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Ghost Story - Chapter 37

Pairing: Rooster x Female OC

Word Count: 4868

Warnings: Swearing

Summary: No one will miss a ghost. It'd been a running joke for as long as anyone could remember, something Ghost herself started, and she always said it with a smile on her face or with mirth in her voice. The untouchable stealth pilot in every sense of the word, no one could've predicted the depth of her turmoil over recent events, nor the extremes she would go to in order to protect the man she loved, not even those closest to her. Now, all that was left of the young aviator for Maverick, Hangman, and Rooster were the memories of the past, which would slowly fade with time. She'd come into their lives and made an unforgettable impression, and then, like a ghost, she was gone... Then again, ghosts can't die a second time.

Notes: The chapters/large parts in italics are flashbacks. Also listen to Ghost Story - I use some of the lyrics in the chapter and it's what this entire story was created from!

Chapter Songs: Ghost Story My Little Girl She'll Leave You With A Smile Sangria

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Maverick

I never should've said goodbye.

Pete Mitchell had never been a superstitious person. He believed being alive came down to skill and some sheer dumb luck. But saying "goodbye" before a mission had always been one thing Maverick avoided. It'd been the last thing he told Carole and Bradley before Goose died, and although it'd been a freak, tragic accident, it'd still stuck with him, and he'd never said those words before a mission again, real or simulated. When Ghost said them, his heart nearly stopped, but she sounded so certain when she'd said, "Ghosts can't die a second time." Maverick, against his better judgment, had believed her.

God, if anyone would survive this mission, it'd be her. She was him in female form, unafraid to take the risks needed for the mission to succeed. How had she miscalculated the timing of the maneuver? That wasn't like her. Ghost had been top of her class, had top marks in the Academy, was known for her precision- it didn't make sense.

Unless she meant to do it. The terrifying thought haunted Maverick's mind, causing a knot to form in his stomach that refused to unravel. This is what you were worried about. She was fighting with Rooster and Hangman, she just lost her mom, and she barely knew you, no matter how close you two got. This is your fault. You should've convinced her to let you go up with her. Then she might still be here, then Rooster and Hangman might be okay, then you could've died instead of her so she could live out the long life she had ahead.

In the din of Rooster and Hangman shouting for Ghost- desperately and futilely- Maverick thought back to all the time he'd spent with her, the times he took for granted, knowing what he did now. One memory in particular stuck out, a time during a game of dogfight football.

"How are you feeling?" Maverick asked, jogging up to Ghost and collapsing in the chair beside her. It'd been only a few days after her wreck, and while Ghost hadn't joined in on the game, she'd still attended to watch and socialize.

"Better," she replied, "much better. The medicine has been helping, and thankfully, I've always been a quick healer. My mom said it's amazing I didn't have worse injuries."

"She's not wrong."

"She said I get it from my dad, the fast healing and escaping situations with little to no injury. Funny, though, considering every time my dad has been injured, he takes ages to heal." Ghost shrugged. "Anyway, I'm just glad it wasn't worse. I plan on playing with y'all next week."

"Good, it'll be good to have you back, but don't get back in the game too early if you're not ready." Maverick placed his hand on her arm and squeezed it. "It's not worth it to reinjure yourself."

Ghost chuckled. "All right, dad. I won't."

"I do sound like a dad, don't I?" Maverick mused.

"You might as well be to all the Daggers and Amelia. It comes naturally to you. Do you have any kids of your own? If you don't mind my asking..."

"No, I don't. As much as I would've liked one, I don't know if I would've made the best dad."

"You helped Carole raise Bradley, and he turned out great. I think you would've made a great one."

"Perhaps, but I was always traveling, always being sent overseas, putting myself in risky situations, and honestly, I wasn't in a good mindset after Goose died for a long time. Your mom, Carole, Bradley, and Ice helped me through it, but Charlie and I had our falling out not long after, which sent me back down a dark hole. Penny helped me through that one." Maverick shrugged with a sigh. "I don't know. Never felt like I would've been a good dad."

"Well, I beg to differ, and honestly, seeing how Bradley turned out, how you act around Amelia, how you act with the Daggers, it shows how great a dad you would've been. A kid would've been lucky to have you."

Maverick smiled at the compliment. Hearing it come from Ghost and the absolute certainty she held in her voice made him believe he just might've been a decent father to someone. Then again, he never wanted to do what his dad had done to him and his mom, causing them so much grief and pain for so many years. Maverick never wanted to be the cause of someone else's pain, not like that.

"You do realize that the Daggers call you their work dad, right?" Ghost asked, grabbing a water bottle from the cooler.

This made Maverick laugh. "I wasn't, but I'm glad they trust me like that."

"If we ever work together, I'm going to start calling you my work dad too."

"You can call me that now if you'd like. Considering you're assisting Penny and me with the renovations, all the work we're doing together, I think it's more than sufficient reasoning to give me the title."

"All right, work dad you are then. Hey, what do you say we go inside and grab something while the Daggers aren't looking? I'm in no mood to share my fries with anyone."

"Let's do it."

The memory stuck out in Maverick's mind, an ironic conversation that turned out to hold more truth in it than he ever realized. He should've told Ghost before they left for the mission. He should've told her what Charlie's letter said. He had to find her. Maverick had to rescue her. Ghost had to be alive.

"Phantom 1 Spare requesting launch to provide air support cover for the rescue chopper," Maverick requested, refusing to accept any other answer but 'yes.'

"Negative; you will remain on carrier unless enemies approach," Cyclone responded.

"Sir, the base is destroyed, and no more hostiles are in the air, according to radar. Send Hangman and me up so we can provide air cover on the rescue mission for Ghost."

"No, Captain Mitchell. This was the risk with the mission, and Lieutenant Winchester knew as such when she agreed to partake in it. I will look into getting permission to launch a search and rescue operation, but we're not meant to be here-"

Maverick snapped, unable to hold back his panic and fury over the situation. "That's my daughter down there, God damn it!"

****

Hangman

I never should've let her go.

Jake Seresin prided himself on his ability to keep calm in stressful situations, but hearing Rooster scream Ghost's name and that she'd gone down broke that near-impenetrable wall of self-control. Hangman stared in disbelief at his dashboard, his mind unable to process that Annalise Winchester, the girl he'd grown up with, the only woman he'd ever fallen in love with, the pilot who seemed as indestructible as Maverick, was gone. He believed his heart couldn't shatter more than it had when Ghost broke up with him, but God proved him wrong. So wrong. It seemed unfathomable that Jake would never see Ghost's bright smile when she saw a jet, or her deep blue eyes that could read his mind before he ever voiced his troubles, or her infectious laugh, her wit, her kindness... no, he would never see that again. The idea made him nauseous. Closing his eyes, a memory flashed in his mind, one he would never forget.

"This is why I love you," Ghost said, shoveling a mouthful of ice cream into her mouth. "This is exactly what I needed."

Hangman raised an eyebrow at her. "You want me to give you some alone time with that thing? It looks like quite the love affair between you two."

Ghost flipped him off, causing him to laugh as he crawled into bed next to her with his own carton of ice cream. Meanwhile, she said, "Ben and Jerry's are the most loyal men to women, and you cannot convince me otherwise."

"Even when they got rid of your favorite flavor not once, but twice?"

"They were still there for me whenever I needed them, so I'll let it slide both times."

"When did you need them, and you couldn't call me? You know I'm always a phone call away."

"I know, but sometimes I don't know what's wrong, and if I do, I can't necessarily verbalize it, so I turn to Ben and Jerry's. I'm fine right now. I was just really craving it. The real question is: why did you need it?"

"No, the real question is-" Hangman began, deflecting from the question and his feelings- "is what happened between you and Bradshaw? You two were at each other's throats for the first half of that ski trip, and now you two act like best buds when you're around each other."

Ghost shrugged, shoveling another spoonful of ice cream into her mouth. "I don't know. We both couldn't sleep one night and came across each other. Ended up talking and, I guess, working things out. He's a really great guy when he's not on my ass about being dangerous and reckless."

"Someone sounds like they have a crush," Hangman teased despite the sinking of his heart.

"No, and even if I did, I doubt he likes me like that. Our conversation could only do so much. Now, are you going to stop deflecting my question with ones of your own? Or are you going to tell me why you needed ice cream at-" Ghost glanced at the clock- "two in the morning?"

"I hate how well you know me sometimes..."

"Jake, we've grown up with each other. I'd take it as a bad sign if I didn't know you as well as I do."

"It's... complicated."

"Then uncomplicate it for me."

"Not sure how," Hangman admitted, suddenly feeling extremely vulnerable. "I'm dealing with some I never have before."

"Which is what?"

Hangman grimaced. "Feelings. They're awful, I tell you."

"Feelings about who, exactly?"

You. He wanted to say. They're about you, and I don't know what to do for the first time in my life.

But that's not what came out. Instead, Jake replied, "How do you know it's a who?"

"Because a who is the only person who could make you eat Ben and Jerry's at two in the morning. Now, come on, spill, who is it? Do not make me resort to drastic measures."

"At least let me finish my ice cream first."

"Fine, fine, but hurry up. I'm curious, and whether you tell me tonight or not, I'll find out some other way. Ghosts know everything."

"Well, that doesn't appear to be the case right now, does it?"

"I have connections, Jake, and I'm a wallflower. All I have to do is-"

"You're not a wallflower," Hangman interrupted, pointing his spoon firmly at her.

"Not when you're around because you won't let me. And I guess not around Bradley, either. You two always seem to see me, but when y'all aren't around, yes, I'm very much a wallflower, and I hear things." Ghost pushed herself off the bed and shuffled over to her desk to throw out the empty ice carton in the trash can beneath it. While she was away, her phone buzzed. Hangman glanced down at the name: B-Squared.

"Bradshaw's texting you," Hangman said, unable to help the contempt that slipped out. It did not go unnoticed by Ghost.

Narrowing her eyes at him, she said, "Do you not like me hanging out with him?"

"No..." Jake admitted, staring down at the last melted remnants of his ice cream.

"Why not?"

"He's been awful to you and-"

"Yeah, and we worked it out. It's not like I've been an angel to him, either." When Jake didn't look up at her, Ghost sat on the edge of the bed next to him. Gently, she said, "Hey, talk to me, Jake. What's going on? Why don't you like me hanging out with Bradley?"

"On a first-name basis with him already?"

"Jake."

"Annalise."

"Don't be like this. You're sounding like a jealous boyfriend."

"Maybe I want to be a jealous boyfriend." The words slipped off his tongue before he could stop them, and once more, they did not go unnoticed by Ghost, who became stunned into silence. Hangman suddenly felt the need to be away from Ghost for the first time in his life. However, unwilling to give away any more than he had, he jokingly said, "I think that's enough feelings for tonight. I'm going to turn in."

He got up, attempting to appear nonchalant and unbothered while he threw away his empty ice cream container, but he'd only taken one step before Ghost descended on him, grabbing his arm and saying his name in a soft whisper. It broke him, and before he could stop himself, before he could chicken out, he leaned down and captured her lips in a kiss. It ended as quickly as it began, but to his surprise, Ghost didn't back away. She remained frozen in place. He braced his forehead against hers.

"The reason I don't like you hanging out with Bradshaw-" he gingerly cupped her face, heart hammering in his chest over what he was about to divulge- "is because he looks at you the same way I do."

Her breath hitched. "I don't- how does he-"

"Like he wants to be with you." Ghost's eyelashes brushed against his, and he opened his eyes to meet her deep blue ones. "I've been in love with you for years now, and I didn't have the guts to tell you because I didn't want to risk ruining our friendship. Annalise, I-"

Hangman never finished his sentence. Ghost cut him off with a kiss, bunching his shirt in her first. Jake melted into it, his wildest dream coming true in a split second. He never wanted to wake up from it.

The memory abruptly stopped when Maverick's irate voice came over the radio. Hangman thought he couldn't be shocked any further than he already was, but when Maverick spoke, he found himself dreadfully wrong: "That's my daughter down there, God damn it!"

****

Rooster

Let the love between us die. Carve it into stone.

It's what Rooster told himself when he headed to Ghost's the night before the deployment because after leaving her half-clothed and broken-hearted in the back of his Bronco that night at Maverick's hangar, he'd forsaken all future chances to be with her. Going over there would simply be to comfort her and be the friend he would always ever be to her, nothing more. Bradley could remember the love they once shared but love her no more than a friend for the rest of their days. Admittedly, it would've been easier for him if he could let the love die but doing so was like holding his breath: no matter how long he held it, he always needed to let it out. For Rooster, he could try to stop loving Ghost, but no matter how often he tried, it would never last forever. Bradley always found himself falling for her, harder than before each time.

It'd taken him seeing Ghost with Hangman for Rooster to realize he had been head over heels for her. He'd never wholly liked Hangman, but his dislike for the cocky aviator had been solidified mere days before Rooster deployed for the first time, and it was the time spent with Ghost that same day that cemented their own unbreakable bond, no matter how much time passed between them.

Cadets ran excitedly down the hallway, shouting cheers of jubilation over recently graduating and their soon-to-be deployments. Yet, despite his own excitement of finally achieving his dreams and flying for the Navy, Rooster found himself less than cheerful, worry gnawing at his bones. He'd barely heard from Ghost since his graduation, which she'd attended with her family in support of both him and Hangman. She'd seemed fine during that time, but then she suddenly dropped off the face of the planet, barely responding to his texts and making no appearances with Hangman outside of the base. Only when he overheard Javy Machado talking to Neil Vikander did he learn the truth. After making a pitstop at a bakery, Rooster hurried to Ghost's dorm and knocked on her door.

She answered a few moments later, wearing a Navy sweatshirt and workout shorts. Her expression was downcast and exhausted, but Ghost still offered a small, genuine smile at the sight of him. "Hey, what are you doing here?"

"I came to check on you," he replied gently, not needing to say anything else, for she immediately knew what he was referring to. Ghost hung her head. "I was already worried about you since you essentially started ghosting me, but I started realizing you were doing it to everyone, and then I overheard what happened between you and Seresin. I'm so sorry, Annalise."

She shrugged, pulling the sleeves of her sweatshirt over her fists. "It happens. He's deploying, we're going to be separated for who knows how long... it is what it is."

"You were together for years and friends for even longer. I know you're more upset than you're letting on, but I have something to cheer you up." Rooster pulled out the cupcake from behind his hand and offered it to her. "One giant vanilla cupcake with chocolate chip cookie dough filling in the middle, topped with chocolate icing and cookie crumbles. It's not Ben and Jerry's, but I thought you needed something a little more extravagant than that. Do you want it?"

Ghost broke out into a smile, wiggling her fingers at the treat for him to hand it over. He didn't, adding, "You get this on one condition."

She raised an eyebrow at him. "Oh? Which is?"

"You hang out with me for the day. I'm taking you off base and getting you away from all this. What do you say?"

"You really need to learn how to drive hard bargains," Ghost replied, swiping the cupcake from him. "Give me a sec to change into something cooler. I was freezing with the AC earlier, but I'm going to die of heat stroke if I step foot out in this sweatshirt."

Ghost disappeared for a few minutes, then reappeared a short time later in a black tank top, her aviator sunglasses keeping her blonde, curled hair out of her face. With her mouth full of cupcake, she managed to say, "Lead the way."

The two set off and hopped in Bradley's Bronco. They rolled down the windows, blasted the music, and set off for a destination only Bradley knew. Rooster understood that Ghost's reprieve from her stress and thoughts was flying, but since they couldn't commandeer a jet to help heal a broken heart, he went for the next closest thing: driving along the coastline.

"If you look in the backseat," Rooster began, briefly glancing behind him, "you'll find more cupcakes."

"Have I ever said how much I love you?" Ghost mused, twisting around and grabbing the box. Her eyes widened at the sight of the remaining seven treats. "Jesus, Bradley, how many did you get? These aren't cheap!"

"You're worth it," he replied. "I got all different flavors."

"Which one is your favorite?"

"Uh, the Black Forest one. The one with the cherry on top."

Out of the corner of his eye, Rooster saw Ghost pick up the cupcake. She peeled off the wrapper and ordered, "Open up."

Laughing, he did as she said. Ghost placed the cupcake directly in front of his mouth, and he took a large bite out of it. "God, that hits the spot."

Ghost took a bite of it herself. "Oh, that's amazing!"

"Right?! Now you see why it's my favorite."

"You have good taste," Ghost agreed, closing the lid and sliding the cupcakes into a shaded part of the truck. "Going to save them for later. Besides, pretty sure I gained at least twenty pounds just looking at them."

Rooster looked her up and down. "You still look amazing."

"Speaking of amazing, thank you for all this," Ghost said, smiling gratefully at him. "I've been... really upset since Jake and I broke up."

"Why didn't you tell me when it happened?"

Ghost shrugged. "I didn't want to bring you down after your graduation. You were so happy- and still are- about it and about being deployed that I-" Ghost's voice hitched, and she hung her head.

Rooster reached over and grabbed her hand. "Listen to me: I don't care what it is, if you need me, I will always be there for you. Whether I'm dealing with shit of my own or busting with excitement, I'm here for you. That's what friends are for, Annalise."

She squeezed his hand. "Thank you, Bradley. I really appreciate it."

"Any time. Now-" Rooster grabbed his phone and plugged it into the jack- "I'm here to cheer you up, so what do you say we blast some music and cruise?"

"I trust your DJ skills. Go for it."

Beaming, Rooster blared the music, and he and Ghost sang at the top of their lungs to everything from Britney Spears to George Strait to Kenny Loggins. Rooster even tried dancing while driving a couple of times.

After an hour's worth of driving, Ghost inquired, "So, where exactly are we headed?"

"New Orleans," Rooster answered happily. "You said you wanted to go but never got a chance, so we're going now. We can get some beignets, some chicory coffee, maybe some jambalaya or gumbo, and then when we head back, I got invited to party at Heaven's Gate Bar. You want to join?"

"And miss out on more fun with you? Never. Count me in."

"Glad to hear it!"

Beaming, the pair continued chatting all the way to New Orleans. There, they indulged in as much food as they could, including beignets and gumbo. They drank more chicory coffee than could be considered healthy, and by the time they returned to Pensacola, they were bouncing off the walls from the caffeine.

They temporarily parted ways to freshen up for the party. Meeting back up, Rooster's heart jumped into his throat. Although wearing a simple, tight black miniskirt and a ruffled, sleeveless white shirt, Ghost looked like a million bucks. He wanted to run his hands through her wavy blonde curls and kiss her until she forgot about Jake Seresin. The man had been an idiot for ever letting her go.

They walked to the bar, chatting the entire way there despite having talked all day. It was as if they never ran out of topics of conversation. Upon arriving at the party, Rooster got swept up by some of his fellow classmates who graduated alongside him, but he kept a close eye on Ghost. While she may have somehow flown under the radar for the cadets, some of the older men eyed her hungrily, and Rooster swiftly made his way to her side, staring each man down with a death glare as a warning of what would happen if they tried anything with her.

Rooster lost count of how many shots and beers he knocked back, but it was safe to say it'd been one too many. The same evidently went for Ghost because she became much more extroverted than she normally was. Perhaps it was her inebriation, but Rooster, even in his own drunken state, noticed how she never left his side, even hung all over him at times, not that he minded. If he could ever be so lucky as to land Ghost's attention and affection...

Around one a.m., Ghost stood on her toes and shouted over the loud music, "I'm going outside to get some air!"

"I'll join you!" Rooster yelled back, namely to keep the older men at bay from going after her. Once out in the quieter atmosphere of outside, the drunkenness hit Rooster like a tidal wave, his ears ringing from the loud music.

"Ooh, I'm feeling the alcohol now," Ghost confessed, swaying a little as she unsteadily hopped onto the railing to sit down. Bradley instantly reached out for her to ensure she didn't topple over the side. "I'm good, I'm good, but I'm going to have one hell of a hangover in the morning."

"I have Gatorade and ibuprofen ready to go," Rooster joked, shoving his hands into his pockets. "Whenever you're ready to leave, let me know. I'll escort you back to your room."

"I don't want to ruin your fun, though, if I'm ready to leave and you're not."

Rooster shook his head. "Today's about you, not me, and honestly, I'd rather be wherever you are than with my classmates."

Ghost smiled sympathetically. "Are you really not friends with any of them?"

"Outside of class, no. Like I get invited to things, but truthfully, you're my closest friend here."

"Funny, considering where we started out with each other."

"Oh, I remember. What was it that you called me again the first time we got into a fight?"

Ghost squeezed her eyes shut in a grimace. "A self-righteous bastard?"

"To be fair, I said you were going to lead someone to their early grave with your flying, so I kind of deserved it."

"Maybe a little." Ghost chuckled, then reached out and grasped his shoulders. "Hey, thank you for today. It was... much needed, and at the risk of being sappy, I hope you know how much it and you mean to me."

"Like I said, I'm always here for you, Ghost. Whenever, wherever."

She stared at him, her gaze trailing over his face and landing on his lips. He could see the gears turning in her head a million miles a second. He barely processed her actions when Ghost shifted forward and placed her lips gently upon his. He instinctively leaned in, hands resting on the sides of her thighs to ground himself in reality.

"Forgive me," Ghost breathed, pulling away in a hurry. "I shouldn't have done that."

"Do you see me complaining?"

"No, but you're not- you're not a rebound guy for me, Bradley. I won't let you be."

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm not thinking anything like that. All I'm thinking about is if it helps you forget your woes, then keep kissing me. If you don't want it to mean anything, it won't."

"You deserve more than to be the rebound, though. And I don't want you to kiss me out of pity for-"

"I don't pity you, Annalise. You just broke up with your long-term boyfriend. I pity him because he's an idiot for letting you go. But you? There's no pity. Only sympathy for losing someone you loved and support to help you get through it."

"Stop saying sweet things. It's making me want to kiss you again."

"That- you realize that only encourages me to say more sweet things?" His thumbs rubbed up and down her bare skin, brushing over her goosebumps. Frowning, he asked, "Are you cold?"

Ghost shook her head, eyes dropping back down to his lips. He could see her desperation to kiss him again and the sheer willpower it took her to refrain. "Annalise, if you need a distraction-"

"You're much more than a distraction to me, Bradley. I don't want to use you or-"

"You're not using me. Even if you were, I'd be giving you permission to. If you want to kiss me-" Rooster stepped between her legs so their faces were a mere inch apart- "then kiss me. It won't change anything between us. I promise."

"Fuck," Ghost breathed before crashing her lips back onto his, desperate and hungry. One arm hooked around his neck while she weaved one hand in his hair. Rooster's arms snaked around her torso, pulling her tightly against him. All thought fled his mind, but he'd never been so hyperaware of his surroundings in his life: the taste of sangria on her lips, the smell of her Jo Malone perfume, the softness of her perfectly curled hair, and the sound of "Wherever You Will Go" playing faintly from inside the bar.

Things didn't change between Ghost and Rooster that night, but it'd changed Rooster. It was the night that not only formed their unbreakable bond but also his undying love for Annalise Winchester. Panic rose in his chest as he thought of her lying in the snow, possibly injured or worse, unable to be rescued because of her location.

In the din of it all, he heard Maverick snap at Cyclone about his daughter being down there in a fight to be launched to provide air support for Rooster, but he hardly comprehended the words. He could barely think of anything until an enemy plane shot past him.

"Shit!" He exclaimed, swerving around to try and get behind them. However, he was too late. They'd already circled around and were coming for him. Scarcely able to breathe, he gasped out, "Mav, I-I couldn't- I can't- I'm sorry."

"Rooster? What are you-"

Bradley never heard the end of Maverick's sentence. The enemy had caught up to him, and the missile hit his plane.

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abyssal-cryptid · 2 years ago

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Still more thoughts about Tears of the Kingdom (SPOILERS! like seriously. in this one)

I love this game

So much

I had to find a guy for a quest but was like

"Im going to check out this well first"

AND BOOM HE WAS THERE

Alao the brown breakable rock break with one hit, blue with two and black with three

Seemingly

Matches the bombs it takes to break them

Tulin, whose village is dying, watching me search for pretty clothing

"Link please my family is dying Link we have to go Link"

The frostbite set is stunning

Finally a hairdo that lets Link have long hair

I hate the Sages

Not really but my god did they make their AI absolute trash

Theyre always in the way except when you need them to solve a puzzle

And if you have more than one Avatar present good luck getting the one you need

I HATE THE WIND TEMPLE BOSS

Not as much as I hated Queen Gibdo but

Why was crossing a spider and scorpion necessary

"Brave Fledgling" what if I cried

Tulin is so good

So is this making it canon that the time 10 000 years ago was still after every other game

I dont know the timeline is weird

But if there was both Zora and Rito at the time of Rauru

This is so confusing

Ive both heard and seen Rauru sacrifice himself multiple times now can these dead Sages give me new info

Zelda my beloved

Marry me please

Also so the only other Demon King we have ever had was Demise so is Ganondorf him or after him

WHAT IS THE TIMELINE HERE

The Sage calls Tulin "my brave fledgling"

Someone call me something so loving one day

Tulin is so excited to be a Sage

He is so happy to fight alongside Link

Hes so happy to save the world

I love him

What a boy

Boys will be boys is from now on only about Tulin

WAIT IS EVEN HE TALLER THAN LINK

Shortest Hylian

I got a third ring

Bring a gerudo bow to this boss fight if you can it makes life so much easier

I havent been to Death Mountain at all yet

Done all other Temples and fully mapped Hyrule before ever going near Gorons

The extra snow melted

TEBA GAVE TULIN THE GREAT EAGLE BOW

IM CRYING

REVALI IM SO PROUD OF OUR BOY *shakes the ghost of Revali*

PSSHHH YUNOBO LOOKS DUMB AS SHIT

I HATE HIM

Was already my least favorite in BOTW

But now he is a major asshole too

Fuck that

Bastard

Im not helping him

Im gonna go blow up his company

If this guy becomes a Sage I swear

I'll drown him in Death Mountain myself

The ember headdress is probably the best headpiece in the entire game

The Ember set is genuinely the best set

Its so pretty

Im gonna go see what these look like dyed

After that beating up Yunobo

But fashion comes first

IF YOU DYE THE EMBER HEADSET IT DYES LINKS HAIR

BLUE HAIR LINK

PINK HAIR LINK

BEST DAY EVER

THE SAME GOES FOR THE FROST OUTFIT

I love Cece

She is the only person matching my love of fashion in this game

I just realised why the evil Zelda is wearing Zonai clothes

Omg

Smart

Or maybe Im dumb

"Oh Yunobo was wearing a mask making him evil" no Yunobo is just like that

This sucks I hate everything to do with Death Mountain

Worst place

I have to use the machines AND GO TO THE DEPTHS??? NOOO

Nintendo you will be hearing from my lawyers

When I die Im going to ask Rauru wtf were the Zonai doing in the depths

No because if youre going to have a cutscene and then make a second cutscene three steps further just fucking make it one cutscene

Yunobo is a "young little rock"

Left that for now

Found Champions leathers

Found Royal Guard boots??

They were in the king's study

King's diary wasnt there so like is it canon Zelda was able to read it?

Misko was a good guy actually, hiding all these clothes for me

Me, in the depths: I wonder where this strange Sheikah tower leads

The Yiga hideout in Akkala:

The only ancient sheikah tech still working is Hateno Tech Lab travel point

I spent some time in the depths and FOUND THE ANCIENT CENTRAL MINE

Fought Kohga

GOT AUTOBUILD

Finally the shrine censor

And travel medallion? You treat me so well

Already had that prototype

ALSO GETTIN SENSOR+ IMMEDIATLY

Badass feeling

Omg Robbie's compendium database is so cute

Got all three upgrades immediatly

Fully stocked purah pad

WAIT THREE TRAVEL MEDALLIONS???

BASED

MY FAVORITE MONEY MAKER IS BACK

I like to kill the hebra great game because they drop gourmet and prime meat and cooking those and they sell for a good price

Horse and bullet time

Many coins

Zelda's memories are so sad

Been giving my friends a fashion show of my favorite clothing

I am again so gay for Sonia and Zelda

My god

ZELDA

BABYGIRL

ZELDA I FORBID THIS

ZELDA YOU YOU

ZELDA

NO NO NO NO NO DONT

MY DEAREST ZELDA

ZELDA

MY LOVE

I am sobbing crying screaming

Im so upset

Zelda being the light dragon is so unfair for her

She deserved happiness and freedom

Not losing her humanity and personhood

YOU CAN MAKE ELEMENTAL WHIPS

Kinky

I went into the strange thunder cloud

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

Why is it taking me into the depths

Not again

Alright Sage of Spirit

I'll make your mech suit for you

That took a while

But owl head statue

Mineru my beloved

Oh.my god this is hell

Worst part of this game so far

EASILY

DONT MAKE ME FUCKING CONTROL THIS WHEN THE CONTROLS ARE THE WORST THING EVER CONCIEVED

Im leaving this temple also undone I DONT CARE THIS FUCKING SUCKS

I hate it

Fuck this

Why do game devs come up with shitty awful bad as hell stuff to do in their games AND MAKE THAT MANDATORY

I just quit the game no lie

Fuck that

I did it and I was being dramatic, it wasnt that hard

Mineru is so goddamn gorgeous

They designed this game for me specifically

I should get back to drawing furries

Mineru holding my hand which is her brother's hand

Tears

Mineru I love her

I have not beaten Fire Temple yet

I just cant

Depths

Darkness and puzzles and fire

Also dont like Yunobo

I feel so bad for Mineru

Zelda :(

Why doesnt Link get a secret stone

RAURU WAS MINERU'S LITTLE BROTHER ::'ÖÖ

Where did Zelda's special stone come from when its a time stone and Ganon stole Sonia's time stone

Mineru I will not go get the Master Sword

Demon Ganon is hot idc

RAURU WHY WOULD YOU

Ganon: "Link. I look forward to meeting him" goes into slumber

Damn all of Rauru disintergrated but his hand

I have to find the light dragon

Eugh

The dragons dont have schedules in this apparently

Sadly

Mineru so was in love w Zelda

Everyone is putting too much weight on Link's shoulders

Fine I'll finish the fire temple

*2 hours later* I hate it here

I did scam those puzzles as much as I could

Worst puzzles

Worst boss too

Marbled gohma

Fucking awful

I nearly died about 11 times

Rip my food storages

I really need to cook more

Special stone for Yunobo booo

Little rock is adorable pet name tho

Ancestor Goron is fine af

WHY DOES NO ONE MENTION THE DIVINE BEASTS BUT YOU CAN FIND THE DIVINE BEAST HELMS AND NO ONE MENTIONS THE BEASTS

Ive heard this story four times now

Fucking hell cant we get anything new

Someone give me a 200k word fanfic where Ganon awakens but is not evil

I need Ganon Zelda Link friendship

End the cycle

Watching Brian David Gilbert and Unraveleds rn

LMAO YUNOBO'S SPECIAL STONE IS ON HIS DICK

We have established this is not a PG channel

Ok fine I like Yunobo

Daruk was better tho

Ive found most memories why cant I say anything to these people about thats not Zelda

I know Zelda is the light dragon

Running around Hyrule Castle for 'Zelda'

About to do bossfight w Ganon

Can I do a flurry rush? No

I just hit or die

Life is like that

No clever tactiques just caveman brain and trying

Evil "Zelda" is fun

Why is Ganon like one of those movie posters here

Why is he still not rehydrated

Ganon I have dick to suck hurry up

"You will not live to see another sunrise" Ganon the sun is rising rn

Woo Phantom Ganons

Fuck yeah

Lets see if I can kill them aka can I finally take on Gloom Hands (I wont)

Ganon's so arrogant

YAY MY FRIENDS ARE HERE

FUCK YEAH

I LOVE YOU ALL

MY SAGE BUDDIES

Not Lynels

Still the hardest enemy in game

Ok so if youve found Mineru and have the Master Sword already, the convo after the fake Ganon fight Purah goes "Youve already found the fifth sage? AND you have the master sword? Why didnt you say so before"

Usually youd get quests for those

It was funny

Why is the limit of horses I can have ten ::((

The Charged shirt is actually so so slutty I love it

IT GLOWS IN THUNDER STORMS

FUCK YEAH

So I finally cleared The Deku Tree's little stomach bug

And like it is so funny how easy the Gloom Hands and Phantom Ganon become when youre in late game

I was sweating about it and then it was so easy

And Im bad at combat

Ok not to brag but I killed a white lynel. First time ever. Also first time ever I killed a lynel without Urbosa's help

#tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda #spoilers

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indefenseofkara · 1 year ago

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My (mostly silly) thoughts while playing the MWIII Campaign

spoilers under the cut, obviously

Operation 627

was this man wearing a suit in prison?

Cutscene

wonder what the 141 was about to do before learning about Makarov

RIP Dena, first named side character to die this game

Precious Cargo

if Graves was serious about helping Urzikstan he'd pronounce Farah's name right

I tried to be stealthy. it never works 😢

omg Graves is so annoying and won't stfu. he even interrupts himself

Cutscene

RIP Ivan, you were just trying to do the right thing

i don't think patches really tear and attach that easily

Gaz's headshot is really so much better than everyone else's lmao

Reactor

once again i tried to stealth and failed

"I'm going loud" yes?? of course??? i just blew up a helicopter! is there a way to stealthily blow up a helicopter????

gave Price lung cancer oops

Cutscene

ghost is so proud of his joke lol

finally Farah learns about what Shadow Company did in Las Almas (kinda i guess Price didn't mention all the innocent people killed lmao)

aw but Price trusts Farah

Payload

i kept pressing the button for exiting recon drones in MP/WZ but it's different in the campaign 💀

my left joystick keeps drifting and idk whyyyy

the bunker dining room is set up so nice. table cloths and flowers!

Cutscene

damn Farah really gets everything done, the other 141 boys didn't stop their missiles

Nikolai! Rocking out to metal! I love it!

is Kastovia in Russia? I thought it was a country

Yuri!

Deep Cover

i'm Laswell!

for like 2 minutes lmao damn that was short af

Cutscene

oh god No Russian coming up

do i have to shoot civilians this time?

Passenger

bruh wtf is this?

why was Makarov even on the plane?

could/should have been a cutscene

Cutscene

Farah is my badass motorcycle gf

"Yes, ma'am" Alex knows what's up.

Crash Site

ooooh i found a crossbow!

goddamnit Alex i just took down like 30 men and you got caught by 3?! get it together man

the game wouldn't let me dramatically zipline in to save alex, rude.

Cutscene

Farah continues to be the most capable person in the series

Aww Gaz and Nik being bros

Flashpoint

this post is supposed to be silly thoughts but what is going on with this timeline? Price and Soap and Ghost are together but not part of the 141 because that hasn't been made yet. Also they're all British SAS why are they reporting to Shepard? (that's a question for all the games but especially in this pre-141 scenario) (ok back to silly thoughts)

i shoved Makarov so much lmao (i also shot him but that made me fail the mission)

everyone is gloating so much get it together

Cutscene

Herschel lol

he clearly has a plan and they're all like "what are you talking about Makarov we totally got you"

oh look i was right

oh look it's my least favorite people

"Ghost that is not nice" ok that got me i cackled

Gaz is distractingly pretty rn

Oligarch

listen i swear i'm trying really hard to be stealthy i don't know why i'm so bad at this i'm on recruit ffs

Cutscene

good cop bad cop

"to hide my face" he has a point

i have strong doubts that Milena actually worked for that money lol

Makarov talking about a "Shadow" and i am shocked. Shocked, I tell you! (i am not shocked)

Highrise

this was a fun level

Nolan's talking shit after i shot him, but i didn't even know i got him - i downed him while blinded by a flash grenade lmao

when did Price hook into the skyhook? nearly had a heart attack when we took off

Cutscene

oh its the high fashion mission coming up

Frozen Tundra

godammit another mission where i want to shoot the guy we have to keep safe for some dumb reason

Gaz is the voice of reason again

soap keeps running away when i try to get ammo from him 😭

Cutscene

lmao gotta love these scenes where everyone is part of an intimidating conversation

Gora Dam

i didn't even try to go stealthy this time, immediately stole a truck with a sentry turret on the back

Cutscene

Graves ugh

Gaz not shaking his hand, ICONIC

Danger Close

not really a fan of these types of missions

accidentally used a missile to take out one person but that's ok because i got an achievement for it called "your tax dollars at work" 🤣

Cutscene

yeah he's not dead

huh Shepard telling the truth, shocker

lol jk still lying too

lmao where was Alex in that little scene. "Nik take Farah back to Urzikstan" and Alex? where'd he go??? weren't you in Urzikstan? You left just to talk about this with Farah but not Alex? WHAT IS GOING ON? DID YOU THINK I WOULDN'T NOTICE DETAILS LIKE THIS

Trojan Horse/Countdown

doggo!!!

actually liked the CCTV bit, it's realistic

got runover by a train because my joystick keeps drifting 💀

playthrough interrupted for cat snuggles

"chunnel" lol i forgot some people call it that

RIP Soap, that was a pretty definite death

"one KIA" you mean one task force member... all the police with you are KIA too damn way to be insensitive Price

Cutscene

Uh does Soap not have a family?

Lol Gaz is the only one who took off his hat/hood

Tbh i was expecting a tragic military funeral with bagpipes

this was too short i didn't even have time to process before it was over. didn't cry.

Bonus scene

thank fuck he's dead. now let's get Graves.

Credits

lol what is this music? (oh it's 21 Savage)

production babies!

someone is named Amish.

I know some of these people!!!! I sat through over 10 minutes of credits to cheer for my pals suffering under the evil overlords at Activison!

there wasn't a "thanks for playing" picture at the end what

#this isn't that interesting but i don't have irl people to share my silly little thoughts with #COD #call of duty #modern warfare iii #mwiii #spoilers #i don't think anyone cares about spoilers anymore but still i'll tag it #my COD posts

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wbwoqlqxoxxms · 2 years ago

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Yishun Revengers Episode 1 "Time to commit Yishun"

"Staff, no offense, but older people, die faster!"

-sergeant to staff

"They say that Yishun is the heart of all...uh...interesting, events, to happen, in Singapore...ehehe...AHEM. Despite this, many Singaporeans still choose to stay in Yishun, seemingly disregarding all the risks of *gets pounced on by cat* OW I SWEAR TO GOD YISHUN IS CURSED! ANYWAY. AS I WAS SAYING. Yishun is-*gets pounced on by 4728928228 cats at once* ALRIGHT THAT'S IT I'M NOT COMING BACK TO YISHUN ANYMORE THIS PLACE IS BEYOND HOPE, NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT CAN SAVE THIS CURSED LAND" *reporter removes his headphones and walks away*

"EY WAIT WAIT WAIT PLEASE DON'T GO YOU'RE THE ONLY REPORTER WILLING TO DO THIS PLEASE DON'T GO STEVEN CHIA" Assistant...whatever the assisant of the documentary people are called remarked.

"AND FOR THE LAST TIME, I'M NOT STEVEN CHIA, MY NAME IS STEFEN HUA!" Steven Chia-er, I mean, Stefen Hua said very angrily.

And then he took a deep breath to calm down like the chers always say to do except it works like -1 out of 10 of the times.

So after he's all calmed down and relaxed and able to think things through rationally, he announced, "Hey you know what, Yishun may be cursed, but so too is my wallet by the end of this month if I don't get my salary and my allowance to spend on hentai...AHEM. LET'S GET TO INTERVIEWING THESE PEOPLE."

So Stefen Hua and the assistant I'm too lazy to name went around in the void deck interviewing people on why they stay at Yishun. First they approached this weird looking auntie everyone is sure is a pontianak in disguise, and asked her, "Greetings, lady, would you mind answering a few of our questions?"

"Yeah yeah yeah whatever," Was her answer, so it's technically a yes.

"Alright, lady, so, despite knowing all the dangers of Yishun, why do you still choose to stay here?" He posed the question as the assistant positioned the camera.

"Well...what dangers?" She asked back in return.

"Dangers of the curses of Yishun, you know, pontianak, ghost, random cat moaning sounds at 3am when you're trying to sleep?"

"Ah, pontianak ah? Aiya, that ok, I am also pontianak anyway," She reply before vanishing into air and pontianak form.

Stefen Hua threw up his script paper in exasperation. "Yep, Yishun is cursed."

*takes another deep breath*

"Oook, how about we go ask that boy there? Surely he's not a pontianak..." He gestured to the assistant girl, then they tried to approach this boy more nicely.

"Hello there, boy, we're making a documentary on Yishun, care to answer a few questions? He asked in the same tone as the child pedo who keeps trying to stalk and kidnap the ginger ang moh exchange student kid.

Then the boy turned his head to face them, looking up from gaming, and said his profound words, "Simi?"

"I'll take that as a yes. So, why do you want to stay in Yishun even though it's so dangerous?"

The boy just got back to gaming, and then after a while of waiting, he just said, "Don't know, don't care, don't wanna know, don't wanna care, L+skill issue+ratio,"

At this point Stefen Hua was visibly frustrated. "At least it's not a pontianak this time..."

"Well, let's go ask those people playing chess there, idk what they're doing, I don't care, I just want to get this done to leave this cursed place already," He sighed.

They approached the group of people engaged in their chess game as carefully as they could.

"Uh, hi, would you mind answering a few of our questions-" Stefen Hua spoke but was then rudely interrupted by a random guy in black, "Whatever lah, don't care lah,"

On second look, he's one of the people actually playing chess, playing with that weird guy in something that looks like a suit but is not actually a suit?

"So, uh, since you know Yishun is dangerous, why do you still want to stay here-" Stefen Hua had continued to talk, before being interrupted again, but for the reasons he wanted.

At this point everyone was staring at him. The two people playing chess, the other four normal-looking people, and then there's the 3 weird furries with rabbit ears and yellow overcoats (this is Yishun, normal one), and the record-breakingly short guy with plain-looking clothes but actual horns sprouting out of his head, all staring at him.

Then finally the man in black spoke, "You want to know why we stay in Yishun, right? Well, I'm afraid that's a long story now..."

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lordoftheshrooms · 1 year ago

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0:01:09 damn, this bitch finna die

0:02:00 Damn, bros a pussy can't even handle a chair scraping the floor

0:02:14 OOOH GET HIS ASS FOXY

0:02:43 WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE SAW BLADES IN THAT FUCKER!?

0:04:04 cannon missing kids appearances?

0:05:28 THATS JUST A THEORY A DREAM THEORY

0:05:51 damn more missing kids oop neva mind

0:07:42 getting minor second hand embarrassment in fear that that's actually the dude's kid and he's not kidnapping him

0:07:52 is this bitch having an episode??

0:08:39 okay bitch was having an episode

0:11:27 damn bro bout to lose his house

0:12:35 when are we getting to the murder robos?

0:13:56 does Nebraska actually look like that?

0:14:36 Garrett? Is this Crying Child or is Mike not Michael Afton?

0:14:59 OH THAT KID IS GOOOONE KIDNAPPED AND GOOONE

0:15:59 Abby sounds like your standard child, she isn't torturing animals or children so I'd say she's fine

0:16:22 dude don't wanna be here, stfu Jane

0:17:30 can we see the robots yet??? I know this is emotional but I need my murder bots

0:18:31 I do not trust this "Steve" guy

0:19:10 calling it, Steve is a serial killer or psychotic

0:19:25 is this bitch William??

0:20:44 robo time? Also the dog has joined along with chocolate croissants

0:21:10 FNAF WORLD REFERENCE!? IN MY FNAF MOVIE?!

0:22:11 is she being held at gunpoint???

0:22:20 no it's child murder, someone didn't play the games 🙄

0:23:25 haha! Balloon boy ain't scary dumbass

0:24:00 what location is this??

0:24:42 don't say hello to creepy noises in the dark idiot

0:25:09 WHY IS HE BLUE?? HES INDIGO PURPLE WTF

0:26:22 ah the creepy dead kids are here now

0:28:25 MATTRIC PATHEW!? AS A WAITER? FOOD THEORY REFERENCE!?

0:29:05 damn, she really trying to get info, poor poor lawyer man

0:32:44 death, they saw death

0:34:02 VANNESA!?

0:36:11 ma'am I think that's just anxiety

0:41:42 CREEPY ASS CUPCAKE

0:42:00 damn carl ate Carl

0:43:59 ITS IN THE WALLS(vents) ITS IN THE GODDAMN WALLS

0:44:55 FOXY MY MANS!!! MY FAVORITE OVER THE YEARS IS HERE FOR MURDER!!! 💕💕✨✨💕💕

0:45:32 don't follow kids around abandoned buildings ma'am

0:46:13 whose messed up dog is that? It sure as hell isn't from the games???

0:47:01 DAMN THE BITE OF 23!! THAT BITCH GOT SWALLOWED

0:48:23 I WANT VIOLENCE NOT FAMILY DRAMA IF I WANTED DRAMA I'D CALL SOME FUCKERS UP

0:49:13 WHY WOULD GE BE ARRESTED ABS?

0:50:58 wild guess, I'm gonna say it was William

0:52:58 THEM FISH GONNA BE SLEEEEPING HOLY HELL YOUR A COP!? DON'T THROW DRUGS INTO THE RIVER MA'AM!?

0:53:16 oh hon half her corpse got eaten by a ghost child.... Stop calling and just take the little ghost seeing girl with you

0:59:07 BROS ABOUT TO HAVE AN ANEURYSM ABBY

1:00:52 WHAT WAS THAT GLARE FOR FREDDY!?

1:01:37 yep little girl can definitely see ghosts, and Mike to apparently maybe it's genetics that they don't get murdered by them

1:06:39 VANESSA BE RESPONSIBLE PLEASE

1:08:03 that doll is defo a book reference

1:09:38 ya cause your father(?) Killed em

1:09:45 I wanna know the same thing Mike....

1:10:23 DAMN THEY CONTROL SHOCKED HER ASS

We an hour and eleven minutes in when the Hell is springtrap/Afton being brought up?

1:12:33 oh God cigarette lady is gonna get custody of the kid...

1:13:59 damn bro you couldn't have let the guy finish?

1:16:20 damn these shit stains are evil

1:19:47 YAY FOXY IS BACK WITH THE HORROR 💕✨💕✨💕

1:21:43 DAMN THATS A HUGE BITCH

1:23:41 wait is that golden Freddy? I think I might be blind...

1:25:05 AIN'T Maintenance GOTTA POP EM OPEN VANASSESA!?

1:26:15 FINALLY AN AFTON MENTION!! Ohhhhh Vanessa's dad

1:26:35 I WAS RIGHT AFTON SNAGGED GARRETT

1:28:29 high stakes heist time?

1:29:10 stealth mission!

1:29:52 god this feels like the FNAF VHS tapes.... Not the game ones the ones made on I think YouTube

1:31:48 awwww Carl got hungy ☺️☺️☺️

1:32:07 WHY IS THE FOX HIGH?

1:33:18 I swear to God if that is a time traveling ball pit someone will die by my hand

1:33:43 oh shit springtrap but not green and rotten

1:34:43 hiii again Vanny, Daddy came to visit you too

1:35:42 damn, ghostface knife whip, not even original come on WILLIAM

1:36:02 Steve you ratassed bitch, fuckin called it you are a serial killer

1:36:36 WELL SHE FUCKIN DID WILLY BOY

1:38:23 DAMN ho, you got beat by a shitty elementary drawing?

1:39:10 SPRINGLOCK SPRINGLOCK SPRINGLOCK

1:40:28 oh God they're high again, bad SPRINGLOCK he should have been screaming in agony

1:41:18 yeah if you stop talking to murderous ghosts that usually happens

1:44:00 ya know what sobbing in pain is an upgrade

1:44:27 I LOVE THIS SONG FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAH

1:45:20 what did taxi guy do?

This is gonna be where I list my live reaction to the FNAF movie w/ time stamps so spoilers ahead!!

Adding the read more line now so it's not super hard later

#fnaf movie #live updating reaction #pspspsps #remi!!

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liazrad · 3 years ago

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yeah i can like fictional characters a normal amount. totally

#weed screams #literally cried tears of joy when i came across a picture of Allister on google images whils i was looking for Nessa refs #like fuck yeah this lil ghost boy is so precious and cute i would die and kill for him #I've liked him pretty consistently for over two years now and i think its safe to say now he's my favorite fictional character of all time #YES. he's better than Tsukasa he's better than fucking hatsune miku he's the BEST.#for real like no character can compare. i don't care what show or game nobody can beat Allister in terms of my favs #i could talk about this little haunted boy all fucking day i swear to god #HE'S EVERYTHING I LOVE IN A CHARACTER IN ONE. SHY! HAUNTED! SMALL! HE HAS BLACK HAIR!! AND WEARS PURPLE!! HAS A MISCHIEVOUS SIDE TO HIM!!#AND HE WEARS!!!! FANCY SHOOOOEEEEEEES #i wanna buy him an ice cream and taks him to therapy. i wanna give him a Gengar plush. he means everything to me #i wanna grab him by the suspenders and swing him around at max speed then let go and watch him fly into the distance #i wanna take his wallet and push him to the ground and call him a stupid little twerp and laugh as he cries #you know a character is good when you want to bully them relentlessly #and its morally okay to bully Allister cuz he's British #oh ALSO! ALSO ALSO I LIKE DRAWING HIM IN CUTE CLOTHES!! HE'S A FANCY LIL BOY WHO NEEDS FANCY LIL OUTFITS #he deserves to look a lil dapper and i gotta make art of that cuz theres no official art of him in different clothes to my knowledge #he just wears that baggy gym uniform literally everywhere and it pisses me off so much HE NEEDS JUSTICE CALL THE FASHION POLICE #GIVE THIS BOY A NEW PAIR OF SHORTS OR SOMETHING JESUS CHRIST. MAYBE A SWEATER

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arty-shadow-morningstar · 2 years ago

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Con Man's Daughter (9)

Hey guys, I am not dead. With Halloween on the way, how about something spooky.

[Masterlist]

(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7) (Part 7.5) (Part 8) (Part 9) (Part 10)

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Nino knows that his childhood friend can be eccentric at times.

That is mostly due to her rebellious spirit and her equally weird father who talks of demons and monsters when Nino and Kim came over for a sleepover at Marinette’s house while he was visiting.

They both are too embarrassed to ever admit that they were scared while Marinette remained entranced by the ‘bedtime’ stories.

Over the years, he had seen her do unexplainable things that were all brushed off as magic with childlike wonder. There were a few hazy memories of a shrieking Chloe being levitated into the air and Chloe being ‘cursed’ which he brushed off as a dream.

Marinette was very interested the moment anything supernatural was mentioned. Later, Alix and Juleka joined her in that odd hobby of hers.

The three of them would disappear for a weekend and come to school on Monday with scratches and bruises, passing them off as accidents from trying sports.

While he and Mari has known each other for years, there are still things that are hard for him to explain or rationalise when it comes to Marinette Constantine-Cheng and the inevitable conclusion was that it just is.

That was also the reason he was hiding in some room in the Agreste mansion, hoping that she would pick up her phone.

“Ello?” Marinette sleepily answered.

“Dudette, help.” He whispered as quietly as he could into the phone, hoping whatever it was that was after them couldn’t hear him, “I didn’t know who to call. We were just goofing around and now there is something chasing us. Please tell me how to stop this.” His voice filled with fear.

On the other side of Paris, Marinette shot up, more awake. “Hold on, Nino. What happened?”

“We are at Adrien’s house…and….Kim…he brought an ouija board. I swear we were just playing around and….Oh god, I don’t know what happened to him. Please help, Marinette.” Nino heard something moving and it felt a little colder than before. The hair on his neck raised.

“Hurry.” was the last thing he said before he hung up and covered his mouth and breathe as quietly as he could. How did things go this bad?

—--(Flashback to 10 hours earlier..)------

The boys were talking among themselves about something or the other and Adrien’s room came up.

It devolves into the boys planning a sleepover in Adrien’s room while his father was out of town for his upcoming trip.

Max did a little hacking so they can sneak pass the security and Adrien let the boys in through the window.

They did the usual party games and played around in Adrien’s admittedly very cool room with the Arcades, mini basketball court, rock climbing wall, etc..

Then, Kim brought out the Ouija board because his reasoning is no sleepover isn’t complete without something spooky.

Plagg sees that this is a bad idea (He might be irresponsible at times but his holder might die from this because spirits are out of the his domain). He tried to get Adrien to not go along with it but Adrien ignored him thinking that Plagg was just being over-dramatic.

Plagg decides that the best thing to do was to find Lady Rouge aka Marinette since he heard from Wyazz that Tikki’s holder’s father is a famous magician who dabbles in the dark arts with the title Hellblazer. Where did Pigtails live again?

So the boys are summoning something but nothing happens for a few minutes so they takes their hands off the thingy. (Found that it is called a planchette.)

And the planchette began moving on its own.

Max tried to rationalise the phenomenon while Adrien excuses himself to find out that Plagg was missing.

He thought that Plagg was messing with him so he starts insulting the spirit and the other boys tried to get him to stop. When Adrien declare to cut the ghost off from camembert, everyone is confused. Then, the spirit starts to go crazy and attacking people.

The boys spilt up and ran. They were all glad that Gabriel was away because their screams probably had woken up the entire neighbourhood.

Adrien finally realised that Plagg wasn’t making things up or it was the kwami behind the ouiji board and by taunting the entity, he had fucked up. He followed the other boys out the door.

—--

Plagg arrived at Marinette’s place, just as she had just hung up with Nino and changing into appropriate sprit-hunting attire.

“Pigtails, I don’t have time right now but I need you to come with me. Adrien is in danger. You need to follow me right now.” Plagg stopped in his tracks as he realised what just happened and turned to face Marinette, “Wait, you knew?!”

“Knew what?”

“That Chat Noir is-” Plagg paused, “Adrien.” The kwami’s eyes widened at the implication.

Plagg was beginning to feel a sense of panic as bubbles didn’t appear when he said his holder’s name.

“Oh, that…it was kinda hard to ignore the enormous amount of destruction magic from the ring on Adrien.” Marinette said offhandedly as she shrugged on her red coat

“And Master Fu let you keep the earrings.” Plagg said with awe, eyes wide.

“Well…I am not giving him a choice about it and no one is going to do a better job than me right now. Besides, once I set my eyes on something, I am pretty stubborn in seeing it through. Burning Hawkmoth in his ridiculous suit is what I want to see.”

Plagg grinned, “Now I wished he had given me to you instead, Pigtails.”

“Marinette, we talked about this. No arson at night.” Tikki sleepily flew towards them. “Oh. And what are you doing here *yawns* Plagg?”

“My kit ran into some trouble with supernatural creatures. The non-Miraculous kind. I am here to ask for Pigtail’s help.”

“I was going to go anyways.” She opened her coat to reveal the inside pockets made especially to fit kwamis. “Hop in, Plagg. Tikki, go back to sleep. It won’t be long. I hope.” She said as she opened a portal to the inside of Agreste Mansion.

Tikki sleepily mumbled a goodnight as the portal closed before she flew back to the cosy bed Marinette made for her.

—----

Meanwhile Nino closed his eyes and breathe through his mouth quietly, hoping whatever the fuck it was chasing them would disappear when a cold hand touched him.

He screamed and tried to fight off the attacker who covered his mouth with their hand and turned him around.

It was Marinette.

“Nino, don’t give us away.” she hissed. “Now, are you going to scream when I remove my hand.”

Nino shook his head and she removed her hand.

“What? How…? How did you get in? Max said that the house has like insane security.”

Marinette gave him a secretive smile, “I have my ways. So where is this creature that you have unwittingly summoned?”

“It was in Adrien’s room…..but then, it chased us and- and we split up and I don’t where it is or where the others are. Oh my God, are we going to die? We shouldn’t have listened to Kim and play that stupid game. Adrien is probably already dead.”

“Why would Adrien be dead?” Marinette doesn’t seemed concerned that one of their friends might have possibly be a corpse but also looked bored with the entire thing.

“I don’t what exactly he was talking about. Something about getting rid of camembert.”

A muffled cry from Marinette’s direction made him look up but her expression remained unchanged. “And what happened next, Nino?”

“The thing didn’t like that apparently and it started going crazy.”

“Did you get a good look at it?”

Nino described the creature as best as he could.

“Sounds like a revenant or a wraith.” Marinette said thoughtfully.

“Is there a difference?”

“Kinda? I mean, if you see one undead hell-bent on killing people, you have seen them all. But depending on the type, ways of containing or getting rid of them are different. Sometimes, we can bargain with them to go away. Luckily, most efficient way to getting rid of anyone of them is by destroying what is anchoring them here. So we need to get that ouija board.”

Marinette stood up and opened the door of the room they were in, only for the ‘ghost’ to be on the other side of the door.

Lots of glowing symbols shows up on Marinette’s coat which causes the creature to scream as if it had been burned and flee.

Marinette looked disappointed and swore in English under her breath, “Dammit another wraith. Why can’t they bloody stay in Scotland?”

Meanwhile, Nino looked on in awe. “Woah, Dudette, how did you do that?”

Marinette pulled out a bunch of necklaces with symbols from every religion and a few protection talismans her father gifted her.

“Always useful to have a few of these on you at all times. Never know what kind of spirit you might run into. If you don’t have anything, salt will do in a pinch.” She explained.

Then, Marinette confidently walked out of the room, and Nino scrambled from his position on the floor to catch up to her.

“Where- where are we going?”

“To the kitchen, of course.”

“Why?”

“To get salt.”

“But why?”

“Did you think that I am going to do all the work? This is partially your fault and you called me here at the middle of the night when you know how hard it is for me to wake up in the mornings and get to school on time.”

“Sorry about that, Dudette. I would have been dead without you. But why the salt?”

“Salt is believed to be pure and ward off spirits….” Marinette listed why salt is the number one thing you should have on hand during supernatural situations and the zombie apocalypse.

Embarrassingly enough, she had forgotten to refil her salt reserves before coming to the Agreste Mansion so she hoped that Gabriel is not one of those rich people who doesn’t keep salt in their house. If not, she could lock herself in the bathroom and teleport home to get some.

Marinette decides to not tell Nino that the worse thing the wraith would do was knock him out and have nightmares. And then, he will wake up in the morning with a slight headache and feeling a little emptier and depressed as they would like to feel on happiness. (They are mostly harmless on the supernatural scale of what she has faced and the victims usually get better in a week or a year at most if the wraith had been feeding on them for a long time. Plus Nino deserve this for waking her up at 12 am to fix the boys’ mess.)

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On the way to the kitchen, they met up with Kim and Max who were hiding and jumped out to attack Nino and Marinette whom they thought was the beast after them.

Unfortunately for Nino, Marinette moved out the way of the attack causing the two boys lost their momentum in their surprise and crashed on top of Nino with Kim at the top of the pile. (For those wondering about Markov, he can be either at home charging or got lost when the wraith attacked.)

Kim recovered first and recognised the raven-haired girl. “Marinette! You are here. We are saved.”

Max looked up at his friend’s exclamation, glasses eschrewed, “How did you get in here? By yourself, there is a 5.3% success rate of getting in here.”

“It’s Marinette, Max. She’s magic and she can get into wherever she wants.” Kim stated in the same way one would say the sky was blue.

Marinette helped them up so poor Nino can finally breathe properly, “Nino called me for help. We were going to the kitchen to get some salt. This place like a maze.”

“So how did you get in here?”

Marinette smirked, “Like Kim said, Magic.”

Kim fist-pumped the air and laughed.

However, Max frowned, “That is not a definitive answer.”

“Sorry, Kante, some things are best left unanswered. Now, come on. We need to get salt.”

“Can you at least tell us why we need salt?”

“Salt, in most culture, is believed to be pure and an excellent repellent for most undead and supernatural creatures. Same with silver and iron. Those ancient people knew what they were doing. Anyways, if you want to see the light of tomorrow, we need to be armed, boys.”

Kim mock-saluted, “Aye, Aye, captain.” Marinette giggled.

They raided the kitchens for bags of salt and grabbed a few silverware just in case. (Marinette reluctantly grabbed some camembert at Plagg’s insistence.)

On their way out, they bumped into someone and Nino threw a fistful of salt into their face.

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“MY EYES.” Adrien screamed.

“Oh shit, dude, I am so sorry.” Nino tried to help his bro the best he could with a bag of salt in one hand and the other clutching a silver fork.

Kim and Max lowered their ‘weapons’ when they saw who it was and went back on guard in case the wraith came their way while Marinette looked around for something to help Adrien.

Plagg used the opportunity to get back to his holder after Marinette guide Adrien into a nearby bathroom to rinse his face while the boys stood guard outside.

Once Adrien recovered, “Marinette, how are you here?”

“A little black cat god with a stinky breath came to me while I was sleeping and told me to follow him here because he needed my help.” Marinette deadpanned.

Adrien stiffened and panicked internally. Oh my god, she knows. Master Fu is going to take Plagg away and I won’t be Chat Noir anymore. whatdoidowhatdoido

Marinette grinned and laughed, “Nah, I am just kidding. Nino called me, in the middle of the night by the way, about the trouble you boys got yourself into. You sunshine owe me a nice large of coffee with extra cream and sugar in the morning.”

Adrien nervously chuckled along with her. “The cat thing. Was it just a joke?” he asked weakly.

“Is he even trying to be subtle at all?” Marinette thought but she answered him anyways, “I was just messing with you.”

“I am going to see if the others are still alive. We will be waiting for you to get done.” she said before closing the door behind her.

Plagg came out of his hiding place, “Hey, kit.”

“Plagg, you are alive. Where have you been?”

“Of course, I am alive. It will take more than some measly soul to take a handsome cat like myself out. As for where, I went to seek the comfort of my dear camembert while you kids mess around. You can’t deny it but I told you so.”

“You were right, Plagg. I shouldn’t have ignored you.”

“That’s why you should listen to me more often.”

“I am going to get you more camembert after this.” Adrien paused in his excitement.

“What’s wrong?”

“Did you do like what Marinette told me?”

Plagg laughed, (although oblivious sunshine boy didn’t notice that it sounded a little forced), “That was just a coincidence. Headphones kid called her as soon as he managed to find a hiding spot. Besides, some kwamis can travel in dreams like Nooroo but I am not one of them. So stop worrying about the ring being taken away if you think that pigtails might have found out who you are.”

“Thanks, Plagg.”

“No problem, kit. Now get out there before your friends starts to worry.”

—--

Adrien armed himself with a salt shaker and a silver spoon. (His father might be angry if he finds out about this.) He looked around and saw that Marinette wasn’t armed.

“Hey, Marinette. Where’s your salt? ”

Nino answered instead, “Marinette don’t need it. She has her own protection thing and it’s awesome.”

“Oh, I wanna see.” said Kim.

“It’s nothing, guys.” She replied, “Religious symbols have gained power over the years and they can keep spirits at bay. A few ‘Hail Marys’ or some prayer from a holy book can buy you some time.”

“Just show them your bling, Mari.”

She sighed and opened her coat so the boys can ooh and ahh at the many protective charms and symbols she wore.

“This is like some Supernatural shit.” Nathaniel commented.

Marinette rolled her eyes but kept quiet the fact that she had visited the Universe of that show. (Speaking of, she should sent Jack back a letter.)

—--

Surprisingly destroying the ouji board was the easy part.

Adrien volunteered to be the bait while the others were in charge of keeping the wraith busy. They also ran into Ivan, Natheniel and surprisingly Luka along the way.

Luka gave her a look which Marinette chose to ignore as she laid out her plan.

“Mari…”

“Luka, your mother would be very proud of you. Sneaking into a mansion late at night and using a sleepover as an excuse. If she knew, she would be popping the champagne.”

“She doesn’t even know that I am here.”

“More reason for her to be proud. Besides, I will make sure to take care of what you are worried about.”

“Just know, I have your father on speed dial if it turns out to be something stupid.”

“I am not that reckless.”

“And Lady Rouge didn’t jump into the mouth of a T-Rex just last month.” (Yes, Luka knows too. He immediately recognised the person who would be dramatic enough and take the opportunity to be a mysterious person with a terrifying power like Lady Rouge is often portrayed as.)

“I am not like her. Besides, this is a routine job at most. I am more surprised that the wraith stuck around even though it is in the presence of a Miraculous.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Apparently, Miraculous are the equivalent of a repellent to the supernatural.”

“Is that why you guys haven’t been stirring up trouble in Paris for the past year?”

Marinette grinned as she finished setting up the salt circle in an elaborate pattern that would alleged hold the wraith while buying time for her to completely destroy its source, “Yeah. We had to look outside of Paris to get anything.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Great, if the boys are ready, let’s get this show on the road.”

“MARINETTE, what do you mean look outside of Paris?”

—--

Adrien taunts the wraith and draws it towards the room (A guest room) where the circle was and where the rest of the boys were hiding in.

They all poked it with the silverware and threw lots of salt at it so it got inside the circle.

Meanwhile, Marinette booked it to Adrien’s room where the Ouji board was and started chanting to cut the connection between the wraith and the board.

But before she started to chant, she noticed something particular about the board. Looks like her work wasn’t done for tonight.

After cutting the connection, she took pictures of the board before asking Plagg to destroy it.

She walked into the guest room where the boys were all passed out on the floor.

“What’s wrong with my kitten?”

“He’s fine. They all are. Cutting the wraith’s tie to the mortal realm made it release the energy it had collected so far into a blast that knocked them out. They will be fine in the morning with just a slight headache with the probable side effect of seeing glimpses of each other’s memories in their dreams since wraith feeds on memories and what not.”

Marinette walked up to Luka and woke him up with a slap to the face.

“Ow. What? Mari? What happened? What did the three of you do now?”

“Do you remember anything?”

“I went with the boys in your class to sneak into Adrien’s house while his dad was out of town because Juleka and Rose were worried they might get into trouble. We were finishing a pillow fight and was going to do something else. I can’t remember what.”

“Temporary amnesia like I suspected. You boys have been missing for three days.”

“What?” Luka sat up in panic and rushed out of the room before realising he was still in Agreste Manor. He took his phone out to see only a few hours had passed.

“That was not funny.” Luka said as he re-entered the room where Marinette was dragging a passed out Ivan.

“It was to me. Now help me move them back to Adrien’s room because it’s not long until dawn and I don’t have the energy for a clean up spell.”

“What are we going to tell them when they wake up?”

“Nothing. You are going to tell them nothing.”

“What?”

“They probably won’t remember what happened in the past few hours the same as you. So that means that my powers will remain secret.”

Luka picked up both Max and Nathenial. “Why?”

“One, to better hide my extracurricular activities. And two, I promised my Maman that I will try to live a normal life as possible and that would be impossible if they knew.”

They cleaned up as best as they could and Marinette made sure that all footage of last night was erased.

She portalled herself directly above her bed as soon as she was done.

Luka pretended to be asleep when the others woke up an hour later.

They all hurried to sneak out of the house as the sun rose.

Thus, Adrien’s first sleepover ended.

—---

The next morning, the chef hired by the Agreste was confused by how little salt was left in the bag he brought just a few days ago.

The cleaning maids were surprised at how much of a mess the usually neat Adrien had made of his room last night.

Adrien decided to make a stop at a coffee shop and bought extra large cup of black coffee with cream and sugar. He didn’t remember why exactly he felt like he had to buy it until Plagg filled him the blanks and told him that he had called Marinette last night and she asked for that in exchange for keeping quiet about the sleepover.

Adrien placed said cup in front of a tired Marinette who perked up at the smell of coffee, causing Alya to squeal at the scene.

Only for her boyfriend to later also enter with a large cup of coffee and placed it in front of Marinette.

“Why are you giving my girl ridiculous amount of coffee?” Alya asked, completely baffled as boys continued to filed in with cups of coffee which they all placed in front of Marinette.

The boys didn’t have an answer for her but they knew that last night, they had messed with something they shouldn’t and Marinette was the one who saved them.

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(Part 10)

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yaomomvs · 4 years ago

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— BEING INARIZAKI’S TEAM MANAGER AND A SECRET VOLLEYBALL PLAYER

inarizaki x f!manager

this is part of a hcs series, let me now what team you want next <3

okay so actually you ended being the manager because the girls volleyball team had already closed the application time

so you you were really looking forward to it and omg you were so sad about it

after being rejected, you were just peacefully going through the gym and you heard laughter from a bunch of guys

you recognized kosaku since he was in your class and waved at him.

and so, they were talking about getting a manager since this team is pretty much a lot to handle

and so since kosaku knew you were hard working and that the first idea that popped out oh his head was that if you wanted to try out.

kita respectfully introduced himself and asked if you were willingly try out 🥺🥺🥺 like what a man 🥺🥺

and mostly because the twins having fangirls always made this process kind of difficult, so instead kita and aran wanted to make sure it was someone who at least was trusted by one of them

and not to brag but bestie you are gorgeous

so it was a win win

atsumu refused to this because as the jerk he usually is, he said that he didn’t need any help

that son of a bitch

he was being soooo petty mainly after you said “oh don’t worry kita, idiots are not my type”

osamu fell in love with you ❗️

and aran

and suna

and well the team.

and so, looking at the other court where the girl vbc was training you said that it was something.

every! single! practice! is! chaotic!

but somehow you managed them so well

atsumu is still trying to prove that he doesn’t but oh boy he is the first one to requiere your help

you better believe this guys are your simps and are constantly competing over someone who a year ago could never imagine they had

your attention? the best way to prove each other they were superior

in away games, god bless the idiot that wants to even dares to try to do a move on you

they are lowkey intimidating

not but seriously

specially and surprisingly kita and aran

son como esos niños mamones fresas que de cierto modo les tienes miedo

besides

this team? over the moon for you

and tbh, they were so grateful for you, you did a lot for them that they started to feel some kind of embarrassing how before they wouldn’t know how to do basic stuff like cooking for camps, labeling they jerseys correctly, searching for new equipment like they love you

anyways that however was kinda sus to them

it all started when somehow you learned so quickly, and the technical stuff was not hard to understand as to others

surprisingly the first one to notice was suna

you could have said something but tbh

you still look forward to play volleyball like more seriously even as a hobby

BUT

you’d rather be dead than telling your team that’s what you wanted because

a) they could think you only joined to learn volleyball and not help them

b) you had your pride, you want to be recognized by your own merits rather than “of course, they are inarizaki’s manager if they weren’t they could have never been this good”

so you still played volleyball but hid from them

there was a gym nearby where constant tournaments were held

you were a ghost because knowing damn well your boys could go there at any moment you decided to take some precautions

like nickname and position was everything they knew about you

your teammates loved you, so they respected your private life, and it was kind of cool

but what you were not expecting is that for some reason, omimi had followed you one day bc you forgot something after practice.

being a friday it meant for some weird reason you always rushed out

“sus” suna says everytime

so he catches you going out to the gym and maybe, he thought, you were just going to workout or see someone

BUT THIS GUYS EYEBALLS ALMOST FALL WHEN HE SEES TOY RUSH AND TAKE OFF YOUR SCHOOL UNIFORM SHIRT AND TIE TO FUCKING REVEAL A JERSEY WUTH A #3 on it

bye you broke him

and so he tries to process it normally

key word: tries

and here we are him being interrogated by the team incredulous to his words.

ay first they interrogated him being overprotective by the fact that he was spending more time with you but when he tells them what he saw god dammit

they loose it when they find out.

and so, tsumu says something that everyone agrees with him for the first time

“let’s go and spy”

“i swear to god if y/n finds out...”

“shut up aran, unless you want to make it obvious and reveal our identity dumbass!”

“tsumu, the disguises are awful”

“come on kita not you too!”

“what if”

“akagi shut up all of you agreed with the idea”

“osamu you suck”

and so there they go. trying to find you in the sea of people at the entrance, not having a clear view yet, they only search for the navy blue and white uniform that omimi described to them when he saw you.

and then almost as if it was the gods plan, they started hearing whispers of people around mentioning the arrival of one of the most popular teams out there.

“come on what the big deal-” suna started saying, however your figure appeared and he instantly turned into a babbling mess.

as well as the rest of inarizaki vbc.

osamu had to double check to assure himself that it indeed was you, beautiful as ever, walking alongside your hot and apparently talented team.

minutes later, they were standing in the bleachers as quiet as they could. they spotted you.

“A SETTER” atsumu jumped of his seat and had to be scolded by aran who was also surprised by the position you were going to be playing.

“wasn’t expecting that” ginjima talks saying what everyone was currently thinking.

behind them was a couple of guys, who apparently did not know how lower their comments.

“the setter is kinda cute” “wow look at that” oml please even aran who was the voice of reason had the urge to punch them in the face.

still they decided to just focus on your game who has now been started. and even tho they wanted to not do it, they couldn’t help analyzing you and your moves in the court. it was natural, well because they were players and very good ones it’s inevitable for them to compare and to study the way you played more than anything.

they were not expecting you to be this good. almost everything in your technique was polished, your tema work was remarkable and god bless your ability to read the blockers.

but there was a moment when they just saw the panoramic view of your skills. atsumu could see your tired expression, the sweat on your body, he just knew you were feeling now the adrenaline of the last moments of the set.

still you yelled a “we will take it” and then, with the others team hope hanging on a thread, the ball came to your libero, which perfectly passed the ball to you.

there was greed in your eyes, so scary that kita for a moment feared for the other team.

and it was when you did the setter dump that your whole team stood up in pure shock.

who were you and why were you hiding?

sadly the boys screamed way too loud which lead to you, after you made the last point and give the history to your tema, lifted up your gaze and saw a bunch of idiots wearing hats and everything in between.

suna and tsumu ran the fastest in the team directly to the gate, and the with a bunch of losers behind them,

because after everything you were there arms crossed and a murderous look in your eyes.

“IM TOO YOUNG TO DIE Y/N” “osamu shut up!”

they, once you made sure to pinch each and everyone’s ears, starred bombarding questions on how did you managed to learned that and why you did ikr tell them

“come on guys, in school i’m already looked down at just because it’s you! so could you imagine me being a inarizaki student trying to move without your name?”

kita forced them to shut up and aran felt a a kind of guilt

as week as everyone else

“don’t worry y/n, we know now what it’s like to not being your own author.”

and so, they just told you how proud they were.

“maybe we are jerks but y/n we are your jerks, and over there or respect to you has just grown up”

suna the says “you’ve been there all of the time for a while now, i guess it out time to return the favor”

and so ever since then they alwaaaaays try to be at your games

like pls once the referee said one of your serves was out and from the bleachers he screaaaaaaamed, he claims that it was definitely in

kita always gives you some food after a game or practice

talking about practice

even if you are there for being a manager they always try to, at least half an hour before ending practice, they have a quick game with you playing alongside them or just including you in their repeats etc

and goooood bless once again anyone who tried to look down at you.

because after being constantly on you games ofc people started recognizing them as the inarizaki power house

if they heard someone relying your talent on them pls make sure they five them the coldest look ever

like ‘nah bro i dare you to say that one more time’

*knive eyes*

and

even some girls attend your games trying to flirt with them

you know what they do?

they brush them off and say “sorry, my type is y/n” suna says and the are 😳

pretty much everyone does this

come on even aran

inarizaki best boys 🥺🥺🥺

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fantastic-bby · 3 years ago

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SKZ vs. Phasmophobia

Pairing: Reader x Member

Word count: 1.1k

Genre: Headcanon | Comedy

Summary: Phasmphobia is a 4 player co-op psychological horror game where you and your friends are paranormal investigators. Throughout the game, you learn how to use the equipment and find evidence to figure out exactly what kind of ghost resides in the map. This is how I think SKZ would play Phasmo.

Warnings: Ghosts

Masterlist

Chan - The expert

The one with the highest level

Buys all the equipment for everyone

Also the one who tells you what to bring and is the one who chooses the maps

If you’re scared of walking around on your own, Chan’s there to follow you around the place bcs he would happily accompany you

He’s also the type who actually stays behind the door when he says that he will

He’s also the one that would come back to try and save you even though he most likely can’t

Wouldn’t scare you on purpose -unlike fucking Minsung-

“It’s okay baby I’m here”

“CHAN THE FUCKING GHOST IS IN THE CLASSROOM”

"That’s the wrong classroom, babe”

Minho - The troll (1)

A troll

A whole ass fucking troll

He’s such a dick in this game

Minho’s the kind of person who has money for all of the equipment but stays silent

Makes Chan buy everything for the entire team

Would leave you alone in a room without saying anything and return to the truck

Wouldn’t even talk to you half of the time, he would purposefully mute himself because he can

The type to laugh at you when you die

Would also pop out from behind a door to scare you and thinks that the bigger of a reaction you get, the funnier it is

Only feels bad if you cry

“MINHO IT’S NOT FUCKING FUNNY I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK”

“You should’ve heard yourself scream”

“MINHO T-T”

“W-Wait, y-you’re crying?! You’re not supposed to cry!”

Changbin - The clueless one

The kind that doesn’t play Phasmophobia often

But has a high level because he lets the others play on his account

Doesn’t know what anything does

Doesn’t know how to use anything

Is honestly just there to spend time with you and his friends

Changbin’s also as scared as you are -if not more-

Would never admit it, but it’s so obvious

He wouldn’t jumpscare you bcs he doesn’t want to be jumpscared back

Yells at Minho for jumpscaring him

Tries to hide behind you when you’re being hunted and you end up dying instead

“BABY THE GHOST IS HERE AHH”

“Changbin, I swear to god if you bring that gho—CHANGBIN YOU JUST KILLED ME”

“GUYS!! (Y/N) GOT KILLED BY THE GHOST”

Hyunjin - The scared one

Didn’t even have the game before you and the boys asked him to join

He doesn’t like scary things, so he avoided Phasmo like a plague

Chan gifted him the game on steam and Hyunjin just went with it

The type to ask to stay behind in the truck

Gets worried that the ghost can follow him into the truck

It can’t

And you have to keep telling him that

If he follows you guys into the map, he would keep his camera facing down

Rips his earphones off whenever the slightest thing happens

“Jinnie, for the last time, the ghost won’t come into the truck!”

“How do you know that?! It’s a ghost!”

“That’s not how the game works -_-”

Jisung - The casual troll (2)

Troll but only when he’s with Minho

Ji on his own is actually pretty nice

He’s a little bit too casual on his own

He’d follow you around the map if you ask him to and will tell you what to do or where to go

Talks about anything and everything with you while you’re both walking around the map together

Would probably ask you what’s for dinner while you’re both being hunted

With Minho in the same game?

Those two are a nightmare

They’d both jumpscare the other two players

Jisung would always be the one who wants to scare you mainly because he doesn’t want Minho to take it too far

“Darling, let’s head to the nice cafe later and get cheesecake”

“JISUNG, TAKE THE FUCKING PICTURE THE GHOST IS RIGHT THERE!”

Felix - The chill one

Also has a pretty high level

He either does a lot of solo missions or only plays with you and Chan bcs he doesn’t want to deal with everyone else's bullshittery

Also the kind to talk to you casually while walking around the place

Would buy you any equipment you need

Chooses the maps that aren’t that hard bcs he doesn’t want to spend an hour standing in a room going “John White, are you there?”

Suggests splitting up a lot

Which means that one of you is bound to die

Would totally leave you there the moment you die though, like he wouldn’t even linger a second longer when he realises you’re gone

“Lixie, the basement has freezing temperatures”

“I’m coming over there now, just keep talking”

“FELIX, HE—”

Sees your body in the basement: “John White, did you punt my partner?”

Seungmin - The one who doesn’t play but knows how the game works

Doesn’t seem like his type of game

But he just knows how it works because he’s played it once or twice and has a basic bearing of the controls and what to do

Refuses to play alone with Minsung

The type to let the others play with his account so his level is high-ish

Would accompany you around but only if you ask him to nicely

If you don’t ask him, Seungmin would go off on his own and get himself hunted but somehow makes it out alive

Isn’t that scared of the game

So if you start screaming Seungmin would totally just stand in the doorway of the room like “uh…”

If you die, he’s dipping immediately

He doesn’t care if anyone else is there

Seungmin only cares that you’re dead, therefore mission end :D

“(Y/n)’s dead”

“Yeah, but Minho and I are still here”

“I’m not playing this game with you two, Sung”

Jeongin - The one who knows how to play but keeps dying anyway

He plays often with the boys

Knows how to play

Quite enjoys the game

But Jeongin unfortunately is the dude that keeps dying in every round even though he does everything he needs to

Hunted? Even if he hides, the ghost kills him

Does every trick in the book, but still lacks one piece of evidence to confirm the type of ghost

Brings you around with him and tells you what to do so that you know how to handle yourself

He’d also be more into you surviving and leaving rather than him bcs he loves you like that

If you’re in the dorm with them while you play, Jeongin would bust into the room you’re in and demand you leave

“Oh, Innie just died”

“(Y/N)"

“AHH INNIE WHAT THE FUCK”

“GET IN THE DAMN TRUCK AND LEAVE”

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theres-an-impulstor-among-us · 3 years ago

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Among Us: Crewmate Impulse getting an imposter voted out on a hunch, except this time the "hunch" is actually just Ghost Tango somehow yelling at him from the dead loud enough to influence his subconscious/code (this idea brought to you by: rewatching vods from before Tango got his compressor lol)

yeaaaa so this one is gonna have a LOT of caps in it lol i hope that’s okay. i’ll put a cw in the tags as well just in case

also i want to share the fact that this google doc is labelled “Tangy yell” lmfao

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Impulse is standing at the upload panel when Tango enters admin to do his card swipe. The two exchange “hey”s at the entrance, before Tango heads over to stand at the admin table.

The last thing he sees before his vision goes black is the image of a figure popping out of the vent in the corner.

Tango sits bolt upright with a gasp. “Gaah! Skizz, what the hell?! That was the stupidest thing ever! Impulse is-!”

He breaks off as he spots Impulse turning away and leaving the upload panel without even turning to check the rest of the room.

“Hey,” says Joker, floating through the wall to join Tango in admin. “How’s it-.”

“Are you KIDDING me, Impulse?!”

Joker winces and covers his ears. “God, man… You need a compressor.”

“Impulse was RIGHT there!” Tango bellows, flinging his arms out towards his dead body over and over again. “He was standing FIVE FEET away from me! How did he not even notice I DIED?!”

“Tango!” Astro, who has just entered the room through the wall, yelps. “Inside voices, please!”

Crossing his arms, Tango floats furiously in the middle of the room, his upper half sticking out of the admin table, steaming so hard that he can almost feel actual steam rising off his transparent ghosty body.

“And I thought I was bad at noticing bodies,” grumbles Tango. “‘Least I’ve never had someone die five feet behind me and just left without checking if the person behind me two seconds ago is still alive. Stupid Impulse and stupid Skizz with his stupid face. I hate ‘em. I hate their stupid faces.”

“You might feel a bit better if you decided to do some tasks,” Astro says pointedly, finishing his upload. “So, you know, we have a chance of winning?”

“Don’t patronise me, Zoan.”

Just as Tango turns away, his dead body is finally reported. At the meeting, Tango has to just sit silently and watch as everyone discusses where they saw him last.

“I saw him in admin a minute or so ago,” Impulse reports. “But he was alive when I left.”

Astro winces, already knowing what’s coming.

“ARE YOU MOTHERFRICKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW, IMPULSE?!”

Sure enough, Tango’s subsequent roar shatters the ghosts’ eardrums.

“YOU ONLY THINK I WAS ALIVE WHEN YOU LEFT BECAUSE YOU WERE- YOU DIDN’T- OH MY GOD, IMPULSE!” Tango face is as red as a tomato, the blood vessels sticking out of his neck despite being dead. “HOW CAN ONE PERSON BE SO UNOBSERVANT?! SKIZZ LITERALLY VENTED! INTO THE ROOM! AND KILLED ME! THEN VENTED OUT AGAIN! UNDER YOUR MOTHERFRICKING NOSE! AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN CHECK ON ME BEFORE YOU LEF-!”

Tango’s voice cracks and he breaks into a fit of coughing.

“Oh my GOD, Tango, you need to take it down like a billion notches!” Joker rubs his ears in pain. “Or get a compressor or something, dude! You’re giving me a headache and I’m DEAD.”

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.” Tango lets out a prolonged funny noise, unable to do much else with his now sore throat. “Hate. Hate you all.”

“Stop talking before you lose your voice completely,” Astro says in a dad-like way. “You can get some water when we’re back in the lobby. Just take a moment to-.”

“Oh my god, guys, listen to the meeting,” interrupts Joker suddenly. “Listen!”

“-can’t explain why,” Impulse is saying. “I just think it’s Skizz. I mean, not only does he not have an alibi but also he says he just went into navigation, which has a vent leading from admin outside it.”

“Oh c’mon, that’s circumstantial,” retorts Skizz.

“I feel it in my bones, dude. I just have a hunch that it’s you.”

Astro turns to Tango with an impressed expression. “Dude, I think you yelled at him so loudly that your voice crossed the border between life and death.”

“Good,” croaks Tango hoarsely. “I hate him.”

“You know what, I’ll buy that,” Brody says in response to Impulse’s accusations. “I haven’t seen Skizz all game and he hasn’t really tried to be helpful at all lately, so I’ll vote him off, sure.”

“Oh come on!” Skizz snaps. “Really?”

Impulse nods. “Yup, cuz I know you’re the imposter.”

“As Tango would say: negative!”

“You said he only says that when he’s imposter.”

Skizz opens his mouth but apparently can’t find anything to say back to that.

Tango watches with a certain amount of satisfaction as Skizz is voted off the ship. With the sheriffing of Endless earlier in the game, the round ends and everyone is sent back to the lobby.

Tango immediately storms up to Skizz and glares at him. Skizz gives a chuckle as he gets up off the seat. “Hey, buddy. That was a really good kill, you gotta admit.”

All Tango can do in reply is glare at him.

“Tango lost his voice from screaming at you guys,” Astro explains with a grin.

“Wait, he can’t talk?” Skizz snorts. “That’s hilarious.”

His face twisted in a furious expression, Tango makes a wringing-neck hand movement at Skizz, who laughs and takes a step back. “Oh man, you’re REALLY mad.”

Nodding firmly, Tango turns to Impulse. He jabs his finger at his best friend, then draws it across his neck.

“Why’s he mad at ME?!” yelps Impulse.

“Because I vented into admin, killed him, and vented out again right under your nose,”Skizz snickers.

Impulse’s eyes widen. “No way…!”

“And you left the room without checking on him so you thought he was still alive when you left,” adds Astro. “As he kept saying. Or yelling, rather. Many times.”

“Ohhhhhhh noooooooo…!” Impulse gives his best friend an apologetic grimace. “I’m so sorry, Tango! I had no idea, man.”

Clearly still furious, Tango jabs his finger at him, then makes the same neck-wringing gesture at Impulse, before finally throwing his hands up in frustration.

“I, uh… I think we might need to take a break and get Tango some water,” Impulse says sheepishly.

Tango opens his mouth and dissolves into another fit of coughing.

“...and some cough drops.”

“I’m gonna have permanent hearing loss after that,” grumbles Joker, still rubbing his ears. “I swear to god, I’m not playing with you again until you get a compressor.”

Tango gives him an apologetic and slightly sheepish look.

“So wait, what exactly happened there?” asks Etho suddenly. “Impulse, you had no information and then suddenly you were saying it was Skizz. What happened there?”

“I literally heard Tango’s voice in my ear,” Impulse explains. “It sounded like he was yelling and I didn’t hear full sentences, only bits and pieces. I heard “Skizz”, “kill”, and “vent”. So I put two and two together.”

“Your voice was so strong that it broke through the beyond and reached the realm of the living,” Skizz snickers. “I can’t even be mad about that; that’s pretty awesome. But bro. Joker’s right; you desperately need a compressor.”

Tango rolls his eyes, wishing his friends would stop saying that.

“Anyway, let’s take five and meet back here after,” says Impulse. “Tango, let’s get you some water.”

Etho watches the two of them leave the lobby together, before sitting down on the floor and leaning his head back against the wall. He doesn’t know how it’s possible that Tango managed to get through to Impulse despite being separated by death, but he does know that this can’t be good. There’s a reason the living can’t hear the dead.

Or maybe he’s just thinking too hard about it. If there’s anyone out there who can yell loud enough to make someone who shouldn’t be able to hear him hear him, it’s TangoTek.

Maybe they really do need to get him that compressor.

#friday night stabby #tangotek #impulsesv #skizzleman #cw caps #vaunna’s requests

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rynnaaurelius · 3 years ago

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Titan’s Curse But Make It Time Loop: Nico di Angelo Edition

-Okay so I’m at work and not doing much and who wants to actually edit your shit drafts for your actual WIPs so that they’re less bad? No one, that’s who

-So I had an idea: The Titan’s Curse. Also known as the book where people start to die. It sucks to be a demigod in this book--for the first time in the original series, it really does.

-Not everything is fixed, not everyone is saved, and people start to have to make really tough decisions.

-So we fix it. Not by throwing Percy, or Annabeth, or Thalia, or, hell, even Bianca or Grover into the mix.

-Throwing the marginally more grown-up, more trained, and more knowledgeable demigods into the fire, who’d get everyone alive and safe by the third time ‘round? Nah.

-We’re making Nico fix this.

-Because here’s the thing about Nico di Angelo: Sure, he grows up to become a major badass, the Ghost King, so on and so forth. But not yet.

-For now, Nico is baby, a ten-year-old whose experience with any kind of fighting consists of one (1) Capture The Flag game and who’s still half-reliant on Mythomagic to explain what the fuck is happening.

-He’s also got the worst knowledge makeup possible! He knows he’s a son of Hades, which is bad, he knows to stick monsters with the pointy end of swords but nothing else, he knows that Percy Jackson and Thalia Grace are Very Big Deals (But also doesn’t know why beyond parents), and he’s, at best, vaguely aware that there’s some kind of bad prophecy hanging around.

-Also by the end of the book, he’s just been told his last immediate family who isn’t Hades is dead in one of the worst ways possible, and he--pretty irrationally IMO, but Nico’s a kid who has been through a lot recently, so we’re not holding that against him--blames Percy Jackson.

-Literally, you probably can’t pick an angstier or worse choice to run through the time travel trope. I love it.

-We’re making this kid save Bianca’s life via time loop, which happens due to. . .hmm, we’ll say the Fates did it.

-So, Loop 0 = Canon, only at the end of the day on December 21st, after the conversation with Percy, Nico falls asleep only gods know where only to wake up the day he meets Percy Jackson:

Loop 1:

-Nico doesn’t actually change anything meaningful at first.

-Spends most of it shellshocked and not unconvinced the last week (For him, anyway) wasn’t a horrible nightmare; shellshocked and staring at Percy Jackson, anyway.

-(Percy’s wondering what’s up with the silent kid his sister had talked up as a cheerful chatterbox)

-It’s only when Bianca agrees to join the quest for Artemis that he starts kicking up a fuss; demanding to go, screaming that she can’t leave him even more, not again.

-(Bianca hesitates; briefly, enough to remind Nico that she loves him. But she’s not their mother, and she needs this)

-Bianca still dies. Percy comes back pale and guilty. Nico doesn’t yell at him when he returns--he already knows. He accepts the Hades figurine so that he can throw it into the lake.

-He slinks off back into Cabin Eleven and falls asleep, hoping desperately that he gets a third chance.

Loop 2:

-He does.

Loop 3:

-After a very painful death at the hands of Dr. Thorn, Nico, generally being a straightforward person at this stage of life, takes the obvious path this time around: He tries to tell Bianca--who brushes it off as a dream.

-Annabeth still goes over the cliff when Nico takes the initiative of attaching himself and his sister to Percy Jackson and Thalia Grace at the dance. He tries to tell Percy and Thalia when Bianca still joins the Hunt, promising Nico that whatever he saw, she’ll be extra careful.

-(Bianca’s fearful of what Nico's saying, and thinks that if these sworn sisters can’t keep her safe, who can?)

-Artemis gives Nico a speculative look but agrees when he begs her to protect Bianca at all costs.

-He doesn’t get on the quest. Being a reasonable demigod of questionable parentage, he sneaks out of camp.

-He gets caught, because despite being aware of his awesome new powers, he doesn’t know how to use them, and is still a ten-year-old who can barely hold a sword the right way.

-He gives Percy the puppy dog eyes and shows off said awesome new powers. Percy forces him back.

-Nico follows him.

-Repeat until Percy dies saving Nico from the Nemean Lion in Washington, DC.

-Nico can’t find it in himself to be terribly sad--especially when he doesn’t make it much longer.

Loop 4:

-He’s really stuck like this, huh?

-Oh, Di Immortales.

-(Before Percy gets his chest ripped to shreds by a lion and Nico meets skeleton cats, he learned how to hold a sword properly and curse fluently in Greek. Percy probably only meant to teach him one of those things)

-In unrelated news: Having a big crush on a guy who thinks he’s only known you for a couple hours? Terrible.

-Trying to hate the guy who let your sister die when he’s that stupid and nice? Even worse.

-That stupid lion.

Loop 5, 6, 7, 8, 9:

-Nico repeats: That stupid lion.

-Somewhere in Loop 7 he starts to steal supplies out of the camp store when he follows Percy following the quest.

-They forcefeed the lion enough trail mix and frozen ice cream in Loop 9 that they don’t die this time.

-At least until someone called the General shows up and Nico’s dead before he can raise his sword.

Loop 10:

-Nico wakes up in his and Bianca’s room in Westover and starts crying. Bianca tells the headmaster they’re both sick and Nico lets her hold him all day.

-They fall asleep and Nico swears he won’t let her die again.

Loop 11, 12, 13:

-He wakes up and he still can’t get out of bed without feeling that blade cutting between his ribs, burning like it’s on fire.

-Gods, he’s so sorry, Bianca. Dispiace tanto.

Loop 14:

-He can get up without feeling like he’s about to die again. Bianca fusses but assumes it was just a bad dream.

-Nico is caught stealing and can’t follow Percy until it’s too late.

-Everyone assumes this means he’s a son of Hermes, however, and Nico can’t correct them without opening his mouth and letting the sobbing laughter out.

-Figuring he’s about to get another chance next round anyway, he takes Travis and Connor Stoll up on their offer to learn a thing or two so that he doesn’t get Cabin Eleven slapped with kitchen duty from now until Doomsday.

-He likes the Stolls. He spent most of the time, pre-looping, actively avoiding everyone at camp as he waited for Bianca and Percy to come back, but they’re not that bad.

-Percy comes back with the figurine and no sister and Nico remembers why he’s stuck.

Loop 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23:

-After Loop 12 and being killed in Washington DC again, Nico realizes: He needs to learn how to fight.

-Unless he gets killed early or refuses to leave Westover, the loop resets after seven days. So, he has seven days to train each time.

-He gets to camp, finds the arena, and meets Clarisse La Rue. He demands she teach him how to kill monsters.

-She laughs, and tells him that attitude in his size will make monsters easy to kill, they’ll laugh so hard.

-Clarisse teaches him how to swing a sword each time--but only after mocking his unamused face.

-Somehow, Percy coming back with news of Bianca’s death only hurts more each time.

Loop 24:

-Nico wakes up before Bianca this time. He looks over at her bed and knows. He’s got to try this time.

-It’s disturbingly easy making friends with Percy Jackson after the last loops.

-Bessie’s new. Cute, but new.

-Nico wonders just how much he’s missed in the past--he thinks of Annabeth Chase, and hopes she hasn’t been dying each time.

-Percy doesn’t even argue when Nico shows up in the stables with a bag slung over his shoulder, and the sword he’s been stealing out of the shed strapped to his hip.

-Nico suggests the ice cream--again--to Percy in DC before

-Nico might be getting the hang of this.

Loop 25:

-Nico is not getting the hang of this.

-Zoë Nightshade’s refusal to accept Percy and Nico on the quest--violating a prophecy, and gods, Nico’s curious if that prophecy ever mentioned this--has so far gotten them attacked and killed by spartoi once.

-And again. As Nico bleeds out on the floor, he watches a panicked blond man--a demigod--plead for mercy.

-Isn’t he on the other side?

Loop 26:

-His name is Luke Castellan and he apparently wants the gods dead.

-Nico can relate at this point.

-The General is Atlas, and Nico knows enough about Greek mythology, real and wrong, at this point to know that is bad.

Loop 27:

-Twenty-six tries, but they finally make it out of DC. Threatening the questers with Atlas killing them all is more than enough.

-For the first time, Nico doesn’t know what happens next. He glues himself to Bianca’s side and glares at anything suspicious.

-With help that Percy refuses to name, even when Nico tries his hardest, they go to New Mexico.

-There’s a boar and it’s so close, they make it to what the others are calling “the junkyard of the gods”.

-Nico sees the Hades figurine on the ground.

-Bianca grins in delight and picks it up, calling for him.

-He can’t help it.

-Nico starts screaming.

Loop 28:

-His sister’s murderer was never Percy Jackson.

-His sister’s murderer was a force of mechanics that makes Nico fully understand, for the first time, what the gods are, beyond stats on a card.

-Talos.

-Nico is going to destroy him.

Loop 29:

-She dies.

Loop 30:

-Again.

Loop 31:

-Again.

-Loop 32, 33, 34, 3536373839FortyFo r t y O n e--:

-Again. Again. Again. Again again againagainagainagainAGAIN--

Loop 42:

-Nico gets out of bed. He finds Percy Jackson at the dance, hugs him, and tells him he’s sorry.

-Nico walks outside and waits for Dr. Thorn in the snow. He can feel the shadows curling at the edge of the wood like a sixth sense, now. Waiting for him to summon the restless dead out of them.

-So many attempts to save his sister, ranging from sacrificing himself to sacrificing Percy--not that Percy needs the push, Nico has found--to any and all members of the quest.

-She dies. Always, always dies. Whatever Nico does, that junkyard is full of the death of Bianca di Angelo.

-He tried avoiding it. Once. Loop 33. Nico threw such a fit he’s surprised he wasn’t sent back to Camp Half-Blood by the Hunters, but it kept them out of the junkyard.

-He tries not to remember how little was left of his sister’s body by the monsters that time.

-Son of Hades. After all this time, Nico’s beginning to wonder if this is what it means. Death and death and death.

-Dr. Thorn walks outside, and Nico can feel a ghoulish grin crossing his face that has no place on a ten-year-old.

-One of them is going to die, this loop. And Nico will not go to New Mexico.

Loop 43:

-Nico wonders if there was a past life of his he needs to remember. Who could he have made this angry?

-He lies to Bianca and they stay in Westover again this time. Better than death, anyway.

Loop 44:

-Nico tries a different tack this time. A more roundabout way of things.

-He takes Bianca and throws the two of them in the way of the battle with the manticore.

-After all this time, he still doesn’t know much about Annabeth Chase. She gets kidnapped and returned safely to Percy every time, to the best of his knowledge.

-Nico dies holding up the sky, but at least Bianca lives, under the protection of Artemis.

Loop 45:

-Nico looks in the mirror and studies the new grey streak with fascination. And, maybe, some hope.

-Things can change.

Loop 46, 47, 48, 49, 50:

-Nico gets kidnapped a few times. Once, he’s killed in a rage by a Titan with horns, but it’s quick. Mostly, he holds up the sky to get Artemis out.

-She looks at him strangely each time and Nico wonders if she can see what he’s done.

Loop 51:

-They figure out he’s a son of Hades. They offer him Olympus. Olympus and Bessie--the Ophiotaurus, rather.

-Nico says no.

Loop 52:

-Nico says yes.

Loop 53:

-Being on the verge of overthrowing the gods and keeping everyone he’s grown to care for--in the case of several Hunters, against his will; in Percy Jackson’s case, Nico loves him as much as he hates him at this point--doesn’t do much, apparently.

-Nico stays in Westover again. He resists the urge to tell Bianca that would-be destroyers of Olympus don’t need to brush their hair, whatever she says.

Loop 54:

-Nico goes over the edge of the cliff again, but with Percy Jackson.

-This isn’t the first time; in Loop 46, Percy had taken the sky for both the sake of Artemis and Nico until it killed him.

-What’s different, is Nico’s in the middle of what’s become the usual panic attack when he’s about to die for the hundredth time, and his powers react.

-Percy holds him close and calls him cousin. Tells him he’ll never leave Nico.

-You have no idea, Nico whispers. You can’t leave me.

-You think I want to? Percy whispers back. You’re not alone, Nico.

-Nico’s sobbing sounds like laughter.

Loop 55:

-Nico tells Percy the truth for the third time. This is the first time he hasn’t told Bianca first.

-They’ve just found the Erymanthian Boar, Thalia’s told Nico his goth needs work--whatever that means--and Nico’s bracing himself for the junkyard again.

-Getting kidnapped by the Titans really gets old after a while.

-He still has the grey streak, and no number of excuses will fully soothe his sister, but the Hunt’s a good distraction from it.

-Nico doesn’t blame Bianca anymore for it. He thinks.

-Nearly a year into this loop and Nico’s finding it hard to blame anyone for much of anything, anymore. Especially when he sees what she’s faced. Again. And again.

-For now, this time, Percy Jackson is staring at Nico with wide eyes at what Nico’s told him--through these loops, Nico’s starting to wonder if he now knows more about Percy than Percy’s own best friends--and says he believes him.

-Once, Nico would’ve exploded from joy. Now, he just sighs and nods.

-Percy tells him how to condense the conversation for the next loop. He advises Nico to research Talos, “like Annabeth would.”

-He advises Nico to warn Percy’s next loop self about Annabeth’s kidnapping. Nico wonders if he’s gone insane that he’s considering it.

-Bianca dies.

Loop 56:

-Nico makes the executive decision this time to try and befriend Annabeth Chase. As such, he takes Percy’s advice.

Loop 57:

-It takes him two tries to befriend Annabeth Chase and learn about Talos.

Loop 58:

-Three times.

-But the nail. The nail in the ankle of Talos.

Loop 59:

-He hangs back at camp again this time and meets Charles Beckendorf, head of Cabin Nine, and son of Hephaestus.

-Nico figures that short of finding the god himself and committing temporary suicide--not that it hasn’t crossed Nico’s mind--his son will have to do.

-(He’s tried his hand at summoning ghosts, but Daedalus refuses to show, for some reason)

-Beckendorf frowns and tells Nico he would have to see Talos himself.

-Nico hadn’t realized just how much cursing he had picked up off of Percy and Thalia until that moment.

Loop 60:

-Nico knows what the prophecy says. One shall be lost in the land without rain.

-He knows it’s why he’s been failing so much.

-The trouble is, he no longer cares.

Loop 61:

-It took him a try, but he gets Beckendorf on the quest, prepared to defeat the Talos prototype.

Loop 62:

-Strike that, two tries.

-Nico really hates the Nemean Lion.

Loop 63, 64:

-Nico has solved half a problem: How to defeat Talos without putting someone inside the robot.

-The other half of the problem is now that they are all electrocuted by a dying automaton for their efforts.

Loop 65:

-Beckendorf’s crush--girlfriend? crush, they’re both insisting--Silena Beauregard comes along this time. Nico won’t complain over the extra manpower, even if he’s positive that eight campers and Hunters are patent overkill for one quest.

-Silena pulls Bianca out of the wreckage. Nico’s heart stops.

-Silena’s crying when she mentions that if they had been a bit earlier, she could have been revived.

-Nico wonders if Thalia’s going to stab him as he starts whooping. And takes notes about where Talos falls.

Loop 66:

-Nico swears, if Percy Jackson tries to sacrifice himself for Annabeth Chase one more time--

Loop 67:

-Bianca.

-I found you, he sobs. I found you.

-Gods damn the Hoover Dam.

Loop 68:

-And again.

-Despite having the distinct inkling at this point that he doesn’t much like like girls, Nico could kiss Silena Beauregard and Thalia Grace when they manage to revive his sister each time.

-She’s shaky and leaning on him and was dead, he could see her soul floating away--

-But she’s there.

-Nico refuses to let his sister out of the sight at the Hoover Dam and Percy befriends the Naiads this time.

-At least, until the Titans--who Nico made the very big mistake of taunting at DC--sends monsters he can’t control.

Loop 69, 70, 71, 72, 73:

-They keep dying in various combinations at the Hoover Dam now that Nico’s figured out how to save Bianca.

-At least, until he gets separated from Percy in Loop 73 and he meets a redheaded girl with a penchant for calling Nico pint-size.

-Athena dislikes Percy, Nico, Bianca, and Thalia in equal measure. Having learned of the Great Prophecy in Loop 16 and Percy’s mooning over Annabeth in. . .well, every loop, Nico can’t quite blame her.

Loop 74:

-Her name is Rachel Elizabeth Dare and Nico likes her. She takes none of their shit and if it weren’t for the fact that they already have eight people on the quest, he’d want to take her along.

-Bianca gets in a fight with the Old Man of the Sea. Thalia electrocutes him when he throws Bianca in the bay.

Loop 75:

-Nico wakes up in Westover with the distinct feeling that he was drowned on dry land.

-He stays in bed shivering, that day.

Loop 76:

-Atlas is the father of Zoë Nightshade. Nico learned this around Loop 50. He had realized around five loops ago that this probably meant she was going to die “by a parent’s hand.”

-He hadn’t realized that it was going to hurt to watch.

Loop 77, 78, 79, 80, 81:

-Now that he’s figured things out to about San Francisco, it seems the world is out to get him. The number of fights or mistakes that he either makes himself or has to head off are ridiculous.

Loop 82:

-Nico is so very tired. And wishes he felt ten years old again.

Loop 83:

-If Thalia gets in one more fight with Nereus, Nico's going to walk into the sea.

Loop 84:

-He wanders off, in this one. Grover had been killed in Hoover Dam, so Nico’s waiting for the reset at this point.

-In the meantime, Nico figures there are worse things to do than enjoy a good afternoon in San Francisco. He even meets a boy in a purple shirt.

-His name is Jason and he has hair like the sun.

-If he ever fixes this, Nico wants to find him.

Loop 85:

-Nico’s not fast enough in the junkyard.

-In San Francisco, he tries to find the ugliest, biggest trouble he can find.

-He finds a pair of teenagers in armor who yell Latin at him instead.

Loop 86:

-There’s a dragon that will attack them in the Garden of the Hesperides if they make it angry enough and Nico is so tired.

Loop 87:

- Zoë Nightshade is dead. They’ve won.

-Funny definition of “win”, considering they’ve all almost died this loop about a dozen times each, and Nico can’t explain why he’s crying on the body of a Hunter he only met a week ago, in their eyes.

-She hates him, some loops. More loops, she looks at him with ghosts of old grief in her eyes and hands him a knife.

-The gods execute Bessie, and then, Nico watches as his father turns to him and Bianca with sorrowful eyes.

-Nico should’ve figured, after almost ninety loops.

Loop 88:

-Luke offers one of them the entrails of Bessie again.

-Nico takes them.

Loop 89:

-For all the good it does. Nico wakes up as he does every time now: Powerless, in bed, and with only a grey streak to show for his efforts.

Loop 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98:

-Nico doesn’t know how to save Zoë Nightshade. Bianca, he could trick and fight his way into it. Beckendorf and Silena and Percy and a loophole in lost could save his sister.

-Her, she just. . .dies. Sometimes in DC, sometimes in San Francisco, sometimes on the hills of Mt. Tamalpais. Always at the hands of Atlas.

-Always, being murdered by her father.

-It’s not as gutting as watching his sister die, but it aches more in his chest, somehow.

Loop 99:

-He sticks close to Zoë this time. Same as he’s done with Percy, Annabeth, his sister, Thalia, and Grover, time and time again. But not her, Nico is realizing. Not the clinging he’s achieving now.

-Hoping for. . .something.

-He knows better than to tell the immortal Lieutenant of Artemis the whole truth. The loneliness is enough.

-She’s less frosty to him from the start than to, say, Grover or Percy, after Annabeth goes over the cliff again. When he shows up in DC, she’s much less angry than he’s seen her.

-Along the way to New Mexico and then San Francisco, he listens. He’s grown better at it, this far in. When the others are asleep, when Bianca is being fussed over after Talos, when everyone but them is asleep by the fire, he listens.

-And she tells him about her sisters. About her father, when the world was young and Atlas had looked on every daughter of his with pride. She tells him, pride glistening in her eyes, of the battles she has seen, the hunts she has overseen at the command of a goddess, the monsters she has killed, and the epithets she has been given.

-He doesn’t ask anything of her. Not until they’re in the house of Annabeth’s father, drinking lemonade the night before the battle, and Nico knows she is about to die again.

-What do you want, he asks. You’ve done everything. What’s left?

-She stopped, ice seems to creep over her again, and Nico wondered if he’d hit some sore spot.

-He’s opened his mouth to make his apologies when she answers, so quiet and quick he thinks he’s imagined it.

-To be remembered. When my lady has taken another lieutenant, as she must, and I have gone to where all gods go when they die, I wish for my memory to remain. And. . .

-Nico waits, and ignores the sudden, terrifying thought that he no longer knows what he wants.

-I wish to see the stars again. I was born a nymph of the sunset; starlight is precious to me. I want to see it again.

-Nico dies to preserve the memory of Zoë Nightshade.

100:

-Nico di Angelo wakes up in Westover Hall. He hopes for the last time.

-He does everything right: Annabeth goes over the cliff, his sister joins the Hunt, Percy is soon his friend, and he convinces Silena and Beckendorf to join the quest.

-The Nemean Lion never stands a chance, and Nico is glad to be rid of it.

-His sister lives.

-Nico watches Percy watch Rachel Elizabeth Dare go, looking like he’s just taken a frying pan to the face, and fights the urge to snicker.

-Thalia doesn’t start a fight with Nereus, but Percy certainly does. Nico could’ve sworn he saw the boy with sun-hair again, watching with curiosity.

- Zoë Nightshade dies in the arms of Artemis and is made into the stars she loves so dearly. Nico promises her soul that he will remember.

-For, he has found, the dead have a tendency of remembering things they shouldn’t.

-Annabeth and Percy now have grey streaks to match Nico’s, and Nico can’t wait to spend the rest of his life trying to explain that.

-It’s closer than he would like, but much less close than other lives with Olympus. The Ophiotaurus is alive and safe, and they are all alive.

-As Nico walks out of the council, he looks off to the side. By the fire is the familiar girl with red eyes--the Lady Hestia, looking much closer to Nico’s age than that of the Olympian she is.

-Besides her are three old ladies. Nico’s heard about them from Percy, in Loops 26, 53, 61, and 62.

-One lady holds a ball of string that is the color of a warm umber. The other is knitting what looked suspicious like socks. The last. . .

-Scissors, in one hand. Just as expected. Nico swallowed.

-In the other, was a knot of burnt string, tied to the socks. Behind her, Nico could see discarded string of all colors: an electric blue, a stormy grey, a black that seems to glisten with the promise of a storm, string the soft, hopeful pink of love, yarn run through with bright copper.

-Glowing threads that Nico could only describe as the color of starlight.

-As he walked out, firmly between Percy Jackson and Thalia Grace, the Hunt of Artemis behind him, Nico hears one last promise:

It is done, Nico di Angelo.

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