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U N19

U N7 masterlist 14/14 + 2 extra chapters

word count: 3257

music: bicycle by rm, blue by yung kai, all i wanted by paramore

warnings: yoongi's a babygirl (evil) (not really)

if he hasn't started inserting himself into your life, the feeling might have gradually settled to a cooling temperature where it would stop to matter in the end.

that's one thing you realise when he calls you.

Yoongi doesn't let you go on for longer than a week, without reminding of himself. the whispers behind his voice, drawn by your imagination, suggest that it is now a collective effort. you have no idea of scale of the operation, just how many people are involved in this scheme: you want to consult with HESCGC but find the chat has been abandoned, as in, everybody left it except for you. it breezes over with a somber, unpleasant feeling. why would they leave the chat even if it was inactive? you console yourself by saying they probably have a lot of chats in their messengers and get lost in them.

it's too early to think about Kim Seongjun yet, and your nights with Komangi are serene and full of rest, sometimes reinforced with comfort when Yoongi calls. he switches from texts to those, and you don't notice until it's too late. he calls more and more, often to speak about nothing, and one night you're suddenly sharing news and the bedroom starts smelling like spring in the middle of September.

"age definitely made me less dramatic", he mentions casually one night, "everything seems so simple nowadays".

"wasn't simple before?"

"it used to be cloudy. can you help me out?"

you like how his voice goes up politely, repeating the rainbow's bend, when he's being shy.

"with what?"

"i have to perform in Pohang next Sunday", he grumbles. it sounds like there's a gun at his temple. you think he's being cunning.

"you can always say no. hope that helps?"

he chuckles.

"no, i have to. chaebol will be there".

sometimes you're reminded of the nature of his job. it's been a while since you even thought of them as idols. so many years after they started they don't come across restricted at all, to you. it's a fine shake to reality: he will always be an idol, no matter how far he runs from it and how many ties he manages to sever with the scissors of success. there will always be at least one left. it's how the country works.

"you want me to protect you?"

"yeah. can you come?"

"i will".

Yoongi doesn't send you his schedule anymore; arrangement is outdated. now he calls you once a week at night, because the daytime is busy; sometimes he sounds tired, sometimes, joyful. a break is only a break for those who have a child or a pregnant wife to care for. the others are still working their assess off, but also in Yoongi's case it's something that he chooses.

"you have pears yet?" he asks.

"yes, do you have apples and plums?"

"too many, i don't pick them at all".

"you should gather them and send to Taeyang".

he puffs instead of an answer.

"i am kind of so busy".

you chuckle. you think you should come over to Seoul more often, maybe every other weekend. have coffee with Yuri who is suffering without you; or even with all the girls.

you decide to take the fast train that will take you to Pohang in an hour. Yoongi's schedule aligns with yours in that you can catch it at five and be there for the beginning of the show. he wants to catch up before he goes on stage; but the evening just doesn't go as planned.

if you had chosen to be there later, and gone for the usual suburban train that rides with all stops for two hours, you might have actually been there earlier. the Busan express runs someone over on the tracks; the passengers peek out of the windows as you all remain stuck on the iron rails and wait, for almost an unbearable time. you send him a text saying you'll be late because of someone's suicide. when you finally make it to the arena in Pohang, you enter the stadium, vibrations drumming through the bones in your feet and climbing up to your chest, and Mr. Lee meets you. you can hear the sounds of Yoongi's music as he's performing. the huge screen doubles and broadcasts all his movements, delaying him only for a fraction of a second; he's in a white silk shirt and doesn't get to rap about his dick tonight; it's a charity event for the cultured people. you haven't heard this full-instrumental version of Seesaw in a long time; feels fresh with his new, soothing voice.

"am i very late?" you scream to Mr. Lee, walking right before you. he turns back for a second.

"third song".

his big thumb goes up to calm your mind. you put your hands into the pockets of your leather jacket as you walk slowly through the narrow paths, snaking in the middle of seats and railings, in the sea of purple. feels like a magic forest for a second; the mellow and melodic voices of the Armys singing along make it sound like a lullaby even with the drums.

he takes you backstage and leaves, stepping into his black spot: Mr. Lee is more often there, than he's visible. with time, even though you generally didn't get to see him as much as Yuri did, he started seeming like an uncle to you. always a tight smile under the guise of a busy frown. strong forehead, curious eyes. this dude laughs so much more than he wants to let on. you step away from the light as well; people swarming to and fro, they are busy. you take off your jacket, and the shoulders turn out to be covered in small shivers. the air is sliding through the uneven open space of the gloomy backbone of the stage. music is booming. his voice is thundering with echoes, projected into another direction, here, behind his back, it sounds distorted. you figure you haven't been to any music shows in a while and should catch up; Busan's a big city, and even international bands come over sometimes. your head bobs together with the rhythm of the music, a blend of songs from different years, the lyrics fluctuating from angry and rash to thoughtful and optimistic. Yoongi doesn't speak much in between them, knowing that he has a defined window of time to do his seven pieces and get off the stage, but you hear him eventually call to hear his name shouted, in his raspy voice he uses to tease the audiences. they erupt in an ecstatic yell; most of them have grown alongside Yoongi and never lost their longing for him. just like you. somewhere in the arena, there's a girl who is turning a respectable age next year, who still has a weird little tear in her heart when she hears her old friend Suga. or, worse, you think, rubbing a piece of someone's old chewing gum stuck to the floor, with the tip of your sneaker. a young beautiful girl, glowing that special shine that sets her apart from the mature, who is ready to do anything to get to him. who has the same kind of desperate desire for him that you used to have. who isn't dancing now, isn't reacting like the rest of the crowd, but just stands there, looking at him with those starry, dreamy eyes you used to have.

his segment ends, and the crowd sends him off with the last roaring hug flying onto the stage. the chokehold that Bangtan still has on this country... about 70% of the stadium is there for him and not the others. they should be sure to remember that.

you move yourself a bit further, feeling the surge of stylists and workers pacing closer, as Mr. Lee opens the curtain and lets Yoongi in - or out - and they surround him, undressing him from the wires. he refuses the towel, nodding, then you see his eyes searching for you. he asks something, and the guardian points at you as you step out of the shadow a little and wave at him. the way he starts moving, with his hand extended, like he wants to run away immediately, makes a funny parallel to the first time you ever met face to face. you catch his palm that slides up your arm and eventually grabs your shoulder in a hug. he moves your body away, starts walking at once, putting distance between you and the noise.

"sorry i'm so late", you murmur.

"did you arrive now?"

"no, i heard seesaw".

"oh", your bare shoulder is soft against his silk shirt. you hope he can keep it; the pearl shade of white looks stunning on him. the friction makes the strap of your dress slide down and you adjust it.

"you missed summer".

"sorry".

"it's alright, i'm just yapping".

he puffs his cheeks, releasing the adrenaline from the stage.

"we always talk about breaks and i always start missing performing together after six months".

"that seems to be the tendency with you reluctant septuplets".

he gasps theatrically, opening the door of the dressing room for you.

"that is so right".

"if you were girls, you would all get your periods simultaneously, while being in different countries".

he looks like he's having a small enlightenment at your words. as soon as the door closes, he puts the other hand on you, giving you a proper hug, but the nature of your dress turns it somewhat sensual. Yoongi doesn't hide the way he's looking at the curves of your body as he kisses you on the cheek. this is turning too casual, and you're not sure you mind. you haven't clicked your teeth at him in a while.

"where do you wanna have dinner?" he asks as he sits himself into the chair. all the products are already neatly arranged on the desk in front of him, but there are no stylists to wipe the makeup off him. he takes a bottle of liquid and taps the cotton pad on it. you decide not to be too useless, so you walk over to him, taking in his new hair, the usual side bangs and a small mullet, with strikingly black hue again. the hair clips are right there in front of him, but he doesn't use them, rubbing his forehead. you move his bangs away and pin them up with the clips, and he looks almost criminally cute. you actually want to bare your teeth and scold him for the face he makes, as he gives up to your hands. his fingers tug at your hip to pull you on his lap, but you gently push them away, bowing instead and offering the view of your cleavage. his skin is a map of his life; lines going down from his nose and the laughing wrinkles at the corners of his eyes; one monolid and one double. acne scar on his cheek: you have a similar one on your forehead. he simply refuses to lose the cheeks. you rub off the foundation carefully, removing the darkness from his eyebrows.

"i have a job offer for you", he mutters.

"what's the pay?"

he thinks a little.

"two kiwis and one scare a day".

your lips curve in a smile.

"you can keep it".

it's weirdly therapeutic, even calming, to work on his face. it's a gesture for sure, you see his eyes become more and more soft as you clean him. after, you send him off to the bathroom to wash, and he returns the usual Yoongi, bangs standing up, lips pouting, the way you used to see him in Seoul all the time. his eyes are searching for something around you and the chair you're sitting on.

"where's your bag?"

"i have none".

"ah". he blinks.

"i thought you'd stay for the night".

you raise your brows a little.

"tomorrow's Monday, i need to be at work. i figured i'd be coming for the show".

he rubs his hands, thinking, with the expression of refusal that he doesn't display often. chews on his cheek. maybe if you hadn't been so late he would've let it go, but there was a reason you put on this dress specifically. actually, you're not sure what the reason was. guess to tease him, simply. see how weak he really is.

Yoongi steps out of the dressing room and closes the door quietly, then you're left for a couple of minutes on your own. you fidget with the two colorful hair clips in your fingers, then step back to the mirror and put them back into place, turn off the light.

he returns, moving a little more swiftly, with a different light on his face.

"okay, i will take you to Busan", he says. you nod.

"you hungry?"

"nope, i had a little..." he pauses, "are you?"

you shake your head no. put your jacket back on and he changes into casual clothes, then leads you out, and down the corridor.

"aren't there people outside?" you ask and get your tail from under the jacket.

"about a hundred people", Mr. Lee says, "there's no other way out".

you are surrounded by the security, Yoongi's assistant Vicky and her minions, and the other staff that belongs to the arena.

"just walk over with us", Mr. Lee advises, "you can let your hair down".

Yoongi smirks about something. it's a trap he's leading you in, slowly, pretending it's nothing. you remove the tie and let the hair spread on your back and cover your face as you approach the exit. Yoongi pulls his mask up and puts his hand through the hair.

"you first".

Mr. Lee tugs you along and you leave into the short path leading to the car, trying not to look to the sides, but also, don't appear too scared. Vicky is at your shoulder. a dozen unhurried steps, and you jump inside the black suv, and the door slides closed behind you. you can see Yoongi emerge then, walking slowly to the purple ribbons who separate him from the people. he signs something, shakes hands, turns around to get into the camera shot, then moves on. about three minutes later, the door slides open again, and Mr. Lee puts his hand up to protect his head, as he gets inside.

"looted some food", he laughs, showing you crackers packs. they make you giggle for some reason.

you ride through the evening Pohang, already dark and still mysterious to your eye. been here only once, haven't memorized much except for a veinous-looking bridge and a giant hand reaching out from the sea. the car only takes you to the hotel where you lose everybody except Yoongi.

you think about one of the songs from your long-abandoned U N7 playlist, while the rental seamlessly slides along the highway. they didn't take away his license after all, only fined him a hefty amount; Vicky paid it without him having to remind her. the yellowish-white flower-shaped lights fly by the road so quickly that they turn into a garland, and the peace inside the car is so good-natured that it's almost unbearable. you thought you had Yoongi in your life as a character, years ago, but now he is really here, consciously. he is slow. he lives unhurriedly, eats without haste, takes his time to think, falls in love slowly. you barely speak on the way to Busan, he only yawns a couple of times and asks if there are any crackers left. you hum along with the music, and he pulls the skirt of your dress up you knees to see the scars from two months ago. now it's a light crust, small cuts covered in dark-red rough skin in the shape of the shards of a meteor. he needs to leave again in the morning, quite early because it's now a road back from Busan; by midnight you're at home, and he walks over to the back yard first, to see the pear trees. Komangi is wandering there like the mythological spirit that is getting ready to offer him a wisdom or a task; Yoongi picks up a couple of pears and walks back, satisfied.

the whole time you're feeling like you were going to trap him with the dress, but instead, as usual, he traps you; his hands easy and skilful with the knife above the table, he cuts the pear into small pieces and puts them in his mouth. it's pale-yellowish-green, very similar to the tiles in the bathroom on the first floor of his house. you feel connection to everything now.

"you want some?"

you open your mouth and he puts there a little piece of the pear. as your teeth work it, you're reminded of the supreme quality of the tree-grown garden fruit. so, that's why they all like the confiture so much. there's been a lot of sun this summer and autumn; September is still hot, with rains coming much later in the month. Komangi enters the kitchen and rubs himself against your leg, and you reach down to caress him on the lean back.

"i love you", Yoongi says, peeling the skin off the pear butt. your hand lightly taps the table, and you both look away. the unwillingness for the direct eye contact unites you.

"i was going to say it about three years ago, but i decided you'd slap the soul out of me".

you lean against the wall as Komangi leaves your side for the food bowl.

"smart".

the kitchen is pretty dark, the only light is the golden glimmer from the back yard. you feel comfortable like this; this apartment has been awesome. kitchen smells like your perfume: fruity and sweet.

"Busan didn't help", you muse, "i am still obsessed with you".

"oh, thank god", he drops the knife and the pear and pushes the chair away as his body rises. Yoongi steps to you and bows, finding your mouth with his sweet heart-shaped lips. you put the palm to the side of his face, tenderly, and he leans in.

Yoongi lowers himself and sits on your lap, keeping half of his weight on his toes, so you can breathe and wrap your arms around him.

actually you think he's been very calculating about it.

the cold nonchalance of his lewd offer a year ago, the gradual new habit of having him near, the kinks in place of conversations, the rare meetings and business texts, might have all been parts of his scheme. HESCGC.

you've been loving him in the way that would've made it impossible to have him, for six and a half years. the person who fell in love with him now, in a little more than twelve months, is a different person. less prone to romanticizing feelings. more cautious but less self-hating. the people who met almost a decade ago are different people now. Yoongi has always been smart and you don't care to ask him whether he was purposefully creeping up on you steadily and slowly. it doesn't matter. his face pressed into your palm, the weight of him crushing your lap, he is now here. yours. Jungkook's hand in yours under the plum-dark night sky in Prague, drizzle sobering you up. the tapioca boy was probably the best thing that did happen to you.

taglist: @ktownshizzle , @benyhime , @ryryvna , @amarawayne , @mar-lo-pap , @lili-spots , @kiki-zb

#yoongi imagine #min yoongi x reader #yoongi x reader

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kittyzzzwriting · 19 hours ago

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sang-woo x fem reader

sfw + nsfw headcanons

A/N: these are reposted from my wattpad, I made these like months ago. i have edited it, but so prepare for bad spelling, possible cringe anything. enjoy ?

sfw headcanons

⋆୨୧˚ - hes a complicated man, busy, tight on money and trying his best to love you..or just ruin you

⋆୨୧˚ - secretly into younger women, he tries not to make it seem creepy.

⋆୨୧˚ - acts of serves and small words of affirmation - to keep you wanting more.

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sang-woo pulls you right into a embrace after a long day, a soft sigh coming from between his lips before whispering right into your ear with his tired voice - whispering simple but sweet words to you.

little do you know, he's secretly manipulating you.

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⋆୨୧˚ - keeps a little picture of you in his wallet, and he can't help but smile everytime he stares at it.

⋆୨୧˚ - smells like cigarettes and cheap pine tree scented cologne

⋆୨୧˚ - will get you to sit on his lap, when he does work or even just for cuddles and to talk

⋆୨୧˚ - will, and I mean will gaslight you, of course, after leaving his mother's side he doesn't feel like he can be depended on, so he resorts to you.

⋆୨୧˚ - of course, if you're just a sugar baby or a fling, he doesn't care about you - once he's gone, he's gone. he doesn't want to get attached

⋆୨୧˚ - and, if you're together in a 'proper' relationship he's not letting go. you're stuck sweetheart.

⋆୨୧˚ - really possessive. and I mean really possessive.

⋆୨୧˚ - this man will do as much as he can to get you to stay, start doing things with you more often, listening..

⋆୨୧˚ - sang-woo can not get angry at you, if he does - he'll leave temporarily until he feels better.

⋆୨୧˚ - oh..your waist..hips.. loves them. skinny, chubby whatever. either way, his hands are always there, tracing patterns

⋆୨୧˚ - if you've got more of a chubby type of body, he's squishing and teasing you.

⋆୨୧˚ - either he's the big spoon or just not touching you in your sleep.

⋆୨୧˚ - not big on flirting! he prefers to give you small compliments that always leave you asking for more.

⋆୨୧˚ - he'll mostly brush it off if you wear his clothes, he'll definitely be amused, giving a small chuckle. Sometimes, sometimes taking a picture

⋆୨୧˚ - will literally beat you to death if you go anywhere near his glasses. /halfjoke

⋆୨୧˚ - he hates the question 'can I try your glasses on?', loathes it. If you're going to wear his glasses ever, he's putting them on for you.

⋆୨୧˚ - if you're in college, he'll help you with some work. i imagine he's good in mathematics and english

nsfw headcanons

.* — hnnggghh he's 7 inches.

✧.* — either goes with missionary or has you ride him which he LOVES

✧.* — also will let you ride his face

✧.* — sex in the car? 100%

✧.* — loves it when you whine out 'daddy' or even 'sir' it turns him on even more

✧.* — breeding kink, yet he doesn't want children. I think he just wants to fuck you.

✧.* — little bit of a pervert..

✧.* — especially if you're younger, takes your panties.

✧.* — as I said before, he loves you sitting on his lap - definitely bringing you to sex cuddles and cock warming.⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀

sitting on sang-woo's lap, working away on an assignment via his laptop as he has you seated on his lap. his hips rolling against yours which makes a draws a lewd sound from your throat as member stays nestled inside you.

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✧.* — he's not too big on cumming on you, he likes to fill you up, but if he had to he's gonna cum on your stomach or back

✧.* — soft groans and grunts

✧.* — slaps your ass. you've got marks, bruises on your skin all the time - sometimes it hurts to sit down.

✧.* — either fairly sloppy or slow, savouring the way you feel. but, will always fuck you hard when he needs, wants to

✧.* — panty stealer. and he keeps them, always buying you more.

✧.* — remember how I said if you're in college he'll help you with work?

well, he's also into roleplaying as your professor.

✧.* — he'll get you to sit on his lap as his fingers slip under your panties - forcing you to do the work otherwise he won't let you finish

✧.* — and if he's unhappy with the work, you're on the table and he's hunched over between your legs, shoving his tongue against and even trying to get it in you, teasing and spitting on your cunt and clit.

#kittyzzzwriting #x reader #headcanons #squid game x reader #squid game smut #sang woo squid game #cho sang woo #sang woo x reader #squid game sang woo #player 218 #sang woo #squid game #squid game headcanons #squid game s1

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evilminji · 12 hours ago

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Oh god MISS PIGGY! She would <.|.> <- vague representation, TUCK them Like The Football!™ get PICKED UP, IDIOTS~! >:D

Arty would be squirming like a fussy toddler who wants doooown. And Capy would just "huh. Guess I'm airborne now. I accept my fate." *goes limp*

Ha ha! Resistance is FUTILE! She am TANK. Get LUGGAGE'D. *carries them around, because she can* (younger Diciples are soooo jealous. Why do THEY get Uppies? Miss Piggy is warm and soft and gives GREAT uppies!) (She also kicks like a freight train, so OLDER Disciples learn not to say SHIT. Just cause her arms are occupied, doesn't mean The Piggy Mountain Goddess can't bring THE PAIN)

And honestly? She kinda WOULD balance them out? She has the stamina and tank-yness to keep up with Arty, but the "let's hang out in a clearing by a brook and just... breathe" to Vibe with Capy. AND both of THEM have a modern understanding of "what qualifies someone as a Person".

Starting with the most basic "can you answer 'are you a person' with 'Yes' and working your way up". Like? Miss Piggy CLEARLY is a person. That stopped being a question WAY back. Ya'll are just assholes. And WE, here, DO NOT EAT PEOPLE.

Fuck it! They probably offer to swear off Pork in solidarity.

No animal consumption without first verifying it ain't sentient. It's a pain in the ass. But ethical consumption of foodstuffs or DEATH, motherfuckers! No one gets to get into heaven BY EATING PEOPLE. What are we, demonic cultivators?!

......Capy wants to photosynthesize.

God damn it. Now that I've introduced her to Piggy, I KNOW she's considering it. She Vibez with nature to hard, and too often, not to come down on their side in the Man vs Nature war. She'd be looking at stalks of wheat... consumed by guilt. T-the steamed bun was delicious... but AT WHAT COST!?

Was that bowl of rice INNOCENT? Minding it's business!?

Cruelly struck down before its Time!!?

Great going, Piggy. You've impacted the Chill. Now she's FUSSY and trying to save the bamboo. Help the grass reach its full potential. Enlighten the squir-

OH FUCK SHE SUCCEEDED WITH THAT ONE. (Nah, Fam, Squirrel oc was here the entire time. She just thought this would be the funniest time to reveal herself.)

(She was right.)

(This is hilarious)

Actually? You know what we don't see enough?

People who get isekai'd, go "sure I'll Change The Plot" but then... just kinda get swept up in the local power system/a hyperfixation and forget. (Or like, lose the desire too)

Cause like... do any of YOU know what Cultivation feels like? Physically? Can any of US really tell how we'd react to sitting down, trying this whole "gotta stay under the radar, act like everyone else" thing... only... ONLY?? To have our SOUL go Brrrr~☆

Have all our insides get filled with sunlight. Our veins, sigh like they just stepped into a hot shower after weeks rolling in questionable mud. Feel... clean. Calm. Filled with light. Just a good ol... no thoughts, head empty, vibe session. With the UNIVERSE. Breathing it in... breathing it out... breathing it IN... breathing it-

Wait...

HOW MANY DAYS HAS IT BEEN?!

And like? The great irony? Being that they ARENT TRYING. There is no Challenging The Heavens or Ten Thousand Dragon Dist Of Doom Sword nonsense. No drama with face slapping or inner/inter Sect politics. Just? The slow but creeping realization that this is the calmest they have ever felt in their life.

No rent. No capitalistic hellscape. No riots or genocides she can't go stab, due to complexe economic and sociopolitical reasons, firstly being it wouldn't solve shit. It's? So calming? She can just sit under a waterfall. Or under a tree. In a garden! People leave her alone!

Ha...ha ha...aha Ha HA!

*vaguely deranged hysterical laughter* She FREE!!! AaaaaaAAAAAAA-!!!!!!!

Do they have to sedate her? Yeah. That was a pretty big Qi Deviation. She may have hulked out a bit. Bit people. But heart demons get to the best of us, man. She hasn't felt this chill in her LIFE.

Fffffuck the plot. *cheers her tea cup* you do you, boo! Go get um, honey! Aim for the eyes!! *siiiiip*

She? Would ironicly? Be the most advanced Cultivator in her generation? Solely by virtue of just really, REALLY enjoying Cultivating. By, ironically, not CARING and simply doing? By accepting who she is and as she is? Drifting gently upwards like a feather on a warm breeze? The universe would reward.

She would be grasping the meaning of the project, where others fail.

Not demanding power. Not striving to break the game. Not DEFYING Fate...

Just? Gently setting Fate aside. Setting everything aside. And sinking into starlight. Cause positive reinforcement go Brrr. Why all these arguments? This drama? Have a steamed bun. You should go meditate. *sedated grin with flower background*

Is she high? Fucking with people? No one knooooows.

But she's the Sect Leader's and various Shizun's FAVORITE. Like a human Capybara. Immaculate Vibes, OC. Keep up the good work! (She's so low maintenance! Never causes trouble with other Sects! No drinking, no whoring around in the mortal villages, and best of all? She'll help with paperwork then stay for tea! Listen to you ramble! It's like the daughter you never had.)

@legitimatesatanspawn @babbling-babull @fangirlingpuggle @mayfay @hdgnj

#all my beautiful Cultivator Children #i love them so much #they deserve to cause chaos #it's what mummy would want #bwahaha #haha #and yes i meant to break that laugh into two parts #dao of the Capybara #treasure maker oc #the sisters they never wanted #ling xi cave pig #and her horrid horrid feral gremlin Squirrel Sister #you know the one #that rodent actively at war with the Qing Jing Peak lord #and wining #does that make her an aunt?#respect your elders

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aziraphales-library · 2 hours ago

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Hiii

Thank you for all of the work everyone has done for this library! It's truly a gift to the fandom and fanfic readers.

I have read almost everything on here regarding to Human AUs, and was wondering if you could recommend more? I really enjoyed Mon Horrible Chéri and Postcards from Paris by ghostrat, also Don’t be late by Ina_Sirena. The jobs don’t have be the same, but general meet cute vibes and fluffiness, slow burn would be a nice bonus!

Thank you again! Have a nice day~

Hey. Here are some fics to add to our #human au, #meet cute, #fluff, and #slow burn tags...

Rainbow Connection by Dragonfire42, QueenOfTheCute (T)

Need some fluff today? Have some fluff! (Btw, puppets are made of fluff!) Aziraphale/Crowley - as PUPPETEERS! “'What’s the show about?” Crowley asked. “Well, it’s about two friends, Mark and Book, who have opposite personalities and live in a magic library and go on story time adventures to teach kids to love reading. Together, they are BookMark. Get it?” Coming from anyone else, Crowley would have found the pitch cheesy. But coming from this kind and fluffy haired puppeteer, he couldn’t help but find it endearing..." This is my first AU human Good Omens story. And in real life, I'm a puppeteer (you can see some of my puppets here @dorkpixie on Instagram and TikTok) - and I'm over the moon excited to use all my random knowledge in writing this! Written for the Good Omens Theatre Bang, inspired by the art by Queen of the Cute (@queenofthecute on Tumblr). Special thank you to @fifthstiel for beta-reading! (Also each chapter title and intro will include a quote from a Muppet song, and I'll link the music video at the end, because everyone's day would be better with a Muppet singing in it!)

So Much Wine, Merry Christmas by DumbGayVampires (T)

In the aptly named South Downs village of Heaven, population 2,222, there is a bookshop. This bookshop, A.Z. Fell and Co., sits proudly on the corner of Main Street and Angel Avenue, and is almost always closed. But if you know who to talk to and what to look for, you may be able to get a special appointment with the man in charge, the eccentric Aziraphale. He’s always dressed like it’s 1949 and good fortune seems to smile upon those who cross his path. His strange ways have made him something of a town celebrity. Rumours swirl about him, is he a time traveller? Is the bookshop a front for something much more insidious? The mystery of Aziraphale has haunted the people of the South Downs for decades. But every year, on Christmas day, the enigma opens wide the doors to his shop and lets visitors take whatever they want, for free. Or at least, that’s what Crowley read in his brief about the man, 60 miles away from his office in London. ----- Aziraphale is an independent book seller, Crowley works for a chain trying to buy his shop, miscommunication and Hallmark movie shenanigans ensue

Trivia Night: A Love Story by MissUnderstoodLyrics (E)

No angst, all fluff and fluffy smut! Crowley just moved to the States and has already been roped into the pub trivia competition for all of the King Street businesses, which they take very seriously. He just wants to work and go home to his cat and his plants, but the promise of free drinks lures him to the first game, where he meets a gorgeous, witty, mischievous angel, and suddenly trivia night doesn't seem quite so bad.

Finding Love in All the Right Places by Mizmak (M)

Aziraphale adores his quiet village life, which is suddenly threatened by the Archer Corporation’s massive luxury resort plan. When their landscape architect, Anthony Crowley, turns up looking for a local guide, Aziraphale agrees to assist the “enemy” as a spy—hoping to thwart him. But it turns out that stopping the destruction of his ideal home might succeed if he and Crowley work together. And Aziraphale might find the love he’s been yearning for along the way.

The Tryst Before Christmas by pilatesandpinot (E)

Best-selling author and audiobook narrator Anthony J. Crowley is determined to not become a one-trilogy wonder. In order to overcome a stubborn stint of writer’s block, he and his loyal agent Muriel pack their bags and head to the seaside town of Tadfield. He hopes that the rolling hills, salt cliffs, his quirky neighbors, and those South Downs vibes will help him find the inspiration he needs. In fact, he might even audition for the town’s production of “A Christmas Carol”. What he doesn’t expect is to act alongside Aziraphale Fell, his neighbor and owner of the bookshop who seems to turn his nose at Crowley and his shenanigans.

Growing on Me by Hermiola (M)

Anthony J. Crowley isn’t up to much these days. In fact, you could almost say his days as a rockstar are pretty much behind him. Rotting in bed all day, with half-written songs plaguing him and no lyrics to speak of, everything points to his career being over for good. That is until Maggie, his manager, claims to have found him the perfect lyricist to get him out of his slump. And what better way to get the creative juices flowing than spending a whole month together in a secluded cottage on the Isle of Skye? Provided Crowley’s attempts at making the man run for the hills aren’t successful… * “You wrote these lyrics,” Crowley repeated just to make sure he’d understood correctly. “The lyrics about sucking dick. You wrote them.” The stranger wrinkled his nose, a blush appearing on his rounded cheeks. “Well, it’s actually meant to be an exploration of taste and touch as a way to connect with another person, as well as a metaphor for–” “Sucking dick,” Crowley completed for him. “Mmh,” the man hummed noncommittally, lips pursed in both annoyance and embarrassment.

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #human au #meet cute #fluff #slow burn #mod d

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casa-dei-corvei · 20 hours ago

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Your OC in a Modern AU

Tagged by the lovely @rooks-dagger! 💜 Sancha's not as exciting as Ember I fear, but this was a lot of fun! 💜

Rules: Share what your OC's life would be like in a Modern AU. This could include their job, hobbies, style, overall vibe, etc. Feel free to include photos and explain your choices, then tag some friends to play along!

Almost forgot to tag people so I'm gonna (no pressure) tag: @pixiedurango, @cute-ellyna, @rook-de-rivas, @suntamer, @crushedv3lv3t, @basedonconjecture & @rooks-dagger 💜

Sancha Favero of House de Riva

Dancer, Assistant Instructor, "Babysitter"

Puting everything under the cut because yapped a lot 😆

Dancer

Sancha an her brother have been members of House de Riva since they were children. When the House of Crows (the artists collective their dance house is a part of) decided to start hosting more artistic endeavors in the "Historic Heart" of Treviso, their House and a few others opened secondary campuses in the area. Sancha, Arlo and a few veterans and new bloods from the House were brought over to the new campus.

It's not so bad, being in Treviso. She gets to meet new people, other dancers, artists, the proprietress of a local fashion house that even the Dellamorte family gets their costumes from. Hell, she even got to meet a foreign author and opened up talks about having some of his works adapted to stage performances. She gets much more opportunities to perform and gets to interact with a wider audience.

It's just a shame Treviso still doesn't feel like home.

Assistant Instructor (/personal assistant)

While the Treviso location has a good amount of their dancers and instructors, Viago didn't bring all of them along. Obviously Salle is still the home of House de Riva and most instructors still remain there. While not a full instructor, Sancha's been part of the House for so long that she knows what Viago tends to want from his dancers (even if he's terrible at communicating it sometimes). She also gets to help out with the others troupes, they usual perform together anyway, and it's always interesting to get a glimpse of how the other instructors run their houses.

Also, even though they don't perform much and tend to just finance performances and art installations nowadays, she gets to work closely with the Dellamorte family. (Well, mostly Viago works closely with them and she's just there with him taking notes and asking questions). She already knew Illario through her brother, they've even performed together sometimes, but working with Lucanis is fun and interesting. The mysterious Lucanis Dellamorte, even though he's from Treviso, seems just as lost as she is most days. But he lets her sit with him when they run into each other at the coffee shop and he really seems to like her ideas and her company. Plus, his dog loves her, even if he's a menace to everyone including Lucanis, and it's just...nice.

Babysitter

Not that she actually gets paid to do it or anything. When not actively practicing or helping with instructing, Sancha helps watch over the children of the dancers and the younger fledglings themselves. Lots of pretend, snacks, singing and stories.

When not watching them, she's more often than not roped into helping her brother watch his boyfriend's daughter whenever Illario's busy with work. Which is fine by her, Hillaria's a sweet girl who loves when she gets to hang out with her Tio Arlo & Tia Sanchina.

I know Crows = mob/ crime family is the usual go to for modern aus, but a while ago I saw art for a figure skating au and I thought, what if I did that but dancers? And proceed to have some ideas and made some living Dellamorte cousins and had a great sad time because I love them so much but they can't be alive in the DATV but they're great </3 and yeah. XD Plus all the headcanon posts I've seen around recently about the Crows and dancing really made me feel better about going w/ my original idea.

And fun fact, Sancha's surname is Favero because that's actually her birth name from before she was given to the Crows! (as mentioned it in an OC tag game I did a while back <3)

#Tag Game #Modern AU Tag #OC: Sancha de Riva

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heiznx · 24 hours ago

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✦ ┊ seeing you at the bar he went to with ajax.

what to know ┊ this is in a modern era, no one is mentally well, you are they/them, you are from mondstadt, and despite what the header says, the name "kunikuzushi" will be mostly used.

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When Kunikuzushi thinks back about his upbringing, he would've assumed that he would end up in bars or clubs as much as the bard he's familiar with or the ginger friend he's known since he was a child, but he did not.

Ajax happened to invite him to a bar at the right time to celebrate with his previous co-workers, and knowing them, it was less likely they would even show up, so the two of them were left with two cocktail towers.

As far as he knew, Ajax wasn't such a drinker either, but he spends Mora relentlessly, regardless, it's a waste to leave the two towers three-fourths full, so Ajax opted to invite more people to help them empty them.

One of the people invited was the bard that he doesn't really talk with, but knows that he has a fixation on alcohol; it's controlled when he pays for it or if he has duties, but if there are none, he is relentless.

Kunikuzushi doesn't understand alcohol addiction, but he's familiar with the concept of addiction itself.

There's the repetitive flashing lights and dancers on stage, but people seem much more focused on their own group gathering rather than the people on the stage or the disorientating background of the dancers.

"Aether said it was [name]'s birthday," the ginger said, his gaze directed at his screen and can't help but think to himself that he could care less if you appear or not since it was not like he knew you. "We'll merge with their groups and they'll go ahead here first."

"They're coming?" he asked, his surprise lowering the volume of his voice that he was muted by everything that was happening in the bar and was only understood due to his lips. "Just the both of them together?"

He knew Ajax would nod to that answer, so he just looks away, finding his own question dumb, because Aether was known to always be stuck with you since the current month had started for some unknown reason.

Granted you have a kind personality and have been friends with him as far as everyone knew—but he was suddenly close to you now as far as everyone also noticed.

Thinking about it just gives him a headache that he'd rather not have this way, so he grabs a glass and puts it under the tap of the cocktail tower; he doesn't like thinking about the business of other people anyways—unlike you.

Ajax talked about his work as a corporate worker under the Tsaritsa while waiting for the rest, only getting himself a glass and sipping ever so often, not wanting to get wasted before the rest could arrive.

Kunikuzushi was the opposite, wanting to nearly incoherent by the time you arrived; he’d once heard that alcohol increases relaxation because of some brain chemical—something about neurotransmitters—that he doesn't remember the name, and he very much wants to be relaxed.

Still, despite wanting to be drowned in what he was drinking, he made sure to give Ajax replies that he was listening, after all, Ajax's coworkers were once his too before he left to—

"Oh, it's Ajax."

It's sickly sweet.

He placed the glass down to look up as Ajax stood up saying, "Welcome, birthday celebrant and Aether! It's been so long, and you two came together?"

"Thanks to [name]'s car at least," the blond replied, giving Kunikuzushi a smile after noticing him much there wasn't much to say since he looked quite tipsy already.

"I heard you came from Snezhnaya until the Tsaritsa set up another branch here, how are you adjusting?" you asked, smiling while shaking hands with Ajax since he offered it.

"It's... hot, to say so at least," Ajax said before his eyes trailed down to your clothing at to your companion. "Matching tops?"

"More like his clothes," you laughed. "Lumine nearly tripped the stairs with bleach and, well, there goes my top, and Aether's clothes are nearly all the same."

Right, the same black, tight, and cropped shirts that Aether usually wears was something you were also wearing.

"I'm surprised to see you here," Aether speaks, his voice nearly being drowned out with the volume of the entire bar as he sits beside the individual with an indigo-colored hair. "Last time I saw you, you were with the Harbingers."

"He's changed now," Ajax said, moving to sit in his earlier place as you politely sat on an individual chair outside of the couch. "Said he's here because of a breakup."

You were eyeing the contents of the table, being noticed by Ajax and he said, "Did you want anything else?"

"You ordered two towers for yourselves?" you asked the obvious, much to Kunikuzushi's irritation that he can't help but scoff.

He knew you noticed, it was just that you were granted with the patience of a saint with him that you didn't even comment or feel insulted; that was just one of the rewards you got from the course you took and finished in College.

"There are people that are supposed to come with but ended up canceling, corporate work gets busy for them," Ajax said and you nodded to yourself. "But I paid for them, take it as my gift, comrade. If you want, we can order more."

"I appreciate it, but I'm not a drinker," you laughed. "But if you're still insisting later, perhaps I could go for two more towers for the rest of the group."

"Kuni was dating?"

Aether seemed to be the only one to be surprised about that fact, because the ginger was aware of it and you were just looking pleased since you had a past bet with Aether about it; you won, basically.

The fact that he was dating seemed to just past through you too, when you would often be disturbed and ask the speaker if they should be saying such to you without the person of the topic's consent.

"Pay up," you smiled towards his way, a little too happy to be receiving money despite your already impressive wealth.

"Why was Kuni dating a topic of a bet?" Ajax asked.

"Good question," Aether said, almost bitterly, albeit a little irritated to be giving away cash as he tries to hand them to you but fails short. "The bet was years ago and I forgot why."

Kunikuzushi did his best not to react to see the blond's hand over yours as you reached for the Mora in his hand; he so did not need you two to be doing that in front of him especially after knowing he just underwent a breakup.

It makes him feel bitter that he pushed the empty glass underneath the tap of the cocktail tower again for another one.

Aether continued, "I'll send the rest to you online."

"You didn't bring cash?" you asked as you counted the Mora on your palm to see it wasn't the amount of money that you should be receiving. "But you remember my number, right?"

"Did you even ever changed numbers?" Aether asked as Kunikuzushi raised the tap to fill up his drink.

"No, had the same number for seven years already."

"That's quite a feat," Ajax commented, side-eyeing his friend that took a large swig of his drink before back to you. "I change every two weeks."

"Well, to be fair, I'm not that popular so..." you responded, smiling a little that you don't mean to be offensive about what you thought about the life of Aether's friend. "But is... your friend okay...?"

"Funny of you to ask that," the person with indigo-colored hair said with evident hostility making you look away; he doesn't look happy.

Perhaps it was because you were a stranger to Kunikuzushi that he was wary of you, but Aether still couldn't help but lean to you making you lean your side near him, assuming he's going to whisper.

"Did you bring your evil eye?" he whispered and you leaned away to smack his thigh for saying that, but he leaned close to continue his words. "I don't understand why he dislikes you so much, but he usually has the best gut feeling out of all of us."

Aether basically insinuated that it's either your jewelry was the problem or you, and that caused you to frown, hissing at his way, "I bring it for protection, not to hex. How could you doubt me now? You're such an ass."

"Is this your way of flirting?" Kunikuzushi frowned. "Right in front of my drink?"

"But what happened to the rest of the group?" Ajax asked, trying to make proper conversation with you and Aether. "I thought you said the rest of the Anemo would be here."

4NEMO, to be exact, odd name, but that's a band group consisting of Venti, Heizou, Xiao, and Kazuha—majority being light-weights in terms of consuming alcohol.

"Kaeya, Diluc, and the rest are coming too," you said, meaning there will be a large crowd later that will be coming for your birthday. "They said that they would be a little late."

In summary from how Kunikuzushi understood it by listening and not talking, apparently the drinking was supposed to start later 8pm, but Venti and the rest wanted to move it in a later time because he hasn't recovered from the previous attended with Kaeya and the rest.

You and Aether only read the group chat when you were already in the middle of driving close to the bar, and it was fortunate that Ajax texted the group chat and tried to invite people, thus there you were.

Aether's words kept overlapping with yours when you were trying to tell the story, and halfway, you gave up and started serving yourself a drink—that Aether took for himself.

"Is this your revenge because I won our bet?" you said, quite bitter as you frowned, but you weren't truly offended or that serious about it. "Real petty, Aether."

If Aether took Kunikuzushi's, he would've been offended, then again, he did already mention that you were granted with a patience of a saint—he just realized that you had the compassion of one as well.

He stayed quiet, drinking a few more since that was the reason for him being present there anyways, and of course, he's not dumb enough as to not see you glancing at him often each time he puts the glass beneath the tap of the cocktail tower.

It wasn't shot glasses, but usual 8 ounce glass.

Ajax and Aether started talking while you muse yourself in your phone to keep yourself updated about the people who wanted to go to the bar to celebrate your birthday even if the location was voted based on the drinkers of the chat.

Since you came with your car, you wouldn't drink too much when you knew you would be driving; he did notice you tasted the drink of the tower, and then you just left the ice to melt in the drunk as you tried your best to stay connected with the rest.

You weren't a drinker so you were waiting for the ice to melt so it would be drinkable for you, but you failed to notice that the ice melts quite quickly since some of the gourmet ices were hallow.

"I'll leave you guys for a bit," you said, thinking you were heard until you lifted your head to see Ajax and Aether talking and Kunikuzushi being the only one attentive enough to hear you despite his flushed state.

"What?" Kunikuzushi asked, sounding quite irritated to see you hesitate on speaking up again.

"I... I just..." you murmured, very much looking like you're reluctant to talk to him. "I wanted to see if the VIP room was available now, just to double check since the rest were going to come early so we could move there."

He nodded to your words; he heard you well, he's flushed but definitely not drunk—it's reassuring and you seem to trust him, considering that you blinked a few times in his way.

Still, despite telling him your plan, you hesitated on leaving them, and you seem to glance at him and then at the reception desk, only making up your mind when he waved at his hand for you to go.

It was quite funny.

You got up and left to ask about the room that you and your group most likely shared money on to be able to drink in a secluded spot.

Aether watched you when you left but when he connected the dots together, he went back to talking to Ajax while Kunikuzushi tried to sober up a little now, taking bits of ices in his mouth now to chew after realizing that his thoughts are going in a direction he didn't want.

"I thought that you'd get along well with them, Kuni," Aether said, referring to you as he went to refill his drink as well, he sounded quite surprised.

"What made you think so?"

The question escaped his lips before he knew it, of course, it's because he's tipsy, but he didn't like not being able to think before he say anything, considering his withdrawn personality.

"I mean... they smile a lot," the blond said, earning a chuckle from Ajax by the implication that smiles would be enough for you to earn the favor or trust of Kunikuzushi.

From his previous encounters with you, he can say that the blond was not wrong about you; for someone with an eye like him, he would know that you smile at everything even if you were nervous, or that you smile merely to comfort.

He looked down at the bucket filled with ice; your eyes crinkle when you smile as well, it's like when you smile, so does your eyes, you smile even when you're alone or just on your phone like you were capable of smiling even if you break someone's heart.

"Even if I smile a lot, it didn't get me the favor of Kuni, did I?" Ajax said as he leans back on his seat with a hearty laugh.

Aether's head turned towards Ajax as Aether responded in a playfu banter though he half-heartedly actually meant it, "Unlike [name], you have ulterior motives, they're really genuine and I thought... I just thought they'd be the person you might need."

Aether's words hit a nerve, especially when Kunikuzushi placed the thongs down and replied coldly with, "You're saying this to someone who just underwent a breakup."

"I... I was insensitive, sorry," the blonde murmured and it was drowned out in the loudness of the bar, but Kunikuzushi read his lips well. "But who even was—"

"They said we can go in."

You appeared behind the couch Ajax sat on, placing your hands on the headrest of the couch as you looked at the three of them, not knowing you cut in on Aether's words.

The flashing lights of the bar made you look like a silhouette as you made your way around the couch the ginger sat to go back to your earlier seat as you continued, "But only if you guys want to since we're still waiting for the others."

"Let's stay for now," Aether responded. "Just wanna stay in this loud environment first since it's quiet without Venti and the rest."

"Oh, Aether, thanks for giving my glass ice," you said, much to the blond's confusion.

Perhaps you felt like a small connection has been formed between you and Kunikuzushi, but you weren't being discreet in your glances anymore when you looked at his empty glass and asked, "Are you trying to sober up?"

He scowled in response to your question as if to put up a wall, and it's obvious enough that he was still irked by what the blond tried to insinuate between you and him.

As usual, most likely thinking that he was not in the mood for your bullshit, you smiled apologetically at him and then murmured, "Sorry."

Not like he heard your apology that was too quiet in the vast place, he just happened to be able to read you lips and body language; he tried not to mind so much as he scoffed and looked away.

He does not want to sober up anymore, pushing his glass under the tap, his mind repeating the words Aether dare utter when his emotions are already all-over the place—not that the blond would know he's a part of his ill feelings.

Was it so wrong to see if you would react to his fifth glass, since someone in his life did mention that that number was dangerous?

You minded your business too much after he scowled at you, which is something he's supposed to be thankful for considering that's the reaction he was supposed to incite from any usual human being he's ever interacted with.

"I think we should move the towers, Diluc and the rest—" you said, raising your head from your phone and turning to them to realize that most of them were all already a bit tipsy.

His judgement or perception was probably clouded already and the flashing lights of the bar wasn't helping; he feels like standing would be enough to send him hurling—it's what he gets for rushing his drinks.

"I'll help," Ajax said, having quite the tolerance for alcohol, or perhaps because he was still in his second glass.

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Much to the favor of a certain bard, the couch in the room were nearly full; Venti was like the star of your birthday because of the way he takes many drinks while Kazuha was quietly muttering and asking Xiao to pour him more.

From what Kunikuzshi noticed, Xiao had the same tolerance as he did, and you haven't touched your glass except for the time people asked to click drinks with you; clearly, there are other places you could've celebrated your event.

Was he staring at you the entire time to notice that?

Not at all, but Venti wanted to switch places with you earlier since he did not want the couch since he goes around when he drinks; you were in his line of sight since your thighs are literally mushed beside his.

Though prior to the drinking, people actually presented their gifts to you, there were obvious things such as alcohol or wine's boxes or gift bag, or maybe Venti's gift that was an instrument with random rose that made majority of the people feel interested.

Majority of them translated to people of Mondstadt that Aether, Ajax, Xiao, and Kazuha was just as confused Kunikuzushi was.

You reacted rather nervous, and now you're still looking at the flower making Kunikuzushi glance at the flower every now and then while Kaeya engages on a drinking competition with the bard.

The word competition had set Ajax off and now he's in the game as well despite being in a clear advantage, while the rest were drinking, you were in a conversation with the rest of your guests.

"You... ordered a cab to get here?" you questioned, rather looking offended at Jean's words.

While you appreciate their attendance, you much preferred if they asked for your help considering it's late in the night; you were strict with your money, but not when it comes to your companions or your gas money.

"No, we were with her," Diluc responded much to your relief. "Albedo and Sucrose were supposed to hitch a ride with us, but they got busy when we were supposed to get them."

"Rosaria and Barbara couldn't make it because it's Sunday," Jean adds. "Eula is... just as busy."

"Your sister texted me prayers, and I understand they're not around," you said. "I'll drive Aether home, so if any of you needs a lift, let me know."

"Ask Ajax," Kunikuzushi suddenly spoke up in a casual manner, which you should be concerned about. "We came in with a motor."

The information was troubling, because Ajax was obviously tipsy, and while the rest were having fun, you all weren't truly going to stay for too long since it was a Sunday night and everyone should be heading home by midnight.

"How about you, Xiao?" you asked, tilting your body forward to have access to the person beside Kunikuzushi. "Or the rest of Anemo in that matter."

"We took the cab," he answered, looking down at his drink. "Though if you need my assistance..."

Now that Xiao said that, Kunikuzushi now can't help but wonder if the popular people he's with right now were just so lax with their security, because what did the person beside him mean that he just took a cab despite being a literal celebrity?

You can't even hide your concern as you glanced at Kunikuzushi and then at Xiao, but then you murmured, "Then again, it's Anemo we're talking about... I shouldn't even be surprised anymore."

"Does Ajax lend his motor?" you asked, now looking at Kunikuzushi.

It's the alcohol, because there was no way he would look at you like that, he knew it himself as someone who underwent heartbreak; he knows better, he has to know better.

You looked away and murmured to yourself, "Of course he does, he'd just buy a new one if he has to."

"I'll drive if I you insist," Xiao spoke up, much to your immense gratitude despite you not really insisting anything, but that's his way of offering.

"I suppose six people can fit in the car if we try hard enough..."

Ajax would surely agree to Xiao taking his motor home on his stead, and you'll just tail him for security and drive Anemo, Aether, Ajax, and Kunikuzushi—all in order—home since you were that concerned whether or not they'll live another day.

It's something you do, and when Kunikuzushi thinks about it, it feels exhausting, because at the end of the drive, you'll be alone driving home in suffocating or relieving silence.

"You can leave Aether to us."

You trust Diluc to drive his own car, but you don't trust Aether to be with them in his current state; your emotions are at your face that anyone coherent can tell you were mildly uncomfortable.

Jean adds, "Lumine texted us to make sure he's sober before we go home, it should be okay. She told us it's important, we'll make sure to follow through."

"Lumine did?" you whispered, though the music outside could still get in the room, you just mouthing the words were enough. "Okay."

You love your friends loudly and your concern was palpable; the least the people close to you could do was to help you even if you don't actively ask for it.

The thought could've come from the alcohol, but it's the first time Kunikuzushi had seen you be with your friends physically in his presence—you were capable of loving them so loudly, and yet you were so quiet about him.

There's a slight jolt on you when he suddenly leaned on you, making Jean, Diluc, and Xiao look at you in concern that you might not be okay with what he's doing, but you shook your head as if to say you were okay with it.

He's very much drunk, but he shouldn't be doing this.

It's the alcohol in his system that moved his hand to rest on your knee, and it's the alcohol in his system that tells himself that he wants to be loved too—not loudly, but maybe to let your friends know about him too.

It was the alcohol in his system that broke his heart as you continued to talk to your friends about work and that there was little reassurance that you want them to know anything about your private relationships.

He can't resist the shiver on his spine when you clasped your hand on his underneath the table by your lap, your cold palm over the back of his hand.

Something must have changed in you to do that, maybe you were intoxicated too, because there was no way—there was no way you ever wanted anyone to know about him—not with his upbringing, especially his mother.

But you were sober, you barely touched your drink, and your body was cold unlike his that were heating up.

It's suddenly hard to breathe, and he can't blame it on the alcohol, because this was the very thing he longed for despite your impressive wealth and the affections behind closed doors; he won't take it as hallucinations.

God forbid this wasn't real; you could be friendly, but you don't accept that much affection from anyone with a fragile background since you were trying to keep your name clean in the public view.

Being a Harbinger wasn't something questionable, it was a occupation that gave chance to those who needed it—the flaw in his background was his mother that he ran away from thus backlash for his choice.

Your companions were all popular as well for different reasons, and the clearest background he knows of was Aether's and his twin, anything in their childhood could barely be traced, not even when he was a Harbringer.

The rest was a blur, because all he remembers were what you did.

An hour before going home, some stopped drinking already and there was a lot of empty jugs of water; he wasn't so coherent but he remembers the tumbling of the glass and his wet lap and your pants—what he remembered most was the tissues in your hand while you tried to keep him from growing cold from the water.

Thank goodness for the shorts.

Ajax did lend Xiao his motorcycle, and Ajax was the one to assist Kunikuzushi out—by that, he was just watching him the entire time as they exit the place to the parking lot because he refused to be held.

He remembers it because you told Ajax to put him on the passenger seat while you checked on Diluc, Kaeya, Jean, and Aether.

It was still loud considering Kazuha didn't entirely sober up and Venti was still just as loud, and he can't rest with Ajax shaking his seat and asking if he was obviously barely coherent; he can't even be convinced by Venti to trust you.

He supposes Ajax was just worried that he was drunk and that he might not be safe with you, since he was going to be the last to be dropped off; he wanted to feel embarrassed how Ajax was so openly telling you that you were odd, but he was too exhausted.

"He lives with me," you clarified after you got in the car, adding to the loudness of the car. "He had enough GABA from the alcohol, he should be fine after relaxing—and stop bouncing in the car!"

Suddenly, he's not so exhausted anymore, because you had just declared the fact that you were in a relationship with him, but made Ajax just argue with you further, because as far as he knew, Kunikuzushi broke up with someone—rather—you.

And you mentioned GABA, that's the neurotransmitter you've learned in your first year that you kept mentioning to memorize; he remembers now.

He's coherent when it comes to these moments, that, at least, he's sure of, because he remembers the following hours despite being in and out of sleep.

He was the last to go home with you, but he remembers that after dropping off everyone else, you drove to a nearby convenience store for water and you knocked for a minute for him to wake up and unlock the car for you.

You had to get him water, chips, and then you two stayed somewhere you can park the car, because he wants to vomit out all that he drank since he wants to make out and you kept refusing.

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hzn ┊ had an writing that focused on both of their perspectives, but i think it would be better to focus on scara's side muna (first)... not that i'd publish your or [name]'s pov... this was supposed to be something exhausting but i feel too bad T-T maybe in another time.

#genshin impact #genshin impact kunikuzushi #genshin impact scaramouche #genshin impact wanderer #kunikuzushi #scaramouche #wanderer #kunikuzushi x reader #scaramouche x reader #wanderer x reader

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atiny-for-life · 5 hours ago

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Do you know if there's someone who did like an abridged version of the ateez lore or maybe a good short explanation of the lore? I'm a new atiny and i just wanna get caught up to date because I know everyone is gonna get into the lore once the new album is out

Well, since I don't really consume other people's lore content for the sake of keeping my brain in check, I can try to give you a somewhat briefer rundown:

Fever Part 1:

In this album's Diary Entries, we meet Ateez for the first time and learn a bit about their separate backstories:

Hongjoong's family left him behind and he hopes to bring them back together by becoming famous. But until he makes it that far, he views the other Ateez members as his family.

Seonghwa sees a girl dancing out in the street someday which inspires him to get into music and performing. After the girl leaves, he finds her bracelet on the ground which has the words "Be Free" engraved in it - this connects performing and freedom in his mind.

Yunho's older brother got struck by a car and died before he could fulfill his dream of becoming a musician so Yunho wants to pursue that dream for him. He firmly believes Hongjoong can help him achieve just that.

Yeosang lives in a very controlling household where his parents keep him booked and busy at all times with violin practice and such. In order to keep his sanity, he's started getting into taking apart appliances and putting them back together to learn how they work. He's last to join the other members after they ask him to operate a drone for them.

San grew up in a family that constantly moves around so he could never make any friends. He's really lonely and just longing for connection, so when he meets Ateez, he's finally really happy, but then his parents tell him they have to move again.

Mingi grew up in poverty and has severe depression to the point of being suicidal. He doesn't get along well with other students and sticks to listening to music with his headphones firmly in place to keep himself somewhat sane. That is, until he meets Wooyoung who won't stop talking to him and sticking by his side - they quickly become inseparable.

Wooyoung wants to be a performer but has severe stage fright. He meets Hongjoong, Seonghwa, and Yunho when they're already a trio with their own hideout where they listen to music and practice together. Wooyoung is then of course also the one who brings in Mingi to join them.

Jongho wanted to do nothing but play basketball throughout his entire life until he sustained an injury which doomed him to never play again. Discovering music and performing for himself then becomes his new dream.

After being together for an unknown amount of time, the eight members one day realize their dream is futile because they'll never make it in the music industry, so they all leave. All but Hongjoong.

He stays behind in the hideout and falls asleep, which lands him in a dream where he meets a man in a black fedora who hands him an hourglass and tells him there are many worlds which exists - all of which are real. And the hourglass, called the Cromer, is the key to connecting those worlds.

Upon waking up, that hourglass is sitting right there on the coffee table in front of Hongjoong and the sand inside begins to flow upward. This is when the other members return to the hideout.

The visualized version of this exists in the form of the Diary Film but Inception also touches on their backstories:

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Next comes Thanxx, which is when we meet another version of Ateez - a version of them that lives in another world where everything is similar but different - you know, your classic parallel world/alternate universe situation.

For clarity's sake, you should know everyone refers to the first universe as "A-World" and to this universe we're now talking about as "Z-World".

The man in the black fedora Hongjoong met in his dream, the one who handed him the hourglass, is from Z-World and we now get to learn a bit about who he and the alternate versions of the other Ateez members are:

The eight of them are rebels at heart. They don't like being told what to do - not by teachers, not by rules, and certainly not by an oppressive government. So as they grow up, they go from causing trouble at school to straight up rebellion.

As pure lovers of music and dance, they decide to take to the streets and perform there as an act of resistance, because - as we later learn - their government has decided to ban the arts - all arts - as means of stopping people from feeling emotion. Why that is, we'll soon uncover.

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Fever Part 2:

We're with Ateez from the Z-World again who, in their universe, call themselves "The Black Pirates". Additionally, it should also be noted that this music video takes place prior to Hongjoong receiving the Cromer in his dream, but let's continue:

In the Fireworks music video, we see the Black Pirates gathering up guns inside a hideout in the dessert. Why? Because the government is after them for continuously violating the law by performing in the streets at night and for also being in possession of the Cromer.

In order to track them down, the government sent so-called "Android Guardians" after them - tall humanoid robots dressed in white with a masked face.

Knowing they might not be able to keep the Cromer safe, Hongjoong uses its powers to travel to the A-World where he hopes his alternate self will use the Cromer to come find him and the others so they can work together and free Z-World from its oppressive rule.

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In the Diary Entries, A-World's Ateez now arrive in Z-World for the first time. They land in the hideout we just saw in Fireworks but their alternate selves - the Black Pirates - are already long gone, taken away by the Android Guardians. It's likely that weeks, if not months, have passed between then and now because travel between worlds comes with a side-effect of travelling through time as well.

However, more Android Guardians are already back at the hideout's doors - likely as a result of detecting the Cromer's energy signature. They break down the door and start attacking but Hongjoong manages to distract them by throwing a piece of glass.

After getting away, they get attacked again and, this time, the Android Guardians manage to steal away the Cromer, but Ateez's lives end up getting saved by a pair of siblings - one of whom had her voice stolen by the Android Guardians (this will be relevant in a bit).

The brother of the pair tells Ateez a bit about their world, such as how the government ran A.I. simulations that determined emotions are to blame for terrorism and crime and, therefore, removing this "variable" will lead to a Utopian society.

In the wake of this, all arts were banished - anything that could stimulate emotion - which then led to the rise of the Black Pirates who rebelled by performing in the streets. That is, until they were captured.

While the sister of the sibling pair (referred to as Grimes girl in the entries) is tending to Wooyoung's ankle, Wooyoung uses the opportunity to ask more questions about what happened to her voice, which is how he learns from her brother that her voice was transformed into a blue bead of energy that still exists out there and could be recovered from the Strictland dump.

"Strictland" is what the people of Z-World have named their own world, by the way.

The manager of the Strictland dump is a man called Left Eye who was driven to insanity after breathing in the toxic yellow fumes of the dump which kept showing him hallucinations of his dead daughter. However, due to his position, he also has insider information about the Android Guardians, meaning he might know where they took the Cromer.

Splitting into two teams, Ateez head to the Strictland dump where one half of the team recovers the Grimes girl's voice while the other talks to Left Eye.

Fever Part 3:

At the beginning of this album's Diary Entries, we learn that Z-World is already post 4th industrial revolution, meaning the human lifespan in this world is 200 years on average and, by extension, compulsory education lasts 40 years.

But back to the Strictland dump where Yunho now uses his personal history of losing his older brother to talk Left Eye down from his manic episode while Jongho and Yeosang recover the Grimes girl's voice from a cave.

Once reunited, the entire bunch of them head out to the Android Guardian's prison island where both the Cromer and the Black Pirates are being kept inside a former art gallery.

When they arrive, they find the Android Guardians high on the fumes created by the burning of people's dreams (yes, just like voices, dreams can also take a physical form in this world), meaning they're just lying on the ground and Ateez and the others can walk right on by.

They find the Black Pirates in a cell made of glass where Z-World's Hongjoong tells his alternate self that they all called them to Strictland for a reason: the Black Pirates want their alternate selves to continue their mission. They want them to keep performing for the people of Strictland so they can feel again and resist the government's tactics of oppression.

In an act of acceptance, A-World's Ateez then obey the request to put their hands on the glass cell wall, mirroring their alternate selves trapped within. Energy swirls between them as the black outfits are transferred from Z-World's Black Pirates to A-World's Ateez right before the Android Guardians wake up from their drunken daze and start attacking.

Ateez manage to run away and Yeosang even finds the Cromer and tosses it to the others, but gets caught by the Android Guardians in the process who offer Hongjoong a deal: a hostage exchange. The Cromer for Yeosang.

However, as Hongjoong throws them the Cromer, Yeosang snatches it from the air and shatters it on the ground which leads all of Ateez to get send back home to the A-World - all except for Yeosang himself.

The seven who escaped reappear in their hideout where they all sit with their loss and grief until a drone appears at their door. Yeosang's drone.

Parts of these entries are covered in the Deja Vu music video (but Eternal Sunshine takes place in a dream and is thus not important for the purpose of this post):

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Fever Epilogue:

We're still back in the A-World where a religious cult just tried and failed to steal a certain Mayan relic from a museum - a relic which Ateez soon discover is their world's version of the Cromer. Bingo! Their ticket back to Z-World. There's a way to save Yeosang.

As a result of the switch from the Z-World back to the A-World, time was also messed with again, leading the members to land further in the past - far enough back for Yunho's brother to still be alive. Because of this, Yunho decides to stay with his brother instead of participating in the other members' museum heist.

As six, Ateez arrive at the museum at the same time as the religious cult who have also come back for another try at stealing the Cromer. It comes to a scuffle and police show up to break up the cult members while Ateez escape with the help of Yunho and his biker friends.

However, the leader of the cult comes after them in a car and ends up in a crash which kills Yunho's brother at the exact same time he died before they travelled back in time.

Unfortunately though, the cult leader himself survives the crash and, just as he tries to stab Wooyoung, they turn the Cromer and return to Z-World.

Here, we switch to Yeosang's point of view. He's been trapped in a glass cell much like the Black Pirates and Grimes siblings who were also captured alongside him - only Left Eye got away, but even he lost his arm in the process.

While trapped, Yeosang is in constant agony as his life force is being drained. He also loses all sense of time and has nothing to look at but the black sheet covering the cell of the Black Pirates and Grimes siblings who are all in the same boat as him - actively dying.

The diary entries then end in the Black Pirates' new underground hideout where Left Eye - and other resistance fighters who've joined the original Black Pirates' cause - are all awaiting the return of their leaders. When we join them, they are just in the process of receiving a message delivered in Morse code - a message that reads "SAY MY NAME. ATEEZ."

Turbulence and The Real are both not part of the storyline so we can skip them.

The Treasure Series:

In Say My Name, we get to see A-World's Ateez break into the prison on Android Guardian island again in order to free both Yeosang and the Black Pirates. The Grimes siblings though, are already dead at this point.

During this storming of the prison, they also gather a ton of information about the government's plans which will later help them pull of large-scale missions that directly target the government's most influential means of control and manipulation.

Pirate King somewhat blurs in with the theme of rescuing Yeosang, so it can be skipped for the purpose of this post. Let's move on to Treasure then.

In this music video, we get to see the two alternate versions of Ateez go their separate ways again. The Black Pirates move to the underground hideout to continue forging their plans to take down the government, while A-World's Ateez focuses on using the Cromer and keeping the Android Guardians distracted.

From here on out, they'll essentially be posing as the Black Pirates and perform the role of a decoy while also continuing the original mission of performing for the people of Strictland to rattle on the cage trapping their emotions.

Hala Hala then serves as a grand scale announcement to Strictland: the Black Pirates survived, they're free, and they have absolutely no plans of stopping what they were doing. They're basically spitting in the face of the government with this performance.

Illusion and Wave both take places in a dream, so for the purpose of this post, they're also not needed, so we'll skip them and move on to Wonderland.

This is Ateez's first big performance in Z-World. It's the first time they're truly posing as the Black Pirates and putting their lives on the line as they do so. It serves as a bit of a parallel to the grand performance at the end of the Thanxx music video where the founders of the Black Pirates - their alternate selves - first performed for the people of Strictland.

In the Answer music video, the two versions of Ateez reunite again after 6 months of separation, which means the plans are now made and ready to be put into action. The Black Pirates are now sharing what they've planned with A-World's Ateez who agree to continue providing their assistance as best they can.

After their meeting has wrapped up, we also see an Android Guardian arrive, but it's too late - all sixteen of them are already gone. For the first time, they have the upper hand over the government.

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The World Ep.1

It's the start of the revolution and Ateez have basically full-on joined the Black Pirates. Both groups now work together to infiltrate government buildings by wearing masks and uniforms. This way, they manage to hijack government transmissions to the people of Strictland and spread their message of resistance.

They perform in the streets, spread flyers by dumping them out of vans and raining them down from blimps, and they also develop technology to break the chips implanted behind the ears of civilians which are used to suppress their emotions.

Upon "waking up", newly chip-less people are located by the nearest member of the Black Pirates thanks to the Black Link - a system set up by Left Eye which is alerted whenever someone's chip fails.

However, even with all that progress made, the Black Pirates have yet to locate Z - the evil dictator himself who is responsible for creating this messed up society.

Though instead of continuing to focus solely on that, they decide to help a young boy who came to them with a plea: him and his brother's chips were both broken, but his brother freaked out as a result and the boy is now scared his brother will be taken by the Android Guardians' for being "defective" like so many before him who dared to show emotion.

The next plan now stands: infiltrate Prestige Academy - the elite school both the boy and his brother are currently attending.

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The World Ep.2

The rebellion continues and, as planned, A-World's Ateez are now infiltrating Prestige Academy while Z-World's Ateez are infiltrating other parts of the city to rack up cash and gather information so they can get their hands on a highly specific bullet which Hongjoong later fires toward the end of the Bouncy music video.

In the Diary Entries, we learn more about the education system in Strictland, as well as how exactly Ateez infiltrate the academy, but most importantly, we also meet another group of people: THUNDER.

They're a student organization meant to enforce the law on the students and rat out anyone who dares to show emotion. And the leader of the group? Z-World's version of the girl Seonghwa witnessed dancing in the streets back in A-World. It's the girl with the "Be Free" bracelet.

Now even more emotionally invested, Seonghwa vows to free all the students before both versions of Ateez and additional members of the Black Pirates gather in the Prestige Academy courtyard and begin to perform for the students while passing out breakers to free the kids from their implanted chips' influence.

However, amidst the celebration, the Android Guardians show up and threaten to "dispose" of all the kids with a broken chip unless the Black Pirates surrender both themselves and the Cromer.

Right then, the pre-planted smoke bombs go off, giving everyone a chance to escape. Though while everyone else ushers the students out to safety, Seonghwa lets himself get taken away by the leader of THUNDER while the boy who'd originally pleaded them for help gets taken by the Android Guardians.

Meanwhile, back at Z's headquarters, the principle of Prestige Academy is executed for what happened at his academy.

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The World Ep.Fin

We're still mid-revolution and the people who've escaped the shackles of their government implanted chips are now classified as "Sense Offenders" and publicly hung in the courtyards of Strictland to serve as a warning to the rest of the population.

However, all these gruesome displays lead to is to reinforce the resistance. More and more people wake up and realize it can't go on like this - all this death and suffering has to stop, the so-called Sense Offenders can't have died in vain.

Back in the Black Pirates' hideout, Seonghwa rejoins the others with new information: THUNDER is actually a student resistance group and they have a map of the Disposal Site - the place where the tracker they planted on the boy from Prestige Academy is currently located.

This is when the Black Pirates and THUNDER join hands and decide to work together.

As part of their plan, half of A-World's Ateez - plus the boy's brother - infiltrate the Disposal Site where they'll also try to free all other prisoners, while the other half stays back at the hideout to provide assistance from a distance and also protect the equipment and gathered intel. Z-World's Ateez in the meantime, are off on their own mission.

Just as the infiltration of the Disposal Site truly begins, Android Guardians storm both locations at once and start taking people down left, right, and center.

During the scuffle, the four at the Disposal Site discover the boy - the one who'd begged them to help safe his brother - had ratted out the hideout's location to the Android Guardians in an attempt to ensure his and his brother's safety - he did so before he ever first made it to the Black Pirates' hideout and after he'd temporarily been forced to hide out at the Disposal Site.

As the fights continue, members of the Black Pirates are dying on both fronts while, at the Disposal Site, both the boy and his brother end up falling into the incinerator despite Hongjoong and Mingi's best efforts to safe them. It's ultimately THUNDER who prevents even more casualties when members of theirs appear at both locations and join the fight, finally allowing them to overpower the Android Guardians.

In the aftermath of all this, the Black Pirates join THUNDER at their hideout - a little village tucked away inside a forest, hidden away from government surveillance. Here, the "Be Free" girl - the leader of THUNDER - reveals she was motivated to join the resistance after she met the Grimes girl.

They hold a funeral for all the ones lost in the battles as fireflies dance above their heads and vow to not let their deaths be in vain.

With all three resistance groups now working together, a new plan is hatched and the leader of THUNDER is the figure at the center of it all. With the help of Left Eye's technology, she returns to school where she excels in her studies and passes all scans and checks despite her broken chip, and eventually works her way up to Z's personal protocol manager - a position which will take her right to Z's headquarters at the city center.

This is where we move from the diary entries to Crazy Form.

In the music video, we see what Z-World's Ateez were up to while A-World's Ateez infiltrated the Disposal Site: they were developing hologram technology and entering the dreams of the people of Strictland in order to unite them in their longing for freedom and the end of Z's rule.

On top of that, however, they were also infiltrating more places in Strictland, causing more chaos, spreading the message of the revolution, and in general, just being menaces to society as they planted technological devices throughout the city for their master plan.

As the music video comes to an end, we see the success of the revolution in the form of a hologram pirate ship above the city and a bluebird carrying Sopro over the skyscrapers of Strictland. But more on Sopro in a second.

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Golden Hour Pt.1

Z-World is now free and under new "leadership". Thunder and the Black Pirates are now in charge and have decided to leave people free to choose whether to life with emotions or remain free of them.

How did they achieve all this? With the help of Sopro: a red spirit stone created from the breath of all in Halazia - a place that once existed before Z destroyed it. A priest guardian created Sopro and gave it the ability to unite people's emotions before he sent it to the future in the beak of a bluebird alongside a group of witnesses from the future.

That priest guardian was Seonghwa. Him and the other members came to Z-World from yet another parallel world that was already destroyed by Z. By coming to Z-World at the start of Z's reign, they hoped to safe the people there from the same fate as the people back in their world, but all their efforts led to was Z going crazy and taking away gravity as means of suppressing the revolution.

Ultimately, they managed to stop the anti-gravity technology before everyone died, but they couldn't stop Z. However, the people who came from the future took Sopro with them and one of them left behind the "Be Free" bracelet which Seonghwa finds. This is what then motivates him to take his seven members and escape Z-World to go on a healing journey which we get to see in the sub-unit music videos of The World Ep.Fin.

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We now return to A-World's Ateez in the Diary Entries. The eight of them returned back home to their world, leaving Z-World in the hands of the Black Pirates and Thunder.

After once again trying to build up a music career for three full years, Ateez eventually give up just like last time and part ways:

Hongjoong becomes a bestselling author with his published work being an account of everything that happened to them in Z-World, but he still messes the members every day, even as his biological family finally comes back to him.

Seonghwa becomes a firefighter because he wants to keep saving lives but he too feels something is missing. Hongjoong's book still rests on his desk at work, unopened for the longest time.

Yunho becomes an archaeologist, but he also hasn't moved on fully - a large part of him still hopes he'll come across an artifact which can take him and the members on another adventure.

Yeosang becomes a pro at stock-investment and uses his money to fund Hongjoong's novel and invest in the arts, but his original intend has always been to simply make their dreams come true.

San buys a food truck and often chats with his customers about their dreams and finds out the majority of them have given up on theirs because reality barred them from fulfilling them.

Mingi becomes a professional model with a huge social media presence, but whenever he sees buskers on the street, he still thinks back to what he truly wants and longs for: to make music with the members again.

Wooyoung becomes a flight attendant but even there, he finds a way to perform for people because he simply cannot live without it anymore. While on a flight, he meets Yunho and Mingi again who just so happened to be on the same plane.

Jongho becomes a composer, vocal coach, and producer for an idol group. But after two of those members had a fight, he locks himself inside his studio and listens to the recording of an old Ateez song and, upon hearing all their voices, his heart still hurts.

The Work MV isn't part of the storyline so it's not relevant here.

Golden Hour Pt.2:

In the Diary Entries, we now learn how Ateez returned to the A-World: Z smashed the Cromer in front of them which sent them right back home.

Back in the present of A-World, we now learn it's not just Mingi, Yunho, and Wooyoung who found each other, but also Seonghwa and Jongho who were brought together by a fire which broke out at Jongho's work place.

The next day, all eight of them meet up at Yeosang's antique villa to celebrate the release of Hongjoong's second book - a sequel to his debut novel. They eat together, laugh, and chat (and flirt a bit) before their conversation turns back to their time spent in the Z-World.

They talk about the pieces of the Cromer Yeosang still kept in a glass case beside the one housing Sopro before some of them start talking about getting back together to make music again, but none of them really mean it. Wooyoung knows that. And yet he still can't stop himself from indirectly accusing the others of accepting defeat by moving on the way they did.

A real fight breaks out with Yeosang telling Wooyoung he's childish for clutching onto their former dream like that and Wooyoung calling Yeosang a coward for standing in the way of that same dream.

Ultimately though, no one takes Wooyoung's side. They all just sit by silently. So Wooyoung apologizes for ruining the mood and, despite everyone rushing to him to provide comfort, he leaves, only to come back later when everyone is already asleep.

It's then that he grabs Sopro from its case and utters his wish: "It's as though they've all forgotten what it was like to be happy. Reignite our passion like it was back then, and let us be happy together again. Please."

The Ice On My Teeth MV is also not part of the storyline so it's not relevant here.

Golden Hour Pt.3:

The Diary Entries here are all about Sopro and, throughout them, we learn it has a will of its own. It can communicate with the world and enter humans' bodies which introduces it to emotions - something it quickly grows addicted to.

Unfortunately, as it does so, it also grows more powerful in a very damaging way, but let's start from the beginning:

At first, it's in Wooyoung's body which allows it to feel for the first time. Here, it just sits by and observes as Wooyoung grows happy while the members all text him to say they really do want to get back together this time and give it their best shot again.

However, after switching to San's body by entering through his mouth, the first signs of Sopro's seemingly uncontrollable power begin to show. While at Hongjoong's book signing, everyone around them starts to laugh and go absolutely insane - they throw stuff at each other, eat paper, and lose all reason.

Frustrated and confused, Wooyoung - the only one not laughing, grabs Hongjoong and San and drags them along as he tracks down Seonghwa who is currently at the site of a factory fire that was just put out.

But even once there, it's not until Wooyoung reads an excerpt from Hongjoong's novel out loud that at least Hongjoong, Seonghwa, and San stop laughing as they remember their time in the Z-World. It's those memories which free them from Sopro's influence - memories which cannot be triggered in anyone but them so the rest of the city is still cackling uncontrollably.

It's then that Sopro uncovers new emotions within San and grows even more curious. In order to explore more of the world, it leaves San's body and moves on the owner of the factory where it quickly discovers the depths of despair and, instead of laughter, a wave of anguish now spreads across the city as everyone begins to cry. All but Hongjoong, Seonghwa, San, and Wooyoung who don't yet understand what just happened.

The four of them take a brief moment to discuss what the heck is going on which is when Wooyoung spills the beans about what he did. But instead of getting angry as expected, they all merely show understanding. As it turns out, they'd also considered using Sopro before to get back what they lost. They'd all just been missing each other without ever truly acknowledging it out loud.

After exchanging some affection, the four of them realize the factory owner has disappeared and that's when it clicks for them: everyone was sobbing because of Sopro's new host - a man whose life's work has just gone up in flames.

While chasing after the factory owner, they stumble across a crying Yeosang and Wooyoung swiftly grabs him by the hand to bring him along after apologizing to him for misunderstanding his intentions during their fight the day prior. He now understands Yeosang has been their biggest supporter all along and he feels guilty for ever doubting the one person who'd gotten tortured by the Android Guardians for a chance at saving the rest of them.

With Yeosang in tow, the four of them now run on to Jongho's studio where they find Jongho unaffected by Sopro since he'd been listening to Ateez's songs while Sopro's power spread across the city - that alone was enough to submerge him in his memories of Z-World.

It's here that they all realize what's been going on: with each new host, Sopro grows stronger, more powerful. It has a will and its will is to feel alive and experience everything the world has to offer and it can only do that with a body. And since it wasn't created with one, it'll have to possess others to fulfill its dream.

Just as they'd come to that understanding, Jongho discovers Mingi's social media page with ten million followers is suddenly free of posts. And a second later, it's fully deleted.

And this is where the story currently ends, with this final line: "San: "We need to find Mingi and Yunho!""

The Lemon Drop MV takes place in a dream again and covers Wooyoung's grieving process as he missed the members while being alone, so it's not relevant for the purpose of this post.

I hope this helps!

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crazyringo · 1 year ago

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HSR Penacony 2.3 Thoughts

2.3 was great! I enjoyed every bit of it, though I'm a little sad that our adventure in Penacony is now over (or, is it?). I shall miss the planet of festivities, especially the cute little Origami Birds

Needless to say, this Stelfly/Stellaron Hunters fan is satisfied~! Omg. You guys don't know how excited I got when I saw Silver Wolf on screen (even if she did appear as a hologram), and I got even super duper excited when I saw that Silver Wolf was the one who hired Sparkle in the first place! Our little Wolfie is such a cute Tsundere 💕

Speaking of Silver Wolf, I was honestly caught off guard that she even got in contact with Sparkle, who's a Masked Fool. During the Aetherium Wars event, Silver Wolf sounded like she didn't even trust the faction whatsoever. That nothing good ever happens for trusting a Fool. And I'm only saying that cause I believe Silver Wolf's definition of entertainment will not be the same as a Masked Fools', at least that's the vibe I got when she talked about them, but I guess after chatting with Sparkle through a video game was enough to convince her that Sparkle can be trusted enough to ensure Firefly's safety (again, my opinion)

It was so heartwarming to find out how close the Stellaron Hunters are as a team. I laughed out loud when I got the Save the Cat! Achievement when I put them on a team together. At this point in the game, I'm entirely convinced that Elio is indeed the black cat

And while I am happy for what we got for 2.3, I also can't help but feel a little uneasy about it all. Not only was this update shorter than 2.0-2.2, but for me it also felt like everything went too smoothly, you know? The impression I got for the 2.3 trailer felt like everything was going to be stakes, after high stakes since we're literally at the end. And the theory I've seen about that we're still (yes, still) stuck in the dreamscape made me feel even more uneasy about everything. And while we did say our goodbyes and all, I was somewhat bothered that we didn't even get to say goodbye to Robin and Firefly. You'd think we would after everything we went through together in Penacony

Like, okay, I guess you could say that we did say goodbye to the two of them during the Bird Clash event, but you would think that maybe they could've had us say a proper goodbye with voice lines and stuff in the main story. Especially with Firefly, cause it's definitely going to be a while before we see her again. And, unfortunately, it obviously won't be in her real form since she depends on the SAM suit in reality. I guess it's too much to ask Hoyoverse to do a Stelfly tender hug goodbye. Just saying. Don't know about y'all, but Firefly needs a hug. Robin too, especially after everything she's been through

Anyways~ Back on on track. I guess that the other thing that bothered me a little was the meeting between Mr. Oti and the IPC. Now, let me be clear, I AM NOT a business woman and I don't really understand anything concerning proper business etiquette. Even so, I will try my best to get this thought written out as best as I can

Mr. Oti, Jade and Topaz sit down, they exchange pleasantries and relatively discuss the future of Penacony. Jade, of course, mentions about Aventurine's mistreatment during his stay in Penacony (I knew it, I knew she was going to do that) to get a word in edge wise. Oti was pretty much dismissive about it, especially since he didn't deal with Aventurine personally and mentions that Sunday was just a fool for what he has done. How dare. And then he began to tell them about his future plan for Penacony. Jade, surprisingly, goes quiet (her small smile was even gone) and suddenly decided to have an intermission so she and Topaz step out

Here's where the "fun" starts ("fun", as in, I am still trying to figure out what the heck Jade and Robin talked about! And this bothered me even more during the Bird Clash Event)

Some theories think that Robin sacrificed her memories concerning Sunday. Which, okay, it makes sense considering that Robin does consider Sunday to be her precious older brother and memories involving him would be considered precious enough for Jade to claim in a contract. And since we already saw firsthand how Jade's contracts work... That would suck for our chicken wing siblings. - while this could indeed be possible, I really hope that did not happen

Another take I saw is that Robin purposely distanced herself from everyone in exchange for Sunday's freedom, which would explain why she decides to leave Penacony and just travel for a while. On one part, I don't blame the poor girl cause she really needs to take a step back and just focus on herself for a little while. On the other... I also hope that is not the case cause this is just sad 😭

Now, my opinion starts: I believe that when Jade and Topaz had stepped out from the meeting to discuss a plan B for their approach that it was all just a simple exchange for information. While Topaz went to find Himeko, Jade decided to find and say hello to Robin. It's pretty clear that the two of them have already met/talked. When Jade asks for Robin's opinion of Mr. Oti, Robin responds that Oti is a respected business man, but she doesn't really know him as a person. She only knows what she knows thanks to Sunday. Moreover, I believe that the main reason why Robin referred to Sunday as the previous Oak Family head during this scene is because she's in public. Remember: Sunday is now arrested, Sunday's name is pretty much taboo within the Family. I would not be surprised if she's not even allowed to mention her brother's name

I'd like to believe that Robin, who's an insider of the Family, willingly gave away crucial inside information that an outsider like Jade wasn't supposed to know. Death is now a possibility in the dreamscape, which would be bad for Penacony in terms of business if people were to find out about it. And, honestly, this part made me chuckle. It's only fitting considering the Family absolutely had no problem throwing Sunday under the bus, so it's only right that Robin, his sister, would also have no problem throwing the Family under the bus too by, literally, giving them the bird (hehe)

This info was the bit that Jade needed and was looking for to have the meeting be in her/the IPC's favor. Not long after, Robin tells her to not forget what they had talked about and Jade promises that she'll keep her end of the deal. To me, this part was pretty much a "I'll scratch your back, and you'll scratch mine" type of deal. And we pretty much know how the meeting concluded after that, and old man Oti did not look happy about it since he had no choice but to yield and go with Jade's proposal. He also wasn't happy when Robin gave away the Feldspar, his own extravagant ship, to the Nameless without his say so on the matter. A pretty bold move on her part

But yeah, I'd like to believe that that was essentially their contract. Exchanging crucial info in exchange for Sunday's freedom. And if not freedom, then to maybe have Jade help out Sunday with some kind of plea deal to lighten his sentence

At this point, I don't know what to think anymore. I know that this is probably wishful thinking on my part for assuming that their deal would be that simple, but a girl can dream, right? I mean, if you think about it, I don't think Jade would've known about death being a possibility in the dreamscape otherwise if not through Robin. Aventurine doesn't count cause he pretty much stepped out story wise after being "killed" by Acheron, so he wouldn't know what happened in the Grand Theater

If not that, then my other thought was that Robin pulled A Little Mermaid. She sacrificed her singing voice, ironic considering Sunday had taken it away without her knowledge. Only difference this time is that it was her choice to do so. And it would explain why she decided to step down from the spotlight and go traveling by herself. This is only a possibility at best, but we also have to consider that she may have been lying to the trailblazer so that they wouldn't worry

And that's about it, really. Honestly, ever since I first saw Sunday and Robin on screen for the first time, they really reminded me of Lelouch and Euphemia/Nunnally from Code Geass

Lelouch for Sunday - trying to ensure a better world for everyone, namely his sister, and would pretty much stop at nothing to achieve his goal. And at this point in the story, he's definitely giving me Aventurine 2.0 vibes (as in, he's in prison and now has an opportunity to get out of his current predicament)

Admittedly, it would be interesting to see him as an IPC grunt than a Stellaron Hunter. Maybe he'll destroy the IPC from the inside through his own means, or perhaps Diamond can offer him something to fill the void as a potential member of the Ten Stonehearts. That'd be cool. And if he does join the IPC, the next time Sunday visits Penacony, the Family will literally be at his mercy for throwing him under the bus! Chicken wing boy shall have his revenge!

As a Stellaron Hunter, I don't think he'd handle taking orders from a cat well (no matter how hilarious it would seem). Not to mention, having his fate orchastrated by someone else doesn't seem like his style. Again, if Hoyoverse goes through with it, fine. I'll accept it for what it is. In the meantime, something tells me that he will take Jade's deal and work for her/the IPC, and only because Jade mentioned someone precious: Robin. If Jade hadn't mentioned her, Sunday probably would've tuned her out completely and would rather take his chances in trial

For Robin - She really reminds me of Euphemia more so than Nunnally tbh. I merely mentioned Nunnally due to the old injury that Robin has on her neck (point is they were injured). That, and of course they're both little sisters. Euphemia too, but I'm mostly referring to her via appearance and mannerisms. Robin's a super nice/innocent character with pure intentions and cares about the people around her. And because of that she reminded me of Euphemia whenever she appeared on screen

I'm sorry, but I had to mention/ramble about that. Those of you that have seen Code Geass might agree with me with those similarities

Anyways~ that's pretty much it for my ramble. With how happy-go-lucky 2.3 was, I was a tad disappointed that we didn't get any Robinhill crumbs... Since Boothill was at the bar with hologram Aventurine, I was half expecting Robin to do her singing performance and maybe Boothill would've been like, "Holy forkoroni. I just died and went to heaven..." Or something among those lines for when he laid eyes on Robin's angelic beauty. No? Just me? Okay lol

But yeah, I feel like Penacony is not quite finished yet. And I'm only saying that cause I stumbled upon this while I was doing the sticker thing on our handbook...

Does this mean anything? Idk. It's just something I noticed a few days ago. If I remember correctly, the lady that tended to us at the front desk said that this handbook will only be relevant to us while we're in Penacony. If so, then I guess there's a bit more in store for us. If not, that's fine too.

But if that theory about that we're still stuck in the dreamscape is true... Oh boy. I can somewhat see it, if only because the Trailblazer is sensitive to Memoria. Something that Black Swan, Acheron, and even Firefly (I think) has mentioned throughout the story. Maybe everybody else woke up, but the Trailblazer is still in deep slumber. Just something to ponder (if only a little)

We'll see what happens on the next update. I might be wrong on some things, but I wanted to put my thoughts out there. Feel free to let me know what you guys think. I hope that everyone who wanted Firefly are happy Firefly havers. I know I am~! Currently trying to see if I can get her to E2 before her banner is over. Wish me luck! :3

Good luck on your pulls everyone~! And thank you for reading!

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