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friends-to-lovers-tournament · 1 year ago

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PRELIMINARY POLL 1: A3!

hello A3! fandom, congrats on having the biggest number of unique ships submitted! (unique=non-repeated ship) out of all the ships submitted, soba and i have decided to shortlist fuyupoly and EITHER bansaku OR tasutsumu, as per a previous post where we said we'll be allowing a maximum of 2 ships per fandom into the tournament. both bansaku and tasutsumu have 3 submissions each and strong propaganda, hence this preliminary poll to decide which one will be in the tournament

also if bansaku wins, let us know if you guys want that pic to be their pic or you guys want the act 11 CG where banri and sakuya go on a date to watch the hyakka troupe show (fake blood warning)

propoganda for both ships are under the cut!

-mod deli 🎀

BANSAKU:

Submission 1:

Tough dude getting flustered at literal angel makes happy chemical go brrrrrr

Submission 3:

words cannot express how much i love bansaku. they are so. okay hold on. they met in high school. they're in the same year but different classes. they officially become friends when they join mankai company. at least one mod is a3 liker so i'll skip those details i'm sure you know. they are so. everything. here is the list of things that has happened in canon. like literally in canon.

- they go thrift shopping together. banri gets sakuya clothes since he's got more expendable income.

- they're major theater nerds they both love the stage so much

- sakuya forgot his workbook so he went to borrow banri's and "thanks, banri-kun!"

- EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF ART WHERE THE A3DERS ARE TOGETHER HAS BANRI WITH THE SOFTEST EXPRESSION LOOKING AT SAKUYA LIKE WHAT THE HELL

- they went to go watch hyakka troupe play together... there's a whole cg... i can't believe they go on dates fr (delusional)

banri was struggling with finding a purpose in life, versus sakuya who always dreamed of veing an actor. and i think that. god i'm so delusional but like. banri's always a little sarcastic and unserious but with sakuya he's always kind even though he's still a tease. and the. they bring out different sides to each other you know. with banri, sakuya allows himself to be taken care of and doted over, but also just be a 19 year old teen. normal life . yknow.

they are so friends to lovers ever because they are such good friends to each other and it's always at the core of their relationship. yknow like even if they didn't get together romantically they still push each other to be better and to want more. but they just Want to be together and i think that makes a lot of difference. choosing to be with someone. it's very unconditional and lowkey, their relationship, so choosing it is somehow Something Significant, if that makes sense.

they're so adorable. banri's a very physical person i think. so it's very easy to just imagine him with his arm over sakuya's shoulders or hugging sakuya from behind. and sakuya always thinks of banri and gets him little gifts and "i thought of you"s and they're so adorable. sometimes banri will pick sakuya up from work and sometimes sakuya will stop by amabi and i think they make time for each other.

also one last thing that isn't necessarily friends to lovers coded but i feel is very important about their relationship is how like. you know at the start banri is this delinquent asshole with no plans in life and sakuya is a little good boy who's responsible and a little silly. so i think it's really important that banri is the one who continues on to college, while sakuya goes straight to working. (at a kindergarten he is so cute i love him) because like. you know. first impressions aren't everything. what's good for you may not be good for someone else. we can all still grow more in the end. and i just. man i'm so emo over these two.

(Mod note: The 2nd bansaku submission didn't have any propaganda)

TASUTSUMU:

Submission 1:

(exploding) sorry if this is badly written i am walking rn . Mods know the series but A3 is about stage actors.

TasuTsumu are literally the friends to lovers ever. They're childhood friends, even. They did everything together. They've acted together since elementary school. but then (VINE BOOM) thry both try out for a prestigious acting troupe called GODza... but only Tasuku makes it in (sad horn sounds) Tsumugi lost a ton of confidence after not making it and kinda ghosted Tasuku and ran away from his problems </3 he originally had given up, but missed the stage so he tried out again at the Mankai Company (troupe all of the characters are in). Of course, as fate has it, Tasuku had just left GODza after their... unsavory business tactics, but the troupe had blacklisted him from becoming an actor at any other high end troupes in the area, leaving him to go to the Mankai Company. And of course times 2, he and Tsumugi try out for the same troupe. Tasuku is less than pleased with seeing Tsumugi's face after he just disappeared before, and things between them are tense, especially when Tasuku gets fed up with Tsumugi's lack of confidence after he becomes the troupe's leader. But!! Fate wants them to get along (and be together) and Tsumugi finds this cursed doll that traps them in a time loop of the same day. They're stuck until they resolve their issues. Nothing like a good ol divine intervention to get two friends to lovers back together. tldr Tsumugi owns up to his insecurities to Tasuku and works to overcome it. In the process, while performing their play in an act off (if they end up in the competition ill actually essay about it) Tsumugi feels that his acting is inferior once again and totally bombs a show. Tasuku finally works around his own regrets of not reaching out before when Tsumugi had "quit," telling him how much he loves and envies Tsumugi's acting, and apologizes to Tsumugi. Then boom they pull off an incredibly gay play about angels and become lovers (not canon but Trust me).

please let me write properly about them and put them in i love my blorbos <3 they were made for this tournament

Submission 2:

absolute best friends in childhood who had a very impactful falling out, but managed to resolve things. nowadays they're in a theatre troupe together where their troupe is quite literally married.

Submission 3:

1. CHILDHOOD FRIENDS

2. Their introductory arc was literally a whole divorce-reunion arc. They divorced because Tsumugi failed an audition into the God Squad theatre troupe while Tasuku got in which was a blow to Tsumugi's confidence as an actor and he ran away and Tasuku was mad at him for that. It was literally so bad that the game had to break its slice-of-life genre to introduce a doll that traps people in a timeloop until they're able to make up, and they (and another guy who's kinda a cryptid) are the only ones aware that the day keeps repeating

3. After one of their shows, Tsumugi overhears some audience members criticising him and comparing him to Tasuku, which leads to him changing his acting style in the next show which completes bombs their show. Out of shame, Tsumugi runs away, and it takes Tasuku some hesitating before chasing after him and finally telling him how he REALLY feels -- that he was guilty for not being able to do anything to help Tsumugi when he failed that audition years ago and ran away, and that he admires Tsumugi's acting for what it is. The anime makes this scene even gayer by having them meet on a bridge in the snow and Tasuku holding an umbrella over Tsumugi's head as he pours his heart out to Tsumugi

4. Tsumugi regains his confidence after hearing that, and they finally FINALLY 100% reconcile

#a3!#a3! act! addict! actors!#a3! act addict actors #bansaku #tasutsumu #mod deli 🎀#ftl admin stuff #ftl prelim poll #also i know you guys are a nice bunch but just in case #no matter who you're voting for please be nice to the other ship and those who vote for it!

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gold-rhine · 1 year ago

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fallout new vegas inazuma u will always be famous in my heart :(... top tier fanfic concept fr

i knooow, it will always be famous for both of us, anon. like inazuma is PERFECT for fnv

like. raiden is literally just animewaifu house. dictator, isolated and self-absorbed, who keeps main resource of the region hub under control and tries to preserve it unchanged, like before the war, like??? so isolated from reality, they do not even have a body de facto and only interact with the world thru robots. Powerful, but blind to the inevitability of change and that their little city under the snow globe which they thought unchanged DID already change

traveler is ofc a courier. platinum chip is gnosis. Benny is played by Ayato, a manipulator and disruptor from within the dictator's system, but instead of Benny representing "tribals" who try to basically cosplay pre-war aesthetics without understanding them and those showing that House's dream is dead, it's impossible to keep the past alive, you can only keep its dead shambling corpse. But Ayato is the subversion of another kind, he DOES know all of the traditions that raiden wants to preserve, but he doesn't give a fuck, uses them as a pretense to cover for what he actually wants to do, and so the past once again loses meaning and turns into aesthetics only

yes man is played by scara, and he still HAS to do everything he's asked, but he doesn't have to be polite about it, so he's still an insufferable cunt. ayato stole him from yae's basement, and courier can steal him from ayato and play wild card

all islands are not just scattered world quests, but each a political faction.

Serrai, a small but vicious band of pirates and yokai, left there from when they destroyed raiden's fleet by unleashing the storm

the fucking weird ultraconservative isolationist cult who worships thunder bird (thunder bird is dead. (they also child sacrifices))

watatsumi, who seem so nice and good, until you learn that their island is built on literal bones of vishaps. Enka event, vishaps are sentient faction too, and watatsumi can only function if they grow fertile corals grafted onto literal vishap children, kept in captivity. But watatsumi need resources and they can't survive without it, what do we do. like!! thats literal genshin canon and genshin did nothing with it

and ofc fatui, who are playing both raiden and the rebels. signora can finally have a meaningful role to play

both inazuma and fnv center around the themes of change and conflict, idolization and desire to live in the past vs moving forward, denial of catastrophe of war and living inside of a fake snow globe vs trying to build smth new. a singular flourishing city and the crumbling badlands around. half of inazuma already covered in radiation, come on!

tldr hoyo plagiarized fnv, but thats not a problem, the problem is that they did it BADLY, and it could have been GOOD asdfghj

#rhine talks

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fanficflaneuse · 5 years ago

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Sleepless

A/N: Hello, magical tumblr beings. First of all, I can't to thank you enough for all your love and support on my very first imagine ever (you can check it out here). I wrote yet another fluffy, sickly-sweet, absolutely self indulgent imagine. I hope you like this one as well!

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Draco Malfoy x reader (she/her pronouns).

Words: 1689

Summary: the reader has insomnia and decides to roam the castle in the middle of the night. Fluff ensues.

Disclaimers: so Draco’s characterization here was a bit of a problem. It still bothers me a bit. This is fluffy and a bit pointless. Mentions of Dolores Umbridge.

(Y/N) got tired of tossing and turning in bed. The soft snoring of her roommates only made things worse. She peaked through the curtains of her four-poster bed and saw Hermione sleeping. Her best friend had fallen in the arms of Morpheus a while ago. And there she was, unable to close her eyes as the night seemed to stretch infinitely.

(Y/N) couldn’t remember a time in her life when she hadn’t suffered from insomnia. Usually, the sleeping draught helped her, but these days the stress around her was so overpowering she hadn’t even ventured into Madam Pomfrey’s realm for a small dose.

This year things were agitated to say the least. Pained by the tragedy at the Triwizard Tournament, Harry insisted that Voldemort was back. People were harsh. They mocked him, spread rumours about how he had lost his mind, accused him of lying. Some even claimed that he had murdered Cedric Diggory. She was one of Harry’s closest friends and she had her own reasons to believe him, which meant she was also a member of Dumbledore’s Army.

If the strain of running an underground society wasn’t enough, the fact that Dolores Umbridge had taken over the school gave plenty of reasons to drive anyone mad. The sickly-sweet pink lady was one of the most hateful people (Y/N) had ever met. She seemed to have taken a bow to make students’ lives miserable. She was dead set against Harry and the three people she, rather contemptuously, referred to as his “dream team”, which, of course, included her, along with Hermione and Ron.

The icing on the cake? (Y/N) had a crush. An annoying, deeply confusing crush on the one boy she definitely shouldn’t be ogling at. She blamed Snape for this. Hadn’t he decided that (Y/N) and Hermione had to be separated in his class, she wouldn’t have to seat next to the most hands...stupid and obnoxious Slytherin in the whole school. She wouldn’t have to talk to him every day, notice the little gestures that made him seem so vulnerable, so human. How his big grey eyes could hold so much emotion. How he had expressive eyebrows. How the corners of his lips curled just slightly in an awkward attempt to the friendly to her. How he’d fumble with his family ring and pout when he was confused. How he had this one single curl that wouldn’t be tamed regardless of how he combed his blond hair. How he would always treat her with kindness, albeit with a bit of playful cockiness, even when he was horrible to her friends.

Yes, it was totally Snape’s fault. Now, she not only had to deal with the butterflies and the blushing, the typical embarrassment of such situations, but also the guilt of liking a guy who’d call her best friends horrible slurs and created elaborate campaigns to discredit and embarrass them. What was wrong with her? She felt like a traitor.

If Ron thought Cho Chang could explode from an emotional overload, (Y/N) felt she could combust then and there.

Tired of being in bed, she pushed her covers and stood up. She slid into her linen night robe and slippers and left the room, swiftly and silently as a cat. It was not the first time (Y/N) roamed through the castle late at night. Walking helped to ease her mind and she found that the castle seemed more beautiful and enthralling the darker and lonelier it was.

(Y/N) was so distracted she didn’t realize she had unconsciously walked all the way to the astronomy tower. She decided to climb up, something she had never done in all of her nightly rounds. Once she walked through the door, (Y/N)’s gaze met those stormy grey eyes that gave her both butterflies and heartache at the same time. She gulped and took a few steps back. If she could’ve guessed, she probably looked terrified at the moment; he was, after all, part of Umbridge’s inquisitors.

“(Y/N) wait,” he said softly.

“Will you report me with Umbridge?” she asked, panicky.

“What? No. I just… what are you doing here?”

“I can’t sleep,” she shrugged.

She turned around to leave when she heard him whisper a “me neither” that sounded a bit desperate. She pictured his lips curled down ever just slightly and, finding the image adorable, decided to turn around. (Y/N) found him fiddling with his ring, which made her smile. He looked so shy and a cute that she couldn’t believe it was the same guy who could make her knees buckle with one of his infamous cocky smirks. She walked towards him while crossing her arms, suddenly self-conscious of her choice of outfit.

“Why so shy?” he asked, trying to go back to his cocky, confident persona, complete with checking her out. He thought he had nailed it until she raised an eyebrow in response, which made him cringe at his choice of words.

Draco Malfoy was used to having his walls so frighteningly high it was conflicting for him to interact with someone he actually wanted to let in. With her, her smart questions, her kind smile, the way he treated him as an equal and how she seemed to be interested in what he actually had to say, he felt the façade crumbling to bits. With his walls down, though, his “suave” persona turned a bit to dust. Around her, he felt dorky. Draco Malfoy dorky? Merlin, if his father knew this.

“Why can’t you sleep?” she asked absentmindedly, completely disregarding his last question. He noticed how her gaze shifted to the sky, her face full of wonder. He looked back at the stars as well and spotted Orion immediately.

“I have a lot in my mind,” he answered, “what about you?”

“Me too,” she answered.

“That’s Taurus, right?” she asked, pointing at the wrong constellation.

Draco smiled. Whenever they finished their work with a few minutes to spare, they would seat down and talk about their interests. Astronomy and Greek mythology were amongst the many topics they covered. He shared his knowledge on the first and learned about the later.

The conversation then changed topics and they found themselves sitting on the floor, backs against the railing, sharing laughs and jokes and experiences. It was the first time they had the chance to have a full-on conversation, to ramble, laugh and be unapologetically friendly. Usually, their conversations ended after the bell rang. Tonight, they could talk for as long as they wanted to. Make each other blush as many times as they wanted to. Seat as incredibly close to each other as they wanted to. No one was waiting for the outside of the classroom, nobody would judge or mock them for being friendly with the other. Suddenly, (Y/N) was not mad that the night seemed to stretch infinitively.

“So, you believe Potter,” Draco pointed out.

There was a bit of fake annoyance in his voice. The conversation taken a more serious tone when she mentioned something about his inquisitorial squad.

“He is my best friend,” (Y/N) answered, shrugging once again.

“Pansy is my best friend and I don’t believe half of the things she says,” Draco stated, trying to light up the mood once again. He mentally patted his back when (Y/N) laughed.

“If there is one person that truly knows Harry is not lying it’s you, Draco”.

She said this without a trace of malice in her voice. She was merely stating a fact. Draco could’ve pretended he was offended, he could’ve scoffed and stormed off, how dare she imply he and his family had something to do with the Dark L Volde You Know Who? He could use that to stand up, close that door and never see her again, not have to deal with the terrible crush he had on her. But here’s the thing, he didn’t want to do any of that. He wanted to keep talking to her now and every single day. He wanted to see if she felt that same tickling in his stomach whenever he was around. And he wanted to kiss her. So so badly.

Besides, everybody knew his parents had connections to the Dark Lord. And his father…his father had been acting rather strangely when he got back home from his fourth year. He had talked nonsense all summer. It hadn’t taken him too long to connect the dots. He knew Voldemort was back. There was no doubt about it. But until he decided to reveal himself, he had to play his part. And thus, the whole Potter stinks campaign had started.

“(Y/N/N)…” he looked down, sad and ashamed.

She put her hand on his arm and their eyes met again. Draco was transfixed. (Y/N)’s heart was pounding hard on her chest. She leaned in slowly, trying to catch a glimpse of his reaction. Their noses were almost touching. She put one of her hands gently on Draco’s cheek and he leaned into her touch. The both closed their eyes as their lips finally touched. The kiss was slow at first, a bit shy even. But then they got comfortable with each other, his hands travelled to her waist, the hand that wasn’t on his cheek tangled in his blond hair. The kiss became hungrier. He bit her lip, she slithered her tongue into his mouth.

When they finally pulled away, Draco looked at (Y/N)’s flushed face and found himself absolutely smitten.

“I fancy you, Draco” she blurted out.

Draco gave her a huge, wholehearted smile. She smiled back.

“I fancy you too, (Y/N/N),” he said as he caressed her hair softly.

The kissed again and again, sweet chaste kisses and pecks that made them both erupt in giggles. Draco felt on cloud nine. (Y/N) couldn’t believe what was happening. That night, they didn’t speak of every possible way in which things could possibly go wrong. They didn’t talk about Draco’s concerns and certainties, about the war to come. They didn’t talk about (Y/N)’s guilt about her friends. They just kissed and talked and held each other all night.

And it was a beautiful night.

#draco x reader #draco malfoy x reader #draco malfoy x you #draco malfoy imagines #draco malfoy #draco malfoy x female reader #harry potter imagines #draco malfoy inserts #draco malfoy fanfiction #draco x you #reader inserts #x reader #draco malfoy x y/n

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cuddlecave · 3 years ago

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is xiphoid

hhhh ur last post is makin me think of a Time Travel au, which I love

cute after-antarctica established fr*nrey gets transported via shenanigans to when shit first started going down in antarctica, giving the base two gords and a stranger *during a bodysnatcher attack*-- but they're both??? the real gord??? meanwhile--where in fuck did that stranger go...

cue future-benr meeting up with past-benr, which maybe in this 'verse is A Lot More Injured, and therefore thinking of killing The Entire Base. future-benr gotta convince him to chill out--and maybe gives some body mass as help and goodwill, to which past-benr, having never received that, is like, *????????????!!!!!!??!?!*

in the camp, future-gord is trying to explain he's from the future, trying to figure out whys they're here (and can his benr communicate that it's so this benr doesn't kill everyone?? maybe if they get close enough, but then there's a chance of one of the benrs getting caught and torched.... Potential Angst Galore) also past-gord is very sus and trying to figure out why the future him is so fucking chill about a bodysnatcher--oh, he's *acting* concerned, but past-gord can tell it's an act, so what the fuck

(future-gord has *complete confidence* in his benr, and that everyone will be protected. it's honestly adorable)

maybe somehow past-benr and future-gord meet and gords like, awww, it's ok bud I won't hurt u <3, and benrs like what the hell my future self was right, he's?? good?? and now wants to go befriend his timelines gord...but *how*??? this timelines gord hasn't been hurt, so he can't heal him for trust...

(will be continued in next ask)

(continued) cue past-benr and future-gord creating a Plan to trap past-gord (who's been very very sus and therefore hard to corner) and trying to explain the *actual situation*, and why benrs, cool, actually. maybe for muffling and containment purposes, future-gord suggests past-benr vore past-gord--and maybe joins past-gord inside to explain, once the initial panic has worn off. big rush of Trust for past-benr, for sure--and a good demonstration of Not Getting Hurt by benr even when he's obvs got the Opportunity, for past-gord. meanwhile science team has been being distracted by future-benr pulling shenanigans to make sure that his gord and his past self aren't disturbed (again, good potential Angst if in these attempts he gets hurt *on purpose*, breaking off pieces of himself specifically to get attacked, running low on bio mass...his gord is gonna be so upset and distressed!) now that both gords are on board with the benr-is-good thing, they've gotta decide What To Do about it all, hmm. and try to meet up with future-benr,,,who is now injured pretty badly. bonus points if this involves a scene where future-gord has to physically-ass rescue his benr in front of some or all of the science team...the Drama omg not Entirely sure how it gets solved from there--maybe copious explaining and more blood tests to be sure the gords aren't faking. future-fr*nrey is super fucking cuddly with each other, and their past selves are curious about each other, but still working it out. they do mostly trust each other tho, so past-gord is still pretty protective of his benr--a very new feeling for past benr maybe now that everyone knows the situation and the Main Plot is over, there's just fun Shenanigans the rest of the time until they figure out a way back. (maybe is was g-man who sent them, to make sure that timelines tom didn't die??) I'm imagining various members of the team finding the Futures swallowing each other and going ???!?! and also the Pasts figuring themselves out, maybe trust exercise vore. also a fun idea is if benrs can like, merge their biomass (like they're still separate minds, but technically their DNA is Same so it's compatible) and getting both gords inside for Maximum Comfy Boyfriend Time (...maybe while part of themselves are in their respective gords...vore-ception) they Obvs find a way to keep in touch after tho :) anyway I love time travel aus so this popped into my head fully goddamn formed so I need to share thank u for providing this fun experience tho and for letting me play in ur sandbox

this sandbox is open to the public, build all the idea sandcastles u want bro 👍

#bf tum is the warmest place to hide

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mininacl · 4 years ago

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surely you must know (how much i love you so)

my fic for @batfam-big-bang

summary: Timothy Drake, adopted son of billionaire by day, superhero Red Robin by night. He's used to keeping secrets, but one secret he's having trouble keeping is his feelings for his best friend.

word count: 7.1K

Tim sits at his desk, staring blankly at the screen. He watches as the text cursor blinks. The essay is due tomorrow, but he hasn’t started, hell, he hasn’t even written his name on the document. Tim’s mind is distracted by all the unsolved GCPD cases. He has to solve them and let the families have the peace of knowing the criminals have been caught. But having to balance his day-life and his night-life is taking a toll on him. He already feels the effects of staying up for 36 hours without any sort of sleep. He can’t pay attention, he can’t eat, his motivation is lagging, and he is having a hard time speaking. Those are normal side effects, and he ignores the little voice in the back of his head saying yeah, of depression. He stays up so much that it doesn’t really affect him as much as it used to. Tim knows how to focus with no sleep, but that was for cases and not for essays.

Tim stares at the screen a few seconds more before closing his laptop. He rubs his eyes, stands up from his desk and stretches, feeling his back pop and he sighs in relief. He grabs his cup that says “fr e sh voca do”. Conner got it for Tim’s birthday last year. It has been his go-to coffee cup since. He walks downstairs to the kitchen, wanting to fill up his cup again and maybe get something to eat. Cassandra is sitting at the table, eating some strawberries while she looks outside. She looks lost in her thoughts, but she still hears Tim come into the kitchen. She turns to him and gives him a small smile. Tim smiles and waves back.

“So, Cass, how are you doing?” Tim asks Cass, sitting down across from her.

“ I’m doing good, ” Cass signs. Tim reaches over and takes one of the strawberries.

Plopping it into his mouth, Tim says “You sure? No one is ever ‘good’ in this family.”

“ I am doing good. Nothing else to it. How are you doing? Have you slept yet? ”

“Naw, I haven’t slept yet. I’m doing as good as I can with the lack of sleep.”

“ You need to sleep. ”

Tim looks at Cass. Cass is picking at the leaves on the strawberries. She never picks at her food.The only time she does pick at her food, or really anything in general, is when she is upset or has something on her mind.

“I will sleep when you tell me what’s going on”

Cass pauses. She stops eating the strawberries and looks up at Tim, she looks surprised that he knew something was up. Tim pulls the container of strawberries closer to him and stares at Cass, waiting for her to spill. A few moments pass before Cass reaches over to grab the strawberries again. She looks like she’s hesitating to tell him, not wanting to talk about something. They sit in silence for a while, the only noises that can be heard are the ticking of a clock and the sound of Tim chewing on strawberries. Cass’s eyes drift to the window that overlooks the garden. Her eyes stay focused on one rose for a while before she looks back at Tim.

“ I have been thinking a lot recently. ” Cass signs.

“What have you been thinking about?” Tim asks Cass. He stops eating, wanting to show Cass that his full attention is on her.

“ I’ve realized something...about me, ” Cass pauses, she's shaking a lot. Tim reaches over to place his hand on her arm, trying to calm her down. They sit in silence for a bit. Cass slowly starts to calm down but Tim can tell she is still nervous.

“Hey, you don’t have to tell.” Tim says, breaking the silence that surrounded them. “I’m not going to force you or bring it up, I’m just here for some food” He adds a little laugh at the end, hoping that it makes Cass comfortable. Cass smiles at him a little before she grabs another strawberry, raises her arms.

“ No, I need to. I want to, ” Cass takes a deep breath, before signing again. “ I am asexual. ”

Tim tries not to look a little surprised, but it’s hard not to. He notices that Cass looks worried. Worried isn’t the right word. Cass looks scared. Tim smiles at Cass, before taking a sip of his coffee.

“I have something to admit too.” Cass looks at Tim, intrigued.

“I am pansexual. I could love anyone.” Tim smiles and laughs a bit. This is the first time he has admitted outloud that he is pansexual. Cass smiles back at Tim, happy that she wasn’t the only one who is in the LGBTQ+ community. They both look relieved at the confession. Tim thought he was alone, and perhaps Cass thought that no one would accept her for being asexual. But it isn’t like that. Tim still loves his sister and he's happy that she trusts him enough with this information.

“Thank you, Tim.” Cass smiles. She moves to get up, wanting to hug Tim and to put the strawberries away.

Tim follows suit, telling Cass as he got up, “I need to go and work on the cursed boy.”

Tim is grabbing his coffee from the table, when Cass stops him. How she got over to Tim so quickly is a mystery but it's not surprising. She places the strawberries down, and moves Tim’s coffee away from him, both to avoid a spill and to keep Tim from trying to grab it. Cass wraps her arms around Tim, he hugs her back, squeezing her a little. When Tim moves to get out of the hug, Cass doesn’t move. As much as Tim wants to question her, he doesn’t. Cass finally releases her grip on him, picks up the strawberries and places them in the fridge, before walking away.

Tim goes back upstairs and sits down again at his desk, and starts to write. The talk with Cass has sparked some inspiration. Tim writes and writes all day. By the time he is done, the sun has set. He hasn’t eaten since his talk with Cass, and he wants to eat, but he has a craving for fast food. He grabs his phone and shoots Conner a text, asking to meet up at BatBurger. Instantly, Conner says he will be there in a few minutes, and Tim rushes to get ready. His clothes are wrinkled and his hair is a mess but it doesn’t matter. After a few days of no sleep, he doesn’t care about a lot. Tim grabs his phone and keys, and heads downstairs. He passes by Alfred, tells the butler that he is having dinner with Conner. He's too busy rushing out that he doesn’t hear Alfred's reply. Alfred watches the boy run out of the house, shaking his head.

Tim races down the streets on his motorcycle, hoping to get to BatBurger before Conner. He narrowly misses being hit by a truck, and the truck driver honks but Tim just ignores it and continues on his way. It takes a few minutes, but he pulls into the BatBurger parking lot. Tim parks and looks around, not seeing Conner anywhere. With a big smile, internally cheering that he arrived first, Tim walks into BatBurger, scanning the place in case of threats. His smile drops when he notices Conner sitting in a booth by the window.

“How is it that I live only 20 minutes away, and you live in a different city, yet you always manage to beat me here?” Tim asks Conner as he walks up to the booth.

“Because I have some time management skills. Plus, I can fly.” Conner tells Tim, smiling smugly.

“You know what? I don’t need the sass Kon-El.” Tim was going to sit down, but instead he turns and walks up to the counter and waits in line. Conner shakes his head as Tim walks away. Tim orders some food for the both of them, he knows what Conner likes by now. He turns back to Conner, and they start to make faces at each other from across the restaurant. Conner is laughing softly at the booth, but Tim can’t laugh since he doesn’t want to seem crazy. The order arrives and Tim grabs it and walks back to the booth.

“Here you go, Kon. You owe me.” Tim says as he places the food down and sits across from Conner.

“You were the one who asked me to meet you here…but fine.” Conner steals one of Tim’s fries, even though Tim made sure to get him his own fries. Tim tries to slap Conner’s hand away but is a little too slow.

Tim feels at ease with Conner, it is so easy to talk to him. He feels safer around Conner. In some moments he freezes, words dying from his mouth when Conner smiles at him. Tim is in love, but he is too scared to say it out loud. He is scared that he would break Conner’s trust and he would lose him. They are best friends and admitting something that big could ruin the friendship. But Tim wants to kiss Conner, and oh so badly he wants to admit that he loves him. Tim knows he doesn’t have to hide his heart, but it is scary. He shouldn’t be afraid of the words he wants to say. This game of love should be played out loud, but Tim is scared, he knows how people like to talk. He is the adopted son of a billionaire, the CEO of Wayne Enterprise, and a hero. He has faced so much, from rumors to fake scandals, this shouldn’t bother him. Yet it does. It shakes him to the core.

“-im. Timothy. Timmy. Tim. You in there?” Conner asks as he pokes Tim on the head. Tim shakes his head, not realizing he got lost in his thoughts and worries.

“Yeah, I’m here. You didn’t have to poke me.” Tim takes a sip of his drink. Surprisingly it isn’t coffee but water. He needs to drink something else besides coffee for now. Or at least for this meal, anyway.

“I called your name several times and you still didn’t answer me. So I had to poke you.”

“You didn’t have to.”

“Yes, I did.”

“No, you didn’t.”

“Yes, I did.”

“No, you didn’t.”

They go back and forth for a while before Tim finally admits that Conner had to poke him. Sighing in defeat, Tim munches on fries. Conner just smiles at Tim. They finish eating and sit in silence. Tim wants to tell Conner in that moment but he can’t. He told Cass earlier and that was enough secret telling for him today. Tim pulls out his phone, checking the time. He pretends he has to leave, in reality, he was getting more nervous around Conner. He was so close to telling Conner he loves him.

“Lets hang out more, Tim. It's nice to get away from our crazy lives.”

Tim gets up as Conner finishes talking, putting their trash onto the tray. Conner stands up and puts a hand on Tim’s shoulder, turning Tim to face him. Conner pulls Tim in for a quick hug before grabbing the tray and walking away from Tim. Conner turns once more at the door, and gives Tim a smile before exiting Bat Burger and flying away. Tim stands there. His heart is beating fast, and he is blushing a little. He shakes his head before exiting BatBurger and heading to his motorcycle. He drives back home, a smile on his face.

Tim gets home and goes to his room without saying anything to anyone. Even though it hasn’t been a busy day, he still feels exhausted. From having to do the essay, to coming out to Cass, and dinner with Conner, he needs to relax for a bit before having to leave for patrol. He puts on some music, and lays in bed, staring up at the ceiling fan, watching it go around and around. Kiss the Boy by Keiynan Lonsdale plays from the small speaker Tim has. He knows the song, hell he plays it on repeat. It hits home for him. Not knowing what to do after all that happened today, Tim gets up and goes to work on some of the case files he has in his room. The song keeps playing as he works.

I might not say the one thing on my mind cause it’s too tough

But we lose our chance when we don’t try

On second thought yeah I think I might

The lyrics make Tim think he should tell Conner. If I don't tell him, I run the risk of losing Conner to someone else, but if I tell him I run the risk of losing Conner if he doesn’t love me back, Tim thinks. He doesn’t know what to do, all the different possible outcomes form in his head. Tim shakes his head, wanting to focus on the unsolved cases rather than his feelings for Conner.

Don’t want to hide

Most of my life I’ve been terrified

Spending my days always questioning

Am I wrong to love a man

I realize

Ain’t gotta hide this heart of mine

I’m gonna fight just to let you know

To open your light and let it glow

Tim pauses. He rewinds the music and listens to the lyrics again. He feels as if they were meant for him. He has never realised that deep down he questions if it is wrong to love Conner. The unspoken fear that has made its home in his heart long before he even knew he loved Conner, yet in his heart he also knows that it doesn’t matter if people say it's wrong. All that matters is that he wouldn’t have to hide anymore. The fears he has have stopped him, but after hearing that it isn’t just him that feels like that a burst of courage came to Tim. Tim grabs his phone and texts Conner before he can stop himself.

“I love you.” “And I don’t mean as friends”

The burst of courage that had come, was now gone. Tim looks at the texts in panic. He throws his phone onto his bed and jumps up. Pacing around, he doesn’t hear the chime of a text alert from his phone. His breathing starts to get heavier, and tears form in his eyes as he paces, worrying over how Conner will react. After wearing the carpet thin, Tim finally picks up his phone again, heart pounding. He sits down and prepares himself for rejection. Tim unlocks his phone and checks the text conversation between him and Conner.

“I love you too” “And I definitely dont mean as friends lmao”

Tim stares at the texts in shock before letting out a small laugh of relief and joy. He wipes the tears from his eyes and grabs the water bottle he keeps by his bed. After chugging the water and throwing it into the trash bin, Tim gets up and shakes his hands, grinning like a fool. He has to get his head into the game. Patrol was starting soon, and if he didn’t make it to the cave in time Bruce would get worried. Tim looks at his texts again, smiling at the screen, before locking his phone and placing it under his pillow. He can’t risk having siblings going through his phone. Tim leaves his room, heading to the cave.

Tim arrives at the Batcave just in time. Bruce looks over at Tim and raises an eyebrow, but doesn’t say anything. Jason is too busy cleaning his guns to notice that Tim arrived, Dick is spinning in the chair that sits in front of the computer, and Damian, just like Jason, is cleaning his weapons. Stephanie, Duke and Cass are nowhere to be seen. Bruce gives a quick rundown on where he and the others are going to be patrolling. Dick gets the docks to watch for Penguin’s gun trading, Jason and Tim get from Amusement Mile to Sprang River to watch for any rogues, Damian and Bruce get from Sprang River to Robinson Park, and Stephanie, Duke, and Cass are covering the rest of Gotham. Everyone gets suited up, chatting a little. Cass is putting gadgets into her suit as Tim walks over to her. She smiles softly at Tim. Tim grabs one of the gadgets out to put in his utility belt, smiling at Cass as he does so. Cass reaches up to pat his head, and walks away, heading in the direction of Steph.

“Why are you so smiley?” Jason asks Tim as he puts on his holsters.

“I had a good day. That’s all,” Tim grins a little at Jason before placing his mask on and hoping on his Red Robin motorcycle and driving away. It's time to fight criminals.

Tim still hasn't figured out when he should write his essays. The rain hits against the window as the noise of cars passes by. The noise provides background noise for Tim. It is a soft buzz of noise since his dorm is on the third floor. His room is only illuminated by the glow of a desk lamp and the light of a computer screen. It's 3AM and Tim is just now eating dinner. A microwave dinner at that, but it is still dinner, Alfred would be disappointed in him but with living in dorms, this was all he had at the moment. This essay is easier since it deals with his major — computer science. All Tim has to do is explain the different parts of a piece of computer software. The problem is between college life, a day job, a night job, patrol, and secret dates with Kon, Tim doesn’t have the time to do it all. He could technically get rid of his two jobs but that means relying on Bruce’s trust fund and as much as he wants to use the money, he also wants to be normal for once. Or really, as normal as he can be.

“FUCK!” Tim yells before looking around his dorm. He is alone but the walls are thin. After not hearing anyone or any yelling, Tim gets up to make coffee. How the hell did I forget coffee? It was shocking. He runs his fingers through his hair as the coffee maker does its thing and makes his coffee. As Tim grabs his black coffee, he quotes John Mulaney under his breath, “One black coffee”.

He walks back to his desk and moves the graph paper he has around to make room for the coffee. He pulls out his phone to text Kon but pauses, then puts down his phone. He has to focus, essay first, then Kon. Tim takes a sip of his coffee before cracking his fingers and getting to work.

4AM arrives quicker than Tim expects. He has just finished his essay and has to sleep at least little before classes start. He regrets having to take morning class, but it was the only option that works with his schedule. 9AM-12PM he is in classes, 1PM-4PM he is at FRATZ BEANS café — a fraternity café at the college, yeah a café just for the fraternity people — as a barista, 7PM-12AM he is at a local diner — bless the owners, they gave him a part-time job — working as a waiter, and then depending on the day, he either goes out on patrol until crime slows, on a date with Kon or working on school.

Today, it is a date with Kon. They are going to meet up at 1AM near the small park on campus. It isn’t really a park, just a patch of grass, flowers, and trees. Tim’s excited to see Kon tonight. The last date was at an arcade and a 24/7 hour diner. Tonight's date is up to Tim. He hasn’t figured out a back-up plan just in case things go south - which knowing Gotham, that could happen where they will be going - or how to upstage Kon. He has ideas but nothing can work within his schedule, besides one idea. Gotham has a drive-in movie playing at 2AM, it's late for a movie but early for Gotham. Tim shakes his head, he has to sleep before class.

All Star by Smash Mouth plays as the clock hits 8AM. Tim groans as he stretches in bed, he only has an hour to shower, eat, and head to class. Tim sits up and looks around his room for a moment before getting up and grabbing clothes. Tim may have a dorm to himself but it doesn’t have a bathroom in it, he has to go to one of the shared bathrooms on the floor. Tim grabs his bathroom bag before slipping on his flip-flops and heading to the showers. The showers luckily aren’t that busy in the morning so Tim is able to slip in and out in under 20 minutes. After showering, brushing his teeth, and changing clothes, Tim heads back to his dorm to pack up his backpack for his classes. He has statistics, programming, music theory — why he chose that class, no one knows — advanced coding, and business. Some of those he has to do because Bruce made him. Why, he still has no idea.

Tim fixes his denim jacket, makes his hoodie strings even lengths, and puts on his sneakers. He sits on his bed for a few seconds, messing with the holes in his jeans. Unplugging his phone from the charger and grabbing his backpack, Tim checks the time and sees that he has enough time to go to the small coffee shop in the campus to grab a bagel and coffee.

One of the workers, Alec, greets Tim as he walks into the Student Center. The center has some classes but it’s mostly small food shops and restaurants. Tim nods to Alec and walks to the coffee shop, the one working barista smiles at Tim and asks what he would like. Tim gives them his usual order, espresso Americano and a lightly toasted bagel with cream cheese. Tim slides over his student card and the barista scans the card before handing it back, he goes to the pickup counter and checks his phone but it doesn’t take long for him to get his order. After thanking the worker, he heads to class. During class, Tim can’t stop checking the time, wishing that 1AM would come faster.

The rest of the day goes by uneventfully fast. Or as fast as it can given that today is busier than normal. Tim’s exhausted by the time he goes to his diner job but it’s only a few more hours before he gets to see Kon, so he powers through the exhaustion. When he turns to look at the clock, he notices it’s 12:30AM, only a couple more hours until he sees Kon. They are going to take one of Bruce’s trucks — or really his only truck — to a drive-in movie. Dick had driven the truck down to the college earlier in the day. It was no surprise that Dick knew Tim’s schedule, and Tim managed to grab the keys from Dick when he conveniently passed by on his way to another class. Tim has already packed a bag for the drive-in and snacks during his free time he had yesterday.

Finishing his shift at the diner, Tim goes back to his dorm, waiting for Kon to come flying in. Tim can’t contain his excitement to see Kon. He starts pacing back and forth, checking the time every second. When Kon finally knocks on the dorm door, Tim runs to the door and yanks it open. He pulls Kon into a hug and gives him a kiss. Kon kisses Tim back and moves his arms to hold Tim closer, kissing him a little harder. Tim pulls away before their kissing can get more passionate.

Out of breath, Tim says “Are you ready for the movie?” He’s still in Kon’s arms.

“Yeah. Are you able to get us there with no accidents?”

Tim moves out of Kon’s arms to grab the bag of snacks and drinks, and two blankets. “Hey! I don’t get into accidents! That’s Dick!” Tim laughs at the memory of Dick’s last accident. It was in the Batmobile and since then Dick has been banned from the vehicle.

“Sure, it’s just Dick,” Kon jokingly says.

Tim grabs a random object — which turns out to be an empty water bottle — and throws it at Kon. Kon catches it, only to throw it back at Tim, who, not expecting it to come back like a boomerang, yells in surprise when he gets hit with the water bottle. Tim stares at Kon in disbelief before walking out of the dorm, leaving Kon in his dust. Kon just laughs at Tim and follows after. Tim throws the bag and blankets into the backseats of the truck and moves to hop in the driver’s seat.

Grabbing Tim’s arm, Kon tells him, “You shouldn’t drive. I know how to drive a truck, you don’t.”

Tim said nothing as Kon gets into the driver seat. Kon starts the truck as Tim goes to the passenger seat. They sit in the truck for a while, before Kon starts to drive off towards the drive-in. Tim connects to the bluetooth system that the truck has. My Own Hero by Andy Grammer plays through the speakers. Kon drums his fingers to the beat of the song on the steering wheel, and Tim looks out the window, watching as Gotham passes by. It was luck that no one was out tonight. It’s always luck when they go on a date and not a lot of people are out. They want to keep the relationship a secret for as long as they can. It’s hard to keep, but Tim is scared of what his family — minus Cass — would think. He’s scared of how that would affect him in the public’s eye. Tim isn’t really known for caring about publicity, but this time it's different. This time it affects Kon as well, he would be pushed into the spotlight. Tim can’t stop thinking as he leans his head on the window, sighing softly.

“Timmy, you okay?” Kon looks over at Tim for a second before focusing back on the road.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” Tim, with his head still on the window, turns to Kon and smiles.

Kon can tell something is bothering Tim but he didn’t want to push. His family does that enough and Kon doesn’t want to add to it. After a few minutes, they pull up to the drive-in. Tim sits up straight and digs into the bag for his wallet. He hands Kon the money for the drive-in tickets. They get their tickets and go to find a parking spot, the drive-in is mostly empty, save for a few other couples and families. Kon parks the truck directly in the middle and reaches behind them to grab the bag and blankets before Tim can react. Tim just looks at Kon while smiling. They get out and Tim opens the tailgate, hopping onto the truck bed. Kon places the bag down before throwing one side of a blanket to Tim. They fix the truck bed to their liking before Kon hops into the truck bed with the bag. Tim grabs the bag and pulls out a drink, Kon doesn’t even have to ask to know its coffee. Sometimes he wonders if Tim loves coffee more than him. Tim digs in the bag and pulls out a couple of glow sticks.

“Glow sticks? Really?”

“Yes really. Are you judging me?” Tim asks as he opens the package and breaks some glow sticks. Kon looks at Tim in awe at how beautiful Tim was. The glow of the glow sticks provides an angelic glow under Tim. It's dark out with only a few lights out and shining. The nearest one is a few meters down in the next car. The movie hasn’t started yet, so the only light lightning up the area around the two are the glow sticks.

Tim looks over at Kon while he throws the glow sticks around the truck bed. “You okay?”

Kon snaps out of it. “Yeah yeah, my bad. Here let me help you.”

Kon grabs another package of glow sticks and opens it before snapping them. Before Kon can throw them around the truck bed, Tim grabs them and the connecters. Tim makes a bracelet out of two glow sticks and places it on Kon’s lap. Kon picks it up gently and looks at it. Tim, not being able to stop himself, grabs Kon’s hand and the glow stick. Tim slips the glow stick onto Kon’s hand, or more accurately, his arm. He picks up Kon’s hand and kisses the back of his hand instinctively. Tim not so gracefully drops Kon’s hand and takes a sip of coffee, trying to calm down the blush that appears on his face. Kon didn’t say anything but he smiles and grabs the glow sticks Tim stole before throwing them around the truck bed. The truck bed has a range of different colored glow sticks. The whole rainbow made an appearance on the truck bed. Fitting, Kon thinks.

Tim jumps as the movie screen makes a noise. It starts to countdown from 10. The two boys get settled in as the movie begins. Kon looks surprised at the movie choice.

“Megamind? Really?” Kon is unimpressed by the movie, but is impressed at the amount of couples here.

“Yes, Megamind. You got a problem with it?” Tim sasses. Kon can only shake his head.

As the movie plays, both Tim and Kon can’t help but sneak glances at each other. In that moment Tim wants to shout from the rooftops about his love for Kon. He wants to hold Kon in the streets, kiss him, do normal couple things. But his fear is holding him back. He focuses back on the movie.

The movie ends, Tim and Kon stretch out and they look at each other before laughing. Out of all the movies Tim could have picked, he picked Megamind. Only Tim would do that. Kon is the first to stop laughing. He grins as Tim keeps laughing his head off. Picking up the glow sticks and throwing them into the bag, Kon becomes so focused on cleaning that he doesn't hear Tim stop laughing. As Kon turns around, he jumps, almost punching Tim in the face. Tim is standing there, doing the Spooky Scary Skeleton dance, not that well either. Tim looks like a car dealership balloon person, just all wiggles. Kind of like a worm string.

“Mother of goose! What are you doing?” Kon holds his free hand to his chest, trying to calm his heart.

“For someone who has super hearing you definitely are deaf.” Tim says as he grabs a Swedish Fish that was lying on the blanket. He throws it in the air and catches it in his mouth. Kon glares at Tim and throws a glow stick that is lying around them. Tim, just like earlier, can’t dodge the incoming missile. A battle of throwing whatever was in reach ensured. Tim is getting hit left and right while Kon is catching all things thrown at him.

“I surrender! I surrender!” Tim has his hands in the air, not wanting to get hit again and again anymore.

“For someone trained by Batman, you definitely can’t dodge,” Kon says jokingly. Tim glares at Kon before smiling. It isn’t an evil smile but a content one. This is the first time he has had fun these past few weeks. With everything going on, having fun was something Tim could only dream of, but now he feels at peace. He’s happy. They stare at each other for a few minutes before cleaning up the truck bed. Everything, trash included and blankets excluded, went into the bag. They climb out of the truck bed and back into the truck. Kon is still the driver. Tim turns on the radio this time, and rolls down the window.

He feels as if they’re in a scene out of a movie. The wind from the movement of the truck hitting his face, the soft playing of the radio, the faint noise from the truck, the smell of Gotham air, the sight of clouds, the slight shine from the moon; it all hits Tim as Kon was driving him back to the dorm. Tim turns to rest his arms on the window and stuck his head outside. He doesn’t know it but he has silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Emotions swirl inside him, wanting to come out but not being allowed to. He wants to show the world his love, but the fear of rejection was stronger than ever. If only love was simple.

Arriving a little past 3AM, Conner pulls into the dorm parking lot, parking the truck and turning to Tim.

“I had a fun night. It is in my Top 5.” Kon tells Tim as he reaches behind to grab the bag and blankets for Tim.

“It was last minute” Tim stares at Kon, not believing he blurted that out. Kon just laughs at Tim.

“Oh, I know.”

“How do you know?”

“I know you, Tim.”

They stare at each other before leaning in for a goodnight kiss. Once breaking the kiss, they get out of the truck, waving goodbye to each other. Tim walks back to the building his dorm is located in, while Kon flies back to Metropolis. Another day, and another date down. Tim smiles as he goes to his room. Once arriving, he flops onto his bed, bouncing a little as he does so, and goes to sleep.

A few weeks pass before their next date, and this time it was Kon’s turn to choose the date. All the information Tim gets is to be ready at 1AM and wear clothes he would be okay to fly in, so Tim knows it’s at least out of Gotham. He figures it’s probably back at the Kent’s farmhouse but Tim promised not to go all detective mode. It’s a slow day, which was shocking, since on Fridays both the cafe and diner are usually busier than normal but today was slow. Tim manages to get two breaks at the diner instead of his normal one. Hell, the owners give him dinner on the house. Tim still pays for it out of pocket but it's nice to know that the owners will give him a meal on the house. Tim brings the dinner home to eat, just a cheeseburger and fries with a Coca Cola.

Tim starts to do his school work, eating as he does so. Crumbs from the burger get on his desk, and he half-heartedly wipes them away but it's not that big of a deal. Besides, he is just waiting for 1AM to arrive. Focused on school work, he doesn’t hear the knock on the window. The window slides open - how, Tim doesn’t know - and Kon steps in. In an instant, a batarang is thrown his way. Kon reaches up and grabs the batarang, stopping it inches from his face.

“How did you get in?” Tim wonders.

“I’m standing by the window, World's Greatest Detective.”

Tim says nothing before throwing another batarang. This time he aims it away from Kon, but the intent is there. Kon pulls the batarang out of the wall and hands them to Tim.

“That’s property damage.”

“They don’t care. Well, they do but a lot worse has happened in other dorms. Before you ask, don’t ask.” Tim tucks the batarangs away. He stands up, grabs his phone and a small bag before hugging Kon. Kon grabs Tim’s hand and goes back to the window. He slides out of the window, and hovers just outside. Tim slides out and sits on the window ledge before he reaches out and grabs Kon. He turns, closes the window, and Kon flies them into the night sky.

“A whole new world...” Kon sings into Tim’s ear as he screams from the sudden elevation change. Tim stops screaming as they slow down and stares at the clouds they passed. He reaches out and touches a cloud. It feels light, like nothing he had ever touched before. The cloud disappears from his hands as they continue to fly. It’s a quick trip, given that Kon is flying fast. Tim doesn’t even know they are in Metropolis until Kon touches his shoulder.

“Hey Tim, we are here”

“Huh? Oh, that was quick” Tim looks around, noticing that the Kent’s farm has more animals than normal. He doesn’t point it out but knows it has to do with Damian influencing Jon, asking for more animals. Kon gently grabs Tim’s hand and pulls him inside. The house smells of warm apple pie, with a hint of oakwood and smoke. The only noise that can be heard is from the animals.

“Where’s Clark, Lois, and Jon?” It's never this silent in the Kent house. Much like the manor, noise is a constant thing. Jon and Kon may be the only kids, or young adult in Kons’ case, but they make a lot of noise. Hell, even Clark makes a lot of noise. It’s like those Kryptonians just love noise.

Kon laughs, breaking the silence in the house. “Jon is at a sleepover with some school friends, Cl-”

Tim interrupts him, “Wait, Jon has more friends than just Damian?”

“Yeah...as I was saying Clark and Lois are out ‘working’”

“So they’re pulling a Bruce?”

“....yeah.” Kon laughs at that. He wonders if Tim has been spending some time with Jason. Jason is the only one that insults Bruce so much, and Tim saying that is definitely insulting Bruce.

“Am I wrong?” Tim holds out his hands. He looks like a meme, and Conner wishes he has his phone out to take a picture.

They make their way to the kitchen. Conner had mentioned something about a campfire earlier in the day, but Tim isn’t sure if Conner really means a fire. It's something that Tim isn’t used to. Or, well, at least in a positive way. Tim has to pause and think about what Conner means. All while he is thinking about the campfire, Conner somehow gets the ingredients for s'mores and waits at the door for Tim. He waits for Tim to get out of his own mind. It takes a while before Tim realizes Conner is waiting for him. He smiles at Conner before they walk out to the small fire pit outside.

Conner hands the ingredients to Tim before lighting the fire pit. With what, Tim doesn’t even know. The fire roars to life, the heat is intense for a second, but it soon calms down. Tim places the s’mores ingredients down, looking around for any sticks. It takes a few minutes of wandering around, before Tim finds some decent sticks. He walks back to where Conner and the fire is at, holds up the sticks with a smile. Conner shakes his head before nodding towards the fire pokers. Tim looks defeated, his arms dropping to his side. It takes only a beat of silence, saved for the noise of crickets and the fire, for Tim to throw one of the sticks in Kon’s direction. For onlookers, it may look like their relationship is full of throwing random objects at each other. That may be the truth, but they wouldn’t have it any other way. The stick throwing went on for a few minutes, before the throwing and laughs calmed down. Tim falls to the grassy ground, taking in the feel of the grass on him. Conner walks over to Tim, sitting next to Tim’s horizontal figure. They take the moment to catch their breath. The moment didn’t feel real. The area surrounding them fades. It was just Conner and him. The sound of the fire crackling brings them back to reality. Conner stands, reaching his hand out to Tim as he does so. Tim grabs his hand, getting pulled up by Conner. They walk over to the fire, grabbing a poker and finally starting to do the s’mores. Tim’s first s’more, the marshmallow went up in flames. Conner is too busy laughing his ass off to help extinguish the marshmallow. Tim throws the marshmallow to the ground, stomping on the flame. The flame, luckily, went out, but Tim knows Conner will not let him live this down. After that, the s’mores weren’t as hard or as up in flames.

By the time they were full, most of the s’mores were gone. The feeling in the air was full of nostalgia. For Tim, doing this reminds him of the days where crime-fighting wasn’t his whole life. It’s these small moments with Conner that bring him to a new plane of life, a new reality. Being able to be a kid again. Being able to feel the stickiness of marshmallows as he makes the s’mores. Feeling the comfort of a fire, the warmth, the feeling of home. These moments, these moments make Tim think that continuing is worth it all.

So lost in thought, Tim didn’t notice that Conner had moved. Tim blinks a few times, pulling himself out of his mind, and scans the area. Even if he promised no detective brain, Tim can’t stop himself from worrying, from bringing out his detective mindset. Tim gets up, still looking around for Conner, and walks to the house. He notices that the door has been left open, and rushes inside. Conner’s standing in the middle of the living room, music is playing from some speakers that the Kents have.

“What is going on?” Tim asks, looking around and making sure nothing got damaged.

“Waiting for you” Conner moves to Tim, guiding him to the middle of the living room.

“Why?”

Conner just smiles. He places one arm behind him, bowing slightly, holding out his other hand. He looks down for a second before looking up, asking “Can I have this dance?”

Tim is speechless. It takes a few seconds before Tim grabs Conners hand. Conner leads them into a swaying motion, his hands on Tim’s waist, and Tim’s around his neck. They sway to the rhythm of the music.

The song changes but the swaying doesn’t stop. Tim leans into Conner, pushing him on the back of the neck a little, bringing their foreheads to touch. Tim looks at Conner before closing his eyes. They gently sway to the music as the night continues on, blissfully content to stay in this moment forever.

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candycanes19 · 4 years ago

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Playing in the Dark with No Escape ** Non Con** Violence

Please read tags. Non Con Rape and Miscarriage

The next morning you and Daniel are enjoying breakfast and he is talking on his phone about some work thing. You are happy not to have to talk to him because it always ends with you getting hurt in some way or another. Silence is welcomed by you but it is not for long when Daniel hangs up his phone.

“Princess, you need to get yourself ready for the doctor so hurry along and get showered and dressed.” Daniel starts cleaning up breakfast and sends you on your way.

You turn on the shower and enjoy the hot water cascading over your body. You relax and try and forget where you are during your shower. Daniel has rarely bothered you in the shower but low and behold he opens the door and joins you.

You whisper to yourself. “Fuck me” and luckily Daniel does not hear you. He comes up behind you and puts his hands on your hips and nuzzles your neck.

“Do you know how absolutely gorgeous you are, Princess. My Princess” he attacks your neck with kisses and little love nips along your neck and shoulders. His hands move from your hips to your shoulders and then one ends up around your neck.

“You are mine” and with that statement he kicks your legs open for him. He lines himself up with your entrance and slams into you again. You groan at the intrusion and try to move your hips away but he pushes with his other hand on your hip to keep you where he wants you.

His hand on your neck squeezes tightly and you try to calm your nerves and let him do what he wants. He continues thrusting and it is not as rough as it usually is, and maybe it is because he is not upset at you.

“Fuck Princess so good for me. So tight and wet so perfect. Love you so much” and his hand on your hip moves to your clit and he plays with it and you come hard on his cock. He continues his thrusts and they become a bit rougher and he does last much longer himself and paints you pussy white with his seed.

“Oh princess I love you so so much. You gotta know that. Now we need to get together because Doctor Winston will be here soon. He kisses your shoulder and gets out. You stay in the shower a bit longer just so you can be alone when you get out.

When you get out Daniel has laid out a towel for you. You dry yourself off and go and get dressed for your doctor visit.

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When you were ready, Daniel came and got you and brought you into the living area of his house. It was very masculine with dark blues and blacks for the furniture and a few paintings on the wall but it fit Daniel from the bit you knew about him.

The doorbell rang and Daniel walked over and opened the door, “Good Morning Doctor Winston, great to see you. Thank you for doing this for me. I appreciate it so much. My girlfriend is just not up for traveling around.”

“Anything for you Daniel. We know with how much you help us out at the clinic, I am willing to help you out anyway I can or any of my staff.” she says.

You overhear their conversation and can not believe that Daniel would be kind and helpful. But when they walk into the room you stand up and smile.

“Hi,” you say, putting on your best smile for show.

“Hi, (Y/N) it is nice to meet you.” Doctor Winston says shaking your hand.

“Thank you” you feel Daniel come around you and put his arm around your waist.

“We really hope that (Y/N) is pregnant. We are super excited to start our family.” Daniel says kissing your temple.

You just smile at Daniel and then at the doctor and then put a hand on your abdomen so it looks like you are excited.

“Then let me start my exam” Doctor Winston says, “(Y/N) if you do not mind, I need you to pee in a cup and we might be able to find out quickly. I have the tests and I need to take some blood as well.”

She hands you a cup and you walk to the downstairs bathroom. You pee in the cup and follow the directions and wash your hands. When you come out you hand the doctor the cup and she then gets some stuff out of her bag and starts the test.

You sit patiently and feel ridiculous at finding out if you are pregnant. You have been feeling miserable and throwing up at the weirdest times. Plus with all the sex that you both had been having it would be a shock if you were not.

Daniel was sitting next to you holding your hand. You knew better than to start something in front of someone else fearing your life. So you played along even though all you wanted to do was tell the doctor that you were being abused and raped by this man. And that if you were pregnant did you have options but you knew certainly that would end your life if you even suggested not having the baby.

Finally after what seemed like forever, the doctor came back over and prepared to take some blood, “Now this will not be bad just a quick poke and then we will be almost done” she said and then she poked you with the needle and took some blood.

After your blood was taken the doctor put a bandaid on your arm, “Now from my preliminary test results, you are pregnant. Congratulations. I will definitely need to see you at my clinic for check ups to keep up the progress of your pregnancy and make sure all is well.”

You hear that you have to go into the clinic for your next appointment and your hopes get raised that maybe you can escape from Daniel and live your life free.

After she checks a few more things during your exam, “Overall you seem in good shape and you need to get some prenatal vitamins and then schedule that check up. Is there anything else I can help you with, (Y/N)?”

You so desperately want to say that you need to escape but you shake your head no. “I am good. Thank you” you say with another fake smile.

“Very good and you two again congratulations on the baby. What a great way to start your day” she said as she packed up her stuff.

Daniel showed her to the door and then he closed it and walked back over to you. You will as still as a statue because the shock of a baby that part of you wanted and part of you did not want because of what had happened to you by this monster sitting next to you.

Daniel moves his hand to touch your abdomen, “Our love for each other is growing inside of you. This is wonderful. I am so happy. I love you Princess.” He moves his hand to cup your cheek to kiss you deeply.

“We should celebrate” Daniel suggests, “What would you like to do, Princess?”

You know what you want but you will get punished badly for it so you say, “I do not know.”

“Come on Princess there has to be something I can let you do.”

“Let me see my cousin. Please” you are sure your suggestion will fall on deaf ears.

“Your cousin? Oh yes Kacey right? You two are like sisters since you both were only children. I remember that.” Daniel says which freaks you out at all that he knows about you.

“Yes, can I see Kacey?” you beg.

“I might be able to work it out so we can meet for coffee. If that is what you want?” Daniel smiles at you.

“More than anything” you say and are sure you can get Kacey to save you.

“Sounds good. Let’s call her and we can arrange to meet. Just for you Princess” He leans in for another kiss and you let him because what’s the point of resisting anymore. All you will get is roughed up more and you have no energy for that now that you have a little life growing inside of you.

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Kacey gets to the coffee shop first and waits for you to show up with Daniel. She had been worried about you since you had not called her in several days.

When she sees you and Daniel she motions for you over to her table.

“Oh my goodness, (Y/N), I have been so worried about you. I am glad you are alive and looking well.” she hugs you tightly.

You start to cry at the feeling of just being in close proximity to your best friend and cousin. And when you pull back she notices how upset you look.

“(Y/N) what’s the matter?” she asks.

Daniel buts in and says, “I think the pregnancy hormones are kicking in for (Y/N). Pregnant women can be emotional sometimes.”

Kacey looks at you and you nod, “I am pregnant.” you say putting a hand on your abdomen.

“Oh how wonderful, (Y/N). I am happy for the two of you. A baby is a wondrous being. Congratulations.”

“Thank you Kacey” you say and you all sit down, “Oh where are my manners, this is Daniel my boyfriend.” you introduce him to Kacey.

“Nice to meet you Daniel and I am Kacey. (Y/N)’s cousin and best friend. I am so glad we got to see you both. I have missed seeing my best friend.” Kacey explained and grabbed your hand in hers.

Daniel noticed that you two seemed very close and that would be a problem in his mind. But he would let it go for now.

“So why have you been so MIA, (Y/N) your boss said you were on sick leave. They found your car left in the parking lot at work. I had it towed to my place because they said at your apartment complex you had moved out. And I drive it some so it gets some use. Are you going to need it because I can get it to you?”

You look at Daniel and he smiles, “That actually would be good if (Y/N) had her car at my place now since we are living together.”

“Sounds good so what do you guys want to eat. This place smells like heaven.” Kacey says and you guys look at your menus.

You guys order and then you say you need to go to the bathroom, “Kacey will you come with me?”

“Sure” she says, “Be right back, Daniel,” you say, kissing his cheek. He looks concerned and grabs your hand quickly and whispers in your ear, “If you do something, you will be sorry.” he threatens you. You look at him. “I understand.” and you get up with Kacey and walk to the bathroom.

When you get in there you ignore what Daniel says and grab Kacey’s hand, “Please help me Kacey. Daniel is a bad man. He had hurt me and kept me prisoner in his house. He forced me to have this baby. I am so scared. He told me not to say anything but I can’t take it anymore. Please please help me!” you beg with tears flowing.

Kacey pulls into a hug, “I had a feeling something was wrong when I had not heard from you in several days. I will see what I can do.”

“He is going to hurt me again when we leave because I told you but I can’t have his child and live this way much longer. He is scary…….” and you start crying again.

Daniel has a feeling and walks to the bathrooms and opens the women’s bathroom door and sees you hugging your cousin and crying. He is livid.

“(Y/N), we are going now” you both jump away from each other and he comes at you and grabs your arm harshly,

“Get off my cousin you asshole” Kacey yells.

“She is not well and anything she told you is a lie. We need to leave” and he takes you out and marches you out of the coffee shop. Kacey follows but quickly leaves money on the table.

Kacey is too late because you and Daniel are in your car and leaving the parking lot.

In the car, Daniel looks at you and yells, “You will be punished and I will not feel bad about it. You are such a little disobedient whore. I do something special and you fuck it up. Why? I am so good to you and you just do not listen.”

You cringe at what he is going to do to you. Then a thought hits you, “Daniel if you hurt me you hurt the baby. Please don’t hurt us. I am so sorry please. I beg of you not to do something to hurt your baby. Our family.” you cry putting a hand on your abdomen to try and hope that will make him rethink his punishment for you.

When you get home Daniel has a strong grip on your upper arm. He is literally pulling you into the house. When he opens the door and throws you inside and then slams the door shut. You had fallen but got up and bolted but Daniel was close on your heels and grabbed you around the waist.

“You will not get away” and then he throws you onto the floor and pounces on you. Rips at your blouse and bra and leans in to bite one of your nipples and pushes your skirt up and rips your panties and undoes his belt and zipper and pulls his cock out and slams into you so roughly that you scream for your life.

“No no no” and you close your eyes and try to not feel at how roughly he is taking you against your will.

You raise a hand and scratch his face and that earns you a slap and more rough thrusts.

“Fuck you whore” and he is relentless with his thrusts. And he pinches at your nipples and you fight him as best you can. You pull at his hair and that seems to turn him on more, “Bring on bitch” and then you cry because his cock hits you in the right place and you come and then he spills his essence into you with another rough thrust.

He leans up and slaps you again, “Whore, just a whore” he pulls out and then grabs your arm..

“Let’s go” and he takes you back to your prison, “Clean yourself up and think about how to act right.” and he locks you in again.

The shower is becoming your best friend and you try to wash away the sin of your encounter with Daniel. He was never letting you out of his sight after your stunt. And you just hoped that Kacey could help you but who knows. You were very scared and now even more so for the baby growing inside of you.

You look down at your body and pray that you and your unborn child will survive.

That evening as you are sleeping you wake up to awful pain in your abdomen and then you notice blood between your thighs.

“Oh god no no no! Help me. No” you scream.

#daniel jones x reader #Daniel Jones #adam driver #Playing in the dark with no escape #The Report Movie #non con #rape #violence #candycanes19

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adobe-outdesign · 8 years ago

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My Complete Current Views of the FNAF Lore (1-SL)

I don’t have any up-to-date mega theories about the FNAF lore post-SL, so i figured this would be worth typing up.

Please note that this is not a theory post, but rather a very straight-forward retelling of how I currently view the lore - therefore, there won’t be any evidence or anything provided. If you want to know my rationale behind something, just let me know.

Pre-Games

So this guy named Henry (discussed in TSE) partners with a man named William Afton. Together, they open a place called Fredbear’s Family Diner, with two robots made by Henry - Fredbear and Spring Bonnie.

Henry has two fraternal twins - Mike Schmidt and a girl (name unknown - the Litlte Girl in SL). William Afton kidnaps the little girl while in the Spring Bonnie suit and raises her alongside his own son, Michael Afton, who he most likely neglects.

Fredbear’s shuts down due to the incident and Henry opens another restaurant, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, with four new animatronics and the old springsuits from the last location. He also adopts another child by the name of Jeremy Fitzgerald.

A sister location to Freddy’s opens around this time, an early version of CBEAR. It shuts down after multiple springlock failures (Spring Chica, part of Chica’s Party World, was probably the faulty one). This restaurant contained an animatronic named Circus Baby - pre-Ennard. Something causes Afton to dismantle it, and he uses the pieces to built four new (child-killing) animatronics, including a new Circus Baby for “his“ daughter. A Funtime Fredbear may have also killed a child at the location, with the Bitten Child witnessing it.

A second sister location, Circus Baby’s Pizza World, attempts to open in ‘83. However, Afton shuts it down after Circus Baby kills his daughter when she visits her alone. She possesses Baby. This is also the year that Afton starts his experiments in FNAF 4. It’s also possible he himself died around this time, which is when he discovers his “immortality“.

A year or two later, four children are murdered in Freddy’s by Afton (possibly people the Bitten Child was friends with, considering how he treats his plushies), and their bodies are hidden in the animatronics. Freddy’s shuts down and is left to rot.

Afton moves his operation underground as a rental service, becoming Circus Baby’s Entertainment and Rentals. It is the sister location to another pizzeria Afton opens, the second Fredbear’s Family Diner. It contains a new Fredbear and Spring Bonnie (purple accents instead of black) and merch of the old characters.

Sister Location

Afton then sends his son Michael down to help free his Sister’s soul. Michael succeeds in finding her and helping her escape at the cost of his own life. However, because Michael is “immortal“, he possesses his own corpse after death. He hides in the shadows for the time being. It’s also possible the Bitten Child saw him at one point and became terrified of him, which leads to Shadow Bonnie (see FNAF 2/FNAF 3 section).

Afton gives the Fredbear Plush to the Bitten Child (remember how it was still on his desk in SL?), using the walkie-talkie in it to manipulate the kid. The Sister, now put back together, is freed from Ennard and gains her afterlife mask. She decides not to pass on yet however, instead possessing and speaking through the Fredbear Plush (not how it appears in the gutter in 4′s minigames, which is where Ennard escapes to) in order to take care of the Bitten Child, who is severely bullied by her twin brother.

The FNAF 4 minigame events then happen during the summer, with the Brother’s bullying becoming so severe that he shoves the Bitten Child’s head in Fredbear’s jaws, causing the Bite of ‘87 on his birthday. Henry likely commits suicide or was murdered by Afton around this time. The child lives for a few months, albeit comatose. The Brother speaks to him one more time before death, and the Sister vows to put him back together. He, much like the Sister, breaks into five.

FNAF 2

The Bitten Child has a final dream that leads up to his death. He pictures his room as an office (note the single entrance in the middle) and himself as an employee, hearing his brother’s voice each night just like he did on Night 6. The Sister also appears to him in the form of the Puppet (she’s good at pretending) - mimicking the Bitten Child himself in appearance, and with a mask signifying her freed soul. Jeremy also has a mask, but it’s a fake one that only succeeds in tricking animatronics not based off his family (hence why W. Foxy and the Puppet don’t fall for it).

The entire game is basically the Bitten Child’s fears when alive (you don’t actually feel fear without your frontal lobe, so the main emphasis here is on panic). Shadow Bonnie represents what the child saw “in the shadows“ that scared him so badly, and it crashes the game (ends the nightmares) because the Bitten Child would learn there wasn’t anything to be afraid of if he confronted his fear instead of hiding from it.

The minigames are a stylization of real-world events: Take Cake was the Sister’s death, Go Go Go! was the original five killings, and Give Gifts was the Bitten Child dying and possessing the Nightmares. The only game that is purely false is Chase the Puppet - based off of the five kids he met on Night 3 (this is why it plays differently than the others).

By night 6, we see the effects of the Bite, which is what Golden Freddy represents here (based off the Fredbear heads in the parts and service room on Night 4). Shadow Freddy is the exact same spirit, a recolor of GF meant to represent the child’s death. Note how “Phone Guy“ starts to sound shaky here, and how he’s the one to tell Jeremy to stay close the animatronics at tomorrow’s birthday party.

The sound of the grandfather clock in the Bitten Child’s old house marks the end of each night - and on Night 7, he passes away (the song that soothes the Puppet is My Grandfather’s Clock, a song about a clock dying when its owner dies). While this was your summer job because it surrounds the Bite that happened in the summer, the paycheck is dated for November of ‘87 - the date the child died.

While that was going on, the Sister/the Puppet confronts the Brother in his dreams about killing the Bitten Child as he succumbs to guilt - which is where the FNAF 2 cutscenes come in. These minigames mark the creation of the FNAF 1 Golden Freddy we know, IT’S MEs and all. Note how she’s dong to the Brother the same thing she did to “William“ in TSE - as they’re both killers refusing to take responsibility for their actions. The GF we see in these cutscenes is not the GF in FNAF 1, but rather another form of the Sister - a modified version of the Fredbear Plush, which is why it disappears and is replaced by the Puppet.

FNAF 1

Immediately after Jeremy’s death, Mike beings to completely repress the incident and even his memory of his brother entirely. Because of this, he starts having nightmares where he pictures himself as the Bitten Child, hence why the animatronics act like the bullies here.

Phone Guy is basically the Brother’s subconscious - note how nervous he is here post-Bite compared to FNAF 2. On Night 4, you learn that he was killed by GF (the Sister in this case) - just like she killed Michael Afton. Note also how this lines up with the FNAF 2 cutscenes ending on Night 4.

Phone Guy then dies and becomes FNAF 1 GF (once again, note the Michael parallels with the whole “becoming an empty suit” thing) - he’s being haunted by his guilt. It’s literally the Brother - IT’S ME is both a declaration of guilt and a very literal statement, which is also why it appears outside of Pirate’s Cove (Foxy mask). It only appears/is summoned when Mike starts feeling guilty (signaled by Freddy ripping his head off to boot), and it only goes away when you ignore it. It crashes the game/ends the dreams because Mike would remember what he did if he confronted it, thus ending the nightmares.

But he only continues to repress his memories, and at the end of the dream he completely forgets about his younger brother. The paycheck is once again dated for the current date - the date the Brother died, November 13th, 1987, just like in FNAF 2. (Also note that this was stated to be your summer job on Steam, much like FNAF 2.)

Finally, note how the room layout looks identical to Afton’s Private Room, and how the Night 5 phone call excerpt happens to mention laboratory experiments. This could indicate that the Brother was already kidnapped and lead through the Private Room to get the FNAF 4 bedroom, or the Sister could’ve been trying to warn him about what was going to happen. Either way, this is where the inspiration for 1′s layout and gameplay comes from.

FNAF 4

Sometime shortly after 1, Afton kidnaps the Brother and starts his second round of experiments - experiments most likely meant to draw out trauma in order to figure out the “joy of creation“. He builds the main 4 Nightmares and Plushtrap (which is why they have similar endos to the Funtimes and other design choices, like 5 fingers) and has them try to kill the Brother.

(It’s also possible that the Bitten Child posses the main 4 Nightmares, and the Sister possesses Plushtrap. This is why Plushtrap won’t kill you - the Sister doesn’t want you to die, just help the Bitten Child).

Everything about the experiment is meant to draw out the trauma from the Bite - making the Brother think he’s a young helpless child, making him think he’s asleep during the nights, making the Nightmare’s behaviors mimic the bullies’, ect. Hallucinogenic gas may have been used to influence the Brother, which could be why he sees himself as a child and what causes him to see the hospital equipment. The nights this time around aren’t based off the grandfather clock from his house that were in his dreams, but simply the IRL alarm clock on top of the dresser.

On Night 5 and 6, the Bitten Child himself takes over, taking the form of Nightmare and Nightmare Fredbear, the stomach-mouth having come from his memory of a kid being “eaten” by Funtime Fredbear. Nightmare, representing the Bitten Child’s death, makes the Brother lose his memories - he’s repressed the Bitten Child’s death so much that he literally can’t remember it anymore. This is also why the FNAF 1 phone call (backwards and lower-pitched GF style to boot) plays in the background - his guilt’s so repressed he can’t remember it now.

That’s where the box comes in. Afton either left it on purpose for the Brother to find to create more trauma, or the Brother somehow found it himself. Either way, the box contained something that jogged the Brother’s memory of the Bite and forced him to confront the facts. This causes the Brother to want to help the Bitten Child instead of ignoring him again - he can’t ignore him anymore.

It is around this time that William attempts to dismantle the old animatronics (or possibly even the Nightmares if the minigames are symbolic). Shadow Freddy/the fifth piece, lures out the animatronics so they can be “killed again” - SF does represent the child’s death, after all. The Bitten Child, now freed from the animatronics, gets William killed in the Springlock suit, which allows him to find a bit of rest for now. The Brother’s “nightmares“ end with William’s death.

FNAF 3

30 years or so later, Fazbear’s Fright opens IRL, a horror attraction based off the events of Freddy’s. They find William’s corpse and plan to use it in the attraction. The Brother’s nightmares resurface at the news, this time facing off against the man who killed his family and tried to do the same to him (the two are foils, after all). The room layout is based off of the experimentation room, and Springtrap and the Phantoms are based off of Fun with Plushtrap, as is the gameplay. The need to have a ventilation system may have come from the possible use of hallucinogenic gas in 4.

Both the Sister and the Brother reappear. The Brother only appears as Shadow Freddy, a memory of his death waiting to be freed, while the Sister once again appears as the Puppet. The Sister’s Phantom Puppet hallucination, mimicking her dad’s Phantoms, does the same thing to the Brother as it did in the FNAF 2 cutscenes - a casual reminder of what will happen if he doesn’t finish helping the Bitten Child. (She also may influence the other Phantom’s appearances, as she’d know them from the Bitten Child’s dreams.)

Throughout the nights, the Brother reaches out to the Bitten Child and helps to put him back together. Each of the hidden minigames relates back to the reasons why the Bitten Child can’t pass on - fear of people, fear of the animatronics, and, of course, the Bite itself.

BB’s Air Adventure has representations of the Toys in it with the silhouettes. Mangle’s Quest has a silhouette of the Puppet (posed like the Bitten Child as that’s who the Sister’s mimicking) as that was her toy. It’s relationship to the Sister is also probably why it unlocks the cakes - it’s helping her to put him back together as well. Chica’s Party has representations of the Bitten Child’s plushies in it - the final cupcake moving and following you like the Fredbear Plush.

Stage 01 is fixing the Bite - FNAF 1 Golden Freddy, the Brother’s guilt, frees the Foxy-mask piece. The missing child in one of the rooms implies his twin sister’s kidnapping. Finally, Shadow Bonnie, the apex of the Bitten Child’s fears, provides the last main cake - as what is seen in the shadows is misunderstood. (If Shadow Bonnie is indeed Michael, this would also explain the kindness, as well as the glitchiness - he is neither dead nor alive).

The Sister finishes putting him back together by providing the last cake, and they pass on together in the Happiest Day (tomorrow is another day, after all). However, the Sister hangs back just long enough to burn down Fazbear’s Fright in a final attempt to kill William (hence why her mask fell slower). The Brother’s now put back together himself, and won’t be having any more nightmares.

Meanwhile, Michael Afton vows to find his father, having survived the fire and left Fazbear’s Fright - leaving us on the potential for another game.

#five nights at freddy's #fnaf #fnaf 2 #fnaf 3 #fnaf 4 #sister location #outdesign posts things #long post #outdesign analyzes things #i'm not 100% on michael afton's identity #and 4's a little tricky to know for certain because of the experiment plot twist #now watch scott release something that totally fucks all of this up tomorrow :p

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