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[happyhealthycats]

To the folks asking me if their pets names are "unique enough"

Your pets name must:

-Be at least 12-14 characters long -Contain at least one capitalized letter -Contain at least one lower case letter -Contain at least one number -Contain at least one special character -Be changed every 30-90 days

[pedgito]

how some people are reacting over the show not being a 1x1 remake of the game:

[visualtaehyun]

The Next Prince Trailer language annotations and various bits and bobs! Let's goooo~

Since I've read the novels, I'm gonna try to keep this as spoiler-free as possible! If you've also read the novels, then please just silently make eye contact with me across the room and give a meaningful nod instead of ruining the fun for other folks :P

Disclaimer: not a native Thai speaker, still learning 🙏

First things first- Their names are Khanin and Charan, yes, but their nicknames (no context or explanation lol) are Nin and Ran so that's what I'll often be calling them ✌

This is Nin's debut / official introduction to the public as the heir of Assavadevathin. I've gone ahead and marked/named all characters:

In the novel, Jay is a stage actor but seeing him be the center of this choir, it seems they've changed that to him being a singer!

In all of these instances we can see a bit of world-building - the hand over the heart is an Emmalian gesture of respect, straight from the novels:

As you can see, characters of different comparative ranks may execute it differently, depending on the recipient. Additionally, you can see some of the commoners or attendants bowing or curtsying in front of the royals.

When the King gives Charan the quest to return Khanin to Emmaly, there's an interesting bit of information getting lost in translation:

Thipokbowon: ปู่มีชรัณคนเดียวที่ฝากฝังอะไรไว้ได้ /bpuu mee Charan khohn diao thee faak fang a-rai wai dai/ = I only have you that I can entrust something to. -> ปู่ /bpuu/ = grandpa

Thipokbowon: หลานรีบไปสืบหาด่วน [...] /laan reep bpai seuup haa duaan/ = (You) hurry and find out [...] -> หลาน /laan/ = grandchild

Thipokbowon can mostly be heard referring to himself as เรา /rao/ in the trailer but with Charan, he specifically refers to himself and Ran in a familiar and informal way! Sidenote: You can hear the King call Nin หลาน /laan/ as well in the trailer.

Similarly, Khanin refers to himself by his nickname when speaking to Tatdanai, as does Tatdanai refer to himself as พ่อ /por/ = dad. Khanin says:

นินได้แชมป์แล้วน่ะ /Nin dai champ laaeo na/ = I won!

The Fencing Club 🤺 And the guy standing closest to Nin?

Likely his best friend Paul! Because he also shows up in the scene where Nin and Ran are at a party with his friends. The two we get close-ups of are probably Paul and Samantha then:

And please disregard the subs cause we can clearly hear them all chant "Kenneth! Kenneth! Kenneth!" As confirmed by P'Den and Nong New, that's Nin's English name:

CharanKhanin will be moving through various pronoun choices, nicknames, and registers throughout the course of the plot (and I shall of course publicly lose my mind about it every single time :P ) but in the trailer, we really only hear a sprinkling of that. When they first meet, they both use ผม/คุณ /pom, khun/ (= polite formal male 1st pers. pronoun and polite formal 2nd pers. pronoun) which they mostly keep using all the way till Emmaly:

Nin: นี่คุณเป็นใครวะ /nee khun bpen khrai wa/ = Who the hell are you?

We can first hear royal register being used by Charan though (in reference to Nin and before returning to Emmaly) when talking about Nin's true identity:

Ran: [...] ท่านชายคณินทร์ พระองค์มีสายเลือดของกษัตริย์ /tan chaai Khanin, phra-ohng mee saai leuuat khaawng ga-sat/ = [...] Prince Khanin, His Royal Highness has royal blood. -> พระองค์ /phra-ohng/ is a 3rd pers. pronoun used for high-ranking royalty like the King, princes, or princesses

Once in Emmaly and when in company or public, Charan is always heard using proper address with Khanin, such as:

Ran: ฝ่าบาท /faa baat/ -> ฝ่าบาท /faa baat/ is a 2nd pers. pronoun used for certain ranks of royalty

Ran: คือหน้าที่ของกระหม่อม /keuu naa-thee khaawng gra-maawm/ = Those are my duties. -> กระหม่อม /gra-maawm/ is a 1st pers. pronoun used by a male speaker when addressing royalty of certain ranks Sidenote: Chakri, Nin's butler, also uses it but as an ending particle (like ครับ /khrap/), not in this trailer but in the novels and the pilot.

Funny intermission-- here's Nin swinging away with god-knows-what to defend himself from the strangers invading his home:

Moving on! Both Nin and Ran can be heard using the male ending particle พ่ะย่ะค่ะ /pha-ya-kha/ that's used with certain royalty. Nin with (who I assume might be) the King--

Nin: มันใช้ความกล้าและความตั้งใจจริงต่างหากพ่ะย่ะค่ะ /man chai khwaam glaa lae khwaam dtang-jai jing dtaang haak pha-ya-kha/

--and Ran with Nin sometimes. Here are two such instances:

Ran: [...] ต้องขออภัยล่วงหน้าด้วยพ่ะย่ะค่ะ /dtaawng khaaw a-phai luaang naa duay pha-ya-kha/

Ran: หลังจากนี้กระหม่อมอยากให้เราระวังตัวในการใกล้ชิดกันมากขึ้นพ่ะย่ะค่ะ /lang jaak nee, gra-maawm yaak hai rao ra-wang dtuaa nai gaan glaai-chit maak kheun pha-ya-kha/ = From now on, I want us to be more cautious about being close to each other.

Last notes coming up~ A filming site observation from personal experience:

This scene was surely filmed at Chatuchak market in Bangkok, I recognize the type of numbered sign above their heads!

There is only one character I cannot identify - this mystery lady right here:

I have an idea who she might be but that's top secret :P

And lastly-- (partial) Title drop!

Nin: คุณอุตส่าห์บินข้ามฟ้าไปพาผมกลับมา [...] /khun oot-saa bin khaam faa bpai phaa pom glap maa/ = You diligently flew across the sky to bring me back, [...]

-> The Next Prince's native title is ข้ามฟ้าเคียงเธอ /khaam faa khiiang ter/ = Across the Sky, Beside You ✨

⇒ emblems, territories and royal houses of Emmaly ⇒ royal family of Emmaly ⇒ characters and cast of TNP ⇒ all my TNP posts

[helenofblackthorns]

Cassandra Clare now posting on twitter and not tumblr..... what did we do to deserve this 😔😔

[charmfamily]

do you have any lore for younger vlad and how he came to be who he is today? did he ever have an innocent human phase in his life 🤭🥺

I do have Lore for Younger Vlad! He never really had a human life of his own as the original vampires (Vlad is an original vampire) were the overworked, starving, potion-dosed spellcaster duplicates that went awry and somehow evolved into something completely different. It's also important to note that he was well into being a vampire during the Centuries War when the Spellcasters and Mooncasters (newly minted Werewolves) tried to eradicate and cover up the creation of "the undead abomination" that had broken free of any and all magical bonds that could have reined them back in — That conflict was over in the 1200s so he is extremely ancient and is the sole survivor of the original coven he used to lead. All others were killed in the war and Vlad as we know him would have been the only vampire in all of existence to present day had he not found and turned Caleb and Lilith in Ye Olde Tartosa sometime around 1215 before every side was forced to agree to a ceasefire or bring about the end of the entire universe as everyone knew it.

What he does remember about humanity is that the Count title is not bullshit. The Original Spellcaster he was duplicated from was born into Eshuavanian royalty and thus he is the rightful regent… technically. Kinda. He vaguely remembers that the Original Vlad, an extremely powerful Untamed Caster, was in league with Olive Specter because of course he was, and the two of them were tampering with numerous ways to become immortal so he could make the Sages immortal. OG Vlad barely got that done in the midst of the war… But he couldn't do it for himself before this Vlad grabbed him up in the middle of the night and had him impaled on a pike bearing a null rune. New Vlad left Original Vlad to slowly die outside the hut that would later become Straud Manor as decoration, a warning to other Spellcasters that if they stepped foot in the area that became Forgotten Hollow while he wasn't in Torpor, they'd be joining him.

He remembers he had a fantastic time gathering up rats from the nearby bog and purposefully underfeeding them, training them to slowly eat OG Vlad from the toes up just to make him suffer more for having the audacity to create New Vlad as a perpetual indentured servant and that OG Vlad was the Patient Zero he used to experiment wildly cruel methods on for funsies. He has heard rumors that the tortured spirit of his original form, once Old Vlad finally died, became a being known as the Night Wraith, which curses spellcasters until death and tortures them in much the same way he was tortured. He doesn't care, fuck all Spellcasters now and forever, he hopes they get cursed to death. The very short answer of if he has ever been innocent and human is a firm and resounding no, but that's what makes Vlad what he is. He has no interest in pretending to be 'human', he doesn't know what that means, and if being human means being anything like the casters that created him, he'd rather never know. He revels in feeding from them and though he doesn't have to kill, he still carries that grudge quite strongly and chooses to drain them completely.

If he hates Spellcasters why did he turn Bella? Well for one, she wouldn't be bound by the same clause in the treaty as he is and since Lilith turned out to be such an uncooperative pain in his ass, Bella could hopefully help him get the vampire species out of extinction-mode, but it goes deeper than that. Mortimer's cruelty and the sad reality of Alexander's innocence in all of it was the main catalyst for him choosing her as a bride. He could sense something in her, a lingering rage at the unfairness in the way she died that could very well become a feral hatred of the same people he hates... and what better trait could he ask for in a Countess than beauty beyond compare but with the same level of ruthlessness as him? Throw in a ready-made potential heir if she agrees to turn Alexander (who has no reason to side with the Spellcasters either) once he reaches the proper age... and you've got a pretty sweet deal.

[jessicanjpa]

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(from this ask game)

OK, let's go AU for this one. This is a snippet from "The Knot," a Halloween one-shot I've been picking at for a couple of years. I'll just spoiler the entire thing right now: Edward's gonna kill Bella in the meadow scene. And it's not an accident. He has to protect her soul.

It was clear to me now… so clear. Every time Alice had showed me the image of Bella dead in my arms, here in this very moment, this very place, we’d both assumed its meaning: that I had lost the battle. That the monster had broken free at last, trampling my will and claiming his prize with one final, savage burst of power. That it was an “accident,” as we so tenderly called these failures. And those failures happened. Just because I’d never faltered myself—not in that way—didn’t mean I was invincible. Of course we’d assumed that. But now I understood.

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Send me a 🌹 if you want a teaser snippet from one of my many WIPs!

[chaotic-orphan]

Mwahahahah love me some good procrastination outlets

Fair warning, this is... quite a bit!

VERY whump coded, very boppy (fair warning these are all very noisy BUT SO GOOD):

Come Play (from the series Arcane League of Legends) - Stray Kids, Young Miko, Arcane, Tom Morello, League of Legends

Don’t Go Insane - DPR IAN

Drunk-Dazed - ENHYPEN

SLASH (From “Deadpool & Wolverine”) - Stray Kids

Armageddon - aespa

WONDERLAND - ATEEZ

Born Again (feat. Doja Cat & RAYE) - LISA, Doja Cat, RAYE

HALAZIA - ATEEZ

Bella Ciao - Música Original de la Serie la Casa de Papel/Money Heist) - Manu Pilas

Whiplash - aespa

Love Shot - EXO

More character-vibey:

P*RNSTAR - Nessa Barrett [THIS IS AMBROSE’S ANTHEM ARGUE WITH THE WALL]

Killshot - Slowed + Reverb - Magdalena Bay

Igloo - KISS OF LIFE

Ride Or Die, Pt. 2 - Sevdaliza, Villano Antillano, Tokischa

Just Intoxicating Fear vibes in general (trust me bro):

Skyfall - Adele

Favorite - Isabel La Rosa

ZEN - JENNIE

Arabian Nights - Bruce Adler, Disney

Frozen Heart - From “Frozen”/Soundtrack Version - Cast - Frozen

Ice On My Teeth - ATEEZ

the boy is mine - Ariana Grande

This list includes a good chunk of non-English songs! Not sure if you vibe with that but give them a listen (and definitely check out the music videos). Some of them hit wayyy different once you see the visuals. TRUST ME

BESTIE OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAVEN’T ANSWERED THIS!!!!! I ANSWERED IT IN MY HEAD AND POSTED IT BUT OMG I AM SORRY, I GOT A JUMP SCARE WHEN I SAW IT IN MY INBOX— like a ghost haunting me, anyways!!!

To answer — and THANK YOU for your recs — I need to tell you I put all these in an individual playlist to listen to because I didn’t know a lot of the songs and I needed to vet them for the IF playlist

BUT LET ME TELL YOU, THAT PLAYLIST I MADE WITH ALL OF THESE SONGS IS A FUCKING BANGER OMG THE HYPE, THE FUN, THE LIKE GAAAAHHH THE BOPS?!???! It reignited my love of HALAZIA!!!! I hadn’t heard that song in aggeesss and it is such a bop!!!

But sorry, claiming Pornstar is Ambrose’s anthem is absolutely crazy and totally accurate, like I don’t care, he 100% has that playing in his head whenever he’s putting on a suit— yes. I cackled when I saw that first

Also can just imagine Nathan torturing people to Bella Ciao with a wide grin on his face dancing around like a fucking psychopath which fills me with joy every time it comes on ahahahahahahahah

So all in all, I hard agree, BUT, this playlist has just become my IF editing playlist, my happy walking playlist, my cleaning playlist, my travel playlist and every time I put it on, I get into the mood to write or think about IF so you have done a great service, thank you for your service🥰

Amazing recs, I get it, but they are too good and happy to go into the IF mood playlist, like the broody grey melodramatic feel of Intoxicating fear, but holy crap when I’m editing and any song comes on I’m like “OH JAH!” Soooooo good

Heheheheheh thank you for the recs, I have been listening to it nonstop🫡🫡 Some of them have made it into the official broody one cause they are too good not to, but ACK!!! Thank you so much Whumplicity ^.^

[bellcza]

i’m not responsible for anything i say to u i’m actually delirious it’s the meds

no i think ur just obsessed with me

[starrii-sturns]

im too good

NO SAY NO.

(send them to me instead.)

[sunny-and-the-flowers]

hey, remember that conversation we have about what boomer listened to. Do you think he listens to man at work because i saw a lot of edits of him with that song and i think it suits him.

[glowydiaries]

good morning glowing angels 💖 its friday we made ittttt!! 🎉🥳🥂 lets have a great day together! ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

[hb-writes]

Just a Joke

Summary: When Mia gets hungry and tries to make herself dinner, her clumsy nature gets the best of her causing Edward and Esme to step in.

Characters: Esme Cullen, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan & Mia Cullen (OC)

Request (from anon): Hello! For June requests how about, “Don’t worry, I got this.” & “Come on, take my hand.” For Twilight pretty please 💜

Content Warnings: N/A

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Please take a moment to tell me what y'all think! Reviews and comments are always appreciated. 😌❤️

Mia glanced up from her book as her stomach rumbled, the sound audible to her, and likely to her brother, but not to her brother’s girlfriend settled at the other end of the couch.

They had been sitting there on the couches in near silence ever since school let out, devouring their respective books for hours as Edward practiced piano in the next room over. Since the rest of Mia’s siblings left for Denali straight from the school parking lot, they’d been left entirely undisturbed. It was a rare gift, that, and Bella hadn’t pulled her eyes from the book since settling, completely absorbed in the pages before her.

Edward probably should have been with the others in Denali. He needed to hunt just as much as the rest of them, but he’d elected to stay behind, something he was doing more and more often these days—trading his lengthier hunting trips with the others for short stints that allowed him to remain only borderline satiated, but far closer to home. 

Mia loved her brother, and there was a time when being apart for any significant portion of time had been difficult, but she wasn’t entirely certain if Edward’s near-constant presence these days was a gift or not, though she supposed it divided her parents’ attention a bit. The presence of Bella gave her parents someone else to fuss over, too. 

Esme had gone out shortly after they arrived home, giving the kids their space as she often did, but Mia knew she would return soon. Carlisle would be back from his shift at the hospital any time now, too, and Mia was certain it was only a matter of time before the parents descended, soliciting their opinions on dinner, ready for the rare opportunity to cook for two rather than one.

Mia couldn’t remember the last time they’d let her cook anything for herself, so rare was it that they gave up the opportunity to dote. The opportunity to engage in something so entirely human as cooking. Mia liked to joke that she'd never survive on her own since they let her do so little in the kitchen. It wasn't far from the truth.

Mia watched Bella for a moment, trying to decide whether or not to interrupt the girl's reading, the only sound between them Edward's piano and another rumble of Mia's stomach.

“Bella,” Mia whispered, nudging the girl with her foot when the whispering didn’t provide any result other than a shift in Edward’s playing to something quieter and slower in tempo. 

Mia rolled her eyes, glaring at her brother through the wall for his nosiness. 

“Hmm?” Bella asked after a moment, finally pulling her eyes from the book as she finished her paragraph. She blinked as if she'd forgotten where she was. As if by pulling her eyes from the words on the page she was suddenly somewhere else entirely.

“Are you hungry?” Mia asked.

Bella glanced back to the book for a moment before meeting Mia’s eye, a grimace on her lips. “Starved, actually.”

Mia nodded, standing up from the couch and depositing her blanket and book. “Then I’ll make us something.” 

Mia strode across the floor and through the next room where Edward had already stood to meet her.

“What do you want?” he asked. “I’ll make it.” 

Mia waved her brother off. “I can cook for myself, Edward.” 

Edward raised an eyebrow. "Since when?"

"Since I can," she answered, pushing him out of her path. “Don’t worry, I got this.” 

Edward followed after her. He was poised to argue, poised to insist that his sister take up his offer, but Bella cleared her throat from the threshold of the living room, giving him a pointed look. 

“Leave her alone, Edward.” 

“Yeah, Edward, leave me alone,” Mia echoed, throwing a smirk at him as she then gave a grateful smile to Bella. Edward raised his hands in surrender and Mia turned away, practically skipping to the kitchen.  

Mia skid to a halt as she entered the pristine kitchen. The cabinets and refrigerator were fully stocked, or as fully stocked as the family ever dared to be considering it was only Mia who ever actually ate anything. She was feeling snacky, uncertain that she had enough patience in her to cook an entire meal when her stomach already felt so empty, but she diligently looked to the paper where Esme had already planned the meals for the week anyway. Spinach lasagna—one of Mia’s favorites—was next on the docket, but that would take well over an hour to prepare and cook.

As hungry as she was, Mia wouldn't last that long, and yet she strived to make a point.

She was capable of cooking for herself.

Capable of following a simple recipe.

Mia moved around the kitchen, pulling one of the cookbooks out as she headed to her favorite cabinet—the snack cabinet—grateful that there was still something satisfying and snacky left there, some healthy version of a chip that Mia had come to like at a certain point because it wasn’t as if her family was going to allow actual junk food into the house.

She poured out a portion into a bowl before walking to the living room where Edward and Bella were seated on the couch, in a vaguely respectful position, though Mia hadn’t missed the flush of Bella’s cheeks and the awkward positioning.

She had given them plenty of notice, walking with purpose and making certain that her steps were able to be heard. 

“Appetizer,” Mia announced as she set the bowl on the coffee table before walking back to the kitchen.

Mindlessly snacking on her own bowl of pseudo-chips, Mia flipped through the book and found the lasagna recipe. She had seen the process probably hundreds of times, settled at the counter while she watched her mother or father or one of her siblings putting the meal together for her. 

There were times when her family went through the process of making the pasta by hand. There were times when the noodles came from a box. Mia knew without a thought that she would be doing the latter. 

Wiping the chip dust on her hands off on her jeans, Mia moved around the room, pulling out the necessary ingredients. The noodles, the sauce ingredients, the cheeses, the spinach. Mia mixed the ricotta mixture together and started the sauce on the stove before she started searching the cabinets for the glass baking dish. 

She searched the bottom row of cabinets twice before deciding it wasn't in its usual spot. Biting her lip, Mia surveyed the upper cabinets. Two cabinets in, she spotted the dish on the top shelf, clearly put away by one of her brothers.

Mia reached out for it, but it was just out of reach even when she leaned on the counter, lifting up onto the tips of her toes. She could get a good grip on it if she got up on the counter, but Mia knew better. She was clumsy and it wasn't safe and she had no interest in visiting her father in the emergency room on a Friday afternoon.

So Mia refrained, instead pulling a pair of tongs from one of the nearby drawers. She just needed to pull it down a few inches and then she could catch it in her other hand.

Mia set about it, standing on the tips of her toes once again for a little extra height. She reached out, setting her tongs around the glass handle of the dish. She eased the dish towards the edge, all of her focus there until she heard the gentle click of the door to her left.

She pulled her eyes from the dish to see her mother standing there, back from running her errands in town. 

Mia flinched as dish tipped from the shelf. She let out a scream as the glass shattered around her upon impact, shards littering the floor at her feet.

Edward was there in the doorway less than a second later, soon enough to witness Mia’s fear shift to annoyance as she cursed under her breath. 

“Come on, take my hand,” Esme said softly, extending a hand to guide her daughter safely through the field of glass littering the kitchen floor. “We'll clean this up and Edward will get you another dish so you can finish cooking,” she said, nodding at Edward and then to the cabinets. 

“It smells delicious,” Esme told Mia as she gathered her daughter to her side, an arm around her shoulders. 

Edward was unable to stop himself from snorting as he crossed the room, easily stepping around the glass. He was sure it smelled fine to a human, but to him…and to his mother…whatever his sister was putting together smelled nothing less than abhorrent.

“Yeah, maybe if you like dirt,” he said, earning a sharp glance from Esme by way of reprimand. 

"Ah, yes. Of course." Mia pulled out of her mother's hold. “Because you prefer the entrancing scent of blood. I can step on a piece of glass if that would be—”

Mia stretched a bare foot out towards the glass, barely making it within a few inches before a pair of deceptively strong arms lifted her from the floor.

“Hey! Put me down!” Mia complained as she hung draped over Esme’s shoulder. It looked ridiculous, the woman holding the teenaged girl in such a position when she was barely five and a half feet tall.

"Please?" Mia added, but Esme made no effort to let her down.

“Not in my kitchen,” Esme answered as she carried Mia to the edge of the room. "You’re officially banned."

“Mom, it was just a joke, I swear,” Mia said, her arms gesturing to accompany her words even as she dangled upside down. “Look, Edward’s even laughing.” 

Esme twisted to glance at her son, and the look she gave alone wiped a bit of the smirk from Edward's face.

He wasn't laughing at his sister's "joke." Truth be told, Edward hadn’t found it particularly funny either, but he couldn’t help but chuckle at the image of Esme swinging his sister over her shoulder and carrying her around. Even as Esme looked at him, the grin on his face grew once again. He couldn't help it, but then he met Esme's eye once again.

As Edward’s face sobered a bit further, Esme lowered Mia to the floor in front of her. 

“Well, you’ll both have to excuse me for not finding the notion of my daughter slicing herself open very funny,” she said, frowning at her daughter and then at Edward. “I don’t believe your father would find it very funny either.” 

“I know, I know.” Mia sighed, forcing herself to take a breath before she gave a proper response. Even if it was only a joke, she knew her parents could be testy about that sort of thing, her father especially. “I’m sorry. There’s really no need to revoke kitchen privileges. I promise I wasn’t actually going to—”

“Maybe it’s for the best, Mia,” Edward interrupted from where he now stood at the counter, his nose wrinkling as he hovered over the lasagna components. “This really does smell like—”

Esme opened her mouth to interrupt—to chastise, but she simply rose an eyebrow at him instead. 

“It was just a joke,” Edward answered. 

“Not a very funny one,” Mia answered. 

“Alright,” Esme said, stepping back in front of Mia, meeting both her and Edward’s eyes in turn before continuing. “That’s enough. Both of you take your jokes and get out of my kitchen.” 

Mia was poised to complain…poised to continue making her case for being allowed to stay and finish up her dinner, but Edward was too quick and too strong, and he swept his sister up in his arms before she could say another word. 

Esme only rolled her eyes fondly as Edward carried a complaining Mia away. While the sound of children arguing may have frayed the patience of some mothers, Esme found she didn’t mind the sound of Edward and Mia teasing. Just as she didn't mind the opportunity to finish putting together dinner for Mia and Bella. 

Even if Edward was right. 

The lasagna did smell like dirt.

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[visualtaehyun]

My TNP EP.4 post is gonna take me a bit y'all 🌚 cause my notes already span three pages...

[wondrluv]

EMMAAAA HIHIHI IM HERE TO YAP A BIT !

SO

what are all of your au's doing for the 4 nation breaaak?

yayy!!!

okayyyyy so

connor and violet: connor's spending the majority of his time down in champagne with vi, he's helping her study and the two are going shopping all the time. he hangs out with some of the hockey team and even practices with them a few times

bella and jamie: the two are so thankful to have this break, things have been kind of chaotic with both of their jobs so they're glad to just lounge around the apartment together and watch movies. no seriously, the two are catching up on hundreds of movies and a few shows they haven't been able to watch

will, gabe, and molly: the three of them just made up on friday, so will is with them, usually going between walking molly to class and hanging out with gabe, but whenever gabe and molly aren't busy at the same time, they're playing mario kart, sending instagram reels to each other, and just enjoying each other's presence

chloe and trevor: chloe is just finishing up tour (i really need to fix the tour dates on the tour post) and trevor flies out to see her in the last few shows she has. after, they're taking the time to just relax because they haven't really seen each other or be away from the media and things, so they just want a low-key two weeks

luke and sabrina: luke is in his official wag era! with the break and sab still having games, he's going to each and every one of her games supporting her endlessly. they have yet to announce they're dating but i could see jack finding out some time during these next two weeks (yes i am once again changing how jack finds out) but they're just super happy to spend time with each other and sometimes they let their affection get too public

isla, connor, alex, lukas, and kevin: lukas, alex, conor, and isla are all going out to rockford to see kevin because it's been so long since the five of them have hung out. this is the time where isla is giving them the paintings since it's valentine's day and the four of them are overcome with happiness and awe at them, lots of kisses and cuddles for sure

quinn and valeria (and noah): as much as val hates that quinn doesn't get to play, she's honestly somewhat relieved that he's going to be home and can help with noah. they spend a shit ton of money on legos and just building new ones. they will fly out to go see luke or luke will fly out to go see them, along with val's family and ellen and jim. i could def see quinn, val, noah, ellen, jim, luke, val's dad, and val's brother all going to see a team usa game for jack

nico and rory (and ellie): so with nico being injured, he's already kind of just been around more which ellie is absolutely thrilled about, she loves hanging out with him and going on shopping adventures (that they do rope rory into constantly). rory is around more too, she's been helping out around their apartment, even so much as showing up to take ellie to class bc she knows nico needs to sleep. plus, nico and ellie show up when rory is working at the cafe whenever they can and they make a big deal about it every time

[finleyforevermore]

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY IK WE BARELY TALK BUT STILLL HAVE THE BEST DAY!!!!!

THANK YOU BELLA

I DON'T APPRECIATE YOU MESSAGING ME ANY LESS 💖💖💖 HOW ARE YOU?

[jessicanjpa]

How would Edward react if Bella asked him to take her to Chicago? Would he have a breakdown again like he did in your tales of years one shot?

The saga timeline was so rushed that I don't think Edward took her while she was still human. While it's possible this happened off page (during the summer between books 1 and 2), I still doubt it because I don't think Edward would have wanted to. At that time, he was still assuming that Bella's love for him would be fleeting, and should be fleeting. He was preparing himself to leave the entire time.

So showing Bella something so "human" about himself wouldn't have made the cut. He wanted to leave her with sweet, cloudy memories of an unearthly love, not with real-world ties to an Edward who is still very much alive and whose human past wasn't even that long ago.

It's more likely that he took Bella and Renesmee there later on. I have a cute little scene here if anyone is interested. Hopefully by then, he was ready enjoy the trip and the memories, gladly sharing them with his new little family—now that he knows he's allowed to enjoy that family forever.