#and they smooch right after

[tititilani]

I can't stop thinking about if Simon had taken Edwin's offer

Like Charles finds Edwin in the hallway as ever but this time there's another boy there too, cowering against the wall next to him. Maybe the dollhead spider doesn't care about Simon, too busy focusing on its favorite target, so Charles is left standing in the hallway with Simon when Edwin is taken.

They get out of hell, but Edwin doesn't confess due to Simon hovering behind his elbow. He doesn't want to confess his emotions in front of his killer, who he probably hasn't even properly figured out how he's feeling towards yet.

The Night Nurse is pissed they came out with an extra soul but Niko's same loophole still applies and Simon stays.

"This is Simon," Edwin says when it's all said and done, finally introducing the boy that's been hiding behind him since the door closed. "He was a...classmate of mine."

"He saved me," Simon says, looking up at Edwin moony-eyed and Charles knows that look and something settles heavy in his stomach.

"Glad to have ya, mate," he tells him even though the words taste sour. This other boy knew Edwin when he was alive, the thought is slightly terrifying to him.

Simon settles in fine with the agency even if the agency feels a little crowded now with five people in it but he continues to moon over Edwin and Edwin just...never tells anyone how they actually knew each other. He reasons it just doesn't matter, that he can't find the right time, whatever.

Charles never really warms up to him, though he tries to hide it, but he sees the looks Simon gives Edwin, a soppy smitten look that is somehow worse than anything Monty or the Cat King ever tried with Edwin because of all of them, Simon arguably knows the most about like Edwardian courting. That, like Edwin, Simon has also survived hell. Charles hates the idea that someone could potentially understand Edwin more than he does.

He hates it so much that nothing further happens between him and Crystal because the idea of Edwin being left alone with Simon bothers him so much. He sees Simon adjusting Edwin's collar one (1) time and it makes him feel sick.

And then there's the fortune-teller.

They only go to her sometimes for cases because she never fails to freak Charles out but her prophecies tend to be accurate like 60% of the time which is pretty good for a fortune teller. She looks at the two of them at the end, because it is just the two of them for once, and then looks just at Edwin.

"How kind you are," she says, the words a compliment but the tone snide. "To house your killer. Pray tell it doesn't come back to you."

"What." Charles says. "The fuck."

Charles is furious, of course, and it takes Edwin a long time to talk him out of smashing Simon's face in with the new cricket bat.

"He's like me," he insists in that quiet but firm voice. Charles wants to scream that Simon is nothing like Edwin - that he doesn't have a fraction of Edwin's kindness or pissiness, that his blue eyes are not nearly as beautiful as Edwin's green - but before he can even open his mouth, Edwin continues. "He...He likes boys, Charles. He likes me."

Oh. Oh.

Charles stares at Edwin who is looking back at him, trying and failing to hide the fact he's terrified, and Charles doesn't give one shit that Edwin likes boys because he's his best mate forever. He's still pissed that Simon is apparently staying but he has to hug Edwin at that. "I'm still pissed you didn't tell me about him," is all he says, swallowing back the other words he wants to say.

Charles grows even more paranoid about Simon being around, who has to get used to the fact that Charles takes to swinging his cricket bat ominously every time he comes within ten feet of Edwin. He finds out that adjusting clothing was an Edwardian courting thing and wants to break something. The very idea the very person who killed his best mate is now trying to put the moves on said best mate pisses him off.

It also makes him think of numerous times Edwin had readjusted his collar or jacket in the past and it makes his non-existent stomach flip.

Eventually, Simon decides he's ready to move on to his after-life and Charles keeps his hands from fisting when he looks at Edwin with that same soppy look. He knows Edwin has forgiven Simon by now but Charles has always been better at holding a grudge and he knows what is going to come out of Simon's mouth before he even asks. He knows that if Edwin says yes, he won't stop him.

Charles also knows that if Edwin does, there is no way he is going to find any kind of his own afterlife.

"You could come with me," Simon says hopefully and the moment after is the longest in Charles' life.

"Thank you, Simon," Edwin says kindly and Charles has to keep himself from crying. "But I have no interest in going anywhere without Charles."

He steps back - away from Simon and back towards Charles. Ears suspiciously pink, Edwin links their hands and they watch as Simon follows the Night Nurse.

[24hrsoda]

tiny Damian got chased by the palace peacocks ONCE and it was enough to traumatize him in to never messing with them again ( + a mini lecture from Grandpa)

[pastara-cell]

Omg guys look!!! Its qibr and late autumn!!!!!

[zeldaseyebrows]

A warm, loving embrace

Day 10: Zelda (+ Link)

[dourgeek]

shdoifuhieohfid don't look at me-

Very self-indulgent Dr Baggs x self-insert art that I ended up doing in two and a half hours and now it's 2:35am. I am very normal.

Dr Baggs belongs to @/megalommi

☆please do not repost or repurpose my work, thank you!☆

[asteralley]

thinking a bit too much about this

[charafansmile]

^ When you and your husband have been blatantly flirting with this nerd you put in charge of the science division of your kingdom in an attempt to get him to be your third but he's too obtuse to realize so you and the boo just listen to him rant about his hyperfixation (humans)

[bossboudicca]

Das Boot (2018)

1 x 1 New Paths

[samanthamulder]

THE X-FILES (1993-2018)

SEASON EIGHT — I will go on record to say this: that I have seen things that I cannot explain. I have observed phenomena that I cannot deny. And that as a scientist and a serious person it is a badge of honor not to dismiss these things because someone thinks they're BS.

[birb--birb]

Tonight's playthrough of veilguard has been a fuckin fever dream I love these idiots so much

[jagi11]

Ok there’s an important information that I don’t know and that is how much time it took for them to get together

[thatonegayship]

I loved the cowboy comic so much that I wrote a oneshot for it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/50934235 🥺 your art is BEYOND amazing, ty for the food

INCREDIBLE!!!!!

[vypersketches]

cybernetic soldier

[hyperionwitch-art]

I've been re-reading your Tev/Dren comics and saw again how wrecked Tev's clothes got to warrant a new outfit during the Tribunal DLC. I know realistically, after Red Mountain, Tev likely went shopping for her new clothes in one of her casual outfits (after taking some time to heal ofc), but I find it funny to imagine her and Dren going clothing shopping immediately after defeating Dagoth Ur, f'd up clothes + blood and all.

HAH god, thank you Anon--to be honest, I think about Tev's post-fight clothes situation all the time (and will probably do ssssomething with that sometime down the road), and I loooove imagining what that scene would look like.

It's fine! She's fine. We're all fine. Nothing to see here.

Tev/Dren Masterpost

[teddybeartoji]

mickey HELLO HELLO!!! im hopping by to give u a smooch and to also ask if youve seen sinners!! i watched it today and thought of u cause the sound design just felt sooooo cool.. LOVE YA<3

MOSS MY LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'VE MISSED YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU HI HII HIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE NOT SEEN IT YET buuut i have seen a loooot of people talking about it and now youuu're here telling me that it's good as well so that can only mean one thing and one thing only I MUST LOCK IN AND WATCH IT IMMMMMEDIATELY . you already know that a sound design mention is going to lure me right in ooooh how i have missed watching cool things...

[just-one-ghost]

I once again want to yell and scream about how i absolutely love skeleton's and need to hold their hand, but then i remember that most people don't immediately assume i mean skeleton's with hope's and dream's and emotions and personalities and rich lives of their own and i

I haven't slept in 24hours now