#a guy with decent emotional intelligence?? Surely not!!

[blueteller]

So I checked out.... "Way to Protect Lovable You"? "Saving my Sweetheart"? Whatever the heck it's called...

Thanks for randomly introducing me to a new manhwa, @murasaki-cha! I've consumed all available chapters in the past 24 hours – you know, like you do. Here go my first memes impressions for you 😂

Leticia: *literally dying but on YOLO mode* Ditrian: (OMG my cute fiance asked me on a secret moonlight date-!) Leticia: So, let's get divorced in 6 months Ditrian: ??? Leticia: But also, let's fake date in the meantime! Ditrian: ???????

Ahin & Noelle, as Josephina's Wings: Oh woe is us, our Saintess wants us to hurt people, whatever shall be do~! Ahin & Noelle, 5 seconds after becoming Leticia's Wings: 😊🔪 Let's dismember all threats to our Saintess on the spot

Leticia: So let's hug. And kiss. And sleep in the same bed. …You know, platonically Ditrian: (…mercy, I'm gonna die, my wife will kill me-!) Leticia: (What's with that expression…? Does he still hate me?) Ditrian: *overdosing on CUTE* Leticia: …Oh! I also want a baby Ditrian: *DYING ROYAL NOISES*

Julius: Mom I promise, I'm definitely gonna return to you! Also Julius: *returns in a box* Mano: …Baby, you're a s***ty jokester 😭

Leticia's Wings: Leticia, no Leticia: Leticia, yes

Emperor: Son, you shall become the First Wing of the Saintess Callisto: *looks at Josephina* Callisto: I'd rather f***ing die *commits arson*

[sakurapandadreams]

PLACEMENTS THAT EASILY MAKE FRIENDS

Please take all of these predictions with a grain of salt I'm not a professional astrologer.

FOR ASTRO POSTS HERE IS MY MASTERLIST

If you have any questions here are the GUIDELINES

This post consists of placements that if one has in their chart finds it easier to socialize or understand the social dynamics better in a external settings.

One also needs to take the entire chart into consideration.

🎞 Venus in the 1st house

Natives with this placement are very diplomatic, sweet kind and easy to approach. Quite helpful in nature if their close to you, and even if their not they still very amicable. They almost never break friendships from their side. These individuals have the emotional intelligence to understand how to handle people. Hence they may find it easy to form friendships.

🎞 Gemini Moon

Extremely understanding people. Sure they have their own mood swings and their ups and downs but who doesn't ?. Inspite all odds they never give up in their friendships. Most have an idea that it takes time for a friendships to build and they give that time to their close ones. [To all the people who have a Gemini Moon friend please cherish them]

🎞 Libra Moon

One of their most admirable trait is what helps them form so many friendships and even relationships which they eventually benefit from is the fact they give a very highly thoughtful advice and again know how to make people comfortable around them. They have a decent idea when you need to say what. Won't say a thing if they know it will be a waste.

🎞 Venus in the 10th house

These people are so kind like genuinely their really good at their job [provided they love what their doing] yet so humble. Most I know are very popular atleast in their own groups yet they make sure everyone around them also equally feels like the main character of their own lives [which everyone should].

🎞 Mercury At 29⁰

Such natives are quite popular due to their talkative nature. Most love to talk to people very social. If it's in a 🔥/💧sign then it's a bonus these people are easy to talk to or approach. Also these people don't think before talking lol I love it tho. But yes these people are also good at saying understanding things at the right time.

🎞 Mercury Atmakaraka

These individuals have a way with their words and also have wide variety of topics to talk about. These people always keep a smooth flow of conversations. Have a great sense of humor too. Basically their fun people to talk to so who wouldn't wanna be friends with them

🎞 Jupiter Atmakaraka

Individuals with this placement have a very bright personality and extensive knowledge. Each time you talk to them you learn something new. Brilliant at giving advices too. People may like to talk to them because of their optimistic nature, seeing how they never lose hope is admirable.

🎞 Sun Atmakaraka

The Sun shines the Brightest hence these people are quite popular and leadership comes naturally to these natives. Even if their introverted they may have such a personality which draws people to them. [If you say buddy there's no one who's drawn to me] You guys are also quite intimidating hence there are people who want to be friends with you, it's just you guys need to be a bit more open that's all.

🎞 Venus in Aquarius

These natives are the type of people who are very popular and friends with many people. If their not an extrovert their definitely an ambivert. But what's best about them is how open minded they are let's say they like something which you don't these people don't dismiss other people's opinion.

🎞 3rd house ruler in the 7th or 11th house

Again these people are talkative and their laughter is contagious. Their outgoing people who know how to take jokes. These people also love to talk information. Basically at times they can surprise people with the information they hold. [Not me I know yall 😏😌]. Can have or be a part of big groups. Or have connections with important people YES which means your equally important.

ALSO A VERY HAPPY NAVRATRI EVERYONE 🥳🙏

Credits for the images and dividers goes to the rightful owners

Copyright © 2024 sakurapandadreams | All rights reserved.

[lxvebun]

whisper of the heart pt II

bun's notes: I'm really glad you guys enjoyed the first one so much :3 hopefully you will like this one as well.

synopsis: Genshin boys voicelines about you!

content:Alhaitham/Kazuha/Thoma/Cyno x gender neutral reader (so they/them prns used) in this series, their vision is in tune with their emotions, part one explains it the best. Cyno was incredibly difficult i'm sorry if it sucks shsjsjs. Eng is not my first language so I'm sorry for any mistakes!

Part one

Alhaitham

About y/n:

"y/n and I go a long way back. They are a very intelligent, kind, and creative person. We studied under the same masters. Academic rivals? I wouldn't go as far as to say we were rivals per se, but the occasional competition between who got the highest score on an essay wasn’t out of the ordinary. Who won? Well, our scores wouldn't differ much at all actually. Even to the decimal, we usually got the same. When they asked our masters how such different essays could receive the same score. According to our masters, it seemed I lacked creativity in my writing, as they overdid the creative aspect. The masters words, not mine. Although I’ve read hundreds of books and essays in my life already, none could compare to the way y/n wrote theirs"

About vision:

"Unlike other people, I’d say I have decent control over my emotional elemental power, it at least doesn’t manifest in an obnoxious physical sense. That said, as much as I try to control it, the light of my vision starts to flicker and flutter to the rhythm of my heartbeat. So you can imagine the light show that starts once y/n enters my view *sigh* They think it’s, and I quote, "Adorable"...I suppose that makes it alright"

About relationship:

"Hah, You’re surprised I'm in a relationship? While It’s true that I don’t appear as the most approachable person out there, not that I mind, even I am not immune to love… While there’s no scientific proof out there that soulmates exist, against all logical sense, I’d like to believe y/n and I are."

Thoma

About y/n:

You haven't met y/n? Oh, they’re such a sweetheart! such a kind and inspirational soul. I’m sure you’ve seen them run around Inazuma City or Ritou before. They have the prettiest eyes and the most lovely smile. they run a lot of errands and help with general activities and festivals. In their free time, they usually help me out with housekeeping or acompany me to the market. You’re surprised I'm talking so lovingly of them? Well, of course, I would, they are my partner after all"

About vision:

"sigh I’ve had to switch to steel handle brooms instead of the normal wooden ones. It happened one too many times that I would be sweeping the floors and y/n would come up to me, resulting in small waves of fire to flutter around... Let’s just say, I’m glad my Lord has a hydro vision.

About meet cute!:

y/n and I both share a love for animals, I actually met them while they were nursing a bird back to its strength, the poor thing was still young and completely soaked because of the heavy thunderstorms. Word went around they were caring for it and I decided to take a look and see if they needed help, little did I know that I would be meeting the love of my life. We routinely feed the stray dogs and cats together when we’re both free:)"

Kazuha

About y/n:

" I was able to sense their presence in the wind long before I met them. A fragment of my soulmate in the form of a warm summer breeze, bearing the scent of roses and those familiar mapel leaves. As much as I wanted to follow it, I was still a wanted man after all. I couldn’t just return to Inazuma, no matter how much my heart cried for it.

At that time I started to keep a journal on what I was doing, what I was thinking of, and where in Teyvat I was whenever the wind carried them to me, So I could show it to them when we did finally meet. I never had the chance to finish that journal because our paths crossed sooner than I expected. Apparently, just as the wind carried them to me, it did the same for them. Fate has an interesting way of bringing people together. From the moment I stood face to face with them, I knew who they were and by the sparkle in their eye and the way they immediately rushed into my arms, I can guess it was the same for them. We’ve been wandering together ever since"

About vision:

"I’m well aware of how visions respond to your emotions. I don’t actively try to fight it, In a way, i think it’s quite romantic how my vision responds to seeing y/n by sending a breeze through their hair or twirling flower petals around them. They don’t seem to mind either"

About love language:

"From the moment y/n and I met, we decided to travel together. With every step we took, we got to know each other better, and with every rest under the starry night sky, our relationship grew stronger. They love nature as much as I do, and while I show my adoration for it in poems and music, they show their appreciation in colorful paintings and sketches. If we ever run out of paper on the road, I’m not against them using my arms as a canvas, the same way they allow me to ink love poems onto their skin. That way it doesn’t matter how far apart we are, we wear our love for each other on our skin

Cyno

About y/n:

"y/n? The fact that they are my partner is not something I tell many people, but since we are so close, yes, they are. They joined the forest rangers a while ago, I met them when I dropped of some books from the Akademiya Tighnari needed. And while I gave them to Tighnari, I decided it was a good time to tell my new joke…..Tighnari did not find it amusing, but y/n did. To this day, their laughs are still the sweetest melody I've heard, and I'm fortunate to hear them every day through my excellent jokes.

About vision:

"Please, don’t bring that up, I still feel bad about it. I didn’t know my vision would respond so strongly……fine, the first time y/n and I held hands, I got so...flustered I accidentally send a small shock wave where our hands intertwined. They weren’t hurt, but I still feel bad about it. It hasn’t stopped them from holding me though, I’m glad about that

About TCG:

"y/n and I are both quite the genius invokation tcg players, and the more rounds we play the more....energetic we get. Let's just say that Puspa cafe does have a noise limit....

For my birthday they got me a beautiful commissioned card with artwork of us on it. Having it around has become a good luck charm for me. I always keep it on the very top of my deck.

Thank you for reading angels!

[gfmima]

c. 東京卍リベンジャーズ | tokyo revengers + f!reader t. showing why flirting with his girl is a no-no

on nights you had time to spare, you went with your darling boyfriend on his gigs at the club he and his brother owned. you had nothing to worry over, most of your needs were taken care of the moment word spreads of your visit. all you had to do was sit pretty, drink, and watch him do his setlist.

you were utterly wrong when a strange man chose to settle down on the stool next to you despite the empty bar. a tragedy that frequent clubgoers were constantly reminded of after hearing tales of broken bones and disappearances.

his other error was calling the music blasting “lame noise,” believing it would make him appear intelligent and impress you. when in fact, it made him look like a conceited moron.

it was pathetic.

with the scummiest attempt at a smile you’ve ever seen, he drawls out, “ya’ come here often, cutie-pie?”

you cringe hard.

“my visits here are none of your concern.” peering across at rindō, you give him a reassuring nod, telling him nonverbally to relax and concentrate on his set because you could handle one moron for the evening. it wasn’t a big deal to you, but it was for him.

every now and again, he takes a glimpse at you to check on how you were faring. he wanted to know you were find, despite the fact that he might have behaved like a madman. and he didn’t try to hide his emotions. the way the music would increase each time the stranger opened his mouth to offer another overused pick-up line was no fluke on his part either.

he knows you’ll turn down the advances of the ugly bastard, for sure. he knows you were highly capable of taking care of yourself. he saw how decently you carry yourself around his friends and associates.

however, it doesn't mean he won’t fret over your well-being or not be irritated about the unfamiliar bloke next to you. even from the distance between his station and the bar, he couldn’t help but keep a super close eye on you throughout the evening while he transitioned from mix to mix.

ran begrudgingly volunteers to run the DJ booth. 

he had been eager to intervene soon when he first glimpsed the immature scowl on his brother’s face. it was irritating to see him mope around like a mutt in desperate need of its owner. and it was an even more pathetic sight to witness on a haitani of all people.

lighting the cigarette hanging loosely on his lips, he motions for rindō to move along. it was conceited to believe he’d let him anywhere near his ‘darling booth.’ suppose he damages it; misses the ashtray and digs the bud to its body? besides, he’d rather spare himself the argument and continue to sulk in place unless beckoned.

“you’re being a pussy, rindō.” then exhales the smoke in his direction.

he says nothing.

instead he raises the volume until it drowns ran’s voice. the last thing he needs is for him to pull the ‘older brother’ card and nag his ear off.

his brooding comes to a halt once your eyes lock again; this time with you wordlessly asking for him to interject. a surge of adrenaline flows through his veins, he chuckles,

it’s been a while since he started a fight.

“get away from her.” his tone eerily aloof. whispers start up, filled with interest and fear for the guy who is about to meet his end.

“or what, four-eyes?” he mocks, and takes a long gulp of his drink before slamming it down on the bar counter with such force that several onlookers were surprised it didn’t break in his palm.

ran lets out a low whistle.

your boyfriend didn’t hesitate a second later to hit the man on the nose, earning a startled yell at his eagerness to start a brawl. and it didn’t end there! rindō grabs him by the collar and continues to harass him until he was begging for him to stop.

“did you miss me, ‘fuyu~ ♡?”

“can you not be annoying?”

takemitchy awkwardly laughs along. he didn’t know what to do. he heard many stories about the former vice-captain of the first division from baji and chifuyu, though, to finally hang out with the young man himself was a meeting he was happy he didn’t forget.

you happen to come as well which was a big relief since you could keep him in check before he drives chifuyu mad.

he would’ve never figured ryusei was once part of the tokyo manji gang, much more a vice-captain, by the way he carries the conversation for them all buddy-buddy. you had excused yourself from the table minutes ago to order more drinks for the group. and while it was subtle to most but not to takemitchy’s keen eyes, he caught his gaze wandering to your figure every so often to confirm you were okay.

ryusei took his duties as your boyfriend seriously — enough so, he was willing to be thrown out of the restaurant. 

his patience was put to a test as soon as that bastard came up to you. he wasn’t familiar with his name yet he does recognize him as the coursemate you frequently rant about to him during those late night phone calls. in your words, he was a nuisance.

tanaka? or was it takaeda? whatever. he didn’t understand that “no” means “no,” desperate to arrange a date with you regardless of how goofy it made him appear.

“can you quit it? you know that i’m taken. so, why don’t you bother someone else, yeah?” he listens to you not so kindly turn him down. his mouth slips a wisp of a grin, he didn’t need to look to know your arms were crossed and your face bore the most judgemental expression.

“oh, c’mon! he doesn’t need to know.”

ryusei’s eye twitches.

“talk to a brick wall. ‘m not interested.”

one after another, a pool of thoughts flood his head, lagging his ability to think clearly. all that was going through his mind were methods to beat up this scumbag and a barrage of obscenities he would’ve said if you weren’t there to scold him like a disgruntled mother in front of his friends. 

chifuyu, who used to work alongside him, notices the quick change in his attitude and instantly sighs to himself for the ensuing catastrophe to happen. takemitchy, on the other hand, sweats from the heavy, tense atmosphere inside the booth.

“don’t make a scene!”

he rests a hand on his chest in mock offense. “i could never do that!” he pouts. “have you no faith in me, ‘fuyu? i’m simply going to make sure my girl is okay. i know you won’t get it but i’m sure takemitchy does.” then stands up before either of them could say a response.

“hey! what’s that supposed to mean?!”

up until this point, takemitchy had trouble viewing ryusei in the role of former vice-captain of the first division. he didn’t realize how unnerving he could be when you were the object of his ire. without the charming, boyish grin, his new friend emitted a darker aura. he would’ve meddled as usual but if hinata had been in a similar predicament, he would’ve done the same.

he shoves the bastard to the side and rests his arm by your waist to pull you away from his poor attempt at wooing you. “move it. you’re upsetting my girl here.”

ryusei would say he was a good partner. he was patient, not overprotective, and respected your boundaries. he wasn’t easily annoyed but this stranger was beginning to get on his nerves. he wasn’t going to cause any trouble, not after right after he swore he’d behave. he wasn’t listening to a word this guy said, he was going to shrug it off either way until he catches you mime a tiny, “do it,” at him.

your lover delivers a solid hit to his face before he can throw another remark. “what the hell?! fuck, she isn’t even worth all the trouble!” he shouts, as he slumps backward.

once he fled the restaurant, ryusei drifts back to his regular demeanor and feigns an injury in spite his time as a former gang member to have you coddle him.

what a baby.

[evilhasnever]

I am on record disliking "centrist" LXC jokes, because they have been disproven by canon analysis already in better essays than I can manage right now, but I also don't buy "I can fix him" jokes!

Rather than "I can fix him" syndrome, LXC's attitude (towards everyone: his brother! his friends! his uncle!) reads to me as "I want to do good and make the best of our circumstances (within my power)". That means, for example, encouraging Wangji to make friends but still following sect rules when it comes to punishment. It means supporting his brilliant friend's ambition and making sure his angry friend doesn't kill him first.

None of those things include fixing, because I don't think he is under any illusion that Clarity will fix NMJ - he'd have to change his way of thinking, first, and LXC canonically has given up on this or never even entertained the thought (as shownfor example when he does not argue further in front of NMJ's mulish responses about JGY's abuse in Jinlintai, or when he has to concede to NMJ and other sect leaders clamoring for the Wen slaughter).

As for JGY? He does not need fixing, and LXC is the first to recognize that. His goals are worthy and his methods, well... are often the only ones available to him. So what he needs from LXC is just support and understanding, and tbh JGY gives back as much and more than he gets (as shown in canon with the rebuilding of CR, being his confidant, etc.) So LXC does not try to change him, because he believes in the man he is now and in his overarching goals being in line with the greater good.

Basically, LXC does not try to change JGY because he believes him to be right, and he does not try to change NMJ because he knows he won't listen. So I don't get where this headcanon of LXC as the "I can fix him" man comes from when he is just a decent guy who helps the people he cares about, supports his little brother's unwise decisions and protects him from repercussions, provides palliative musical therapy to his friend who is bound to die regardless, and is emotionally present for the man he loves even when he cannot do anything else but offer him a handkerchief in times of struggle.

Basically, "I can fix him" implies a naivete and a rejection of the reality of their circumstances that is in fact not in line with Lan Xichen's canonical diplomatic skills and emotional intelligence.

[dolokhoded]

80s jesus 'verse disciple headcanons pt. 3 (jesus, judas, jb)

my sincere apologies i know i said i'd bost judas "in a little bit" about. 2 weeks ago. here they are. @ that one anon who asked me about judas, my brain works very slowly, there he is

JESUS

ok starting off jesus is gender wacky. idk what he is i use he/him for him but calling him a man feels off. he's my favorite gender identity which is wack.

being somewhat divine does that to you you don't really care for the labels society has completely made up. ANYWAYS

i don't even know what i'm gonna write for jesus i'm sure you know what kinda guy jesus was. 

okay. grew up in nazareth with his parents miriam and yosef and his siblings 

(don't ask me why im using the hebrew form of names for the parents but not jesus himself. it's because we have a hundred marys.)

he has three siblings, two sisters and one brother, and he's older than all of them with a pretty big age gap, he was kind of an accidental pregnancy

(or, y'know, the son of god. but who knows ! )

had a relatively normal life compared to everyone else. i guess reparations for how well his life went last time idk.

jesus is also the only one out of them all who has somewhat of a sense that they've all existed together somewhere before ? he doesn't clearly remember any of it, but he did recognize his disciples when he met them.

he also has a lot of nightmares. they're vague, but very painful.

anyways aside from that pretty decent upbringing. he always knew that he wanted to help people as much as he can.

he learned carpentry from his dad and although he did study political science he ended up just running his father's shop.

however of course he also runs his organization ! which i really struggle to pick a main cause for because like it's jesus ? i feel like he'd care about anything that helps people he's just trying to make the world a little better.

idk. i'll think about it.

before he was doing that he was doing a lot of activist and volunteer work alongside his cousin john ! you guys know cousin john !

and therefore already had a lot of peers and a lot of friends who then followed him and supported him. the first being andrew, who was very close with john and was there when there was just talk between the three of them and maybe some more friends about jesus starting his own cause

aside from carpentry, which he obviously likes and is very good at, jesus is actually a little bit of a creative in general.

he just started with woodcarving with his leftover supply for fun and then slowly moved on to clay and occasionally even sculpting.

likes to give stuff shape anyways

cares so much for his whole team and always reminds them to be kind to themselves and take care of themselves however he has not practiced self care a single DAY in his entire LIFE

will overwork himself to exhaustion if someone doesn't physically drag him away. has before.

for an all loving creature he has the emotional intelligence of a doorknob

dgmw he's great. he's kind to everyone and all that. he's understanding.

still has not known what the fuck is going on a day in his entire life. each time any of his friends looks the slightest bit off he comes to the wildest possible conclusion.

most of the time said conclusion being that it's his fault

he might be a tiny bit self-centered. usually not in a positive way towards himself either, it just means he thinks he's the cause of everything bad happening in his life.

feels like the world revolves around him, just in a very pessimistic way

but he's got a lot on his plate can you blame him.

love how i went "yeah he's relatively doing pretty well" and then gave him a bunch of issues lol sorry jesus

JUDAS

welcome, queers, i know you're here for him, here he is

judas is an only child and comes from a very rich family.

his parents own an insurance company and have like a bunch of buildings they're renting.

generational wealth, basically. it's all inherited and they're making a shit ton of money out of nothing it's all already set up.

judas' family is also very religious.

and i know that so far two out of the two times i've said that it means the parents are assholes but i swear it's not like that james and john's parents are also religious it just wasn't relevant.

but yeah judas' parents are, in fact, assholes. judas was very involved at the temple from very early childhood.

which unfortunately led to him being abused by religious officials that he could supposedly trust and grew up with.

especially once he started growing into his teens and came to the realization that he very much Does Not like women.

which his parents didn't love either.

somewhere around that time he started to distance himself from his family, especially once he moved away for university. judas studied political science but halfway through kind of changed career plans and double majored in journalism

which was very demanding but he did it anyways !

in university he meets jesus. jesus is in his third year when he's in his first and helps him out a lot. they're both very politically active too and always meet at protests and charity events etcetcetc so, yeah, they know each other. and sure there's something there but judas is very closed off and they drift apart when jesus graduates.

oh, judas also has depression, he was diagnosed at age ten, his family was very ashamed of that as well.

in his last year of university, he falls out with his parents once and for all.

they already weren't close, judas was very hurt by them and obviously he had a lot of personal issues with them but to him the line came when he found out about a lot of things that were going on behind closed doors in his parents' company, they were scamming a lot of innocent people and also partnering with a lot of . really just scum of the earth kind of people.

judas got rightfully very upset and had absolutely zero reason to keep covering up any of this. so he didn't ! and obviously that was very disastrous for the company.

judas gets disowned. not legally, but his parents cut all ties with him. not that he wasn't going to do that himself anyways.

obviously though as a consequence he suddenly has very very limited money. luckily for him he's currently in a relationship with his guy, isaac, who's very happy to let him move into his apartment. it would benefit him too to share the rent anyways. as it turns out, isaac's not a great guy ! judas himself isn't too well either so they have a very weird very unhealthy very codependent relationship and though they fight a lot it takes judas two years until he finally finds the strength to walk out on him.

judas didn't think that through very well because he doesn't really have anywhere to go. to his luck, guess who he runs into !

it's jesus. of course it's jesus this is the dolokhoded bible where the main character is still jesus, no matter how much i love to talk about james and simon.

jesus is on his way to a meeting with his team and he's like hey why don't you come along. and judas does. and that's it, he meets the whole gang, he ends up rooming with andrew and philip for a while before he gets his own place.

and, y'know. he does, eventually, in an excruciatingly slow process that tests the patience of all of their friends, get together with jesus.

okay i prob have to write this too uhh sad stuff ahead judas attempts once.

he's spiraling and overworking himself and hiding it pretty well. has some petty fight with john that jesus scolds him about and then has another fight with jesus over that and overall it's not going swell.

strangely enough it's john who decides to check on him after that. he has not gotten along with judas a day in his life but he could tell how upset he was and jesus is hurt and also a little petty and isn't gonna go do it himself so he decides he might as well. to his horror he stumbles into. well. yeah

he survives.

he moves in with jesus, john and matthew for a while after that.

(a lot of them are rooming they don't have much money)

goes back to therapy too.

okay sad stuff over. it gets better. he's doing well. gets a job at an independent news page and becomes quite known among his circles for his work too.

JOHN THE BAPTIST

or JB.

he does not baptize anyone. his first name is john baptist. don't ask me the logic of being named after himself when he hasn't existed yet for people to be named after him ok making an au of a defining characteristic of current human society is fucking difficult

jesus' cousin. his mother, elisheba, is miriam's sister. she's a good fifteen years older than her, and was in her fourties the year that both jesus and jb were born so her getting pregnant was a bit of a surprise.

grew up with jesus and they're very close. they studied together and they theorized together and they discussed everything together.

very big on environmental activism. and by consequence very very anti-capitalism. very anti-fast fashion, for multiple reasons. also vegan :).

jb genuinely believes the human race is the universe's biggest abomination and we should just go extinct. he's not wrong.

he doesn't pick favorites (but he does and they're andrew and philip they're his favorites)

philip was sort of his right hand

he's kind of there to encourage all the shit jesus can't if he doesn't want absolute chaos and zero planning. give simon a pat on the back for getting into fights with racists and all that.

generally he's a little more radical that jesus is. they don't agree on everything but they both respect each other's stances.

he's so well read. it's obvious too, they're all educated obviously, but this guy talks and you can tell he knows his shit. it's very impressive.

and not even in the sense of being well informed and reading theory he knows literature he knows art he's so cultured and i don't like using the word cultured because it often brings to mind a very western very white very high class perception of "culture" but that's not what i'm talking about here.

jb calls himself an atheist in a more political sense. he believes that people shouldn't rely on some higher force to give humanity and morality substance and should instead search for meaning inside those things alone, otherwise they won't have the right motivations to be moral and therefore their beliefs will have no strong foundation.

he grew up jewish but his relationship with his faith is very personal to him and stays between him and god. he doesn't care to discuss it with anyone, except maybe jesus a few times.

sort of everyone's go-to person for advice. he's there to talk the stupid out of them.

his mother was a seamstress, and he learned from her. he likes to make a lot of his own clothes.

professionally, however, he's a translator. he speaks hebrew, english, greek, russian and arabic. (also a little bit of french and german. he's not qualified to translate those though) (is constantly in the process of learning more)

he just fixated on different alphabets as a teenager a little too hard.

[otakusheep15]

i would LOVE a matchup with one of the obey me boys!!

she/her (female)

i’m bi

positives: i’m a very patient person and amazing with kids. im very hardworking and determined. decently creative and pretty academically intelligent. i am a kind person and extremely observant. i can read a room very easy.

negatives: i tend to procrastinate quite a bit, i am quite shy (socially anxious and awkward), i need a lot of reassurance as i get insecure easy and going along with this is i can get jealous. not to a point where im like “don’t talk to them!!” but where i get in my own head about things. my hyperfixations can get quite obsessive lol

hobbies: fashion (? not sure if that counts), sewing, writing, decorating, playing roblox, and hanging out with friends

fav color: PINK!!! my room is centered around the color pink lol

no asmo or levi pleaseeee (love them tho but would rather not be matched w/ them)

i tend to dress more hyperfem, i believe it’s called “shojo girl” now? fav artists are currently lamp, laufey, wave to earth, mitski but i also like bands such as pierce the veil and sleeping with sirens so my music taste has a wide range lol. i’m 5’2 love to travel !! i think that’s about it….

thank you in advance !! love your writing !!!!! <333

You sound like such a fun person anon! Def someone I would be friends with!

I think the best match for you would be Satan!

While Satan can be patient and calm, he isn't the Avatar of Wrath for nothing. Even after centuries of learning to control his anger, he still has a hard time handling his emotions. Someone patient and kind is an absolute must for him. He would also appreciate someone hardworking, as he is a very hard worker himself. He has gained many connections all around the Devildom through hard work, and he values someone who has a similar work ethic. Similarly, Satan also valus someone who is both intelligent and creative. He is very academic himself, but he tends to struggle with more creative tasks, so having someone who is good at both would be nice for him. That way, he can have someone on his level academically while also being able to learn something about being more creative. Since Satan is also quite good at reading the room, I imagine the two of you would have a lot of silent communication about the vibes at any function, whether good or bad.

It's okay if you tend to procrastinate, as Satan is easily the best person to help you out. He's strict about helping you stick to a schedule, but he's kind and (for the most part) patient while helping you. If you have an assignment due that you're really procrastinating on, he'll help you out to ensure you get it done on time. Your shyness is also not a huge deal, as Satan is far from shy himself. The two of you balance really well, as he's able to handle social situations for you. Naturally, he will try to push you out of your shell, but he won't force you if you're not ready. He's more than happy to do the talking until you're comfortable. When it comes to your insecurity, Satan is very good at combating it. He is very blunt about his feelings, and there's never any doubt about the way he feels for you. If he senses any insecurity, he's quick to shut it down. He'll tell you directly that you have nothing to worry about, as you're the only one for him. Hyperfixations are no issue either, as he can often hyperfixate on things as well. Lots of infodumping dates for the two of you. Bonus points if you both hyperfixate on the same thing(s) so that you can talk about it together.

Most of your hobbies are not things Satan is normally interested in, but he's curious by nature, and he has no problem trying something new for you. The only one he has experience with is writing, which is something he loves to do. He's better at writing academic papers and the like, but he's dabbled in poetry as well, and it's something he'd like to practice more. If you ever need someone to bounce ideas off of, or if you need a proofreader, he's your guy. Satan does know some things about fashion and sewing because of Asmo and Levi, but he's not too familiar with either subject himself. If you're willing to teach him a thing or two, he'd love to learn. It's not that he's particularly interested in fashion himself, but he cares about you, and he wants to share your interests. I could also see him enjoying Roblox, if only so he can be mean to kids when he beats them in games. Just make sure he doesn't lose or anything, as he might ragequit, which would not be good for anyone.

I also think he'd love your "shojo girl" vibe a lot. It's not his usual style, but I think he'd find it cute, and he'd definitely listen to the music you like. For him, music is a way to understand someone, so he'd definitely listen to all of your faves.

Rules for matchups

[forkaround]

BL Awards: Catch Me Sobbing Category

Sad things are just as important as the not-sad things and thus...

Scene that has me sobbing for whatever reason.

(BL Awards: At the end of an amazing year of absolute chaos in the world of BL. I come to you with my favorite moments of the year divided into categories that would not make it into any respectable Award show. But this is Tumblr. You know what you signed up for.)

Parpai reading from Sky's journal (Love in the Air)

I don't want to discuss the ethics of this and mileage varies for every other person. But this had me sobbing to the point my mother yelled at me for crying over fictional characters. It's how both of them are hurting. It's about Sky not wanting to open up. It's about Pai being confused and hanging over Sky's words. Pai doesn't know what happened, to Sky in the past and to Sky now and he can't accept that Sky would say all those things. Fort and Peat were acting. Truly in their Oscars bag. I remember holding my breath as if I was underwater throughout this scene. Uff.

Sky not crying and Pai crying in his stead (Love in the Air)

(I can't find a gif for the specific line.)

Who knew that not crying was worse than crying? This scene knocked me off the face of the earth. They are both reeling and the emotional intelligence Prapai shows here, god, another writer, another actor could have made this so much worse than it was. But in Mame and FortPeat's hands this was beautiful. It's gentle, it's mature, it's taking care of Sky before Pai can go around smacking people/taking revenge. But that was not the goal of this story. Revenge tel lene gaya. (revenge goes to buy oil. kinda like revenge go to hell.) This is about grace, this is about healing. I have never seen a narrative like this dealt with such gentleness and keeping the characters 'not-broken'. idk how to explain this. Gun gets everything that is coming to him but in this moment it's not about him. It's about SKY.

GAP: Mon being confused by Sam and crying

Something less intense. I feel for both our girlies. Sam is constantly going hot and cold and that is so taxing for everyone around her especially Mon, who has loved her since she was a kid. tbf Sam doesn't know this. And Sam is herself so tragic. Never expressing who she is and what she wants leaving for those around her to interpret her intentions. As much as I feel for her though, I can't see her as a decent boss.

Triage: Tin goes into a coma and Tol is reading to him

I did not expect this to hurt me as much as it did. I can't quantify even now why I love this show so much. But after the POV switch something about this show just fit. I was going to be so mad if they ended up unhappy. I was barely starting to get comfortable with BLs and their happy endings. And then this hit. It didn't end unhappy but I sure thought it would. (Also the clock tower kiss is just something else)

The Eclipse: Every AkkAyan scene towards the end

There are so many gifs/scenes where this boy is crying. First must have had quite the month crying over and over each episode. He is so stuck in his circumstances, in his own head about what's right and wrong. Brittle things. And you see that with how he is caught in between Chadok and Ayan.

ChadokDika story

Dika didn't deserve it. That's it. (tbf Chadok didn't deserve it either.)

(There's many different ways to kill the one you love / slowest way is never loving them enough)

180 Degrees Longitude Passes Between Us

Literally everyone is hurting on this show and hurting everyone else. And it all just HURTS. I can't fully put a bad guy/good guy label on any of them. It's so complexly human. So simply human. So beautifully human and so pathetically human. Seeing my own family in this show didn't help. Mol can't move on from her past. Inn can't see the future. Waan can't live in the present. Them always being on a different wavelength keeps hurting and I think some part of them recognizes this. The ending doesn't help. It's realistic. It's hard. And it hurts. This show is just:

The surety that no matter how much it hurts it would end happy help enjoy the angst so much better. I didn't have to worry someone might end up dead or they might not end up together. (there are exceptions to this, as you can see)

[onlyplatonicirl]

OBJECTION! I, ANON, REFUTE THEE!

OBJECTION! 1: How many genocidal maniacs has the council actively set out to reform? What’s the difference between killing a bunch of universes once and killing one universe a bunch of times? The number of kills is in the same ballpark, and any character capable of remembering resets will tell you that time travel doesn’t negate a genocide run.

OBJECTION! 2: ‘Not guilty by reason of insanity’. I trust our audience is familiar with the process of becoming an ERROR, yes? And how errors are inherently somewhat unstable to begin with? Add to that instability the compounding factors of solitary confinement and white torture, it is understandable why error lost what little sanity he had left at that point. Anyone familiar with aftertale’s story will know what isolation can do to someone. Is it justified to blame error for his insanity, circumstances entirely out of his control?

OBJECTION! 3: No matter what error’s crimes are, alchemy and the council are SUPPOSED to be the GOOD GUYS. Alchemy especially puts himself on the highest of pedestals, and he’s not shy about how superior he thinks he is to everyone else in existence. How the jailed are treated/punished is NOT a reflection on the morality of the jailed, it is a reflection on the morality of the JAILER. AND ONLY THAT OF THE JAILER. Adding more atrocities onto the pile isn’t ‘justice’, it just makes a shitty situation even shittier.

OBJECTION! 4: Alchemy did absolute jack shit to stop any of the torture happening at that lab. Sure, he strongly objected! But in the end it was all just words that did absolutely nothing. You’d be hard-pressed to recognize that he had any real authority over things! His oversight was pitiful, and his authority laughable. How many people working there actively HATED error? He really couldn’t find ANYONE else to work there? There wasn’t anyone at all who wouldn’t take advantage of having the destroyer in a weakened and vulnerable state? Molly’s existence proves that there were decent people around for that kind of work. His choices of staff were terrible, and his attempts to rein in their worst impulses were nonexistent. He barely even tried.

OBJECTION! 5: Oh, so now we’re calling people ‘monstrosities’? Is error a mindless beast or is he an intelligent person? You can’t have it both ways. Alchemy repeatedly justified his cruel and extreme measures by saying it was all necessary for dealing with a ‘mindless beast’, even when he had PROOF in front of his face that that wasn’t the case. He likened error to an animal that couldn’t possibly be communicated or reasoned with, when he’d seen for himself error’s ability to speak and emote just like any other sapient being. You can’t hold a mindless animal to the same standards as a sapient person. So which is it? Mindless beast, or intelligent being? Alchemy seems to vacillate depending on which one is more convenient for him. Hell, even INK was advocating for error, and they were the worst of enemies as far as alchemy knew!

OBJECTION! 6: I would like to point out how fond of blue the council is. How much they value their treasured friend. But he, at one point, almost became an error himself. What if rescue had been just a little too late? What if he turned into a genocidal monster taking down universes in droves? Would his suffering be so easily dismissed? Would he be treated so harshly? I myself would probably still be angry to lose a loved one to a murderer, but learning that the murderer in question had been tortured to the point of insanity would change my verdict. Things like mercy and reform are easy to toss around when you’re dealing with petty crimes. It takes true integrity to stick to your message when the crimes become severe. This was perhaps the greatest challenge to the morality of the council, the truest test of their conviction to their ideals that even the worst person can change, be a little better, if they just try. This was a test, and they failed spectacularly. As the highest ranking authority on the council, the failure falls on alchemy especially.

I just woke up and am running on three hours of sleep so I can’t even read the first paragraph correctly but I will tag @lordterronus so that way you know that Anon is ready to fight LOL

[wndbrn]

* deep dive character sheet .

NAME: takumi .

BODY

height: 165.1 cm / 5'5 ( a short king 💅🏻 )

strength ★★★☆☆ ( he's a stronk boy )

dexterity ★★★★☆ ( in canon of course his dexterity is relatively high - granted fates doesn't have this as a stat i believe ! he was a sniper, however here and back then there still could be room for improvement . )

health ★★★☆☆ ( takumi's physical health is decent, his mental however is still not. it's a work in progress ! )

energy ★★★☆☆ ( truly depends. he has enough energy for practice and battle even with the lack of sleep he gets due to his nightmares. )

beauty ★★★★☆ ( he's your local pretty boy takumi of course )

style ★★★★☆ ( with oboro's assistance with, he's always stylish. well at least in hoshido. )

hygiene ★★★★☆ ( he's very hygienic and takes great care of his hair ! though it can be somewhat lacking due to battles ; he always bathes after practicing/waking up . )

SKILLS

perception ★★★★☆ ( i would say takumi is hypervigilant regardless of situation. though his perception of situations or others can be off from time to time. )

communication ★★☆☆☆ ( this is literally one of the few things he actually lacks in . he even critiques himself on his lack of communication skills in the dlc lol )

persuasion ★★☆☆☆ ( it's not his strong suit lol )

mediation ★☆☆☆☆ ( do not and i mean do not get him to mediate any situation. he might be able to mediate some like a tiny dispute between hinata and oboro. )

literacy ★★★★★ ( boy reads all the damn time; his reading literacy is great. )

creativity ★☆☆☆☆ ( creativity regarding the arts is practically nonexistent, however he can be creative when playing shogi. )

cooking ★★★☆☆ ( he's an okay cook, i think one of the few dishes he's pretty good at is miso soup - his favorite food. )

tech savvy ★★☆☆☆ ( i say he's rather quick to learn whatever is given to him. )

combat ★★★★★ ( he is able to fujin yumi, one of the few divine weapons and incredibly skilled in the bow. )

survival ★★★☆☆ ( if he gets smacked once or even twice in close combat he's screwed. he's fairly good at keeping a distance, so he can survive the current battle but still land a good hit on the enemy. )

stealth ★★★★☆ ( he's quick and efficient, stealthy too when the occasion calls for it. )

street smarts ★★★☆☆ ( takumi isn't dumb by any means, but i do think he lacks in this department. )

seduction ★☆☆☆☆ ( he can't seduce for SHIT, besides that he's never really even attempted to. during the war and before he had no interest. though this can change ! )

luck ★★★★☆ ( i'd say his luck is decent, most battles tend to go his way. )

handling animals ★★★★☆ ( takumi's great with animals ! i'd say he almost prefers them over people at times. )

pacifying children ★★★☆☆ ( i don't think he's great or bad, he's just average when it comes to consoling any child. including his own, kiragi. )

MIND

intelligence ★★★★☆ ( my boy is incredibly intelligent, others have also praised him for his smarts. )

happiness ★★��☆☆ ( takumi isn't a happy person overall; iago in the fanbook has made a comment on his rather large amount of negative emotions he holds. )

spirituality ★★★☆☆ ( like most people in hoshido, he believes in the dawn dragon. )

confidence ★☆☆☆☆ ( what confidence ? it is something he's working on so it could be higher later on. )

humor ★★★☆☆ ( his humor is kind of dry if i'm going to be honest. he's a kind of serious guy, but can joke around / poke fun from time to time. )

anxiety ★★★★★ ( oh my god his anxiety is so incredibly bad. )

patience ★★☆☆☆ ( it really depends on the situation at hand ? when it comes to dealing with people it can be low, especially with those he doesn't trust. )

passion ★★★★☆ ( he sure is passionate about about proving himself useful lol but outside of that there are other things he's passionate about like archery. )

nice         ☆☆★☆☆ mean ( it's kind of a mixed bag; he nice to friends and family but not so much to nohrians / people who he doesn't deem as trustworthy. he is working on that and definitely gotten way better ! )

brave       ☆★☆☆☆ cowardly ( i'd never call him cowardly, though he himself might. )

pacifist   ☆☆☆★☆ violent ( this boy is willing to fight in a war if need be, and kill most foe's if it secures victory. takumi is not much of a pacifist. )

thoughtful ☆★☆☆☆ impulsive ( azura in his fanbook does say he's pretty considerate lol . i think he's thoughtful to those he cares deeply about. not much of an impulsive person, until it comes his his words. he can be impulsive when he's upset. )

agreeable ☆☆★☆☆ contrary ( it all depends given the circumstance. )

idealistic   ☆☆☆★☆ pragmatic ( he wishes he could be idealistic )

frugal        ☆☆★☆☆ big spender ( honestmeme ... i don't think he really cares about the price of things. )

extrovert   ☆☆☆☆★ introvert ( nintendo literally called him sensitive and shy 😭 not even that during his and sakura's support he makes it clear he HATES big social gatherings. boy is very introverted. )

collected   ☆☆☆★☆ wild ( it's a mix ! takumi can be cool and collected, but his emotions tend to swing rather frequently. he can be explosive. )

ambitious / possessive / stubborn / jealous / decisive / perfectionist

SOCIAL

charisma ★★☆☆☆ ( takumi's somewhat charismatic in the way. he got mikoto to suggest to corrin to sit on the throne lol. )

empathy ★★★☆☆ ( he does have empathy for others, i swear. )

generosity ★★★☆☆ ( generous to the right people ! )

wealth ★★★★☆ ( he is a prince of hoshido after all. )

honest  ☆★☆☆☆ deceptive ( i'd like to think he's honest and rather straightforward. )

leader   ☆☆☆★☆ follower ( takumi can lead his own troop as proved in conquest, but will follow corrin in both birthright and revelation ! )

polite    ☆☆☆★☆  rude ( rude to most strangers and nohrians that he doesn't trust. again though he's gotten so much better. he can be nice i promise ! )

political ☆★☆☆☆ indifferent ( you could say he's political ? he is reading up government to aid hoshido while assisting here. )

BELIEFS

higher power ★★★☆☆ ( he does believe in a higher power - the dawn dragon ! he does have some of their blood. )

fate/destiny ★★★★☆ ( corrin and mikoto has proven to him that fate and destiny truly exists. )

magic ★★★★★ ( takumi knows magic exists but he's so bad at it oh my god. )

soulmates ★★★★☆ ( kind of. i think he'd believe more in soulmates if he were to find his own. )

good and evil ★★★★☆ ( i'd say he does believe in good and evil. he makes it pretty clear throughout the game. )

luck ★★★★☆ ( he believes in luck, but he doesn't tend to think luck is the sole reason why he wins, ect. )

PRIORITIES

family ★★★★★ ( one of the most important things to him. )

friends ★★★★★ ( well he definitely values the friends that he has . though they may be his retainers , he considers hinata and oboro his friends/family. )

love ★★★☆☆ ( it's not a priority for him. there are other things more important. though he won't be opposed to finding love now that the war is over. )

home ★★★★☆ ( home means everything to him like family and friends. )

health ★★★☆☆ ( ehh, takumi does care about his health but not so much while in battle. unless of course he's severely injured. )

praise ★★★☆☆ ( though he may not admit to it, he does like the praise he gets. even if he may find it sometimes embarrassing and hard to believe. )

justice ★★★★★ ( justice is a big driving force for takumi, and he cares deeply for it. )

truth ★★★★☆ ( the truth is something takumi values highly. though sometimes he shy's away from it when it comes to himself. )

power ★★★★☆ ( he's big stronk, but outside of physical strength he does really value this as well. he desperately wants to be strong for ryoma and hoshido. )

fame ★★☆☆☆ ( fame isn't something he cares all that much about, but he does want recognition for his efforts and accomplishments. )

wealth ★★☆☆☆ ( like stated before he's a prince of hoshido, he's never really worried too much about it. )

others' opinions ★★★★☆ ( takumi has admitted he cares about how others view him, and you can certainly see it throughout the entirety of the game. )

[when-did-this-become-difficult]

I really don't know what to expect from it. Im certainly worried for Mikes little brother. For a police officer he really doesn't handle stress and his emotions well, so if im worried of someone dying is him. Obviously since JR seems to be the main character and now that this serious, unfortunate health scare happened, im afraid a little that this will be the last season or at least there is gonna be a big gap between season 2 and 3 - if there will be a 3.

Im always excited to see more of Sawyer but they always sidelining the only guy who is kind of up for this kind of job and handles it well - i would imagine he had seen and done worse in the army. Im excited if we will see any background or more development from him and im also curious about Milos character - he seems way more intelligent than the usual criminals - see the guy who shot Mitch. And im also curious about Mikes assistant and what is going to happen next episode because it seems like things gonna go really downhill with this pact between the criminal leaders and the law enforcement officers. Betraying them when they were ready to work for their sake is really a bad strategy because it proves the police is clearly untrustable and even worse morally than the criminals. Also please, dont give me more scenes with Mikes mother. Im really grinding my teeth anytime she is on screen. She feels so pathetic and out of place in this whole story. Someone who spent her whole life in this town, she clearly delusional about her situation and her view on criminals is understandable but it is utopic and nonsensical.

But what are you expecting in this season, im curious?!

PS: No one was ever this happy to see one of my messages in their box. :)) Thank you.

@minamartin I am so happy to get another message fr! My reply is so long I have to break it up into chunks, lol.

KYLE MCLUSKEY

this might be "cheating" but I have read an interview with the actor that plays Mike's little brother and what he says does line up with his performance so far. He says that the Kyle character is really struggling both with trauma and with shame because he feels that he didn't conduct himself during the prison revolt, so he's going down a darker path to cope.

I'm pretty sure they won't kill Kyle—quite frankly, I feel like the show as a whole has been pretty tame in terms of killing core characters, and the whole Mitch death was just a fakeout in terms of the show's willingness to kill; this is no Game of Thrones, they're just knocking off side characters. But how far dark Kyle goes is interesting, because he's just kind of A Guy, he's not as visibly cruel as everyone else and he kinda sorta had a mild shot at life simply because he has like 1.5 decent relationships (marriage + mild approval from his mom? lol) idk...

as long as it doesn't bore me, I think I'll be okay with Kyle going bad (or rather worse, lol) and I am not too worried about him dying. I do need him alive, though, because there's a desperate dearth of genuinely affectionate and loyal relationships in the show, so his relationship with his brother needs to keep going somehow.

RENNER + SHOW FUTURE

Agreed re: Renner. I really hope they tied up season 2 decently, because chances of season 3 within the next 3 years is not good. And there's so much uncertainty in the streaming world as it is, and quite frankly the show does not seem to have much critical acclaim or general popularity, so I think it's just riding right now based on the dealmaking power of Taylor Sheridan alone. But that can't last forever. And, as you say, Renner's health problems will probably be prohibitive in the near future, given the physical nature of his role.

SAWYER

I mean, Sawyer has his place in the narrative, but I don't really know if I need that much more depth from him? He's a big old guy with a SWAT team, a gun, and a God complex—he views his function in life as doing dangerous and dirty shit, and the reward for that is swaggering around like Mr Big Dick and getting to dictate who lives and who dies. I'm sure his body count is like, 60% people who were shooting back, 40% people who were unarmed but whatever fuck 'em cause he just decided so.

You can really see that in the scene where one cop gets shot, so he gets all mad and shoots a woman who's being used as a human shield, then just like lets her bleed out while she's crying and pleading for her life even though she literally didn't shoot at any of the cops and was just kind of there? Besides which, he's so calmly and happily down for torture (Afghanistan?) that if they go any deeper with him I'm afraid it'd gonna be like emotionally exhausting for me to deal with all the Darkness™.

But I'd be willing to watch an episode that engaged with him very seriously if I had more faith in Sheridan to be able to do it without just getting carried away with himself on the "omg big man shoot gun" tide. I just don't trust Sheridan enough, I think.

MILO

Milo's really interesting, because so far all the show has done is hint that he's some huge big bad guy, super duper powerful, etc, pulling all the strings—but I was into Sherlock BBC in my youth, you see, so I know now to be wary of that sort of thing, lol. You're totally right in saying that Milo's different from the usual type. So far, the show's not actually been able to present us with any criminal masterminds. Just stupid and desperate/arrogant people, like the guy who shot Mitch, or leaders of certain groups of the population outside the prison (Bunny and the now-dead Confederate guy), or guys with vision but a death wish (the prison revolt leader). There's really never been a character like Milo fully and properly played out on the MoK scene.

Frankly, I'm a little scared he'll turn out to be all hype but very little plot coherence (see: Sherlock BBC trauma lol) but I do think that we'll have some good hints as to how well the show can play him by looking at how well the show deals with all the breadcrumbs it dropped about him in season 1. If the show deals with the serial killer bus again, that's a good sign. If it deals with the three dead feds again, that's a good sign. If it doesn't? Well, then I expect it to be all flash no substance. But fingers crossed. Aidan Gillen deserves to have good material to work with.

THE DEALS + BUNNY

I'm also super curious about this pact that Mike makes with the criminals he threw back in jail, because I think he's insanely naïve and didn't think it through. I understand he's in a desperate situation, but I think he needs to think more carefully.

In the past, when he's been able to deal with conflict, it's always been because he has an okay reputation with everybody and can play the middleman; he's trusted to be honest. In this case, he's gone behind the backs of the criminals and particularly Bunny, which undermines his relationship with him. They'll never be able to see him again as a person who's relatively straightforward and trustworthy in his dealings, even if they (again, mostly Bunny) can understand why he chose to do it.

This is exactly the sort of thing that you were talking about in terms of the season 1 deal between cops and prisoners—"Betraying them when they were ready to work for their sake is really a bad strategy because it proves the police is clearly untrustable and even worse morally than the criminals" SO TRUE.

I think that was maybe always the case, but the way that the police and guards literally turned around and were *extra* heinous to the prisoners for basically asking for what they were promised? Yeah, that was the eye-opener. I mean seriously, some of their demands were super duper low level. Not even law breaking! One of their main demands was better food, which sure, I understand that costs a bit of money, but come the hell on. The response to THAT was to brutalize the prison leaders? No wonder they all said fuck it. You know?

MARIAM MCLUSKEY

Oh lord. Mike's mother is the PREMISE of a good character held in the hands of a man who simply cannot write women lmao. Give her to me. Give me Mike's mother. Give me Mariam. I CAN WRITE HER—he can't. The thing about Mariam that makes me crazy is that she is a purely reactive character, and inconsistently written. If they chose one Mariam mode to be in and stuck with it, she could be interesting and compelling, but they just choose whatever they think is most compelling in the moment, and that puts them at a disadvantage overall and makes her as you say very annoying. I think it's because the audience senses the disingenuous nature of the writers behind her character. They have two Mariams; they need to pick one. They also need to maker her more dimensional. Let me explain.

Mariam #1 is clueless. Nonsensical, as you say. She's the Mariam in season 2, episode 1, who was discomfited (understandably) but the guards, but who tried to exercise a little authority over them and was immediately shut down. This is the Mariam who had the absolutely brainshriveling audacity to try and preach to the assembled inmates about how they had choices, particularly in the context of the brutal massacres involved in the National Guard putting down the prison revolt. Now, this scene is a wonderful scene on its own, isolated, apart from Mariam, so I understand why the writers were so keen on having it; the point of the scene is that the prisoners clearly do not have a choice, that the prison is so militarized/brutal and the assistance offered to them is so little, that it's actually laughable and embarrassing to watch a teacher tell them that their future is in their hands, and if they just study, they can change their lives. Great scene! But stupid, stupid scene to be coming in the context of Mariam having grown up in this system, with a son who went to prison, a son who's a cop, a third son who took the place of her husband to be a sort of town fixer...it's just ludicrous. But the writers placed their urge for Drama and Messaging over their commitment to character. So it makes her look so stupid.

Mariam #2 is clear-eyed, disillusioned, and depressed. She is violently robbed by a young man, but then sees him brought to her by the cops having clearly suffered a beating, and she's able to see what frankly I think most of the characters on the show aren't able to see—that all of this does nothing. Does nothing for her. First of all, putting this kid in jail does not actually make her any safer, because the cause of robbery in her neighborhood isn't that the cops don't arrest enough people, it's poverty, lack of education, abuse, EVERYTHING that she's heard about from her pupils in the prisons. She knows perfectly well that throwing the kid in prison will not make anything better for her. She is very sure, however, that throwing the kid in prison will be bad for the kid. It is supposed to make her feel better, as it clearly makes her son and all her son's friends feel better, that she has the power to enact revenge on the kid. But she's too damn smart to buy into that, and she's not sadistic enough to enjoy it. You can tell in this scene that it's not an optimistic view that she has of the kid, either—she's not letting the kid go because she thinks the kid is a good person, deep down, or has a bright future. Quite the opposite! She believes that the kid will die in the violence that envelops Kingstown and all its residents. She just thinks it's pointless to add on a little bit of extra violence before then. This is also a great scene that adds to the themes of cyclical violence that MoK is trying to grapple with.

BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE MARIAM #1 AND MARIAM #2 IN THE SAME PERSON LMAO. They're just not compatible characterizations! They're not!

Finally, I think the reason Mariam does come across as so "pathetic", as you say, is that Sheridan can't think of a single thing for her to do that is active. It is ALL reactive. How many scenes have we seen of her simply hearing that one of her sons is in trouble, and then looking worried about it? It's boring. It's boring as shit. Never once has she actively done anything herself to make her sons safer, except to repeatedly beg Kyle to get out of Kingstown. Fine, but that's boring if repeated over and over. It might be realistic to see a relationship stuck in a pattern, but let's be real, this is fiction, we did not come here to see stuff be in boring stasis.

Even more disturbing than Mariam's passivity in her relationships is her passivity in regards to her politics. She seems to be the only person in the show (other than Bunny, perhaps) who ever acknowledges the specific issues of racism and classism and the country's whole history that has brought Kingstown to this point, this point at which its entire society and economy runs on the miserable lives trapped in its prisons. And yet, so what? What does she do about it? Jack shit. All she does is talk.

She teaches her students a few of the facts of history, but does nothing to equip them for the future. Yes, the Native Americans were robbed and cheated. Does she ever talk about what tactics they tried to do to resist—about what lessons oppressed people of today might take from that history in their own struggle to survive? No, of course she doesn't. Not only is her teaching of history a very passive thing, she also fails to teach any other concrete skills or information that would be so needed by the inmates. Legal information. Literacy. Even math. Come ON, man. This wouldn't be such an issue if she wasn't, as I say, the only person on the show who's articulating the roots of the chaos in Kingstown. It would also be less of an issue if she wasn't meant to be super duper In the Know; you can have a well-intentioned but useless academiabrained character, or you can have a character who has decades of deep personal experience with the system on multiple fronts. But they can't! be! the same! character!

Ultimately, this is not Mariam's fault (she doesn't exist lmao she's fictional) it's Sheridan's fault. Because quite frankly, even though I think he plays lip service to knowing about the sins of the country etc, I don't think he really knows much about the work that people are doing to fight it—and he's not interested in it, either. He just wants some faux-deep, dour history lessons to lay in the background of this show about brutalization of everyone in the prison industrial complex, to give it a lil gravitas or whatever. Oh, spare me.

Lmao I think I did just get a little angry in writing that. But I had a lot of thoughts. I watched the whole season 1 in two days, it made my head go bzzzzzz 😂

[pelagic-crimson]

Ah! Sorry - I think I got a bit overzealous and forgot a bit the actual topic of discussion. That and I've been maybe burnt a bit too much by reddit's frankly abysmal character literacy (then again the consensus there is more "why the fuck didn't anyone pick Heathcliff, the street smarts guy who's proven to be a decent detective and who has the home advantage?")

I do wonder though if some of Dante's seeming social ineptitude is also a result of us being able to take a step back and look at the narrative as a whole and having background knowledge on the sinners. For example with Hong Lu, while there's plenty of examples of him showing deep emotional intelligence, they're pretty subtle and all at times where there's a lot of other shit going on, like Effie bleeding out or the high emotional turmoil of Yi Sang's entire canto, which I think might be intentional on Hong Lu's part. I don't feel like he's meant to be the focus in those scenes, despite what he contributes. We can look at Dante and go 'man you really suck at picking up on these things" but from Dante's perspective they're simultaneously trying to manage the drama of twelve maladjusted sinners while also learning everything about The City and their job on the fly - I'm not entirely sure you can blame them for not entirely catching the full potential of someone who's intentionally trying to stay under the radar. Outis is obviously suspicious in universe, but she's especially suspicious to us because we know how gacha game archetypes and PM's favourite tropes work (though I thought Dante was just confused by Outis, not explicitly falling for her act and that kinda dissapeared a few cantos in anyways).

Or in the complete other direction, given Faust's statements about who Dante used to be, I wonder if their problem could be less social ineptitude and more arrogance or some other aspect of their original personality that might be bleeding through, and Vergilus is trying to correct it before it gets worse and interferes with things. Like remnants of the old Dante that didn't need to fully learn about the strengths and weaknesses of their team because they think they can just typecast everyone into little boxes skill wise and would probably fall for Outis' schtick because they do think they're the most amazing manager that does deserve all this praise. Or maybe it's both! I have no idea where Dante lies on the amnesiac scale of how subconscious (if at all) is their original personality.

Also I wouldn't really call Meursault naive. Naive is always assuming the best or being blind to the harsher parts of reality. Sinclair and Don are naive, and maybe Yi Sang. Meursault's more oblivious and adverse to anything that could be wrong. He knows he doesn't 'get' people, so it's safer to take everyone at face value than to start assuming things that could be wrong. People that are friendly to him give him more information to work with, so he's going to have a harder time doubting them, hence my point about him being easy to manipulate. I'll admit, I kinda totally forgot about him spotting the traitor in 4 and honestly, that's a bit odd imo. I could make some argument about that being a purely logical conclusion based on observation rather than a judgement call, or that Shenre wasn't actually giving out enough information to start creating contradictions between what he saw and she says...but it's way more likely I'm attributing too much of his book character to the game character. The man's been my weird french existentialist blorbo for years and I will admit, it's a little hard to separate the two when you've been familiar with the original character for much longer.

Also seeing the trailer, istg if my joke about Meursault getting into trouble with the police for historical/absurdist reasons is actually right...

*rises from the grave*

*trips and falls flat on my face*

Heyyyy, it's ya boy, your favorite chronically exhausted Hong Lu identity that forgor about posting to Tumblr. Hi. Hello.

So. Timekilling Time, huh? Very fun, very exciting, we love focusing on Sinners that are misunderstood both in and out of character. We love Rodya, Hong Lu, and Ryoshu focus. We love Ryoshu's butch mustache swag.

Anyway, allow me yap about it a bit, because I took frame by frame screenshots of the teaser and I haven't yapped on Tumblr in a while. I'll also give a general update on how I've been doing at the end of the post for those who are interested.

The first thing I've noticed in the teaser is Dante actually lays out the exact traits that their choice of Sinners would need. These being (exact wording):

Someone who can support Dante

Someone who can remain laser-focused on the case

Someone who can be free from biased judgement while making rational, quick spur-of-the-moment decisions

In other words, we need Sinners who will help Dante out, are able to stay focused, and who can think on their feet without relying on their own internal biases.

I think it's important to lay those out as clearly as possible, because it makes the selections made by Dante and Verg very interesting, and also kind of funny.

Let's look at Dante's picks - Yi Sang, Meursault, and Faust. These are all, at a surface level, decent general picks, as all three of them are seen as smart and rational. However, if we look at them while keeping the previously mentioned traits in mind, it turns out these three might just be some of the worst picks Dante could ever fucking make.

The biggest issue - none of these bitches can think quickly. Faust is especially notorious for this, as it's consistently pointed out how she always needs a long time to come to a conclusion or otherwise has to pause to come up with answers. We also know Yi Sang is the type of person to get lost in his thoughts and just meander instead of getting to the point. Meursault is a bit of an outlier in that we see that he can think quickly, but if he's not given any orders he's never gonna act on those thoughts. Admittedly, he has been getting better at speaking up over time, but he's still mostly in this "only does what he's told to do" mode of operations.

This is where their issues split up a little bit.

Yi Sang is probably the most likely to be supportive of Dante out of the three - we see that he cares about others and has learned to interfere and give advice when he feels it's necessary (though who knows if he's doing well enough to keep that up after Canto 6, oof). No, rather his other issue lies in the focus department. This is the guy who, as I previously mentioned, meanders all over before getting to the point. Again, like Meursault, he has been getting better at not doing that, but he's still got ways to go.

Faust and Meursault on the other hand have the opposite issue. While they're fairly goot at staying focused on what they have to do, the issue is that they never fucking speak up. They're probbably the furthest from being supportive of Dante. They're most likely to learn info and just keep it to themselves until everyone has wasted way too much fucking time. Hell, Meursault would probably make a decently good detective if allowed to do the case all on his own, but since he's meant to be a part of a group, he's unlikely to help out that much without Dante directly ordering him around.

Now, onto Verg's picks - Rodya, Hong Lu, and Ryoshu. This is where things get really, really interesting. Because we have the reverse situation to Dante's picks - on the surface the choices seem random and counter-intuitive, but if we look deeper, it turns out they all fulfill the requirements surprisingly well.

I'm about to go on a tangent here, but I find it extremely important that we're focusing on this group of Sinners in the first Intervallo between what I consider to be the most thematically different arcs within Limbus. The first half of Inferno has been pretty squarely about confronting one's past, whether learning to face it properly after running away from it (Gregor, Rodya, Sinclair), or learning to move past it after refusing to let go of it (Yi Sang, Ishmael, Heathcliff).

However, looking at the Sinners we have left, it feels like the second half of Inferno might be focused less on the past specifically, but more about the Sinners' general reality. Especially the next upcoming trio of Cantos - Don Quixote, Hong Lu, and Ryoshu - have some heavy thematic focus on the idea of one's perception of reality, especially fitting for the three Sinners with weird eye shit going on.

With Timekilling Time focusing on the Sinners most misinterpreted by others in-character (and out of character), it feels like the perfect intro to this switch in thematic focus - exploring the actual realities of people who are otherwise hard to understand.

Anyway, back to discussing how Rodya, Hong Lu, and Ryoshu fit Dante's requirements.

Supportive of Dante - this is the requirement all three fulfill pretty well. Let me explain.

Rodya is probably the most obvious - she's a hypegirl through and through, and happy to take the reigns in some way or another if nobody else is able to, as we see in Canto 2. She's often one of the first people to point out when someone is not doing well, and shares a lot of her insight if in the mood, but she also knows when discretion is necessary.

Hong Lu is a fun one here - he's extremely perceptive and insightful, often sharing his thoughts with very little prompting. His only issue is that he tends to backpedal when he feels like he said something wrong, or generally just words shit in weird slightly offensive ways. He's supportive, he just doesn't always talk like he is.

Ryoshu is one I find most interesting here, as a lot of people seem to miss this about her character - despite her short temper and peculiar manner of carrying herself, she's actually pretty understanding and helpful towards people she's on amicable terms with. She always explains her acronyms if asked (and when she doesn't it's usually because people stop asking or Sinclair translates instead), she listens when told to stand down or otherwise do something when asked of by Dante or Sinclair, and the reason she tends to stay quiet is because she only speaks when she feels what she has to say is important.

Staying focused - this one is a bit harder to judge, but I'd say the only one who might not fulfill this one is Hong Lu, but only by a margin. Ryoshu is shown to get so focused she gets impatient when she can't get to the point, and Rodya always has her goal in mind even when she might act like she doesn't. Hong Lu is a bit harder to judge, as he seems to be the type to prioritze gathering information and satiating his curiostiy over the main goal, but in a case like this that might just be a massive plus.

Unbiased quick thinking - again, all three fulfill the quick thinking part very well. Rodya shows it constantly throughout Canto 2, Hong Lu shows it best in social interactions, and Ryoshu just doesn't want to waste time and so she naturally thinks quickly as well. It's when we come to the unbiased part that things get extremely interesting.

As individuals, Rodya, Hong Lu, and Ryoshu are all very biased people. Rodya sees the world from the perspective of someone who suffered in the poor Backstreets. Hong Lu sees the world from the perspective of a rich Nest dweller coming from a family of dubious morality. Ryoshu sees the world from the perspective of (probably) an ex-Ring member obsessed with the art that is reality. Their backgrounds color the information they take in a lot.

However... this means that as a group, all three balance each other's biases out. Rodya's cynicism gets balanced out by Hong Lu's idealism, which is balanced by Ryoshu's realism. Their backgrounds couldn't be more different, and thus give the widest possible perspective when put together.

I think this is the point Verg is making with this selection. Dante's selection is the easy way out. It's people that Dante already knows how to deal with, and would rather pick even if their skillsets don't fit the situation. Verg is making Dante learn how to work with Sinners who might be harder to deal with, but have skillsets more fitting for the situation at hand.

Dante can't keep half-assing everything by always turning to the same few people. Every Sinner in the group has their use and are smart in their own unique ways. They have to figure what every Sinner's strong point is, otherwise they'll end up putting everyone in danger by relying on people who are simply not good in a situation while ignoring those who could help.

So... that's what I think.

Anyway, personal general update - I'm still alive! And also very swamped with college and constant exhaustion. So, things will have to change a bit moving forward.

Number one - I will not be returning to old analysis requests. There's too many at this point, and I just don't have the time to sit down and write longass posts whenever I want anymore. However, that isn't to say E.G.O and Sin analyses will never return! I have plaaans for what I want to do with those moving forward, it just may take some time to materialize.

Number two - I'm generally just more active on Discord than on Tumblr. Yapping on Discord feels more natural for me, as it's just... less formal than making a full post I guess. So, if you want to discuss things with me, or if you're on a server that you think would do well with having me yapping in there, feel free to shoot me an invite link in replies (or in DMs if you don't want it to be public)!

Number three - Go check out the Absolute Pride Resonance event on Youtube! I'm not a part of it maybe next time wink wink nudge nudge, but you should still check it out cause it's a bunch of cool people doing very scuffed streams, as is fitting for the scuff Project Moon is known for.

Alright, that's it. I still don't know how to end Tumblr Posts. Bye.

[rcksmith]

Not you — Five Hargreeves

Requests: “Five Hargreeves x fem!reader, Fluff prompts 9, 52 and 53, please? (You can do this whenever you feel like it) Five and Y/n are both hit by one of Hazel and Cha-Cha’s bullets in the Gimbel Brothers store and they immediately go to the academy (Five wants Y/n treated as soon as possible.) after they’re fine, the siblings start to question them on Five’s protectiveness over Y/n”

“Hii could I request 4 & 23 off the fluff prompts for Five pls ty 😌✨”

Fluff prompts:

4. “Sweetheart, you’re my entire world”

9. “So you're saying that girl is your girlfriend?!" "No, that girl is my wife!”

23. “i’ve dreamt about this.”

52. "Help her first."

53. “There are no limits when it comes to you. I’ll do anything to keep you safe.”

A/N: We not tolerate any pedophilia here !!

I write about Five with their 20s. I write the same about the characters of Harry Potter.

I hope you guys like💖I decided to compile these two requests, since they were the same energy and they prompts connect to a central plot. I added all the elements that were asked for individually, and made sure that all ideas were respected and written down. Good reading.

I used here some fragments of the central plot of Five, but, guys, keep in mind that he is 20 years old, and that when he comes back to 2019 Five does not make a mistake in the calculations. I changed the location of the fight too, but a really I hope you, Anon # 1, don't mind.

English is not my first language, so I so sorry if have a mistake.

Requests are open. Love you ❤️

Couple: Five Hargreeves / Fem! Reader.

Warnings: blood, mention of death, swearing, fluff too.

— — — — —

You remembered perfectly when you met Five Hargreeves, the commission's golden ball, The Handler's award-winning shamrock. If you closed your eyes, even after years, you could still smell the male cologne wafting in the air, and you could relive the same feeling in the pit of your stomach that you had when he looked at you with those obsedian eyes.

Five Hargreeves was gorgeous. Absurdly gorgeous. But absurdly arrogant, boastful, presumptuous and completely absent of any delicacy in relation to empathy and kindness. He was the type who would open the door for you to enter first, but who would be the first to make fun of your erroneous reasoning.

And that was why, at the time, when you were assigned to be his partner, you lived in conflict with what you really felt. It was a mixture of tantrum and physical attraction.

But unlike all the people around Five, when he spit fire at you with all the anger at his difficult temper, you didn't run. In fact, when it exploded the first time in front of you, you crossed your arms, arched an eyebrow and looked at him with boredom.

“Have you finished your show yet?” You said, as if you didn't care, leaning against the hood of the car while Five screamed through the 7 winds “Stop to imply with everything.”

Five had been your partner for a few months now and it became clearer each day that the irritation was mutual. He made it perfectly clear that you pissed him off until his last hair.

But, unlike you, it was for another reason.

Shit, you were a fucking goddess! Your beauty was notorious, but that was not all that caught his attention. You were smart, canny, brave, Five never saw you in fear of any situation or shaken by any scene of blood. You knew your goals and went after them. It was strong, decisive, and, goddamn, he loved it. You had a fist, you were firm, and you always made it very clear that you were no helpless maiden.

It felt like you had gotten out of his imagination, from the daydreams in which Five rambled about what kind of woman he admired. And, hell, you came with the full package. It was a combination of overwhelming beauty, intelligence, dexterity, and he never thought that someone like that could be real.

But of course you were. And now Five was completely irritated because you were real, and not just another his dream and daydream in which a sublime woman starred.

“To Imply?” Five turned to you, eyes on fire “To Imply?!”

“Like a 2-year-old who didn't take his afternoon nap. It's not the end of time, it doesn't have to be childish.”

Now Five felt himself ignite. He was a dry, rough fire and you were gasoline, igniting everything saw ahead.

Was that damn woman calling he a child?! You?! Just you, the person whose Five wanted to tie the bed and do all kinds of sinful things.

Oh hell no!

Five came forward, furious, like an angry god, his coal eyes never leaving your direction.

“Childish, isn't it?” He snarled “I'm going to show you the childish!”

Five held your face tightly in his hands and pressed your lips to his. Fierce, needy, set on fire, lost in half sentences of feelings about you. He slid his hands to the back of your neck, closing his fingers in your hair and invading your mouth with his tongue, letting you taste the caffeine, danger and lust he had.

You sighed, or Five, or both. You held him as close as he was, with the two of you being on the same mission: to conquer, to take, to possess. But Five had an extraordinary intensity, a magnitude that managed to win you

Then your touch became more docile, your kiss became submissive and you were surrendered. When Five walked away, not with his body, he still held you against him, but with his head, enough to look you in the eye, you sighed.

“I’ve dreamt about this.” You gave up your game, because you couldn't pretend anymore, and Five responded by kissing you again, this time tasting your whole mouth.

After that day, Five and you never came apart. You two were like a dynamic duo, crime partners in the morning and intense lovers at night.

But Five spent so much time with affection, love and caring being denied that when, on a night when work got the best of him, Five fell into the bed you shared in a Motel room, very close to your lap and you smiled sweetly and ran your fingers through his black hair, establishing the affection there, Five was catatonic.

His wild mind wanted to take it away and go, tell you to swallow those loving gestures and that he would never need them. That they were a nuisance, a distraction.

But his body and heart... well, they begged Five to stay another second. Just one more second enjoying that touch, the care, the importance that someone felt for him. He liked to be pampered, who knew.

So he ended up falling asleep with your touch and, after that day, Five realized that if his body and heart couldn't get any further from you, then no one would ever take you away from him. You would stay with him, until the end. As long as you wanted to stay.

And you wanted to. You wanted all the stages, all the moments, all the fights. You wanted Five, completely. And after some time like that, he said that you two were going to get married. It wasn't a request, it wasn't a speculation, it was a fact and that's it. You laughed, it was Five's style to be embarrassed about something and treat it more coarsely, just because he didn't know how to deal with the emotions he felt.

“Of course I do.” You reassured him by bringing your hands to his face, tracing affectionate circles on his cheek with your thumb.

“You would have no other option.” He grunted, not looking at you, trying to divert attention from his own racing heart.

You laughed and sealed the future of the two of you with a kiss.

After five years of making it official, Five said he had found a way for him to get home. And as he spoke, you noticed a flickering hesitation in his eyes. You knew, at that moment, that Five would leave it behind if there was a chance that you wouldn't want to go along. He promised to love you, in joy and sadness, in difficult times and in good times, and he never broke a promise.

Five Hargreeves would stay for you. In 1963, in 1988, in 2019, it didn't matter the season, the year. It wouldn't be worth anything if didn't have you by his side.

But, like him, it was logical that you would never abandon him, ever. So you went along. It was together in the murder in 1963, it was together at the time of the target, and it was together when he jumped in the portal. You were with Five when he reunited with his family, they all amazement by the 13 year old little brother who disappeared to reappear as a man of 25. On top of that accompanied by a girl.

But Five still couldn't administer his emotions properly, he still couldn't say that he missed his brothers and that being without his family had been terrible. His past contained many shipwrecks and he did not know how to open up about it. After so many years alone and then killing without any judgment, it was difficult to connect with emotions.

So, instead of saying everything that screamed inside him, after just some time with the siblings he took your hand and pulled you out, telling the Hargreeves that he would go after a decent coffee.

“I wish I could have talked to them better.” You grumble whit Five and he rolled his eyes.

“As if they were going to understand the things you were going to explain.” He murmured, covering the whole issue of the Commission and time jumps.

“This is not difficult to explain.” You raised your left hand, signaling the silver circle that hugged your finger.

Five laughed, sipping his coffee.

“You will be my wife forever, there is plenty of time for you to tell that.”

But as soon as Five's words had just left your lips, blowing in the air like fog, the door to the store opened, and you two didn't have to turn around to find out who they were. Years on the commission have earned you enough training to even recognize the sound of their footsteps.

The exchange of looks that Five and you gave was enough to know what each one was thinking and how they would act. That was your secret language, the superpower that you two shared. No words were needed to understand each one like the back of your hand.

You took a deep breath, while your fingers on your right hand steadied yourself on the coffee cup and Five on the knife. There was no waiting for speeches, exchanging words, you both knew that the Commission would send the best agents besides you, and Hazel and Cha-Cha were not known to be late at work.

Then the action started, Five turned and teleported with the knife, shoving it into the leg of one of the agents covered in rabbit masks. You didn't stay behind and swivel your chair around, throwing the sizzling coffee into the second's hands, causing him to drop the gun on the floor. You didn't wait to kick him in the chest, making him stagger backwards as you got up from the chair. You and Five were good, but so was Hazel and Cha-Cha, and you couldn't count on the powers to dodge physical attacks.

Everything was very fast indeed, windows were broken, punches were exchanged, blood was plucked. But when you looked to the side and saw who was probably Cha-Cha pushing Five against a broken glass stake, you understood why love at work was so dangerous. You understand completely. Because you've lost your focus. It took a thousandth of an instant for years of training and improvement to be thrown out the window. Only the possibility of Five getting hurt got you off track, and that was fatale.

The agent who fought with you took advantage of your distraction, reaching for the gun that was on the floor in that split second. And a shot reverberated through the place.

Suddenly, the world for Five stopped the axis. Everything was suspended, appalled, frozen. And in that very second, his body shivered from head to toe, as if misfortune had sighed in his neck. Five Hargreeves never feared anyone, even death itself. But as soon as he heard the sound of the shot, Five tasted death. Was rough, metallic and cruel, the blood drained from the body and the world released a dark and funeral note, sinking into a black sea.

Because fear is not the bullet hitting you, but someone you love.

Five turned back, eyes wide, hands shaking, and he didn't know what was beating faster: his fear or his heart.

He would remember that moment as the most cruel and frightening of his entire life, years in the apocalypse and killing had no comparison to the terror that was seeing your white shirt start to be stained with blood, the bullet hole marking your abdomen. You looked up at him, shocked, livid, and Five could see death perfectly, pulling the vitality out of your eyes.

He didn't think, he didn't reason, he just teleported himself to you, taking your body in his arms and teleported you two away from there. Five’s hands were shaking, a visceral pain snaking through his body and suffocating him with the worst sensation Five had ever felt in his life.

He took you both to the Hargreeves mansion in the blink of an eye, his powers failing when the blue flash left you both in the giant living room.

“Five!”

Maybe it was Luther's voice, or Klaus, or Diego, he didn't know. Everything was a distant echo, a note submerged in the water. Five saw or heard nothing but your body in his arms, your eyes closed and face frighteningly pale, his right hand, which was pressing on your wound, was already soaked in blood.

It was too much blood, the smell was overwhelming, and for the first time in a long time, Five Hargreeves was in despair.

Hands touched his shoulders, and Grace's voice was heard in the background. But he didn't want treatments, whatever the goddamn his wounds were going to be.

“Help her first!” Five shouted, his voice finding strength in the terror he felt. And also in fury.

The Handler would pay for that, and so would Hazel and Cha-Cha. And, by God, the whole world would pay if you never opened your eyes again.

“Right now.” Maybe it was Pogo “But, Five, are you…”

“No!” He ordered “She first!”

Then Grace's hands took you out of his arms and Five refused to leave you for even a second. He was beside you at the operating table, holding your hand, with him bloody fingers of your blood and the agent he had fought.

But Five didn't care about the himself state, the people around it, or anything. His eyes were focused on you, his face frozen in a livid expression.

And when Grace said that you would need a blood transfusion and Five barely let her finish speaking before rolling up the manga and extending his arm, the siblings Hargreeves and Pogo were shocked. What they saw in Five's eyes was not a man afraid of losing someone, but of losing the person he loved.

I shouldn't have come back. Was Five's first thought when the surgery ended well and you were still asleep. It was his fault that you almost died. And everything was buzzing in Five's head like a propellant.

“So…”

Klaus appeared in the kitchen, with the siblings, while Five was washing the blood from his hands, now calmer since you were alive.

“That was heavy.” Luther let out a little gasp, a kind of choked laugh.

“Aren't you going to tell us what happened?” Allison sat at the table.

“She almost died because of my decision, that's what happened.” Five replied, turning and picking up a cloth from the table, drying his hands.

“Five...” Allison made his eyes go towards his sister “Who is she, actually ?”

Five gave a bitter laugh. Who were you? How would he explain it?

You are everything. The reason wake up everyday was good, what made the summer breeze and the sun's rays warm, the reason why his world was still spinning.

Who were you? It was absolutely everything for Five.

“Someone very important.” His whispered escaped.

“So you're saying that girl is your girlfriend ?!" Luther looked at Five in shock, as if the possibility of him having a girlfriend was absurd.

“No.” Five looked at Luther with fire in his eyes, his voice hoarse “That girl is my wife!”

The room's breath evaporated, everyone was dumbfounded and bewildered. But Grace came in at that moment, saving Five from continuing that conversation.

“She woke up.” His mother's voice was soft, and Five dropped everything he was doing and disappeared into the blue flash.

The first thing he noticed when he entered that room was you sitting on the bed, your back against the headboard.

“Hey...” the smile you gave made Five's world spin again.

He didn't wait a second before walking up to you in quick steps, holding your face in his hands and sealing your lips in a desperate kiss, as if that could prove that everything was fine.

“I thought I lost you.” He whispered against your lips, hands shaking, thumbs stroking yours cheeks.

“Bad vase doesn't break early.” You joked and Five laughed softly, his forehead touching your. “Were you hurt?”

He denied it, still with you, as if letting you was impossible. Maybe it was.

“I got distracted, I'm sorry that we let them escape and...”

Five interrupted your sentence

“Sweetheart…” You stopped, bewitched by his tone of voice “You’re my entire world.”

Five wasn't calling Hazel and Cha-Cha right now. He would kill that entire Commission later. Later. Now the only thing that mattered was you.

“I shouldn't have broken our contracts with the commission. I shouldn't have put you in this.” He said “But ... but I am very selfish, and even though I knew it would be better to let you go back to the Commission, I cannot live without you...”

“Hey, I not go come back.” You held his hands that were on your face, looking at him with love "My place is with you.”

“I promise you that I will never let anyone else hurt you. Even if I have to kill every single person on this planet. ” Five guaranteed “There are no limits when it comes to you. I'll do anything to keep you safe. ”

You smiled, put your lips together in a passionate kiss and whispered:

“I only need you, my love. Forever.”

[cheese-induced-madness]

twobrains x reader headcanons bc i can't be the only one simping for this guy. under the cut bc long post. minors beware, it gets a little suggestive at times (like pg-13 levels, i'm not putting straight up pr0n in the main tag like an animal)

-Dr. Two Brains is a man who is very free and unrestrained with physical affection. If he enjoys your company, expect him to be extremely touchy feely with you in an almost infuriatingly casual manner. He'll pull you in close, hold your hand just for the sake of it, snuggle up next to you if he's sitting down near you, or just keep an arm around your waist. He's also not above letting his hands wander into less innocent places (with respect for all boundaries, of course.)

-That being said, as open as he is with the physical and sensual side of things, emotional intimacy is where he struggles. He has a reputation as the most dangerous villain in the city to uphold, and feelings are complicated when you have two brains that hate each other, so he has to have complete and total trust in someone before he really lets them in. He sees vulnerability as very high risk/high reward.

-The mouse brain cares about nobody and nothing except for cheese. While Steven will love you dearly regardless of the mouse brain's opinions, Squeaky will either see you as a means to an end for more cheese, a tolerable neutral party, or a distraction from his ultimate goals, depending on how into cheese related crimes you are. There may be a bit of infighting between the two brains depending on how mean Squeaky decides to be about the whole situation.

-Dtb would never allow himself to hurt you. He may be grouchy at times, he may raise his voice in annoyance (and immediately regret it), he may break promises if it means he gets cheese out of it, but he would never lay a hand on you in anger. He isn't perfect, and he's certainly evil, but he draws the line at being abusive. That's one low he simply refuses to sink to.

-He makes an active effort to compliment you a lot, especially on specific things so you know he's being genuine. He's pretty fond of calling you cute or sweet, and he makes sure to let you know he thinks pretty highly of your intelligence to balance out how much he brags about his own. If you shoot him compliments back, it'll catch him off guard and he'll absolutely melt. As popular as he is as a villain, he's also still highly feared, so it's rare that he feels genuinely loved.

-As much as he wants to give you hickeys, he is also highly nervous about where the line between love bite and painful bite would lie when he has teeth that can chew through solid steel.

-He likes having you around while he's building rays. It's nice having someone to bounce ideas off of, and even if you don't fully understand how it all works, just giving him the chance to explain his process out loud if he's hitting a wall can help him realize exactly what may be going wrong.

-Sometimes he'll make an unnecessarily long string of really bad puns to annoy you because he thinks you're cute when you're suffering from his terrible almost-comedy.

-If you are not already an active villain, twobrains will offer to show you the ropes of doing crimes and help you plan out your first spree. Of course, if getting involved isn't really your deal, he'll be perfectly content with letting you hang back at his lair while he and the henchmen go on cheese heists, as long as you bring him a block of cheddar now and again when inevitably he ends up in jail again.

-If you ARE already a villain with a decent reputation, expect him to get just the slightest bit competitive about the title of top villain. He won't take it too far, but he definitely gets a little salty if you ever manage to rank higher than him, and then immediately tries to one up you with an extravagant heist, which, most of the time, will fail spectacularly. Also expect him to consider rampaging through the city while constantly slipping flirting in with the standard villain banter to be a date.

[nu-so]

Percy Weasley; My thoughts

Hello! 

This is basically going to be me ranting about Percy Weasley, and I am a fan of this man, btw. There might be future add-ons to this, but idk yet.

So, my boy is around 18, right? He graduates Hogwarts, which is basically equivalent to maybe a private high school. It's not college, but y’know it's a good education. Not enough for him to be running ministry departments only a year or 2 later.

Percy, while he was Headboy and a Prefect, shouldn’t have been able to run that so well. So, we know he’s intelligent and he can manage group stuff.

However, how in gods name did Arthur Weasley, not defend Percy when the imperious stuff came out. Percy should not have been blamed, for not recognizing the imperious. 

For many reasons, which I will list:

1) He did not know the guy imperiled (his names slipping me), for nearly long enough. Even so, you don’t go up to your boss and say they’re acting funny if you wanna keep your job. You don’t, sorry. Plus, the imperio is probably not the thing people immediately jump to when someone is acting weird. It's an unforgivable curse, so we can assume, aside from Death Eaters, it wasn’t used much.

2) Percy has had shit DADA professors. Hell, every one after tom riddle cursed the position probably did. Lupin did a decent job, but that was only one year, and he had his problems, which I won’t get into. So, the chances that Percy learned a proper amount of information is very unlikely. It’s possible that he did self-studying to make sure he didn’t fall behind. That would be in character as well, and we can assume that, but we don't know for sure. 

3) Percy was literally 18, or 17. I don’t know the specifics, but if you’ve met a 17-18 year old, like percy at least, they don’t go denoucing authority figures. Granted, many do, but for people like Percy who turn to authority its not likely. Plus, Molly had been talking, and encouraging - at least one of her children - to go into the Ministry. Why would he doubt the goverment, that his mother so wanted to go into? no reason.

Now. 

Why did Percy leave the Weasleys?

I don’t necessarily think it's because of the differing political opinions. I think it's because of the cracking emotional relationships with his parents, and the toxic relationship with the twins.

Let's discuss Molly Weasley. This is not a bash of her, I love her. She’s obviously a loving mom, and I understand that a lot of the fandom bashes her, as a plot device, but that is not my aim here. 

Molly Weasly just has a very cemented and protective view of how her children should be, and a problem enforcing proper punishment.

By this, I mean that Molly expects all of her children to grow up a certain way- she got into what we’re told is a huge fight with Bill over him growing out his hair, and going to Egypt. She didn’t like when Charlie became a dragon tamer-person. However, Percy did exactly what she wanted him to do. He had perfect grades, got 12 OWLS, and he got a stable, safe job in the Ministry.

In his eyes, Percy had done everything his mom had wanted him to. He’d been the ‘perfect child’. But then Molly’s vision had changed. Now, she wanted them to be on her side, and safe, hidden. 

With her problem of enforcing proper punishment, it’s not that she doesn’t do it. She grounds Ron, and the twins after they go help Harry escape from the Dursleys, and she seems to punish them for other things. However, the punishment isn’t efficient. 

By that I mean, she allows the twins to bully Percy. Before you say, ‘oh it's just sibling stuff’, I’m a sibling. I’m a twin. I have 3 little cousins. Never would the kind behavior the twin's exhibit be allowed. When my cousin tries to steal, or damage something from their siblings, they get punished, and they get scolded, and they learn that what they did was wrong and why.

Molly does not teach this to these twins. She just yells at them. Which does nothing but build resentment, and damage respect. 

 Percy’s reaction is by no means good either. He should learn how to control his emotions better, so he doesn’t explode, but this behavior has been going on for years at this point, with no end in sight.

Molly clearly loves her children, and just wants them to do well, and be safe- however, she doesn’t do a good job of parenting them.

As for Arthur, 

he’s just absent as a parent. He’s in the background. He’s your average 9-5 workman, who doesn’t seem to want to ever stop working. He gives more attention to his job than he does to his children. 

It’s obvious he loves his job, and that's good, that's great, good for him. But it's not an excuse for him to be distant from his children, and leave all the parenting to Molly. he backs the twins up, so they feel justified as if Molly and Percy are in the wrong. 

It divides family up into teams. 

But beyond their less than stellar parenting, Arthur tells Percy to quit, because the only reason he got the promotion was that the Minister wanted to spy on their family.

One, this insults Percy’s capablabilty to do his jobs. The man basically organized the Triwizard Tournament, and sure he was young, but it wasn’t especially weird for him to get that position. Still, this is kind of suspicious, it just should've been approached in a better way.

Two, this says that Arthur thinks Percy would give information about their family- that he would sell them out.

Which is incredibly hurtful.

As for the twins, they obviously treat him like shit. I think they either want his validation, as Percy is a lot more present in their lives than Arthur is, or they want a sort of revenge, I guess. The second reason would be because Percy is the perfect child, who they are endlessly compared to by Molly.

So, yes, while Percy did leave the family, and was by no means perfect, Arthur and Molly, the adults in this situation should’ve done better. Percy was not abandoning the ‘good side’. At the time, he was simply doing what was best for his emotional and mental health as an individual. At that time, he had no idea there was going to be a war.

So yes. Percy Weasley, everyone.

[chefdoeuvre]

Inevitable

Jay Halstead

Pairing: Jay Halstead x Fem!Reader

Description: Sometimes death is inevitable no matter how hard you try.

Words: 1,248

Requested: yes by anonymous; Hii I was wondering if you could write a one shot jay x reader are dating and then the reader gets kidnapped or something and she dies with a lot of angst

Warnings: mention of injuries, blood, angst (if I can even pull it off), language, death, sad Jay Halstead.

A/N: Jay Halstead only deserves happiness and I stand by that. I just moved into uni the past week and had full day trainings so I’m sorry that this is going up a little late and it may not be my best work, but I will try once my schedule is less hectic. I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors.

—

Did you know where you were currently? No. The last events you remembered were going out to your car, heading to the store to pick up a few things before Jay came back home from work. Apparently, you never made it to the store, you barely even made it to your car. Your hands were tied behind your back and your legs were bound to the legs of the chair you were sitting on. Your head was pounding and you could barely keep your eyes open. Something felt wet on your stomach while it kept pulsing in what seemed to be pain. The room where you were held was dark and musty making it harder for you to breathe. Outside of the room, there were muffled voices speaking unintelligible words you could tell were probably not good.

Meanwhile, Jay was running around Chicago like a crazed mad man trying to find you before it would be too late. He knew he shouldn't have dragged you into his mess of a love but he loved you too much to stop. The second he noticed you hadn't come home after he arrived he had a gut feeling that something was wrong, entirely wrong. Immediately he began to look for you while also telling Voight to get together the team to find you before a missing persons case turned into a homicide case. Voight had already started on putting together your last knowns and looking through security cameras to find where you could have been taken of where you had been taken. All of Intelligence including even Trudy were working their asses off to try and find you, not only for Jay but for themselves.

You were loved by the entire team. The second Jay had introduced you to them they had fallen in love with you too, platonically of course. You, Kim, and Hailey spent a decent amount of time with each other even without the other guys around. It was safe to say you were everyone's best friend and sometimes even a close confidant.

The entire time Jay had only one thing on his mind, he needed to find you and soon. He was already losing his shit the second he knew you didn't come home. Now with a missing persons and possible kidnapping he was barely holding on to his sanity by a thread.

You sat there in pain and drifting out of consciousness. To say the least you were screwed over and twice over again. Your shirt was now soaked in your blood and the pounding in your head only seemed to get worse by the second. At this point, you knew if someone didn't come now you most likely wouldn't be able to make it. You had lost too much blood in too little of time. The problem was you didn't even know who had done this to you and where they had gone. They left you there to bleed to your own untimely death. Even if you were fighting your hardest to stay awake and keep going until someone would find you, you were beginning to lose hope and a sense of mind.

You and Jay were practically losing your minds. But for somewhat similar reasons. It was over losing each other, you loved each other more than anyone else could understand and that made it that much harder to even think about it. Simply thinking about the loss of you was too hard to bear for Jay and it worked both ways.

You felt it becoming harder to breathe and stay awake that’s when you realized Jay probably wasn’t coming in time to find you. It took you a while to finally accept the fact that the last you would have would be of Jay but somehow it was bittersweet.

Jay was already running up to the warehouse you were being held unshed tears in his eyes as he charged through the double doors. Intelligence followed after him as they scanned over the building trying to find where you were. Jay looked frantic as he ran to the last door and ripped it open to find you almost passed out, your blood in a puddle underneath you. He ran toward you, pulled away the binds holding against the chair, and knelt down, gently cupping your face holding it up.

“Baby, hey look at me.” Jay spoke softly.

Your eyes fluttered open for a second before they shut again. Jay kept on saying your name as you slumped down into his arms. Eventually, he began yelling and the rest of Intelligence and the paramedics arrived into the room. Voight had to pull him away as the paramedics worked to do their job. They were doing whatever they could to resuscitate you but they were trying and failing. The puddle of blood showed that you lost a significant amount since you had been taken and it was obvious how slim your chances had been. As one of the paramedics declared it Jay simply fell onto his knees beside you. Kim held back a sniffle and turned to look away as tears began cascading down her cheeks. Adam quickly pulled her into him as he choked on his own tears. Hailey simply stood there in shock with her own tears eyes wide open. Voight clenched his jaw tightly and held his balled-up fists at his side. Kevin held a solemn look on his face as he placed his hand on Hailey’s shoulder comfortingly.

Jay continued to sit there with a blank face and tears staining his freckled cheeks. His eyes had already become red and seemed to be off in another world. No one else had the guts to actually say it. You were dead. Your last moments were spent staring into Jay’s wondrous blue eyes that held all the emotions in the world. His eyes told you what he didn’t have the time to tell you. Voight had ended up storming out with heavy steps as he cursed to himself. Kim tried to quiet her crying as Adam squeezed her tightly rubbing his hand up and down her back. Hailey let out a mix between a huff and a sniffle before turning on her heel to walk out of the room, finding it too hard to watch the scene in front of her. Adam ended up pulled Kim out of the room making sure she wouldn’t lift her head up again with Kevin following closely behind.

Jay was left in the room with you to say his final goodbyes. But he couldn’t say goodbye he barely got to spend the rest of his life with you. The two of you had plans for years to come and all of a sudden those plans turned into dust. Your death was in no way expected or even close to being wanted but it had happened. Even when you tried your hardest to stay strong sometimes it was inevitable that you couldn’t stay strong for long no matter what you had tried. Jay could barely accept the fact that you wouldn’t open your eyes and tell him what had happened, he thought the two of you would have had a nice date night in. The last thing he expected what to find you barely alive only for you to die in his arms. Tragic end, was all that could come to his mind and he felt that he would never forgive himself for what had happened to you.