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jamesreads · 3 months ago
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Have you decoded the secret alphabet yet?
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a-d-nox · 5 months ago
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tick tock goes the clock [ status: closed ]
the receipt
the review log
hello, my friends/followers! as i promised my generous friends that supported readings this year and thus helped me to buy a new deck - which arrived this week - i am hosting an ask game. thank you so much to everyone who has been supporting my blog this year from likes to follows to reblogs. i truly appreciate each and everyone of you! i also appreciate everyone who has purchased a reading from me and thus paid for my cerulean sequence deck!!
please follow the rules (listed below) to participate ->
i. you must be following me.
ii. reblog or like this post.
iii. only one ask per account! secondary asks regarding the game will be deleted.
iv. send the emoji that corresponds with the reading you want and your initials.
v. tell me a goal of yours for the upcoming new year is OR give me a post idea (it will not count if you give me a hyper specific astrology placement - as a reminder i no longer do free consultations on astrology placements).
vi. asks that are missing the above requirements will receive a response of "game request denied".
vii. please be patient! i'm working full time, so i don't have a lot of time to sit down and do back to back readings (you can dm me and ask if yours ask sent or where you are in my queue - but please don't spam me as it won't make the process go faster, it will actually slow me down because i am answering you instead of answering asks). i will leave the game open for the week or until i reach 50 asks!
viii. feedback is greatly appreciated, but not required - it's always good to know if my intuition and interpretation of the cards was accurate (especially since it is a new deck and i am not sure if it vibes with me yet).
game options ->
🕰️ CLOCK 🕰️
the number and message that you need to hear and remember as the year 2024 comes to a close - it will be relevant in the final days of this year.
✨ STARS ✨
what comes naturally to you and what will need attention as 2024 comes to an end.
🪩 DISCO BALL 🪩
tell me about something going on in your life this year - i will describe the beginning the middle, and how it will end according to the cards.
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
you and a song you must listen to. what is going to change for you in 2025. what i sense you want most. and what is something you won't be able to control in 2025.
🍾 POP 🍾
the start of 2025. the end of 2024. what will change for you in 2025. what work you will have to do. and the end result of your 2024 at this moment in time.
🥂 CHAMPAGNE 🥂
a love reading (please send their initials as well as yours). you. them. together. apart. your differences. and your desires.
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Queer Book Ship Tournament 2025 Round 1
Rune Saint John/Addam Saint Nicholas- The Tarot Sequence by KD Edwards
Constansa/Magdalena/Alexi– A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Luca Ancier/Touraine- The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
Linus Baker/Arthur Parnassus- The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
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unnonexistence · 11 months ago
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idk if there's anything in stories i get more petty about than poorly-written "main character shows up to a new place and meets everyone" character introduction scenes
#personal#they make me SO ANGRY ahglkmsfkl#it isnt just the trope of showing up and meeting everyone either#like it works for me in some things!#i think pacific rim does a really good job with characterization for example#and it's got a sequence of scenes where raleigh arrives and the audience is introduced to the shatterdome & important characters basically#my working theory until i do some more analysis is that stories that do it well leave some mystery#like in pacrim you don't find out mako's whole deal immediately upon meeting her#pentecost doesnt go ''this is mako mori. one of our brightest. her whole family was killed by a kaiju and she wants to be a pilot''#he says she's in charge of the mk 3 restoration program#and she doesn't immediately offer up her backstory because why would she. real people dont do that#the russian pilots dont show up and go ''hello we are russian''. pentecost just tells raleigh briefly who they are#etc. newt & hermann's intro scene is one of my favourite bits of characterization Ever and you don't learn that much about hermann during i#all the info you get is from newt being chatty and ridiculous and mocking hermann and putting his foot in his mouth. i.e. newt being newt#and that's what makes it good!#when chuck and herc are introduced you learn absolutely nothing about chuck. hes just there in the background#he and raleigh look at each other for a second and you kinda go ''who's that guy''#AND THATS ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH HIM AS ''PROBABLY IMPORTANT LATER''#idk idk but so many books do this kind of scene so badly that it pisses me off#so many POPULAR books too. like i either am uniquely annoyed about this or other people are way more willing to overlook it lol#as far as examples go. the house in the cerulean sea and every heart a doorway were the books where i got so annoyed i immediately DNFed#i feel like the long way to a small angry planet does it a little bit but not as bad. i cant remember for sure it's been a while#i did finish that one but i had extremely mixed feelings about it#and now im reading a big ship at the edge of the universe and. once again it is happening#aaaargh
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cuntyji · 2 months ago
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you were sure, without a doubt, that math had been invented by the devil himself—or at the very least, some ancient sadist who found joy in human suffering. and who else but the sumerians, the architects of civilization, to introduce numbers and wedge them into the very fabric of reality?
which brought you here, sprawled out on gojo satoru’s bed, textbooks and loose papers abandoned at the edge of the mattress, your laptop open but wholly ignored. your eyes were squeezed shut, thighs trembling, and brain struggling—desperately—to process the numbers being traced against your cunt with his tongue.
“you’re fidgeting too much,” he mumbled against your folds, the vibration of his voice sending another pulse of heat up your spine. he sounded amused, always so amused, as if he weren’t the one making this impossible.
“oh, i wonder why,” you bit back, and your sharp exhale turned into a shaky whimper when his tongue swirled again—slow, purposeful.
"mm, attitude," he teased, pulling back slightly. his glasses—he had insisted on keeping them on, of course, just to be extra insufferable—slipped an inch down his nose. he peered over them, a lazy grin on his lips, cerulean eyes twinkling with mischief. "you should be thanking me, you know. most people have to suffer through studying, but me? i’m making it fun for you, baby."
fun, he says. as if this wasn’t absolute torture.
"fun for you," you gritted out, propping yourself up on your elbows to glare down at him. it was hard to look menacing when your legs were thrown over his shoulders, his breath hot against your dripping cunt.
“fun for both of us,” he corrected, and before you could retort, he dove back in, tongue flat against your clit before spelling out a number with slow, languid strokes.
your back arched. fuck. that was—okay, that was definitely a six. or maybe a nine? shit.
he pulled back again, looking far too pleased with himself. “c’mon, princess. what’s the answer?”
you struggled to keep your voice even, mind still hazy. “si—sixty-nine?”
he huffed a laugh, pressing an open-mouthed kiss to your inner thigh. “mmm, close, but not quite.”
"what do you mean not quite—"
before you could argue, he started again, this time tracing a much longer sequence of numbers, each movement sending sparks of pleasure through your core. your nails dug into the sheets, jaw slack. it took you a second—two, three?—before you realized: oh. he was giving you the answer to the long equation from earlier.
bastard.
“satoru—!”
“concentrate,” he chided, pausing just long enough to smirk up at you before resuming, each flick of his tongue slow, deliberate.
"i—i can't!"
"yes, you can," he murmured against you, tracing another swirl, another long stroke that had your toes curling. "you want that A, don’t you?"
your head lolled back, a moan slipping out before you could stop it. god, you hated him. hated how smug he was, how good he was.
"better get the answer right, or you're getting a big fat D," he chuckled, pressing a final, lingering kiss against your sensitive clit. "literally."
your breath hitched. okay. fine. if this was how he wanted to play, you were going to win this damn game.
you swallowed, chest heaving, and forced your scattered thoughts into something coherent. focus. deep breath. think of the numbers, not the way he was staring at you over the rim of his glasses, lips shiny with your slick, eyes full of challenge.
“eight…three…seven…five…” your voice wavered, but you kept going, pushing past the pleasure clawing at your mind.
gojo’s grin widened, and his grip on your thighs tightened just slightly. “atta girl.”
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mihii-i · 3 months ago
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form of worship.
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Pairings: mizu x fem!reader
CW: nsfw, female reader, afab reader, wlw, redo of the brothel vision scene because I fucking hate it, flashback yippee, you’re not here w her unfortunately mizu just thinks of reader, I made this more passionate because I just don’t like taizu and I get more action than taigen cause I’m her wife obvi, praise, fingering, crying, sough rex, the kink where you drag your nails along someone’s back (do not tell anyone I have that this stays here.), mizu’s confused about gay people lmfao, hehehehe switch mizu yes I live for switch mizu, bottom lean tho cause im thirsty rn, not proofread.
A/N: here’s the little poll winner request cause you freakazoids (lovingly) requested anyway this is literally just the brothel sequence but with mizu imagining you instead of baldie (I hate that scene sm I pretend it doesn’t exist lmfaooo) anyway have fun cause it’s almost midnight so writing might be a little off. 🕯️
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“He was honest with his desire, that is a swordsman who knows the shape of his soul.”
Madame Kaji’s smooth voice rang around the thick atmosphere clouded with lust, her voice soft like a bundle of silk running fluidly without any openings or stray threads. Slim spills of golden light poured out from the thin, rectangular peephole that slid open to observe such acts through the periphery a singular eye.
Orange glasses lowered to rest atop the bridge of her nose, Mizu couldn’t help but catch a glimpse of the raw skin to skin contact, both a woman and the samurai from the duel earlier brushing up against each other so sinfully, while another man pressed against the samurai’s back to loom over his wide shoulders. Her pupils dilated wide within the rim of her cerulean eyes, fixated on how the dull yellow brightness outlining their bodies in the midst of a firey passion scorching within the confines of the heated ambience.
She had solely convinced herself that such acts were nothing but a medium of self indulgence in the pleasure of another. An addictive feeling that is solely useless to partake in. Sexual pleasure could either be a soul entangling act of love, coursing through the veins in an ardent ache throbbing within someone to love and please the other. While on the other end, it could be the exact opposite. A heightened, sadistic thirst to satisfy one’s selfish desires to bask in, as well as inflict harm upon another in rugged destruction where the reciever pleads for it to be over. The duality alone was enough to draw Mizu away from the prospect of something supposedly disgusting to her.
So why couldn’t she tear her eyes away from the two men, engaged so deeply in their fervor together?
Mizu opened her mouth to speak for a moment, eyes still locked onto the grasp of the three in the room rocking against each other as a chorus of quiet moans gradually grew louder from the inside. Her mouth hung dry in response though, not a single word rasping out of her mouth in the usual stern tone that lowly hummed against her throat. She wanted to deny the potential thought of sex being an act of worship as Madame Kaji had proposed, trying to force out the words of desire being beyond the need of her purpose.
Madame Kaji only flashed her a satisfied smile at the sight of her gaze transfixed onto the passionate act between the three within the room. The corners of her cherry lips perked up at the sight, cautiously stepping toward Mizu.
“Has the gentleman finally caught sight of an act that piqued his interest?” She inquired, under the impression that sexual relations with a man was what Mizu had desired.
That wasn’t it.
A man with another man? Although quite different to her, the act itself between two of the same sex seemed beautiful in her sights, a fresh bond between the two men being honest with their desires in a way that wasn’t the norm nor taboo, yet was rather welcome as a beauty of preference to one another.
Could two women partake in the same act?
Mizu blinked at the abrupt thought she had, her bottom lip curled into a thin line dashed below her nose. She wondered to herself that if women weren’t so confined in such a society, remaining as open to several options as men were…could two women be honest with their desires in the same affection to crave one another?
Her mind began flood with scenarios as she blankly dulled her eyes into the two men’s lips smashed up against one another’s, not particularly looking at them with much interest. Rather, she wanted to know how it would feel to outline her hands along the smooth skin of another woman. Head racing with scenarios of you in particular, rather than some random woman she picked up on. It was clear Mizu had missed you, yet she didn’t think it was to the extent where her thoughts were clouded with fucking you in the same way the do in these brothels.
Face flushing deeply, the upper end of the bridge of her nose was dusted in a gentle blush of pink, diffusing to the thin bones of her cheeks. All she could picture in the moment while staring blankly—were the calloused ridges of her fingers tracing along your curves as her palms carefully dug into the plush of your bare skin, handling you cautiously as if you were a porcelain doll, fragile to her unmerciful hand.
Lips grazing the flesh of your throat while her skull was nothing but a whirlwind of desire for you, longing to hear your drawn out noises as the compulsive need to feel you clenching around her waned at any composure she kept within her. Mizu continued to observe the acts of the two, with less interest in what they partook in and rather what she wanted to lock you into, imagining the infatuating sight of your nude frame sprawled out below her, legs held up to your chest with only one of her hands as her gloves chafed against the bristles of hair on your knees.
Mizu bit her bottom lip subtly at the lone idea itself of her free hand sunken into your cunt while she took in your cries of pleasure circling her, the heightened want and desperation in your voice bouncing off the walls into every corner of the room as you enclosed the velvety warmth of your walls around the ridges of her digits. Simply burying them knuckles deep in you, your body bouncing up and down with each thrust as she kissed you all over as a sweet act of love coated in pleasure until your inevitable climax.
Gods, she couldn’t keep you out of her mind.
Even when the two men flipped over, Mizu strangely enough was only able to dissolve her previous thoughts into a whole new scenario, one of which made her skin burn as a bead of sweat built up directly below her jaw on the vein of her neck. Feeling as if her head was throbbing at the influx of perverted thoughts, she didn’t attempt to push away any idea of you laying on top of her as well, hands flat against her waist to press her into a tatami mat.
Such a shameless thought of you taking her on the floor itself only sent her reeling into a mess, brain short circuiting as her knees pushed closer together than they already were. Attempting to push back the simple, raw idea of your fingers brushing along that spot within her, massaging the spongy end that addictively buries your fingers into the soft warmth of her pussy, was nothing but a futile attempt.
It was hard to push back, especially darting to the idea of your teeth grazing the edge of her collarbone as you hummed against the crook of her neck, uttering out soothing words of praise along her skin as a shiver racked Mizu’s body. Tears stinging at the corner of her eyes as her legs tightly coiled around your bare waist, obscene moans she attempted to suppress spilling from her lips as your fingers sunk into her cunt enveloping you with a welcome warmth.
Each gentle word of affection rasped out by your hushed voice against her throat serving to prick more tears welling up in her eyes from the sheer emotion blending into the sensation of pleasure arching her body in a dome off the ground as your palm ground against her sensitive clit. Her fingers traced along your back as you rammed your fingers into her against the mat while her body jousted upward with the slam of three of your fingers inside her, nails dug into your back as she raked down your skin in a wake of bright red blooming along the ridges of goosebumps.
Mizu knew how damn loud she was, the fact even coming to enticingly haunt her in her fantasies as she envisioned the lewd noises wrenched out of her throat while she dug her nails into your back, your fingers nudging up against her g-spot as she let out a pleading sob at the sheer stimulation driven by your love. Only being able to imagine the blanking feeling mentally as she snapped from her climax, her lithe figure arching to the cool air assaulting her bare skin as it drew in shiver along her exposed tits, chest heaving up and down as you captured her in a gentle kiss.
Her imagination subsided as soon as she lost sight of the three within the room upon grounding herself back into reality, the heat dusted across still lingering along the midpoint of her sharp facial structure. When Mizu had imagined your hands on her, or even her hands pressed onto your body, she couldn’t help but ponder Madame Kaji’s words once more…she wanted you in a way that could be considered a form of worship.
“Have you found your desire?”
Madame Kaji’s words cut through Mizu’s elevated state as she stared through the warmth of her glasses wide eyed, swallowing back the embarrassment accumulated from the strangely detailed scenario. Mizu only shook her head in response, replying in a hesitant voice firmly.
She shut her eyes under the facade of being calm, her fingers pressed to the wood before dragging it across to slide the window closed as she pursed her lips shut.
“Desire is beyond the need of my purpose.”
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A/N: bye I have midterms next week anyway this is fine but like yall voted for this don’t even
ily all no matter how freaky yall are (im acting like I’m not)
I was gnawing at the bars of my enclosure writing this and it’s 2 am I’m sleepy gn.
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kallie-den · 3 months ago
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Cerulean
A recent escapee attends a support group for victims of evil mind control… run by the strange, sinister and inimitable Dr. Amaranth Cerulean
Special thanks to @dollzcomix for this commission, and for allowing me to write about Dr. Cerulean! They are a character of Demoiselle Porcelaine's creation, and I highly encourage you to check out her socials for all of her wonderful artwork of Dr. Cerulean - who truly is inimitable, and whose creator brings across their unique charm better than I ever could
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The support group was nice… kind of. In theory. It had sounded nice, anyway, when Mariah had found out about it online. A pop-up ad, of all things, accompanied by a garish animation and a picture of the strange-looking psychiatrist who ran it, and written all in lower-case: ‘villain hypnosis victim support group’. Obviously, Mariah’s first instinct had been to dismiss it as some kind of weird internet con, but then she’d had second thoughts. Was there really a support group for people who’d been through what she had? Could other people actually understand the way she was feeling? If so, wasn’t that worth taking a chance on?
That was how she’d ended up in an untidy, rented office space on the side of the highway after dark.
It both was and wasn’t the kind of atmosphere Mariah had expected. A bunch of chairs set out in a circle. People sitting on them, sharing their stories. Strung up on one wall was a big banner that read ‘Mind Control and What Comes After: A Support Group to Find Yourself Again After Being Brainwashed’ in brightly colored but slightly faded letters. Mariah appreciated the stab at an upbeat atmosphere, but the attendeess simply weren’t up to the task.
They all just seemed so completely and utterly harrowed. Mariah sympathized, of course. She knew the ashamed, traumatized, hollowed-out look on each of their faces all too well. She saw in the mirror every morning. But she’d been hoping to see something a little more encouraging, too. Healing. Solidarity. Catharsis. On TV and in movies, support groups always involved people pouring out their hearts, breaking down, embracing one another. Making breakthroughs and overcoming their issues.
Mariah hadn’t expected the real thing to be quite so dramatic, but she’d been looking for more than a sequence of interminable recountings of horrors and violations. Each one seemed to conjure the awfulness of the past back into the present and leave the recounter shriveled and trembling. It was like the support group was making the attendees lesser, not greater. Mariah wasn’t sure she could see any signs of healing at all, or even of people finding solidarity in their brokenness. It was all just miserable.
The only person who seemed like they were having a good time was the psychiatrist running the thing.
Dr. Amaranth Cerulean, they/she.
They looked just as weird in person as they had on their advert. Dr. Cerulean was deathly pale, with big, tired, dark-circled eyes and unusual, light blue markings beneath them, as well as on her lips. It was a strange and striking look, especially along with their prominent nose and the short but poofy, voluminous hair piled up in rounded masses on their head. The shrink wore a gray cardigan over a ribbed, mustard yellow turtleneck sweater which was tucked into the belted waist of their brown slacks. It was an outfit from a different decade. Mariah just wasn’t quite sure which one.
In a way, it wasn’t surprising that a support group like this would be run by an eccentric. Mariah wasn’t one to judge. Dr. Cerulean’s demeanor, though, was a little unnerving. Throughout most of the session, Dr. Cerulean sat on her chair at the head of the group, in a completely slack, slouched pose that registered nothing but complete disinterest. They barely spoke, and only to indicate who should speak next. Certainly not to provide any advice or support. They had a pen and a pad of paper, from the way their hand moved while they were writing on it, Mariah felt certain they were mostly just idly doodling.
Every now and then, however, something would catch their attention. Occasionally—and only when somebody was sharing a particularly lurid, uncomfortable and traumatic part of their experience of being mind controlled—Dr. Cerulean would throw their entire body forward and sit perched so perilously close to their edge of their chair, Mariah feared they were about to topple from it. They would scratch at their notepad in a frenzy, and those big, tired eyes certainly became laser-focused and eager. Whenever that happened, a truly ghastly smile descended on their face. Not warm, not supportive, just pleased. Smug. Grateful, even, like they were thankful someone had stepped up to deliver them from boredom.
And from the slight twitch in their cheek, Mariah couldn’t help but suspect Dr. Cerulean was struggling to keep themself from laughing.
Dr. Cerulean’s presence made the entire support group feel uncomfortably voyeuristic, somehow. When it came to be Mariah’s turn, she kept it to a bare minimum. She introduced herself and made a few oblique references to what had happened to her, but completely glossed over the details. She figured that was pretty normal for a first-timer—and besides, it was difficult to speak with Dr. Cerulean looking at her like she was a fresh-cooked meal placed on their table.
Mariah decided right then and there—there wasn’t going to be a second time. She just didn’t feel comfortable here. It wasn’t the kind of support group she was looking for.
She stuck it out to the end, though—mostly because leaving halfway through seemed much too awkward. Once they wrapped up, before Mariah could slip out quietly, she found that Dr. Cerulean was suddenly between her and the door, and staring at her with an expectant look on their ghoulish face.
“H-Hi,” Mariah said, mostly because she felt like she had to. “Um… thanks for the session.”
“Oh, don’t mention it,” Dr. Cerulean sounded every bit as tired and seedy as they looked. “Thank you for coming. Really. We love a newcomer.”
“Yeah…” Mariah had no idea what to say to that. “Well, I was actually just-“
“Good news!” Dr. Cerulean interrupted suddenly, in a lazy, drawling voice. “You’re actually our one-hundredth member. That means you win a free one-on-one session with yours truly.”
Finger guns.
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Hell no.
That had been Mariah’s initial response. The easiest ‘nope’ of her life. She’d politely declined, and privately resolved to never set foot in Dr. Cerulean’s support group again.
Then she’d gone home, gone to bed, and had the nightmares again.
It was nothing new. They came for Mariah most nights. But it meant another eight-hour torture session inside her own head, tossing and turning, fighting off both gut-wrenching guilt and poisonous allure. In the cold light of dawn, Mariah had felt worse than ever—and taking up Dr. Cerulean on her offer hadn’t seemed like such a bad idea after all. It had been easy to tell herself that it hadn’t really been that bad after all. Sure, Dr. Cerulean was a bit eccentric, but what had Mariah expected from somebody running a support group for mind control victims? It wasn’t like they’d done anything wrong, exactly.
More importantly, Mariah needed the help. Desperately. She couldn’t keep going on like this. That was why she’d gone to the support group in the first place. She needed to talk to somebody. Didn’t she owe it to herself to push herself? To take every chance? Mariah kept thinking about the kind of stuff she’d read online. Recovery wasn’t always easy. It wasn’t always comfortable. You had to push yourself.
Mariah had decided that she wanted to push herself.
Besides, it was just talking. In the end, that was what clinched it for her. All they were going to do was sit in a room and talk. If it was good, great. If it was bad, it would be a waste of time—but at least Mariah could tell herself she had given it a fair shot.
Basically: what was the worst that could happen?
That was how, the very next afternoon, Mariah found herself in Dr. Cerulean’s office, trying to distract herself from her anxiety by carefully inspecting the weird pineapple lamp on Dr. Cerulean’s desk. Dressed exactly as they had been the day before, the psychiatrist regarded Mariah with a bland smile on their blue lips as they invited her to sit down opposite them.
“So, um,” Mariah said, shifting uncomfortably. “How do we get started?”
“First things first,” Dr. Cerulean told her, “I have a few release forms for you to sign. Standard stuff, really. No need to read them too carefully.”
They handed Mariah a small stack of papers. Cautiously, Mariah started scanning the first. It seemed, as promised, entirely standard. Non-disclosure, liability, that kind of thing. After signing it, she moved on to the second, then the third, and quickly stopped bothering to read much of the legal jargon. On the very last form, though, something caught her eye.
“Wait a minute,” Mariah said. “This is a release authorizing you to… write online fiction about me?”
Quickly, Dr. Cerulean reached over the deck and snatched away the piece of paper. “Oops,” she replied languidly. “Bit of a mix-up. My mistake. Don’t worry about it. You can sign that one later.”
Later? Mariah frowned. Was that some kind of joke? It had to be. Dr. Cerulean certainly looked like they were finding humor in something—but it was in seriously poor taste.
“There we go.” Dr. Cerulean stretched one of their long arms across to retrieve the other release forms. They sat back in their chair and regarded Mariah carefully. “To begin with, why don’t you just tell me what brought you to the support group?”
Again, Mariah considered refusing. Again, she reminded herself: she needed to give this a shot.
“I… I just feel like I can’t move forward,” Mariah began slowly. She fixed her eyes on the floor, hoping that would be less awkward. “You know? I see all these people going about their daily lives. Pursuing careers. Pursuing other people. Pursuing happiness. And it just seems completely impossible to me. Like I can’t even fathom it—even though I used to be just like them. I can ever remember her—that old version of me. The one who wasn’t… who wasn’t broken. I want to be her again so bad. I just… can’t remember how.”
She looked up. Mariah’s voice was already a little choked up from the emotions she was describing. She was hoping, perhaps, for a kind word or a kind smile.
Instead, Dr. Cerulean wasn’t even looking at her. They had a pencil in their hand, and they were trying to spin it cleanly on the joint between their thumb and their hand. After a particularly vigorous spin, it slipped away from them and clattered against the top of the desk.
“Dr. Cerulean?” Mariah ventured plaintively.
Dr. Cerulean let out a breath that was very close to a sigh, and then their brow twitched in a way that made Mariah think, just for a moment, that they were going to roll their eyes. Then, though, a smile—only a little forced—came to Dr. Cerulean’s blue lips.
“Why don’t we start at the beginning?” Dr. Cerulean suggested. “What actually happened to you?”
“Oh. Right.” That made sense to Mariah, even if she wished Dr. Cerulean sounded a little more patient about it. She gathered her courage. Talking about what had befallen her didn’t come easy. “A couple of years ago, I-I was in a relationship. With a guy. Robert. We were engaged, I actually. I thought we were going to spend our entire lives together.”
“Uh-huh.” The look of boredom still hadn’t disappeared from Dr. Cerulean’s face.
“I had recently started a new job,” Mariah recounted, voice trembling. “As a PA—a personal assistant. I spoke to my boss about taking some time off for the wedding. Mrs. Lawrence. She, um, didn’t like that idea. She’d always been kind of… controlling, I guess. A… a bully.” She struggled to say it, even though it was true. “She told me she required my services. Didn’t want me to focus on the needs of anyone besides her.”
“Oh?” Those big, sunken eyes on Dr. Cerulean’s face were starting to perk up a little. “What then?”
“I threatened to quit.” Mariah squeezed her eyes tight shut. “So she mind-controlled me.”
Mariah heard a small, wet sound from a short distance away. When she opened her eyes, Dr. Cerulean’s lips were damp, and they had taken up their notepad.
“Tell me more about that,” the psychiatrist prompted.
“She started taking over every aspect of my life,” Mariah whispered. “The way I looked, talked, dressed, and how-“
“No, no,” Dr. Cerulean interrupted eagerly, waving a hand. “How did she mind control you?”
“Um.” Mariah was taken aback by the question. “What do you mean?”
“Well, is she a psychic?” Dr. Cerulean raised a hand and started counting methods on her fingers. “Psychoactive spores? Big ray gun? Good ‘ol hypnotist? Some kind of succubus?”
“She, um,” Mariah replied slowly. “She had one of those… toys on her desk. You know, with the row of balls hanging on strings?”
“A Newton’s cradle!” For the first time, Dr. Cerulean sounded faintly delighted. “Hold on.”
Dr. Cerulean reached under their desk and started rummaging around in a box that seemed to contain a truly preposterous quantity and variety of strange objects. Mariah watched, confused then horrified, as Dr. Cerulean plucked out one of them and set it upon their desk.
It was a Newton’s cradle.
“Um…” Mariah was transfixed by the object. “That’s… c-can you…”
Dr. Cerulean took one of the metal balls between their thumb and forefinger, lifted it, and let it swing.
The metallic tap as it hit against the next reverberated through Mariah’s entire being.
“D-Dr. Cerulean,” Mariah stammered. She was hot and cold. She could feel herself sweating. She could feel herself sinking. “C-c-could you p-put that away, p-please?”
“What, this?” Dr. Cerulean seemed faintly surprised as they leaned back easily in their chair. “But it’s just a little toy.”
“But…” Mariah was about to say something else, but the tapping of the Newton’s cradle broke about her words before they could form. She was left blubbering the word over stupidly. “B-but…”
“Mariah,” Dr. Cerulean tutted. “It’s important for you to understand that this is just a commonplace object. It’s acquired a certain psychological character in your mind as a trigger, but that’s something that you’re imbuing onto the world. Aren’t you afraid that you’re just reinforcing the scars of your own trauma? We need to push past our fears. If you continue to treat this toy with significance, it will become more and more significant to you.”
Dr. Cerulean sounded every bit the consummate professional as they rattled off the argument in their quick but monotonous voice. The words crested over Mariah like a wave. She had no rebuttal. Dr. Cerulean was the psychiatrist, after all.
And Mariah really, really couldn’t think straight with the Newton’s cradle tap, tap, tapping away on the desk.
“OK,” she said quietly, eventually.
“Very good.” Beyond the Newton’s cradle, Mariah could see a smile forming on Dr. Cerulean’s face. “Desensitization through exposure therapy is a key element of recovery. Go on.”
“Go… on?” Exposure therapy? Mariah still couldn’t look away from the Newton’s cradle. She couldn’t stop shaking. But if it was part of her recovery…
“Tell me what your boss did to you.”
“Mrs. Lawrence,” Mariah said slowly, “made me break up with my boyfriend.”
As they took notes, Dr. Cerulean made a little noise that might have been the beginnings of a laugh. “Of course.”
“B-but it’s more than that.” Mariah wasn’t sure that she wanted to talk about it, really. But she had no choice. It just came out of her—because she was looking at the Newton’s cradle, and Dr. Cerulean was telling her to speak. “She… s-she made…” Her voice broke. “She made me g-gay.”
Abruptly, Dr. Cerulean sat forward. For the first time, Mariah felt the full weight of the psychiatrist’s attention.
“Oh wow,” Dr. Cerulean remarked, with an ominous delight they slowly brought back under wraps. “That’s… really something. How did that go?”
“It’s awful,” Mariah moaned. “It’s not… I’m s-straight. I’ve always been straight. But when I looked at her—when I look at other women—I can’t help but feel it. And it feels so… so dirty.”
“Of course,” Dr. Cerulean agreed, scribbling at their notepad. “Something as fundamental as your sexuality has been made completely alienating to you.” They sat forward, leering. “It must be maddening. Feeling like your desire and your memory are at war. Not knowing which one you can trust. Not knowing which one is really you.”
Mariah nodded slowly. It was exactly like that. She was so glad Dr. Cerulean understood—but at the same time, hearing it said out loud with such bluntness felt awful.
“Tell me more,” the psychiatrist beckoned. “Tell me everything.”
Mariah’s vision was starting to narrow. She made one great effort to tear her attention away from the Newton’s cradle—and couldn’t. She could feel herself losing focus. Losing wakefulness. It was just the way it had been back then. Her shaking worsened, but it wasn’t enough to jostle her from trance’s reaching fingertips.
“I… I…” Dr. Cerulean’s words conjured the very deepest, most awful truths from Mariah’s drowning mind. “I tried… to go back to him, after they arrested her. I knew she’d get out on bail, but it gave me enough time to c-come back to my senses. I went back to him, but… b-but I just couldn’t stand it. I c-couldn’t look at him the same. And when he touched me, I…”
There was a loud noise as Dr. Cerulean slapped their thigh. Mariah jumped, but even that wasn’t enough to break her focus.
“Wait, you tried to go straight back to your old life?” they wheezed. “Wow, yeah, no, don’t do that! You didn’t give yourself any breathing room. No time to process what had happened to you. You tried to force yourself back into an old groove, and then when you couldn’t, I bet you felt more broken than ever! Rookie mistake, seriously.”
Dr. Cerulean’s barely disguised amusement bothered Mariah, but not as much as it should have. She simply couldn’t think straight. Each loud tap as one of the balls of the Newton’s cradle impacted against its neighbor was overwhelming. As much as she wanted to get up and leave, Mariah’s legs wouldn’t obey her. The most she could do was point at the Newton’s cradle with a weak, trembling hand.
“Please,” she blubbered. “P-p-please make it stop. P-please. I can’t… I c-can’t…”
“Oops.” Beyond the cradle, Mariah could see that Dr. Cerulean’s tired, sunken eyes had become bright and leering. “Now you’re on the verge of a full-blown relapse, aren’t you? It looks like you really are that fragile. Well, it makes sense. Recounting your traumatic experiences while being exposed to an explicit reminder of your victimhood will do that to you. Not very recovered after all, huh?”
Mariah shook her head numbly as tears welled up in her eyes. She could see it so clearly now. She wasn’t recovered at all. She hadn’t moved forward even one inch since getting free. She was small. She was weak.
“Tell me,” Dr. Cerulean asked, “what are you so afraid of? You’re shaking like a leaf."
“I-I don’t want to hurt people again,” Mariah blurted out.
Dr. Cerulean set down their notepad and planted their hands on the desk, palms vertical, the tips of their fingertips pressed together. Mariah could feel those long fingers reaching into her. Peeling her open. Prying her secrets apart.
“Who did you hurt, Mariah?” Dr. Cerulean asked.
Mariah had never told anybody about that—but she couldn’t lie. Not here. Not now. Not with the Newton’s cradle. Mrs. Lawrence had always drilled that into her. Tell the truth.
“I h-helped her take other girls,” Mariah whispered. “Anybody who caught her eye. I m-made appointments with them. P-put things in their drinks. Sometimes she even m-made me hold them, so they’d keep looking at the…” She choked back a sob. “Mrs. Lawrence made me t-talk to them. Condition them. D-d-discipline them.”
“Fascinating,” Dr. Cerulean said softly. “You must feel so guilty.”
“Yes!” The word erupted out of Mariah. It was all she could think about, every hour of every day.
“Of course,” Dr. Cerulean agreed softly. “You feel as though you were forced, outside of your own control, to commit acts that horrify you and compromise your sense of self. I think it’s crucial that we begin to reframe this.”
Mariah nodded slowly. She could do nothing else.
“Did you know that-“ Dr. Cerulean interrupted herself with a kind of gleeful chuckle. “Did you know that you cannot be hypnotized into doing anything that you don’t want to do?”
“Um.” Mariah blinked and swayed unsteadily. “W-what?”
No. That wasn’t true. It couldn’t be true.
“Oh yes,” Dr. Cerulean insisted. “Hypnosis is just a little mind trick, really. It’s a way of lowering your inhibitions and suppressing your conscious mind, but do you really believe that it would make you a complete and total slave to whoever’s doing it to you? Lowering inhibitions simply implies the removal of a barrier to your true desires.”
“No.” Mariah shook her head violently. “N-no. No way. That’s… you’re…”
“Think about it,” Dr. Cerulean pressed, thin blue lips now stretched into a leering grin. “How did you feel when your boss used you sexually?”
Mariah flinched. “I-it felt good, but that’s only because she made-“
“Accepting our sexualities is often a battle,” Dr. Cerulean said agreeably. She made another note in her notepad. “How did you feel when you hurt those other women?”
“Please don’t make me say it,” Mariah begged, trembling. Dr. Cerulean just looked at her. “G-good. But that’s-“
“Of course.” The psychiatrist nodded. “Violence. Exercising power. It may be unpleasant, but it appeals to the baser parts of our natures. That’s a huge part of any form of so-called mind control. It provides a nice, convenient excuse for us to exercise desires we might normally feel the need to repress. And how about whenever you were ‘forced’ to obey your boss?”
Obey. That word lit a fuse in Mariah’s head.
“Obey,” she muttered. “Obey. O-obey. Obey. Obey. Obey.”
Normally, she was better than this. She could keep it under wraps. Not today. Not with the Newton’s cradle.
“A mantra!” Dr. Cerulean sounded pleased. “And so easy to trigger, too. This is good. Great, in fact. We’re making a lot of progress. I think we’re really starting to get to the root of your issues.”
“Obey.” Mariah kept repeating it under her breath. Each word gave rise to the next, unceasing, until her lungs were empty of air and she was shaking from the effort—but still, she kept going. “Obeyobeyobeyobeyobey.”
“Yes, yes, keep going,” Dr. Cerulean waved an idle hand in her direction. “Exposure therapy is a crucial tool. Remember what we were discussing earlier? You have to take back power from these things. You can’t keep making them special in your head. Repetition is a great way to do that.”
There was something soothing about hearing that. Mariah started easing into the mantra, letting her mind settle. She just needed to trust Dr. Cerulean. Her obedient liturgy was starting to make her feel calm again. Just like it always had with Mrs. Lawrence.
“Now, what was I saying?” Dr. Cerulean mused. “Oh, that’s right. Hypnosis. You really must consider what I’m saying. Perhaps the reason you’ve found all of this so difficult is that your boss was tapping into some of your deeply held repressed desires. Forcing you to confront them. Forcing you to accept the way they make you feel.”
“Obey,” Mariah panted. “Obey. Obey. Obey.”
“Obviously that’s just one way to conceptualize your experience,” Dr. Cerulean continued. “It might not sound right to you, but that’s where reframing comes in. At the end of the day, Mariah, you need to make a choice about what kind of narrative you want to fit onto your life. Ultimately, that’s all our egos amount to. They’re stories we tell about ourselves to find a semblance of security and comfort in our day-to-day lives. Which story flatters you the most? Which story brings you the most comfort? We need to help you answer that question so that you can find a degree of fulfillment.”
“Obey… obey… obey…” Mariah was slowing now, as the mantra drove all the way down to a deeper layer of hypnotism, leaving her in a place so dark and still even speaking was too much effort for her.
“Enough of that now,” Dr. Cerulean instructed dismissively. “You want control, don’t you Mariah? Think about it: which narrative makes you feel in control? Which one will help you reclaim your life?”
Mariah’s eyelids fluttered as she bent her mind to the question. When they were open, she could see Dr. Cerulean, lurking beyond the Newton’s cradle. When they were closed, she could see Mrs. Lawrence. Her boss. Her brainwasher. It was terrifying—but what if it didn’t have to be? Mariah could remember a time she hadn’t been scared. A time when she’d eagerly obeyed her boss with the eagerness of a docile lamb.
More than ever, she longed for it.
But… that was wrong, wasn’t it?
“I…” Mariah grasped. “No, I… I’m straight?”
Dr. Cerulean shook their head slowly. “You’re a little behind, Mariah. Remember. Narratives. Reframing. Are you really straight? Or is that simply what you’ve always believed? Many queer people suffer from a degree of internalized bigotry, and respond by desperately clinging to a veneer of heteronormativity. I promise you, Mariah. This room is a safe space. You can explore your feelings and desires here.”
Mariah’s mouth opened and closed uselessly. What Dr. Cerulean was telling her didn’t sound right—but then again, Mariah had no idea what would. And the pale psychiatrist sounded so expert. So sure.
“Let’s approach this on a more basic level,” Dr. Cerulean offered. “You need to relearn confidence in your basic drives. It’s important that you proceed without doubting yourself too much. I want you to accept yourself. To embrace your feelings. That’s the only way you can begin to heal. With that in mind, let me ask you: how do you feel about men?”
The Newton’s cradle was coming to rest, but that provided little comfort. As its motion slowed, Mariah felt her thoughts slowing along with it. She was swimming in trance. The word ‘obey’ was still echoing in her head. She couldn’t get beyond her first, strongest response.
“I c-can’t stand them,” she whimpered.
“Good,” Dr. Cerulean said poisonously. “I’m glad you can accept that about yourself. Now, how do you feel about women?”
“I… I…” That question triggered a sudden sunburst of emotion in Mariah’s head. Ideas, impulses, and beliefs all poured into her, each one pulled by a thread that was a memory or a sensation. They awakened something in her, something that burst past her lips in a wet, needy ejaculation. “I-I belong on my knees for women!”
“Another mantra?” Dr. Cerulean leered. “Interesting. It seems like we’re making a lot of progress here. As I told you, I want you to have confidence in your feelings and desires. So please, don’t stop yourself. Do whatever it is that feels most right to you. Whatever makes you feel comfortable in the moment.”
A great weight was pressing down on Mariah’s shoulders. Simply sitting in her chair felt so nauseatingly wrong, she couldn’t bear it. The only thing that seemed comfortable was slipping out of it, down onto her knees beneath Dr. Cerulean’s desk. The cold, uncomfortable floor welcomed her with the familiarity of a well-worn mattress.
“Fascinating,” Dr. Cerulean mused. “At the risk of moving a little too fast, perhaps we should try a little word association. That can be a very useful way to uncover the real roots of psychological issues. So, Mariah: you belong on your knees for women?”
Mariah choked back another sob as the words flowed out of her. “I b-belong on my knees for women. A good secretary’s place is under the desk. I l-love to be at women’s feet. I belong on my knees for… for women. A good secretary’s p-place is under the desk. I… I… hng… I love to be at women’s feet!”
Her stomach was a noxious cauldron. An iron pall of palpitating nausea sat inside her. The sense of anxious danger that had haunted her for months now was frothing like never before. But above it sat a thick, dense, smothering fog that whispered to her: this was all good. It was right. It was her place.
Mariah was trying to listen to the danger-sense. She was failing. It was too painful. She just wanted to stop thinking.
“It stands out to me that your set of associations ends with a reference to women’s bodies.” Mariah heard Dr. Cerulean’s voice from above, as the strange psychiatrist sat back calmly in their chair. That was another thing she was used to. “That may be the key to your desires, Mariah. Listen to them. Show me what comes next.”
As they spoke, Dr. Cerulean slowly slipped out of her shoes, using each one to pry the other off. Underneath, they were wearing a strange pair of pineapple socks; yellow and patterned on the lower part, and leaf-green around their ankles. Their socks, though, weren’t what had caught Mariah’s attention. She was distracted by the simple fact that she was in her place, under a desk, and an authoritative woman was looming over her with their feet dangling in her face.
Mariah followed her desires. She did what came naturally to her. With tears still in her eyes, lips still mouthing the words Mrs. Lawrence had imprinted on her mind, she reached out and began massaging Dr. Cerulean’s feet.
Dr. Cerulean let out a glib chuckle, then sighed contentedly. “Look at you now. You’re under the desk, repeating your mantras, looking for another woman’s feet to worship. A complete and total relapse! How unfortunate.”
“I… I… I-I…” Another sob threatened to rip loose from Mariah’s throat. She wanted to speak, to argue, to apologize, to beg, but she already knew that if she tried, the only thing that would come out was her boss’s mantra.
A relapse. It was the rock-bottom Mariah had been afraid of for so long. All the urges she had been fighting to hold in check were oozing out. She was on her knees again. She was languishing in the pit of her own awful, dirty, lustful feelings about women. It felt awful. It felt like home.
“I know, I know,” Dr. Cerulean agreed. “It’s tough. But what do I keep telling you about, Mariah? Reframing! It’s an essential tool. Consider: what if this isn’t relapsing? What if this is simply who you are?”
Whatever part of Mariah might have wanted to push back against that had been broken into silence. As Mariah trembled and sobbed and eagerly, expertly pushed her thumbs against the soles of Dr. Cerulean’s feet, it seemed impossible to deny. Wasn’t this who she was? Wasn’t what she was doing right now the proof?
“It’s up to you, of course,” Dr. Cerulean added. “This is all about your wellbeing, Mariah. You’re perfectly free to define the goals of your own therapy. The perspectives I’m offering you are nothing more than food for thought. So, what do you think?”
As she knelt there, Mariah thought about what it would mean if she insisted upon her need for recovery and healing. It would mean more months of therapy and counseling, of twitchiness and jitteriness, of viewing herself, first and foremost, as a victim. It would mean looking over her shoulder for Mrs. Lawrence everywhere she went, and constantly guilt and shame whenever she found herself glancing at another woman. It would mean perhaps years of slowly building herself back up so she could learn to trust again, so she could reclaim her sexuality on her own terms—hell, so she could even work in an office again.
It was too much.
Just like that, Mariah gave up.
“Y-you’re right, Dr. Cerulean.” Mariah’s voice was still trembling desperately, but as she spoke, a haunted grin came to her face. “T-thinking about how I really feel… I guess it’s o-obvious. I’m j-just a lesbian.”
“Interesting,” Dr. Cerulean remarked. They sounded like they were beginning to crack up laughing. “And all those things you did for your boss?”
Mariah let out a twitchy laugh too. “I j-just did those things for Mistress because I wanted to.”
“Very interesting. Even hurting those other women?”
The noise that erupted from Mariah’s throat was a sob and a laugh in equal measure. “Y… y-yes. That’s right. I w-w-wanted to.”
“My goodness,” Dr. Cerulean sounded like she was fighting to suppress a moan as Mariah gave in. “That’s quite the breakthrough.”
Mariah wanted to. She wanted to serve her boss because she was a submissive lesbian. She wanted to hurt other women for her mistress because it turned her on. It was that simple. She was that simple.
“Why don’t you sit back up here?” Dr. Cerulean suggested. “One question: what do you think about the way your boss hypnotized you?”
As Mariah came up from under the desk, she glanced at the Newton’s cradle sitting on the psychiatrist’s desk. It had long since come to rest, but the sight of it still made her stomach churn.
“M-Mistress knows what’s best for me,” Mariah bleated, forcing her nausea down. Forcing herself to fall back on what her boss had taught her. “Mistress thinks for me b-better than I can.”
Dr. Cerulean sat forward as they let out a great, wheezing chuckle. “Let me get this straight,” they said. “Do you imagine that your boss knew that you were a lesbian all along, and was simply pushing you to accept it?”
A tear trickled down Mariah’s cheek. “Y-y-yeah.” She made herself believe it.
“Wow,” Dr. Cerulean remarked, and shrugged. “Well, yeah, that certainly sounds plausible to me. No issues there. We discussed your internalized homophobia earlier. I suppose being forced to confront that must have caused a kind of backlash. Very unfortunate.”
“R-right.” Mariah sat bolt upright in the chair as she felt compulsion snap tight around her like a collar on her neck. “Oh my god. I n-need to go back to Mistress. I need to find her again.”
“Oh yes?” Dr. Cerulean leaned forward intently. “And why’s that?”
Mariah’s happy, grateful smile was so wide. She wasn’t sure why she couldn’t seem to stop crying. “I need to apologize. I need to b-b-beg for her forgiveness.”
Tears were welling up in Dr. Cerulean’s eyes too—but only because they were fighting so hard to keep a tight rein on their mirth. “That sounds great!” the psychiatrist agreed. “Rebuilding the bridges we burn during moments of crisis can be so important. And far be it from me to keep you any longer—although I’d love to schedule a follow-up in a few weeks’ time. Just so I can, ah, see how you’re getting on.”
Mariah nodded eagerly. She was so thankful to Dr. Cerulean for helping her get her head on straight. Really, it was the least she could do.
As Dr. Cerulean stood up to see Mariah out, they carelessly set down on their desk the small notepad they had been taking notes on. With it face up, Mariah could see a few of the choice comments Dr. Cerulean had made:
‘BOOOORING I’m so sad blah blah blah’ ‘messing with her orientation? nice lol’ ‘dig for mantras?’ ‘oh she’s COOKED cooked.’ ‘amazed someone else hasn’t scooped her up already’ ‘regular follow-ups? the massage is pretty good’
Mariah decided to ignore them. She decided they had to be about somebody else. Fortunately, Dr. Cerulean distracted her from it by sliding another piece of paper across the desk.
“Now, about that release?” the psychiatrist asked politely. “I think this could be really great material for a fic. I can see getting a lot of Ao3 kudos for this one.”
With a tight, harrowed, unsteady, haunted grin on her tear-stained face, Mariah obediently signed her name and then hurried back to return to her life as a brainwashed, submissive, lesbian secretary. As she left, Dr. Cerulean leaned back in their chair and slipped their hand down the front of their pants.
“All in a day’s work,” Dr. Cerulean murmured to themself. “Now, let me see if I can finish before my five o’clock.”
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lilith0fthevalley · 28 days ago
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Cross My Heart... {Ghostface!Leon x Reader} 3/6
Content Warning: Panic, chase sequences, fear, mild injury, tension, implied psychological manipulation, male manipulation, gaslighting, and a prank that goes too far.
As always, Reader discretion is advised.
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Y/N just ran. 
She ran until she didn’t hear the brushing of stalks parting, allowing her assailant to follow her, and even when she didn’t hear it, she pushed herself until her lungs burned. 
‘Is he gone? Am I safe?’ She pants as she tries to calm her breathing enough to bring back her rational thinking. “What did the guides say? Where is the exit? Where is the FUCKING EXIT?!” She hears her panicked voice shriek out with an undignified break. ‘Fuck being rational. Who needs rationality? That was a lame idea anyway…’ 
Y/N’s hands tear through the stalks of corn that tower above her. Anxiety fueled tears roll down her cheeks as she looks around wildly, breath racing, and blood rushing in her ears. 
Her phone buzzes in her pocket. ‘Please be Jill. Or Claire…’ But of course, luck isn’t on her side tonight.
???: You look so pretty when you’re scared.
A shaky sob tears itself from her throat as she whirls around, taking in her surroundings… Suddenly… 
Lights. Lamp lights. 
She’s close to the exit. Oh thank God… She pushes herself forward to the lamps. To the exit. To safety… Y/N feels relief wash over her as she sees Claire and Jill standing at the clearing. “Guys! Guys!!” Her voice cracks as she calls out to the pair. She holds her bleeding arm and an exhausted smile paints her face.
…Before it’s wiped away. 
An imposingly tall figure cloaked in shadow steps in her path and tilts its head. The white Ghostface mask stares back at Y/N… It’s almost… Taunting as he-they-whoever the fuck this is-twists the knife in it’s hands. Y/N’s fear gives way to anger as she lunges at the figure. 
“You… You fucking ASSHOLE!!!” She roars and claws a hand forward at the mask. The figure jumps back and throws their hands up in surrender.
“Woah woah woah woah! Y/N! Calm down Princess! It’s me!” Leon’s voice comes from beneath the mask. Jill and Claire rush over at the sound of Y/N’s yelling and swearing. Leon yanks the mask off immediately and his big cerulean eyes blink with concern. Y/N just crumbles to the dusty ground and heaves. Leon is quick to follow, dropping to his knees next to her. 
Leon’s face is flushed pink and small puffs of air leave his lips. His forehead is damp with sweat that ensnares strands of those beautifully messy golden locks against his forehead. His hair, usually slicked down and neatly groomed, is tousled, like it’s been mused through over and over and over again. Not unlike how it looks when he’s stressed out. He hovers his hands around her shoulders.  
“Hey Princess, breathe, breathe for me. It’s just me… It’s just Leon…” He coos out softly. Reassuringly. He’s hesitant to touch her and rile her up more. 
“The fuck happened, Kennedy?!” Jill barks out, her protective nature flaring its nasty head. He looks up at her like a kicked puppy. 
“I-I was just… I saw her making her way over, I just wanted to give her a little scare!” He stammers. Jill and Leon bicker in the background as Y/N’s gaze falls to the discarded blade on the dirt. 
The knife is a prop… It’s not covered in blood or bits of Y/N-flesh… It’s just cheap plastic. 
Y/N finally catches her breath and punches Leon square in the shoulder. 
“You’re a fucking asshole.” She huffs out and glares. He turns his ocean coloured eyes to her, eyebrows pinched. 
“What was that for?! I said sorry!” He cries out and holds his arm before looking down at her own forearm. His eyes widened. 
“Oh my god, Y/N! You’re bleeding!!” He realizes and gingerly cups her arm. 
“What happened?! You know what, you can tell me when we get to the medical tent!” 
He scoops up Y/N and stands, looking over at Jill and Claire. 
“Why don’t you two head back? I’ll get her seen and taken care of before bringing her back. Her place right?” His handsome, soft features are pinched in concern. A look so rare to see on Leon’s face. Claire nods vehemently. 
“Yeah! We’re at Y/N’s place. We’ll run over and run those errands. Y/N, call us if you want to cancel or if you just want to come over to mine… Chris is home and you know he wouldn’t let anything happen to any of us.” She reaches a hand out and rubs Y/N’s shoulder. Jill is still oozing mama-bear energy, arms crossed tightly over her chest. She relaxes finally and nods. “Yeah. We’ll be there in a heartbeat to come get you.” Leon nods and smiles that pearly, disarming smile. 
“You guys are such great friends… I’ll make sure she’s the safest person in a 5 mile radius.” With that, he turns on his heel and carries Y/N off to the medical tent. 
He turns his attention back to the woman in his arms and lowers his voice to a whisper. His eyes are big and teaming with remorse. For a split second, she thinks she can see tears forming along his waterline. “Y/N… Are you alright…?” She takes a shaky breath and gazes at him. “I-I don't know. I’m a little shaken up… Still coming down from the adrenaline high. Y’know?” He nods and squeezes her, reassuringly. “I didn’t mean to freak you out that badly, Y/N… I mean… You talk about that movie all the time. I thought it would be a nice little surprise…” He murmurs, his sand coloured eyebrows pinch into a furrow.
Yep. There are tears. 
Y/N almost feels bad for freaking out on him. “Maybe… Maybe I did overreact a little bit…” She whispers and delicately loops her arms around Leon’s neck, pulling herself closer to his torso. With the sun now below the horizon, the temperature has dropped noticeably and Y/N shivers. 
“Awww. Are you cold Princess?” He coos into her ear. She just gives him a small, meek nod. 
“Well, don’t worry. We’ll patch you up and get you home as soon as we can. I promise.” He whispers and brushes his lips against her forehead. Heat erupts over her cheeks and the tips of her ears as she tucks her chin into her chest to hide away from his gaze. 
“So the good news is that it looked like a shallow cut. But, with the loose dust and dirt flying around, we don’t want to risk anything making it any worse.” He muses and carefully sets her down as they come to the opening of the small medical tent. 
“I won’t let anyone or anything hurt you, Princess. Cross my heart…” 
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𑁍ࠬܓ [activation day special] ᴡᴀʀᴍ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ — lee x reader
ㅤㅤyour whispers, sunlight;
ㅤㅤcold hands feeling for mine
syn. ; lee finds comfort in your arms after a long war.
a.n. - I'm sorry I'm super late TvT its defo my fault bUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEE I LOVE YOU THANK YOU FOR COMING HOME TO ME I HOPE U GET A NEW FRAME SO I CAN SIMP MORE!! also I'm really sorry for the slow and bad updates, I was busy for the past few months due to busy sched (eyy thanks uni) and my poor baby lappy unfortunately had her fan broken down so pray she gets her swift recovery soon 🙏🏻🙏🏻 qna: will chrome get his own activation day special? a: HECK YA qna: when? A: yeah imnida
pairing - lee x f!commandant
words - 3,573
content warnings - MINORS DO NOT INTERACT. NSFW content: cunnilingus, handjob soft sex eeeyyy. mostly soft lee cuz he deserves it after *TOOOT* HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEE
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Warmth. An unfamiliar word, an evading emotion; one that Lee was devoid of for the remainder of his human years.
It was something hard to find. If ever he had it, he would unconditionally give it to his younger brother, in order to make him safe and happy. Even in the darkest days of his human life, until he breathed his last, it was a feeling that avoided him. Would he ever find it? Who knows.
Maybe someone does. Maybe it would be manifested into someone he was long familiar with, apart from Murray, someone who makes his mechanical heart shake. Someone who was then standing by the doorway, whose figure he had long memorized in his M.I.N.D.
You, his precious commandant of the Gray Raven, stood there, bright eyes brimming with curiosity, shaking a familiar brown bag in hand.
“Lee, what is this?” You sighed, with a little laugh, “Can I have an explanation?”
“Good evening to you, Commandant. I am nearly done with my work.”
Sauntering to your desk, which Lee resided in, you eyed him carefully. “Right. Can I ask why you are here, then?”
He held your eye contact for a few seconds, before looking down at the papers, “I am merely just helping with your paperworks. You seemed to have some problems with it earlier.”
“So you decided to distract me with, this,” Shaking the bag, you continued, “... whatever you planned, it’s working quite well.”
It made Lee chuckle. “I’m glad you think so.”
You mirrored his laugh, before pulling out the little trinket in the bag. It was a little blue robot, L-33, one that seemed familiar—a mixed, mini version of Lee and Punchy—that seemed like a toy.
You tapped its head. “Good morning, Commandant.” Echoed an automated Lee's calm voice, “Here are your mission details for today.”
He smiled. “Oh, you found out its features.”
“Of course I did,” you puffed out your chest with pride, “I spent the whole two hours examining him. Watch this.”
Cerulean eyes intently watched as you expertly pushed around a few buttons, promptly triggering the secret sequence. The amusement on his face dropped.
“You…figured it out.”
“Commandant,” the robot cooed, its next few words that were dreadful for Lee to hear, “there’s something I’d–.”
When you blinked, L-33 had shut off, Lee pushing the off button. “–you heard enough.”
A small laugh escaped your lips, “we’ve been teammates for a long while now, Lee,” you teased with a wink, “You think I wouldn’t know your tricks? I also figured out that you purposely gave me L-33 to distract me.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“You distracted me so you could do my tasks. On your birthday. Traitor.”
The situation was funny. Activation dates—promptly called that way, not really birthdays—were just like any other day. For Lee, there’s nothing special about it.
“The Science Council may have said it’s considered a small break for Constructs. I took it, didn’t I?”
“And you gave that one to me. This is treachery! You were supposed to use that day to spend it with your loved ones!”
Lee pointed at the robot in your hand. “You can spend the day with L-33. Did you read my letter well? I modified its AI to fit your needs. He can answer well.”
“That’s true, Commandant,” chimed L-33, who somehow woke up halfway through, “Please, hang out with me.”
Lee knew you well. From the way your eyes would sparkle when you’re hit with a good idea, or how your eyebrows would knit together when you’re focused on your battle plan, to the shade of pink in your cheeks when you’re flustered by sweet words. The confusion in your face then was something Lee was also familiar with, and he knew how to counter that.
“You’ve rarely gotten any quality rest, Commandant.” Lee spoke, “please use today as a reward.”
Warmth, again, was something Lee had avoided, and if he had it, he was willing to give it to you.
But alas, like the rock that hindered the gears in your head, you were unshakeable.
“...?”
Putting L-33 on your desk, you stomped your way to the nearest chair, sitting down. Bright eyes still not breaking eye contact to look at cerulean ones.
“Since you won’t heed my request,” Emphasising the word, you grinned, “I may as well just stay here, then. I am not in the mood to argue.”
Lee’s patience strummed a chord. Attempting to change your mind, you quickly raised your hand, shrugging, “Ah, didn’t I say I didn’t want to argue?’
Closing his mouth, Lee decided to just drop it.
It took a few minutes—the scratch of pen against paper, the flickering desk light, the soft hum in your lips, and his little childhood melody—before you shuffled to sit closer to the desk.
“...Commandant?”
“Yes?”
Knowing you, Lee decided to dismissed his thought, resuming to what he was doing earlier. It didn't take long. Your humming grew louder, almost ghosting in his ear. Lee sighed, leaning back to welcome you, slithering your leg across his lap, sweetly smiling at him.
“Lee~,” you purred, hands clasped on his broad shoulders, “thank you for the seat.”
Rolling his eyes, he smiled at you. “Whatever makes you happy.”
You were perfectly slotted in his lap, content in how tiny you were that he could still do his work with you. The smell of vanilla permeated his senses, your breathing music to his ear, even and comforting to Lee. He might have had to lie about it, but you were perfect, you were enough—like the piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
“...But I’m not.”
Lee stopped writing, opting to look back at you. “Really?”
Your lips were in a small pout, lipgloss shining in the lights, “Really. I mean, how could I? Imagine taking a break outside; walking around Babylonia, walking around the streets, but you’re here instead.”
“Commandant,” He shook his head, “We talked about this.”
The hands on his shoulders curled, nails rarely scraping his jacket. Seeing your face turn into a sad frown as you bite your lip, a hint of guilt knocks on Lee’s chest.
“...you gave me a gift even though it's your birthday,” Softly, in the cold light, you muttered, “shouldn’t it be the other way around?”
Lee prides in his stone heart. But oh, it was hard to say no when it comes to you. “Well, in a way, it’s still our duty as Constructs to bring our Commandant joy and happiness.”
You sighed, “But I don’t see you that way.”
Lee looked at you in confusion. “I’m sorry?”
“I don’t.” You smiled, “Lee, you may be a construct, but you are different to me.”
Your hands, dragging through his shoulders to his jaw, cupped his cheeks. Lee was a construct—blue blood, robotic joints and bodies, built for destruction. But you, human as you were—simple, frail, fragile—and yet, your warmth was far too contagious. He nuzzled your hand, afraid that he’d lose your heat.
“...[Y/N],” Lee rarely called you by your name, but when he does, his voice breaks, turning to kiss your palm, “[Y/N], you are too kind.”
You leaned closer to him, lips leaving butterfly kisses across his cheeks, “I am treating you the way you should be, Lee.”
Like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, you were a perfect fit for Lee. Kisses on his cheeks, down to his jaw, to the shell of his ear. You breathed into him, ghosting his ear, that made Lee shiver in your touch. His hands found respite in your hips, kneading the area to aid in your movements.
“...by seducing me though?”
You giggled. “Is it working?”
“Mm, a bit.” He sighed in your shoulder, resting there, “But I still have to finish this.”
“No, don’t.” A small whine escaped your lips as you subtly grinded yourself on his lap, “Can’t you see your birthday gift needs your immediate attention?”
A sly little fox, that you were. You had, unknowingly, slipped closer to him, that your warm core was directly on his semi-hard bulge. As you shifted in your seat, Lee groaned at the friction.
“You will miss a lot of these paperworks if I—ugh—can’t finish this…” Lee’s grip on your hips tightened. “What should I do with you…?”
“Do me,” you purred in his ear, “Do me, your gift, Lee.”
Ah, he’d have to use his gift thoroughly.
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Warmth was the feeling, the light at the crack that separated your thighs. One that Lee could drown in as he diligently licks at your cunt.
With a harsh tug of his hair and the sultry whine that slipped past your lips, Lee could die in between your thighs and he’d regret nothing. In the dim light of your room, Lee was nestled nicely down there as you were spread in your bed. Small, kitten lips at your throbbing clit, before lapping at your folds. You forgot how long you’ve been at his mercy, yet the dampness that pooled on your bed could say otherwise.
“L-Lee, ha—haah—wait–” You moaned out loud, “slow down, p-please!”
Pussydrunk, Lee moaned at the feeling, eating you away with no sense. You cried out from the overstimulation, desperately trying to push Lee away. But Lee’s hold in your hips were relentless.
“One more,” he groaned, “give me one more.”
His pants were aching from the tightness, but he was better off rutting his cock at the edge of your bed, focusing on your pleasure first and foremost.
Lapping at your juices, Lee realized why addiction was so potent—if they had seen the way your pussy clenched as he licked you clean, they’d be a devout addict. But he’s lucky, this sight was only his. You, your pretty little, soaking wet pussy was all his. No one else could make you cry out this loud, or the way your face contorted in pleasure—it was all Lee’s.
“C’mon, [Y/N], you can do it, do it for me,” Lee whispered between your soaking wet folds, “be a good girl, you can do it.”
A sharp shiver ran through your spine. Bubbling deep in your stomach, you cried as you felt two of his fingers slip deep in your pussy. “A-ah, Lee, w-wait—”
Sucking at your pearl, Lee’s fingers curled upward, hitting a spongy spot that made your pussy clench hard. With a loud cry of his name, you cum hard for the third time, sticky liquid coating his mechanical fingers. Lee fucks you through your orgasm, mesmerized in the way your eyes rolled back, crying as you arched your back.
“Good girl,” he cooed, “good girl, [Y/N].”
Amidst your orgasm, your pussy answered by squeezing the fingers that were still inside of you. As Lee pulled away, you noticed his chin shimmered with your slick in between the haze, which made your heart flutter. Watching through lust-blown eyes, his cerulean eyes were glowing brightly in the dark, and your only thought was—
“Pretty…”
“Hmm?” Lee chuckled, taking your hand to his lips, “Who is?”
“You,” you lolled, “It’s you…”
You opened your arms to welcome Lee, kissing in spite of his state. It’s hot, brightly burning with passion, humming as you mindlessly kissed Lee again and again, fueled in the heat of the moment. Yet you realized soon that his fingers found themselves grazing your overstimulated cunt, lightly rubbing it.
“A-ah, w-wait,” you whined, weakly pushing Lee away, “not yet…”
“Why?” Lee kissed the shell of your ear, “Is there something wrong?”
Your wandering hands finally found the thing you were looking for. The prominent bulge, sensitive enough that made him groan even as you grazed it with your hand.
“It’s not fair,” you pouted, “let me take care of you, too…”
“[Y/N], I’d much rather help you—”
“—Lee, please,” you pleaded, fluttering your eyelashes, “I want you to feel good, too…”
The fly was already down before he could nod, springing his long, thick cock. Lee breathed out a sigh of relief, but the itch was yet to be itched. Fortunately, your fingers were already running through his shaft, cock twitching from your teasing.
“See,” you sat properly, urging Lee to mirror you, “doesn’t it feel nice?”
You grabbed his shaft, enclosing your hand and jerking him lightly. Lee could hardly contain his moans, cheeks and ears blooming red from your ministration. You couldn't take your eyes off, too—your pretty boy, your Lee, feeling the same kind of pleasure that he had always given you.
“Does it feel good, Lee?” You asked, moving closer, “Tell me if it’s too much.”
“Good, ugh,” Lee managed to say, “You’re doing so—hah, really, g-good.”
You’ve seen him naked a lot of times, no surprise to see his long and hard cock, heavy in your hand that you had to use your other one to help. Watching the way Lee’s face contorted as you jerk him off almost makes your own pussy throb, another set of wetness pooling in your thighs. Thumbing his slit, precum sliding off, you wanted to dip your head down and suck him off.
“You really should let me do this, Lee,” you hummed, leaning closer that your lips were leaving kisses on his jaw, “You should see how pretty you are when I’m touching you like this, mm?”
“[Y/N],” a sensual moan of your name rolling off of his tongue, your pussy clenched around nothing in response, “God—hah, don’t stop…”
Gritting his teeth, grasping your sheets as you jerked him harder. Your heart was beating wildly, like how you were too entangled with Lee—too wild, too indecent.
But your movements were halted, Lee’s hands wrapped tight around yours.
“Huh?”
“No,” Lee shook his head, ignoring his hot red dick throbbing, moving your hands away, “I can’t cum like this…I need to be inside of you to do that.”
For what it’s worth, Lee had always been wanting to bury himself deep in your cunt before the fun was over. Giggling at his answer, you pecked his lips. “Okay, okay.”
Thinking it wasn’t enough, Lee pulled you closer to kiss you better. Blind hands sought for the dip of your hips, leading you to his own. With twin moans, your pussy was pushed flush on the shaft of his aching cock. You even had the nerve to drag your soaking folds against the sensitive pulsating vein on his shaft.
“You’re teasing again,” Lee warned as he pulled away for a moment.
“I’m only letting you know how much I want you.”
With lips never leaving yours, you reached for his manhood, angling the tip to your awaiting hole. Lee helped in grounding you, gripping your hips hard as you shallowly fucked yourself on the tip.
“I can taste how much you want me, [Y/N],” his voice dripped in your ear, making you shiver, “Look how desperate you are for me.”
“I am,” you whined, feeling the bulbous tip finally slip past your tight ring of muscle, “I am fucking desperate for you, Lee.”
You sobbed as Lee’s cock was fully sheathed inside of you, already hitting your sensitive spot. Burying your face on the crook of his neck, Lee took the time to caress your shaking back.
“Even after we’ve done this a lot of times now—ngh—you’re still too tight for me.”
Your pussy fluttered around his shaft. “G-glad you think so.”
Attempting to rock your hips to move, Lee stopped you. You pulled back, noticing his gaze.
“As much as I want to move,” He whispered, “I’d like to take the time to admire my gift, please.”
You awkwardly laughed, “I thought you’ve done that before.”
“Mm, yeah, I have.” He inhaled, “but it’s different like this.”
Thoroughly content like this. Amid the dark room, moonlight found itself splattered on the floor, on your bed. Lee took your hand and held it back to his lips, gently kissing the back of your hand. Without looking away, his glowing cerulean eyes held too much emotion; there was lust, but they were love and adoration. Watching as he kissed every finger, from the pinkie, to the thumb, kissing one particular finger, lips lingering longer there. A display of emotion, one that Lee has long reserved only for you.
“Did you enjoy your gift, Lee?” You whispered, minding the wild flutter of your heart.
“How could I not?” He said, “You are the best gift I could ever receive.”
Despite everything, Lee is yours. All the pain, all the fear—the Tower, the red tide, the war raging outside of your door—and all you could do was rest your other hand to his chest, the metal cool as you feel the mirroring throb of his mechanical heart.
“Do you know why I love you, Lee?” You asked. He shook his head.
“I don’t.”
“I used to think that we wouldn’t be able to have the luxury for love.”
Looking away, you watched the sea of stars outside of your window. They were twinkling, shimmering; somewhere, constellations blanketed the universe, but they were hiding. You couldn’t care less, but the thought made you think so.
“We’re always sent to battle, and you were made to fight the virus. I didn’t think I’d be able to make a valuable connection, unless it was for the better of the majority.”
Flashes of your graduation from the F.O.S., to your first mission, Kowloong, the church, the Tower—it made you curl your fingers, grasping for Lee’s hand.
“But the Gray Raven…but you, it all changed.”
In the haze of memories, the only clear vision was Lee. Cupping his cheeks, thumb grazing the outline of his jaw, you laughed.
“It’s honestly funny. Gray Raven changed it for the better. But you made me believe that love…it exists, even in this damned world.”
Lee mirrored the smile on your face, as you traced his eyebrows, the shape of his eye, the bridge of his nose. Grazing his lower lip, you lightly left a kiss.
“I’m glad you exist, Lee.” You whispered, “Everything you went through was proof of your existence. I cannot imagine how painful it muat have been, but I want to use all the years of my life proving you that you are loved, that you are deserving of it.”
You’re already pressed flush against one another, but if you could, you’d collide closer to Lee.
“I love you, Lee.” You confessed, “I love you, I will live for you. If you stay on Earth, I’ll crawl out of heaven. Wherever you’ll go, I’ll follow. I never want to be apart from you. Just let me spend all the years with you, to shower you with all of my love.”
Lee took pride in his stoicism. But for you, oh, may that be damned.
Warmth was something he’d not have, but sometimes he covets. But you, you who deserves it all, somehow wants to share this warmth with him, out of all the people. You, who selfishly, gave a warmth unlike others. You, you, you—warm blood, flows freely within you, and you were his, as much as he was yours.
“That’s my line.” He laughed, leaning forward to kiss you, “I’ll love you for all the years, too, [Y/N].”
Every kiss with Lee felt like healing. Grasping at whatever to hold, at whatever skin, you never want to be apart from him. Lee started to move his hips, causing you to moan in between your fervent kisses.
Lee loves you. Lee makes love to you, precisely and deeply plunging his cock inside of you, hitting your sensitive spots. It doesn’t take long though, when your pussy spasmed as you cum through the pressure, crying out Lee’s name.
Lee followed shortly, groaning as he painted your walls, filling you full.
Labored breaths echo throughout the room, two lovers entwined, without the need to break away from each other.
“I love you, [Y/N].” Lee nuzzled in the crook of your neck, “I love you so much.”
“Mm, I think you made me lose the ability to walk at the moment…”
“Consider it a reward. Thank you for being my gift.”
It took a while to settle back into your bed, with Lee wanting to wash you up, but you insisted to stay until the numbing feeling in your legs disappeared. For now then, you were content with Lee on his back, and you sprawled on his chest.
The thump of his mechanical heart was a lullaby.
“Don’t doze off, [Y/N]. I still need to clean you up.”
“Lee,” you yawned in response, “Let’s get married.”
“That’s quite random,” you heard him laugh, “Why the sudden proposal?”
You gently brushed his empty ring finger, “Well, I don’t know what will happen next time. I’d rather have the proof that I’m already taken, and I’d rather have the rest of my life with you.”
“...Unless you like another?” You smugly added, looking up.
But Lee, with a chuckle, only pulled you up, kissing you.
“...We’ll get married, then. Whenever you want.”
“What if I want it tomorrow?”
He’d have to humor you for now, noticing the droop of your eyes. “Alright, sure.”
“I love you,” you dawdled, the last echoes of your consciousness drifting into the sea of dreams, “Lee, tomorrow, okay…?”
“Tomorrow.”
“...mm, don’t forget tomorrow, too…spend your birthday with me…”
“...Yes, I will.”
Lucky for you, a certain ring awaits near your table.
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God pls give me a Lee I love You
— starry needs a bf
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cyanide-latte · 2 months ago
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TIME FOR MORE OC LORE I GUESS?
I had a weird dream last night that was apparently about Professor Cerulean (so ofc he's been on the brain all morning.)
The first half of the dream was sad and semi-intense, in that he was moving through a nightmare sequence of people he cared about all withering and dying before his eyes, including a potential past romance? Eventually he woke up from the nightmare in a cold sweat, panting and needing to make tea or coffee as a means of grounding himself.
From that portion of the dream, I've definitely learned that he's panromantic, though I think he might be somewhere on the ace spectrum as well? And technically agender in the sense he just...doesn't care about gender applying to him. He's quite comfortable with he/him pronouns but doesn't think of himself as actually having a gender. He's definitely had a past romance he's cut short due to lifespan issues, and I think the answer to his heritage is that he thought his mother was fully human and his father fae, but it turns out his mother is half-fae. So he's like. Quarter-human. Which means his aging and lifespan are kinda fucky. (He is definitely also very reluctant to get attached to anyone in any capacity as a result.) He'd probably appreciate Marcille from Dungeon Meshi, honestly.
But then the dream shifted to comedy.
Because as he was sitting down, preparing to drink his beverage, there was a knock at his door.
He goes over, opens it, and @tixdixl 's Vex and Xiáng and @ramshacklerumble 's Cusi are all standing there. He goes "no" and shuts the door. Immediately reopens it, scowls, shuts it and reopens it to go, "I'm busy, go away." Shuts it, reopens it, scowls. Shuts, reopens, says "you shouldn't even have been able to FIND this doorway," shuts it again, rapidly reopens and shuts it several times, and finally asks in that proper Blue Caterpillar enunciation "Why, are you, still, here."
At which point Cusi shoved past him and they all went into his house.
Which tells me that somehow his entire fucking house is enchanted so that its side door will randomly open and connect to a door in NRC (usually a closet or something,) so he doesn't have to travel himself to go between NRC and home. And that technically nobody but him should be able to figure out what door his house will connect to. Feels like a Howl's Moving Castle reference crossed with a Through the Looking-Glass Red Queen reference, re: "all the ways here belong to me".
Anyway, that's it, that's the ramble, that's the post.
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@distant-velleity @rainesol @thehollowwriter @theleechyskrunkly @twst-migraine
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koolkitty9 · 3 months ago
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FINALLY a theory on which I KNOW YOu ALL have been waiting for for me to talk about
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A LOVE GIVEN/TRUE FORM?!
First off, I believe Love-Given and True forms are the SAME in Boueibu's universe, as Wombat says:
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What does this exactly mean? I believe the lovracelets help unlock their forms.
Okay, so WHAT do you mean then? I believe that means each boy was always destined to become a Battle Lover/Caerula Adamas member. This includes Gora AND the twins as well.
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In fact, right as Wombat even HOLDS his hand up, the boys are glowing. I believe this is slight evidence that they were at least destined to be Battle Lovers, there really is no way that this could be chosen at random IMO.
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Along side this, Yumoto naturally adapts into being a hero quickly, which I KNOW, staff probably meant it bc his brother was Maximum Gorar but, even GORA in s2's flashbacks show that he adapts fairly quickly in his weird training sequence.
NOW, when you go to s1ep11, Zundar and Hireashi are talking about how they're in a rut with CIDE2 but interestingly enough, THIS conversation happens (Hireashi calls the power of love, stupid love and that the stupid love power is why he failed last time)
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Why does this exactly matter to this theory? Because it DOES show that Hireashi KNEW there were beings on Earth who could oppose him with the power of love. HE KNOWS THIS because of his fight with Gora and he did know of the Battle Lovers thanks to Kinosaki.
He knew that Gora had a brother, not sure if Hireashi KNEW that Yumoto/Battle Lover Scarlet was but he would surely know by s1ep10 after Kinosaki watches Gora run up to Yumoto and the others WHILE yelling Yumoto's name. He WOULD Know at least by ep11, when he says THIS:
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BUT GOING BACK to True/Love-Given Forms, what does it mean for s2 then when s1's bracelets break? These bracelets JUST allow them to use their true forms, I think their forms are deep in their hearts.
Why are they STRONGER? S1 they were just LOVRACELETS, in s2 they are their TRUE LOVRACELETS. These forms are stronger and can let them unleash more power.
What about Gora then? What did Aki and Haru MEAN when they said THIS:
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Same with before, I believe Battle Lover Scarlet is Yumoto's true form.
Io's real form? Battle Lover Sulfur. Kinshiro's real form? Chevalier Aurite. Atsushi? Battle Lover Epinard. Haru? Salty Sol.
It really IS in a way self-explanatory.
This is why the monsters are in Binan, these aliens/villains from space, can SENSE the True Forms/Love-Given Forms deep inside the boys, this is why I think Kinshiro being chosen by Zundar, was NOT random. Neither was the others.
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SAME, With Dadacha choosing the twins. WHY ELSE would Dadacha come up to two children randomly? He SENSED it in them. He knew he had to exploit their powers/true forms before someone such as Wombat could pick them. It would be easy to as well with the twins being the only few humans IN Andromedia
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Hashibiro FINDING GORA? He would have sensed it strongly due to him AND Yumoto, but Yumoto would have been roughly six-eight years old when Gora was in High School (depending on how old Gora is here).
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AND THIS IS WHY Wombat landed IN the Kurotama bathhouse, he could sense the forms of Epinard and Cerulean along with Scarlet AND Gorar.
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we see time and time again that the Battle Lovers can heal without being transformed. Along side this, in s1ep7 En notes that the Student Council had a weird vibe around them.
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AND with them being dubbed as "Heirs to the Throne of Love", this must mean IMO that their true/love-given forms are CONNECTED to the Throne of Love.
Hopefully we find out more in the movie....
Uhh that's all I have right now OKAY BYE!
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gritsandbrits · 17 days ago
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Snow white rewrite
This isn't really a spitefic but rather how i would write my own take on a disney snow white. Spoilers below.
In the beginning snow white is born during a blizzard. That's how she gets her name. We cut to her childhood in the Good Things Grow sequence. She gives a wreath to a lonely girl who becomes her best friend - Andriana. She also gives bread to a little boy in green (who is later revealed to be her future love interest).
One day a kindly noble from the southern kingdom arrives. Her name is Lilith. She is NOT played by gal gadot but a different actress who can sing and act.
Anyways, Lilith gains favor with the court with her magic tricks. Even snow white is amazed. The king is immediately smitten with her and by the next year they marry. When Snow White is a preteen her father disappears during a war and Lilith starts ruling in his stead. She steadily reveals her true colors, taking the kingdom's riches, overworking the mines until they dry up. All Except one which produces magical gems. Fearing what she could do if she ever found them, the miners decide to use their owm magic to hide the gems away by creating a forest. Rumors spread about the horrible things in the forest scaring off anyone who tries to enter. even the royal guards avoids it if they could help it.
A few years later it is late autumn. Usually the kindgom would prepare for holidays but no one feels like celebrating. The queen has taken their harvest all for herself leaving them with crumbs. Snow white has been a prisoner in her own home yet espite everything that happened to her, she still remains kind even to the guards. The girl she gave the wreath to also works at the castle and is her best friend, Andriana. One day while cleaning the Andriana is frightened by a noise coming from the pantry Snow White rushes in to see what happened and sees a young man in the stealing potatoes. Snow White tells the man that stealing is a crime only for him to reply that his friends are hungry. Snow White notices the rags and gaunt features and realizes he's telling the truth, so she lets him leaves but promises him she could tell the queen to give more food.
At dinner, snow white tries to tell the queen about the people being hungry and asks her to give Andriana promotion to try to help her. Just then the huntsman shows up with the same thief. The queen is about to tell the guard to throw them in the dungeon but snow white speaks up and tells her the punishment shouldn't exceed the crime. So the queen decides to strip the boy to his undergarments and tie him to the gates. She taunts snow white that her people doesn't need frivolous things like kindness and plants and as an extra bit of spite, she has andrea demoted. Snow White refuses to be humiliated though and walks out in dignified silence.
Later in the maid quarters Snow White apologizes to Adriana in trouble but her friend reassures her that she was just looking out for her and she cant blame herself for her stepmother's bad choices. She and the other maids present snow white with an early birthday gift: a cerulean and gold dress that they took time to make. Snow White tells them they shouldn't have to do that but Adriana says that after everything, she deserves to have something beautiful. This act of kindness leads to snow white regainjng her confidence (Waiting on A Wish). She sneaks outside and unties the thief and gives him a piece of bread. The evil queen sees this and goes to her mirror. She asks him if she's the fairest of them all only for the mirror to say she's got competition. Angered the queen orders the huntsman to kill snow white. The huntsman protests thats she's just a girl but the queen threatens to have him thrown in jail for treason if he doesnt comply.
The next day the huntsman tells snow white that he'll be taking her to pick apples. Excited to spend a day outside the castle snow white puts on the dress andrea made her and goes to the forest. When they traveled far enough the huntsman takes out his knife but stops when snow white asks his pointedly why is he doing this. The hunstman tells her to run away.
Snow white runs into the forest, getting attacked by trees, nearly drowning and her dress is torn. When she climbs out of the river she sees a pair of red eyes but theyre revelaed ti be a harmless deer. She finds herself surrounded by animals and they guide her to a cottage where she rests.
Back in the village the huntsman gives the queen snow white's "heart". Her joy is broken when someone tells her that she has guests. The guests are actors from a travelling band who wishes to entertain her as a gift. She lets them in thinking that its entertainment. Meanwhile a couple of thieves sneak into the castle. The queen senses something is wrong. She realizes the guests are actually thieves and sends the guards after them A fight ensues each bandit displaying a different ability: Farno using firecrackers, Maple trapping soldiers with sticky sap, Scythe fighting with blades, Quigg and Norwich attempting to steal more food. The sixth bandit and their lookout, Finch, uses his birdcalling skill to warn his friends that the queen is coming and they escape. The rebels meet up with their leader, who is the same thief snow had saved. They tell him that they cant keep this up forever and sooner or later they need a miracle solution. Jonathan tells them he knows where to look and despite warning from his rebels he heads into the forbidden forest.
The dwarves are introduced mining the magic gemstones in peace. Half of them are portayed by little people and the other half by taller actors. They head back to their cottage which doubles as their headquarters and finds snow white sleeping in one of their beds. The dwarves are scared but snow white shows them that she isnt a threat. The oldest introduces himself as Doc following by the others.
Snow white says the thought they were bandits but grumpy angrily replies that the real bandit is the evil queen. Doc says that he knew the royal family for generations. He explains that they grew enchanted forest to hide their magic gems from her stepmother. They agree to let her stay until she can figure out her next move. At breakfast the dwarves get into an argument resulting in Dopey sadly leaving the cottage. Snow White talks to him and teaches him how to whistle. This leads to the Whistle While You Work sequence. Theyre cut off by the arrival of their leader, the same thief Snow white had saved. She jokingly asks Doc if his name is Sneaky but the unamused thief replies that its actually Jonathan. The dwarves had taken him in when he was a child but after he grew older he joined a group of rebels. Joanthan tells doc that his rebels haven't made as much progress as he hoped and doesnt want anothet mouth to feed but, Doc says that the girl is actually the princess and needs their help. Still Jonathan remains unamused. Snow white attempts to befriend Jonathan by accompanying him on patrol. They start to argue that Jonathan needs to be less pragmatic while Jonathan says she needs to be less naive (Princess Problems). Then theyre attacked by the queen's soldiers but saved just in time by the dwarves. Another fight ensues with snow white tricking the huntsman with help from her animals. However just as the heroes believes they won, one of the soldiers aim his bow and arrow at snow white. Jonathan sees him takes an arrow for her.
The dwarves carry him back to the cottage and Doc heals him, but it's snow white who keeps an eye on him. Just then the human rebels arrive having spent the whole day searching for food. Thinking that they did something to jonathan the humans try to attack but are quickly dismissed by the dwarves superior magic. Snow white interrupts and scolds everyone that's exactly what her stepmother want. Snow White explains that Jonathan saved her life and she in fisny realizin how generous she is Jonathan feels bad for doubting her. After he recovers he thanks her by giving her a red cloak that he had taken from the castle. The dwarves agree to help the humans in exchange for keeping the forest secret. They give the humans worhtless gems that they then use to trick the queen.
Back with Lilith, she gets words from the captain of the gaurd that they had encountered dwarves and that snow white was with them. She Deduces that the huntsman deceived her so she has him brought before her. She breaks into a lavish musical number "All Is Fair" and sends the huntsman to jail. Andriana witnesses the whole thing while cleaning and prays for snow white's safety.
As days go on the rebels and dwarves start working together, snow white using the wild fruit to make sweets for the rebels to take back to the villagers. The queen starts to notice everyone getting a little too happy for her liking. Snow White and Jonathan starts to fall in love which isnt gone unnoticed hy their friends. By the first day of winter the dwarves and humans have gotten along and decide throw a party to celebrate the harvest. Snow white and jonathan share a dance "A Hand Meets A Hand." Only for find everyone is staring at them with knowing looks. They decide to go to a secluded place. Jonathan talks about his backstory and how he still remembers the princess, and that he genuinely wants things to get better not just for himself but for the dwarves, since they took him in after his parents died. Snow white realizes him that he was the same boy she had given the flower years ago.
The next day Jonathan and the dwarves leave on their biggest mission. snow white tells him she is find staying alone as long as the magic barrier still works. The rebels go back to the village only to see that guards are everywhere. They hatch a plan to sneak in and things are going good but one by one they are captured thanks to Lilith's cunning magic.
The evil queen has them brought to court. Doc tells her she'll never find their magic gems but the queen tsks that she'll always find a way. She has them imprisoned along with jonathan and concocts a potion to turn herself into an old woman. She creates a poison apple and goes to the forest, unaware that she is being watched by Andriana.
In jail, jonathan and the dwarves try to break out but the huntsman tells them its no use. Jonathan refuses to give them and all of them use their combined strengths to break free. They noticed that the queen is gone. As their searching the catsle for weapons, they catch up with Andriana, who tells them that she overheard her talking about paying her daughter a visit. She sneaks Jonathan to the stables and gives a horse to ride back to the forest with the dwarves in tow along with the woodland critters.
Meanwhile snow white starts to get worried when her friends haven't came back yet. She passes the time humming then hears knock on the door. It is the old woman. Snow white is surprised to find another person but the old lady explains that she knew her father. She gives her an apple and not wanting to come off unappreciative eats the apple. Suddenly she starts feeling funny and falls to the ground. She accuses the old lady of poisoning her. Lilith tells her it is her own kindness that did her in. Snow white loses consciousness. As the old lady leaves she sings the All Is Fair reprise. The dwarves arrive too late.
Lilith finds the magical mine and forces the human rebels to mine ofr her or she'll execute the dwarves and jonathan. Reluctantly the humans start to mind but finch used his bird whistling to warn the dwarves
Doc tried to use his healing magic but is blocked by the spell. Saddened by her death, they create a coffin of rock and flowers and lay her to rest near the lake. Jonathan bids one final goodbye with a kiss. After a few moments pass. Suddenly snow white starts breathing again and wakes up much to the joy of her friends. Snow white feels bad about herself that she let the old lady trick her and that maybe she was right about her kindess being weakness. Grumpy is the first one to refute this saying all she had done since she entered their lives was good. Jonathan tells her that she taught him to enjoy life and that he met her friend at the castle. Dopey speaks up "let her try." Feeling better Snow white decides to fight for her kindgom. Then the bird finch sent arrives and snow white is able to make out his message.
The rebels hurry back to the mines to see it getting ransacked, the guard forcing their human friends to mine for them. They start to fight them off, the human rebels stay behind to guard the mines while the captain of the guard chases snow white, jonathan and the dwarves on minecarts. The chase ends when they reach the other side of the mine revealing to be another entry to the kingdom. Snow white arrives at village and sees Andriana, who puts on the wreath - which had since decayed but she still kept it - and joins her best friend. The rest of the villagers plus the huntsman follows (Waiting on a wish reprise). The Evil Queen is fawning over her new magical stones but hears the crowd and storms outside. She taunts snow white to kill her but snow refuses. Just then, the guards show up and the queen orders them to kill her but snow white tells the guards their real names and that she knew who they were before becoming guards, causing them to drop their weapons. even the captain of the guard quits. Furious, Lilith takes the dagger to finish the deed herself but it gets knocked out of her hands by an arrow shot by Grumpy. The dwarves and jonathan glare at the queen. Realizing shes outnumbered Lilith activates her newly enpowered scepter starts turning everyone into statues, while the dwarves use their magic to try to fight her they are quickly overpowered and turned to statues. Snow white baits her into chasing her into the catsle where they have a confrontation in the mirror room. Just as Lilith is about to strike, snow white moves out of the way causing the spell to hit the mirror instead. Realizing her mistake Lilith tries to fix the broken mirror but a booming voice tells her that snow white will always be fairer than her repeating the same words on her locket. Lilith feels her body losing energy and she turns into a burnt form befor being pulled back into the mirror. Everyone turns back into their original forms. The shards glow white and form the body of a person - the king! Snow white and her father have a happy reunion. The king explains that after he find out about his bride's true colors she had trapped him inside her mirror, forcing him to tell her that shes beautiful while being unable to protect his own daughter. He tells snow whire that he is proud of her and thanks the dwarves for taking care of her.
A month later the kingdom celebrates the first snow fall on snow white's birthday which also is the day of her and jonathan's wedding. Her father decides not to retake his throne as he plans to enjoy the rest of his life doing - what else - making pies. Farno becomes the royal blacksmith, Bingley becomes a jewelery maker. Scythe becomes a farmer, Maple begins her own jam business, Finch becomes a csrver making birdhouses and Quigg becomes a councilman. Doc also becomes the royal doctor. Good Things Grow finale
Dopey turns out to be the narrator the whole time. With Lilith defeated Snow white has finally become the queen she was meant to be and the kingdom becomes whole again.
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sapphire-heart-tippy · 7 months ago
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Sugar Crash Void Bash: The Fanfic!
chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7
CWs: Violent action sequences, blood mention, slight gore, anxiety and panic, possession/mind control, strangulation, sharp weapons (daggers, spears, halberds)
Chapter Eight: Kingdom Crumbles
After you read this, you'll get to choose between two endings
Bad Ending Good Ending
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The fog of tension is so thick in the air that one could cut it with a knife. After a restless night, the soon-to-be heroes did everything in their power to replenish their energy for the upcoming confrontation. Ice and Tippy get dressed in silence, the brunette is sitting on the edge of the bed.
Tippy gently wraps zeir arms around him, planting a reassuring kiss on his cheek. Ice breathes a relieved sigh through his nose, closing his eyes, and lightly caressing Tippy’s bicep.
Outside
The air, although silent and still, is filled with the dread of what’s to come. Emmanuel steps over the threshold of the front door to meet the rest of his family. He inhales,
“Mr Dio isn’t coming. He’s far too weakened from the attack yesterday.”
“Just as I suspected,” Ice speaks bluntly then turns to the others, “Let’s end this.” 
Ramón holds the map, directing the rest of the family members where to go. They trek outside of town, seemingly into the middle of the desert. Emmanuel accidentally bumps into the back of Vanilla, 
“Ough! Sorry, cous’–” His eye widens at the sight he sees, “What… the hell… is that?”
Before the three gentlemen, is what looks to be a palace of sorts. The palace is made from smooth sandstone, all lined with gold trim. It has open arches in place of doorways so anyone could wander inside… but would they want to?
Ice shakes his head, remaining silent, but continues hiking down the sand dune. Tippy narrows his eyes in suspicion and curiosity at zeir husband.
The four get closer and closer to the sandstone palace, an eerie pressure lingering in the air with every passing step. Ice feels Ramón wrap his arm around his arm. The pink haired teen holds onto his papa for comfort, anxious about what may happen soon. With a head rub and some soothing words of reassurance from his papa, Ramón’s muscles relax and he feels less tense.
The four’s footsteps echo on the stone floor as they enter the palace. Up high on a hill of stairs, sits a sinister man on his throne. He has pin straightened, lavender, shoulder length hair, sharply cut horizontally, golden-orange eyes that glow intermittently, and is wearing what appears to be a cerulean crown with a sky blue diamond in the center. The crown and his outfit’s ensemble are quite similar to the way the envelope was presented. 
Once the group approaches him, a nasty smirk curls upon his glossed lips. Vanilla stops in his tracks, gazing up at the menacing man in the throne, he clenches his teeth,
“Beleza…” 
“Wait, you know this guy?!” Tippy says. Ramón and Emi are confused too, the three of them look at Vanilla. The brunette is fuming and imploding with repressed negative emotions of the man in front of him. The man chuckles,
“That’s right. It’s me. Beleza Muscadine, in the flesh and blood,” He smirks grimly, “But you all may address me as ‘Lord Bel’ from now on.” 
“In your dreams.” Vanilla growls. Bel giggles, then daintily crosses his legs in his throne. He playfully shakes his head, looking at Vanilla's family,
“Oh, my my my my my… Who do we have here? This,” Bel points at Tippy, “must be your little boyfriend, hm? He’s awfully handsome. I guess you did find love after all, eh, Vanilly?” He bats his eyelashes. Bel points at Ramón, “And this one… this one must be your baby, huh? Ohohoho, you naughty thing…” Bel smirks and looks at Emi,
“You… I have no idea who you are, but my best guess is you are somehow related to this man right here.”
“Let’s end this, Beleza. I’m ready to punch that putrid smirk off your face.” Vanilla hisses.
“So hostile.” Bel puts up his hands. “This guy has always been jealous of me.”
Tippy turns to Vanilla with great concern,
“Vans, what is going on?! Who is this?!”
Before Ice can answer, Bel speaks, directing his attention to Tippy,
“Ohohoho, you’d like to get to know me, pretty little thing?”
The words that slip out of Bel’s mouth send shockwaves of pure rage into Vanilla’s heart. The brunette tries everything in his power to restrain himself from lunging at the purple haired man.
“Allow me to explain.”
Bel ominously glides down the stairs, landing in front of the group,
“I used to be one of The Beast’s loyal servants…
In fact… I was one of the first to join. 
After a few months of being Dio’s right hand man alone… that was when Ice appeared.
Hmhmhm… you all should’ve seen him, the way he was before…
He was so pathetic, meek, fragile, dirty… He acted like a shy little child at first.
Of course, Dio took quite a liking to him and didn’t let him out of his sight. I must admit, I was a little jealous of all the attention Ice would get, but mhmhm… all of that changed rather quickly over time.
Even though Ice became stronger and healthier, grabbing Dio’s attention more often… I was still The Beast’s favorite. I made damn sure Icy knew that. 
Ohohoho, he would get so angry. Ice hated me so much. Seething with jealousy that I, Beleza Muscadine was so, smart, gorgeous, perfect, and everything he’s not. 
He must’ve omitted my existence out of any life stories he told, hm? Well then, I was such a great leader and I could persuade others to do my bidding with ease, something Dio praised me quite highly on. Awww, Vanilly was just so torn apart with jealousy at me ‘stealing away his boyfriend’ that he turned himself into a mindless slave. He obeyed Dio without hesitation, doing anything and everything that was asked of him… no matter how humiliating or degrading the command was.
But… I cared not for Dio’s worthless attention, but mostly for the sake of tormenting Ice. Oh, and taking Dio’s treasure of course. 
I was treated quite poorly by The Beast. I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life under the thumb of some arrogant waste of space.”
Bel circles the group then hovers back up to his throne, gracefully sitting back down and crossing his legs one over the other. He rests his cheek on his knuckles, gazing down at the gang with his yellow eyes,
“Everything changed for the better however…” Bel looks down at the nails on his left hand then back at the group, “I had found something that helped me get everything I deserved.”
Beleza taps the jewel embedded in the crown on top of his head, 
“I found this gorgeous gem. It called to me, and I took it as a trophy.” The purple haired man sighs dreamily, looking off into the distance with hooded eyelids, “Yes, I was Dio’s favorite servant… right up until I had failed in offing The Beast with a wooden stake to the heart.”
Emmanuel is stunned, slowly shaking his head, remembering what happened the day prior. Beleza could have very well finally killed Dio yesterday, yet he chose not to. Bel continues,
“Instead of driving that wooden stake into his undead heart, it was driven right into the palm of his hand. He told me bluntly to get out, and if I were to ever return, I would be executed on sight. I left as told and… hmhm, here we are today.”
“We don’t care about any of that, Beleza.” Ice growls, dripping venom with every word.
“Your little boy toy certainly cared, since he’s the one who asked me so politely.” Bel puckers his lips and winks at Tippy. 
“YOU SON OF A BITCH, I’LL KILL YOU!!!” Vanilla bellows, clenching his fists in rage. His anger only makes Beleza cackle.
Emmanuel steps in,
“What did you do with Jonathan?!”
Bel rolls his eyes then taps his cheek with his long golden painted nail. He sighs with an annoyed expression,
“Right… I have something of yours.” Bel snaps his fingers and uses the power of the jewel to bring down a cage containing a dazed Jonathan. The blue bearded man is sitting down on the cage’s floor, completely hypnotized into an unresponsive stupor.
“What did you do to him?!” Vanilla yells. Bel gestures up to Jonathan,
“He wasn’t cooperating, and he tried to use some kind of repulsive sunlight magic on me. Oh, that man certainly did put up quite the fight…” He grins evilly, “But what he didn’t count on was the fact that I like to fight dirty.” Bel grins devilishly, “I figured out that he was using his breath as an energy source… ahuhuhu, and Vanilly over here knows how I just simply *inhale* take the fellas’ breath away.” Bel points at the cage, “Long story short, he’s under my spell. I doubt he even knows what’s happening right now or where he is.”
“You bastard!” Vanilla grits his teeth.
“Mhm.” Bel raises an eyebrow, very unamused, “I’ll tell you what,” He taps his cheek with his golden fingernail, looking up at the suspended cage, “I’ll give the four of you a choice…”
Vanilla shakes his head already prepared to deny anything Beleza has to offer, no matter what that may be. The purple haired man smirks,
“I’ll let Jonathan go free if you join me in executing The Beast, and you must lend me each of your stand powers to take over the world. You four will be my most treasured servants. I will treat you with dignity and grace, don’t worry…”
Beleza narrows his eyes, 
“But if you refuse…” He looks up at caged Jonathan, “Each and every one of you will die.” 
“NO.” Vanilla speaks firmly, “I will never bow to you. None of us will bow to you.”
“Awww…” Bel feigns a pout, “Tsk tsk tsk, is that your final answer?”
Ice gives Beleza a chilling glare, piercing whatever soul the lavender haired man has left with him. With a smirk and a glance to Ramón, Bel speaks,
“What a shame… and I said I would never harm a child. Oh well,” Bel stands up quickly, holding up his right hand, electric blue magic emanating around it,
“But you have to crack a few skulls to make an empire.”
HSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Beleza’s stand, a large cerulean snake with golden accents and a lilac colored belly, manifests behind him. 
“I’d like you all to meet, Gilded Cobra… because he will be the very last stand you ever meet!!!” 
Gilded Cobra opens his mouth wide and attempts to strike the couple. Vanilla and Tippy manifest their stands and jump out of the way!
Emmanuel pulls Ramón aside and speaks,
“Listen, little man, you and I are going to rescue Jonathan while your parents take care of this Beleza guy, okay?”
Ramón looks back and forth between Emi and his fathers fighting this new enemy stand user. The teen gulps, but regains his composure and nods.
“Good! Now follow my lead!” Emi sprints over to where the suspended cage is, dipping into Slick’s shadow form, moving along the ground for Ramón to follow.
Tippy uses invisibreak, confusing and irritating Beleza. Gilded Cobra swipes his golden clawed serpent hands at Cream. This enrages the void stand, causing him to belt out a roar that shakes the palace. Cream flattens his hand and goes to slice Cobra in half. The snake stand is too quick! He hisses, spraying venom at Cream. A few drops land on the zombie-like stand, sizzling and melting his flesh. Vanilla grunts in pain, looking in disbelief at the acidic venom wounds. 
Tippy peers out from Sapphire Heart’s invisibreak portal from the waist up. With diamond spear in hand, ze pulls it back and thrusts the spear at Beleza.
!!!
Beleza uses his magic to stop the spear from piercing his flesh. The electric blue magic has the head of the spear in its grasp. Tippy struggles to pull away, but Beleza is far too powerful. 
“UNNGHH!!” Ze cries out. Beleza’s eyes are glowing bright, laser focused on Tippy. His grimace turns into a smirk, very much pleased from the power he has over the blue haired gentleman. Sapphire Heart appears fully, and grasps the spear in his hands,
“I have had enough of this.”
Sapphire makes the spear disappear in a flash, and swifter than a black mamba bite, ze crashes zeir fist into Beleza’s cheek, sending him flying across the throne platform. Sapphire covers zeir master in a protective crystal shield sphere. Tippy pushes the inside of the forcefield with zeir hands,
“SAPPHIRE!!!”
The genie stand ignores zeir master, seeing red at the treatment of Tippy. Beleza is lying on his throne, dazed and very enraged. Sapphire swoops in, grabbing Beleza by the collar of the top, transforming zeir right hand into a giant metal boxing glove-esque fist. Three sharp blue diamonds detract out of the knuckles,
“HYAAAAAHHH!!!!”
Zeir blow is cut short by the electric blue energy surrounding zeir fist. Bel’s pupils go from round to slitted as he pushes Sapphire Heart back. Tippy has no control over zeir stand anymore, not like ze had very much control to begin with. Bel manages to shove Sapphire away as well as push away the crystal shield orb containing Tippy. The blue haired gentleman screams as ze is flung away out of the range of zeir stand. Sapphire and the orb disappear, causing Tippy to crash painfully to the ground,
“Aauunghh!!” 
Vanilla notices this, but is dealing with Gilded Cobra at the moment. His head is peeking out of Cream’s mouth as Cream tries to push Cobra away from him. Ice turns to see his husband lying on the ground,
“TIPPY!!!” 
He turns back to the serpent stand, gaining enough energy, strength, and motivation to finally kick him off with both of Cream’s massive legs. Cobra gets sent flying backwards, which causes Bel to stop walking and get sent flying off as well. 
Ice leaps out of Cream’s void mouth and dashes over to protect his love. Beleza spots this and narrows his eyes. Before Ice can reach Tippy, Beleza swoops down and seizes zem in his arms. Tippy yelps and is pressed against Beleza’s chest, being firmly held in place by his left arm. Vanilla stops dead in his tracks, viewing the horrendous sight before him. Beleza’s devilish serpent eyes drill into Vanilla’s,
“Hmhmhmhm…” The lavender haired man chuckles, his voice is eerily distorted. Bel looks down at Tippy, eyelids hooded, a smirk impossibly wide and even more snake-like than before. He licks his lips with a black forked tongue. This makes Ice’s eyes widen in pure disgust and bewilderment. Bel looks back over at Ice and his chuckle sounds more like a rhythmic hiss,
“Sss sss sss sss sss…” He continues, “He’s awfully cute…” 
The lavender haired man stretches out his hand to the side, manifesting a sharp, curved, golden dagger,
“I might just have to make him my groom instead… but if he misbehaves or disobeys me in any way,” Tippy winces as the cold blade is pressed against his throat. Bel enjoys seeing both Tippy and Vanilla in this position. Having an attractive guy in his clutches, as well as said guy being the lover of his enemy. Ice’s fury amuses Beleza,
“We will rule the world together, my love…” He abandons the dagger, causing it to disappear into thin air. Instead, Beleza gently touches Tippy’s cheek and jaw, making zem look at him, “Oh, darling. Look… look at me… look into my eyes…” Tippy looks into his eyes, going into a trance, causing zeir eyes to glow. Ze tries to turn zeir head away, but zeir eyes remain locked onto Beleza’s. 
Suddenly zeir body goes numb, and zeir mind goes fuzzy. Beleza turns away as he just put Tippy under his serpent spell, looking into Vanilla’s eyes as well. Ice feels his body fill with sprinkles of pleasure and his mind go fuzzy. He quickly shields his eyes and groans. Bel grins,
“Yet another thing of yours that I have taken away, eh, Vanilly?” His cackle rings in Vanilla’s ears, making him lose control.
BAWWWMMPPH!!!
Vanilla punches Beleza as hard as he can in the face with his fist. Tippy drops to the floor again, holding the spot on zeir chest where Bel held zem. Ice stomps over to Bel on the ground, seeing that his skin is growing blue scales on certain parts of his body, including his cheeks and neck. 
“Vanilla!” Tippy calls over to his husband. Ice whips his head around to see Tippy holding up his hands in the shape of a heart. Vanilla quickly rushes to Tippy and they both yell,
“HEART!!!”
In a flash of bright white light, Razz lands and slides his leg across the floor. Bel hisses, his mouth is wider with two protruding fangs, and sparse blue scales glisten on his cheeks,
“What?!”
Meanwhile, Ramón and Emmanuel are figuring out a way to get Jonathan down from the cage. The two family members finally reach the cage, Emi by using his shadow form, Ramón by glitching out. Emmanuel slips out from the waist up of Slick’s shadow. He touches the cage, only to be met with what feels like an electric shock,
“YEOW! W-what the hell was that all about?!” Emi waves his hand around, “This isn’t good, little man, we need to try to find a way to get him out of this cage, pronto.”
“I have an idea!” Ramón holds up his hand, which is glitching violently. He sticks his glitching hand through the bars just to test his theory, “Aha! So all I have to do is glitch out, grab Mr Jojo and pull him through the bars!”
“Er, no offense, Ramón, but… I don’t think you’d be strong enough to hold this guy.” Emi shakes his head. Ramón floats over next to Emi,
“Okay, what about this? I’ll take Mr Jojo out, then you grab him and send him to the shadow world or whatever that is.”
“Yeah, sure, that sounds like a pla–”
KAH-TAAAANG!!!
The two relatives recoil and realize that Bel shot a slim beam of electric blue energy at the two of them from an enchanted gilded halberd that used to be hanging from a pillar. Bel is tackled by Razz, who was recovering from several thrashes that Bel had given him. 
Emi looks directly at Ramón,
“We have to do this quickly.”
Ramón nods in agreement and attempts to pull the weakened Jonathan out of the cage.
Razz and Beleza continue to viciously fight one another. Bel hisses and screeches, grabbing animalistically at Razz’s long brown hair on his right side, yanking him around. Razz howls in pain and claws at Beleza’s chest and face, feeling the transition from skin to scales every now and then. 
The lavender haired man straight up strikes at the fusion with his mouth, trying to sink his fangs into him. Razz dodges out of the way, still in extreme pain at having his hair clutched so tightly in Bel’s grasp. Razz fights dirty too, taking a leaf from Beleza’s book and clamping his jaw around Beleza’s left arm. 
Bel yelps and hisses loudly, burning venom spraying everywhere, pounding his fist into Razz’s head, making the fusion dizzy. Thankfully Beleza lets Razz go.
The fusion disappears into a cloud of sparkles, which infuriates the lavender haired man even more. Light blue venom drips down Bel’s chin, as he gives out low, beastly growls. His slitted, glowing yellow eyes are wide, as he twirls around trying to catch the damned fusion. 
UURRRGHHHH…
Beleza feels an ominous presence behind him. He hears the low, horrific sound of a mysterious creature growling. As the lavender haired man turns around, he is met face to face with Volatile Amethyst. The demonic undead stand holds his scythe with both hands, giving Beleza an evil toothy grin,
“Goodnight…”
SLAAASSSHHH!!!
Amethyst goes to slice Beleza in half with his scythe. Bel’s serpent eyes are wide as his body is sliced diagonally, from left shoulder to right hip. Instead of blood pouring out of his body, electric blue energy radiates across his wound. The jewel in his crown glows blindingly bright, making Amethyst and Razz shield their eyes. Beleza hovers, being held up by the crown’s jewel, his body is limp and his eyes are rolled back in his head as if he is deceased. Razz squints his eyes, trying to get a better look at what’s happening.
Bel lands on the ground, stumbling on his own feet. He gazes off into the distance with a thousand yard stare. His eyes flash from yellow and slitted, to dark brown and round in an instant. Beleza grabs his head and pants from what seems to be distressed,
“Haaahh, haaaah!! W-what?!” His voice sounds vastly different. 
Quicker than a mousetrap’s spring, Beleza snaps out of it, regaining his glowing yellow serpent eyes, and looks straight at Razz. His movements are a little more robotic than they were before.
“You are a fool.” Beleza grins, his eyes unblinking and locked onto Razz. The fusion is horrified at what he just saw. He feels a visceral and primal instinct to run away as if Beleza was a beast in the wild and Razz was the prey. 
“I cannot be killed.” Razz doesn’t know why but… when Beleza speaks, it feels like it’s… not even him speaking, but rather he's being spoken through.
“The power of the jewel is unsurpassable. By The Serpent’s Eye, you will bow to my feet or perish beneath them.” Beleza’s movements are akin to that of a puppet on a string, something that would be seen straight from a nightmare. Razz backs away from primal fear. 
Crrrkk
Bel’s head turns to Emmanuel and Ramón, attempting to glitch Jonathan out of the cage. He raises both of his hands, palms facing upwards, and knocks Ramón out of the sky using an electric blue energy beam from the gem.
Emmanuel reaches out for Ramón,
“NOOOO!!!”
The teenager falls down, weakened from the blast. Razz shrieks and sprints to catch his son. Beleza’s head is tilted, almost touching his left shoulder. His limbs are stiff yet limp, as if he was just a reanimated corpse. His body twitches every now and then.
Razz dashes, and as if everything were happening in slow motion, he manages to catch Ramón before he plummets to the ground. The two of them disappear in a cloud of sparkles, resting in the void for a while. 
Beleza jerks his head upwards at Emmanuel, which sends chills down his spine. Emi frantically thinks of some other way to free Jonathan. Beleza raises his hands again, charging another attack while Emmanuel makes his way up to the rope holding up the cage to keep it still. 
Slick Shadow tries his best to wriggle his way into the cage without touching the bars, so he can pull Jonathan into the shadow void with him. 
Before Beleza can shoot an energy beam at Emmanuel, Razz leaps out of the void and tackles him! They both land on the ground with a loud thud. Razz kicks Bel and stands back up, putting up his obsidian shield. 
Gilded Cobra hisses and wraps his mouth over a part of the obsidian shield, trying to break it but to no avail. The electric blue venom drips down onto the ground, sizzling and melting the sandstone floor. Beleza hovers over and starts thrusting the golden halberd violently and mechanically into the force field. 
Any and every attempt to break the shield is proven in vain. Beleza growls and launches the halberd directly at Emmanuel, missing him by mere centimeters. The enchanted halberd disappears and is teleported back to the ground near Beleza. Ramón laughs, grabbing the attention of the lavender haired man,
“Haha! Give it up already, Beleza. We can literally do this all day! My fathers can stay fused for 12 hours!”
Beleza’s face turns from frustration to realization to deviousness. He grins wickedly and slowly turns his head to Razz,
“Good to know…” 
Beleza leaps up into the air, hovering with his head looking straight up at the ceiling. The gem glows a bright white, then a bright orange… then a bright red. His arms are stretched out and hands are holding two glowing orbs of golden energy. Razz frantically looks around,
“W-w-what’s going on? What the hell is happening now?!”
Ramón runs up to Razz, grabs his bicep and points out of the open archways,
“Whatever’s happening outside!!!”
Outside, the clouds move faster and faster with each passing second. 
“Wait…Wait.” Razz realizes,” H-HE’S FAST FORWARDING TIME!!!”
“I refuse to be disrespected by worthless mortals.” Beleza’s voice booms all around the palace. 
Razz runs to below where Beleza is and has Amethyst fly upwards,
“Shit! He’s out of range of my stand!”
Ramón gets a determined look in his eyes and rushes to the spot Razz is at. He glitches out and disappears, startling the fusion.
Beleza continues to make time pass even faster and faster until it’s night. Ramón glitches up to where he is and manages to grab onto Beleza. They both glitch around, the magic coupled with the glitching, makes the entire earth shake and distort.
“STOP THIS! STOP AT ONCE, YOU FOOL, YOU’LL KILL US ALL!” Beleza roars.
The entire universe ripples and wobbles from the immense power distortion caused by Ramón’s glitching and Beleza’s gem magic. The two of them lose power for a brief moment and plummet to the ground.
The teen finds enough strength to get his stand power back and glitches out into the void before he hits the ground. Beleza hovers, lying down prone, almost touching the ground. He stands up and clenches his fists, glaring at Ramón. He directs his attention back to the fusion and smirks,
“11 hours and 55 minutes have passed. You don’t have much time left before you are separated.”
Razz says nothing, his heart is racing and he bites his teeth, angry and anxious. Beleza grabs the golden halberd once again and shoots out an energy beam at Emmanuel, this time grazing his right bicep.
“AAAUGH!!!” Emmanuel wails in pain, wobbling and having trouble clinging to the rope. Slick Shadow gets electrocuted by the cage bars, recoiling in pain and ruining all of the progress. Beleza gives a fang filled grin.
Razz turns to his son,
“Ramón, run away. Run far, far away. Please.”
“W-what?! N-no! I can’t! I won’t–”
“You need to save yourself, child.” Razz commands his son, then mumbles, “Vanilla and Tippy shouldn’t even have brought you in the first place.”
Before Ramón can respond, Razz sprints to Beleza, and another battle ensues. The teenage boy is completely paralyzed in place, watching Razz and Beleza attack each other with their bare hands. 
His heart thumps against his ribcage, unintentionally glitching around,
“G-GA-A-A-AUGH!” 
Ramón stops for a few moments and looks up at Emmanuel, who’s trying to release Jonathan from the cage while at the same time trying to stops his wound from bleeding. Blood drips down from the area Emmanuel is at, splattering down to the floor below. 
Ramón trembles from fear, feeling his fingers go numb. His periphery grows fuzzy and unfocused, his heart beats uncontrollably no matter how slow he tries to breathe. His throat closes up, making it almost impossible to swallow. 
With a couple more glitches, his golden brown eyes lock onto the jewel in Beleza’s crown, glowing bright blue. Sugar Crash whispers behind Ramón barely audible but still just enough to hear,
“He’s being puppeteered by it…”
That’s when the teen realizes… He remembers the person in the trench coat and top hat. They had glowing yellow eyes for a while until... Suddenly they didn't. Just a little while ago, Beleza was sliced in half by Volatile Amethyst, then got revived by the gem in his crown. Ramón replays that scene in his head over and over… Beleza’s eyes… his eyes… his eyes went from a glowing yellow to a dark brown.
Razz shouts and uses his stand to slice at Gilded Cobra. The snake stand hisses and strikes at Amethyst at lightning speed. Amethyst goes in to slash at him, frantically swinging around the scythe. Cobra whips around and smacks Amethyst up against a pillar, sending Razz backwards as well. The pillar cracks and crumbles, pieces of debris flying every which way. 
Beleza flies over to Razz, only to be kicked in the abdomen by both of his legs. Beleza grunts from the power of the kick. He hisses, the bright blue venom from his fangs spewing as his mouth opens. Razz covers his face, his forearms taking the stinging droplets of venom,
“Aaaughh!” 
Meanwhile, Ramón is quickly coming up with a plan to steal away the crown from Beleza. With a deep inhale and a glance to his stand, he glitches out. The battle between Razz and Beleza causes destruction all inside of the palace. 
Emi clutches his arm, watching as Slick Shadow wraps around the inebriated Jonathan,
“Come on, come on…”
Slick gets electrocuted every now and then, causing immense pain to Emmanuel, yet he pushes on.
Ramón manages to glitch his way behind Beleza. The lavender haired man is dodging Razz’s punches and kicks, but what he didn’t count on was Ramón grabbing the crown from his head.
“HUH?!” Beleza twists his head around and catches the teenager in the act. Ramón gasps! Simply removing the jewel from Beleza’s head isn’t enough. Razz lands a harsh blow against Beleza’s left cheek, bringing his attention back to the fusion. Ramón thinks fast, glitchily flying over to another area where he slams down the crown into the ground.
The pink haired boy stomps on the jewel with his foot, but it does nothing. He tries to have Sugar Crash punch it, but still nothing happens. 
Suddenly, a glint of metal catches his eye,
“Th-the halberd!” Ramón dashes over to the enchanted halberd Beleza had abandoned and snatches it up off the ground. He sprints back over to the crown and starts smashing the jewel with the head of the weapon. 
CRRK!
The halberd manages to crack the gem bit by bit. It starts glowing red, the light pulsating in a rhythm as if it’s a dying heartbeat. Beleza furiously grabs Razz by the throat and hovers, raising the fusion up in the air and strangling him with just one hand. Razz grabs hold of Beleza’s wrist and does everything he can to pry himself free from the deadly grip.
Ramón looks over for a brief moment to see what’s happening, then goes back to smashing the jewel with the enchanted halberd, grunting and using every bit of his strength to destroy the accursed thing.
Emmanuel strains and shudders from both the pain of being shot with an energy beam, and from being shocked by the cage’s bars. He finally has Jonathan fully enveloped in Slick’s shadow form. Now all there is left to do is pull him out.
Ramón wails as he slams the golden halberd down into the jewel repeatedly. Gilded Cobra slithers over to the fusion, unhinging his jaw and going in to take a finishing bite. Ramón looks over once again and shrieks,
“NOOOO!!!”
This time sobbing in terror. There is not much time left before Razz separates back into Ice and Tippy.
To be continued…
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★. Milli's lab — vol. 1 ⌕ feat. Ezio Auditore & Diana Salvatore
notes: ... WHY HELLO THERE! Welcome to "Milli's lab", a lil thing of mine to experiment some of my creative liberty towards my own writing, may it become actual fanfics or nah. Um, so... I didn't expect to post anything related to Assassin's Creed here, but the fucking hyperfixation is hyperfixating! Ugh! And so, after an span of one-year-and so-on-months away from the fandom, I came back and finally created an OC to pair up with Ezio because he's my shayla among all the hooded gang 💔 I do not know how receptive the fandom are with OCs, though... I hope it comes out good! Diana is my baby and I love them two together 🫶🏽
By the way, this is 600 words long (I believe), it's settled somewhere in AC2 because my memory sucks and because these two, in my head, had such a freaking long slow burn, but they're already in love! Ah, the old and good mutual pining!
Enjoy the reading! <3
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With the harmonious orchestra of tiny crickets scattered throughout the always silent night of Monteriggioni, Diana reveled in her own stillness as she slowly completed her umpteenth re-reading of The Iliad, snuggled in the sheets of her bed and in the warm breeze provided by Zephyrus’ waltzes. Her slender fingers slid page by page until the triple tinkling on the surface of the bedroom window filled her hearing and expelled her from the midst of gods and heroes. A messy crease forms in her eyebrows.
“Ma che cazzo…?”
Another clink. A voice came whispering like this:
“Diana! Diana!”
Upon recognizing the whisperer, she let out a short smile. Now having her curiosity piqued, she got up from the bed and through the crack in the door that led to the balcony of the Villa Auditore, she could see a hooded head emerging from the marble railing. Diana swallowed a lump of saliva that appeared in the back of her throat as she felt her heart begin to hammer in the forges inside her, embers erupting and strangely sprouting flowers on her skin even though it was covered by the nightgown she was wearing.
She shook her head. Don’t fool yourself, Diana. Focus and control!
When she opened the door and positioned herself half out, she fronted-up with Ezio, his feet already firmly planted, robes that were once white dotted with blood red and a scathing smile that tugged at that scar that Diana harbored a certain desire for — repressed in the box that was secreted in the corner of some room in her mind — to trace with her fingers. She clears her throat, sewing a similar smile on her own lips.
“Ezio? What are you doing here at this time of night? Do you want to wake up the whole city?” She asked jokingly.
“I’m the one who should ask you that question, signorina,” he began, pretentiously cordial. Diana watched with her large, cerulean eyes as the gloved hand deftly removed the hood, a tingle in her stomach given her privileged view of Ezio's Apollonian face. “You seem awake for this time of night…”
“Birbante! Don’t mock me!” Despite the reprisal, her tone was light and relaxed. “What do you want, anyway?”
“Ah, yes”, Like someone waking up from a trance, he blinks his amber eyes twice and rummages through his pockets until he directs his cupped hand towards Diana. She looked through it, noticing a small package. Clearing his throat, the words came out in a shy sequence: “I... I saw that and thought of you…”
If it weren't for the darkness of the night veil that enveloped all of Italy, Diana could have captured the simple rosy bloom on Ezio's cheeks. Two steps forward and before him she stood; for a tiny second, a glance, a flash pumped directly from the heart to thought, she swore she saw the orbs opposite her own on a fleeting journey through her ebony hair that fell free down her back. Diana gasped, desperate lips trembling with gratitude.
Something momentarily in both of them made their flesh pulse as their fingers touched the moment she picked up the package. As Diana undid it, the still-covered sparkle made her frown. With her fingers in pincers, she picked up the object and the sigh she let out was more descriptive than any other expression steeped in surprise could describe.
It was a beautiful pair of earrings, drop-shaped pearls inlaid with sapphires. She felt her own face bubbling, a glowing sensation coursing through every fiber of her being. That same heart forge resounding like the shrillest of thunder clogging her ears.
“Dio mio…” Finally, her voice lines up, although small. “Ezio, you-”
“Did you like it?” he panted, flustered. “I thought of you when I saw them in the store. The sapphires reminded me of your eyes."
And with those same sapphire irises that surrounded his thoughts graced by Eros, Diana faced him, her chest heaving and her eyelids teary.
“Oh, Ezio. You did not have to... Oh, Ezio!”
Ezio barely had time to say anything as she rushed to his chest, hugging him fervently. Soon he reciprocated, welcoming her with all his affection.
“They are so beautiful that words fail to leave me! Grazie! Grazie mille!”
“Di niente, cara mia.”
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