#as my kidnappers cute lil pet

[numberonedukethomasapologist]

Random gothamite: SO last week right?

It's hotter than a witches tits in latex- so I made some homemade Popsicles that you can also feed to pets.

I also had my windows and doors open- yea I know that's dangerous in gotham but it's hot asf and who's causing major world ending crime in this heat? I also have my gun, duh

But anywho- I'm sitting on my balcony with me dog and cat (giggles and shitter) and the tiny stabby robin drops down from who knows where-

Now I've encountered this robin before when I was kidnapped (long story) I also know from social media that this robin loves animals

And so he's standing there a bit awkwardly

So I ask if he wants to pet my pets

He gives a lil nod- then I ask if he wants a Popsicle cuz this poor baby look like he's bout to melt into a puddle

After a pause he nods (it's the most adorable unsure nod ever and it gave me big whiplash after watching him pummel the those kidnappers) so I go back inside and give him a Popsicle and he eventually starts eating it while petting both animals who squeezed into his lap

And I'm like "omfg this is the cutest shit I've seen all week" and of course I snap a pic of it (perfect lighting and all) I posted it to the "cute sword robin moments" tag on Twitter (you have to look under that tag it's the equivalent of funny n cute cat memes)

But after that whole ordeal (he finishes his Popsicle and leaves abruptly) it's like a few days later and I'm stuck in between a fight against a group of thugs and THE FUCKING BATMAN

I don't even know how I got there I was just walking from getting off of work (my car got exploded, long story)

And so I'm just standing there watching it go down (no I'm not scared- this is a weekly occurrence, after the first few times of watching a fight it just becomes a nuisance

But after he has these guys all tied up and knocked tf out seeing the bat got me thinking bout the Robin's and then I'm like "wait? Would the bat like to see the picture??"

So before he grapples away (also, rude?? I just had to sit and watch your ass fight and block my only path, and then your just gonna leave??) And I just yell "hey I got a cute pic of the small robin if you wanna see it!!" Tell me why he drops down so fast and is immediately standing infront of me?!? Lowkey had me backing up a bit

But I pull out my phone and show him the pic

I'm being so dead ass when I tell you I heard him CHUCKLE!! THE FUCKING BATMAN CHUCKLED?!

He also got me to airdrop the picture to him and keep my mouth shut about the interaction (yes I'm telling you the whole story- but the bat is kinda like a weird quiet uncle who looks threatening but when your around him more he starts to become the uncle that you can roast the shit out off and he'll just awkwardly laugh- I know cuz ive cussed him out once and he went and brood in a fucking corner?? What I'm tryna say is- he won't do shit to me cuz im a gothamite 🤷🏽‍♂️)

Anyway- but yea? Crazy experience.

Only in gotham lmao

[rosicheeks]

Rosie, come to the UK. We'd all love to have you here and also obviously we'd find other uses for you x

[jess-the-vampire]

Sooooo whatya think of the new episodeee?

Oh it’s definitely my favorite episode of the series so far, i was having such a good time at every turn. I’m glad i went out of my way to avoid spoilers, cause i was glad to actually be surprised by some elements on first watch.

I think this had by far the best opening for an episode so far, we finally get back to the villians, we meet the coven heads, we get insight on belos’s plans-

and then belos gets constipated, which starts getting into the more character driven lore, which is the best part. You instantly can tell GG and Kiki have some bit of tension between them to be Belo’s favorite, though granted i wonder if hunter is the only one to know belos is cursed and actually just always insists to help belos with his fits to prevent others from seeing them.

Including kiki.

It’s honestly unclear how aware anyone is that belos is cursed, like him eating pailsmans is apparently not something he hides, but like....i feel him being cursed is something that people would know universally if it got out...so i’m left wondering if anyone knows besides hunter.

Regardless, belos turns into a goop monster with an angry side, and i guess his mask doesn’t transform with him compared to the rest of his body so he breaks it again because i guess he goes though masks like crazy.

Hunter turns away in this scene from his outburst and even though he’s masked here i can already tell he’s most likely pained in these scenes. Like he’s probably seen this happen so many times, and i can’t imagine it gets any easier for him, it’s probably awful to watch belos suffer like this for him (Regardless of the abuse)

And to be honest, it seems pretty painful for him, i think this ep seems to at least confirm whatever this thing is that takes over belos’s body.....belos never actually wanted it in the first place. 

Yeah so after Hunter tells belos there’s not enough trees to medicate him anymore, we’re hit with the “UNCLE”. Which, when i first watched it i needed a second to even process the fact they confirmed their relation.

and i was like “CLOSE ENOUGH”, not his kid but uncle still works just fine for me, i’m just happy my assumption they were related actually came to ahead.

And i rewatched this episode a few times, and on second watch i realized more what happened in this scene. Hunter was talking about his interest in wild magic, and making more pailsman to help belos, and some method that could heal him and as soon as belos looked at him he instantly shut down.

He was clearly rambling about wild magic cures for belos because of his interest in it, and then suddenly remembered his uncle hates wild magic and felt super awkward.

It seems highly likely his interest in wild magic came from trying to cure belos and spending a lot of time reading up on the stuff. 

And then we get hit with the whole “Our family is dead because of wild magic” line, which.....i’m curious to know what happened there. But it does at least explain why belos feels how he does, if wild magic both killed his family beside hunter AND cursed him in the first place. We’re just gonna need more info on what exactly happened.

Also while Belos is def abusive and does not treat hunter how he should, this scene actually does read off to me like belos does care about hunter to some degree. If belos is cursed and his curse works in similar ways to how Eda’s curse works, then it’s worth reminding ppl that eda mentions early this season how stress can amplify the curse even more.

And sure enough, belos goes goopy on hunter’s shoulder all of a sudden when he grasps him. Which could be considered a sign of stress and that the idea of hunter dying or being in danger actually does stress him.

You could very much also assume this is just due to his curse not being fully handled and just getting worse, or that belos only cares about hunter for selfish reasons....but i’m not taking anything off the table here.

Belos can still be a shitty uncle, and still care about hunter, these aren’t mutually exclusive traits. But we need more episodes for now on this.

But anyways he asks hunter if he can rely on him, kiki is pissed......and we move on.

So i’m glad luz’s impulsiveness is addressed a ton in this episode, they actually bring up a lot of good points. That luz has no plan, that the time she’s spending here might render moot if she goes back to earth, ect ect.

Hunter even calls her out a lot later for not thinking things through, it’s a whole deal in this episode. I’m glad it was brought up cause it’s actually worth asking a lot of these things.

the set up here works, they actually made a good reason for why a pailsman didn’t bond with her. Speaking of which the adoption thing is cute and i love it, it’s a great idea. The designs are all very cute and fun.

Bump face reveal was a lot for me to process, but i find the idea of his pailsman being a pet that can help with his disabilities a good idea.

Also like, i did find it odd that they got staffs so early because we’ve never seen kids their ages with them before, but i guess it’s a new tradition? Does everyone at hexside now have one?

Honesty not sure why batqueen left the nest there overnight, i meant i guess she assumed they were safe with that shield but in context i dunno why she didn’t take them home after the school day was over.

but whatever, luz stays there overnight hoping  a pailsman will bond with her and GG just kidnapps them cause of pure luck on his part a bunch of pailsman were in a vulnerable spot tonight.

So GG continues to be charming, by whistling the theme song and then being blasted off his ship hilariously, before cockily teleporting himself right back on it seconds later. Like he and luz have great banter, he’s so extra like this it’s so funny, and god he’s so FAST with that staff it’s scary but so awesome.

Yeah so then hand dragon crashes them and i was so excited cause it meant face reveal. Poor dude looked so in pain and then we find out kiki tried to effing murder him because of course she did. But like, i think killing your boss’s nephew is the WORST way to get a promotion tbh.

(Also i got confused for a bit cause his mask has always been drawn as a mask, but now it’s a helmet in this scene for whatever reason but-)

Anyways, face reveal, Like honestly ppl weren’t too far off with their guesses, really the only thing people didn’t get was the tooth gap (That was fair tho, we couldn’t have guessed that). But it did make him even cuter.

like the banter is funny, he licks her hand, she slaps him, he looks SO pissed at her for this mess.

and i guess that outfit is his under armor apparently.

He’s lucky she didn’t run away immediately and followed him, but maybe he assumed she would since she had no where else to go.

Also his expressions in this ep are glorious, these had to be fun to draw.

Also we find out that the coven team members have never seen his face i guess? They just assume he’s a silly kid and are awful to him, so i guess he’s not only the youngest member of the coven but he never really shows his face much.

(”Call your parents”, ha ha.....whose gonna tell them who his uncle is?)

He is however, REALLY good at parkour and he’s fast even without his staff, so he’s well trained alright.

And then they reveal he’s not magical and i was SO happy cause i was so sure something was up when he wasn’t doing magic like the other witches despite his pointy ears. So they outright confirmed what i thought.

Hunter is pretty smart tho, like he can tell luz wouldn’t hurt him and wouldn’t flee so he knows he has the high ground here. Like he might be being a bit of a dick, but to be fair luz has been nothing but a dick to him throughout the whole episode (Everyone in this episode has been a dick to him tbh)

They team up and i get excited cause i love this kinda stuff and it gets more wholesome because hunter is super interested in her magic, he thinks it’s cool and you can tell how much he actually loves wild magic but then again...shuts himself down because of belos making him fear the stuff.

An then because luz asks, he tells her his backstory.

honestly with how this world treats people who aren’t magically powerful, living and growing up in a world that would find you useless sounds....awful. Hunter must be an anomaly around here, human blood or not.

Luz coming here to learn is different then growing up in a world and being the only one with no abilities and no future without them. Belos provides him with magic and a future, it’s no wonder he stays with him despite everything.

the whole “Found me” thing is weird, cause belos implies they’re blood related and hunter makes it sound like belos semi-adopted him. Which....if he did i dunno why “Uncle” and not “Adopted dad”, but ok....guess that’s for later.

Apparently hunter is important for something tho with the “Titan has big plans for me” thing, not sure what, but-

But yeah as soon as Hunter talked about wanting to make his own future and Rascal tried to land on him i knew EXACTLY where this was going, it was so cuteeeeee. The lil birb wanted to be with hunter, that’s so wholesome.

And he’s so terrified because of belos and what wild magic did to him, the poor bab.

But yeah, luz then trusts him with his staff back, because again....impulsive. But hunter does actually ask if she’s sure, so he might as well be asking if she trusts him.

The plan goes ahead, and hunter nearly betrays her.

though granted, hunter never promised her he’d stop and let her take them away, the truce was supposed to last till kiki was stopped and they were gonna fight out who got the pailsman. But it does bother luz cause she was hopeful he was better then this.

But just like he did before, she calls him out and he doesn’t betray her, because he’s ALSO too nice to do it, just like he said she was. He says his name (Which also took a moment to process), and then beats the crap out of kiki while letting luz get away and protecting her like a badass.

He might not have magic, but he’s good at fighting

like he can easily teleport to luz and take the pailsman, but he doesn’t, he lets them get away and luz knows this. Even though she also knows hunter has to go back to the emperor too and they have to separate.

It’s only slightly bitter terms, because in the end he came through for her and she knows it.

honestly, the worst part is i can’t even be mad at hunter for it, i’m sure he was terrified to fail belos. Both because he loves him and doesn’t want him to suffer....but also because of well...being punished. Really says something when his near betrayal doesn’t even make me mad at him, and i can understand why he nearly did it.

He let her go, knowing he’d be in SERIOUS trouble and that it would hurt someone he actually loves, so....ouch.

so yeah at this point i knew rascal wanted him so it was only of matter of what happened next.

Which was, luz getting the wood, which i like more anyway. Eda and King doing this offscreen and coming home like this is actually very funny, and honestly i appreciate the message of it being ok to wait.....means a lot to me.

yeah so belos is like...being an ass, like the kid tried his hardest, you don’t need to hit him with the “Is this the thanks i get?”. He’s a kid and he’s trying to cure you you dick, give him a break he doesn’t remotely have to help you like this.

Also apparently belos has not even told hunter HOW this happened, like...dude. Hunter is trying to be entirely reasonable here and belos spikes at him, which does imply some physical abuse though the only reason hunter doesn’t get a new scar is because he moves.

but how he reacts implies this has happened before, he is bracing for impact and he flinches. It’s pretty sad tbh, especially since hunter loves him and belos’s respect means something to him.

Belos is such an idiot, like c’mon dude, hunter is trying to help you and you don’t listen to him you dick. Kid shouldn’t have to say sorry for anything he did nothing wrong, he was just trying to help.

Anyways, he gloats at kiki (So at the very least she knows what he looks like under the mask), which he deserves a chance to do anyway. So i guess he didn’t rat her out for trying to kill him, personally my guess why is blackmail.....he was gonna hold it over her head to keep her from doing it again and threaten to tell belos.

But kiki quickly tells he LET the pailsman get away since he was the one to fight her (Curse his cute loose hair strand). So i guess now they have dirt on each other, so that’s fun.

His room is adorable, though the med kit by the bed is concerning.

Rascal comes for him and it;s so cute....though you can tell hunter nearly hurts him on instinct because of force of habit, but it’s so cute how he cares and how the birb loves him and is his new staff.

it was well hinted to as well, it’s so subtle, but the bird being cheery, curious, and his constant habit of escaping boundaries was perfect for hunter. He represents what hunter wants to be and why they got matched is done so well, all without explaining anything.

Hunter indirectly stated his deepest wish, to make his own choices, and rascal resonated with that. 

can’t wait to see where this goes.

great ending shot, love me some conflicted shots looking out of windows like trapped birds.

also this title was a pun the whole time i can’t-

[batfoonery]

BatPets Headcanons

In honor of the Most Glorious and Beloved Bitewing (and Ace and Titus and Alfred the Cat and Goliath and Batcow.....) I wanted to share my thoughts on what pets the batfam has and should have.

Dick

Ahhhhhhh Bitewing! Our new beloved! We've only just gotten you but if you get whooshed away by bad writers I already know I will RIOT.

It actually makes perfect sense for Dick to take in a stray pup. His bro-son has the attitude and personality of a cat, so he already had that covered. And I can't see him paying high prices for a designer breed (bless him) so it's stray/shelter or nothing.

That being said, he also needs a young dog. Some people are made with the disposition to take in the older dogs with older dog needs, but Dick loves deeply and I can't see that he'd deal well with the shorter timeframe of taking in older dogs. So. Younger dogs, that he can go running with in the morning and play with in the park and nap with on the couch.

Jason

My man has taste, and also had a doggo as a kid. He's got a soft spot for all of Gotham's forgotten strays. I see him as being a pitbull kind of guy, but like. Also mastiffs. Anything big and menacing looking, but they always turn out to be utter marshmallows.

Totally the type to name his big scary dog Tinkerbell or Baby or something mushy like that. Likewise, Kori and Artemis (and probably Roy) all collect cutesy costumes and collars and leashes. Has the most cutsey giant dog.

The kind of dog that he can trust to take care of kids. If he's particularly concerned about a kid out on the street he can drop the dog off to stand guard until the kid's parent shows up. The dog is real gentle with the lil human, but scares off potential kidnappers.

Cass

The first of our exotics keepers! I feel like Cass would really appreciate betta fish. The way the swim and flit through the water, fins seeming to dance as they moved.... like tulle, like dancing.

She probably has several tanks. The first one she got was from Petsmart or PetCo or whatever. It irked her because she knows they don't tend to treat the fish well, but the local petshop's fish were all extremely sickly looking. After that she's hooked, for lack of a better word, and Bruce ends up learning way more than he ever needed to learn about importing fish (and paying for imported fish).

She's meticulous about their care. They've all got nice big clean tanks, and a companion to help keep them clean (different ones according to temperaments, snails for the easier going ones and shrimp for the more aggressive boys). They've got live plants and decorations to hide under, each tank a different theme to show off the fish. Has lowkey been considering getting a female for one of her favorite easy going boys (the first one, who has become a very soothing companion) because he's getting older and she'd like to be able to carry a part of him on.

Tim

His companion is an emotional support animal, with papers from his doctor and everything. Seems like he should be a dog person, but instead has a very big Turkish Angora. Her name is Mrs. Tuffles and he got her from a breed-specific rescue.

She's good for him because she disrupts his work and also helps provide a soothing presence when he has a panic attack. At night if he isn't in bed at a certain time she lays on top of whatever he's working on. If he's panicking she lays on his lap or chest and purrs (the added weight, the feeling and sounds of the purrs, held disrupt tension). She's a cuddly cat, and it tricks him into sleeping in in the mornings.

When he finds out that cats purr on a wavelength that encourages healing, and that there's evidence that they sit on humans and purr in attempts to heal/help them, he bursts into tears and startles the cat, who had been draped over his shoulders.

Steph

Got a bunny because she thought it would be an easy pet. She was very very wrong. It was from one of the neighbors in her building, because the mom of the kid who brought it home didn't want it anymore. It's a cute little lop, grey and brown.

She quickly discovers that bunnies are super dirty, and they absolutely stink. It bites her for the first week (and Tim and Jason and everyone else that isn't Damian, who somehow tricks it into loving him) and she seriously considers taking it to the shelter. But she doesn't. By week three, he's snuggling up on her feet and in her lap, and she decides that maybe he isn't so bad after all.

He didn't have a name when she got him, so she call him Mi-Mi. She doesn't tell Damian, but it's totally named after him because he reminds her of the way Damian had been when she'd first met him and the progression of their friendship over time.

Duke

Seems like a bird type of dude. Probably has a Cockatiel or two. They're very sassy birbs, and there's no way he doesn't enjoy that. One of them repeats words, and has picked up swears from Jason. It swears at Bruce every time he comes in Duke's room. Everyone except Bruce finds it funny.

The other one "dances" whenever it hears music coming from Cass's room. They're both very active and curious, he's contantly having to buy toys for them to rip apart. One of them nipped Damian's ear once, and Duke has never seen Damian look more offended in his life. It was probably the first pet that Damian hadn't been able to Disney-Princess.

They've probably got a dumb name pair. Tom and Jerry, Chip and Dale, etc. Personally I think he'd get a kick out of naming them Batman and Robin, just to fuck with Bruce. He probably then teaches the one who talks (Batman) to say dumb things like "I am the night! I work alone!" etc etc.

Damian

Has all the animal companions. Not pets. That makes them beneath him, which probably opposes his fundamental beliefs. This is my reminder to yall that Ra's started out as an eco-terrorist. Putting aside what he is or is not now, I like to believe that Damian was raised with a deep respect for nature and animals, he probably sees humans as just one particularly terrible animal species.

He has a wide array of companions as is. I'm good with them all, although I wish they'd bring back his dragon friend. :( I love the dragon friend.

I think he'd be the type to have axolotls too. They've got an interesting mythological basis and fit into the dragon theme. Plus the short story "The Axolotl" by Cortazar is a fascinating piece of mystical realism and I could see that he'd be intrigued by the species. They're endangered in the wild because of habitat destruction and invasion of foreign species that prey on them, but are easily bred in captivity. So I could see he'd keep at least one breeding pair, with the intent to someday bully Bruce into funding a project to save their natural habitat.

Barbara

Doesn't have her own pets, because she doesn't want the responsibility on top of everything else she does.

But her apartment always has furry/feathered friends in it because she's constantly petsitting for the others when they have to go do hero stuff. She's basically like a step-mom for everyone else's pets. She's learned how to take care of tanks and whatnot as well, mostly for Cass. The axolotls are gross and she refuses to touch those tanks, but the bettas are kinda like cute grumpy old men. She likes to tease Bruce by telling him his grand-fish take after him.

Always has a variety of pet snacks with her. She is determined to be the overall favorite human to all the bat-pets. Competition is fierce between her and Dami, but she has an edge because Robin the Cockatiel seems to prefer her.

[showrunnerihardlyknowher]

A drabble about what went down between Jacob and the lil girl in the last chapter of Star Wars rip-off? Lol I’m great at remembering names

“Star Wars rip-off” is such a better shorthand than STMTALCTIS and is forever what I shall refer to that fic and its sequel as

-- “What’s your name?” 

Jacob wanted to ask her the same thing, plus about twenty-seven other questions about who, what, when, and where they all were, but any sound he thought of making refused to leave his mouth. He was petrified, still staring at the newly introduced member of his captor’s clan that had just done...something to him. Whatever it was hadn’t hurt so he could only assume it wasn’t something too nefarious, not that he appreciated it regardless. Its kind facade still remained even after it set him back down, warmth radiating from every fiber of its gigantic person with the absolutely adoring smile it gave the child who called out for its attention. Sweet eyes and nose boops aside, he refused to take any chances with the unfamiliar creature who housed a plethora of tools and vials and other medical looking materials that did not bode well for tiny specimens like himself. Oh god, what if that’s what he was going to be? What if that’s what this kid was going to be!? While Jacob was still never a hundred percent certain of safe he truly was in his original captor’s company, he at least took comfort in the fact he was primarily surrounded by watch looked like plants and various magnifying tools, relatively harmless stuff that probably wouldn’t be used on him. But this little girl...was she trapped in the same way he was? As a cute little desk pet? Or was she next up on the chopping block before his kidnapper barged in asking for some sort of help to keep the fun going.

A little hand waved inches from his face, snapping him out of his stupor in favor of focusing on the pouting little cherub face in front of him rather than the giant aliens who were no longer paying any mind to the humans on the desk. In fact, it almost looked like the one who scanned him moments prior was scolding his captor. Good. Asshole deserved whatever it was getting. 

“Wh-wha...t?” He swallowed thickly, trying to ease the sting of his dry throat.

She rolled her eyes with all the drama a six year old could muster. “I said what’s your name?” In an instant, her mood switched back to being too bubbly to contain, the excitement at having human interaction making her bounce on her legs again. “My name is Reagan!”

He blinked at her dumbly, eyes shifting from the creatures once more before settling on Reagan. “...J...Jacob...”

“Hi Jacob!” she giggled, her little hands bunching up the insanely poofy skirt of her dress as she jumped up to sway her hips. “Do you wanna play with me? Please? I have a bunch of toys we can use!”

“I-I...” He grimaced at an especially harsh wave of nausea that threatened to climb up his throat. “I don’t th-think I...c-can...”

Reagan’s sweet face pouted at him again and she fell back to sit on her knees just as before. “Aw, okaaay...later? When kitty is working, maybe?”

Kitty. Right. No wonder she wasn’t as freaked out by this whole situation as he and probably nine out of ten other humans were. She was just a kid, a well loved and spoiled one at that if her spotless dress up attire was anything to go by, and now she was surrounded by massive versions of her fuzzy feline friends. Well, part feline. Maybe. But even then, the human features of Reagan’s captor were (admittedly) gorgeous. No wonder she was so delighted to be in this hellhole.

“Reagan, what-” He cleared his throat in an attempt to make his hoarse voice a little more steady, “wh-what has...kitty done to you...?”

She tilted her head. One finger came up to idly twirl one of the springy curls that hung near her cheeks in thought. “Like what?”

“L-like...hurt you...or, or anything...?”

“No, because that’s not nice!” Clearly. Obviously. In reality, it did seem like a pretty stupid question just seeing how well kept the girl was. Somebody had to have been keeping her fed and clean and dressed up, not to mention actually take the time to smooth and curl her natural hair into such pretty styles. “She works but then she plays with me and we snuggle at bedtime and she gives me candies and toys and makes all the dresses that I color and sometimes I get to help her when she cuts up all those gross buggies in her drawer. She’s a good kitty!”

She almost had him convinced until that last part about cutting up things, but all in all it didn’t sound like Reagan was having too terrible of a time. Of course, this entire situation was one massive terrible time for everyone involved, though Jacob wasn’t going to be the one to burst her bubble and explain the true horrors of what was going on. He wasn’t cruel enough to take away her innocence. 

Speaking of just how awful everything was, the monsters had decided to put their attention back on the pair, the aforementioned “kitty” chittering something happily with an object pinched between its fingers. Whatever it was, Reagan seemed just as delighted, though he doubted the girl actually understood what was being said to them. 

Jacob could only hope this wouldn’t be his last interaction with another human.

[suspiciouslypinkrosegarden]

Pairing: Unknown x CMC Uyu (hey 2 ‘U’s 💗)

This lil piece was written for @official-rfa ‘s request for some Unknown lap kissies, which I just had to do because that is already such a solid chunk of my brainrot

It’s still the 25th for me TT my time zone is just wacky and behind so I promise this addition is on time! I apologize for portions where my writing abilities fall through as it’s late and I’m falling asleep while writing jfjfjd

Unknown was the type of man Uyu could easily say she’d never let herself care for, let alone fall for, at least initially.

It wasn’t that she found his looks unappealing, being as gaunt and lacking in strength as he was, unlike the conventional standard most held for a man. It also wasn’t because of a lack of intelligence or his style of dress, nor was it necessarily about personality.

It was simply because he was nothing more than her kidnapper day one, which to those with sanity, does not equal the perfect spark for a new relationship.

Letting the ‘Stockholm syndrome’ take over took its time, but eventually it won that battle over her screaming consciousness.

To her, Unknown is undeniably dangerously attractive. He’s as alluring as the cheesy myth of a beautiful vampire: tempting. Tempting you to join him and leave your world far behind you to live in his paradise for all eternity. And well, with the way he lets himself live, he may as well be a member of the undead.

Those mint eyes are the secret to his trance, a shivery coolness washing over her second she feels them lurking. When they capture hers, that’s when she’s done for, swallowing what feels like her entire heart caught in her throat.

And that’s not even mentioning the touches.

Uyu knows he does it all more frequently now to have his fun provoking a reaction, feeling cocky enough to test her now that she won’t get violent and swat him away. It can be something as simple as brushing her hair away to expose one side of her neck, and then lightly putting his fingertips to it, tracing up and down.

His hands are always cold without fail, but when one simply does as much as caress her cheek, she knows her body temperature is the perfect contrast to his.

He has her caught right where he wants her, but in some ways, she’s got him too. She’s not blind to his reactions when her warm hands massage his aching shoulders or fiddle with his coarse hair, feeling him lean into the sensation and soon expect more doting. The secret to getting “back at him” is affection he doesn’t ask for, being quite obviously touch starved.

Unknown, who very much like herself was so closed off at first, has grown used to a new presence in the dismal work room. That tiny woman’s existence now fills up the silence which previously engulfed his; from the sounds of her breathing, to her nagging, to her lips casually brushing against his skin for a soft peck. He rationalizes that Uyu is useful to him like this, since she can’t code worth a darn and refuses to, she can at least keep him going. As annoying as his assistant can be, forcing him to break from his many duties, he’ll admit he feels less lethargic now, although never aloud.

He’s survived on so little everything for so long, it’s irritating that she can’t understand him from her point of view, being so much weaker than he is. Quite frankly, with how strong he’s become in the powerful position he holds, he lets her get away with too much.

Almost daily, he’ll catch himself wondering why he does so.

She’s allowed to be so close to him, touching him and speaking to him without the same terror held in the lusterless eyes of the believers. Perhaps this is where the biggest shake up in his life lies, fear seeming to be the only thing those around him are capable of, unlike her. They all equally tremble in wake of the bark and bite of the savior’s guard dog.

Even now, as his lovely assistant rests in his lap, melatonin pouring from within her hands hard at work on getting out the knots in his back; she touches him with comfort and familiarity.

Uyu earlier shifted positions to sort of awkwardly wrap around facing him, head down resting on him to keep from blocking his vision of the monitor. In response to this, Unknown untensed and slumped forwards with his chin on her small shoulder, snaking his arms past her to type.

Dan understands she’s doing a decent job acting as his masseuse, not because he verbally praises her, but instead because when she finds a good spot, she’ll earn a gentle grunt from him.

Her ‘boss’ isn’t much for words, but actions and reactions make his truths readable. That is how she knows he likes it when she sits with him in the dead of night like this, even if she nods off doing so, which she’s already beginning to do.

If she can just get him to relax a bit more, perhaps dragging him to bed won’t be a challenge today.

She picked up her head and arms slightly, fingers finding their way to the back of his head to tangle in his locks and pet him with a soothing rhythm. She spoke in a whisper by his ear.

“Come now, let’s get some rest.”

No response.

“Unknown…?”

Calling his “name” (which he still refused to tell her, thinking it was so cute that she’d refer to him by a silly unchanged username in the first place), earned a low grumble this time. He was actively ignoring her, as well as his need for rest, which just wouldn’t do.

If he wanted to play stubborn, so be it.

She moved in to bring herself down to his throat, this time calling for his attention in a hush he could warmly feel against his skin.

“Unknown..”

He shifted in his seat, but Uyu wouldn’t stop there. Next came a kiss to his sensitive skin, and then another, and another, trailing from his throat up to the side of his neck and back down momentarily to go over spots that made him shiver, including his collar bones.

She wasn’t stopping her game of testing and he wasn’t ending his silence, although he was stiffening up a lot. This man surely was damn headstrong.

“Unknown..”

The next brush of her lips came to his earlobe, then moving to string along his jawline, soft and delicate as butterfly wings fluttering on each part of his cool skin. This time she finally earned a flinch.

“Feeling a bit kissy now, are we?”

He pulled away a tad, ending the little contest by taking her cheeks in one hand with a small squish, forcing her to meet his eyes.

“If your goal is to wind me down or seduce me into falling asleep, it’s not working.”

He smirked witnessing the red tinge he brought to her face now giving her the time of day. Without fail, she could act confident until he stepped in to change that, and Unknown quite liked the feeling of control over situations it gave him.

“If this isn’t working, then what will?”

“Not teasing me, that’s for sure.”

She gave him a fake pout.

“So you’re telling me just go straight for the lips next time, then?”

“Next time?”

His gaze changed to linger on her lips as he released her cheeks.

“Correct the mistake now, doll. Then we’ll talk.”

And with that, Dan went red as a ripe strawberry on a sunny day, but no amount of stuttering and stammering would wipe away his smug look. Knowing her awkwardness, she’d just make a fool of herself trying to stay calm and collected.

With no room for arguments, she just captured his sugary tasting lips as he had asked within a pleasurable kiss, hoping the oxytocin would do the trick and knock him down a peg.

Their kiss was tender and long, him moving his hands down to hold her by the waist with her legs straddling him to his rolly office chair. He was the one to pull her in deeper, making it more intense as his round cheeks flushed up to his ears with a burning heat. It felt more natural to do now, their eyes both shut as they untensed and melted together. Uyu pressed into his chest to feel closer, winning an escaped muffled groan from him.

He felt tense at first, maybe not 100% expecting the collision to happen so immediately, solid before he warmed up like butter in a microwave. She too let out a soft “mm”, hands then working down his arms with a ticklish motion to fuss with the clasp of one of his spiked bracelets, removing it from his wrist. This made him pull away gently, catching his breath before speaking.

“And what are you doing now, princess?”

“Well you can’t sleep with that on, can you? It might poke you when you roll over in bed…and now that I’ve corrected my mishap, that’s exactly where I’m dragging you. You need to get some sleep.”

For now, Unknown will let his good little helper believe she’s in the clear for taunting him and pulling him away from his duties. For now.

[nat-20s]

practically all of them fit for tendonna but "please stop petting the test subjects" for themb and they're just wreaking havoc at this weird, cool laboratory they found???

LOL remember these prompts from 900 million years ago?? WHOOPS. anyway have this, which is hopefully mostly in line with what you hoped for?

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“Donna, please stop petting the test subjects.”

Donna hears him, clearly processes the words, and then pointedly stops stroking what appears to be a furry nudibranch only so that she can scoop it up in her hands and press it against her cheek. The thing makes trills in response, which emboldens her to throw the The Doctor a flat look and say, “I did, in fact, stop petting them. And they’re not test subjects, they’re, you know….”

The Doctor raises an eyebrow at her, hoping their typical back and forth will disguise the uneasiness that is starting to curl its way aroundhis ribs. “They’re what, exactly, Doctor Noble?”

“Oh hush you. I don’t know exactly, but they’re not a threat! I mean, look at them!”

Pulling out the sonic screwdriver, The Doctor starts to scan them despite Donna’s incensed expression on the odd chance that they’re, say, full of toxin. “Right, because when something is cute and fluffy there’s no possible way it could be a threat. Like bears. Definitely not a threat.”

With an eye roll, she replies, “Yes, because something that fits in the palm of my hand and a bear are clearly equally vicious. How many bears do you have to deal with anyway? Wait, shit, how many bears do you have to deal with? Are we gonna get attacked by a bear? Do we need to get a dog?”

The Doctor has a reputation for being a bit..scatterbrained. Lot of tangents and nonsequiturs come out of his mouth, so most people seem comparatively linear in their logic. Donna is not most people. He pauses his assessment of the critters to stare at her and ask, “What?”

“For bear attacks. Loads of people who survive them do so because their dog helped out. Read about it in wilderness guides.”

“Why were you reading wilderness guides in Chiswick?”

“Because I’ve gone camping? What are you, the literature police?”

“Well I do have the police box-”

“-No! That doesn’t make you any form of cop! We’ve already discussed and settled this! Besides, who even wants to hang out with coppers? Nasty  creatures, unlike the little bundle of joy that I have decided is named Tanya and is my friend.”

“Tanya” makes a cooing noise at this, and Donna sticks out her tongue at The Doctor. The Doctor, in kind, throws his hands up and says, “You can not go around befriending strange alien creatures that you know nothing about!”

“It worked out pretty well for me last time.”

“Last time? When-”

“-you, time boy. You were the strange alien creature.”

The Doctor swallows down the reply that she doesn’t know it’s worked out, that given his track record it most likely won’t. Donna has a low tolerance policy for fatalism and would happily steam roll over that response, so instead he sputters out, “That’s! That’s completely different. For one, I am a person rather than a creature, and secondly, you didn’t find me in a decrepit abandoned research lab!”

Amusement rather than annoyance threads itself into her words when she says, “No, you were just my kidnapper. Completely innocuous.”

The Doctor lets out a groan, about to make a rebuttal, when the sonic screwdriver lets out a series of dings. Holding it up to his face, he mutters, “Oh. Ooooh. Interesting.”

Sufficiently distracted from her lil buddy Tanya, Donna leans over and squints at the sonic as if she has any idea how to read it herself. Maybe one day. “So? Final verdict, is Tanya killing me?”

“No. Well. Eh. Sort of? No. Not yet, at least.”

Donna slowly half pulls Tanya away from her face, giving it a side-eye before looking back at the Doctor and saying, “Not the most promising thing I’ve ever heard. Is it going to go all giant and eat me or something? Is it going to turn into a bear?”

“Not exactly. Our friend Tanya-

“-thank you for using their proper name-”

“-it definitely isn’t but okay. Tanya here is a very distant and much less threatening cousin to the Kantrofarri. Instead of feeding directly on the brain matter, it feeds on brain waves, specifically the emitted by you as a positive response to it’s presence. The noises it emits have remarkably similar effects as that of a cat purring, albeit to a more extreme degree.”

Without realizing she has resumed her stroking of Tanya’s fur, Donna says, “That doesn’t sound so bad. Like cleaner fish and sharks, symbiotic or whatever”

The Doctor tilts his head back and forth a couple times as he replies, “Eeeehhhhh theoretically, yes, under the right conditions, it would be much like having a pet. Mutually beneficial, two sided domestication.”

“However?”

“However, these aren’t the right conditions. With any organism that can directly interact the dopamine center of the brain has risks, and Tanya very well can become addictive, especially if stressed. In fact,” The Doctor pauses, sticking his hands in his pockets as he looks around, “that’s probably the point of this lab. Making a drug out of living creatures.”

Eyes downcast, Donna’s voice is softer as she says, “That’s horrible.”

Somehow, nomatter how many awful things she sees traveling with him, they always manage to surprise her. She hopes that that stays true, that the cruelty of the universe doesn’t become something she’s accustomed too. She wonders if The Doctor is already there.

These thoughts pass in a matter of seconds, before she gives her head a quick shake and says, “Tanya appears to be the only one left around. Is there any..I mean, can we take them home? Is there a home to take them to?”

A small smile appears on the Doctor’s face. “That there is,” the smile grows, “We’d have to skip the spa we came for though.”

Donna rolls her eyes, knowing it’s not even a question for either one of them, and says, “You know, one of these days you’re going to actually have to make good on your promise of taking me somewhere relaxing.”

“You seem pretty relaxed right now.”

“Yeah. No, telling me the small fluffy creature I’m holding was being experimented on to turn deadly is not actually super de-stressing. Little bit of human lore for you right there, I know you don’t get a lot of it in your day to day alien activities.”

“Hey! At this point I’ve spent exponentially more time with humans than my own species! I’m very well versed in your lore.”

“Sure.”

“I am!”

“Uh huh. Then, pop quiz Doctor, what destination would a human such as myself actually find relaxing after we drop Tanya off?”

“There’s this lovely planet called Midnight, admittedly with a deeply toxic atmosphere, but the facilities are incredible! And the views, wouldn’t wanna miss that for the galaxy! Waterfall made of sapphires!”

“But do they have massages?”

“They do in fact have massages.”

“Perfect! I’ll need it after the emotional stress of parting with Tanya. Maybe we could keep them?”

“Donna.”

“Right, right, I know, it’s not right, deadly addiction. I will do the responsible thing here. But then massages.”

The Doctor gives a nod. “But then massages.”

[niceonebeale]

Sappy Neric season-finale two-part episode idea

As anyone who looks at my posts knows, I’m constantly complaining about the lack of Neric in NCIS: LA episodes. So I’ve come up with a Neric-centered season finale idea because I’m Neric trash and don’t have anything better to do.

First episode:

Shows Neric wearing cute nerdy pajamas asleep and cuddling in bed, alarm goes off, they wake up, ‘good morning’ kisses and ‘I love you’s (with pet names bc of course), along with classic adorable Neric banter. Cut to them walking into Ops. Kensi, Deeks, Callen and Sam are already there looking worried. Neric asks what’s going on, news footage of an on-fire car out the front of Neric’s apartment block is on the big screen, Eric recognizes it as his, cut to opening credits.

The news reporter says they found two bodies in the car (male and female), the team wonders why Neric would be targeted (insert ‘knowledge of classified Navy intel/secrets’ line here). Nell has questions- who was in the car, who rigged it, etc. K, D, C and S ask Neric how they got to work (they walked to the mechanic where Nell’s car was being serviced, then drove it to HQ). K, D, C and S go to check out the crime scene, identify the two bodies as an East Asian man and an African-American woman (clearly not able to be passed off as Eric and Nell). The team then wonders what the man and woman were doing in Eric’s car, and if a third party blew it up, and that the man and woman were the true targets.

(Insert plot here about the team identifying the bodies and why they would be targeted, turns out they were undercover agents/spies/whatever. Also includes K, D, C and S checking out all the nerdy and geeky stuff in Neric’s apartment (ideas include two sets of Harry Potter books and movies, a Star Trek chessboard (Nell’s), two lightsabers and a whole shelf full of action figures (Eric’s)). Back in Ops, K, D, C and S tease Neric about their stuff and call the action figures ‘dolls’, which of course annoys Eric no end.)

End part of episode:

K, D, C and S figure out that the car explosion was just a cover to lull everyone in a false sense of security because Neric were the actual targets all along. They try to call them, but don’t get through.

Meanwhile, Eric takes Nell to an empty lot, Nell recognizes it as the place the bar that held the trivia night they went to once was. He leads her over to a specific spot, says something like ‘I know this isn’t the most romantic of places, but this is where we were sitting the moment I’d realized I’d fallen in love with you’ along with a cute nerdy reference and that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Eric gets down on one knee and pulls out a small box, opens it to reveal a ring, Nell starts to get lil’ tears in her eyes. Eric asks her to marry him, Nell of course says yes and that he’s the love of her life/soulmate etc., he cups her face in his hands and kisses her, she wraps her arms around his middle, they kiss for a lil’ while, he’s then about to pull the ring out of the box to put on her finger when an SUV pulls up and four masked people jump out. #1 and #2 knock Eric out and drag him to the SUV, Nell manages to punch #3 but gets knocked unconscious by #4 and falls to the ground. SUV speeds away, screen goes black with the ‘to be continued’, episode ends.

Second episode:

There’s a ‘previously on NCIS: Los Angeles’ with scenes from the previous episode (including the proposal and Eric kissing Nell). Cut to hospital room. Nell wakes up, Kensi’s there. Nell asks where Eric is, K looks sad and says that they don’t know, Nell attempts to get out of bed saying she has to find Eric, K tells her that she has to stay put for at least a day (she fractured something when she fell/landed), Nell isn’t happy. Cut to a warehouse or someplace, a man’s tied to a chair with a bag over his head, kidnapper pulls it off to reveal Eric. Eric immediately starts asking where Nell is and if she’s okay, tries to escape from the chair but can’t. He then recognizes the kidnapper as a villain from a past episode, cut to opening credits.

In the warehouse, Eric says that they (the kidnappers) can do whatever they want to him as long as Nell’s safe. The kidnapper laughs and punches him/knocks him unconscious, he slumps forward in the chair with his eyes closed. Cut to Kensi walking into Ops where Deeks, Callen and Sam are. They ask K how Nell is, C asks if the Nellverine jumped out the window and escaped. K replies that she tried to, then asks D, C and S how they’re getting on with the tech stuff. Unsurprisingly, they’re not doing great. Just then, S’s phone rings, he answers it. Cut to Nell in her hospital bed, asks if they’ve found Eric yet, S says no. Nell then offers to help them with the tech in Ops and walks them through how to use it.

(Insert more plot here, including the team identifying all four kidnappers, Nell arriving back from the hospital, she sits in Ops looking at pictures of her and Eric on her phone, and we can see that she’s crying a lil’ bit, and says something like ‘come back/home to me, my little sugar monkey/my love’, etc. Up in Ops by herself, Nell finds the place where Eric’s being held, looks around to check she’s alone then pulls the gun out from under her desk. She leaves her phone, grabs some old files and goes into the burn room, incinerates the papers then escapes through secret tunnel in the burn room to outside, gets into her car, speeds away. K, D, C and S look for Nell but can’t find her, a random coworker says they saw her going into the burn room ten minutes ago. The team look at each other then run to the burn room, no sign of Nell.)

K, D, C and S go up to Ops and find Nell’s phone on the desk, then try to figure out where she went. Cut to Nell arriving out the front of the warehouse, sneaks around the side, quietly knocks one of the kidnappers out with her gun. She then goes in and finds herself in a hallway, shoots another kidnapper, then makes her way down to a room at the end. Back in Ops, the team think they found where Nell is, and leave. They get to another warehouse, it’s deserted and clearly not the right place. They then figure out the right place and head over there. Cut to Nell standing outside of a door holding her gun ready, and about to enter the room.

End part of episode:

Nell enters room, shoots kidnapper #3. She sees Eric tied to the chair, runs over to him and pulls the bag off his head. There’s tape on his mouth so he can’t talk, but you can tell he’s relieved to see her. He then looks alarmed, Nell starts to turn around but before she can, she’s knocked to the ground. She twists around to see kidnapper #4, quickly empties the rest of her mag into him and kills him. He falls to the floor, Nell tosses her gun aside. She grabs a knife she hid inside her jacket, cuts the rope tying Eric’s ankles then wrists, all the while saying ‘it’s okay baby, I’m here, you’re safe now’, etc. (Or alternatively ‘Wolfram, you’re safe with me’, which makes him smile a little). They both have tears in their eyes. Nell peels the tape off Eric’s mouth, he falls forward into her arms, they hug and kiss and cry and stroke each other’s hair. Nell says ‘I love you, I love you so much’, Eric replies ‘I love you, I love you so much too’. They break apart slightly, Nell brushes Eric’s hair out of his face and straightens his glasses, tells him that she’s so glad he’s safe. Eric of course dittos what she said, then background music (‘Question’ by the Old 97’s) starts to play. Eric gets to one knee, pulls the ring box out of his pocket and says that he realized when he arrived it was still in his pocket. He says ‘I know you already said yes, but since I didn’t get the chance to give you the ring, it’s not a proper proposal’. Nell has tears running down her cheeks while she smiles. Eric then says ‘take two- Nell (insert middle name (if she has one) here) Jones, will you marry me?’ Nell says yes, he slides the ring onto her finger, they have a tiny lil’ makeout session (in which she cups his cheek with her hand bc come on that’s adorable), then she tucks her head into his shoulder, he kisses the top of her head then rests his chin on top, they cuddle, their arms wrap around each other tightly.

The camera then pans out slightly to reveal, unnoticed by Neric, K, D, C and S standing in the doorway, and it becomes clear that they arrived just in time to catch the proposal. Neric, sensing that they’re not alone, look around to see the rest of the team smiling at them. Neric then turn back to each other, Eric tilts his head (we all know what this means), Nell smiles at him, he leans forward and kisses her. Camera then pans out but still focuses solely on Neric (still kissing), then the screen goes black and the episode ends.

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Random miscellaneous thoughts and ideas of small miscellany for Changeling Sim!

* Strength training gives bonus points to mother-daughter bonding, since the mom character is a super stronge! It could be so cute if the animation is Jackie doing some big exercise and then tiny kiddo lifting a tiny dumbbell. And then as your stats go up the image for training could change to reflect it, so kiddo eventually reaches the same levels of power as her supermum and can even surpass her since she’s got le magical powers after all. Final animation could be the same skinny lil kiddo lifting an entire sofa with jackie sitting on it, waving a ‘GO GO PRINCESS!’ banner ^_^ * Possibly with the idea of the upgrading house over time, it could be a preset thing that happens as your kiddo grows up? or it could be like the game runs a check at each age milestone and you only get to move up to the next tier of house if you’ve been successful enough. But you could jump up all the way from the cheapest one to the maximum one in the final year if you play it right! * oh, and maybe the first house upgrade could be an automatic thing? The game starts off with kiddo’s bedroom being a basic empty newly furnished thing and then the next year it changes to reflect her personality after living here for a while. I don’t think I’m gonna make it actually that Jackie only adopted this kid at age 9 though, its gonna be implied that she’s raised her from a tiny little fairy egg and the game just merely begins when she’s older. But I could still do the room thing if its like ‘hey kiddo finally gets her own room!’ Like, maybe its a renovated attic that Jackie just finished furnishing so her kid can have some proper space to herself. And a lil study area and enough room to invite friends over and etc. They start off in a pretty damn poor neighbourhood so this is like a ‘whoa holy shit, luxury’ from kiddo’s perspective! And maybe Jackie sold off all the stuff in her attic to afford to start education for her lil fairy kid, and thats why you have a small amount of savings and the game isnt just like super 100% difficulty right from the beginning. Oh and maybe kiddo is moving into the attic room and her old living space is now being used by Anem the fairy butler? So thats why they had to shuffle stuff around to have more space for everyone. I think Anem actually did only just come into the family’s employ at the start of the game, she’s like the fairy world’s reminder that kiddo’s education as a princess has to begin now. * Possible lil furniture things that could be added to kiddo’s room to show your progress! I already mentioned how an increasingly full wardrobe and bookcase could indicate her charisma and intelligence stats, and how maybe the place could get messier if she’s becoming rebellious. But I saw a really cute pet bed so now I’m thinking maybe kiddo can adopt a lil monster pal at some point! it could be a sign of her kindness stat! I’m not sure what to name it though, it was something like ‘sensitivity’ in princess maker but maybe ‘empathy’ or ‘emotional intelligence’...? I wanna make it useful, too! I liked how in PM your sensitivity could actually be used as sort of a battle stat, you could reliably avoid all battles by just befriending the monsters instead, and though their talk quotes were very limited they were very cute! (tho lol I always killed the ‘kidnapper’ class monsters even when I left everyone else alone. Yer not even monsters, yer just assholes!) * I want her to have a cute puffy american style sports jacket as a costume! That was my fave one in PM5, it was a nice change from only dresses in earlier games. I just like the idea of giving a big variety of costumes instead of JUST princess ones. And doing a modern times setting makes it easier to do that, but still it woulda been cool if they could have had like regular medieval peasant clothes in earlier games. Even PM2′s default costume is like a fancy dress by old time standards lol, its more like a 60s kind of thing! BUt yeah lol I just really like the aesthetic of those 80s american jock jackets?? They look so cute and cuddly to me, i dun understand how they became the stereotypical look of bullies in old cartoons. And it could be cool to have a costume that mixes them with british stereotypical sports fan costumes, like the weird jester hats and face paint and giant inflatable daffodils! * Maybe it could also be possible to have type of house be a thing in the ending too? like I liked how there’s some degree of bonus optional details to the epilogues of princess maker games. You can get an ending for your career and an ending for who you marry, and occasionally lil bonus stuff like ‘you did really well at that job’ or ‘you did that job in an evil way’ or ‘you had [X] amount of children’, depending on extra stats. I think it could be cool to throw in some more of these to make the ending seem more personalized even if you get the same one more than once. Like you can have ‘kiddo stayed living with her mother for years’ or ‘kiddo lived in a cheap apartment and made new friends with her roommates’ or ‘kiddo was able to afford a modest house immediately’. And that could mildly change the flavour text on the career or romance endings, like it could say how long it took for them to be able to afford living together. And maybe extra bonus flavour text depending on how much you upgraded the house during the game? like ‘it was a big step down from her mother’s house, but kiddo was able to deal with it’. Just super small personalizations like this! ^_^ Oh, and maybe depending on who’s your best friend, that could have like.. bailout options if you didnt have enough saved at the end of the game to afford a good house. Moved into [friend]’s house until her career really took off, get a lil bit of extra flavour text and all~! That’d be a good way to have the best friend option be still a big thing. or maybe I could go all out and let there be a best friend ending as well as a romance ending? talking about how their friendship continued as your kiddo grows up! And maybe like what career that friend went into, too!