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falloutnewvegastransedmygender · 20 hours ago
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Look for all my fellow ass backwards Americans and the European as well, let me tell you a story.
A few years ago me and a Brazilian friend (they/them) had a joke that I owed them a sandwich because they burned one while in a VC with me.
A year later I sent $20 USD to them for the bit, about what I paid for my lunch at Subway at the time (before tips).
They texted me worried about how much money I sent them and if I was sure. Because with the exchange rate at the time, that was almost 100 BRL. I had assumed 1 BRL simply bought less (in local goods), turns out the pricing is, well its close enough that it is about 100 in spending power equivalent.
It is my understanding (though I could CERTAINLY be wrong) that Brazil is one of the nations in the Global South that is doing better relatively, and also that the exchange rate has worsened for BRL since.
However, many game devs simply set the price in USD and then forces everyone to pay that price. You know how some books have a slightly higher price listed in CAD if its printed on? Imagine if instead of like, 20 USD 22 CAD that book cost 100-120 CAD. That would be absurd right?
If you can't see the problem with condemning piracy in the Global South after that explanation, then I suppose you're deserving of whatever shit lands in your lap next.
if you moralize to people in the global south about piracy youre going to hell btw. no atonement no take backsies. guaranteed hell forever permanently.
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m-neuvillette · 2 days ago
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Star Rail and Genshin Men - Them being protective
Characters: Aventurine, Dr Ratio, Gepard, Kazuha, Kinich, Zhongli x fem reader
Author notes: rude parents in Gepard's, rude comments made to reader in most, creepy men, falling in Kinich's, fighting in Kazuha's, protective men (they are so hot hehehe)
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Aventurine
Aventurine is an avid gambler through and through, everyone knows that. He puts everything on the table when betting, his money, his own life, really just about anything. But there is just one thing that he would never ever gamble with. Can you guess what that one thing is?
You two were passing time after you both finished your work for the day and decided to go the casino for some, in Aventurine’s book, light gambling. Though it’s never light gambling when it comes to him, he’s an all or nothing kind of guy. 
As you guys walk into the casino you giggle and turn to him, “Hey Aventurine, don’t go too crazy tonight, we still need money for dinner.” Though you know full well that you guys will have enough money for dinner, he is a Stoneheart after all, you enjoy teasing him with his gambling.
He raises an eyebrow and looks down at you before smirking. “Oh ho what’s this? Are you telling me to be careful with my money? Don’t you worry you’re pretty little head over dinner, I’ll be taking it all tonight.” He lightly knocks your forehead with one of his fingers before dragging you gently to a table.
You giggle softly at his antics before sitting down next to him at the table. As time stretches on, and you had a few drinks, you lay your head on Aventurine’s shoulder. You always tell him that his shoulder gives you the best and most comfortable view when he’s gambling.
When he feels your head on his shoulder he looks down at you and smiles softly before lightly pressing a kiss to the top of your head. “I’ll only play a few more rounds then we can head home alright dear?” You nod against his shoulder and wish him the best of luck, not that he’ll really need it. 
One of the other players at the table look at the interactions between you two and smirks darkly. “Hey, why not for this next round bet your little girlfriend? It’d make for such a good game, and it can be the last game of the night too.” When you hear that your eyes widen and you snap your head up, off of Aventurine’s shoulder, and look around at the table in alarm. Because did that guy seriously just ask if Aventurine would bet you??
Aventurine’s eyes darken at the guy’s “request” before he gets up and slowly walks over to him. “If you think that you can ever suggest that I bet my darling girlfriend and get away with it, you are sorely mistaken friend. I would never bet her and you clearly don’t know what it means to bet someone you love, otherwise you never would have asked that. Now, I suggest that you walk out of here now or I won’t be so kind.” 
The guy’s eyes widen in fear before he sputters out apology after apology and runs out of the casino. After that, Aventurine walked right back to you and gives you the biggest hug and kisses you on the forehead. He then picks you up bridal style and walks you out of the casino.
“I’m sorry that you had to hear that my dear. Never think that I would bet you in any gamble, it doesn’t matter what situation I may be in, you are the one thing in life that I would not bet.” You smile softly up at him before burying your head in his chest. 
“Thank you Aventurine, that truly means the world to me. Though I may not gamble like you, know that I would never bet you either. You’ve become my home and love, I never want to give that up. I love you my precious gem.” 
Once you’re outside, he looks down before setting you down and titling your chin up. He presses a gentle kiss to your lips, “And I love you more my shimmering aurora.”
Dr Ratio
You like surprising your boyfriend with lunch every once in a while. It gives him a break but it also lets you two enjoy each other’s company midday. Ratio was having a rough week. His students were not making deadlines, his coworkers bothering him with mediocre conversations, and has barely any time to read due to all the late submissions of assignments. You think that bringing him lunch will cheer him up. 
You finished making his lunch and packing it. You slip on your shoes, grab your purse, and grab his lunch then head out to meet him in his office. After the walk to the school you get to the main office to check in and get a visitor badge. You see Mary sitting behind the desk and greet her, “Hi Mary! How are you today?”
Mary smiles back at you and replies, “Hi! I am doing good, it’s a pretty slow day today. But I haven’t seen you in a while, dropping off a lunch for Dr. Ratio again?”
You nod, “Yep. He has been having a rough week so I thought a little break with some good and me would really help or well I hope it helps.” 
“He is always in a better mood for the rest of the day after you come by.” Giving you a little smirk and wink. “Here is your pass. He should be in his office now.” You thank Mary and head out the door she pointed to have you go through. You weave your way through the hallway’s to Ratio’s office once you get to where his office is, you see it empty. You realize that he got a new and bigger office since the last time you have come here. You groan forgetting that detail so now you’re left to wandering around trying to find him.
The school is massive and has many twists and turns that you eventually get lost. You keep retracing your steps and following the signs on the walls but nothing is helping. You decide to head back to an area that had multiple hallways to walk down and choose the last one you haven’t walked down yet. Once you get there you start to head down the hallway just as you turn the corner you run into two people. 
One person drops all the stuff they were holding while the other spills coffee on the first person. You stand there shocked for a second but start to quickly apologize, “Oh my gosh, I am SO sorry!! Here let me help you pick your stuff up. I also have tissues in my purse you can have so you can dry your jacket.” You bend down to pick up the papers but the man who dropped the papers starts to yell, “DO NOT TOUCH THOSE PAPERS! Did you even think to look at where you are going you idiot? How did you even get a job here if you can’t pay attention to where you are going!?!” 
The second man speaks up, “Look she is a visitor. So she doesn’t even belong here. She’s just a stupid every day person, not a scholar.”
You go to stand up again shaking and trying hard to hold back tears. They are being so mean for no reason, no wonder why Ratio hates his colleagues. You begin to speak up, “I didn’t see you because of the corner. Again I am really sorry. Can I please help?”
The first guy scoffs, “You think I want the help from a dumb woman? That’s laughable.” You start to cry and try to stutter out another apology, “I- I just
” 
The second guy is quick to cut you off, “You what? You are acting like a child, I know 10 year olds that act better and are smarter than you. Just leave.” 
The first guy pitches in, “Yeah you dumb whore, get out of here. No scholar has the time for you.” You hang your head in defeat letting the tears flow down your face. You go to turn around and leave until you feel a strong arm wrap around you and a warmth on your back. Then you hear a low voice you quickly recognize, “Care to repeat that?”
The two men stand straight with their eyes wide open. The first man speaks up, “Dr. Ratio, hello! It’s nothing you have to worry about just some dumb women who doesn’t belong here disrupting our walk from the printer.” 
Ratio tightens his grip on you and grits his jaw, “This does worry me because this is my girlfriend.” The two men turn to each other and then look back at Ratio to start apologizing, “We are so sorry Dr. Ratio! It’s just she isn’t paying attention and caused a mess.”
“I do not care about your walk from the printer. I am wasting my time talking to you two incompetent fools but as soon as you decide to insult my intelligent girlfriend thats when I start to care.” The men are shaking in their boots while Ratio continues, “It is not me who deserves your pathetic apology it’s her. You two better make the apology more sincere or I will see to it myself that you two are fired. It’s not like anyone would miss you two.” The men profusely shake their heads and turn to you. 
“We are so sorry ma’am for everything we have said. If Dr. Ratio can vouch for your intelligence then we were severely mistaken with our comments. We hope you can forgive us.” You don’t get to respond because Ratio tells them to get out of his sight. The two men scurry off while Ratio grabs your hand and drags you to his office. 
Once you two are in his office he shuts and locks the door then turns to you and pulls you into a tight hug. “I am sorry I was not there earlier to stop those absolute fools. I will see to it that they are fired. They were never useful anyways.” You snuggle into his chest more and let out a muffled response, “It’s not your fault. I was just trying to surprise you but I forgot you got a new office so I got lost. I am sorry I caused such a scene.” 
Ratio pulls back tips your chin up to look at him, “Do not blame yourself, this is not your fault. Let’s not waste anymore time talking about those fools. You brought me lunch so let’s enjoy that.” You smile at him and he leans down to give you a quick kiss then leads you to his desk. He sits down then pulls you into his lap, “Let’s dig in shall we?”
After eating and Ratio walking you out, you left to go home. Ratio came home a couple hours later telling you that the two men that yelled at you were now fired and gone. He is a man of his word. 
Gepard
You met Gepard through Serval. You were looking for a job because you just moved to the city and couldn’t get any other business to offer you a position. You bumped into Serval carrying a couple of boxes into her shop and offered to help her carry in the rest of the boxes. You two talked for a bit about you being “a new face in the city” and how you were looking for a job. Serval then offered you a job at Neverwinter Workshop. A couple days after working at the workshop Gepard came in to have his weekly catch up time but saw you and Serval talking. She introduced you two and the rest is history.
Gepard and you have been dating for a couple months now, it is a little hard with him being the Captain of the Silvermane Guards but you two make it work. Whenever he has free time he is taking you out on dates or just spending time with you. Gepard just got done with patrols so he came over to your apartment. You can tell he is super tired so you give him a pair of his pajamas he has left at your place and then you push him into your bed to rest. That doesn’t stop him from grabbing your arm when you push him down so you land right on top of him. 
Gepard’s phone wouldn’t stop going off so he grabbed it from the bedside table and looked at the notifications. You feel him stiffen so you pick your head up and set your chin on his chest looking at him then break the silence, “Is everything okay?” 
Gepard gulps and sets down his phone, “Uh so Serval texted me saying how our parents want to meet you.”
You giggle at his reaction, “Okay? That doesn’t sound bad at all. Are you nervous about me doing something?”
He shoots up holding and reaches a hand to cup your face, “No not at all! I am worried about my parents doing something not you. You’re the last person I worry about doing something mean or bad.” 
“What do you mean by that?”
Gepard sighs running a hand through his hair, “My parents really care and I mean really care about the Landau family legacy. They were mad I started dating someone that isn’t high status and they think I am ruining the family name. I don’t want them to harass you all night to try and prove their point of view.” 
You smile at his thoughtfulness, “Don’t worry about it, I’ll be okay. After all you’ll be there right?” You run a hand through his hair and continue, “Plus the more we avoid them, the more they are going to be upset with you so let’s just do it.” Gepard just sighs and nods. He reaches for his phone to tell Serval that you two will meet them for dinner.
A couple days go by and it’s time for the dinner with Gepard’s parents. He has been nervous and jittery all day, and it is starting to rub off on you. Yes, you told him everything would be fine but now that the time is here it is nerve-racking. Are you dressed too casual? Too formal? Do you look bad? Is your makeup too dull? Too extra? Is your hair messy? UGH! This is so stressful. Your thoughts are going a mile a minute until you feel fingers pressing your chin up. You see Gepard smiling at you, “You look beautiful. Ready to go?” Not trusting your voice you nod to answer him. Gepard knows something is off but doesn’t want to push you. He takes a deep breath before leading you out of his apartment. As you two walk to his parents’ house, he can’t wait for this night to be over.
Once you two get to his parents’ house he knocks on the door. The door opens with a maid answering the door, “Gepard, It is so nice to see you again! Oh and you must be his girlfriend! You look lovely tonight. Oh my, it is so cold! Come in you two!” You two walk in and the maid shuts the door, “Gepard, you should have told me to be quiet so you two can come inside and get warm!” Gepard laughs, “Kota, it’s good to see you again. Don’t worry the sun is still up so it wasn’t that cold for us.”
Gepard introduces you two and then Kota leads you to the dining room, “Your parents are in there. Good luck my boy.” She then scurries off before Gepard can respond. He runs a hand down his face, “Let’s get this over with sweetheart.” He pushed the door open to be met with the sight of a massive dining room, a very long table filled with so much food, and his parents already sitting down. You two walk in and Gepard pulls a chair out for you, once you have sat down he pushes you closer to the table. He then takes the seat right next to you. You hear a feminine voice break the silence, “So this is the servant girl you are fooling around with? This ugly woman should be able to sit herself, not need help from someone of your status to help her with it.” You are shocked, she really came out running. You see Gepard clench his fists under the table and respond to his mom, “Do not speak of her like that. Can we just have dinner in peace please?” His mom rolls her eyes and lets out a little “hmph”. You ignore the comment, yes it stung a bit but it can’t get worse can it? You all are going to be eating for most of it so they can’t say anything else right? You all make your plates and start to eat. It is eerily silent until his dad speaks up, “So I heard you work at that junk heap with my daughter?” 
You brighten instantly at his comment even though he is clearly making fun of it, “Yes, the Nerverwinter Workshop! Serval is a genius, she’s teaching me so many cool things-“ You are swiftly cut off by his dad, “I do not care about the shop only the legacy of the Landau family name with the Silvermane Guard not this scrap junk crap.” He turns to Gepard, “I still can’t believe you went to an ugly random who has no social status. Why would you settle for a random servant girl who can give you nothing? I am so repulsed by her looks and what she does, how can you even be happy?”
You lower your head and let out a watery and broken, “Sorry, I-“. Gepard then slams his hands on the table and stands up. He first turns to you, “You have nothing to apologize for.” He then turns to his parents, “I have had enough of you two trying to dictate my life with the ‘Legacy of the Landau name’. No matter who I am with the name will be passed down, but I am doing all of this based on how I want to. This beautiful, talented, funny, caring, and intelligent girl is who I want to be with. Nothing will stop me from being with her. I am so happy with her. She is like the sun and lightens up my life just by being there. I don’t care about status or anything of that nature, all I care about is her and my future with her. If you two cannot respect that, then I will never speak to the two of you again.” 
Gepard takes a deep breath after his speech then looks at you and gives you a light smile, “Let’s go home, yeah?” You nod and he reaches a hand out to help you up. He leads you to the door of the dining room then his mom speaks up, “You are going to regret this.” Gepard turns to look at her with a murderous look, “I will regret nothing. Never contact me again.” He then leads you out of the house and makes a straight-line for his apartment. 
Once you two get into his apartment he locks the door then sweeps you up into his arms. He leads you to his bed then lays you gently down on the bed then hovers over you. “I am sorry they talked to you like that and that I didn’t stop them sooner sweetheart.” He closes his eyes and leans his forehead against yours. You run your hands through his hair again and respond, “It is not your fault. You warned me and I didn’t listen. But it makes me really happy you stood up for me. I love you so much Gepard.” You tilt your head to connect your lips for a slow and deep kiss. Gepard pulls away from the kiss first and opens his eyes again, “I love you more, you’re my everything.” 
Kazuha
You have never been to Liyue and Kazuha is super excited to show you around. He told you all about the many different places he wanted to take you and show you many different things. His excitement is bleeding off of him and it’s only making you more and more excited. As soon as you two are off the Alcor you two are off. 
The first place Kazuha was the Guili Plains. He knows that you are a big history nerd and seeing where the Guili Assembly would definitely be something that you would love to see. As you guys walk there he points out different parts and explains where he is going to take you later after you go to Guili Plains and then Wangshu Inn to spend the night. You are thankful to all the archons for them letting you be Kazuha’s girlfriend. You feel truly like a princess, he is the definition of a perfect boyfriend. 
As you two get to the remains of the Guili Assembly you run ahead out of excitement. You turn to see Kazuha still walking, “Kazuha, hurry!!!” Kazuha chuckles and says, “There is no rush love. We have all the time in the world, so take your time.” You still rush ahead to look at everything. Kazuha pulls out his camera to snap some photos of you and the ruins. As he is snapping photos he feels an unease come over him, he looks around and sees you smiling looking at the ancient writing. He proceeds to look around and hear some people talking, he turns to the left and sees a group of treasure hoarders heading toward you two. Kazuha realizes that you are so focused on the ruins you don’t even see the treasure hoarders coming to you. 
You are reading some of the tablets trying to decipher what they say. You then overhear a group of men talking, “There’s gotta be a lot stuff we can steal from here.” Then another person speaks up, “Yeah then we can sell it and make a fortune.” You turn around to face them and respond to them, “Hey! Don’t take anything from here. All the relics here are important to Liyue and its history, it is disrespectful to take the relics and then try to sell it.” 
The treasure hoarders turn to face you, “We don’t care. Now get out of our way before we make you.” 
You shake your head and tell them, “No. I won’t let you take relics from here.” The treasure hoarders chuckle and start walking over to you pulling out some weapons. You stand your ground but you are scared because you have no fighting background. Before they can get too close Kazuha is in front of you, “I suggest you all leave now.” 
“Aw man, you too? Well guess we just have to beat both of you before we can take the stuff.” Says the biggest treasure hoarder carrying a shovel. You think he is the leader of this little squad. 
You grab onto the back of Kazuha’s shirt, “Kazuha, what do we do?” 
Kazuha turns his head to look at you, “You are doing nothing. Just stay behind me, okay love?” You nod letting go of his shirt and stepping back so he has room to fight. You stand a good distance back so you won’t be caught in the crossfire and have Kazuha not focus. The men run up to Kazuha but he is quick to draw his sword and fly around the area using his anemo vision. He is quick to disarm the treasure hoarders that have weapons and knock the ones that do not have weapons. 
The treasure hoarder that had the shovel called out, “Where are those damn reinforcements?!” One of the men points to somewhere behind you calling out to the leader. You turn to see where the man is pointing to and you see more treasure hoarders running over. The leader calls out to them, “Grab the girl and get out of here!” That causes you to freeze in your spot not knowing what to do. 
Kazuha knocks out the guy he was dealing with and goes to deal with the second group. But before he can get to you he is pulled back by his shirt and thrown into one of the cement walls. Kazuha groans at the sudden impact but look up to see the leader walking to him and the other group getting close to you. The leader speaks up, “She’s ours now. We will take good care of her.” He says that with a sickening smile and Kazuha stomach drops at the thought. Kazuha jumps up onto his feet and runs to the leader. He draws his sword quick and uses the handle to knock the guy out. Kazuha is panting a little bit but says, “I will not let anyone hurt her.”
The group of guys are getting closer to you and you have no idea where to run. No matter which direction you run to someone will be able to catch up to you. Just as they are about to get closer you feel someone grab onto you and whisper in your ear, “Hold on tight my love.” You turn to bury yourself into your boyfriend. Once he feels you have a tight grip on him he jumps up tightening his grip on you to make sure you don’t fall. Kazuha gets you a safe distance away from the group charging at you and the group that he had knocked out. He lets you go and winks, “I’ll be right back.” 
Kazuha makes even quicker work of this group, they all are knocked out before you can even blink. Kazuha goes to walk back to you but here’s someone call out “Hey!” You both turn to face the direction that you heard the calling coming from and see a couple of Milielith running towards you. They stop by Kazuha and ask him what happened after explaining that they were following this group for a while. Kazuha explains the situation while you walk up to the group. The Millielith thank him and say they have it from here. Kazuha smiles then turns to face you, “Are you okay?”
You jump into his arms, “I’m okay.” You then take a minute to think and remember he was thrown into a wall. You pull back a little bit and ask, “ARE YOU OKAY?!? THEY THREW YOU INTO A WALL!! NO PAIN, BLEEDING OR BROKEN BONES RIGHT?!?!” Kazuha laughs and brushes some hair out of your face and presses a quick kiss to your lips. He pulls back and responds with, “I am okay. No pain, no bleeding, and no broken bones. I promise. I am glad you’re okay though. Let’s head to Wangshu Inn and go rest okay? Maybe we can come back here and try to look at it all again before we go back the Alcor.” 
You nod and go to reach for his hand. Kazuha interlocks your hands and raises yours to press a kiss on the back of your knuckle, “Then we are off.” 
Kinich
After enough begging from you, Kinich finally decided to give you a tour of the Scions of the Canopy. Seeing as you were from the Masters of the Night Wind, you wanted to see what life was like for him in the Canopy and how it differed from the Night Wind. You begged him for what felt like years and you were very happy to see him agree to give you a tour. 
You guys met up on the path right outside of the Canopy and to say you were excited was an understatement. You can finally see what daily life is like for Kinich and how different it is from the Masters of the Night Wind. Ajaw though was less than thrilled to have to spend the day with you two “blundering lovesick fools” as he always called you two, and he was not afraid to vocalize his dislike for this little outing.
As you guys started walking into the Canopy, Ajaw decided to vocalize his feelings. “You absolute buffoons! How dare you make the Almighty Dragonlord K’uhul Ajaw suffer through something as meaningless as a measly tour of this godforsaken tribe! You two blundering lovesick fools! I will not stand for this any long-“. Ajaw was very generously cut off by Kinich backhanding him into the sky.
You stopped and giggled before facing Kinich, “Thank you Kinich, I don’t know how much longer I could’ve dealt with that. I really don’t know how you deal with him all the time, he’s such a handful.” Kinich looks at you before slightly tilting his head to the side, “It was no problem. I’ve just learned how to shut him up, he’s not that much to handle. Anyway, let’s go and get this tour done before dinner.”
You nodded enthusiastically and took his hand gently as you guys started to walk again. When you enter the Canopy and look at the scenery for the first time from the bridges of the Canopy, you stopped in place because it was so pretty. You let go of his hand and step closer to the edge of the bridge. 
“Kinich! This is such a pretty view! And you get to see this everyday? I’m so jealous, the views from the Masters of the Night Wind are nowhere near as pretty as this.”
Kinich stopped as well and tilted his head slightly. “I guess the view is nice, I’ve never really thought about it. But be careful to not fall from there, your saurian companion may be able to fly a little, but you can’t.” He gently grabs your hand and pulls you closer to him. 
You blush a little at his actions and give him a little salute. “Yes sir! I will make sure to not go near ledges. But even if I do, you’ll always catch me right?” He lightly sighs and gently kisses your forehead. “Always.”
You smile softly before turning your attention back to the tour. “Okay let’s continue this tour, I can’t wait to see how pretty the rest of this place is!” Kinich softly smiles and nods his head. “Let’s go then.”
As time goes on you two are walking through the Canopy with Kinich pointing out different spots that are important to the tribe as well as his personal favorite spots. As you two are getting closer to the end of the tour, you saw another view you like a lot and you go to run across the bridge to get a better look. 
“Hey Kinich look how pretty this view is! It’s even prettier with the sun setting too! I wish I was born here, it seems so much more-“ You are abruptly cut off by the bridge snapping and you feel yourself falling and you let out a scream. Kinich’s eyes widen in alarm before he springs into action. 
He swings down toward your falling figure with his grappling hook and just as you are about to hit the ground his hand grabs you by the waist and pulls you to his chest. He quickly grapples to a safe spot and once you two are on the ground Kinich hugs you tightly. 
You have to catch your breath before you say anything, so you bury your face in his chest in the meantime. Once you regain your breath you tilt your head up towards him and softly thank him. “Thank you so much for catching me Kinich, I’m sorry I wasn’t careful like you said to be.”
He looks down at you and gently pushes your face back into his chest. “You have nothing to apologize for my dear. I should’ve noticed the bridge was not safe. But no matter, I’m glad I caught you.” He sighs softly before whispering, “I don’t think I could handle seeing anyone else fall to their death.” 
Your eyes widen at his reference to his childhood and you snap your neck up at him, “Kinich I will promise you this, I will never ever leave you, especially in that way. I will always be here and you’ll always be here to catch me if I fail. I love you Kinich.” He sighs once more and tilts your chin up and softly kisses your lips.
“And I love you my dear.”
Zhongli
You stand in front of the mirror with your hanfu on. It is a brown base color with gold and white highlights, you got it to match with Zhongli’s outfit. Zhongli was invited to a banquet by one of the historians that love to hear his stories. The historian told Zhongli to bring anyone he would like so as soon as he got home he invited you to the banquet. You take a good look at yourself in the mirror and look over yourself one last time. The hanfu looks great on you, you are really happy with the job the seamstress made. You then check your makeup to make sure nothing is smudged or looks off.
You hear footprints coming from behind you and then feel two hands on your waist. You turn in Zhongli’s hold to face him, you then take in his appearance. He Is wearing his normal attire but he still looks incredibly handsome and you make your thoughts known, “You’re very handsome.” Zhongli chuckles and tips your chin up to look him in the eyes, “Thank you darling, but I am not wearing anything different. You on the other hand look absolutely breathtaking, I can hardly keep my eyes off of you.” 
You smile big at his compliment, “Thank you baby, I was just thinking about how great the seamstress did! By the way, what is the banquet suppose to be like?”
Zhongli lets go of your waist but goes to grab your hand to lead you out of his house. As you two are walking to the banquet he answers your question, “Well the gentleman that invited me said it is going to be filled with a bunch of scholars and historians. I was confused why he invited me since I just find enjoyment in history and don’t do it for a profession, but he insisted there were a lot of people that wanted to meet me. It seems that you and I will be meeting a lot of new people tonight. I hope that this night will not be boring for you.”
You squeeze his hand to get his attention, once he looks at you, you speak up, “I am never bored when you are around. Seeing you talk to people about your knowledge of history is really heartwarming to see, and I would do anything to see it.” Zhongli smiles and looks ahead, “You really are a gem.” You blush at his compliment and squeeze his hand three times to indicate you silently saying ‘I love you’. He squeezes your hand three times back sharing the sentiment. 
It takes you two another 10 minutes to reach the venue where the banquet was being held. You two wait a little bit in line making small talk while waiting to get to security. Once you get to security Zhongli says his name and yours, once the security guard finds your names on the paper in his hands he steps inside saying “Enjoy your night.” Zhongli thanks him for the both of you and leads you to the main area. As soon as you two are in the big ballroom you see a lot of people already start making their way to you. 
Many people greet Zhongli and start to ask him questions before he can even introduce the two of you. They are asking him his opinion on certain battles that happened, relics that were left behind, or his theories about the adeptus. Since there is so much commotion by you two your hands slip out from one another. Well there goes your boyfriend in the sea of hungry historians and scholars. You knew he was going to be popular but you didn’t expect them to barely enter the room before jumping him for answers. 
You stand to the side but still close enough you can see and hear Zhongli. You then hear a feminine voice that calls out to him, “Zhongliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!” You turn to see a girl running to your boyfriend and jumping on him. You don’t recognize her but it rubs you the wrong way with how touchy she is with him. You hear Zhongli clear his throat then remove the girl off of him, “Hello Mei. What are you doing here?” 
The girl tries to touch him again but he is quick to avoid it, “Zhongli! Why are you avoiding me? Ugh never mind, but I am here because I heard you were going to be here! Let’s hang outttttt.” A worker walks around with drinks and she grabs two and then holds one out to Zhongli. Well you deduce that this girl is obsessive. Zhongli grimaces, “Oh I see, but I am here with my girlfriend and want to spend time with her.” 
You watch her clench the drinks and say, “Ohhhh you have a girlfriend, you never told me!” You then make your way to Zhongli and stand next to him. Zhongli turns to you and you see his eyes light up, that look really makes your heart race. He looks back at Mei, “Yes I have. I actually have told you multiple times.” Zhongli then introduces you to her and she gives you a nasty look, “Are you even a historian?”
You shake your head, “No, I am a baker. Besides all the history I learned in school, I mainly get my history knowledge from Zhongli.” That only makes her look get even more nasty and turns back to Zhongli and asks, “Why would you waste your time with a girl who doesn’t study history? You could date me instead.” 
You stare at this girl shocked she would even say something like that. You turn to look at Zhongli and see him seething, his jaw locked and eyes narrowed at her. Before either of you respond she walks over to you and says, “I might have a way to fix you.” She then takes the drinks that are in her hands and pours both drinks on you. Your hair ends up becoming wet and gets all over your hanfu. You stand there frozen almost in tears before you can start crying Zhongli is in front of you taking off his jacket and wrapping it around you. 
He connects your foreheads and stares deep into your eyes, “Keep your eyes on me, okay darling?” You nod not trusting your voice but a couple tears do manage to slip down your face. Zhongli is quick to wipe them, “Darling, you are the most breathtaking person I have ever seen. Don’t listen to what a random person says, their feelings do not dictate mine. I only want you as my girlfriend and I already have our future planned out. I do not care that you are a baker over a historian. You have so much passion in your job and I love tasting everything you make. Teaching you history is a thing I cherish and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You are mine and I am yours.” 
You smile big at his confession and throw yourself at him. Zhongli effortlessly catches you and hold you tight to him. You then whisper in his ear, “Thank you. I love you so much.” Zhongli then pulls back and places one hand on the back of your head pulling you into a slow and passionate kiss. After you two separate he whispers back, “I love you so much.” 
Zhongli’s expression then hardened and turned back to look at Mei, “Say anything bad about her again and you’ll regret it. I never want to see you again.” Mei nods her head and walks away. Zhongli then turns back to you and smiles, “Let’s go home and have some ice cream. I will take your hanfu to the seamstress tomorrow to see if she can fix it.” He holds his hand out to you once again and you are quick to grab it. He leads you out to the venue back to his home to spend the rest of the night in peace. 
The next day Zhongli came back to you with a fixed hanfu and a couple new ones. 
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do you see anyone other than me? (baby please) | rafayel (lnds)
✼ tags ; rafayel x fem+ afab!reader, established relationships, dom!reader, sub!rafayel, gentle femdom, oral (m!recieving + some f!recieving), anal (m!recieving), praise kink (so much), dirty talk (SO much),pegging / topping, top!reader, bottom!rafayel dry orgasms 18+
✼ wc ; 6.9k (come on man)
✼ a/n ; reader and mc do not share a personality in this. reader is intentionally meant to have like... a more serious personality. so they are mc but not at the same time if that makes sense sdkjskj.
also i know this guy but only a little bit. i was planning on binging the main story after caleb got released but got ?? caught up writing this?? this has happened twice im so scared
✼ synopsis ; making sure rafayel actually forgives you is at the top of your priorities.
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When you come home  from the office, take your shoes off, and turn the corner into the living room—you know without looking that Rafayel is in a mood.  
Not a good one.  
It’s something in the air, a lingering tension that makes all movement stiff as you attempt to navigate through the unease. You find Rafayel on the couch. Soft, deep lavender waves tussled like he’s been tossing and turning - pressed into the side of the couch. All curled up small.  
Somehow, you just know what sort of attitude you’ll be met with. You know your lover well enough to know that he’ll be moody but you’ve less confidence in regards to what that mood may be.  
Taking a deep breath, you step into the wide expanse of Rafayel’s living room and studio. His head turns, bangs falling in his face as you slide your work bag off from your shoulder to set aside. Your keys, noisy as you set them down, even gently—trying to leave the air undisturbed. He’s looking at you from over his shoulder but realizes he can’t completely see you that way. Instead of standing to his feet to come greet you, he drops his head back on the arm of the couch to stare at you upside down in a tense silence.  
You give him a look. His mood is sour. Maybe more than you thought. He smiles first, then frowns unhappily before turning his attention back to what he was doing. You hear small scratching noises—he’s sketching. You wonder how long he’s been sitting there doing that, since he usually just prefers to paint without thinking too hard.  
After that, he doesn’t look at you. He doesn’t greet you, either.  
“I’m home.” You say evenly. You think about being placating from the jump, but without knowing his exact reason - you worry you’ll only worsen the state of affairs.  
Rafayel hums. “Welcome home.”  
Your brain wracks through every possibility on what could be the source of this level of moodiness. Sometimes, his moody behavior is for kicks but it’s not this time. If it was, he’d lay it on thickly. Act theatrically towards you, get in your face about it. 
But he’s tense, forceful—every scratch of his pencil is too harsh like it’s rife with irritation. You tread carefully.  
“Can I sit with you?”  
“Why are you asking? Don’t you live here too? Just because I bought the couches with my money doesn’t mean—“  
“Rafayel.” You say, interrupting him. He scowls at you. “Can I?”  
As if more bothered by you being level, he huffs. It’s followed with a business smile over his shoulder. “Sure. Do whatever you want.”  
You choose to sit on the empty end of the couch where Rafayel does his sketching - fitting yourself in the gap of his space near his feet. You slide yourself in then gently lift his legs into your lap. Rafayel gives you a look when you do this, clearly debating on whether or not he should reject your act of goodwill. Ultimately he stays. 
Notably, while his pencil is still scratching on paper - you think by this point he’s not really sketching anything at all.  
“I got off of work late,” You explain. You rest your hands on his calf gently. “There was an incident near the station but it was a false alarm so I ended up being cleared.”  
“Oh? Is that so?”  
Warm, you think. You nod.  
“There’s been a lot of Metaflux increases in the residential districts close to our headquarters. It’s odd.” You explain. Rafayel is quiet, looking at his nails disinterested. You go on, not taking offense. “Strange as it is, there’s been no active threats. Still, given the location, it needs a lot of man power to be investigated.”  
Rafayel sits quietly, unreadable. You continue on. “So it’s been busy. I think we’ve cleared the level of threat, so another team will probably take over soon.”  
“Hm.” Rafayel says, a petulant edge to his voice. Warmer. “So that’s why you’ve been so late this week. I guess it’s good that nothing happened. It must’ve been difficult, so difficult if you could barely spend time with your one and only lover. But I guess it’s fine, it’s not like there’s anything you can do in that circumstances. Well, you could’ve done a lot but if it didn’t occur to you there’s nothing to be said, then again—why would it—“  
Hot. “Rafayel.”  
“What.” 
“I’m sorry for being late,” You say.  
A beat. His frown deepens.  
“And?”  
You pause before answering, smiling apologetically. “For not keeping in contact with you more.”  
Some of the life returns to him. You’ve deduced the source of his bad mood, which means the only thing left is to alleviate it. You don’t like seeing him upset. He’s quick to forgive you, always optimistic and trying to keep your relationship lighthearted.  
But there is an underlying desire in him that makes you more conscious about any minor infringements. Despite himself, Rafayel is more concerned about you liking him than he’ll ever let on in  his life. Even when he’s upset, he’ll forgive you - but the feelings linger until they explode. When he gets like that, it’s much harder to comfort him.  
It’ll fester if you don’t apologize properly. You know him well enough to know that and you love him well enough to not want to see when disaster strikes.  
(Plus, there’s something about the way he’s still pouting. He’s trying to relax, but it’s there. It’s cute to you. It makes you want to kiss it better.) 
“I’m sorry,” You offer. You reach for the hand resting in his lap and he lets you take it, though it’s limp. You press a kiss to the back of it, eyes full of affection. “I’m not used to having someone wait for me,”  
Rafayel makes another face at you, unreadable. “Not just anyone.”  
You laugh lightly. “That’s true.”  
Squeezing his hand tighter, you kiss it one more time. “Can I make it up to you
?” 
“I don’t know. Can you?”  
“I’d like to,” You offer, another kiss - just higher on back of his hand. Closer towards his wrist. “Whatever you wanted.”  
“Whatever I want is a tempting offer, Miss Bodyguard. What a talent for bargaining you have, indeed. Maybe you should try bidding a one of my auctions, just to see.” 
“I’d bid too high off the bat. I’d go bankrupt,” You tease back, a sweet lilt to your voice that makes Rafayel’s eyes shimmer, fond of your wit. “Would you be willing to keep me if I gave it all up that way, I wonder?”  
“Since it was for me, I could consider being merciful.”  
You give him sincere but small smile and Rafayel seems to warm up seeing it. He can be coy, even playful about his affection but there’s something about him today that feels more shy then it does anything else. 
“If I can ask for whatever I want,” Rafayel starts. “Maybe we could start with paying back your dues. After all you owe me your full undivided attention after your week of neglect.” 
“That’s easy.” You say, charming. Rafayel makes a face at you that makes you want to laugh. “I wanted to give you that anyway. Is that all?”  
“Are you telling me to be more demanding? You think that’s a wise choice?”  
“If it makes you happy, I’ll play the fool.”  
It’s corny, deliberately not something you’d say to anyone else or at any other time. Something that Rafayel might say to you in a different circumstance, so in a way you’ve simply beat him to the punch. He goes through several feelings, each passing over his expression. Amusement to disbelief to embarrassment even he can’t cover up too easily. 
Great risk comes with great reward. Yours is a smiling Rafayel, boyish and amused. Color returned to him, a playful air of mischief about him.  
“Well if you’re that desperate to make it up to me, then I guess I could try to forgive you. Gosh, you must be so desperate if you’re willing to act this way. You’ve totally fallen for me, haven’t you?”  
Yes, you think. Too much of that at once and he’ll get shy again. You’ll have plenty of coaxing to do later so you keep the thought to yourself. You smile at him instead. “So, you’ve anymore demands for me, my liege?”  
Rafayel hums before breaking out into a grin. “Hmm. For now, just one.” He offers you his hand. “Take me upstairs.”  
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Rafayel has a way about him, with you and only you, that makes you especially weak to his advances.  
Whatever those advances are, however taxing on you they may be—there’s so rarely a time where you can tell him no. He likes having that much influence over you, no matter what his particular mood is. If he’s feeling the desire to keep you under his thumb or be at your mercy. Whats central to him in each instance is that he has the full breadth of your attention, your desire, and most importantly—your lacking will to resist.  
You like it all because you like Rafayel. Like how it feels trying to hold onto him as  he slips between your fingers.  
If someone asked you what you like most, though - it’d be this.  
Not quite at your mercy but expectant of your devotion. Crystalline eyes and long, straight lashes blinking up at you with unwitting demand, crowding around you mercilessly. A gaze that weakens you, disarms you, demands your propriety.  
“What are you thinking about?”  
His words come out more annoyed than he wants them to. Your eyes come back into focus to Rafayel on top of you, in your lap as you lean against the headboard. His weight settled like he’s something that fits there perfectly and he does. Your hand reaches for his lower back, eyes tracing down the damp skin. Button shirt opened just loose enough to catch glimpse of his collarbones, with only boxers underneath. Your hands run down his sides, smooth down his bare thighs - mesmerized by cream colored skin that begs for blemishes. 
His expression bewitches you even when your mind had prepared you for it. You smile almost lazily, drawing him just a little closer to you until your noses touch. “Of you.”  
He scoffs at you. “Is that so? Not that you have no reason to think about your perfect, darling lover—it’s just that it seems like he’s the last thing on your mind these days, so you know,-“ 
You kiss him. It’s only partially to shut him up. It’s mostly because him talking makes you look at the shape of his mouth, the curve of his lips—the way he’s pouting at you. It’s almost too much. You part after a minute, careful not to deepen the kiss.  
He has something to say after the fact, dazed - hands on your shoulders trying to give himself the room to speak before you kiss him again.  
But you don’t relent. You kiss him harder, a hand around the back of his neck - slipping your tongue against his lips in the way you like. He doesn’t concede. You’re not really expecting him to. He kisses back even harder like he’s trying to prove a point - teeth digging into your lower lip. A little too sharp for human, but perfect for him.  
You pull away breathless. A hand still on the nape of his neck, sliding around enough to feel his pulse under your thumb. Thump, thump, thump—rabbit quick. You smile at him suggestively, proving him displeased.  
“Don’t interrupt me. Trying to kiss me when I’m airing out my complaints is unprofessional and rude, I’ll have you know.” 
“I’m sorry,” Your lips brush his jawbone. “It’s hard to think about talking when you’re half-naked on top of me.”  
“You can be so vulgar. It’s shocking. You’re usually all serious and about work and then sometimes you look like a dog waiting to be told it can have the treat on it’s nose,” Rafayel says airily. Fake haughty, voice colored with coyness. You look up at him. “Does it really count as making it up to me if all you’re doing is lusting after me?”  
You don’t deny him at face value. “You set the standard. You tell me. Do you feel like I’m still making it up to you or should I work  a little harder?”  
There’s something between you. A spark of electricity that fizzles and pops, tension deepening. Rafayel likes playing tug of war with you. Even though he’s expecting to be pampered - there’s nothing easy about letting him. But it works when you keep yourself even. Eager. Having your desire and lust for him out in the open gives him the power again and he likes that, even when it’s mostly pretend.  
“Work harder. You have to earn your paycheck Miss Bodyguard.” He says. You laugh a little, sitting up a little straighter.  
“Yes boss,” You reply. You lean forward, pulling his weight down as your hands slide underneath the loose, flowy button up. Your hands find his waist, holding his sides before gliding them up on the planes of his back. He’s got lean muscle, a swimmers build that feels tight to the touch.  
You kiss him on the lips again, tongue sweeping against his lower lip. Rafayel playfully rejects it when you do. You pull away one hand to cup the back of his neck and force the kiss deeper, tongue pressing the closed seam of his lips until he yield and lets you. He melts at the gesture rather  unwittingly, the softest little whimper sounding as you feel your tongues touch. It’s a wet, hot kiss. Mouth sticky with spit and saliva.  
“I’m working hard so you shouldn’t be too hard on me,” You say playfully. Rafayel rolls his hips, makes a noise for you as he huffs. “I want to make you feel good.”  
“You’re—“  
You interrupt him again. Not with a kiss on his mouth this time, but a chaste one to the very corner of of it - trailing down the soft curve of his jawline. You make the pressure on his neck featherlight. Thin skin prone to being sensitive, he melts at the soft touch. Cranes his neck up subconsciously to give you access to it. In the spirit of pampering him, you bite at the skin with a genuine hunger. Marking each bruise with a kiss first, you sink your teeth into him without remorse. Incisors scraping the delicate area before you suck hard, broken capillaries throbbing underneath your tongue when you lick them after the fact. 
 Deep, deep shades of red and purple bloom all over the column of his throat. It doesn’t feel like enough to you still.  
“My neck hurts from all your biting.” His voice comes out in wet pants, betraying the sentiment. You laugh warmly at his attempt to diverge.  
“Does it? Should I be gentler, then?” You offer. After you feel like you’ve marked his neck enough, you press another feather-light kiss right where his adams apple sits. Another on his clavicle. When it gets to his collarbone - you don’t do anything more than brush your lips.  
Rafayel whines. It’s a throaty sound that makes your whole body break out into a shiver. Such a pleasant sound on the ears that your mind pictures instantly what other sounds he might make if you just had your way with him. It uncovers a selfish part of you. You could flip him over on your bed and take him if you wanted. Fuck him until he sings as punishment maybe for being tempting like a siren drawing a lone sailor into deep waters.  
You keep the thoughts to yourself, and keep your composure. You ask again instead. “Come on. Tell me. Do you want me to touch you more gently?”  
He fusses in your lap. You grin. “What’s the point in being gentle now if you’re being so rough to begin with? The change would be just weird, you know.”  
“I guess it would,” You let yourself lick the same places you just kissed. You bite then hard enough to leave a mark and Rafayel arches himself into it. “It’s better like this then, right? If I leave marks all over you, then maybe you’ll feel less lonely when I get busy again.”  
“I should get to leave them on you too. Your memory isn’t as sharp as it used to be. A physical reminder might do you some good, yes.”  
His voice is trembling, despite himself. You pull away to look up at him, and catch sight of a fragility you sometimes forget he’s capable of. Brows drawn into a furrow, lips pulled into a pout. Like a wound reopened inside of him that he’s so desperate to cauterize but can’t. You want to kiss the lines between his brows and get on your knees for it. A proof of your affection.  
“I’m sorry for being careless,” You say, sincere. Rafayel looks ready to quiet you, concerned about the mood but you proceed anyhow. You lift his shirt up and hold it to his mouth, and he bites without your instruction. Bare chest exposed to him, you flit your gaze to his face. “I can’t do anything but try to beg your forgiveness. Still,”  
You kiss his sternum, your hands on his waist. You fingers trail down his sides, hands sliding back up to chest. His nipples are hard, damp skin cool to the touch. Your warm him with your fingers, rolling over the sensitive tips. Rafayel makes a muffled noise, his cock twitching responsively.  
“All I ever really think about is you,” You say. Rafayel gives you a long, unreadable look as you toy with his chest. “I’m not the type to half-ass things so my thoughts always revolve around you. Finishing work to come home to you. If you’ve eaten or if you locked yourself in the studio to paint all day. If we should go somewhere together on my day off.”  
You lean forward and stick your tongue out, taking his nipples into your mouth. You roll the other one with your hand to increase the pleasure - content as you watch his face begin to flush. He watches you so closely, the tips of his ears burning a bright red. You suck hard, wetting them with saliva before you take them gently between your teeth and tugging.  
“I’m not good at balancing work with play. I’m also not very friendly so you’re the only person I’ve ever spent so much time dating” You hum, nuzzling his skin. “I’m sure down the line it’ll be harder. But, if it helps, it’s true that my heads always filled with you.”  
Your hands grip his waist, pushing his hips forward slightly as you suck and bite his chest again. A line of saliva connects you both as you pull away - teethmark indentations in their place.  
“I want to make you feel good,” You maneuver Rafayel until he’s underneath you. His expression reads as overwhelmed but the faint blush blooming all over his skin and the hazy look in his eyes makes you confident he’s feeling more than just uncertainty. More like restlessness. A desire to be touched as he lays on his back with you looming over him. “And to touch you everywhere.”  
You lean into him, trailing kisses down the his chest. You can feel his pulse quicken again as you touch him, spreading his legs as you put your thumb inside the waistband of his boxers.  
Like this, he looks especially enchanting. The sleeves of his shirt pulled over his palms, button-up bunched up underneath his chin, and tight gray boxer briefs snug around his hips. Your bedroom, dimly lit, casting shadow on the sinewy muscle. His chest heaves with anticipation, stomach tense as your lips trace a path down from chest to navel. Excitement wracks through his body.  
You put a hand on his stomach and look up at him. “I want to leave my mark on all of it. I want your body to remember I felt this deep inside of you and shiver. You’ll be able to think of me half as much as I think of you.”  
Rafayel heaves, eyes glossed over. “Shit, you’re so unfair. It’s like you have two personalities or something. Are you tricking me? Is it actually you in there?”  
You smile a little, pleased by his reply.  
You follow your instinct, sliding his boxers off and tossing them somewhere. Rafayel is hard. So hard it looks like it hurts. The tip of his cock is ruddy, wet with pre-cum and swollen. His dick is long. Stands up with a straight curve. You breathe on it, making Rafayel flinch with anticipation. Your eyes flicker up to his face, terrible pout betraying his feigned moodiness..  
“Don’t tease me,” He voices. Arousal strikes through you like hot iron at the whine of his voice. Almost pitiful.  
“Not today,” You promise. 
You making yourself comfortable between Rafayel’s legs, sticking your tongue out to taste him. He smells like soap and skin, but the scent is still so arousing. Your head is heavy with it, senses suffocating, hands stabilizing themselves by grabbing hold of his thighs. Rafayel looks near overwhelmed from even the slightest touch. It’s uncharacteristic for him to be so quiet. Almost meek. He must be aching for you more than he lets on.  
You let his cock rest against your face, nuzzling it with your cheek. His cock responds sweetly to the lewd act. He lets out a sigh about, subtly trying to shimmy away from the touch. Unable to win against your grip, he sinks back into the bed and takes a long breath.  
“Keep your eyes on me,”   
In the business of spoiling him, you leave your teasing to a minimum. You gather spit in your mouth and spit it onto his cock with force - relishing the his breath hitches. How his eyes widen just slightly. You stroke his shaft with a tight grip, bringing your head down suck lightly below the shaft of his cock. His head falls back again, mouth open in a silent plea.  
Rafayel keens for you when you work him with the warm, wet cavern of your mouth. You use your hands to fondle him while you shift your attention to his length. Your lips placing hot kisses up until they stop at the slit - tongue dipping into and tasting precum. Salty and warm. You wet your lips again and brush them against his cock - watching the way his expression shifts at the sensation, lightly sucking as you build yourself up having him in your mouth.  
He pitches his hips with desperation that spurs you to give him more pleasure. You open wide to take his cock into your mouth. The weight of it feels good. Arousal clouds your mind as you hollows your cheeks and stick your tongue out over your lip. He’s throbbing so hard it makes you lightheaded.  
A minute passes as you just hold him in your mouth, getting your jaw used to the sensation before you put in work in making him feel good. Like steel over your velvet, you use your tongue to lap at the sensitive skin while spitting and drooling. You’re making a mess. The room echoes with the filthy noise of you swallowing and choking on Rafayel’s cock.  
“Oh, fuck.” 
Your eyes flicker up to Rafayel, trying not to crack a smile at the state of disarray he’s in. His expression is so twisted from pleasure. All of his features reflective of it. His blush seems to creep down even further the longer you go. Your body gradually heats up, core throbbing as you take him down. Take him slowly into the narrow canal of your throat, eyes watering.  
You ease yourself down the very base - nose pressed against his navel, tongue over your lip. Rafayel’s fingers curl into the sheets underneath you trying not to buck his hips.  
“Get off of me, I’ll cum.” He says, almost panicked. “Your throat feels so good. Y-your mouth is so hot and it’s making me feel so good, can’t—I can’t. You gotta get off or—”  
His words of protest fall on deaf ears as you spread his legs even further. Wanting to make him feel better, you part them. 
 You’re greeted by pretty pink hole - already wet for you. A stream of spit follows as you pull off him. 
 Rafayel heaves in relief.  
“You got yourself ready,” You say, less than ask. Rafayel rolls his eyes.  
“So what if I did?” 
“I wanted to do it for you.” You reply, pretending to sulk. “Told you I wanted to spoil you.”  
He blushes further. “Don’t you have any sensibility? You’re doing more than enough. Being excessive, even.”  
“I don’t believe in being excessive when it comes to you,” You hum. Sitting up, you reach over the bedside table for a bottle of lube. You pour it in excess on your two fingers before coming back down between his legs. The bed creaks under your weight.  
Lube drips from your two fingers onto Rafayel’s hole, thick as you push the excess with two fingers. Both go in so smoothly it makes you smirk. He’s soft inside. It’s so easy for you to put both fingers inside of him, even easier to find his prostate - swollen from arousal. He must’ve fucked himself open like this on three fingers given how easily yours follow.  
“It’s so wet inside. You must’ve really wanted me to fuck you.”  
“So what if I—aah—did?”  
“Well, I wanted to take you apart nice and slow.” You say, slowly rubbing your fingers against his prostate, pleased by the little oh noises he makes when you. Cum spills from the tip immediately. He’s so sensitive. You divulge your plans to him as you stretch him. “First with my mouth once or twice.  I was going to save fucking you for the end  but—“ You push your fingers deeper. To the knuckle. His eyes shoot wide open before his voice breaks into a moan. “Since I’m making it up to you you, I was wondering if I should just cut the chase and make you cum on my cock over and over and over. Maybe you’d prefer that.”  
Rafayel’s eyes go wide. You feel a sense of accomplishment knowing without him telling you. He clears his throat, strangely sheepish.  
“It’s not like the other stuff feels bad or anything—“  
You make eye contact with him, sitting up on your knees. Your other hand cups the back of his neck as you press a third finger inside - fucking it in slowly. Rafayel moans unabashedly as you do. His skin is feverish as you press your forehead to his, noses brushing. The wet sound of you stretching him open makes you dizzy, shared breaths between you filling worsening your appetite for him.   
“It’s not what you want though, is it? Not today anyway.” You say, leaning close enough to kiss. You don’t follow through, your voice low on a whisper. “Tell me how you were picturing me fucking you in the shower. I’ll give you whatever you want today,”  
Rafayel seems to let go of the last threads of fight in him as you approach like this. You’re in the thick of your wanting for him. Your body and your mind hunger to make it feel so good it looks like carnage to everyone else. To be pleasured so ruthlessly he can barely move 
He’s rarely too shy but right now he’s in the depths of his desires. He moans sweetly like this. It’s not a sound you can coax out of him easily. It sounds so perfect still. Mouth fallen open, his hands finding purchase in the back of your shirt.  
“Want you to fuck me deeply,” He pants, like it’s straining to even thinking about it. “N-not too fast, but not too slow either. Want you, hngh,” Shivering, he tries to speak coherently as your eyes meet - lips barely touching but almost. “To p-praise me and—“  
You grin. “You want to pampered while I fuck this pretty little hole, right?”  
You push your fingers in harder. He whimpers. It’s loud and broken and makes grip on you tighter. He just nods. “Please. Fuck, please - need it now. In me, please.”  
It’s exactly the words you’re interested in hearing. You kiss him on the lips deeply. He sinks completely into the touch, malleable under your fingertips.  
“Shh, I know.” You hum, soothingly. Rafayel whines from the loss of contact as you pull your hand away.“You earned it. Just a little more.” 
You stand up again on your knee, stripping yourself of the remaining garments left on your body from the work day. You unhook your bra and take it off along with your tank top in one go, tossing it somewhere on the floor. 
Next come your slacks, tight from the way you’ve tucked silicone cock up against your stomach to be ready to fuck. You put it on earlier while he bathed - tucking it in your pants to keep it out of the way. Seeing you unzip your work slacks and have a heavy silicone cock fall from them evokes a reaction in Rafayel that endears you endlessly. A bitten lip while a shiver wracks through him. 
Deciding your pants will get in the way, you make quick work of wriggling out of them completely before returning between Rafayel’s legs. You spit in your hand and stroke yourself with it, wetting your cock before letting it rest against Rafayel’s own. 
“How do you want it?” You ask.  
“Like this,” He says, unmoving. He seems certain on that end but he’s hesitating. “But I want you to
” 
He looks away. You try not to grin but fail.  
“You were being so bold a second ago,”  
He rolls his eyes. “Well a second ago someone was trying to rearrange my insides so I didn’t have to think very hard,”  
“So, should I do it again, then? I think we’ll get better results that way.”  
“You’re so noisy. I don’t pay you for this,” He pauses. “I want you to hug me while we
 like be close to me.” 
You pause before smiling gently. You’re so charmed by the innocence of it. It’s so unlike him. Being away from you must’ve bothered him more than he cared to admit. Softening, instantly - you lean forward and press your lips to his forehead.  
“Sure. Anything else?”  
“Ugh. Not for now. But it’s annoying. I should be running you into the ground by now but here you are,” 
“Making good on my promise?,” You finish. Rafayel doesn’t refute you. You kiss his shoulder blade. “Anything you want today. I’m yours.”  
“Say it again,”  
“All yours.”  
He wraps his arms around your neck and pulls you down. “
Hurry up and fuck me then.”  
Complying with his wishes, you sit back on your knees as you line your cock up with Rafayel’s entrance and push. He gasps as you slide the fat head of your cock in, a wicked smile on your face as you watch his hole stretch out and around you. Three fingers is more than enough prep. It makes filling him so easy.  
Still, the stretch - the feeling of being full is nothing like just fingers. You watch as Rafayel’s body adjusts to  it. Inch by inch, you rock your hips forward gently until he’s swallowed your cock up half-way. He’s trembling as you lean forward. Waiting for you to bottom out before he pulls you forward for as much skin to skin as he can have. Your chest squishes against him.  
When his hips roll for you to go deeper, you take it as a sign. With all of your strength, you hold onto his waist bury yourself inside of him in another single thrust. His nails dig into your shoulder, his voice next to your ear as you. Tightening his grip, he cries out at the sudden movement 
You can feel him shake underneath you, cock clenching hard while you hold him.  
“Fuuck,”  He goes stone stiff underneath you before starting to tremor more violently. “Fuck, oh fuck.”  
Realization dawns on you a few seconds later. “Did—did you cum just from putting it in?”  
He opens his eyes and frowns at you.  
“Shut up. I didnïżœïżœïżœt get to cum earlier.”  
You laugh. “You’ll kill me being this cute. I don’t know what to do.”  
“I could give you an idea if you’re going to just sit there,”  
His impatience amuses you.  
“Sorry. I’ve got you. Cum as much as you want.”  
You anchor yourself, pulling out slowly and internally groaning at the resistance as you do. How his hole grips onto you so tight it feels nearly hard to move despite know how stretched he is. A phantom sensation fills your waist as you feel his stomach shift as you thrust.  
Heeding earlier requests, you use your hips to set a pace to fuck Rafayel the way he wants. The ins and outs of his body come naturally to you now. Finding the right pace, the right motion, the right angle - all come easier to you than you even remember. On muscle memory, you hike Rafayel’s legs up and begin to fuck him deep. Not too fast, not too slow - but consistent in grinding against that sweet spot. Deliberately thrusting your hips up, you try to direct all the remaining focus into fucking him as good as you can.  
You know you’ve hit the right places when his grip on you gets tighter. His legs locked around your back, Rafayel is a mess underneath you even when you’ve barely begun. Like he can’t stop cumming, his body helplessly wound as your hips clap his ass.  
The moans that come out of him, broken and sweet. More angelic then pornographic but lewd enough to make you dizzy with the urge to pin him up and fuck him harder. Groaning when you fuck him just right. You can feel his cock against your stomach with how close your bodies are as you grind - twitching. Pre-cum leaking in long spurts and wetting your skin. 
You coo at him feeling it start to be easier to fuck him.  
“It’s just like a pussy, huh? You take me so good inside of you. It feels like you were made for it,” You press kisses wherever your lips can find the skin. On his face, his mouth, on his shoulders. You can barely make sense of your own filth, your mind moving on it’s own as your body chases its own arousal. Your clit is grinding against the base of your strap-on so well like this, you could easily chase the high and find your own orgasm with seconds. You’re too busy paying attention to make well on it. “I like when you act cute like this. Usually you’d put up a fight about it but you’re asking without fuss. It’s precious seeing you fall apart on my cock.”  
He moans your name like an incantation, another dribble of cum spilling. He can’t stop cumming. Just shuddering beneath you, his face in your shoulder and panting like he can’t find the words.  
“All mine, yeah? Everything, all of you. It’s all mine to tend to, so you can be as selfish as you want.” You hum, encouraged by the whimpering repetition of please in his voice. He’s being so pliant, so good. You can’t help yourself. “Take when you need. Cum when it feels good for you. I want you to feel good. Want to make you feel so good you can’t stand it. Think you can do that? Come on,”  
Rafayel moans brokenly into your neck. “I’m g-gonna cum so hard, fuck—feels like I can’t stop, please don’t stop, fuck me,” 
“Shh it’s okay. I wont stop until you tell me.” You tuck yourself against his neck, kissing it before biting his ear lobe. He gasps. “Don’t think about anything other than cumming for me.”  
“Fuck,” His nails dig into your biceps, coiling you around as you get close. “Fuck me. P-please—I’m cumming, I’m cu -“  
Rafayels whole body stiffens under the weight of your body. You fuck him steady, pinning him down as he cums. His cock pushes hard against your stomach, twitching helplessly as his cum spills in streams. His back curls up, gripping onto you tightly as he moans loud and unabashed, euphoria splintering through his muscles. You fuck him through it until he rides out his high - his body loosening up as soon as it passes.  
The sound of cum unsticking from your skin as you part from Rafayel makes you grin. You pull back out of slowly and get on your knees. You use your hand to wipe the cum off of your stomach and smear it against Rafayel’s hole.  
“You made a mess,” You say brightly. Rafayel pants, looking up at you. Before you can ask, his voice trembles. He weakly reaches for your hand.   
“Let me make you finish,” He says, abrupt. You blink at him owlishly. “Please.”  
“Isn’t this about you?”  
He frowns, looking at you seriously.  
“It is. And I’m telling you I want you sit on my face and cum on it. Please.”  
You give him a look before breaking out into a laugh. You stand onto your knees and undo the buckles of your harness - shimmying out of them. “I can’t refuse you if you ask like that but I don’t think it’ll be long.”  
“It’ll just be once for now,”  
“For now?”  
He nods matter-of-factly. “You still owe me after the crimes of neglect you’ve committed against me.”  
“Right.”  
“And I’ve decided I want to exercise my rights to eat pussy until sunrise.”  
“I see,” You say bemused. “And this is
 revenge I take it? And not perhaps, an act of goodwill towards me.”  
“I have no reason to show you good will, do I?”  
You break out into more laughter. 
“Right. We’ll be even after today then, at least.”  
“Hurry,” Rafayel says again, after settling it. Same puppy dog look in his eyes as before, back in instant. You can’t help but be charmed by how quickly he reverts back into desiring your attention.  
Rafayel lays down as you take your strap-on off and crawl over towards him. Deciding you’re not done with him for the day - you stand on your knees just over his chest and spread your pussy apart for him to see. He’s not expecting it, evidenced by the way his eyes go wide at the sight. 
“Even without cumming, making you feel good turned me on this much. Is that what you were hoping to know?”  
Rafayel goes flush again. “I never said that.”  
“So difficult,” You hum. “Come on. Can I sit?”  
Rafayel barely masks his enthusiasm as he nods. You crawl over him further before carefully setting yourself above his face. You try to avoid letting the full weight rest on him, but Rafayels hands are on you in an instant. With the same desperate grip he had while you were fucking him, he pulls your thighs down until your pussy is in his mouth - tongue out and lapping up wetness instantly. You shiver at the desperate movement of his tongue. 
It gets your body hot all over again. Your fingers thread through the purple strands of hair for anchor as you push yourself against his willing mouth like you’re fucking his face. Your own desires hadn’t crossed your mind until now, but now that you’re aware of it - that familiar restless lust returns to you tenfold You shiver as the familiar flames of arousal stoke back up inside of you.  
Your gut honeyed, sticky lust making your limbs feel thick. You use your other hand to tweak your nipples as you rock your hips back and forth. Rafayel lies underneath you obediently, eagerly - his hands helping you move at the pace you want without complaint. He always manages to surprise you. His willingness to give to you making you feel weak in the knees.  
Already so worked up, it takes you hardly any time to reach your climax. You feel it in your waist, body going slack as the knot inside of your stomach uncoils. You let out a short cry, hands tightening in Rafayel’s hair as you cum all over his face - swearing as you do. You feel Rafayel moan against you, reverberating through you as you ride out your high and finish.  
You pull away from his sated, pulling back to see him wiping his chin before licking his fingers. The look in his eyes sends an amused sort of arousal through you.  
“You look like you’re going to eat me.” You say. Rafayel nods.  
“I mean
 I’m certainly trying.”  
You laugh tiredly, swiping your thumb against his cheek with a smile.  
“After we clean up and have dinner,” You say. “I have some mandatory time off so I won’t be called in.”  
“I won’t let you sleep,” He says, clingy again - face pressed against your thigh. You grin. His many moods make you so weak to him. 
You bend down to kiss his forehead.  
“I wasn’t planning on it.”  
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✼ a/n ; rafayel fans . let me know if this was okay im lacking confidence but i had writing him. i want to keep like a spoiled housecat maybe.
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pencil-n-pen · 2 days ago
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hii! i hope you are doing well. i love your overworked series so much. it's very relatable to me on what the circumstances the reader is in and all i do eat the series all up(munch munch) how about like a study date for them? that would be cute
Hello honey !! Thank you so much for this request, I was so excited to write it <3 Hope you enjoy!
STUDY OR DATE
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summary: you ask Leon to go on a study date with you at a coffee shop. Things don’t go as planned, but work out just fine in the end.
cw: i think this qualifies as a drabble not a oneshot it’s short :( but sweet :) sorry some angst slipped in there, one of Leon’s ex friends says some kind of mean things about you but Leon comes to your defense, honestly that’s it this is pretty fluffy
a/n: i just know leon absolutley slams those frou frou coffee drinks. i say this as a frou frou coffee drink enjoyer
no the Baby I'm Yours reference was not intentional
masterlist | previous (not actually a SERIES series, just takes place in the same universe)
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It was you who proposed the idea of a study date.
"I think it might be nice," You'd said, staring at your shoes and shuffling in place as people file out of the last class of your day- the one you share with Leon. "I usually study by myself, but I think it would be good to... get out of my room, for a bit. Um. And then we could study together?"
"Are you asking me or telling me?"
This is one of his current favorite sentences. "Training you to stand your ground, princess. Nothing bad is gonna happen when you do."
You squeeze the strap of your backpack. "Telling...? But also asking, because I don't know if you're free."
"Even if I did have plans I would cancel them. Where were thinking of going?"
A burst of heat rises to your face. "That cafe? Near the east side of campus?"
He leans down, giving you a quick peck on the nose. "I think that's a great idea."
The walk to the cozy cafe isn't too long, but it is cold. You shamelessly use the winter chill as an excuse to cuddle up to Leon.
"As if you need one," He mumbles, squeezing you close to him.
When you arrive to the shop, the bell dinging signifying your entrance, Leon tugs at the backpack on your shoulder.
"Gimme that. I'll snag us a table that has outlets. Order something for me?"
You don’t have to look to know the hand in front of you has his credit card in it. And you know better than to refuse. He likes spending money on you, for whatever reason. You’re not complaining, really, it just eats at you a little bit. Just a little.
But it’s also really, really, really sweet. The kindness tends to override the guilt, in his case.
For yourself, you order exactly what you want- Leon has a second sense for when you order something that's for the sake of preserving money rather than what you actually want. You'd asked him once where his seemingly never-ending supply of money came from, but he'd just kissed you on the forehead and told you not to worry about it. You kind of still worry about it, but never enough for him to notice.
For Leon, you order exactly what he wants but will never admit to liking- an iced caramel macchiato. The way coffee shops like Starbucks make them, not the traditional way. More milk and sugar than coffee. It's funny watching him slug his way through black coffee with a splash of milk when you know for a fact the milky, sugary coffee drinks never last longer than about five minutes when they're in front of him.
The cafe isn't that crowded, so it doesn't take long for your drinks to be ready. You take them from the bar with a thanks, then slide into the table Leon snagged for you.
His eyes catch on the drink.
"What is that?"
"An iced caramel macchiato."
"And why, exactly, did you order that for me?"
"Because you like them."
"No I-"
"Don't even pretend."
He takes the drink with a grumble, but reaches across the table and squeezes your hand once, a quiet thank you.
You take a sip of your own drink, then take your supplies out of your backpack and get to work.
You work fairly quietly, Leon occasionally sliding random snacks he, apparently, just keeps with him across the table to you. At one point, he gets up and returns with a plate that has a few of the pastries you were eyeing earlier on it. How he even knew exactly which ones you wanted is a mystery to you.
An hour or so after he gets the pastries, the bell dings, signifying someone's entrance.
"No way! Leon, is that you?"
Leon's face twists into something sour and angry, and a small stab of apprehension slices through your chest as the voice is accompanied by approaching feet.
"Josh," Leon says evenly, crossing his arms and leaning back in his chair. "Haven't seen you in awhile. On purpose."
You turn, eyeing the man that's standing behind you, a few other guys standing a little ways behind him, all leering for a glance.
The Josh in question just laughs. "Oh, whatever Leon," His gaze catches on your face and his eyes widen.
"No way. Are you seriously here with the pretentious--"
"You mean my girlfriend?" Leon leans forward in his seat, his jaw set and his fists clenched where they rest on the table. "Be very careful about your next words."
Girlfriend?
Josh blinks. "I meant nothing by it, man. I'm just surprised to see you here with her, is all."
Leon looks absolutely murderous. "And why would that be?"
"Just because, you know. We always talked about how annoying her attitude was. And that rivalry thing you guys had."
"I remember ditching you guys when you started ragging on her, yeah. Fuck off, Josh."
Josh raises his hands. "Jeez, okay man. I was just surprised. You're seriously choosing that girl over us?"
"This woman, yes. We were never friends like that. Forgive me if I prefer being with someone who doesn't make me consider the legality of finishing a college degree in prison."
Josh seems upset by Leon's statement, but Leon holds his ground. He jerks his head towards the rest of the gaggle. "Go."
Josh scampers away, metaphorical tail between his legs.
Leon immediately turns to you, brows furrowed in concern and body un-tensing. "Are you okay? Did he upset you? Do I need to kill him?"
You blurt out the first and only thing you got from that entire exchange.
"I'm your girlfriend?"
He re-tenses.
"Do you... not want to be?"
"No!" You shout, a little too loudly, because Josh and his friends look back over, but the ensuing glare from you and Leon is enough for them to look away so quickly you think you hear Josh’s neck pop.
"No," you say quietly, "I um. I'd really like to be your girlfriend. I just. I didn't know what we were."
He gets that fond look in his eyes again. The one he gets before he says something sappy.
"Baby," He says, reaching across the table and grabbing your hand. "I"m yours. I mean that. I didn't formally ask you out because I figured you wanted to take things slow."
"I did. At first."
He smiles. "Then princess, my princess, may I please be your boyfriend?"
You can't help the giddy giggle the escapes your mouth. "Yes."
"Oh thank god," He says, wiping fake sweat off his brow. "It would've been awkward to have a heart attack and die in this cafe."
"That seems a bit extreme."
"Not really. Have you seen my girlfriend? Cardiac events are a normal reaction, I assure you."
You don't get much studying done for the rest of the day.
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After that, there is a noticeable increase in study dates and date-dates. Leon is weirdly good at picking date spots and ideas.
The first time he introduces you as his girlfriend at a party, Ada shouts so loudly you think she might burst someone's eardrum. Your roommates all squeal with excitement when you tell them.
Chris, being Chris, says "Weren't you already dating?" when Leon tells him the news. That seems to be the general consensus.
You're on another study date right now, Leon's face doing that cute little scrunch thing when he's thinking about a math problem, and you set your pencil down just to stare at him.
He's your boyfriend.
You're his girlfriend.
He looks up at you, chewing on the end of his pencil. "What? Do I have something on my face?"
"No," You say, a little breathless. "M' just looking at my boyfriend."
He grins, leaning across the table to give you a kiss, soft and slow.
You're normally not one for PDA.
But maybe you'll allow it. For your boyfriend.
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aerofbreath · 12 hours ago
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Actually writing something based off of this post. Y'all really seemed to like it and I got scared LOLOL
(How it will probably go (written poorly written cause it's almost 7AM and I haven't slept yet) . Also I have no idea what I'm doing. This will be rewritten better in a fic maybe.)
Jason sighed as he made his way into Gotham University's gym. It was the middle of the day and Jason was there at a Startup Event posing as a guy who was interested in what people had to offer. He had only had maybe a total of four hours of sleep since he had patrol the night before. Granted, this wouldn't have affected him as much if he was more mentally prepared to be awake. The only reason why he's out here was because Bruce had woken him up an hour ago to tell him a little last minute about what he needed to do today. Originally, the plan was to do absolutely nothing. But now he has to investigate a guy that Bruce had his eye on as of lately.
The person he's looking for is a man named Danny Nightingale. Apparently he's been in Gotham for a couple years and only recently started making a mess of things. How it went under Bruce's nose is beyond him considering how freaked out Bruce was once he did find out.
Apparently, the guy has been making life changing machines. Little mechanical bees have been flying around Gotham really just sucking up all the pollution in the air and just depositing it somewhere. According to the media, they go back to some headquarters and into a bee hive looking structure to deposit all the pollution and sludge. From the photos shown, it's actually pretty impressive. Some guy actually making a change around here.
For Bruce- no. For Batman, this is just highly suspicious. Why would some guy make these positive life changing machines? For the better? No. No genius with the power to change the world would do it for the better. There's got to be some ulterior motive behind it.
At least, that's what Batman thinks.
Jason thinks it's all interesting. Maybe there is an ulterior motive but even then, at a scale so large that it's literally affecting the city in a positive way? You've got to be literally more insane than the Joker if you wanted to plaster your face everywhere at an event like this. Everyone else at this event seemed to show promise but compared to Danny Nightingale's company? They're literally all small fry.
Surprisingly enough, however, no one else seems to be at Danny's booth. Not even Danny. Jason frowned as he approached the booth and just looked at the machines on them. The Bees are kind of just flying in place and the moment that Jason even looked at them, the Bees immediately got to work. They flew around him like a puppy with wings, nuzzling against him and bumping into him so dumbly. And honestly?
It was actually kind of cute. You would think that being on such little hours of sleep and being grumpy the whole morning would really affect the pits inside him but no. He's surprisingly calm.
"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry! They don't usually act like this," a voice stuttered out. A man hastily walked towards Jason as he gently plucked the Bees out of the air and brought it close to him.
"Uh, don't worry about it. I thought it was kind of..." Jason trailed out before locking eyes with the man who spoke.
This was Danny Nightingale. He was much shorter than Jason, only standing tall at 5' 5". His hair was fully black with only a white money piece right on his bangs. And his eyes? An alluring blue with only a hint of green at the center of his eyes. Honestly, the sight of Danny just about took Jason's breath away.
There was a subtle glow to him, almost making Jason think of there being some sort of meta activity going on but looking around the people in the area, no one but him seems to notice. Danny was concerned about Jason, that much is obvious. The way his eyes burrowed in concern then into confusion. It's strange why just looking at him made Jason's heart skip a beat, even though in hindsight, Danny looks much worse off than Jason.
That man looks like he hasn't slept in 3 weeks. But even then he was...
"Cute..." Jason finally finished his sentence a little too late.
Danny blinked in confusion, tilting his head to the side. His bangs fall freely over his eyes. Just the sight of that almost made Jason blush. "My bees were cute?" Danny spoke, the tone of his voice (very tired) sounded like a sweet harmony in Jason's ears. "Oh! You're interested in Nightech? No one else seems to be interested in my stuff yet. I can tell you all about this company and how it works? I put in a lot of work and love into these little guys and I'm sure you would love them too!"
Blah blah blah. Proper name. Place name. Backstory stuff.
Nothing of what Danny is saying is registering in Jason's brain right now. Maybe some. ("I... Love... You...")
"I love you too!!" Jason blurted out.
Danny blinked before widening his eyes. "Wh-What...?" There was that look of concern again but now there's another look. Recognition...
Whatever. None of that right now. This is embarrassing!
"I-I said I love your company. Uh. Do you have a business card? I can let Bruce Wayne know about this."
Wordlessly, Danny gave an information card to Jason before that poor brick of a man just ran out of there, not once even looking back. Honestly, from the way it's playing out in Jason's head right now, he feels like a princess running away from her prince at the stroke of midnight. The earpiece crackled before a voice started to speak.
"Jason? What the hell was that?" Bruce's voice questioned.
It was only when Jason left the gymnasium that he answered, "Me digging my own grave for the second time, old man. Let me go die in peace."
"No, no," Dick's voice chimed in, "Only after we replay that very short conversation about 50,000 times. Thank you very much."
Jason only groaned in response.
Danny, back in the gymnasium, only stared at the door that Jason left from in horror. The only way for people to react that way to him like that is for them to be dead or liminal. Now he has to figure out a way to tell Bruce Wayne that this person that he seems to know is a little bit dead!
This actually is a part of whatever the fuck I'm writing. I'm still thinking of a fic name. But all of the random posts go together in some way.
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plaidpajamallama · 2 days ago
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(You scared me) RHEA RIPLEY X JEY USO
Chapter 25
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Rhea was sitting in the passenger seat of the rental car. Damian got they were on their way to the Intuit Dome.
The music from her playlist blasting over the radio as she stared out the window
She felt nervous about what the day would bring.
This was her last shot at her title; if she lost this, then it was over. It was Liv’s, and she would have to move on and accept it.
She turned to Damian. You think I can do it?
He turned down the music, looking over at her. Yeah, you're going to win.
And if I don’t?
And if you don’t, then you find something else, something better. There’s a whole new title to go after; there’s Tiffy the Rumble. Besides, you never needed a title to be the best; you just are the best. Rhea
She grabbed his arm, laying her head against it. Thank you.
No problem. For the record, you're going to win.
She sighed. It’s going to be a long day.
Yeah, it is, but I don't have anything to do, so if you need me—
I’ll come find you, she cut in.
Thank you, and please don’t just run off after your match with Jey.
I won’t. She chuckled, letting go of his arm. I don’t think there will be any running off tonight.
He looked at her with a confused expression. What happened? What did he do?
Nothing; he didn’t do anything! She said quickly. He’s just got a lot going on with Roman right now, so we’ll see what happens tonight.
She sank into her seat, resting her head against the window. She was a little worried about what might happen; this whole day could end horribly.
Not just could she lose her final shot at what was rightfully hers; she knew she took the first shot at Liv, but Liv took more than was fair, and now this was the end. What happens happens if she lost; it was over, and if she won, she was finally done with all of it.
Then on the other side she had to worry about Jey.
Not just in his match; she believed in him. He could handle Drew; she knew Drew pretty well from when he helped them out in war games.
She would bet good money on Drew letting his emotions get the best of him.
But then she could say the same for Jey; there was a lot on his mind right now.
She wasn’t sure when they would talk to Roman, but if that was anytime before his match, whatever Roman says will affect him in the ring.
She kept making up different scenarios in her head of how this whole thing might go.
She knew some of the things Roman did, but she didn’t know the full extent of said things until she got with Jey, and he told her.
He never said it exactly, but just the way he spoke told her enough about what happened when he was in the bloodline.
This was eating at him, and she couldn’t help but feel a little responsible.
none of this would’ve happened if she didn’t make some big deal out of it If she didn’t pick a fight with him about him not fucking talking to her, then they wouldn’t be here. Jey wouldn’t be going through all of this right now.
She let out a sigh, her breath fogging up the window.
God, she shouldn’t blame herself; if she told him any of that, he would be even more upset that she ever thought, even for a minute, that it was her fault.
She heard the music stop, and all of a sudden, she picked her head up off the window.
The screen on the dashboard lit up with a text from Jey saying they made it to the arena.
He slid his phone back in his pocket as he pulled his suitcase out of the trunk before slamming it down.
He told Roman that they needed to talk sometime before he left.
He had gotten there a little early since he had to do something before the actual show along with the normal thing he always had to do.
This day wasn’t all bad, though he not only was going to beat Drew’s ass, he also got the opportunity to walk out with Travis Scott.
So if shit went bad with Roman, at least he had that to look forward to, and he means Rhea winning what was hers, of course.
He pushed through the back doors of the arena. Waving at the security guards standing out front as he passed
He was excited for Rhea; she had this one. There was no doubt in his mind she was going to walk out tonight empty-handed. He had no doubt in Roman winning either; he believed in Solo; he was going to give him a run for his money. for sure
But Roman was going to win, and he didn’t know if that was a good thing or not.
Solo may not have been the best, but he surely was as bad as Roman.
Everyone in Solo’s bloodline was there because they wanted to be, not because they were forced to be.
Roman has been drunk on power ever since he got it. Before he got it, he was now getting humble. He thought about all the time Roman got knocked on his ass while he walked down the long hallway.
Rhea was sitting with her eyes closed as she got her makeup done.
As the show got closer and closer, she could feel her nerves creeping up but also her adrenaline
If this really was the end, she was going to fight like hell to win. If Dom and Raquel felt the need to intervene, then she would take care of them to
Nothing or nobody was going to stop her from winning tonight.
Hey, babygirl, it’s good to finally see you. He sat down at one of the vanities along the wall.
She smiled. I wish I could see you.
You look beautiful, Mama.
And I’m not even done yet. Claire chimed in.
Don’t feed his crazy
It’s not crazy if it’s true; you're beautiful, right?
Oh yes, you look beautiful, and you will only get more beautiful from here.
She laughed at both of them. Do you need something, love?
I just wanted to see you. I've been busy; I had to work the red carpet. You know he popped his collar.
Oh! I know, and I don’t know if I appreciate you showing everybody what’s mine.
People see all that all the time; it ain’t new. Now all that other shit, yes, it’s yours.
As long as you know it, I would hate to have to show you, she said sultrily.
She smiled to herself when she heard him get quiet; she could feel Claire smiling back at her.
This wasn’t the worst thing she had overheard in these chairs; shit, this wasn’t the worst thing she had even seen in these chairs.
She heard him clear his throat as he stood up.
The devil is a lie, he said before walking by her.
She grabbed his hand. Hey, when do you need me? She said gently.
Um, after you get done here, if that’s cool?
Yeah, of course, I’ll come find you. She brought his hand up, placing a kiss on it.
See you in a bit, Mama, he said, walking away.
I think I like him more than Dom. He’s much better to look at, that’s for sure.
She laughed, Ooh, by a long shot.
Ok, now stay still so I can finish.
It didn’t take long for Claire to finish her makeup. A purple look with a black lip, as always. She already had on her gear, so she just needed to get her hair done, but she would do that after everything with Jey.
She met him outside the man’s locker before walking to Roman’s
She checked with him one last time if he wanted her there before they made it; he told her he wanted her there before knocking on the door. Heyman answered the door and let them in.
As soon as they walked in, the air was thick with tension. Roman was sitting back in his chair, manspreading, rubbing his wrist in his hand.
He had on his ring gear along with his gloves.
She had seen him before, but in this light he was even more intimidating than he was in the ring.
They sat down on the couch, his hand letting go of hers as he clasped his together.
Heyman sat down on the couch on the side closest to Roman.
She had forgotten how loyal he was to him; he found it a little weird then, and she still found it weird now.
So what do you want? Roman seemed already tired of this conversation.
Why lie if you already know about us, uce?
Because you wanted to tell me, so I let you.
He sucked his teeth. You let me?
Yeah, you made a big deal about telling me, so I let you
You could have told me after I told you.
Maybe I was, but you ran away.
He scoffed, I ran away? I walked away because you were being an asshole, uce.
He scowled. Jay I told you I don’t care about all this he gestured between him and Rhea. I was just looking out for you.
Looking out for what? You haven't been here. What were you going to do, uce? You haven't even been here to handle your business, he said, annoyed.
Roman sat up in his chair, leaning forward, his arms hanging off his knees.
See, Jey, you always get caught up in your emotions.
He scoffed, Here we fucking go, he muffled under his breath.
This isn’t about you and her; it’s about business.
What fucking business!? I don’t work with your ass anymore; you don’t get to decide what I do! I’m a grown ass man; I can do whatever I want!
You don’t act like one, Roman said weirdly calm. You don’t get it, do you, Jey? Everything I do is to take care of you.
Bullshit!
He ran a hand over his chin, letting out a frustrated sigh. You can think whatever you want, but that's the truth: the Wiseman only looked into the her for you.
I didn’t ask your ass to do that shit, uce!
Roman looked him dead in his eyes because that's what family does, Jey; they try to help each other even when they don’t want it.
He ran his hand over his face. There you go with your bullshit again, Uce, he said as he stood up.
Roman stood up to meet him; he didn’t say anything, just looked at him, and that’s all it took before he started to avoid his gaze, finding anything else to look at.
I was just looking out for you, Jey. I just wanted to make sure you were happy, but all you want to do is fight. I’m fighting for this family. In 20 minutes, we both agreed that Solo can’t do that yet.
He’s not ready, he said softly, but maybe one day you’ll be ready. But if you keep acting like a goddamn child and picking fights, you won’t be, so get it together! He didn’t yell or raise his voice; he kept his voice soft and calm, but the bass in it hit him in his chest.
I don’t want to see you until you beat Drew, and if you lose, I don’t want to see you at all.
He shoved him back, his heels hitting the front of the couch.
He didn’t respond, just nodded before storming out the door, hitting the wall behind it.
Rhea stood up to walk out after him, but Roman stopped her, putting his arm across the doorway.
She looked up at him in his eyes. Move She said confidently, which seemed to catch him a bit off guard.
He eyed her down before moving his arm out of her way.
She walked out mumbling under her breath, as she did so, she walked down the hallway looking for Jey. She found him sitting on a crate with his head in his hands.
Baby, she put her hand on his back. She was about to ask if he was okay, but she already knew the answer to that question.
Baby, it’s fine.
He let out a breath through his hands. No, it’s not. I let him get to me, and now
Don’t worry about that, my love; just focus on Drew. That’s all you have to worry about tonight.
She bent down in front of him, putting her hand on his knee. Okay?
He’s moved his hands away from his face, looking down at her. I just need a minute, Mama.
Okay, I have to go get ready for my match. It’s after his, so I’ll probably see you after yours.
Okay, he kissed the top of her head before she stood up, walking away.
He let out a deep breath, falling back against the wall.
He couldn’t believe he let Roman get to him like that; it brought him right back to all the times before when he had put him in his place.
But now he was on the same level as him. Shit, he let him walk out last at war games.
But he so quickly brought him down back to the level he thought he belonged at.
It was funny, actually, that he thought they could have a normal conversation.
He was so damn confused why he was making such a big deal out of this for no fucking reason.
It’s not like he told him to sit down and have a talk with her, but he wanted to bring her around without it being weird, but maybe he was asking for too much.
He cleared his throat, hopping off the crate. He needed to get started getting ready for his match, and sitting around thinking about Roman wasn’t going to do that.
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Rhea ran to go find Damian; she finally got her baby back, and she was over the moon.
It didn’t take long for her to find Damian; he was coming to find her as well.
She jumped up into his arms, her title hitting against his back.
So many emotions were running through her right now: happiness, sadness, just a mix of emotions.
I knew you could do it, he said, wrapping his arms around her to hold her up.
She could feel tears welling up in the corner of her eyes, tears of happiness.
She couldn’t believe it that she was finally champion again, that the title was hers; she wasn’t just holding it because Liv dropped it.
It was hers, actually hers; it was in its rightful place, and it was never gonna leave her again.
She hopped down, feeling off balance; her legs felt like they were going to buckle at any moment.
Damian grabbed her by her shoulders. You good?
Yeah, I think I’m just in shock, she said with a nervous giggle.
Ok, here, sit down. They moved to the side of the wall. She slid down the wall, sitting on the floor.
He sat down next to her, putting his hand on her knee.
You see me out there? You see my new friend?
She said teasing him
You are never going to not rub that in my face, huh?
Nope, because I meet the Undertaker, she said in a sing-songy voice.
I hate you, he said, shoving her away.
She playfully scoffed. No, you love me, and soon enough we’re both going to have gold again.
She stood up off the ground. But for now you can hold mine if you want to fill the void.
I hope they lose your nameplates. He said, standing off the ground.
Oh wow, and I was going to let you do an interview with me, but
Oh come on, we’re going to be late, or do you want to go see Jey first?
No, he’s already set for his entrance. I’ll see him after his match.
Alright then, come on.
Jey walked through the curtains out of gorilla
He beat Drew; all that was behind him now.
He handled it just like he was supposed to.
He walked through the halls looking for where Rhea was.
He thought about going to see Roman, but that thought left his mind as fast as it came.
He found her with Damian, standing in front of a TV; she was bouncing off the walls.
Jumping up and down as the replay played on the screen
He sneaked up behind her, grabbing her waist, feeling the cold metal of her title under his hands.
She giggled, Hi, baby.
Hey, babygirl, you like my match? He asked with a smirk.
No! She hit him in his arm. You scared me half to death!
Okay, okay! I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to scare you, Mama. I’m good, alright?
Ok, just don’t do it again.
I won’t. He turned his attention to Damian. Sup, Uce? How you been? He said dapping him up
Good, just keeping an eye on this one, he ruffled her hair.
She pushed his hand off of her head. I don’t need you to keep an eye on me.
Alright, you did good out there, man.
Thanks, Uce, finally starting to put all this shit behind me.
I'm going to put this whole thing with Finn to rest next week.
Look at that; we're all moving on to better things. Rhea chimed in, Who would have thought, huh? She smiled.
Speaking on moving on, he said, Looking at Damian, give us a minute, Uce.
Yeah, see you guys in a bit, and please remember you both are on the press show, he yelled as he walked away, making her laugh.
Yeah, yeah, he said, waving him off.
He turned his attention back to her. You look good with that title, babygirl.
It should. That’s where it belongs, love.
I like my woman with gold. He said, his hands wrapping around her waist.
Mmm, we still have work to do, baby.
So fuck the press conference.
I thought you were going to enter in the rumble tonight?
I can do that next week on Raw.
Or you can do it when you’re supposed to, or are you that needy baby?
He felt a shiver down his spine as her words left her mouth; she had a smirk on her face as she moved her hands to his waistband, pulling him closer. Do you need Mami that bad baby? Or can you wait like a good boy? She said with a pout.
He felt his pants becoming tighter as she slipped her fingertips into his waistband.
I’ll wait, he said, stumbling over his words.
She raised her eyebrow, waiting for him to finish his sentence.
He leaned closer to her, just inches above her ear. I can wait like a good boy.
His pants definitely felt tighter now he lifted his head up.
She had a pleased grin on her face. See, baby, you always make this so hard, she said with a giggle, sliding from under him and grabbing his hand.
Now let’s go find a place to watch the end of the show.
Damn you, you aren’t going to give me a second girl all that shit you just pulled.
You started it, baby, and I’ll finish it later, but for now we have shit to do, so come on, she said, pulling him down the hall to where Damian went.
Fine, fine, but can we stop by the locker room right quick, though?
Sure, whatever, baby.
Jey slid the keycard into the lock, throwing the door open, not caring where their suitcases went.
as they stumbled into their hotel room, their lips crashing into each other
He closed the door with his foot; the light from the hallway disappeared, leaving them in the dark.
His hands grabbed at her waist, her title still around it; she pulled off his shirt, throwing it on the floor.
Her hands roamed his body, leaving a trail of heat wherever they went.
He pushed her up against the wall, beginning to take off her shirt; he tossed it on the floor before kissing and biting at her neck, pulling a moan out of her. She flipped him around, holding him against the wall.
They both took this opportunity to catch their breath, just the look of lust in their eyes.
Damn, babygirl, what you trying to do? he said in between his breaths
Mmm, I have a couple of things in mind. She said with a grin, moving her knee between his legs, pushing it against him.
Fuck Mami! his head hit the wall, his now aching cock trapped under her knee
You have been so needy lately, and I don’t know why, baby. Her knee pressing harder against his cock
Shit, he said breathlessly, slightly bucking his hips.
God, baby, people would think I have touched you in weeks with the way you're acting.
Mami I didn’t mean to—his words died in his mouth as he saw the look on her face.
I want you to take your pants off and go sit on the bed while I do something.
He said, "Okay, letting a whimper leave his lips as she took her knee away, turned around to get her suitcase, but realized they were still in the dark. And get the light too, love.
She heard a click before yellow light filled their hotel suite. She chuckled seeing their suitcases just thrown in front of the door.
She rolled them into the living area in front of the coffee table, laying hers on the floor and unzipping it as she heard his shoes hit the ground.
She slipped off her shoes, then took off her pants, leaving her in just her bra and panties, her title hanging low on her hips.
She walked around the room diviner seeing Jey lying on the bed with his hands under his head, watching TV in just his boxer briefs.
She leaned against the column of the diviner, her hands behind her back, eyeing his body as he lay there, her eyes tracing over him.
His skin shined under the yellow light from the lamp on the nightstand.
She could see a few faint marks on his chest that were later turned into bruises. If she didn’t know his body so well, they would go unnoticed due to all his tattoos covering his body.
She loved the way they looked; she followed them down the sides of his waist to the top of his underwear. There was a visual bulge in his boxers; they were high up on his thighs, showing off the rest of his tattoos. his legs hanging off the edge of the bed, his feet planted on the ground
His eyes finally flickered over to her, the air getting trapped in his throat.
She sauntered over to the bed, swinging her hips.
You turned on the TV?
Didn’t know how long you were going to be
She crawled onto the bed.
Mmm, you look real good with that gold mama.
Thank you, she giggled, throwing her leg over his hip, straddling
Her fingers ran against his skin, giving him goosebumps as she leaned forward, kissing him.
Moving down his jawline and neck, leaving marks along them
Fuck, the cold metal pressed against his skin as she moved down his body; he winced as her hand touched his rib, subconsciously pulling away from her touch. Shit baby
Sorry, I didn’t mean to love you. Are you hurt? She sat up, her hands resting on her thighs.
No, I mean, yeah, but I’m not injured or shit.
But you are hurting? She said, eyeing the marks on his chest.
Yeah, just that spot, though these are just marks he gestured at himself.
So you’re ok? She said with a worried look.
He grabbed her hand, pulling her back over him, just inches away from his face. I’m okay, Mama. Do you still want to do this?
Yeah, I just didn’t want to hurt you.
You won’t Rhea. He said, hooking his finger under her chin, pulling her into a deep kiss, pushing her tongue into his mouth, making him groan into her mouth.
She grinded down on him, feeling him through the layers of cotton between them; she could feel the warmth between her thighs growing with each groan and moan that left them.
He grabbed her hips, pulling her down against him. She reached her hands behind his head into his hair.
You want me to take it off? He said, breaking their kiss, his hands going up her back.
Go ahead, she said, kissing and marking his neck.
He unhooked her bra. His fingers grazed her hot skin as he pulled down her bra straps, throwing it to the side.
God baby, you're so beautiful. his hands cupped her breast, causing the air in her throat to get stuck
She gave in to his touch, his big hands kneading her breast, his rough palms brushing against her hard nipples.
Her moans vibrated against his collarbone, going straight to his dick as he played with her
He moved his hands down to her hips under the leather strap of her title, grabbing her ass.
She pushed back into them. Take them off, baby. Fuck Mami, he groaned as she brushed against his hard, trapped cock.
She giggled as she brushed up against him again. I love those little sounds you make, baby.
He slipped her panties down her thighs, throwing them on the floor.
The cold air hitting her dripping pussy, she held herself up with one hand, using the other to tug down his boxers, his cock popping out over the waistband, falling against his stomach.
Oh, but I’m needy, he grinned.
She smacked her teeth. Shut up; she raised her hips up, lining him up with her, his tip rubbing against her cunt.
He threw his head back, feeling her warmth drawing him in, but she just held him there.
Mmm, Mami he said, coming out like a whine
Tell me what you want, baby.
Fuck I want you please right there, Mami, please, please, please.
She slowly sat down, throwing her head back at the feeling of herself stretching around him.
Shit, baby, you're so fucking tight.
She took all of his length inside her; she always forgot how big he was until she had to take him, feeling him deep in her gut.
She put her hands on his chest as she began to move her hips, both of them moaning at the new sensation.
Fuck Mami! He grabbed her thighs, his nails digging into her skin.
She leaned forward, her hands next to his head.
God, baby, you fill Mami up so well, you feel so good; she felt his cock twitch at her praise.
You're such a little praise slut, baby, she said with a grin. You would do anything I asked if I told you you were a good boy, wouldn’t you?
His nails dug into her skin deeper; his face contoured, his mouth fell open, but no words fell from it, just broken babbles.
God baby, I wish you could see yourself; you look amazing like this.
Every word that left her mouth was fuel to the fire; he couldn’t even think of the sound of skin slapping skin filling the room as she moved her hips up and down.
He moved his hands up her waist, grabbing onto her title, his thumbs sliding under her title, touching her burning skin, his fingertips brushing against something.
Holy shit, baby! He shouted with one hand on her stomach and the other on her title.
She giggled, pushing her hair out of her face. I told you you were a big baby; she arched her back down. So big you almost split me in half the first time she whispered in his ear.
Fuck Mami, please, he moaned.
What love? She nipping at his ear
He sighed, Mami, come on.
Oh baby, if you can be needy, you can beg, so let me hear that beautiful needy voice of yours.
He threw his head back. Fuck Mami, please, just please
You can do better, love. Come on.
He groaned. Please, please let me cum. Mami, I’ll be good, so, so good, please. He gripped her hips tighter.
She felt the warmth in her stomach growing, her movements growing faster. Keep going, baby.
Please, please, I’ll listen. I’ll... I’ll fuck! Just please, Mami, I can’t. It’s shit! His words turned into a moan as she squeezed around him, her body shuddering as her orgasm rips through her. His following a second after
She fell down onto her elbows trying to catch her breath.
He brought his hand up onto her hair, pushing it out of her face. You good? He said in between breaths
Yeah, just need a sec.
He unclipped her title, pulling it out from under her, letting it fall to the floor. Here is that better?
Yeah, thank you. She kissed his cheek before raising up off of him with a gasp, lying down next to him.
What the fuck are we watching? She laughed.
I don’t know; I haven't really been paying attention like that, babygirl, he chuckled, standing up. I’ll be right back.
Ok, will you get me some water?
Yeah, of course.
He walked into the bathroom, grabbing a towel, wiping himself off, and catching a look in the mirror.
His chest was covered in marks along with his neck. Damn, babygirl, you fucked me up!
He flicked off the light walking into the kitchen. He set the cup down on the TV stand before crawling back on the bed in front of her.
We should really start putting a towel down or something.
Yeah, we should, but will we?
Not a chance. He stood back off the bed, grabbing her cup. Here, babygirl
She sat up. Thank you.
You want to take a shower?
No, I will take a bath, though my body's still sore.
Ok, I’ll draw us one where he kissed her forehead before walking away.
They sat in the triangle-shaped tub, both at different points. bubbles covering them
Don’t think I have taken a hot bath in years. Jey said his arms were lying on the sides of the tub.
It’s nice, plus I’m in it, so it helps her smile, her foot popping out above the water.
That does help, so what are you going to do now?
I don’t know. I’ve been chasing Liv’s ass for so long I don’t really know what’s next. I guess whatever comes my way. What about you? Who are you going to from when you win the rumble?
Don’t know shit; I might not even win.
She playfully scoffed. She splashed him in the face.
Girl! He turned his head to the side.
You’re gonna win!
Okay, damn girl.
Jay I’m serious; you're going to win. Don’t doubt yourself.
It’s not doubt; it’s just I don’t know, maybe it’s doubt. He rubbed the back of his neck.
You're gonna win, baby. I would bet good money on that shit; I would put my title on the line for that.
Ok, don’t be crazy, Rhea. You just got that shit back; don’t risk it.
I’m not. I’m just saying if you act like you already lost, then you're going to lose.
I know, I know.
So say it, say you're gonna win.
Are you serious?
Dead, she said, straight-faced.
He chuckled, Really?
Come on, what you got? She nudged him with her foot.
I’m going to win the rumble. he said halfheartedly
Oh come on, you can do better; you just did a whole lot better. She said, her mouth curling into a grin.
I’m going to win the rumble, he said this time with more confidence but still not good enough.
Aw, it’s cute that you call that conviction, and you were a heel for years.
He grabbed her hand, pulling her closer. I’m gonna win the fucking rumble and beat both Cody and Gunther’s asses this time, saying it like he believed it this time.
See, I knew you had it in you.
He sucked his teeth. Girl, get on; he playfully pushed her back down.
She laughed settling back down against the edge of the tub Baby, can we talk about this morning?
He sighed, his body tensed up. I don’t wanna talk about that shit.
Jey, if I knew that would’ve happened, I wouldn’t have told you to talk to him; I would’ve dropped it immediately. She sat up, putting her hand over his.
It’s not your fault, babygirl; he’s just like that.
I know just I wouldn’t have pushed you—
You didn’t push me to do shit, Rhea. He shifted, running his hand over his face. I wanted to talk to him; I just needed a little help to get there. I told you Roman was an asshole.
Jey, that’s not just him being an asshole; that’s-
I know what it is; his eyes flickered away from hers. I know what it’s called; he hung his head.
Then why take it? She moved forward, his knees in between her legs. Why put up with it?
Because he’s family, and if you don’t, it’s worse than what you saw—his voice cracking just a little, or you’re out of the family.
She grabbed his hand. My love
Seeing all that happened today showed her why Jey acted the way he did, why he would shut down, why he was so scared to lose her, and why he never wanted to talk to Roman or get involved with the bloodline again in the first place.
It was all trauma. Roman broke him and then put him back together the way he wanted.
My love It’s ok; I got you.
I know he put his hand over hers, gripping it tight.
I will never let Roman hurt you like that again, ok?
You can’t make promises like that, Rhea. he said, shaking his head
Yes, I can, because I mean it. She lifted his head up to look at her; there were tears welling up in the corners of his eyes. I will never let anything happen to you, my love.
He looked like he believed it, but the look behind his eyes looked like he didn’t want to trust it.
She brushed his hair out of his face. I love you, and I will always be here for you no matter what. You will never lose me. Do you understand me?
He nodded his head in response. Come here.
He said almost as a whisper, he moved his legs, making space for her.
She moved, sitting with her back against his chest, his arms wrapping around her, holding her close; she could feel his breath was a little shaky.
She knew his mind was racing; she rubbed his arm, her head falling against his shoulder.
I love you too.
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Woo this one is long but I think it’s well deserved since it was the first raw on Netflix
Also i hate to say it but the next chapter will sadly be the end of their story (who knows what will happen down the line) I will probably do a one shot here or there but as a series this is the end I hope y’all still rock with me after this is over đŸ–€
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gangstalkerbarbie · 2 days ago
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one thing about this is that if you are a religious woman in any religion (i have the most personal experience with hasidism due to having hatched in the loving embrace of an antarctic penguin colony, but most any of them will do), then even though the community may softly encourage you to wear whatever they think is tasteful and godhonouring makeup (chill about blasphemy yall this is "whichever god" in the generic sense) for some nebulous and usually man-related reason... if you choose not to, everyone generally respects your choice because of its framing as a type of self-abnegation.
like, when i was a religious little girl, people even sometimes worried that it meant that i was sliding towards extremism.
this actually remains true when you're confident about it on the outside as well. by only wearing crisp, aggressively slavic, old-fashioned makeup when i need to look extra intimidating and bitchy in a professional context (e.g. if i were going to interview at a law firm), i communicate to everyone around me that i either don't give a shit as long as my face is washed (the case), or i must have some form of high religious morals which make me in some sense high-value in their reductive conservative worldview.
(tbh this is also the case, but usually not how they think, for example i couldn't give any less of a shit what gender people tell me they are [it has nothing to do with my sense of civics] and my opinion of casual sex with strangers boils down to i don't care, its your funeral, personally i just don't want the surprise clap from someone who doesn't even care about me like that. yall bitches dirty. yall hoes stinky i seen your houses.)
this actually increases my net respectability because if you're confident enough, normal right wingers think "ah, my idea of a normal respectable professional woman such as my own dear mother" (not going to dissect how being able to do this is useful regardless of your own politics, we're all adults here), and normal left wingers think "we love a girlboss who makes her own choices in life". between those two options, i think this might be the career speedrun tactic.
this way regardless of who's interviewing you for that job that will change your life, you don't have to change anything about yourself in order to hustle your way into the job, and the lack of stress and ability not to lose it on your boss at work elevates you above every other neurotic candidate. its very sad that they make women compete like this to earn any amount of money but putting your best least bothered self forward is actually not an attack against klara in the next cubicle. if you like klara you can help her neurohack your employer too, call that praxis. barbie's words of wisdom.
do u wear makeup because u like it or because men and society have convinced u that u like it?
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vettedfundraisergaza · 22 hours ago
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Tumblr is having an issue with sending asks (I know this has annoyed a lot of people, especially when sending asks about donations). However, Tumblr has been experiencing a problem with sending asks for several days now.
Because of this, Islam’s campaign is falling apart more and more, and unfortunately, he’s receiving fewer donations. The only way to spread the campaign is through sending asks, hoping they reach someone willing to donate or share the link.
I’m asking you to share the donation link for Islam and his family. I’m asking you to share his story. Even writing just one sentence about him will make a huge difference.
The war in Gaza is over, but its effects remain. Islam is left without a job, without enough money, with a destroyed home, and a mother battling cancer.
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crepesuzette2023 · 2 days ago
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What is your opinion on Jim McCartney?
Thank you for asking! A lot of deep thinking has been done about Jim and his character and its influence on Paul. My own take is still muddled, not quite settled.
I know their relationship wasn't always easy, and Paul was pretty open about the painful aspects of his relationship with Jim: hearing him cry after Mary's death, being beaten. I don't feel I know enough to speculate about the extent of the abuse Paul endured at the hands of Jim, but it's pretty clear to me that Jim represented the kind of power and authority Paul hated in some ways, and a shameful weakness in others (I think Paul ultimately saw that violence was an expression of weakness, and felt contempt, as children eventually do when they grow up). His worries about Jim's ability to support the family come through in his question, "what are we going to do without her money," after Mary McCartney's death. So, not a shining father figure by any means (are there any in Paul's life? George Martin?) All of that said, Paul never banished his father from the place most precious to him: his music. His love for the kind of music he associated with Jim never wavered, and he was quite open about the association with his father, the influence of music on the family life, etc. (as was Mike). Paul even recorded one of Jim's songs, "Eloise," and had it cut as a record. I just read in The McCartney Legacy Vol 2. that he called Jim and asked him to play the tune on the piano to help him remember!
There's the fact that Paul didn't go to Jim's funeral, and I'm sure the reasons were complicatedℱ. I don't think it's an expression of hatred or anything dark—I think it's a mixture of not doing well with grief, and not wanting to be mobbed by the press during the funeral, which I think is understandable.
It's late where I am so I can't look up exact quotes—but isn't it the case that John called Paul when he heard Jim had died? I see this as an acknowledgment of Jim's importance to Paul.
In the end, I'm glad Paul never felt compelled to cut ties with his father, which also would have meant cutting his ties with music—or, to put it differently: I'm glad Paul never appeared to have played music to spite Jim (that "yes yes yes" anecdote sounds harmless enough). Maybe that lack of rebellion looks weak to some, but I think it's a source of great artistic freedom as well, one John and the Beatles supported, by the way.
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totally-not-agirl · 2 days ago
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LI react to you being pregnant:
Eden - you bring home a pregnancy test from one of your trips into town. Eden just grunts because he doesn’t trust it, but you see the little spark in his eye. Instead, he makes you cum in his garden, and when certain flowers blossom, he knows you’re pregnant - and even the sex. He holds your stomach and kisses you for a long time. He also doesn’t let you leave for weeks, until you convince him you’re not going to break. Once you hit six months, good luck getting out of his sight.
Sydney the Faithful - falls to his knees and praises the powers above, touching you like a holy relic. Once he’s done crying and kissing your wrists and stomach, he rushes to tell Jordan. There’s a special ceremony at the temple to bless your pregnancy. He worships you with his mouth for hours.
Sydney the Corrupt - laughs delightedly and spins you around. researches child psychology like he’s about to get a degree. Really reflects on his religious trauma because he wants your child to be happy. Thinks every new stage of your pregnancy is more divine than anything from the Temple.
Kylar - immediately fucks you again in celebration. He also puts trackers in all of your closers. As a bonus, he can go fetch your favorite outfits if they get stolen. One night you wake up with a sting in your neck; you think he put a tracker inside of you as well.
Avery - you’ve never seen him look so
worried. You’re terrified he won’t be happy, and he doesn’t exactly celebrate. However, you begin receiving regular expensive gifts, the best prenatal vitamins, the sexiest lingerie, replaced as you get bigger. Eventually he moves you into a luxury apartment and gets you a doctor - not Harper. The nursery is beautiful but you get no say in it.
Robin - kisses you all over, and immediately starts working on finances. You’ll surely have to move out of the orphanage— but maybe Bailey will allow you to leave when he knows. Maybe he’ll even agree to lower payments when you’re not taking up space; it’s highly doubtful he’ll let you go completely debt free. He works extra hard to make enough money to spoil you every now and then, while still saving for your needs, and your child’s future.
Harper - Harper is a little too happy. He’s done plenty of research on pregnancy - practically inevitable in this town - and he has whole regimens he’s designed for expectant mothers. But he asks you a lot of questions each time the pills change, writing down your answers with eager eyes. You’re weighed and measure daily. You seem to lactate unusually early in your pregnancy, but Harper is only all too happy to help with that

Whitney - Kind of panics, honestly. Gets very territorial over you and beats up a lot of strangers on your behalf, getting arrested a few times. Begrudgingly lets you bandage him up. Eventually you’re able to convince him you do more good outside of the pillory than inside, and he shapes up. He is obsessed with showing you off, especially the bigger your belly gets. Plus, more space to write insults and his name on his little slut!
Great Hawk - will share nesting time equally with you. Constant preening. The most beautiful lullabies in the world. And constant gifts. You have to remind him often to bring food.
Black Wolf - the whole pack is excited. You’re not leaving the cave until you’ve given birth to their litter. Maybe not even after that. The scent of a bred mate sends them into a fury, so your holes and hands are going to be busy — but only the Alpha can breed you.
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amoristt · 2 days ago
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trust i seek, and i find in you | pt3
part 1 (x) . part 2 (x)
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「 ✩ seong gi-hun / reader ✩ 」
tags: sfw // lots of death ment, angstttt bro, like so much, sad gi-hun </3, a/n: sorry for the super shorter chapter next one is the finale <3 ik im changing the events of the actual show but let me live i needed a bridge to the finale!!!!!!!!! ugh i so sad its almost done already
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All the mattresses had disappeared. 
All but two. 
The dormitory feels impossibly large, now. The piggy bank dangles from the ceiling with banded paper threatening to spill over the edges, mounting at the brims, hanging fat and heavy. You refuse to look at it, so it laughs at you instead. Taunts you. There may as well have been blood, bone, and souls stirring about in that tank, the money tainted with the lives of your friends, the lives of the struggling. 
There was no prize. Not anymore. 
You’d almost paired with Gi-hun for the marbles game. His hands had found you, wrapped around your arm the moment that voice overhead announced that the game would be played in pairs. His hands on you were like fish to water- knowing, promising. Housing. But then in the distance as the timer closed in you saw Il-nam crouched on his own, watching blurry bodies skate him by, seeking stronger, seeking better. You saw the former version of yourself in all of them. 
If there was a moment you’d be acutely aware of how much Gi-hun had changed you, this would be it. 
You'd spent your entire life waiting for something, someone, worth changing for.
So when Gi-hun turned towards you, those eyes full of empathetic guilt, you already knew what coming. Beat him to it, infact. 
“It’s okay. I’ll see you after, yeah?” You’d murmured despite the way this heavy weight had settled in your chest. Worry, anxiety, all because you would have to be without. 
He kissed your forehead in thanks. You lingered on it for much too long.
“You will.”
And then he was gone, reaching a hand out to to the old man and bringing him to his wobbly feet. Gi-hun was special like that. Always giving and never taking. Not even when he deserved it. You like to think he'd learned from his previous lifestyle, to be the hand that provided, and not the hand that stole.
There was a quick grasp to your hand and low and behold, 212 filled your vision. A much less pleasant view. Her shrill voice brought an ache to your temples, a burn to your skin where she grasped you tight. Sure, you needed a partner, and she knew that. Must have watched your interaction with Gi-hun like a damn vulture and swooped in the second there was room. 
There was a moment when she'd looked at you like you were her saving grace, and for just a second, you'd wondered if maybe all this exterior roughness was just a front. But then, she had to go and ruin it with her words once again.
“Who needs men anyways,” She’d harped. “If he wants to die with that old guy, so be it, huh?”
You ripped yourself away from her like you’d been scalded. She didn’t know the first thing about either of them, and you’d be damned if you would ever put your lives in the hands of hers. Even if you saw yourself in her. Even if she was just trying to survive.
But it was so hard to pity her when those comments seemed to always fill your mouth with bitter. You sought elsewhere.
And you found it- in player 068. He seemed normal enough, albeit noticeably standoffish, moving through the motions with a blank stare, enough determination on those features to bring you comfort- to fail you would be to fail himself. You remembered this sense of unease going into a new challenge blind and relying on a total stranger. 
You remembered how you nearly lost what little breakfast you were provided on the dirt floor when the game was announced. This wasn’t teams- it was rivalry. A versus match. 
Images of your friends flashed through your racing mind. You swore you would have a heart attack.
Ali and Sang-woo. Sae-Byeok and Yi-Jeong. 
Gi-hun and Il-nam.
You were crying before your own game even started. 068 didn’t question it, but you could see the way he studied you, unsure of you. Wondering just what you were doing crying in front of a fellow competitor playing games for your lives. Grief struck you before you even knew who to cry over. 
The initial impression you’d had of him was almost dead on- he was determined. But he wasn’t so closed off as you had thought him to be, that stoic face and even tone masking a much warmer person underneath. 
You couldn’t bring yourself to ask him his name. He didn’t ask you yours, either. 
It was hard to focus on the game. Every turn a step closer to death. Every gunshot the reminder that you may never see your friends again. But, round by round, you managed. When he was on his last marble, you cried even harder. If you from just a week ago, leery eyed, shifty handed and as selfish as the dark over light, you wouldn’t understand the depth of your own sorrow. You’d won, after all. Wiped a player off the board to propel yourself, your life, your wants over his. You’d surely have been proud of yourself.
But now, you just feel like a fucking monster.
To be loved, is to be changed.
To be changed, is to suffer.
You were always good at these types of games. You thought, maybe, by letting him choose the game, it would make the pill easier to gag down. You found, however, it really didn't. From the very second the games started, when he’d made his choice and it was one you were highly familiar with, guilt had already begun to stockpile up in the warehouses of your heart. Box after box. Taking up space, filling you to the brim. 
“I used to play this with my mom,” He’d said, mind escaping to a better time even if just a moment when he’d picked. “I got pretty good at it.”
You wished he hadn’t said that. It was all you could think about when he, with shaking hands and a pale to his face, handed over his last marble. Crestfallen, hopeless. The image of him as a spirited child and soft hands playing marbles with a faceless mother made you sick to your stomach.
You said something you didn’t think would ever see the daylight of your lips. 
“I’m sorry.”
And he, with slumped shoulders and his head hung low. “I know.”
You were escorted away, and you knew deep in the bowels of your heart that you were going to hear that gunshot in your dreams. Following you, watching you. Haunting you for the rest of your life. 
However long that was, anyways. 
The room you were led to was large and bathed in pure white, absent of anything particularly eye catching. There were already people standing about, some with their heads held high, others struggling with the weight of guilt so heavy it threatened to crush you all under its umbrella. Sang-woo’s eyes found you before anyone else's, his expression strained, his red-lined eyes betraying his all-business exterior. It made it hard to breathe. 
Sae-Byeok shared the sentiment. Distant, far away. Trying to figure out how to cope now bearing the hands of cruelty towards someone worth caring about. 
Then, you saw him. Gi-hun. And his angular cheeks are soaked with tears. When his eyes meet yours, a lance of relief has you letting out a breath you hadn’t realized you’d been holding, but there’s no room for much else. Grief burrowed and dug it’s way in, seized the joy and ate it whole. Il-nam’s passing wasn’t an easy loss to digest. Partly because the old man had meant something to you. Mostly because Gi-hun would never forgive himself. He’d left a piece of himself lying on that dirt, counting marbles and talking with his gganbu. 
You crept to his side and took his hand in your own. All he could offer was a squeeze in return.
You could still see 068 behind your eyes. How he hadn’t been angry with you, how he watched you walk away before dropping to the ground. Never to return home, never to be found. The walls felt like they were both growing larger and also closing in. You were struggling to grapple with it all. 
Gi-hun was still back there with the old man as you were all escorted back to the dormitories where they passed out measly potatoes and water. Still back there when you’d all sat among the beds now found far and few between, picking at your meals with your bellies full on remorse. 
Gi-hun couldn’t bring himself to eat. Sae-Byeok struggled to get past the second bite. You yourself just found it easier to roll the potato around in your hands, balancing the weight of it, wondering if you could ever be forgiven. Gi-hun’s knee bumped against yours, a reminder that he was still there, even if his expression was as blank as a canvas. You needn’t ask to understand what he was thinking about, lost in it. 
“Don’t make a big deal out of it, they were just people you’d met here.” Sand-woo had said, almost finished with his meager meal. Talking to himself, justifying himself, but everyone could feel it- Ali’s absence was like a solar eclipse. You followed his line of sight to 069, sitting in a heap of desolation on one of the only mattresses left. Sang-woo swallowed hard. “That man’s partner was his wife.”
You breath left you like a ghost as you took in the sight of the poor man, struck and swimming with grief. 
Gi-hun cried that night. Though it was silent, muted tears gathering at the point of his jaw before soaking into his tracksuit, you could feel his shoulder trembling with each inaudible sob. He trembled apart in your hold and you tucked him into yourself, cradled his body and kissed his forehead just as he'd taught you as if it would heal him. His fingers found you in the darkness and held tight, just as needing as how you clutched him. Your heart ached, seismic pains ringing from every nerve in your body, drawing you in despair. 
Every time you dozed off, you swore you could hear a gunshot cutting through the humidity of turmoil. You swore you’d see 068’d face. 
Maybe if you hadn’t met Gi-hun, you’d have taken all of this mess in stride like 101. You hated him- despised his cruelty and his jeers, but ultimately he went to sleep that night with a full stomach and dreaming of fat stacks of bloodied cash. Meanwhile, you stared at the ceiling and barely registered the way your stomach growled at you. It felt just. Perhaps if you’d sought help elsewhere that first day, you could sleep. 
But, you didn’t. So now, you endured. 
069’s cries did not go unnoticed, either, from his bed now entirely too cold to withstand.
It was tough to imagine the suffering, the pure guilt so true and down to it’s very root that it grew it’s sprawling limbs of misery and woe into every crevice. Under every stone, over the sky, from the tip of his nose to the soles of his heavy feet. The human body was not designed to bear such suffering. It curled in itself, emptied itself of all things good. Hollowed from the inside out. 
So much so, that when you’d found out the next morning that the man had taken his own life, you weren’t sure how there was anything left of himself to hang. 
How you take anymore of this? When there was already so little left. 
That day, you discovered that the pits of rock bottom were merely roadblocks. 
The glass bridge took everything. Taught you that even when you believed your cup had run dry of tears, there would never be an end to the bottomless waterfalls in your eyes. There would never be a suffering so consuming and total that it would simply stop there. 
Everyone had died except you and Gi-hun. 
The finalists. 
The piggy bank grinned with teeth and malice. Reminded you of what you had done. What you had witnessed, and how you had survived off the backs of your former competitors. 
You were fed and suited. Given a real meal, something you'd have fought tooth and nail for nail for back home. It tasted like despair. 
All you could see were the fleeting images of Sang-woo crashing through the glass in his desperate attempt to cross the bridge and leap to the platform as the timer ticked away the seconds of his lifespan. He’d tried to grab the bars as he went, fingers slipping off the metal and sending him plummeting to the ground. You, Sae-Byeok, and Gi-hun barely managed to jump to safety as the bridge combusted into fireworks of glass and shards, showering your fallen friend meters down below. 
You think a piece of Gi-hun fell with him. You think Gi-huns left pieces of himself everywhere, now. Back with Il-nam lying sprawled in the dirt, down in the bellows of the pit with Sang-woo mangled and broken. You’re not entirely sure how whole you are anymore, either. 
When the guards lead the way out, you had to take Gi-hun’s hand in your own just to get him moving. 
Sae-Byeok didn’t survive the walk back to the dorms after your pointless meals. One moment, she was there. Quiet as always, somber. Maybe if you’d have known she was bleeding out, you could have done something. The next moment, she was dropping like a stone, and she bled, and bled, and bled. 
There wasn’t much to remember after that. Just a blur of outcries and the desperate, pleading demands that they save her. You’d both pounded on the doors, wrenching at the knobs, begging for them to do something until you were both blue in the face and sliding down the door in exhaustion. 
No one answered, and the lights flickered out down to the same minute second as they always had. 
With no one other than Gi-hun at your side, there wasn’t reason to concern yourself with watching each other's backs. You don’t think either of you had the energy for it even if you had, running empty tanks and affliction. All you found yourself able to do was lay beside him and beg God for a different way. A different path. Anything other than the way you were headed. You’d be different, this time, you promised. You’d do right. No more stealing, or cheating, or fighting for just the scraps at the end of the table. You wouldn’t take this life for granted any longer if he just please saved you both. Pull your sorry souls from the fire and let you start anew.
His arms are wrapped around you and his face inches away. Now, truer than ever, there was nothing but him. 
Gi-hun's voice is soft. “We will both leave here. I promise you."
The red lights of the surveillance cameras blink from every corner in the darkness. 
You tried to believe him over all else.
“I’m scared.” You whispered. He kisses the top of your head. An all healing ailment. Your lower lip quivers. 
So, he kisses your nose. And then your cheek. The corner of your mouth. You found the sides of his face in the darkness like you’d done it your entire life, and you press your lips against his. His hands splay over your back, and he drags you in.
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kawhh · 7 hours ago
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Thinking abt Quinn and someone who lets him take control over certain things in the beginning. Planning dates? Go for it, you're new to the area and don't know where the good places are. Cooking dinner? Love a man who can cook! Helping with your skincare routine? Amazing bonding especially if Quinn lets you put a face mask on him too! But.....you're a bit stubborn for the rest of the things. Wanting to keep your job. Your apartment. Pay your own bills....etcetc
I apologise, nonnie. I woke up in a darker Q mode.
You lull him into a false sense of security at first - his possessiveness is soothed by you letting him plan and control everything for him.
He can make sure you get proper food in you. He can balance every single ingredient that goes into you. Knows it's all done by him and that you can't get sick from some other cooked food. He trusts a few restaurants and small grocery markets that he's used for years but anything else going into you is a gamble.
Dates? He knows where to take you to make sure he has the most alone time with you, places where it isn't crowded. He wants your attention on him.
He doesn't realise you aren't as accommodating when it comes to bills and jobs. And why do you protest against moving in with him? Do you think he can't provide for you? Why does he need to lose hours of you to work? What if someone is a creep in your workplace? What if you spend more time with your co-workers than him?
if you aren't at his apartment on top of spending time with co-workers, when does he get to see you? No, no, it's not enough. Anything could happen to you when you're not with him. At least he has ways of watching you at his own place when he's away.
If he can't convince you - he'll just have to.. force the situation.
He's cancelling your cards. Now you can't worry about rent and bills. He has enough money to throw at processes to make them cancel anything of yours himself.
Anything you need, he can simply buy or subscribe to himself. That way he can even keep an eye on what you're watching or doing.
He won't fully get you fired from your job - that'd distress you too much and might cause more problems for you. But now you don't need the money for everything else do you? You can work part time. He can work through that. He can track you, make sure he knows when you're at work and when you're leaving.
He'll make up excuses to get you home faster. He might even give you some drowsy medicine that forces you to call out sick. He can't drive you - he has practice (even if he doesn't. He'll drive around the block until you know you're stuck without transport)
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galaxyfoxes · 2 days ago
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Hey they may I request a platonic charlotte pirates x teen reader. The reader is big mom’s eldest and first grandchild the first one the family had. They are Katakuri’s only child (idk honestly if out of the older children he seemed like the most likely to have been married at some point in my head) a bit of a crybaby and health conscious? Because all that sugar cannot be good for anyone. They used to be really outgoing and outspoken as a child often getting upset because they wanted their grandma to eat more healthy and not at all scared of her dad’s face because to them it was always the face of her dad’s but something happened when they where 6ish and the reader got taken and “safely” gotten back but ever since then the reader stopped being so bubbly outgoing and outspoken and became more shy and quiet flinching towards any violence in her direction?
Platonic yandere Charlotte pirates
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Of course! This was really fun to write!
(I didn't include everyone, I'm sorry)
Tw:yandere themes, overprotective behavior, isolation, kidnapping, manipulation, guilt tripping, mentions of harm, and reader needs therapy.
To say you were the favorite of the family would be an understatement. You're the child of katakuri and the first grandchild of the Charlotte crew, so you had a lot of eyes on you. And the fact you seemed to care about almost all your family was the icing on the cake.
Your father was with you almost all the time, making sure you were safe and happy. However, he'd let you roam around if big mom or his siblings were around.
For a while, katakuri kept his lower face covered around you since he didn't want to scare you on accident. But he eventually showed you after a lot of begging. At first, he was worried, but you proved him wrong because you didn't really care.
your main concern at the time was the amount of sugar your grandmother was eating. You weren’t an expert in health or anything, but you knew that much sugar could kill someone.
But whenever you try to make your worry known and offer solutions often while crying, big mom would simply pat your head and tell you, "Don't worry, dear, I'll be fine."
You are completely unaware of big mom's hunger pangs and the destruction that follows them. Katakuri and the other siblings lie and make excuses as to why you can't see big mom and why you and the others are running away.
You and big mom are very close as katakuri leaves you with her when he has to handle anything risky most of the time. The two of you often have tea while you talk about anything really.
However, when big mom couldn't watch you, then the older siblings like smoothie and cracker will.
You preferred smoothie due to her calmer and easygoing personality, and she gives you a lot more freedom than your father and grandmother. And the juice she makes is delicious, though you didn't know how she makes it because she always goes to a different different room to make it.
Things were going well until the one time you were left alone due to an emergency that required everyone's attention. This left you vulnerable, and a group of pirates took you with the intent to extort money out of your family.
Of course, you were rescued quickly and returned home safely, but the damage was done, and you became skittish towards nearly everything.
But the complete shift in your personality and the fear of losing you again pushed the family to become yanderes for you.
Katakuri is an overprotective, paranoid, and parental yandere.
After your kidnapping, he never leaves your side so no one can take you again without going through him first. He also only allows you to interact with a select few family members. He just doesn't want to risk the chance of them losing you.
He is also far less tolerable of any form of disrespect towards you. He isn't afraid to get his hands dirty for your sake.
Because you're so quiet and timid, he tries his best to accommodate you and makes sure you have enough places to hide from any perceived violence.
Out of the entire family, he is the most tolerable of your quiet personality and won't force you to talk.
He thinks you won't be able to take care of yourself, so he unintentionally treats you like a young child instead of a teenager. And when you have enough courage to speak up and call him out on his behavior, he'll just write it off as a childish tantrum.
In his mind, it's his duty to protect and make up for what he couldn't do in the past
Big mom is a possessive, manipulative, and unstable yandere
Big mom is an already unstable person to begin with, so adding yandere to the mix makes me feel bad for the reader
She takes the change of your personality the worst. Of course, she doesn't fully blame you. However, you'll have to be prepared for guilt tripping. What do you mean when you don't want to talk? Don't you love your family?
What makes it worse is that katakuri won't step in. Yes, he knows it's wrong, but he won't go against his mother.
Unlike katakuri, she won't let any other family member when she's around. Because she doesn't want
Because of your shy personality, big mom veiws you as weak, and you have to do whatever she tells you to do. And you always do what you're told to avoid confrontation and disappointment from your grandmother and father.
You are now more aware of her actions and personality, but big mom has enough restraint to not direct her behavior towards you, but it still scares you.
While she loves you, she's not afraid to make sure you obey.
Smoothie is a calm and easygoing yandere
Since you don't spend a lot of time with her, she cherishes all the time she has with you. She doesn't push you to talk and just requires you to be close.
She tries to act as a safe space for you as she knows katakuri and big mom can be a bit overwhelming for you. She lets you vent out your frustrations to her, and she won't judge. When you do, it gives her a sense of pride that she knows something katakuri and big mom doesn't know.
While she's calm around you, that doesn't mean she isn't afraid to remove anyone from the picture. For example, if you tell her you've been speaking to someone outside the family, she'll get rid of them and lie to your face about it.
She is a bit concerned about your situation as being stuck with big mom and katakuri doesn't sound like a good thing for someone's mind.
While she can't be with you all the time, she'll protect you from afar.
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ranx0 · 3 days ago
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Ive been doing some research to write a Stevepop Drag Racing fic. Here’s what I’ve gathered, and what I want to put in my fic that I think people will enjoy.
Soda did rodeos but is never mentioned to have done Drag Racing, but he mentions that fighting is almost like a drag race, which means he likes watching them or has been in them. Steve on the other hand is free rein bc we know nothing about his free time— we know he likes cars so he most definitely likes watching Drag races at the very least. So, for the sake of my fic I’m going to say Steve drag races whether it’s illegally or legally. He likes to take Soda with him in Shotgun so he can show off his skills first hand and let the boy have some fun after he wasn’t allowed to participate in any rodeos anymore.
Steve took his money he made from the DX and uses it all into paying for his car. He could be using it to pay for his bills, but his thought process is that if he can get his car to be good enough to win enough drag races, he won’t need to worry about that. He’s too cocky for his own good.
Soda definitely prefers his rodeos, but he likes watching Steve have his fun. And he’s definitely not going to stop that proud smile every time Steve looks at him after finishing a race, no matter how bad or good he did. He liked sitting back in the passenger seat and feeling the rush as well. It reminded him of every time he started riding around on a horse, the speed and the excitement.
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sirnotsircos · 2 days ago
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"Do you think all of that is a little much?" Viago waved his fingers infront of his eyes.
"My eyes?" Money turned to peer at their wavering reflection in the stainglass windows that lined the hall, prefectly disheveled.
"I just think as an assassin who specializes in undercover operations one could stand to be less conspicuous," Viago worried at the cow-lick he'd tamed well into submission with ungodly amounts of hair wax.
"Says you," Money grinned and snaked a figure under Viago's nose, flicking the curled end of his stache, "you look like a rich prick with that thing."
Viago swatted Money's hand away and soothed his unshaken facial hair, it knew better than to fail at the hands of such a mild blow.
"I am a rich prick," Viago mumbled, leaning away from Money's next possible attack defensively.
" Yeah well," they adjusted the off center jewel handing from their septum, turned back towards the wonky glass, "if I take this all off, wipe myself clean, I'm damn near impossible to recognize. Sometimes the best disguise is taking it all off."
Viago's mouth opened then closed and he blinked for a moment, impressed. "When did you get so smart?"
"This one rich prick taught me some stuff once or twice," Money shrugged, "I'm tired of waiting, are you tired of waiting?"
"We are not barging into the First Talon's office without being invited in," Viago always got like this when he recived a summons to meet with the Talons. All the propriety drove him nuts but showing off his propriety became his cosmic mission. As long as his propriety was the best propriety Viago would do whatever he had to. This was the first time Money had also been requested, very much to Viago's dissapointment by that name as well. Caterina but have spoken to Teia about them because Viago would only have used Monroe with Caterina.
Regardless, Money couldn't remember a time in recent memory where they'd fucked up enough to warrant a meeting with the First Talon. It would, most likely, be fine, probably.
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wisteriasymphony · 1 day ago
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Smudges - HPAU!Claudrien Ficlet
(This was voted on by the lovely people over in the Claudrien Nation community! Thanks guys :3 )
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There had really only ever been two people that Claudia felt like she clicked with here at this stupid fucking wizard school.
 ...Well, 'people' was generous. 
She knew she had to take what she could get—Decent Slytherins were few and far between, and the ones that she might've had an actual chance at tolerating were scared away by the fact she'd tried to burn someone's face off within the first week. Claudia didn't particularly mind being known as 'the smuggler' or 'the firebrand', either, so long as it kept the wrong people from trying to fuck with her. 
Unfortunately, her first friend seemed drawn to these qualities like a moth to a flame—Adrien Agreste. Ravenclaw, with blood supposedly as pure as freshly fallen snow. He paid absurd amounts of money for muggle ballpoint pens, and somehow decided that was enough to make her his closest confidant. He was constantly scribbling down formulas and made-up incantations on whatever rolls of parchment he could carry ("Aren't they all just made up?" she asked once. "Exactly!" was the only answer she ever got). At first, Claudia was worried that he didn't realize socializing with her would make him a pariah, but it seemed like he had always been that way despite being pureblooded and actually quite pretty. Adrien was always mumbling to himself, always distracted with the latest experiments, and he couldn't approach a girl to save his life. 
Plus, he was always—ALWAYS—covered in ink. 
Safe to say, he wasn't nearly as much of a jackpot as his attractiveness would make him out to be. No larger friend group, no greater connections, just another fellow outcast. 
It was only a few weeks later, though, that Claudia gained her second friend. She didn't have the slightest idea how that cat had gotten into her room, but he had. Skinny, black, with bright green eyes that could probably stop a deer in its tracks. He lingered on her windowsill for a moment, simply watching her, before slowly creeping inside. 
"I didn't know you got a cat," Maya Kapoor had asked, once the cat had found its way into Claudia's lap. "What's his name?" 
Claudia squished the kitty's head between her hands, watching his ears flatten out. "I asked, but he didn't tell me." 
The Slytherin girls had a special way of giggling when Claudia said something that only a muggleborn would think. Wheezy and whispery, like they were only pretending to operate on the idea that she couldn't hear them. All behind hands or over shoulders. 
"Cats can't talk, Perreault," Maya replied, giving her a smile with too much gum and not enough sincerity. "Seriously, when has an animal ever talked to you?" 
As if it wasn't unreasonable for her to think animals could talk when there was shit like flying broomsticks and living chocolate animals running around. But shouting about it wasn't worth it. 
"I just assumed I wasn't worth talking to."
Maya shrugged, reaching in to touch a finger to the cat's back. Despite acting so friendly to Claudia, he froze, crumpling up further into her lap. Maya frowned, but ultimately ignored the slight.
"So you're gonna name him, right?"
The cat's head is cradled in her hands, and she stares into his eyes, pursing her lips as she thought of a name. Kitty? No. Cat? No. Blacky? Absolutely the worst possible idea. Maybe it'll sound less stupid if it's French, she thinks. Hopefully nobody will notice. 
"Chat Noir," she said, biting her lip so she wouldn't add an "..I think" to the end. Chat Noir's eyes seem to sparkle as she said this, burrowing his chin deeper into Claudia's hands. 
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"Hey, Claudia! You're not busy right now, right?" 
Adrien had another one of his contraband pens held between his pointer and middle fingers, shaking it in a way that kept the barrel of the pen hitting against the joint in his thumb with an erratic clack-clack-clack-clack. In any other case, Claudia would be worried about his pens getting confiscated if he used them so openly, but Adrien had a habit of using them too quickly for it to even matter. 
("Îș៰ρπός ΠασÎčΞές" was one of the first spells he'd crafted, finding that Ancient Greek was better for softer, longer-lasting charms. Still, not a day went by without him pointing his wand at his wrists and whispering that phrase to stave off the inevitable carpal tunnel he'd spend the rest of his life fighting.) 
"I mean, I have class in a few minutes, so yes," she lied. –It was true that she had class, but Madam Capitval had a grudge against Claudia for her tendency to set things on fire, so she had no intention of going. "...What the hell do you have on your face?" 
Adrien smudged one of the shaky lines of ink on his cheek with his thumb, and the sight of the ink on his hand turned his face that usual bright shade of red. He shuffled all of his scrolls of parchment into one arm and began to viciously rub off the marks, turning away before Claudia could possibly decode what he had fallen asleep on—A love letter. It would be sent to her soon enough anyway. He couldn't bear to not send them himself, just because half of the joy was watching her read it. 
"I-it's nothing! Just, uh— More of those– M-more notes on Casting Language Reforms, nothing you'd want to- you'd be interested in." 
Claudia didn't believe him for a second, but she also didn't entirely care. She continued to walk in the opposite direction of her next class, and even still Adrien continued to follow her. 
"What spell do you need help with this time?" she finally asked, letting a smirk peek through. Adrien took a rather deep breath as he finally let himself speak about it to someone. 
"I looked over that textbook you disguised as an Herbology tome. I think, with the proper tests, I can create a spell that alters the—what was it called—'fructose' and 'glucose' levels in fruits and vegetables.”
"Couldn't you just make up a spell that makes things sweeter?" 
"That's the thing- It's too broad!" Adrien grabbed Claudia by the shoulders, a rather wild look in his eyes as he continued to ramble. "The beauty of this experimental magic is that I can change just the tiniest component rather than the whole. Imagine the kind of possibilities that opens up. For years—for centuries we've merely taught magic, but never before have we deconstructed it this thoroughly!" 
Claudia was glad she didn't have to worry about sharing any Magical Theory classes with Adrien. 
“—Besides," he added, "I was hoping that I'd be able to use the experience to do things like make potions easier to digest. Stuff you can't normally sweeten." 
...It was getting close to the full moon anyways, now that he'd made her think about potions. Claudia had been hoping to try and brew some Wolfsbane herself, if she could actually focus long enough to figure out what she needed to do to make it. Potions were the hardest thing to wrap her head around, even more so than the boring lectures and bullshit systems. It didn’t help that she wasn’t exactly the most well-liked Slytherin. 
Claudia sighed, finally stopping in her place. 
“Okay, I’ll do it. But you have to help me get mandrake leaves for my next potions project.” 
Adrien had more than enough—He’d been trying to automate brewing Wolfsbane for weeks—but he bit his lip before he would admit that out loud. It wasn’t him who was going to supply the potions, after all: It was Chat Noir. 
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Claudia let the side of her head dig further into the forest floor. She’d gotten far enough away to not worry about anyone seeing her, and likely not worry about hurting anyone else either. Not like felt she would want to even if she could—any bloodlust would have to fight against the pain she was already in. It hurt to move, it hurt to think, it hurt to breathe. Her clawed, furred hands clutched her twisting stomach as she stared out into the gaps between the trees.
There were times where she wondered if the Wolfsbane worked at all. Maybe it was supposed to make it totally painless instead of just a little. Maybe it was supposed to give you enough energy to help you get away from people right before the transformation happened, instead of having to sneak out hours before and just wait in the woods until you felt the tingling of fur growing on your back and whiskers sprouting on your face. Hell, as far as she knew, maybe Wolfsbane was meant to stop the transformation entirely. Nobody had ever told her.
The loneliness was the worst part. Claudia had nothing to really do but talk to herself, imagine what the rest of her life would be like if she had to skip town every full moon. She didn’t know any other werewolves, and she’d been sent off to school because her parents didn’t know how to handle it. The hope had been that she’d at least be able to tell somebody, but
 nobody wanted to talk to her as it was anyways. Maybe even less so if they found out.
A small noise echoed out in the silence of the dark. Claudia lifted her head to take a better look. The noise happened again.
A thin black cat broke a branch as it made its way towards her.
It was ridiculous to think that Chat Noir had somehow been looking for her. Maybe the cat had just found her by accident or something of the sort. Still, Chat Noir trotted up to her with wide green eyes, somehow able to perfectly recognize her despite her monstrous form.
Chat Noir bonked his forehead against Claudia’s snout. She wished she could talk or pet him, but the fatigue was too strong. Still, Chat Noir didn’t seem to mind, and just curled up beside her like they were back in her room on her bed again.
It would make for a very embarrassing story down the line, Adrien thought to himself, but he supposed it was worth the trouble.
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