#ack it would just be. so incredible for my life. not only would it be a full time job I could do sustainably without being in pain
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onrainynights · 2 months ago
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🕯️manifesting my promotion🕯️
#ack it would just be. so incredible for my life. not only would it be a full time job I could do sustainably without being in pain#but I know I like the company and get along ok with my coworkers (and certainly am capable of playing nice when I don't)#and I make the most sense as a candidate. I really do. the only point against me is I don't have my licence yet#but my driving test is 9 days away and I'm not very worried about whether or not I'll pass it#I just. please let this happen. this would let me have an actual career and a job I could live on. I'd have financial independence#for the first time in my life#plus I'd be making more money than I ever have in my life and it would give me management experience#so if it doesn't work out for whatever reason I'd be able to get other management-level jobs#but I hope it would work out because again I really like the company and id rather stay there than work for a bigger company#like could I probably get a management job at like walmart or a fast food place? yes. but I wouldn't want to lol#but yeah I'd go from $11/hr to $17.50/hr and I'd work about 22 more hours per week#plus I'd get bonuses and paid vacation days and all of that which would be very nice#apparently there's a $4k sign on bonus for the position too (bc they've had such a hard time filling it if I had to guess)#so I'd have that to look forward to whenever it got paid out. Just generally I'd be in a much much better financial situation#and so would my whole family#right now my income makes a big difference and I'm only making like $500/month rn#so if I was making over $2000/month? my parents would be so much less stressed#idk I've just felt more fulfilled at this job than I ever have before and I feel like I belong at this company honestly#like as far as part time jobs go I got extremely lucky. it's a very lax culture where as long as your tasks get done#they don't care if you spend half your shift on your phone. there's no meaningless busy work#I'm allowed to sit when I want to and I'm very mobile otherwise and it's great for my pain#I'm in very minor pain at this job. less pain than high school caused me in terms of physical demand on my body#I can see myself being able to build an actual career at this company. and considering I spent most of last year struggling#to find employment at all? and then spent a few months in my own personal hell? the possibility that this might really happen is incredible#I've built so much confidence at this job in only 3 months and I would not have even thought myself capable of management a year ago#it's incredible what being surrounded by people who treat you like a competent adult person can do for your self-image#(you will see yourself as a competent adult person actually. crazy how that works)
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4ragon · 18 days ago
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Fic request: new relationship narumitsu, miles and phoenix have just begun living together and miles is reveling in it. Preferably miles pov!
IIIIIIII already got a bit off topic on this prompt but I hope you still like it.
It’s a strange day when Phoenix Wright wakes up first. At least, that’s Miles’s first thought upon opening his eyes to discover the bed empty.
He blinked slowly, rubbing an eye with a thumb as he squinted around the room. Even without his glasses it was clear he was alone, with nary a spike in sight. And, yes, even feeling Phoenix’s side of the bed (Phoenix’s side! What a thought.) the sheets had gone cold.
With a disgruntled grumble, Miles began feeling for his glasses on the bedside table.
It had been a month, so far. A month of their new home. A month of good night kisses, of waking in a tangle of limbs. Which, well, not that Miles exactly enjoyed new things. He was a creature of habit. He liked having his day planned out in advance, of knowing what each day would bring, no surprises.
…which of course begged the question of how he let Phoenix Wright into his life, but, well, now was not the time to think about that. Now was the time to become annoyed. 
After all, he’d already worked Phoenix Wright into his schedule, his morning routine. He’d worked hard to fit Phoenix into his daily habits. One: Wake up and pry the man off of him. (This of course adds five minutes to his usual schedule). Two: Feed Pess and let her out into the backyard to relieve herself. Three: Get the bathroom to himself (he had to time this perfectly. They’d had to work incredibly hard to find a bathroom schedule that got him, Phoenix and Trucy enough time to prepare.) Four: Dress, and then ply Phoenix with kisses until he agrees to move. (Another five minutes to his schedule. Phoenix was lucky Miles made time for him.)
It was precise. It was perfect. And now it was ruined.
Miles stepped out into the hallway and was immediately accosted with the smell of frying cholesterol. He blinked, brows drawing together as he glanced around. No one in sight. Even Pess’s dog bed was notably empty.
But when he stepped into the kitchen, everything was made abundantly clear.
“Alright, just one more,” Phoenix grumbled, tearing a piece of bacon off for a trembling Pess. “But we do not tell anyone about this, got it?”
“Wright!”
“ACK!” Phoenix jumped, the rest of the bacon slipping from his grasp and promptly disappearing in a flash of white fur and teeth.
“What on earth are you doing?” Miles asked, arms crossed as Phoenix looked over sheepishly.
“Morning, Miles,” he said, rubbing the back of his neck. “You’re up early.”
“I’m up early?! I am up at my usual time, thank you very much.”
“...Ah,” said Phoenix, looking toward the clock. “So you are.”
A huff. “Really, Wright, what are you doing attempting to clog my dog’s arteries at six thirty in the—”
“Happy Valentine’s Day.”
“Hmm?” And there was a plate being shoved into his hands.
“Here,” Phoenix said. “It’s not much, I, uh, okay I kind of forgot this was coming up, but I had enough to sort of scrounge up something edible. Though don’t judge me on the pancakes, I was trying to make hearts.”
He stared down at the plate. Some misshapen pancakes and bacon stared back. “...Wright…”
“Can you please call me Phoenix?” Phoenix groaned back. “We’re dating, remember? Or did you forget?”
“Forg—That—I—Excuse me?!”
Phoenix laughed. “Don’t look so offended,” he snorted, leaning over and pressing a kiss against the corner of his mouth. “Anyway, can you pull out the spray butter and some forks? I forgot.”
Miles glanced down at the plate again. There was something warm in his chest, something fond and exasperated all at once. Only Phoenix Wright could make a break in routine sound so…nice. A small smile tugged at his lips.
“Fine. But we are using real butter, not that monstrosity you keep buying from the store.”
“Miles,” Phoenix groaned.
“Phoenix,” Miles replied, grabbing a stick of butter from the fridge and slipping off toward the kitchen table.
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animentality · 2 months ago
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Hello! So I found your blog through your Haikyuu posts. And because of you, I started Blue Lock. See, my friend (dudebro) die-hard Blue Lock fan said to me, that : 'This series is so "manly" and there are no gay ships except for Reo's obsession to Nagi. It's good that Nagi left him behind before.'
After reading your Blue Lock posts, I got curious, and start reading them. Damn! I agree with you, I stan Reo and Nagi that should be grateful to Reo. (How could you do that Nagi?) And really "no gay ships in Blue Lock"? As fujo, I can't see any heterosexual explanation about some dialogues in this series. And what about Shidou and Bachira, really? I just can't understand dude bros...
Now, I'm also NagiReo and RyuSei shipper, thanks to you! 🤩🥰
Can I ask, what do you think are RyuSei and NagiReo's greatest personality strengths and weaknesses? Why? What do you love about their dynamic? What are your favorite headcanons of them? Do you have any fav ships (from any fandom) that the dyanamic remind you of their ships?
Sorry if I ask too much.
For RyuSae:
I think they're so appealing to me because they seem like total opposites... Shidou is rambunctious and expressive, and Sae is cold and distant... but they're actually not! They're actually very similar!
Shidou is extremely honest with people. He doesn't lie, he isn't deceitful. He doesn't manipulate. He is what he is, with no apology... and so is Sae!
Sae just doesn't have as much to say as Shidou. He's contemplative and moody, and only thinks about the thing he's obsessed with (soccer).
And he's incredibly honest. Incredibly driven and ambitious.
They complete one another. They seem so different, but they aren't. Both are built for soccer, and soccer alone.
All they care about is scoring goals. They're also both coarse and rude, and offputting. people HATE them separately. they hate them even more together, which is honestly why I adore them so much.
I personally imagine they'd move in together after dating for like one month, because they both know what they want, and they're not afraid to jump right into the thick of things (even in relationships).
I also headcanon them as girl dads, ok? They'd be sooooo good at taking care of daughters.
Also, they remind me a little of Durgetash. Just... you know. Villain ship. Everyone hates their guts. The bad guy alliance, turned romance.
No one else in the world can understand them the way the other does...
As for NagiReo:... I mean, it's just very sweet, isn't it?
There's a lot of nuance to that ship. Reo inspiring Nagi...reaching out to him, when no one else would... Nagi is so devoted to Reo, it's so sweet...
And Reo is so insecure, and afraid that he isn't good enough for Nagi anymore... he's so afraid of his dream fading away...
Ahhhh.
They're both such lonely people...who also seem like opposites, but are more alike than they realize...
That's something I love about them too.
Nagi, who doesn't know how to treat other people because he's been alone his entire life, and Reo, who doesn't know how to treat other people, because he's been treated like a toy soldier his entire life, and the only love he knows how to express was taught to him by his parents, who see him as a successor, not as a person...
Ack.
They're just so good. Kinda unique, tbh. I'm not sure if I have an equivalent ship for them.
Also, I headcanon them as getting married the INSTANT the world cup is over. Whether they win or lose... they're making out in the showers, and Nagi's proposing with water in his hair, and a wet diamond ring... that he bought with Reo's money, probably.
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how so this is kinda dumb and embarassing which is why I'm on anon even tho you're really sweet and nice but there's this one blog I adore and the person who runs it is AWESOME but I'm sooooo nervous about trying to become friends with them😭 I was just wondering if you had any advice and if not you can delete this sorry
Heyyyy no sweat! I totally get this, ngl, I had the same thing. Idk what exactly your situation or relationship with them is right now, but I'll tell you what mine was.
There was this blog I stumbled across which was SO COOL and she was clearly utterly intelligent and loved Jesus and just overall amazing and seemed a lot similar to myself. So I just started spamming her asks and was delighted with her answers. Then I DM'd her about how one of her answers where she used a personal life example was similar to mine, and she asked me to elaborate, and we went back and forth a tad about shared experiences.
Then I continued to just- spam her notifs and go back and forth in her asks a lot lol. Not as like a cry of attention, because I really and truly did admire her and agreed (and still do) with like 95% of the things she says (and to this day once in a while I'll go ? over her proccess of arriving at her conclusions, but I almost always agree with her conclusions, because they are *biblical* and follow literary analysis incredibly well, and etc etc etc [you can tell I really like my friend lol]), and I wanted to interact with her more, but if that was a byproduct I wasn't going to say no.
Then one day my other friend dared me to tag her in a post and straight-up ask her to follow me. Which. Took a lot of guts bc at that point SHE WAS STILL INTIMIDATING TO ME but it worked then bam we were mutuals and life was beautiful. Don't know how I pulled that off lol.
Then fast forward to me just continuing to be myself and talking into her ask box and comments a lot, accidentally tricking her to like me (seriously I have NO idea how or why she likes me sometimes ack), and maybe trauma dumping asking for help and advice for things we've both struggled with a time or two, and her introducing me to seemingly almost every piece of media she likes ever and me falling in love with it all, and now she says I'm her online best and closest friend. And yeah, same for me. <3 Love you my best friend.
She's only slightly intimidating to me now, that that's when I'm going through my own issues lol, its not on her, just my brain being dumb. (oh yeah big thing with this is to not trust your feelings about someone being intimidating- just go for it! Scary but people are a lot more open to friendship than you think) I lovingly annoy her alllll the time now and she seems to appreciate it, so! There's that! Yay! Greatest platonic love story of all time or whatever.
I don't know if basically annoying them into liking you would work, but it worked for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Try over and over and over again to establish connection and invest in them personally and really and truly do get across that you love and care for them is what I'd say.
And actually the biggest thing I've found about people that may be intimidating is that they just have a different way of communicating than I do. I'm naturally inclined to reach out a bunch, and bring up things with others first, and connect over people who share my strong opinions, and I do get a bit gushy about what I like about people and telling them about it, and such, but that's not everyone! And the fact that you might be the one DMing first, or bringing up different topics first, or asking for advice or just to casually chat first, or anything first, doesn't automatically mean they don't like you! Could just not be their preference. There's a difference between someone just not thinking to reach out first and actively ignoring or not caring for you. Or with like, I don't know, compliments. Not everyone lives and breathes those. But maybe with the person you're thinking of, they're not common but very much deserved and just as loving, but more 'rare'.
I hope this helped in some way!
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colibrie · 9 months ago
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Confrontations- Doubling Down, part III
Art credit to the incredible @trilobitepunch. Check out all of her art, it's incredible!
When no reply came in return Mikey pushed back and went to his and Leo’s room, quietly closing the door behind him. The room was exactly how they had left it, but the excitement of the morning felt so far away now. Nearly another life time, another him all together.
He sighed, dropping down to sit on the edge his bed.
“Man…What am I going to-Ack!”
A shadow broke from the rest to zip across the room, leathery wings beating gusts of air into his face as happy trills and squeaks broke through the gloom.
“George!” Mikey cheered, his mouth and mood lifting as he held up an arm to his beloved pet. “Hey buddy!”
The smooka chirped as he settled on the proffered perch, chattering affectionately as his scaly head nuzzled against Mikey’s cheek.
“Heh, I missed you too,” Mikey hummed, giggling at the sensation of a wiggly nose pressing against the sensitive parts of his neck. “You would not believe the day we’ve had.”
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Words poured past his lips as he told his beloved friend about training, about the fight, their flight home, and the revelations of the afternoon. About his father’s story and the weaponized words his brother and father had hurled at one another.
“I don’t know what to do George,” he groaned, flopping back to stare at ceiling. “I don’t know how to fix this!”
George let out a sympathetic croon, prehensile tail wrapping lightly around Mikey’s neck in a lose hug as a pair of sharp front teeth tugged at the collar of his shirt.
“I know they didn’t mean what they said, either of them,” Mikey continued, fingers stroking the short fuzz on his friend’s mottled brown skin. “Dad and Leo are stubborn, and they just…gah, I don’t know! I don’t even know how I feel about all this! I mean, it’s not like I didn’t know that I had two other brothers at some point, but Raph and Donnie… it’s…I’m…”
George purred, a deep rumble that shook his tiny body as it sank soothingly into Mikey’s chest. It coaxed the air and frustration from his lungs and encouraged him to take a new, clean breath.
“Yeah…You’re right George. I can’t help any of them if I don’t start with me. So, let’s do this Dr. Feelings!” he agreed, lightly clapping his hands to psyche himself up.
“First step is to break the feelings down and define them. I’m…overwhelmed. Confused, and scared. Someone tried to kill me, and that someone is actually my big brother, whose name is Raphael. Leo froze up and got hurt because of my other brother Donatello, and that is scary too. I’m also…frustrated, and maybe a little angry. I’m frustrated with myself for panicking and forgetting how to land the ship. I’m frustrated that Leo and Dad can’t just talk to each other. I’m... I’m angry at dad for treating my force abilities like they’re bad thing. I’m angry that I didn’t even know my other brothers’ names. I’m angry…no…I’m hurt that I’m the only one who doesn’t get remember them, that Leo and Dad have all these memories to fall back on while I’m stuck in the dark. I’m hurt that I just found out my big brothers are alive, and dad won’t let us go after them.”
He paused to pull in several slow breaths, carefully counting each one as George continued to purr against his throat.
“Okay, emotions identified. Great job! Now to take a step back and put those emotions in context.”
The shadows slowly grew longer as he worked, George occasionally letting out a squeak or chirp in support as he carefully untangled the skeins of his thoughts and feelings.
“There’s something dad isn’t saying about what happened back at the temple, but…it’s not because he wants to hurt us, and I don’t think he forbid us from going after Raph and Donatello because he doesn’t care. I think he’s just scared. For some reason, he’s scared of whatever it was Leo saw, and he’s probably scared that what happened to Donnie and Raph will happen to us too. Leo is probably feeling awful right now. Probably feels betrayed and thinks he’s all alone with everything. Which means he’s gonna do something stupid…”
“Not on my watch,” he muttered, pushing himself up. “Come on George, we’ve got work to do!”
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The silvery light of the moon gilded the treetops, wispy clouds scrolling lazily across a sky studded with breathtaking stars. The night’s chorus well underway, a symphony of nocturnal insects and creatures moving through their monotonous routines, unconcerned with the faintest footsteps that slipped by. Beaten earth wound on to the clearing, shadows peeling back as a lone, lean figure strode toward the parked shuttle. One hand was shoved deep into a pocket while the other held a bag slung over his shoulder, the hem of a long coat barely kissing the top of grass as he passed. His head hung low, the moon highlighting the brilliant blue of his mask as he frowned absently at the ground.
“Bedtime stroll, Leo?” a voice broke the silence as a second, smaller figure detached itself from the side of the shuttle, stepping out into the moonlight as the taller one flinched to a halt.
“M-Mikey?” Leo blinked, mouth falling open in puzzled shock as he glanced between his little brother and the direction he had just come. “Wha…. How…but you were…?”
“Wow, you must be really off your game if you actually fell for the old pillow under a blanket trick,” Mikey scoffed, letting his own bag drop beside him with a dull thump before crossing his arms. “Care to share what you’re doing out here in the middle of the night?”
“Uh…”
“Because I know it’s not because you were planning to steal the shuttle to go after Donnie and Raph all alone, right?”
“What? Pshaw, that doesn’t sound like something I would do,” Leo laughed, faceman smile spreading across his lips as Mikey silently returned a dry, unimpressed look.
“Really Leo?”
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“Really! Everything is fine Mikester, I just couldn’t sleep is all. You know how it is. I just need a walk to wind down. You should head back though; dad will go ballistic if he finds-”
“I’m gonna save us both some trouble and stop you right there,” Mikey cut in, planting his hands on his hips as he leaned into Leo’s space, pinning his elder brother with a glare that had Leo leaning back, hands half raised in unconscious surrender. “I know you are planning on stealing the shuttle. I know you are planning to go after Raph and Donnie, and I am going with you.”
“I won’t…you’re what now?”
“I. Am going. With you.”
“Absolutely not! Mikey go ho-”
“They are my brothers too, Leonardo,” he argued. “I may not remember them the way you do, but that doesn’t mean I love them less!”
“I didn’t say tha-”
“And that also goes for you. You are my big brother, and I love you! Whatever comes next, we are going to face it together. Understood?!”
They stared at each other, a silent battle of wills backset by the songs of the night. George shuffled on his perch on Mikey’s shoulder, chattering softly as he too stared a Leo with shiny, expectant eyes. Little by little Mikey’s resolve chipped away at Leo’s, until at last the elder gave in, huffing out a resigned sigh. The next smile he gave shifted away from the perfect, artificial faceman to something a little more crooked, a little more real.
“Alright, alright, I give. Yeesh, you’re a real delicate touch when you want something.”
“You know it baby!” Mikey crowed, a wide smile replacing his glare as he leapt forward and wrapped his arms around Leo’s neck. “I’ve got your back Lee!”
“I know,” Leo mumbled, gently patting Mikey’s shell. “Its going to be a lot harder with out the maps in dads holocron, but we’ll figure something out.”
“Or” Mikey snickered, fingers deftly poking the sensitive skin at the back of Leo’s neck, “you could just say “abracadabra”.”
“Abraca-aaahhhh! Mikey, why?!” Leo squawked, flinching back. Mikey smirked as his brothers glare quickly transformed into dumbfounded delight as he took in the bright cube now sitting in Mikeys palm.
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“Ta-da!”
“How did you…?”
“Jedi secret, oh beloved brother. Maybe one day you’ll reach my level of skill.”
“You little!”
Mikey squealed as Leo lunged for him, and the clearing rang with laughter as the two chased each other under the watchful stars. Mikey inevitably ended up in a headlock, giggling like a fool as Leo fought to both noogie him and push away a swooping George. Said headlock slowly transitioned to a tight embrace, the two of them standing firm against the looming unknown.
“We’ve got this Lee,” Mikey whispered, holding on with all his strength.
“Let’s bring them home,” Leo answered, pressing a kiss to the top of Mikeys head.
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Down below their father awoke to a horrifyingly familiar feeling, one he’d had only once before, on the night when everything changed.
No. Please, no!
The door slammed as clawed feet tore up the path, terror mounting as the familiar whine of a shuttle lifting off shattered the night.
Not my boys. Please! Please, not my boys!
“Boys, no!” he screamed as the shuttle appeared above the trees, willing his legs to go faster even as his heart wailed for the impending loss.
They are too young! he begged, willing the force to listen. Please don’t take them too!
“LEONARDO! MICHELANGELO!”
He reached the clearing as the ships thrusters engaged, one hand reaching uselessly for sky as the shuttle, and his precious children, shot into the atmosphere.
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rockinlibrarian · 7 months ago
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Post-Umbrella Academy S4 Reaction Part Five, appropriately: On Love Triangles (spoilers under cut)
Man, that makes me feel compelled to add a Reaction Part to my projected six Reaction Parts, and then reorder them so Viktor's is seventh. Anyway.
So in this series of posts so far, we've had the Good, the Bad, and now we have the Incredibly Controversial. (We also had the Fandom and the Fix-it, but those didn't fit as nicely into that sentence).
I have a pretty nicely curated Tumblr dashboard. I only follow people I like, who have sensible things to say, and I try to avoid diving into tags and For Yous (which a remarkable amount of the time make no sense— when I do look at that feed, I see topics people I follow love that I have NEVER INTERACTED with. I tolerate these topics for the people I follow, why would I want to see more of those from strangers?).
Yet I have seen no middle ground on this next topic. Half my TUA mutuals are over the moon, half are positively livid.
And here am I in the middle feeling ACK.
I'm allowed to be in the middle, right?
Let’s dive into my opinions on (is this really a spoiler anymore here on Tumblr?) Five/Lila/Diego under the cut.
Yeah, it’s not my ship, and I would never have made the choice. I make no secret about my non-canon OTP, and Lila/Diego was the only CANON ship I ever found interesting enough to root for. I found Five and Lila’s best-frenemies relationship utterly delightful and I’ll miss getting to accept it as that and not the early stages of enemies-to-lovers. But from an in-story standpoint it does make perfect sense, even if it’s not a direction many viewers wanted it to go in.
Linking back to the Venn diagram I reblogged at the start of the Season 4 Discourse: “I liked it,” “It made in-universe sense,” “it made narrative sense.” Although, just to be annoying, the topic refuses to be sorted into even those categories nicely. Certainly most of us seem to disagree on which— if any of them— even apply.
Let’s take it one topic at a time. Viktor got a whole post to himself, so I need to give some attention to the other half of my favorite characters/OTP/most-commonly-POV’d babies, Five. You see, the most common complaint I hear about this plot development is that it’s totally out of character for Five. Five would never hurt Diego that way! Five is aroace! Five spent his life trying to get home to his siblings, he’d never give up and decide to stay in the subway! Since when would Five put romantic love over familial love?
I disagree. Maybe I’m wrong— many of the people I’ve seen making this claim have consistently written takes on Five that I very strongly adore. How could we disagree on whether or not the dude is in character here? But let me plead my case.
It’s true that Five is different this season, and not in a fun way. His feral-ness is one of the most delightful things about him in general, and it just…wasn’t there. But I think that’s a question for the “I liked it” portion of the Venn diagram (feral Five is so much more fun to watch than sad and tired Five) and possibly for the “narrative sense” portion (do you really want to abandon the the most popular qualities of a character just for the sake of realistic character progression?). It DOES make in-universe sense, because Five is depressed in season 4.
Think about where he is at the start of the season— and for the whole show before that. He spent his whole long, traumatic life obsessed with getting back to, with saving, these people, and all they have done in return is ignore him, yell at him, and blame him for things that weren’t his fault. Viktor my love not even you are an innocent here— sure you spent 17 years mourning him, but then when you finally get him back, you brush off or outright deny everything he ever confides in you, and then you abandon HIM for six years, and he was in the body of a minor at the time, he really could have used you by his side there! (My shipper heart insists his betrayal was the worst of all of them, and even platonically it very well could be).
These people he dedicated his life to turned out to not just be idiots (in his estimation), but they’ve gone and pushed each other— and him— away for six years. His whole life purpose had been to save them, and for what? For them to take it for granted, to squander their second (third, fourth…) chances at life complaining how life sucks and it’s probably Five’s fault? What did he do all this FOR, in the end? And what should he be doing with his life NOW? He’s lost his goals, his meaning. IT’S DEPRESSING DANGIT but it makes sense!
And then he ends up stranded in time. Again. But this time he’s with somebody else— an actual real-life friend instead of a figment of his imagination. He fell in love with Delores because they were partners alone in time— why wouldn’t it happen with a flesh-and-blood person, who can actually act in loving ways toward him? Okay, it’s his sister-in-law, but they’ve been lost for six years with no guarantee of ever getting back, she and Diego had already been on the rocks (I’ll get into her side of the thing farther down), and what does Five care about conventions like How to and not to act with one’s brother’s wife, anyway? He’s feral, remember? He’s not going to stop and say, “No, we can’t do this, it’ll hurt Diego’s feelings,” in this situation! They’re lost in time and all they have is each other!
And let’s examine the whole concept of Five in a romantic relationship to begin with. Obviously I’m not against the concept, because I ship him. It’s ridiculous on my part, because when I started reading TUA fanfic I honestly said, “Wow, it’s refreshing to have a character so impossible to ship as Five is— how many interesting GEN fics can this guy spawn?” and before I knew it I was shipping him with his adoptive brother. BUT. I have also fully embraced the popular headcanon that he’s ace (note: show-Five is not comics-Five in many ways, and this is one of them). Aspec, at least. (NOT aro: I don’t know how anyone can see the way he’s always talked about/treated Delores and not understand that he is absolutely a total romantic). Even in my shipping fics, he’s aspec— “Viktor-sexual,” I have called it even. He falls for his best friend, and his best friend only. And— if I can shamelessly quote one of my own fics here—
“Look, I was married to half a mannequin for thirty-some years, I may have a slightly different understanding of marriage than the average person….Yes, I said what I said. Delores is complicated, okay? There are facts, and there are truths. Facts are I created her out of the rubble of a department store and my own desperation. I know this, I do! But the truth is she loved me. She kept me alive, she lifted me when I would have given up, she fixed my mistakes but forgave me for them, she made me laugh and even laughed back at me. That's what marriage is to me. A partner through the twists and turns of life! It has nothing to do with desire and passion and sex.”
And that’s exactly what happened with Lila! They had become partners through the infinite twists and turns of a seemingly-impossible-to-escape life! I keep seeing “since when does Five think with his dick?” comments, but he WASN’T! It took nearly seven years of close proximity, you-and-me-against-the-multiverse partnership, and shared traumas to happen, and significantly, she made the first move. It absolutely holds up to my own personal headcanons of how Five interacts with romantic love.
And I feel like Five doesn’t really segregate different kinds of love. Romantic or familial, it’s all LOVE, right? We actually had this conversation in the comments of the above fic, “New World Symphony,” just days before S4 dropped: there’s a scene where Five completely confuses the others by explaining that he doesn’t think finding himself married to Viktor is weird because “you’re my brothers— that’s family; he’s my husband— that’s family too,” and JBD— who, I must point out, is not a Fiktor shipper— commented, “Aww, for Five, family is another word for people he loves.” And I thought that was a brilliant way to sum it up (funnily enough, I responded by referring to Five calling Lila “family” at the beginning of S3!). So when he finds the answer to getting home— is it really so hard to believe he doesn’t want to go back? Lila is family just as much as the others are, and LILA ACTUALLY SHOWS HIM LOVE, which is more than any of his adoptive sibs did for him for those first six years back. He was DEPRESSED in the real world, and now he’s HAPPY! Things change! Of course he dedicated his life to getting back home BEFORE, but like the first episode says, it was the Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want! Now he knows better!
From an “In-show sense” standpoint. Maybe not from a “Narrative Sense” standpoint.
Let’s now try to discuss the state of Dilila, but more briefly. (This post is already 1800 words long). It made me sad to see what a mess their relationship had become in the past six years, and I thought it was kind of mean of the storyline to threaten to break them up, but after awhile, as we saw more of it, I had hope for them! I just rediscovered the “Into the Woods” soundtrack recently and suddenly they were reminding me of the Baker And His Wife— they needed to go Into the Woods--symbolically and literally—to be separated from each other, to learn new things about themselves, to yes even have an affair on her part— to appreciate what they had together, to rekindle their True Love. They needed to reevaluate themselves, each other, and their lives, and a separation would only help them to do so. (Now, when we talk about the in-characterness of it all, I DO question whether Lila was completely in character this season— but I mean, that’s part of it, IS she being herself? What does she NEED to be herself? She has to figure that out!)
And here’s where we get to the “Narrative Sense” problem, because that never had the chance to RESOLVE. Going back to what I said yesterday about the problem with The End— EVERYBODY HAD UNRESOLVED ISSUES, and SOME of them were too FRESH to be resolved! Who makes that narrative choice?!
I think narratively, it would work best if Lila and Diego reunited, appreciating each other all the more, and Five would let it happen because he’s primed to believe that being happy is too much to ask for, which is very sad but it works.
Except Lila never does make a choice, and Diego and Five die mad at each other.
Stupid ending.
But to be honest, maybe the writers didn’t want to make the choice because they couldn’t decide either. Narratively we’re rooting for Dilila, but from an in-show character standpoint, Lila and Five really are better for each other than Lila and Diego are. They’re on the same level. They understand each other in ways no one else can, being Commission Agents/murderers and having both been manipulated and betrayed by the Handler. They are matches for each other.
You know, I’m kind of annoyed by this fact. Five IS actually the better choice for Lila. I really want her to be happy with Diego but the facts are facts, she’d be happier with Five.
DANGIT I don’t even KNOW how to ultimately deal with them in the Summerland fix-it! I WANT Lila and Diego to reunite and also want Five to settle into a happy queerplatonic partnership with Viktor (I will DO MY BEST not to ship them in this fic, for the sake of everyone else who might want to read it, but that may be the extent of my best), but now I’m like is that really fair to Lila? UGH, RELATIONSHIPS!
I may settle for everybody taking a break from everybody while they work out their individual issues. (I did start writing a Diego and Kerry scene to immediately follow up the Five and Viktor scene I posted the other day, in which Kerry uses the Power of Autism to compel Diego to be introspective. Who knew.
“My brother stole my wife.” “Did she get free again?” “What?” “You said he stole her. Where did he put her?” “No, I meant he— they had an affair, he didn’t kidnap her.” “You said he stole her, but it sounds like she went with him because she wanted to, so that’s not stealing.” “It’s— why do you care?” “Because you’re not being accurate! He didn’t steal her if it was her choice to go!” “That—.” That made him very uncomfortable, was what that did. “Okay. My wife left me for my brother. That make sense to you?” She peered wide-eyed at him and started to open her mouth, so he added, “and yes she came back. Physically. But physically’s not the point.”
--snippet edited 12:46 ET 8/18/24 just because I actually wrote that final line and it gives the snippet more of a finished feeling so I had to add it. Anyway, so Diego ends up focusing on his issues with Always Being Second-Best at Summerland. If he learns to deal with his own insecurities, he could possibly even truly earn Lila’s love back! But first he has to deal with HIMSELF!)
Long story short, I did not hate this development, and the thing I liked least about it is tied to the thing I liked least about the whole season: if they'd only had time to resolve their issues before getting annihilated from existence, it wouldn't have been terrible! If THAT had been, then I'd be all for it!
I mean, mostly so. I'm still going to be a shameless Fiktor shipper, of course.
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noxcorvorum · 1 year ago
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I uh. I just finished ghost wax ep 44. I'm devastated. I need several moments. At least a day actually. Jesus christ.
(spoilers for part 44)
First of all I love the incantations. Iconic. I have all of them written down in Google keep. The empty table. The world's last fable. Dead mortar, bone pestle. Come death to your vessel. Come now, entropy. The spiral of time. Spin, spin fast. And seer and cable. Pen, fog, and fable. Stay within, flat and pinned. Love all of it and I am actively wanting more of them to memorize for enrichment. And now time to go feral over the Happenings.
So I'm kindof unclear on what happened to pip, did she essentially get jonah magnused, as in whatever entity Charles served controls her eyes now? Does she still have control of the rest of her body? Does the entity have control and she's just watching from within or is she essentially dead/incapacitated with the entity puppeting her? Ack augh I really liked the episode where she had the dream thing where the other characters were her friends and family, Luca as her brother, Owen and Azem (AUGH ILL GET TO HIM) as her uncles ("Uncle cid will be delightfully catty," ACK.), and she lied her way out of it even with the incredibly tempting offer of a world she could control where she can have an actual support system, and she gave it all away to protect the same people in the real world. That episode made me much more familiar with her character than I had been, idk what happened while I was listening but I was pretty neutral about her before this episode bc I didn't know her and AUGH she was just trying to help Charlie and he manipulated her away and into getting caught by whatever he serves and AUGH SHE DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHATS HAPPENING WITH OWEN AND LUCA
We also get a lot more Luca lore in the most recent episodes with his childhood and the beginning of whatever's going on with his soul that at one point Owen said his spirit is incomplete? And Owen gives him a replica of the thing he pulled out of his dream 😭 sobbing. Luca my beloved augh is he dead?? I saw a theory that the body Owens hamsa instincts latched onto was his so what's going to happen to them if that's true? Is one of them going to disappear or is it going to be a John and Arthur Malevolent situation or even will they combine like Paul from Nona the ninth? If that is the case I'm leaning towards something between disappearance and a malevolent situation bc Owen seems to have kept what remains of Azem with him all this time, and he cares enough about Luca that I think he'd do his best to not erase him as much as he possibly could. Luca my boy please don't be dead ;_;
Owen my beloved AUGH. ACK. ALDKSJ. Owen you are devastating me. Apologizing to Charlie bc he failed him when from what I understand pretty much nothing Owen could have done for him would have helped him not do this and then pleading for just five to seven more minutes so he can release what's left of Azem and also cause as little damage as he does as possible??? SIR. I AM WEEPING. He's old, so so old, and he's been here for so long and held on to Azem for so long that all he wants is to be able to let him go, to give him this one last thing. He accepts that he's about to die and that he will lose this last connection to his partner so quickly, and he just wants to give that which remains of Azem the best chance he can give him. I think the fact that he was pleading for this long-dead figure that only remains in mere fragments in Owens head at best to be released and not for his own life and continued connection to Azem broke me. I do think that the body he was in for all that time had some significance regarding Azem, maybe it was azems body?? I think it might be more likely it's the body he held when he met and was with Azem though, but also that whatever parts of Azem are left are tethered to that body, and he can't take him with him if he takes a new one, and he's afraid of letting go even when it's to his own detriment, because he starts using the wax recorders when he starts losing memories of reclaiming from the sheer vast amount of them he has in that brain. When he doesn't want to use an observed as bait and someone suggests he use himself instead and he says he can't, and I think the intro to ep 41 has some interesting implications:
A: ["will you- will you"? Could be a name?] please, oh god, ["please don't make me"?] just let it be over, I don't want it I don't want it anymore-
B: shh, come now, come now it's almost over. hush, hush, my love, we believe in you.
A: I can't, please
B: you knew this would not be easy. You know that. you cannot stop now, it is too late.
A: [weakly, as if weeping] please don't make me
B: this is what you chose. It is the right choice. None of this, none of it is real. It's all just a vivid dream. You choose to wake up. Just a few steps further, my love. [Interspersed with noises from A that sound like sobbing] Free yourself. Almost. [sigh? Or a laugh? Possibly "there"?]
I think "A" is Owen and "B" is either some corruption of Azem or something using his countenance and voice. It's too late at night and I kinda forgot what exactly happened in 41 so I can't elaborate exactly why I think this. However perhaps it is related to the thing Charles is serving (the cypher? Unclear to me) possibly attempting to get Owen to give up prematurely, maybe with a dream such as the one pip had but Actively Bad And Worse? It's something, that's for sure. I couldn't understand some of it too so that's probably contributing to my confusion
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georgieluz · 2 years ago
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i'm 3 days late but i'm finally answering @lamialamia
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so my overall thoughts of the pacific are that i really enjoyed it (is enjoyed the right word? can you really enjoy the significant trauma of watching episodes 4-7 back to back and losing your three favourite characters all in one go? i don't think you can) but i did love a lot of things about it! the cinematography and production was outstanding. i knew it would be, but the way they shot the whole show was really something special! those battle scenes being shot like a very well made horror flick really did something to me. one thing i really wish we got more of was time with the men. i feel like we didn't get deep enough into their characters and personalities, outside of the main three ofc, especially after being told a lot more about certain men and what they were really like outside of how the show portrayed them (eddie jones and his guitar deserved better!!!!!)
but despite that, i still became hopelessly attached to a good few of them. stupidly, ack ack became the love of my life and now i'm probably ruined for life, so that's nice. thanks for that, life. i actually adore eddie jones and obviously, as we all know, i'm way past feral for hoosier over there. i think when i rewatch the show, i'll gain a lot more appreciation for other characters too (though i do already love most of them). i really liked the inclusion of lena's story, she became one of my favourite characters at the end. i was less into leckie's mostly fake love story but i understand they did it for narrative purposes and to sort of give his actions when he was acting up a trigger point.
my favourite thing from the series was definitely ack ack. and eddie. i don't know what it is about those two but they just awoke something in me and now i can't let go. i desperately needed more scenes of them but every ack ack scene gave me something electric so he's probably my favourite thing about the series. i also really liked how close leckie's unit was, they didn't have a thousand scenes or anything massive, but there was something incredibly comforting about the lightheartedness they gave each other that covered the traumatic experience they were all going through. i truly believe those dear vera letters and leckie reading them to his boys were a tool for them all to process what they were seeing but in a way where it could still be passive and not too heavy. i would have liked to have seen more scenes of them all, maybe in place of some of the melbourne romance stuff, but i get why it was the way it was. i appreciated that the show didn't shy away from the absolute horrors of war and even though it only covered things briefly most of the time, it definitely hit a lot of the different nuances involved and i think it did it in a subtle enough way that it actually settles into your brain permanently.
most trauma? i think we all know the answer to that since i've been crying about it since my episode 7 liveblog. honestly, i'm just pretending that episode 7 never happened and all is fine in the world. but i also think that watching eugene's arc killed a part of me inside, it kinda broke me watching him go from this innocent kid who was desperate to serve to being utterly disenchanted and disillusioned with his purpose and everything he thought he knew and believed. his story kinda cracked open my heart in a way i wasn't ready for.
sunshine and happiness.. ack ack being the most wholesome captain ever and basically just taking up residence in my heart. but also i really enjoyed gene and sidney's friendship, they didn't really have many scenes together but it made me happy that despite them never being able to see the world the same again after everything they went through, they both made it home and they had each other. also, i don't even know why, but burgie became one of my favourite characters so that part where he hugged his dad and his brother after getting off the train made me fucking sob with relief. i don't know why but it hit me real hard and i know that's not exactly sunshine and happiness but he made it home and he married his australian sweetheart and he was my favourite in the interview sections and so i just felt this overwhelming amount of relief and happiness for him.
we don't talk about the ass flash
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kandisheek · 1 year ago
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FIC REC WEEK 3 – STUCKY FAVORITES
Life of the Party by AggressiveWhenStartled
Pairing: Steve/Bucky Rating: E Words: 21,689 Tags: Shrunkyclunks, Love at First Sight, Awkward Dates
Summary: “You know, kids,” Steve heard from the backyard, “one of the most common threats a superhero has to face is inside an active volcano! We’re going to have to work on your evasion skills, so for the next five minutes, the floor is lava!” This was met by a sudden spike in both volume and pitch from the small children as they scrambled onto every raised surface they could find and immediately launched themselves right back off. “I’ve never seen actual lava in my entire life,” Steve said, vaguely offended. “You got a superhero impersonator for The Falcon’s niece’s birthday party,” Sam said, incredulous. “The Falcon, who is an actual superhero.”
Reasons why I love it: This fic is so many things – sweet, charming, awkward, funny, wonderful, spectacular, ermergerddd so lovely! Their characterizations are perfect, and all the other Avengers' voices are incredible too. This fic always puts a huge smile on my face, no matter how shitty of a day I'm having. So if you like sunshine in a cup, definitely read this one!
Treasured by Dira Sudis (dsudis), Sealcat
Pairing: Steve/Bucky Rating: M Words: 24,609 Tags: Dragon Bucky, Virgin Steve, Interspecies Relationship
Summary: When everyone in town became convinced that a dragon really had come again to the Old Lair, and that the town would have to offer it tribute, they all looked at Steve. Honestly, he was relieved.
Reasons why I love it: Dragon Bucky has my entire heart. I love how their miscommunication in the beginning makes them start off on the wrong foot, only for them to slowly grow closer in a really believable way. Plus, the smut in this is absolutely scorching (no pun intended), and the ways their relationship develops are as precious as they are hot. So yeah, this fic is incredible and definitely worth a read!
Secondhand Source by elise_509
Pairing: Steve/Bucky Rating: E Words: 17,381 Tags: Pre-Serum Steve, Voyeurism, Internalized Homophobia
Summary: Bucky has twisted their friendship into this strange, dangerous thing without Steve’s knowledge or consent. He should stop before it’s too late, but as long as Steve keeps bringing men home, Bucky can’t.
Reasons why I love it: Ugh, this one hurts SO GOOD!! Bucky's internal conflict over not just his own urges but over his jealousy is so heart-breaking, no matter how many times I read it. And poor Steve, ack, this just gives me all the angst I could ever want with a really satisfying resolution. Plus, the smut is hot as hell, so that's the cherry on top. I love this fic to pieces, so please go and give it some love!
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kattystripes14 · 2 years ago
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Rise Turtles x Lesbian!GN!Reader
🩶Imagine the Turtles have a crush on a Lesbian!Reader or they're Omni and prefer women or they only comment on girls in movies or smth-
🩶Generally they have the impression that the reader wouldn't like them back, but either that's not true (the reader also likes men) or the reader slowly realises they also have a crush on one of the turtles and just has this "Oh shit I like men" moment, lmao.
🩶It would go slightly differently for each of them tho:
💙Leo would probably flirt anyways cause it's Leo. If you tell him to back off tho he will.
💙He'd probably never get over you, so you'd have a long window to figure it out, but it'd be a *huge* surprise if you told him you liked him. I'm talking blinding, over the moon grin, pick you up and twirl you around kind of excited.
💙"Wait, you're serious?! This isn't a prank, right? No cameras, no Donnies, no set up, no-"
🩶"-Leo!! (Leo, it's not a set up, quiet down!)"
💙"So you really like me?! This is incredible!! So what about me brought you to the dark side, was it my handsome good looks? My awesome sense of humor? It had to be my famously humble personality. C'mon Y/N, what was it?!"
🩶"Leo, put me down!!"
💙"I can't believe you liked me back all of this time!"
🩶"Hold on, 'back'?"
💙"...D-Did I say that?"
💜Donnie probably wouldn't pick up on the fact that you seem to prefer girls just as he wouldn't at first pick up on the fact that he likes you. If you straight up tell him though, he'll probably shoot himself down before he could even get close to you.
💜Cut to Donnie locking himself in the lab and moping for a while, meanwhile everyone's trying to figure out what happened. If you were to catch him on one of the rare food runs to the kitchen and tell him, he wouldn't know how to react.
💜"You... conradicted your previous statement?"
🩶"Yeah, well, stuff like that can change."
💜"..." "...Me?"
🩶"Mmhm."
💜"...Wow.
💜He feels like you just unlocked the secrets of the universe and proven the impossible to be possible. And although he doesn't have as much of a visible reaction, he's just as ecstatic as Leo if not more.
💜All this time I never imagined you'd reciprocate..."
🩶"Reciprocate?"
💜"!!- Uh- I think my ears have picked up on Raphala calling me to the training room- berightbackY/Nseeyoulater, bye!!!"
🩶"Pfft. Goofball."
❤️Raph would respect your boundaries and understand that you don't sway that way. He'd still be a bit hurt, and still act flustered towards you, but he knows you won't like him back.
❤️The more you hang out with him the quicker you realise you have a crush on him, but he already thinks it's not possible. If you were to tell him, he would most definitely short circuit.
❤️"Wha- H-How-? Really?!"
🩶"Yeah, shocker for both of us, isn't it?"
❤️"But I thought..???"
🩶"I guess you're the exception."
❤️"Huh. Wow- and you've liked me back all of this time?!"
🩶"Back~?"
❤️"...Oops."
🧡Mikey picks up on it before it comes up in conversation. And while he respects your boundaries just as much as Raph, he's a bit torn. He knows for a fact that you won't reciprocate his feelings for you, but some part of him thinks that you might.
🧡Everyone else finds it very obvious that he likes you and the moment you realize it too is the moment you realize you *do* like him back.
🧡When you finally tell him he's even more excited than Leo and Donnie *combined!* You are in for the tightest, warmest, cuddliest hug for at least the next hour.
🧡"I knew it! I knew it!! Ohhhh you don't know how happy I am to hear you say that, Y/N!!"
🩶"Ack-! M-Mike- as much as I l-love your hugs, my lungs-!!"
🧡"Oh!! Crap, sorry!"
🧡He continues to bounce on his heels a flap his hands while he raves on about how excited he is. (As if you couldn't see it for yourself. Or maybe you couldn't because of how blinding his smile was.)
🧡"This has gotta be the best day of my life!! I can't believe you liked me back this whole time!! I knew it, I knew it!!"
🩶"Aww, you liked me too?"
🧡"Heck yeah, baby!! Since forever!!"
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mcyt-imagines-library · 4 years ago
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I see your 'intimidating guys with hearts of gold' card and I raise you my 'them having an adorable looking partner who can actually wreck shit' trap card (with Techno and Jschlatt)
Ack! You card is far too powerful!
TW// Depictions of violence and injury (light though, i think?)
C!Technoblade and C!Jschlatt With An S/O Who's Lowkey Badass
c!Jschlatt • Presidency Arc
When people looked at you and Jschlatt together, they were confused
He was a loud, harsh man seemingly without any sort of caring or empathetic bone in his body
On the other hand, you were an absolute sweetheart, patient and kind to everyone
You two were just so mismatched as a pair that many people, members of his own cabinet included, had assumed some sort of nefarious activity on Schlatt’s behalf
While he did look intimidating with a glare cold enough to freeze someone solid, he was essentially useless on the battle field
You on the other hand, looked incredibly sweet but could totally crack a few skulls if need be
In fact, you were essentially his bodyguard
For years, long before anything with Manburg or Pogtopia, you two had been side to side, growing with one another
Ever since you were kids, you hung around each other
Through his early life, he focused on more clinical subjects, mostly political in nature
You focused mostly on fighting and strategy
Whether it be crossbow, sword, axe, or a cleverly thrown harming potion, you had the practiced ability to skillfully wield just about any weapon at your disposal
You stuck by his side throughout the years, your loyalty never wavering once
He had seen the fiercely protective side of you and you had seen him at his rawest, when he had taken down the walls around him and his heart
The public image of the two of you, while Schlatt would never admit it, was far different from what you two were actually like
c!Technoblade
The fight had gotten pretty intense, leaving a pretty nasty gash across his rib cage
His withers had all been killed, his allies were off fighting their own portions of the war, and he was bleeding fast, back against the wall
He pressed one of his hands to the wound, axe in the other, a grimace on his face
He always said that if he was going down, he was going down swinging
With shaky hands and slightly shallowed breathing, he raised his weapon, preparing to fight until he fell to the ground in a blood covered heap
That was, until you swooped in, sword and shield in hand and a gleam in your eyes
The opposition had certainly been surprised
Each one had seen you around before, with a sweet smile on your face and a hand outstretched to help anyone in need, you were the picture of kindness and innocence
Now though, that person didn’t seem to have ever existed, replaced with a war hardened individual who would refuse to back down from a fight
Cuts, bruises and burn covered your face and body, a noticeable one across the bridge of your nose and dangerously close to one of your eyes
Technoblade was hunched over his injury, staring at everyone from behind you, an obvious smirk on his face
It had only taken a few minutes, but you successfully had back the three or four away from the both of you, them cursing as they sprinted away
As they left, you wrapped his arm around your shoulder and got him to his feet, dragging him off to somewhere that could be more safe to tend to his wounds
He sat in pride as you had him lay back into the grass, your original caring persona coming back as you pushed a healing potion in his hands
You looked up and gave him a sweet smile and he knew he was completely enamored with you
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radical-revolution · 2 years ago
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ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR OWN BEAUTY
For a long time, I felt I had to sit around judging, because people would come to me and they’d tell me all the things that were freaking them out about their gurus. All the cosmic gossip and I was the holder of this incredible amount of stuff, about everyone’s sex life and everyone’s exploitations. And it got to the point that I was so paranoid because I felt that for me to go to see another holy person, was to feed energy into the system I was entrusted with, it wasn’t my energy. It was total paranoia.
I want to be free to bring my love to everyone. And I think you should feel the same way. I think you should be open to all teachers and all teachings and listen with your heart.
From some, you will have no business, you will have no business with them. Others will pull you. Start to trust yourself. You know. You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has – you’ve got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting.
The problem is you’re afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness. You’d rather be a schmuck sitting before some great man, that fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you because I see your beauty, even if you don’t.
You can see different things in different people depending on your attachments. If you’re horny, second chakra, you’ll see their body. If you’re third chakra, power, you’ll see their personality. If you’re busy being an astral entity, you’ll see their astral identity. If you’ve cleared some of that baggage of individual differences and you experience yourself as a soul who is incarnated and is going through a mad, incredible dance, most bizarre, then you will look at another human being and that same thing, are you in there? I’m in here, far out, how did you get into that one?
As you get more and more empty, even that illusion falls away. And you come to a point when your eyes are open and you see nothing, or you see patterns of energy or you see a homogenous light, or then you see nothing, and then you become nothing, and is that the end?
If I can hear it, when I am right here on this plane, on this plane where there is no clinging, when I’m neither attached to either emptiness nor form, I am free. If I push away the physical existence in order to get into a space, if I’m only comfortable when I’m hanging out with Krishna and I can’t stand my mother-in-law, forget it, I’m trapped. No clinging anywhere and the moment gets so rich, right here it all is, all of it. Every astral plane, physical plane, all the emptiness, all of it is right here. Just a quiet mind hears it all. Initially in your journey, in our journey, we tend to be very eclectic- we take a little here and a little there. With your agitated mind, you go to a meditation course to quiet your mind. For your heart, you go sing kirtan, sing Hare Krishna.
You may feel you’re not assuming your karma yogic responsibilities in the world, you go out and you serve your fellow man and relieve suffering. You get your heart, get your mind, get your body together, you go study Tai Chi or whatever. And each of those methods we use are on the surface – for all of those methods will take you all the way to this moment, every one of those. But they didn’t draw you particularly because for the most part they weren’t your way.
For there is for every individual, a root, a lineage, it’s a function of your Karma, it’s called your Dharma, your way through, your way to be in harmony with it all. And that includes your practices and all of it. Finally you find your lineage, you get drawn, you say, “I tried this but I still want to go back to that one, I hate it, but I keep going back.” Or, “I love it, I just keep getting pulled, I can’t get away from it.”
And you acknowledge your root, you don’t have to deal with your intellect, it has nothing to do with your intellect. The root doesn’t care if your intellect acknowledges it or not. It’s like people say, “Are you my guru?” First of all, I’m not a guru, but second of all, that question, it’s really none of your business.
The only question is, “Does your guru know you?” Not, “Do you know your guru?” That’s what you should worry about. And if you are a pure seeker, your guru knows you. And if you aren’t, what difference does it make? You reach and your guru sees. Remember that in the middle of the night Buddha would look out over all Buddha fields to see whose hand was raised. Like, who’s ready?
~Ram Dass
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hanniejji · 4 years ago
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IGURO WITH TSUGUKO!READER HCS
[ iguro obanai x tsuguko!s/o ]
anon: obanai hcs where tsugoku!reader thinks he likes mitsuri but he actually loves her ^^ !!
note: ack this has been sitting in my drafts since august lmao | m.list
warnings: none
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poor y/n :((
u spend half of your day watching iguro simp over mitsuri and that shit hurt
but they've known each other for a long time—longer than you—so you can't complain :((
bet ur ass that rengoku knows this and cheers u up every time
"so, how's it going with iguro?"
"i don't even want to think about it, senpai"
and you're not even lying :((
you respect mitsuri a lot, so you tend to set your feelings aside because you didn't want to have a problem with her when there's literally no reason to
so you endure the pain :')
and without knowing that iguro hates the fact that you seem to exchange whispers with rengoku every time you bump into each other
i spy a jealous snake 👀
whenever he has u on his side—just tsugoku thingz—his snake does the hissing when anyone tries to come near you
cue mixed signals because iguro is stupid
dO yOu LiKe mE oR nOt¿?
he makes it a thing to ask you whatever the hell it is that you and rengoku talked about
"oh! um just about how's life has been!"
why are you even trying to lie? he can see right pass you with those snek eyes of his
is that so? then perhaps he'll have to ask you those type of questions himself 😤
he loves the look on your face when he, uncharacteristically, asked you how was your day
sToP mAkInG mE fEeL tHiNgS yOu sLy sNaKe >:(
and it hurts you a lot because every time he makes you feel things you'd see him beside a very bubbly mitsuri and then you'd go back to being sad and sulk at the corner :((
so one time mitsuri sees you with clouds above your head, she poked iguro and whispered her concerns to him
"hey, are they alright? they look sad…"
mitsuri has never seen iguro's eyes harden like they did when he heard that you're sad :'))
he goes up to you and pulls at your wrist
insert surprised pikachu meme
he takes you somewhere quiet, where there's only the two of you and shamelessly questions you why you have a gloomy look on your face
hates it when your sad and upset, so he demands you tell him the truth this time
insert another surprised pikachu meme
"you've known all along?"
"who do you think i am?"
lying to get away from the situation is not an option anymore when he's serious like this when is he not serious?
so u end up saying the truth :')
"you think mitsuri and i are together?"
"t-the both of you are very close! and you seem to be happy around her so…"
he doesn't know whether to hug you incredibly tight or kill you with a hug and say that's stupid
so he ends up just pulling you closer until your nose touches he can't hug you he's not ready for that yet ack
"and you're not going to ask me if that's true or not?"
"d-do i have to?"
"well if you had you would have gotten a very different answer"
well there goes your heart, mended and ascending
you bet that by the end of the day iguro's not going to let you out of his sight just to make up for the time you spent talking to rengoku rather than with him >:(
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sohin-ace · 4 years ago
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※ A walk with the Jojos
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Inspired by a 'A walk with BTS' meme scenario I found somewhere.
Gender neutral and Aromantics friendly :)
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Jotaro: Puts his coat over your shoulders when it gets cold.
A gust of cold wind flew past you and Jotaro as you both strolled down the streets of his hometown peacefully. A sharp shudder coursed through you, goosebumps almost painful on your sensitive skin.
Oh how you wished you brought a jacket or at least your school uniform cardigan with you. The early days of spring had started sunny and trustworthy, but of course, the temperature had to drop on you on that very special day.
Your incessant rubbing of your arms and duck of your head didn't go unnoticed by Jotaro next to you. He was aware of the cold and could see from the corner of his eyes how flushed your fingers were and how you winced with every blow of the unforviging wind.
The boy didn't think twice and sighed, proceeding to shake his long gakuran off of his broad shoulders.
You didn't even notice he was disrobing until you felt heavy and warm fabric suddenly weight down on your shoulders, enveloping you, the loud clanking of chains accompanying the movement.
You looked up at the tall male, pleasantly surprised yet also confused, and he only grumbled in response, looking straight forward.
"Yare yare daze... You could have just asked you know."
You never dared. You couldn't dare. After all, it was your problem that you forgot your jacket at home. It surely wasn't Jotaro's job to fix your mistakes, you thought. You wouldn't bother him for such a trivial matter, no matter how close you were. Of course, Jotaro did not share that mindset at all.
You always wondered how he managed to notice every little changes about you and every single reactions while also acting so nonchalant and careless. Behind his rough appearance and act, you loved Jotaro for his selflessness and his unmatched kindness.
You sighed in bliss as you hugged his jacket closer, so warm and soft around you. What a relief it was for your cold skin, it felt like his very own rare embrace.
It smelled just like him, too. You usually weren't a fan of the smell of nicotine and would often tease him for it, but when it was so deliciously mixed with his foreign cologne and his natural scent, it felt like something close to heaven to you. Something comforting, safe, and incredibly gentle.
His jacket was gigantic compared to you and you were sure you looked like a fool wearing this unfitting blanket, swallowing you and making you look even smaller and ridiculous than you already were next to him.
"Thank you Jotaro." You grinned, appreciative towards this kind giant, who you were grateful to always have your back whenever you needed, without even having to ask him.
He responded with a subtle nod before grabbing your shoulder and keeping his strides forward, seemingly satisfied with his good deed and with your smile.
Joseph: Accidentally trips you when he turns to talk to you.
It wasn't unusual for Joseph to blabber on his bizarre adventures. With all the things he had lived, he always had something to recount.
You'd always tell him to write a book about all his plights, but then you'd remember the guy barely had enough braincells to even put two and two together and instantly drop the idea.
Today was just a normal day in New York City, you had been strolling around with the behemoth, listening intently, or rather, tiredly as he rambled ceaselessly.
You were stuck between loving all his crazy stories and being annoyed at his obnoxious and theatrical, 'Jojo-fied', as you liked to call it, storytelling.
"And then he said 'You'll never touch the ground ever again Joseph Joestar!' but look who's in outer space now, huh?!" He yelled out, making a few heads turn with his exaggerated hand gestures and booming voice.
You nodded your head and responded with very basic 'Uh huh's and 'Oh's, as well as 'That's cool' and whatnot. Not like you didn't care for what he was saying, but you just couldn't figure what to tell him. Also, the unnecessary attention you were getting was quite flustering too.
"GASP! Y/N I ALMOST FORGOT!! I DIDN'T EVEN TELL YOU THE BEST PART YET!!!"
Before you could even process what was happening, Joseph forcefully turned towards you, gasping loudly and intenting to grab your already very well-gripped attention.
But the brute was so clumsy about it, he kicked his unreasonably thick leg in front of your much smaller feet, not warning you as you kept walking, only to trip over him with a yelp that you'd never forget.
"YEEEK-!"
"WOAAH-!!"
With an even louder scream, Joseph tried his best to grab you before you could kiss New York City's piss tainted ground, yanking you to your feet as best as he could, which was more than enough with the strength the man had.
He eventually held you against his chest firmly, his arms belted more than securely around your shoulders and back, shocked and scared that if he loosened his grip even the slightest, you'd either fly away or just collapse.
You panted with adrenaline after regaining your  balance and barely left him any time to laugh at your demise or even react at all.
"JOJO YOU FREAKING DUMBASS!!!" You hollered all your fury, pushing yourself off of him, "I ALMOST DIED HERE!!!!"
Joseph cowered in fear as you proceeded your attacks on his poor arms, chest and face. He yelped in pain, desperately putting his arms up in front of him in hopes to shield himself from your unstoppable slapping. For someone with such small hands, you sure hit hard.
"Ow ow ow stop please! This is abuse!! I'm sorry-Ow! Please, n-not there~ ACK- OKAY FINE I'LL STOP!!!"
Josuke: Notices your shoe lace in untied and ties it for you.
In the small, crazy, noisy and bizarre town that was Morioh, there was a famous legend running.
"That if your boyfriend kneels down to tie your shoelaces for you, they'll never come undone ever again! Do you believe that?" You chuckled, barely paying any attention to your surroundings.
Josuke strolled mindlessly next to you, half listening, half not. You were well aware that boys like him often had a hard time paying attention for more than a minute unless it was about sports, video games, or a very big pair of boobs.
"Hmmh, yeah. Crazy stuff..." He mumbled, looking blankly forward, his eyes catching passing cars and boutiques but his ears catching none of your words.
"Hey... Are you even listening?" You glared suspiciously at him, frustrated already. This boy could never concentrate.
"Oh tell me about it." He replied, not even knowing what he was even responding to. Eye twitching, you tested him one last time.
"Rohan has a really nice ass and I'm much better at Smash Bros than you'll ever be."
"Oh, absolutely. You know it!" He nodded, much to your great offense.
"Hey.. Josuke...!" You growled, ready to give him a good slap of reality, "Higashikata!!"
As if on cue, Josuke glanced down and noticed that your shoelaces were untied as you walked.
Without even thinking twice about it, Josuke moved his hands from where they were resting behind his neck and instantly brought one to your chest, stopping you dead in your tracks.
You shot him a puzzled look at his sudden behavior and he immediately bent over, getting down on one knee, on the floor, in front of you, without a care in the world, right in the middle of the street.
You looked down at him and gasped as you noticed he started tying up your poorly secured shoelaces that you didn't bother knotting properly in the morning.
"Oi-! Josuke, what are you doing?! Get up, it's fine I'll do it mysel-"
"Oh shush." He cut you off, handling the chords into cute and safe little bows on your shoes, like a knight, or a prince, happy to fulfill his duty.
You couldn't hold back your blush at the embarassing and impromptu situation. Your heart raced as you tried to get him to stand up, but he was adamant on helping you whether you were embarassed or not.
The boy was completely nonchalant about the ordeal, never caring about the weird looks you both were getting and the many whispers of 'how cute' and 'what an adorabe couple' people were gushing out.
You couldn't reciprocate the indifference. You knew Josuke was the serving type, and this was normal for him. To make your life easy, to treat you, to protect you.
And to fix you.
"... Are you sure you haven't been listening to me? I feel like you're hitting on me right now Jojo." You raised an eyebrow as he got up, proud of his handiwork.
His expression soon fell into a shocked one and he visibly stiffened, "Huh? What? No I'm not?!"
"You literally tied my shoelaces right after I told you that's a boyfriend thing to do!" You shot back and he blushed deep red, gasping at yout sudden assumptions.
"What??! It's not though!! I'm not- I wasn't even paying attention!"
"You're hitting on me, I'm telling Mr. Jotaro."
"NO DON'T TELL HIM!!!"
Jonathan: Carves his and your initials into a tree.
Jonathan had invited you to join him one afternoon in the usual place you both loved to hang out.
You two talked and walked around a path that you could call your little escape route. One you've used so much, you were pretty sure to be responsible for green-less trail that longed the riverside.
Very suddenly, Jonathan stopped dead in his tracks, without saying anything, effectively grabbing your attention.
"What's wrong, Jojo?" You asked, looking back at him.
Without a warning, he took out a small object from his pocket, smiling coyly at you. You were confused but your expression soon shifted when he pressed on a small mechanism that swiftly revealed a sharp, shiny blade.
You flinched and gasped, bringing a hand to your mouth in shock. "Jojo!! Why are you walking around with a pocket knife?! Are you crazy??!!"
He panicked at your reaction and got flustered, agitating his hands around, a dangerous gesture to make for someone holding a knife.
"N-no no no! Wait, Y/N! It's just- I mean, it's useful sometimes... I mean..." He blabbered, not knowing how to breathe between words anymore, "I don't use it... Or- well... I don't do weird things with it it's just-... I would never-... "
He stuttered anxiously, trying to justify himself, getting more and more stressed with your lack of response. Oh no, God, he didn't want to scare you off or lose you over something like this!
He would never forgive himself if you ever thought he were a dangerous man, or a delinquent, or worse, that he'd ever hurt you, and in such a cowardly way too.
He stopped panicking when you suddenly chuckled.
"Ooouh~ Oh my~" You sang teasingly, before pointing at him in playful accusation "Am I hanging out with a baaaad boy~? Jojo you nasty man!"
"S-... STOP IT!!" He cried out as you laughed your heart out, scared that somebody might hear you and take it the wrong way. "Just... Hold on..."
With the knife in his hand, he turned his back to you and started carving something in the tree trunk. You approached and tried to look over his shoulder, wondering what kind of nonsense he could be drawing in there.
"What is this?" You gently tapped his busy arm and he tried to hide his work from your nosy eyes.
"Wait! It's a surprise! I'm almost done... Just... A little bit..." He grunted a bit as he finished carving the blunt surface, "Aaannd.... Done!"
He stepped back, wiping his brow and leaning his hand on the tree, letting you enough space to admire his little work of art. Proud yet also a bit anxious about your reaction.
You got closer to the little heart he drew on the tree. Heart with both your initials in it. For the sake of discretion, he rathered write your initials over your names, which made it all the more adorable, in your eyes.
You gasped lightly, not able to contain your giddy smile. "Jonathan! That's so cheesy! Who taught you that? Have you been reading those weird romance novels?"
"Yes- I mean, NO! No! I don't read that! I'm a man! Only girls read those!" He spat back, flushing a shade of red you wished you could paint.
"Hmmmmm yeah, right!"
He could only chase you around to hopefully make you stop teasing him. He knew he'd never hear the end of it.
Johnny: Grabs your hand and places it around his arm.
"I gotta say..." You started, happily sipping on your drink, "The best thing about your handicap is how we can skip the line for everything!"
You grinned behind Johnny as you pushed his wheelchair forward, walking around the city for the short time you were in Kansas.
"I know. You'll owe me one by the way." He blankly jested, his tone not matching his humour. You've known him long enough to catch on the little perks of his speech, making you chuckle again.
You balanced your cup with one hand to get a better grip on the chair's handles and got back to pushing him. Johnny was quick to realise you were slowing down every once in a while to drink up.
"Stop." He ordered and you obliged, surprised by the sudden request.
"Huh?" You bent over slightly to try to look at him. "Are you okay? Did you need something?"
"This won't do..."
You walked around to get next to him. You were used to him having his foot falling from the footrest and putting it back before it could hurt him, or needing to reajust his back seat from time to time.
Nothing out of the ordinary, you thought. You would have never expected his next request.
Johnny looked over at you, no words shared, and offered his arm out to you, like the perfect gentleman he was.
"...Jojo?"
"I can move by myself. Drink your tea in peace." He blushed and looked away, sighing to himself.
You couldn't help your smile and endeared look. Your Johnny was always such a kind soul behind what he let show. He was observant and selfless. That's why he wanted to free you the burden of pushing his wheelchair, at least so you could enjoy your drink for a moment.
However it was obvious to you that he wanted you to hold him, so dearly, and had found an excuse for you to do so without asking you such an embarassing question.
You couldn't pass on the cute opportunity, but at the same time, you wanted him to make the first move.
You tilted your head, shooting him a faux confused and oblivious look, letting him know you needed him to be clearer in his request.
He huffed and held back on face palming, cheeks becoming redder by the second. Why were you always doing this to him? Teasing him to no end.
He abruptly grabbed you hand, softening his grip immediately after measuring his strength, and placed it around his arm.
You happily followed his lead and gently grabbed his arm, much sturdier than it looked, and gave him enough space to roll the wheels in pace with you.
"Thank you Johnny~" You chimed happily and he let out the ghost of a smile in response, smile that you sadly missed.
Giorno: Makes you dance with him when you walk past a busker.
You passed along a bay in Naples with Giorno, both of you exceptionnally finishing school early due to the surprising absence of your math teacher.
You both talked and suddenly heard the distant sound of accordion, getting louder and louder the more you walked.
You paused, much more intrigued by the musician  on the paved pedestrian street, playing a beautiful song for all to listen to. He was a sweet-looking old man, playing a traditionnal Tarantella, the iconic sound of Italy.
Giorno stopped with you, wanting to hear more of what this busker had to offer. You smiled, appreciating the sweet melody and calculated movements of the instrumentalist.
Giorno suddenly walked up in front of you, bending down at the waist to offer his hand out to you, his intense green eyes inviting you and snatching you out of your rêverie.
"Would you care to honor me with a dance, Y/N?"
You gasped silently and felt your cheeks burn at his words, his voice like velvet.
"W-... What? Right here, right now...?" You hesitated, but still gently laid your hand over his soft one, seeking reassurance in his hold.
Giorno was always a charming and extremely well-mannered boy despite the lack of proper education he had received. You would always tell him how princely he looked and acted, and he never failed to impress you by his eloquence, his broad mind, and his gestures.
But you surely did not expect him to propose you a dance, out in public. The sole idea was making you self-conscious, but also excited.
He ever-so-slightly closed his fingers around yours, expecting your consent with a soft smile. You were always at ease with Giorno, for the years you've known each other. Why would you ever refuse anything he asks you?
Like he had read through your heart, Giorno swiftly pulled you towards him, placing his hand right at the small of your back, keeping you up close and personal.
You giggled at the cheesy and intimate position, placing your free hand on his shoulder and ready to mess up the pace.
"I'll step on your toes!" You playfully warned him and he chuckled, endeared.
"Don't worry, Y/N. Just follow my lead."
The busker, noticing you two, smiled and finished up his song, immediately starting up a waltz, the nicest and sweetest of his repertoire.
Giorno confidently started in graceful and fluid movements. You followed him, guided by his assured poise. You tried not to stare down at your feet, which was easy task once you got captivated by his strong gaze.
You focused on your rhythm and his steps. You always wondered why he had randomly decided to teach you to waltz, but now you were grateful that he did, because you truly felt like royalty, and this feeling was priceless.
Pedestrians gathered, watching, amused by the splendid show before them. Two adorable teenagers dancing and living their youth, accompanying the busker.
You laughed, both from nervousness and happiness, knowing well Giorno would hold up the skies just to see you smile like this.
After stepping on Giorno's poor toes more than often enough, and after almost crashing down on him, you two decided it was time to go.
Giorno made sure to tip the gifted old man handsomely, much more than conventionnal, making him wonder how such a young boy could have so much money to spare.
Jolyne: Shares her headphones with you.
You walked side by side with Jolyne. You had planned on having a nice walk alongside the beach together, but the weather had seemed to betray you two, with unusually cloudy grey skies and cold breezes.
And thus, you were prompted to walk through town instead. You were happy either way, as long as you were with Jolyne, your most favourite girl in the world, it didn't really matter where you went or what you did.
The entire walk was silent and, as much as you knew Jolyne wasn't necessarily the most talkative type, the fact that she hasn't removed her earphones at all from the moment you both joined earlier really threw you off.
You guessed she wasn't in the mood for talking. You could absolutely understand that, but the way she seemed to completely ignore you and cross you out of conversing with her at all saddened you.
Maybe she didn't want to go out at all and she just didn't have the heart to cancel on you.
You looked down, with all these questions plaguing your mind, wondering if you had done something to make her distant.
Before you could drown in more self-doubt, she nudged your arm and grabbed your attention. She was smiling at you with her cute green lips.
You looked at her confused, like you had been dreaming it all about her being upset with you. She looked so excited, suddenly.
She pulled out her green iPod, one that she had decorated with tacky semi-permanent tattoos from an infamous bubblegum brand, and immediately gave you one of her earbuds.
"Girl, you have to listen to this. It's Jimi Hendrix playing, listen, listen!" You obliged and put the earbud on, listening to her song intently, "This man's crazy, what the fuck? And they say lefties can't play guitar..."
You kept on listening, the song in one ear, Jolyne's comments in the other. She was lost in the music, playing air guitar and singing bits of the song. It was absolutely endearing to see her so happy about such a little thing.
"So? So? Did you like it?" She turned to you with a big grin as the song ended, her eyes wide and starry with hope of your validation, "I love this song sooo much, I had to make you listen! How was it? Be honest!"
You chuckled, overwhelmed by her enthusiasm and adorable giddiness, "It was really cool Jolyne, you have nice tastes. Send it to me next time."
"Yess!!!" She cheered, pumping her fist in the air in victory. "Alright, let's get some bagels now, I'm starving."
She wrapped a strong arm around your shoulder, tired of the distance separating you. "My treat! Oh! And you have to show me that new group you told me about the other day. Even Hermes is talking about them now."
You couldn't bite back your growing smile as she squeezed you close. Not because of the very appealing call of bagels, even though you were more than looking forward to that, but because of how sweet Jolyne was to you despite what she appeared.
Showing her deepest interests to you when she wasn't much of a sharer was her own love language.
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xillveart · 5 years ago
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Spawn
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Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rough Sex (Vaginal), biting, scratching, breeding, oviposition, dub/noncon, kidnapping, cursing, blood, use of aphrodisiac, interspecies sex (merman and human), mentions of drowning Words:   5579 Pairing: Mer!Bakugou Katsuki x Human Fem!Reader
a/n: I’ve been getting quite a few requests for mermaid breeding. This... is probably not what you were wanting or expecting, so I won’t include anyone’s request here lol. I may write something a little... gentler later on.
BTW, please blacklist the tag cutesuki-lemons if you do not want to see this content from my blog. I will no longer be tagging with specific keywords for this type of content.Thank you~
Due to the nature of this post, the characters are 18+
Tags: @lady-bakuhoe​​, @hoefortodo​​, @sunkissedneptune​​, @softkatsuki​​, @marilla-eldriana​​, @sanurrwrites​​, @hopeismyhope101
There was something different in that familiar crimson gaze today. You hadn’t thought much about it at first, but now, it stuck out to you as something that should have been a huge red flag. The instant you had seen him glaring at you over the water's surface, you should have run away. You should have called to him from the safety of land, to tell him you really weren’t feeling well and decided to go home. Or that you had some type of rash or injury and didn’t want to get too close to the water? Would he have believed you? Probably not. You weren’t sure of what type of fit he would have thrown if he would have tried to persuade you to come to him or just dragged himself up into the sand to chase you down. 
He was strong enough to do that. His upper body strength matched the incredible power of his tail, his arms, and core easily able to lift himself up or drag himself around. If you ran at full speed, he couldn’t get you. Maybe. You couldn’t really think about something like that though right now. The fact of the matter was you hadn’t taken his glare as something menacing. You had ignored the rolling sickness in your stomach, the little voice in your head that told you to flee. Now, it was too late for you to do anything. 
You were as happy to see him as you had always been, greeting the merman with a cheery wave and a smile as you stepped into the rolling ocean waters. You hadn’t even made it a few steps into the cool water before he was suddenly at your feet, snatching you by the ankles and dragging you deeper into the water. The impact of falling on your back onto the hard, wet sand knocked the air out of your lungs, and before you could even breathe again, you were struggling to keep your head above water. 
He hadn’t dragged you out too far, but right now, the distance wasn’t really what mattered. You were completely pinned down to the sand, his heavy red and orange freckled tail resting over your chest to keep you down. Your legs were in his tight grip, held under the knees, and spread open so his head had easy access between your legs. The rolling waves didn’t affect him at all, but as they came washing over your face, you felt as if you might just drown. It was difficult and painful to find the opportunity to inhale as much air as you could when the tide pulled out, gasping and coughing to try and purge the burning saltwater from your lungs before you were overwhelmed again. 
It wasn’t just the water that gave you the feeling of drowning. His tongue, slick and hot against the cold ocean water, was lapping at your cunt eagerly. When he had torn your swimsuit, you weren’t sure. But again, you weren’t sure of anything that was happening to you right now. Why was he eating you out like this? He had never shown any sexual interest in you for the months you had known him. In fact, he hadn’t shown any romantic interest at all. At least, not any that you had been able to notice. Bakugou Katsuki, this fierce and aggressive merman, had originally saved you from drowning while out on a tour boat during vacation. You had been so grateful to him, so you made it a point to come visit him as often as you possibly could. You liked him. But this? This isn’t how you wanted things to happen. 
You had fallen for him. You loved him. But, how could you? You were from two completely different worlds. There was no possible way that you could be together outside of close friends, and that was even a conversation you already had. 
“There’s no way I’d ever fall for a stupid human like you! You can’t even swim!” 
So why was he doing this? Why was he holding you down just for the chance to eat you out so vigorously? If he would have just hit on you a little sweeter, maybe you would have given in to him and you could both enjoy the experience to the fullest. But all of this was for his own gratification, for whatever he felt like or wanted to do with you. It was hard for you to think with the weight on your chest, the water crashing down on your face, and the burning heat between your legs. 
God, it was hot. His tongue and his mouth were like fire, sucking and lapping at your clit with such fierce intensity. You knew that you shouldn’t be feeling good, that you should be screaming for help and struggling against him. No one would hear you this far down the coastline, anyway, but the point still stands. You should have been trying. Instead, all you could do was lay there, your nails digging into the slippery scales of his tail, fighting between coughing, moaning, and yelling out in pain. 
The longer his tongue ravaged you, the hotter you began to feel. It was so odd, how every nerve in your body was so sensitive. You had sex before, but your arousal never peaked to this level so early on. Why? Why was it happening? Why was he doing this? You didn’t want this. Did you? Of course, you didn’t. You wanted him to stop. 
“B-Bak-ack!” You hacked and coughed as water rushed into your mouth the instant you tried to speak, using what little strength you could to push yourself up on your elbows. “Bakugou, please-- please, stop-!” A yelp ripped from your throat as his hot tongue left your burning pussy, his teeth and fangs sinking into the plush meat of your inner thigh. Piercing the skin, the saltwater immediately began to burn the wound, but you still found yourself unable to pull away because of his hold on you. Even the slightest twitch had his nails digging into your skin, and by the reaction he gave from your attempt at begging, he didn’t want you to make a single move. 
His tongue ran over the now bleeding bite mark, a low groan rumbling from deep within his chest. He had found something new to taste, and he did so eagerly. “Fuck, you’re so delicious. So sweet and healthy… You’re perfect. I’ve always known you’d be perfect.” His words were almost slurred as if he were a drunken man on a ramble. That was the only way you could describe his actions as if he were intoxicated. But by what?
“I… Bakugou, what-” With a swift change of positions, you were suddenly beneath him, his hand on your throat and entire body weight on you. Before you could even scream or attempt to struggle, his mouth crashed down on yours, his tongue forcing its way into your mouth. The metallic taste of your blood would have immediately made you gag if not for the tight grip he had on your throat, which was only further making you light-headed. You tried to push up against his chest, scratch at his arms, and push his hips off you with your legs, but you couldn’t. There was no energy or strength behind your struggles. 
In an instant, everything stopped. Bakugou removed his tongue from your throat, snapping his head up to look towards the beach. Before you noticed what he may have been looking at, you could hear him beginning to growl, a deep and threatening sound that made your stomach twist nervously. What was he looking at? 
With his grip still on your neck, you didn’t have much movement, but you didn’t need it. You could hear the voices of a group of people. How far away or what they had seen so far, you couldn’t tell, as the sound was muffled by the water around your ears. The need to protect yourself suddenly burst forth and you screamed out as loudly as your burning lungs would let you, forcing your body to thrash and struggle even as your limbs burned with searing pain. Had you said anything comprehensible? Had they heard you? 
They wouldn’t have been able to save you, anyway. You already knew that your fate was in Bakugou’s hands. 
In a rush of crushing water, churning foam, and stinging sand, you felt Bakugou snatch you by the right ankle and drag you out further into the sea, not even giving you a moment to take a breath or prepare yourself. You couldn’t open your eyes or struggle, not even as your body was suddenly wrapped tightly in a strong grip. Was he holding you now? Where was he taking you? You could tell that he was moving swiftly, and the incredible pressure building in your ears and your chest told you that he must have been traveling deeper. 
I’m going to drown…! My breath… I can’t hold it!
As the burning and painful strain on your body grew more severe, you couldn’t control your involuntary thrashing, pushing against his presence and kicking where you could. It hurt so bad, worse than anything you had ever felt, and you wished that you would just drift off into unconsciousness. That’s what you had heard happened to people when they drown sometimes. Why couldn’t that happen to you? Why were you being put through this? 
You felt like you had been underwater for hours, but when you finally breached the surface, your body immediately inhaled a massive amount of air, so quick and urgent that you began to cough violently. You didn’t know where you were, and you didn’t care. All you wanted was to find that sweet relief of air in your lungs and something to secure you to reality. When a rocky surface scraped against your flailing and searching hands, you clutched onto it for dear life, somehow pulling yourself out of the strong embrace of your kidnapper to try and claw your way up the ledge. 
Before you could get far, Bakugou’s strong presence pressed up against your back, one hand holding your hip while the other took hold of your neck, constricting and preventing your body from pulling in the air it needed. 
Too weak to resist, you finally forced your eyes open, tears spilling down your cheeks and further blurring your vision. As his lips came to press against your cheek, you whimpered and tried to gasp in the air to your aching lungs. “Ba… Bakugou, please, stop! Take me back to shore!” 
“I found this cave for us last night,” Bakugou ignored your plea, inhaling your scent as if your fear was addicting. “It’s perfect. No one can interrupt us… You’re safe.” 
“I’m not!” You glanced around, trying to take in your surroundings the best you could in the dim light. From what you could tell, you were in a cave, the only source of light being a hole above you where you could clearly see the beautiful blue sky. It was out of your reach, and with no other visible exits, you knew that this was going to be your tomb. “I’m not safe with you!” 
“You’ve always been safe with me,” Growling in your ear, Bakugou dug his nails into the skin of your neck, piercing the delicate flesh and making you whine. “Now more than ever. I’ll protect you with my life. You and our spawn. Our children…” 
What? That’s… he can’t! All of this was because he wanted to mate with you, to impregnate you and force you to have his children. Was that even possible? 
“But… I’m human! You can’t!” 
“I want you, damn it! No other female is worthy of me.” Moving his hand to instead tangle into your hair, he pulled your head back roughly, leaning in to run his tongue over the new bleeding scratches along your neck. Instantly, that same heat that you could still feel throbbing in your pussy spread like fire from the wounds, making you tremble from the stark difference of cold water against your burning skin. 
What is that…? I… It’s so hot! It feels so good. Is it some type of venom? Or… I can’t think…
Your mind was beginning to grow hazy from the heat, his teeth lightly scraping across the skin of your neck and shoulder the only thing you could feel outside of the fire. 
Bite me… Oh god… Bite me! No, no- what am I thinking? I don’t want it! 
A trembling gasp escaped your lips as his teeth clamped down on your skin, easily sinking into your flesh. The fire returned with another stroke of his tongue along the wound, but this time, it was so intense that your body began to quiver, panting into the stale cave air. You felt like you were boiling, half expecting the water around you to begin bubbling and churning with your flame. Your sex was incredibly hot and aching, and you squeezed your thighs together just so you could feel something. 
You needed relief. Whatever he was doing to you with each bite and lick of his tongue against your skin was driving you completely mad. “What… What are you doing to me? Why am I so hot?” 
A low, satisfied purr left Bakugou’s lips as he smirked against your cheek, releasing your hair to run his hands down along your sides. His nails caught and ripped holes into your swimsuit, which had already been ripped apart at the crotch, so it grew looser against your searing skin. “My mate… you’re almost ready for me.” With a light nudge of his nose against your cheek, you weakly turned your head in response, immediately giving into him the instant his lips pressed against yours. You didn’t care about the blood on his lips nor the strange sweet taste that rolled down your throat, making your belly flutter and burn. 
This wasn’t right. This wasn’t safe. What would happen to you if things went wrong? What was he going to be putting inside of you? He had said children… What did that mean? 
You wanted to contemplate these things, to try and focus on the questions bouncing about in your mind, but they slipped from your fingers the instant you tried to hold onto them. Your mind was clouded by nothing but heat, pain, longing, throbbing, and aching. All the fear you had been feeling was only a vague prickle along your spine, but it was nothing compared to the new overwhelming desire. 
Both of his hands gripping on tightly to your hips, Bakugou pressed you up tighter against the rocky ledge, the roughness of the jagged surface against your breasts and hard nipples forcing a soft moan from your lips. With the sound, Bakugou released your lips, pressing his own against your ear as he growled deep and low. 
“You’re going to be my mate forever. You hear me? You’re mine. You’re my little horny bitch to breed.” As he spoke to you, so dominating and controlling in a way that made your heart flutter, you felt a new presence between your legs you hadn’t noticed before. It was slick with a slimy consistency, with a curved, ridged head and bumps along the long sides that led back to Bakugou’s hips. It was pulsing and twitching up against your sex, every soft nudge to your clit nearly enough to make you come undone that instant. 
That’s his cock… It’s so big… How will it fit inside me? It’ll rip me open…! 
“Don’t-” You choked out weakly, trying to shift your hips away from him to no avail. “You can’t! That’ll rip me apart-!” Another harsh bite to your neck made you squeal, unconsciously arching back against him and stroking your cunt along the dick still between your thighs. The pain had you squeezing them together around his girth, bringing a deep groan from his chest, teeth still planted in your skin. The longer he stayed there, the hotter the wound became, spreading through your body like the many times before. “Ow, a-ah, that’s hot! It burns, Bakugou, please!” 
Instead of responding with words, Bakugou gave a thrust of his hips, stroking his cock along your sex. The instant he ran across your clit, all your restraint snapped like a twig, waves of pleasure rolling over you as you came. Trembling and moaning, you dug your nails into the rocks you were holding on to, spouting whatever words first came to your mind in a jumbled mess. 
“F-fuck, fuck! I’m so hot; It’s so hot! I can’t take it! Please, please no more!” 
“There’s only one way to make it go away,” Bakugou lapped up the blood on your neck, shifting his hips so that the tip of his cock rested at your still twitching hole. “I have to fill you up, until you’re nice and full of my spawn. Or else you’ll burn until you die.” 
“I-I don’t want them-!” 
“You do. Don’t you want to feel better?” 
“Yes.”
“You’ll love having me inside you.” 
“It’ll… feel good…” 
“So fucking good…-” Without waiting for your response, Bakugou began to press himself into you, the head of his thick cock slipping in. The stretch as he vanished inch by inch into your clenching pussy was unlike anything you had ever felt, his girth making you breathless. But it was unlike what you had expected. There was no pain, only an intense pressure and feeling as if you were full all the way up to your throat. By the time he had bottomed out inside you, you had cum again, just the feeling of him pressing against every inch of you enough to push you over the edge. With a low groan, Bakugou dug his nails into your hips, pressing his forehead against your shoulder. “Yes, you’re nice and ready for me. My little mate… so obedient.” 
Your mind was blank to everything but the heat and his overwhelming presence inside you. The sensitivity of your body was heightened to the point that you could feel every ridge, every bump and groove of his cock. As he gave his first slow roll of his hips, pulling all the way out to the tip before plunging in again, you immediately lost all control, craving nothing but the pleasure. 
“Fuck, fuck, I can’t take it! Fuck me, please! Use me! I’m your mate, I want your spawn, please-” Your encouragement immediately set him off to fuck you at a faster pace, slamming into your cunt. Your voice was something that you couldn’t restrain, screaming, moaning, and begging for him to use you. 
“Yeah, that’s it! My filthy little breeding bitch. Tell me who you belong to!” 
“Y-you! I belong to you! I’ll be yours forever- you can use me whenever you want!” 
“You’ll never resist me again?” 
“No, no! Never!” 
As the pleasure began to build rapidly, you rested your forehead against your arm, your eyes rolling back  and unable to stop the drool that dripped down your chin, your mouth permanently open with the most lewd sounds you had ever made. He was using you like a sex toy, fucking you at his own pace and indulging completely in his own pleasures. You didn’t care what he did to you at this point, how many scratches marked your back or how much blood you had lost to his bites. All you could think about was him and his cock inside you. 
You were unsure how long he fucked you like this, but after your third time cumming, he gripped you by the neck and pulled your upper body back. His presence inside you had your hips arched up in perfect position for him, and he didn’t stop, not even as he growled into your ear. 
“Take them all into your hot and precious womb… With this, your body will never be the same for any other man or creature. You are mine. You will be mine forever.” With a few final thrusts, Bakugou came to a stop, buried so deep inside of you that you could feel your cervix stretching uncomfortably. At first, all you could feel was a growing heat, coating your walls and making your core tingle relentlessly. Your clenching and tense core began to pulse with your rapid heartbeat in a way that was new to you, allowing you to relax in his grip. Although your mind was still aching to rid yourself of the fire, whatever was happening to you now loosened your anxious, aching muscles. 
Then came the first egg. About the size of a tennis ball, it passed through Bakugou’s cock slowly, only taking a moment to squeeze into your cunt. Gasping fearfully as it continued to slowly move closer, you gripped onto Bakugou’s hand that was around your throat, finding that you were unable to feel your legs enough to try and kick him off. “N-no, no! It won’t fit- a-ah!” Leaning your head back with your mouth and eyes wide open in a silent scream, you were unable to stop him as he lightly bucked his hips into you, urging the egg further down his shaft. With each light thrust, it moved deeper and deeper, stretching you open. When it finally reached his tip, Bakugou gave a grunt as he snapped his hips roughly into yours, bringing forth a scream from your throat as you came hard from the pressure of the egg breaching your cervix into your womb. 
The waves of your orgasm helped to pass it through, your eyes rolled back as it passed. There was no pain, but you could feel the new presence in your lower belly, tucked safely inside of you. 
Releasing his arm, your hands slid down to caress your own belly, pressing into your lower abdomen lightly. You could feel the tip of Bakugou’s cock inside you, and your light pressure made him growl in your ear. 
“Watch it, my pet.” 
“I… I want to feel it.” 
The next egg coming through was just as blissful as the first, bringing you to orgasm as you kept your fingers pressed into your body. You could feel it this time against your fingertips, bringing a smile to your lips as you bit down eagerly onto your bottom lip. Never in your life had you imagined such pleasure would be yours, to be used and adored by a creature in such an intimate way. 
It was heaven. 
Eight more followed, bloating your belly. Whatever numbing he had done to you had spread to your stomach, so your muscles were relaxed enough to take on the new presence inside you. You felt full, as if you had eaten an incredibly large meal, but there was no pain. Still, that burning need of satisfaction was ravaging your body. It hadn’t gone away like he had promised it would. Was he not done with you? 
Removing his cock from your ravaged body, Bakugou flipped you over to face him, resting you back against the side of the ledge. With a weak grip, you kept yourself up with your legs around his waist, your arms resting limply by your sides. For a moment, you just stared at each other, giving you time to observe his brilliant and handsomely fine features. He was perfection, from the blonde fluff of spiked hair atop his head, to flawless skin, to muscular frame that had you swooning the first time you had met him. He was so gorgeous, and all the sudden so… gentle. 
With your new position, he found the opportunity to caress your swollen belly, running his hands along your skin as he gazed down at your form through the clear, rippling water. It was such an odd look to you. Was it longing? Love? Or was it just pride in the work that he had done here, filling you up with his eggs and making you submit to him. 
Did he even care about you at all? Or did he just care about keeping your body to use as he pleased? 
You were pulled from your stupor of staring at him as his hands traveled up to your breasts, taking hold of the remnants of your swimsuit and ripping it apart. The fabric discarded off to the side, Bakugou leaned in to kiss you again as he squeezed and massaged your breasts, pinching your sensitive nipples between his fingers. Your mouth opened for him with a moan, allowing him to kiss you as he pleased. 
That sweet taste filled your mouth again, making you writhe and wrap your arms around his neck in discomfort of the spreading fire. Your body began to ache again, digging your nails into his skin as you moaned and panted against his lips, which refused to let yours go. Then, without a word, you felt the familiar blunt presence of his cock at your twitching hole, slipping into place like he was simply putting on a glove. You trembled against him as you tried to moan, begging against the kiss for him to let you breathe with any little moment that came your way. He didn’t. He continued to kiss you, to bite and nibble at your lip and your tongue, his sharp fangs piercing the delicate flesh when he was a bit too rough. 
“You’re so delicious,” Bakugou groaned against your lips, glaring into your gaze as your fierce need for pleasure grew more severe. “I never want to stop tasting you.” 
“I-I want to be done… Bakugou, I want to stop-” A squeak escaped your lips as he dug his cock deeper into your cunt, a new presence making itself known as it slithered up along your clit and against your pelvis. It was just as slimy and wet as the cock inside you, but it was smooth, pointed, and not quite as thick. You wanted to look down between your bodies to see, but you were too distracted by his smirk, his tongue dancing across his blood-stained lips. 
“I’m not done with you yet.” 
In that same moment, the new appendage that you couldn’t identify began to press against your cunt, beginning to enter you along with his cock. As you were stretched open, you clutched onto his shoulders, gasping and choking on your attempts to breathe. “N-no, wait-!” Clenching your eyes shut, you pushed back on his chest, but your weak body was no match against his overwhelming presence. “Don’t- not both! I can’t!” 
Sighing in satisfaction as his hand slid up your body to grip the hair at the back of your head, Bakugou pressed his lips against your cheek, his smirk only growing wider. “You can! I would have only done one at a time, but you’ve just been so naughty fighting against me like this. I have to teach you a fucking lesson, that your body belongs to me.” 
“I-I’m sorry! I’m sorry, I won’t fight anymore! I won’t!” Tears began to stream down your face as he forced both of his dicks into your cunt. If not for the fire within you that begged for pleasure and the still relaxed muscles from the eggs, you knew that you would be in severe pain. There was none. No, the pleasure is what was driving you mad. You couldn’t take it. It was going to make you go crazy if he kept this up, and you couldn’t bear the thought of him moving. 
When he finally began to thrust into you, it rocked your body so hard with pleasure that you couldn’t even find the air to scream or moan. All you could do was lean back against the rocks, not even able to feel the scratching against your back as he pounded into you, hard and deep. Head leaning back, you were sure that you must have had an insane look on your face, with your eyes rolled back and a wide, pleasured smile on your lips. But you couldn’t help it. 
It was amazing. You wanted nothing more in that moment than to feel his cocks inside you forever, to be fucked and bred at every chance you possibly had. Nothing could ever compare to this bliss, not even achieving your wildest dreams. Your body was going to belong to him. Your soul was going to belong to him. 
This wasn’t right. 
How could you give in like this? How could he break you so easily? 
It didn’t matter. 
“You like my dicks inside you, huh, my pretty mate?” Bakugou hissed in your ear, pulling your consciousness to the front just for a moment. 
“I-I love… I love them. So good! Bakugou-” 
“-No. Katsuki.” He purred against your lips, watching as your face contorted with your oncoming orgasm. 
“Yes… Yes, Katsuki!” 
“You’re mine, aren’t you?” 
“I’m yours, Katsuki! Fuck, I’m going to cum, fuck, I can’t- I can’t hold it! I can’t!” Your entire body seized up with your release, clutching onto him tightly. With his final few erratic thrusts, Bakugou let out a heavy groan, digging his cocks as deep into you as he could. You could feel his hot release into you, the second dick pulsing and coating your walls. What was more, you could feel the very tip of it dug into your womb, filling you up directly with his cum to join the eggs. You couldn’t believe that you could feel it all so clearly, your body so sensitive and yet so in tune with his that it had seemed you were familiar with this. 
You weren’t, of course. As he removed himself from you, leaving you feeling incredibly empty, all your energy felt like it left with him and you collapsed forward, head against his chest. You couldn’t feel him caressing you. You couldn’t feel his fingers tenderly stroking your hair. All you could feel, as the fire within your core began to vanish, was an overwhelming sense of shame. What had you just done? What had you just been forced to do? None of this was right. You shouldn’t be here. 
Those things you had said to him… you didn’t mean it. Did you? Did you really want to belong to him? Were you really going to just lay down and accept that this was it? 
“[Name].” 
Jumping at the sound of his voice, you timidly sat up, looking up at him in fear as a new wave of tears rolled down your cheeks. Too scared to talk, you waited for him to continue, not even wanting to blink in fear that he would react badly. Though, his expression was quite soft, his crimson eyes glancing over your face with worry. 
“Are you okay?” 
“I… yes.”  You could barely find it in you to speak, the words coming out as a choked whisper. Why did you say that? Of course you weren’t okay. You were scratched up, bitten, bruised, and filled with eggs, for fucks sake! Why weren’t you yelling and screaming at him?
“Here.” Caressing you carefully, Bakugou moved you both over to a different ledge, carefully lifting you up to sit on it. “There’s a blanket and other things there for you.” 
Sitting there with your legs dangling in the water, you slowly wrapped your arms around your swollen belly, beginning to tremble from the cold. “O… okay.” 
With a frustrated grunt at the fact that you neglected to move, Bakugou hoisted himself up onto the ledge, sitting beside you and reaching back to snatch the blanket he had mentioned. “Damn stupid woman, you need to stay warm!” As he draped it around your shoulders, you couldn’t stop but flinch away from him a bit, tears still streaming down your face in fear. “Why are you scared of me?” 
“I don’t… want you to hurt me anymore.” 
Bakugou gave the back of your head a gentle stroke, letting his arm rest around your back. “You got it all wrong, moron. I don’t want to hurt you. Your wounds will heal quickly because of my venom… And being sore won’t last, you’ll be numb for a while.” 
“You act like you’ve done this before.” 
“... We don’t need to talk about that. It doesn’t fucking matter. You’re all I care about, now. I’m going to protect you.” Bakugou caressed your cheek, turning your head to look up at him. “I don’t just go for random women. I picked you for more than just your body. You should rest…” 
His final words were more of a command than a suggestion, and with that gruff growl in his voice, you listened. Scooting back towards the pad of blankets he had set up on the ground, you used the one around your shoulders to first dry off the best you could, before shuffling under the others. It was warm and oddly comfortable, but you expected that you’d find even a bed full of needles comfortable with how exhausted you were. As you settled down on your side, you watched Bakugou as he slipped back into the water, vanishing beneath the surface and leaving you alone in the cave. 
With the silence, more tears began to flow down your cheeks, running your hands up and down along your swollen belly as you craved the warmth of the sun and the cheeky grinning merman you had loved just yesterday. 
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It had been a few days since the incident. News reports were going wild over what happened.
Mirage and company were watching the latest episode of Anarchy Splatcast.
"It was a wonderful afternoon in Wahoo World until terror struck. The tide began to rise and Salmonids began to attack. There were eight people there during the attack, but luckily they all made it out safely." Shiver said.
"Ay, ayy....(that's really scary...)" Big Man chimed in.
"Turf Officials and the local coast guard are saying that every coastal area is off limits due to the rising tide and Salmonid danger. They've already had to evacuate the towns on sea level, leaving thousands jobless and/or homeless." Frye reported. "We can only hope that the water levels will go down soon..."
Sandy sighed. "It's really awful, all of it..."
Mirage spaced out. They couldn't help but repeat that moment in their head, their encounter with Salomon. He was attacking them, and yet....
He stopped. He had this softness in his tone when he spoke to them. A tone that was so familiar, yet they can't possibly recall ever meeting Salomon in their life. And when he was about to tell them something, they were whisked away. Whisked away from the truth they could've possibly been searching for.
"I'm afraid the bad news doesn't end there." Shiver tapped their fan on the table they sat at. "The Great Zapfish, which powers both Inkopolis and Splatsville, has vanished."
"Oh no!! That means we're in an energy crisis!!" Frye gasped. "Everyone at home, make sure to turn off your lights when you aren't using them, try to avoid unnecessary usage of electronic devices and set your air conditioners to a comfortable 90°!"
"Ay! (Yeah!)"
"That's all for now..." Shiver said, and at that point Plat shut off the TV.
"It's like the world's falling apart..." Plat sighed. "This is enough to put someone in a downer mood."
Mirage stood up. "I'm gonna go take a walk."
Before the other two could say anything, they already grabbed their cloak and Buddy and walked out the door.
"Mirage has been acting weird ever since what happened..." Sandy frowned. "I wonder what's going through that head of theirs."
"Hopefully they're alright."
-
Light was fading from the massive city of Splatsville, the sky entering a dark blue twilight. Normally, all the buildings would have their lights and signs turned on, but due to the energy crisis now on hand, there were only a few yellow-light streetlights lighting the way.
As they took one step after the other, someone else in a cloak bumped into them. "Ack!"
The lady looked over her shoulder at them. "Oh, I'm so very sorry M- young child. It's hard to see when there's barely any light."
When they looked up at her, they could make out an older Inkling woman donning clothing that was purple and had gold trimming.
"What is a young person such as yourself doing in the darkness?"
"Just taking a walk. Not exactly much else to do when there's an energy crisis." They respond. Buddy squirmed to escape the confines of Mirage's cloak, incredibly excited about something, but they keep them hidden as best they could.
"Yes...I do love to take walks myself. It's calming. Clears my mind." She leaned over to look them in the eyes. "I think I recognize you."
"Y-You do?"
"Yes! F-from the news report, of course!" She quickly added. "That must have been terrifying, seeing the King face-to-face like that....was he as cruel as they say?"
Mirage shook their head. "Weirdly....no. Despite him leading the army to attack us, he....didn't attack me. He seemed to know me from somewhere."
"I-I see. That's good..." She smiled warmly, closing her eyes, and lost in thought. "You see, the King....he has endured the most tragic of incidents. He is just hurting deeply. You mustn't hold it against him."
"How....do you know that?"
"Haha, when you've lived as long as I have, and seen all the things I've seen, you pick up on a lot." She flashed them a crooked smile. "Take care now. I must go."
As she turned to walk away, Mirage held their hand out. "Wait! ...What's you're name?"
She paused. "I am Coquina."
"Coquina....I'll remember that."
Coquina walked away into the shadows, with an air of grace around her.
Mirage tightened their fist. Could that have been...?
Their attention was taken away from the conversation when they saw a shadowy figure walk down the steps and toward what they assumed to be a sewer grate.
"Is that.....?"
Minu, donning a black coat, looks back at Mirage, meeting eyes with them. They said "Follow me."
She turned into swim form and slipped through the metal grate.
Without thinking twice, Mirage followed.
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