a passionate kiss. His lips feel inviting and I relish the person they are attached to.

“Are you ready?” I ask, still unsure if he really wants to take the next step.

“Yes” Peter beams. His lack of hesitation eases my nerves.

“Okay.” I say. I open the bedside table and reach in for a condom, I open the package and slide it onto his member. Looking up at his chocolate eyes, a wave of nervousness and exhilaration hits me. We are really going to do it. I kiss him one last time and am about to sit on him when he stops me. “Wait, I feel like for the first time I should be on top, just so I can stop your pain more easily if it hurts too much” Peter clarifies.

“Alright, sure.” Thank god. I am so scared of the pain. He enters me slowly as I scrunch my face in anticipation. My wetness aids his entry. God, it feels… good. No pain at all. “Does it hurt at all?” Peter questions while holding back moans and hip thrusts.

“No. There’s none.” I look into his eyes “you can move now, just go slowly, just in case.” He nods and cautiously draws himself out of me.

“Anything?”

“Woah”

“What? Did I hurt you? Are you alright?” Peter asks with concern raising his voice. Gripping his back, I put my head against his chest and moan an incredibly loud moan.

“Please, please move now, please, I need you to move-agh” I moan as Peter starts a rhythm of thrusting.

“Oh Peter you feel so fucking good, god I can’t believe we are this close” I say looking at his eyes with an open mouth and tears beginning to leave my eyes. At the sight of my state, Peter moans an impressively loud moan, throwing his head back in the process. I lick and kiss his neck as best as I could while going through the overwhelming pleasure. His moans sound heavenly.

“You know I've been wa-wanting to make you moan for quite a long hah… time, and those pretty moans of yours are f-far from a disappointment.” I stutter.

“God y/n” Peter mutters unable to say anything else, his hip humping myself uncontrollably. His muscles look glorious under the soft light of the room. “God I love you” he moans and grabs my breasts. “God you are so beautiful, i… i- ah” he moans louder making the bed squeak with a more powerful hip thrust. His shaft begins to hit my g-spot when Peter adjusts his angle. “Woah, Peter agh, Peter k-keep doing that, please, please” I plead as my voice increasingly gets to a higher pitch. I start to feel the familiar rise in pressure within my body. As Peter hits my g-spot for a tenth time, I become undone and scream his name. He continues to thrust inside me, riding my orgasm as I realize Peter is still keeping a steady pace. “Are you close?” I ask.

“I’m going to make you cum multiple times tonight darling”

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