#Yes Brodie is named after Brodie Lee

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Sleepover!!! Do you have any pets?

If no... what interesting pets would you assign to specific wrestlers? I feel like Yuta is a chinchilla kind of guy.

I have two dogs! They share one brain cell but Shiner has it most of the time. The brown pupper is Shiner and the white pupper is Brodie. Brodie is deeply stupid and darling and I love both of these idiots So much.

And I agree. I think Yoots has the patience and care to take care of a chinchilla. Give a hedgehog to Matt Jackson so he knows how annoying a pocket size little brat who screams constantly would be.

[creoterative]

I don't have the slightest idea, what it is about this game.

But Telltale Games managed to bring a form of atmosphere to life, that gives me the chills, every single time I see certain things in the game. And it's so different for each scene, in which this happens.

But what's the best about this game, is that it brings me to show emotions. There are very few games, that can actually manage to bring me to tears or laugh at the top of my lungs, and this is one of it.

The fact, that this game can compete with Undertale, Red Dead Redemption and Half Life, at least on my personal list of 'Best Games I ever played', is incredible.

I've played a lot of different video games in my not-so-long-life now, from a very young age on.

Pokémon, Wolfenstein, Metal Gear, Sonic the Hedgehog, Far Cry, you name it, I've probably played or at least seen it.

And yeah, there are only so many games, that brought me to the verge of tears. This one here even managed it three different times in a row.

When Lee died.

When Kenny wanted to leave us in front of that gate.

And at the end of Season Four.

That's a new record. I mean, yeah, I tend to get emotional in the scenes, where the developers want us to get emotional, but it's not like I cry every time a bunny dies in a game.

As I mentioned, there are scenes, where the emotion isn't even sadness, but... something else and I can't quite describe it, but I like it.

When Minnie starts singing on that bridge, I swear, I had goosebumps and was thrilled to fight her (especially because the frikin' bow said 'One last fight' to me right before that and I hated it). I fucking screamed when I lost that bow.

That look Marlon has in his eyes, when we call him pathetic? Gets me every time. I even talked about it to my best friend, the fact that a pair of eyes can make me feel so weird, like I just destroyed a whole life, it's... I dunno, the impact is there and I can clearly see it. My actions have consequences. And I get a physical effect, because my stomach hurts every time I pick that option (and I'm sorry for every single time, Marlon).

The moment we let go of Ben in the belltower? Jesus. I am broken afterwards. The first time I played this game, I was so desperate when I let go of him. I couldn't even move.

I gotta admit, I only played Lee's death scene one time in my entire life. And the reason why is that I know I'm gonna cry again. Somehow the scene that makes me cry even more though, is when Kenny almost leaves us at that gate with AJ. I swear... that scenes is probably one of the most emotional ones I ever saw in video games and I kid you not, I was crying for five minutes after I finished that season.

Luke in the ice? That was a what the fuck moment, yes. But for me personally, the look he gives us when we decide to sit with Kenny instead of him is even worse. I dunno what it is, but for real, I can't deal with hurting people emotionally. Not in video games, not in real life.

And then there is this scene with the cannibals. Everybody's dead, we fight the last of the brothers and he yells at us to come back and finish the business. I decided to kill him the first time, because my sister and I were very pumped up and pissed, but when I replayed it with one of my best friends, he decided to let him stay alive, which was... worse. That soundtrack 'Bitter Revenge' that plays in the background, seeing all these walkers rush in there, his mother crawling out of the house... Christ, that was horrible. I think we were really quiet for a few seconds after that, just taking in that scene, while trying to process it.

Last but not least. The end. The fucking light. The fucking leaves that fall to the ground. Clementine coming in on her crutches. I can't. I just love it. When the camera goes over all the people we lost in the last season, Marlon, Brody, Mitch, Tenn/Violet/Louis, I get the same feeling I got when Snake killed The Boss and the flowers turned red. It's just so final. They won't come back, ever, but somehow, in a way, they had such an impact on the story, that they kinda carry this whole thing with this one shot of the graves. I... forgive me, I have no idea how to talk xD

Of course, there are a lot more of these scenes, I just wanted to name a few that came to my mind right now. This game is amazing in any way.

I don't care that sometimes Lee spins around like a beyblade. I don't care, that Marlon looks like a puppet on strings in that confrontation scene. I don't give two shits about how Louis dreadlocks move, if they even move at all.

This game is a masterpiece, because it affected me emotionally like no other game before, except Red Dead Redemption, and maybe Metal Gear Solid 3, but considering the fact, that both of these games are WAY bigger than TWDG and had a lot more people with a WAY bigger budget behind them, TWDG is still one of the best.

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And for fucks sake, Telltale Games gave me wide neck T-Shirt Marlon in Road to Survival, so my thirsty self is content as well.

Just joking. I'm not that desperate.

No, wait, I am.

I'm so looking forward to the frikin holidays. Imma draw a lot. And write a lot. And possibly cry a lot.

[fallynleaf]

Jasmine and Nutmeg for the ask meme! Mmmmm, fragrant.

ooh, thank you!!

jasmine ⇢ do you have a movie or book you loved but will never watch/read again?

book or movie, i'm honestly not sure. wrestling show, absolutely yes. there are honestly quite a few of them. many of them i'll never watch again simply because they're so dang long, and even though i loved them in the moment, i know that they'll never be as good in the future because i won't be able to revisit that unique point in time in which they came into existence originally. some of them, though, i wouldn't watch again for other reasons.

the example that stands out the most is probably AEW's Brodie Lee Celebration of Life, which aired on december 30, 2020, and which was possibly the most emotional media experience i've ever had. i've repeatedly struggled to explain this to non-fans, but i will try again! this was a wrestling show that happened when we were basically unable to have funerals, thanks to the pandemic (and we should have probably been unable to have wrestling shows, too, but thank DeSantis for that), so it essentially was a funeral, except it was a very public one in which the wrestlers, the crew, the fans, and his family all mourned the loss of Brodie Lee (who had died unexpectedly a few days before the show after battling health issues for months) the only way we really could. i actually really, really hate funerals, but this show, man... this show...

the thing about wrestling is that actor and character are one and the same, in a way they aren't for movies or tv. this show was simultaneously about the death of the character Brodie Lee and the man Johnathan Huber. it was sort of about his entire legacy as a wrestler and all the lives he touched throughout the years, and particularly the lives he touched in AEW during the short several months that he was there (one of the greatest tragedies in the company is that the show where Brodie was supposed to debut, in his hometown, was the first show that had to be filmed in an empty arena due to covid. he died without ever getting another chance to perform in his hometown).

everyone was in character but not at the same time. it was fake in the way that wrestling always is, but also real in the way that wrestling always is, too. i think a lot of tragedies are really about finding a way to grapple with the reality and mindless cruelty of death by folding it into a narrative, and that's exactly what this show did, all while giving the characters and their performers a space to grieve as well as celebrate someone who'd had an immense impact on them. AEW's booker and president, Tony Khan, basically completely rewrote his plans for the show that week and put the company's main storylines on pause so that they could devote the entire show to Brodie.

i don't know how it would even come across to someone who isn't a wrestling fan. parts of it would probably be very off-putting and jarring, in the way that pro wrestling is such a mess of contradictions (it's belief and disbelief at the same time, walking that fine razor's edge between fiction and reality). but they wrote it for people who understand what it's like to live in this world, who live in the world that Brodie lived in.

it was a show that was exactly what it needed to be, exactly what it should have been. no more and no less. the wrestlers were out there putting on the performance of a lifetime and then just breaking down into tears after their match was over. MJF was maybe the only person who never broke character because he had to play the villain so that Brodie's eight year old son, whose real name was Brodie (everyone called him "Brodie Jr." even though Brodie was only his father's ring name, not his "real" name), had a tangible bad guy to vanquish and got to play the hero on national TV and save some of his favorite wrestlers after he had to experience one of the most horrific things that can happen to a child.

at one point, Brodie's old tag partner Erick Redbeard made a surprise appearance. he was carrying a sign that said "goodbye for now, my brother. see you down the road". i don't believe in Heaven (and the concept of it honestly distresses me), but in that moment, i thought, "maybe Heaven can exist in kayfabe".

this was a show with a very long tail. eight years from now, if AEW lasts that long, Brodie Jr. will probably debut as a wrestler (he technically already has an AEW contract, though of course he is still a literal child), and some of these old threads will probably get picked up again as he attempts to reckon with his father's legacy. some other dominoes have already fallen: Bryan Danielson mentioned this show as one of the reasons he jumped ship to AEW from WWE in 2021, and CM Punk also listed it as a major reason why he decided to put his faith in AEW and come back to wrestling in 2021 after seven years of retirement...

(it stood out to Punk that the AEW roster didn't leak anything about Brodie's health problems until his death. in 2022, however, the boat got a lot leakier, which spurred on Punk's increasing distrust toward his fellow wrestlers, ultimately leading to his undoing, and nearly the undoing of AEW as a whole. it shook the company at its very core and seriously threatened the golden lovers story, my favorite wrestling story (and possibly favorite love story?) of all time, but THAT is a different story...)

sorry for the very long answer about a subject that you don’t care about! 😅

nutmeg ⇢ how’s your room/home decorated? do you have a specific theme or style going on?

unfortunately i am currently stuck living with my parents for the foreseeable future, and i don’t have a whole lot of control over how my overall living space looks. i’ve thought quite a lot about what i want to have, though, and what i hope my future house looks like, if i’m ever able to actually live on my own for the long term...

i think i’ve probably told this story before, but my blog title, “all green and idols,” came from the Alan Moore comic Providence, where a character was quoting the 1902 novel Felix by Robert Smythe Hitchens. i have not read that book! but the quote was specifically describing a room, and as soon as i read it, i was like “wow that is my ideal house aesthetic, actually??” i’ve always been someone who has had trouble committing to one coherent aesthetic choice. i like too many things! and many of the things that i like are contradictory, and sort of compromise each other aesthetically if i combine them. but i do believe that “all green and idols” somehow embodies the full spectrum of aesthetics that appeal to me, and is actually a workable theme? so that is what i aim for, and what i wish my house to eventually look like.

[ericsonclan]

Hey, how's it going? I really liked your answer to my request regarding a crossover between TWD and Star Wars, sooo... more xD

Of course you can add as many children as you like, but I'm mainly asking for Marlon, Louis, Mitch and Brody:

-Last time you wrote, that actually all of them have a tendency to the dark side, which I totally agree on. But do you think one/some of them will really fall and become Sith?

-After Order 66, what do they do? Do they stay together, do they split up? Will they join the rebellion, become lonely bounty hunters or just disappear and hide somewhere?

-Any changes regarding their lightsabers and fighting style as they grow up? (if they live long enough of course)

-And last but not least - how do each of them die in the end? A fierce battle with some inquisitors? Old and withered, chilling on some rocks and becoming a force ghost? Or something completely different?

As always, thanks for your answers, alsways love reading your stuff ;) Have a nice day!

Ooo! More Jedi au, let's go!

Do any fall and become Sith?

The answer is yes. Everyone assumed it would be Mitch but he actually stays solid on the light side. After Order 66 Brody disappears and Marlon does sometime later which really concerns the group that was with him especially Louis, Sophie, and Ruby to name a few. Others had been taken by the Sith too such as Violet, Prisha, and Minnie. Minnie fell to the dark side fairly quickly being taken after desperately trying to protect Sophie. Marlon and Minnie more fell to the dark side willingly while the others were forced to through intense methods. Violet and Prisha's safety was used against each other and Brody was isolated for a long time and broke. All five become Jedi hunters, hunting those they care about most.

What occurred after Order 66?

Aasim wanted to keep the Jedi Council as intake as possible and suggests they find those who are force sensitive to become Jedi. So he heads out and searches for new potential Jedi. He finds some more strange ones like Renata and Oakley who had been tossed out of the Order for being too eccentric. Mitch stays behind and cares entirely about keeping the young padawans safe and finding Brody. Louis is focused on finding his missing friends both those who fell and those who were rumored to be dead but no one had solid proof. Javi is with the rebellion and some Jedi join him while others like Sarita and Tripp start a new order of gray Jedi. Clementine who was told she was the chosen one for as long as she remembered disappeared after her Jedi master Lee died. She couldn't handle the pressure of the galaxy's expectations on her. As for Brody and Marlon, they are Sith now and trying to come to terms with their new orders. Brody gets in an intense fight with Mitch and also clashes with Ruby. Both try to remind Brody of who she was and what she stood for. Louis also gets into a confrontation with Marlon and later with Violet. He along with Sophie desperately try to get Marlon and Violet back. Willy is the one to try and save Prisha even though everyone says its too dangerous.

Any changes in lightsabers or fighting styles?

For Louis and Mitch, no. They stay as wild and flamboyant as always with their fighting styles and their lightsabers stay the same. As for Marlon he discards his old lightsaber and picks up a red lightsaber. His fighting style switches from a firm, normal grip to a reverse grip depending on his emotional state. He is incredibly easy to read in battle but also extremely dangerous. As for Brody she keeps her yellow lightsaber since her loyalty to the Dark Side is shaky and unstable but she also has a red lightsaber. In battles when she is extremely emotional she recklessly pairs the two lightsabers together. Does it always work? No, but she is extreme when emotional in battle.

How do they die?

Louis- Dies at an old, old age super peaceful and surrounded by his loved ones.

Brody- Also dies at an old age, and becomes a force ghost.

Mitch- Dies at an older age protecting his kids and his friends' kids some of who are all padawans in training.

Marlon- Dies around late 50's from old battle injuries that have finally caught up to him. He gets to have his redemption and a family so while he of course wanted more time he couldn't complain since he got a happier ending than he thought possible for himself.

Thanks for the ask! As always feel free to send in more asks whether it's for this au or if anyone has anymore aus they'd be curious about our inbox is always open.

[yellowsugarwords]

Are requests open? If not then ignore this. But if they are open, can I request some more clem + ben content? Like he survived with her all the way to ericson (and for an added bonus; they save marlon from getting shot by aj! I hope this isn't too specific for your rules)

okay this is PRECIOUS i do love me some good clem and ben sibling content. enjoy my friend :’)

I’m so happy with this one oh my god oh my god

Clem and Ben were attached at the hip.

They had been since they left Savannah.

Even more so when Lee died.

And as the years went on, their bond only grew.

Especially once they were on their own.

Especially after Wellington.

Ben was the one who had helped step in against David at New Richmond.

Attempting to keep AJ with the two of them.

“There’s no reason he can’t stay with us.”

“There are plenty.” David snapped back.

“He’s happier here with me and Clem.”

David scoffed. “Debatable.”

Ben glared and clenched his fists.

It was the first time Clementine saw him truly angry.

Someone questioning Clem’s ability was the last straw.

No one was better for AJ than her.

She laid her life on the line for him since the moment he was born.

For no gain.

Other than keeping him alive.

Back when she was a child herself.

They’d been through it all together.

By the time they got in their wreck,

By the time they were taken into Ericson,

They saw each other as siblings.

Family.

As much so as AJ was to the both of them.

Ben was the first to wake up,

Stuck in a small room,

Alone.

Marlon and Mitch were on the opposite side of the room,

Lingering in the doorframe,

Waiting for him to wake up.

“Where are they?” He snapped, brows stressed and strained.

They could tell he was stressed.

They noted it.

“Who are you and who are they?” Marlon asked flatly.

Refusing to answer.

“Their names are Clementine and AJ, my name is Ben, and they better not be hurt.”

The two boys glanced at each other.

“Your wreck caused a few injuries.”

“None of them by us.” Mitch reiterated,

Arms crossed,

Trying to remain stoic and fierce.

Ben said nothing, only glared.

Finally Marlon sighed and rolled closer.

“We’ll bring you to them, only if you agree to cooperate.”

Ben didn’t stop glaring.

“Fine.” Was all he could say.

They did as promised.

Clementine and AJ, tucked away in a separate room, were each laying on opposing bunk beds.

Ben surged in.

“Are they okay?”

“They should be fine.” Marlon said,

Arms crossed and brow raised,

Trying to get a read on their relationship.

“Ruby, our nurse, took a look at them. And you.” He continued.

Ben turned to look at them and, finally, took them all in.

He noticed how young they were.

Very young compared to him.

“Is it just you guys here?”

“We have a team.” Mitch said flatly. “But there aren’t a lot of us.”

Ben raised a brow. “How long have you been here?”

“Since the beginning.”

Ben felt his stomach churn.

This place felt strange.

Wrong. almost.

Like something terrible had happened here once upon a time.

And, just based on that, his suspicions were confirmed.

Clementine and AJ gradually began to come to,

An the two teens left to give them space.

Ben knew someone was monitoring them in the hallway.

But didn’t care.

He checked in on the both of them,

Gathering their bearings and got ready to leave,

And the moment the whisked the door open, there stood Violet.

“Finally.” She said lowly. “We’re waiting for you outside.”

“We?” Clem asked.

Violet ignored her and started down the hall, stopping after a few paces.

“Coming?” She called.

They met the rest of the group with tension.

Awkwardly.

Especially when it came to Ben.

He was so much older than them,

And yet they had seemingly an entire society built at their young ages.

Astounding.

Ben and Clem both knew these kids were smart.

And they both knew they were worth staying with.

Even just for a while.

Marlon, their apparent leader, was hesitant.

“We’ll see about you guys staying long term,” he’d said at one point.

According to them, time would tell.

And time was.

Quickly.

Tensions were brewing between Marlon and the group.

The growing presence of nearing bandits was growing more and more dangerous.

And Clementine, very quickly, was learning all about the inner workings of their world.

Especially that fateful night in the cellar.

Ben had burst out of the school in the rain.

“Where is Clementine?” He snapped.

The other kids, attempting to shelter the firewood from the rain, paused.

“She’s missing! Where is she?” He said again.

AJ lingered behind,

Watching.

“We haven’t seen her.”

“I haven’t seen Marlon lately either.” Louis pitched in.

“Or Brody.” Aasim said,

Hugging his arms in the damp cold.

Louis’ stomach churned,

Turing to Ben with a fearful frown.

Something was very wrong.

And Marlon, rounding the corner screaming for the group’s attention, was proof of that.

Clementine ran in, covered in blood, panting and wailing.

“Clementine?” Ben breathed.

His legs almost gave out at the sight of her.

“Marlon!” She screamed. “Just tell the truth!”

Ben’s stomach was curling into knots.

Something terrible had happened here.

“Clem, what--”

“Marlon killed Brody!” Clem screamed,

Shooting her finger toward the blonde.

“She’s down in the cellar, and he tried to lock me in with her!”

Ben froze,

Turning to Marlon,

Jaw clenched and tight.

“What?” He said lowly,

Horrified.

Did he want to throw a punch? Yes.

Did he knew the chances of it landing/being effective were low? Also yes.

So he didn’t.

“She’s lying!” Marlon screamed back,

Waving his gun around,

Firmly planted in his left hand.

“She’s left down there after you attacked her!”

Marlon sneered closer,

And Clem’s heart leapt to her throat.

He wouldn’t do anything.

He wouldn’t.

She had to believe that.

But before anyone could, Ben lunged forward,

Tackling the blonde to the ground while his guard was down.

AJ gasped and jumped at the movement.

Louis, stepping in, pushed the child behind him to keep him out of harm’s way.

Marlon’s gun collapsed to the side.

“Don’t you dare.” Ben said,

Forcing him down with his knees on Marlon’s chest.

Mitch and Violet rushed forward,

Ready to help keep him controlled.

And the moment they did, Ben shakily stood,

Turning to Clementine,

Catching her stare.

Her eyes were wide,

Her hands shaking and he clothing bloody.

Rain dripped off her hat, hair, and eyelashes,

But Ben could see the scared tears lingering there.

He swept in, taking her in his arms,

Falling to the ground with her,

Sighing into her soaked hair.

“I’m so glad you’re okay.”

Clementine grappled onto him,

Staring nervously at the sky,

Listening to AJ’s excited footsteps slap against the soggy grass.

Quickly, he was brought into their graps,

And Ben placed a thankful kiss on the top of his curly head.

“Thank God.” He sighed lowly.

The entire time, Ericson watched,

Helping calm Marlon down while keeping him detained.

Family never had anything to do with blood.

The three of them were proof of that.

And all of Ericson, knew in their heart, that they were earnest.

That they were trustworthy.

That they should be welcomed into their family.

𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 💌☕️♡

[darktammy]

The right kind of Love

My new romantic type of story I hope you all enjoy (if you want to be tag let me know) 

@beenlovingromansincedayoneish @bss-babygirl @living-the-life-1996 @moxleybabe @sausagefest1996 @sassymox @fabulousrockstar 

It was early morning when she woke up. Looking up at the ceiling she start to think about what she was going to do today. Not sure she got up started to stretching out as she walk into her bathroom. After some time past she was wearing some jeans with a black tank top and some black boots. She takes one look in the mirror with a smile on her. “I’m ready to go.” She said grabbing her things and heading out the door. Once she head out her building her smile drop from her face as she saw the black SUV. “Hello, Y/N sir Roman is waiting for you.” The driver said. She nodded her head as she walk to the car getting in.

She was in the car driving to her boyfriends home Roman Reigns. Yes the both started dating after he and his now ex-wife finales their divorce papers. After that Roman was looking for her and only her. Then he told everyone in the back that Y/n was his girl and no one can have her, not even Finn Balor which she was eyeing for while. Finn knew Y/N eyes where on him, it made Roman very jealous at the time, but now that was dead and done.

The car park by the home were Roman lives. She got out of the car marching right into his home.  “That was not right Roman and you know that. I hate when you do this to me.” She yelled. Roman just waved off his workers while he got up and walk towards you. “Baby girl how many time do we have to have this talk.” He said to her. She shock her head as she move back from him. “No Roman I’m tried of this, everyday it’s the same thing you watching me you making me come here everyday I’m just so fucking sick of this!” As she stomp her feet. Roman toke a deep breath as he look down at her. “I think it’s time for you to sit and eat breakfast with me.” Roman look only see her walking out of the kitchen. “Y/n hey come back here. Shit!” Roman walk back into his bedroom just so he get can dress.

Y/n walk out and flag a taxi just so she can get in and get away from Roman. Roman ran out of his home only to see that she was long gone. While in the cab she starting to think about her past before she end up in this mess. 

                                               Flashback

She walk into Vince’s office with a smile as she show him the story for Otis and Mandy Rose. “Sir what do you think?” She smiled at him. “Y/n I love it will work on it right way call those two in so they can remember there lines.” Vince said with cheer in his voice. “You know Y/n you're one of our best writers we have hired. I’m glad you're on team WWE.” It made her smile with joy. “Thank you Mr. McMahon I won’t let you down.” She said. Y/n got up and walk out of his office with smile on her face. Back at the hotel that was rented for the WWE superstars and staff, she was sitting at her laptop writing more story lines for the guys in NXT. She had a smile on her face when she was thinking about Finn. Then a knock was heard so she got up and answered. “Who?” She ask. “I think you know the answer to that love.” With a heavy Irish accent. She smile as she open the door to see Finn. She pulls him right into her room.

“You know Finn you could get in trouble for this.” She giggle at him as Finn carried her then lays her down on the bed. “Who gonna know about it love.” He said as he slowly start to kiss her neck. “Oh Finn why do you have to be a tease?” She question him as she sat up and start to pull his shorts down. His was already hard like a rock. “Oh baby I’ve been waiting for this.” She told him as takes his whole cock into her mouth. Finn closing his eyes with a smile on his face. She was bobbing her head while Finn starts moaning from the bliss of joy his feeling. “Oh hold on there.” He stops her from going any faster. “Oh babe no way I’m gonna cum inside that pretty little mouth of yours open them legs wide.” He demand, and that what she did. With his hard cock entering her she moaned with joy feeling him entering her pussy. She looks up at Finn as she nodded for him to go. Without thinking twice Finn started trusting Y/n making her moan his name. 

She look into Finns eyes as she felt him go faster. “Oh Finn please if you keep this up I might just come before you.” Finn went as fast as he could making them both reach they're high. They both look at each other with smile as they kiss each other.

                                            Flashback Ends

Y/n had a small tear fall from her face as she looks at to see her stop. She thank the driver as she walk right into a small coffee shop. She walk in and order her drink and small muffin. Then she sat in the back where sis didn’t want to be seen. She sigh as she drank her coffee. “Hey Y/n is that you?” She look over as she heard a rough voice she smiled. “Jon Moxley how the hell have you been?” She smiled as she gave him hug. “Nothing much just loving life about to be a dad soon.” He smile. “Congrats on that I’m so happy for you guys. Please sit I mean we have a lot to talk about.” As they both sat Jon had a smile on his face as he could remember it like it was yesterday. The both of you first meet back in WWE when she was trying to help him become a big star, but Vince had other plans for Jon when he was Dean Ambrose. 

The both of them hit off great like brother and sister and yes Jon knew about that night with her and Finn. Jon being a big bro wanted to kill him but all thanks to Renee she stop him. “Well I guess you heard about what happen with me and Roman.” He nodded as he took her muffin and ate. Making her smile a little. “Yeah that’s just mess up, I mean…” She nodded as she look out the window. “But now I just want to know if it’s true, did you get fired from WWE?” She look at Jon as she nodded. “Was it because of Roman?” She nodded again. Jon lean forward and place his hand on yours. “Hey tell me all about it while I drive ya someone were you might like.” She smile as they both got up and headed to his car. 

On the way Y/n told Jon everything about that day. She told him what Roman did to make her and Finn end their relationship. Some how it back fired on Roman and Y/n was the one who got fired on that black Wednesday. Right along with Brodie Lee and few others. Then she look to see a building that had the words AEW on top. “Jon you know this is not a good idea.” She told him. “And I’m not going to see my sis be depress alright. Let’s good my boss Tony Khan just might need someone like you.” She laugh a little as she remember a Mortal Kombat charter by that name. They both walk right in and head straight to the back where Tony’s office is. On the way you look over to see some man pretty tall with shades on wearing some jean pants and white tee shirt with a picture of himself on it. His hair short blond with a small beard. He look up at Y/n and smiled a little. She wave at him as she look back at Jon. “Over my dead body.” Y/n laugh as Jon open the door as they both walk in.

Roman sat at the dinning table waiting on any news from Y/n. “Sir we found her, but you might not like the news.” One of the man walk in a little worried. “Roman got up and sigh. “Alright what is the problem?” He ask. “She was found with your old friend Jon and they both went to AEW’s building.” Roman look at the pleats that we're on the table with anger he slide them to the side as he yelled. “Jon I love him, like a bro, but this is taking it too far. I’m trying to get her old job back, but Vince is being a hard ass with me right now.” Roman said walking away leaving not but a mess of broken dishes on the floor. 

[darkorderaf]

shake off your flesh pt. II

Here’s the second and final part! I had a lot of fun writing this. Hope you like it!

Pairing: Evil Uno x OFC (could probably be read as reader insert!!)

Rating: M. It’s just filth.

Warnings/Content: Blindfolds, size difference, praise.

Word Count: 2,465.

(I don’t own the gif; credit to eggshellseas!)

She wondered what The Keep was like. She knew for a damn fact it didn’t look anything at all like the hotel she was so familiar with. How long had he been just down the hall? Would he have let her in if she knocked while the moon was still at its highest? That thought and those very similar burned through her as she scrubbed herself clean with restless hands. It felt so strange. All of it.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t noticed the way Evil Uno seemed to gravitate toward her. Around her. When had it started? Had it been when she cleared her throat and pointed out that his mouth was bloody after a losing effort. It had made the teeth of his mask particularly intimidating and she had told him as much. She hadn’t seen him laugh before then. Funnily enough, she had wondered if the Dark Order was allowed to. Another thought she dryly shared with Evil Uno while her gloved hands carefully prodded the fullness of his bottom lip. It was hard with the mask but she made it work as he looked at her. Try as she might not to blush, she had. Like mad. Another laugh had rolled through him.

Why her, she didn’t know, but she did know that Mr. Brodie Lee’s tone was hard to doubt. If she kept overthinking it, she had a feeling she might burn her brain out. She looked at herself in the mirror. The fog of her shower distorted her image. Even then, she took in a deep breath. She would never find out if she didn’t ask and fuck, she wanted to ask.

The hotel hallway was thankfully empty as she walked down it, her steps muted by her slippers. She double-checked the number and squared her shoulders back.

One knock, then two.

Her stomach squirmed but she held strong. Held it together as the seconds ticked by. Had Mr. Brodie tricked her? She didn’t want to believe it but the silence had her doubting. She tapped her fingertips together and turned to the side. The hallway seemed longer. Darker.

The door opened and her head snapped back at the sound of her name. He was still in his ring attire, much to her surprise. The wraps around his wrists were loose and the black around his eyes was smudged.

“Hi,” she breathed out. The only precursor to the way her jumbled words poured out of her. “I talked to Mr. Brodie. Or, well, he talked to me. After the...What happened. And he said you wanted a-and that I wanted and well--”

She hadn’t realized she was shaking until his hand closed around her wrist and her nerves ceased. Or maybe it was because he was shaking too.

“Come in,” he said. His eyes searched her face. “Please.”

The door shut behind her and she looked. Evil Uno let go of her wrist and turned away from her. He began to pace, his hands behind his back. Her tongue ran along her bottom lip. He had something on his mind and she wasn’t going to interrupt. He stopped a foot away from her.

“He told you that I wanted you.”

Speechless, she nodded. He inhaled sharply through his nose and rolled his neck before he looked at her again.

“Do you want me?”

She held his eyes. Nodded once more.

"And you want me?"

Gently, her back pressed against the door as he came towards her. She looked up at him. He didn’t cage her in. He only looked at her. Any words she had up and left the instant he ducked his head to speak into her ear.

“Yes," he said in almost a whisper. "Do you trust me?”

She swallowed. Found the one word she was absolutely certain of.

“Yes.”

He parted from her for only a second. A piece of purple cloth wound around his fingers and he asked her again if she trusted him. Certain that she did, he brought the fabric around her eyes and gently tipped her head forward to knot it at the back. As it went dark, she reached out to him only for him to meet her halfway. His fingertips skimmed up her arm and goosebumps followed them. Then his hand was gone and she heard what sounded like fabric being dropped.

His mouth against her jawline, the slight coarseness of his facial hair against her skin, told her what it was that had dropped. His mouth pressed against her and her head tilted back as she gasped. He breathed her in as his hands gripped her hips and pulled her in towards him. Tight but not tight enough to hurt. Her tongue teased into his mouth and when he groaned into her, she swore she would never forget the sound.

With ease, he lifted her up and pressed her back into the door. His mouth never left hers as he guided her legs around him. She didn’t need direction to tighten them around him. Her body did it on her own. His mouth was persistent against hers and when he finally let up, he took in a heavy breath.

“You’re fucking beautiful,” he said against her neck, as if he murmured it into the thrum of her very pulse. A finger trailed up the warm skin of her chest that her loose shirt bared. She could feel the slight tug of her new necklace against the back of her neck. He kissed against the corner of her mouth and she pressed further into him. “This looks good on you. I had a feeling it would.”

He gently nipped at her bottom lip and when she smiled, he smiled against her. His laugh was quiet but no less deep.

“Maybe I’ll look better. Can I…?”

He effortlessly took them away from the door and instinctively, her arms went around his neck. The hotel bed bounced some as he set her down. It was odd. Not being able to see him. But the thrill that raced through her when his fingers gripped the hem of her shirt and started to tug upward distracted her. Fuck, she didn’t mind it. It wasn’t hard to imagine his eyes. She had looked at them so often, so deeply, that they were in front of her in spite of the blindfold.

He paused when she ran a hand through the hair on his chest. She continued up his neck before she cupped his jaw. The muscle of it worked underneath her touch. She hoped it was enough to convey what it was her mouth struggled to say. His hand briefly against her own told her that it had.

Then his hand was gone.

The clasp in the center of her chest popped open. His large hands slid under the loose cups of her bra. Blunt nails then smooth fingertips against her nipples pulled a gasp from her and he was there to swallow it. His hands squeezed her flesh for a moment before he guided her back against the bed. She stretched her arms overhead and she felt the bed dip by her knees as he swore. She heard a zipper and knew his vest had been tossed aside too.

One nipple was enveloped by the warmth of his mouth and she bucked up into him. She was a taut wire. Something on fire. Something so alive, she shook with it. And he had barely touched her. He chuckled as he pulled away and blew cold air against it. Her hand found the back of his head and as she guided him to her other breast, he went eagerly. His fingers pulled at the nipple his mouth wasn’t occupied with. Every sound she made pulled one out of him.

“Uno, please,” she gasped out. She was desperate for friction. His teeth gently closed around a nipple before he pulled away. His mouth trailed up her chest, her neck, before his teeth gently found her earlobe. Her legs tightened around him. The weight of him against her was incredible but it wasn’t enough. “I want you. I do. God, I do. Ever since I saw you.”

A tremor ran through him. He was struggling as much as she was.

“Me too. But how?” His rough was rough. “How do you want me?”

She found her mouth with his and returned the favor of gently biting into his bottom lip.

“I want this,” she said as she pulled away. Her thumb traced his bottom lip. Her hips pressed up against his. “Please.”

He moved down her body and hooked his fingers into the waistband of her leggings. He moved slow, one leg then the other, and by the time he licked a stripe along the inside of her thigh, she was panting. His lips pressed against her damp front for only a moment before he pulled off her underwear. Her hips rolled when he took her knees in hand and pushed them back.

She had seen how...active he was with his tongue in the ring but it didn’t hold a candle to the way he teased her with it. The texture of it in the dark had her nearly twisting. His strength kept her legs from closing around him and pushing him in further. It was infuriating. It was fantastic. Just when her frustration seemed ready to peak, he gave her what she wanted with a groan of his own. He slid one thick finger and then another into her. Curled them up as his tongue curled around her clit.

“Right there,” she moaned out. “You’re doing so, so good.”

The way his tongue rolled, the way his lips pulled against her, it was hard to catch her breath. She teased her own nipples, tugged and pulled. Her head fell back against the bed.

“I’m--”

He pulled away from her and she could feel his gaze wander up the length of her.

“I know.”

He dove back in and in the time of a three count, she came. She moaned loud, her body taught as he coaxed her through it. Lazy kisses trailed up her sweat slicked torso. With shaky arms, she lifted herself up to press up against the solid weight of him. She tasted herself on him when he licked into her mouth.

“I want to be with you,” she said. There was a power in the way he moved with her so that he was the one flat on his back. Her hands slowed their shaking as she carefully stripped him down to be as bare as her. Only once did she lose her balance and he was there to right her, her hand pressed to his chest. He breathed in when she wrapped her hand around him and lightly squeezed. His hips bucked up into her hand. “One with you. Fuck, where did you come from? I want all of you.”

He murmured where he kept his condoms and took in a heavy breath as she slid one onto him. Blindfolded, she moved slowly. Carefully. Ghosted her fingertips across where she wanted to go. Each time, he shuddered. He helped her as she came to kneel over him, his fingers laced with hers. Slowly, she sat down on him and moaned as he started to press in. A light choking sound wheezed out of him and she smiled, her teeth sunken into her bottom lip. Once her hips were kissed fully against his, she slightly wound her hips. His free hand flew to grip the meat of her thigh.

The sound he made when she began to rise and fall against him was incredible. She nearly came again the instant she had heard it. He was ruthless, conniving in the ring, but with her, he moved in tandem. Didn’t push, gladly took a part in what she was willing to give. Rolled with her as she did. The Dark Order emblem thumped against her chest rhythmically as she moved. She had never been one for praise really, but as they moved together, she took to it well.

A hand came up to squeeze her breast.

When her legs began to shake, he turned her onto her back and set her ankles against his shoulders. The position sent a spark up her spine that had her shuddering against him. Each movement jostled a moan out of her and he kissed her like it was the only thing he wanted to do.

“You look incredible like this,” he panted as he moved within her. One particularly deep thrust had her toes curling and her walls spasming. “I think I was right but you, oh, the way you fucking looked up there. Never going to forget it.”

Her head fell back and slightly jostled the blindfold. She could almost see but then it was dark again as his shadow fell over her. The solid weight of him against her had her keening out for him. Of all things, she felt safe. His hips stuttered against hers and he slowed.

“I won’t--I have to come.”

“Come with me?”

At those three words from her, he was back at it, the sound of their skin against one another’s white noise that their moans periodically broke through. Her voice keened loud and low as her back arched. She tightened around him and bit into the meat of his shoulder as she came. He yelled out and buried his face into her hair as he pressed in as deep as he could. He slightly pulled out, just the tip inside, and pressed back in as her body spasmed. French was murmured into the moist skin of her neck when he finally slowed to a stop inside her. Was this what he had meant? About being one? Her head spun, her pulse fluttered.

His chest heaved against hers as they simply breathed together. He dragged his mouth across her jaw, her cheekbones. Then, it was on hers. Taking what little breath she still had left. He was careful to not collapse his weight onto her frame as he pulled out of her and she found she missed him. He rested his forehead against her shoulder and breathed.

“Stay with me?”

He picked his head up and pulled the blindfold off. She felt his weight press down to the right of her. The door was to her left. Even without the blindfold, the room was pitch dark. He must have turned the light off. Still, she knew his eyes. Could tell that his warm brown gaze was fixated on her. She turned on the sheets and curled into the warmth he offered as they caught their breath together.

“Hell, as much I am with them now,” she started. “I’m one with you.”

[dreadwhoop]

Reviewing the All Elite Wrestling personnel (Part 2)

Part 0 - https://dreadwhoop.tumblr.com/post/631091725056835584/reviewing-the-all-elite-wrestling-personnel-part Part 1 - https://dreadwhoop.tumblr.com/post/631092482075148288/reviewing-the-all-elite-wrestling-personnel-part

Wrestlers to Release

Let's start with an easy one. Chuck Taylor is damaged goods. Is he the worst wrestler? No. Is he unmarketable? Yes. What's his standing? Currently one of the top tag-teams in the company and personally ranked 8th in the overall scoring. Are you kidding me?! This guy makes you change the channel - bush league dime-a-dozen goof with bad gear, bad promos, and abyssmal credibility. The worst is how badly he holds Trent? back from being a break-out star. Eliminate this idiot.

Another popular choice for removal - he may be kind backstage but I never want him on TV. Carnie Hick. People constantly compare him to better wrestlers and the fact he was self-trained makes sense why he's so horrendous at fundementals, ring psychology, and stardom as a whole. We already have a 'Superbad' boy! This guy needs to go to a real school to learn the holes he's got and take every criticism to heart to return as a unique talent. Until then? Get rid of this glorified fan.

I finally have a legit reason among opinions - liability. Imagine if he took Matt Hardy's bump. He's not concussed. He's dead. What's more to say? This isn't a case like Riho in the women's division - Marko Stunt looks like the average untrained and out-of-shape wrestling fan could kick his scrawny ass. If you can't believe he'd kick your ass how can you believe he could kick the ass of any professional? He makes Rey Mysterio look like Andre the Giant. Toxic to this company - he doesn't deserve a single victory and I can't believe people can defend him beyond sympathy. He's a moron and attitudes of a child, gimmick or not, which makes people change the channel. Heel booked as face and a charity case. Same as Janela - go train and if he comes back then return dignified and not as a lost cause. Please stop leaning into the child-like persona and validating every criticism levied against you. THE FLOSS! !!CRINGE ALERT!!

AEW needs to get rid of their gimmick low-tier wrestlers. This isn't DDT or Chikara. This is national TV. If you want to keep Michael Nakazawa then I'm sure you're also happy with wrestling never being popular or you being called an idiot for watching it. This is their attempt at having a Toru Yano - a genuinely amusing comedy act who gets unexpected wins. The best thing he can do for talent is by not being involved at all. Considering AEW got rid of Jimmy Havoc for his real-life sexual misconduct, how the BTE YouTube show distanced itself from Joey Ryan, and the whole Jake/Brandi segment, it's unwise to have a wrestler whose main schtick is to joke about sexual assault and weaponise it.

I changed my mind and rules just this once for this guy - this friend of Tony Khan won't be released but every time he's on TV it's like releasing a wet fart into my face. He sucks! I can't believe how incapable he is at conducting interviews or even stringing complete sentences together. Why else would he be taken off commentary? The more you see someone else do his job in the same company the more you realise he has no place in the company. Dasha is a Buenos Días.

What a total failure. He's the modern day Billy Gunn and Billy is in the same company still wrestling! I mean it - Shawn Spears is the guy with a Million Dollar Body and a Ten Cent Brain. His manager has given up on him after he couldn't find a tag-partner, called Dustin a wash-up and then lost to him, and looks so stupid when he's with MJF running circles around him. Shawn Spears is a loser. A big loser. He's the embodiment of mid-card hell and he's a walking mid-life crisis. The only thing I can see even saving his career in AEW right now is if he teamed with Adam Page against FTR because it would be unexpected and interesting and would play into the whole 'Teambreaker' clause.

Where to even begin. The biggest indictment to her is how she was niche and needed when the women's roster had so few talents. Now it's growing she's shrinking in usefulness and we know her character or wrestling won't evolve - it's going to stay as bland and cliche as her looks and attitude. I hate she represents a stereotype and not a role model. She got over her disease? Good for her. She acting like she's hood-life and all? Change the channel.  

If you glanced at the Dark Order and saw John Silver, Alan Angels, and Stu Grayson, you may mistake one for the other. The difference though is John Silver has degenerated his value as a performer by being the absolute butt of every joke. The whole point of the Dark Order was to make people better so being a little servant and whipping boy is better than what he had before? Why isn't Alex Reynolds doing this? Oh it's because it's garbage. Fecal matter in the form of a human. I want 'long' John Silver to be 'long gone' Silver.

QT Marshall. So I say this name with reverence and think "wow this guy is going to light the world on fire?". Let's picture the scene - he's the hand-me-down MJF/Shaun Spears, teams with Dustin to get some starpower, and adopted DDP's move because he has nothing original to show. His entire arc is being a goofball tragic loser who got hair plugs and hangs with Allie...Allie, who incredibly has a better record than him! It's just bad bad bad throughout. Diet-Arn Anderson. He's not in the shadows he's just in the shade.

This will need a bit more explanation. Moxley is, at best, hit-or-miss with his promos and very specialist in his matches. AEW's executives have put a lot on him to see this company's growth and yet it feels since he beat Jericho it's been the opposite. Now you could blame the lockdown for this but it's an excuse. The truth is Moxley is always best being a chaser to the title not the title holder. Do I think he should be AEW Champion? Eventually, but this is AEW's biggest issue - they book for short-term gains and not long-term gains. The losses will be creeping in if his loyalties are questioned. When he loses the AEW championship, and the lockdown is over, he's jumping back to NJPW or WWE. Why would he want to elevate talent? He's not there for AEW he's there for himself and tell me I'm wrong. Everything about him was booked wrong - he should of never beaten Jericho, continued to chase for the title, had to deal with Hager, Brodie Lee, and then when Brian Cage became FTW Champion, go after this to make it a more legit title. The fact Moxley thinks he's Stone Cold, Hulk Hogan, HHH, Cena, Lesnar, and Roddy Piper all in one, is a complete embaressment to the legends. He tries too hard and it shows. His wife not joining AEW is a bad omen for his loyalties. Mox is Pox - a parasite of every proportion and we've seen his type before play to the ruination of companies.

[mydarlingvioletine]

Just a Puppy Crush - Chapter Thirteen Ship(s): Violet/Clementine, Louis/Aasim, Ruby/Brody Media: The Walking Dead Game (Season 4)

author’s note: finally introducing one of my favorite boyos into this au!! sorry for the late update i hope you like it!

Just on the outskirts of the school, there was a patch of land that Violet had always overlooked, chalking it up as nothing.

        Turns out it was the community garden.

Clementine had pointed it out to her on their way to the corner store, and abruptly remembered that she had to check on her bok-choy and spinach plants.

       Violet waited patiently at the entrance, not noticing Clementine’s expression turn from tentative to mischievous. She turned her head just in time to see Clem reaching over a small fence, plucking a flower from another garden plot.

“Dude, isn’t that someone else’s?” Violet stammered, as Clementine rose to her feet and tucked the red flower behind Violet’s ear. “Can’t you get in trouble for that?”

      Clementine pursed her lips, tugging at the collar of Violet’s jacket with a smirk. “You’re the one who has a shirt that literally says ‘Be gay, do crime’.”

Still bashful from Clem adjusting her collar, Violet huffed and crossed her arms. “Never said I was a role model.”

        Clementine beamed before shutting the gate behind them, and interlocking her fingers with Violet’s. “Don’t worry, they’re Javi’s brothers’ flowers. That guy is kind of a dick, so I don’t feel bad. Child support dodging asshole.”

With a weak smile, Violet walked alongside Clem beside the road, kicking the occasional pebble that she saw.

      “Plus, I don’t think anyone could be that mad if they saw how cute you look.” Clementine chided, happily humming when she saw the deep pink flush across Violet’s face.

Fighting every instinct to bury her face in her hands, her smile became wobbly. “I’m not - I’m not fucking cute. Cute is for puppies and... babies.”

        Clementine huffed, swinging their intertwined fingers back and forth between them. “Fine. Beautiful, then.”

Violet groaned with exaggeration, trying to throw the attention off of the blush she couldn’t control. Being pale sucks when it comes to stuff like that.

      Clem held the door to the front of the shop open for Violet, and a cool breeze met her, along with some borderline emo pop music.

“Benny boy! How’s your shift going?” Clem hoisted herself up onto a bar stool beside the counter top, and swung her legs as she smiled at the lanky teenager at the cash register.

        “Well, this fucking terrifying lady just left about five minutes ago. Textbook definition of a scary soccer mom.” Ben murmured, pushing back his mess of shaggy back hair to glance at Violet. “She was even taller than me. Like, nobody’s taller than me.”

“Glad to see your ego is still intact.” Clementine giggled, patting the stool next to her for Violet to sit down on. Ben smiled wearily, eyes dancing between the two girls. “Did you get Larry to fix up the milkshake machine?”

         Ben softly shook his head, and took two large glasses from table behind him and set them under the spout. “Cheap bastard didn’t do shit. I got it fixed out of my own pocket. So, what can I get for you guys?”

“Two taco bags, puh-lease!” Clem sang out, digging the twenty dollar bill out of her pocket and slapping it on the counter. “Oh, Vi. What flavor do you want?”

       “Flavor?” Violet scrunched up her nose at the question, and Ben pressed a couple of different Doritos bags towards them. “Oh, uh... the best flavor.”

“A woman after my own heart,” Clem swooned dramatically, leaning back in her seat. “That’ll be two bags of Cool Ranch.”

     Violet guffawed and shook her head at the notion. “What? No. I said best flavor, Nacho Cheese.”

Ben beamed, and grabbed the bag from a shocked Clementine, who then crossed her arms. “At least one of your friends has taste. That kid who almost broke my jukebox by sitting on it went for the Supreme Cheddar. Fucking nasty.”

     “It’s Louis-“ Clem interjected, as Ben rolled his eyes and turned the corner to the kitchen.

Violet tugged her knees to her chest, and focused her gaze on the cheesy cat clock in the corner with big yellow eyes. “You take all your dates here?”

     Clementine blinked rapidly, and went to say something when there was a bang in the kitchen, followed by a “FUCK!”

A disheveled Ben rubbed the back of his head with embarrassment as he came back into the counter area, holding two bags of Doritos with chunks of taco meat and lettuce and cheese in them.

        “Bon appetite.” Ben dramatically bowed, passing the bags to Clem and Violet along with a fork. “Is that it?”

Clementine’s eyes landed on Violet, and she pursed her lips while contemplating. After a couple of seconds, she slammed her hand enthusiastically on the counter.

                   “One chocolate milkshake, please.”

Her eyes landed on Violet, and she cocked an eyebrow, her lips curving into a lopsided smile.

                  “Two straws.”

Violet scoffed to herself as they left with arms full of Gatorades and Doritos. Clem held the milkshake tightly in her hand, the water droplets from the sunlight making it slippery.

      “Louis dragged me along after one of our games. He asked Aasim to show up and watch him, and I guess he really didn’t expect for him to actually show up. But, he did and Louis got all flustered and had me be a third-wheel while they were doing all their mushy gushy shit. Definitely was not a date.” Clem confided.

“Oh,” Violet mulled it over in her head before giggling, letting a vulnerable snort slip out. “I can’t believe Louis is really trying to slip into my relationship shit when he can’t even handle his own. He’s.. so dumb.”

        “Relationship shit?” Clem cooed with curiosity, bumping her shoulder against the taller girls’. “Do tell.”

A rush of heat hit Violet’s face at the feigned obliviousness, and she ducked her head to take a sip out of the red straw from their shared milkshake. “It’s nothing..”

      Clementine was about to press further when the calamity of adults screaming hit their ears. With an eye roll, they quickened their pace back towards the ball game, which had just started.

The chanting from the green team was incoherent until they got closer. The time the words were said, and the wires in Violet’s brain short-circuited, Louis and Marlon had dropped their attention from the game, and looked worriedly at the two.

“Let’s go, Delta Destroyers!”

Violet froze in her tracks and scanned the field. Her eyes landed on an uninterested kid who was crouching down and playing in the grass.

        The kid with the burn scar across the side of his face.

“Vi, you good?” Clementine picked up on her change of mood, and brushed against her to snap her back into reality. “Violet?”

     “I’m okay. I’m - yes. Good.” Violet stammered, her eyes dancing nervously across the crowd that had accumulated around the Delta’s side.

She slumped herself down beside Carley and Lee on the bottom bleacher, and tried to channel her focus on cheering for AJ. But she couldn’t fucking stop looking, checking.

    With a concerned frown, Clementine sat herself down next to Violet, and placed her hand on top of hers. Relaxing at the touch, Violet let out a deep, shaky breath. “Hey, what’s wrong?”

Violet gave in, her hands wrapped around the milkshake as if it could soothe the racing thoughts in her mind.

       “The private school, Delta.. I’ve got history with a girl from there. Her brother’s out there. Fuck... I hope she’s not here.”

Confirming her suspicions, a shout from the other side rang out that Violet knew too damn well. She flinched at the familiar tone, and tugged her knees to her chest. “Shit.”

      “Hey, we can ditch this if you want,” Clem offered, tightening her grip on Violet’s hand. “I’m sure Ben wouldn’t mind some company.”

Violet shook her head, and pulled the straw towards her lips. “I’m good. Just haven’t talked to her since the whole thing went down. Was kinda hoping it’d stay that way.”

         Clementine rolled up her sleeve and dramatically flexed, bringing an involuntary smile to Violet’s face as the dork next to her kissed her bicep. “Don’t you worry, my darling. You won’t have to. Let me know if I need to kick some ass. Take some names.”

“Clem,” Carley groaned, reminding them of her presence relatively close to them. “Javi can only let so much pass before you get kicked out again.”

          “Again?” Violet softly elbowed the pouting girl beside her, intrigue in her smile. “What’d you do?”

“I didn’t do anythin-“

        “Threatened to shove a foam finger up the ref’s nose and had to be physically held back by Javier.” Lee interrupted, a glint of pride as he smiled down at his daughter.

“That call was bullshit and you know it.” Clem huffed, crossing her arms and shoving a forkful of taco meat and Dorito chip crumbs into her mouth. “Let’s not forget when you got so mad at a call and you accidentally spilled the entire ice bucket.”

      The domestic moment that she got to be a part of brought a sense of peace to Violet, and she let her shoulders relax with a happy hum as Lee and Clem bickered. She shared a glance with Carley, and they burst into a giggling fit at the sight of their sweethearts squabbling passionately over the dumbest things.

A sharp ‘crack’ interrupted their arguing, and everyone’s eyes landed on AJ, who was holding the bat in disbelief, looking at the ball he’d struck almost over the fence.

       Clementine and Lee pushed up against the fence, cheering incoherently and yelling for him to run as the shocked kid just blinked. He tossed the bat aside, and booked it towards second base.

Looking at the kids mindlessly fucking around in the outfield, his velocity was definitely unnecessary but she’d be damned if it wasn’t adorable.

       “Go, AJ!” Violet rose to her feet, raising the foam finger above her head and cheering as the flustered kid made it to third. “You got this!”

The kid beamed at his fans, and sped towards home, letting himself get low to the ground and slide dramatically on the base.

       Carley and Lee’s cheers were quickly cut off by groans as AJ stood up and dirt and dust was absolutely covering his baseball uniform.

“Not it for laundry tonight!” Clem pressed her finger to her nose, and Lee and Carley followed suit. Confused, Violet glanced between them and reluctantly raised her finger to her nose.

     “Technically, Vi was the last one. She’s on laundry duty.” Clementine beamed, slinging her arm around Violet. “Don’t worry, my dirty underwear will not be included.”

Clementine’s willingness to let her in on family outings and secrets and all that stuff meant so much more to Violet than she let on. When she started catching on to inside jokes and eventually creating ones of her own, a sense of belonging just overflowed all of her senses.

       Lee rolled his eyes, and scoffed. “You really need to take a class or something on the proper way to ask someone out on a date.”

He earned simultaneous punches in the arm from both Clem and Carley.

    Clementine huffed, and sat back in the bleachers, watching as AJ high-fived his teammates. “I volunteer James, then. Bastard ate my Cocoa Pebbles.”

The rest of the game went by pretty quickly. Turns out Delta is all bark and no bite. From her past experiences with their students, Violet would’ve never guessed that they couldn’t back up their smack talk.

      The Delta kids - besides Tenn - begrudgingly shook the hands of the home team, and the players dispersed back to their families.

Violet watched as Tennessee slung a backpack over his shoulder, and hopped over the fence to embrace his older sisters.

         It happened too fast. Minerva’s eyes raised up to meet hers, and she seemed thrown off, standing stiffly before she turned her attention back to her little brother, who’d attached himself to her leg.

Her thoughts were cut off by Louis running up to her and squeezing her tight, even lifting her a couple inches off the ground. Over his shoulder, she saw Clementine beaming, and her face went numb as she shoved the tall dork off of her.

        “I can’t believe you came all this way to see little ol’ me,” Louis feigned a Southern accent that would make Ruby turn in her grave. “You really do love me!”

Violet discretely flipped him off.

     “We still going to the diner? I can give you guys a ride.” Louis offered, eyes flickering down to his watch.

“Oh, fuck yea.” Clem squealed, tugging on Violet’s arm. “I’d take late night pancakes over a fucking casserole any day.”

       “Pancakes sounds amazing right now,” Violet agreed, shuffling her hands into her pockets. “I’m in.”

The four of them walked back to Louis’ car after Clem said goodbye to everyone, and sneak-attack tickled AJ. Marlon glanced at Violet with his bottom lip pursed, and the weight of the flower on her ear suddenly occurred to her.

         “People are really stupid if they eat anything other than breakfast food.” Clementine chirped, earning a collective sigh of agreement from everyone else in the car.

“Onward! To pancakes!” Violet lightly kicked the seat in front of her, causing Louis to twist himself around and wag his finger at her.

            “I will turn this car around, Violet. Don’t you test me.”

“You kinda have to anyway, to get to the diner...” Marlon noted, earning a stern glare from Louis.

      The cheer of the three passengers crying for pancakes was drowned out by Louis aggressively turning up the volume, and shouting along to the Britney Spears lyrics.

[sharrks]

Some info if you didn’t see the AMA

You guys have probably seen a majority of this information but I wrote this post whilst the AMA was still in progress, thought I should share anyway. There’s a little bit in this that mentions the fate of TWAU2 and whether or not Skybound will do games similar to Telltale’s.

I put things I thought were particularly interesting in bold as well as important stuff :).

• The game isn’t currently being worked on, so there isn’t any definitive release dates for the new episodes. They’ll provide dates when the game is back in production and they can confidently start stating release dates.

• Possibility of extra content/DLC but nothing is planned.

• Skybound likely won’t be doing TWAU2 but want to do games that are similar to Telltale’s.

• Multiple endings not confirmed but choices will have an important effect on how the game ends (practically confirmed).

— This was basically confirmed by Ian, who commented, “This is from one of our wonderful editorial team - Yes! Your choices all along in how you encourage AJ, who you romance, how you treat your friends, that all adds up in the final episode.”

• Episode 3 will have a scene about why a number of the characters ended up at the school (I am super excited about that).

— “I will say some of the reasons the youth are 'troubled' are pretty unique, though not perhaps darker than stuff we've seen before.”

• Louis’s past to be revealed depending on your choices.

• We also will learn more about Violet in the upcoming episode.

• I found this comment interesting, “You learn more about the character you saved (but learn something else about the one you didn't)”

• No James romance, Violet and Louis are the only planned ones.

• Not confirmed but “never say never” about comics about Clementine.

• Possible merch.

• Hope to make more Walking Dead games after TFS.

• We won’t ever know Clem’s second name.

• Regarding the ending of TFS, “Pretty hard to not spoil on this one, but I will give the broad strokes response of: we thought very hard about what would be an ending that fans would love, and would feel like a fitting conclusion to the very specific and harrowing journey Clementine has been on. Sorry that's kind of marketing speak, but I'm very excited for the fans to see it when it's done.”

• McCarrol Ranch to be expanded upon in a future episode.

• Garcias will not make an appearances.

• “Abel and Clem need to have a very serious 'talk' in 403. How grisly that becomes is up to the player.”

• There’s reasons why Clem doesn’t go back to Richmond.

• “We actually avoid specific ages, it's more like how old are the characters in relation to each other.

ADULTS: Lilly, Abel, Raiders

OLDER KIDS: Clem, Louis, Violet, Marlon, Aasim, Ruby, Mitch, Brody, Marlon, Omar

YOUNGER KIDS: Tenn, Willy

AJ: AJ”

• There are some determinate deaths.

• Nobody will get the Nick treatment.

• Clementine will sadly not eat a clementine.

• We’re gonna see more of James and learn more about him next episode.

• “It's very heavily branched based on if Louis or Violet is captured. Both 3 and 4 have a lot of variability based on previous choices.”

• There will be Lee references.

• Other characters may flirt with each other but the main romance is Clem and Louis/Violet.

• Script confirmed to be staying completely the same.

• ‘Take us Back’ will be played at some point in episode 4.

• Mitch’s death to be “a point of contention”.

• “Hail the ALL WILLY, EMPEROR OF GAWKING.” - Kent

Possibly more questions to be answered later by Ian.

[louisfrecklesss]

LCH [5] | Louisentine

Description: Clementine gets confused with her feelings while she’s spending so much time with Louis, especially after babysitting baby AJ together.

Words: 1,757 

Ship: Clementine x Louis

Warnings: make out session

Genre: Fluff, High School AU

A/N: it’s so fucking cold here in London, yes I live in London for those who don’t know. everyone seems to like this fic better than the other one? at least you like one of them because I don’t like my writing at all aH. anyway, I love you all. thank you for reading!

CHAPTERS

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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It’s been a or two week since Clementine has agreed to this deal with Louis, and not for one second has she thought it was a stupid idea. She could see from hanging out with his friends that they do pick on him a lot, Mitch the most; they’re not bullying him but he is the joke of the group only because he is the lesser of them. Clementine knew that if she was in his shoes she wouldn’t know if she would be as strong as he is.

So, here they all are in the common room of the school. Mitch, Aasim and Marlon sat opposite the couple who were seated on one of the large body bean bags. Clementine sat crossed legged in between Louis legs as he rest his chin on top of her head, her hands held his fiddling with his fingers while she scrolls through her phone with the other. 

“When are your friends getting her, babe?” Louis brushes his thumb over Clementine’s hand to get her attention, the girl switches tabs on her phone to their conversation reading the answer for Louis.

“I think they’ll be here in five, I’m not sure to be honest with you.” She looks up at him meeting eyes with him to which he winks at her causing her to look down smiling. Every time he winks, event though he has done it so many times, it still seems to make Clementine blush like crazy.

Clementine meets eyes with Marlon who is vaping the whole entire room up. “Brody?” His eye brows frown at the question before looking towards the door of the room; just in time, Brody walks into the room with Clementine’s friends. Louis knows them but they haven’t all chilled together as ‘friends’. 

“Baby!” Brody practically screams as she sees Marlon in the far corner, he opens his legs up on his seat inviting her to sit on his lap. It wasn’t too long before they were all over each other.

Aasim turns away from the couple. “Looks like it came straight out of a porno.” Violet, who came in with the rest of Clementine’s friends, high fives Aasim before taking a seat next to him. 

“Oh right, guys, these are my friends. Violet, Sophie an-”

“Ruby!” Clementine is a little shocked when the rest of the boys know who Ruby is. “Darling.”

Ruby giggles when Mitch and Marlon continue to shout her name. “Don’t y’all darlin’ me.” 

“You know each other?” Louis questions.

“We always pretend to be sick so we can pay our little Ruby a visit, right Aasim?” Marlon hits Aasim with his elbow a couple times before he is rewarded with a punch on his arm. “Or is it to see that asian guy that is always sick but never fuckign speaks?”

“James?” Ruby questions sitting on the other side of Aasim who physically tenses in his seat, Louis tap Clementine lightly pointing at Aasim before smiling down at her. Clementine saw what he was talking about and mouthed the ways how cute before engaging back in the conversation. 

“James is pretty fucking hot.” Clementine states nodding her head along with her fake boyfriend. 

“Oh yeah, James has my heart.” Louis clenches his chest and Clementine lifts her hand to high five him behind her. The group just break into a fit of laughs including Aasim himself. It was only recently that Aasim came out about his sexuality so it was hard for him to joke about it still.

“Too bad his gay Clementine.” Mitch adds pointing at the girl who frowns slightly earning a hurt expression from the boy behind her. She tilts her head back looking at him who pecks her lips quickly earning a surprised expression from her, nevertheless, she grins.

Sophie is almost glued to Violet’s side not knowing these people enough to really fit in; Clementine notices this telling her to come sit opposite her which happened to be right next to Mitch. Mitch offers her a small smile to which she returns before saying something to him which Clementine can’t hear, she’s just glad that she has someone to talk too. 

“So, party tonight? My house, everyone has to be there because I said so.” Marlon says standing shortly after, he goes round getting everyone number and adding it to a group chat, not too long after everyone receives his address.

Louis admires his girlfriend as he sees her shaking her head softly. “I don’t do parties.”

“Clementine does not do parties.” Violet says to clarify the point that Clementine just made. Louis did not seem too happy about this, he stood up making Clementine fall back onto the bean bag slightly. 

“No, princess, you have to come.” Clementine smiles to herself before standing up to placing her hands on her hips. 

“Nope, sorry.”

Louis flutters his eyelashes at her, bringing out his puppy dog eyes before moving closer to Clementine. He hopes this works on her because it works on most people, he can even see in the corner of his eye, Violet crumbling and slamming her hand on Aasim’s leg. “Come on Clementine, please.” Clementine looks back at her friend briefly before looking back at him. 

“No.”

Everyone boo’ed and complained as Clementine grabs her stuff and Louis hand. “I have to babysit my baby brother, and you’re going to help me.” She addresses the last part of the sentence to Louis who rolls his eyes gently, following behind the girl. 

“We all know that’s code for sex!” Marlon shouts as they both start to leave the room. 

“Louis is going to have to wait longer than that!”

~

Lee runs around the house picking up all the mess as well as trying to find his car keys, AJ is screaming in his highchair not wanting his Dad to leave him. 

“Daddy, it’s here.” Clementine hands Lee his car keys, he thanks her kissing the top of her head. 

“I’ll be back in an hour, I just really have to finish that paperwork sweetpea.”

“I know Dad, go.” She tries to push him out of the house. 

“And thank you too, Louis.”

“No problem, Paps.” Louis returns to feeding baby AJ who stops crying once the spoons meets his lips; Louis makes funny faces at the baby causing him to giggle almost choking on his own laugh. Clementine loves watching Louis play with AJ and call her Dad ‘Paps’. It makes it so real, a little too real. But she never bring up the fact that this isn’t real because she wants to feel like it is even when it isn’t.

“Everyone is going to be there, and I have to go because it’s my bro’s party. Open up AJ, woosh.” Louis guides the food into AJ’s mouth before turning to Clementine for a reply.

She sighs before laying down on her couch. “Fine, but I swear to go you can’t leave me alone Louis.” 

He turns to her almost jumping up and down. “Of course I won’t babe, thank you so much. You’re amazing. Isn’t she amazing AJ? She’s so great right?”

Clementine smiles at them closing her eyes to rest slightly, without Louis she would have had to babysit AJ all by herself and she’s been so stressed and tired from school she just can’t function. She’s unsure of how long she’s been laying there with her eyes closed but Louis joins her on the couch laying beside her with half of his body on top of her due to the lack of space. 

“AJ is sleeping, I put him to bed.”

“I don’t know what I would do without you Lou.” Clementine opens her eyes to meet Louis staring at her; she can see all his freckles up close, even the opens that overlap each other creating and even bigger freckle. Louis could see that Clementine was avoiding his eyes, he wants her to look at him even though she was but not at him. His hand grabs her cheek brushing thumb against it slightly, her eyes flutter shut slowly enjoying the feeling. 

“No, look at me.” Louis whispers against her skin, she doesn’t listen at first until he says it again this time in a more demanding tone. As soon as he eyes meet his, she slams her lips against his;. this is the second time that they have shared a kiss during this entire relationship. But it’s the first time that they’ve kissed because they wanted too and not because someone was coming and they had too, like the first time. 

Louis’ hand grips her face firmly as he pulls her into the kiss more, the uncomfortable position makes Louis move on top of her instead. Clementine’s arms wrap around his neck pushing him onto her to the point that if it was any further than it would stop her breathing. They pull away from a second only to get air before Louis mouth is on her neck, leaving soft kisses everywhere. A soft breathe of air leaves Clementine’s lips as she bits her lips, one leg moves around Louis waist as she moves him back to her lips. 

Clementine’s hands grab onto his shirt pulling him in closer, Louis lets out a small groan feeding more into her lips. She parts her lips asking for more to which he gives her, it wasn’t just a dry kiss anymore as their tongues met each other. Clementine could barely control her breathing before the front door slams open and Louis rolls off Clementine almost as quickly as he rushes towards the kitchen. 

Lee walks in with his back turned towards the door trying to get all the shopping bags into the house. “Hey kids, I did some shopping.”

Clementine is breathing heavy trying to compose herself and reply to her father; Louis can see that she is no state to reply muttering the best response he can. 

“That’s great Paps.” He shouts from the kitchen taking down a large amount of water from the glass in his hand. 

“W-we’re, um, going to a party Dad. Don’t wait up!” Clementine grabs her coat and rushes out of the house. Lee looks to Louis for an explanation, who has a red face, shrugs his shoulders and rushes after Clementine.

[the-walking-memelords]

Vows

Rating: G

Word Count: 3362

Pairing: Louis X Clementine

Louis and Clem work out their wedding jitters for their big day.

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The rapid sound of his pencil tapping against the paper was the only thing filling the silence of the empty dorm room. Louis sat slouched over the desk, head in hand. The blank page stared back at him almost mockingly. There were so many things he wanted to say but none could escape his mind onto the page. Time was running out. He kicked himself for putting this off for so long. The wedding was only a few days away but Louis had no idea what he would say to her. He leaned back in his chair, that beautiful face distracting him from what he was doing.

Clementine, the love of his life. Louis became lost in a daydream as he thought of spending the rest of his life by her side. Waking up to her golden eyes was already blissful, but to be accompanied by that golden ring seemed to make life even sweeter.

The feeling of him falling in love was interrupted by the feeling of him actually falling. Louis quickly grabbed the edge of the desk to prevent his chair from completely tipping backwards.

“This is no use.” He muttered to himself.

He gave up writing for now as he decided to go see someone he knew he could talk to about anything. Though of course, Marlon was less talkative these days.

---

Purple Snapdragons stuck out of the dirt around the worn wooden cross. Louis sat under the midday sun at the foot of the dirt mound. His eyes traced the carved letters spelling the name of his best friend.

“Hey, Marlon.” He spoke to the grave.

“I’m sorry it’s been a while since I came to visit you, we’ve just been so busy with the wedding and other stuff I haven’t had the time.”

He laughed to himself. Part of him thought this was stupid, but deep down he just hoped that somehow Marlon could hear him.

“Everyone’s been good, all excited for the wedding. Oh- I hope you don’t mind that Aasim is my best man.” He let out a sigh.

“I wish you were here, man. I don’t blame AJ, of course, I love the little dude. Though, he isn’t so little anymore. He’ll be eleven this winter.” Louis never thought he could be a dad, but Clem always assured him he was doing a good job.

“I love them both, so much. Clem and AJ are the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I just don’t want to screw this up. Makeshift as it is this is our wedding.”

Heh, wedding jitters.

“I’ll think of something.” He decided

“Tell Mitch and Brody I said hi.”

---

It was as if all inspiration had left him. His fingers laid motionless on the piano keys, unable to find any notes to play. He ran his thumb over the carving they had made the night before everything went to hell. He remembered that night in such vivid detail. The good and the bad, though he chose to only think of the former.

He could still recall the heat in his cheeks when she called him cute...

The feeling of his heart skipping a beat when she said she like-liked him...

The softness of her lips the first time they kissed…

“Louis?”

Louis’ trip down memory lane took a detour when the voice of his adopted son called out to him.

“Uh, hey little dude. What’s up?”

“Violet told me to check on you, make sure you were getting your vows done.” He crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow, a behaviour he picked up from Clementine.

Shit.

“Tell Vi I’ve got it handled. A little more time and I’ll have the whole school sobbing at the wedding.” He said with his usual dramatic flair.

“You’re stuck, aren’t you?” AJ wasn’t falling for it.

“You’re gettin’ too smart for your own good, kid.” He scooted over on the bench, giving AJ a spot to sit.

“I just don’t know what to say. They’re so many things I want to say, but none of them seem right.” He grit his teeth in frustration.

“Well, you could tell her why you love her.” AJ suggested.

“Tell her how happy she makes you and why you want to stay with her forever.”

“That does seem like a good start.” He couldn't hold back a chuckle.

“When did you turn into a love guru?”

“...I don’t know what that is.”

“Heh. Never change, Alvin Junior.” He put his arm around AJ’s shoulder, pulling him into a hug.

“I love you, kiddo.”

“I love you back.” He said, wrapping his arms around Louis.

They broke the hug and stood from the piano, each smiling at the other.

“C’mon, AJ.” He said, ruffling the boy’s hair.

“We got shit to do.”

“Swear.”

---

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Clementine held her breath as Violet struggled with the zipper on the back of a peach-coloured dress.

“It’s no use, it’s just too small.” The blonde huffed.

“These dresses are made for high schoolers, of course it’s too small.” Sighed Ruby as she dug through more of the school’s old costume bins.

“Well, we have to figure something out. She can’t just walk down the aisle in those mud-stained jeans.” Violet helped Clem out of yet another failed dress.

Clementine shuddered against the draftiness of the old theatre. A simple white tank top leaving her arms exposed to the chill.

Clem crossed her arms, her eyes finding a fascination with the floorboards.

“It’s okay hun, we’ll find somethin’ to make you look right beautiful for your wedding.” Ruby assured, noticing her silence.

“The dress isn’t what I’m really worried about.” She confessed. Letting out a heavy sigh, she sat down on the edge of the stage.

“I don’t know what I’m going to say to him.”

“Oh, God. You haven’t written your vows yet either? You two are just made for each other.” Violet was the most stressed out wedding planner in the apocalypse.

Clem didn’t respond. Instead, she fiddled with the ring on her finger. The slightly tarnished gold band was adorned with several small diamonds. The slight looseness of the band caused the heavy diamond setting to slip upside down around her finger.

I need to get a chain for this.

She found herself playing with it often, not wanting to lose it by not paying attention and letting it slip off.

She remembered the day Louis proposed to her.

He had been acting odd that entire day. Nervous and jittery. He was quick to pull her away from the others once her watch shift ended just as the sun began to set. She remembered catching Violet’s wink as he tugged her along. She couldn’t deny that she teared up when he showed her the ring that had belonged to his mother. Tears of happiness spilling down both of their faces when she said yes.

“Just write about how much you love him and that you’ll be together forever and all that.” Ruby continued to dig through the boxes.

“It has to be special. I can’t just say something generic and pretend it came from my heart.” She laid back onto the stage, staring up at the sunlight that peeked through the holes in the roof.

“I just didn’t think I’d ever be getting married. Once the world died I figured all of that stuff died too.” She ran her fingers through her loose curls, spying her hat laying a foot away.

She reached to arm out to grab it, holding the damaged cap in front of her as she sat up.

I need to take better care of this.

Her dad’s hat was filled with rips and holes and covered in stains from all kinds of muck. The D on the front peeled nearly halfway off.

She could hardly remember the voices of her parents. The mental image of their faces was tainted with the dead eyes and rotting skin of the walkers she found in the Savannah herd. Her memories of the old world didn’t even seem real anymore, like some kind of happy dream or alternate reality.

I miss you both.

You too, Lee.

She blinked back a few tears as she placed her hat back on her head, wearing the brim low.

“Don’t beat yourself up over the past.” Violet took a seat next to her, speaking as if she could read her mind.

“Now’s the time to think about the future.”

To Clem’s surprise, Violet pulled her into a hug. She returned the hug, then after pulling away with a smile.

“I think that’s the first time I’ve ever seen you initiate a hug.” She laughed.

“Yeah? Well, don’t get used to it.” The blonde joked.

“You’re gonna be happy whether you like it or not, damnit.”

“Thanks for doing this for us, Vi. You didn’t have to make things so elaborate.” Violet was the one who insisted on a whole ceremony, flowers and fancy clothes in all. It was already more than she ever could have asked for.

“You and Louis are my best friends, and I’ll be damned if I can’t put on an epic wedding for you guys.” She smirked. “Thank you, Violet.” Her voice caught a bit in her throat as she choked up a bit. She could never be able to explain how much this meant to her.

“Oh c’mon, enough with the waterworks. We still gotta find you a dress that’ll knock that dork’s socks off.” Violet stood up, offering her hand to Clem as they both went to give Ruby a hand.

“I know what I’m going to write about.” Clementine decided. Her heart swelled in anticipation for the upcoming event.

“I’m glad.”

“Hey, guys? I think I found something.” Ruby called from a mess of searched boxes. The two girls rejoined the third, who unveiled her latest find.

“So what y’all think?”

A wide grin formed on Clementine’s face.

“It’s perfect.”

---

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---

Louis adjusted his suit jacket in the cracked mirror, frowning at how large it appeared on him.

“You look fine, Louis” Violet assured, quickly checking her own slightly town jacket.

“Now c’mon we need to get you out there so I can check on Clem.”

She practically shoved him out the door.

“You’re taking this very seriously, aren’t you?” he chuckled.

“Almost as if you care or something.”

“Don’t push your luck.” She said impassively, continuing to lead him to the music room.

“You finished your vows, right?”

“Yeah, of course I did.” he fiddled with the slightly crumpled paper in his pocket. Louis had gone over the words again and again until they were burned into his brain, but he still couldn’t bring himself to leave the page behind.

“Good, now get in your spot.” With that Violet rushed off to find Clementine.

The music room was decorated in an assortment of wildflowers. The red petals of the Indian Blanketflowers were mixed with the bright yellow of the Black-eyed Susans. Each bouquet sat in an old glass jar on tables and shelves outlining the room. Chairs were lined in short rows, leaving a gap in the middle as the aisle.

“Nervous?” Aasim asked him.

“You can bet your ass I’m nervous.” He said matter-of-factly.

“Yet at the same time, this is the best day of my life.”

His heart fluttered in anticipation. Louis hadn’t been able to see her since that morning as they were hurried away to prepare for the event.

“I’m happy for you, dude. You guys are really good together.” Aasim gave him a pat on the shoulder as they awaited the arrival of the bride.

---

Clementine played with her hands restlessly as she sat in the desk chair in her room. Her ring was absent from her finger, left with AJ for the ceremony. She kicked her bare feet from under the long hem of her dress.

Her wedding dress was scarlet red like the colour of a rose’s petals. Long flowing silk ran from her collarbone to the floor tied just under her ribs with a sash. Her arms were left bare in the sleeveless gown.

“I’ve never worn something like this before.” She told Ruby, who was busy arranging Clem’s curls into a stylish updo, leaving a few locks to hang around her face.

“Do you think Louis is going to like it?”

“Like it? Louis is going to love it, just like he loves you.”

“All done.” Ruby held a hand mirror in front of her.

Clem ran her fingers over her styled curls.

Ruby did a great job.

“Thank you.” She smiled, giving the redhead a hug.

A knock on the door slightly startled them both as Violet entered the dorm. Her eyes widened when she saw the bride.

“You look amazing, Clem.” Violet gasped.

Clementine’s anxiety began to turn to giddiness as she twirled for them, letting her skirt flare out in every direction.

“I’m ready.” she declared, putting on the white flats they had found for her and taking her bouquet.

“Your future husband awaits.” Violet said as she held the door for her.

---

“Attention, everyone.” Violet called to the group.

“The bride has arrived.”

Louis’ jaw immediately dropped. She was gorgeous. A gown so simple yet so elegant.

She picked me.

He could barely believe it.

This living goddess actually picked me.

Heat crossed both of their faces as Clementine made her way down the aisle.

She tried to focus on her steps, dreading the idea of tripping over her skirt. Her eyes were deadlocked on his, finding nothing but love. She walked past their smiling friends until she reached the man she loved. She passed her bouquet to Ruby, letting Louis take her hands in his.

“You are so beautiful.” He whispered, making her heart jump even more than it already was.

“Alright, everybody.” Violet smiled, pulling a few small cards out of her pocket.

“We’re here today because two of our amazing friends fell in love and wanted to be able to unite in the way of the old world, and what kind of friends would we be if we didn’t support them and throw a kickass wedding?”

That earned a few woots from the audience.

“But today isn’t about us. Today is about Clementine and Louis getting married and being a family.” She nodded to Louis.

This is the moment he had been preparing for. His heart thumped loudly in his chest as he gazed into her stunning golden eyes. Louis abandoned the paper in his pocket. He knew what he was going to say.

“Clementine I…” He began, his breath slightly catching in his throat.

“You and AJ both mean the world to me. I never thought I could have this kind of family.”

“I never thought there would be someone like you who would want me.”

“Someone who could really see me for me, not just some stupid jokester who plays the piano.”

“This family is more than I ever could have asked for, and I promise, I will protect you with everything that I am 'til the day I die.”

His tone was serious but his smile never faded.

“And I vow to keep making my stupid jokes, and keep playing my stupid piano, and make you laugh every day because it is the most beautiful sound in the world.”

Clementine giggled as a tear rolled down her cheek.

“I vow to hold you tight through whatever this crazy world decides to throw at us, and whatever that ends up being, we face it together.”

He squeezed her hands tightly, their foreheads pressed together.

“Forever and ever.”

“Wow.” Violet mumbled.

Clementine wiped the tears from her eyes. It was her turn to speak.

“Louis, I love you more than words can say.” She choked back her tears.

“The day AJ and I arrived here at the school was one of the best days of my life, even if I didn't know it at the time.”

“I was scared at first, I wasn't sure if I could open myself up to someone again after losing so many…”

Her eyes fell.

“But you? You sparked a light in me I didn't think I had anymore.”

“I know there are things you still blame yourself for, stuff you wish you could take back even though you don't need to.”  

“But that was forever ago.”

She saw him begin to tear up. She knew he still blamed himself for AJ getting shot all those years ago.

“Today is a new day, and today I vow to be by your side for the rest of our lives.”

“I vow to be there whenever you need me, and to be just as much of a rock for you as you've been for me.”

“And I just have to thank you, Louis, because you taught me how to live, not just survive.”

Tears rolled down the faces of both the bride and the groom.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. Even stone cold Violet could be heard sniffling a little.

“O-okay, that was beautiful.” Violet cleared her throat.

“AJ, it’s time for the rings.”

AJ hopped up from his seat. Two rings, one adorned with diamonds paired with a plain gold band salvaged from a supply run rested an old red pillow in AJ’s hands. He excitedly held it up as Louis held his mom’s ring in his hand.

No, it’s Clementine’s ring now.

“I, Louis,

take you, Clementine,

as my wife.

With this ring, I thee wed and with all I am and all I have I honour you.”

Louis slipped the ring onto her finger, the gemstones sparkling in the sun that peeked in from the windows. It looked so natural.

“I’m sorry that it doesn’t really fit.” He saw how the band slipped loosely around her finger.

“It’s still perfect.” Clem assured with a smile.

With a shaky hand, she plucked the second ring from the pillow.

“I, Clementine,

take you, Louis,

as my husband.

With this ring, I thee wed and with all I am and all I have I honour you.”

She repeated the vows, truly meaning them with all of her heart as she slipped the ring onto his finger.

The matching rings were a symbol of their love. Two small pieces of jewelry that meant so much more than they appeared. Their love was their bond, and the rings were proof.

It was time.

“By the power vested in me by Ericson’s Boarding School for Troubled Youth, I now pronounce you husband and wife.” Violet threw her unused cards over her shoulder.

“You may now kiss the bride.”

Louis hardly waited for Violet to finish her sentence before he pressed his lips to his new wife’s. Clementine wrapped her arms around his neck as he lifted her slightly off the ground, her toes barely touching the hardwood.

The cheers of their friends were loud and wild. When the kiss broke, the newlyweds swooped in on AJ, pulling their boy into a tight hug.

The rest of the day was a party. Everyone danced and sang and had the time of their lives. For one day, they managed to make it feel like the world had never ended.

The whole gang enjoyed some of Omar’s specially made stew in place of an unobtainable cake. They didn’t mine. Everyone enjoyed Omar’s cooking. By the time the sun set the party was calmer. Tennessee played a song on a guitar as the couple slow danced.

The two moved with each other in small circles, swaying back and forth to the music.

“I love you, Louis. So much.” She whispered.

“I love you too, darlin’.”

Clementine rested her head on Louis’ chest as he held her. To her, the world only existed in that one room. That one moment. Surrounded by their friends as she rested in her husband's arms while he whispered the lyrics to the song in her ear.

Cause it’s you and me,

And all of the people

With nothing to do,

Nothing to lose.

And it’s you and me,

And all of the people

And I don’t know why,

I can’t keep my eyes off of you.

[b00bconnoisseur]

60 questions for @not-my-brain

1. selfie.......Ugghhhh ok. Imma take one rn

Ok here u go (yes thats a bmth shirt)

2. what would you name your future kids?.....Ooo hmmm well when i was a kid i really liked the names disney, and mesiah. I didn't know at the time that mesiah was another name for god i think lol. I liked it cause of handlers mesiah. I still do. Ooo and maybe Tj too

3. do you miss anyone?......Yeah. My friends on Pinterest from a year ago. My friend lucas. Stan lee. Bob ross. My cousin who died from cancer some years ago. Snape. Sirius. Lupin. Tonks. Dobby. *continues to name every unfortunate death in hp*

4. what are you looking forward to?.......SE-YA next month!! Its the south eastern young adult festival at this college. You can have meet n greets with authors and alot of stuff its the besstttt

5. is there anyone who can always make you smile?......DEFINATELY. @dirtysocke @mysisterlooksforthisaccountsobye @cristal-kyd1280 @sammchenry my friend lucas and @septembersbloom. ^^

6. is it hard for you to get over someone?..... What like...romantically? Or like a death? If romantically uhhh idk it took over a couple weeks but im ok now. Ive never had another relationship so idk. If death oof yeah idk maybe. Ig it depends on how much i knew them idk. Like when my nanny (great grandma) died i was sad for days (is that alot?)

7. what was your life like last year?.....Sucky af. Still is. But the highlights of my life last year was getting and making friends on tumblr, going to the tøp concert and going to warped tour, volunteering at the library, going to seya and meeting some of my favorite authors, reading, changing and improving my art, listening to all the bands i listen to now, getting into more fandoms, going to a friends house for the first time

8. have you ever cried because you were so annoyed?.......Yes lol. Some years ago when i couldn't find smtn id be so annoyed and pissed id start crying. I dont now but still lol

9. who did you last see in person?.......Hm ig family doesn't count....? Wait do u mean a friend? If so uhh my friends rebekah, anika, and Judah at a TAB meeting at the library sometime last month.

10. are you good at hiding your feelings?......I think so? Like i mean I can hide whenever i get my....time of the month from my mom (talking abt stuff like that with her makes me uncomfortable) and i hid a breakup. And other p big stuff too. So imma say yeah

11. are you listening to music right now?........*pops on earbuds after reading this* yee im listening to bitch lasagna by pewdiepie xD (do i have the best spotify playlist or what?)

12. what is something you want right now?.......To hug @mysisterlooksforthisaccountsobye but SOMEONE has to live so far away

13. how do you feel right now?........Happy that my earbud still works cause they got washed in the wash yesterday....oops. Its not my fault. I told my dad to remind me to take it out of my jacket pocket before they threw it in but noooooo he forgot

14. when was the last time someone of the opposite sex hugged you?.......Uhhhhh fuck idk it was probably from my lil 4 yr old bro sometime last week. Other than him (hes my favorite sibling) i dont let them hug me too much

15. personality description.......Nerdy. Fangirl. "Emo". Tomboy. Hotsause obsessed. Book lover. Music lover. Black. Blue. Harry potter. Introvert. Fall. Sports. Values friendship. Loyal. Uhhhh i cant think of much lol

16. have you ever wanted to tell someone something but you didn’t?.......*sigh* yes. Yes yes yes. Theres some things abt me, or my life really, that i havent told anyone on here or my irl friends that i sooooo want to so bad but i haven't cause i feel like they'd feel bad and pity me and i don't want that

17. opinion on insecurities........I dont really understand this one. Everyones insecure abt something. Is this askin like if i think its ok or not? I say its ok. Im insecure about literally everything about me. My face. My personality. My socialness. My art. What i do. What i say. Basically my whole body. The things i feel good abt are my books, music taste, and my friends (ily fuckers)

18. do you miss how things were a year ago?.........Hmm this time around a year ago....idk its sorta the same but all the stuff i mentioned abt my year from last year didn't happen yet so nah tho my life sucks rn its better than this time last year

19. have you ever been to New York?........Nooo but i want too soo baddd i wanna visit @septembersbloom !! Im coming for ya soon gramps *does the eye watching thing* my dads been to nyc before tho cause he does construction and he had a concrete job to do there. It was a 23 hr drive for him

20. what is your favourite song at the moment?........Uhhh idk!!! So hard! Maybe.....the whole thats the spirit album by bmth ;)

21. age and birthday?.....15 yrs of age and September 27th 2003 (whats yours brainy? I'll put it on my calendar)

22. description of crush......Its weird idk im not sure if its a genuine crush or not but uh....They like hp :).Thats all u get

23. fear(s).......Losing my best friend @dirtysocke and my other friends. Death. Failure. Momo chasing after me then killing me slowly keeping my eyes open to look her dead in the eyes while i die

24. height......5'6 call me short and I'll fuck u up with THIS *pulls out trusty potato peeler named now steve* dont test me boi

25. role model......Hhhhhhhh so many! But uh gosh one of them is @superraedizzle (youtuberrrr) and vexx and bob ross and da vinci and aaaaaaa so many

26. idol(s)......First person that immediately comes to mind is @sammchenry cause he's super cool and he's really nice and his art's reallyyy good (if u havent seen it w-w-what are u even doin with your life?) And he has a great sense of humor and *continues to ramble about why samms the best*

27. things i hate.......Dabs. Transphobes. Homophobic ppl. Basically any hate on the lgbtq+ community. Bullies. The ship starker. Umbridge. Snape haters

28. i’ll love you if….....U you'll eat pizza, draw, and rp harry potter with mee

29. favourite film(s)......Fantastic beasts. Every hp film. Twilight. The maze runner 1-2. The hunger games. Spiderman homecoming. Kingsman: secret service. Into the spideyverse tho i havent seen it yet

30. favourite tv show(s)......Inkmasterrrrr. B99. The mick. The middle. Uhhh idk mostly ink master xD

31. 3 random facts........Ive never had shrimp. I had a beta fish for over a year once. Im eating pizza crust rn

32. are your friends mainly girls or guys?.......G i r l s. I have all girl friends irl and one boy. And on tumblr it seems like i just meet girls? Likei agree with @cristal-kyd1280 its like alot more gals then dudes here. But i do have some guy friends on here too. But mostly girls

33. something you want to learn.......TO DRAW ANATOMY DAMMIT

34. most embarrassing moment........Every moment of my lifes an embarrassing moment. Idk of i can pick a "most" embarrassing one. But one time i i sent my crush (now ex bf) a hey fuckface and like some hearts or whatever for an ask game that meant like "i have a crush on u" "youre adorable" etc and said Hewo but i did it all anonymously. But he confronted me askin if i sent it cause im the only person he knows that actually says hewo lol. Then later on i finally admitted i really liked him and well y'all know the story after i think. Unless you're new

35. favourite subject.......A R TTTT OFC

36. 3 dreams you want to fulfill?........meet my friends on tumblr. Get into mtsu (college i wanna go to) and study art. And go skydiving

37. favourite actor/actress........favorite actor uhhhhhh probably thomas brodie sangster or tom felton and my favorite actress? Hmmm idk maybe evanna lynch (luna lovegood)

38. favourite comedian(s).......probably kevin hart lol he's p funny

39. favourite sport(s)........basketballllllll and football

40. favourite memory........uhhhhh idk?? One oh my favorite memories was when we went to see tøp in concert

41. relationship status.....single as a pringle

42. favourite book(s)......harry potter and the order of the pheonix. Harry potter and the half blood prince. Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda. Divergent. Maze runner. Twilight. Fangirl. Fallen. Red queen

43. favourite song ever.......TOO HARD DONT MAKE ME CHOOSEEEEEE

44. age you get mistaken for.........16 and 17 sometimes lol

45. how you found out about your idol........i was watching someone on yt and superraedizzle always poped up in my feed and my mom turned on one of her vids cause she always saw her vids too now ive seen most of em i love her. Id heard of vexx but never watched him and i was watching a collab from anthony miller art and shrimpy and i checked out shrimpys channel and was lookin at comments and alot of ppl said his art is like vexxs so i checked out vexx. At first i was like eh ok. Now i cant click fast enough when he posts a vid. And i actually fpund out about bob ross from my grandpa on jan 20 2017 when trump was getting sworn in or whatever. We turned on pbs and my grampa told me to look and bob ross was on and i was IN. I loved it. I even started watching full episodes on YouTube of the joy of painting after that. Wonderful man. My first painting i ever did i think was when i followed one of his tutorials xD (i didnt know it was popular at the time)

46. what my last text message says......."ok your turn"

47. turn ons.....uhh nerds ig idk um book lovers, music lovers, art lovers, potterheads, idk and nice ppl

48. turn offs......jerks. Homophobia. Idk ig whatever i said in things i hate

49. where i want to be right now......uhhhh idk wait didn't i already answer this? Ok this ones different ig so uhh with my friend lucas

50. favourite picture of your idol.....oh shit...favorite? Idk xD i have a fave of vexx but not of rae or bob. But heres pics of them any way

51. starsign......a libraaaaa boiii

52. something i’m talented at......drawing and speed reading. Thats about it lol. Oh and procrastina

53. 5 things that make me happy.......ooooo art, my friends here on tumblr, books, harry potter, and music ^^

54. something thats worrying me at the moment.....if my friend thinks im being annoying

55. tumblr friends......hhhhh so manyyyyyy. @dirtysocke @mysisterlooksforthisaccountsobye @cristal-kyd1280 @chinesewaffles2 @kingantlion @queen-baelin @sammchenry @septembersbloom and more

56. favourite food(s)......green beans, pepperoni pizza, and vanilla madelines

57. favourite animal(s).......basically any reptile. Puppies. Cats. Any animal really but my #1 are snakes

58. description of my best friend.....well she's a tiny bean (5 feet) and she has dark hair, she wears glasses, she doesnt take shit, she's in love with Josh dun, she's awesome, funny, nice (YES youre nice jackie) and shes the best friend ive ever had. Oh. And she has a weird obsession with spaghetti

59. why i joined tumblr.......well i heard abt it on Pinterest over a year ago but didnt want it. Then @mrfastbass-deactivated20181231 on DeviantArt said he got tumblr so i made one then followed him and figured id just post art and that's it cause i thought tumblr was boring as hell when i first got it. Now im p much obsessed with it

60. ask me anything you want.......go ahead brainy shoot. Give me smtn good

[ericsonclan]

A Spooky Good Time

Summary: The group of friends spend Halloween together enjoying all the candy and movies that come with it.

Notes: This is chapter 19 of the Persona AU if you want to read more or start from the beginning click here

Read on A03:

Clementine couldn’t believe it. She had told her friends about her boyfriend before she had told Lee. Dreading the conversation, she rolled out of bed dragging her feet towards the dining room table.

“Morning. sweetpea,” Lee called out from behind the stove. The smell of bacon wafted through the air.

“Morning, Lee,” Clementine stifled a yawn as she sat down at the table across from her brother. It was only a few moments before a plate of breakfast appeared before her. Eggs, bacon and toast covered her plate. She began to dig in, her fork piling the food into her mouth. Clementine wanted to enjoy every last bite of the food, but her nerves made it hard to do so.

Lee seemed to pick up on it, pausing his eating and looking at his daughter. “Clem, is there something on your mind?” he asked, looking over at her with concern.

Clementine placed down her fork.She should just go for it.“There’s something that I need to tell you…” Clementine took a deep breath. “I’m dating someone. His name is Louis. You've seen him a few times when he’s dropped by.”

AJ looked up from his plate.“The guy with that big spider hair?”

Clementine chuckled, “It’s called dreadlocks,”

She turned her attention away from her brother, glancing over at Lee who seemed deep in thought. Slowly he lifted up his coffee. “I’m glad for you. He seems like a good kid,”

Her nervous expression was changed to one of shock at his words. She reached over for her orange juice, taking a long sip from it. He lifted the cup to his mouth, muffling his words. “ I’m seeing someone too.”

Clementine choked on her orange juice, hitting her chest a few times before she could give a response. “What the hell, Lee! When were you going to tell me?”

“I could ask you the same thing.” He gave a stern look back, but his eyes seemed playful.

“Well, who is she?” Clementine asked, leaning forward in her chair.

“Her name is Carley Porter. She’s a news reporter who was doing a piece on the university and we sort of just hit it off.” A gentle smile appeared on his lips at the memory.

Wait, I’ve heard that name before…

She was the reporter on the news station that had covered the first two cases that Clementine and her friends had been involved in.

“Hit it off?’ AJ asked, confusion overtaking his features. The eggs on his fork slipped off and landed on his plate.

“It’s a phrase that means you immediately get along with them,” Clementine responded, looking towards her father for further clarity.

“Well, I guess it makes sense that we did get along so well,” Lee started. “She reports the news of today, I report the news of the past. It just works.”

Clementine’s head was still trying to process all that just happened when her phone suddenly buzzed. Looking down, she noticed it was two texts from Louis to different group chats.

“Is that him?” Lee asked with a teasing smile. Clementine felt her face slightly blush at the words.

“I’m done, I’ll see you later after classes.” She slipped out before either of them could reply. Her class didn’t start for a while so she had time to check what Louis had sent.

L: Hey there! So thanks to the brilliance of Aasim and myself we came up with the wise idea to start two Discord servers. One will be for persona topics only and the other will be just for the daily chats with all you lovely people that we all enjoy so much.

Below his text was the link to get access to the server. Clementine switched to the second text and realized the reason for two servers Prisha was added to this group text. A warm smile covered her face; she was glad that they had thought to add her. It meant that they could still include her without worrying about spilling their secret. Quickly making a Discord account, she paused. What should her username be?

A proud smile pulled on the corners of her lips as she entered the answer. After a few minutes the two servers were added and she entered the non-persona one, fittingly named Team Fun. Entering the basic channel, she saw that she wasn’t the first one to arrive.

Sing-us-a-song: Welcome to Team Fun!

Knife2meetU: Why is it called team fun?

Aasim: I couldn’t come up with anything better so Louis named it.

Bro: I like it.

OrangeuGlad: wait we should do introductions. This is Clementine.

Sing-us-a-song: That’s a good idea! This is Louis. Love the username Clem.

Knife2meetU: Violet

OrangeuGlad: Thanks

Aasim: I’ll add an introduction channel to be safe in case we forget. So be sure to add your info.

Sing-us-a-song: Who’s Bro?

Bro: It’s Brody. I tried to add my full name cause I couldn’t think of a username but I forgot the last two letters and by then it was too late.

Aasim: You can change it.

Sing-us-a-song: No don’t! Your username is good

OrangeuGlad: I need to go - have class.

Clementine closed the app on her phone. Her class was all the way across campus so she needed to leave now if she was going to be on time. Her classes were just the same old same old. A very long lecture filled with lots and lots of notes that she had to take, causing her hand to cramp up. As soon as she had a break she opened up the Discord again. Nothing much had been added since she left, just the others saying they needed to go too. It had only got interesting within the last half hour.

Sing-us-a-song: You ever just smell your finger and it stinks but you don’t know from what?

Knife2meetU: Louis Shut In class

Sing-us-a-song: well sorry that I had an important question to ask.

With that Clementine put away her phone. She was planning to meet with her professor soon. The rest of the day went by about as slowly as the first half. It seemed everyone was busy today so when her classes were done she went back home. Kicking off her shoes, she hopped up the stairs entering her bedroom and lying on the bed. Wonder if anything else was said in the chat.

It wasn’t much added to the chat, just a single message.

Prishafacie: Thank you for letting me join.

Clementine looked at the username. Prishafacie? Knowing Prisha, it was some smart play on words. Soon more messages appeared.

Bro: Prisha!! Glad you joined

Sing-us-a-song: it wouldn’t be the same without you.

OrangeuGlad: welcome to Team Fun

Sing-us-a-song: ^^^

Prishafacie: Thanks, everyone.

Knife2meetU: I hate everything.

Bro: bad day?

Sing-us-a-song: well fear not I have a solution.

Aasim: Oh no.

Sing-us-a-song: why don’t we all get together for Halloween and throw a party? We never celebrated all our work on the investigation.

Prishafacie: But our investigation was a bust.

Bro: doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate

Sing-us-a-song: hear hear

An image appeared on the chat that Louis shared. It was the Ericson University newspaper. The front page held the story of Professor Weathers’ arrest.

We were right on the money

Knife2meetU: where would we meet?

OrangeuGlad: I can check with Lee and see if he’d let us have it here.

Clementine ran down the stairs, searching around for Lee. Her eyes soon found him on the couch.

“Hey Lee, can I have a few friends over on Halloween after trick or treating with AJ?”

“Sure, that’s fine with me. Will your boyfriend be coming?”

She couldn’t see his face, but she knew he had a teasing smile on it.

“Yes.”

“Alright then,”

Clementine took out her phone again, heading back up to her room.

OrangeuGlad: He says it’s fine but we have to do it at 8 Promised AJ that we would go trick or treating first

Aasim: Works for me.

Knife2meetU: same here

Prishafacie: For me as well.

Bro: 8 works

Sing-us-a song: well then all we need to do is figure out the movie and we need to get some snacks and candy

Bro: I can get the snacks and candy

Aasim: Get candy corn.

Knife2meetU: don’t

Aasim: I want it.

Bro: I can get some for you Aasim

Sing-us-a-song: Now onto movies

Bro: can we watch It’s the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown?

Aasim: Thanks I’m fine with that choice.

Knife2meetU: what about a horror movie?

Sing-us-a-song: i don’t know

Prishafacie: I’m down for a horror movie.

OrangeuGlad: just bring both and we can decide when we’re together.

Sing-us-a-song: sounds like a plan.

Bro: Ok send me some different snacks you guys want.

Brody looked down at the different answers her friends had sent. There sure was a lot of variety here. She pushed open the door to the convenience store, her attention still on her phone.

“Hey, Brody.” She looked up to see Mitch, a friendly smile on his face.

“Hey, Mitch,” A warm smile overtook her face as soon as she saw him.

“What are you getting today?”

“Just some snacks and candy for the Halloween party that my friends and I are having.”

Mitch nodded. “Sounds fun.”

“You got any plans for Halloween?” Brody asked from one of the aisles, grabbing snacks from different shelves.

“Just some trick or treating with my brother.” Mitch replied. Brody leaned out from the aisle to look at him.

“You have a brother?”

“Yeah, his name’s Willy. He’s twelve so all he wants to do for Halloween is go trick or treating and pig out on candy.”

“Sounds like a good plan.” Brody walked forward, her arms filled with different snacks and candies.

Mitch started to process the different items, stopping when he got to the candy corn.“You like candy corn?” His nose scrunched up with a mixture of disgust and confusion.

“Nope, can’t stand the stuff. But my friend likes it.” Brody responded, grabbing out her wallet to get ready to pay.

“Neither can I. It’s just so fucking nasty. It really is the ass of Halloween candy.”

Brody laughed at Mitch’s words, which caused a smile to form on his face. After a few more items the order was processed, and with a few bills exchanged Brody lifted up the bag of snacks. “Enjoy your Halloween.” Mitch called out to her.

“Thanks! You too.”

Brody looked down at the assortment of treats she had gotten, an excited smile appearing on her face. She couldn’t wait for Halloween.

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Clementine shifted in her Halloween costume. She had promised to dress up with AJ which she was happy to do. It was just that the outfit was a bit itchy. She was going as Calypso Cauliflower to match her brother’s theme.

“Ta-da!” AJ jumped out of his bedroom, proudly displaying his outfit. He had decided to go as his favorite character of all time: Disco Broccoli. His eyes were covered with the signature purple sunglasses. His white disco outfit shone as a gold chain dangled on his neck. He really wanted to go all out this year so he had come up with the brilliant idea to dye his hair green. It was temporary dye, but there was still the chance that his hair would stay that color for a few days afterward. With the shape of his afro he really did look like Disco Broccoli.

“You look great, AJ!”

AJ struck a disco pose dramatically. “You ready?” he asked excitedly, swinging his candy container back and forth.

“I was born ready!” Clementine grabbed her brother’s hand and headed towards the door. She turned her head back around her shoulder. “We’re heading out!”

“Ok, have fun!” Lee’s voice rang out from his office.

With that the brother-sister team was off walking around their neighborhood. AJ’s eyes lit up every time they got to a new house.

“Come on, Clem!” He pulled on her arm, making his way towards the next door.

“Slow down, kiddo.” Clementine tried to keep up, smiling at the pure joy on her brother’s face. AJ reached forward, knocking on the door. He impatiently swayed back and forth as he waited for someone to answer the door. It only took a moment for a person to show up at the door.

“Well, hi there! What are you dressed up as?” a kind lady asked, reaching inside to grab the candy bowl she had prepared for the trick or treaters.

“I’m Disco Broccoli!” AJ declared proudly, displaying his best disco move. He quickly gestured over to Clementine. “Clem is Calypso Cauliflower.

“Silly me, I should’ve known,” the lady chuckled. “Take as much as you like.” She held out the candy bowl which AJ and Clementine took generous amounts from, thanking the lady before heading to the next house. After a couple more houses the duo realized that their time was up. Grabbing a hold of AJ’s hand, Clementine headed back to her house, excited for the Halloween party that was soon to come.

Luckily she had timed it out right and had left enough time for herself to change and make the living room look decent for her friends. Soon a knock on the door came.

“Coming!” Clementine shouted, running towards the front door and opening it.

Louis and Violet stood in the front of the group, the rest peeking out their heads from behind.

“We have arrived,” Louis exclaimed with his classic charming smile. “With us we carry the delicious treats for this spooky night!” The group slowly shuffled in. Clementine grabbed the bags from the group, making her way to get some bowls from the kitchen.

“Thanks, Brody.”

“No problem.” Brody made her way to the kitchen. “Do you need any help?”

“Yeah, actually. Can you help pop some popcorn? It should be up in the lower cabinet by the fridge.”

Brody nodded, quickly fulfilling her given task.

“So what movie are we watching?” Louis asked, sitting down on the couch.

“I brought Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Violet replied, simply placing the DVD on the couch.

Louis looked warily at it. It was pretty clear horror wasn’t for him.

“My DVD is in my bag.” Brody called from the kitchen.

“We have time for both if you want?” Clementine offered to which the group agreed almost immediately.

“I think we should start with horror.” Violet added.

“Sounds good to me.” Prisha stood beside her.

“Okay, maybe it would be good to get it over with first.” Louis gave a sigh. He walked forward, grabbing the DVD and heading towards the TV. “Vi, help me set this up while Clem and Brody get the snacks ready.”

Violet followed her friend.

“I’m not sure I’ve properly introduced myself.” Aasim walked over to Prisha. “I’m Aasim,” He offered his hand which she accepted, giving it a firm shake.

“Prisha.”

“I saw on the intro channel that you’re a law major. That’s really interesting. What made you choose that career path?”

Prisha’s expression changed to an excited one as she answered his question.The two soon got wrapped up in their conversation, each of them interested in what the other had to say.

“Popcorn’s ready.” Brody placed two bowls in front of the group. Clementine was close behind, placing down the bowls of candy. A small bowl filled with candy corn was beside them.

“You got the movie set up?” Clementine asked as she watched her two friends work together.

“Yep, just about.” Louis replied, standing up and grabbing the remote control.

With a few clicks the movie began. Brody made her way over to one of the couches, joining Aasim who was already there with his candy corn. Clementine had settled down on the other couch which Louis soon joined, sitting beside her. Prisha sat on the other side of the couch while Violet sat next to her on the arm of the couch. The lights were off and the snacks were distributed. It only took a few moments to make it abundantly clear who enjoyed horror and who didn't. Brody tried to not get overwhelmed by the death scenes, averting her eyes when they happened. Aasim tried to help her by whispering different facts about the history behind the film which actually did help her calm down a bit.

On the other hand Violet seemed to enjoy the movie, tossing popcorn in her mouth casually when the massacre started. Prisha didn’t seem fazed by it either. Instead most of her focus seemed to be on Violet. Her hand slowly made its way over to Violet’s, brushing against it. Violet seemed shocked for a moment before accepting Prisha’s hand. She was glad that it was so dark in the room so the others couldn’t see the slight blush forming on her face.

Clementine also seemed to enjoy the film, but not because of the plot. Instead it was because of Louis. He really couldn’t handle horror so he ended up curling up in her arms. He would try to make some sort of funny commentary to cope with the scarier moments, giving quippy one-liners from the safety of Clementine’s arms. She felt his warmth against her. A warm fuzzy feeling enveloped her body as she looked down at her boyfriend. She didn’t mind this arrangement. In fact she hoped that the movie would somehow drag on so she could enjoy this moment.

Her eyes were suddenly drawn away from the screen however when she noticed Lee standing in the kitchen. He had a playful smile on his lips as he motioned towards Louis. Clementine’s arms were protectively around him as he continued to try and watch the movie. Lee raised a thumbs up to his daughter. Clementine felt her face grow hot while she tried to focus back on the film.

“That was awesome.” Violet commented, grabbing some more candy as the end credits rolled on the screen.

“Funny, you and I pronounce ‘terrifying’ differently.” Louis mumbled, freeing himself from Clementine’s arms to put in the second movie. Within a few minutes the title screen was on the TV.

Brody shifted on the couch, a child-like joy appearing in her eyes when the movie started. She must’ve seen this movie countless times with how frequently she said the lines word for word as the scenes happened. The group looked over at her with smiles on their faces, happy to see her having a good time. It wasn’t long before Brody’s line for line commentary stopped though, her shoulders slumping while her head fell back. The slow rising and falling of her chest indicated that she had fallen asleep. Aasim made sure not to move too much so he wouldn’t wake her up. After a while Lee made his way into the room.

“Hi there. I forgot to introduce myself. I’m Lee.”

The group looked over, quickly returning their introductions.

“It’s nice to meet some more of Clem’s friends. She always talks about you.”

Clementine awkwardly shifted from her spot in Louis’ arms.

“Look at you guys, six friends that make up three couples."

The mood instantly changed in the room. Louis and Clem looked at each other with awkward smiles on their faces. Meanwhile Prisha and Violet were both overwhelmed by Lee’s assumption, their faces both turned away to hide their blushes. Their hands were still intertwined. But the most shocking response was Aasim’s. He was in the middle of eating some candy corn when Lee suggested that he and Brody were a couple to which he inhaled the candy corn wrong, causing him to choke. Brody’s eyes fluttered open, widening when she saw her friend struggling to breathe. With a few strong whacks to the back Aasim coughed up the candy corn which went flying and landed by Lee’s feet.

“I’m sorry if I misspoke! Let me grab you some water.” Lee ran into the kitchen, pulling down one of the cups.

“That’s the price to pay for eating candy corn.” Louis shook his head in mock sadness.

Aasim glared over at him. “Don’t blame this on the candy corn.”

Lee soon returned and handed the glass of water to Aasim who accepted it gratefully. “Well, I better leave you kids to it.” Lee gave an apologetic smile before returning into his study.

The rest of the movie passed by in no time.

“I love that movie.” Brody stood up, stretching out her arms.

“It really is a classic.” Louis agreed.

The rest of the group slowly got up to their feet, each of them tired after the two movies but also sad that the party was over.

“Well, we should probably head out.” Louis took out his car keys. The four of them made their way to the front door.

“This was really fun,” Brody turned back to look at Clementine “I can’t wait for the next party.'

“I’m sure with our group it won’t be long until the next one.”

“Thanks for inviting me tonight.” Prisha looked up at the group. “It really means a lot."

The group all shared a warm smile.

“We really should go.” Aasim commented from the front door.

“Yeah, we have class tomorrow.” Brody added.

Violet let out a frustrated groan.

“Alright, alright.” Louis leaned forward, planting a gentle kiss on Clem’s cheek. “See you tomorrow.”

“See you tomorrow.” Clementine waved to her friends as they left, shutting the front door behind them. She walked up to her bedroom, falling backwards onto her bed. A huge grin overtook her face. To think that she would have this amazing of a group of friends, that she would have such a sweet boyfriend… she couldn’t believe it but she couldn’t be happier.

[jayjay1665]

Hope for Atonement

AJ killed Marlon. But he deserved it right? What he did was wrong and this is what he deserved.

Now Clementine is put into a tough situation. She needs to explain the difference between murder and killing in self defense.

AJ thinks the situation is hopeless but, how can she convince him that not all hope is lost and there's still a way he can make amends with everyone?

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This story is a little bit of a different take on what happened in The Walking Dead (video game series) season 4 episode 1 after Marlon was shot. I kind of combined the ending of episode 1 to and the beginning of episode 2 and added some extra dialogue. Characters may be a bit out of character. Hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: not my artwork. i’m not sure who the original artist is. 

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Calm down, Clem, calm down. You've seen things just as bad as this before.

But she knew very well it wasn't so much the incident that was bothering her. Living in an apocalyptic world filled with undead roaming the streets will leave anyone with horrid memories that would rather be forgotten. What troubled her so was the person who initiated the incident. And that same person was sitting just a few feet away from her. She hesitantly looked up at AJ. He was sitting at the desk in the corner of the room twiddling a colored pencil in his hands. He knew she was staring at him but, he refused to make eye contact. She directed her gaze to the ground once more. The atmosphere was tense. Both of them wanted to speak, but neither one knew how to begin the conversation that needed to be had. Clementine decided she should go first. After all, she thought, AJ probably doesn't fully understand why what he did was wrong. She took a deep breath and let it out as a sigh. She directed her gaze over at AJ.

"AJ?" she began

AJ stopped fidgeting with the pencil, but kept his gaze on it.

"Yeah?" he said quietly.

What was she supposed to say now? She looked up at the ceiling and closed her eyes. What would Lee do? She looked back at AJ and spoke again.

"Are you alright?"

AJ remained silent for a moment then spoke again, this time looking straight ahead at the wall

"I...shot Marlon."

Clementine said nothing for a moment, letting the gravity of the worlds settle on both of them. It was true. AJ had shot him. From behind. Straight through the skull. Though she wasn't looking at them she could feel everyone's horrified stares Clementine was sure that would be a moment in her life she could never forget. She was literally in front of him. She could still feel the sensation of his warm blood splattering on her face. In fact...

She reached up and touched her face to her cheek the pulled it away. Yep. It was still there. His blood. On her face. Because of AJ.

"B-but I was trying to protect you!"

Clementine head snapped up at AJ's sudden outburst. He stood up out of the chair and paced around the room.

"He had my gun pointed at you! He was gonna shoot you! Marlon started this! He killed Brody first! He- he deserved to die!"

"AJ.."

"She was completely innocent and he killed her! A-and he sold Tenn's sisters to the raiders! He was a bad guy and did bad things to other people!

AJ stopped in his tracks and sighed.

"How could he do things like that?" He asked his anger turning into sadness.

Clementine paused for a moment. All of what AJ said was also true. The reason Marlon killed Brody was because she told Clementine what he had done. She remembered when she found out about all this. She had heard Brody and Marlon arguing and went to investigate. When she found them in the basement, Brody had informed her what Marlon had been hiding. Last year, Marlon and Brody went hunting with two twin girls named Sophie and Minerva. While hunting, the four encountered raiders who were planning on going to their base and kidnapping all the kids so they could fight in the war they were having against another settlement. Marlon gave up Sophie and Minerva in exchange for the safety of the rest of the kids and made Brody swear she wouldn't tell anyone what had conspired. Instead, they told everyone the twins were killed by walkers.

Once Brody told, Marlon became enraged and hit her forcibly in the head with the flashlight he was holding. The strike to the head killed her shortly after. Marlon immediately felt guilty and tried to apologize and help her. With her dying breath, Brody told Clementine that if the raiders come back, Marlon was going to sell her and AJ to them, just as he did with twins.

That's when Marlon ran out of the basement and tried to pin Brody's death on Clementine. Luckily, with the help of Louis, Violet, Aasim and the others, she was able to come out as innocent. Marlon was exceedingly remorseful for what he did and tried to convince the others to let him leave so he could be forgotten.

"Just let me become a bad memory." He pleaded.

But before Clementine could even respond to his request, AJ shot him dead. Shot him when he was no longer a threat.

Clementine motioned for AJ to sit next to her. He obeyed silently and joined her on the bed. She wrapped her arm him to provide some comfort to the discouraged boy. He rested his head on her shoulder. She tilted her head slightly so her cheek could rest on the top of his head.

"Brody said he was scared. I guess he didn't see any other option. He sacrificed two kids in order to save the others. I can see how he might've thought he was doing the right thing. But if he was a real leader, he would've sacrificed himself instead of Tenn's sisters."

AJ looked up at Clementine.

"So, it was a good thing I shot him?"

"No, AJ, it wasn't." she sighed, "When you shot him, he was no longer a threat. If you kill someone when they're no longer threat, that's murder."

AJ looked down and concentrated his gaze on his hands.

"So that means I'm...a murderer?" he questioned in a quiet voice.

"Yes." Clementine responded with some difficulty.

AJ was quiet for a long moment after that. He was a murderer. No better than those monsters wandering aimlessly outside. No better than Marlon. He saw how everyone looked at him after what he did. Tennessee, Rosie, and Willy were fearful, Omar and Aasim looked at him with disdain, and Louis and Mitch glared at him with anger. There's no way they would let him and Clem stay at the camp after what he did. There's no way Louis and Tenn would want to be his friends anymore. There was nothing he could do. Clem and him would have to live on the road again, never staying in the same place or too long. God knows when they would find a steady place to live again. This was the closes things he's ever had to a home. Their small chance at having shelter, consistent food, friends, and maybe even family was gone. And it was all his fault. He wanted nothing more than to take it all back. But he couldn't.

Tears slid down AJ's face and dropped onto Clementine's hand. She looked at the young boy with sympathy and gingerly wiped the remaining tears from his face as a mother would with a child.

"You know, AJ, there's still a way we can fix this."

AJ gave her an incredulous look. Marlon was dead. The damage was done. How could the possibly fix this?

"How?"

Clementine looked down at him with a gentle expression.

"Are you sorry for what you did to Marlon?"

AJ thought for a moment. He was sorry. Looking back at the situation, it had calmed down considerately before his brash decision. There wasn't as much yelling and arguing. And Marlon had dropped the gun. If he was going to hurt anyone, he would've kept the gun in his hands, right? He wouldn't go against eight kids with no back up or no weapon. Clem was right. Marlon wasn't a threat.

He looked up at Clementine with sorrowful eyes

"Yeah. I really am."

"Good. That's the first step. I'm going to help you atone."

"Atone?"

"Yeah. It means make up for what you did wrong. We're gonna make it alright with the others. It might be hard, but we can do it." She stated as she gave him a hopeful smile.

AJ mirrored the expression with a new-found strength.

"Yeah. that sounds good. I'm gonna do my best to make it up to the others. No matter how long it takes or how hard it is, I'm gonna do it" AJ declared.

Clementine gave him a proud smile.

"I'm glad to hear that, AJ. I'm proud of you."

He wrapped his arms around her in a hug and, she returned the gesture.

"Now we should get some rest." She said laying down on the bed.

AJ nodded his head in agreement. He laid down beside her and closed his eyes. She was about to do the same until AJ said one more thing.

"I love you, Clem."

Clementine's eyes wandered down to AJ. A  smile tugged at her lips and her eyes watered slightly as she gave AJ a small kiss on the head.

"I love you back, Goofball."

AJ smiled softly. Although he had formerly denounced the nickname, it made him happy to hear Clementine call him that again. Even though the events from that day were still fresh in his mind, he drifted off into a sound sleep with hope for the oncoming day.

With hope for atonement.

[puroresu-musings]

PWG BOLA 2018 Review

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla presents their annual Battle Of Los Angeles tournament, BOLA 2018 Night 1 held on September 14, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA

2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Rey Horus vs. Adam Brooks  **1/2 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Flamita vs. Puma King  **** 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match CIMA vs. Jody Fleisch  ***1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Bandido vs. T-Hawk  **** 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match “Bad Boy” Joey Janela vs. “The Product” David Starr  ****1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Brody King vs. PCO  **1/2 Ringkampf (Timothy Thatcher & WALTER) vs. Ilja Dragunov & Shingo Takagi  ****1/4+

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla presents their annual Battle Of Los Angeles tournament, BOLA 2018 Night 2 held on September 15, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA2018 

Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Trevor Lee vs. Marko Stunt  ***1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Jonah Rock vs. Sammy Guevara  ***1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Robbie Eagles vs. DJZ  ***1/2 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Jeff Cobb vs. Darby Allin  ***1/2+ 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match Shingo Takagi vs. Ilja Dragunov  ****1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles First Round Match WALTER vs. Timothy Thatcher  ****1/4 #STRONGHEARTS (CIMA, Zachary Wentz & Dezmond Xavier) vs. Bandido, Flamita, & Rey Horus  ****

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla presents their annual Battle Of Los Angeles tournament, BOLA 2018 Night 3 held on September 16, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA

2018 Battle of Los Angeles Quarter Finals Match   Trevor Lee vs. Brody King  ***1/2 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Quarter Finals Match Jeff Cobb vs. Rey Horus  ***1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Quarter Finals Match Shingo Takagi vs. Robbie Eagles  **** 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Quarter Finals Match Joey Janela vs. CIMA  ***1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Quarter Finals Match WALTER vs. Jonah Rock  *** 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Quarter Finals Match Bandido vs. Flamita  **** PWG  Tag Team Championship The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz) vs. The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero M & Rey Fenix)  **** 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Semi-Finals Match Jeff Cobb vs. Trevor Lee  N/A 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Semi-Finals Match Bandido vs. Joey Janela  **** 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Semi-Finals Match Shingo Takagi vs. WALTER  ****1/4 Dan Barry, Darby Allin, Jody Fleisch, PCO & Puma King vs. Adam Brooks, David Starr, DJ Z, T-Hawk & Timothy Thatcher  ***1/4 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Finals Elimination Match Jeff Cobb vs. Bandido vs. Shingo Takagi  ****1/2+

Photos: Mikey Nolan Photography

I thought this was an excellent BOLA, which I enjoyed considerably more than the 2017 tournament. Whilst there were some pretty dumb kick-outs of big moves which shouldn't really be kicked out of, there was nothing as mind-blowingly stupid as some of last years; most notably Joey Janela’s preposterous kick-out of a Burning Hammer onto a chair (which infuriated me so much it caused me to turn off the tournament all together and not return to it for months), or Donovan Dijak kicking at one from a Keith Lee Moonsault in one of the most overrated matches I think I've ever seen in all of my days as a wrestling fan. But I digress, I enjoyed the 2018 tourney much more. The three shows were all very enjoyable and easy to sit through. The third day is usually a chore, just because of the number of matches, but this years was easier than most. Mainly because everything was kept relatively brief. The star of this thing was without doubt Bandido, who is a star on the rise within the independent wrestling scene. He wasn't involved in one match below ****, and he was made to look like a superstar in the finals, which were the best thing of the whole tournament. 

Highlights from the first night included; Flamita’s win over Puma King in a very enjoyable lucha outing, Jody Fleisch and CIMA turning the clocks back to 2002 was very entertaining, Bandido and T-Hawk had a great match together in what would be the masked man’s first of many excellent BOLA outings. David Starr’s loss to Joey Janela was an incredibly stiff war, which was the best tourney match of the show, and the hard-hitting main event of WALTER and Thatcher taking on Shingo and Ilja Dragunov was an exceptional doubles clash. Everyone looked great in this, and WALTER and Dragunov lit each other up again, just like in there phenomenal 2017 16 Carat final in wXw. There were some missteps, namely the opener of Rey Horus and Adam Brooks going a ridiculously long 23 minutes (or something like this, either way it felt like 40), for no Earthly reason whatsoever. It did pick up by the end, but it was just a reinforcement that the match only needed to be 10 minutes. And PCO and Brody King had a terrifyingly sloppy brawl in which the veteran nearly killed himself, and his opponent, a couple of times.

Night two was even better with every match ranging from really good to excellent, with the last four matches in particular, all being great, but completely different to each other. Trevor Lee advanced over dinky Marko Stunt in a fun little match, Jonah Rock pinned Sammy Guevara in another good showing, and Robbie Eagles got the win over DJZ in an entertaining high flyer. Then things got really good as Jeff Cobb seemingly tried to kill poor Darby Allin in a thoroughly enjoyable bump fest. The Olympian threw Allin around like he was a literal rag doll, and Darby bumped like a madman for everything. After making a spirited comeback, Darby was put away when Cobb high his own version of the Kota Ibushi deadlift German Suplex. Great stuff here. Shingo Takagi, who also looked incredible throughout this thing, and who also had nothing but **** matches, defeated his tag partner from the night before, Ilja Dragunov, in an excellent, hard-hitting match with the Last Falconry. Ringkampf collided next with PWG Champion WALTER’s stiff lariat induced win over tag partner Timothy Thatcher. This was another excellent, tough, mat based outing. WALTER’s chops and kicks are something else. And the main event, which saw CIMA’s STRONGHEARTS victorious over the Lucha team of Bandido, Flamita and Horus, was a wild 11 minute high spot festival, and a great way to end the show.

The finals night was probably the best of the three, it must be said. Lee advanced over King in a very good outing, Cobb defeated Rey Horus in another fun little-guy-bumps-all-over-for-big-guy contest, and Shingo went to the semis after pinning Robbie Eagles in an excellent match. Joey Janela somewhat surprisingly went over CIMA, in a match that stretched believability (would you believe the Janela kicked out of pretty much every big move CIMA has ever had? I know, who’d have thought?), but was no less fun, WALTER pinned Jonah Rock in a decent, but short, battle of the big men, and Bandido advanced over tag partner Flamita in a great high flying encounter, as you'd expect. The PWG Tag Title Match between The Rascalz and The Lucha Brothers, was another excellent sprint. This too was a little short (11 minutes), but it never outstayed its welcome. The BOLA semis commenced with Jeff Cobb squashing Trevor Lee in 14 seconds, Bandido pinning Joey Janela with a Moonsaulting Powerslam into a stack of chairs to win a crazy match-up, and Shingo’s surprise win over WALTER in an intense hard-hitter. The prerequisite comedy 8 man featuring the first round losers was its usual fun self, which then led us into the fantastic final round. Cobb, Bandido and Shingo had a tremendous 3-way elimination match, which was by far the best thing on any of these shows. In fact, I’d probably even go so far as to say this was the best BOLA final since the Low Ki/Chris Hero one in 2008. Bandido got rid of Shingo early with his Powerslam Moonsault thing, then he and Cobb had an absolutely killer singles match. They kicked out of everything as the Globe Theatre went crazy for everything, and it was great. Now I know this seems hypocritical of me, but with this being the final, the stakes were high enough, that it really enhanced the drama. It looked like Bandido was going to pull the miracle win out, hitting his amazing Handspiring German and even Cobb’s own Tour Of The Islands on the big man for super believable near falls. It wasn't to be, however, as Cobb was just too much to handle, and put him away after a top rope Tour Of The Islands, followed by a regular version to win the trophy. This was a superstar making performance from both men, but especially Bandido, who looked incredible here.

All in all, this years BOLA is well worth checking out. It was consistently entertaining and featured some truly incredible action. Now if I must say something negative, its in the presentation of the product. I love PWG, and I know it has its own ‘grungey’ aesthetic, but this is 2018/2019 and the one hard cam, one hand-held camera at ringside set up is frustratingly minor league, as a viewer. Especially in this day and age where promotions like AAW have tremendous production values for an indy promotion. I mean everyone has progressed beyond looking like 2004 ROH, yet PWG haven't. Even if they are in a fancy new venue. But yes, this aside, I’d recommend you check these shows out.

NDT