#We’re doing two Marvel villains today!

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Review “Uncanny X-Men/NYX #9” !!

*Spoilers!*

Hey GUYS, are you ready for an extra SPECIAL review??!! 

So as you all know… I kind of dislike most comic events in principle and try to avoid them like the plague…

But since I am already reading “Uncanny” (I didn’t review it on here since there’s zero NXM in it), I figured “what the hell?” and will review BOTH today and publish a review of “Storm” sometime after…

So… Here we GO!!

Uncanny X-Men #11: 

The issue starts with a journal entry from Xavier (it’s a DIARY Charles! 📔) about a mutiny aboard a Shi’ar ship for Xandra.

The issue cuts back to Graymalkin- it’s pizza night, six guards are out sick, Scurvy (villain aka Xavier’s Bertha Mason) is in the sick bay. Everything seems chill at Mutant prison.

Until a security officer notices Xavier is CRYING. (He’s crying because no one will let him wear his pageboy cap!) 

Xavier goes into cardiac arrest as Deathbird kills the mutiny in space. (Mutiny? Mutineers?) 

(Also apparently Xavier meditates… which… maybe he should do MORE of… like maybe take a few more breaths before you send a bunch of teens to their graves Xavier… 😂🤣)

Xandra calls out to her dad for help, while Corina Ellis tries to sedate him in his cell.

Xavier has some introspection about being a crappy dad (if ONLY Logan could have this kind of moment lol!) and is sedated.

Back in Louisiana with Rogue’s X-men and the outliers (aka the kids Marvel will push for two years and then collectively make wallpaper!), Logan talks about the kids having to grow up too fast… (Jee, I wonder how the New Mutants/Generation X/New X-Men feel about THAT! 🤣🤣) 

Rogue worries that maybe they’re being too soft… and has Gambit remedy this by blowing a card up at Jitter… (don’t worry Rogue… eventually some hate group will just blow a bunch of kids up in a bus or one of their friends will get shot or jump on a hand grenade and then the wake up call will come 🚌🔥😭🤣)

(Also Jitter is SUPER doomed because she’s like the third “Sofia” in X-Men 😬!)

Jubilee gets upset and compares Rogue to Cyclops (Meh Jubes- call me when Rogue makes a kill squad and a new mutant “utopia”…) and Rogue starts to feel like she understands Cyclops more now. 

Corina calls Rogue and asks her team to come down because something is wrong with Charles… (so the X-Men are now working with the Prison that tortures their own kind… great 😬…) 

A few miles away from Graymalkin one of their “sick” guards is having a breakdown… and NO it’s not GUILT for torturing a bunch of mutants… he sees his family as a bunch of sentinels and opens fire. (But this has like probably zero importance to the event!)

Xavier calls out to Sarah Gaunt (aka one of his evil ex’s and one of the best modern X-villains created!) and Sarah takes pity on Xavier wanting to save Xandra, freeing him.

Xavier is totally tripping balls and doesn’t realize it’s Rogue’s team and not the original O5 (in Xavier’s defense… there are A LOT of X-Men to remember lol! It’s like asking your dementia ridden grandfather to remember all the names of his grandkids…) or that he got his legs back! (100% bet Marvel will end up crippling him by the end of this event tbh😒).

Xavier apparently has a MUTANT tumor in his brain, eating at his powers! (Magneto has R-LDS… Xavier has a tumor…they’re dropping like flies faster than the US congress! 🤣)

Xavier loses his shit and literally decimates them all. (Not bad for a sick guy!) 

The issue ends with the quote “Daddy’s coming”; as Xavier busts out!!

NYX #9:

The issue starts with the preview of a recently escaped Xavier going to the NYX community center? Headquarters? What is it called?

We’re getting a little bit of Claremontian narrator levels of negativity, as Xavier dwells on his own hubris. 

Kamala is playing video games while Sophie is giving her tips and talks about her powers not working. (STILL pissed we didn’t get Kamala’s reaction to a busted out Hellion guys!😠)

Also Sophie now has a video game buddy! (I saw a lot of people thinking it’s Alex from Exceptional!) 

Anole interrupts with an on the run Xavier… and Prodigy shows him the door.

In David’s defense- I feel like the Academy X kids have more of a right to hate Xavier than Rogue and Co. 

None of them were really TAUGHT by him. Xavier just seemed like the guy running the school and regularly demanding they go die for whatever BS was happening that week. 😒

We find out that Doom has a Krakoan seed (…okay… but I kind of think your DAUGHTER is more IMPORTANT here Xavier!!) and wants Prodigy’s help and Prodigy basically tells him they are done being child soldiers and puppets for him to kill. 

David tells him the truth- if you want it. Do it yourself.

Anole is the only one that agrees to go… but then Kamala caves because Kamala doesn’t know how shitty Xavier really is… (Hope you don’t get “Vulcaned”! 🤣)

I actually really like the comparison of how students ONCE desperately wanted to be trained with Xavier… to now pretty much DREADING it…

The Hivemind explores Charles reckoning with the death of multiple X-students through the technique of “Claremontian narrator” and it WORKS perfectly! 

But in typical NYX fashion… they start adding everything including the kitchen sink. (Not gonna lie… I was sweating this was gonna be the “Synch issue” all over again 😬!) 

Mojo’s Mr.Friend pops up with Fauna to meet with Doom, and we meet an obscure mutant with electricity powers (I miss SURGE!) and mentions the seed as he kills her!

Mojo psychically attacks Charles and Xavier is chickening out and ready to let the students die for him (like normal!) and we then learn that Charles actually ISN’T even here for the seed at all and knows they’re all going to die.

Anole gets stabbed (Vic has basically taken Julian’s spot for constantly getting maimed! 🥺) and as Xavier is morally debating to go back and finally being a better person… is he going to SAVE THEM???

Oh FUCK NO!

As Charles feels zero guilt while retrieving his helmet to save Xandra and flee (again… normal…), Vic comforts Fauna.

Vic… somehow survives?!! (HOLY SHIT VIC!!) 

It seems like the issue will end with Xavier fleeing to save his daughter and Anole having the final Krakoa seed…. But…

Mojo pulled a switch-a-roo!!

Mojo is using mutants to power his battery and we see poor Local is tied up and is going to be used with the seed to make a “Mojo City”! 

Review:

I went into Uncanny… assuming that I would CHEER over the X-Men finally growing a backbone with Xavier…

But guys… HELL HAS FROZEN OVER… because…

I actually feel BAD for Xavier in that issue. 

As SHITTY as Professor X consistently is… the fact that Rogue worked WITH Ellis…who is torturing mutants at her facility… because Xavier has cancer… IS equally TERRIBLE. 😐

Xavier was literally the only person willing to take Rogue in after the incident with Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers version!), when all the rest HATED her.

It’s like in issue #8 of NYX, where they debate about letting the police take Hellion to Graymalkin… this JUST DOESN’T FEEL LIKE X-Men. IT DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT.

While I would argue Krakoa didn’t fully “feel” like X-Men either… I think “From the Ashes” isn’t doing a whole lot better. 😐

I don’t know if it’s Brevoort’s direction or something else… but MAN are all the X-Men massive JERKS lately. 

And YET…. SOMEHOW… Xavier goes back to being an ass and totally unlikable in NYX. 😒

Throwing his weight around. Guilting students for not being willing to die on some suicide mission. Using them as his pawns and lying to them.

And that’s the core problem with events anymore. It doesn’t feel like “epic storytelling” but various writers telling three different stories.

The reality is- the Academy X kids actually HAVE a right to be angry because they were basically like the “Vulcan X-Men”… unfavored by Xavier and sent to die. And we see it AGAIN in this issue. They frankly work BETTER for this kind of story, than someone like Rogue or Logan… who actually do kind of OWE Xavier.

Even CYCLOPS I felt had better justification for being sick of Xavier… because the truth is Xavier regularly manipulated Scott’s childhood issues and threw him under tremendous pressure. Scott’s whole life is basically emotional breakdown after emotional breakdown caused by Xavier’s influence. 😐

I surprisingly felt like NYX was the more cohesive story and felt more in-character than Uncanny. I think the Hivemind just did a better job with the material given (Xavier escaping and his former students turning on him), where Uncanny just felt completely out of character.

This is an amazing issue of NYX and FEELS like a standalone issue! I could have read this without Uncanny- and I would have thoroughly enjoyed it!

I was a little bit scared they were biting off more than they could chew with Xavier AND Mojo… but they did an EXCELLENT JOB! This was great character work and FELT like X-Men!

Like issue #8… I could see myself reading this multiple times and LOVING it! 

I don’t think the summary I wrote does this issue justice- it’s just wonderful START to FINISH and you are missing out if you DON’T pick it up!

Kudos to Hivemind for this!! ☺️

So far I would say… this event isn’t great as a whole. While I think NYX did much, much better, I think the problem with this era is the execution of these ideas often feels lost or subpar; having multiple X-teams and divide among them as to what’s the most effective way to find equality… an x-team in Southern Gothic Louisiana OR the depths of Alaska…Xavier arrested…all of that SOUNDS COOL…but the actual result has been pretty lackluster. (Also it seems like Rogue needs a Claremontian narrator now after Uncanny!) 

I disliked the art in Uncanny… I don’t know what it is, but I just don’t LIKE it…something about Rogues facial expressions especially didn’t jive with me.

NYX, of course, continued with the solid art that is Francesco Mortarino!

NYX- I would give a 10 out of 10!

Uncanny… is more like a 6… there were parts that were enjoyable… but I didn’t love the whole product. 

Now onto Storm… which is probably going to be a completely different vibe from the other two! 🤣🤣

Theories:

I am actually kind of sad Kamala isn’t going back to the “Rogue/Carol Danvers” incident instead of Phoenix/AoA/ect…. because that would be relevant and an interesting story for Kamala….

I would actually LOVE if Hivemind did an “Xavier X-team” with Academy X-ers! I think it has a lot of story potential of them developing a relationship with Xavier that’s different from prior students! 

Hellion and Prodigy aren’t the O5 or Claremont X-Men. They are not the New Mutants. They won’t take Xavier’s shit and I actually think that’s what Charles NEEDs.

Kamala and Vic might get sucked in… but they won’t!

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Quizzes

Synopsis: you and Tom take a Buzzfeed quiz

Masterlist

“Hi I’m Tom Holland.” Tom smiled at the camera.

“And I’m Y/n L/n.” You greeted. “And today were taking some Marvel quizzes with Buzzfeed.”

“Are you ready, darling?” He asked you as he moved the laptop in between you.

“I’m ready to beat you.” You nodded.

“Is this a competition?” He asked the people behind the camera.

“It is now.” You stated. “Read the first question.”

“Which stone would you want power of?” Tom read off the screen. “I’m not gonna read the names of the stones because I don’t feel like embarrassing myself this early in the day.”

“I don’t actually know what any of them do.” You realized. “Do you know what they do?”

“The tesseract is a cube.” Tom said confidently.

“Yes, but that’s not an action.”

“Then I have no idea what any of them do.” He mumbled. You laughed at him and leaned your elbow on the back of his chair.

“Me either. This is why we both died in Infinity War.” You joked.

“Stop.” He playfully pushed you. “I think the reality stone would be cool because remember the fight between Doctor Strange and Thanos with all the pretty butterflies? We could just do that everyday and, you know, have world peace.”

“You’re right. We’re gonna go with reality stone.” You said to the camera as you clicked that answer.

“Next question.” Tom rubbed his hands together. “Which Disney character would you want on the Avengers?”

“Sorcerer Mickey.” You pointed to the picture of Mickey in his blue wizard hat. “Imagine getting tag teamed by a bunch of adults and a rat.”

“I’ve never seen the movie with this Mickey.” Tom realized. “I don’t remember this outfit.”

“I think it’s called Anastasia.” You told him.

“No, that’s a Broadway show.” Tom shook his head. “This is called Euthanasia.”

“It’s called Fantasia.” Someone behind the camera told you, making you and Tom exchange a knowing look.

“Oh.” You laughed. “I’m too embarrassed to pick sorcerer Mickey now so let’s go with the Genie. I think magic would be useful.”

“Genie.” Tom repeated as he clicked on it. “Next. Which DC character could defeat Thanos?”

“Let’s see them defeat the box office first.” You mumbled under your breath.

“You can’t say that.” Tom laughed in shock.

“But I did.” You shrugged. “What are they gonna do about it? They can’t even CGI a mustache.”

“Okay.” Toms laughed died down. “Next question. How would your closest friends describe you?”

“I don’t know.” You thought about it. “How would you describe me?”

“Beautiful.” Tom said simply.

“Fair enough.” You laughed shyly. “I mean, fair enough.”

“Caring, loyal, creative, funny, kind, successful.” Tom read off the options. “I mean, you’re all of these things. But when I think of you…”

Tom stopped in the middle of his sentence as a wide smile broke out on his face.

“Why are you smiling?” You asked him.

“Because I’m thinking of you.” He told you.

“Aw. Is disgusting an option?” You asked sweetly.

“Shut up.” He pushed you again. “I’m choosing funny.”

“Good choice.” You nodded and went to the nest question.

“Which dynamic duo is your favorite?” Tom read off the screen.

“I was thinking Thor and Loki.” You decided after surveying the options.

“Me too.” Tom agreed. “But I don’t really know what dynamic means, if I’m honest.”

“Me either.” You realized. “Let’s just move on. Which weird or unconventional superpower would you want to possess?”

“I think to read and instantly memorize.” Tom answered. “That would help with scripts.”

“When I worked in retail, costumers would have to punch in their social security number if they forgot their store card and I would see it on my screen.” You told Tom with a coy smile.

“Oh?” He laughed in confusion.

“I could commit in with theft in bulk.” You stated. “I’d just memorize all their social security numbers without even trying.”

“Oh my God.” He groaned and went to the next question.

“Who’s origin story is your personal favorite?” You read out loud.

“The way that neither of us are listed as an option.” Tom mumbled under his breath when he saw the choices.

“Your origin wasn’t even in your movie.” You laughed. “They jumped right in and said y’all know the drill. Dead uncle, no more glasses, and instant abs.”

“I’m torn because Steven Strange’s is about healing and putting yourself back together and Steve Rogers is about perseverance and determination.” Tom sighed as he tried to decide.

“And being skinny.” You winked at the camera.

“I’m also leaning towards Carol Danvers because women.” Tom ignored you.

“I’m gonna pick Steve because his story is sweet.” You decided and clicked on the option.

“And finally, what would you say is your personal character flaw?”

“I don’t know. I’m perfect.” Tom said smugly.

“Is being a massive liar an option?” You asked the camera crew.

“Leave me alone.” He nudged your side. “I would say reckless. Between the two of us, there are four brain cells and two of them are playing Uno.”

“I agree.” You chuckled. “Pick that one.”

Tom clicked the option and it brought you to the end of the quiz.

“We made it! We survived!” You cheered as you turned to high five him. Tom high fived both your hands and before slinging an arm around your shoulder.

“Thank you for having us Buzzfeed.” He said into the camera. “I haven’t been Y/n L/n.”

“And I haven’t been Tom Holland.” You smiled. “Until next time.”

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Mara Dyer Book Series Rp Meme

books by Michelle Hodkins- feel free to edit or change pronouns for rp purposes

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”

“Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.” 

“You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.” 

“It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.” 

"I promise to press my trousers before meeting your family. I'll even bring flowers for the occasion."

“I'm not sure you can appreciate how much I want to lay you out before me and make you scream my name.” 

“You will love him to ruins.” 

“And just like that, I was completely, utterly, and entirely, His.” 

“Let me guess. A certain unkempt bastard with a panty-dropping smile?” 

“ He was looking at you like  you’re the ocean and he’s desperate to drown.” 

“I can't bear to look at my bed without seeing you in it.” 

“The villain is the hero of her own story.” 

"I like pushing your buttons."

"You'd enjoy it more if you undid them first.” 

“We are far too screwed up for a goddamned love triangle.”

“This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster. Just like me.” 

“They rattled my cage to see if I'd bite. When they released me, they'd see that the answer was yes.” 

“Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.” 

“You’re stronger than you believe. Don’t let your fear own you. Own yourself.” 

“I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.” 

“We’re mutants now?”

“Don’t tell Marvel. They’ll sue us.” 

“I'll be gentle,"

"Because I’m European, and therefore more cultured than you.” 

“They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.” 

"I don't typically walk around without underwear."

“Why do you always look like you just rolled out of bed?'

“Do not find peace. Find passion.” 

“Everyone is a little crazy. The only difference between us and them is that they hide it better.” 

“I did something brave, then. Or stupid. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.” 

“But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.” 

“What if you killed me!”

“Taste the rainbow bitch.” 

“I knew one hundred little things about him but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.” 

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” 

“That mouth. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it.” 

“I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.” 

“You always have a choice.” 

I wish she knew that I think she is the most hilarious person on Earth. And that whenever she's not home, I feel like I'm missing my partner in crime."

“A masterfully crafted, powerfully understated, and epic parable of timeless moral resonance? Why, thank you. That’s one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said to me,”

'I'll get some crayons and draw quitely. Alone. In a corner.” 

“You could start a fire with the heat between you two."

"You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.” 

“What would you do if I kissed you right now?"

“Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.”

“I'm not making you hate me. I'm making you love me.” 

"I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses," 

“You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you."

I love you. Today. Tonight. Tomorrow. Forever. If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If I were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.”

“Did I just see you litter?'

“There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life.”

'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out.” 

“Is there any point asking what you're going to make me do on Sunday?'

“You're the girl who called me an asshole the first time we spoke. The girl who tried to pay for lunch even after you learned I have more money than God. You're the girl who risked her ass to save a dying dog, who makes my chest ache whether you're wearing green silk or ripped jeans. You're the girl that I--"

“And then you show up with the voice from my nightmare, and you call me an asshole.” 

“I don’t have a favorite color, though I strongly dislike yellow. Horrid color.”

“An angel sat on one shoulder, a devil on the other. Both of them wore my face.” 

“You can’t be fixed. You can’t be saved.” 

“Pain is just a feeling, and feelings aren't real.” 

What could I say?  despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.” 

“I find it hilarious that whenever I light up, Americans look at me like I'm going to urinate on their children.” 

“The boy is destined for greatness, but with you, he is in danger. You are linked, the two of you. You must leave him. This is what I have seen.”

“He will die before his time with you by his side, unless you let him go. Fate or chance? Coincidence or destiny? I cannot say.”

“There will come a moment when there's nothing you want more than us. Together. When you're free of every fear and there is nothing in our way.” 

“Dead end after dead end. Did you find the answers you were looking for in that book?”

[prettywitchiusaka]

So I meant to make this post last week, but, gonna be honest, I wasn’t feeling super great up until a few days ago.

Now that I’m starting to feel like myself again (and with the recent announcement regarding who will be writing Secret Wars), I figured that now is the time to make an addendum to my post about today’s writers (at least in Hollywood, anyway) don’t seem to do any research, be it for adaptational purposes, or just to enhance their own work to make it better/flesh out the world and characters a little.   

And honestly, I feel like Michael Waldron is a perfect example of this (with Jessica Gao being a close second).

I’ve made no secret that I have very mixed opinions and feeling regarding Multiverse of Madness, mostly staked in my love of Doctor Strange in general, and his MCU counterpart in particular. I tend to be a lot kinder to it than most, as I do think it’s a decent film that needs another rewrite or two before it could’ve been something great. But let’s be clear, I actually don’t entirely blame Waldron for what went wrong with this film. From what I know about the production, it really seems like Kevin Feige is the real villain of Multiverse.

I recently discovered watching MauLer’s take down of the film (I skimmed through it, tbh) that, as Waldron puts it, he was hired by Feige to come on board shortly after Derrickson left. Now that part I knew, as I’d been keeping up with the film’s production on and off since the initial announcement back in 2019. What did surprise me, though, was that they already had sets being built when Waldron came on board, meaning that not only were they still building sets that were made for the Jade Bartlett draft, it also meant that shooting was set to start soon. This meant Waldron was left to write a new draft with very little time to prepare (three weeks) according to him. And...well, this is where I’m actually going to defend the man for a moment.

Do I blame Waldron for performing the job he was hired to do? No. Unless your Harlan Ellison or (maybe) John Hughes, NOBODY can write a polished shooting script for a big budget film in three weeks. It simply doesn’t happen, and I put the blame entirely on Feige for that one. It’s INSANE for him to think that Waldron (or anyone for that matter) could turn in something worthy of being called a Doctor Strange film in that timeframe, especially when he’d already wasted time, resources and freaking MONEY creating standing sets and character designs for the original script that was discarded because he wanted his precious Multiverse saga, and couldn’t be bothered to wait another film or two before getting to that.

So yeah, I don’t blame Waldron for that.

That being said...I do blame Waldron for what happened after. 

It’s no secret that the film industry (Marvel included) was shut down for a bit due to Covid, and Multiverse was no exception. This means Waldron was given a second chance. He could watch the first DS film, read some comics, do a quick wiki search and figure out which Doctor Strange comics are essential to the character and which ones he should read to write a new draft. You think he did any of that? Nope. Of course he didn’t.

This is what I mean about how we’re heading into an age of writers who don’t seem to do any research. Instead of studying Bartlett’s draft extensively, reading up on some comics, hell, maybe even phoning up Benedict and consulting with him on basic DS lore, he doesn’t do any of that. Instead, he just makes up his own plot and makes Wanda the villain because “Marvel wanted a Multiverse movie, so I had to figure out who’d be a threat to it”, even though he could’ve easily re-worked Nightmare into his plot if he’d been bothered to look up anything about the character. I mean, dreams are established to be windows into the lives of one’s Multiversal selves, how hard would it have been?

And before anyone chimes in and says “Well, he was probably busy with other projects”, I’m sure he was. But guess what? If you’re a professional writer in any capacity? You’re ALWAYS working on several assignments at once. Especially if you’re freelance. And yeah, sometimes you don’t always turn out something great. Sometimes you have several projects going on, and you have to whip up something that’s not your best due to time constraints. It happens. But if you’re passionate about writing, you’ll still put in the time and effort to make something worthwhile. You’ll do research and try to understand the material you’re writing about. And if fail that’s fine, because at least you tried.

And Waldron very clearly didn’t. 

I’d hate to say “Don’t quit your day job”, but if you don’t want to put in the effort to improve your craft than maybe you should stick to being a producer, Waldron!

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#5

Wednesday 100: Family History

Sometimes on rainy days, Bree explores the study while her father examines the ledgers.

Today she finds a box, opening it quickly before Da sees. The spoons are familiar. She keeps hers, St. John, hidden away from her cousins. Willie, born near harvest, has St. Peter.

Counting, she frowns, asks before she can think better, "Da, where's St. Andrew's spoon?"

Da sets down his quill gently. He leans back in his seat and closes his eyes. When he opens them, he starts softly, "When yer mam and I were in Paris…"

She thinks she sees him crying, just a little.

83 notes - Posted August 31, 2022

#4

Wednesday 100: Telling Tales

They're happy to have all the grandchildren staying over at the Big House, although it means Jamie covering Claire's noises, the two of them hushing their laughter.

Once recovered, they get up to listen for the children, hearing Germaine's voice down the hall.

"—and they brought in a lady, wearing only her shift, looking very scared but also brave, and it was—"

"Grannie," Jem says excitedly. Joan sighs, "I love this part."

Claire leans into Jamie. "Seems that someone's inherited a certain talent of yours."

"Well, they've heard this one often enough." He smiles, and takes her back to bed.

88 notes - Posted November 9, 2022

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I think one of the reasons that the fakeout in The Long Goodbye Job works so well is also one of the reasons I love Leverage as a show. Yes, we’re so deeply invested in these characters that the idea of them coming to harm is heartbreaking, but it feels believable because we’ve been conditioned, by media, but also by our own lived reality, that no one can always win. Maybe you make a mistake, forget or overlook something, maybe you’re outsmarted, maybe your luck simply runs out, but at some point you will come to the end of the line. (”Give all of us...the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable. And we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall,” says Coach Taylor.)

And amid the competence porn, the show doesn’t shy away from that very human aspect of it all, gives us Hardison buried alive, Parker’s childhood and its lasting effects on her, Eliot’s violent past, Sophie’s uncertainty about herself. The show gives us Nate, troubled and gray and full of hubris and flawed all to hell - couldn’t save his father, couldn’t save his son. But it also gives us this, ends with this: the hammer never drops. The villains do not win in the end, do not come close to winning. This unlikely, outcast group, this family, wins, they keep winning, and sometimes, in shows like this, we’re allowed to have faith in that.

225 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

#2

Back again with another Outlander fic! For those of y'all who are interested, I'll be posting on alternating Sundays over the next few months and will reblog this again when the fic is complete. For everyone else, enjoy your regularly scheduled programming!

Muscle Memory, chapter 1

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House of W (Multiple!Wells x Reader, Chapter 9)

Rating: T

Summary: After having to deal with the deaths of an infinite number of Harrison Wells in the Multiverse, you, a magic-wielding meta, have a breakdown and unwittingly create a happy, fictitious sitcom life with some of your favourite men. In a world of comedy and cameos, can Team Flash and an out-of-town magician break through your powers to save you? And what if you don’t want to be saved...?

A/N: Well folks, it’s the final chapter... I’m not sure it’s actually all that great, but here it is and I hope it’s well received, nonetheless! Thanks for coming on this crazy ride with me <3

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PROLOGUE | CHAPTER 1 | CHAPTER 2 | CHAPTER 3 | CHAPTER 4 | CHAPTER 5 | CHAPTER 6 | CHAPTER 7 | CHAPTER 8

Eobard Thawne clutches his fist down beside him, surely feeling the surge of Speed Force energy running through his entire body once more. He looks like he’s just taken a hit of the most addictive drug—eyes flashing a dangerous crimson, his whole being vibrating at the speed of sound before everyone’s eyes.

The Reverse Flash turns to Libby and Belle—who both remain frozen in place out of sheer shock after realizing that this man isn’t who he claimed to be—and gives them one of his iconic shit-eating grins.

“Thank you, girls,” he says smugly. “I couldn’t have achieved any of this without you. The next time I have your real uncle under my boot, I’ll think of you wonderful girls.”

“What have we done…?” Belle whispers rhetorically to her sister. A speechless Liberty only shakes her head in reply.

Eobard locks eyes with Barry, who stands in the doorway to the kitchen. The villain smirks before he bolts off, running upward along the diminishing forcefield wall and out through one the holes forming in it. Barry watches on as he decides to let his adversary go. He’s learned by now it’s never the last time he’ll see Eobard Thawne. That bastard always seems to find a way back into everyone’s lives. He’s like a cockroach that won’t stay dead.

Yes… Barry will come face to face with the Reverse Flash again. He may not know when, but when he does, he’ll be ready.

Because right now, you need him.

Your world is falling apart.

Again.

The forcefield continues to fall slowly from above. Your time is limited. You know that in mere minutes, everything will disappear, including the people you love. 

“Mom, we’re so, so sorry,” Belle tells you desperately. “We thought he was just teaching us how to perfect our powers. It felt like a game!”

“My dear, sweet girls,” you look them straight in the eyes as you explain to them, “I assure you both, it’s not your fault. Okay? You had no idea who he really was or what he was capable of. It’s not your fault, do you understand me?” They nod through their tears. “You two may have grown up incredibly fast, far too fast for my liking, in fact, but I am so thrilled that you were- are mine. You will always be my little girls. No matter what.”

“Thank you for being our mom,” Liberty says to you in all seriousness.

“No one is cooler or stronger than you,” Belle adds with a smile very reminiscent of her fathers’. If these two aren’t careful, you’re going to completely lose it in front of them.

Off in the distance, you spot Barry watching this heartfelt scene play out. You wave him over to meet his nieces, so he can see what you’ve created for yourself up close and personal. Libby and Belle should meet their real uncle, a true hero, before they’re…

Barry places a hand each on the girls’ shoulders. See, Barry? They’re real. And I’ll lose them too. Do you feel my pain now? This is what I live through all the time.

Barry’s eyes begin to glisten until the tiny bulbs of tears hold still, unwilling to fall just yet.

“It’s so nice to finally meet you both,” he tells them. “You’re both such bright stars.” They give bittersweet smiles up at him in silence. You don’t think they fully understand what will come to pass in mere minutes, but you do. You can feel it in your bones.

Barry steps back from your family unit so that you all can have one more last moment together. You take this final opportunity to bring your girls in close for a tight hug, letting a sob escape you despite trying to keep it together for your family. You wave a hand over to your husbands as if to gesture for them to get in on this family group hug, and quickly. They do so promptly, all four of them enveloping you, Liberty, and Belle as if to form a loving hug shield.

“I love you,” you make sure to say these three precious words, making eye contact to each and every one of those you have magicked into being here with you today… before they disintegrate before your very eyes.

And soon enough, you can’t even feel them anymore. The forcefield has vanished within the Lab’s basement, along with the Wells and the twins.

You cry. You shake and your body wracks with the sort of sobs that hurt your throat. Barry makes sure he holds you tightly. Caitlin approaches carefully and ends up holding your hand. Then it’s Cisco who puts his own hand on your shoulder as everyone else in the room looks on at your despair.

***

After some much-needed rest in the Medbay, you awake to a spookily quiet Labs. You’re not sure of the time (or day, even), but regardless, you figure it’s best to head home. Goodness knows it’s probably still in shambles. That’ll need to be fixed.

You heave a sigh as you leave the Cortex.

“Come on, you can sigh louder than that.”

You turn around to find the unexpected voice belonging to Zatanna. You imagine she must have had to recoup as well from the amount of magic she would have used to break through to your world.

“Oh, hey,” you say tiredly. “I take it you’re on your way, then?”

“Yeah, I have a show in Coast City in two days, so I better head off.”

“Listen, I’m really sorry to have brought you into all this madness.”

“No, please. If anything, I should thank you as well as offer my condolences... Your magic is something I've never seen before. Honestly, I’m still intrigued by it.” Zatanna hesitates. “Would it be weird if I gave you my contact information? I don’t come across many others with true magic. I’d love to keep in touch. Maybe we could learn from each other?”

“Yes, of course,” you agree. “I think that’s a great idea.” She hands you her card—a glittery black business card with her name and number.

“So, hey,” she says, “You going to be okay?”

You take a few seconds to think her question over.

“I think, in time, I could be,” you answer truthfully.

“I know it may not be much,” Zatanna says, “but one of my powers involves granting wishes. Before I go, is there anything I can do for you? You’ve been through so much. I’ve seen it. And everybody has something they're hoping for. Something they wish they could change…” She pauses, waiting for your answer, but also seems distracted. You wonder what kind of life this woman has led. What has she done in her past that she regrets or wishes for from the bottom of her heart?

“I only wish for Harrison Wells to be in my life,” you answer honestly. Is that so much to ask for? It seems to be that way.

“Is that what your heart most desires?”

You sigh. “More than anything.”

There’s another pause.

“You know, sometimes you’ll find that our wishes come true on their own, even without magic,” the magician points out ominously.

“That’s code for “I just can’t make that wish come true,” isn’t it?” you joke, somewhat.

“The people that we love—they’re only gone when we stop carrying them with us. How you choose to carry Harrison Wells is up to you.”

You let that sink in and press a hand to your heart. He will always be here with you. Right here. You’ll make sure of it.

“I wish you all the luck and magic in the world, (Y/N),” Zatanna says kindly. “It was nice to meet you.”

You nod in thanks, unsure of how to respond to that. With her aged, thick book under her arm, Zatanna Zatara walks down the S.T.A.R. Labs corridor, but you swear her body vanishes before she rounds the corner…

Despite all the trouble you’ve put her through—everyone, really—with all of this, you can still take comfort in the act of making a new friend.

As you walk through the empty hallways of the Labs, you make it to where the elevator lies. You go to press the button to summon the machine when a ding sounds before your finger even touches the button. The doors slide open, and the face that greets you shocks you to your very core.

“Hello, there,” he says.

In fact, you are so stunned that you take a step back, but in doing so, you stumble and begin to topple over. Luckily, a certain someone’s quick arms catch you in time.

The face you know all too well, Harrison Wells, that is, glows with a calm happiness as he looks down at you in his arms. Behind immaculate see-through frames, his pretty blues eyes twinkle like the stars. He smiles like he knows you. You stare up in disbelief, in relief, and in love.

“Hello… Harrison.”

[denkineptune]

mha date headcanons- boys and girls :))

♡ request: “i love ur blog already, ur writing is so good!!! im so excited to see the content u’ll be posting !! :D since ur taking requests, how abt some date headcanons for the mha boys (or girls if u want!) ?” - @dianangels​ 

♡ thank you for letting me write girls aaa i chose to do some as first date hc. it was kinda hard to keep jirou’s gn because i wanted to reference wlw stereotypes but i succeeded in gender-neutral because i want everyone to be able to enjoy

♡ dedicating part of this to @anxious-botanist​ because she’s the one who inspired the momo cuddles hehe sorry it took so long

♡ fic details: headcanons, fluff, gender-neutral reader, 2nd pov

characters: kaminari, amajiki, jirou, ashido, yaoyorozu

kaminari- arcade

↠AR C ADE   DA T  E

↠you hear me??? arcade!! date!! ideal man, right here, someone claim him immediately or else i will be forced to take ownership

↠he’s super laid back and chill, pretty childish at heart. he only means the best, though, so i think an arcade is exactly what he would go for when taking you on a date! he doesn’t have a lot of money but still wants you to go home with something to remember the date by

↠he buys like $50 worth of tokens and splits it between the two of you, making sure that he tells you which games give the most tickets, because he’s definitely been here enough times to remember

↠his favorite game is either crossy roads or the big bass wheel- he loves crossy roads because of how cute the style is, but also there is impending stress and levels of  d o o m  as you progress further. big bass wheel is basically just gambling, and i think he’s yumeko jabami.

↠he hacks games to make you win sometimes,, his quirk is bascially designed to do this. it’s like he was born just to take you out on this arcade date. he uses his quirk to short circuit the game and trick the computer into giving you hundreds of tickets

↠he just wants to make you happy and see you smile!! there’s not a feeling quite like succeeding at something as silly as an arcade game, but there’s a certain pride to it that he loves seeing on your face. 

↠kaminari only does it a few times, since he knows that you should be earning your prizes ((not that you know when he does it, he’s really cheeky about it))

↠playyyy multiplayers with him! he loves DDR (dance dance revolution)- you do multiple rounds and are equally exhausted by the end of it akdflad you may not be good, and tbh neither is denki, but you still have fun, which is what matters

↠he also loves taking photobooth pictures, he puts on the most horrendous filters and does the dumbest poses, but it’s so adorable. he does the typical one smile, one “serious”, one silly face, one kith > <

↠kami gets cocky,,, it’s just how he is,, he gets overly confident whether or not he’s been on a winstreak

“heyy, y/n! look at my speedrun on this, i’m getting so many tickets, i’ll be able to get a house by the end of it!”

↠and then he CAN’T because he doesn’t get the jackpot eghgdhgeh

↠by the end of the day, you’ve spent hours at the arcade, laughing and screaming with denki as you terrorize the small children. yes, he’s that kind of guy

↠by “terrorize”, i don’t mean like a bully, but he’s unintentionally intimidating kids with his pockets overflowing with ticket chains, a crazed look on his face as he goes absolutely ham on the shooting games

↠there’s electricity coming off of him, kids sometimes have to dodge it when passing by

↠so anyways, by the end of the date, you’re basically being kicked out of the arcade, because, as kami puts it,

“we were here when it opened and i’ll be damned if we’re not here when it closes,”

↠between the two of you, you’ve aquired tens of thousands of tickets??? the employees probably hate y’all, they had to count those beasts of ticket rolls you’ve accumulated during the 10 hours the arcade was open

↠exactly 62,069 tickets (69 go brrr- kaminari’s brain), and you can basically buy the arcade with that currency

↠but here’s the thing: he lets you spend all of it. you heard me, all. of. it. he just wants to see you happy, and the best way he can think of to get a final glorious memory of your smile is to let you spend the tickets as you see fit, this generosity just to see you glowing as you walk out of the building, arms chock full of amazing junk

↠but of course, you’d feel bad if you spent all of it, especially since he was the one who took you out, so you offered him the half of the tickets that were won

“denki, you won most of these with your amAzINg gaming skills, it’s only fair you get to have something too,”

“my prize will be seeing you- your- your-- aw fuck, i forgot the line, it’ll come back to me, just give me a minute.”

↠he tried to be smooth and it failed, but you chuckled at the attempt, so all around, he considered it a success

↠denki gets a lot of dumb things that will probably end up being thrown away soon, but he also gets you a very soft bat stuffed animal that you should treasure and keep forever 

amajiki- a walk and picnic in a japanese garden

↠tamaki is very shy, very socially anxious. he’s the kind to wait for people to leave a section of a store before he goes there, purposely do his errands in the early morning to limit social interaction, and find any excuse to leave a situation. which, tbh, isn’t that all of us?

↠let’s be honest here, if it wasn’t y’alls first date, he’d probably not go anywhere. as long as he’s with you, he doesn’t really care for anything too fancy

↠but he’s convinced himself that he needs to do something reasonably big for your first date to make sure you don’t regret your decision to go out with him. so instead of deciding to stay in, he goes somewhere that’s only slightly anxious for him, but where he still feels comfortable

↠so he’s decided on a japanese tsukiyama garden! these places are beautiful by design, not cheap but not too expensive, and people are obligated by rules to be quiet and keep their hands to themselves

↠nobody goes to a garden to socialize, in fact, i’d argue most people go just to look around, rest, and clear their heads. there’s usually not any screaming children, no quirk usage, no villains, it’s a little safe haven. 

↠bonus: there’s butterflies :))

↠it’s so peaceful, and he gets to focus on you instead of whatever loud noise is making him anxious

↠he brings a picnic basket filled with all your favorite foods, and his! he makes a show out of displaying what he can manifest with different snacks, making a point to eat edible seeds so he can produce flowers for you 🥺🥺🥺

↠you walk around the garden for a few hours, marveling at the decor and how well-maintained everything is. there’s a koi pond, hanging wisteria trees, and multiple gazebos that create a really comfortable and calm environment

↠speaking of koi ponds, amajiki offers to buy you food so you can feed the fish! you stand on a bridge above the pond, sharing the container with him. the sMILE on his face when he watches you throw the food is so pure i’m-

↠he’s the walking embodiment of “uwu”- his face is so calm and his eyes are shining and he can feel his heart swelling with love i am GOING to cry my eyes out 

↠but honestly, he wishes he could stay in this moment forever- you’re happy, he’s happy, and it feels like you two are the only people in the universe. right now, he doesn’t have to worry about school, villain attacks, his future, or anything that makes him anxious; all that he can see right now is how beautiful and at peace you look. he took you out today, and you’re enjoying yourself. this is one of the few things that makes him confident: knowing that he’s able to make you happy

↠tamaki is silently celebrating; you’ve had a good time and he didn’t freak out, so it’s the best possible scenario!

ashido- rollerskating! ((look at her she’s adorable the smile n the eyes aaa))

↠mina is a very energetic and bubbly person, its quite obvious if you’ve spent any amount of time around her

↠for your first date with her, she’d already have a location in mind!!

↠the atmosphere of rollerskating rinks is so electric, she can’t help but feel happy there, and she wants to experience that lovely feeling with you, too :))

↠you enter the rink, and mina is already borderline bouncing off the walls alskdfj

↠whether or not you’ve ever skated before, ashido is super cautious with you- multiple times she’s fallen on her butt while learning how to skate, so unless you’re a pro, she’s watching your every move to make sure you don’t get hurt

“y/n! please be careful- you’re not getting hurt on my watch!”

↠she jabs a thumb in her direction proudly, with the cutest bigass grin on her face awh 🥺🥺🥺she’s really enthusiastic about sharing one of her passions with you

“try to balance, alright? don’t put too much weight on your heel or toes, because then you’ll fall on your butt. here, take my hand and i’ll help you! hey, there you go, you’re doing great!”

↠she pays for everything and will WRESTLE you if you try to disagree aldkfa if you’re the type of person to pay for everything as well, y’all are going to have to fight; mina will not give up

↠ashido comes here a lot, so she’s friendly with all the employees, she has the uncanny ability to make friends wherever she goes ((i mean she’s friends with bakugou,, if she can do that,, she can do anything))

↠she takes one of your hands and backs onto the rink, watching for anyone behind her. once you’re balanced properly, she shows you how to move your feet so that the two of you are in sync

↠skating isn’t super hard to figure out, it’s mostly intuitive, so you’ll get the hang of it quite quickly!! maybe you’re not too fast, but it’s still fun, so it doesn’t matter

↠while you’re moving with care, making sure to focus on your footwork, mina will definitely take the chance to show off her skating skills! she’s moving like crazy, weaving around other people and nearly toppling them over but shh she’s trying to impress you and if i’m being honest??? she’s really fucking good aldkdf 

↠it’s obvious that she loves this hobby, and the fact that she likes you enough to share it with you on your first date is so adorable aaaa

↠mina’s really agile- you don’t know if that’s all the hero training or just something that comes naturally, but the way she moves makes skating look like the easiest goddamn thing in the world-

↠she’s such a romantic, she’s definitely put in a request for the dj to play your favorite song, no matter if it fits the mood or not

↠heavy rock? sure!! as long as you’re having fun, who cares about what other people think? super vulgar rap?? w h y  n o t ? !

↠she just has that extroverted, positive, charming energy that’s infectious

↠you can’t help but feel at ease around her, she’s a genuinely a great person, and what you think the epitome of a hero is

↠all ashido really wants here is to have fun with you- i mean she really likes you, and hopes that she’ll get to go on another date w/ you, so she’s doing everything in her power to woo u

↠and you’d be lying if you said it wasn’t working 🥺👉👈

jirou- hanging out in her room

↠kyouka jirou, being the more introverted person she is, wouldn’t really want to go somewhere super public, like mina would

↠i also believe that she’d want to be friends (or at least acquaintances) with you before asking you on a date- she’s easily annoyed by people, so i think that she’d need to be comfortable around you if she was to be romantically interested 

↠and you’ve ticked all these boxes! you understand her sarcastic, blunt personality, and find it pretty amusing. beyond all that, she’s kind and caring, and deep down, she aspires to be a hero for all the right reasons. who wouldn’t love her for that?

↠so for your first date with kyouka, i think she’d want to be somewhere quiet and intimate with you. she wouldn’t want any interruptions ((specifically from jammingyay, who enjoys butting his head in other peoples’ business))

↠the most comfortable place for her would be her room, since it’s really just an extension of her personality, and since you’re quite close, she’d be okay with letting you in her private space. she trusts you.

↠just two guys bein dudes 🤠 ((if you’re a girl, it’s just sappho and her friend--))

↠music is one of the biggest things in jirou’s life, and i think she’d want to share it with you. that is, if you’d let her :)) she has dozens of different instruments, so if you want to attempt to learn something, she’d be totally down!! 

↠please show her what kind of music you’re into! no matter what it is, she’ll listen to it. she wants to get to know what kind of person you are when you’re not around other people, and music is a great way to do that. even if you don’t have the same taste as her, she wouldn’t mind, since a) she’ll listen to pretty much anything, she’s not picky; and b) it’s something that you’re showing her, and that’s enough to make her happy

↠she’s not a very formal person, so i think she’d just want to talk to you and hang out. i’d think kyouka would be more of a fan of a gradual relationship, one that starts from friends and slowly evolves into more. and yes, as you can probably tell, i am a sucker for mutual pining and friends-to-lovers tropes-- im a simple hoe 😌

↠she’s super fun to hang out with!! her sense of humor is really snarky, she also enjoys talking shit about people she doesn’t like. if you’re not into that, she’s able to carry on conversation really well. there’s not a moment of awkward silence between you

↠jirou actually really likes talking shit about people hsahsh- as long as it’s someone that’s been mean in some way. she won’t say anything bad about someone who hasn’t done anything to deserve it. but if you’ve wronged her in some way, boy, do you have it COMING

↠by the end of it, i just know your cheeks hurt from laughing 

↠she’s just a really fun person to be around, she may not be the most bubbly person ever, but she’s super easy-going and cool ((jirou bias incoming ekejke))

↠i do think she’d try to sneak some kind of affection if she thinks you’d reciprocate- if you’re really getting along well, she might snake her hand into yours when you’re sitting on the bed, laughing

↠honestly you might not even notice until she stops, because your hand feels empty and cold without her like your heart aa

↠if she’s really into you?? might get a smol peck on the cheek 👉👈 please try to get a smol peck on the cheek, it’s very cute and she gets so flustered

↠she goes up to you as you’re about to leave her room, grabs your shoulder, turns you around, and gives you an adorable if not slightly aggressive smooch

↠then she reFUSES to acknowledge what she just did akdfld- she turns away, beet red, and is completely silent

↠meanwhile you’re probably laughing your ass off because wow she’s so cute

↠kudos if you give one back to her, baby is on the verge of exploding ejkdjf 

↠her heart just can’t handle what you’re doing to her

↠and despite what her appearance is, her heart is doing backflips- she’s whipped <33

momo: tea and c u d d l e s

↠she’s a very fancy person, obviously. yaoyorozu wants only the best for everyone she loves, and that, of course, includes you! she loves showing affection through giving things to others. her family status only magnifies this aspect of her personality, as being born into wealth gives her the means to spoil you rotten

↠and even though she’s bougie as all hell, she also somehow maintains an elegant and simple air about her. it’s impressive, really. it’s not like she tries to flex her money, it’s just a part of her life, and she enjoys using her privilege well

↠that being said, what’s more elegant and mature than going for tea? it’s a lovely pastime that momo would love to include you in! 

↠lowkey,, she’s a whole sugar momma dfkdjla im not even joking- she doesn’t try to be, but virtually everything she does shows how rich she is

↠you arrive at the tea room, and by god is it fancy. there’s multiple chandeliers suspended from the ceiling, which is decorated with classic renaissance-style paintings. all the tables are set with white cloth, plates made of pure fine china, flowers and woven baskets set everywhere to create a cottagecore-like setting. the air about it is so sophisticated, from the patrons (wait is that a celebrity-) to the decorations

↠your face is kinda just,,, 😮,, because what in the world did momo get you into??

“momo, you’re so sweet, and this place is lovely, but don’t you think this is a bit much? not that i don’t absolutely appreciate it, it’s just that this seems really expensive, and i don’t want you to have to spend that much for just one date.”

↠she just chuckles, saying that it was “really nothing” (???? MISS GIRL???)

“don’t worry, y/n, this isn’t too much! i want to have fun today, and this place is so nice! let’s just find a table, alright?”

↠like, hunney, you’re so kind, but this is a LOT

↠but if you say so....

↠she looks at you with the most enthusiastic, wholesome eyes, and soon you’re following her like a puppy towards your table. the waiter sits you down, and leaves, giving you a moment to glaze over the menu to find a drink

↠and there’s so many types of teas, at least 30 on this page alone. you hadn’t even heard of half of these drinks, how would you know if you’d like them?

↠yaomomo seemed to notice your puzzlement, and said that you could get a pot of something simple, like jasmine green or earl grey, and she would get something fancier that you could try. why not?

↠a few minutes later, you’ve already adjusted to the sophisticated and intimidating environment, focusing only on the girl across from you, and how her eyes glittered with happiness

↠she orders a few normal tea foods, like scones with jam, lemon curd, and devonshire cream, and finger sandwiches. the fanciest thing she buys, though, is a blooming tea that arrives in a clear pot. it has an open flower inside of it, which is what the tea is infused with. it’s nearly 16,100 yen for one pot, though, and while you protest its expense, momo reassures you that it’s no problem (you just learned not to say anything about money, as it wouldn’t stop yaoyorozu from spoiling you)

↠ngl, it’s so fun to pretend to be fancy for a few hours at a tea room !! you acted as if you were a member of high society, using stereotypes to exaggerate your actions. it made some people only slightly irritated, but hey, it got a laugh out of a pretty girl, so who’s the real winner? 

↠yaomomo taught you some classy etiquette that you should definitely use, it makes her so happy to think that you’re learning about new things while still enjoying your time with her

↠she makes really good conversation!! her intellect seeps through everything she says, anyone who talks to her would be able to tell that she’s extremely well-spoken and mature. momo is modest, and deflects a lot of the compliments you try to give her, so if you try to display your admiration for her, you’d probably need to be very specific about it. she doesn’t have the best self-image when it comes to her heroism and field work. spoken affection sometimes doesn’t get through to her, but you know what does? physical affection!

↠she loves cuddles, and will regularly take you back to her house after a date to cuddle in her bed. her mattress is legendary, and it’s comfortable as hell. there’s an abundance of pillows and the bed isn’t too soft or too firm, and it’s always somehow an amazing temperature???? mattresses are investments, and this was definitely a good one

↠momo loves the intimacy and trust of holding you, it allows her to escape from overthinking and only focus on you, her beautiful partner. she doesn’t care if she’s the big or little spoon, but her favorite kind of cuddling is when you’re on your back and she’s curled into your side, head tucked under your chin and hand on your chest

↠she can do this for hours, please let her. she feels safe with you, confident, because you’re choosing to spend time with her in this quiet moment instead of being off somewhere else.

↠in conclusion,,, 💕women 💕

-denkineptune

[morizoras-cave]

Delicate (Request)

Marvel Cast x gn!teen!co-star!reader

Genre: fluff

Request Description: Hey I have a request. People think because I'm a small(5'3") girl I'm a "Delicate flower" and I'm really the complete opposite. So Marvel Cast x Teen!Reader. Reader was a hardcore stunt double(jumping off buildings,in simulated car accidents, fight scenes, ect.)before she got into acting,but because she's so young they try to prevent her from doing her job. (I'm evil so have her do one of the most risky stunts and nail it)

Warnings: stunt, violence (kind of), language, concerned costars :)

(A/N): hey yall im gonna update hopefully twice today or twice tomorrow? it’s because im going to BERLIN with my SCHOOL on sunday, so i dont expect to be able to write a lot. i already feel kind of guilty, since i havent even written that much this week? it can just be really exhausting you know? anyway i know none of you guys mind, its just what i keep worrying about, but anyway hope you all enjoy this :D

“Y/n, can’t you please reconsider this?” 

“No, I’m doing the stunt!” 

It was getting annoying at this point. You and the cast had been filming the newest Marvel movie for the past 4 months, and finally came the day, where your stunts were filmed. You only had this one scene (and one or two others with a bit of action) in the entire movie that included stunts, and you, being an experienced stunt double before turning into an actor, were excited. In fact, you were pretty sure that your experience as a stunt double, was what had gotten you the job in the first place. 

You expected that your co-stars would know this, but none of them did, and you found it hard to bring it up, without feeling like you were bragging or something, so you just didn’t tell them. But that was turning out to be a bad idea, as they were getting increasingly worried. 

During the first couple of months, it was mostly light chuckles and small remarks. 

“That’s gonna be tough, huh?”

But as the set was built and the day came closer, the remarks turned into a worried demands. 

“Y/n, that is way too dangerous! Tell the director that you want a stunt double!” Anthony had told you firmly and worryingly, as you came onto the set, wearing your costume. You furrowed your brows and tilted your head up to look at him.

“No, Anthony. I already told you,” you mumbled. Sebastian, Chris (Evans), Scarlett, and Tom (Hiddleston) looked over and a flurry of sighs came. The argument was starting again. 

“Look, maybe you should just listen to us - that stuff is really dangerous, and you’re just too young,” Chris told you, giving you those worried blue eyes. 

“I mean, look at you! You’re.. You know!” Sebastian knew immediately he shouldn’t have begun that sentence when he saw the narrow-eyed glare you sent his way.

“I’m what?” 

“You know... Delicate..” 

You rolled your eyes, intending to walk to a different part of set, where you wouldn’t be ridiculed, but Scarlett’s voice interrupted you. “Alright,” she said, “I’m gonna go ask Joe to give you a stunt double-” 

Just before you could retort, because, boy, was it annoying, a set worker yelled across set, running busily across set. “Guys! You’re on now!” 

You smirked cartoonishly, knowing you’d get to do the stunt, and set off to your starting position. Your coworkers watched you triumphantly getting ready, and exchanged deflated glances. They, reluctantly, got into position as well. 

“Action!”

You felt a power surge as you started, almost immediately jumping into the action. You did it just as it was written in the script, ducking beneath flying fists, taking fake punches, delivering soft blows and jumping and flipping in the air like it was nothing. 

As you dashed across the set, you glanced at Tom and Sebastian. They were both doing their own thing, but you found that their attention had been drifted slightly from the fight and onto you. Their mouths stood slightly agape.

You suppressed your grin, and climbed to the area of which you’d be jumping into a fairly narrow safety pad. You glance down and felt both anxiety and excitement tingling in your stomach. God, you’d really missed being a stunt double. 

You saw Anthony and Scarlett frowning, and then Chris glancing at the director, probably to signal yo get you down from there, but both directors were looking solely at you. 

The ground crunched beneath you, as you turned, pretending to look at approaching enemies coming up to the ledge from behind you. Then you looked down the jump and bit your lip, acting scared. 

“Welp, I guess I’m doing this,” you said as scripted, and then let yourself fall. Just as your body fell between the gap, you grabbed onto a small branch, placed there very purposefully. Your body bounced violently at the motion, and your arm tugged at the weight of your own body. 

You heard the actors playing the villains trample above you in confusion. 

“They probably jumped over! Let’s go!” they hissed, and the ledge thundered and small stones fell, as they all left you in the gap. You looked, once more just like in the script, at the ledge, the branch, and then beneath you. 

“God, bad day..” you mumbled, and comically you let yourself fall. You landed, rather gracefully in your opinion, on the pad, and fell onto safety. 

The set exploded in applause. The directors, set workers, actors and actresses, everyone was seemingly impressed, and you smiled with pride. 

“Woah, holy shit, holy fucking shit, Y/n! When’d you learn to do that?!” Chris asked excitedly, everyone running over as you stood up. 

“I was a stunt double for years. I love this kind of stuff,” you explained and watched them roll their eyes and smile in disbelief. 

“Why didn’t you say so, you dumbass?” Anthony tried to be angry, but he couldn’t hide how impressed he was. “But, for real, damn that was cool.”

“I don’t know, I didn’t know how to bring it up. Anyway-” 

“STOP CELEBRATING, WE’RE NOT DONE!” One of the directors had a megaphone and he made big eyes, as he fussed you all along. The cast laughed at him.

“Alright, but, uh- Next time, just tell us, Y/n. You gave me a fucking heart attack.” Scarlett cursed at you, booped your nose, and then jogged back to her place. You laughed and nodded.

“Tell me too!” Tom hissed, glancing at everyone waiting for the cast to stop fooling around, booped your nose once more (a very boopable surface, if you will), and ran to his position as well. 

Everyone traveled back to their places, and then you would work the scene over and over, and at the end of the day, you all went out to celebrate because, as the cast liked to phrase it, you were ‘inexplicably cool’. 

You enjoyed the food and the glory, and all was good. Looks like you weren’t so delicate after all. 

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[five-rivers]

Danger First

Chapter 7

@pocketramblr

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"Hey, Midoriya?" asked Uraraka, after Aizawa passed out a costume revision assignment and feigned passing out.

"Yes?" said Midoriya, knowing that his eyes were preturnaturally wide and fine tremors were running through his body. He was a wreck.

"Are you okay? Why did you come to class with Mr. Aizawa?"

"And what's that you're holding onto?" asked Kaminari.

"Um," said Izuku. "I was sort of... abducted by the support department? But in a nice way... And they gave me this grappling hook."

"Wow, cool! I didn't know we could get stuff like that from the support department."

"You should really read the student handbook, Kaminari," said Iida, pushing up his glasses.

"But it's so long!"

Iida tsked and adjusted his glasses more vigorously. "You're a student! You should at least be familiar with what is expected of you! Speaking of which, Midoriya, do you know how to use that?"

As much as he could learn from a ten-minute crash-course. "... yes," said Izuku, but it was clear from Iida's face that he had hesitated too long.

"Midoriya! You shouldn't have something like that in the classroom without knowing how to use it!" Iida half stood up, and Izuku clutched the grappling hook closer to his chest.

"No! Mine!" Maybe he was too attached to something he'd only had for a little over an hour, but the support department hadn't been able to give him any smoke bombs or flash grenades due to 'new school regulations regarding explosives' and he'd gone through a lot this morning.

Distress washed over Iida's face, and Izuku wondered if he'd accidentally smacked into some old trauma.

"I wasn't going to take it!" he said, earnestly waving his hands. "I just wanted to make sure you knew where the safety-"

The door to the classroom slammed open. "Is that my little brother I hear?" asked a beaming man in a track suit. Without waiting for an answer, he bounded over to where Iida was sitting and clapped him on the back. "I have come to embarrass you horribly!"

From the expression on Iida's face, this venture was doomed to failure. "I thought you were joking when you said you'd see me today!" exclaimed Iida, beaming.

"Why... why would I joke about that?"

"You joke about a lot of things. Like knowing vigila-"

"Okay! Yes, haha, funny jokester, that's me! Now why don't you introduce me to your classmates?"

"Of course! I have been remiss in my duties as vice president." He stood and executed a ninety-degree bow. "Forgive me! This is my brother, Iida Tensei! Also known as the pro hero Ingenium!"

Izuku could almost see his classmates start to put together the puzzle pieces of Chibiida and extremely tall older brother. He was more concerned about whether or not it would be rude to ask Ingenium for his autograph... and to check his analysis page on Ingenium...

"That's me! And I'll be your special guest TA today! Now, where's Aizawa? You're supposed to have him for homeroom, right?"

As one, the class pointed to the giant yellow caterpillar in the corner of the room.

"Oh my gosh, Shouta, I thought you were joking-"

.

Ingenium was, to put it in a single word, cool. To put it in two words, he was unbelievably cool. So cool Izuku was almost able to forget the impending field-trip-related DOOM they were all facing.

But not quite.

So Izuku slogged through his classes, still thrilled to be there and waning to do his best, but unable to truly focus past the crushing weight of what might happen. His classmates and maybe-friends hovered at the periphery of his suffering, clearly wanting to help, but just as clearly unsure how, or what lines they could or couldn't cross, leading them to resort to painfully awkward normal small talk.

Until they sat down for lunch, that is, by which time Monoma and Iida had gotten into a conversational spiral about how amazing UA was, how awesome Ingenium was, and how UA was truly superior for being able to have pro-heroes like Ingenium come in as TAs on such short notice.

"Midoriya," said Uraraka, startling him out of his fourth or fifth 'Kacchan sweep.'

(It was still possible that his bad feeling was related to Kacchan hunting him down and blowing him up. He'd be mortified about making such a big deal over it if that was the case, but it would be preferable to, say, a terrorist attack.)

(Why did he keep coming back to terrorist attacks?)

"Are you... okay? You've just seemed really down today, and-"

"Invisible hug!" shouted Hagakure before grabbing Izuku and lifting him over her head.

There was a beat of whispering near-silence. Then Uraraka stood up, slamming both hands on the table and inadvertently making it float. "You have got to tell me your work out routine!"

Izuku agreed.

("Strawberry," someone whispered.)

.

"I generally say what's on my mind," said Asui as the Iidas had radically different reactions to the bus seating arrangement.

"Aha," said Izuku. The swaying of the bus plus the strain of probably-Danger-Sense was making him nauseous. "What is it, Asui?'

"Call me Tsuyu."

The first time a person his age let him call them by name since kindergarten, and he couldn't properly appreciate it. Figured.

"I was watching the videos of the battle trials I missed last night," Tsuyu continued, "and I realized, I don't think any of us know what your quirk is."

Izuku's first impulse was to lie or redirect the conversation. Years of quirklessness had left their mark. But on second consideration... was there really a reason to lie? He wasn't going to talk about One for All, obviously, but the rest of it was harmless and bound to come out eventually anyway.

"Well," said Izuku, adjusting the fit of his air filter self-consciously. "That's a good question, actually."

"If you're keeping it a secret, I won't press."

"No, no, that isn't it!" Yes, it was. "It's just that, um, it's really subtle? As in, so subtle I thought I was quirkless until recently. Haha."

"Oh, wow," said Kirishima, "that must have been hard. I mean, I got teased for having a boring quirk, I can't even imagine-"

"Your quirk isn't boring! It's more than enough to be a pro!"

"But what is your quirk?" asked Monoma.

"Um," said Izuku, "well, we're not entirely sure, but... We think it lets me sense things that are dangerous? But I've also got anxiety, so..."

Monoma was frowning, but before he could speak, one of Hagakure's gloves waved frantically in front of his face.

"Is that how you knew I was there?" she asked. "In the battle trial and the entrance exam?"

"Maybe? I think so?"

"You were kind of anxious this morning," said Uraraka, concerned. "Did something bad happen to you?"

"Not- not yet," said Izuku, weakly. "It- We still don't really know how it works, so it could just be the anxiety..." He trailed off. Everyone was kind of staring at him. He pressed back against his seat, wishing there was somewhere to hide.

"Well!" said Uraraka, suddenly pumped up. "We'll just have to keep an eye out! We're hero students, aren't we?"

There was a general cheer of consensus and Izuku managed a shaky smile. So, this was what it was like to have friends.

Eventually, Mr. Aizawa told them to calm down, but there was no heat in the scolding. Maybe, Izuku thought, past the ever-increasing buzzing in his head, today would be okay after all.

.

"Yeah," said Hikage, "there's really no chance of that."

.

The Unforeseen Simulation Joint was an incredible space!

Space Hero Thirteen was about a thousand times cooler in person than on TV!

All Might, in his golden age rescue-specialized costume, looked like he'd just stepped off the pages of a comic book!

But just like Tsuyu's name, Izuku didn't have the ability to appreciate it.

As the other students marveled over the USJ, Izuku watched the adults quietly talk to one another. It seemed to be something serious.

.

"Did you find anything else with the safety checks?" asked Shouta.

"A few of the areas had the difficulty set too high- apparently some of the third-years decided to get some practice in and their supervisor didn't reset everything. Other than that? Nothing." Thirteen shook their head. "No signs of structural failure, no security gaps. Everything seems, well, normal."

"Well," said All Might, "whatever happens, we're prepared!"

Aizawa seriously doubted they were prepared for anything, but the most obvious, most likely things? Yeah.

"What do you think, Ingenium?" he asked.

"Everything looks fine to me," said Tensei, shrugging. "But if it was something obvious, then it wouldn't be so much of a threat, right?"

"We're still not sure how Midoriya's quirk really works," said Shouta. "It could be a threat just to him." He sighed heavily.

Tensei smiled in a way that just about guaranteed Shouta would be teased about this later.

"Well, I'm going to start my speech now!" said Thirteen giving the others a thumbs up. "Wish me luck!"

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As soon as Thirteen finished their (surprisingly moving) speech, all of Izuku's attention zeroed in on the air next to the fountain. A swirl of dark mist appeared next to it.

Izuku felt like he couldn't breathe.

"Mr. Aizawa-!" But he was already looking in that direction, already watching the man made covered in emerge from the dark hole, followed by a veritable horde of villains.

And Izuku didn't use the term villain idly here. Several of the people he saw were on wanted lists.

Ironically, now that he was faced with real danger, the panicked siren in his head eased off slightly. Evidently, at least some of the strain had been fear of the unknown, and now the threat was very, very known in the worst way, that particular stressor was gone.

"There he is!" cried the man covered in hands. "All Might! The one we've all come for! Nomu! Get him!"

A large villain with an exposed brain who practically sang with danger charged All Might, who grabbed him by the wrist and flung him away, towards the landslide zone. "Ha! That's not much of a challenge! You'll have to do better than that, villains!"

"Maybe," said a villain made of the same mist as the portal that had brought the others. The large villain came charging out of the landslide zone, none the worse for wear. "Maybe not."

"You might be an elite player, but can you fight the boss and protect the noobs you're powerleveling?"

The other villains surged forwards.

This is when Mr. Aizawa and Ingenium jumped into the fray, and everything immediately got more chaotic. Izuku rapidly lost track of the multiple battles occurring around him - except, wow, Mr. Aizawa was really mowing through villains, wasn't he - that Nomu guy had to have a regeneration quirk, there was just no way - he'd have to write down that villain's monolog as soon as they got out, it might have clues - Izuku had no idea that Ingenium could fly and wow that gave him some ideas for Iida-

Speaking of Iida-

"This is no time for analysis! Hurry up and evacuate!"

Right.

"I won't allow that."

Yeah the misty villain definitely had some kind of teleportation quirk, which made this whole thing even more gutsy. Quirks like that were always monitored by the government. These guys must not care about their identities.

"Greetings," he said, a metal colar slipping into place around his neck. "We are the League of Villains. Forgive our audacity, but... today we've come to-"

A gust of air from All Might's fight pushed the mist villain back. But the move had left him partially unguarded, and Izuku watched helplessly as Nomu pounded a fist into his exposed side-

Nomu knew about All Might's injury.

Oh, no.

Izuku didn't have time to process that, however, as Kirishima and Monoma jumped forward, attacking the mist villain.

The feeling of danger spiked, and Izuku barely registered Monoma's bewildered expression.

"Only students... but the best of the best... yes he was right to say you'd be a threat." Darkness spread like an ink stain from the villain's body. Darkness... and portals.

Izuku slammed into Tsuyu and Kaminari, pushing them out of the way of forming portals. He wasn't able to do the same for himself.

"Begone," intoned the mist villain, his voice echoing all around Izuku. "Writhe in torment until you breathe your last."

The next thing Izuku knew, he was in clear light and falling. From at least two stories up, over the flood zone.

And then he stopped.

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The ghosts whipped their heads around to stare at Nana. She was sitting on a stool, hiding her face in her hands, though whether it was out of embarrassment or fear for Izuku was unclear.

"Nana..." said Yoichi, softly.

"I know, I know, I'm sorry I saw him falling and pani-"

"What did you do that for!" exclaimed Banjo. "He was only fifteen, twenty meters up! Into water!"

"That's twice as high as Olympic divers go! And they screw up their bodies all the time if they hit wrong!" shot back Nana, other emotions abandoned in favor of rage.

"Uh, guys...?" said Yoichi, weakly.

"Who still watches the Olympics?" muttered En.

"If we had to give him a new quirk, it should have been a combat one!"

"You're just jealous that he has Float and not Blackwhip!"

"So what if I am?" demanded Banjo. "If he had Blackwhip, he wouldn't need that stupid grappling hook gun!"

"So, you admit Blackwhip is just a glorified grappling hook?"

"Better than a glorified- glorified-" He puffed out his cheeks. "I'm going to give him Blackwhip right now!"

"NO!" shouted the other ghosts.

"Banjo," said En, "what do you remember about people who All for One gave three quirks to?"

Banjo went pale.

"Oh, hell," said Banjo. "I'm sorry, I got carried away."

"You can say that again," grumbled Nana.

"But," continued Banjo, "doesn't this mean we can't give him the stockpile?"

They turned to Yoichi, who was far and away the expert on the stockpile quirk. He held up his hands and offered a sick, shaky smile. "We've already started the process of giving him stockpile access. There's... there's really no way to stop it."

Nana started swearing, and even Second and Third looked tense.

"But that's borrowing trouble! Maybe he'll be compatable?"

"With three quirks?"

"It's possible!" protested Yoichi. "I mean, he's- um, he's got One for All? Maybe it's more like All for One than we thought?"

"Disgusting."

"No."

"Absolutely not."

"Never say that again."

"But, again, that's a future problem, unlike the villain attack, which is a now problem."

"I see what you're saying," said En, "but we can't do anything about the villain attack, but we could theoretically do something about quirk troubles. Unless you'd rather watch helplessly while our latest-possibly-last holder is murdered?"

Yoichi sighed. "Okay, yeah, let's take a look."

.

Izuku's first thought was that Uraraka must have tagged him, but he had been way too far away from her for her to do that. Unless she had run at him when he dove for Tsuyu? Tsuyu had maybe sort of been between them...

But, no, this didn't feel like Uraraka's quirk. He'd only experienced it a couple of times, but it felt like falling. This felt more like floating on the surface of a pool.

This was, he realized as he drifted helplessly upwards and slightly sideways, Shimura Nana's quirk.

It would be really, really cool if the circumstances were different or if he had any control over the quirk whatsoever. As it was, he didn't appreciate the way he was getting progressively higher. Hitting the water at his previous height would have sucked, but he probably would have survived. Now? Not so much. So, if the quirk decided to stop as suddenly as it had started, he was doomed.

Beyond doomed.

He'd be dead.

Wait! The grappling hook!

He pulled it carefully out of its holster, making sure to wrap the loop around his wrist. He could get back to the ground with the grappling hook, anchor himself at a decent height and make use of this, or even attack, but if he dropped it...

Well. Doom and all that.

His best bet was the top of the downpour zone. It was the closest structure by far. He lined up his sights, fired, and watched as the hook fell several meters short.

That was less than ideal.

He rolled over and looked up. He wasn't that far from the ceiling-

Danger Sense screamed at him, and he was falling, just in time to miss getting hit by a jet of water from below. Izuku, naturally, started screaming as well and fired the grappling hook blindly. He rejoiced as a metallic thunk told him it had hit something and immediately hit the stop button, almost wrenching his shoulders out of their sockets. However, his joy quickly turned to horror as he realized he was now headed toward the hard, unforgiving side of the downpour zone at a dangerously high speed. He squeezed his eyes shut.

Float turned back on.

Izuku let out a somewhat pathetic whine in relief, and hit the retract button on the grappling hook gun, letting it pull him up to the roof.

From here, he had an acceptable view of the rest of the USJ. He shaded his eyes to look back at the main plaza and entrance. He could see Eraserhead and Ingenium fighting back to back in the central plaza. All Might and Nomu were tearing up trees in one of the forested areas, and near the entrance he could see Thirteen, Iida, Uraraka, Shouji, Sato, Sero, and Ashido facing down the mist villain. Hopefully, with those numbers, they'd be able to get past him.

Looking elsewhere, Izuku had to assume Todoroki was in the landslide zone, with the spiky ring of ice in the middle of it. He must be holding back. He could make out a fight happening in the mountain zone, but couldn't tell who was involved.

That was more than half the class unaccounted for, including Tsuyu and Kaminari, who he'd thought he'd pushed away from portals. They were probably in the other zones, but...

He took a deep breath. Focus. Where would he do the most good? Danger Sense couldn't tell him that right now, with all these bright threats all around him. He had to decide on his own.

The fight in the mountain area wasn't going well. The number of visible villains was only increasing.

Could Izuku get there? He bit his lip as he contemplated the distance, then jogged back to the opposite side of the downpour zone roof.

Then he ran.

Then he-

-jumped-

-off the roof.

Float activated at the top of the arc of his jump, and his momentum sent him tumbling forward towards the mountain zone. As he approached and began to slow (air resistance still being a thing, apparently), he was able to see Yaoyorozu and Jiro fighting for their lives. Yaoyorozu did not look good.

This wasn't a great way to be proven right about her quirk having drawbacks.

He aimed the grappling hook at one of the larger, closer villains, not really caring about how much damage it would do, and fired.

.

"Wow," said En. "Kid definitely has a bit of a ruthless streak."

"Imagine how much better he'd do with Blackwhip."

"He wouldn't have been able to get there in the first place without Float."

"Honestly," continued En, "I don't get why Second and Third don't like him. They never shut up about Nana and Eighth being too soft, after all."

"What? They said that stuff about me, too?"

"Yeah, I think they're just unsatsifiable at this point. It's annoying."

"I was much more violent and ruthless than Toshi, though."

"I know."

"Yoichi," said Hikage. "I'm not seeing any sign of additional stress on Ninth's body."

"That's because Izuku is the best."

"Or," said En, "it's because he's only had Nana's quirk for, like, five, ten minutes, tops."

"Or because he's the best. Just look at how he's helped his friends defeat all those villains!"

"Compelling argument," said Hikage.

.

"What- what now?" asked Yaoyorozu, holding herself up with one of her staffs. The mountain zone was littered with various weapons and shrapnel from Yaoyorozu's quirk use. This included a canon. Which was really cool, but seemed a bit over the top... and maybe not the most efficient thing to make, considering Yaoyorozu's limitations.

"I don't know," admitted Izuku. He'd been flung around the field as a makeshift flail/bola by the girls a few times, and was a little dizzy.

He looked back out at the battles still taking place in the plaza. "I think... Maybe we should go down, and make our way around the edge to the entrance. We could pick up Todoroki and see if there's anyone in the ruins zone who needs help-"

Then he saw the hand villain step forward, facing down Eraserhead as Ingenium was lured away in defense of Tsuyu and Kaminari, who had just run out of the wooded area, trailing villains. Danger flared in his mind's eye, and, for the second time in his life, his body moved by itself.

[stillness-in-green]

MVA In Memoriam (2/5)

The Comprehensive Account of the Butchering of My Villain Academia

(Introduction and Part One, Episode 108: My Villain Academia)

Part Two, Episode 109: Revival Party

Chapter 224 – Revival Party

• Mr. Compress’s side comment about how the distance Re-Destro wants them to travel means he must know they have warp capabilities. Also shortens his subsequent line, removing the bit about how their position has been locked onto, leaving only the marveling about the dude on the phone being the kind of person who has access to a satellite camera. Not a major cut, but it did strip out a bit of reiteration on how very Seen the League is. The warp line is another nod to how the MLA’s been doing their research—in particular, it ties in nicely with RD’s observations about the Noumu. He talks, there, about something Dabi said after the High End fight, which means he must also know that Dabi was warped out by an “Ujiko-san.”

• Also Mr. C’s observation that they haven’t broken Machia yet, and his posed question about what to do. Mr. Compress, I’m so sorry that you’re so wordy and lose so many quips and asides because the anime was set on brutally scything out every line of non-essential dialogue it could find.

• Ujiko’s extremely hilarious, “Listening to Villain Radio is my new favorite hobby,” line. Why would you cut this; this line is hysterical.

• The bit where Mr. Compress has the bright idea to use a High End Noumu like the one Dabi used, Ujiko rejects the suggestion out of hand, citing production woes, and Shigaraki says that he wasn’t going to ask for one of them anyway. Aside from being more cut Compress content (or “Comptent,” for short), it helps center the timeline somewhat at a point where the manga is jerking it around all over; it also shows that the League has been keeping up with news from the outside world. It also shows that at least one of them thought about using the Noumu—and since we know Re-Destro did some rationalizing on that scenario too, it’s good to see that it is at least briefly on the table.           Further, Ujiko provides a few rare details about the Noumu creation process. Firstly, that AFO is normally involved, so his absence makes the procedure much more difficult (though not, apparently, impossible). Secondly, that Hood-chan was the only Noumu who’d actually reached the testing stage. This will be important later, for Ujiko’s agonizing about unleashing them early/Mirko having to fight four of them at once.           Also, I just miss Mr. C’s funny little head wilt when Ujiko immediately turns down his “use some Noumu” idea. Ditto Shigaraki’s blasé shrug and little grin. Again, not to harp on the art too much, but man I wish the anime had kept all the fierce little grins and tight, incensed smirks Shigaraki has through the majority of this and the phone call sequence.

• Spinner’s line, “Without knowing squat about what we’re up against?!” A minor cut, as these things go, but it reiterates that there’s a chance RD is bluffing and the League has no way to know one way or the other, and demonstrates that the League can give Shigaraki some pushback on his decisions without having to worry about getting dusted for the temerity.[1]

• Takes one of Spinner’s lines—“Wait. I get it. Wherever you go, Shigaraki, he’ll sniff you out and hunt you down.”—and gives it to Shigaraki instead. Because fuck Spinner’s growing understanding of Shigaraki and the way his mind works, I guess! It’s especially notable that Spinner figures this out when Mr. C had completely the wrong idea about Shigaraki’s intentions—it demonstrates the way Spinner is gradually aligning himself with Shigaraki’s way of thinking, which we’ll see even more clearly during the War Arc. Also, again, it’s good to see the moments where the League weighs in on Shigaraki’s plans.

• The visual of Twice lashing out at Dabi with his razor-edged tape measure over Dabi’s dismissal of Giran, though all the relevant dialogue was there. Possibly this is because, having cut the CRC bit, the audience has no way of knowing that Twice’s tape measure is razor-edged, so why bother raising the question, “Why is Twice trying to attack Dabi with a tape measure..?” Possibly it’s because showing that attack would require animating movement, and MAN ALIVE, did Episode 109 ever want to do everything it could to avoid animating movement.

• Slidin’ Go’s line about how Deika isn’t usually his turf, but today is a big exception. This makes the hearty affirmative with which Trumpet announces himself a response to Shigaraki’s half-phrased observation about the reason behind the city’s emptiness, rather than a response to Slidin’ Go. It works, more or less, and probably even flows more clearly, all things considered. I’m always sad to lose lines from the vanishingly few named/characterized MLA members we have, though. I like, too, that it hints at the machinations that have to have been involved with setting things up for the Revival Party, and the way those plans were carried out with confidence that Re-Destro’s “bait the League into coming for their broker” plan would work despite the total absence of a response from the League in any of the time Giran was missing/his fingers were cropping up on the nightly news reports.

• A few shots of cameras in the city, which foreshadow Skeptic’s watchful eyes and ability to track the League through the city. In retrospect, this isn’t surprising, since the anime went on to cut basically any indication of Skeptic’s entire plan re: the footage of the League attacking, so why bother keeping the cameras? (Oh, right. Skeptic’s whole thing is cameras and information/disinformation. Skeptic for second-most screwed-by-the-anime MLA member.)

Additions

• Showed Toga having stood back up somewhere during Shigaraki’s explanation of their throw-Machia-against-the-MLA plan. A simply appalling choice. In the manga, she stays crouched down by Twice the entire time Shigaraki has his mask pulled off, because Toga cares about reassuring Jin-kun when he’s in a bad way.

• Rephrased Compress’s dialogue somewhat, also giving him a new line about the MLA’s forces in Deika when the League was still in the hills looking down at the city: “The so-called Meta Liberation Army has a force of 110,000 here.” I assume it was because the scene falls in a different episode than the tactical discussion did (in the manga, they’re the same chapter), so the anime was reminding the viewer of the stakes, but it’s potentially awkward because, er, no, the MLA categorically did not bring their entire army to Deika. We’ll find out as much for sure later, with the note that the regiment advisors weren’t in attendance because they were occupied at the bases they command, but even with only the knowledge we have here, Re-Destro’s statement about his numbers is that they’re scattered all over the country—hence the shot of Japan with a bunch of lights scattered across it to represent said numbers.           That said, to be (briefly) charitable, there’s no particular reason for the League to assume that, and they did discuss the possibility that there were going to have to fight 110,000 people. So it makes sense that Mr. C might state as much when recapping for the audience.

Chapter 225 – Interview with a Vampire

• Re-Destro talking about Deika’s geography and why they chose it strategically. The anime dropped so much about the MLA’s planning and information-gathering beforehand; it really made the MLA look ludicrously overconfident. And while they don’t lack for that trait, certainly,[2] this is also an organization that has meticulously grown its membership for generations right under Hero Society’s collective nose; you don’t get to where they are by being unduly foolhardy. Erasing so many scenes demonstrating their caution and forward-planning undercuts the threat they represent to both the League and society at large.           Also too, the descriptor of Deika as a nice, quiet, isolated little town in the mountains gives us some hints about how the MLA has avoided notice for so long, when you consider how the Hero business works: because so many people who get into heroism want to make it big, like celebrities, they don’t want to stick around small-town beats, and so the rural areas are understaffed.[3] That’s presumably why groups like the CRC and the MLA grow their numbers out in the boonies: much less attention from the Powers That Be. You can guess at some of that from how Spinner describes the place—“not too small, not too big”—and what Trumpet says about the percentage of the population that’s MLA, but RD adds that key “isolated” descriptor, and says that it’s a place where they “lay low.” That gives us some potential insight into how many—likely the majority—of the MLA came to their beliefs: by being raised to them, because their hometown was infiltrated by the MLA generations ago and they have literally never known anything else.

• RD’s phrasing, “Counter to point one,” when he makes his second point about the Noumu. He acknowledges that it’s counter-intuitive to his first argument, that he knows it would normally be an argument against that opening point, not in support. It’s just conversational padding, really, but “conversational padding” like that does a lot to distinguish character voice, so that not everyone talks the same way.

• A panel showing a trio of unnamed MLA warriors strategizing about how to divide their forces now that the League has split up. It’s the little cuts like this that gradually remove the agency of unnamed characters, such that they’re left looking like unthinking puppets instead of real people with the ability to register and respond to their circumstances. It also points towards the truth of what the MLA warriors are and one reason they’re so dangerous (for all that the manga itself will neglect this most egregiously later on): they’re trained in regiment tactics and accustomed to working in groups. This contrasts them both with villains, who might group together, but certainly don’t usually fight that way, and heroes, who are so unaccustomed to working in groups that it’s cited as part of the reason to have named super moves.

• Curious’s little pageboy-cut middle school kid line telling Toga to back off when Miss Curious is on the job. This is an early example of how defensive the MLA are of people above them in the hierarchy, an important thing Spinner will pick up on and attempt to use against Trumpet. Again, it’s little moments like this that both add some welcome notes of individuality to the MLA warriors (if only by virtue of Horikoshi and his assistants’ traditional talent for distinctive character design) while also fleshing out who the MLA are as a group, and contrasting them with the League.

• Deleted Toga’s line IDing her “on-the-go suck-suck mask,” but did insert a nice little bit of her expression shifting when she whipped it out. It lost a bit of the self-conscious silliness of her support item name in exchange for a cool little animation beat. I don’t dislike it, particularly, but I am, as previously stated, very leery of edits that make the League more polished in their villainy at the cost of their human foibles.

• Curious’s line about having come prepared to counter Toga’s moves, which was supposed to further reiterate that the MLA has done their research on the League; they didn’t just decide out of the blue to target the most notorious Villains in the country without studying up on them first and planning accordingly!

• Curious’s line about how she’s going to get started with some background info while her people use their meta-abilities to keep Toga and her buddies on the ropes. A marvelously characterful line! It speaks especially to that edge of formality the MLA brass observe that even as she’s ringleading this attack, Miss Curious is still set on going through her interview process step by established step.

Framing Shifts

• Made some of Curious’s lines spoken dialogue instead of internal monologue. That’s probably fine for when she’s waxing enthusiastic about Toga’s lack of hesitation in committing murder or how she’ll use Toga’s story to further the MLA’s agenda. It’s less fine when she’s rattling out the entire name, brand and patent status of her support item for no particular reason when Toga is already halfway through trying to knife her (that’ll be next chapter).

• The anime implied pretty firmly that Curious’s bombers died. And like, yeah, that’s always made more sense than the idea that anyone could survive something like that, but I hate it anyway. For one thing, it makes it even harder to credit the idea that Toga’s still on her feet afterward if Curious’s supposedly not-very-lethal explosions merk all her own people. People in this series survive ludicrous amounts of damage, and these random MLA devotees are no exception! For another, it leans into the narrative that the MLA higher-ups throw away the lives of their minions without the slightest care. It’s a lot harder to make that case when it’s explicit in the manga that Curious’s people survive the blood explosions—the blonde in the tracksuit is unharmed enough to snicker about it, and the noodle chef is even doing well enough to continue attacking! I’ve always been of the opinion that the MLA are, yes, willing to spend the lives of their underlings on attaining goals, if that’s what they think is necessary, but that is not at all the same as gleefully throwing them onto the pyre to watch them burn.

Additions

• Some individual shots of Mr. Compress, Dabi and Twice fending off or fleeing from various MLA types. A nice try on getting the group split up, but it feels kind of budget save-y, when we could have gotten actual animation of those fights instead.

• Inserted a quick shot of a headline about Toga’s first attack as Curious was rambling on about why she’s interested in Toga but not the League in general. Actually a fairly reasonable insertion, given how much text is crammed into her talk bubble in the manga while the dude standing next to her is already getting a knife in the neck.

Chapter 226 – Bloody Love

• A panel of interviewees talking about Toga’s first victim being sociable and popular. It gives a bit of context on what he was like, what people thought of him, but given that we know enough about Toga at this point to know that his popularity was entirely incidental to what she liked about him, it’s not a huge loss.

• The detail of the broadcasted interviews censoring Toga’s name. Considering how Japanese media normally treats minors accused of crimes, this is an eyebrow-raising change—the manga censors it because Japanese media outlets would have done the same. No idea why the anime didn’t, unless it’s another of those places where it would feel too “real,” to have something that so closely mirrors real life treatment of criminals?

• Everything about quirk counseling, and whoo boy, that is a loaded cut. There is exactly one other mention of quirk counseling anywhere in the manga, and, curiously enough, it also comes up in relation to a villain: in the U.A. faculty meeting after the USJ attack, Midnight muses that maybe Shigaraki never received quirk counseling in elementary school. It’s a weird little non sequitur there—exactly what sort of program did she expect could single-handedly make the difference between a well-adjusted adult and a gleefully murderous manchild with aims on killing Japan’s Number 1 Hero? Just over two hundred chapters later, we get a hint: a program designed to fit people “neatly into society’s little boxes.”           Quirk counseling, then, is not about helping children find healthy ways to process their quirks, but rather, about teaching children what is and is not acceptable in terms of quirk use—and as Curious says, Toga’s admiration of blood was never going to be acceptable.[4] This explanation doesn’t just tell us a lot about Toga—that she wasn’t only failed by the hysterical condemnation of her parents, but also by a society that had no interest in helping her if it didn’t see a use for her—but also provides some insight on the viewpoint of the Meta Liberation Army vis-à-vis mandatory state-funded programs that dictate what “normalcy” looks like to impressionable children.           Curious is, of course, not a particularly trustworthy narrator in this, as one might expect of someone who uses language like “society’s little boxes,” but it does track with Midnight’s earlier musing of, “Maybe the anti-social dude never took the program intended to make sure he was a functioning member of society.” That kind of statement—“State-sponsored educational programs are there to program children into becoming unthinking cogs of society, actually.”—is one that it’s all too easy to imagine the people with an eye on broadcast standards taking issue with, even coming as it does from the mouth of a villain.

• Curious’s line, “Let’s turn your death into a legendary tragedy, shall we?” and its accompanying visual of two different papers with imagined headlines. The dialogue doesn’t strike me as crucial—Curious’s fervent belief in Toga’s story is amply demonstrated elsewhere and her intent to turn that story into a legend reiterated in the line immediately following—but it is a shame to lose the headlines. They tell us, in Curious’s own words, exactly the tack she was planning to take in telling Toga’s story to the general public, without the constant namedropping of the Liberation Army that she does when talking about it in person. One headline in particular—The Price of Suppression: A String of Bloody Murders—is an especially useful reference for discussing whether the MLA actually wants, as is popularly claimed, completely unhindered quirk use, even for people like e.g. Muscular who want nothing more than to murder people with their quirks.[5]

• Curious’s initial wait what response to getting Floated, and her people’s focus shifting away from Toga and onto Curious instead. On a surface level, that focus shift helps explain why Toga’s able to zip around the ground and touch nearly twenty people before they even react: because they’re afraid for Curious. It also hurts the ongoing characterization of the MLA rank and file as being fanatically devoted to their higher-ups which, again, is something Spinner is supposed to notice later. It’s the worst kind of plot device if that devotion is completely told to us rather than consistently shown!

• Toga’s internal reflection that she’s seen Ochaco use her quirk, and knows how to use it. It’s obvious from the panel that she knows how to use it, but the manga implies that Toga transforming doesn’t automatically grant her an understanding of peoples’ quirks; it’s only in observation (and possibly love) that she can reach this particular unlock. Leaving out that information leaves open the possibility that she can just do this all the time now, with anybody she transforms into.

• The reaction from the surviving crowd to Curious’s death. See above re: STOP FUCKING ERASING HOW MUCH THE MLA CARES FOR EACH OTHER.

Framing Shifts

• When Toga bolts, Curious in the anime sounded serious, her expression alarmed, like she was actually worried that Toga might escape, even though her dialogue said just the opposite. Maybe you could say that she was afraid Toga would die before she got her statement, but given that she tried to kill the girl herself moments later, I’m skeptical of that claim. Regardless, in the manga, she never loses her smile, and she flashes a Liberation salute as she stands up to give chase. It’s a characterization note, that she’s so wildly confident about this that she never stops being completely enthralled with whatever Toga has to show her.

Chapter 227 – Sleepy

• The last of Toga’s conscious dialogue, about how she’s lost a lot of blood, is fading out, can’t move—but more notably, the way that this state of things makes her feel closer to “them,” that it’s “the same sensation.” And who is “they” here—her victims? The people she loves? More alarmingly, why does the line sound like she’s been this beat-up before, and remembers the sensation? Does that tie into e.g. her comment during the training camp that she doesn’t want to fight too many hero students at once because she doesn’t want to die? Has she actually been subject to this kind of violence before in the past? Does that tie into her still-unexplained ability to erase her presence? It’s an interestingly loaded little line, for being so vague, and illustrative of Toga’s mentality on becoming the people she loves. Which also lets the scene segue nicely into Re-Destro’s observation that, in Toga Himiko’s world, there’s no such thing as “other people.”           On which note, guess what else the anime cut?

• The entire fucking scene where Re-Destro actually reacts to Curious’ death, the motherfuckers. This lost:           1. RD’s talk about the way Toga sees the world and how that led to society casting her out, which he points to as evidence of said society clinging to old ideals even though the nature of humanity itself has changed. It calls back to his methodology with Detnerat, marrying his lines from the commercial to his overarching ideals; it also shows that he understood very well what Curious saw in Toga, and demonstrates that he can express that understanding and empathy even in the face of losing one of his closest allies.           2. Skeptic’s reaction to Curious’s death, which is pretty sparse, but at least present. He says she never should have been on the front lines—an excellent reminder to the people who’re always going on about how the MLA brass thinks themselves so above their followers: Curious was on the front lines, against the wishes of some of her peers!—and calls her a valuable resource.[6] You can theorize about Skeptic not caring for her beyond her usefulness to the cause, or just that Skeptic is a huge autist who processes his emotions differently than most, and isn’t going to stop to do that when there’s still a battle going on, but either way, you need this scene to do it accurately.           3. Speaking of people who process their emotions in unusual ways, as I said above, this scene also shows Re-Destro openly crying over the deaths of Curious and each and every warrior diving into battle with their hopes for the future. They’re not crocodile tears, either. As was the case with Miyashita, there’s no one in this room that Re-Destro would need to perform grief for: Skeptic clearly doesn’t see a use for tears right now, so I don’t see him expecting them from Re-Destro, and the only other person in the room is Giran, a hostage who the MLA—very probably Re-Destro himself—maimed! It’s not like RD’s tears are going to change Giran’s mind about him (indeed, Giran gets a comedic reaction beat at the absurdity of the dude who started all this up here crying about it)! But RD says life is precious and he cries anyway, briefly, before he ruthlessly turns it off.           RD’s valuing of human life—especially his own peoples’ lives—crops up in roundabout ways twice more, both leading the fight with Shigaraki (“It angers me.”) and ending it (“Any more would bring about meaningless death.”). This, though, is when he’s most open about it, to the degree that—as with Machia’s grief—it’s kind of off-putting and strange. Cutting it makes it that much easier for people to get entirely the wrong impression of RD as a character.           4. The delightful scene where Skeptic berates Giran about asking brainless questions and then answers his question anyway. Fuckin’ hell, why cut this?? So much of Skeptic’s character is in this scene! You get moments of his neuroticism later on, but never in so concentrated a burst as this (there’s one other sequence that could compete, but—spoilers—the anime cut that one, too). The exchange also explains the cameras placed throughout the city—which are visually referenced early on—and what the MLA is planning to do with their footage. Without that explanation, the audience has no idea how, exactly, the MLA was planning to use wiping out the League as a springboard for their grand return to the spotlight. That footage is the crucial part of how the rest of the country reacts to Deika in the Endeavor Agency Arc, and the anime never even mentioned it! The audience was just left to assume that all the media came in afterward, not that there was the slightest whiff of footage from the battle itself.           5. Once again brings up Re-Destro’s belief in the power of the heart to move other hearts. We get a bit of that in Curious’s flashback, but here he says it in his own words—as he will also bring it up to Shigaraki. Once again, Shigaraki is going to be challenged about his conviction, which ties back into what Spinner and Ujiko demanded from him earlier in the arc. With so

many people set to be grilling Shigaraki on this front, it tells us again what the arc is for: Shigaraki’s conviction, and him demonstrating it to the people who think he lacks it.

• The panel of Spinner asking how long they’ve been at it and Mr. Compress responding. This line helps manage the pacing, giving the audience an idea how much time is passing as we cut around to different places. It’s also, you know, more cut Spinner dialogue, and shows the beginnings of Shigaraki and Spinner getting split off from the rest by Shigaraki’s sleep-drunk staggering angling him off in a different direction. The rest of the scene is moved to after Toga’s fight with Curious, but not otherwise tampered with.

• The other big reaction to Curious’s death, which is Trumpet using it to rile up the crowd. The group that attacks Shigaraki isn’t just some free-roaming mob—they’re coming at him in a grief-stricken frenzy, which they’ve been goaded into by one of their leaders.           This sequence also introduces the campaign van—a vehicle that will have several more appearances—to events, and hints at Trumpet’s meta-ability. Further, it’s one of the scenes that outright states that the MLA is less an army than a religion, in Mr. Compress’s line about how Trumpet is like a preacher rallying his flock. That understanding—that the MLA may style themselves as an army, but what they really are is a cult—is key to the way the MLA members act, from the very bottom to the very top.

• Trimmed Shigaraki’s flashback down, cutting—among other things—the very first lines Hana speaks, and her namedrop. This moment is the first one Tomura gets back, and the very first thing we find out is that he was doing something he wasn’t supposed to be doing. The anime also failed to identify Shimura Nana’s relation to Tenko/Tomura and Hana—helpful to remind the audience of a plot thread they haven’t heard about since Kamino. It also cut out the silhouette of chubby baby Tenko and Tenko’s first line, asking why Hana’s showing him this, a line which clues us in that Hana was the impetus here, not Shigaraki as he was back then. Still not satisfied, it also cut the phrase, “Daddy said all that stuff,” which is a clear and ominous warning that there was some conflict going on between young Shigaraki and the Father whose dismembered hand he now wears on his face.

• Left the dialogue but cut the silhouette of an airborne Geten with his enormous ice fists coming in hot behind Dabi when he was smarming about it not being his style to take the pacifist route. It’s not crucial, since we see the fists again shortly (it’s the end of the chapter page, whereas the anime rolls right on into the continuation of the scene), but it’s a shame, since framing Dabi from below with this sudden presence behind him is a much more fun, dynamic angle than the dead-boring medium shot the anime used. Also too, it’s good foreshadowing for the fact that Geten can fly, since he certainly didn’t get that kind of air by jumping off the roof of the mini-mart across the street.

Framing Shifts

• The crowd attacking Tomura came at him from the back of the shot, whereas in the manga, they’re surging forth from the front; that is, the anime had Shigaraki between the crowd and the POV of the viewer, whereas the manga has the crowd interposing between the viewer and Shigaraki. It makes a huge difference in the impact! Running up from a nebulous background distance, the crowd looked small and futile. Crossing directly in front of the viewer as they attack Shigaraki makes them look like the crashing human wave that they are. But, you know, coming in from the front would mean they’d have to be animated with more detail, and again, Episode 109, more than any other episode in the arc, clearly didn’t have the budget to spare on such things.

• The moment Shigaraki first uses the spreading Decay is horrifically clear in the manga. It’s full of speed lines, Shigaraki moving so fast he decays a dude mid-word, but the impact itself is spread over two pages. We watch his hand literally cleaving through the leading attacker’s face, and then are encouraged to linger on the oversized panel below, the intricately drawn crowd, full of individual faces, still intact on the left, scattering to dust on the right, all fully lit, with Shigaraki—still drawn with speedlines to emphasize his movement—the focal figure in black at the center.           The anime rendered this moment in two stills—Shigaraki’s hand about to hit the lead attacker’s face, and then the crowd already decaying. There was virtually no movement to it, the crowd was so heavily silhouetted against a glare of daylight that it was difficult to tell what was going on, and the moment stayed on screen for only two seconds before Shigaraki landed and threw up, both actions favored with more animation than one of the signature moments of the entire arc. Hell, it even left the walls on either side of the alley intact, when the manga shows them dissolving into ash as well, decay traveling through the ground in a deadly, destructive radius around Shigaraki’s attack.           The anime ever-so-graciously allowed Spinner his line to explain to the audience what just happened, but I think that’s mostly because it would be genuinely difficult to parse if he didn’t. It also gave him a flashback to what we had literally just seen, except this time it wasn’t silhouetted for some reason, so at least the audience got another chance to look at it, I guess?           “Am I seeing things? Just now, his decay effect spread to people he wasn’t even touching!” Well, I guess we’ll have to take your word for it, Spinner.

Additions

• A quick shot of a camera, there and gone almost too fast to register. I want to compliment the anime for adding a camera back in, since it removed the shot of the cameras earlier, but honestly, given that it cut all the scenes about how and why the MLA was gathering footage, I really don’t know why it even bothered. Also too, the camera was gone so fast it felt more like a marker for a scene change—which it also was, segueing the scene from Toga collapsing (only to cut back to her later staggering down an alley) to Spinner and the rest still trying to hold their own—than it did something the audience was supposed to really notice.

Chapter 228 – Wounded Soul

• Twice in the opening pages left out scattered members of the MLA that were around for the start of the Dabi/Geten fight. Leaving them out raises the question of where all the people attacking went, but it’s also the first demonstration that Geten is a danger to his own allies. We don’t see any of them dying on-panel or anything, but we do see them having to dive frantically out of the way because Geten demonstrates no care to the collateral damage of his attacks.

• Cut a small flashback, presumably from Twice’s perspective, of finding the site where Toga and Curious’s fight concluded. You can see the ground covered in blood, and a body that looks a bit like Curious if you squint (distinguishable by the sleeves of her jacket), as well as a small group of people kneeling on the ground in various poses suggesting mourning and a paying of respects. Yet another shot demonstrating the depths of care these people have for their leaders, that they’ve completely let the battle fall by the wayside in favor of their grief.

• Drops the “those zealots” phrase from Twice’s, “I’ll rip those zealots limb from limb for this!” line. Damn, the anime really was determined to erase everything that even hints at the Liberation Army being something much creepier and more damaging than just an underground militia, huh?

Framing Shifts

• For all my complaints about the material, I generally like the voice acting quite a bit. I don’t love the first exchange between Dabi and Geten, though. It’s not a fault of the voice actors themselves, but rather the delivery. Geten was very cool and level-headed throughout, which is all right to a point, but he’s a gremlin under that troll parka, and this fight is where we hear him as close as we ever will to how he is before the multi-layered humbling he’s subject to over the course of this fight. It’s a bit of a shame to play him totally straight, without any of the snark he’s so clearly capable of—and without the tick upwards in vehemence his talk bubbles indicate in his last lines.           Meanwhile, it’s fine for Dabi to get more heated as the scene goes along, and indeed he does, but he also plays it pretty cool at first. You can tell in the shape of his talk bubbles that he’s completely unruffled during his delivery of that, “Consider this a freebie, just for you: ice melts,” line. The anime had him raising his voice for it, and it just loses a lot of the humor of Dabi’s own snark to have him yelling it instead of just laughingly stating it, voice barely raising enough to give his talk bubbles some straighter lines instead of being all undisturbed curves. (For comparison’s sake, it’s about the same level of angular as Geten’s, “You’d best not think your little campfire can melt my ice!” line, but the anime had Dabi shout his line, while Geten continued at the same unperturbed volume he’d maintained since the beginning.)

• As with Shigaraki’s first mass decay, the shot of Geten’s ice dragon did not make the impact on me in the anime that the manga did. I think it’s mostly the way the ice was colored? The claw’s pretty good, but the head looks blobby and indistinct, more like blue soft-serve than the shifting, sharp-edged, brilliantly bright sculpture-in-motion of the manga.

• Twice’s voice actor did his best to sell the scene of him finding Toga, but I wish they’d kept that tight close-up on his mouth when he says, “Give it up. The girl’s dead.” They animated him leaning closer to the camera, but that doesn’t have the sharpness of that sudden cut to being right there on his lips, like some malevolent thing is using them to speak words so terrible that they can’t even be associated with the rest of his face.

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Come back next time (and hopefully in less time) for Part Three, Episode 110: Sad Man's Parade.

FOOTNOTES

[1] We would, of course, have an even clearer idea of that had the anime not cut the scene of Spinner shouting in Shigaraki’s face.

[2] It seems particularly strange to me that Curious and RD both mention quirk evolution as a thing they know can happen in extreme circumstances, but didn’t predict that backing the League into a life-or-death corner might provoke one or two members to undergo exactly that evolution.

[3] Mount Lady is the obvious example, but you can look to places like the island in Heroes Rising, too: one hero, and when they retired, a group of high school kids had to go sub in for a while until a replacement could be arranged. It’s not like retirements just happen overnight; the Commission had to have known it was coming. Still, they had to scramble to find someone. It doesn’t suggest they had anybody just champing at the bit to take the post, you know?

[4] In Chapter 140, we see a young Tamaki Amajiki in a class called “quirk training.” It’s uncertain how connected this P.E.-like class is to quirk counseling, but Toga wouldn’t have been getting much help there, either, seeing as it’s all about figuring out how to use one’s quirk in a way that’s “useful to society.” I can think of some ways, but nothing that I expect would be very popular or liable to be explained to a grade schooler in a country with as long a history with ritual cleanliness as Japan. To a Shinto mindset, Transformation isn’t just off-putting or unhygienic; it’s spiritually unclean.

[5] The answer there being, no, obviously not, or Curious wouldn’t, in all apparent sincerity, be trying to characterize Toga using her quirk to murder people as an undesirable outcome, a cost society is paying for its current stance on quirk use. Yes, you can gather that much from her calling Toga a tragic girl, and Re-Destro concurring later, but listen, I will take every line I can get that I can use to push back against the wretchedly widespread idea that the kid whose name means Apocrypha is the be-all-end-all source on MLA ideology, somehow more reliable and trustworthy than every other MLA character combined, including Destro himself. I would very much like it if the anime had not deleted a bunch of my talking points while making good and sure to leave all Geten’s most damning lines intact.

[6] Not that an anime-only person would fully understand why some random reporter was all that valuable a resource, since the anime cut the explanation of what Curious actually does for a living.

[arctimon]

The Mystery of Dark Volt - A Big Hero 6 Analysis

The Big Hero 6 fandom have wondered for a long time just who Dark Volt is.  For those of you who may not know, Dark Volt is a supervillain mentioned in passing by Roddy Blair as “someone who stiffed him” on his supervillain lair remodel and Supersonic Sue as “a good bad guy” who made her electrical gear.

But...who is Dark Volt, exactly?

So I’ve had a little bit of time to figure out just who the heck this guy is, and...well, it’s still a mystery.  Part of the reason for this is because of this particular moment in “Fred the Fugitive”:

If you remember, Chief Cruz is talking to Hiro in the forest about how his father died by the hands of a supervillain.  Somewhere along the way, people in the fandom seemed to assume that this is Dark Volt.

But it’s not.

Er.

It may not.

I’ve rewatched that moment, as well as the other Dark Volt mentions, and I certainly can’t find anything that says that this is definitively Dark Volt.  If I’m wrong, someone please mention it below.

So we’re actually going to handle two questions today: who Dark Volt is...

And who the heck this is.

The very obvious answer to who Dark Volt is lies in his name, and what Marvel character it closely resembles.

And that is Black Bolt.

Black Bolt (also known as Blackagar Boltagan, which just sounds like the weirdest name ever) is the leader of the Inhumans and is generally considered a good guy (or at least neutral).  In the great Marvel continuity, he’s not a villain.

Of course, you can always reverse it, if you’re a certain fandom member:

Dark Volt is a relic of Boss Awesome and Supersonic Sue’s time, so it would certainly make sense that Dark Volt is of their age.  Black Bolt has also been around long enough where he could become an antagonist for whatever reason in this continuity.

It also seems like Dark Volt is no longer active at this point in Big Hero 6, since Sue refers to him in the past tense.  Even Steamer alludes to something happening with his lab.

But being old doesn’t stop anyone these days, and as the show has taught us, someone like Sue or Boss Awesome can still do what they do without slowing down.

Or, in the case of comics, just say youthful forever.

Which leads into the second question: if Chief Cruz’s father’s killer isn’t Dark Volt, who is it?

Because it wouldn’t be a Big Hero 6 post without me trying to connect it to the Marvel universe, let’s take a look again.

A lot of us have watched the Captain America and Avengers movies, so minds jump immediately to people like Red Skull or Dr. Faustus.  But let me give you some food for thought before I go. A shadowy figure with gauntlets that seemingly give him powers or keep him alive?  Only the eyes visible?  Why is that?  Is it because that’s the only thing that you can see?

Baron Zemo, is that you?

I know this post didn’t really answer the question as to who Dark Volt is.  He could be the person that killed Cruz’s father and I just don’t know.  Captain America (and by cross-dimensional extension, Boss Awesome) has a ton of supervillains in his gallery.

Don’t believe me?

“I was a kid when Boss Awesome showed up in the city...and so did a bunch of bad guys who all wanted to be the one to beat him.”

I want to know who these guys are.

Or...most of them.

We know one of them is Arnim Zola.  You can’t hide a giant robot body with one eye and pass them off as just anyone.

There is another way that you can look at this, of course.

Cruz blames Boss Awesome for not saving his father’s life, and that is entirely valid.  But why would that villain (Dark Volt or otherwise) even go after Cruz Sr.?

The evulz?  He was in the way?

...Or was it Cruz’s job as a punisher of evil? ...For the record, there is only one person that is going to get that reference, and that’s only because we’ve talked about it before.

Either way, we did get robbed of a Dark Volt cameo or storyline in a potential Season 4.  Imagine Hiro and the gang having to deal with possibly the scariest villain they’ve ever faced. Like more than Obake.

Sends a chill down your spine, doesn’t it?

[daniel306gaming]

¿What if Harry Osborn was in Spider-Man No Way Home?

To: James Franco, Tom Holland, Jon Watts, Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios

                                                      Intro

¿What if events went differently in the MCU? What if Harry Osborn was in Spider-Man No Way Home? In today’s fan fiction we’re going to be exploring what would have happened if Norman Osborn from the Raimiverse was teleported into the MCU in Spider-Man No Way Home. ¿How can this affect the multiverse going forward? This is my own take of events taking inspiration from the 2007-08 One More Day and 2014-15 Spider-Verse story arc with elements from the 2010 One Moment in Time comic while following the mythology of Norman Osborn and Spider-Man and the timeline of the MCU. Without wasting anymore time sit back and relax and enjoy this 2 part fan fiction.

                                                      Prologue

Now that we saw Peter-Two’s Venom with the Sinister 6 now it’s time to see a world where Peter-Two’s Harry Osborn was in our world but ¿where will he side on? I am the Watcher. I am ur guide to these vast new realities. Follow me and pounder the question. What If…

                                                         Part 1

The events of Spider-Man 3 were playing out the same as in our universe. The sound of the TV is playing. Venom has captured MJ Watson. Harry Osborn is in shock from the recent events from his former best friend now turned enemy Peter Parker and his former lover MJ. Harry has gained most of his memories after the battle with Peter at the Osborn residence. Both of his friends have hurt him so much in his life but he also forgets how much they cared for him as a friend. Harry turns the tv on as MJ dangles for her life thinking Peter has been consumed with hate and anger. He thinks that thing out there could be Parker. A voice could be heard in the background. Harry turns his head to see Peter in a Spider-Man outfit begging for help. Harry asks Peter to get out. “There isn’t much time left. MJ will die at the hands of Venom and Sandman” Peter explained. He needs his help as he can’t take them both. Harry turns his head saying that Peter doesn’t deserve his help. With tears in his eyes Peter knows what he must do as he leaves Harry standing alone in the distance. He leaves the room as MJ screams on TV turning the news off contemplating on what he should do. Harry picks up the blade he used to try and kill Peter. Bernard’s voice calms Harry. Harry is shocked to see that he is still in the house. Harry asks what he’s doing here and Bernard tells Harry he’s seen things in his father’s house he never talked about but tells Harry that when he found his father he had been killed by his own glider. Confirming Peter’s story in front of his eyes Harry feels all emotions running through him. He sought revenge wanting to kill Peter and brake MJ’s relationship. It was all because of revenge. Harry felt shattered. All he wanted to do was to kill Spider-Man for what he did but after learning his father was the Green Goblin he remembers all the horrific things he did to him and Peter. Peter only wanted to protect Harry and that’s why he never said anything. Harry falls to the floor in front of Bernard crying. All he can think about is how he will put things right. Bernard tells Harry that it’s not too late for him to make up with his friends. Harry looks up to see Bernard leave the room. He slowly gets up from the floor with his hands and knees shaking. Osborn looks at the glider on the ground from the previous fight with Peter. He could only redeem himself by standing up to the villains. They had MJ and he needed to help his friend before he was too late. Harry looks at the Goblin mask on the ground picking it up. He smashes it knowing he’s not going as the Green Goblin but as Harry Osborn. Harry puts his vest on arming himself with pumpkin bombs and gadgets that will help him. Harry grabs the glider turning the switch on. Harry leaves to save his friends. As Osborn walks onto the glider something happens to him and this is part of our story begins. Meanwhile, in the MCU Doctor Strange performs a spell that will get rid of everyone knowing that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Parker knows that if the spell works his Aunt May, Ned, MJ and everyone else will forget that he is Spider-Man. With one last request Parker asks the Sorcerer’s Supreme to change the spell in his favor. Strange thought that he could contain the spell but started screaming. As the spell begins to change with every request Parker gives him Doctor Strange cancels the spell containing it in time. Not thinking of it strange Strange asks them to change it but Peter is confused. Not knowing he could have just asked to get his friends into MIT Doctor Strange rages at Parker saying that he could have corrupted the spell and erased millions from not knowing who he was. Doctor Strange tells Peter that he needs to leave and is sorry that he can no longer help him. In other worlds the spell Strange casted had worked sending in the same villains, Venom and now in our new universe Harry Osborn. Harry steps foot on the glider but starts hearing booming sounds coming from the outside of the Goblin chamber. He looks out the window to see that the street is gone. Harry gets on his glider. He’s aware that something is amiss. Harry sees the walls of the Goblin chamber change in front of his eyes. He looks at his hands as they slowly fade away. The noises have stopped and his vision is blurry as Harry sees himself in an abandoned house that looks just like his father’s house but Harry sees a name. The name is revealed to be Sloan. Property of Walker Sloan. Whatever had happened it’s not his house and it’s a different TV. Harry zooms out of the old abandoned house to see that it’s daytime in New York City and the world seems to be at peace. Harry glides through the city but his glider comes to a last as a massive Daily Bugle sign shows videos of things that aren’t from his world. Even J. Jonah Jameson is looking different. Harry knows that he needs to find cover. People can’t see him out on his glider. Before Harry leaves he watches a video that comes on the screen. J. Jonah Jameson yells for Peter Parker to stop hiding from the public and reveals the world knows Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Harry was confused. He knows he’s in New York City but not his New York. Harry glides down the street going back to the abandoned house wheee he kept his glider and outfit. Hiding everything in the warehouse Harry decides that he needs to find Peter. It’s the only way of knowing what’s going on and if it’s his Peter for that matter. Just like our universe Peter Parker would seek out help from MIT searching for the lady who was on the bridge. The events of the bridge played out the same with Peter Parker fighting Doctor Otto Octavius after trying to reason with the administrator to reconsider MJ and Ned’s applications. After a long and brutal battle with Spider-Man and Doc Ock he would still lose control of his arms. At the same time Green Goblin attacked both Ock and Peter but before Green Goblin could continue his assault Doctor Strange sent Peter back to the Sanctum Sanctorum with Doc Ock. Strange locks Doctor Octopus in a trapped cell room with the Lizard beside him. Ock was surprised to see what is happening and asks what kind of magic is this. Strange tells Peter that they messed up the spell letting everyone who already knows Peter Parker is Spider-Man come to their universe and that they might not be friendly. Strange gives Peter technology that will allow him to use magic to send them back. Peter agrees and that things could get out of hand fast. Peter is confused but gains the help of MJ and Ned who agreed to help Peter track down the remaining villains to see them back to their universes. Peter tracks down the remaining people swinging to the city in his inside out suit. Peter would capture Electro and Sandman after unsung the device from Doctor Strange sending them into their own cells back at the Sanctum Sanctorum. Peter learns form Ock that there is still another person they need to find and that Peter would be looking for a ghost which was Norman Osborn alias the Green Goblin who is the person they saw at the bridge. Peter knows he needs to find him fast before more damage is done. The events of No Way Home continue to play out the same while Harry Osborn is on the hunt for Peter Parker for answers and Peter Parker hunting down Norman Osborn. The events are now branching as now this is where the story truly begins. Harry was at the abandoned house realizing that he might not never return home. The only question that raises is how how Peter did in his fight with Venom and Sandman at once. ¿What if he dies without his help? Harry starts panicking with these questions in his mind but he thinks that one of the only ways he might be able to get to Peter is if his Aunt May or Uncle Ben is still alive. Knowing he can’t go as New Goblin Harry decides that he will go as himself. That way he’ll be able to disguise himself with ease. Harry learns that Peter’s Aunt May is in this universe and works at Feast. Harry grabs his things but brings his costume just in case anything gets out of hand. With Harry’s glider if anything happens to him it will come to him automatically. At the same time Peter has already captured Green Goblin after Norman showed up at Feast seeking help from Aunt May. Peter trapped him in the cell but learns that Doctor Strange was going to send them back by letting them die in their respective universes. With Peter having to choose he chooses to web Strange’s magical box and fight him at the Grand Canyon. Peter tells Strange he believes that he could cure them by sending them back cured but Strange argues that doing so could result in the universe breaking. Pater doesn’t listen and goes back to the Sanctum Sanctorum. While this is happening Harry Osborn made it to Feast where he asked most of the workers if she was alive but since May was with Peter this whole time curing the villains Harry was out of luck. He tried to find alternate ways but since this was a different universe Harry wasn’t able to find any connections to this Peter Parker and it made sense for him to hide due to his identity being revealed as Spider-Man. Harry left the building calling for his glider but he heard noises coming from Feast. Peter had cured the villains but a breakout between Green Goblin and Electro started unfolding. Harry heard the noises and decided he would investigate everything. Peter and Norman would get into a brawl with Green Goblin picking up Peter. He smashed him through the building while the Lizard, Sandman and Electro escaped. Spider-Man had been fighting with the Green Goblin at the same time taking hit after hit from Norman. Just like what happened in our universe Green Goblin killed Aunt May with his glider. As Goblin was leaving Harry saw the explosion from Feast. Harry used his glider to get closer to the explosion. He saw from above that it was the Sandman. He also saw flashes of electricity coming from the sky. Taking cover from the chaos Harry moved away fast. Harry couldn’t believe his eyes. As he was about to investigate the situation he wondered ¿was he seeing things? Green Goblin flew past Harry without noticing he was there. Harry knew that he could not be only one person. He was going to chase after the man and the other glider but he saw someone in the debris that needed help. Harry decided to stay at the center and flew his glider down. He couldn’t believe his eyes. It was Peter but not his Peter Parker. Parker fired as he had Aunt May in his arms. Peter screamed for help and sirens started going off. Police yelled for Spider-Man to stand down. Harry knew that he had to do something but before he could confront Peter he swung away without noticing Harry’s presence. Spider-Man swing in the rain getting on top of a building. He watched as the Daily Bugle reported that Peter had killed someone and that it was none other than his Aunt May. The screen said “CRIMINAL”.

                                                Ultimate finale

Peter stood still in the cold with the rain falling down as he cried and knowing that this was all his fault. She died for nothing. If only Peter could have stopped Norman earlier or just listened to Strange maybe he wouldn’t be in this predicament. With Lizard, Electro and Green Goblin threats to the city Peter thought that he couldn’t keep doing this. He was only one person. Peter was about to punch the screen as J. Jonah Jameson started ranting about Spider-Man before a noise of a glider could be heard. Parker’s spider sense went off and turned around. The man called Peter’s name. As Parker turned around he saw someone he didn’t know. Peter asked who he was and the man said that his name was Harry Osborn who apologized. He told Peter that he was at the center when it happened. He was transported here from another dimension and knew that he needed to find him. Peter told Harry whoever he is he can’t help him anymore and anyone for that matter as Aunt May had been killed. Harry put his head down but told Peter that he knew him. Harry explained that his father was killed when he fought with Spider-Man in his own universe. Peter was shocked by this revelation. Parker asked who his father was and Harry said his name was Norman. This hit Parker hard. He asked Harry to repeat it. Harry told him his name again and that it was Norman Osborn. Everything was replying in Peter’s head. He remembered when Osborn mentioned his son and company. ¿”Who runs Oscorp in your universe”? Peter asked the guy and Harry’s face dropped as Peter knew of his father. At Ned’s house he’d was given a special sling ring from Peter that were originally given to him by Doctor Strange. After MJ realized that something was wrong she knew that she needed to find Peter. Ned and MJ used the sling ring asking where Peter Parker was. The portal opened but it wasn’t their Peter that they were looking for. Another Spider-Man would come out of the portal and it was then revealed to be none other than Peter-Three. After convincing Ned and MJ that he was Spider-Man of another world this version of Parker explained how he was teleported here from another dimension that looked just like this version. He saw another version of Spider-Man but had no luck in finding him. When Ned opened the next portal another version of Peter Parker emerged. It was none other than Peter-Two. Peter-Twi would fight with his alternate counterpart before they realized they were both on the same side of things. Both Spider-Men went with MJ and Ned to meet with Peter Parker of the MCU. MJ and Ned would make it in time to see Peter but he was with someone. Peter explained how Harry’s father had killed his Aunt May. Peter dropped to the ground in tears. “I’m sorry” Harry said. As MJ and Ned ran to Peter’s aid. Harry told them that he’s a friend of Peter’s and that he doesn’t mean any harm. Peter looked up at Harry and told him that he was going to send him home with the rest of them. Harry was still shocked that somehow his father was still alive. Osborn told him not to do it as MJ took the box away from Peter before he could grab it. Peter told MJ to give it back to him as he was done with everything. There wasn’t anything left to fight for. Peter Parker and Spider-Man lost. Harry looked up to see 2 shadows stalking them. He grabbed the pumpkin bomb but MJ told him not to do anything as they were friends. Peter looked up and told them to stop as both Peters jumped and flipped their way towards them. “Sorry. I know what you’re going through” Peter-Three said and Peter told him that he doesn’t know what he has lost and that he’s tired of knowing it. He said that he was going to send them all home and that he’s done. Harry stood still before the other figure in the shadow was revealed and out came Peter-Two from the shadows. Peter-Two analyzed the situation. He looked and couldn’t believe his eyes. He saw Harry. Peter-Two still gave his speech of “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”. Peter then realized that maybe fate had brought them together and that he needed to end this because it was his responsibility to do so. Peter-Two then yelled Harry’s name as tears came down his eyes. Harry smiled at him and the 2 Spider-Men dropped to meet the group with Peter-Two having flashbacks of when Harry died in his arms. He couldn’t believe that his best friend was standing next to him once again. Harry walked up to Peter-Two making fun of him as he looked older. Harry asked how he was doing where Peter-Two replied that he still goes around and that he was doing good. Harry shield where Peter-Two replied on how he got here. Harry explained that he was getting ready to fight Venom and Sandman but after he was getting his gear he vanished and came to this world. After that he found himself in the middle of New York City looking for answers where he came across this new version of Peter. Harry side where he came from and Peter-Two had a flashback of where he was on that day when he vanished. Peter-Two knew where he was and he had told Harry that he was fighting Vulture and that he had just disappeared into this alternate dimension. After that a portal opened where Peter-Two met with this world’s MJ and Ned. Harry was shocked to hear it. After all Peter must have been coming from a different time as he was at least 8 years older than he was how he left him. Peter-Three then asked what the plan was and how they were going to stop the villains. Just like our universe Peter told them that they could still cure the villains if they worked together. They could fix them and send them home. Harry asked if his father was still alive where Peter replied that he is indeed still out there. Peter-Two added that Norman was very dangerous and that if Harry were to confront him he might not be able to see the light as the Goblin serum is mostly in control. Harry asked the 3 Spider-Men if he can tag along as he needed to confront his father. Peter agree as they will fight in May’s honor but they have unfinished business with Osborn. Harry knew that this was his chance to finally confront his father. He never had the opportunity to do so but now,like Peter said it was as if fate had brought them all together today. The group started creating cures for each villain. As they were creating cures Harry asks Peter-Two what happened to him in the future as this version of Peter is older. Peter-Two feels the urge to tell Harry about the impending doom Venom will bring to him knowing that it’s his responsibility to know what will happen to him. Peter-Two wants to tell Harry but fears of his reaction. Peter-Two is about to reveal Harry’s dark future until Peter shouts that they have made the cures. Peter-Three puts his mask on and asks Peter-Two if that’s all he has to bring. Harry looks at Peter and takes his mask out of his pocket getting ready in a Spider-Man costume. The group leave and Ned and MJ stay at the laboratory for safety. The 3 Spider-Men and now along with Harry Osborn start luring the villains to the Statue of Liberty placing the cures on different floors to spread them out. Peter would eventually talk to the city saying that it was all his fault for sending the villains and that he would end this now putting things right. The 3 Spider-Men and Harry Osborn finished placing the cures but are met with Electro. Electro tells the group of heroes that they can’t take this away from him and that he will become a god with all the power in this universe. The Lizard appears with Sandman who tells Peter that they won’t be going home and that he will be killed. The final showdown has begun. Harry knows he’s never faced any villains before but decides to fight. Peter-Two tells Harry not to inflict much damage as doing so could harm them. They just wanna send them back home and cure them. Harry nods his head grabbing pumpkin bombs from his glider throwing them at the Lizard. The Spider-Men charged the villains fighting each one at a time like in our universe. Harry and Peter-Two team up while Ned and MJ used the sling ring to open a portal to the Statue of Liberty letting Strange out of the portal. Curt and Sandman get cured and the team make their way to stop Electro. Taking Peter-Two and Three it’s revealed to be Otto Octavius. Harry yells at Otto before Otto betrays Electro. Everyone was confused by this but Strange comes in and tells them that he was going to send everyone back before a laugh could be heard in the distance. Everyone stood still in silence including Harry who could hear his father’s laugh that sounded just like when he attacked the expo all those years ago. Doctor Strange tries using the box to send everyone back before Green Goblin laughs taking the box with the pumpkin bomb and Doctor Strange attacking Goblin. Goblin gets the box taken away from him but he’s already implanted the pumpkin bomb. It explodes everywhere. MJ screams as she loses her balance and she falls off the platform. Peter tries to save MJ but is caught by Green Goblin. Like our universe Peter-Three would redeem himself by catching MJ. While Green Goblin grabbed Peter Goblin turned his head to see someone else hit him with his glider. Harry knocked Norman off of his glider to the Captain America shield down below. Norman flew smashing his back off of the shield. He tried to get back up but he stayed down. Harry finally saw his father after all those years. Harry dropped the glider down before walking towards him. “Dad” Harry said but Norman turned his head and started attacking Harry viciously. Harry tried dodging the attacks and began to get into close quarters combat with his father. Green Goblin laughed saying that Norman’s son was a disappointment and that he only came here to get more disapproval. Harry cried as he punched his father again and again. “Look at you. You’re weak. You’ve always been weak. Until you can take control just look at your face”. Norman said. Harry had enough as Norman and Harry got into an arm lock. Harry had a pumpkin bomb in his right hand and Norman looked screaming “NO” as Harry detonated the bomb. The 2 flew backwards. Peter walked towards the 2. Harry could see Peter picking up his glider where he yelled “NO” thinking he was going to kill his father. Peter-Two came in to save Norman. Peter screamed before he stopped what he was doing. Harry saw this and couldn’t believe that Peter had saved his father. The Goblin wasn’t done yet and was about to stab Peter before Harry called for his glider hitting Norman’s back while Peter-Three used his webs around Norman. Injecting the cure Norman fell to the ground defeated as Harry looked down at him. The 3 Spider-Men turned their attention to Doctor Strange who was having a hard time shutting the spell down. More Spider-Man villains were leaking into their universe and the 3 went to help Strange where Norman asked his son what had happened. Harry asked what happened to him. He wanted to know all the answers, where he was and why he became the Goblin. Norman cried and he was proud that Harry became the man he couldn’t be. Norman felt bad for his son as he almost went down the same path as him. Harry revealed that he died by killing himself with his own glider. He revealed to his father that he was hell-bent on revenge to kill Spider-Man and then he learned the truth. Norman was shocked to hear his fate and how Spider-Man would eventually kill him for what he had done. Norman told his son that he was sorry that he never was the father he should have been and that he was greedy. Harry extended his hand out to his father who was completely broken from everything. Harry said that he wishes things were different but he was glad that they were able to cure him from the Green Goblin. Norman embraced his son for one last time. Norman knew that what he became had finally been finished. Peter-Two looked on as he saw Norman and Harry embracing one another. After all Harry was able to make things with his father right and see him just one more time. Peter then asked Strange what their next course of action would be. Strange didn’t know what to do but Peter said that what if everyone forgets that he’s Spider-Man including MJ and Ned. Strange agreed that this could work and it would stop the villains from getting through the portals. What if everyone stopped knowing that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. ¿How would this unfold? Peter would talk it over with Peter-Two and Three after the 2 shared their moments with Ock and Electro. Peter-Two agreed but told Peter that he would be sacrificing everything for the greater good and that sometimes he needs to give up the things he wants the most as Spider-Man and even his dreams for the greater good because “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”. Peter agreed as he said goodbye to the 2 Spider-Men. Peter-Three told Peter-Two that he wanted to see how Max was doing and embraced Peter-Two. Peter-Two then said goodbye as he walked towards Harry. Harry left his father who was broken on the ground defeated. Harry smiled knowing that whatever happens next. He was happy with his life and the choices he made to get to where he was. Parker told him that he will miss him and that he was his best friend. Before the spell started happening Peter started fading away and told Harry that “Whatever battle we have raging inside us we always have a choice and you taught me that”. Peter had reset everyone’s minds while Strange started sending everyone back to their universe and fixing everything. Harry thanked Peter for helping him and Peter smiled watching his friend fade away one last time. Everyone had been sent back to their home universes as if nothing had ever happened. Harry on the other hand had remembered everything that happened to him. He looked around to see that the tv was still playing while the tv broadcaster told everyone that Spider-Man was fighting Venom and that it was hard to believe what was happening as they didn’t think Spider-Man could take anymore hits from Sandman. Harry saw that his glider was still with him and he’d exited to help Peter. Sandman was ready to kill him before a pumpkin bomb went off blowing up the Sandman. With his glider slowly rising Peter saw his friend come to the rescue. Harry extended his hand out. As Peter took it the 2 watched as Venom and Sandman were charging them. Back in the MCU Peter would go to the coffee shop watching as Ned and MJ forgot who Peter was but Parker was happy that he was able to save everyone including Spider-Man. Peter would do one final swing with his all new suit resembling the classic comic books while in the Raimiverse events would unfold differently due to No Way Home. As the OG events were unfolding properly Venom used the symbiote tendril throwing Harry off his glider. Harry smashed his face off of a metal bar falling to the ground while Peter was tied up with the symbiote web. Harry watched as Venom screamed at Spider-Man. Venom used Harry’s glider launching it forward ready to kill Parker before Harry took a pumpkin bomb blade cutting the symbiote ties in the nick of time. Before Venom could stab Peter Harry ran using the metal bars slamming them together getting rid of the symbiote. Harry and Peter would defeat Venom in an alternate branch reality. Because of the events of No Way Home Harry would survive in another universe while in the OG universe it would still continue but now in our Raimiverse universe he would still die with his vision of Peter coming back with his family…

                                                      THE END!

And that is going to be it for what if Harry Osborn was in Spider-Man No Way Home. I hope you’ll enjoy this fan fiction as this took me very long to write and of course I wanted to make a world where Harry Osborn would still be alive while keeping our universe where Harry died to keep with the timeline of the events in this fan fiction. I wanna give a shout-out to lucifersgirl83 and p-e-r-f-i-d-a-s for following me and my fan fictions and also I’m going to be adding an additional scene to what if Tobey and Andrew’s Spider-Man were in the MCU and I’ll be a bittersweet scene so be on the lookout for that and more what ifs coming soon. Take care guys and have a fantastic day. Peace out!

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Is There Something There - Tom Holland

During an interview that you were doing with Tom for Endgame press, some of the questions catch you both off guard and one leads to you two talking about something you’ve both been feeling about each other.

A/N: I’m going to be honest. I don’t really like this one because I already feel like I use a lot of dialogue as a writer and this is an interview so there is a lot of dialogue, but I also like the story here so that why I decided to post it. Also, it’s my first Tom fic so I hope you all enjoy and feedback is greatly appreciated!

Warnings: some curse words

Word Count: 4.1k+  

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“I can’t believe you didn’t know who Obadiah Stane was,” you giggled with Tom as you two left the room you had just been in doing an interview to head to another one in a few minutes.

“He asked what an Obadiah Stane was, so I thought it was a thing, not a person,” he defended, his smile stretching as his words brought you more laughter.

“I’m sure Robert would love to know that his little buddy didn’t even know the name of the villain in the first Iron Man movie,” you teased Tom while he chuckled along with you. “But I will give you the infinity stones question. All I could remember was the reality stone and the time stone, but you rattled off the first five in a matter of seconds and then the last one came to your mind shortly after. It was impressive.”

“Thank you, thank you,” he stated sarcastically with a bow and a tip of his head. “You know what was funny? When you said Sebastian would be a bad baby name. That was hilarious,” he brought up before dying of laughter again at the joke you made earlier in the interview.

“Yeah, and I can guarantee you that he said my name too when they asked him which MCU name would be the worst as well,” you told him while laughing along with him.

“This is it I think,” the man who had been leading you to your next interview announced to you both before opening the door.

“Ladies first,” Tom said to you while holding a hand out to show you the way. You playfully rolled your eyes at the dork you had been paired with for the day as you walked into the room.

It was no secret that Tom Holland could not keep his mouth shut when he needed to. He just gets too excited and has to tell someone. He along with Ruffalo were terrible secret keepers and when it came to interviews, they had to do them with someone who could pay attention to them and catch them before they slip up. Benedict got paired with Mark and you obviously were with Tom.

“Good morning you two! I imagine you both have been very busy today,” the woman who would be conducting the interview asked when you and Tom walked over to her and got settled in your spots on the couch after you each shook her hand.

“Yes ma’am, we have been busy, but it has been loads of fun I would say,” Tom responded first while he got comfortable on the couch and stretched his arm to lay against the back of it before you nodded your head in agreement at his previous statement.

“Super fun especially since we get to do it together,” you spoke to the lady before meeting the dashing brown eyes of your partner for the day.

“She’s just saying that because she has to be with me. She actually hates me,” Tom teased while you rolled your eyes at him.

“I do not hate him. Does he get a little aggravating from time to time? Yeah, but I don’t hate him,” you played along with the boy’s joke as he chuckled lightly at you.

“Wait, y/n has to be with you, Tom?” the interviewer inquired, her eyebrows drawing together in confusion as to why you were forced to be with him. She probably thought it was a little weird that you, the actress who plays Guardian of the Galaxy Willa Adler, and Tom, the actor of Peter Parker who was also known as Spider-Man, were doing press for Endgame together. If she saw Infinity War, she knew you were both onscreen together a good bit in that movie, but still she most likely was wondering why you were not doing interviews with Chris Pratt like you normally were since he played your older brother figure in the past few Marvel films you have done.

“Well, yeah, someone has to be with me because I can’t keep my mouth shut and y/n is good at telling when I’m about to say something I shouldn’t, so she is here to help me not spill the beans on anything,” Tom laughed while a slight blush of embarrassment dusted across his cheeks.

“Yeah, I have been told I’m good at reading people and we’ve become really good friends lately, so I guess I better at reading him than some of the others. I don’t know. I think it’s funny that he has to be with someone, or he’ll spill all the information on everything,” you giggled as you responded to the question too.

“Oh well, I guess it’s good you two have been paired together and later on I’ll have some questions specifically for the both of you. Anyway, I spoke with Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan and that pair,” she paused for a chuckle, “They like to tease you two, don’t they?” As soon as she mentioned their names, you both knew where the question was headed and you and Tom both nodded towards the woman.

“Yeah, we have quite the rivalry with those two, don’t we?” Tom led the answer for you to continue.

“Yes, but it’s all out of love,” you reassured the interviewer while you all shared a laugh.

“It’s all love, for sure. I think it’s because we are the youngest and easiest to pick on because we take the jokes well and we’ll shoot them right back. I find it funny how it's them against us. We will tease them and they’ll tease us, but at the same time, we split it up and it’ll be me and Mackie going at each other, and y/n and Stan will pick on each other quite a bit. It’s like the big brothers teasing their younger siblings and they each have their favorite one to pick on. I love it. I find it so hilarious,” Tom told the woman, a chuckle falling past his lips.

“Especially the juice box joke,” you laughed. “That one is my favorite.”

“Juice box joke?” she asked, her emerald eyes dancing between you and Tom while you both wore huge smiles on your faces from all the laughing you both had been doing.

“Yeah, Mackie likes to joke and say that ‘I need my juice boxes or I’ll go crazy without them’ that I need the sugar or something,” Tom expressed using air quotes with his fingers to show Anthony’s words. “They say I need juice boxes and y/n needs water bottles.”

“Why’s that?” the lady quizzed at the second part of his sentence as a light laugh escaped her mouth. You audibly groaned, knowing which story was about to come up next.

“She forgets to drink water sometimes and then she’ll get dehydrated and when we’re shooting harder scenes or if there’s a lot of light on her and it gets hot, then it doesn’t end well,” Tom told the interviewer honestly before she looked to you to continue or confirm his statements.

“It was one time and I just forget to drink water sometimes. I’m okay,” you reassured before taking a sip of water from the glass next to you.

“One time?” the blonde woman inquired further. You loved doing these interviews, but at times the people conducting them tended to be a little pushy and don’t pick up on the hint that you don’t want to share this story. You knew she wasn’t going to give so you spoke.  

“Tell the story, Tom,” you instructed with a sigh before turning in your chair to face him better. His hand still rested on the back of the couch behind you and he brought it down slightly to rub at the top of your back and play with your hair a little, a friendly and comforting gesture that you were very thankful for at the moment as he was about to share one of your more embarrassing experiences.

“Okay, so you know that scene in Infinity War where the Guardians, Strange, Tony, and I are in that spaceship and the Guardians are coming at us because they think we’re with Thanos?” When she nods her head, Tom continues with the story.

“Well, that particular day, y/n forgot to drink basically anything and in the makeup and suits and stuff, it gets really hot. It’s the scene where Willa has Peter Parker in a chokehold and Peter Quill has a gun to my head. So, when we were shooting that, y/n has her arms around my neck, not tightly obviously. She’s not actually trying to choke me, but you can feel it, you know. So, as I said, she wasn’t holding me tightly, but I felt her arms loosen from around me before she was supposed to, and she leaned against me a little.” The interviewer let out a slight gasp before looking at you and you nodded towards her, letting her know his words were true.

“I turned my head and asked her if she was okay, but she just nodded her head. She didn’t say anything, just nodded her head, and right then I knew something was wrong just by looking at her. I turned around and grabbed her before she fell and sat down with her. Chris came as well and was checking on her while Benedict and Robert went to get help and some water. But we got her some water, and she was good to go shortly after.”

“That must’ve been scary for the both of you,” she commented while her widened eyes jumped from yours to the set of honey brown ones to your left.

“It was honestly one of the scariest days on set for me,” Tom added before looking to you, his fingers still switching from rubbing small circles into your neck and twirling your hair between them.

“I was in and out of it, so I don’t remember much. All I remember is leaning against him and him helping me down. It was more embarrassing to me and I hate thinking about it, but now I will never get to forget about it because Anthony and Seb won’t ever let me live it down,” you told the woman with a small laugh which she joined in on along with Tom.

“Your characters both have this relationship with someone older than you that you look up to, Peter Parker with Tony Stark and Willa Adler with Peter Quill. How was it for you both to do your death scene in Infinity War with those people?” she asked you and Tom. Tom looked to you for you to start off the question so you do.

“Both Willa and Peter have had it rough as far as a mentor or someone who can really help guide them in life because they keep losing them. Peter lost his parents when he was younger, then his uncle, and then he disintegrates in Tony’s arms. Willa lost a lot of people in a short amount of time. Quill and Willa were both taken by Yondu at different times for their own good to save them from their terrible fathers, so she didn’t have anyone to look up to on Earth. Then she lost Yondu and feared she lost Quill when things with Ego went down. Then in Infinity War when they are all trying to take the gauntlet off Thanos, she finds out that she lost Gamora, the only girl Willa has ever had by her side, so that breaks her even further. Then after the snap, she watches all of her found family turn to dust around her. She watches Quill turn to ashes right before she can get to him and then she tries to run to Nebula who is the only person she has left before she goes with the rest of them. Right after that, we watch Peter and Tony hold each other and Peter goes so the scene overall is a terribly sad one. It took a lot of emotion for both of us I think.”

“Yeah, like she said, both of them have experienced great loss. Peter is a little more used to it while Willa loses someone before she’s done grieving the last person she lost. She definitely had to put a lot more emotion into it, but Willa is also the kind of person who holds her emotions in. You can see in that scene she was talking about, Willa tried to hold it in when she found out about Gamora but started to break down as she saw everyone she loved dissipate into nothing. Peter was emotional of course and he didn’t want to go like he just saw everyone around him do but at least he went out in the arms of someone he loves and looks up to a lot,” Tom added to your explanation with his own.

“I would say that scene after the snap with you two is the saddest in my opinion. So, to lighten the mood a little, there is a lot of talk about the family feel that the cast has, and the people wanted to know if that is true?” she asked as she flipped through her cards.

“Yes!” you immediately agreed.

“Of course, we all get along and it is super fun especially in films like these where we get to be together. Peter got to be with Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and the Guardians of the Galaxy and it was amazing filming with everybody. I loved it, didn’t you?” Tom pushed the question over to you.

“Yeah, it was super fun. I always get to film with a large group of people, but I got to film with Chris Hemsworth and then later on with RDJ and Benedict and Tom. It was great to work with so many amazing people,” you commented while you shifted in your seat a little, trying to get comfortable again.

“Mackie and Stan are like our annoying older brothers as I said earlier,” Tom mentioned with a light chuckle.

“Yeah,” you giggled before continuing with his analogy. “RDJ, Evans, and Hemsworth are like the fathers, the founding fathers really since they’ve been there since the beginning. Umm, Pratt and Rudd are the funny uncles. Elizabeth, Zoe, Karen, Scarlett, and Danai are the cool aunts. And then you’ve got people like Benedict, Chadwick, Pom, Letitia, and Tom who are absolute sweethearts. Everyone is just super cool and fun and sweet, and we couldn’t ask for a better group of people to work with.” The lady awed at your words while Tom’s eyes softened at them.

“That was really sweet, y/n, and you are amazing to work with as well,” he grinned as he spoke which you returned him on as well while you nodded at him. His hand shifted down to your shoulder and he kept it there, something you didn’t mind at all. “Everything she said was spot on and everyone we get the opportunity to work with is awesome and they’re great people. I couldn’t have said it better myself.”

“Do you think your characters will appear onscreen together in the future?” the interviewer questioned before she looked up from her card to the both of you.

“Um, I’ll take this one,” you said to both of them, but mainly to Tom so he knew he wouldn’t have to add anything or spoil anything without knowing it. “So, Peter normally protects Queens, and Willa’s territory is all of outer space. In Infinity War, you saw that Peter’s experience in space wasn’t the best and Willa had a terrible life on Earth though she didn’t know it at the time because she was so young when Yondu took her. I don’t see them crossing paths again in the future if everything gets ‘fixed’ like everyone is hoping for, but if another space titan comes to destroy half of all living things or something big like that, then yeah maybe you’d see Willa and Peter onscreen again, but I don’t think it is likely,” you told the woman as she nodded her head.

“Marvel is full of surprises though, so you never know what is going to happen,” Tom added, earning a laugh from you since you knew firsthand how true the statement was.

“The fans love seeing you two together and you both clearly have good chemistry so what is it like working with one another?” the blonde asked before pushing some fallen hair behind her ear.

“I’ll go first,” Tom stated as he turned a bit in his seat and smiled your way. You playfully rolled your eyes, getting ready for him to completely roast your ass.

“She’s mean, a total diva, a drama queen,” he started listing off several false claims before busting out laughing at your pouting face. “I’m kidding,” he chuckled while he leaned over to grab your chin, forcing you to look at him.

“No, go on. I’m thinking about teaming up with Mackie and Seb and all three of us can rip you to shreds,” you sarcastically smiled at him before you dropped the grin and shot him a death glare.

“Okay maybe I wasn’t lying about the mean part,” he joked causing you to smile again. His brown eyes lit up at the sight and he finally continued with answering the question.

“No, but for real, she is amazing, as a person and as an actress. Every time I watch her, I am reminded of how phenomenal of an actress she is. You all have seen the gag reels of me and how I can’t keep a straight face if my life depended on it, but I watched her and the person she was filming with slipped up. She kept a straight face until they started laughing so she started laughing too. If that was me, I would’ve started laughing before anyone even messed up. And even when she’s feeling poorly, she performs so well. Y/n is so incredible to watch and work with. She is truly a great person and an even better friend. I’m glad we have each other to lean on when we get teased for being the youngest out of everyone,” he chuckled after literally just melting your heart. You leaned over to wrap your arms around his torso, his arm going around your back to rest his hand on your side.

“That was really sweet, Tom,” you whispered while giving him a little squeeze before pulling away from him. He did not remove his arm from around you though, so you scooted closer to make it more comfortable for you both.

“He may say my acting is good, but I’ve got to brag on his as well. He is so good at improvising and going with the flow of things. I am a very ‘follow the lines and stick to the script’ kind of person, but his improv makes his scenes and character so much better. That may be because he is basically Peter Parker in real life so when the cameras are rolling, it is truly interesting to see. He lights up any room he walks into and makes every day easier when we are working. He is a delight to work with and just generally be around and I’m glad we’re friends.”

“Thanks y/n,” he grinned down at you and you smiled right back.

“How is he like Peter Parker in real life?” the woman further inquired as she adjusted herself in her seat to sit more comfortably.

“For one, he is a major dork,” you started before snickering at Tom’s furrowed brows and stuck out lip.

“You just said all that nice stuff and then called me a dork,” he huffed and turned his head from you. He dramatically removed his arm from around and placed his hand in his lap.

“Oh, come on. You know it’s true,” you told him to which he sighed.

“Yeah, it’s true,” he gave in before nodding at the interviewer.

“So, there’s that,” you continued to answer the question. “He’s a little awkward, but in a charming and lovable way. He cannot keep a secret at all. There’s probably more, but that’s all I can think of right now. Everybody loves Peter Parker and everyone loves Tom Holland. I mean it when I say they are the same person.”

“So, there is a good bit of speculation of a budding romance between the both of you and the people want to know if there is something there,” she stated before playing with the rings on her fingers.

Before you could open your mouth to deny the suspicion, Tom grabbed your hand in his, interlacing his fingers with yours. A blush crept up on your cheeks when he placed his lips against the back of your hand.

“Do you want to tell her, babe?” he asked as he shot you a wink, the small act telling you it was a joke. The growing grin on his face told you his actions were false as well, but you couldn’t help how your heart fell that it was all a lie. You once again rolled your eyes at the boy who held your hand.

“You can tell her, sweetheart,” you giggled while Tom held your hand in both of his and you leaned your head on his shoulder.

“Y/n and I have been in a relationship for a little while now and that relationship has been completely platonic and we are just friends,” he laughed as he placed your hand back in your own lap. You would be lying to yourself if you said you didn’t miss the feeling of his hand in yours, but now was not the time to think about that.

“Yeah guys, we’re only friends,” you chuckled, making eye contact with the camera that was filming the whole thing while you lifted your head from its previous resting place on his shoulder. “Nothing more.”

Later after the interview, you and Tom are walking to the car that was going to take you both back to your hotel and the events of earlier kept circling through your mind. The way it felt to have his arm around you and you leaning into his side. You craved that feeling. His hand in yours and his lips pressed to the back of it. You wanted more of that. Just being with him, you strived to have more moments with him, but you always thought that it was because you were really good friends and you liked having his presence near. However, you feared that you were into something more that he was not going to be interested in.

“You did good with the whole dating joke. That was funny,” you giggled lightly as you bumped his shoulder while walking by his side.

“Hopefully, you didn’t think it was too funny,” he mumbled, his own eyes widening at his slight confession. Your eyebrows drew together in confusion and your feet stopped moving forward.

“What?” you spoke the only word that was running through your mind at the moment. Tom stopped walking as well and turned to face you.

“I kinda liked holding your hand and I kinda like you,” he stated sheepishly, his gorgeous brown eyes looking everywhere but at you.

“What are you saying, Tom?” you asked, knowing exactly what he was saying but you wanted to be sure. He stepped forward a bit and took your hand in his, interlocking your fingers just as he did before.

“I’m saying that I like you, y/n, and I want to be with you. We can just try it out for a little bit?” he asked more than stated.

“You mean we can try out being together?”

“Yeah, we can keep it quiet until we’re sure and then if you want, we can go public with it. I was not lying when I said I love working with you. It wasn’t because you’re great to work with because you are. It was because you are great to be with. So maybe we try this out and see how things work with us while we do press and see how things work after this when we are separate and doing our own thing. We can go from there and see if this is something we want to continue or announce?” he questioned nervously while his eyes finally locked with yours. The corners of your mouth turned upwards in a huge grin, happy to be hearing what you had wished to hear for a while now.

“I’d love to be with you, Tom,” you gushed, grinning ear to ear.

“Well, that’s great, babe,” he chuckled after using the nickname he called you earlier. His other hand slid around your waist, pulling you closer to him. You felt his breath fan over your lips before he closed the space between you two.

“But you know that Mackie and Seb are going to pick on us about this too right?” you reminded him when you pulled away slightly and he giggled.

“Yeah, we’re never going to hear the end of it.”

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Doyoung makes you watch an obscene amount of superhero movies. For clarification: Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-kind-of-movies. However, you barely complain. If it means more time with him, you’d even watch Sesame Street just to be in his arms. 

He doesn’t like to watch those movies where there’s a way deeper message hidden behind the plot. He lives for the action, sprinkle of comedy, and occasional love interest. But not a ton. Too much romance might set unrealistic expectations, according to him. 

Albeit you sort of think he still has a vastly different depiction of love in comparison to you.

For one, in this alternate universe where there’s villains and superheroes, you, without a doubt, are a villain. You’ve tried explaining to him that you fit the stereotype—the whole leather attire plus motorcycle really takes the cake, but he doesn’t even know what you’re up to half the time. In fact, almost every single event you’ve performed a task, you’d show up at his front doorstep, hands remaining dirty from a mission for the Boss, and he’d welcome you with open arms with no idea. 

Doyoung doesn’t even have an ounce of a clue what you do.

He’s such a nice guy. Girls practically eat that shit up when they meet him, often overlooking the fact that he holds so many great boyfriend qualities. When you’re sore from “work,” (he questions what you do all the time but you just shrug nonchalantly) he’d always slip off your socks, massage the soles of your feet and finish off the rest of your body with no resistance. He doesn’t expect anything in return—not even sex. Doyoung just gives and gives, nearly never taking.

On one side, you’re glad that most women don’t recognize how perfect of a significant other he is. It gives you time to figure yourself out; how do you become good enough for Kim Doyoung? You’ve already dropped smoking. You’ve been putting more effort in your studies, granted he is your tutor. And you’ve spent the majority of your free time with him. If you ever needed to review material, you’d do it with him, just to show how much you’re trying. 

Even if there isn’t a label for the two of you.

You’re friends—but you’re definitely more than just friends. You fuck, but you’re not just fuck buddies either. You’re exclusive but you’re not straightforwardly dating. Doyoung doesn’t hide the fact that he wants you to officially be his girlfriend, although he never forces the idea upon you. He’s content with the circumstances he’s under even though he hopes to have you be his and his only. Nonetheless, it’s under your terms and he never forgets to remind you that. 

Honestly, you thought that you might be okay with this. That is, until a pretty gal with shiny black hair, toned body, and gentle voice named Joy came into the picture.

Joy is a given nickname. Her actual birth name is Park Sooyoung, a name as beautiful as the beholder, but people had gotten into the habit of calling her Joy, since… well, she’s such a joy to be around. She’s part of the school’s cheerleading squad, called the ‘Red Velvet Queens,’ plus extremely involved with other extracurriculars, including the competitive tennis team that Doyoung is on. There’s a lot of bitches on the squad, especially with the encounters you’ve had with them, but Joy isn’t one of them. She’s an angel. She’s the woman version of Doyoung. 

Doyoung likes to wait outside in the parking lot, right in the unspoken designated spot where you leave your bike. You’ve offered him a ride to school since he often stands idly, except he politely declines, and you speculate that it’s from fear. He remains cute in your eyes despite being a bit of a wuss.

Today, however, he’s not alone. It’s a daily routine that the view of Doyoung leaves you breathless, heart pumping like you’ve gone running, but today is different. Your blood is boiling, smoke whistling out your ears like a kettle on a stove from the heat that lingers around your neck region. Joy stands beside him, the widest grin smacked across her cheeks, lips stained as red as her cheerleading uniform. You wobble on your bike into the parking spot, shutting off the engine before kicking out the stand, pulling the helmet off your head while obnoxiously chewing on a piece of gum in your mouth. 

Joy’s gaze meets yours.

She’s sweet, and none of this is her fault. But you kind of hate her presence right now, just because she’s got all of Doyoung’s attention. 

Spitting out the gum on the asphalt, you shuffle through your pockets for a toothpick. This stupid toothpick that you’re stuck with because you quit smoking cigarettes for that charming boy. Popping the wooden stick in your mouth, you rake your fingers through your greasy hair, slinging the backpack over your shoulders before walking past Doyoung. 

“Sorry, Joy, I’ll catch up with you later,” You hear faintly before his heavy footsteps are rushed, catching up with yours. “Hey-Hey! Where are you going? We’re supposed to meet here. Why didn’t you wait for me?”

You shrug. He’s not happy with that response.

Hand grasping on your shoulder, he halts you in your steps to turn you to face him. As much as you hate to admit it, but you feel this green-eyed monster gnawing on your insides and you’re not a fan of it. “What’s wrong? What did I do? Talk to me.”

“Nothing. I’m busy. You still wanna tutor me later or are you busy making plans with Joy?” You snarl, munching on the pick. Doyoung’s eyes lighten up; he knows the problem now. “Are you jealous?”

“That word isn’t in my dictionary.” It’s a blunt reply, and your unfazed stare is there to support it. “Why would I be jealous of a nice girl like Joy who wants to get with a good boy like you?”

Doyoung likes you, no matter how hard you try to push him away. Your dilemma before was that you always thought a guy like him, so generous, so kind, could never love someone with a charred heart like yours. And yet, here you are, evidently jealous of a girl practically his equal when he’s done nothing but proven to you that you’re the only one he sees.

You want more, and the longer you continue to deny and swallow these feelings, you’re even more desperate to be held by him. In the midst of a tutoring session, you’ve managed to unbutton his cute sky blue dress shirt, unzip his trousers and suddenly his dick is in your mouth.

“We’re supposed to review l-limits,” He stutters over a moan, fingers reaching to comb back your hair. “S-So I told her I couldn’t hang out with her today.”

“Mm,” You hum against the tip, tongue gliding down his shaft. “I heard you the first time.” His thighs tighten when your mouth envelopes down his dick to the base with his head thrown back in the chair of your bedroom. He’s glad that he noticed you take initiative to lock the door today since you often don’t, and the possibility of one of the staff members entering in while sucking on him is kinky but he’s still scared of your brother. 

Doyoung lets out a soft gasp when your tongue swipes over his slit where a pearly bead of precum sits. “S-Shouldn’t we— oh fuck—be reviewing materi—ohh?” He sighs; your hands are everywhere; it’s hard for him to focus on anything when you’re gazing up at him through your pretty long lashes with tinged pink cheeks from his cock hitting the back of your throat. He melts under your touch when you graze over his thighs, claiming the territory that he’s succumbed to you willingly. You kiss the head of his cock and he bucks into it. “We’re reviewing a different kind of material. Have you ever been sucked off by a girl before?”

He shakes his head ‘no’, looking down at you with hooded eyes. With his arousal still in your grip, it twitches, yearning for your attention. You hate to admit it, but you’ve obviously tainted his ‘good boy’ persona with him in your bedroom like this, but Doyoung doesn’t think that. Disheveled hair, mouth gaped open, and sweaty forehead is a view of him you engrain in your memory. 

Doyoung is a good boy, but he has a body of a bad boy. There’s no way that tennis is the reason behind those washboard abs, toned thighs, and built arms. He’s not as muscular in comparison to Johnny, nor his friend Lucas, but Doyoung is gorgeous like this, perfect in your eyes. 

That’s why when you moan around his girth and he sputters, you think he’s got a halo over his head. He’s so pretty, so gorgeous, and you want to see him in all types of forms. Your hand wraps at the base of his dick, mouth wrapping around the red and angry tip, it’s glistening with your saliva as you start pumping him at a pace that leaves his jaw slack, groans bouncing off your bedroom walls. 

“Baby,” He calls out the term of endearment raspily, heart racing and abs tightening. A familiar feeling stirs in his stomach, and he knows he’s about to combust. “I’m about to cum, I need a tissue, I—”

“Cum in my mouth, oppa,” You whisper, quickening your movements but calling him “oppa” is what snaps within him, ropes of cum shooting down your throat along with a string of curses and a breathy moan escapes from his lovely lips. 

“So,” Doyoung begins, fiddling with his fingers anxiously across the lunch table from you. “You called me ‘oppa’ the other day. That was uh… new. You’ve never called me that before.”

Tying your hair up in a bun with a bobby pin between your teeth, his cheeks flush pink at the thought of you giving him a blowjob in your bedroom the other day, his fingers streaking through those luscious locks, and him cuming in your mouth. Popping out the pin, you slide in to push back a short piece of hair. “Yeah, well, there was a reason for it. You know why.”

Doyoung blinks blankly, utterly confused. “I… don’t. W-Why’d you call me oppa?”

“So you wouldn’t get nervous and just let me swallow.”

[synonemous]

fanfic writer ask meme answered

so, you can all thank @voidslantern for me doing the entire ask meme because they said, and I quote:

now, sadly I couldn’t do the questions with the “[insert fic]” bits because I have, uh, a few fics and I wouldn’t know which one/s to pick. 😅 but if anyone wants to see me do those, don’t hesitate to send me an ask or even reply to this and I’ll answer them! 😊

a little special shout-out to three kind anonymous souls and @tk-duveraun for also sending me these asks:

so here y’all go! the answers to the 22 questions that I could reply to!

A: Of the fanfic you’ve written, which is your favorite and why? we’re starting off with a tough one, I see! I think I would have to say the image of you lingers because I had such a vividly picture of it in my head even before I sat down to write it, and I’m so happy with how it turned out. I know it’s not my big ticket seller - in that fandom or on my profile, but I don’t care. I have a soft spot for it all the same.

B:  What was the first fandom you read fic in?  Which was the first you wrote fic for? to exactly no one’s surprise, I’m sure, the answer is the same fandom! Syn’s first ever fandom to read and write in was Harry Potter, back when we were all waiting for the next book to be published and before JKR decided to do her JKR thing and be Loud & Proud™ about things no one should be loud or proud about. these fics no longer exist on The Interwebs as the websites are long gone, but I do still have them on my external harddrives and I do remember them fondly.

C:  How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?

D: What’s the most personal fanfic you’ve written? oh, you’re gonna laugh. to date, that’s probably good old Poison, and almost definitely not for the reasons you think. I was writing Poison back when I was still figuring myself out, and in a lot of ways, the fic helped me get where I am today. it’s one hell of a fucked-up piece, but it’s definitely a personal one as well.

E: What character do you identify with most?  Is there a certain fic of yours that captures these qualities particularly well? literally no one wants an honest answer to this, but I’m gonna give it anyway. out of my current fandoms, that would have to be Han Joowon from Beyond Evil. now, I don’t have any fics to prove this, nor do I think I will ever write one that will properly show it (no matter how much my muse is now trying to tempt me with another exploratory graysexual piece), but let’s just say we’re two emotional and damaged peas in a pod!

F: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?

G: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?

H: How would you describe your writing style? (the things this has made me look up. 😂 me, two seconds ago, “what is writing styles, precious?”)  I would probably say my style is more descriptive than narrative, but also kind of a mix of both. I think that is just what happens when you write fiction, honestly. because sometimes you want to narrate what’s going on, but sometimes it just fits better to describe it rather than narrate it, you know?

I: How many fandoms have you written in?  Do you have a favorite? since my dear friend specified that they were feeling nosy, I’m going to list them all out instead of just saying the number lol. in a semi-chronological order: Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, Inheritance Cycle, Marvel Cinematic Universe (unpublished), Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven’s Official Blessing (unpublished), Guardian/Zhen Hun, Word of Honor/Faraway Wanderers, Beyond Evil (unpublished). all in all, that’s 10, which is somehow both fewer and more than I thought! now, do I have a favourite? no, I can’t say I do. I may be more into C-fandom and K-fandom right now than the Western fandoms I started off in, but I do still think about them fondly and dip back in every now and again. for instance, I do still intend on finishing my outstanding Inheritance Cycle fics. I just need to get all my muses in a row, you know? but if I had to say top three right now? probably Guardian, Beyond Evil, and Word of Honor. if you ask me another day, the answer may very well be something else entirely! 

J:  What’s your favorite fanfic trope?  Have you written it? my absolute favourite? oh, that’s not a fair question. I love a lot of tropes! but if I had to pick...let’s say a couple? instead of just one? I’d have to say role reversal/swap, soulmates, and fix-it. and funnily enough, I have written all three! I have a role swap for Guardian, a soulmate universe I one day hope to expand to include more fandoms, and a couple of fix-its. there’s perception, which technically counts since it’s a fix-it for how Guardian ended, and obscura, which is more of a mid-season fix-it for Guardian (please beware the relationship and tags in this one).

K:  Do you have a guilty pleasures in fic (reading or writing)? I’m also a firm believer in that we shouldn’t have things such as “guilty” pleasures - let people like what they like without needing to say they feel quote-unquote “guilty” about it! - but I suppose I could say that Omegaverse fics are mine. I like writing and reading things where gender dynamics are challenged or turned on their head, and A/B/O-dynamics give you a lot of room to play and do, if you’ll excuse my french, whatever the fuck you want.

L:  Which of your fanfics was the most emotionally challenging to write? there are a couple of contenders for this. one is good old Poison, because that was a tough one to write. it hurt, but not more than it healed, I think. but another one that definitely qualifies for this is perception. it was nice and easy in the beginning, back when I thought the fic was only gonna be 1k, then some people begged me not to leave it where I did, and well...a monster was born. :D and the monster kicked and screamed the entire time. but now it’s done and I will never need to write another episode 39-40 rewrite of Guardian.👍

M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with?  Did it turn into a story? oh this is a tough one. I’ve had a few “crossdressing for a case” AU ideas, which have turned into unfinished ficlets, but that’s not “weird”, is it? what television show out there hasn’t had an episode where someone has to dress up like a man or woman for “reasons”. so honestly...I’d have to say all the better to ki** you with, my dear, aka my Guardian Grimm AU. I mean, the Guardian drama is already technically an AU of the novel canon, and then I decide to throw in another show with supernatural elements and try to make it work? that’s pretty weird, right? 😅 (if you know Grimm canon at all, I think you’ll agree. if not...look it up and you probably will afterwards lol.)

N: Any fic ideas brewing that you’d care to share? if by “fic ideas” you mean fics that I haven’t sat down to try and write yet? then..technically yes. the muse is begging me to write a shaving “pwp” fic for Beyond Evil and I am desperately trying to keep myself from giving in. would I love a fic like that in fandom, in general? yes! do I want to be the one writing it? NO. now, if you mean fics that I haven’t published yet? then yes, I do! since I already mentioned the image of you lingers, I might as well give a shout-out to the “companion” piece that I’m writing. the image of you lingers is the novel version of Shen Wei vs the drama version of Zhao Yunlan, so I’ve decided to do the opposite for the “companion” fic: novel!Zhao Yunlan vs drama!Shen Wei. it’s...going. slowly. very slowly. mostly because I want to slap Novel!Zhao Yunlan silly. or at least until he stops talking, good heavens. the man is incorrigible.

O: What are your thoughts on people writing fanfic of your fanfic? as @voidslantern​ can attest, I love it. though, does fanfic of my original fiction count? if not, then I guess I’ll have to shout-out Possessive, a fanfic set in my scienter universe (that’s MDZS serial killers, in case you’re unfamiliar). you can find the fic in my related works tab over on my AO3 profile. but I love it, I promise! all I ask for is to be told so I can go and gush over your work properly! 💕

P:  Where did you find the most inspiration for your story < insert title >?

Q: Do you like getting prompts from your readers? love it! I know I don’t do a lot of those prompt lists, but that’s honestly because I’m so sporadically on tumblr that when I find one while scrolling through my dashboard, I feel like people have already moved on from it, you know? but I should try to do more, for sure! they’re always fun.

R: Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing? oh, this is a tough one, and probably not for the reason you think! baby Syn started writing early, and then just never stopped. so if someone has influenced my writing, I would have a hard time pinpointing who. I guess that’s what happens when you’ve been writing for 20+ years and started during your formative years, right? so I don’t think I can actually answer this question without sitting down to read everything I read when I was starting out for comparison. XD 

S: How do you feel about fan art inspired by your writing? LOVE IT! I cannot underline it enough. if you want me to love you, that’s one of the surefire way to make that happen. 😍  @voidslantern can attest to this as well.

T: Any fanfic tropes you can’t stand? I don’t know about “can’t stand.” I’m a firm believer in “live and let live.” but I can say that I don’t read a lot MCD fics, especially where the character can only be “redeemed” by dying. canon has usually hurt me enough, so I don’t tend to seek out more of it in fandom. if I do write or read MCD, it’s because a muse won’t leave me alone or the tags assure me that the MCD will be reversed. 

U: Is there a pairing you would like to write, but haven’t tried yet. oh, are there ever! I’m a casual or avid reader in a lot more fandoms than I could ever hope to contribute in, but I’d love to write for Kang Johan/Kim Gaon from The Devil Judge. I’m lowkey obsessed with the show, ahem.

V: Are there certain comments you’ve received on your stories that have stuck with you? I’m sure this question is meant to be a nice one, but that’s sadly not how my brain works. I’m far more likely to remember not-so-nice comments vs the opposite. I really wish it wasn’t so! but I do remember good things too. they sometimes require more effort, but rest assured, I remember the good and especially the goodest beans. they are the people that make me happy just to even see their username in my comment section, and that’s before I even get to what they’ve written. 🥰

W: What is your favorite pairing to write?  Favorite pairing to read? you can’t keep asking me to pick favourites! that’s not fair!  if I’m going to answer this based on my AO3 profile, there’s a clear winner. and I mean, I may not write Shen Wei much because he’s Intense AF™, and Zhao Yunlan should really learn the meaning of the word “shame”, but I really do enjoy writing Weilan. and I enjoy reading Weilan! but I could say that for all of my pairings, really! but right now, I must admit that I’m really into both writing and reading Han Joowon/Lee Dongsik from Beyond Evil, which of course does not mean that I love my other pairings any less. ❤️

X: How would you categorize your fanfic reading?  Are you a voracious reader?  Do you carefully pick and choose?  Something in between? I’d say it depends on my mood. I know what I don’t like and tend not to read anything with that in it, but if it’s by an author I know will handle that topic well? or at least respectfully? I will definitely give it a try. and there are some days when you only want to read fluff, you know? or angst. but other days when you want to read everything you see. so I’d say I’m mostly somewhere in-between, I think. 

Y: What are your thoughts on your personal satisfaction with something you’ve written vs. the popularity of your stories?  Do you tend to be most satisfied with your most popular stories?   strangely enough...no, I don’t think so. if anything, I might look more critically at my more popular works. but overall, I try to - for the sake of my sanity, if nothing else - to focus more on how I feel about how a story turns out vs what the stats say. I’ve been in this game for so long that I know the dangers of focusing on the stats too much. that’s the fastest way to losing the drive to write - not to mention the joy of it! I am satisfied with a story when it turns out more or less how I imagined it with my head, and someone out there happens to think it’s great? then that’s an awesome bonus! 😊

Z: Is there a story you’ve written that doesn’t seem to get much love? oh, this is a question, isn’t it? if we look away from fics that were migrated from other websites to AO3, usually years after they were first posted, and whose numbers reflect that...I do have a few fics with low numbers, yes. if that is what the question means. though considering the pairing in question (Da Qing/Ye Zun) isn’t like “super popular” in the Guardian fandom, I can’t say the fics don’t get a lot of love when I know so many DaMian fans have read them and even like them! so if I had to pick...to make it easier on myself, I’ll shout out a couple instead of just one because honestly, it’s difficult to pick which one is the one getting less “attention” compared to my other fics. (love), MDZS, Wei WuXian & Jiang Cheng, “missing” scene in the past timeline.  quadruple axel, Guardian, Shen Wei & Ye Zun, a part of the Yuri on Ice AU. blood and chocolate, Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, a Hannibal AU.