#belasco!kurt

[illyanarasputinfan]

Magik #1 (1983) Marvel Comics

Penciller: John Buscema

Inker: Michael Maikowsky

[d-criss-news]

From Hedwig to Helperbot: Darren Criss Looks Back on His Stage Journey

It’s nap time for Darren Criss’s newborn son, Brother, when the Glee star hops on our video chat. The camera’s off, but he quickly turns it on to say hello face-to-face dressed in workout clothes — a green sleeveless top and a ball cap — as he tries to do some chores at the same time.

Criss has a limited window at home as he prepares to star in the new musical Maybe Happy Ending, now playing at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre. The story, with book, music, and lyrics by Will Aronson and Hue Park, takes place 100 years in the future in Seoul, South Korea. Criss plays Oliver, an obsolete Belperbot along the lines of Siri or Google, “except more human-like, who is definitely past his prime and has been just waiting [in a Helperbot retirement facility] for his owner to pick him up,” Criss describes to Broadway Direct of the role. He stars opposite rising star Helen J Shen, who plays Oliver’s retired Helperbot neighbor. “It almost feels like two people in an old-folks’ home trying to connect with a family member.”

The plot sounds dramatic, but “make no mistake: This is a musical. It’s a musical comedy,” says Criss. “It has a lot of heart and a lot of joy and a lot of humor and amazing music, and it’s a hell of a spectacle.”

His friend Michael Arden, who won a Tony Award for his direction of Parade, was a big reason for Criss to sign on to the project — and serve as an executive producer as well. Arden brought the show to Criss’s attention many years ago, and again recently when Criss was starring in Little Shop of Horrors Off-Broadway.

“This had been kind of percolating for a while, and between the pandemic and strikes and just a lot of other things, that really comes down to timing. So the stars just kind of aligned,” Criss says.

Criss, a figure on Broadway for well over a decade, started to gather a following while at University of Michigan as a founding member of Team StarKid, the student-run theater company behind the viral Harry Potter musical parody A Very Potter Musical. His big break came on the hit Fox TV show Glee back in 2010. The show had already aired for a full season before he was cast as Warbler Blaine Anderson and future love interest to Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel. If not for Glee, he believes his career would not have had the same trajectory.

“I felt like this was my master’s in performance of music on camera,” Criss says, admitting that, until Glee, he didn’t consider himself a singer — rather, a musician who acted. “I have that show to thank for giving me any headway in the musical-theater space.”

In the middle of filming Glee in 2012, his Broadway debut called. Criss was asked to succeed Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying for three weeks during a winter break from filming Glee. “I left on, like, a Friday night from my last day of shooting. I started rehearsal on a Saturday. Within 10 days, I was on a Broadway stage. I left my Sunday matinee, got on the plane, and went to work [at Glee] Monday morning as if nothing had happened. So it was a bit of a fever dream. It goes by as quickly as it came, like all other moments in life.”

Three years later, Criss stepped into his next Broadway role. This time, he played Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch for about two and half months, succeeding John Cameron Mitchell. “People always ask me, ‘What’s your dream role?’ I’m like, ‘I kind of did it,’” he says of the opportunity. “Hedwig was a role I always loved so much when I was a teenager, and getting to jump into it was so special to me and my wife. We both love Hedwig so much. It’s a big part of our relationship.”

More recently on Broadway, Criss starred in the play American Buffalo with Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell in 2022 for a three-month limited run. “I completely idolized them,” he says of his scene partners. “I mean, if you see a pattern here, I recommend this to everybody, to just chase their heroes. I’ve just been chasing my heroes my whole life, and I’m not being bashful about it at all.”

Getting Rachel Evan Wood to play Audrey opposite Criss’s Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre earlier this year was something that he says was his idea.

“I pitched her pretty hard,” he said of getting casting directors to choose the Westworld actress as his costar. “When they heard her sing, I think it was very clear that this wasn’t like a favor to anybody. She was doing us a favor. The fact that she said yes just blew my mind.” The role of the nerdy floral shop worker wasn’t something Criss thought he’d get the opportunity to add to his résumé “because it just was never something that I thought anybody would let me do. … I wasn’t sprinting to that in the way that I was the other things in my life.”

Criss welcomed Brother, his second baby, this past June with his wife Mia. The timing couldn’t be more coincidental, since their first, Bluesy, was born during his run of American Buffalo.

As our conversation comes to a close, Criss says he kind of got all of his chores done and haphazardly put things away and folded laundry. The next project he wants to pursue is his writing, something he hasn’t tackled much in five years. Until then, he’s reveling in Maybe Happy Ending.

“I do find myself at a loss for words, trying to truly put into words how special this experience has been,” he adds. “I think it really is a thing of beauty that can really add quite a bit of ornamentation in perhaps a grim world.”

[spongebobafettywap]

i gave up on most old claremont fans from reddit and x after i heard they'd rather have belasco or nightmare be nightcrawler's father than for it to be azazel

look we can all have different opinions that's totally fine but for whatever reason whenever they explain why they'd pick those two over the latter they start sounding borderline schizophrenic from how at odds with themselves their arguments get

i saw a "azazel is too on the nose" on reddit but just putting that next to belasco (who is a demon and looks the way he does down to having horns) and nightmare (who rules over his own nightmarish realm and is classified as a demon) shows that you can't win with these people

Yeah that's my problem with Claremont fans they just say one thing then say another and it comes off as so inconsistent and hypocritical.

Azazel was only ever implied to be a demon by some writers but in the original story the Neyaphem and the Cheyarafim were implied to be the inspiration behind devils and angels.

I don't see how that's more demonic than Belasco the Demon from Dante's Inferno. Or Nightmare the Demon that Dr Strange has fought for like ever.

Like if the problem they have is that Kurt shouldn't be a demon then they need to keep that energy for Belasco and Nightmare not just shrug it off because they're more nostalgic for those characters.

I also don't get why they act like Claremont is the authority on characters that he did NOT create. Nightcrawler is Cockrum's creation and he WAS conceived as a Demon and he was NOT fond of making Kurt overly religious. These two things that are apparently so important for Nightcrawler were not even things that Dave Cockrum wanted to be a part of the character at all.

With Claremont's own characters they have more of a right to claim his authority and intent behind them should be respected but other people's characters? Nah that's lame. I've never heard of any other time that a character that wasn't even invented by a certain author needs to be molded and stay solid to the idea that this some other guy came up with.

[blueberrybamf]

Mine were classic Excalibur, found while helping mom clean a coworkers (nasty) house. Her son let me have his giant long box of them. I saw this charming blue guy with a tail and pointy ears and I needed to know more.

I also found Ka-zar comic with Belasco on the cover at the same time, odd coincidence :P (if you know you know)

Shortly after, the clip from X2: Xmen United with Kurt at the Whitehouse came out. I spent so long waiting for it to load and watch each day at school in the computer lab XD

I also found Nightscrawlers around this time but just missed being able to interact with the creator himself, Dave Cockrum. R.I.P.

every time I think, "hm, am I a LITTLE TOO thirsty for Kurt Wagner?" something like this pops up in the comics

and I'm like, oh. no. they want us to STAY THIRSTY, and honestly? respect. nothing but love for my babe

[djinmer4]

In All My Dreams I Drown (Evil Belasco AU)

NSFW

“You haven’t slept,” said Belasco, pulling his chiton down over his head.  “In quite some time.  Weeks, I think.”

“How can you tell?”  Kitty looked out the window.  The sky was dark and turbulent but that meant nothing.  Sometimes it seemed she didn’t see the sun for months or a gigantic moon would hang in the sky until she almost forgot that it looked any different.  Other times it seemed to change too quickly, light to dark and back again every time she blinked.

He ignored the question.  “You need to sleep.  Eternal wakefulness is not good for human minds.”

She placed her hand over his belt, then slid upwards, tracing the outlines of his abs beneath the blood-red fabric.  “Oh, I’ll rest soon enough.  Don’t worry about it.”

“Hush, love.” He wasn’t quite able to ignore her distraction though.  His hand went down, unbuttoning the gown he had just dressed her in.  “There’s the bed.  Lanterns down.”  The hellish red light dimmed and flickered, almost like fire but a more lurid, unearthly shade.

“But I-”

He pressed her down against the bed again.  “There’s a storm brewing.  It’s time to go to sleep.” he breathed into her neck, teeth skimming her pulse.  Belasco’s lone hand reached up and entangled her wrists into the sheets.  His tail did the same with her ankles at the foot of the bed.  Settling in between her legs, he rocked back and forth, grinding against her sensitive parts and drawing unwilling gasps from her throat.

Swallowing a moan, she tried one more time to get him to relent.  “Please, my Lord,” she knew how much he loved it when she called him that.  “I’ll do anything.  Any minor chores you want done.  Mop the floors, warm your bed, whatever you like.  You can do whatever you want to me.  Scold me, turn me into a cat again.  I’ll be yours completely.  The only thing I beg of you, don’t make me go to sleep.”

The sky flashed overhead, matching the temper in gold eyes.  “If you won’t obey by going to sleep like a good child, I’ll simply give you no choice.”  He slid down her body, trailing kisses over her breasts and stomach, the silky material of the chiton flowing over her skin like water.  His tail lashes out, stroking over her left ankle, then switching to wrap around her right calf.  When she tried to go within herself, he nips sharply at her right hip, pulling her back into the present.  Then he kissed her softly, soothingly, once over the bite, then on the crease between her thigh and pelvis, another over her clit and a final one on her slit itself.

His head between her legs, his tongue darted between her lower lips, focused on her clit.  It was longer than any human’s, hotter too.  He traced spirals on her nub and as she arched into the sensation, his finger slipped inside her.  He was, as always, curiously careful not to damage her with his talons, gently pressing against her walls with the flat, calloused pads of his fingers and not cutting her.

Kitty writhed and struggled but without her phasing powers she couldn’t slip away and the lack of leverage meant she couldn’t tear the sheets holding her down either.  Despite her resistance, she felt herself edging towards the brink, her core feeling like an inferno.  Her thighs tightened around his head and her cunt gushed freely.  As she quivered with the aftershocks, Belasco continued to lap at her spilled juices, drawing more tremors.

It was the last straw for her body.  Her muscles loosened and the edges of her vision were turning grey and hazy.  Kitty tried to keep her eyes open but they fell shut.  “I’m begging you, please wake me up.  In all my dreams I-”

_______

“The human mind is such a strange thing, isn’t it Lockheed?”

Belasco kept his sole hand over Kitty’s forehead, covering her eyes as well.  The little (not quite so little anymore) dragon was perched on the headboard, gaze fastened to the woman sleeping below.  With the curtains drawn, the only light came from two pairs of eyes, one bright gold, the other blood red.

“There’s no way for dear Katzchen to know that I’m modifying her memory while she sleeps, and yet she clearly fears the call of Morpheus.”  The dragon hissed at the Demon Lord.  “I’m not changing her mind, I’m just  . . . removing her incentives to leave Limbo.”

[kurtty-drabbles]

She was his favorite sin. She was not a habit for him anymore, she was an obsession. (Evil Belasco AU)

She was his favourite sin. She was not a habit for him anymore, she was an obsession. (Evil Belasco AU)

N/A: Yes, evil Belasco. I´ll try to use one of those prompts.

Sin is something Belasco can understand, oh, sin comes in many shapes and forms, and Belasco can toy with such emotions and see how humanity always fall through their own sin.

However, love and lust are something Belasco never engage before. A woman from Excalibur is making the Demon Lord desire something more …carnal…for himself?

Kitty Pryde is her name. A woman with wits and beauty and a strong personality. A flawed human and Belasco feel, deep down, some things never change.

Kitty Pryde is hardly 14 years old anymore, instead, is a woman. So beautiful as her own soul. A woman that often search for this person, a fuzzy blue elf.

A person Belasco knows too well. And smirks as Kitty often ask for many magical users about this person(all the magic users are under his control, in a sense) and the answer is always the same. Kurt Wagner does not exist.

Belasco, at first, genuinely believed(how funny for a Demon Lord to think) it was a joke or a mere nostalgia. He´s wrong and his boss takes pleasure in showing how wrong he truly is.

She was his favourite sin. She was not a habit for him anymore, she was an obsession.

(Belasco did kill a mortal for daring to court Kitty, IT grant amenity to be as powerful in limbo as in earth)

And soon the Demon Lord decides to not play fair. If he wants something…he´ll get it.

Kitty Pryde meets Belasco out of her free will(of course, that´s what preferable, that´s more heroic) and speaks fearlessly. “ where is Kurt Wagner?”

“What do you miss the most about this Kurt Wagner?”

“Everything, especially his soul, his noble soul and good heart” Kitty answers and Belasco smiles sadly as he gives the whole story as to how Kurt Wagner is himself.

Poor Kurt, sacrificed by his once friends and left to rot here. A tale that moved Kitty and swayed her alliance to Belasco as she hugs him, promising with all her heart, how she never forget him, never. Her eyes are closed and full of tears and didn´t saw his smirk.

If Belasco wants something, he´ll get it.

[tales-of-the-dense]

see? kurt knows just how reading this issue feels

[bamfoftheundead]

@kurtty-drabbles my pen is charged and ready to go 😁

Kurt tries to show kitty a basic pose and man is it harder than it looks

Belasco dancing with kitty, the waltz! Bet having one arm makes it hard tho

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Oh shit? Is this happening already? I didn’t know this happened so soon!

[ao3feed-johnnylawrence]

Random Oneshots

by SnowDove1991

AU- Random Oneshots from my Crazy Fandom mind, aka oneshots I want to see more of since some or most of the pairings have practically no stories and some have none at all.....I'm looking at you Stay Alive and Scary Stories to tell in the dark.

Words: 1155, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), Back to the Future (Movies), Better Watch Out (2016), Fear Street Trilogy (TV), Halloween (Movies - Green), Jeepers Creepers (Movies), My Bloody Valentine (2009), Pretty In Pink (1986), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), Stay Alive (2006), Summer of 84 (2018), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Movies), The Boy Next Door (2015), The Cleansing Hour (2019), The Forsaken (2001), The Hitcher (2007), Karate Kid (Movies), The Notebook (2004), The Stepfather (2009), Titanic (1997), Underworld (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Underage

Categories: M/M

Relationships: Kevin Peterson/Noah Sandborn, Andy McDermott/Chris, Andy McDermott/Claude, Marty McFly/Biff Tannen, Luke Lerner/Ricky, Luke Lerner/Jeremy, Kurt/Tommy Slater, Nicholas "Nick Good/Simon Kalivoda, Corey Cunningham/Cameron Elam, Corey Cunningham/Terry, Andy "Bucky" Buck/Dante Belasco, Darry Jenner/Scott "Scotty" Braddock, Tom Hanniger/Axel Palmer, Duckie Dale/Blane McDonnagh, Duckie Dale/Steff McKee, Tommy Milner/Ramón Morales, Swink Sylvania/Phineus Bantum, Hutch O'Neill/Swink Sylvania, Davey Armstrong/Tommy "Eats" Eaton, Andy/Kemper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Darryl/Ryan (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Carl Hartman/Kenny (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Richter/Dante Spivey (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Drew/Max (The Cleansing Hour), Kit/Sean (The Forsaken), Jim Halsey/John Ryder, Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence, Noah Calhoun/Lon Hammond Jr., Michael Harding/The Stepfather, Jack Dawson/Caledon Hockley, David/Lucian (Underworld), Varga/Gregor (Underworld)

Additional Tags: Consensual Underage Sex, Hurt/Comfort, Mates, Time Travel, Older Man/Younger Man, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe, Dark, Punishment, Sexual Content, Disney References, Crossover, Love Confessions, Falling In Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Obsession, Claiming, Alternate Universe - Mental Institution, Love/Hate, Enemies to Lovers, Moral Dilemmas, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/43174059

[illyanarasputinfan]

Happy 40th anniversary to Magik #1, released on December 1, 1983!

[bamfdaddio]

Uncanny X-Men Abridged: 1982: Fairytales & Nightmares Edition

The X-Men, those fantastical mutants that have sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them, are a cultural juggernaut with a long, tangled history. We’ve been untangling that history for a while, but sometimes, you really want a more in-depth look. Interested? Then read the (un)Abridged X-Men!

(X-Men 153 & 160) - by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubinstein, Bob Wiacek, Brent Anderson

I love how every character gets hit with a good dose of magical fairy dust except for Wolverine and Nightcrawler, who get turned into the Tasmanian Devil and a horny smurf, respectively

1982 is a pretty arc-based year. Most of it is dedicated to space operas, the Brood and Shi’ar politics (yawn), but there are a few outliers. Most notable of these two exceptions are issue 153 - Kitty’s fairytale - and issue 160, the introduction of Limbo. I’ve chosen to highlight these two issues because they are fun, fascinating and, moreover, they are sort of dark mirrors of one another.

Both feature Illyana as a catalyst for the action; both of them feature someone spinning her a little fairytale..

Both feature alternate takes on X-Men: one high fairytale, the other grimdark.

Both are standalone issues that barely feature into the main Shi’ar-plot of 1982 -- seriously, you can take them out without disrupting any narratives -- while still introducing plot points that would become a part of the X-Men mythos. (The Lockheed dragon; the bamf and, most importantly, the introduction of Illyana as Magik.)

It’s funny how the Brood saga takes up almost 80% of the narrative space this year, whereas the whole Limbo/Belasco/Illyana-thing is almost a throwaway plot that is arguably more iconic for the X-Men currently than the Brood are.

Anyway, context. The mansion is in shambles after the attack on the Hellfire Club. Illyana hasn’t returned home after being kidnapped by Arcade -- perhaps to give Colossus a little relief of his homesickness. Illyana then tempts fate:

Take note of that stuffed Fozzi toy, wocka wocka!

Illyana prefers Kitty to tell the story, and I get it. Colossus is a sweetheart, but the dude’s not exactly light of heart. Piotr would probably tell something dreary and fatalistic about three old sisters in a decaying orchard, while Kitty is a lot more fun.

Claremont shows that he is familiar with the workings of the teenage mind, because when faced with the challenge to tell a story, she does the same thing I did when I was thirteen: she goes for a self insert. And she incidentally writes in the boy she has a crush on as her boyfriend.

Look, all I’m saying, we’ve all been there, right?

Anyway, Kitty’s fairytale. Kitty is a pirate, Peter is her shipmate and they stumble upon a quest when ruffians accost a blind prince -- Scott -- and a wizard on his own personal flying carpet -- Xavier. They help out and get roped into the prince’s quest to save his princess from an evil corrupting influence. Sound familiar?

In true Final Fantasy-fashion, all the other party members are introduced one by one. Kitty calls upon a dragon called Lockheed she befriended while Piotr saves a weather goddess trapped in a bottle by the cursed princess. Best highlights, however, are Kitty’s versions of Kurt and Wolverine.

Way of X, I love you, but take note. Kurt was never meant to be puritan.

One of the best parts of this issue is the reaction shots of the other X-Men who listen in to Kitty’s tale. Most of their alternative versions fit stock fairytale characters, although Bamf is more a Disney sidekick than anything else. Wolverine is straight up a Looney Tune though:

At some point, someone looked at this character design and first thought of Sabretooth, right?

The kicker of all of this Kitty wasn't actually there for the Phoenix Saga: she only met Jean once, briefly, when Jean saved her and the other X-Men from Emma. Kitty never met Dark Phoenix, she only ever heard the details secondhand. Still, she gets it mostly right: prince Scott and princess Jean are star-crossed lovers until Jean is cursed by a corrupting force. As Dark Phoenix, she is hellbent on stopping wizard Xavier and the prince in their tracks, lest they lift the curse by confronting her with her one weakness.

THE HUMANITY

Xavier uses Jean’s humanity to fight off the dark Phoenix and, in this particular universe, they succeed. Scott and Jean get the happy ending they didn’t get in the actual timeline: Kitty even cures his cursed eyebeams. It’s kind of funny that this is the only happy ending the X-Men will ever get during Claremont’s reign.

Speaking of a lack of happy endings, the dark counterpart of Kitty’s fairytale also starts with someone telling Illyana some sweet little lies:

I’m assuming that the whole Stranger Danger-campaign only got big after the eighties? Illyana has all the self preservation skills of a lemming.

Kitty notices that Illyana has vanished and is curious, following her. She steps on a strange light disk and vanishes.

As a slightly piquant aside, I was pleasantly surprised when reading this one digitally. I own a copy of this comic in Dutch (straight from the eighties) and apparently, they censored the version for the low lands. In a comic with creepy assaultey Nightcrawler and many, many, many naked Storms and Wolverines, this page was a bridge too far:

Look, maybe they weren’t entirely wrong. Last time three guys were bouncing around me and I invited them for a shower, I wasn’t entirely innocent either.

I was “also not welcome in that gym again” but that’s besides the point.

Who knows, maybe they just wanted to cut out the clunky exposition of storylines recent. In any case, the X-Men decide to investigate and they are also whisked away: those disks of light are apparently teleportation circles.

Also, can someone please tell Chris Claremont that German sometimes does have i before e?

They’re pulled into a pocket dimension where time and space are treated as guidelines rather than hard and fast rules. While Belasco taunts Kitty (and pulls her skeleton from her body to keep her from escaping), the other X-Men get separated, wandering about this utterly foreign dimension and encountering future/alternative versions of themselves.

I still love how alien this first version of Limbo is. The comic is titled ‘Shoots & Ladders’ and it’s exactly like that, except in creepy, never-ending tunnels and topsy-turvy, shadowy caverns.

Both Wolverine and Colossus are confronted by their dead selves, killed by S’ym, Belasco’s brutish lackey. The alternative Nightcrawler, meanwhile, has been perverted into a freaky little toady who has no qualms about touching Kitty inappropriately. (He's essentially the creepy, disturbing version of a Bamf.) Storm, meanwhile, is aided by an older, jaded version of herself. She’s also the one in charge of teleportation disks, which she uses to aid the X-Men:

Kitty’s casually waving skeleton always sends me

Storm is furious with what Belasco has wrought onto Kitty, her Mother Bear Instincts activating. She wants to give chase, but that’s when older!Storm intervenes. She warns Storm that this is a crossroads. In her variant universe, the X-Men chased after Belasco and it went badly for them: Wolverine and Colossus died, Nightcrawler turned evil and Storm became trapped in Limbo.

There’s no word of what happened to their Kitty or Illyana, but I think that’s because Limbo does not play by any of our regular rules. See, if Belasco wanted Illyana, wouldn't he have one now? But he doesn’t. So maybe Limbo is the Schrödinger’s place, where the X-Men both did and didn’t chase Belasco. Because if they didn’t give chase, they wouldn’t have the older Storm to tell them they shouldn’t give chase, which they end up not doing. But if they don't, there wouldn't be a Storm to warn them from not going, so they would. But they wouldn't.

Got that?

Just when older!Storm prepares to send them home, Belasco returns with an army of demons.

See? I told you that paying attention to that Fozzi-toy would pay off! (Wocka wocka)

And it ends there, with Illyana rescued from her nightmare, but with the promise of more darkness in her future.

I love how Chris Claremont takes a soap opera trope -- aging up a child in the shortest amount of time possible to an age where there’s more to do with them narratively -- and makes it fit into his crazy X-Universe.

And that’s it. Two relatively pared down stories where the normal rules of reality take a backseat: one to lift Illyana’s spirits, one to break her beyond belief. In a year that’s defined by space opera, these two stories have always stuck out to me, simply because of the way they break the mold of the X-Universe. More importantly, they've given us Magik. And Bamf!

Next up: Brood, Brood, Brood, and Shi'ar.

[spongebobafettywap]

I'm gonna be 100% honest with you on this one : I think those who want Belasco to be Nightcrawler's father are just Claremont fans in denial

Azazel and Belasco are near identical as characters except Azazel is higher on the morality scale than Belasco for most things and isn't a demon

I don't know why they force the issue with Belasco when he wasn't even a character created by Claremont : He's a character he recycled from another writer

To be honest these fans seem to think that if Claremont uses a character in a story it's his character. It's why they seem to think he is the one that's allowed to create the origin for Nightcrawler when Kurt is Dave Cockrum's creation.

[you-moveme-kurt]

Glee «Teenager in love»

Septiembre de 2018

-¿Qué hora es?...  —preguntó Kurt mirando a Lily, ambos estaban en el escenario del teatro donde se montaría la obra debut de Kurt como actor y de Lily como guionista. -¿Por qué?... —dijo de vuelta su amiga mientras daba instrucciones a un par de actores para que lograran una secuencia de movimientos particularmente elaborada. -Tengo que estar en la casa a las cuatro, Rachel esta cuidando a Henry y no puedo retrasarme…—continuó explicando casi en el oído de la chica. -¿En serio?, ¿no iban a contratar una niñera?… -Aún vamos a hacerlo pero con todo lo que tenemos… -¡No!, ¡es 4,2.3,  no 4,3,2!… ¿¡es tan  difícil ver la diferencia!?...—interrumpió Lily cuando lo actores habían errado los movimientos— ¡desde el principio!… —pidió mirando esta vez al pianista en la fosa de la orquesta— disculpa… —añadió tomando la cabeza y mirando esta vez a Kurt. -No hay problema… solo preguntaría porque estas haciendo tú este trabajo, ¿donde esta el director? -Se fue antes porque su novio hizo no se que, con se que cosa…, quería mandar a todos para la casa, pero yo le dije que a menos de una semana del estreno nadie se iría para ninguna casa si este acto no estaba al 100%... -Lilian Mary Stewart, ¿me estás diciendo que pudimos salir temprano hoy y por tu culpa eso no pasara?... —pregunto Kurt levantando su ceja. -Algo así… —contesto indicando hacia la derecha a uno de los actores que insistía en moverse a la izquierda. -¡Lily! -Oye, se que estas en un predicamento, pero acá tenemos otro mas grande… y si yo fuera tú y tuviera el talento que tienes, me pondría delante de estos dos estu… cálmate Lily… —dijo la chica como dándose consejos a ella misma para no caer en insultos con los actores— delante de estas dos personas, para que de una vez por todas se ¡aprendan la coreografía!... —terminó por gritar sin ningún miramiento, los tres chicos dieron un respingo de sorpresa y se miraron mutuamente mientras retrocedía un par de pasos, ya habían experimentado la furia de Lily un par de días atrás cuando al vestuarista se había sentido un poco enferma con todo el retraso que aquello podía significar. -Te diría que contaras hasta 10, pero creo que ya lo hiciste como 50 veces… ¿qué tal si te vas a tomar un té o sales a por un poco de aire que siempre viene bien?... —dijo Kurt mientras le daba golpecitos en la espalda, Lily lo miró ceñuda y se quedó dando instrucciones para retomar el ensayo— Lily…de verdad creo que… -¡Señor Hummel!…—exclamó uno de los tramoyas que trabajaba en los últimos retoques de la escenografía— ¡creo que su teléfono está sonando!— añadió señalando en la dirección que Kurt había dejado el bolso y sus demás cosas. -¡Ok!, ¡gracias señor Martino!… —respondió Kurt dando un pequeño salto antes de partir casi corriendo a chequear su teléfono -¡Kurt! -Vuelvo enseguida… dos minutos, lo juro…—agregó haciendo gestos de promesa que más parecían de un exorcismo improvisado, Lily empuño sus manos y volvió, por decimotercera vez esa tarde, a pedir que repitieran los movimientos  4,2,3 y no 4,3,2— ¿Rachel?... —dijo contestando la llamada.

-¡Kurt!, ¡gracias a dios!… ¡necesito que te vengas urgente!… -¿Que?. ¿le pasó algo a mi hijo?... —preguntó Kurt abriendo sus ojos al máximo. -¿Que?, ¡no!… pero yo necesito irme… -¿Disculpa? -Acabo de recibir una llamada de mi agente, hay una audición abierta para una obra llamada Network que se estrenará en el Belasco en diciembre y yo tengo todas la ganas de ganar  el papel de  Louise, la esposa de Schumacher's. -Ok, no se quienes son esos personajes pero… me alegro.. -Gracias… ¿entonces te vienes? -¿Como?, estoy en medio del ensayo Rachel, no puedo irme a ningún lado… -¡KURT!... —exclamo de vuelta su amiga a un volumen tan alto que Kurt tuvo que distanciar el teléfono de su oreja— tengo que ir a esa audición, ¡ahora!… -Pero Rachel… -No puedo  seguir cuidando a Henry… -Rachel, me pones en un problema, tu dijiste que podías… -Lo dije, pero no sabía de esta audición… Kurt, bien sabes que mi producción actual termina en un par de meses y después quedo sin trabajo… -Producción a la que yo te invite y conseguí que estuvieras en ella… ¿recuerdas? -¡Ay Kurt!... eso ya pasó, esto es lo importante ahora,  ¿vienes o no?… -Tengo que llamar a Blaine para saber si él puede… espera 10 minutos… -¡10 minutos!... Kurt tengo… -Lo se, ya lo dijiste, pero Blaine esta en el sello y ese es el tiempo que tarda en llegar si es que puede hacerse cargo de Henry… ¿puedes esperar 10 miseros minutos? -Puedo, y lo haré… pero en el minuto 11 dejare al bebé con el señor de la entrada, ese del sombrero…—dijo Rachel terminando la llamada, Kurt tomó aire y luego de proferir unos cuantos insultos a su amiga procedió a llamar a  su esposo. -¡Kurt!... —gritó Lily desde donde estaba, le hizo un par de señas que indicaban la hora y volvió a llamarlo por su nombre. -Tengo un problema… —dijo acercándose a su amiga. -¿Qué problema? -Rachel tiene una audición y no puede seguir cuidando a Henry… -Tú tampoco, estás trabajando… -Lo sé Lily, por eso tengo que llamar a mi esposo para preguntar si él puede ir a nuestro departamento a relevar a  mi siempre egoísta amiga Rachel Berry…… -Eso llámalo, se lo puede llevar al sello, ahí hay harto espacio, puede poner a Henry sobre un tambor, o dentro de una tuba  o algo… -¿Por que todo el mundo quiere poner a mi hijo en lugares que no corresponden?... —dijo Kurt abriendo sus manos en señal de desespero máximo— lo llamare.. —añadió al ver que Lily se le le quedaba viendo con cara de loca demente, se aparto un poco e hizo lo que dijera.

-Kurt… -Por favor dime que no te interrumpo… —dijo mientras se desordenaba el cabello. -No me interrumpes, acabamos de tomarnos un receso antes de grabar la pista cuatro que, escucha esto… se supone y será el super single de promoción del álbum… -Genial… —contestó Kurt como con fastidio. -Es una buena noticia… -Lo sé… lo sé, Blaine disculpa es que… -¿Qué?, ¿estas bien?... -Lo estoy… pero… recuerdas que Rachel iba a cuidar a Henry, ¿verdad? .Si, hasta las 4.  que es cuando tú terminas tu ensayo … -Si… pero resulta que ahora le apareció una audición de no se donde y necesita asistir.. -¿Qué? -Lo que oyes… odio pedirte esto pero… ¿puedes ir a buscarlo y tenerlo en el estudio mientras yo trato de convencer a Lily de que yo al menos, no necesito ensayar tanto? -Kurt… -Lo se, se que es pedirte demasiado… -Kurt… -Lo se  y se que si alguien debería ceder aquí, tendría que ser yo… porque tú estás recién empezando ahí y se vería super mal y poco profesional que andes pidiendo permiso… -Kurt… —repitió Blaine esta vez alargando la «u». -Lo se  y yo por otro lado estoy trabajando casi con amigos, pero te juro que Lily esta… -Kurt escúchame… —pudo decir Blaine por fin— lo más probable es que no pueda salir… pero… -¡Ay por dios!, amo ese pero, me da lo mismo lo que venga después… —dijo Kurt tomándose el pecho como si su esposo pudiera verlo. -Pero… si le hablas a Rachel y le preguntas si puede venir al sello a dejar a Henry, estoy seguro y no habrá problema.. -¿De verdad? -Obvio que si… te prometo y no faltarán brazos para acunarlo. -Gracias Blaine… -¿Por qué me agradeces?… es mi hijo también, la responsabilidad aquí es compartida… -Lo se pero… yo he sido el que ha pospuesto el asunto de la niñera y por eso siento que estos percances son más responsabilidad mía que tuya… -Lo has pospuesto porque estás sumamente ocupado haciendo lo que mas amas  en esa obra que será un exitazo de principio a fin…  —Kurt sonrió más que enamorado. -Gracias por lo de exitazo… -Por nada… ��la llamas? -Por supuesto… y gracias por mencionar eso de que no faltarán brazos para acunar a nuestro hijo, es tranquilizador saber que no terminara en un cajón al lado del mesón del Señor Peters… o sobre un instrumento de percusión o viento como dijo Lily… -¿Como? -Larga historia… la llamaré de inmediato y luego te llamo de vuelta… ¿o ya terminó el receso?… -Aún no y creo que va para largo porque el sonidista acaba de encender un cigarrillo… -Perfecto… no por él y su vicio del demonio… pero si por ti y por nuestro hijo… -Claro… espero tu llamada entonces… adiós… -Oye… ¿no vas a decir lo que dices siempre? -¿Lo que digo? -Si… ya sabes cuando yo respondo «lo se» y me río como lo hice la primera vez que te vi en Dalton… como… -¿Como adolescente enamorado? —dijo Blaine  terminando la frase por su esposo. -No es lo que iba a decir… -¿No? -La verdad es que sí… engreído… -Te amo Kurt… -Lo sé…—respondió riendo como adolescente enamorado.

[djinmer4]

Wishful Thinking (Belasco AU)

Takes place after Belasco remembers that he’s Kurt but before the wedding between King Britain and Medusa.

“Has anyone seen Belasco?  Did he return to New York or is he still here?”  Brian was not comfortable with the thought of his former enemy wandering around London with no surveillance.  Sure, it turned out Belasco was actually Kurt Wagner and he was trying to redeem himself for what he had done, but that didn’t mean Brian was ready to trust him again.

“Lord Belasco is currently in the main hall.”  One of the Union Jacks replied.

“Alright then.”  Brian quickly made his way over to the entrance of the palace.  When he got there he could see Belasco at the center of a magic circle, with glowing red runes all over the statues of Excalibur.  Even as he sprinted over, the runes and circle flickered and died.  “What are you doing?” he asked, trying to keep his voice level.

The red-skinned man turned to look him in the eye.  (This dynamic was so weird.  The two of them had never stood face to face like this before.  Kurt was so much shorter than Brian and Belasco had never faced him in such close quarters.)  “I thought I would try to free the rest of Excalibur from their prison.  As Belasco, I never gave them a thought, only pleased that some of my enemies had been removed from my path without having to lift a finger.  Now though . . . I am the Sorcerer Supreme of Limbo.  I might as well put that power to good use.”  He dropped his head.  “But as you can see, it didn’t work.”

If Belasco could try to solve a problem that had been plaguing Brian’s dreams for the past decade, then he could at least be civil.  “It’s alright, Kurt.  I’ve been trying for years to free them.  Magik, the Scarlet Witch, Beast, I even had Magneto come here once to see if there was anything he could do.  Unfortunately, it looks like only the Grey Goblin can reverse it.  And since I killed him, it will have to stay this way until someone can find an alternate version of him to come and undo the petrification.”

“Don’t feel bad about failing because everyone else has failed too?  Not much of a pep talk, Brian.”

The blond man shrugged.  “You wouldn’t feel any better if I sugar-coated it for you.”  They spent a few minutes examining the statues.  “Out of curiosity, how much do you remember about them?”

Belasco trailed one red hand over a stone sword.  “This is Kylun.  He tried to decapitate me the first time we met.  That sword of his would certainly work on me now.”  He moved on.  “Pete Wisdom.  I never did like him.  Especially after he broke Kitty’s heart.”  There was a couple trying to shield each other.  He placed his single one over their clasped hands.  “Dane and Faiza.  They were very close, dating I think.”

“Not quite, but probably would have if they’d been given more time”

The Lord of Limbo continued around.  “Meggan Puceau.  If I remember correctly she was engaged to you, right?”  Brian nodded, unable to speak around the lump in his throat.  It had been over a decade, but he still hurt when he thought of her.  He’d never found anyone to replace Meggan and despite the pain, he didn’t want to.

Belasco gasped, and Brian realized that Kurt was experiencing something very similar.  His left hand came up to caress a stone face.  “Kitty Pryde.  My best friend.”  He leaned forward to rest his head on hers, a pose Brian had seen them take many times during the Excalibur years.  Given that Belasco was taller than Kurt had been, it wouldn’t have worked except for the platform Brian had put the statues on.  “She was scared of me the first time we met.  Her pet dragon, Lockheed liked to pull on my tail.  She was a genius with computers but couldn’t cook to save her life.  I gave her a Star of David necklace once.  She made a keyboard I could type on in return.  We both loved apples.”  He pulled back but continued to trail his hand down her face, over her shoulder and right arm until he could take her stone hand in his.  “She always had such lovely hands.  Such a shame she used them to caress Wisdom and Rasputin.”

Well, Brian hadn’t been expecting that.  He’d always assumed the two of them simply weren’t attracted to each other.  Maybe there had been something there after all, even if it had been one-sided.  He cleared his throat.  "Please don’t tell Czar Rasputin that.  She holds a special place in his heart, even if he’s not in love with her anymore.”

“No, of course not.  Just . . . thinking.”  Belasco turned around reluctantly.  “Anyway, was there a reason you sought me out?”

“Yes, actually.  I need to discuss-”  With that, Brian turned his attention to matters of trade and diplomacy.  But he never forgot the look on Belasco’s face when he gazed at the statue of Kitty Pryde.

[kurtty-drabbles]

1. “Would you like to play a game?” (Belasco AU)

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N/A: Evil Belasco?

Belasco is a Demon Lord, the real Satan, and this is something Azazel and Mephisto can´t swallow easily and prompts the two demons to forge a fragile alliance to dethrone Belasco.

Azazel´s army and Mephisto should be more than enough, especially, as Mephisto knows Belasco´s weakness, the same as Kurt Wagner, he can´t resist a pretty woman. “your son, my old friend, is a manslut like the father” the comment makes Azazel´s corner lift slightly and is almost proud of his son, almost.

Mephista is a pretty woman, one that Kurt Wagner can´t deny and has an easy mission. Seduce Belasco and kill him, Kurt Wagner is a manslut and that will be his end.

Sadly for Mephista, the beautiful demon, Belasco wasn´t swayed at all, in fact, Mephista is learning the man is not Kurt Wagner as her father led to believe.

“Really? send your own daughter to seduce me? That´s low and combines with your position as low-life” Belasco speaks smashing the army and absorbing their essences. Demons don´t have souls, but, have energy and Belasco can use that.

A grimace is on Belasco´s red face and Azazel tries to kill him, a foolish action, but anything is better than having to look at Belasco being superior at him.

The result was predictable.

“Now, Mephisto, what to do with you? Boss is not really happy with you lately, should I let the boss handle you” Mephisto pale as no one wants to deal with the boss.

“Kurt, you aren´t like that, please, don´t do this” Mephisto begs and Belasco smiles sinisterly. “Wanna make a bet? Give me one good reason as to why I shouldn´t call him here…or why I should help you as IT knows you are here”

Mephisto talked about how he can give what Belasco always wanted, he can give him the love of his life.  "But, Katzchen is already here with me, so…you have nothing to offer me" and as soon Belasco concluded his line IT is here.

“Mephisto, Mephisto, Mephisto! I´d think we must have a chat as you seem to not get your position in this game” IT smiles widely showing his teeth and Mephisto can´t say anything else.

Later, Kitty concludes her duties and watches as Belasco is back at home, give her a kiss on her neck and told about his day and asked about hers. Something domestic to the real Satan.