#but that schedule is madness
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hughungrybear · 4 months ago
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With Perfect 10 Liners insane schedule (they could have done 2 eps per week if they really want to push through all those eps 😭😭😭), please note that while I don't have any strong feelings against Jittirain, the director, production crew, or the actors in this series, I also get bored easily 😅😅😅
I mean, if I want to watch more than 15 eps, then I would have joined my mum watching her convoluted Pinoy and Chinese telenovelas in her iPad 😂😂😂
So, don't be surprised if I suddenly drop this midway unless the plot is so incredible (or cheesy, I do like my cheese) that it will keep me invested.
If ever I find myself with nothing good to say (like the BahMhee plotline in The Trainee), I will avoid posting OR change the tags to 'trash watch' (like I do for MAME series).
Well, let's all play nice, shall we? 😁
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98chao · 6 days ago
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redraw of my first vanilla milkshake art from one year ago today, so i guess this is my shadowvanillanniversary? i think this is also the same day the ship began. Im no longer sorry
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peace-hunter · 2 months ago
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op: "i really don't mind-" zeta: "Do Not enable him"
sort of a sequel to this? a lot of people really wanted op to get a hug and i support that. so does prima. zeta isn't really against it, he just wishes prima would at least try to stick to the schedule for primus' sake-
haunted au
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sweeneydino · 1 month ago
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Love me, love me not.
No distortion on the lake cause then you couldn't see em kissing
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vivaislenska · 9 months ago
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He gave her wings and she’ll make him proud.
(The Tech Turn™️ is 100% going to be crucial for the Rebellion.)
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opikiquu · 9 months ago
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eggbuggy · 27 days ago
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Finished tma a short while ago, not ok. 10/10
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xxplastic-cubexx · 3 months ago
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*puts my fingers together* Can see see fastbender Magneto's comic accurate costume in ur style?
https://www.therpf.com/forums/attachments/png.317447/
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you may have this outfit. ONCE ☝️
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intern-seraph · 11 months ago
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if your activism can be significantly disrupted by a few hours of award show, you're just a bad activist
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deoidesign · 4 months ago
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Time and Time Again comes back tonight!
Thank you all for being so patient with me, I know it was a long hiatus.
My health was struggling, my arm was (is) hurting, and I decided it wasn't worth it. I'd rather be slow!
So thank you for giving me that grace, and I hope you'll be there with me for the rest of the series.
#like straight up. it's not worth it. idc how many people get mad at me#i would rather work fuckin. anything else than maintain this impossible schedule and keep hurting myself#if thats what it takes to do comics full time. then i can't do comics full time. simple as that!#i hope that for my next work i can have a healthier schedule and still make this work as my job#but if not. I'm never going back#i can't do it. 3 more years at this pace will take my ability to draw#anyways. its really good!!!#like genuinely i can feel a marked improvement in my skills#which is WILD!!! And I'm extremely happy about that!!!#just one more step into being better built to give people the quality stories they deserve.#ive not properly had the fire under my ass to finish stuff up but. its fine.#like i said? not worth it.#if i have to pause again then ill pause again. like i literally simply can not my body can't handle it#so. hopefully stuff goes smoothly but whatever happens will happen#whatever will be will be#i keep getting distracted lmfao#im excited about it coming back#and also. will. probably be distracting myself...#other creators dont read their comments. I'm like straight up not capable of that LMAOOO#i check for comments like all the time#love seeing em. love reading people's thoughts about my work#it makes me a better writer and keeps me connected to what matters most. which is my audience!#so i dont regret doing that but also. jts extremely distracting#i get straight up nothing done on big update days#cause im in the comments absolutely massive eyed refreshing.#this sounds obsessive. and it is. no jk#its just fun and keeps me in touch w peoples perception which helps me learn to write better#plus people are nice and ask me questions that i wanna answer#or if someone is being an ass. then i wanna tell them to leave (cause i cant block people) cause i consider it my responsibility#time and time again
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astrid-beck · 1 year ago
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Ianthe is special bc she has finally achieved the perfect, beautiful, most annoying lovechild synthesis of "I was expecting a battle of wits but you appear to be unarmed" and "your mom suck me good and hard through my jorts"
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post-it-notes7 · 8 months ago
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hey, maybe mirror falspar still has two functioning arms
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hmmmmm. hm.
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Bringer of Darkness: Arc 1, Page 28.
That can't be good....
<PREVIOUS | FIRST | NEXT>
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tinfoil-jones · 2 months ago
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Gravity Falls: For Your Own Good, Ch.20
Summary: A few years after moving to Gravity Falls and having his lab built, Stanford Pines happens upon his estranged twin brother, Stanley. He mentally prepared himself to be suffocated by his brothers neediness all over again - what he wasn't prepared for was Stanley walking right past him like he didn't even notice him.
Rating: M for language, violence, and adult implications
Preface: Dialogue only, but some actions will be annotated for clarity. Cross-Posted on AO3 Here.
Believe it or not a large section of this chapter was actually one of the first things I wrote for this story, it was written out before the first chapter actually and I’ve been really excited to show it. This chapter is super long and has shifting perspectives.
This chapter also mirrors Ch.10. This is a long chapter.
First - Prev - Next
WARNING: T/W implications of past sexual assault. Implied past torture. Character death.
CH.20
“So you’re gonna show me that super off-limits study room?”
“Yes. I only ask that you keep an open mind, and please do not judge me.”
“Alright PhD, I’ll only judge you the normal amount.”
“Come inside.”
“-Woah- ahhh. You really like …Triangles, huh?”
“Stanley, you’re shaking.”
“It uh, it kinda makes me uncomfortable, not gonna to lie. Are you in a cult?”
“No. Come here, follow me to the mat in the center.”
“Okay…”
“Now, what do you think of this? Does it remind you of anything?”
“A newspaper clipping? Uh… That’s a pretty messed up car- oh, wait, yeah it does remind me of something.”
“What does it remind you of?”
“I used to have a car just like that. A red El Diablo.”
“And what happened to it?”
“...I don’t remember, actually. I’m trying to remember but it just makes my brain feel like it's on fire.”
“How did I not see this before…?”
“See what?”
“Stanley, when you were first traveling with Sanchez, were you sick at all?”
“Oh yeah, totally sick. I had this massive chest infection. Kept knocking the air mask off when I was delirious. If Rick didn’t constantly shoot me up with weird sci-fi drugs, it probably woulda killed me.”
“Don’t say things like that.”
“Where’re these questions coming from Doc?”
“I’ll explain soon, but I need to show you something else. Sit down on the floor.”
“Okay…?”
“I’m going to sit back-to-back with you. I need you to fall asleep.”
“You want me to… sleep?”
“Yes.”
“Doc, you know I got problems sleeping.”
“I doubt it will be a problem this time. I’m going to meditate, but I need you to sleep.”
“You’re not setting me up for some ritual sacrifice, right?”
“Do you trust me?”
“...”
“You don’t have to answer that. Either meditate or sleep, whichever comes first. But I’m going to meditate.”
“...Alright. But if you cut my heart out and sacrifice it to the math gods or whatever, I’m haunting you.”
(...)
“Stanley.”
“Huh? Where are we?”
“The dreamscape. Specifically, we are in your dreamscape. You could also call it the mindscape. It’s a metaphysical representation of your mind.”
“You can beam yourself into people's minds?”
“Within limitations, yes. If I were to do so when the person is awake, I could only access their surface thoughts and memories. If the person were asleep, I could go a bit deeper and see their dreams, but I wouldn’t be able to easily traverse, and some deeper, more unconscious memories can’t be accessed.”
“So… Ya brought me here? What for?”
“We can access your mind deeper. But I need your permission to do so.”
“You can un-bury all of my lost memories?”
“Yes, but I don’t want to force it. I want to help you… but I know this is painful; both not knowing, and knowing. Do you want to know your real past? Even if it meant you’d have to remember why you forgot it all in the first place?”
“...Yeah. I think- hey what’s that thing coming out of your chest? Is that a rope?”
“...Yes, how did you-”
“I think I have that same thing, hold on, lemme just-”
“You’ve never been here, how would you-.”
“See, same thing. Is it supposed to do something?”
*Ford in shock suddenly grabs at the severed ends of both ropes and tries desperately to push them back together, but the ends keep repelling each other like magnets with the same charge*
“Hey doc, I don’t think you’re gonna attach ‘em like that.”
“Why isn’t it working? It’s supposed to work. It needs to-.”
“Woah! Calm down, PhD. Aren’t we here to dig up the past?”
“Right, right. We’ll get back to that. Do I want to know why your mindscape resembles a gambling lounge?”
“I spent a lot of time in a place called Lottocron Nine before I was banned from it.”
(...)
“Have you been in my mind before?”
“...Yes, during one of your sessions with Fiddleford.”
“...What kind of session?”
“An interview.”
“Oh, thank god. So ya just… broke into my mind?”
“Stanley, I understand if you are feeling-.”
“That’s really cool.”
“...What? You’re not upset?”
“Pft, I’ve broken into houses, cars, shops, warehouses; and even the Infinetentiary, twice . A persons mind though? That’s hardcore.”
“You’re being awfully candid about your multidimensional adventures with Sanchez.”
“There’s no point in hiding it now. You learned the first time you went into my mind, didn’t ya? That's how you knew who I was talking about when I mentioned Rick.”
“You’re handling this rather well.”
“Doc, we’ve both seen some crazy shit. This dreamwalking stuff isn’t even in the top ten.”
(...)
“FORRESTER!”
“Catch you on the flipside, sucker!”
“God, I hated that guy.”
“That IRS agent… What’s his name?”
“Agent Powers, why?”
“Just putting a name to a face.”
(...)
“I don’t like remembering this.”
“Tell us where your boss is hiding, and maybe we’ll spare that ugly mug of yours.”
“You think anything you do is gonna be worse than what Jimmy will do to me if I rat her out? I’ll take my chances with your sleazy ass.”
“This ‘Jimmy’ is female?”
“Yeah. Jimmy Snakes is just a street name. Other bikers wouldn’t take her seriously if they knew from the bat she was a chick. Her real last name is Jiménez.”
“But the J is pronounced as a-”
“Yeah, but guess how everyone who doesn’t speak Spanish tries to pronounce it when they read it?”
“Tough talk, Alcatraz. But everyone's got a limit.”
*the gangster takes the lit cigarette out of his mouth and brings it closer to Stan*
“Yeah, we don’t needa see this.”
*the memory suddenly blacks out but a sizzling noise is still heard*
(...)
“Stanley, this is a pit memory. These are memories your unconscious mind has been hiding from you.”
“Do we just, ya know, jump in?”
“Yes. In a way, it is like the bottomless pit, we would fall back right where we started, or your mental defenses could forcefully-.”
“Screw that, I’m imagining stairs.”
“You can’t just imagine -”
“Violá. Stairs.”
“...”
“What? This is my mind, anything I can imagine should be possible, right?”
“It should not be this easy for you. It takes months of rigorous meditation to-.”
“Maybe it woulda been easier for you to control what's in your head if it wasn’t so far up your ass all the time.”
(...)
“I don’t remember this.”
“It’s the science fair incident I told you about.”
“This is all your fault, ya dumb machine!”
“And now you’re about to-...”
“Oh no. Oh no, no, what did I do?”
“Man, did I fuck up or what?”
“There. Alright. Good as new. Probably.”
“...Stanley. You- you didn’t ruin my machine on purpose?”
“I don’t see you anywhere, but it looks like it.”
“You only hit the table …”
“Does it matter? The results are the same.”
"Stanley, I haven't been honest with you about this incident. After this, yes we fell out, but our father overheard and-."
"And he kicked me out? Yeah, I know."
"You know?"
"Yeah... I think I always did. Just didn't wanna."
"But... I lied to you about it. I told you that you chose to leave."
"Dude. All I fuckin do is lie. I'm not feeling like being a hypocrite today."
"You're not mad at me? I turned my back on you!"
"Get in line, PhD. Rico outed me to the Aryan Brotherhood. Rick cheated on me with an Alien Hivemind. Jimmy chased me for fifty miles on the interstate on a flaming motorcycle trying to drag out my soul with bottles and chains. You got tired of my shit and told me to buzz off? Big deal!"
"I ruined your life..."
"I ruined my own life. It's kinda my thing, ya know."
(...)
“No- no. Oh, no. We can’t stay here, we need to leave.”
“This looks like the homeless shelter from Glass Shard Beach.”
“Hey- sir? Can ya help me with something?"
"Watcha need, kid?"
"I haven't been to one of these places before and its kinda-"
'Scary - no, I can't say that out loud. He'll think I'm being a baby.'
"It's kinda new to me. I heard there were phones here that don't charge ya?"
'I wanna call ma...'
"There sure is, just follow me."
"We need to leave."
"Stanley, what-?"
"We need to leave we can't stay here we need to-"
"This isn't- wait, what're ya d-? Hey!”
“Brats like you are too damn easy.”
“Back off you piece a-!”
WACK
“Why isn’t this memory blacking out, I’m trying to end it-.”
“Get offa me! Stop!”
“I don’t wanna remember this.”
“Stanley, I’m so sorry. I had no idea-.”
“Cry all you want, it won't help you.”
*the memory blacks out*
(...)
“...Do you want to talk about it?”
“ No. ”
“Okay. I won’t make you.”
“I think this pit over here is the one that… ya know, made me forget everything.”
“You are sure it’s this one?”
“There’s a giant neon sign over there that says ‘Do Not Enter: Everything is Worse’.”
“How considerate of your subconscious.”
“…I don’t think I can go any further. Go on without me.”
“Stanley-.”
“Stanford. I’m giving you permission to see that memory, whatever it is. I’m not going to kick you out of it. Just tell me what you saw after you get out, and we’ll go from there.”
“You are okay with that? Are you sure?”
“You asked me outside if I trusted ya. Here’s your answer.”
(...)
‘Moses, the fog’s getting pretty bad… can’t see shit’
‘Ain’t safe with all the curves ahead’
‘I should take a stop soon and wait for it to clear’
‘Huh? What’s up with my breaks?’
‘WHY ISN’T IT WORKING? WHY?’
‘He didn’t! That son of a-’ 
SCREECH
CRASH
Fwooosh!
‘Fuck! I gotta stay calm- I’ve gotten out of worse’
‘Ugh the smokes getting really thick-.’
‘Why isn’t the seat belt unbuckling? I don’t have a lotta time here.’
‘Where’s my strap cutter? Why isn’t it-!’
‘I’m really lightheaded…’
‘Can’t-’.
‘It’s too hot-.’
‘I’m trapped.’
‘I-I can’t breathe.’
*Stanley reaches up and pulls the picture of himself and Ford, which is on fire, off of the sun visor. It burns up into ash within his hands, which then start shaking*
"That was all I had... Now I have nothing. And I have nobody... I'm… alone."
‘I'm alone…’
‘I'm alone.’
*the memory suddenly blacks up, and then the scene changes and he’s looking at Rick Sanchez as he lies on the floor of his space cruiser. Ricks words are muffled at first*
'Where am I?'
'Who's this guy?'
'He tased me? Is this a cop?'
'Why was I in the woods?'
'Catatonic...?'
“This isn’t going anywhere. Can you tell me your name?”
'I'm alone' 
“It’s…? I... 'm alone . Wait. It’s- Stan.”
“Stan Malone huh? My name’s Rick Sanchez.”
(...)
“I do not understand… I suspected the car accident was the catalyst, but how did he escape? Did Sanchez rescue him and lie about it? What would he gain from that?”
“Nope!”
“Bill?”
“You know you can’t go anywhere without me, Fordsy.”
“Why did you wait until now to show yourself?”
“Dramatic entrance, of course!”
“...Right. Why doesn’t Stanley remember escaping his burning car?
“Because he didn’t. He died of smoke inhalation right there.”
“... What ?”
“Yeah. He died. Ironically, of suffocation. Isn’t that hilarious, Sixer? He used to suffocate you, and that ended up being the thing that killed him.”
“CIPHER! Whatever cruel joke you are trying to-.”
“Joke? I’m hurt Fordsy, I know when to be serious.”
“He didn’t die! We are in his mindscape! He’s asleep right behind me in the waking world!”
“Oh, Sixer… Your mommy was right when she said denial like this isn’t healthy.”
“STOP PLAYING THESE GAMES WITH ME BILL CIPHER.”
“Alright, alright. Here, let me give you a sneak peak of what happened between the scenes; he doesn’t remember, because it happened in his mindscape. So here’s my memory of what happened.”
“Your-?”
SNAP
(...)
“Hey there slick! Things getting too hot to handle?”
“What are you supposed to be?”
“Call me a guardian angel.” 
“Are all angels as geometric as you?”
“I took a form that would be comforting to you. I’m the symbol on the back of the money, you like money right?”
“Yeah.”
“Well there we go! I’m here to help you.”
“... Why?”
“I’m a friend of a friend. And that friend would very much hate it if you burnt to death here. Shake my hand and I can get you out.”
“What’s in it for you?”
“Like I said, friend of a friend. Just shake my hand. I’ll have temporary use of your body, and you’ll get to live.”
“I’d sooner chew up and spit out a gold chain before I fall for some Faustian bargain. No ones ever been nice to me in my entire life; there’s no reason my death would be any different. Leave me alone.”
“What about your family?”
“They won’t be surprised, there’s no way they didn’t see something like this coming. I’m surprised I lasted this long.”
“What about your brother? Your twin? You’re two halves of a whole - are you really going to leave him to live the rest of his life incomplete?”
“I’m the incomplete one, I failed by myself. But he can stand on his own.”
“Don’t you realize this will devastate him?”
“... I know it will.”
“Then why aren’t you taking this deal? Fordsy isn’t going to get over this. I know everything about him, and I’m telling you he never will. This will haunt him the rest of his natural life. The same way it would haunt you if he died.”
“If you’re such a Stanford expert, would he ever think I’d take a deathbed deal with a floating triangle in a top hat and fake eyelashes?”
“The eyelashes were a low blow. But, I’ll give it to you, slick; he does know you would never fall for flattery and trickery. But he’d also agonize why you’d give up like this.”
“There’s giving up, and there’s acceptance. Every decision I’ve ever made has led up to this. And most of them were the wrong ones. The consequences have caught up to me, and there’s nowhere to run anymore.”
“You’re choosing now of all times to accept the consequences of your actions?”
“Might as well, it’s the last chance I can.”
“You are going to die here. Stanley Romanoff Pines, if you don’t take a deal with me in the next minute you will die.”
“Guess I get one whole minute to reflect on everything huh?”
“And what would you reflect on?”
“If you’re really friends with my brother… if he ever asks about me for some reason, could you tell him that I love him?”
*a rope suddenly appears, with one end fading into Stanley’s chest. The other end appears to fade off into the distance*
“What’s this supposed to be?”
“Your twin bond with Sixer.”
“That’s a real thing, no shit?”
“Yes. It’s how I found you, actually. IQ was getting this sinking feeling of dread and didn’t know why, so I just followed it without telling him.”
“Does that mean he’ll feel it when-.”
“Yes.”
*Stanley looks at the rope before grabbing it with both hands, and pulling it in opposite directions until it’s broken into two. The end not connected to him disappears.*
“He doesn’t need to know what dying feels like.”
“...He doesn’t want you dead. He never hated you.”
“I know. But he doesn’t need to worry about supporting all of this dead weight. Ha! Get it? Dead weight! …Dead weight? It’s funny because I’m about to be dea-”
(...)
“-and he died exactly how he lived; making stupid jokes that no one but him finds funny- except for you, I can see even though you’re crying, you’re also trying really hard not to laugh .”
*Ford covers his face with his hands in grief*
“...That was a good one…”
“I waited for his heart to stop before I could take over - I can possess corpses you see, and for those fleeting minutes, he counted as one. I flexed just enough of my power to drag him out of his car - had to wait for that stuck seat belt to burn enough to rip - but all of that activity re-started his heart and brought him back, kicking me out of his body.
I had enough time to change some things - kept enough oxygen in his blood supply to prevent brain damage, deleted his fear of heights so he could climb out of the ravine, and rewired his optic nerves so he didn’t need glasses anymore - he wasn’t going to get any for himself anytime soon, he won’t need them until he gets cataracts at fifty-seven.
Anyways, that’s the real reason he was immune to that green cryptid; his worst nightmare was dying alone, and he already went through that.”
“...Why didn’t you tell me any of this?”
“You didn’t ask. Not me. Not anyone. Not even yourself.”
“...”
“You always pushed your thoughts of him into the corner of your mind, Sixer. In your journals, any mention of him you’d cross out or write in a code. I saved him because I know you care about him. I didn’t tell you what happened because you wanted him out of sight, and out of mind.”
“Bill!”
“It’s true, isn��t it? And look at that, he still made his way back to you. Either that twin bond was magnetically pulling him towards its broken half, or I left just enough of an impression on his mind that the weirdness of Gravity Falls drew him here.”
“You left an impression on my brothers mind?”
“It’s like when you crinkle paper, Sixer. You can try to smooth it out all you want, but there’s still going to be traces that something happened. There’s not pieces of me left in his mind, if that’s what you’re worried about. He didn’t make a deal with me, unlike you. He just picked up some of my tendencies. Definitely explains why he uses nicknames so much, doesn’t it?”
“This is my nightmare.”
“This is the dreamscape.”
“...Why did you repress his memories?”
“You think I did that? Sixer, he died . You don’t come back from that the same way you were before.”
“Then why would he still remember most of the last ten years of his life, but not being kicked out or his entire life before that?”
“Fordsy, you heard his last conscious thoughts, and those became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Before he passed out and then away, all he could focus on was how alone he felt. His brain did that thing all human brains tend to do; hid all the stuff that would hurt him more.”
“...No, he wouldn’t-.”
“Sixer. I know you can see the truth, you can’t hide your thoughts from me; why bother remembering himself, why bother remembering loving people when they didn’t bother to remember him, not even when he needed them the most?”
“...”
“Oh, goody, now you’re crying! Don’t worry, I know exactly what to do in situations like this. I don’t care if you don’t understand the reference, you’re not the one who’s supposed to.”
*Bill conjures up and then starts playing the Nightmare Realms smallest violin*
To be continued…
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loafbud · 1 year ago
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Dedf1sh/Acht staring at you in the elevator like this 🧍‍♀️
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surplus-of-sarcasm · 10 months ago
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I Do
Part 2
TW: Blood, bruises, and some angst
Ya girl has some off-days from college, and she's decided to use em. Missed y'all < 3
The villain's gloved fingers drummed impatiently on the table, his dark shadow looming over the hero with a promise of danger.
"What's it going to be, Hero? I sell those codes to Supervillain? Or you comply with our little agreement?" His tone was perfectly calm, eerily so, his eyes impossible to read behind the domino mask, but he still emanated danger, his lips drawn together in a tight line.
It was cruel calling it 'their' agreement because the hero had no hand in this. The suggestion had left her more shocked than angry, still reeling from the villain's words.
"Marry me," he'd said in a commanding tone. Like any other choice would've been the wrong answer, tilting her chin upwards ever so subtly.
And the hero held his gaze, transfixed, gasping and laughing and hoping this was nothing but a fever dream.
"Wha-" the hero choked out incoherently.
The villain had let go of her face, his hands resting on the top of her chair. "I can repeat it as many times as you want me to," he stage-whispered against the shell of her ear, his tone gentle and dangerous all at once.
"But, I don't understand. What could you possibly gain from this of all things? You despise me, Villain." She truly couldn't process any of what she was told, the mere idea of being tethered so bindingly to her worst enemy leaving her mind an ineffective, nervous wreck.
The villain huffed out a rough laugh, very genuine and horribly cruel. "Oh, but I do despise you. Very much. I despise how defeated and humiliated you left me in front of half the city . Despised the fact that you got me locked up. Despised how for the very first time, I actually felt like I lost the game, and I'm a rather sore loser, you know." The villain's demeanour was eerily calm, his shoulders straight, his resting face showing nothing but a placid neutrality as he turned to stand in front of the hero, but it was arguably more terrifying, more unpredictable.
"I just want to see you as defeated as I've been, Hero. Bound so intimately to your worst enemy, your greatest nightmare. If you do this, it means admitting to me, and more importantly, to yourself, that the only option you have is bending to my whims," he crooned, his lips curling into a wicked smirk.
The hero wanted to scream, to kick the villain in the teeth and watch the blood trickle down his lips and the bruising dye his skin a grotesque purple. She wanted to think of a clever solution that left the man's face contorted with a strange mix of hatred and respect, to blow his plan up in his face. Anything that would spare her this hell.
"Did I mention you have exactly five minutes to decide?" he piped up casually, examining his nails.
The hero swore and the villain let out a half-snicker. This was madness. A death sentence that would last for the rest of her life. And it didn't matter if she said no, if she undid whatever she could of the havoc those codes would wreak in Supervillain's hands. The conviction so heavily saturated in the villain's tone, the way his jaw clenched and his fists tightened was more than enough proof that he would spread more chaos, spark more fights, destroy an endless array of things and lives until she gave in to him.
The villain loved control like he loved the air he breathed, even more so, like a drug that left him intoxicated and lusting for more.
If she didn't listen, she was sending everyone she cared about, sending the city, the whole world if the villain had it his way, to hell.
The hero sucked in a measured breath, reading the contract word for word, from the title to the fine print, scouring it for a loophole she could use, for any more tricks up the villain's sleeve, just to find nothing. She tried to relax her tensed shoulders, her grip merciless on the pen in her erratically shaking hands, every curve and line of the letters of her name feeling like a blade was slicing through her heartstrings like how one would rip a stalk; slowly, unevenly, time seeming to slow down and the world seeming to freeze for a moment that felt like a thousand years and then some.
The villain didn't smile or laugh or let any display of emotion etch itself onto the harsh lines of his features. He nodded curtly instead, snatching the paper and folding it into a square and tucking it in a well-concealed pocket of his suit. "The cruelty only ends here," he attested, his voice tight and no longer playful, the way it was whenever he promised something.
The hero nodded, swallowing the humiliation at the back of her throat, even though she wasn't inclined to believe him.
"There's a ceremony. Nothing very insane, just you, me and an officiator. This is just a contract, not a marriage certificate, even if we both know which one of those is more binding. You'll show up today, if you know what's good for you, heroine."
The hero wasn't sure when she was up on her feet and slapping the villain harshly across the face, blood spurting from his mouth and staining his perfectly straight teeth, as he only grit them into a manic grin, shaking with a hoarse cackle as he wiped the blood of his face "Is that how you treat your husband, my dear? Do they forget to teach you manners at the hero agency?"
The hero was too dazed with rage to speak, trying to mar the villain's visage with another rough blow to it, until he caught her hand with an iron fist. "I said I'd never hurt you for nothing, but not that I'd let you do to me what you please without consequence. So play nice, darling." The villain let go of her arm slowly, the bruises he left in his wake more than enough of a warning.
The second he left, the hero didn't cry as she thought she would, she didn't scream, she didn't destroy everything around her or rip through her hair. Instead, she slid down against the wall, expressionless but breathing hard, her lungs hungry for air that seemed so unfairly little, her heart playing songs of anxiety and fury and sorrow every horrible emotion she'd ever known.
She was marrying the villain. Marrying the villain, and she couldn't do a thing about it. Marrying him and no one would come to save her.
Sometimes being a hero means saving the whole world except yourself.
✨️Timeskip✨️
Sure enough, the villain was there in a tailored suit, in front of his house her new prison, where he'd told her to show up, the officiator standing with a solemn expression on his face.
The villain wasn't supposed to be handsome, the dark brown hair she was normally used to seeing messy and caked with blood slightly damp with gel and mostly hanging in loose, luscious waves, his eyes a dazzling green-blue, long, dark lashes framing them in a way that put the best kinds of kohl to shame and his cheekbones sharp and high-set, the split on his lip hardly distracting from the rest of his appearance. It was so unbelievably stupid, so inconsequential, and yet the hero hated him even more for his tantalisingly beautiful features, for the way his grin would've fooled her into thinking he truly was in love, if she didn't notice how it didn't reach up to his eyes.
The hero hadn't paid any mind to whatever the officiator had said until it was her turn to say 'I do', flashing the villain a terribly fake smile that wasn't half as charming as his, but it would have to do as she slid a simple platinum ring on his finger, and he slid a diamond ring onto hers.
"Let's go," the villain said when they were finally done, gently taking the hero's gloved hand in his and leading her up the stairs and into the mansion.
The heroine was not one to admit defeat and snap in half in the fashion that a twig would. Many a battle would need to be lost for a victory in the war, many a sacrifice would have to be made for a greater reward. She would take the pain like stone would take a blunt pickaxe, just to twist a knife in the villain's chest when he least expected. Because history forgets everyone but those who laugh the last.
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