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wdym Tswift is gay? She was Jack Antonoffing penis for like 6 years
not even funny hate mail
you could have said jacking Anton off for 6 years and it wouldn't be so clumsy. 3 out of 10 Stars try again sweaty
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A Chemical Reaction Called Love
Chapter 2: More than a Coincidence
~Pairing: Steve Harrington x F!reader
~Summary: Being the daughter of Hawkins Middle School Science teacher, Scott Clarke, has its perks. Constantly having to explain things to 'King' Steve Harrington wasn't necessarily one of them but it was something you had gotten used to. He might not be the brightest guy but at least he tried, and you appreciated that. You had big plans for the future, but they might be forced to change thanks to a phone call...
~Warnings: Sensitive topics might be brought up so reader discretion is advised.
~Word Count: 2.8k
~Authors Note: Hey everyone! Here's chapter two! Thank you so much for the love on the first chapter, I'm still getting used to how posting fanfics on tumblr works so I appreciate all the likes and reposts! If you'd like to be tagged in the next chapter let me know! Once again you can find me on Ao3 as Lilpipsqueak and W-tpadd as friendlyfanperson!
If anyone could tell me how to do the number link thing where I can link the second chapter to add to chapter one I would be so so thankful I have no idea how to do it
~Narrator's POV~
"Y/n, Y/n, Y/n, Y/n!"
She stops walking, turning around to look at who was calling her name in the corridor, and she sees Robin rushing towards her, almost falling back but she catches her balance before she falls and continues running towards her.
"You won't believe what I just saw," She says stopping in front of her.
"What?! What happened?" She asked, wondering what exciting information she found out now.
"Steve Harrington is going out with Nancy Wheeler," She told her, eyes wide open, "Can you believe it? I thought he only dated the pretty easy-to hook up with girls"
"I thought that too, but I also guessed something might be going on between them since I saw them hanging out yesterday" She shares with Robin, "I never would've guessed that Nancy would be the type of girl to go out with someone like Steve"
"Right! I mean she's so smart and pretty! She could get any guy in Hawkins and she went for the dumb popular guy of all" Robin said, she had never been able to understand what people saw in Steve, she saw him as a grade A asshole.
Y/n thought Steve was okay, she didn't want to have much of an opinion on him since she didn't talk to him outside of the classroom so technically didn't know the 'real' him, but she didn't hate him or anything like that.
"Maybe there's something about him that they see" She points out.
"Or maybe they just have such a low-self esteem they will settle for someone like him"
"You really don't like him do you?" She asks her, knowing very well her answer.
"I have a right to dislike him alright, he's an asshole to some people, is rich and he gets the chance to date most if not all of my crushes" Robin explains annoyed.
"How is he being rich something that adds to him being an asshole?" Y/n asks confused as to how that comment is relevant to the conversation.
"Because, meanwhile we're both here poor with our part-time jobs" She complains opening her locker as she takes out her books.
"I'm pretty sure he can't help the fact he's rich, and I'm not really poor, so technically you should hate me too," She tells her, partially joking.
"I could never hate you though, and you're economically okay"
"Wow, so you're saying I'm almost poor?" Y/n asks her walking to her next classroom.
"I mean...no, but also yes" Robin explains to her.
"Rude" Y/n adds as she pushes Robin away from her.
They both laugh at each other as they continue walking down the corridor, knowing that this is just one of their usual banters. Yet Steve stayed at the back of Y/n's mind after the conversation ended and she wondered what type of person he really is, whether he's an asshole like many think, or whether there's more to him than meets the eyes.
She had most lessons with Steve actually, but they never really talked outside of science, she guessed it was due to the fact in his other classes he sat next to Tommy or some of his popular friends, so it would be weird for him to speak to Y/n as if they were close friends since they weren't, she wasn't even sure if they were friends, she supposed they were simply acquaintances, or just classmates, anything along those lines.
Sometimes she would catch him staring at her, which she found a bit strange but she guessed he just spaced out those times, it happened to her sometimes as well so she knew not to overthink about it. And there wasn't really a reason for her to overthink about it anyway, she didn't find Steve interesting in that way, sure she thought he was probably hiding more than what he led on, and that his only mystery was more than just him trying to act cool.
Other times he surprised her as well, those times tend to be whenever he asked her about the lesson and if she could help him understand what was actually taught, and today just happened to be one of those days.
"Hey, Einstein," Steve says walking over to Y/n's desk.
She looked back at him surprised by the sudden start of a conversation as she packed her books.
"Yeah?"
"Did you-umm, understand anything that Mr. Drew explained?" He asks, knowing full well that he spent half of the class talking with his friends and the other half trying to comprehend what was coming out of Mr. Drew's mouth.
"You're asking me if I understood the crash of Wall Street in 1929?" She responds, slightly confused on how someone couldn't understand at least the basics about it.
"Yes" Was all Steve was able to say, realising how stupid he must seem now.
"Yes I understood it, did you?" She asks, and he could tell she didn't seem to have any intention to judge him.
"I mean, honestly, no, but I wasn't paying much attention to be fair," He says, feeling okay with the fact he might be a bit of an idiot.
"You gotta start paying more attention in class Steve, we graduate next year," Y/n tells him as she takes one of the books in her bag out again.
"I know, I know, and I will, I swear"
"You better, because I can help you study but I can't get you the grades at the end of the day. Now, here are the notes I took of today's class, they're pretty self-explanatory but if you need help with them just let me know and I'll go over the topic" She explained handing him her notebook.
"I own you big time" He smiles at her taking the notebook and putting it in his bag
"This is like the thirtieth time you've said that, you own me a lot," She tells him, mostly just joking, but also keeping it in mind.
"I know, but I'll pay you back one day," He tells her, actually being serious and wanting to eventually thank her for all her help.
"You don't actually have to, you know? I help you because I want to, not to get something in return" She points out as both of them start walking out of the room.
"I know, but I still need to thank you, you've helped me more than anyone else, even though it must get annoying"
"And there you're very right, it can be annoying at times but it's not so bad" He looks at her confused, unsure whether he should take it as a compliment or be offended.
"Is that supposed to be a good comment?" He asks.
"Well-"
"Hey, Y/n have you seen Barb around? Or do you know anyone that has seen her today?" Nancy asks her clearly worried.
"No sorry, I haven't seen her, I don't think anyone I know has any lessons with her so I doubt they'd know," Y/n tells her, a bit surprised by the question given the fact she never talked to Barb and was a year older than both of them so there was no way she would have any of her classes with her, "Maybe she's off sick"
"Yeah don't worry about it too much Nance I'm sure she's fine," Steve tells her, taking her hand and moving closer to her. Y/n knew it was time for her to go.
"I'll let you know if I hear of her though, I'll see you guys around," She said waving goodbye at them and walking off to her next lesson.
The rest of the day was pretty normal, nothing exciting ever really happened in Hawkins anyway, so aside from school and work there was nothing Y/n had to worry about, except, of course, the fact that Will was still missing and was yet to be found.
She hoped that what they had found last night would at least be a start, but she also knew that maybe what they found meant nothing to the investigation. All she wanted though was for Will to be found and returned safely home.
"Do you have work today?" Robin asks her as they walk down the corridor, the school day finally over.
"Yeah, I'm taking the bus there since my dad has to stay late finishing some things, do you?"
"No, I worked yesterday so I'm free today, but I have to help out my mom with some things" Robin explained to her as she opened the door and they both walked out of the school.
"Sounds fun," Y/n said sarcastically.
"I mean it shouldn't be too bad, but when it comes to my mom there are times when I don't even know what will happen"
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"Do or die, what's done is done" Y/n sings as she skates down the night streets to her house. She had finished her shift for the day and was finally heading home after a long day of serving customers at the cafe, but she got some pretty good tips so she didn't have much to complain about.
Due to the fact she didn't own a car or a bike, she always skated from the cafe to her house, it wasn't too far away and she actually liked skating, it was her way of exercising (since she wasn't in any of the school's teams) and it was fun since she could listen to music while getting home.
Robin had told her that she should just save up for a bike since it was quicker but Y/n would rather save her money on something else that she either needed more or wanted more. 'You'll break your arm or leg one of these days' was what Robin always told her, but in her 7 years of having skates she had only scrapped her legs or arms, she also doubts the fact that tripping on something will make her end with a broken bone, so, for now, it seems she'll just stick to skating.
"Hey dad, I'm home," She says, unlocking the door and taking off her skates, "What's for dinner?"
She closed the door and left her bag next to his, taking off her coat and placing it on top of a chair.
"They gave me some mac and cheese that wasn't sold today so we could eat that if you haven't cooked anything," She told him walking to the living room where he was sitting watching the tv as she waited for his response, but there was none, "Dad? What do you-"
"On today's breaking news the body of Will Byers, who was announced missing just yesterday was found by the police minutes ago in the quarry"
Y/n's face drops as she hears the news, she takes a seat next to her dad as she keeps listening to the news trying to process what's going on, trying to process the fact that Will is dead.
"Chief Hopper believes he got lost after crashing his bike and accidentally fell, resulting in a tragic but hopefully painless death, but as of now it is just a theory, and we don't actually know if it was an accident, or perhaps something more. We give our condolences to the Byers family and we hope that they'll be able to get through these tough times "
Scott stands up and turns off the tv right after, not wanting to listen to any more details about the tragic death of his student and his daughter's friend.
Meanwhile, Y/n is still staring at the screen shocked, frozen in place, trying to understand the news she was just given, Will Byers, the little twelve-year-old boy which she babysat for years now has just been announced dead. She can't understand how such a thing can be possible, how a boy who had his whole life ahead, who was just beginning to live, who was the kindest person she had ever met, was dead just like that.
"Honey, are you okay?" Her dad asks her sitting back down.
"I-no, no I'm not," Y/n says as she starts crying.
Scott immediately pulls Y/n into a hug, her head hiding on his chest as she hugs him back, he patted her back gently moving his head on top of hers as he closed his eyes. He hoped that Will's death had indeed just been an accident, he had to make himself believe it was, because otherwise he might not be able to sleep for a while knowing that there could be someone out there who wants to hurt kids, and that could possibly hurt his daughter, he also couldn't believe that Will was dead, a boy he had been teaching for years and saw almost as his son, to end up with a fate late that. Y/n on the other hand just kept thinking about Will, what his final moments were like, whether he suffered or not, she couldn't even imagine how Joyce or Jonathan must be feeling getting the news that he is dead.
"I can't believe he's really dead" Y/n whispered as she stopped crying.
"I know honey, it'll be okay, how about I heat up the mac and cheese," He says, trying to help things calm down for just a second.
"It wouldn't be right if I tried to talk to them tomorrow would it?" She asks him.
"Talk to who?" Scott asks confused.
"Joyce and Jonathan, they probably need some space and time, so I should wait a bit before talking to them, right?"
"Yeah it would be better for them, they need to process everything first, let's wait a couple of days,"
Y/n nodded at her dad as she moved away from the hug, standing up and grabbing her bag, "So, mac and cheese?"
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The next day was exhausting, everyone around the corridors kept talking about Will and what had happened, Y/n was glad Jonathan wasn't in school because it would've made things impossible for him, she hoped he and Joyce were okay. She also kept thinking about Barb, Nancy had told her in the morning that she was missing and no one had seen her since Tuesday night. Two people now had gone missing, one of which had been found dead, and Y/n had a terrible feeling that maybe everything that was happening was more than just an accident.
"Just, don't mention the beers, it's just gonna get us both in trouble, and Barbara's got nothing to do with it, okay?" Y/n faintly heard someone say as she walked out of the school.
"I can't believe you right now... I can't believe you"
"Nancy!" She heard someone shout as she walked towards the middle school, she saw Nancy walking out of the spot between the school and gym, angry, like really angry, she didn't even look up when she passed by Y/n, she just kept walking straight to the school.
"Nancy come on!" She turned around and saw Steve coming out of the same spot, he wasn't trying to catch up to her, he knew she would ignore him anyway, "Einstein, hey" He says, his tone softer now as he turned to look at Y/n.
"Hey, everything okay?" She asks him, partially because it was the normal thing to do and also because she wanted to know what had happened, as nosy as it sounds.
"Yeah, everything's okay," He told her; Y/n knew he was lying, Steve knew she knew he was lying, but in a way, they both knew it would be better to leave it like that, "What about you?"
"Oh I'm fine, just walking to the middle school to help out with the assembly" She explained and he nodded at her.
"Cool"
"Yeah, well, I'll see you later," She said unsure of what to keep talking about, as she started walking away.
"Wait," He said walking closer to her, "How much did you hear?" He asked her.
"Honestly, not that much, only the end of it"
"Did it sound bad?" She looked at him confused.
"The argument?" She asked.
"Yes, the argument, did I sound like an asshole?" Y/n didn't think she could really make much out of what she heard, but it didn't sound great either.
"I mean- I barely heard anything, I don't even know the context of the conversation so I don't think it's right for me to say" She explained to him.
"That was a stupid question," Steve said shaking his head.
"If you think you were an asshole then you should apologise to Nancy, she's already having a rough time given the fact Barb is missing, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't want to deal with an argument at a time like this," She told him, trying to help, in some way at least, she wasn't sure what to say, but this was the best she could think of.
"You're right, I was an asshole. You know you give great advice"
"Thanks, well I'll get going now, I'll see you later Steve," She says waving goodbye at him as she starts to walk away.
"Yeah, I'll see you later Einstein" He adds softly smiling at her as he walks back into the school.
Thank you for reading! Any likes and reposts are appreciated!
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Banquet of Massacre.
Yan Geto x F Reader.
Synopsis: The days are blending into each other, and you just want some sort of change. But soon, you realize you have to be far more careful about what you wish for.
Warnings: Yandere themes, kidnapping, not SFW implications, takes place five or so years before JJK 0, and violence.
Continuation of Presentiment of Massacre.
Word Count: 800.
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The green obi gently tightening with each passing second stops at your words, but after a chuckle resumes, the slight anger in Geto’s voice is smaller than the width of a hair.
He continues with the loose, wide red sodes. You focus so much on your anxiety, about what the rest of your life will be, that you don’t notice the small golden details of koi on the red sleeves. You don’t even pay attention to the silk that ties your wrists together, a consequence of you attempting to squirm your way out of dinner again. Not that dinner was anything special this evening.
“You know,” His voice rises and falls like the wind. “Perhaps there are some things you shouldn’t say to the only reason you are still alive.”
With that, he pulls, much harder than before, on the ends of the sash, causing you to gasp for air for a moment or two.
“I could still feed you to one of my curses you know, or all of them at the same time, they would love to get a taste of you.”
At your desperate whines, as you attempt to claw at the ceiling with restrained hands, he lets go, and with his action, your vision blurs no longer.
He spins you around and he licks his lips.
“I-I’m sorry, Master Geto.” You might be uncertain if you mean your apology, but perhaps Geto has the answer.
Just as you are not sure if Geto forgives you, but he knows the answer for sure.
The woman sitting next to both of you on the floor holds a golden hairpin in her ragged, scarred hands. She holds the hairpin just like she held the underlayer, obi string, socks, obi, and sash. She held and currently holds them all so delicately because she did not want to lose her hands. She was your handmaiden, according to Geto, and although the two of you had never exchanged words, you knew her first name was Sookee, but her last name was of no relevance if it even existed.
Even though she was around your age, Sookee looked much older than she was because of her premature wrinkles and little white hairs sticking out of her bangs, clear signs of all the stress Geto and the rest of the people here put her through. She was an indentured servant of sorts, from what you were told, and she, like you, is often tormented by the people who live here.
You feel bad for her, whenever you hear her screams and cries, whenever she trips and breaks a porcelain teapot and gets beaten for it, or when she is too late to dress you for supper, which always causes Geto to summon a curse that is so ugly and follows her for the rest of the day and makes crude comments toward her.
There was one time that it actually bit her, and after an hour’s worth of begging, Sookee earned the right to bandage herself up.
“Monkey,” The word is bitter on his tongue and lingers in the air for far longer than either Sookee or you would have liked. “Pin.”
Although you sympathize with Sookee, your instinct urges you to prioritize your well-being before her.
“Since you are so ungrateful for the life I have given you, maybe it would be better to make you like Sookee. Would you like that, princess? To be lesser than a pauper?”
You deeply repent for uttering a single word, which emerges from your lips with complete despair. Meanwhile, Geto wears a smile as he delicately places the luxurious golden hairpin, worth more than your two kidneys combined, into your hair. With a dismissive gesture and a piercing look, he sends Sookee away, and she quietly shuts the door behind her.
You don’t stop him from pushing you onto the bed, large enough for at least five people to rest on, because really is there anything you can do? “You’re so pretty. The loveliest one, the only one worthy of what I am about to do.”
You are trapped here, forever bound by him. The door is guarded by a terrifying curse that ensures your confinement, although Geto's power makes it unnecessary. You find yourself in this place, adorned in the kimono he compelled you to wear, lying in his bed, with the makeup Sookee was forced to apply on you. And here you are, hearing his whispered words of affection as he lies upon you.
“Since you are so ungrateful for what you already have, I will give you more and more, my love, until you regret ever wishing for a life outside of this one.”
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i wrote this into a youtube comment like moments ago, but i feel strongly enough that i will put it out here as well;
Lego Monkie Kid Season 5 does NOT have villains. it has characters that are antagonistic forces and layered with nuance on top of nuance.
not to say previous seasons didnt do this, but this season ABSOLUTELY is entirely filled with characters like this
lmk season 5 spoilers, as well as anything from previous seasons just in case cause idk. might get long too tbh oopsies JINNGFDOIJN
we have a few characters to consider for LMK s5's "villains".
we have Ne Zha's dad (i forget his name, ill probably call him pagoda man), nine headed dragon (consort, 10th king, xiangliu) and nuwa. we could theoretically consider thousand eyed demon, however hes only relevant in one episode so id hardly count that
pagoda man is the easiest to explain, he is an antagonistic force because hes trying to hold onto what little order there is left of the world, he is trying to be the duct tape keeping the sawed in half boat together, and hes trying to minimize risks. does that excuse how he treats ne zha? fuck no, but thats a whole different discussion and depending on your interpretation of how much of the chinese mythos you use for this work will vary. he is just like mk as mk himself points out, it doesnt have to be just pagoda man doing the work, theres people willing to help, and then he joins the heroes side for the end.
cool, great, now. what the fuck do i mean by nuwa?
this is where interpretation is strongest, where it is key. ill just be sharing my perspective. when i was first watching season 5 my partner pointed out to me that in chinese mythos chaos is a core element of the world, it is necessary. this, coupled with the fact that nuwa made mk to fix a cycle she created (which we also dont know how many cycles the world has gone through, it could be one, it could be two, it could be in the hundreds if not thousands, whos to say.) and to keep chaos out... she is keeping the world from being complete. her little cave without the outside world, without proper balance, her little people living blissfully apocalypse to apocalypse. "but theyll all die!" "theyll live again" nuwa says, smile on her face.
she is disconnected from her cave, her world her people, her creations, who knows how long shes been in the limbo, how well she can perceive time, how many times a sacrifice comes in, they get a few words exchanged before they just leave, her in the pillar, only getting glimpses when the cycle is ending of the world, only to be shut in again.
neat, ok, but xiangliu??? hes who was gestured at from the BEGINNING of season 4.
see. heres where we get into the GOOD shit.
this is why it is important to establish that we dont know how many cycles have happened. we do not know how long he has been stuck, how many times he has tried to fix the world over and over. he makes it clear in his ending dialogue, if only he knew how to fix it, that sharing the power of the stones was the key to his freedom. the fact that he goes from what most would consider the least important title to the most important one, his own name, the fact he states he was wukongs friend, his enemy, both, wukong just doesnt remember
that implies longentivity. that implies so many cycles and lifetimes lived inside this cycle, being aware of everything, being so damnably aware of what one considers true freedom, and having to sit at the precipice of that.
it is agony.
xiangliu for the majority of the season is the only one to call mk by his name. mk gets so often called child, kid, nicknames by the others, maybe mei refers to him as mk, but xiangliu has it be DELIBERATE. he altered the course of the cycle to give mk a life, to let him HAVE a life where nuwa didnt care for one, he WANTED mk to grow enough that he would be able to choose. because everything is about mks choice, his ability to choose it all matters on HIS. CHOICE.
the only time this falters is when xiangliu thinks he is trapped for good. he rushes at mk, one final chance at freedom seemingly taken from him. xiangliu never fights mk. he only fights the others when they start fighting him. when its just him and mk at the edge of the world, at the edge of chaos, he talks to mk. tells him what to expect, mentions a mysterious "he" now that mk has opened the cage. and he pushes mk back so he gets to go back to his life. so that mk can have choices still. xiangliu got what he wanted, so its only right mk gets what he wanted too. to live with his friends and let everyone live a life where they can figure something out.
that is why i do not think there are villains in lego monkie kid season 5. they are antagonists with layers of nuance, nuance we arent privy to for reason or another, be it episode count, length, screentime, or that were just not supposed to yet. season 5 does not have an obvious bad guy, a villain, because the nuance is right within our grasp.
thank you for reading this. fucking essay apparently oopsies JINNGFDIJN
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Birds of Prey might feature Katherine Karlo in the near future
So for those of you not in the know, the new (gorgeously drawn) Birds of Prey is following Black Canary saving her sister from a doomsday scenario, and featuring a breakout role for Maps Mizoguchi, a character who was prominent in Gotham Academy
But, from careful observation (straw grabbing and bias), there might be another from Gotham Academy making an appearance, Katherine
Katherine Karlo is one of Maps' closest friends and her main roommate for the run of Gotham Academy (pretty sure). While not altogether that important in the run, she made a notably important role with Maps in the mainline Batman comics.
Now Maps getting a leading role, even if for one story, in a main Batman comic probably helped keep her on people's minds before her debut as superhero from the future, Meridian.
BUT Katherine being included could be indicative of the same treatment, even if a lesser role!
Furthermore, we'd like to point out one of the characters being included in the new BOP run is Cassandra Cain, who some readers may remember as being one of the very few genuine friends made of Katherine's dad Basil Karlo, AKA Clayface
Intentionally or not, we now have two characters on the team who have had very close ties to a shapeshifting clay Karlo. Bordering on "one of very few friends" territory, too.
(Unsure if Harley should be counted with her show heavily featuring Clayface, but just mentioning that. Clayface is sort of making a surge in relevance lately with The Batman II slated to feature him)
We're getting into stretching territory, but there's a few more things we want to mention that... *could* be something, but might not.
First, this mission involves going to Themyscira, or the islands of the Amazons that Wonder Woman originates from. Who... is made of clay
It's unknown if Wonder Woman will appear, but they do actively talk about her in the second chapter, which may be foreshadowing. But she is a canon clay woman! (We also heard Nubia may be too?)
A lot of clay character hovering around the skirts of this story...
Second is... this specific wording from Big Barda when Maps goes back to the future(?)
"The one from the future was made of dirt?" ...Dirt? Why dirt? She looks more like snow, or potentially electricity or static. And Big Barda is smart, she's royal and uses boom tubes to travel great distances across space. Dirt's, well, brown, Barda knows that.
"Made of dirt" is a small line but it doesn't really make sense to us based both on the visual AND the character's knowledge. Unless it's supposed to mean "We need to allude to clay/mud but can't SAY say clay or mud because that's too obvious." Made of dirt too, there's just a lot to possibly unpack there.
But the weird thing is the only thing we can really pull from that is... could Katherine is pretending to be Maps *right now*?
Unlikely, but it might explain why peppy, hyperexcitable Maps's adult self was... oddly quiet after introducing herself. Not to mention she'd leave right before the part of the mission that involves swimming...
She at least seems to be working with someone, judging by the way her little device goes off (or hit her time travel time limit, idk...!)
(Also we're a bit curious why her superhero name is Meridian specifically. It's a geographical map term to describe lines going upwards from the north to south pole, and there's a prime Meridian, which is cute for Maps' dnd obsession but is there something more?)
We understand if Katherine doesn't make an appearance, but we hope we maybe convinced you how there could be a chance for the character to appear sometime in the story!!
Thank you for reading through this and listening to our rambles about a fellow clay girl...! (-Annie🤎)
#katherine karlo#maps mizoguchi#clayface#batman#birds of prey#cassandra cain#big barda#chirps#🪴Annie🤎
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Okay but like, who tf expects kindergartners to understand some of the stuff that they are taught in class in spy x family? Like, I know it’s a pretentious school and some of it is probably for the sake of comedy or something, but my ass was learning how to count to 100 and the names of all the colors and what happens when you mix them, not some of the stuff from the manga. I don’t believe that Japanese kindergarteners are just built different, okay? My mom has been teaching kindergarten for my entire life (actually two or so more than that. I was actually partially named after a student) and has a masters in early childhood development. I was there when she was studying to get that master’s degree, mostly from home, and was witness to a bunch of the stuff she had to read and listen to, though I wasn’t paying super close attention. I did skim some books of hers when super bored as a kid without internet yet.
If there is one grade I hear a lot about from an education pov it’s kindergarten (I also get to hear some weird tea because my mom knows I don’t know any of those kids and am not going to go telling other people shit). Anya might be a bit younger than her classmates (and maybe they use concepts beyond a kindergarten level to try and illustrate how much of what is being asked of her is above what her age is capable of. In which case I do see where the author is coming from but it is still somewhat irritating)I know that a lot of what was covered in my kindergarten class was just building off of what you would learn in preschool while also still introducing the concepts to kids who only just started school, so you probably knew primary color names and stuff but not how to count past ten, so a kid a few years younger than her classmates might have trouble grasping the concepts not taught in preschool. I know I got held back in first grade for a similar reason, (my birthday is in spring so I could have been in a class that was either mostly older than me or mostly younger) but I won’t listen to anyone saying her bad grades in kindergarten make her stupid! Girl should be learning how to add numbers together and read a calendar and share with classmates, not some of the stuff they show yuri teaching. Sure, a kid might seek that sort of thing out on their own if they are particularly interested in a subject, (my nerd ass was always watching nature documentaries on the side and learning art stuff) but it’s not exactly something you should expect from five or six year olds in general. If I’m misremembering what they were talking about I might correct this post, but what I do remember was thinking “that’s way above what you should expect from most children at that age! They just aren’t all able to grasp concepts like this yet. I don’t care if you’re the ‘best school’, if you aren’t teaching your students at their own level then you’re a shitty school in my eyes! And this is their first year at your school anyway! Are you counting on all of them having private tutoring or something?!” while reading it.
And sure, part of Anya having trouble is her trauma around studying, and her mind reading stuff, but still! And yeah, this was set during the cold war in an era without much special education, but it’s kindergarten and she seems capable of understanding kindergarten level concepts! Or at least preschool!
Am I maybe a bit sensitive to this topic specifically as someone with an educator mom who specializes in that grade and developmental stage and as someone who has had problems due to being younger than the first class I was in and also having some learning disabilities? Yes. But i feel like that makes my take MORE relevant. If when I re-read what I forgot it is just as bad as I remember it I WILL be ready to throw hands (and probably lose) over the idea of her being stupid when things are just way more complicated than anyone should be expecting of kids that age! It’s not her fault if the school expects more than what is reasonable for children in that class.
#emma posts#this is silly but honest#spy x family#I need to finish the manga though so maybe my memory is a bit rusty#I normally forget any weird tea I hear about within a few weeks anyway#the latest funny thing that stuck in my head was the kids realizing that my mom probably kisses my dad and a bunch of them going ‘ew!’#apparently they’re really invested in romance at the moment
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Fern guides their mutuals and followers through Cats 1998 as if we're all sitting on the same couch watching it and I'm shouting out stuff (1/?)
MASTERPOST
Character Wiki Pages
Warning: there's going to be a LOT of bias in these posts
Okay, before we get started, there are a couple of characters in here that are given their US names with UK designs. Accordingly, these characters will be referred to with their US names, though their descriptions on the wiki will correspond with UK names. For navigation:
US -> UK Plato -> Admetus Pouncival -> Carbucketty Tumblebrutus -> Bill Bailey
I've seen folks use "Plato" and "Admetus" interchangeably, but interestingly, I tend to see "Pouncival" and "Tumblebrutus" associated with the 1998 designs when used in fan works - perhaps because these are incredible names, or perhaps because that's just the sort of influence that Cats 1998 has had on the fandom.
(not to mention, "Bill Bailey" in particular has been used to refer to several designs, including Tugger's chorus outfit in recent US-based productions)
Alrighty, onto the show!
1: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
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Okay, first things first, this cat ^^^ is Demeter. She's the first cat seen onstage because she's Really Freaking Important. I'd argue that she's the second most important character, after Grizabells, and that's because Cats deals with two sources of conflict: Macavity's interference and Grizabella's anguish. Demeter is the character that connects these two conflicts. We'll talk about it more later.
Where was she in Cats (2019)? Well, you see, she doesn't have a song about her and her design isn't one of the most instantly recognizable, so I guess she wasn't deemed important enough to keep. This decision sent out ripple effects that completely overturned the characterizations of other characters, but that's a rant I need not get into now.
I have Feelings about Demeter's exclusion
The cat on the left here is Munkustrap; his role is to be the Jellicle tribe's protector. You'll see him a lot and never learn his name, but this context is important, since he acts as the narrator. I'm putting Alonzo (right) here too because he's the #2 protector/Munkustrap's second in command but he's a little worse at the job, has almost no lines, and has way less charisma (affectionate), so you might not know that if I don't tell you.
(another side tangent: one of Alonzo's character adjectives is "uncertain", and sometimes actors play this up until the idea he's a protector is practically comedic. Depending on how you interpret his character, he's either new to the job or prefers to keep to himself... or both. There's some additional backstory there I might get into later that's not 1998-specific.)
Also, I can't watch this part anymore without thinking about this video from Sean McManus.
^ Tumblebrutus tumble moment #1
This is Cassandra. She's very recognizable. The camera loves her. You will see her a lot and wonder what her deal is, but the truth is that she has no plot relevance and barely interacts with the other characters. In the 2015 Tecklenberg production, she pretty much just stood and danced in a very specific corner of the stage the whole time, and... it's not not accurate to her usual role. I guess those are just side effects of having the adjectives "haughty, disdainful, aloof."
Oh yeah, you'll probably want to know what the deal is with these two as well. These are Coricopat and Tantomile. They're psychic and (probably) twins. I think that's the important information but it's good to know because it makes a lot of stuff later on make sense.
Victoria has a number of lifts throughout the show - maybe more than any other character, though I've never gone through and counted. In the US revival choreography, at least one of these is in an attempt to reference her connection to the Jellicle Moon, but it could also refer to her arc of maturity (more on that in the white cat section) and how she's "ascending" out of kittenhood.
The placement of this row makes me SO HAPPY whenever I see it. Cassandra's on the far side because she doesn't like hanging out next to anybody. Plato is next to Alonzo because Alonzo is the #2 protector and Plato might someday be the #3. Alonzo is with Munkustrap because of the aforementioned protector stuff and also (headcanon) because Alonzo has anxiety and Munkustrap is his ESA. Munkustrap and Tugger are brothers (more on that in the Old Deuteronomy section). Tugger and Mistoffelees are together in more ways than one (more in that in the Mr. Mistoffelees section). Mistoffelees and Skimbleshanks are beside one another because they're buddies in this production. Coricopat is at the other far end because he's tall.
Beautiful.
^ Live footage of Pouncival clutching his ears because Jenny only usually only raises her voice while repremanding him, ft. Tumblebrutus pog
Girl help your cats are gnc as hell
(this will not be the first time I mention it, but the London Alonzo and Admetus makeup designs >>>>>)
AGH these actors are so expressive it drives me wild... cats musical actor improvisation and creative expression my BELOVED
^ Whenever I see this shot, I always think of what a good reference it is for seeing the back of Alonzo's wig lol. I actually relly like that this design has the dots going all the way to the sides rather than just being spots.
It's a running gag in the fandom that you have to shake your head when they say "statistical cats", and it's true. I do it every time. I can't even hum this song without shaking my head anymore.
2: The Naming of Cats
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You will hear a lot of the cats' names in this part. The camera will not zoom in on those cats in correspondence. I wish it did.
This is a good time to bring up levels when it comes to character age and how it relates to general choreography. With the exception of Demeter (and, arguably, Rumpleteazer - more on that in the M&J section), all of the characters in the front row here (specifically, on the ground) are supposed to be kittens. There are a few missing (Tumblebrutus, arguably Plato and Mungojerrie - more on Plato in the Grizabella segment), but in general, if the cats are moving as a crowd as they do here (and, more notably, in Old Deuteronomy), with some standing and some crawling, the ones crawling are likely the kittens.
In theory, this visual distinction makes sense, as being closer to the ground makes the actors look smaller, but this never got across to me until I started learning more about the show outside of watching this production.
I simply cannot imagine how many people have paused at this section for referencing the makeup designs
(also teehee plato makeup my beloved!!!!!!!!!)
Omg hiiiii Plato - Alonzo - Munkustrap order again <3
Speaking of order: beside Munkustrap is Chorus Deuteronomy, and on Deut's other side is Tugger. When the formation splits into chunks, those three are the only ones in the row. This is because they're implied (very loosely) to be family. Once again, more on that in the Old Deuteronomy section.
I've always loved how the color saturation gets weird here. Grayscale Mungojerrie ily
3: The White Cat Solo
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I think this section gives the audience a false impression of Victoria's importance; it's probably the very reason she was chosen to be the protagonist in Cats (2019), even though throughout most of the show, she serves a lesser function than around half of the other characters.
This is where we start toppling into the Cats iceberg. Remember how I mentioned two main sources of conflict earlier? Think of those as Plot #1 (Grizabella re-joining the Jellicles/The Jellicle Choice) and Plot #2 (Stop Macavity from wreaking havoc). Because this show is about a collection of characters (rather than just one) with each having their own stuff going on, it gets a lot deeper than that, and that's why it's so difficult to hear folks say that Cats has no plot or very little plot. I would argue that Cats has so many plots - and, subsequently, themes - that it can't spend a huge amount of time on any of them, but that's a thought for another post.
Victoria's story deals with one of Cats' other prominent themes: female sexuality. Sexuality in general, sure, but I'd say that the representation of female sexuality in here is so much more diverse than that of male sexuality that it's become its own topic, and I'll be referencing it in a few other numbers.
On this particular night, Victoria is coming into her own. She's maturing. She'll have her first mating experience, and by the next ball, she might not be considered one of the kittens anymore. This is especially important because she is the white cat, and white, for better or worse, is the color associated with purity. I love that the white cat is the one who has a romantic/sexual experience taking place within the runtime of the show itself, and I love that it's portrayed as a wonderful thing. We'll cover that more during the Jellicle Ball portion of these posts.
Not to be weird about it, but this is a great section for seeing the construction of the unitards, which consist of six seams: one down the back, one around the inside of the legs, one down each arm, and one connecting each sleeve to the torso. The closures are typically snaps or hooks in the shoulders, which are concealed by the fluffy bits of the costumes, with the exception of Cassandra, who I've seen a few different closure designs for. I also hear that some of the unitards have darts around the waist to help them fit better.
This is a good spot to mention a common headcanon for Victoria: that she is deaf. This headcanon is rooted in a few different things.
First, she is the only cat to have a moment about herself in which there are no sung words; everything is communicated through body language. The closest another cat comes to this is Mr. Mistoffelees, whose role is written such that the actor may or may not have singing parts, but typically, he'll still have lines outside of his own number.
Second, relating to that: I think there's only one part in the show where Victoria's voice is distinct, and that's when she shares two lines about the Jellicle Moon with Jemima during the Song of the Jellicles. They both maybe-sort-of get messages from the Jellicle moon, so whether she actually hears what she's saying is unknown.
Third, as a friend of mine likes to point out: there's a moment during the Jellicle Ball number in which she dances out of sync with everybody else, which can be taken as her not hearing the music.
Fourth: white cats are deaf in much higher rates than any other. Up to 20-ish% of white cats without blue eyes, up to 40% of white cats with one blue eye, and up to 80-85% of white cats with two blue eyes are born deaf. Coincidentally, I've seen a lot of fanart depicting Victoria with blue eyes, both in conjunction with this headcanon and not.
4: The Invitation to the Jellicle Ball
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"This is the part where they explain the plot!" I always hear people say. Yes, this is where they explain Plot #1. To paraphrase:
Old Deuteronomy, leader of the tribe, will come and choose a cat to be reborn into another of their nine lives later in the night. This is seen as an honor and isn't weird or culty like a lot of people passingly familiar with Cats like to say. They're not competing to die; they're celebrating somebody's life and wishing them the best for what comes after.
No, Macavity doesn't want to be chosen. He just wants to wreak havoc. Cats (2019) made that part up because it got rid of Demeter.
^ This bit of choreo is probably where Cats (2019) got the idea of shipping these two, which is a bit odd, considering they literally both have pairs presented. rip Plato I guess
Pouncival pouncing moment #1
You'll notice that Munkustrap constantly has his legs wide apart. It's widely speculated that this is because the kitten characters love to dive through them, and he doesn't want their skulls bashing against his kneecaps all the time.
^ Victoria Jellicle moon moment (+ another being out of sync with the choreo moment)
I've officially run out of images but I really like this part where Munkustrap greets all of the cats. He has some really cool relationships in this show and it's worth going through in slow motion once you're more familiar with the characters. Anyway, this is Electra, and she's one of the kittens. Whenever fans decide that one of the kittens is Munkustrap's, it tends to be her, since she's always SUPER excited to interact with him and he's very warm with her.
In this section, I also really like how cordial he is with Jellylorum, how gentle he is with Demeter, and whatever he's got going on with Alonzo.
Bonus: Monochromatic siblings staging placements (yes I will probably do this every time because it's fun for me)
Bonus #2: Alonzo actors always raising their chins, my beloved
#fern muses#fern's 1998#<- goodness knows I won't remember a tag any longer than that#and I really need to be able to find these posts again#anyway uhhh. bias galore#long post
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Which established characters are you hoping to see in Dreadwolf?
Obviously I think Dorian will be at least appearing and I'm hoping Maeveris ends up in an advisory role or something like that. I'd also really like that for Fenris, where he advises us and we have some sidequests with him, but his own work and ours maybe diverges a bit, to give it the feel of there being just so much going on and so many moving pieces.
I would also really like Feynriel as a companion, I think it would be a great nod to DA2 and be an interesting way to work in some great moral conundrums for us (like having the option to influence someone's mind through their dreams or the like).
From Absolution, I'm hoping either Qwydion or Tassia become companions (though Roland and Lacklon as a pre-built set would be pretty fun). Qwydion would be like a less annoying Sera sort of role, playful and silly, but very good at what she does and with a heart of gold. Tassia would also work I think in an advisory role, but I could see her as a companion (and them both as love interests). She could be a more conservative Tevinter viewpoint, but very anti-blood magic and with a Dorian-esque desire to "save" her country from itself.
Prior to the VA's bullshit, I had actually really hoped Cullen might be a companion, simply because it would get him in basically every role he could have taken in the games and because he's one of the only characters to appear in all three prior games without DLCs, so I want those parallels. Since his epilogues never actually count, he could have been in Tevinter for a year or two before starting the game--he'd fascinate the Tevinters while also having Templar abilities they wouldn't at all be ready for.
Dagna is another "older" character who would be great as a companion and give some interesting insight. I'd love to see them go deeper into lyrium/Titan lore and having someone like Dagna around (as well as Fenris and even to some extent Cullen) could add to that. There are a ton of dwarves in Minrathous, after all, who live under the city so they don't get exiled as "surface dwarves."
Krem could also be a great companion (and finally a love interest??), perhaps under an assumed name or something like that, with a side quest involving searching out his family or having to deal with being recognized, considering he's basically a fugitive.
If they're using Tevinter Nights characters, there's soooo many options. Perhaps Myrion or Strife for their Qunari invasion experiences (and Strife as a contact to the Dalish), Hollix or Mizzy already are connected to Dorian of course, Neve has great contacts in the Templars, Lucanis could give us a connection to the Crows (would absolutely love to see my fav pair from the book, Viago and Teia, appear, and through Viago we could also get a connect to the Antivan king). Philliam, a Bard! could be the comic relief character if we don't already have one, Vadis and Irian are a great all around pair with a ton of connections to different possible plotlines.
As for repeat companions from DAI...I don't know. I've seen people say Varric, but I think they're reallllly close to overdoing Varric, and also his usage in so much other material implies he may have been "released" from tight control they normally like to keep over major NPCs. Dorian would obviously be relevant, but kind of falls into the same category of being used in a decent amount of other media now. I think Cole has some great insight, but apparently he was fairly controversial, and obviously a lot of the others from player choices.
As for DAO...I'd absolutely love to have Shale back, but most of the other characters are either dead or too affected by player choices. Though Zevran could also be interesting, I'd prefer one of the newer Crow characters.
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Season 1, Episode 2, “Hawk and Dove”.
Joy.
We are introduced to Hawk, AKA Hank Hall, who is already captured and being tortured! Listen, I don’t often side with torturers, but he probably deserved it.
Dove, AKA Dawn Granger, saves his ass and then we get a gratuitous bathroom shot because Alan Ritchson is hot, and also to show that the superhero life fucks you up, kids.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really understand what their plan is here? They’re taking out arms dealers and stealing the money for themselves until they have enough to “retire”. Dude, you’re both in your 30s, just get a normal fucking job that isn’t destroying your body and mind, maybe?
(This is a recurring theme with these two. They talk about quitting, one of them goes back on it, they fight, they make up, they talk about quitting… It’s a whole thing.)
Dawn is so pretty, fuck me.
She rescued him and plays nurse afterwards? Dawn, honey, he does not deserve you. He can't even fuck.
Flashback time, and Dickie-boy is hanging out with the Bad Kids against Batman’s orders. (I say “Kids”. All of these people are in their twenties at least. And, also. This is four years ago, but in s2 they say the og Deathstroke stuff is four years ago. Don't think to hard about the Titans timeline, good lord.)
DO LIKE; the fight choreography here! Dick is all flippy acrobat but Hawk and Dove are like pro fucking wrestling lol.
DO NOT LIKE; this weird fucking love triangle, and I use the term “love” extremely loosely. Poly supremacy man, you all have bird names and a shit ton of fucking issues, you could all be each others problems instead of inflicting yourselves on others <3
(oh my god, I’ve only just hit the titlecard. This episode is *so* long)
(Or maybe it's just that I find it incredibly boring.)
I'm sure that's not relevent
Dick is taking Rachel to Hank and Dawn, so he calls Alfred for some money to… pay them to keep her?
(on a related note, there is such a frustrating interesting dissonance between what we are told and what we are shown in this show. We are told Dick has a rep for being great with kids, but he doesn’t really know what Rachel should be eating or watching at her age, and he tries to get rid of her the second he can. Rachel says she’s not a kid, and then the very next scene is her sprawled out on the bed surrounded by snacks. Rachel says she can tell when people are lying, but her "Mom" was lying to her her whole life?)
I’m trying really hard not to get too bitter too quickly here, but god the difference between how Dick treats an upset Rachel to how he later treats an upset Jason makes my heart hurt :(((
Oh, The Family are fucking creepy okay. It’s the heteronormativity.
Dick is a terrible fucking liar, omg.
Rachel: You’re gonna leave me too, aren’t you? Dick: Dick: Dick: Dick: No.
Dick introduces Rachel to Dawn, Rachel gets a little sneak peak of their former sex life as a treat. Awkward.
Ahaaaa
“I’m outta the life,” Dick says, like he didn’t put the Robin suit back on like. A day ago. (another tell vs show)
I do love when people say Dick’s name like the insult.
(Unfortunately, it’s Hank being an insecure macho fuck over Dawn “Sure, I cheated on you with him before, but it’s not like I’d do it again how dare you not believe me” Granger. They’re so unhealthy, fuck. And the manufactured melodrama is so bleugh.)
The Family ambush and torture Amy, and she somehow tells them where Dick is despite him literally never telling her. Because plot.
Astute readers may have noticed I'm not a big fan of Hank but idk folks, I just think maybe it’s a little tasteless to make a “pants off” joke (TWICE) about a character that has long term trauma from repeated childhood sexual assault :/
Okay, fuck, Dick is already making me work for that body count list.
OKAY.
He castrates the torture guy, stabs another guy in the eye with a birdarang and drops a guy from the ceiling. I’m pretty sure they’d all live, if be permanently disabled. BUT. The last guy, he throat punches and then hits in the head so hard with his own gun that there’s a huge fucking blood splatter on the window, so I am counting that as a half-kill.
I’m OuT oF tHe LiFe - Dick Grayson (definitely not wearing the Robin suit again. Nope.)
Ah, more meledorama.
Rachel finds the money and Dick’s custody arrangement letter. She is not happy about it. She shows Hank, who isn’t ever happy about anything.
And then The Family show up to kidnap Rachel, so problem solved I guess?
[More Titans Rewatch here :D]
#Titans rewatch#titans (2018)#hbo titans#This one is so much longer i'm sorry lol#i tried to actually like. recap the episode this time. bear with me while i get the hang of this#EDIT: THE LINK IS FIXED stupid tumblr not letting the chronological link work on mobile >:(
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I'm contemplating what to do for Hancock's jewelry and bouncing ideas in my head for the two new Oh Sweet Child requests.
Pending thoughts for jewelry
I'm thinking something like a choker but it's a snake that gently bites the end of its tail. I've long had a motif that folks connected to the RA have a pearl somewhere in their jewelry so maybe the eyes?
Perhaps some scales are gemstones depending on what kinda snake I do though keeping it mostly gold would match with her usual tastes ngl.
Considered a hanging chain from the fangs to a teardrop ruby that is meant to hang between or just under her breasts. I forget if there's a specific name for this but it's usually only done to compliment a plunge neckline or draw the eye to the breasts in general for women--I've never seen this in men's jewelry fashion unless you count dog tags or a ring that is meant to hide under a shirt when desired. Maaayybe 'drops' of rubies down the chain as a sexy intrigue piece that also hunts at how damn dangerous this woman is to get close to.
Okay, so thoughts for Whitebeard's platonic end
I'm not entirely sure on what I'll have for his. Maybe reader has a bad dream (cliche I know lol) and ends up talking to him in a little heart to heart.
Oh! Or maybe reader sneaks out when everyone has passed tf out during a party to try and either escape or get fresh air without being hounded. Idk. Depends on when this takes place cause at the end of Sweet Child they've pretty well resigned to sticking around.
Anyway, party walk, the reader thinks everyone is asleep but as it turns out, Whitebeard tends to be a very light sleeper when on deck and it leads to a soft conversation.
I've tried very hard to not have too much detail in reader's past so it's not specific to anyone--no mention of family or friends--but I have mentioned some vague nothings about "shit choices" implying the marine enlisting wasn't entirely by choice. I didn't have any specific plans for that or secret btw, I just needed something to give the reader a reason to not fold immediately into Whitebeard's crew.
Anyway, I thought it'd be sweet if part of this heart to heart is a conversation about wanting to have a choice in a world that very much doesn't really let you have that. Not knowing what they want to do with their life because they haven't had the ability to put much stock into the future--which is ultimately why they're so passive about their fate despite having a desire to leave.
Which naturally leads to Whitebeard talking about the different reasons he "adopts" his children. The one relevant to the reader is protection and a desire to see them flourish. He didn't seem them out but he knew when they arrived that he wanted them to be apart of his family.
Maybe he suggests they start writing about the many dangerous animals they seem to have a natural ability to charm. At the very least, it gives them an excuse to go after them and well... It's hardly the most dangerous hobby any of his children have picked up Whitebeard adopts feral pirates almost daily he feels kinship at how much reader loves things that could and would rip them to shreds.
And finally Izo.
Izo gives me the most trouble because as far as I'm aware of he's a fan of his guns and he likes cross dressing--if only just in cosmetics and performing traditional Japanese activities that are usually reserved for women like dancing.
I'd need to double check that last part honestly but that's where I'm at right now for understanding his character.
And he hasn't really shown up so I don't have any real basis for his stance on the reader--nor do I have any direction for the request. But I feel like he'd admire the reader not caving into the crew quickly given that it shows they do have dedication and standards.
But I'm pretty lost in bonding for either romantic or platonic senses. At least without getting into conversations about gender which would be difficult to dance around without assigning the reader a specific gender outright.
I know from comments most assume the reader is female and in rather hoping that's because the readers are mostly female as opposed to me missing glaring red "THIS IS NOT A MAN" flags... Which would make me sad cause y'all it's really hard to write some of this stuff without committing to a sex or gender 🥲
But! The point is that from the sounds of it so far, at the very least the reader doesn't typically do any of the cosmetics associated with feminine presenting fashion. So I'd need to be very careful in phrasing to avoid breaking this without talking about "well I'm a dude and dudes don't usually wear lipstick where I'm from" or "I was never a girly girl growing up" cause of the obvious reasons (at least I hope it's obvious).
I'm just not sure what kind of common ground they'd bond over so there's a strong chance it'll be a bit before Izo's comes out, unfortunately.
Perhaps a conversation about duty? And growing last what you'd previously assumed would be your entire life??? That'd be interesting and a unique point only the marine!reader could come from given the drastic difference from marine to full on pirate.
Anyway, I need to sleep now before I completely fuck myself up for work Monday lol
Btw, Melody hasn't been forgotten I just set it down for a moment while I consider how/if I'll drag out the next part before I move Koala into the story.
#one piece#one piece yandere#platonic yandere#oh sweet child of mine#anime jewelry#mittens update#i think a lot before i commit to writing the next part of my stories lol
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Realidea system is a dating sim. (playthrough pt. 1)
Just going to make little entries about my playthrough of Realidea system fangame.
At the beginning of the game, when Elliot wanted to meet you on this romantic cliff with pokemon flying around and marked it on his calendar, I thought that he was going to confess to the player lmao. Unfortunately, he wants to leave the village to become a photographer. Fortunately, he subtly manipulates the player into joining him by using the 'Trainer' dream against him.
Elliot either wants a free bodyguard (he travels without a single pokemon for quite a while!), or this game is just a very long date/honeymoon between player and Elliot and everything else is sidequests. He goes on a forest walk (date) and gives you a gift- player (Jasper) is the shonen protag while Elliot is the harem/ dating sim protagonist. Guy straight up runs into girls and Alba calls him a 'nice guy'. There are cutscenes where the player 'steals' girls from bootleg edgy N, but don't be fooled by his cinnamon roll vibe- Elliot is the true alpha rizzlord with a pink beanie.
I named my character Jasper before I saw that the village is named Jasper village. I guess his parents were creatively bankrupt. I proceeded to name all my pokemon after gems/ stone formations, and it was scary knowing that all towns are literally named after gemstones so one of these pokemon could be accidentally named after a town just like their trainer. Lapis (Magikarp) fell first. I was going to name a Morelull Amethyst but stopped in time.
While playing fangames, I like giving my protags personalities and inner dialogue. So, Jasper starts out going on a journey not because he wants to be the best trainer, but because he's single. He hits on every single NPC. This game makes it easy, haha.
You bet I checked every single trashcan I can find. This game takes every opportunity to roast my kind.
Moments
At least invite him on a date first!!!
Every time I pass by this area, Jasper sits next to him for a while :D
Nurse best waifu. Skipping over nurse dialogue < flirting with best girl
LIES. I thought the game will end at this point XD
Yup I save spammed the gacha. Was hoping for a megumin tho
Why don't I join u hahaha
Yes you can. Stick your head in there. Do it for the bin gods.
CHAIR
If you guys have... a third place in your relationship, I'll be happy to join you two ;)
A favor, huh? What about we hang out a bit... date or something.
Anything for you ;D Jasper is probably into older men. Oh, just a regular hug? Okay.
Canonically, protag is a rizz god. Hey bootleg N, if you can't beat him, join him~
I mean, these irrelevant, no-portrait NPCs don't count. Get in-game relevance before you date Jasper smh
If evil why hot? I can fix her. I can be insane with her. When Jasper turned away her hug, it's because Alba gave him the stink eye.
Yes please :D Mansion ghost waifu get??? Maybe Jasper should retire right now, endgame is right here. Sigh, I guess Jasper just wants to 'play the field' just like his friend.
Currently in Lapis town, trying my best to skip time because of plot. Gonna make a more structured update now that I learned how to take photos and stuff.
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Follow me inside the wastelands - Chapter 18 -Arthur Maxson x Female Sole Survivor Fanfic
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14242575/18/Follow-me-inside-the-wastelands
Alright people we are getting into the final stage…not final chapters because I kinda counted how much they will be and I expect ten or more…
If you are very very very delighted with one fic and want a continuation I didn’t write or post you can donate me at least $5 bucks, most of this fics have next chapters I don’t finish because lack of motivation but hey a $5 is a $5, I see a few reviews and coments that fics that are abandoned months laters receive coments of wanting to know what happends next. Here it is, I finished my handling with you all, enjoy the fic
Arthur handt seen Nora since the nursery event and hadn’t heard anything also, that was two weeks ago, three plus two were five, since less than 5 minutes of conversation doesn’t count as seeing each other they hadnt seen in a month…were the hell is she this time? She was sick the last time they see, she came back to use the services of the Prydwen as if was her right as sentinel but…He missed her, a lot, she slip again, he thought they were okay, maybe he should confess after all? To make her stick?
He had a lot of work lately anyway, there was good news for him but he cant enjoy life if she wasn’t around, he wanted to came back to his quarters and find her, even just there reading.
His attention tried to focus into reading the papers in front of his deck but he cant, he was worried sick lately, he even was contemplating the idea of sending a patrol to look for her or even…hire…a private investigator…but no, that would compromise his image too much.
His eyes posed on the terminal in the desk: the first email was from Knight Cade, goddammit the man keep sending him the results of the status report of all the brotherhood soldiers, it was okay it was his job it was mandatory for him to send him a copy but he sent already four and the emails had a filter to snich to the writer if the reader had read it or not, so he didn’t even open them. One: he was no doctor, Arthur couldn’t understood most of the words of those reports. Two: he couldn’t care enough? He had thousands of soldiers a board is not like there was a massive flue or anything to make numbers or estadistics. Three: it was his job to do that numbers anyway…? Four: There was so much people why this was relevant to him. Okay Cade, thanks for the copy, you don’t need to send it four times.
Not one, not two, not with mayus in the title, not with the important filter… Well what the hell, he would open it so the automatical filter will inform to Cade that he read it…looking inside the email there was just an attached file, the usual file but
Subject: “QUARTERLY HEALTH BROTHERHOOD REPORT”
Attached file: “IMPORTANT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION”
Oh wow even the file name was in mayus.
He open it, it was the classical file. This file had the name and info of all soldiers, he included, but separared by range and alphabetically ordered. That means that for example, the four paladins were all together. Of course, as elder, he was first, that’s why it was a classified information file but then curiosity hit him like a coin meeting the end of the jar. Oh my he never thought on this before, Nora must be in this file too! Yeah he never paid too much attention to this information to realize it, after all he was no doctor. Mmm lets see, the first entry was him with the info about her mods updated with the revision from the last weeks…the second file was the second most important range, the sentinel, of course, and there was Nora…just Nora…no surname Nora, although he believed that her surname from her husband was Howard from what he see at her house.
Her height, weight…oh my she really doesn’t weight a shit, aren’t those the numbers of someone underweight? Comparing it with the age and height, his eyebrows crossed, looking at this numbers…oh my god it was horrible, she had awful levels of everything, vitamins, proteins, blood, sugar, colesterol…the only thing that was in a good numbers was the vitamin D, no wonder, walking and traveling that much…hemoglobins were so low…potassium…oh my her bones…ohnonononono this wasn’t acceptable she had an eating problems but if she keep running around the Commonwealth on this health status she is going to end BAD one day…what if right now she was fighting for her life in some corner of the commonwealth? Fainted or without forces from malnutrition? Nora relays a lot on drugs but that isn’t going to help forever! It may give her a boost for some minutes but wit this levels of…of…well he cant read this stuff non understand what it means but anyway she cant process well the drugs, some days she will end up with an overdose! Because her body didn’t process the chemicals enough!
Her triglycerides were shitty? Oh no, a big anxiety took over all his body reading this, there may be a mistake? Maybe? Maybe is someoneelse data?...nono is perfectly possible from here, eating only one complete meal a day only is totally possible. Should he send that patrol to search for her? Like right now? Arthur keep reading until a red sticker on the lower part on the file caught his attention.
Maternity leave expected in…a date that was three weeks ahead. If he look in that sticker there was a note, saying that she made a sub-unit beta HCG test two weeks ago and her results were 30-300. But that information meant…oh my.
Knight Cade was quickly summoned to his private quarters, this conversation could not go anywhere and not be heard by anyone else
-So I see you received my email Elder –oh the knight was salty, he didn’t have time for this. Nonono he had important QUESTIONS yes questions because with this man he can do questions yes please.
-Yeah sorry about it, I had a lot of work this weeks –it was true, he had work, he had been busy but still this subject very much concerns him, and it was a tickling bomb too!
-I can only imagine, dealing with the fractions in California…
-That is not the theme of discussion today –he stated, making the man shut quickly, as a grown up man he had his boundaries and manners more…polished than Nora.
-Of course –he just simply said, Arthur turned back, he didn’t know how to approach this subject, he stayed in silence for a few seconds before he reunited the guts to speak freely about his lover to another soldier.
-So…the report said that Sentinel…
-Nora is severly underweight –Knight Cade completed the sentence, Arthur sighted, looking back at him.
-Right? Im not an expert but I figured that reading it…
-I was not able to perform a urine test but she has a strong presence of chems in her blood also. Its understandable because she was three weeks in the field and its no place to be clean but considering her numbers doing drugs is anything but safe right now –a balloon of worries started to grow inside Arthurs chest as he heard the explanations –She may have a good health right now because she almost hasn’t experience radiation so her spoileage is more slowly than ours but a large variety of health problems could strike her at any minute considering her levels…of basically everything. She can’t just rely on drinking water and rad-away, eating noodles and trying to find non-radiated pre-war stock, its impossible to maintain.
-The rumours of her not eating are completely true –at hearing the confirmation Knight Cade cover his mouth.
-Damn –he babble
-She wasn’t as skinny before the bombs dropped so its not genetics.
-I have the numbers, as a doctor I don’t need to count every rib on her chest, there’s a math count between her height and weight that tells me she is 20kg bellow of just skinny.
Arthur felt bad, he knew or had a very palpable idea of this and he didn’t do enough to stop it.
-So she needs to start a diet, what else do we have? –Knight Cade laughed behind his hand, trying to not be disrespectful with his elder worries.
-What else do we have? –he asked to himself low trying to not be heard but Arthur can, with his mods he can, with his mods he can amplify and separate sounds in different frecuencys to hear and process them separately. It was a lack of respect to the elder, yes, but he keep the focus of the conversation, he needed the man, he only had this secret- well we need to start right away with a threatment or she will not be able to carry on to the third trimester-Arthur blinked, his breathing stopping, his entire body getting frozen-a pregnancy elder, we didn’t have a pregnancy in the brotherhood in a long time –the last children to be born safely inside the Prydwen had already 7 months old so yeah, soldiers and relationships will go freely inside the brotherhood and still not many children were conceived.
Oh my oh my oh my…he whished to hear those words for so long….
-So she is…-he wanted to clarify, still unable to move, almost without the power to process words from his brain to his mouth.
-Three weeks pregnant by the time the test was made, if I make it again today it should be 500-5000 mui/ml and god knows when im going to perform another but it she makes it back in two weeks it should be 300000-210000 yes is crazy how the numbers change
Arthur stood in silence, for some moments, trying to gain back his breathing.
-She was informed of the results? –Knight Cade doubted if giving that answer was a good idea or not but…
-Of course, is a quick test, it only take some hours to give the results, she solicited the test, I performed it in total confidentiality as she asked and she came to know the results.
The elder didn’t understand why.
-And she left? –why not tell him about her…worries?
-I haven’t see her since that day, I don’t know when she left or where –why not tell him to specifically ask for this type of test?
-She left at 19hs that day, that’s the Prydwen ventibird entry –why not tell him anything at all?
-Well yes she came to my office at 18hs I cannot remember so specifically –so she left after having that information.
I was like she just came to take the pregnancy test, confirm her fears…and leave.
“I do fear” She said that day to him.
-Wait she takes pills right? I authorized them –he even sees her bleeding several times, meaning that she had her periods.
-That isn’t a guarantee of anything, the pills are not perfect but yes she did the pick ups chords to the date she started consuming them
-So she is like in danger now or something?
-Its very possible for her to have a sludden misscariage –a drop of cold sweat moved down on Arthurs neck, with what they were talking about this things shouldn’t surprise him but it was still…important to him to not feel about it- On the bright side maybe the cravings and hormones change her eating habits at somepoint, she isn’t 60 days pregnant still so there’s a lot of changes still coming
-We don’t know that she isn’t here –oh my so many emotions were running in all his limbs, so much panic an anxiety.
-If the sentinel wish to carry this pregnancy to end…
-Why she wouldn’t want to finish it? –his worries speak loud for him, Cade look at the elder and at seeing him looking to another side ashamed, the knight continued.
-She needs to start a treatment and stop immediately the consumption of chems –Arthur nodded, he never agrees with that since the beginning but now it was dangerous- Right now theres a extreme risk of abortion, at least in my opinion, with her numbers so low and wandering out there In the radiation.
Oh my no…
-She wishes to end this pregnancy why woudlnt she? –does anybody knows any kind of information he doesn’t? –the safest place for that baby is the brotherhood.
-I cannot agree more elder
Arthur was in a mix of being…exited…and worried sick, and happy and overjoyed but also frighten and so scared and…
-Can we know now who the father is or? –that words came out from an exited part of him but of course the knight shake his head in denial.
-No, too early, and I only perfomed a test
-So we are at week five now –his brain was working so hard with the little information he had- maternity leave is projected in three weeks ahead
-Exactly, the standard 60 days but that’s for women in good state of health right now the sentinel is in several risk, its not only about the baby but imagine if she is in the middle of a fight and she has this abortion, its incredible inconvenient and dangerous, she could bleed to death!
-Nora almost never travels alone and she had the ventibirds signals and the minutemen flares shell manage…
-Im sure she has been before in dangerous situations and scaped death by miracle but…
Cade was right, he said that to reassure himself but oh boy he feared for her safety. His fingers were trembling, and soon his knees will start doing it too
-Maybe she thinks that since is still so early is not that dangerous…
-She was a mother before –the elder stop, he was right, so damn right- truth is I hadn’t the time to tell her about her health so lets…give her that credit –he bited his tongue, trying to suppress the nerves he had on.
It was so difficult to deal with all this uncertainty, she wasn’t around and she was in danger, their pregnancy was in risk, she was at the edge of practically dying too…She slips too hard from his hands this time.
-Thank you for…insisting on this subject with me Knight Cade, I will take action on the matter
He wanted to be alone, not wanting to be seen at the edge of a crisis, so much was going on his head.
-Of course elder, any baby of the brotherhood is a brother or sister we all must protect.
That’s right, It wasn’t just about Noras wishes, not this time.
The knight leave his quarters and Arthurs knees finally failed to him, he fall on the cold and hard metal ground causing an echo in the entire room.
And he cried. He cried and cried and cried so much. In confusion, in fear, in joy, in happiness, in worry, in pain… he had such a mix of feelings leaving his throat in desesperate cries. There was just no justification for any of this. He can make excuses for her until reaching just a certain point where…theresnt more.
You are nervous and don’t wanna tell me? Fine
You are scared to be just around? Fine, go with the Minutemen
But don’t disappear, don’t put yourself in risk. She make things so difficult. What he imagined as a happy moment since a long time now was making him suffer in distress a lot. He imagined being a dad with her as something so beautiful that will unite them more and in the contrary she lefts! Again!
The next thing the elder would do was something very very bold, oh dear, Nora will surely hear the news and come back. The elder of the Brotherhood of Steel, four paladins and 2 knights with machine guys arrived at the gates of Diamond City. Surely this was an unexpected event, he even noticed that there was people…taking notes and photographs of their arrival like this was some kind of big event.
-This is interesting, what is the supreme commander of the brotherhood doing in the Commonwealth jewel? -ask one of the Diamond City guards, with also a commando of his own forces , both groups seemed pretty capable of holding a fight for a long time.
-Your reputation procedures you, im looking for the services of the synth you allow to live here, Nick Valentine –said the man that gave the order to destroy the institute.
Everyone stay in silent until the leader of the guards talked.
-We will escort you to his office…Maxson, in gratitude for your services cleaning the routes next to your base in Hardware Town. It really help with the security around.
When the synth mayor was killed, Diamond City was taken under…a military government, but this guys weren’t militarys, they were just strong, insanely strong and organized group of old guards that care for the people and manage some things for the city to keep functioning like before the mayor was unmasked as a synth
Arthur walked around the city, this place was nothing like Noras settlements, it was chaotic, hostile, dirty and this hallways everywhere were awful.
People look at his bodyguards like they weren’t welcome, they can suck on a Deathclaw cock and perish for all he matters right now.
When standing in front of the office door, he knocked, a “come in” feminine voice invited them, Arthur open the door just to find a woman and a 2 gen synth sitting in a desk, she was holding a notebook and he was…relaxed…too relaxed to just be in front of the elder of the brotherhood of steel.
-Today you will perform all machines duty, serve to humankind, synth –he just said to the robot playing in detective old clothes.
-Well, good afternoon for you too –Nick just responded, getting in Arthur nerves- Alright, take a seat, make yourself comfortable.
Why are robots were so rude? He sat on the chair in front of his desk while the secretary at his side…waited.
-Do you came here for a private manner or you wish your company to stay here too? –asked the secretary, Arthur made a sign for them to come in, too small place for so many power armors, so the two knights waited outside with their machine guns, menacing everyone that went close to the place to sneak into the brotherhood business.
-When you are trying to find someone whos gone missing, devil is in the details, tell me everything you can –said Nick Valentine giving him the usual treatment like he would do with any first time client.
It was obvious that the rumors about their arrival prepared them, or someone told him that he was specifically there for an investigation.
-I think you know her too well, Sentinel Nora –Arthur was amazed to see the change of expressions in the silicone face of the destroyed robot.
-Nora? Our Nora? The Nora that destroyed the institute? –the elder nodded and Valentine look at him stranged- when was the last time you see her?
-Month and a week
-That’s not missing, that’s the usual time it takes her to appear in front of anyones noses, deadlines are far away, she is on time
-We need her back at the airport
-Im not snitching on my friend, althought im not sure if she wants to be missing or not, Im sure that now she isn’t
-Im also sure that you don’t want her wandering around having a miscarriage –the eyes of the synth and the woman open wide at his comment- she needs to come back to the brotherhood
-So you are the guy…-said the lady, Valentine look at her bad- Piper told me
-Why I wasn’t informed of anything? –asked the synth, Arthur felt his cheeks warm a bit.
-It’s a ladys talk im not gonna spread about her love life with you guys
-Did Nora said anything about me? –ask the elder.
-I hadn’t see her in a while, but Piper is the best journalist on the Commonwealth and she told me something something about preparing a new article about the relationship of the hero of the commonwealth and the elder of the brotherhood of steel, she say it wasn’t just in the news yet because she needed more material to make it relevant to publish –Nick rolled his brilliant yellowish eyes and went back to put his hands on the desk.
-You said miscarriage? –Valentine asked now getting the whole point of the conversation, analizing each word and falling into the surprise. Arthur affirmed with the head- I never thought she would want to have kids again –his eyebrows crossed in doubt.
-Im not following.
-After what happened between her and her son …-Valentine saw the empty void of ideas in the man's head and shut the hell up- you don’t know it and it’s none of my business to tell you about it.
-You better told tell me, this is about her! –what the hell!? This is important! He can't just skip information! Everybody told him little pieces that didn’t help to connect anything
-No, we are just discussing what's necessary to find her, that story right now is irrelevant to the case, so im finding her and when she is here , you ask, and if she doesn’t want to answer is her goddam right
Althought he was glad she had loyal friends that respected her the fact that everybody was so secretive wasn’t helping at all.
-So you’ll take the case? –ask the elder analyzing each of his expressions.
-I cant promise its gonna be quick, I really hope that she comes back first on her own because Nora is slippery as fuck –heck he knows about it- but there’s no safest place for an abortion than the brotherhood of steel
Silence, the entire room went into silence.
Even Ellie was shocked
-What!? –Arthur got up from his chair and rapped his knuckles on the desk calling the synth attention.
-Nick! –said the woman actually annoyed with him –you went too far!
-What? I wasn’t joking around I mean it seriously! Why she would want to be a mother again after everything she’s been trought!?
-I think there’s a lot of things I deserve answers –the bitterness in Arthus voice made the synth tremble a bit, he never was intimidated enough but right now he touched a very sensitive spot.
-I think you deserve a lot of explanations –good difference between both words, the man noticed how careful he was being at talking- but im not the one that can provide them, ill search and send her back to the airport before its too late
-8 months are left, there’s plenty of time –Arthur noticed something…he wasn’t the first one to tell him that Nora would want for this pregnancy to come to the end…does Cade knows anything? Apparently anybody knew more than him! He was the ignorant fucker! His theets closed hard an gritted in frustration.
-Does she know? –the elder nodded, Nick turned his head to the side looking at nothing in the wall- of course she knows. Don’t worry, you will discuss this together.
This was a public subject of the brotherhood now, but even knowing that, he felt ashamed that his brothers paladins knew about this situation between him and the sentinel. How can she not want his child? It was unthinkable that the woman would wish an abortion than a family with the most powerful man on the Commonwealth
Arthur neither talk, or sleep, or heard anyone of his brothers in the way back to the airport on the ventibird. His mind was in blank and stay like that until the next day, when he summoned to his quarters the Knight Cade.
-You said something when we meet yesterday that stick on my brain for a while…” If the sentinel wish to carry this pregnancy to end…” Why wouldn’t she? Why would you say that? –he could understand if she was nerveous, if she had traumas, if she feared about having a baby again but what he didn’t understand is why two different people that doesn’t know between them suggested the same thing.
-I don’t know elder, it just came out of my mouth, a way of saying –Knight Cade was obviously nervous, and confused to be summoned like that
-No, theres a reason behind it, spill it –Arthur was firm today, he consider enough peoples feelings for too long.
-The Chain That Binds… –the elder rolled his eyes, he couldn’t say bullshit out loud but he wont summon that to scape from him today, they knew for so many years and he put that shitty excuse to not, not today.
-Im so glad to have such an attentive and devoted soldier like you on your position, respecting the brotherhood protocols and rules devoutly…-he said before turning his back on the shaky man who didn’t dare to look him in the eyes- don’t worry well look for every knight and paladin in the airport to follow to chain of authority above you so that way you wont be compromised…
Nonono Cade didn’t want to expand this, if this gets any bigger the sentinel will blow his bald head…
-She ask me to keep the secret of the pregnancy test and do it as subtle as possible…-he said low with his voice all shaky, Arthur paid attention to his words.
-But you didn’t keep the confidentiality on the subject, why?
-Its my job to make a report anyway –the elder was cornering him like the cats of Quinlan did with some creatures that lived inside the Prydwen walls.
-Yeah but you were very insistent to notify to me…why?
-Because it may be your kid Arthur for gods sake! –what’s with this shitty game? He knew the elder since he was a teenager to be mortified like that, he didn’t deserve this treatment- its not of my business what you both have in hands but its will surely turn worse for me if I didn’t notify you that the sentinel is doing chems during a pregnancy! –alright that sounded like a good reason.
-Ill ask again, why she wouldn’t want to continue the pregnancy to the end? –he clearly couldn’t corner the knight much longer, playing with people patience had a limit until they break or get tired of being disrespected.
-She is unhealthy, does chems, has been a mother before and has traumas, disappear after hearing the results –ok that was a very convincing list of arguments, things that were very obvious an noticeable for anyone, probably Cade wasn't to blame for anything and he was just desesperate looking for answers, quite embarrassing, he should look for a covert apology- but mostly…-the elder went to look at him after that pause- she didn’t look happy at all about the news.
That hit Arthur in the chest like a bomb.
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“Oh, you have apple sorrel!” Zach exclaims in delight as we enter.
“What?”
I look over to see him squatted down, plucking some of the clovers in the garden up with a practiced twisting motion. When he stands, I see him popping one or two of them in his mouth. He offers the remaining to me with an open hand. I just stare at him.
Zach sees and understands my expression. “The leaves are sweet! Like green apples.”
“Oh, good. My least favorite apple.”
I don’t have a least favorite apple, or a favorite apple. I am extraordinarily neutral about apples. But I am unwilling to eat grass, so I hope he will give me the out.
“Your loss,” he says, and snacks on the remaining leaves.
While Zach is busy imitating a cow, I start whistling for Tiny. She’ll know it’s me by the long, looping note followed by three short bursts. The sound can travel pretty far, so if she’s awake, she’ll come down to see us.
Or maybe she’ll be completely confused by Zach, who starts whistling in the same pattern.
“Would you stop that?” I say, trying not to snap and ending up hissing on the word “stop.”
He looks at me, bewildered. “Sorry.”
One more whistle from me is enough to bring my fae companion zipping out from around a corner. She flies around me once, level with my shoulders, before veering away from me to inspect Zach. He raises his hands and claps his hands over the ball of warm light that represents my tiny friend.
“Hey!” I yell.
The distance between us isn’t quite enough for me to work up to a run, but a couple of lengthened strides gets me into Zach’s personal space. Without hesitating, I set hands on his wrists to rip them apart. But he twists away from me, forceful enough where I stumble. I’m about to try and hook a leg around to use his momentum against him and trip him to the ground, but then I see the golden glow in his hands.
He didn’t smack her flat like a bug. He’s lucky he didn’t—I don’t care how many answers he may hold, I would have kicked his ass for injuring Tiny. Instead, he seems to have cupped his hands around her, and brought her closer to him, out of the air.
How the fuck did he do that?
“How did you—let her go!” I start to ask before switching to a much more relevant demand.
“What are you talking about?” he asks, as bewildered as I am angry.
“Zach,” I tell him with the same cold tone I used on his name twin last night, “if you don’t open your hands soon, in a couple seconds, you won’t have hands.”
Startled, Zach opens his hands. Tiny whirls out of them to land on my shoulder. Her tiny hands tug my braid forward so she can hide behind it. Zach stares at her, or me, or maybe his fascination is held by the both of us.
“It likes you,” he observes, surprised.
“Of course she likes me, you grabbed her out of the air!” I argue. “Even if we didn’t work together, I’d be a better option than you.”
This confuses him even more. “Work together? What do you mean, work together? Fae aren’t good at any sort of work. Unless you count pulling hair, biting animals, and unlocking livestock gates to be good work, and then they’re model employees.”
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#anyway city fae and country fae are suuuper different#ash finds this out the hard way lmao#my excerpt#my writing#lore book 1#lore series#the dynamic duo#technically the apple sorrel bit is unnecessary for this excerpt#but it’s my favorite thing I’ve written in this book so far so#I really wanted to include it lmao
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Disclaimer: I am well aware of the content of the Bible Leaks. However, I will not be addressing them. If you are reading this and have read the leaks as well, please, refrain from pointing out any spoilers from them out of respect to fellow fans that chose not to spoil themselves.
With that out of the way...
Um...could we please take a moment to talk about what just happened, whatever the fuck that is, please?
If you've known me enough, then you must surely know I despise Lila Rossi. As a character, as a villain, if she were a real person I might literally bite her head off... I wholeheartedly believe she is the source of about 75% of the salt in this fandom, given most salt takes on other characters are a direct result of their actions whenever she's around.
Just her mere presence in an episode is enough to sour somewhat my viewing experience.
And even I think her character deserved better than the bullshit they're trying to pull.
Can we please agree that the whole Three Mothers and Three Identities thing is some major ass-pull????
Where the fuck does that even come from?!?!
It makes no sense, it comes completely out of the blue, and it all just comes off as some poorly woven plot to make a literal 14-year-old look worse than a grown ass abusive father terrorising a city and its inhabitants.
And you might say, "Well, Geeks. It doesn't come exactly out of the blue... There was the whole Other Mum from Risk and Different Room in Perfection thing. That's gotta count as foreshadowing."
And though I admire your efforts, I'm afraid I must insist that if that is supposed to be foreshadowing, then it's bad foreshadowing.
This doesn't feel like foreshadowing, but like some hastily added details they had to include like, "Oh, damn! That's right; we're supposed to be trying to go somewhere with this girl! I know, let's just give her a different mum and room in different episodes. That'll do it."
By the way, this also contradicts some key aspects which ultimately undermines the whole thing. Such as the fact that Lila Rossi is part of the Agreste Brand, so it makes absolutely no sense as to why someone who is clearly not Mrs. Rossi would take her to the train station. Because as evidenced by the Illusion father-teacher conference, Mrs. Rossi is indeed the woman that appeared in Heroes’ Day.
(Also, Lila was introduced as Gabriel's muse in Ladybug by Alec, though now I'm not sure if she's ever been addressed as Lila Rossi on public appearances such as Risk, but it still feels contradictory) (I don't know, maybe I'm being too nitpicky with this, but it' just feels so contradicting. I swear, I have a point and I will elaborate on it in the future)
But in the end, the reason why this fails to be proper foreshadowing is that Lila is too much of an absent character for it to properly work. Seeing as, out of 4 seasons before the current point in time, she's only really been in the spotlight/relevant in, what, 6 episodes????
It doesn't feel like a twist we should have seen coming, but as a rushed, groundless subplot that has nothing to do with her previous appearances nor does it tie itself with any of her previously shown traits other than her being a liar.
Which instead of expanding on her character, ultimately reduces it to one-dimensional levels.
I discussed this in a different post forever ago, but in my honest opinion, proper foreshadowing or, at least, character placement, would have been if Lila had shown signs of knowing Alya is Rena Rouge. Why? You may ask.
Simple.
Because Lila has been shown in two different episodes, in different seasons, to have been paying attention closely and jealously to the things going on around her home. Namely, Ms Bustier’s class doing things together at the park which is right below her window while she was stuck at home because, for some reason, she refused to go back to school.
As we all know, Alya first transformed into Rena Rouge in the park. It would have been the perfect explanation as to why Lila never once tried taking glory for Rena’s actions under the guise of being Ladybug’s best friend—because of course she would entrust her best friend with a miraculous! Just like it would have been the perfect chance for her to try to get closer to Adrien once more by claiming something along the lines of, “Though Ladybug overreacted, she has a tendency of doing that because we can’t forget the backhanded comments, we agreed to change my superhero identity into one that would be safer from Hawk Moth!”
Instead, by having Lila somehow pull off the triple identity con without a single warning in six years, what they are doing is robbing her of a believable reason for the way she acts!
Let’s take Chloé, for instance.
Chloé’s actions are not excusable. Regardless of how terrible Audrey is, or how badly she neglected her before hopping on to the Enabling Train alongside André, that is never reason enough to be a bully and a total brat to absolutely everyone around you.
However, Chloé’s reason for the way she acts makes perfect sense within context. She is not just your typical rich spoiled brat. She is a rich spoiled brat whose father is in a position of power and whom she has completely under her thumb, which results in André’s power over Paris becoming Chloé’s. And thus, whenever someone confronts her on her terrible behaviour, as long as they are not in equal footing with her (like Adrien or Kagami), she can just have her dad take care of the situation and potentially have that person or their parents/relatives’ lives ruined.
Essentially, Chloé’s character amounts to a spoiled brat in a position of power who’s constantly throwing temper tantrums. And yet, this aspect of her personality has gradually been explored over the seasons.
What’s scary about this is that this is a real-life issue. There are people all over the world getting away with their actions (regardless of how severe they are) because their families have money, power, connections...
Lila, par contrast, gets her character simplified each passing episode she’s featured in.
We’ve gone from all the possibilities we were offered back in Volpina—Lila indeed just being a new girl trying to make friends but being afraid of rejection, her hating Ladybug while liking Marinette, a possible redemption, her becoming a legitimate villain in her own right rather than the narrative bending over backwards to try convince us she is a threat even though she is barely featured at all...— to a character whose entire schtick is “Oh, look at me! I’m evil and a liar!”
As I said earlier, one-dimensional levels of character depth.
The funny thing, though, is that Lila actually had a believable reason for the way she acted, and they are choosing to completely negate that and refuse to give their character any depth in favour of making her as malevolent as possible!
As I said with Chloé, please remember that reason does not mean excuse.
With that out of the way, let's remember how early seasons and especially Oni-Chan went out of their way to establish, or at the very least, hint at Lila being someone who most likely started lying to make herself feel special and make up for the lack of attention she was receiving at home.
Unfortunately, as time went by, her desire to be the centre of attention and liked, never mind if she never actually put the effort to deserve any of that, far outweighed any original good will and desire for friendship and genuine connections. While the implications that her mother giving her everything she wanted in hopes of making up for her absence further soured her personality until she became the lying, petty, attention-seeking spoiled brat we know today.
This, coupled with her desperation to be seemed and, more important, feel more special than she actually is gave us a legitimate reason as to why some petty liar would go as far as to ally herself with a terrorist.
Is it troubling behaviour? Undoubtedly. But Lila's never been shown to be a very stable individual. If the early running gag of her throwing things around when angered is any indication.
...
Um...
...esto...
...what exactly is she missing if she’s suddenly been conning three different, completely unrelated women into thinking she’s their daughter? A good psychiatrist?!?!
(I apologise for talking about a minor’s state of sanity, but you’ll have to agree with me that the writers are the first ones portraying kids as literal monsters here).
And you might say, “You might be overthinking this, Geeks. After all, it’s a superhero show; you can’t expect it to be realistic.”
And once again you would raise a very valid point. Hell, God knows I wouldn’t watch half the things I do if they were realistic. However, it is imperative that we make a distinction:
Fiction doesn’t have to be realistic, but it must be convincing.
And there is nothing convincing about a 14-year-old having three different identities because of how good a liar and manipulator she supposedly is.
Marinette pulls off impressive, crazy feats every single day? That is convincing because we see repeatedly how Marinette has both a complexity addiction due to a need to control things to calm her anxiety, and the fact that what ultimately saves the day is her natural quick-thinking and creativity, not to mention the fact that she has superpowers.
Chloé gets to expel people just by threatening to call her dad, the Mayor? Again, it is convincing, and probably even realistic, because she is in a position of power and, unlike Lila, her actions are appropriate in the sense that they are outlandishly cartoonish.
Lila...she doesn’t have that.
Maybe it's just me, but I just can't seem to buy the excuse that any responsible mother would be okay with their underaged daughter "going to Africa to deal with poachers" all by herself, especially in the middle of the school year. Just like I have the feeling many parents would at least be apprehensive at the idea of their teenage daughter becoming such a public figure as both a model and the face of the Alliance rings.
But hey, maybe those are just signs of me having the potential to become an overprotective mother in the future. Instead of, you know, one of the most atrocious cases of the Adults Are Useless trope I've ever seen.
Nevertheless, as of right now Lila doesn’t even have much depth. And I’m not saying she needs some sob story that will make us feel sorry for her, no. You don’t need to make a villain sympathetic for them to be a good villain. After all, Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame has no sympathetic traits nor does he have a sad backstory whatsoever and he is still one of the best Disney villlains ever.
So what am I supposed to do with Lila? What, do I have to wait until season 6 comes around and retrospectively reveals she’s not a teenage girl at all but some sort of ancient witch who lures people in with her syren song and feeds off of their adoration for her?
At this point it just feels like the writers are so desperate for adding shock value, that they forget to add anything of value.
#miraculous ladybug#ml salt#lila salt#ml analysis#ml spoilers#ml season 5#ml season 5 spoilers#ml s5.20#revelation#revelation spoilers#ml writing salt#gabriel agreste#monarch#shadow moth#hawk moth#ml revelation
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heart’s decree
a scott + pearl double life fic in which Pearl takes Scott’s abandonment into her own hands.
word count: 2,677
relevant tags and notes: scott pov, angst, temporary character death; scott + cleo moments, scott + jimmy moments, scott + pearl moments. big disclaimer that i quite like all of the characters involved in this fic, no matter how critical i may seem of any of them. the words “soulbound pair”, “soulmate”, and “soulbound partner” are used interchangeably to refer only to the game mechanic introduced in this season and shouldn’t be read romantically/platonically unless that’s how the ccs themselves define it.
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It’s a beautiful day. Perhaps that was the first clue that something was wrong.
Scott isn’t stupid. He’s lived through two of these worlds. He knows that soon enough, the grass would be watered with blood and he wouldn’t be able to sleep a wink out of paranoia dressed up as survival instinct. He knows that the loving friends he’s made will fall to their own sense of battle fury and seek each other out as hunter and prey. Soon isn’t now, though, and right now, Scott is tending to his fields and fixing up the house he’s built for himself.
While he’s walking to the woods, he falls to the ground, screaming, as his skin catches on fire.
He thinks he hears Cleo call out his name from across the bridge that connects their homes, but he’s too busy rolling on the ground, rubbing his hands on his arms, trying to put out the flames that aren’t there. His vision goes red and his throat is screamed raw and he’s left trembling on the ground, the axe he had been holding fallen to the ground beside him.
His head is in Cleo’s lap when he comes to, and she looks at him with slowly growing panic.
“What is it?” he whispers hoarsely.
Before she can answer, his ears ring and it feels like his body is being torn apart, a thunderclap that vibrates through his bones, his limbs flung across a field. The agony ripples inside him, even as his skin painfully tingles from the embers of the wildfire it had turned into. He doesn’t have any breath left to scream with. All he can do is curl into a ball on the ground, desperately trying to keep some part of him inside his body (but that doesn’t make sense, he’s whole, he’s unharmed, he’s home and he’s going to tend to his fields and maybe find a flower to put in a flower pot in his window). The world goes white in a second, and he squeezes his eyes shut to try and clear the stars out of his vision.
When he tiredly opens his eyes, he’s lying on the ground. Cleo is a few feet away, staring at him with a combination of horror and grief.
“Cleo?” he asks, his voice slightly stronger despite the dread deep in the pit of his stomach.
“I think you should go,” she says quietly.
“What?”
She looks at him helplessly. “Scott, I– I think you should go. I’m so sorry.”
The dread rises. It’s a pebble of a thing that feels like violent upset and a guileless confusion mixed into one and he doesn’t like how familiar it feels. “What do you mean, Cleo?”
She opens her mouth, closes it, hesitates, tries to say something again. “Just– maybe you should go find a lake in the forest or something. You– you should go do that.”
Scott’s least favorite thing about Cleo is how she tends to talk around her point. He knows she won’t be clearer now than she’s ever been.
He knows the answer to his question before he asks it. “Are you coming?”
“No, I think– I think I’ll go visit BDubs and Impulse, actually,” she says quietly. “I need to talk to them about– something.”
Scott tries to ignore how false her words sound. “Okay. Alright. I’ll try and find you after.”
Cleo just looks at him with something like pity (and something like fear, though he chooses to ignore that) before backing away slowly across the bridge. She runs for her home when she’s halfway across.
Scott finds the lake.
He’s not as surprised as he thinks he should be to see the crimson in his irises.
Numbly, he notes the burn scars that cover half of his face and the explosion scars that streak across the other half. He lifts a hand to gingerly trace the curved line of scar tissue that crosses his left eye (if this was a crueler server, he might have been blinded) (though, how much crueler could a server get?). When he drops his hand, it hits the communicator in his pocket that he’s been incredibly aware of during the entire walk to this heart of the forest.
Scott freezes before slowly taking the communicator out and loading the last few messages recorded in the server’s logs.
PearlescentMoon tried to swim in lava.
Smajor1995 died.
<Smallishbeans> tough luck, that.
<Grian> noooooo
<GoodTimeWithScar> :(
<Tango> welcome to the club!
<impulseSV> oof.
PearlescentMoon was killed by [Intentional Game Design].
Smajor1995 died.
<Etho> huh?
<Tango> FIRST TO RED FIRST TO RED
<Smallishbeans> erm.
<Grian> Pearl, what’s going on
<Renthedog> D:
<SolidarityGaming> OH NO!
<BDoubleO100> man, tough luck scott.
Scott scrolls through the condolence messages still being sent with slowly growing ferocity. Fucking typical. Of course she gets into deep shit when she’s by herself. A moment of guilt for leaving his soulbound pair by herself is overtaken by a quietly burning anger at her utter incompetence. He takes a breath that’s meant to be calming but instead stokes the dark fury in the pit of his stomach.
In one morning, Pearl had ruined the entire life he had planned for himself.
◈ ◈ ◈
Perhaps it’s from a sense of righteous indignity or perhaps it’s the curse of being red, but Scott soon finds himself sprinting across the world with the single-minded goal of finding his errant soulbound pair and screaming his grief at her. He wasn’t ready for this. He knows he wouldn’t ever be ready to go red, but he especially wasn’t ready to be red this early.
Something catches in his throat, but instead of the sobbing that should come forth, an inhuman growl vibrates in his chest. He remembers the curse of the boogeyman ending with a hellish howl in his ears that became the war drums of his heartbeats, but even that unnatural anger pales in comparison to this. This is his anger at the world being magnified by the innate fury of being red. This claws at his throat and demands retribution, not just blood.
As luck would have it, Pearl must be at the complete other side of the server because the first person he runs into is someone whose life he tied himself to worlds prior. He basically walks right into Jimmy, who starts before taking a step back, recognizing the inherent red blood-rage.
“You good there, Scott?” he asks cautiously, backing away.
Scott takes a second to stare at Jimmy. He’s barely in iron boots. Tango is nowhere to be seen.
“Just peachy,” he replies.
Jimmy nods jerkily. “Rough go of it, all of that,” he says, holding his communicator up. “Did you let her go to the Nether by herself or something?”
“I didn’t ‘let’ her do anything,” Scott says forcefully. “For your information, she went off there with Martyn instead of finding me and Cleo on the first day. They must have found a fortress or something; we were deep in a panic, putting out nonexistent fires. She probably went back this morning.”
Jimmy’s brow furrows. “Wait, are you not proper partnered with Pearl, then?” He huffs incredulously. “Isn’t that the entire point of this world? To have a partner built into the whole thing?”
“I’m aware of that, Jimmy,” Scott says, “but if you can’t tell, my soulmate and I aren’t exactly seeing eye to eye right now.”
“The death messages make a bit more sense, then,” Jimmy says.
“Do they, Jimmy?” Scott spits, and Jimmy takes a cautious step back.
“I mean– she’s sort of declawed you, hasn’t she? Can’t really kill her now; you’d be out of the game fully.”
Scott groans. “This would never have happened if she and Martyn just looked for us in the overworld.”
“Well,” Jimmy offers, “I never planned to find my soulmate until he died for the both of us. Big moment for big man Jim; I’m keeping my streak of first dead, even when I didn’t die myself. I’d bet that Pearl and Martyn– not that they were trying to avoid their soulbound partners, but when you’re the only two around who aren’t soulmates, it’s probably easier to have each other’s backs until you do find them.”
Scott narrows his eyes at Jimmy’s words. “That’s what Cleo and I said,” he admits reluctantly.
“Again, makes sense.” Jimmy hesitates before plowing on. “And– we know Martyn and Pearl. They would be the ones to find a way to the Nether first.” He shrugs. “Not saying they should have gone, of course, but they’re the types to see the carrot before the stick of any situation. They probably wanted to just peek in when they saw something worthwhile and decided to bring it back to gain an edge over everyone else.”
“That’s stupid,” Scott mumbles. “That’s so dangerous.”
“If we all think it’s dangerous, they’d be the ones to win,” Jimmy points out. “Pearl found the first diamond in this world, as well. Who knows what other riches she’s found by being brave enough to search for them. Martyn found an entrance to the ancient city as well, and he’s got plans on how to infiltrate it. I’m honestly a bit terrified of those two.”
“You’re terrified of everyone.”
“Well– it’s just me and Tango against the world now, y’know?” Jimmy eyes him. “Sorry. History isn’t enough to overcome the, erm.” He gestures towards his eyes.
Scott rolls his in turn. “Thanks for the reminder, Jimmy.”
“That’s not to say you’re in any sort of wrong,” Jimmy says quietly. “Like it or not, I know you, Scott. You’re caring, you’re loyal, you’re easily angered, and you’re selfish. You don’t try to be, don’t get me wrong, but you get so easily offended when things don’t happen the way you want them to. You and Cleo are right to be pissed off that your pairs weren’t searching for you the way you were searching for them. Martyn and Pearl were also just playing the game that they knew this would turn into. And I think Pearl’s changed the game so that you’d see it her way.”
“What on earth do you mean by that?”
“Well– and don’t take this the wrong way,” Jimmy says slowly. “You’re not exactly with Cleo now, are you?”
◈ ◈ ◈
It’s almost as if the soul binding is a translucent thread he can follow through the trees and over the rivers and plains. Before long, Scott can see Pearl, sitting in a flimsy wooden lean-to while quietly talking to the wolf she coerced into following her around. She doesn’t look up as he storms up to her, and when he’s standing over her, she glances up to him in a practiced boredom. The red doesn’t take over her gaze the way it has his, the crimson darkened into a barely perceptible maroon that glints dangerously as she observes him. He’s sure that his anger with her is carved into his expression, but her face is studiedly neutral, a blank mask that he can’t read.
“You could at least have knocked,” she snarks, and that’s enough to set him off.
“How the fuck did this happen?” Scott demands, shoving his communicator in her face.
Pearl has the audacity to laugh, even as her wolf quietly starts growling at Scott’s aggression. “Oh, that? Silly me, I forgot that you can’t sleep in the Nether. You’d think that after this long, I would remember.” She smiles at him. “Oops.”
“And the lava?”
Her grin grows sharper. “I slipped.”
“I don’t believe you,” Scott says flatly.
Pearl begins playing with the diamond she’s strung with hemp around her neck. “Alright.”
Scott sighs deeply, fighting the urge to attack the person that binds him to the world. “Okay, what’s our next step?”
“‘Our’?” Pearl draws out the word, raising an eyebrow. “I don’t remember there being an ‘our’ to talk about.”
Scott glares at her. “Unfortunately, the universe says we’re bound. Even more unfortunately, there’s no one else we can ally with, even if we weren’t bound.”
“And fortunately for us, we have free will,” Pearl says smoothly. “That’s what you wanted, right? When you chose your own ‘soulmate’ and left? Seems like she didn’t want you just as much as I don’t. Besides, I already have a soulmate,” she says, lovingly scratching behind her wolf’s ear. “Tilly would never leave me. She’s a good dog, aren’t you?”
“Your soulmate is your dog.” Scott deadpans.
“Better than the one the universe gave me,” she coos directly to the wolf, who pants at her and tries to lick her cheek. “Tilly’d never spit in my face and tell me I’m worthless, isn’t that right?”
“I never said that,” Scott says incredulously. “Is that what your problem is? You can’t be pissed off that I would rather be bound to someone who spent the whole first day with me rather than the person who fucked off to the Nether.”
“Who said anything about being pissed off?” Pearl gives him a smile, one with the warmth he remembers. It’s nowhere near as kind as it used to be. “Oh, it hurt, don’t get me wrong, but I knew how fragile that alliance was. It wasn’t your idea to leave her, was it?”
Scott stares. He remembers an echo of a last world, where Pearl’s laughs were reassuring and he could trust her at his back. “I should kill you,” Scott says with the same icy calm that Pearl’s been radiating.
“I didn’t take you for suicidal, Smajor,” Pearl says. She stands, gesturing for Tilly to join her. “I think it’s best if you just leave. I think I’ve done enough, and there’s nothing you can do to me that won’t hurt you as well.”
She brushes past him and goes to leave her shelter. The anger that Scott had come wreathed in flares up again, and in an instant he has his axe out and strikes towards Tilly.
There’s a kick of pain in his collarbone as Pearl leaps between his weapon and her dog. The blade sinks into her flesh, cutting the string of her necklace and letting the diamond fall unceremoniously to the ground. The same place on his shoulder carves a deep mark, bleeding almost immediately. Tilly howls in rage and jumps to bite Scott, but Pearl manages to hold her hand out, staying her.
“How crafty of you, Scott,” Pearl says, blood trailing out of her mouth. “Not that crafty, but craftier than I expected.”
Scott quickly yanks his axe out, wincing as more blood spurts out of the open wound. He feels his head growing dizzy. “Why would you do that?” he manages to say, spitting out the blood gathering in his mouth.
“I won’t let you try and kill her,” Pearl says as casually as someone bleeding out can. She takes a shuddering breath before reaching into an inventory and taking out a glass bottle filled with something shimmering and pink. Pearl drinks the contents of the bottle and suddenly Scott’s head clears, the wound on his collarbone swiftly healing.
She notices his attention on the bottle and gives him a smile that actually feels genuine. There’s a light air of regret and pity as she looks over Scott, and he wonders for a second if she sees something in him that he would find as ugly as a soulbound pair who gallivants in a hellscape without thought for who she’s connected to.
Scott thinks for a second that she’ll ask something that will devastate him and leave him in the ruins of whatever they could have been.
Scott thinks for a second that she’ll relent and they’ll venture off, an alliance of necessity rather than appreciation but nevertheless one that would make survival easier for the two of them.
Pearl does neither of these things. She turns, summons Tilly to her side, and walks down the hillside into the forest. Her back is to him. He knows the gesture isn’t one of trust.
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Trope by @rebecarojas07, hope you'll like it 🌸
Warning: Mav has a panic attack he is not aware off during class. Angst. Canon complain. Hurt no comfort.
The new class is nothing of peculiar or interesting, or at least that's the first gut feeling he has and most of his gut feelings are the right one. Even the names seem almost too obvious, as if they were trying to make his life more difficult. Maybe he will have more luck remembering Thunderbird then Athena or Flyingfox, who wanted to precise it's just one word not two Captain! Lieutenant Antoinette Sanchez is the last one of that long list or names and callsigns he will probably forget forever after the end of the program. Eight weeks never were this long.
But life likes to leave him with his ass on the ground and a constant heartache. Four weeks in the program and they're flying quota is good but not exceptional, he learned half of their callsign and he's still calling the other half with their actual name. Lieutenant Sanchez falls in the second group, even when she tries to make him call her by her callsign, but it doesn't stuck in his mind. Until he does and leaves him running towards the first bathroom he can find, counting days and realising it's already been a year and he forgot. How could he ever forget something like that?
Her callsign isn't relevant but what she says after is: you should call me Subzero because I'm always ice-cold up there. Ice-cold and not a single mistake, ever, sir. Her expression had made Mav laugh a little and he promised himself to write to Ice after and tell him someone was making a good use of his callsign, even if in a different version. The realisation hits him in the stomach and then it's the bathroom, the calendar, the weight of two sets of dogtags around his neck and that he won't be able to go back home and hug his husband because his husband is dead and he forgot. Sometimes happens, sometimes Mav says something, does something, thinks something and he turns around, takes his phone from the pocket of his jacket, talkes out loud asking for an answer that never comes. In three days it's gonna be a whole year without Tom, three hundred sixty-five days, too many hours and he felt them all, every single one of them, from the moment in the cimitery to this exact one. God he hopes it's not gonna be like with Goose, that he isn't going to grow to be old enough that the years they spend together will be just a fraction of his entire lifespan. He hopes, prays to someone, that life is going to take care of it and he won't live the next forty years without him when they didn't had all that time.
He hopes, hopes and hopes with his hand tight around their dogtags and Hondo's voice in his ear asking him to breath. He doesn't want to, he wants Ice to hug him and tell him it was all a practical joke and they're going to live another sixty years together and he will never leave his side. He wants to hear his husband's, his wingman's, voice again and not only in his memories. He want Ice to be alive and well because he lived with grief enough to know how hard is gonna be, it has already been, from now on. Class is dismissed and some rational part of him knows Cyclone is going to bust his ass to have such reaction and Warlock will bust Cyclone ass with a single stern look that will have the weight of thousands words. Hondo's arms are warm around, warm and present in a way he still isn't, his fist closed around their dogtags and an empty house full of photos to go back too.
He prefer when he forgets, forgetting is simpler and happier.
(Six, seven and eight weeks in program and the class is finally dismiss, everyone is graduating and Lieutenant Sanchez didn't ask him to call her Sub-zero once. He feels guilt because it's not her fault and she's going to do great up there, he hopes she's gonna be great out there and that she will age and then age some more doing what she loves with the people she loves the most. A privilege he never had.)
#pete maverick mitchell#the new class#hondo coleman#cyclone#warlock#panic attack#angst#hurt no comfort#(sadly) canon complain#sometimes mav forgets ice is dead#and it's not getting any easier#tom iceman kazansky#nick goose bradshaw (mentioned)#implied icemav#top gun: maverick#post-tpg:maverick#otp: i heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey
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