#anyway bro its so nice to have a proper office | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

neverdoingmuch · 4 years ago

Note

Wait cql lawyer/law school AU

i got you my pal dont worry!!

law school, im gonna be honest and say i know like nothing about law or law school so pls ignore any inconsistencies or inaccuracies

lwj goes to law school and he is definitely the top student in his class. they’ve been there for like a month and everyone already knows he’s gonna be the best

his one and only competition is this dude called wei wuxian but lwj isn’t particularly worried about him

so far they’re still in the stage of the course where they do the fun things to sucker people into doing the class for the semester so there’s been some practise debates and arguments and stuff in their tutorial classes

wei wuxian has that Charisma and like yeah all of his arguments are perfect but also he has an amazing smile and people are like yes i can trust him

(he’s definitely the sort to be like hm, the easy way to argue this case would be to quote some laws and use precedence to justify this but that’s boring)

lwj is also good at that sort of stuff because his arguments are perfect and everything is so perfectly researched that there should be no ground at all for someone to lodge a counterargument

(wei wuxian manages somehow and it makes lwj so mad)

but that’s whatever lwj thinks,, a lot of people join law thinking it’s gonna be like the tv shows and books and then get completely blindsided when it comes to the rote learning part or like the actual laws

and for all of wwx’s confidence, lwj hasn’t actually seen wwx so much as touch the textbook/s and he always studies in the law library so he knows that wwx has probably never even been there bc he hasn’t seen him even once (why’s he looking? bc he needs to see which books wwx uses to study,, bc there has to be something going on there,, obviously)

then they do their first like proper written assignment and lwj and wwx tie for the highest scores and now lwj has a Rival and he refuses to lose to someone who thinks that putting a ‘-us’ sound at the end of a word makes it latin (did wwx say habeas corpus and then point at a soft drink and go sprite-us can-us,,, maybe,,,,)

anyway! lwj and wwx are kinda rivals for the top spot and it’s one of those situations where one test lwj wins by a point but then the next test wwx gets full marks and they just keep exchanging the top spot in class

and this whole time wwx is like The Worst to have in class. he’s always interrupting to ask questions or just straight up not listening and spends the class doodling pictures of rabbits (they’re cute but wwx is terrible and he’s not allowed to make cute drawings)

so after a few months the most horrible thing happens.... they get put together in a project and lwj is like ugh. internally of course but his face is also saying ugh

the first time wwx and lwj get together to work on the project, lwj is prepared with a proper list of tasks to do all nicely split up between the two of them and a schedule for when they should get certain parts done by.

needless to say, lwj does not expect wwx to be ready, but wwx is definitely on top of things

he rocks up and is like yeah let’s do this, this and this and have them done by this time - basically proposing to do everything that lwj has already written down

and lwj is pleasantly surprised and is like hm maybe i misjudged wwx and decides to like re-evaluate his opinion on him

in doing so he realises that when he’d never seen wwx studying, it wasn’t an exaggeration at all. he’s never seen wwx so much as touch a textbook or spend more than a minute on a laptop doing something that wasn’t minesweeper or solitaire

but wwx is also making all of their deadlines and even adds extra information and resources to their document that could be useful elsewhere and sometimes he shows up to their study sessions and he looks absolutely exhausted

eventually lwj manages to get the truth out and wwx is just like yeah it’s easier to get worse grades than a genius but if you both study and you still get lower grades, it’s not easy,, for jc or for me

so wwx usually studies at night when his brother is asleep and lwj is like that’s bad, you can’t keep that up and just when wwx is about to go off at him lwj is like you can come study at my place

and thus begins the wonderful time where everything is alright and lwj falls in love with wwx

they work really well together and wwx is strangely considerate and nice? when he finds out lwj likes rabbits, he goes out and buys bunny post-it notes for lwj and starts to always bring him a doodle of bunnies every time he comes over. he always gets his work done on time, early even, and his work is always so brilliant and every time wwx smiles at him, lwj feels warm inside etc etc

for a long while lwj is like yes (: this is friendship (: bc he’s never had a crush before but then on the day they submit their project wwx is like hey,, the two of us make a great team,, we should always work together,, now and next year and even when we graduate,, i want to help the innocent people who need our help and i think i’d like it a lot if you joined me and lwj has his oh moment

they get a perfect score on the project of course and even after it finishes, wwx keeps coming over to lwj’s place to study or just hang out and lwj is just falling more and more for wwx each day

they’re best friends now and everyone gets used to seeing them work together on projects and then turn around to try and decimate each other when they’re working one on one and lwj thinks that he might just be the happiest he’s ever been

but then one day wwx doesn’t show up to class. it shouldn’t be strange but wwx has never missed class even once and he ends up hearing from lxc who heard from jgy that wwx was caught sabotaging some other student’s work (the other student was jzxun, who had a fondness for playing devil’s advocate and other than wwx once telling him that his argument was shit, wwx never spoke to him or seemed to know who he was but lwj is a bit too angry to remember that)

he manages to find wwx outside of his dorms as he’s moving out and he’s just like why did you do that? and wwx is like oh y’know,, bc he’s not really sure what’s happening himself,, one second he was at the top of his class and the next he was being brought before a board and being told that he was being expelled but he’s not going to tell lwj that bc lwj would definitely try and stand up for him and then they’d both get expelled

but lwj is furious and just spits out well if our dreams meant so little to you then maybe it’s a good thing you failed now,, bc his mother was a lawyer who took all these little jobs that helped people who actually needed the help and lwj was looking forward to doing that with wwx and he doesn’t even seem to care that now they can’t do that

wwx flinches and then smiles at him and just cheerily says, that’s me and leaves. he doesn’t look back and lwj doesn’t chase after him.

lwj doesn’t see him again for years (you can do 13 or 5 or however long you feel like)

lwj is a fully licensed lawyer and he’s working for the family company and he spends half of his time working on cases and uses the rest of his time to do like outreach programs where he goes and visits schools and runs sessions on what it’s like to be a lawyer, how to apply, and to provide assistance to any students who decide to study law at uni

and then at one of these programs he meets this kid, wen yuan, who is ridiculously bright and enthusiastic and has a smile that seems oddly familiar

at the end of the second session he comes up to lwj and is like mr. lan, is your name lan wangji? and lwj just says yes, expecting the kid to be a fan of one of his cases or something but then wen yuan is like oh wow! i thought i recognised you from my dad’s photo!

and lwj isn’t expecting much but he asks what the photo looks like and wen yuan pulls out this photo from his pocket and lwj immediately recognises it,, it’s the only photo he has of him and wwx

your father is wei ying? lwj asks him and wen yuan is like yes, hesitates, and then asks, would you like to see him?

and that’s how lwj finds himself following wen yuan to some dinky little office that has a plaque outside that reads wen and wei

(wen ning is the nicest and sweetest person ever and lots of people underestimate him but then he’s an absolute monster on court. he gets up and completely decimates the opponent and then at the end is like (: it was so nice to meet you!! i am baby!! and all that,, you know our boy)

anyway they walk in and wwx turns to greet wen yuan but then he sees lwj and is like woah! you! and he’s not sure whether to hide or go and hug lwj so he just gives him a fist bump,, like a bro,, and immediately wants to shrivel up and die

anyway they get the reunion stuff out of the way, swelling music, tender wrist holding, lots of staring, lwj silently declaring his wholehearted love for wwx and refusing to believe rumours about him again even though he doesn’t actually know what happened, you know how it goes

from wwx’s side of things,, after he got kicked out he went to some small uni. good in its own right but not known for their law program and ended up specialising in family law

the first case he ever won was for the wens to have the right to keep custody of a-yuan and the first case wen ning ever won was to let wwx adopt a-yuan bc i’m soft like that

so wwx has just been kinda vibing,, being a single dad, living with the wens and helping to make that difference he always promised he would

now this isn’t gonna be some au where lwj goes oh my! i must give up my high salary job and work with wwx! bc lwj has been doing good stuff at his current job and for all of his family’s stuffiness, they run a fair and just company

but! he does end up helping wwx when wwx gets a letter with a bunch of information about the jins and how they’re actually super corrupt and evil (big surprise,,) and how wwx was maybe definitely framed bc he was doing some casual work on the side and stumbled across some bad shit on the jins back in uni

lwj ends up being the one to take the case officially but wwx is definitely the guy leading it and so lwj ends up spending most of his time at the wen-wei office

lwj definitely bonds with wen yuan, who also wants to go into law, and writes him recommendation letters and helps him edit his applications and stuff

(and one day wen yuan is like leaving you was the hardest thing dad ever did and i dont think you appreciated how much he cared about you. he really did think that he annoyed you ‘til the end and lwj is like no! he didn’t! and wen yuan is like yeah i know but you gotta tell him and lwj really does mean to but the time is never right or something like that but also wen yuan is all but calling lwj dad at this point)

anyway they end up going to court, side by side, working as a team just as they promised to do and just as they finish their final day on the case, ended with the jury ruling jgy guilty and wwx’s reputation all but saved, wwx turns around and flings himself at lwj

is he crying? is he laughing? a bit of both tbh but wwx ends up confessing right then and there, still on record and everything (is that how that works??? idk! let’s say it does)

and what can lwj do but make out with him?

did a news crew come in to film the results of this massive court case just to end up with five minutes of wangxian kissing?? maybe! but when it played on tv it meant wwx and lwj didnt have to actually tell anyone they got together

(and does lwj eventually pop the question using wwx’s bad latinification? yes and wwx is too busy laughing to accept at first but he does and they end up being the worst possible tutors for wen yuan as he goes through law school bc they keep being all gross and lovey-dovey and acting like law school is the most romantic place in the world)

#mdzs #Anonymous #modao zushi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #cql #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #all of my understanding of law comes from the pelican brief which i read over 10 years ago and one seminar on law courses at uni #so sorry if it's bad #):#lan sizhui #also i stand by wen yuan #let him keep his last name!#my aus #asks

312 notes · View notes

girlwithshipsshitshow · 4 years ago

Text

Part 19

(Usagi and Misaki pulled up to a diner that sat on a road off a beaten path, the diner looked virtually deserted but there were a few cars in the lot, Misaki figured it was probably the staff).

Misaki: Why do you think he wanted to meet us here? You don’t think he want’s to kill us, do you?

Usagi: (Laughs), No, of course no. Although, this place is in the middle of nowhere.

(Usagi shut the car off, the two boys got out of the car, holding hands they walked towards the diner until Takahiro, Shoved Usagi, causing him to fall to the ground).

Takahiro: WHAT THE HELL! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO MY BROTHER HOW COULD YOU OUT HIM! HOW COULD YOU TELL THE WORLD YOU TWO ARE ENGAGED WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!

Misaki: WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU! (He walked over to Usagi pulling him up), you okay?

Usagi: Yeah, I’m fine. Takahiro, first of all I came out, Misaki’s name wasn’t even mentioned!

Takahiro: Oh, really! Thank god!

Misaki: But, it will be after graduation! we WILL tell that, I’m the person he’s getting married too!

Takahiro: WHAT, (He started to go after Usagi again but Misaki blocked him shoving him back instead). Misaki, don’t you see what’s happening here?! Usagi-san is manipulating you!

Misaki: (Laughs) Okay, first of all, I’ve wanted to tell you this for a while now, Don’t call him that anymore, call him Akihiko or Usami, but I don’t want you to call him the same name I scream out it bed.

Takahiro: I started that pet name.

Misaki: It’s even weirder when you say it like that, so stop. Second, I knew it, I knew you didn’t approve of us, so you’re convincing yourself that he’s manipulating me? I asked him to get married, I asked him if we could tell everyone about us, but he said he wanted to come out himself first. (Misaki took Usagi’s hand, the two started to walk towards the diner). Do me a favor bro, if you care about me at all, figure your shit out or leave us alone.

(Misaki sat across from Usagi in the diner sipping on his third cup of coffee, sharing a plate of fries).

Misaki: I think I finally understand why he hates us together.

Usagi: Yeah, the “Thank God” Comment”, did not help.

Misaki: I don’t want to talk about this right now. Can I show you how I want our house to look? I know Ren wanted blueprints, but if we show him the outside of the house, and like an idea of how we want a layout of inside, d-do you think he could make blueprints that way?

Usagi: (Nods), Yeah, of course.

Misaki: Look, I just want you to know, (He reaches out taking Usagi’s hand), I want this to be our house so while I have ideas for the way the outside looks, and the inside, you have to contribute to stuff.

Usagi: (Reaches across the table, caressing Misaki’s face), I’m fine with whatever you want.

Misaki: I know, but the whole point, is for this to feel like out house okay?

Usagi: Yeah, Okay. So show me the house.

Misaki: What do you think?

Usagi: I love it! (Usagi had moved to the other side of the table, he was leaning against Misaki, his chin resting on his shoulder).

Misaki: (Turned his head slightly), Are you sure? because of you h-

Usagi: I love it, I mean it’s not a Japanese style house at all, so it’s definitely not traditional, but that’s what I like about it.

Misaki: (Chuckles), I guess we aren’t the most traditional couple huh?

Usagi: I mean, I fell in love with my best friends brother, my family hates you but also some of them are kinda in love with you, so yeah, i’d say so.

Misaki: (Softy kisses Usagi’s check), You’re the only one for me.

Usagi: (Smiles), I love you.

Misaki: I love you too.

Usagi: So what other ideas do you have?

Misaki: So many! I kinda want four floors, that way we we have plenty of space. So we have the basement floor and I was thinking could have like a ,oive theater there?

Usagi: I don’t think we need that, how often do you think we would use it?

Misaki: I don’t know, I just always thought it would be cool.

Usagi: I just don’t think we would use it.

Misaki: Okay, I was also thinking, we could have a room for the bears, but not all of them. But in the basement

Usagi: Yeah, I was thinking of getting rid of a lot of my toys and bears anyway.

Misaki: Really?

Usagi: I don’t think I need them as much anymore. The snow globe you got me is amazing. Suzuki-san, and Jr for sure, but I think we can get rid of all the other stuff, I’ll have to look through it all, but yeah, I think I’m done with it, unless it’s something you gave me, I don’t want it. but if you want a basement, maybe a proper laundry room. You could have a door that says “Laundry room” and its a barn style door”. We can get drying racks, a table for folding clothes, nice laundry baskets.

Misaki: Awe! I love that, but the basement will be kinda big, I mean what else would go there?

Usagi: We don’t have to decide now, and maybe in the future we could come back to the home theater, I’m just saying, with the two of us living there, we don’t need it.

Misaki: Yeah, you’re right. Okay so when we go to the first floor I was thinking an open living room, leading into the kitchen, a big on with seating in the kitchen. Oh, and an island is that okay? Like this...

Usagi: I love that, It’s enough room for you to cook, and we can actually it in the kitchen.

Misaki: Okay, and then the living room will meet with the kitchen, but I also think we can have sliding barn doors in case we want to close it off, and we can also have a half bathroom off the living room?

Usagi: I like it. Second floor?

Misaki: Okay, the second floor, would be two guest bedrooms, each with a bathroom.

Usagi: Okay, that works.

Misaki: The third floor is our space, I have a great idea...

Usagi: Can our bedroom have a balcony?

Misaki: YES! I was thinking the same thing!

Usagi: Really?

Misaki: Yeah! Look, here’s an idea I found, it has a balcony so what do you think?

Usagi: I think that’s amazing, and Pinterest has everything!

Misaki: (Giggles), I know.

Usagi: Can I design the outdoor space for the balcony?

Misaki: (Hands him the phone), DO IT BABY!

Usagi: Okay, here I have three different ideas, which one is your favorite?

Misaki: I think we could use the first and second, and then maybe the third for our backyard.

Usagi: Okay, cool.

Misaki: And I think a big walk in closet for us, do you want to see a picture?

Usagi: No, if I say huge walk in closet, Ren will know what I mean.

Misaki: Okay, This part is my favorite, the bathroom, so this is part of it, and Instead of that tub I want this one. your going to love it.

Usagi: I do LOVE it. I can picture it now. (He smiled, wrapped his arms around Misaki and gently placed kisses on his neck, Misaki giggled then moaned slightly).

Misaki: Hey, stop people are here.

Usagi: (Lips pressed to his neck), It’s only us and the workers.

Misaki: Still. (He pulled away from Usagi), Save it.

Usagi: I’m tired of wating.

Misaki: I know, me too.

Usagi: So, (clears throat), um seeming like our space is going to be pretty big, but there’s probably enough space for us to put an office right? Because I made one.

Misaki: Top one would be your desk, bottom mine? We could add a couch?

Usagi: Yeah, and I was thinking, It could just be across from our bedroom.

Misaki: Yeah, that’s perfect. So last thing, backyard.

Usagi: Hot tub, this one.

Misaki: (Laughs), okay. I also want this for outside, we have lots of land, so we can always add more, one day.

Usagi: Well, what about the fourth floor?

Misaki: What about it?

Usagi: What do you want up there?

Misaki: Oh, its dumb.

Usagi: Tell me. (He knocked against Misaki with his shoulder).

Misaki: It’s just another little hang out space for us, like in case we have company, and we just want to get away, just a place the two of us can get too, and no one else.

Usagi: (Grins), Can I see it?

Misaki: I guess.

Misaki: I know it looks dumb, and not our style really but it’s cozy and makes me feel warm... Do you hate it? You hate it don’t you I can look for something else. (He scrolled fiercely on his phone, until Usagi took it from his placing it on the table).

Usagi: (Takes Misaki’s face staring into his eyes), I love that little attic space, I love that we’re designing a house together, and I love you, so fucking much. (He softly pressed his lips to Misaki’s giving him a soft but deep kiss. (He pulled away, pressing his forehead to Misaki’s). I’ll send an email to Ren with our ideas.

Misaki: (Nods, he leans into Usagi, locking his hand with the big cold one), We’ve been here for almost two hours.

Usagi: Do you wanna go?

Misaki: No, I like being in a place where no one knows where we are, lets stay a while.

Usagi: (Grins, places a kiss a Misaki’s head, pulling the younger boy closer to him. It was nice to escape realty for a while).

(Takahiro was angry, he could not believe his brother was shutting him out of his life, after everything he’d done for him! and He was dating his best friend who the fuck did that, he took another shot of whisky slamming the glass on the table, no one was home yet, and he needed to vent to his wife, she always knew what to say. The door opened to the apartment and Mahiro ran inside hugging his fathers leg almost knocking him to the ground, he was really drunk so he’s balance was off.)

Mahiro: Hi daddy!

Takahiro: (slurring words): Hi buddy, where’s mommy?

Manami: (walking in with groceries, placing them on counter) I’m here, Mahiro, go to your room, and play, I need to talk to your dad.

Mahiro: Okay, (Runs into rum).

Manami: (Crosses arms), Are you Drunk?!

Takahiro: (Slurring) NO, I’ve only had like five shots and two beers.

Manami: (Rolls eyes), what happened?

Takahiro: (walks over to sit on the couch, he couldn’t stand anymore), Usagi and Misaki.

Manami: Oh, really?

Takahiro: I kinda attacked Usagi.

Manami: What the fuck is wrong with you?

Takahiro: He came out on a Live, said he was engaged, and that they were living together.

Manami: SO? you know that already!

Takahiro: But now, he want’s Misaki to come out after graduation.

Manami: (takes a seat on the couch), I have a feeling that was Misaki’s idea.

Takahiro: So! I don’t want anyone to know!

Manami: Know, what?

Takahiro: THAT MY LITTLE BROTHER BROTHER IS GAY! I DON’T WANT HIM TO BE GAY! WHY CAN’T HE BE NORMAL?!

Manami: TAKAHIRO, I CAN’T BELIVE YOU WOULD SAY THOSE THINGS, HE IS NORMAL, AND USAMI AND HIM ARE IN LOVE. IF YOU CAN’T ACCEPT THAT, THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE. (Stands up), You know what, I think Mahiro and I are going to leave for a while.

Takahiro: Hon-

Manami: For someone who say’s he loves he’s brother as much as you, everything you just said disproved that. Grow up Takahiro. (Walks in Mahiro’s room)

Takahiro: (stands up, drowns the last bit of whiskey, then slams the bottle against the wall, Mahiro runs out of his room with a backpack on).

Mahiro: What happen?

Manami: (Walks out of her bedroom with a small bag on), Mahiro, how would you like to go stay with Uncle Misaki for a few days?

Mahiro: MATKI!! Is daddy coming?

Manami: No, he’s not. (Sharply looks up at Takahiro), Your dad isn’t happy that Misaki is. (The two exit the apartment leaving Takahiro standing in the shattered pieces of the mess he made.

#usagi #Akihiko Usami #Misaki x Usagi #Usagi x Misaki #Misaki #takahashi misaki #junjou romantica #junjouromaticafanfic #Takahiro Takahashi #manami #mahiro #Junju romatica

12 notes · View notes

blarrghe · 4 years ago

Text

Lavellan Bros pt. 2

The other side of the Lavellan Bros au, where Theo ( @serphena ) is the Inquisitor and Taren has remained First of their clan. The two grew up together, but drifted apart as Theo's work took him away from the clan for long stretches. Now, he's supposed to lead an army and save the world, and it's a lot to handle. A visit from an old friend helps, a little.

AO3 Link or read more under the cut!

Theo sat perched on a high branch over the soldiers’ encampment, just outside the great gate that marked the entrance of the village of Haven. He shuddered, hearing the familiar clash of steel on steel, but he remained in his hidden spot, watching. He was supposed to trust these “former” Templars with his life, now, and he wasn’t about to do that without at least watching how they trained.

Because of his unusual choice of vantage point, it took the messenger who ran from the Chantry at Josephine’s order some time to find him, and when she did, calling up to him with hesitant deference, he scowled at her. But, Theo obliged the request, nimbly hopping down to a lower branch and then hanging from that, his tall frame closing the distance between the lower branch and the ground so that he had only to let go, and drop the remaining few inches onto the ground.

He did not enjoy spending time in Josephine’s office, and attempted to do so as little as was possible. It wasn't her fault, of course, but it still made his skin crawl to be around her, and anyway, whatever she wanted him for probably had something to do with appeasing snotty shems. So, he took the long way around Haven before arriving at the Chantry, putting at least twenty minutes worth of time between receiving the message and actually walking through her door - not to mention however much time the messenger had wasted looking high and low for him, before that. For this reason, when Theo did finally discover the reason for his being summoned, he was suddenly filled with a palpable sense of guilt. For there, sitting straight and proper across from the ambassador, holding a tiny porcelain teacup and laughing with a light, jingling, laugh, was Taren Lavellan: First of his clan.

Shit.

“Taren?” He balked at the way Taren seemed to have made himself eminently comfortable in the small, dim office, carrying on in easy conversation with the Inquisition’s ambassador. “What are you doing here?”

“Aneth ara, da’len.”

It was funny, Taren still calling him da’len, he had long since outgrown the other elf, and he was far from a child. It being funny was the reason Taren had never ceased using the term. That, and endearment. And right now, he was in desperate need of both the love and humour that came with an old friend. He just wasn’t about to show it.

“Keeper Deshanna sent me,” he explained, taking Theo into a quick embrace before continuing, “she thought someone should check on you.”

Taren smiled, rising from the chair and placing his teacup delicately on Josephine’s desk with a grateful little bow, and jumped into the quick speech of his people - another welcome sound.

Theo looked away, cheeks flushing slightly. Of course. “Don’t you have better things to do than come all the way out here, First.”

Taren shrugged, ignoring his mood, “couldn’t think of any. So, are you going to give me a tour?”

They exited the office into the body of the small chantry building, now converted to house dining tables and crates of supplies for the villagers and Inquisition forces. Taren thanked the ambassador as they did, turning to offer her words of gratitude in formal human speech, as she attempted poorly to return the gesture with broken Elvhen. Theo tried not to roll his eyes.

“I like her.” Taren commented as they walked out of earshot, and this time Theo really did roll his eyes at him. Of course he did, Taren liked everybody.

“Why did Deshanna really ask you to come? Don’t tell me you’re here to take over.” He said it with a bitter pride that he hoped sounded confident, but secretly some part of him hoped that he was here to steal away the position. Taren had leadership experience and patience, two things that Theo always felt himself distinctly lacking when he tried to tend to his duties.

“No,” Taren replied, frowning, “I’m only here to help. I can’t… I can’t stay very long.”

Theo tried not to show any disappointment at that, he was still pretending to be annoyed at him, after all. He crossed his arms and kept walking, silently leading them out of the Chantry and stopping to look over the village from its steps. “Well, this is Haven.” Beside him, Taren sighed.

“First we hear that you’re their prisoner, and something about being responsible for...that.” Taren gestured at the gaping hole in the sky, swirling with green energy and terrifying blackness. The rift was not a pretty thing to look at, and Theo did not follow his gaze. “Then, you’re the herald for their goddess,”

“Prophet.” Theo corrected, grimacing.

Taren continued, “and apparently you’re doing magic now.”

Theo shook his head, and held out his marked hand. “This thing’s magic, not me.” He muttered.

Taren took a long look at it, deep lines of concern nestling between his brows. “Either way,” he said finally, “the Keeper - I - was worried about you.”

He couldn’t help but finally soften a little at that. He hated to admit it, but it was nice to be cared about. “You should meet Varric.” He offered, gesturing to the spot down the stairs a ways where Varric stood chatting amiably with some villagers. Varric was by far the friendliest of his new companions, and that seemed a good place to start.

Varric was more than happy to answer Taren’s many questions, and Taren was beyond enthralled by tales of the dwarf’s personal relationship with the Champion of Kirkwall, but soon he was looking curiously out toward the other buildings in Haven, and asking, in quick Elvhen, if there weren’t any other of their own people around.

Theo decided to introduce him to Solas, and almost immediately he regretted it. He had to all but tear Taren away from the mage, as their intellectual conversation on topics of various arcane arts shifted toward the subject of Dalish traditions, and threatened to grow tense.

“Well, he’s…” Taren reached searchingly for a word as Theo led him away.

“Smart?” Theo offered, Solas struck him as impossibly wordy, but interesting enough.

“Yes,” Taren agreed, genteel, “but also… sort of arrogant.” It was as close to an insult as Theo had ever heard from him, and he almost laughed.

That was about as much of a tour as Theo felt like giving, he didn’t particularly feel like seeking out either the Templar Commander or the Seeker, and he felt almost protective of Taren, wandering around as an elven apostate mage in this place full of mistrustful humans. Unfortunately, it seemed that avoiding Cassandra wasn’t in the cards, as she came angrily stomping up to them from the Chantry, another lecture ready on her lips.

“Herald!” She stopped him, irate. “You cannot continue to simply take things from the Chantry without asking.”

Taren shot Theo a curious look, and stepped slightly off to the side.

Theo knew already what this was about; the pastries. He’d taken a large pile of them from the kitchens to distribute among some of the hungrier looking village children, and it had been one of the only pleasant experiences he’d had in days. He returned her glare.

“I didn’t take them for myself,” he protested, “they were for the kids.” And the elven servants, too. But he didn’t expect a shem to understand that bit.

“There is food enough for everyone in Haven,” Cassandra continued her lecture, finger wagging, “but those were set aside for Josephine’s meeting today. She has important people to entertain, securing aid for our cause.”

Theo did not appreciate the explanation. To hell with important people. “It’s food, Cassandra! What is a Chantry even for if not helping the hungry?”

Cassandra was midway through scolding him again when Taren cautiously interrupted. “Josephine? You mean the Antivan ambassador I met when I arrived?”

Cassandra blinked, seeming only now to notice the other elf standing beside him. How like a shem, to ignore the people right in front of her. “Yes.” She said quickly, composing herself, but still huffy.

Taren made a thoughtful sound and offered her one of his gentle, crooked smiles. “When we were speaking earlier, she told me that she once convinced a baron to donate a large sum of his fortune over a game of Wicked Grace and some sour ale. I’m sure she’ll be fine without, uh, pastries.” He remarked, “she seems a very competent woman.”

Cassandra stuttered, apparently unsure how to refute this argument without also insulting Josephine. “She is, but -”

Theo took the opportunity, “- you aren’t implying Josephine’s nobles needed pastries more than children, are you, Cassandra?”

Cassandra huffed again, shaking her head at Theo. She returned to Taren, looking now slightly offended. “And you are?”

“An emissary from Theo’s clan,” Taren introduced himself cheerily, not dropping that lopsided smile, “Taren Lavellan, I am the clan’s First.” He said it like he assumed she should know what it meant, and Theo could tell from the look on Cassandra’s face that she was embarrassed that she did not. “Tell me, do all visiting diplomats receive pastries upon arrival, or just the important ones?” Theo snorted as Cassandra stuttered again, introducing herself in turn while her face grew red, and quickly excusing herself.

As she walked away and Theo continued to chuckle, Taren let out a long whistle, and elbowed Theo in the ribs.

“What?” Theo asked, noting that the amusement on Taren’s face was now more directed at him, than at the Seeker.

“Nothing, da’len.”

“What?” Theo demanded.

“You like that one.” Taren remarked teasingly.

“She’s a Seeker.” Theo refused the remark, “near as I can tell, that’s like a Templar, only even more high and mighty.”

Taren nodded in agreement, but he was giving him a look; the kind of look that only Keepers and Firsts can give, that says “I have known you since you were knee high, and you cannot keep your secrets from me - not even the ones you don’t know you are keeping.”

Theo grumbled something about disliking shems, and changed the subject. “Come on, there’s a tavern.”

“You don’t drink.”

“I do sometimes.” Theo muttered. He didn’t, not really, but the accusation made him feel young and immature, and he wanted to see Taren’s reaction to Sera. There, finally, would be a person that even Taren would dislike.

Sera was just as disdainful as he expected her to be, reacting to Taren’s face full of elaborate swirling tattoos and speech that was heavy with the affect of Elvhen. But, she somehow knew already about the argument over pastries, and she laughed - long and loud - while doing an impression of a flustered Cassandra, and Taren joined her.

“I love her.” Taren commented when she went to the bar for another round of ale.

“She hates elves.” Theo pointed out in surprise. Taren shrugged.

“I don’t think she knows any elves.”

Taren stayed only a few days, but he was helpful, as promised. He ran countless errands, helping to craft potions and aiding sick villagers while Theo made his frequent escapes out into the forest, and by the time he left he had forged a lasting friendship with Varric and managed to have at least a couple of civil discussions with Solas. Varric sent him off with a signed copy of his Tale of the Champion, and Sera admitted that he was “pretty alright”, which was high praise for a Dalish elf, from her. He had kept his distance from the Templar, and from the Circle mage, Vivienne, but Theo couldn’t blame him for that. And even they, at his parting, offered friendly farewells.

He was sad to see him go, knowing that Haven would be that much lonelier once he became the only Dalish elf to inhabit it again.

“If you need anything, anything at all -” Taren offered, hugging him once more as he stood by the village gates. The offer should have been given the other way around, Theo was the one amassing an army, after all.

“I’ll write, don’t worry. I can do this.” He doubted it, really doubted it, but he still wasn’t ready to reveal all of that uncertainty to his First.

“I’ll visit again, when I can.” Taren promised, “next time though, I want pastries.”

----

[BONUS SKYHOLD VISIT]

(Theo technically isn’t in Skyhold yet, but when he gets there Taren visits again, and meets a new fascinating mage...)

“A library? You have your own library?” Taren asked breathlessly, his excitement written all over his face.

“You absolute bore, yes.” Theo rolled his eyes at the elf. Taren had come to visit Skyhold following the exodus from Haven, and he was dutifully giving him another tour. Taren had already met and appreciated a number of new people, though he looked a little less comfortable in the large fortress than he had seemed at Haven some months before.

Theo showed him to the library, leading him up the stairs past Solas’ study space. Luckily, Solas was sleeping. Taren looked around wide-eyed and open-mouthed as they entered the large, circular room lined with shelves of ancient texts. “I’m never leaving.” He joked, a grin spreading over his face.

“Can you even reach the shelves?” Theo joked back. It was nice to see him again, after everything.

He spotted Dorian, leaning intently over some tome with a look of deep concentration, and figured he should be a gracious host and offer an introduction.

Dorian introduced himself with his characteristic charm, and Theo saw Taren twitch at the mention of Tevinter. But he was also looking at the mage with an expression of something else; fascination, maybe. Dorian took Taren in with a long look and a coquettish tilt of his head. “You’re related to Theo? This Theo?”

“Not by blood.” Theo answered, “we were clanmates.”

“I am the clan’s First.” Taren explained, and Theo wasn’t quite sure why he was flaunting the position.

The reveal got Dorian’s attention. “A First? That’s in line to be a Keeper, right?” He wasn’t aware that Dorian knew anything about how clans functioned, but he was always reading. Taren nodded. “Fascinating!” Dorian was suddenly excited, “so that means you’re a mage, doesn’t it? I’ve never met a Dalish mage, there’s so much I’d love to -” He stopped. Was Dorian blushing? He didn’t know Dorian could blush. “-sorry, I’m being too presumptive. I should let you settle in. But if you wouldn’t mind, perhaps sometime during your stay here you and I might look through some of these texts together? There are some elven ones which I can’t decipher, and to have the insight of a real Dalish mage would be just...incredible.” He offered, sounding shy. Another thing that Theo wasn’t aware Dorian was capable of.

Taren was stuttering when he answered, his cheeks growing awfully close in colour to that of his hair. “Of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to look through artefacts belonging to our people.”

Theo led Taren away to the next stop on his tour - the Tavern. Varric had asked about him more than once, and he had been storing up jokes to make once he had the small elf standing next to the Iron Bull since the day he had learned Taren was coming. As soon as they were out of the library, Theo let out a long whistle, and nudged Taren in the shoulder with his elbow.

“What?”

“Nothing, little brother.” Theo smirked.

“What?” Taren demanded.

“You like him.” Theo remarked, teasingly.

“He’s from Tevinter.” Taren protested, his cheeks still flush, “do you know how they treat our people there?”

Theo shrugged. “Supposedly, he wants to change all that.”

Taren glanced back over his shoulder toward the library, curious. “You trust him?” Hopeful, and more than a little eager.

Theo nodded, and Taren smiled.

#theo lavellan #taren lavellan #clan lavellan #dai #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age inquisition fanfic #dragon age fanfic #other peopels ocs #my writing #bros bros bros bros bros #family fluff

7 notes · View notes

omgrachwrites · 6 years ago

Text

Ocean Avenue (Bucky Barnes)

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x OC

Summary: When Darcie Baker - the daughter of a police officer - breaks her misfit friend’s heart at 16 she regrets it everyday even after she graduates though she knows she can’t go back and change what happened. Everything changes when over 10 years later she meets the gorgeous mechanic.

Warnings: fluff, little bit of angst, slow burn

Words: 2310

A/N: I hope you guys enjoy this part, sorry its a little late but please let me know what you think, I love you all very much! xxx

Part Five

Bucky took another bite of his delicious, steaming hot slice of cheese pizza; pizza was definitely something that he had missed while he was in the army. Some reality show rubbish was on TV, ‘The Bachelor’ it was called but Bucky really wasn’t taking any of it in. There was suddenly a loud call from upstairs that slightly startled Bucky and he cursed underneath his breath as he jumped.

“Hey Buck! Are you sure that you don’t want a beer?” Steve called.

Bucky started to shake his head before he realised that he was an idiot because Steve obviously couldn’t see him, “no thanks bud, I’m good with my pizza,” he took another mouthful and continued to speak, slightly muffled, “I need to do a deep clean at the garage so I don’t think that drinking is really a great idea,” he chuckled as he swallowed his food.

There was silence for a brief moment until it was broken with the thud of Steve’s footsteps, slightly muffled by the thick carpet. When Steve entered the room his face was apologetic.

“Sorry Buck.”

Bucky shot his best friend a strange look; he had no idea what Steve was sorry for, “what the hell for man?”

“I didn’t know that you were doing a deep clean tonight, I’ll help you out,” he gave Bucky a smile as he reached for his cell phone.

“Whoa, whoa,” Bucky started, causing Steve to take a halt in his movements, “bro, you’ve got a date night with the woman of your dreams, don’t be cancelling that for anybody, not even me. I wouldn’t have asked you to help me anyway bud, it’s my responsibility. Thanks for the offer though,” Bucky grinned as he clapped Steve on the shoulder, he was so happy that Steve had a date tonight, by the sounds of it Peggy was a great girl.

The only thing that worried Bucky was the fact that Peggy was pretty good friends with Darcie. The last thing that Bucky wanted was for Steve to be hurt the way that he had been – Bucky was finally starting to admit to others and to himself that Darcie had hurt him. Though, Bucky trusted Steve’s judgement, he liked Peggy a lot.

“Thanks Buck, I’d best get going,” he chewed his bottom lip nervously as he ran his fingers through his hair, “do I look okay?” he chuckled, gesturing at himself.

Bucky grinned and nodded his head, “you look great man, now go get her and be safe, yeah?” he gave Steve a bro hug before Steve left the apartment for the night.

Bucky finished off his pizza before he grabbed a soda from the refrigerator and he left the apartment to get to his garage. The garage really was a mess and Bucky silently cursed himself for not cleaning it more regularly but there was nothing he could do about his procrastination now except to clean. Technically the garage should be deep cleaned at the start and at the end of every month but Bucky had really left it for too long.

It was a lot harder than Bucky had originally foreseen, about an hour into his cleaning Bucky took on a sweat as he scrubbed the floor so he discarded of his shirt, mopping his sweating forehead with it. Another thirty minutes went by and he heard the click of high heels on the cemented pavement, causing Bucky to look up from his scrubbing. It was Gemma and she was looking really quite pretty as she strolled by in towering heels and a short red lace dress. He vaguely wondered when she was going back to college.

As presumed, her made up eyes flickered over to the garage, her face lighting up when she saw Bucky standing in the doorway.

“Bucky! Hi, what are you doing here this late?” she paused as she checked her watch, “it’s nearly ten.”

Bucky smiled as he leaned against the handle of the mop, almost blushing as Gemma’s eyes raked down his sculpted shirtless chest, her eyes lingering on a couple of pale scars that he’d gained in the army.

“I’m doing a deep clean that should be done twice a month but I only do it every couple of months,” he chuckled, “you look great, where have you been?”

Gemma flushed at his complimenting words and she shrugged as she flipped a couple of curls over her shoulder, “I’ve been on a date, it didn’t go too well,” she sighed and suddenly glanced at Bucky from beneath her coated eyelashes, “who was that woman that was here a couple of months ago? Seemed like you knew her, she was pretty.”

Bucky chewed his plump bottom lip as he fidgeted, “she’s just someone that I went to high school with,” he shrugged nonchalantly.

“She also seemed like a bitch,” Gemma confessed causing Bucky’s head to snap up and look at her in the eyes, very slightly narrowing his eyes. He had half a mind to defend Darcie before he shook himself out of it and he nodded in agreement.

“Yeah she is.”

“You deserve so much better Buck, you deserve the world,” she shrugged making Bucky smile. Once upon a time he would have given anything for Darcie to think about him like that, “bye Buck,” she blew him a kiss with a little wave.

“See you later doll,” he smiled.

Gemma was the only one that came to visit Bucky that night, at about quarter past 11 he heard a car door slam. Bucky glanced up in interest to see a light blue car, his eyes bugged out slightly and he felt his stomach drop when he realised who it was. It was Darcie’s dad, Bucky really hadn’t missed him.

“What are you doing this late son?” he asked as he walked over to Bucky, his hands on his belt buckle.

His eyes showed no sign of recognition and although Bucky had to admit that it had been a while since he’d seen Darcie’s dad, it was strange that he didn’t recognise Bucky considering how much he had hated him. Bucky stood to full height and tried to make himself look like a law abiding citizen – which to be fair, he was now.

“I’m doing a deep clean sir, this is my garage you see,” he said as respectfully as he could while he gestured around the space.

At his words Darcie’s dad smiled which deepened the lines around his tired looking eyes, “a hard worker, I respect that,” he held out a hand for Bucky to shake, “I’m Officer Andrew Baker, and you are?”

He had introduced himself as a police officer though he had turned up in his regular clothes and he wasn’t in a squad car which was weird considering that he was talking like he was on duty. Bucky still thought that it was extremely odd that Andrew seemed to not recognise him at all.

“uh,” Bucky paused for a second, his tongue swiping along his bottom lip, unsure of how to proceed, “James Barnes,” he opted for his real name as he shook Andrew’s hand.

A strange look crossed Andrew’s face for just a second before he smiled again, “it’s nice to meet you son, you let me know if you need anything now,” he nodded.

“Thank you sir, I will,” he muttered as Andrew strode away.

After that strange conversation Bucky was pretty distracted, in fact, he was so distracted that while he was cleaning up some broken glass that looked like it had been there for a while, he sliced his hand open because he wasn’t paying enough attention to what he was doing. He yelped like a kicked dog as pain shot through the palm of his hand, the wound looked pretty deep.

“Jesus,” he muttered darkly as he grabbed a clean towel and pressed it against his stinging wound. The bleeding went on for a while and Bucky actually started to feel a little light headed and he knew that Steve would kill him if he didn’t get it looked at. That was the reason why he reluctantly wrapped his hand up and he managed to drive himself to the ER.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

After a long, exhausting day Darcie was walking towards the locker room, her heart set on the leftover mac and cheese that she had in her refrigerator. She had been working like a dog for the past week and she knew that she’d be too tired to cook so she’d been living on leftovers. Her movements stopped as she heard the Chief of Staff Bruce Banner call out to her.

“Hey Darcie, wait up!” she turned to see him walking quickly down the hallway towards her, “before you go, some guy with a sliced open hand has just come in. He was really nervous so he’s kind of high on pain meds right now. I want you to take care of it; your fellow interns are idiots.”

“Bruce,” she groaned tiredly, while she was flattered by the compliment she really wanted to get home.

“Please Darcie, you’d really be saving my life,” he pouted, using those dark chocolate puppy dog eyes to his advantage. It made Darcie narrow her eyes; she hated it when he pouted like a child.

“For god’s sake Banner! Fine!” she threw her hands up in defeat; tempted to smile by the way he was grinning at her.

As soon as they walked into the pit – that’s what they called the area for people who didn’t need emergency surgery – she saw Bucky and he saw her. They just started at each other with wide blown eyes and Darcie admired the way thick strands of inky black hair fell over his forehead. The tension in the room was building quickly, so quickly that even Bruce felt like something was amiss.

“What’s the matter?” at the sound of Bruce’s voice the spell between Darcie and Bucky was shattered.

Bucky’s facial expression darkened, his brows pinched together in a frown, “I don’t want to be seen by her,” he slurred due to his pain meds.

Bruce looked pissed off as he raised a thick eyebrow, “well unlucky for you buddy, she’s our best intern,” Darcie almost glowed at the compliment.

“An intern?” he snickered, “so you’re not even a proper doctor.”

“Shut the hell up Bucky,” she growled, already annoyed that he was delaying her from going home and she made her way towards him to inspect his wound, it was really pretty deep.

She started by picking the large shards of glass out of his palm and making sure the wound wasn’t infected, “I had a fight with some glass, it was saying shit behind my back,” he almost giggled at his lame joke.

“You obviously lost then,” she said shortly causing Bucky to glare at her.

As she was stitching up his hand, he spoke out again, causing Darcie to jolt in her movements, “I saw your dad today, he didn’t recognise me. What’s up with that?” he asked.

Darcie chewed her lip for a second before replying, willing her voice not to shake, “you’re probably not that memorable Bucky.”

“You’re such a bitch,” Bucky huffed and she rushed to close his wound, not wanting to spend another moment with him.

“How are you getting home Bucky?” Darcie asked as she cleared away her work station, even though he’d annoyed and insulted her she was still worried about him.

He hesitated for a second and he even looked a little worried, “Steve’s on a date,” he slurred, “I brought my car,” he made to get up, freezing when Darcie stopped him by resting a hand on his knee.

“Sorry,” she withdrew her hand, “I’m not letting you drive yourself home, it’s very irresponsible. I’m clocking off now so I’ll drive you back, you can come and get your car when you’re better,” she was surprised when he didn’t try and put up a fight.

As Darcie was driving Bucky back to his place she felt her eyelids droop slightly and she had the wild thought that maybe it would be safer for Bucky to drive, she almost snorted at this ridiculous idea. It proved how tired she was. Bucky hadn’t said anything since they had got into the car and honestly, Darcie preferred it, the radio was playing softly in the background. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Bucky’s head drop back onto the car seat and he looked at her through brilliant blue eyes.

“What is the whole deal with your dad?”

Darcie sighed as she glanced at him before looking back at the road, “if you don’t mind Bucky, I really don’t want to talk about it.”

“Okay, I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay Buck,” she smiled over at him, he smiled back. He was just full of surprises tonight.

Another ten minutes went by and she pulled up outside some apartments, “this your place?” she simply asked.

At her words Bucky looked at her with a sneer, “well yeah, most people don’t live in fancy, over the top places like you, you know,” she opened her mouth to assure Bucky that she was just asking a question, “I need my bed, I don’t need your help,” he swatted her hand away and he stumbled out of the car, back to being an asshole again.

Darcie was going to drive off as soon as he got out of the car but she decided that it would be better if she waited to see that he got inside okay. It took him a couple of tries to get into his apartment and Darcie tried not to laugh at his fumbling. Butterflies swarmed in her stomach as he shot her a look before he closed his apartment door. Darcie couldn’t be falling again. She wouldn’t fall.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

@void-imaginations @theonelittleone @thesswintersoldier @dreamacoholic @harryngtonewithyourshit @iamariotgrrl @wavyjassy

18 notes · View notes

tellywoodtrash · 6 years ago

Text

ishqbaaz 17.09.18 lb

dang starting off with anika standing outside the room cordoned off with all the crime scene tape. kindaaaaa gutting.

also, is there a point of all this tape? like... it’s in their HOUSE... who’s to know if anyone goes in and tampers with the active crime scene as it is rn? shouldn’t the police have finished up all the crime scene investigation, cleaned up the scene and left the room free for use? if not, post guards there to prevent trespassing. yeh kya baat hui ki tape maar diya aur chal diye?

shivaay’s just zombie walking through the house. cool.

oh, what’s this? what’s he gathering himself for?

greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. he’s going to do “biwi nahi ho” waala jaap, to make her feel even worse. bitch did you even have a proper conversation with her about nancy in your fucking bed???????? how the fuck do you think she feels about THAT?

“main nahi chaahta ki duniya tumhe khooni ki biwi kahe.”

uh that’s nice and all, but that’s what they’re gonna call her anyway. since it’s now official record (as per the statements given by EVERYONE to the police) that she’s your wife.

LMAO “NAYE SHEHAR MEIN CHALE JAO”. WOW. GHAR SE HI NAHI, SHEHAR SE BHI NIKAAL RAHA HAI.

(which is what he threatened chachi with on anika’s bday. seems like it’s his go-to plan in any given scenario in this universe.)

lol of course this dheent won’t go.

main hoti toh mast shimla jaake khud ka ek chotaaaa sa bed and breakfast kholti. and it’d have a tiny apple orchard too... and the bnb would have its own resident doggie, a giant floofy sheepdog. maybe two, three bunnies as well... a few chickens that’ll provide eggs...

ok sorry. i got carried away by the dreams of a new life fully bankrolled by a murder suspect billionaire husband. *sigh* some girls have all the luck.

“tum apni zindagi ko mushkil mein daalna chaahti ho!”

LMAO WASN’T THAT ESTABLISHED SINCE THE DAY SHE VOWED TO MAKE YOU PUT THAT MANGALSUTRA ON HER, BY HOOK OR CROOK?

“kyunki aap mere pati hai.”

i swear to the lord above, every time i hear this bs, i lose 8 years off my lifespan.

there. she said it once more. at this rate by the end of this track, imma be dead by 32. (and the show will still be on. and these two fuckers will STILL BE AT IT.)

“agni ko sakshi maanke aapki har pareshaani aur mushkil mein saath dene ka vachan diya hai maine.”

uhhhhhhhhhhhh lmao no you didn’t? you weren’t even fucking conscious during the phere. pata nahi TAB iske hosh thikaane nahi the, ya AB nahi hai.

whatever i’m giving up on her bs and just enjoying his excellent hangdog face.

oh suddenly she has a phd in clinical psychology and is a therapist.

“naa main aapka saath chodungi, naa aapka haath.”

lmaooooooooooo his face is like ‘srsly what the fuck i gotta do to get this chick off my back????? nancy ka toh khoon maine nahi kiya, lekin shaayad ISKA karna padega.’

some more puppy face.

+ 10 to her for asking consent (though maybe -3 for not actually waiting for a solid yes.)

oh good for you, shivaay! you haven’t regressed into not knowing how to hug back! i’m proud of you!

damn he really needed that hug. my poor broken son.

great, the world’s most sasta CSI team is on the case.

“we have to prove shivaay is innocent.” “how?” “by finding evidence that he is.” LMAO WOWWWWW AISE TOH HUMNE SOCHA HI NAHI OM!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS CAPTAIN OBVIOUS.

ummmmmm no shivaay. you can be proven innocent without knowing who the real murderer is. that’s exactly what om just said.

tight security my assssssssssss.

om is literally the worst detective ever.

.......... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THOSE TWO WERE NOT SOBER. THEY WERE SLOSHED BEFORE YOU EVEN JOINED THEM.

lmaoooooooooooo ofc noone believes him. aur banaa milaavati punch har party ke liye.

bro, just the display for the cameras were damaged. the cameras should still be doing their fucking thing. just hook it up to a new display system.

oh goooody! shivaay’s trespassing into the crime scene and adding some more of his dna and shit in there. brilliant!

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THAT SASTA ZOOM OUT/SUPERIMPOSED IMAGE. (look closely in upper left window and wave at shivaay!)

AND ISN’T THAT THE BUILDING HE MAAROFIED CHALAANG FROM BUT WITHOUT THE CGI ADDED 30 FLOORS????/

ALSO THE OBEROI GROUNDS ARE SO LARGE, THERE’S NO WAY ANY BUILDING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO CATCH WHAT’S HAPPENING INSIDE THE HOUSE. WHAT COMPLETEEEEEEEE RUBBISH.

oh boy. bhavya’s not happy at the reports. looks like she’s going to have to arrest mr. oberoi, who she’d just gotten around to liking.

oh god now who’s this ARMAAN SAXENA???? (also pfffffffffft, such a typical tellywood “rich person” name.)

i love how this building ka cctv footage focuses more on oberoi mansion than its own premises.

good to see officer dad still be supportive to bhavya.

LMAO COOL. NOT SUSPICIOUS AT ALL.

THIS IS HIS BIG PLAN??????? SETTING OFF THE FIRE ALARMS???????

.... how did they check the entire building to know it’s a false alarm sooo quickly?

also lmaooooooo are you telling me alllll the security footage of this big commercial complex is stored in a laptop???????/ that shivaay is now just putting a usb drive into and taking??????????????? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. AMAZE.

whaaaaaaaat the fuck are they even getting from this one mile away ka footage?

LMAO THAT DHUNDLA FIGURE BEYOND THE CURTAINS? REALLLLLY?????

ok come the fuckkkkkkkkkkk on, that’s soooooooooo obviously mohit. like fuck, it could not MORE obviously be him. look at the build and height.

btw so glad this episode has had no mohit (beyond this) so far. phew.

are these fuckers blind????? how can they not tell that this is mohit????? he’s got like 3 inches and 5 more kilos of solid muscle on him compared to shivaay.

LMAO WHY DOES FWDING A DIGITAL VIDEO FILE PRODUCE THE TAPE WINDING WAALA NOISE?

wow rudra has no issues watching someone get murdered. everyone else is flinching and looking away but he’s watching it with eyes wide open.

DUDE YOU’RE SO IDIOTIC, IT’S NOT YOU, YOU DUMBASS. LORD.

anika and om’s only tassalli is “yeh (tu) nahi ho sakta.” provide proof you idiots.

shivaay is on his ownnnnnn trip. godddddddddddd.

rudra’s been studying law from like... tv or something. he has some bare minimum knowledge, but most of it seems to be from watching too many late night CID/crime patrol/saavdhan india reruns.

great. om’s panicking. that should be reassuring for shivaay. that his wall is falling apart.

this one is imagining himself chakki peesing and peesing and peesing already.

LMAO OK THE POLICE SIRENS RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT ARE NOT HELPING.

MOHIT IS STILL IN THIS FUCKING HOUSE??????????? WHY THE FUCK??????????????????

of course it’s gonna be shivaay’s fingerprints. mohit kachcha khilaadi thodi hai.

lmao i reallllllllllly love how bhavya tells mohit and rudra to stfu every time they act too smart. this itself has made me a bhavya fan. you go girl. shut down their mansplaining.

fucking dumbasses, trying to teach her her job. ACP BANNA HALWA HAI KYA???????

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU PPL THINKING OF CALLING THE COMMISSIONER INSTEAD OF A FUCKING LAWYER???????????

again, bhavya having to explain her job to these fucking idiots. lord. i hate men.

ofc tej doesn’t help. or let om do anything to help. he can literally die in a fire.

daaaaamn that wall of oberois.

also feeling more sexual tension between om/bhavya than rudra/bhavya.

lol kunal just has some kinda weird sexual chemistry with literally everyone huh.

DO NOT TELL ME SHIVAAY’S DUMB ASS RAN AWAY AGAIN. PLEASE.

OMFG. THIS FUCKING IDIOT. WHAT THE FUCK IS EVEN WRONG WITH HIM????????????

#ishqbaaz #ishqbaaaz #ib episode liveblogs #episode liveblogs

9 notes · View notes

paradoxidolatry · 6 years ago

Text

Brotherly Love

@birdhole , @beatconductor a lil bit

TG: hey TG: sup

TT: Hey. TT: Not much. Lunch break at work. TT: Sup?

TG: oh thats sweet TG: sucks theres no free pizza in it when you work as a cop huh TG: i guess its overall kind of a step up from the pizza gig tho

TT: Right? Free donuts though. TT: But nah, yeah, not so bad. TT: Didn't get a chance to tell you about it but I figure Dave or whoever's already spilled those beans. TT: Kinda weird, right?

TG: yeah dave told me TG: donuts just like a real cop huh TG: still cant quite wrap my head around this cop thing tbh TG: i can see you working as a LOT of things but a cop? thats wild

TT: Yeah. TT: I mean, I figured. Got all that military experience, right? TT: But I didn't want to go back to the military. TT: Plus, working as a cop is an equal mix of 'keeps me active' and 'allows me to work around certain roadblocks in regards to the acquisitions business', so it was a good compromise. TT: Better than fast food and skin flicks again, at any rate.

TG: i mean i guess that makes logical sense n all TG: still fucking wild as shit to me TG: guess you can still wear a uniform even its obviously not as sweet as the fast food ones

TT: Yeah, I really miss that old greasy apron. TT: But what can you do?

TG: the grease just made your eyes pop in that special way ykno TG: chicks love it

TT: They fuckin do, don't they? TT: But somethin tells me you didn't message me to talk about the chicks missing my pizza funk.

TG: you sure about that? its a pretty great topic you could write a book on it become rich quick with your pick up tips

TT: Hey, I'm already on chapter 7: the Sausage Party. TT: But really though. TT: What's up, boss?

TG: nothing TG: i was just TG: thinking about you is all

> Heart, squeeze. TT: That right? TT: Cool, cool. TT: Was thinking about you earlier too, actually.

TG: oh? any reason or

[Dave txt @ bro] im watching u [Dave txt @ bro] > that chicken image

TT: Just, y'know. TT: Was outside on a smoke break and I saw a couple of pigeons hanging out, eating some sandwich or some shit on the sidewalk and like. TT: Got me thinking about you, and like. TT: I spent the past 13 years thing you're dead or some shit, and now you're alive and it's. TT: Just fuckin buck wild. TT: Pardon me for sound fucking sappy but it's kind of like a dream come true.

[TT > Dave: I'm behaving, dad.]

TG: ...am i a pigeon now? tho i do admit i would eat that floor sandwich(edited) TG: yeah its...its fucking wild huh? TG: kinda thought id never see you again even after TG: i got away and shit TG: idk why not like you up and died but? after looking for you and you werent there i dunno i guess TG: i thought you just TG: werent going to come back TG: ...you didnt even see my wings yet you dont get to relate me to birds just yet dude

TT: I mean, I saw them in a picture. TT: One of you and Dave and a bunch of trolls and some old dude in front of a candy cane dildo? TT: But also you post about birds and shit all the time, so I figured that was sort of your Thing now. TT: And ... well. I dunno. TT: Almost didn't. TT: I was just gonna stay on Earth, maybe pop in to visit every so often. TT: But then all that shit happened and Dave wasn't answering my messages, so I thought he was dead too, and...well. TT: I guess I'm, uh... grateful to the apocalypse for. I guess bringing you back to me? TT: Well, no. TT: But like, at least letting me know you're alive.

TG: oh...yeah thats TG: thats my sisters actually and uh..shit what even is grig? grandpa i guess TG: already know mr d after all TG: i mean... im not sure how i feel yet TG: i guess im sorta glad because TG: i mean it has been my embarrassing dream to play family with you again for a while TG: i want to be a family again TG: a lot TG: its just TG: hard

TT: Sisters, huh? Well damn, you got the whole family package with these folks, huh? TT: Nice. How long you been with them? TT: Yeah, I figured. TT: I didn't, and don't, make it easy. I know. TT: A lot easier when you were a baby, even if our folks were shit, just cuz, y'know. TT: Everything hadn'tt happened yet. TT: Hadn't started to completely fuckin lose my mind and treat you like dogshit. TT: But I mean. I dunno. TT: I'm not gonna force you or nothin. TT: But if you ever wanted to come backto the apartment and chill for a day, see how you feel about it? TT: That'd be uh. TT: That'd be really nice.

TG: 3 years TG: as long as ive been TG: away from scratch... TG: i..yeah i guess maybe TG: can you even handle seeing me get gay with dave tho

TT: God. You were with Scratch that whole fuckin time? TT: Fuckin sonnuvabitch refused to tell me what he did with you. TT: Anyway. TT: Handling y'all and your homogay is a small price to pay at the end of the day. TT: Even if it's still. TT: Kinda really weird from my perspective. TT: But I respect y'all and he takes good care of you, so I can't complain too much, right?

TG: ...yeah like ten years TG: kinda fucked up huh TG: ill..ill think about it TG: okay so im gonna be real with you here for a sec okay TG: i TG: messaged you because i was talking to dave and i realized i missed you and TG: that i TG: kindawantahugiguess

TT: ...Yeah? TT: I can do a hug, yeah. TT: Where are you? I can meet you, if you wanna.

TG: ...workin TG: at [coords] TG: dont arrest me mr officer these drugs are prescription

TT: I'll leave the cuffs in the car. TT: What happens off-duty stays off-duty, though, so. TT: See you in five.

TG: kay > Try not to freak out. Freak out anyways.

> Pull up by the curb a short walk away and park. > Look, you even pay for the parking meter and everything. > Step out of the car in your full uniform and approach Sock, one hand in your pocket, the other raised in a wave hello.

> Oh god, he really fucking is a god damn cop. That's so damn weird. God. > Not as weird as randomly meeting up with him for a hug though. Damn it that was the dumbest idea. > You wave back, trying hard to look cool and not like you are dying on the inside and failing miserably.

> You stride up alongside him and... ...well, now what, actually. > Neither of you are very good at this kind of planning, are you. > Damnit, Striders. "Hey." > Now just to... > ... > Open your arms up? > Yeah. That's how hugs happen.

> Oh god, he's going right for it.Oh god. Not even small talk or anything really bro? > Maybe that's better anyways because god know you don't know what to say. "Hey." > You take a deep breath and you...Go for the fucking hug. Squeeze that big bro tight.

> Aww shit here it comes and here he is. ��All up and hugging you. > Actually, that's uh. > That's real nice. > You wrap your arms around him and pull him in for a good, tight hug. > It's probably not the most comfortable thing, what with your radio strapped onto your chest and name plates aand shit, but. > At least for you? This is a fucking good hug. > (Don't you dare tear up in public.)

> You don't really care about the cofort level of this, it's something you've been craving for 13 years now, a little radio isn't going to stop you from enjoying it. > It's nice. It's familiar, like all the good parts of Bro you've been missing wrapped up for you in one big huggable form. Easy to forget all the shit for a moment. > But the moment does end and when you pull away you have to wipe at you eyes like an idiot. "Uh...Th-thanks."

> Aww, shit goddamn. He's teaaring up too under those glasses. > You swipe one knuckle under your shades, and you take a steaadying breath. "Hey, yeah, no problem." > Breathe easy, Strider. You glance up for a moment as you see a fatass snowflake come drifting down, then you look to Sock again. "Hey, you wanna maybe grab some lunch with me? Haven't eaten yet and it's still my break, so."

> Well at least you are both sappy motherfuckers now. > Oh. You didn't expect that. You think about what Dave told you earlier "Stay in control" and promptly decide to fuck that advice because shit. You are already here. You already went for it like an idiot. "Yeah sure. Gonna have Donuts like a proper cop?" > You make such a face at the snow. Ugh, you didn't really prepare for that kinda weather, fuck.

> You snort a laugh and give your flat stomach a pat. "Gotta work on that signature cop gut, don't I? C'mon." > You gesture behind you with a jerk of your thumb. "Hop in up front. You can pick the place."

"Hell yeah you do. You look like a fake ass striper cop dude." > You get into the car and immediately get the seatbelt. Doesn't feel safe otherwise. You don't really like cars still but you can't pin point why. It's just a weird personality quirk yeah? But you are used to being in one at this point of your life. > Just drive carefully. Please.

> You hop in and buckle up too, both pleased and a litttle saddened that you didn't even need to remind Sock to put on his seatbelt. > Poor kid. > Luckily, you are an impeccably safe driver, and the drive to Wherever is smooth and uneventful.

> Old habits die hard. > You feel kind of awkward in the car with him, it's too silent for our tastes. > You get out of the car at whatever this amazing food place he's taking you is. Fingers crossed for fast food- "Y'know kinda funny. Always figured my first frive in a cop car would be because I'm getting arrested."

> You snort a laugh. It's Sock's old favorite pizza place. > God you hope he still likes this shit. > Also this wasn't a Pizza Pimp before, was it? It was Gino's-- > Wait. > Ugh, well, maybe Dave's not at work. "If you're planning on getting arrested, you're doing this pushing thing wrong, kid."(edited)

> Oh the Pizza Pimp. Fucking score. Maybe Dave is there, that would be rad. "I didn't say I was, I said I didn't think I'd ride a cop car otherwise. Your hearing getting bad?" > You immediately freeze after saying that. Oh man, actually sassing Bro though? Please don't hit me.

> Dave is unfortunately not there, but he sure would love to.

> You catch that freeze, and you... > You snort a little, before pointing to your ears. "Too many concerts and phat-ass beats. Knew I shouldn't have gotten all up and personal with those speakers. Who knew the grown-ups were right about that?" > You smile, and it's a little awkward cuz you sure as hell have never been the smiling type, before you hold open the door for him. "C'mon, before we freeze our asses off."

> Oh. Okay. It's cool. It's chill. In a quite literal sense even so you get your silly ass inside. > A smile though? You haven't seen your brother smile in...far longer than you haven't seen him for sure. > That little scare knocked the speech right out of you though so you just awkwardly sit down at the next best table, suddenly really not sure how good of an idea this was.

> You take a seat opposite him, and when the server approaches, you order yourself a water instead of a soda. > Who are you, even. > You glance over the menu, humming softly. Some of these item names... fitting for a place called Pizza Pimp. "You wanna split one, or do individuals, or?"

> Who is he indeed. You order a black coffee instead of apple juice though, so maybe the traditional Strider beverages are just staying outside today. "Uhhh..Not super hungry honestly I don't mind sharing one." > You haven't been able to eat a whole pizza at once in a while but you don't say that.

"Alright. We'll split a medium and you can take the rest home if you want." > You let him pick the toppings too. This really is a strange Strider day.

> The strangest. Do they have nuggets as topping because you want that.

> They might have like, baked chicken, which is kinda like nuggets and also? Is Carro-approved.

> Do you think the pizza pimp doesn't have a nugget topping what kinda fool do you take Dave for.

> A big one. >:3

> LISTEN Nuggets have been added like at least two months ago. Cock Special.

> Goddamnit, Dave.

> Sock loves Dave and the Cock Special Pizza. Prepare ya taste buds Bro.(edited)

"One Cock Special with extra cock please" > Yes, this is exactly how you order.

> Oh your face. > You're so fucking proud. Dave sure is your little brother, and so too is Sock. > Bless these fucking kids.

"Hope you like it, it's my fav." > Both the pizza and you know.

> Yeah. Yeah, you know. "Sure I will." > Snort a laugh. "This sure isn't Gino's anymore, huh. You remember that place?"

"Oh yeah. Man..That's been a while. Clover gifted the place to Dave what? 2 years ago?" > Back when you were on a no homo basis. Memories.

> [Clover: nya face]

"Used to be your favorite, but maybe that's because it was free when I worked here. ...Clover?"

"I'm always a slut for free food but I still digged their shit later. Oh uh..Yeah. Little green guy? 4 of the Felt?" > Should..You now have mentioned that?

> [Dave] Oh no.

> There's this shift in your face. It's not a frown, but a certain tightening of your lips as you're hit with the full brunt of what Sock just said. "...Dave's...doing business with the Felt?"

> WHOOPSIES >Oh. Oh, oh, oh shit. You fucked up. You didn't really think about that when you said it. At all. Shit. Fuck. Damn. "Hahaha whaaaat? Noooo. Of course not! He'd never uh...Clover is just y'know his uh... Sugar daddy yeah. Cash money man, can't say no to that even from a greenie right?" > Well it's not entirely a lie. You are sweating though.

> You paw at your face and you sit back in your seat, eyebrows knit together tightly. > Looks like you're going to have to have a little talk with Dave when you get home. "...No, guess not. Desperate times and all that, right?"

"Yeah exactly! Haha..." > God this is uncomfortable. You are going to warn Dave but you already feel like shit. Fuck. "Don't...Don't hurt him okay?" > There's fear in your eyes now. Not for you but for your boyfriend, which is so much worse in your eyes.

> That snaps you Right out of your bad thought spiral and you quickly wave your hand. "Hey, no, no. Not gonna hurt him. It's chill." > There's that smile again, even if it's uneasy and a bit green around the gills. Your brother and the Felt... "Really. Just surprised he hadn't mentioned it before now."

> [Dave] GUESS WHY.

" 'kay..." > He probably hadn't mentioned it for a reason. You couldn't have known Dave wasn't supposed to do business with the Felt but you still feel like shit. It makes sense in hindsight and considering your history of course but...You just plain didn't know. > The Pizza arrives but you suddenly don't feel very hungry at all, sipping on you coffee awkwardly instead.

> You're, similarly, not hungry, but you've got to salvage this. Not telling when or if Sock will agree to see you again after this. "Sorry, I just... Y'know, getting offered a gift by those guys. If they had snatched Dave too..." > You shake your head, and sigh it off. Out with the bad. "But they didn't, and that's that. So." > You take up a slice of the pizza and you point is casually at Sock, an eyebrow quirked. "What're you out there peddling?"

> Oh. You'd really rather not follow that line of thought, yeah. Smooth topic change. "Dude, don't think I should be discussing that with a cop in a pizzeria. Mr D would murder me man."

"Hey." > You make a show of taking off your badge and laying it upside down on the table. "Off-duty, not a cop. So is it the good shit, or is it like, oregano in a dimebag being passed off as weed."

"We're still in public man." > And you don't want to piss off your Dad on top of the shit you just pulled.

"Yeah, yeah. Weren't you in public anyway?" > You chuckle a little and you point toward the kitchen area. "Your big bro used to sell shitty dimebags out of there, way back. Dealt to all the line cooks."

" Course you did." > You roll your eyes behind your shades. "What you want an inventory list? Okay I'll just tell you my favorite product aight? Kinder Überraschungseier......The surprise is Cocaine." > Huh, sure did slip into your mother tongue there. Welp..

> Okay. You actually laugh then. "You're selling Kinder Überraschungseier full of Cocaine. Shut the fuck up, seriously?" > You're nodding approvingly now. "That's a fucking great idea. Where the fuck'd you get the chocolates, though? Make them yourself?"

> That makes you feel..really proud? Huh. You can't stop the big dorky grin from spreading on your face. "Best idea I ever had, honestly. I'm importing them from earth, duh. Along with a bunch of other banned sweets and shit. Who the fuck thought peeps are illegal anyways?"

> You balk at that and you laugh again. "Peeps are illegal here-- wait, shit, right." > Smack your forehead. "That's my job to know that now. Wow, fuckin fire me now."

"Maybe I should show you my stock, just as a reminder. A fucking lot of dumb shit is. Fucking Lattes were banned man. Until the King unbanned them just for Jude which is honestly so fucking stupid. Way to play favorite, just like royalty should am I right? Not that I'm complaining, love me a big fat Latte." > Man it's...Nice to be able to make that kind of shit tier level german dick joke and to know you're gonna be understood just fine.

> You snort your water and you pull a face,but you're clearly goofing around a loving it. "Fucking nasty, dude. I don't need to hear about your love of big hot fuckin Lattes."

"Aren't you glad the prospitian monarchy digs a steaming hot Latte too? What a life that would be otherwise." > You snort yourself.

"Jesus christ. Fuckin whities, dude." > You stuff some pizza in your mouth and you talk withyour mouth full like the fat nasty trash you are. "Can you believe I have to work with them? Like what the fuck."

"The Queen gives me the creeps with her I love everyone bull. And the King seems like a huge fucking idiot so...Congrats man. Jackpot."

"Not had the chance to meet either, but this is the closest I've gotten to infiltrating the corrupt government yet. Maybe if I keep my shit up, I can finally overthrow them from the inside." > You are entirely dead seriouus.

"What's the masterplan? Shoot them in public?" > You aren't but you also don't mind the topic. Not a fan of these guys.

"Nah, nah, nothing like that. Too messy. Besides." > You gesture at the scar that runs oveer your eyes. "Never been a fan of guns."

"I know." > Hell maybe you should be grateful he ain't. Swords fucked you over bad enough. "Seems like a popular approach is all. Like historically or whatever. But I guess you gotta go for something less stale huh?"

"Of course. Flashy's the only way to be when you're taking out a corrupt system of government."

"Looking forwards to the show Bro." > Except you hope he's fucking joking.

> You totally fucking aren't. > You toss him a wink, which of course he can't see all that well behind your shades. "Hope it's a good one. You gonna eat any pizza, lil bro?"

"Oh, right." > You finally grab a piece too. "How's the Cock Special?"

> Stuff the rest of your piece into your mouth and brush the crumbs off of your fingers. "It's not big hot Latte, but it's nice and tasty all up in my mouth, so it'll do."

"I mean we can grab a Latte next time-" > Did you just say next time. Did you just imply you want to meet up like this again? Shit. > Stuff your mouth with Pizza real quick.

> Oh. > Oh... That makes yourr heart do the smiley emote. > You grin a liittle bit about that and you say, voice kinda soft, "Yeah... alright. I'd like that."

"Me too...I think." > If you don't hurt my boyfriend tonight that is, is what you think.

> Don't you worry, Sock. Not gonna hurt your boyfriend tonight. > You're not gonna be home, so Dave gets to go unhurt for another night.

> Or any other night Bro.(edited) > Or day, or ever:

> Well, at least you'll try to keep your cool when you talk to Dave about it later.

> That's a good start.

> Fuck yeah. Before you all finish up here, you nod back to the streets now lightly coat with snow. "You going back to your corner, right? You need a jacket?"

"I mean, I'll live..." > But it's pretty obvious that you don't have any especially warm clothes on you, you know like an idiot.

"Yeah, and you'll get sick, doofus." > You shrug off your jacket--it's a plain black windbreaker, while you wait for your city issue polcie jacket to come in--and you ball it up, handing it over to him. "Here."

> You open your mouth to respond but the Jacket is already in your hands. Oh. That's..Oh. > Is that what it's like to have a caring older brother? "Thanks..." > The Jacket is far too big for you and smells like Bro. It's a weird feeling to put it on. Like a hug you can wear. > Your heart is doing several emotions.

"Hey, no sweat. No good to go out there to work if you're just gonna freeze to death, yeah?" > You have the server bring you all a box for the leftovers, and you give those to him, too. > You stand from the stand and stretch. "Alright, my lunch is about over. You ready to go?

"Uh, yeah." > You are still trying to sort your feelings over all of this. It's weird. It's nice. > It's what you wanted all along. > Except for the part where you are scared about Dave. > You get up too feeling like a huge fool.

> You, very very carefully, put your hand on his back and lead him out back into the cold. > Look to him, then to your car. "Back to tthe same corner? Or you got anywhere else you need to be?"

> You tense up just a little at the touch but let it happen anyways. "Y-yeah same place." > You just get into the car quickly to cut off the awkward moment. Not without putting on your seatbelt of course.

> Always seatbelt first, kid! > You buckle in and drive him back to the street corner you found him on, putting the car into park but not getting out. "Alright. Don't get into any trouble, alright? Oh, and patrol comes past here in about 30 minutes, so be cool when they pass, yeah?"

"Oh uh..Okay. See you, I guess." > You wave an awkward goodbye, overwhelmed by a lot of conflicting emotions.

> You're about to drive off, but then you open the door and, hanging halfway out, you call to him, "Hey! Love you, Sock."

> That just leaves you starring for a moment. Did he just-? Does he? What. Can not compute. "L-Love you too Bro..." > You are not sure if he heard that with the way you mumbled that. You are not sure if you want him to or not. > It's only getting weirder. > But it also warms your birdy little heart.

> You heard it--you've actually got pretty good hearing still, despite all tthatt music and shit. > You smile and wave again before ducking back into your car and driving off.

> The patrol driving by half an hour later doesn't find a drug dealer, just a crying kid in some back alley. > This absolutely kills the bird.

#borgatabent #ic #story post #rp thread #birdhole #beatconductor #ft mentions of:#fouramour #starlight-iridescence #sunlight-magnificence

3 notes · View notes

amisbro · 7 years ago

Text

So on Tweeter

I was asking if anyone wanted to know about my “Butler AU” with Eiji and Camus but I think I need to clarify this What I should have said was this “Did you want to hear a thing about how Camus recruits Eiji to be his new Junio and trains him to just about become a butler worthy of a Count?” Nevertheless I am definitely a man of my word to write this so let’s have some fun kds

So imagine for about 30 seconds its a nice day out and all is pretty peaceful (especially in the QN camp) and well...they got a little bored (Camus especially but this ties into the thing in a few minutes) so they pack up their things from their Apartment and head back to Shining Agency since their Juniors are on their first ever World Tour and as you know “When the Cat’s away the mice will play” (I might have that backwards but let’s roll with it) ANYWAYS! So Reiji and Co. head down to the President’s Office and go knock on the door to have a chat with him about a project of their own they had in mind. See QN likes STARISH and of course respects them (especially after both Triple S comps) but they see A LOT of potential in HEAVENS and knowing that they probably came VERY CLOSE on the two (legal) attempts they had to beat them...maybe a little more training wouldn’t hurt? So Reiji cos to see Shining about this idea that he has where they (QUARTET NIGHT) decide that they will take HEAVENS on as their new Juniors and Shining is a little skittish about the idea after what happened with Eiichi and Otoya (perfectly understandable even if it was a big misunderstanding with Eii’s intentions) but he goes “...Aight!” and agrees to let them do it as long as Raging agrees but THEY had to go get his okay and no one else LOVELY So Reiji remembers he has the phone # to Raging’s office (We’ll go with the idea that Eiichi gave it to him while they were in the hallway during the conmpetition) and gives a ring to Raging to seek his permission. Grumpy ol’ Raging (even we HEAVENS fans can agree Rage is a grump and an ass okay?!) answers and after some LENGTHY discussion he agrees to let them do it under the condition that QN reports back at least once a month to him about how its going...they agree (If you want to know why he wants them to report to him about the project...its more a thing where HE would rather be the one to teach them and Rage is like legit...not sure if “Jealous” is the right word but there is some emotion going on in him that he can’t explain so he made them report to him) NOW WE GET TO THE PART I PROMISED! So the “Butler” thing THAT wasn’t a group decision...the original plan that Reiji had was they were going to take the duet partners of their former Juniors and train them...that happens with ALMOST all of them save ONE and the only reason is cos the dude was gonna be coached by Camus EIJI OTORI! Here is how it went down So HEAVENS gets to the Dorms 2 days later after Eiichi had a long talk with them saying that it was going to benefit both parties and they would be learning under some skilled Masters and they knew about the success of “God’s S.T.A.R.” so it was definitely going to help them. Reiji greets them all in the Common Room and explains what their role was and what they wanted to do (and HEAVENS was thankful for it) but all the while Reiji is explaining this Camus is eyeballing Eiji something fierce and the Prodigy Idol can feel it but doesn’t react yet. Unbeknownst to everyone in the room he secretly WANTED to work for Camus after seeing what his training did for Haruka and Joshua. After Rei explained everything everyone was getting ready to go to their dorms and Reiji thought he was getting BOTH Otoris BUT Camus had other ideas! “HALT!” Camus bellowed and everyone just STOPS...like no joke you would have thought you were in a library that is how quiet it was and without a moment’s hesitation Camus tells Eiji he’s coming with him because he had big plans for him and this BAFFLES Reiji because that wasn’t the original idea for the project but Camus wasn’t having it and asked Eiji if he wanted to go with the “Jester” or be trained by a “Proper Royal” and to everyone’s shock Eiji accepted the offer of the Count! (If you wonder why it shocked everyone in the room its because it was BELIEVED that Eiji wouldn’t have the personality to hang with His Excellency...they were about to be shook to their core) So now the project as a MUCH DIFFERENT fact to it and some things got juggled. Instead of Kira working with Ran (Like he thought) he and Eiichi were working with Reiji now and Ran got Shion and Yamato. Nagi and Van ended up with Ai which was a HELL of a fun time for the robot there but it actually worked out especially with Van being the elder he was a very good listener and kept Nagi in line for Ai so there were no issues there. Eiji’s training though... While Eiji is an idol that doesn’t mean his ability to pick up things easily goes away...Camus learned that when he gave his order for the tea and after explaining it one time Eiji was very quick to figure out where everything was to make it proper for him within HOURS! But something else interesting was going to happen over the next day or two You see...Eiji not only picked up on Camus’ routine to the point where he never had to ask almost instantaneously BUT Eiji was also becoming very conscious about his attire around the Count and he remembered how Joshua always dressed when he works with him...Eiji wanted to take it a step further “Camus Sir” Eiji began “I was thinking...” Eiji trailed off and this got his Senior’s attention “Yes? What is it Ootori?” Camus asked in his usual blunt matter and Eiji continued “Well I was thinking...if I am to work under you as your Junior I’m wondering if I’m not...”underdressed” for the part. Do you think if we get a free moment we might be able to fix this problem?” Eiji asked and the THUD everyone heard from the Count’s room was his jaw going through the floor! “You’re serious about this aren’t you?” Camus asked after he overcame his shock and Eiji nodded. His reasoning as Camus found out was that he was almost always going out in a hoodie and he knew darn well that wasn’t acceptable for working with him so Camus agreed to make sure that their next free day (which was going to be a while cos Camus was kind of booked up hard for the next couple of weeks) he would get Eiji fixed up properly. What caused the next “THUD Moment” was when they were going to go out and Camus asked this “So...what are we looking for to change your appearance up?” Camus asked and Eiji answered without a moment’s hesitation! “A Butler’s Outfit sounds nice...It only seems right if I am working for you after all” This time Camus damn near FAINTED at the suggestion...Was Eiji feeling alright? No matter because after he overcame his temporary shock the Count agreed to take him and get him done up right but he DID give him one piece of advice. “I like the ideas you are giving to change your outer appearance working for me but the one thing you have to know is that Joshua occasionally had to give the hammer to people around here when they were acting up. That is something that needs to come with time with you but I think you can do it. You are an incredibly gifted young man and I see nothing but good things for you in the future Eiji.” Camus explained and legit Eiji took the compliment in stride while writing the notes about what Joshua did and tried his best to be able to flip the switch on when needed and...that took a little longer than learning Camus’ routine BUT he learned how to be more forceful even with his brother and LORD did that come off as a shock to Eiichi but he learned one thing: If his bro is in “Butler Mode” mind your P’s and Q’s quick cos Eiji ain’t playing with ya anymore! As time went on Eiji really started to be able to predict what Camus needed before he said anything and that was something that Joshua told Eiji when the project was coming “Take it from someone that does work for Camus when summoned...if you can start to predict what he is going to ask for before he asks for it you will be set for life cos he will make sure NO ONE acts in a manner that will cause you harm. This dude might seem harsh but he is protective of his employees and you can take it from Haruka and myself that this dude is actually QUITE AWESOME when it comes down to it!” Sadly for Eiji...his time was going to be ending soon! The time limit for the project was only about 3 months and then they had to go back. Camus would be lying if he said that he didn’t want Eiji to leave but he knew he had to but if there is one thing Camus knew it was this Eiji is a prodigy alright...on AND OFF the stage!

#Amisbro's drabbles #Uta no Prince-Sama #Eiji and Camus #my Butler AU thingie #gonna be sharing this soon

3 notes · View notes

sadiiomane10 · 8 years ago

Text

headcannons that i wrote with sej but never posted :( but anyway here ya go (1)

when hendo scores that screamer, marko cant believe what he’s seeing,

“WAS THAT GOAL REAL LORIS WAS IT REAL” “YES MARKO IT WAS REAL

okay loris being like hendo’s gonna score and when he does loris like OH YESSSS I WAS RIGHT and Marko is like….holy shit you genius….

so now marko is totally in awe of loris and they start taking about random shit with interruptions of OO HES GONNA SCORE not, and crying on each other when we conceded,

marko and loris are #total bros, they are like the same type of person its weird

i can imagine loris being so outraged when we conceded NO NO WHY HIM NOT HIM THIS IS ANNOYING

, AND MARKO IS ALL NOOOO, and getting a little scared at loris’ non chill but hes kinda the same, and there both swearing or something and klopp looks back and grins cus these are his sons, and they totally learnt from him,

zeljko smacks him on the arm and tells he shouldnt be proud that his footballers are swearing

okay but klopp jumpping to his feet and opens his mouth to scream and then he just hears this massive FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!! and turns around to see loris and marko on their feet and klopp is like….well ok…did my job for me then

and they see klopp looking at them and they get all shy and embarrassed and sit down and klopp laughs but there back on their feet the next minute,

LORIS AND MARKO TOTALLY GO ON ROAD TRIPS AROUND ENGLAND TOGETHER, marko has totally found the buddy who’s willing to travel england with him

BECAUSE MARKO HAS THE NICEST CARS IN THE WORLD AND LO CHERISHES THEM SO MARKO MAKES HIM HIS ROAD TRIP BUDDY

and its totally like ok like the most lit thing ever and they take so many pics and they have the same taste in music and they take turns driving and stuff,

they totally #bond on there road trips and marko snapchats the whole thing and loris sends emre and sham cool pics, and they come to training with so many stories

and dejan and emre are ultimate bantz bros and dejan is like why didnt u congratulate me on my goal emre

and emre being all like pssshhh anyone coulda scored that. hendo had the beauty and dejan scoffing and smiling bye

dejan totally ruffles emre’s hair and everyone else is like how hasnt dejan lost a hand yet.

cus dont touch the hair dude

klopp worked out that the third kit is a curse and he got sick of loris and emre whining about the disgusting colour, which klopp doesnt get why lo does it cus the dude has to where it all the time,

but he still moans, and well klopp cant be bothered liistening to it, and he put them away in storage, anything for his fave german sons

Pleeeease klopp the toxic green is horrible to wear 😩😩😩 klopp: loris your kit is grey??? Loris: yeah but emre won’t shut up so I’m suffering too

klopp shakes his head cus he dealt with mario and marco at bvb but these two are wORSE

And hes like FINE, and tells the kitmen to hide them or something cus he aint putting up with this,and emre is so pleased now he doesnt have to wear it but he teases the fuck outta loris and lo is like im telling klopp to bring them backkkk just for you,

and emre is proper fiesty on the pitch and loris is like

“really emre picking another fight really”“do I have to fucking babysit u or what. whats ur problem emre”. “he fuckin tried to touch my hair”. “the bitch ill fight him for u”

GIVE ME MY PHONE LORIS, Wait up em , emre tries to grab it, LAST ONE EMRE COME ON

que the slap round the head from emre

and lo does it AGAIN but emre doesnt know and for ages emre isnt getting messages everyone thinks he’s giving them the cold shoulder and he’s like??? wtf???? then sees all the pictures which are like different angles of lo’s hair

cue emre storming into the dressing room everyone like oh shit its going down and emre just glares at lo and is like “YOU!!!!”

and everyone is like trying not to laugh cus oooo serious shit, and then loris just fucking bursts out laughing and every1 is like ……what and they start giggling too and emre is like USE UR OWN PHONE LORIS , and hes like but ur camera is better, WE HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME PHONE, …….idk man i like ur camera better,

but really he only does it to make emres life hell

snapchat videos of the game from his angle asdfgh"emre takin out a guy no. 2958"“hey emre say hi!!!” “what are you DOING?…..hey guys [smolder]

LORIS PUT THAT PHONE BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM OR SO HELP ME

emre totes said that him

“WHAT YA GONNA DO? FOUL ME? oh no shit wait i take that back”

loris following emre thru anfield with his camera like “hey guys emre looks good, zooms in super close to his hair, look at that perfection”, emre being affectionatly annoyed

emre chasing him, loris being like EMRE NO IM SORRY COME ON, emre getting lo in a headlock and screwing up loris hair

a lot of people have been asking whats in your bagpack” “no they havent” “ok no they havent but im asking” loris rooting thru like heres emres gel, ‘its wax’ whatever same thing emre, and heres his wallet, ‘leave that aloneee loris’ and heres…… 'LORIS LEAAVE MY THINGS ALONEEE’, loris running off with the bag down the hallway, and the sc vid just full of frantic running and giggling and shouts of LORIS YOU FUCKING SHIT GET BACK HERE,

LORISSSSSSSSS

AND LORIS TRIPS OR SOMETHING AND THE STUFF GOES EVERYWHERE AND EMRE IS LIKE LOOK WHATS YOU’VE DONE but lo is too high on life and the video ends with p much just having a laughing fitl

and he looks at camera just in tears and like this grumps is angry with me but I DONT CARE and emre trying to grab his things and some of the other lads coming round the corner like whats going and seeing lo pissing himself laughing on the fall makes them laugh and soon there all laughing and emre wacks lo on the arm and laughs to

and before you know everyone is liking posting videos and pictures of what just happened and the rest of the world is just like???? eh????and they have really cryptic captions like “WAX [crying laughing

and like some time later they peel themselves off the floor still giggling some and emre is like u alright and lo is like yh and its like nice and not bantery and its all good and so much love

and yesss everyone is hella confused on social media but this team just full on loves on each so much and its amazing

everyone loves lo, i cry, 3 months at the club and everyone is already in love with him every1 fave goalie, i bet they randomly turn up at his house and just crash and chill out, cus well he lets them all in and hes super chill and everything

he got his hair cut everyone was fighting to touch it

poor dude has noo food left in his fridge, but hendo goes shopping and brings him things when he comes over cus hes a good captain and he takes care of our baby goalie and loris was swooning in the love and they literally made a line the fricking idiots

and just like at really quiet moments when someone’s stood next to him they’ll just reach up and stroke his hair and he’s just like….what you dooooin…

bet u a million dollors adz did that him, i bet u anything that really happened one time, and lo gave him a look like wtf and adz is like ur hair is so nice and soft and lo is ???……..ok then and adz is like u have the best hair on the team

and hendo screams over ACTUALLY EMRE HAS THE BEST HAIR ON THE TEAM, que arguments between #married couple no.1 and #married couple no.2

emre being all smug like hah i have the best hair and loris being like nah bitch i do and hendo being lke emre has the best hair and adz being like have u felt lo’s hair its amazing and klopp being like im going back to bvb, where things were normal and my players didnt fight over other peopls hair

god can you imagine like everybody filing in on these four full blown fighting and Milly and studge are like BREAK IT UP cos it sounds so serious and then they hear hendo scream ADMIT EMRE HAS SILKY SMOOTH HAIR!!!!

klopp walks away ashamed with his head in his hands, zelkjo is considering leaving, ads is close to tears, studge is in hysterics, lo pissing himself laughing, emre being like hah bitch i win, and loris walking away like whatev’s dude im still better than u and emre following him cus they need to continue arguing, its their thing,

hendo being like alright ok dont cry ads and then he cuddles him,

mils being exasperated and considering a move away from all this hectic mess ,

they all go back to training but klopp is missing and everyone is like ……..what happened to him and zeljko being like hes prolly packing his bags cus u lot are idiots,

que scared looks and extra hard commitment to training,

cus kloppo is more important than hair and loris being like see emre u scared off our mananger, and em being like MEEEE u started it , their bickering never stops ,

and hendo goes to find kloppo like a good captain and he’s just in his office ruining a stress balll

really hendo are we fighting about hair in training, hendo blushes and is like …….sorry…..but emre /does/ have the best hair.

klopp shaking his head like i expect this from the baby germans but u and adam, come on hendo,

but kloppo he does, yh he does but we dont fight about it in training and dont make adz cry, hes my fave son leave him alone,

hendo- so ur not running away, klopp shakes his head and laughs cus zeljko honestly, but hendo feels proud cus klopp agrees that emre has the best hair and thats all he wants,

adz can stick it, but hes not gonna make him cry again, klopp might kill him

#been in my drafts for centuries #umm yh #lfcheadcannons #hc #lfc #these are super long but oh well

2 notes · View notes

aion-rsa · 4 years ago

Text

How Batman Forever Got Robin Right

https://ift.tt/2UR75Gg

A quarter century after its release, Batman Forever remains perhaps the most divisive of the Caped Crusader’s 10 big-screen appearances to date. It is certainly the fulcrum on which the entire history of the series balances: the point where the franchise changed course in pursuit of instant gratification and success, only to pave the way for abject failure and supreme rebirth.

The back story of Batman Forever has been well documented before, so here it is in brief in case you were napping: following the less than stellar box office returns of Tim Burton’s 1992 Batman Returns — a Gothic fever dream which frightened not just children but Warner Bros. Pictures’ corporate partners like McDonald’s — the studio brain trust decided a change was in order.

Burton would not be back to direct a third Batfilm; that task was bequeathed to Joel Schumacher, who was mandated to bring a lighter, more playful vibe to the proceedings. Schumacher’s stated goal was to make a “living comic book,” but he seemed to conflate the Batman comic books — which had grown in sophistication over the decades — with the Batman 1960s TV series, a deliberate campfest that, while fun in its own way, was the dominant image that entire generations had of the Bat.

“I didn’t want to look at what Tim did and try to be different,” said Schumacher at the time to Daily Variety. “I wanted to do my own thing.”

Schumacher went all in on creating what was essentially a big-screen version of the Adam West series (arguably combined with elements of the comics from the 1940s and 1950s). It was nearly a 180-degree shift from the darker, more subversive trappings of the two Burton films that had come before. Batman Forever was maligned by fans who felt that the Burton movies had finally gotten the character out from underneath the massive shadow of the TV series. But the movie did not pretend to be what it wasn’t, and it did have its positive aspects.

For one — and we’ve argued this before — the screenplay by Lee and Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman is easily the best of the four films made between 1989 and 1997. What the Burton films possessed in style and imagery, they lacked in narrative cohesion or story structure. Batman Forever was a different animal: establishing one villain right in the opening sequence, it did away with too many tedious origin stories and left room for a better fleshed out story and arcs for the rest of the characters, cartoon-like as they might have been.

Val Kilmer, replacing Michael Keaton after two films, was a potentially strong Batman, more dynamic and central to the story than the character had been in the Burton films. Brooding less over the death of his parents, he still brought gravitas and presence to the role. While Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey didn’t just chew the scenery but swallowed it whole as Two-Face and the Riddler respectively, both were given motivations and plans that were not too far off from their comic book counterparts.

Yet Batman Forever’s greatest strength — and the source of some of the movie’s best beats — is the way it handles the origin story of Robin, a.k.a. Dick Grayson, played by Chris O’Donnell.

The introduction of Robin into the movie franchise had been hotly debated since the development of the first film. According to Bruce Scivally’s Billion Dollar Batman, early scripts for what eventually became the 1989 movie Batman featured Dick Grayson to varying degrees, with all of them having the young acrobat taken in by Bruce Wayne late in the story, after his trapeze artist parents are murdered by the Joker.

Movies

Batman Movie Streaming Guide: Where to Watch Online

By David Crow and 1 other

Movies

Batman Forever: The Version We Never Got to See

By Rob Leane

Although DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures had initially mandated that Dick/Robin be included in the movie, Tim Burton and screenwriter Warren Skaaren wrote him out while working on the script in 1988. “Ultimately it was too much psychology to throw into one movie,” Burton told Rolling Stone in 1989. “If there’s another movie, Robin would have to be established at the beginning, not to be crammed into the third act.”

That became an issue in the sequel, Batman Returns, as well, where initial drafts of the script reinvented Robin first as a feral child living under the streets of Gotham City and then as a young black mechanic who helps the Dark Knight get out of a jam when the superhero crashes the Batmobile into his garage. The latter version of the character was even cast, with Marlon Wayans getting the nod before the part was again written out of the movie.

“I got my wardrobe fitted and everything, and what happened was that there were too many characters, and they felt Robin wouldn’t be of service,” Wayans told The A.V. Club. “So they put me in the third one, and when the third one came around, they got a new director on it and their vision of the project changed. They decided they wanted somebody white to play Robin.”

There were more problems with the character of Robin than just how to fit him into already crowded movies. With the emphasis in the Burton films on a darker version of Batman, both the filmmakers and the studio couldn’t get past the campy look and tone of Robin established by Burt Ward in the TV show. “We would lift our arms up and say, ‘Let’s have them both go to Frederick’s of Hollywood to pick out that little green costume,’” joked Tim Burton to Starlog about his attempts to give the character a redesign.

Even DC was struggling with how to handle Robin after the success of both the first Batman and Frank Miller’s classic The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel, with the books now on a mission to prove they were as “mature” as Miller’s gritty reinterpretation. With Dick Grayson off on his own as Nightwing, that led to the death of the second Robin, Jason Todd, in the comics, as fans voted by a slim margin to kill him off in a nationwide poll. The third Robin, Tim Drake, got a new costume, dispensing with the bare legs and little green shorts for a look that would foreshadow the movie version.

When it came time to make Batman Forever, it was determined that Robin’s moment to step forward had come. “Dick Grayson’s story is much more interesting than I’d ever seen it portrayed,” Schumacher told the New York Times about the character’s debut in his movie. “Because of the TV series, he was seen as this kind of asexual, cartoony, wholesome airhead.”

The movie retells Robin’s back story almost directly from the comics, with some modifications. Dick himself is somewhat older than he was first presented on the page, probably around 17, and he’s got some attitude as well as a fondness for motorcycles. His family is a troupe of acrobats who are killed during a raid on their circus by Two-Face, with Dick heroically disposing of a bomb while his parents and older brother die below — leaving him an orphan in a mirror scenario of what happened to Bruce Wayne.

Movies

Val Kilmer on Ditching Batman After One Movie: “There Is No Batman”

By Kirsten Howard

Batman: The Animated Series – 25 Essential Episodes

By Jim Dandy and 4 others

Dick is dropped off at stately Wayne Manor after Bruce says he’ll take the kid in, and the conflict between the two is immediately apparent and neatly set up: Dick understandably wants vengeance on Two-Face, while Bruce recognizes their common link and knows that revenge will only lead to more grief for the sole surviving Grayson. When Dick discovers the existence of the Batcave under the mansion, their already tense relationship is strained to the breaking point.

Dick wants to partner with Bruce/Batman, seeing a role with the Caped Crusader as both a way to track down and kill Two-Face while simultaneously giving himself a new direction in life. Bruce can only see the loneliness and danger of the life he leads, and doesn’t want his young charge to follow him down that same path. He’s even willing to quit being Batman (for a few scenes anyway) to prevent Dick from utilizing the resources of the Bat on his own.

The scenes in which Bruce and Dick face off — with Alfred (the always great Michael Gough, returning from the Burton films) as sly referee — are the finest in Batman Forever and some of the best in all four Burton/Schumacher films. For one thing, they feel like the comics without being overly campy, and they effectively move the relationship between Bruce and Dick forward — the only time, in fact, that any relationship involving Bruce Wayne in any of the four films feels somewhat real and not just tacked on.

Their battle of wills comes to a head after Dick saves Batman’s life during an assault by Two-Face, proving not just his courage but his natural heroic abilities. And yet Bruce refuses to budge, until an even more deadly invasion of Wayne Manor and the destruction of the Batcave forces Bruce’s hand. He must don the cowl again, and this time Dick, with some accoutrements provided by Alfred, is ready to assist — and Bruce is ready to accept his help. The shot of Batman and the newly christened Robin shaking hands and sealing their partnership is one of the few in the original four films that feels kind of legendary.

It’s a satisfying payoff in a series that feature few such moments. It gives Kilmer his best scenes in his sole outing as Batman, and it also presents a Robin that retains the character’s underpinnings while giving him a more updated sensibility (that cringeworthy “holy rusted metal, Batman” line aside). Robin’s obsession with Two-Face is also resolved as he elects to save Harvey Dent’s life instead of killing him. The original Robin costume is nicely redesigned and given its proper homage, even as the Boy Wonder gets a sleek, more contemporary outfit (aside, of course, from the wholly unnecessary nipples).

Make no mistake, Batman Forever is no one’s idea of a great film. It’s an intermittently entertaining movie and a take on the Dark Knight that is clearly more of a flashy corporate product after the experimentation of the flawed Burton entries. But if there’s anything from the film that still works 25 years later, it’s the birth of the Dynamic Duo — the only time (at least for now) that we’ve seen the genesis of that iconic partnership play out on the big screen.

The post How Batman Forever Got Robin Right appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Comics – Den of Geek https://ift.tt/2ChMMvr

#aion-rsa #Comics – Den of Geek

0 notes

thatguysamaniac-blog · 5 years ago

Quote

Every now and then a conversation sparks up round the water cooler at TGAM Towers that goes along the lines of someone asking "So is gaming mainstream yet?". Hours, insults, fisticuffs and a reminder on policy on worker in the work place later, inevitably the conclusion is a firm not yet. We're not expecting an overnight transformation. But what would it take? We have game inspired video games at the Box Office (okay so they're rarely great), Final Fantasy menus in restaurants, Splatoon and Pokemon collaboration ranges with Uniqlo, LEGO collaborations with Blizzard, Midway and SEGA. Museum exhibitions on video games, design and art. Gaming content seemingly dominates large swathes of the Internet from Youtube through to Youporn. Yet admitting that you choose to spend your time playing video games every now and then still feels, in the UK at least, akin to admitting that you strictly only eat the faces of babies because that's where the softest meat is. When Does This Pre-Amble End? When it comes to the real world, specifically the high street, video games themselves have virtually no presence at all. In fact it's got worse since our budding interest grew in the 1990s. Arcades are all but dead, few cities have a dedicated game retailer (you might be able to find a grotty copy of NBA 2018 in one of those laptop/mobile repair shops), major supermarkets stock perhaps 4.5 games and media stores in general are critically endangered. TV never manged to 'get' gaming and even though Esports is making huge strides it's still not managed to topple the likes of darts, snooker and cricket from their prime time perches (or even get broadcast at all away from the Internet). When we first got into gaming we'd wet our pants even when video games penetrated the mass media in the lamest ways from those Lucozade Tomb Raider ads. to the awful why-can't-anyone-crack-gaming-content-on-TV shows and even feigning support for those Resident Evil films when there was frankly nothing else on the horizon. However, now that Netflix is a national sport we're almost drowning in a rich and diverse soup of game-related content. Most of which is total pants. Some of which is bonkers and dare I say some might even have appeal beyond those who would call themselves a gamer (and cringes at the same time because nobody over the age of 12 unironically calls themselves a gamer). Gaming content is so prevalent on Netflix, it even has it's own category, two in fact! Does this mean gaming is mainstream yet? No you babyface eating monster it doesn't are you mad? Gaming Shit Currently on UK Netflix (Alphabetically) The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Okay so for all the hype up top, a lot of this stuff is cheesy kid's cartoons. This is a 30 year old cheesy cartoon loosely based on that hot new video game release Super Mario Bros. 3 and although a smidgen better than the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.... it's amazing this franchise didn't just die in the 90s. Remember King Koopa and Princess Toadstool? 13 episodes. 13 episodes too many. Angry Birds Can any lawyers out there help? Is there some EU mandated law that means video game tie-in media has to come out decades after the thing it is based on became culturally irrelevant? Three seasons of this steaming mess and I've not got to the will to work out if this is related to the movie, the sequel movie out THIS YEAR(?), the toons series or how it will fit in with the WHO IS ASKING FOR THIS CONTENT 'long form' cartoon out in 2020. For those of you younger than 10, i.e. the target audience for this stuff, Angry Birds used to be a video game. Black Mirror Sometimes very video game inspired, sometimes not, this series makes us question our relationship with technology makes us feel even worse for prodding a phone screen and writing swears to other 14 year olds online. Recommended watching but not all in one go mind. Castlevania Supposedly a decent anime version of the games. I've not watched all of it because I only played Castlevania 64 and Dawn of Sorrow and if you don't understand who any of the characters are, it's reaaalllly slow and boring. Worth a try if you actually have engaged with the critically acclaimed series unlike us. Digimon Fusion Ergh. Dirty. No. Bad Mega Bloks. No. Dinosaur King Ahhh dinosaur games. Archaeologists have found ancient scrolls that record the Dinosaur King was actually a video game and collectible card game from 2005. This is the series from 2008 that absolutely is not based on Pokemon at all and mixes anime style and really really bad looking CGI. Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light Okay, this series is actually brilliant. Remember how Pinball Wizard was a feature movie advert for Super Mario Bros. 3? Well this is a series length advert for Final Fantasy XIV told through the heart warming story of an awkward Japanese man and his awkward relationship with his awkward recently retired Dad and he tries to rebuild that relationship by getting him into Final Fantasy XIV because they used to play Final Fantasy together. Each week is a new challenge as his Dad quits because of a mechanic he doesn't understand that helpfully his son and his guildmates help explain. Passable on it's own but elevated to must watch by a few scenes that use familiar Final Fantasy sounds that get this glorified advert tugging on the heart strings. Halo Shit Includes Halo 4: Forward Until Dawn, Halo Legends and Halo Fall of Reach. The first one is live action and frankly awful. Legends is to Halo what Animatrix was to the Matrix and worth a watch. I've watched Halo: Fall of Reach six or seven times and I can't tell you what happens so try it perhaps? Hi Score Girl Weird anime homage to early arcades told through the relationship of a nerdy arcade kid and an aloof posh girl who is very good at video games but not allowed to play them at home. Watch if you you always wondered about turtling in Street Fighter 2 but didn't actually look it up in the last 30 years. Probably very nostalgic for 30 something Japanese gamers. Which isn't us. Ingress the Animation I've impressed myself that I didn't miss this. Remember Ingress the AR mobile game that nobody had heard of until it got a Pokemon Go reskin? No neither did I. Well apparently someone along the way believed so strongly in the Ingress vision that they commissioned an anime series in 2018. Really slow. Extremely Japanese. If the game was anything like this then we can understand why nobody has heard of it. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (NO LONGER AVAILABLE) This appears to have been pulled which is a shame as it was alright. Apparently, I'm reliably told the events of this film are really important to the context of the game and only told in this film. Errr tough anyway you missed it here. Minecraft Story Mode Fuck off. Pacman and the Ghostly Adventures Perhaps takes the award for being the least relevant television tie-in ever. We got two seconds in before reaching for the revolver and the sweet release of a bullet kiss to the brain. All the tropes of Saturday morning cartoons with none of the charisma. Remarkably there's also a Halloween and Christmas Merry Berry short to make both of those holidays even more intolerable. Brilliant soundtrack though. Pixels Probably the best worst video game related movie of all time. I'm not sure who the audience was when it came out and with each year gets more and more obscure. It stays the same amount of crap though which is a lot of crap. Pokemon Want to watch only the first and last series of the anime and whatever random films seem to be on Netflix at the time? Knock yourself out. For us this is the UK being shit at commercialising this shit at its worst. Its very worst. The entirety of Pokemon has never been available in the UK at the same time ever. We never got VHS/DVD releases for most series or cinematic releases for some of the films. The Pokemon TV app frustratingly cycles episodes in and out and bizarrely Netflix is missing the middle 91 seasons and the first 38 films. It doesn't fucking matter anyway every episode is the same except the latest season where every episode is the same but set in a school BECAUSE WE'RE ALL CHILDREN AND WE FIND SCHOOL SUPER RELATABLE. There's also a creepy birthday video, hilariously with characters from a season otherwise not available on Netflix. Is it too much to ask to employ one person part-time to curate this shit? Rabbids Invasion File under striking whilst the iron is... you know what, I can't hate on the Rabbids. I really want to but honestly they're brilliant and most of their games are too. Probably brilliant. Strangely only the 4th season is available...? Red Vs Blue The series that built the house of goofing around in games. Early seasons have not aged well at all. How did we put up with the awful sound and even worse 'plot'? 124 seasons of this madness though so if you're in palliative care and want to speed things along... Resident Evil: Afterlife Hysterically, only the middle film is available serving the incredibly niche audience of people who like the Milaverse Resident Evil films but are four films behind. Skylanders Academy Remember the smash hit wallet biting Toys to Life game series that ran itself and all the imitators into the ground from 2011 to 2016 and now fill attics and sheds the world over? Well now you can enjoy the 2018 animated series with all handfuls of your favourite characters. Set in a high school. There's also a weird 1 minute long happy birthday message thing that a lot of the kid's shows have done on Netflix so if you really hate your kid and want to let them know you should show them that on their birthday I guess. Smosh the Movie Is this video games? They look cuntish enough to be Youtubers and this movie is exactly as awkward as you'd expect when Youtubers try to do something proper with make up, production values and nice cameras. Like that *cringes* Game Grumps series. Or when that *mega cringes* green haired kid did that Fortnite dance at that thing. Suggested watching if you're need that extra push to do the right thing and end yourself before it all gets a bit Fallouty round here. Sonic Boom This is the weird one that all the furries like. Tomb Raider I think the rebooted film before the current reboot? Is casting ladies from the North of the UK to be Lara Croft still a thing? In this movie Lara Croft, I kid you not, is a Deliveroo driver and... it does pick up from there but in a very formulaic and inoffensive kinda way. Video Game High School (NO LONGER AVAILABLE) And be fucking thankful. What if instead of lessons at school you played different video games? Live action series with hands down one of the worst cast of actors of all time. Ridiculous premise (which of course later sort of became real with several Universities running esports programmes) glad it got removed to be honest. Yokai Watch The new new Pokemon with 80% less appeal. Not 100% sure the game series is still going. Children's Shows and Toilet Contents So there we have it. No doubt there's a few I missed and some of this may have disappeared by the time you're reading this. A rich smorgasbord of children's cartoons and questionable content that got a pass because it's video games. At the time of writing, there's virtually no adult content and currently no documentaries. Which is a shame. If they wanted, Netflix could become the de facto place for curated traditionally produced gaming related content from Street Fighter live action movie and animated series, the CG Resident Evil Films, Pinball Wizard, King of Kong, Silent Hill one and two, the Dead Space films etc. etc. Instead it seems that they're content to maintain this weird ever changing half complete line up of irrelevant at launch factory manufactured kid's shows and single films from a series. Perhaps they are right though, there's no point competing with YouTube and Twitch which now host infinity hours worth of quality content that gamers are already spending millions of pounds on supporting. Is gaming mainstream yet? Looks like we need to wait until one of the grumpy white middle class hacks at the Guardian produces an op-ed on why they're giving up on Rabbids Invasion despite everyone at dinner parties talking about it or how Smosh the Movie made them bicurious one evening. It's perhaps better to stay in the margins of the old media whilst defining new media (at a ripe young 40), after all REALLY PUNCHY FINISHER. Right?

http://www.thatguys.co.uk/2019/07/gaming-shit-on-netflix.html

0 notes

dolantishbish-blog · 7 years ago

Text

Story

so this story is on my wattpad: www.wattpad.com/DolanTishBish

part one// “Hey Girl Heyy”

Im not your average girl. I am not "average" hight and i don't have an "average" body like all the other stories tell you. I don't put on "minimal foundation" like they say in other stories.

Im seriously freaking short.

I am extremely curvy

I only do my eyebrows and mascara most days.

and let me tell you. I don't get all the guys.

I'm Arianna Keener. Im 5' exactly. My butt and boobs are most of my weight, which isn't enjoyable by the way...oh and with these "attractive features" I never got any guys..

But that was at my old school.

Skinner High School is where I'm gonna go now.

Where all the girls are so pretty and tall. And they aren't slutty bitches. They are extremely nice.

Im not one of your girls that has all friends that are girls and I have one guy friend i hang out with sometimes.

All my friends are guys.

and they play football and smell like sweat.

"Arianna!!!" My twin brother yells causing me to go flailing face first into the rug next to my bed. Once i got up i looked at him where he was laughing his ass off.

"What?!" I shout at him, getting up and fixing the sheets.

"Oh you have 15 minutes to get ready." He says oh so causally, snickering as he walks out.

I look at my phone and have a mini heart attack. I grab the outfit i laid out the day before and put it on. I brushed out my straight hair then did my minimal makeup, putting my hat on right after. I grab socks and shove my feet into my shoes as I'm brushing my teeth.

I'm a flipping great multi-tasker.

After everything was done i grabbed my backpack and ran downstairs, yelling a quick goodbye to my parents and running out to the car before Liam could so i could drive.

But when i got out there Liam had a smirk as he sat in the drivers seat. I groan, getting into the passenger seat.

Liam and i share a car, which is stupid.

We arrive at the school and go get our schedules, getting looks from other people.

You know how different gender twins usually don't look exactly alike?

Yeah well Liam and I do.

Our Blue eyes are the same.

Our straight hair is the same

The only difference is height.

Hes 5'5.

Anyways we get into the office and receive our schedules. we look at our classes and we both sigh and groan.

they put us in every class together.

Literally hate my life right now.

Usually twins have maybe a class or two together but no

WE HAVE ALL OF THEM TOGETHER.

and best yet; our lockers are right next to each others

Well... maybe this school won't be that great.

We walk off to our lockers and place our crap in them. I was about to shut my locker and turn around when two boys came up to me, causing me to scream and drop my notebook.

Liam busts out laughing while i pick it up then punch him in the arm.

"ouch bitch" he mumbles, rubbing his shoulder.

"Hi Im Grayson Dolan and this is my twin brother Ethan" the slightly taller one with blonde streaks says, pointing at his brother who has longer hair with a pink streak.

I sit there and giggle at the fact that twins are meeting each other.

"Hi Im Arianna Keener and this is my twin brother Liam." I say pointing to my brother who was still rubbing his arm.

All Ethan and Grayson can say is; "woah"

i smile and tuck some hair behind my ear.

"We totally thought the new girl already got a boyfriend, which really upset us, but i guess we are in the clear" Ethan says.

smooth kid.

blush crept onto my face as my brother nudged me.

We started talking with them, getting to know them and such.

I guess we all may become really good friends.

-first bell rings-

"What class do you each have?" Gray asks, running a hand through his hair.

"We were set to have all of our classes together so we both have...." i say, running my sentence off to look at my schedule, "Weights class" I say with a pretty big smile.

Im a very big sports person, so is my brother, so we both really like to stay in shape.

Ethan looked at me impressed, "well good we all have that class together. Lets go" he smiles, leading the way with his twin.

Liam and i start whispering about them 'totally checking me out' while we walk. I nudge him as we walk, my cheeks as red as a tomato. Once we reach the locker rooms to change, i noticed there weren't any girls in there.

"maybe they are already changed." i mumble putting on nike shorts, an old soccer practice jersey, and my nike roshes.

I step out of the locker room to see Grayson and my brother talking. i walk up to them and they immediately stop talking....im suspicious.

"We are just waiting on Ethan" Gray says with a huge smile.

How is this kid always happy?

Why can't my brother be this nice and happy?

damn i got an evil twin.

Ethan came out a couple minutes later, and once he did we walked to the weight lifting room where class is held. I walk in and groan.

No other damn girls.

"why they hell aren't there any other girls?" i whisper to Ethan who was trying to get a headband on his head correctly to hold his long hair back.

"because girls hate this class." he replies....still struggling.

i sigh and take the headband from him and put it on properly. He blushes then says thanks, rubbing his neck as if its a nervous habit.

I give him a small smile back and listen to the teacher.

"We have to new students today their names are Liam Keener and-" He stops his sentence and looks up, "Holy shit we have a girl." he says, causing everyone to chuckle.

"Sweetie did you get lost on the way to fashion design?"

"Make sure not to break a nail!"

"Hey Girl Heyyy"

the other boys in the class were taunting me, and i didnt appreciate it.

"hey Mr. Danielson, can i do a quick demo of how much i can lift?" i ask, giving a sweet, innocent smile so he will say yes.

"Of course Arianna, go ahead." he says, stepping out of my way.

I grab Liam and we both get the proper weights on for me. He knows how much i can lift and its even more than he can lift, and he's a football player. I grab the bar and hoist it up with ease. When i finished holding it up for about a minute, i placed it down and walked back over to Ethan and Grayson, a smirk playing on my lips while everyone else has their jaws dropped.

Well everyone except my twin.

Him and i bump fists because him and i both know we just fucked those boys dreams up.

once the teacher told us to get to work, i only heard the murmur of boys talking about me.

"bro...did you see that ass?"

"yah bro id smash that"

I roll my eyes at that cringy ass statement.

Liam walks up to me confused, "how the hell are we popular here already?!"

"Bro, its the fact your new, and your sisters crazy hot abilities to lift weights better than all the football players." Ethan says, adding a wink in my direction.

This kid is smoother than my legs when i shave.

I need to learn his ways.

As blush crept onto my face i continued lifting for the next hour.

Afterwards i changed and went with my brother to our next class.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Long ass first chapter but oh whale. 🐳

I really like this story a lot, this might just be a big hit.

Love ya kids

peace :)

#dolan twins #ethan dolan #dolan tuesday

0 notes

amisbro · 8 years ago

Text

Melting a Frozen Heart

Fandom: Uta no Prince-Sama Rating: G Paring: JoshuaxCamus .

It was a cold day in Tokyo and there was a gentle snowfall that had come into Tokyo overnight for the citizens of the city. It wasn’t a harsh winter morning that could face the city but just one of those that make you appreciate the beautiful things that “Old Man Winter” can give you for a present. Sometimes however…there are things that you get that you treasure even more than that! This was the case for the duo of Joshua and Camus and on this particular morning when Joshua would usually have been up at his usual 4 AM time to get things ready for the QUARTET NIGHT he was instead pinned down by a very gentle weight on his chest and one glance over at whom he was embracing told him everything he needed to know. If you had told Joshua that he would be sharing a bed with the man that he considered one of his best bosses on the planet then he would have told you that you were nuts! He had a very deep admiration for Camus as an idol and a member of QUARTET NIGHT but feelings for the “Ice Prince” were NOT in his cards…at least…that is what he thought! There have been people that tried to figure out how long something like this had been building and truthfully…Joshua could never answer this question because to do that he would have to fabricate a story or he would have to rely on Camus to tell them and neither was something he really WANTED to do because you see he liked being upfront and honest all the time and that is what earned him the respect of all the units between QUARTET NIGHT, STARISH and HEAVENS! He said the way he felt all the time and even if it caused problems for a little bit USUALLY the mature people listened and understood where he was coming from and the others…he just didn’t have time for anymore! So what WERE the events that he could try to pinpoint the HOW he ended up like this? The best answer started after Triple S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [FLASHBACK] Triple S had been over for about a week at this point and Joshua…well he wasn’t happy but he tried to internalize it so he didn’t cause many issues with fans on all three sides. The problem with this was that anyone that knew Joshua knew that the longer he held it in the longer he was going to hurt until he just blew up completely and then all hell was gonna break loose because its known he has a mouth on him and NO ONE can check it nor does anyone try! Heck Camus stays clear until he finally calms down and then HE goes and makes the tea for them so that they can talk if he’s with QUARTET NIGHT and if its HEAVENS…Shion is actually really good for that when he goes and finds his headphones and makes sure that its nice gentle music for him to listen to. Basically both Units had their “Go To” guy if Joshua was feeling stressed and he always returned the favor if it was needed. In Camus’ case he felt it was only fair because of the times when Joshua would serve him and in his time of need he made sure to handle his issues personally. What made this one especially interesting was that Joshua wasn’t “mad” about the outcome but it was more what Nagi and Shion diagnosed as “Aggressive Confusion” and this actually made sense to Kira who would keep watch over Joshua until he felt that things were better. Shion and Nagi agreed to help too because of how much the HEAVENS family cared about Joshua. If he was hurting they wanted to help him in any way that they could and they knew that poking this bear was NOT something you wanted to do because doing so could lead to serious problems! Now I know what you are thinking “But Joshua…how does this get us to Camus?” Patience friendos…Rome was NOT built in a day! Anyways after about 3 days where Joshua vented on social media and where Kira, Nagi and Shion came to double check on him he finally re-emerged proper (don’t worry he ate and showered and all) and apologized to everyone for the way he was acting but everyone understood. They were SO CLOSE AGAIN and they snatched defeat from the jaw of victory AGAIN and this time it was more painful because of a lot of things that happened in the buildup to Triple S…his anger was MORE THAN JUSTIFIED! Well on this day when Joshua resumed his normal duties he wanted to see the schedule that they had coming up and Kira showed him on his tablet what was coming up and…of course there was an appearance with STARISH but he knew that he needed to be Pro for that so he kept his opinions in check and made sure to be ready for it. When the time came to go to the event however…this is when a very unique set of events began to unfold! It started at the show where it was shown that they were supposed to be on the air with STARISH much like when the Duet Project was announced. THIS TIME there was an unexpected change and STARISH got pulled from the show and in their place was QUARTET NIGHT. Wanna know what the “official” reason was? “Shining was afraid it was going to cause a reaction with HEAVENS’ Manager” Okay…that would be totally valid EXCEPT Joshua knew that he actually didn’t have issues with STARISH! Matter of fact in the days that Joshua holed himself up in his room he made sure to call Ren and Masa about 5 times to apologize but they understood perfectly! It was interesting too because while they couldn’t just drop out because of the situation they said they felt genuinely bad because “HEAVENS deserves a ‘True Happy Ending’”. The point is that Shining COULD have sent Ren and Masa at the least (and Cecil too) but he chose not to and that ALMOST set Joshua off again but when he saw QN walk in he felt better actually. This was ESPECIALLY true when he saw Camus because in the back of his mind he wanted to just go work with them for a little bit and chill out but then again he also knew that working with Camus could be 24/7 and did he really need that? WELL… While the interview was going on Joshua stayed off the set because he opted out due to the fact he didn’t want to have a “flare up” on Live TV and this was respected by the hosts and the two units. Camus was concerned because he knew WHY Joshua was not participating in the interview and this actually worried him to the point that at one point in the interview he mouthed to Reiji that he “had to go take care of something” and Reiji assumed he meant something else but when he figured it out he let him go and then Reiji covered it up by saying that “Camus has an emergency and he needed to take care of it ASAP”. Now it should be obvious what was ACTUALLY going on but the hosts left it alone and Camus walked over to Joshua and this is when things started to get interesting. See ordinarily Camus would have scolded someone for doing this at one of their gigs but the Count knew what was going on with Joshua because he got a text from Shion and even one from Kira about what was going on since the Entry Concert and he respected his position. It was scary for him to find out that Josh took the loss that hard that he basically isolated himself and he wished he had heard from HIM about it because had he would have brought him back to their place and he would have made sure things were alright before he went back to Raging and HEAVENS and he would have made DARN SURE that Raging treated them better! He still considered doing the latter because he wasn’t entirely happy about what happened and he knew that Joshua was sacrificing by working with them and he was sick of either President treating him in a way that he didn’t approve of! ANYWAYS… As the interview drew to a close Camus was supposed to go back with QUARTET NIGHT…that plan changed as he told HEAVENS that he was going to go with Joshua back to Raging’s office. He had some VERY PERSONAL BUSINESS to take care of when it came to Joshua’s health and also their own treatment! Yeah…HEAVENS was about to gain a VERY STRONG ally and all they had to do (and did) was keep their mouths shut! Wanna know how the meeting went? Let’s just say that when the term “Peasant” got used here it was in a way that COULD NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN AN INSULT! Well first we got to talk about the trip there Josh drove (because he drives himself everywhere…especially when he works with Camus) and the ride was deathly silent! Like that kind of silence that basically told you that SOMETHING was gonna go down and a head or two would roll if he didn’t get what he wanted. When Camus is in one of these moods there is basically one real option and the other is if you are just stupid! - Agree to Camus’ terms OR - You learn what he can do with that Scepter and if he has to use it either you get froze up or he makes you suffer in agony which is a no win either way! The duo made their way into the offices of the actual Agency and the poor security that even THOUGHT to deny access found out that when Joshua is there with Camus that things are GOING TO HAPPEN OR ELSE! Josh legit felt bad for the guards but at the same time they had stuff they needed to get done and you were NOT going to deny him or one of his employers access…that just don’t happen! As the two made their way to Raging’s office Camus gave one specific order: “DON’T come in!” Josh has only ever been given that order one other time and when he got it he went to go the cafeteria cos he knew stuff was about to go down and he needed to just stay out of the way. Suffice to say…that’s what he did when he went to go grab lunch and Camus had a nice LONG discussion with the “beloved” President Now as I mentioned before…Camus wasn’t in the best of moods dealing with Raging. He had heard the rumblings about the physical abuse that Eiichi and his bro felt at the hands of the lunatic President and he wasn’t happy! While he admitted that he wasn’t a “perfect” boss to Raging the one thing he DID tell him was that he was TRYING to get better and its why he requested Joshua every so often so that he could work on things. In a way its because of him that the “Count” got kept under wraps in public! Did Raging have a counter? Not really but he tried by saying that they were “His kids” and “His Property” and if you want to know what Camus can be like REALLY HOT then let’s just say if he threw the chair that Joshua could hear hit the door any HARDER then Otori was gonna be missing a door soon and that was something that he didn’t want! One other thing though that Camus alerted Rage about was the fact that he was deeply concerned for Joshua’s mental state after the Triple S. He knew that Joshua took HEAVENS’ loss hard but he didn’t know necessarily ALL the details till a few days later and THAT was why they were there in the first place! It was at that time that Camus basically gave Raging an order “Joshua comes with me or I rearrange this office so that you can’t fix it!” Okay now…I know what you are thinking “But…Joshua can already go if he wants to right?” TRUTH…but the thing was for Josh that he never liked leaving HEAVENS alone to go work for Camus unless he had a reason to. Its sufficient to say that the previous events mentioned were a good enough REASON but well…you know? Joshua didn’t want to leave if he wasn’t comfortable but now it was to the point where a lot of people were concerned for him and the QUARTET NIGHT were concerned especially when Camus had to go check on him in the first place! The long and short of it was that Joshua was basically TOLD that he was going back with Camus and that HEAVENS would be taken proper care of while he was away. He also told Joshua in a very interesting way that “You have a very good man here and not just as a boss either” which was was…odd wording to say the least but when Joshua put the dots together he started to understand things a little bit better. Its no secret to a lot of people that Joshua was very much fond of Camus and that in some ways he patterns himself as far as style of managing after Camus in the way he organizes things. The thing is here that Joshua wouldn’t necessarily be going to the QUARTET NIGHT complex to work unless he really wanted to. The order that was pretty much given was this “You go there to recharge and when the time comes for you to come back to see us we’ll be waiting. You are a part of the HEAVENS family and we love and respect you for what you do for us here but you’re no good if you end up dead because you had a stroke due to being mad. Go and rest up and take care of yourself and I’m sure that your Boss here will see to that.” With that statement…Joshua was free to go with Camus and QUARTET NIGHT and after they went and packed a few suitcases with some of his essentials (Camus had a setup for him in his room just in case something like this happened so he didn’t need his computer) then they left and Joshua waved “bye” to HEAVENS but he promised he would be back and he WOULD BE…but a changed man for the better! When the two got back to the QUARTET NIGHT’s place Ai greeted them at the door and believe it or not he was actually very happy to see him again! Now this isn’t COMPLETELY unusual because Ai and Joshua got along great (actually he gets along with them all just fine) but he and Ai would sometimes spend hours analyzing the footage from a rehearsal to make sure that things went better the next time, and the time after that and after that and…you get the idea! Ran was always happy to see Joshua because if there was one thing he always needed it was an honest opinion on the dishes he was making. The good news was that, even when he was BRUTAL at times, Joshua was so honest that he almost couldn’t ask anyone else to do it and this included Camus or Haruka which was strange cos he got along well with her so what gave you know? Reiji was happy and I mean REALLY HAPPY to have Joshua back for a little while and, while this would NORMALLY get on Joshua’s nerves, he was very much happy to be back to see him again. Camus just told him to be careful with Joshua because while he was there to do some light work (Camus wasn’t gonna push him too hard with the tasks) he was mostly there to chill out and destress and if he needed to work on his laptop out in the living room to just let him be. Reiji didn’t even pout about it because he sort of already knew the situation so he let it be. The rest of the day was just getting back in stride with everyone else and seeing what their schedule was going to be like. While Joshua promised he wasn’t going to work TOO HARD while he was there he wanted to earn his keep for sure and the crew would make sure that he did just that but mostly helping with the cooking and watching practices. This is what Camus basically told him he would be doing because he wanted him to NOT THINK too much about other stuff. The rest of QUARTET NIGHT didn’t object because, as we discussed, they knew Joshua’s situation and he only had to do the other things if he got bored enough. Camus needed him to destress before he even thought about going back to HEAVENS and that was first and foremost. I stress this because you have to understand how important a figure Joshua had become when he rose to a level of power in the industry and the fact that there were a lot of groups that wanted his services really showed how popular he was…QN and HEAVENS just didn’t want him to stretch himself too thin over it is all! This was also stressed because the events of the next few days became very interesting for Joshua and QUARTET NIGHT but more importantly for himself and Camus! Okay listen…Camus considers himself a “Ladies Man” and we can dig this right? The thing of it was that when he and Joshua were driving to go see Raging he immediately thought about WHY he was doing this and it hit him like a brick! Its not often that Camus says he “cares” about a person…call it being “emotionally void” or whatever have you but Camus legitimately had told Joshua once that “Its impossible for someone like me to be in a relationship because I wouldn’t know how to handle being close to another person” and Joshua knew this was true! He was the personal escort for Camus and Haruka to a couple of functions and watching him TRY to be in any way close to Haruka was HARD and not just on the level of “Being the Count” but when they got time to be alone it was so painful that Josh had to find a way to stop the pain before it got worse! You think this is an exaggeration but it was one of the few times this self-professed “Ladies Man” was having issues and it legit depressed Josh for sure! Now why do I bring this up? This is why 3 Days later It was a really nice day out so Joshua had decided to go for a drive and he asked Camus where he and the rest of QN performed “KIZUNA” and Camus told him before he left for the day and then Joshua went on his trip after packing a “Lunch for one” which he rarely gets to do but sometimes its fun to just have a lunch that you know no one can complain about cos its all for you! ANYWAYS When he got to the beach with his lunch he did something that some would think is kind of “weird” but if you know how Joshua’s mind works it actually makes sense! He got out of the car with his lunch and then carefully climbed up onto the roof of his car and legit had his lunch up there! Some would think this is a little bonkers but then again when you understand how Joshua works on a GOOD DAY then its not that bad! What else was noteworthy was what he did after he ate! He headed down to beach and then started randomly humming the melody to “Double Face” and then switched it into “Aurora” which was an interesting transition for sure! It got better when he started humming “The Dice are Cast” and then went into “Immortal Inferno” which was completely random but what he wasn’t expecting was what happened next! Okay how to explain this… One song that Joshua simply LOVES when Camus performs it is “Double Face”. Its one of his favorites because of the “unique duet” that Camus would do with himself and every so often when Joshua would have “alone time” he would try to imitate Camus’ pitch for his “idol side” because he was promised that IF he could ever get it right that they would perform the song together for one of the concerts with QN and STARISH coming up! Since Joshua was pretty much given time to just…be alone recently he figured he would attempt it again and again until he got it right! Problem: He needed Camus to be there to help with half of it and well…he wasn’t there! Or was he? Randomly out of nowhere Joshua started at least humming the melody to see if he could remember how that half generally goes and to try and get the lyrical range down and he went over it at least 5 times before he started and the first time he could tell it wasn’t right so he stopped instantly! Each time after he could feel it was getting closer and closer and closer but that wasn’t THE ONLY THING getting closer! Finally after a long time trying he actually was able to get it! When Joshua thought no one was around he started singing the one half and from not too far behind him came that booming voice that Joshua knew well! Joshua didn’t get shook either and was able to continue with the song and Camus legit felt (and said so afterwards) that it felt like he was singing with a part of himself in another body! It was the most surreal thing he ever dealt with but at the same time he thought it was really darn cool and when the song finished Joshua realized how close they were and then turned and coughed to try and excuse himself but Camus knew what was happening in the strangest of ways…how to explain it to anyone else would be nearly impossible! Later that night things got even crazier when unconsciously while talking with Reiji Josh slipped into that voice and Rei first looked at Ranmaru and then Ai and then he saw Camus who legitimately had that look like if his jaw could detach and smack the floor about 10 times it would have! Seriously Joshua was surprising everyone and then Rei KNEW they needed him at the concert and Camus agreed…especially doing the song he promised Joshua that they would do together! What became more interesting was what happened 2 days later Now its true that Camus has stated that it was HARD for him to develop feelings for someone and by “feelings” we mean “romantic feelings” but in this case here was Camus thinking about why he even asked for Joshua to become his Assistant back at the Shining Agency a few years ago and then there was how things were when he went on a personal vacation to Permafrost. Something stuck in his mind when he found out the reason why Joshua did that “I wanted to see where you came from and I wanted to meet the people you ruled over with the Silk Queen. I figured if I did that I could better serve you as an Assistant but I could also start to connect with you better on a personal and emotional level. If I couldn’t do that then I failed and I don’t take failures well Boss so just know that!” Yes you heard right…Joshua went to Permafrost to see if he could strengthen his connection to Camus outside of just serving him as his Assistant! When Camus heard that originally he had the same look of shock that he did now standing at the window of the QN’s place while also thinking about Joshua wanting to perform “Double Face”. Yes the song has a completely different meaning but Joshua was always about “transforming songs” and seeing what he could do to enhance them. Yes the song IS about both halves of Camus’ personality but he was watching Joshua not only perfect that song but legit “perfect HIM” in that he was getting to the point where he could switch that on if he ABSOLUTELY needed to! Josh promised not to do it unless someone was being a complete jerk though cos that would be a good head game for him to use! What Camus was figuring out was that the way they were “bonding” wasn’t completely through actions…well okay it kind of was, but it was also through indirect methods that Joshua had used over the time that he got to know Camus and it was in that time that Joshua was learning something very important but the question in the Count’s mind was this “Could he learn it WITH HIM?” Their relationship was always an interesting one because when they worked together there was always “learning to do” and the big thing Joshua wanted to do was learn about Camus and, in his own way, find his way into his heart and mind. Little did Joshua realize that by doing that he was starting to…not “become” his boss but he was “inheriting” little things. To Camus’ credit when he would see Joshua on his downtime he would see how he had fun and he would try his best to at least learn how to have “fun” with him (not like that kids…this is a family story) and Joshua always enjoyed seeing him try. It was sometimes hilarious the result but he did it simply because he wanted to understand how this young man wound down and in the process he started to learn how to have fun and not be completely serious 24/7! Their bond and relationship was becoming far more than just “Boss/Assistant” but it was becoming more and Camus was realizing this when he watched Joshua working on personal projects away from the studio like when he and Ran would do some cooking and it was all good! Interestingly enough watching Joshua have all this fun in a way made him start to really examine himself more but it also was making Joshua want to go back to work with Camus too! It was interesting how this free time that he was getting (and him STILL practicing “Double Face”) was really positively affecting not just THEM but QN as a whole! But the biggest change wouldn’t be seen until the HEAVENS/QN concert! Okay so how do I explain THIS? So the night of the concert with HEAVENS everyone was there right on time (Joshua made sure that HEAVENS was there on time cos he knows how Eii is) and they went through the setlist for the night and Josh asked if a song could be moved to the end and when he explained what song and why they agreed to it because they wanted to see this for themselves and the story that they were going to tell with it! The concert went off without a hitch and HEAVENS did “Immortal Inferno” as their finishing song but then Eiji went and personally introduced the final song for the evening “Ladies and Gentlemen. The final song this evening tells the story about how two halves become one. The ‘Ying and Yang’ of a person as well as the good and bad when it unites. Its going to also tell the story in this case of how two people over time started far apart but have grown so close together that it’s a bond that cannot nor WILL IT be broken! One of our own has said that this song helped him grow closer to someone that he truly cares about and we respect this about him. Ladies and Gentlemen performing ‘Double Face’ here is Camus of the QUARTET NIGHT and our friend Joshua. Good night and take care!” When the song started the crowd was a little confused but then they saw the jackets that the two men were wearing and without having to hear the rest of the song they just looked at Joshua and Camus and smiled…this is what Eiji meant! The duo started far apart from each other but as they continued the crowd watched them drift closer and closer together and then they REALLY figured it out! Through the things that Joshua has inherited from Camus and Camus from Joshua these two “halves” have started to become one and as the song was nearing its end and the crowd watched them face each other performing the final chorus they knew something that it was going to take some in QN a LITTLE time to clue in on but the good news was…it didn’t take long! As the song finished Joshua did the one thing he NEVER thought he would do on a stage: He kissed Camus on the lips and smiled before uttering the following words “I know we are boss and employee but Camus…I love you and that means more to me than anything else in the world right n—“ Joshua was cut off by Camus returning the favor and let’s just say a few fangirls were getting out the cameras to catch this moment! OH DID THEY HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO! After this moment a lot of things changed but one thing didn’t the respect that HEAVENS had for Joshua because this took A LOT of courage and they were happy as all heck for him! [END FLASHBACK] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When Joshua remembered that moment he couldn’t help but smile because he knew how important it was for them. Camus had told him once before that he wished they could evolve their relationship and now they were taking that step! When they went and talked to the rest of QN and then also HEAVENS not long after the PDA they were given their blessings because they knew how important it was for them. One thing was for sure though Reiji had wondered some time before Joshua came back to the QN’s place if it was possible to “melt a frozen heart” as cold as Camus’…this was proof positive that it COULD be done and he was happy to prove it to him! Joshua and Camus were together again and as the Assistant looked over one more time at Camus’ sleeping face he couldn’t help but smile “Good Morning Camus…may today be as blessed as our lives. I love you and never forget that!” [END]

#Amisbro #Uta no Prince-Sama #Camus Birthday Fic 1 #JoshuaxCamus #This ship is sailing once again and I love it dearly

2 notes · View notes