#catalina alverez

[sirfatcat-mccatterson]

day 1 of @millportisntreal s valentines calender!

read on ao3

♡All You Need is Love, But a Little Chocolate Now and Then Doesn't Hurt♡

Catalina Alverez was a sucker for a seasonal holiday. It didn't matter how cheesy or minor, she enjoyed every moment. The decoration, the extravagance… the presents.

Valentine's was one of her favourites.

The pinks and reds flood the streets in swathes of tulle and crepe, flowers and hearts and teddy bears on every corner. A celebration just for love and appreciating your loved ones. Although Catalina believed that she should show her loved ones that she loved them every day, it was nice to have a day to go all out, shout it from the rooftops and make sure that everyone knew that these were the people she loved.

Every year, she pulled out streamers and glitter and made sure the house looked like cupid threw up all over the place.

Laila got the brunt of her holiday spirit, although Cat didn't think her girlfriend minded the attention. Breakfast in bed, followed by a thousand kisses and squeezes throughout the day. Flowers at lunch, followed by the cheesiest card she could find at Walmart. Hand cooked dinner followed by balloons and a romcom and cuddles on the couch.

Every year, Cat tried to one up herself and bigger and sappier gifts, to see Laila's smile just one more time. Usually planning as soon as Imbolc was celebrated.

Cat wasn't sure which god or deity she had pissed off but this year had already gone off the rails.

It started with a guy in her class who had decided that it was a great idea to come into class whilst sick. He coughed and spluttered and sat right in front of her with his germs. She had hoped that with him facing away from her, that she would be safe, that she wouldn't catch a cold and be benched from the upcoming game and miss Valentines Day, but noooooooo, the gods hated her. They made Derek turn around and ask her for a pen. They made him sneeze right in her face without raising a hand or elbow to block it like any sensible person over five years old would.

Catalina was fuming.

She had to isolate herself. From the team, from her friends, from Laila. They hadn't asked her to, of course they hadn't, but Cat couldn't live with herself if she got everyone else on the team sick. Even with their subs, she would be nerfing their game, just like they did against the foxes last year.

She slept on their couch for a week, skipping classes, laying in the dark, and eating soup. When Friday rolled around, Cat was still too weak to stand up for long, let alone cheer from the sidelines. So her team had left her behind and gone two hours away to play exy without their starting backliner. Cat had even forgotten about Valentine's Day until she turned the television on to try and watch the game she was missing.

The light of the monitor blinded her for a second before she scrambled for her sunglasses lying on the coffee table and rammed them on her face. It was still bright, still mildly headache inducing, but manageable.

A harp played, cutting off the presenters in their pre-game spiel. “Looks like it's time for a Valentine's kiss-cam before the game starts, Brad! Let's see that crowd get riled up for the start of the match!”

Red and pink hearts bloomed across the screen like petals as the camera swung between fans, urging them to share a moment of love with the crowd. Cat's heart dropped as she realised that she hadn't managed to get Laila anything special this year, hadn't even managed to cook her breakfast this morning as she had been so ill.

Catalina found herself drifting, zoning out of the kiss-cam footage and wondering if she could scrounge together something from her decorations that could make a half decent card at least. She stood from the couch and immediately fell back down, her head swimming.

Maybe not.

She would have to find a way to make it up to Laila when she didn't have one foot in her grave.

“Looks like the Trojans have got a special message folks! They’re waving the camera down like crazy!”

“They seem to have made their own fan signs tonight, Tom! Dedicated to their backliner Catalina Alverez, who couldn't be here tonight due to–”

Cat paused the television. On screen were her teammates, posters in hand, waving to the camera. Laila, Jeremy, Pat, Cody… Even Jean was begrudgingly holding a corner of a poster. All of them were smothered in hearts and well wishes, Ananya had heart stickers on both cheeks and Xavier definitely had glitter in his hair which was gonna be so uncomfortable under his helmet.

Her eyes swam with tears as she pressed play, watching all of them jump around and wave like they knew she was watching.

When it was time to play, Cat couldn't watch the game as critically as she would usually. She tried to keep up with all the action, but found herself struggling to keep her eyes open.

The sound of the door closing woke her up seconds later. She blinked at the television and turned it off when she realised it was playing a rerun of an old Tornados game. Her watch told her that it was 2am, which meant that the footfall through the door was probably her housemates.

Cat grabbed her glass off the coffee table to take it to the kitchen to refill with water and check they were not being burgled. An empty glass, thrown by a sick woman, would probably not be the scariest thing for a criminal, but it was all she had on hand and she was 90% sure it was just Laila and the boys getting back from the game.

Stopping to catch her breath, Cat looked through the kitchen door to see Laila, Jeremy, and Jean, huddled around the island in the center, whispering between themselves. Cat felt her eyebrows crease in confusion before a sneeze startled her, and her friends in the kitchen.

“Cat! How are you feeling?” Jeremy said, jumping at the noise before rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. “Probably a stupid question, right?”

“Did we wake you, babe?” Laila whispered, even though everyone in the house was awake and in that room.

Cat shook her head before grabbing the doorframe when brain did a backflip at the motion. “Just getting some water.”

“We're gonna get to bed, feel better soon!” Jeremy tugged Jean towards their room as Cat finally made her way to the sink.

Warm arms snaked themselves around her waist as Laila pressed her body against Cat's and planted a kiss on her shoulder. “You'll get sick!” Catalina protested weakly, half because of how she felt, and half because she missed her girlfriends hugs.

“Don't care.” Came Laila's muffled reply followed by a squeeze of her arms. “We've got a surprise for you.”

“I saw the posters at the game,” Cat croaked. “Missed the actual sport, though.”

“You didn't miss much.” Laila said, unwinding herself from around Cat and turning her around to face the island. “I meant this though…”

Piled on the counter were boxes on boxes of candy. Each heart-shaped, with a little tag on it addressed to Cat from various members of the team. Laila pulled over the biggest, gaudiest box and passed Cat the label.

To My Sugar-Plum-Dearest,

I hope these candies are as sweet as you!

Love, Teddy-Bear-Shnookums

“Happy Valentine's Day, Love.” Laila whispered, her head resting on Cat's shoulder. “Let's go get some sleep.”

[jeanmoreausautismstickers]

the "fancy pants rich Mcgee over here" trend on tiktok except its laila and jeremy

and they're genuinely talking about a chauffeur because jeremy DEFINITELY had one and laila will die mad about it

[quiescentdestiny]

I'm going to lie here on the ground thinking about the fact that Jean went on a motorcycle ride and thought to himself that Cat was "easily wooed by a false sense of progress" only to turn around and add said interaction to his list of reasons to live.

[double-aa-batteries]

things about about TSC I can't stop thinking about

"hindsight was a backstabbing bitch"

curtains symbolizing jeans healing journey, how he keeps them closed at Abby's in a effort to recreate the nest in search of some normalcy, how he opens them and looks out the window his new apartment, seeking calm in his overwhelm

"I want to go home" (13) meaning evermore vs. "I want to go home" (329) meaning to his apartment with Laila, Cat and jeremy

the fact that jean's phone is probably still in Abby's freezer

Kevin "their kindness matters" Day

Neil's smile is as unsettling to everyone else as it is to him and he has so much more Nathaniel in him than he recognizes in his own pov

Jean is so similar to neil in that they're both petty, dramatic bitches who care deeply about their teammates' safety

riko and the ravens quite literally took jean's name from him (Jean-Yves, Jonny, Paris)

"[Renee's] love was so tender it looked like grief as it curled her mouth and made her eyes shine"

jean gets forehead kisses from Renee and Cat

"that creepy little goalkeeper Andrew Minyard"

jean's many nicknames for neil: tiny bastard, tedious malcontent, abominable cockroach, wretched little runaway, ignorant child, etc.

Neil took the bandage off of jeans 3 and promptly stuck it over Kevin's chess peice

"I should have let him kill you," Jean said. "Probably," Neil agreed, "but you didn't, so here we all are."

"...aside from his outstanding murder charge, there was nothing interesting about that fox"

the fact that the point of tfc was to show characters who couldn't/wouldn't/ or were unable to heal from the trauma they had faced and yet from the very beginning and without question, TSC is about jean clawing his way forward and toward healing no matter what

the cheese drawer

dadmack dialed up to 1,000 See: "i will burn this house down before I let them touch you"

bisexual jean Moreau panicking over his teammates in swimsuits and Jeremy's long legs

"He's earned the right to be arrogant"

riko couldn't bring himself to hurt wymack because he was Kevin's father and Kevin was like a brother to riko and riko has always yearned for a father's recognition

Alvarez has a motorcycle and jean didn't say no to learning how to ride it

we know next to nothing about Jeremy Knox despite having chapters in his pov (why was he in therapy? why was his dad in France? what the hell did he do at the Fall banquet his freshman year to tear his family in half?)

that being said: Jeremy Knox is a rich boy with a butler

everything about Catalina Alverez

the fact that Jeremy knox has two brothers and one of them is probably dead

"rather than force the Trojans underground for that part, they simply built steps up and over it inside the stadium" the JUXTAPOSITION

Alvarez cooks and so now does jean

we know for a fact riko subjected Kevin to "subtler cruelties" while he was in the nest

"they never should have said yes when you asked" and "I didn't ask"

"as if you can tell a girl apart from a cow on a good day"

"permission to break his face, coach?" jean asked. "denied," white said.

all of thanksgiving pt. II

"alarm looked wrong on a face born for smiling"

jean casually saying "your apologies are as useful as perfume on a frog" to Lucas

Neil's whole relationship with Jean

David "I believe we all have the choice to be better than the hands that shaped us" Wymack

Neil generally being a menace to society but especially "Neil, being the person he was, pointed at the fire hydrant adjacent to it's front bumper and said, 'thats illegal, just so you know.'"

"the cracking heat in his chest could have been his ribs snapping or his heart breaking"

[bisexualchaosdemon]

Olympics Exy Team USA (2016)

Strikers:

Kevin Day

Neil Josten

Jeremy Knox

Emma Swift

Ananya Deshmukh

Dealers:

Allison Reynolds

Xavier Morgan

Min Cai

Backliners:

Thea Muldani

Jean Moreau

Catalina Alverez

Matt Boyd

Goalies:

Andrew Minyard

Robin Cross

Laila Dermott

[boxedfoxess]

omg catalina street? like like catalina alverez? like cat? like the trojans? like jeremy knox? like like jean moreau?? like the sunshine court omg?

[asteriafallsrp]

- CATALINA ALVERAS - has arrived…

she is a twenty-three 1116 year old angel.

God ᴛᴏᴘᴘʟᴇꜱ from the ˢᵏʸ ; hell’s 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤 f a d e : I ꜱʜᴜᴛ ᴍʏ ᴇʏᴇꜱ and all the world drops [ d e a d ]

visit and greet her today

biography:

Alveraz was a name that had been cast down for generations. Angels could be stuck up like that. That angelic sweetness, and kindness was more of a stereotype. Catalina was born to a family that was considered fallen. Because of this—people decided they knew her before even taking the chance to learn more than her name. She grew up with, “It’s who we are.” Or “That’s just how it is.” She was held back because of something as miniscule as her name, for something her family had done centuries ago. She could barely remember the entire tale of her ancestor’s selfish behavior. She just knew he lost his wings for it, and since then their family had been living lives as second class citizens.

Well, screw that. Catalina was going to forge her own path, she spent too long being held back by her family. Once the new world was discovered Cat took to mortal world to make her own life. Her last name nothing but a reminder of what she came from. Where she started from and what she was now. Even living a subtle, casual life in Asteria was like a gold mine to her. And it made sense to be under the watchful eyes of hunters.

personality:

✚ Self-Assured ✚ Resilient ✚ Independent

✖ Outspoken ✖ Prideful ✖ Persistent

[sirfatcat-mccatterson]

Who was gonna tell me Alvarez's first name is Catalina or was i supposed to find out through an aftg rarepair poll myself

[sirfatcat-mccatterson]

♡ Fic masterpost ♡

Valentines Drabbles

Collection of drabbles written for millportisntreal's Valentines calender on tumblr

Rating: General Audiences

Chapters: 1/14

Pairing/s: Laila Dumont/Catalina Alverez

Words: 1,723 out of ?

Through the Ashes

more tags and pairings will be added as i complete chapters

Enrolling into Basgiath War College was not something Neil ever thought he would do, especially when his father ran the place. Now that he's here, he fights with everything in his arsenal to survive, to bond with a dragon, and to keep out of his fathers way. With the war outside the college walls getting worse and the wards that protect them weaker, Neil soon learns that there is more to fear in the world than his butcher of a father.

Rating: Mature

Chapters: 1/?

Pairing: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard

Words: 10,191 out of 39,054 (ish)

Based on Fourth Wing, using only AFTG characters and some creative license. No knowledge of the original series should be necessary!

Mafia Cats

Andrew is canvassing an uptown neighbourhood for his mom's cat charity and rings on the latest of rich-shit houses doorbell. That house? The Wesninski residence.

Rating: G

Words: 4015

Pairing/s: andreil

Adventures of the Heart

Andrews life is turned upside down when he recieves a package from his dead sister-in-law and a phone call threatening his brothers life. One flight to South America later he meets Neil, a snarky jungle boy who promises to help him find his brother, and they find much more along the way.

Rating: E

Words: 18719

Pairing/s: andreil

Dead Like Me

Andrew was bored. He worked a deadend job to support his brother through medical school, lived with his cousin, and basically had no life or prospects of his own and no drive to change that.

Rating: M

Words: 16,321

Pairing/s: andreil

After a freak accident (and his subsequent death) Andrew is recruited to the FOX reapers to serve his time before moving onto "the great beyond". Now Andrew has a second chance. He collects souls, protects his family, and even falls in love after death.

BEE MINE

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

Rating: G

Words: 108

Pairing/s: andreil

Relapse

Andrew had almost slammed the door in Katelyn's face when she came and knocked on his dorm room.

Rating: T

Words: 1390

Pairing/s: katelyn/aaron, andreil

He was halfway there before she blurted out. "Aaron’s missing."

Trail Talk

The twinyards have a heart to heart before Aarons trial

Rating: G

Words: 1638

Pairing/s: katelyn/aaron, andreil

The Greatest Show

Dan Wilds has always dreamt of fame and fortune. Exotic performances, daring feats, flashing lights. If the whole world is a stage, her life was to be the greatest show on earth. After some hard work, Dan and her family seem to have it all. And it was them against the world.

Rating: T

Words: 23106

Pairing/s: dan/matt, renison, andreil

When a charismatic singer pulls her away from her family, she has to fight to get her life back, and hope that it's not too late to save what's left.