#alice speaks for no reason

[norman-nightingale-9000]

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[yourmamakira]

"Anger management"

c.shuantaro

"Chishiya is very chill, very relaxed, and very quiet, but his girlfriend...not so much. She has horrible anger issues and can't help it that she wants to fight everyone. Even if she's not strong enough. And it just so happens that the calmest person in the world is the only person who can calm her down." She/her/herself/"reader"

Notes: this takes place on the beach, fluff, angst if you squint, slight oc chishiya, guns, violence, harassment, blood,

They had spent nearly a month in the other world, and a week on the beach. In other words, they had been there for too dam long.

Despite being extremely smart and agile, reader at times were a steaming hot teapot constantly on the edge of boiling over, and unlucky for those around her, a lot of things set her off.

She was always stuck with two people, two people whose main goal was to keep her on a tight leash like a reactive dog at a dog park. And truth be told she was very dangerous to those around her. Not only was the girl insanely aggressive, but she was also smart, and quick. Only a few people know of what she was before she came into the other world. But those who don't know could only assume she was some kind of trickster god.

She and Kuina had just got back from a spades game —her specialty— and just nearly finished with less than a handful of bruises, the most noticeable one was on her right leg. A massive Gash from a lion's claws poorly covered in a wrap, it dripped a small trail behind her as she winced with each step.

A gash which caused her to walk with a weakening limp. Now what may not seem like a big deal to others, to a few, was just that indeed. Because it meant the wild wolf was hindered, her normal energy lacked visible volume. And her other stronger willed and long tempered Bodyguard was nowhere to be seen.

This would likely be the only opportunity to have the upper hand her enemies would love to have. And they took it. 

The pair of tired girls made their way through the crowd by the pool. One would think the party would ease up but it did just the opposite as the night continued. The beach was never really quiet. People of all ages come together to celebrate not losing their lives and coming one step closer to leaving this world.

Well, she thought it was all a load of bullshit. These people thought Hatter was doing this for them, when in reality only the higher-ups would make it out. Which is exactly why Her, Chishiya, and Kuina would climb the status quo to come one step closer to leaving this world faster than anyone else.

Of course, she had many thoughts of the card idea not working, but it was the only shot they had and she would take that shot in the dark to get what she wanted.

The two of you coordinated your way through the sweaty crowd, you yelling at everybody who dared to bump into you accidentally. 

Your leg pain didn't ease up and it made you walk a little funny with each step you took. You hadn't seen your lover anywhere, but knowing him he was probably out causing chaos, and that thought of that made you smirk.

Just when you thought that your wounds would be the only pain in the ass, one of the least desirable people in the this world decided to step infront of your path intentionally blocking your way.

You gritted your teeth at his mischievous smile and glared dealthy at the dark haired man.

"Get the fuck out of my way Niragi."

He chuckled as he stepped closer, you made no attempt to move. This trix didn't scare you, but Kuina however stepped closer behind you in fear, knowing that if anything was to happen, you would protect her with your life.

"Awl, still as hostile as ever little wolf? How about I show you a good time in the bed to ease up all that pent up anger"

He licked his lips suductivly, his tounge reached out to nearly lick the top of your nose. You emitted a sound from your chest that almost imitated a growl. Clear anger rising to your face.

"I will fucking kill you if you don't back the fuck up"

Niragi's smile dropped and he clutched his gun harder. You didn't give a dam about that fire arm, everyone knew getting shot was the least of your worries. And so did Niragi.

He chuckled darkly, "what did you just say to me, bitch?"

This set you off, you got closer to him and he flinched. You first spoke in a whisper before yelling and your voice rang though the entire beach.

"I said BACK THE FUCK UP BEFORE I KILL YOU!" Your voice boomed, the voices around you got quiet but you didn't care. Everyone watched intently as the two wild bulls went head to head once again, wanting to see what would happen this time like some cheap reality television.

Just as you were about to get physical, Two more voices entered the conversation,

The beach members split clear a path as Hatter and his crew came waltzing in, and just at the same time, Chishiya appeared out of thin air and stood directly beside you. But your eyes were locked on your rivals. –If you could even call him that.–

If looks could kill, Niragi would suffer a great horrendous death.

Hatter smiled as he took off his glasses, he looked between The two of us before laughing that obnoxious laugh.

"You two fighting again? What's the problem this time? Huh?" He spoke humorously, you and Niragi hated eachothers guts, you Two couldn't be in the same room without trying to rip eachothers heads off. Like two infant babies who didn't get along at the play ground.

Chishiya Smiled Dryly as he looked between the two of you as well. "Yes, what is the problem?"

Niragi took his gaze away from you to look at your boyfriend in disgust. "You better get your slut in check Chishiya, she's wild again."

This made you jump at him and he flinched back, both Kuina and Chishiya took your arms in hold and held you back as you screamed.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SLUT YOU BITCH—DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?" You continued to yell at Niragi without restraint, you spewed insults and threats, all of which you meant, even hatter got a little scared at your words.

Just a you were about to continue, both hatter and Chishya stepped in between the both of you.

Hatter looked at Niargi with a wide smirk, "now Niragi, you know not to mess with Yasei no ōkami, no offense but she would smoke you! How about you two just go to your rooms and cool off. Huh?"

Yasei no ōkami (野生の狼): "Wild Wolf"

Chishiya grabbed your arm and pulled your ear to his mouth, he whispered something and your face dropped while instantly becoming hot. You huffed and crossed your arms immediately calming down.

Whispers filled the silence around the group of you, everyone wondering what he had said, and how he had managed to calm you down every time without fail.

Hatter pushed Niragi the opposite direction of you and he gave you a face as him and his goons walked off. Hatter turned back to you, Chishiya and Kuina before speaking,

"And you Three musketeers, should go on too. Rest on for a long day tomorrow, well the two of you at least." He looks down at your injured leg then back at your face

"Looks like your hurt, let Ann take a look at that before going back to your room, okay? Don't need you dying on us" he laughed obnoxiously at his last statement.

You rolled your eyes and scoffed while looking away. You wanted to so badly talk your shit. But you didn't want to considering what Chishiya had said to you a few minutes ago.

Kuina exchanged a few words with hatter before she grabbed your arm and began to pull you away from the Militants before your fuse blew again.

She was about to speak before Tata came up to your group and interrupted her.

He nodded at the three of you before speaking, "Y/N, Chishiya, Kuina, I need one of your help with somthing I'm working on. I would ask someone else but..."

He trailed off and Kuina Picked up for him, "but everyone's either Drunk, High off thier mind or Trying to repopulate the new world. I'll help you Tata."

Tata smiled and the two of them went off together, you rolled your eyes and began linmping away from where you were told to go.

Chishiya stood there with a raised eyebrow,

"Where are you going?"

You spun around to face him, "away. I don't need help. It'll heal on its own."

Chishiya walked up to you and started to pull you in the direction of Ann before you ripped your arm away from him.

"I'm not going to Ann."

You spoke harshly. Only a few people knew of your fear of the doctors, —which was ironic considering what your lover did for a living— but you managed fine avoiding it before.

But little did you know how bad you needed one, and your Boyfriend wouldn't let you succumb to your infections like you would allow yourself to. So he grabbed your arm and began pulled you to Ann.

You fought him back, very adamant on your fear. But he still prosisted, and he was just a bit stronger than you.

"I said— No!—"

He gripped your arm tighter before looking back you with this glint in his eye that even scared you. No matter how hard you tried to not be, you trusted your boyfriend with you life. And if he's pressuring you to go. Then you need to go.

You huffed and let him pull you to Ann's Make shift med room. But his grip on your arm didn't loosen. Instead, he grabbed your hand and gripped it tightly knowing dam well if given the chance you would bolt. Then he wouldn't be able to catch you.

You bit your lip harder and harder with every inch you got closer to Ann's. Even if it wasn't a real hospital it still has hospital things in it. It still had a hospital vibe.

You gripped your boyfriends hand tighter and he looked back you with his same expression. To others it was just blunt. But to you, you always had a way of telling it meant you were safe with him.

As you walked into the med room the smell of alcohol and blood flew into your nostrils. Your eyes widened as you became stiff at the door way.

Horrible memories began flooding back to you at a rapid pace. You felt as if your heart were stopping and your lungs became full with a familiar feeling of water.

You were reliving your childhood all over again. And you wanted to throw up and die on the spot.

The walls were closing in and your vison was blurry. Everything was spinning as you quickly became dizzy—

"Y/N."

A voice snapped you out of your pounding head. You looked up with tears in your eye and were met with the gaze of Chishiya.

You hauled up and wrapped your arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms around your waist and let your tears fall on to his shoulder.

If anyone seen the mighty Wolf in this state they wouldn't know what to do.

Good thing it was just the love of your life.

You lifted your head up and wiped your tears. No words had to be exchanged.

You looked down at your feet and sniffed as you looked back over to the table full of supplies, you took one more look at your boyfriend before you deeply sighed and walked into the room with clenched fists.

You couldn't register what Ann was saying but it was something along the lines of "leg" "limp" "bad" "infection".

You couldn't bother to listen any further as you squeezed your boyfriend's hand so tight you thought his fingers would pop off.

The visit was over faster than you thought, but you had been distracted the whole time so it could have been hours.

You walked out of the room with a wrapped up leg and tear stained cheeks, you sighed as you looked down at your leg.

You were glad you had no more games for a while now, so at least you leg had time to heal.

As you were once again lost in thought the sound of Chishiya's voice Made you look up.

"So, now that we're done, I think it's time for my promise to come true, don't you think?"

Your face heated up as you looked down to your leg then back up to the platinum blonde man,

"But my leg—" he cut you off as he walks closer, "we, can work around it."

You gulped as you took his hand and the two of you made your way to your shared room.

If we can get anything from this night, just know, you'll be knocked out in a few hours. Forgetting all about the hospital and your hurt leg..

Well here it is, finally. Way way longer than intended, and took way longer then it should have, nobody asked for this to began with. But if you see this and like it, please support me. This took like 4 months to finish for no reason, love you all. And sorry it's mostly reader again, I just love writing from their prospective.

More Chishiya coming soon tho, love you all!

[crystalpallette]

I finally got a full lineup of these losers(affectionate)

(a ppq fanseries of mine, the royal advisors)

[mot-hesbian]

The Mondrich storyline in season 3 is so unnecessary, personally I think they should have saved it for Benedict's season bc I find his relationship with them and his advice to be really interesting and would love for it to go both ways with him receiving advice regarding his relationship with Sophie.

[homielander]

mostly agree but I think that the ratcatcher hangings were more dramatic because larys and alicent got rid of mysaria's spies and the red keep workers in secret

yes, larys was definitely more covert in how he carried out alicent's orders! i was really commenting on the lack of weight afforded to her 1. approving the execution of a bunch of servants who were not tried 2. wiping out mysaria's network of spies who were largely regular people trying to make a living... i just wish we'd seen some inner conflict. alicent has been established to dislike violence (even her council suggestions in season 1 were conflict-averse) and prioritize her duty to the people of the realm. she wasn't directly implicated in either of those crimes (her orders to larys in 1.09 seemed to me like they were limited to mysaria but then we cut to her entire estate being burnt down, and she learned of larys having suspected traitors in the red keep executed after the fact and reacted with this face: 😐).

it's all-around noncommittal framing about this character's descent into tolerating and perpetuating violence. i would be more inclined to give the writers the benefit of the doubt if not for how rhaenyra and rhaenys have been handled. but hopefully this is all building to something!

[mintytealfox]

If Orpheus is behind the hit on Alice, why do you think he'd want to kill her?

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I think he sees her as a threat first long before he sees her as his Alice. Cause it seems like he sent out private investigators and she found them out and that is when they were like 'she is a problem and needs to be neutralized'

Then there are these last three notes in Alice's deduction:

A Note: "Miss DeRoss does have a deep understanding of the manor, and when this information is put together with the previous reports, I cannot help but suspect that those people are much closer than I expected." A Note: "In the beginning, I thought Miss DeRoss' recklessness and bravery were just a front, but perhaps I was mistaken? It is neither a front nor bravery. After all, does bravery require fear to sprout?" A Note: "It's the first time I find myself curious about what the subject of the experiment expects me to think she saw, instead of what she actually saw. But this isn't important anymore." If these are Orpheus's notes, he talks about her as if she is a stranger even though he is referring to her as 'Miss Deross'. I think that he thinks that she is a fake and not his real Alice (I think, that he thinks, that SHE thinks she is being clever by being a reporter pretending to be a 'username' person who is pretending to be Alice) (a serious case of thinking this person is trying to be as clever as he is and thinking he is out clevering her). but in reality its so simple and is just Alice looking for an opportunity to see her home again and find what happened and find her friend oh my gosh. But his thought process of THE AUDACITY of her to be taking on Alice's identity. Which would be a seemingly simple deduction to make cause of course someone would want to pretend to be the lost survivor of the Deross manor to get the scoop of what is happening within its walls. This reporter that is known for her fantastic disguises and character play. Poor guy is so jaded he is missing the possibility that it is in fact her.

With the "its the first time I find myself--" one, I think he is talking about what happened at the Kreiburg racecourse. Wondering if she is putting on a show and knows that it is all fake lol but I bring this up cause this one tells me that these notes are his recent thoughts, and Orpheus's thoughts, and collection of information. She is so sus to him lol

but anyway

"8. Analogical Reasoning: The most similar are the most different." goes along with the "Miss DeRoss does have a deep understanding of the manor,--" one, tells me that he is willing to hope that this is in fact his Alice, BUT he is being held back by his jaded views. Thinking that maybe this could be his Alice, maybe they did find her, but mostly unlikely. But at least now he is willing to play along to see. But she is so similar to his Alice that there is no way that it actually could be her, the ACT is TOO good. Kind of thing. "I am just a reporter" "That is exactly what a reporter who is trying to act like they are hiding that they are Alice to get the ultimate scoop WOULD SAY"

I could be over thinking it just like how I think Orpheus is LOL but to sum up, I think that he thinks this reporter is trying to pretend to be his Alice in a clever way and is really good at what she does (also doesn't want her to blow up his manor games). And that would be the most heinous crime in his eyes 👀

I may be insane about this route but this is where my brain goes for Orpheus LOOOOL 🤣🤣

[partfae]

kinda wanna watch the lost flowers of alice hart for charlie v but the plot sounds a little too intense for me. can anyone tell me if the ab/use is very visceral/a major on screen focus? i’m ok with spoilers

[seaworthee]

first off, you could never make me hate Alicent Hightower.

second. AUGH. i was wondering if they were ever going to address the war being fought over a misunderstanding! alicent was already in the worst position of all time, but this knowledge just makes it worse. luke is dead. jaehaerys is dead. her children are grieving. her father is gone. and All of this is because she felt duty bound in following the wishes of her decrepit rapist husband, and she fucking misunderstood him. this whole war is being fought because of her words, words she always knew were truthful (but people would kind of rightfully doubt or be suspicious of). in fact, i’m sure the verity of her assertion that her husband wanted aegon on the throne was not important to anybody but her. as all of this shit falls apart around her, as people die, as everyone competent is replaced by imbeciles, she knows this is what her husband wanted, she can cling to his words. she can cling to her own honour.

suddenly she can’t even do THAT anymore. the guilt would be fucking insane. and she’s fucking right! it IS too late. it’s like Rhaenys says as they all fucking juggle the nuclear football. its getting to a point where nobody even knows why this war is being fought anymore, but its definitely fucking started. they’re at the very beginning, but it has fucking staaaarted. the brackens are feuding with the blackwoods, the ratcatchers are hanging from the walls of kings landing, the heir is dead…

the thing too is it’s a mistake anybody could’ve made. any woman viserys married would’ve made the same mistake because he didn’t fucking tell anybody aside from rhaenyra about the prince that was promised. he didn’t even tell daemon. he didn’t tell his three other children that would’ve been his heirs if something had happened to rhaenyra. and alicent isn’t a targaryen, and you could bet his valyria obsessed ass was not gonna tell her. it’s so simple and they worked it out so late.

what can alicent to at this point? her father (who probably would’ve tried to put aegon on the throne without alicent’s go ahead) MIGHT have listened to her, but now he’s gone. aegon won’t listen to her. aemond definitely won’t. even if they did there’s fucking no going back now. they won’t step down and apologise. rhaenyra and alicent have found the oars right as the raft tipped over the edge of the waterfall.

[bwaldorf]

heartbreaking! the person you blocked just made a great post

[cosmic-walkers]

I hope they give Gregory some speaking lines and a presence in this next season. I really want to see some in-depth interactions between him and Thomas like in the book, and in this way, the narrative can show the viewers how disconnected the two of them are despite Thomas trying to give Gregory everything he never had. Thomas had people around him tell him that he was a good father to Gregory and even Joanne mentioned how Gregory was spoiled, and from the outside perspective, their relationship is good. Thomas thinks it is, so when he starts to see cracks in the facade he's erected, due to his own inability to connect with Gregory and his own trauma from Walter...it hurts him. Especially toward the end, when Gregory doesn't visit him in the tower or react in the same way Rafe does.

And let me stop here because I will go on about comparing and contrasting Gregory and Rafe as characters and their nuanced relationships with Thomas.

[norman-nightingale-9000]

I think I going to commit suicide

[h0ll0w-gr0v3]

*still out of breath, walking slightly behind Joanne*

Man it got dark quickly, geez fall really isn’t pulling its punches…

*pats Dog Jester’s head*

.. Yeah.

[annebrontesrequiem]

Helaena's not in the episode 7 trailer which mean it's basically dead to me

[atopvisenyashill]

if i did a reread of the walking dead and wrote an essay on how aegon ii and carl are doomed to be the last man standing by their narratives, and what starts out as a sort of cool & nifty super power of always surviving turns into this horrific curse where everyone they know is dying around them & sometimes it’s their fault & sometimes it’s not but either way they can’t ever stop it until they’re sitting at the ending with nothing but their lone daughter to protect but so broken they can no longer connect to her and then their story abruptly ends-

would that be like the Most stupid, nerdy thing i have ever done in my life or

[delicatebluebirdruins]

good to know I am still the only person who thinks Chris and Jill were living together in RC in a purely bisexual way based on those posters

thank you @jeresadaily for this gif

[reel-fear]

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You must tell 👀

*rubs my little hands together* sorry for taking a bit on answering this! My brain has not been braining lately but your ask couldn't have come at a better time bc Grant has been on the mind as of late and I am hyped at the excuse to infodump abt him- [this is gonna be long I am so sorry-]

now for quick disclaimers for anyone reading this that isnt the asker or me- we're not discussing canon Grant Cohen, we're talking my Grant, this black haired dude, that guy. Another fun disclaimer, I was HEAVILY, inspired by Grant's role/character in abomination for my Grant. Taking time to awknowledge every part of his character or story that was inspired by it would make this 10x longer so if similarities are spotted know its very likely I did that on purpose bc I just really love abomination KJHFSDGKJDHGSD-

Alright with that outta the way I'ma talk a lot abt what happens to Grant in the canon of Showtime to explain what I meant and also maybe a bit of me rambling about aus that explore Grants relationship with Sammy n Joey under a more romantic lens. Should be obvious but spoilers for It's Showtime down below~

So Grant in Showtime after he dies ends up joining the ink demon cult, becoming a lost one and earning the title of The Priest.

When the cult was all together him and Sammy worked together to run it. Sammy used his connection to the ink demon to recieve messages and learn more on how to survive in this new situation and Grant made sure the lost ones acted accordingly. [A role not so far off from the one he was forced to take when the studio started facing troubles before his death] Grant also took the job of dealing with sacrificing souls and sending them back to the dark puddles, which sometimes was members of the following chosen at random and sometimes whatever poor soul found themselves captured by them.

However when Malice rose from the puddles and made a deal with the Projectionist to seize a considerable amount of the studio as theirs, the cult was split up, Sammy and Jack forced to flee to the music department and Grant with the rest of the following being down in the area of Chapter 4. This put Grant in a very bad spot, the lost ones were very shaken by this event and since then Grant worries their faith in him has wavered.

An important thing with the ink demon cult was that it is meant to be a more realistic take on how a cult works. The Ink Demon runs the cult, he is the most powerful figure in it and yet the hardest to contact, so Grant and Sammy are little more than middlemen tasked with keeping things running or else they face the ink demon's wrath. Sammy is sadly very aware that the ink demon is not as benevolent as he or the lost ones would like the believe. Grant likes to think being the Priest will at the very least protect him if things go wrong, but he is sadly mistaken.

Grant is in a very dangerous spot, he knows the lost ones beneath him are getting angsty and worried about just how truthfully safe the cult is or if they should believe in the power of the ink demon. But he also knows if things fall apart the lost ones will come to tear him apart long before they go for the ink demon. Despite him merely being a puppet for their lord. A role Grant is not ready to acknowledge, not because he isn't smart enough to see he is just a pawn, but because he chooses not to think about it, less his paranoia eat him alive yet again... A very important thing to keep in mind with Grants character.

Grant did in fact play this role in life as well however, when things started going wrong in the studio, Joey was very quick to turn away from what was going on and continue asserting everything would be fine. Which while a lie he himself believed was a lie nonetheless. However Grant quickly became his right hand man as people like Thomas and Wally started noticing cracks forming all through out the studio. Staff going missing, the ink changing in the way it behaved and an eerie feeling the machine created in both of them.

Grant despite deep down being smart enough to know things were going poorly, parroted Joey's words, hanging off of them himself and doing whatever he could to shut down any attempts to bring to light the things going wrong. Of course, him and Joey both ended up paying the price for their lies, but so did everyone else around them. But unlike Sammy, Grant barely even seemed shaken to see that, like a conspiracy theorist seeing evidence their theory isn't true only makes them double down harder, Grant only seemed to double down on the idea that if he followed every order he was given. Surely things would turn out better this time.

So that's canon to the story of Showtime, but I do want to take a second to get some AU non canon ideas out of my brain centering around Grant and his relationship to both Joey n Sammy. In canon Grant's only romantic interest is Thomas, his literal husband and there is a lot of interesting conflict there, but I fucking love shipping so of course I have a million aus merely indulging in ships I think would also be interesting to explore in their own contexts. In this case, I'm gonna ramble a bit about Sammy x Grant and Grant x Joey and the interesting things I think there are to explore in their relationships in Showtime.

So you might've noticed that while not literally [as saying the ink demon is Joey in Showtime, while somewhat true, is not the entire truth of the situation and simplifies it quite a bit] Grant did end up following Joey to the grave... And then kept following him beyond it. Something that is objectively~ very queer of him.

There's just something so compelling about the idea of Grant yearning for Joey so much, being so close yet so far as his right hand man but not being brave enough to become his lover eventually drove Grant's love for Joey to become an outright obsession. The idea that Grant's feelings for Joey became so intense from how hard he pushed them down it blinded him from seeing the truth of the situation outside of the way Joey painted it. Then dying and his obsession turning into an outright worship of him.

The idea of Grant settling for just being Joey's favorite lackey, his most loyal pet and knowing that's his role but not caring bc at least it makes him stay by Joey's side. Ohh it's an interesting one to say the least. I even did a few sketches of them u can see-

They are doomed by the narrative to me and have been on my mind a lot lately can ya tell? KJDHSFGKJHDFSGKJHDFGSD

However when it comes to Sammy and Grant, I think there is a lot of interesting potential between them too. After all they share being the Ink Demon's henchmen in all of this and to see them both come to terms with that and try to find comfort in each other is such a fun idea to me.

An au where they both decide to ditch the cult and the ink demon and on their own try to figure out what happened to Joey and how to fix things is very compelling to me. I could see their relationship starting out as doing all these things for each other under the excuse they just need comfort until it starts to turn to actual feelings for each other. Both of them coming to terms with the fact Joey was not in fact a perfect person and maybe didn't even know how bad things were getting deep down himself but also finally letting themselves hold him accountable for the lies he told... It's a very fun healing narrative and very in line with a lot of the themes It's Showtime deals with.

Either way, I just really love what I've done with Grant's character in It's Showtime, he's for sure one of the most fascinating to me and the themes his story explores are ones that are important to the story as a whole and by extension me. Umm this turned out very long but I hope u enjoyed the read! Tysm for the excuse to infodump abt him, I was itching for one as u can see KDJHGKJDHFGKJDHFGSD.