#dont worry i'll have a 'good fathers' post to make up for this

[fatestouch]

annual father's day tradition of: listing out the muses with shitty fathers :)

Circe: Their father is a strict traditionalist and is constantly putting unrealistic expectations on them and their siblings, even after Circe ran away from home

Jupiter: Both of his parents sold him to vampire slave traders.

Rome and Vice: Both of their parents severely abused them due to them being shapeshifters.

Kaede: Both of his parents sold him to the yakuza to pay off a petty debt, and they didn't even treat him well before all of that.

Mason: Both of his parents cut him out of his inheritance due to his rebellion against their expectations of him.

Rene: His father did nothing to save him from his mother's physical abuse, and actually stood back and watched.

Zach: *runs my hands down my face* Physically abused Zach after the passing of his mother for years, also attempted to cut out Zach's wings, leaving a pair of jagged scars on his back.

[reeniecon]

-levels of possessiveness-

Include malleus draconia, lilia vanrouge, rook hunt, kalim al asim and Jamil Viper

‼️⚠️ : gn!Reader,I haven't proof read it yet, mentions of chapter 7 npc's names on lilias part, might be come out as yandere tendencies than possessiveness...

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- kalim al asim -

• I know some of you gonna disagree with me, BUT HEAR ME OUT OKAY

• since he was a little kid he always get what he wanted right?

• why wouldn't get this one ?

• YOU GET THE IDEA RIGHT HEHEHEHE

• hm? Oh u want to go out by urself? No way hahahah, take jamil with you~ or u want me to accompany you?

• Ooooo waitt sweety dont do the chores :(( ur hand will get hurt by that, just let the maid do it for you okayy?? Oh you felt sorry for him?? For working alone? oh dont worry baba(father) will recuit the maids tmr hhe

- jamil Viper -

• this one are not very surprising

• jamil didn't really get the chance to have something in life that really his on the first place

• so, when he finally did and someone are trying to take it away from him he get really possessive over it

• he can protect kalim all the time so... He faced by almost 0 problem trying to protect you

" Jamil.. What is that?? Can we get that? " You asked him

" I can make more healthier version of it at home, are you okay with that dear? " He speak " And uh...look, dear the cooking oil that there using, it's already black soo that mean they have been using it multiple time without changing it, I wouldn't want you to eat that not-very-healty oil I'm I?" He carefully explains to you

You can sigh to him " Okay... "

" Good, let's head back I'll make it for you" He smiled sweetly to you

- lilia vanrouge -

• lmao do I need to explain??

• he is a fae

• and already lived a long life

• he knows the pain of losing people he loved dearly mallenoa.. Malleus mother and malleus father...

• so naturally he didn't want to get hurt by that feeling again of course.

• that's why he get very possessive of you

• if you're a long lived creature you might see him be not so possessive towards you because he knows he had a lot of time to spend with you.

• BUT, if you're a human... He *sigh* yeah you know the rest

" My dearie" Lilia calls for you

" Where have youve been?? " He added

" Oh, lilia I just got back from heartslabyul actually, just meet adeuce " You explain while giggling

" Hm, why lying my dear" He glares to you, while flying closer to you

" What.. No what do you mean Lilia! " You panic a little bit because what he just say to you

"Fufu.. My lovely dear... Don't lie to me okay? I know everything going on in your life " He say gently while He stroke your hair

- malleus draconia -

• HE IS A DRAGON.

• dragon are KNOWN to be a possessive creature sooo what makes you think he is any different

• he probably lock u up somewhere if he want to lmao

• not only a normal dragon but he is a dragon with POWERS he is the crowns prince to the Briar valley soooo

• he basically can do whatever he wants lol

• good luck if you catches his eyes lmao he might never let you go until your funeral, keyword MIGHT

- idia shroud -

• aaa this wired boy

• lacking basic human interaction and affection wwww

• in my eyes he would either be

• no please don't leave me boy or don't leave me or ill kms / destroy all of it

• WOULD STALK U, he probably hack into the campus CCTV just to check what are you doing currently

• asking ortho to follow you and assist you with everything you need

• would probably sends anonymous deaths threats to any guy who are flirting with you

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More of my fics

An : I'm kinda ashamed by this lol, but Ill post it anw, I'll add more in the future but this is it for now 😂😂😂

[blue-sadie]

Parents Love

Jake Sully x Daughter Reader x Neytiri

Summary: based off this post

Warning: reader held hostage, reader death

Yn pov

I took a deep breath, trying to calm my racing heart as I stared up at Quaritch. He had a knife to my throat that was slightly pressured almost slicing into my skin.

but all I could think about was how much trouble I was in and how worried my parents must be.

I had always known that my family was different from the rest of the Na'vi i mean my father in toruk makto he has many allies and enemies.

My parents, Jake Sully and Neytiri, were powerful warriors who had fought and won battles for the good of our people.

But I never imagined that I would find myself in the middle of a war too.

Quaritch was holding me hostage, and my parents were outside, trying to find a way to save me.

I could see the fury in dads's eyes as he stared back at Quaritch, ready to fight for me.

"You hurt a single hair on her body," he said, his voice low and menacing.

"I will personally take much pleasure in torturing you till your last breathe."

Quaritch laughed, pressing the knife closer to my throat, I could feel the sharp edge digging into my skin, and I knew that one wrong move could mean the end of me.

But my parents didn't back down. They stood their ground, ready to protect their family at all costs.

They were ready to face Quaritch head-on. The ground shook beneath us as my parents fought with all their might, determined to save me from Quaritch's grip.

In the end, it was my mother who managed to get the upper hand. She lunged towards Quaritch, her movements swift and powerful.

The knife flew out of his hand as he stumbled back but not without him slicing a bit deeper into my neck.

I fell into my parents' arms, tears streaming down my face as I clung onto them tightly.

It was over now but it was all starting come to an end "ma yn" mom screamed putting her hands on my neck to keep the wound pressured.

"M-mom" I whimpered trying to push her away "no no stay with me kid" dad murmured and heaved me onto his shoulder making me cry out in pain.

"You have to stay with me" he yelled running to his ikran to get home to mo'at "oh eywa please" mom screamed pleading and begging for eywa not to take me.

"D-dad" I whined as little black dotes started to fill my vision it was coming to an end "y-yes my b-baby" for the first time ever I saw a tear run down my father's cheek.

"d-dont cry" I whispered weakly dragging my hand to his face wiping it away "I-I'll be o-ok" and with that I glanced at my parents one last time before taking my final breath.

'I am with eywa'.

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@mrs-sullys-blog

@dreamsholdpowers

[puzzled-pegasus]

Christina Posabule thoughts (tiny little female christ is eating my brain today/pos)

This is mostly me working out some parallels between her and Orel's families but there's some cute hcs for her and Orel in here too :3

Her mom Poppit is influential to her as a parallel to the way that Clay affects Orel. Poppit is selfish, drunk, bitter, and very two-faced parent just like Clay is, who just like him, confidently gives awful advice and takes advantage of Christina's trusting nature.

Art is less involved with Christina and loses interest in conversation with her as soon as anything remotely associated with femininity comes up and he's just like ew gross go talk to your mom. the most positive attention he gives her is about her appearance and how cute or pretty she looks. He likes to constantly condescendingly tell her that any given thing she's interested or asking advice about in the moment is for boys or "a little girl like you doesn't need to worry about that :)" and it drives Christina nuts so she goes and talks to her mom anyway

Similarly to Clay and Orel, Poppit decided to take Christina on a picnic in the woods and they get lost, and Christina gets permanently injured due to her mother's carelessness, though I haven't yet figured out how. (Man, I just realized that if that happened after the events of Nature and Orel found out, he would probably be out for Poppit's BLOOD on behalf of his puppy crush sweetheart)

Idk whose post I read but I'll add the credit in later, but I read earlier the idea that as a parallel to Orel's masochism episode Christina has an arc where she turns sadist and I thought that was fuckin hilarious so yeah I need that to be a thing. I wonder what would set that off though. Maybe instead of taking to heart the idea that suffering is good for her, she might be like "wait friends I don't want you to go to hell for being happy" and beats them up...or smth i dont know. And also as parallel to Orel's dreams of God in that episode she could be like. Beating the shiz out of Satan. Lol. anyway,

I have this feeling that she and Orel have like the sappiest pet names for each other but like you cant even be mad about it cause they're so sincere lol. like they meet up for a date and Orel's casually like "there's my bright little daisy" and Christina is like "oh hello my sweet pudding pie" and then they hold hands and walk to the park or whatever tf

This is a smaller hc but if you remember that moment before the Puppingtons found out the Posabules were Catholic when Clay noticed Orel making 😍 eyes at Christina and he asked Orel if he thinks she was cute,,, I think it would be nice if Poppit and Christina were doing the same thing at that moment like Poppit was like "oh he's a doll isn't he?" And Christina's like "yes, ma'am, and so polite too!" and Poppit says something cheeky about how Christina better not start bringing boys around Art because he'll shoot them or whatever (you know like how dads threaten their daughters' boyfriends for no reason because of weird possession issues) and then they giggle together

Since Orel's been shot Christina worries over him a lot and especially in the first few months of their relationship she kept asking him how much it hurt and and even into adulthood she checks with him every day to make sure he's not exerting himself too much

Christina had a cat briefly and her parents killed it because they thought it was bad luck or smth

instead of "meet me in my study" Poppit's the more involved parent when it comes to discipline so she's just like "go see your father" cus he's the one with the belt

[phosphorescentspaceman]

i tried not to but. im going to have to live blog the jaffactory stream its too good (i'll just edit this post)

funnies

lewis crashed a plane into a tree and the hard cut to it was amazing

simon's stupid little wet lunch adventure

lewis has called simon dad, lad and duncan so far "i'm your daddy, right lewis?" "stop talking about my genitalia lewis - i'm your father, show some respect"

the modpack is not very well optimised lmao

duncan hasn't turned off his discord notifications, harry's POV has broken and they have already cheated in EXP for a bit

they have now started playing terrible trivia

lewis trying so hard to drop lore but simon keeps making funnies. simon everything you say is so cursed, i've missed this. please stop talking about whale tits.

"we are very confused here, at the yogscast. we don't see gender."

"none of us have had sex, thats for damn sure" LEWIS

"classic jaffa factory - just found another secret lewis hole" lewis is now eating the fuckin mountain. he also fell into his own hole. well done lewis.

"lewis i need you to fill my hole" SIMON??

all spruce all the time.

now this is chat not the boys, but everyone is talking about when he 'put the heating on' in SOI, and also a bit about lysander whenever the blimp shows up

simon accusing lewis of being a richboy snowboarder.

simon is in creative diughifgh - he's back in creative again thats so valid of him. oh no, he's infected lewis (they are running out of time for the stream, to be fair) - oh no, not barry too!!

lewis and simon fighting to the death for the intro

lewis' laugh at simon's jokes are so loud they blow out the mic <3 <3

"no one has ever mentioned the tick rate on the server, i think we got away with it"

apparently bullying a high duncan is an office hobby

the cable car is *so* blorped i love it so much. everyone keeps falling out

duncan got stuck in spectator mode which is hilarious

please never let simon build a man again. santa 2 is so cursed.

new lore

canonically they just woke up at the jaffa site, they didn't walk there, nor do they remember how they got there

officially confirmed that the crashed ship is from Hole Diggers' cheese incident

israphel mention

honeydew's office is extra dimensional and also he doesn't own the jaffa factory, he sold it

CLONES MENTION??? "I'm - I'm starting to worry we're all clones" "We've had some history with cloning - you wouldn't remember though, would you [Honeydew]?"

this honeydew might actually be an earlier clone - from prior to holediggers?

im sure this is not actually lore - but the 'this xephos may be a honeydew clone' bit is hilarious

rocket stuck in ice tower (the jokes are predicable but very funny)

ominous helmet now fused to honeydew's head via curse of binding.

oh no honeydew has a gun

new book is referencing the og 'santa with a belt below the ass' from jaffactory 1

hypercube reference!!!

giant present just dropped from space - xephos' body at the feet of the statue is sending me

xephos loving his little plane is so sweet to me. love this. hes very protective about it.

THE STICK IS BACK!!! poor xephos is getting smacked again.

so many spoilers!! we are getting jetpacks back again (update - only lalna has one so far!)

xephos remains a hoarder. he has so much random crap on him at all times.

xephos deaths so far this stream: at least 2

the fast tick rate is, in fact, canon. is it magic? is it a simulation? who knows!

"[Honeydew] why is the bathroom on fire?" the whole building almost burnt to the ground. the bathroom now has a snake it in. he lives there. he's xeph's little buddy.

"Yippe!!" Brry and Xeph having fun on a trampoline, much cuter that the very cursed last half hour of the stream.

only just noticed the blue detailing on xeph's backpack which is very very cute - honeydew's also suits him!

everyone sitting on the couches by the fireplace is so cute

Brry went into the portal - Lalna's dead body is still on the tracks - thats how the stream ended, with him yelling "I DONT WANNA BE HERE"

[sunwarmed-ash]

WIP Thursday/[Sinful Sunday post??]

hey so im gonna be taking time off writing for another job all next week so I'm posting this so you have something to read. DONT WORRY Sinful Sunday will continue, I'll just be busy this sunday and next making that capitalist coin!

This may turn into a fic, it may not. I wrote it right after I finished QAF for the 36th time.

Tags: Angsty steddiegrove, sex work, HIV+ character, violence

"Where do you go at night?"

Steve and Eddie are lying on Steve’s bed smoking weed when Steve asks the question that will inevitably change the course of their relationship, their future, forever. 

"What," Eddie asks, trying and failing for aloof. He thought he had been so careful. 

“You sneak out, every night. Where do you go, when you leave?"

Lying is the only probable next course of action. If he wants to keep Steve in his life that is. The truth will sever everything they once had. 

“Dealing doesn’t exactly fit a normal 9-5," Eddie says. It’s a half-lie. 

"You were selling drugs in Lafayette at 3 in the morning? Do you think I’m stupid," Steve snaps.

Eddie’s entire body flashes hot with the amount of detail in that accusation.  

"What? No! Wait, how did you- hang on, have you been spying on me?"

"Answer the question Eddie!"

Eddie feels cornered, and that’s never a good place for him to be. Because when he feels trapped, he lies, and he can’t stop. He will say anything to cover his ass, even if its just to survive to see another minute. 

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you..."

Steve scoffs at Eddie’s attempt at self ownership. 

"Why can’t you tell me, Eddie? I mean, after everything we’ve been through!”

Eddie bites into his tongue. He wishes it was that easy. God, does he wish it could be that simple...  

“i can't, not with everything baby. I'm sorry.” 

“Why not?” Steve demands and now he’s angry. His eyes are lined with tears and Eddie can feel the beginning of the end coming like an approaching storm. 

“Because you won't love me anymore.” 

It’s the truth. And Eddie hates to even hear the words out loud. Because its gonna hurt so bad to hear it twice. From Steve’s lips. The soundbite will live with him for eternity. 

“Isn't that for me to decide,” Steve objects. 

“You've already decided.” 

Eddie remembers the shit Harrington pulled on Wheeler when she hurt his frail male ego by just existing in the same space as another man. He remembers the hateful way Steve spits the word ‘whore’ because he associates it with his father and all of his sins. It’s how everyone says the word. Like its poison in their mouth. 

Slut. Hooker. Whore. But that's what Eddie is. Until he can find something that pays better. Because he has to eat. He and Wayne won’t survive an Indiana winter without heat. And after Eddie was banished and then half-heartedly rewelcome into a unstable healing community, no one in Hawkins treats him the same. Weed sales have dried up. No one wants to hire him for any job. Not even the mechanic shop down the street that is desperately understaffed and Eddie is overqualified for. So what the hell else is he supposed to do? Wayne just turned 68. He shouldn’t need to work 12 hour shifts just to barely support the kid he didn't ask for in the first place. Eddie never should have been his burden. So this is Eddie’s way of giving back. Pulling his own weight so he didn't feel so much like a goddamn freeloader all the time. But could Steve understand that? Steve wasn’t stupid, but he also wasn’t, lets say as morally flexible as some other people.

"I can't- do this Eddie... If you’re going to lie to me." Steve says and one look into his eyes and Eddie feels what's left of the tie between them sever. 

"I'm not lying," He insists but its a half truth at best. 

"You're not telling me everything, that counts," Steve all but shouts. 

"You don't tell me everything."

He referring to whatever the hell went on between Hargrove and him two years ago. Eddie and Steve arent the only people different after an apocalypse. Their previous heated rivalry has all but burned out. So has Hargroves own personal brand of anger. They move around each other like chess pieces, always conscious of the others movement to limit interactions at school. But after school? Eddie’s seen Billy’s camero parked at Harrington’s more than it's parked in the trailer park. 

"That's different Eddie,” Steve huffs, scoffs as he pushes his hair back. “and you know it."

"How, how is it different Steve?" Eddie’s never brought it up before tonight. Eddie’s never been one for exclusivity, why the hell should he expect Steve to be?

"It doesn't involve you, or us. This does."

"Right,” Eddie scoffs, “Well, for argument's sake, it is safer for you not to know. For both of us."

Steve is silent for three beats too long.

Here it comes. 

Eddie can’t look at him. His face goes numb before the words can hit his ears. 

"Then you have my answer Eddie.”

It still hits him like a slap in the face. Steve’s done with him. And it hurts so much more than he anticipated it would. 

Eddie knew it was only a matter of time. He knew what Steve wanted in the end, and it was still someone more like Wheeler. A sweetheart. A family. Nothing Eddie can guarantee. Eddie doesn’t have much to say in his defense. So he doesn’t. 

"I'm sorry Eddie,” Steve, obviously uncomfortable in the silence, speaks again. “This is just, too much for me right now.”

"Okay,” comes out of Eddie’s numb mouth, even if it's the complete opposite. 

Eddie knew a clean break now would eventually be better than enduring their relationship fizzling out slowly. But it doesn't mean the inevitable failure of one more relationship doesn't hurt.

-two months later-

“Munson?”

Eddie blinks, of all the people to find him, here, he didn't think it would be Californian transplant, and fellow trailer trash bad boy Billy Hargrove from Hawkins. He just wants to disappear into the pavement. 

Eddie’s feet move to sprint, but Billy’s lighting reflexes catch him before he can. 

“Where the hell are you going now, Eddie?”

Eddie rips away from him. He hates the way his name sounds out loud. He hadn’t felt like ‘Eddie’ in weeks. He’s barely felt like anything. More like Nothing and no one. A nameless face in a sea of sex workers, businessmen, and bar patrons that he cycled through every day. 

“It’s none of your damn business,” Eddie spits, though it doesn't have much venom. He doesn't have the energy. He's sick, he’s cold, and he’s so fucking tired. He still has two more clients he can’t blow off tonight if he wants to have a prayer at ever getting unburied under his last hospital bill. Billy Hargrove and Hawkins and all that past shit is his lowest priority.  

“People are worried man,” Billy says, stopping Eddie from taking more than a step away. “Wayne especially. Don't you give a shit about him?”

Now Eddie is pissed, because who the fuck did Billy Hargrove think he was, telling him about what he should do? Talking to him about Wayne. As if he understood a goddamn thing about their lives! His anger flairs up his cough that only aggravates the pneumonia-scarred tissue and then Eddie’s coughing so hard it nearly knocks him over. 

When Billy moves close to ‘help’ Eddie slaps him off. 

“Everything I’m doing is for him! You don’t fucking know shit, Billy! How could you, you're just a kid!”

And while Billy was 17 and Eddie was 6 months into his 23rd lap around the earth, he felt so much older. His tragic sequence of life events had aged him decades. He’d be lucky to make it to 24 at this rate. 

Billy watches him curiously, putting together pieces Eddie doesnt mean him to. 

“Why did you take off Eddie?” 

“Why do you care?” Eddie doesn’t really think it's concern he sees in Billy's features. 

“Wayne doesn't have anyone else. You scared the shit out of him when you left.”

“Oh and what, you two are bffs now,” Eddie asks bitterly. 

Billy shrugged. 

“We've been spending a lot of time together, yeah.”

Eddie scoffs wetly. Fantastic. Now even Wayne has his own Eddie replacement. A better, nicer son. If Wayne didn’t need him anymore, well, he didn’t have any more ties back to Hawkins. He should be relieved, but instead he just feels empty. Forgotten. Unwanted. Billy had said people missed him, but the only name he offered up was Wayne’s.  

Eddie sniffs up the tears threatening to spill and reaches into his jacket. He takes out the seven hundred dollars and change he’s managed to squirrel away after his last AZT prescription refill and holds it out to Billy. 

“What is this?” Billy looks at the wad like its poisoned, and well, he's not entirely wrong, it's certainly dirty money. But its still green. And that’s all the world runs on. And speaking of money, the man he was currently scheduled to suck off is honking at him from across the parking lot, eyeing Billy with violent intent. Eddie needed to move quick before this escalated. 

“I’m not coming back. T-To Hawkins, I mean. I can’t, so I need you to give this to Wayne for me. Can I trust you to get it to him?”

Billy finally takes the money, counts it, and then his jaw drops. 

“There’s over seven hundred dollars here Eddie.”

“I know,” Eddie sighs dejectedly. “It should have been more but,” but you got stupid and believed some pretty, coked-up twink instead of following your gut. And now you get to live with the weight of that decision, forever… “It doesn’t matter. Just, please make sure he gets it. It should cover the next few payments on the trailer.”

Billy looks at him for a long time. 

“What the hell have you been doing Munson?”

Eddie scoffs before the car horn across the street blares loud, startling him right out of his skin. 

“Nothing you want to know about. Just please make sure he gets it, and knows, I’m sorry. For all of it.”

Billy’s eyes lower suspiciously. 

“Why does this sound like a goodbye?”

Eddie shrugs.

“Because it has to be.” Eddie can’t feel anything below his neck anymore. The honk is starting up again. He’s really pushing his luck now. 

“Eddie, come on,” Hargrove begs and why does it sound like he’s actually pleading? Billy’s never had a nice word to say to him or Steve. And now he’s gone for what, a few weeks, and his enemy wants to become best friends? He doesn’t understand this plotline. He’s ready to get out of it. 

“I’m gotta go, Billy. Please, look out for Wayne.”

Eddie leaves the very next minute and sprints across the street, just narrowly avoiding being hit by the semi that blasts his horn.

[pastanest]

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Draco x Hufflepuff she/her!reader

I Always Come Back - Part One

"I dont want you to go!" You cried, clinging to your older brother's school robes as you stood by the train with your father.

Cedric chuckled and ruffled your hair. "You'll be fine (Y/N), I'll come back! You've got to keep Dad in check for me while Im gone, you're in charge now, okay?"

Your father laughed, patting the both of you on the back as you giggled and pulled away from your older brother, smiling up at him with teary eyes and rosy cheeks.

"Oh, and (Y/N), I forgot - take this! It should stop you worrying, you wont even notice Im gone!" Cedric grinned as he handed you a keychain, with a curious rectangular object attached to it.

Upon closer examination, you discovered that it was a small frame, with a picture of Cedric inside it, grinning just as he was as he stood by the train.

You sighed and rolled your eyes at him. "Cedric! A picture wont stop me worrying!"

Students began to board the Hogwarts train, and alarm flashed across Cedric's face as he tried to break free from your grasp.

"Promise you'll come back?" You asked him, holding the keychain in one of your hands.

"I always do." Cedric told you, smiling gently.

He then kissed your forehead, and hugged your father one last time, before boarding the train, to attend his first year at Hogwarts.

You smile down at your lap as you turn the keychain over in your hands, sitting on your bed in your Hufflepuff dormitory, now in your fourth year of Hogwarts. That year, you missed your brother terribly, and when he came home for Christmas, you bawled your eyes out and refused to let go of him for the entirety of his first day home. Shaking your head, you cant help but laugh at yourself, and you're quick to put the keychain back in your bedside cabinet just as Draco saunters into your dormitory, his signature cheeky grin plastered on his face.

You raise an eyebrow at him accusingly. "And what do you think you're doing in the girl’s Hufflepuff dorm, Slytherin Prince?"

Draco chuckles as he approaches you. "I seek audience with the Hufflepuff princess!"

You snort and stand to your feet. "Well, Im afraid you're in the wrong dorm, Cedric wont be back until he's finished studying."

Draco laughs and shakes his head at your joke. "I do wonder what your brother would say about you taunting him behind his back."

You roll your eyes. "What, are you gonna run and tell him, just so you can suck up to him and make him like you even more?"

Draco's jaw drops. "I do not suck up to him!"

You howl with laughter. "Oh, please! Before we even told Cedric about us, you were being weirdly nice to him all the time, he mentioned it to me almost everyday!"

Draco pouts. "Just because I didnt want him to try and break us apart."

You smile softly up at your boyfriend. "Trust me, Draco, if he'd even tried to split is up, I would've tied his spine in a knot, and he knows that, which is why he wont try to split us up, ever."

Draco laughs nervously. "You know, for a Hufflepuff who is lacking in height and appears to be the cutest and sweetest witch in existence, you arent half intimidating sometimes."

You wink at him. "Good to know I can scare you a little. Now, we'd better make it to the great hall, isnt it time for the champions of the tournament to be announced or something?"

Draco rolls his eyes teasingly at your uncertainty, and takes your hand in his. "Well remembered, (Y/N)."

You scowl at him playfully. "Im in my right mind to give you the wrong password to this common room so that you cant come in here and bother me, Malfoy."

When you reach the great hall, Draco lets go of your hand and dramatically pretends to cry as an invisible force pulls him backwards, away from you, and towards his friends, which you mirror back at him as you approach your group of friends, who all shake their heads and laugh at you. Casual conversation stirs across your table, and you cant help but glance over to Draco's group every so often, catching him doing the same to you, which causes you to both break out into cheesy grins.

"You two are too cute, it's honestly disgusting." Your friend, Hannah Abbott, sighs teasingly.

Another girl at your table, Susan Bones, nods and joins in with Hannah's teasing.

"Yeah, (Y/N), we've all agreed that you've really changed since you've got a man in your life." Susan, unlike Hannah, cant go along flawlessly with the joke, however, and bursts out laughing as soon as she gets her sentence out, making your whole table break out into fits of laughter.

As the, pretty obvious, champions are picked from the other competing schools, you and your friends roll your eyes and quietly continue your conversation. You dont have anything against the tournament itself, but the contestants do seem a little...predictable. No doubt Harry Potter, THE chosen one, will be chosen to compete for Hogwarts.

"Cedric Diggory!"

Your eyes widen, and your jaw drops so far you're sure it hits the floor as you jump to your feet, Draco appearing just as shocked as you on the other side of the room. Cedric stands, receiving cheers, and both you and Draco find yourselves clapping too, though the two of you are totally awestruck. Glancing over his shoulder, Cedric laughs at your expression, and you scowl at him.

"Ow! OW! JESUS FUCK (Y/N) LET GO!" Cedric protests as you drag him back to the Hufflepuff common room by his ear, bending his body down so that you can actually reach it.

The entire journey to the common room since the announcement has been silent on your part, the only sound being Cedric voicing his annoyance. Once inside the common room, you let go of Cedric, who immediately starts rubbing his ear.

"How could you just NOT tell me that you signed yourself up for this!?!" You hiss.

Cedric shrugs. "You didnt care about the tournament, it wasnt important, I didnt think I'd get chosen anyway, it was a bit of a joke really."

You run your hands through your hair and begin pacing the room stressfully. "A joke? A JOKE!?! People have DIED in this tournament Cedric!"

Draco suddenly stumbles into the room, panting heavily, he must have run all the way here. Usually, you'd be paying a lot more attention to him, but right now there are slightly more pressing issues.

"Uh-oh, she's pacing." Draco comments, exchanging worried glances with Cedric, who sighs.

"I'll be fine (Y/N), honestly." He attempts to reassure you, but you're having none of it.

"Absolutely not! You have to find some way out of this, there's no way you're doing it!" You think aloud as you fumble over ideas in your head as to how you're going to fix this.

Cedric reaches out to you, but you push him away, and he sighs, looking to Draco for assistance, who goes to stand in front of you and holds your shoulders, keeping you still.

"There isnt a way out of this, I have to compete." Cedric tells you, his voice careful.

You close your eyes, calming yourself down "Alright. Fine."

Both Draco and Cedric have a thoroughly confused, and understandably worried, expression on their faces.

"Uh...(Y/N), are you okay?" Draco asks as you walk away from them, heading for your dormitory.

You nod, not turning to look at either of them as you respond.

"Oh, yeah, Im fine, because I've decided that if Cedric actually survives this stupid competition, Im going to kill him myself."

For the time that followed, you completely blank your brother, because you are positively furious with his idiocy. However, you spend the night before his first challenge tossing and turning in your bed, unable to sleep because of how anxious you are. Draco waits for you outside the Hufflepuff common room, and despite him desperately trying to get you to talk to your brother, he can tell by your expression that, for today at least, your anger has been pushed aside by worry, and he wordlessly takes ahold of your hand, your other hand clutching your keychain, hidden by the long sleeve of your robe.

Needless to say, watching your brother face a dragon was not a pleasant experience. Draco kept count of every time you fainted during Cedric's challenge - it was six. But no amount of joy you had ever felt before compared to seeing the smile on his face as he held the golden egg in his hands back in the Hufflepuff common room, every Hufflepuff cheering and lifting him up, while you and Draco watch on from the doorway. Cedric catches sight of you soon enough, and demands to be put back down on the floor, before he gingerly takes a step towards you. From behind you, Draco looks at you with hope in his eyes; he knows how close you and your brother are, and he hates that there is a rift between you. Cedric opens his mouth to speak, but you hold up a hand, and he pauses, waiting for you to talk first. Only, you dont talk. Instead, you run at him, your body hitting his at full force as you wrap your arms around his middle, squeezing him tightly as he wraps his arms around you.

"So, you're not angry at me anymore?" Cedric chuckles.

You nod into his robe. "Im definitely still livid, but until you win that damn cup, Im going to be your supportive sister."

Kicking your legs off the edge of the dock, your eyes glide over the words on the pages of your book, a small smile etched on your face as you enjoy some alone time. But, at the sound of your brother and your boyfriend's laughter, you close your book and sigh. Your alone time will forever be short-lived with these two idiots in your life.

"(Y/N), I figured it out!" Cedric cheers, swinging an arm around Draco's shoulder as you turn and stand up to face them.

"He came running out of the bathroom in nothing but a towel, shouting for you, and when he couldnt find you in the common room, he went to find me, because he logically assumed I'd be with you. Of course, this was the one time you WERENT with me!" Draco laughs at the mental image of Cedric running around in a towel.

You raise an eyebrow. "Is that really what you were laughing so hard about?"

Draco shakes his head. “No, but you'll find out about that in a minute."

You look to your brother for further explanation, and he clears his throat. "The next challenge is in the lake, the mer-people are going to take something important from me and I have to go and get it back from them, which means holding my breath for an hour, apparently."

This only confuses you even more, so you turn to Draco. "And now for the funny thing?"

Draco grins. "Well, as something important to Cedric is going to be taken and put in potential danger, I have been trusted with the job of hiding you from literally everyone in Hogwarts, so that YOU arent the important something that is put in potential danger."

You throw your head back and groan in frustration. "Does that mean we have to spend the night in the Room Of Requirement like we did when the Chamber Of Secrets was opened and you both got paranoid that I'd get snatched by the child-catcher Tom Riddle?"

Draco nods, his smile widening. "Exactly!"

And so, you and Draco spend the night in the Room Of Requirement, admiring the imaginary stars that appear on the ceiling, and talking about nothing in particular, until the two of you fall asleep. What Draco "forgets" to tell you, is that he sets his watch to wake him every few minutes throughout the night, to make sure that you're still safe, and havent been taken. The next morning, Draco breathes a sigh of relief, knowing that you're out of harms way, and the two of you head to the lake to watch the challenge. In comparison to facing a dragon, Cedric going for a swim didnt scare you quite as much, but it was still a stressful experience, and even winning first place for the challenge didnt seem like enough of a reward for your brother's efforts, not in your eyes.

[vasito-de-leche]

Ngl I adore the way you write Dj subatomic

Would you be down to do hcs of him as a dad?

;NSR DJSS - Parent Headcanons

Compilation of headcanons and analysis about DJ Subatomic Supernova as a father and dealing with parenthood.

glad you like it! I'm still working veeeeery slowly on the other love languages posts, but I lost steam halfway thru, so I'm procrastinating those by answering this one lolol

i'll leave the details as to how he becomes a father up to y'all, since i dont rlly care abt those specifics - adoption, biological kids, etc, up to yall!

DJSS never really considered starting a family nor having children.

As someone who priotizes his work first and foremost, having a family - let alone children who require attention 24/7 - just isn't a possibility in his book, DJSS considers it a setback rather than an ideal lifestyle. So fatherhood is something that's thrown at him and catches him by surprise, if that makes sense. I can only see him accepting such responsibility if it's the only option available, if there's absolutely no one and nowhere else the child can go to.

Once again, he's an outlier when compared to the other Megastars. They have themes of unity, bonding with others and different types of families, not just the nuclear family example: the Sayu Gang have each other, Yinu's parents are a huge an important part of her life, 1010 act as a unit and, whether you see Neon J as their parental figure or not, he's still responsible for them in a way. Eve connects with like-minded artists and her fans, Tatiana connects with the megastars, Vinyl City as a whole and Eve herself. Even DK West is here by virtue of being Zuke's brother. DJSS is just there, all alone.

I like to think that the time he spent working as a teacher had a big impact on him, growing disillusioned overtime with not only his passions but the concept of community - the current DJSS doesn't really see a point in nurturing any sort of relationship that isn't transactional nor profitable.

Some characters worry about being good parents and influences, some worry about their economic situations not being enough to support a child, and so on and so forth. DJSS simply doesn't care about any of that, he's got a stable life and is confident in his skills (at the very least, confident in his ability to learn how to care for a child pretty quickly). He just... never considered the idea of being a father.

Whether the kid is a boy or a girl or anything else, he doesn't care. He has no preference. The only opinion he has relates to the amount of kids he'll allow - which is one. The less kids running around, the better.

Treats parenthood like a job, basically. DJSS appears to be a neglectful parent on the outside, but is very attentive to his kid's needs.

There is always a sense of distance and a layer of feigned indifference when it comes to his very scarce relationships, this is no different.

During the first years, DJSS makes a point to treat his role as a father like a job - it's how he tackles things, seeing them as tasks to solve. His approach can be easily read as him being uninterested, maybe even neglectful - at least to outsiders. DJSS has cultivated quite the reputation, being a polarizing figure to the public and all, so the fact that he has a child certainly doesn't sit well with those who exclusively see him for being arrogant and irresponsible.

He's very private about this aspect of his life, ignoring any questions about his child or his struggles as a parent. It's easy to assume he just doesn't care at all.

Those who DO know DJSS are fully aware of his dedication, his work ethics might be unorthodox and only make sense to him but damn if he doesn't get the job done. The reason he can act so casual is because of the work he puts in behind the scenes, multitasking a hundred different things to ensure the kid is fully cared for. After all, the happier this kid is, the less troublesome they'll be.

I imagine that during the first years, he provides for the child without getting himself directly involved. If they show interest in something in particular, like dinosaurs for example, DJSS won't take them to any exhibits but he will buy them encyclopedias and leave documentaries on for them to watch. If they need interaction and friends, he'll set up weekly playdates with Yinu (if she's not too old) - maybe even let the other Megastars babysit his kid. They've all probably pestered him about bringing his kid to work just so they can meet them, finding babysitters isn't a problem.

Once again, distance. DJSS doesn't want his career to end so suddenly just because he has to take care of a human life. Until he finds his footing and comes to term with being a father, DJSS resorts to finding people who are properly equipped to care for the kid when needed, all while he ensures that all of their needs are met without directly stepping in.

He becomes very perceptive to his kid and any changes in their behaviour, being able to tell if they've had a bad day or if they're hiding something from him just from a few glances. DJSS makes sure to be informed about his kid's friends, their passions and hobbies, likes and dislikes... All so he can nudge them in the right direction or give them advice in his own subtle way.

I want to insist that this isn't a case of an unloving father who purposefully ignores his child. It's more so an issue of properly connecting and bonding with each other. DJSS knows them like the back of his hand, but only the things he's been able to gleam and observe - and his child? They wouldn't be able to tell you HIS favorite color. And yet they both care about each other in their own way. It's a very one-sided, complex family dynamic.

Contrary to popular belief, DJSS would not want to be his kid's teacher. But their education is still very important to him.

Does he have a lot of things to say about the current education system? Yes. Does he think he could do a better job than every single teacher in Vinyl City? Absolutely, his ego is big enough for that.

But when it comes to his kid's education, DJSS understands that he's been a little out of touch with the basics. He didn't get a degree to be an elementary or highschool teacher, after all.

While he can't pick them up from school or attend every single parent-teacher meeting, DJSS makes a point of meeting all of his kid's teachers to ensure they're taking their jobs seriously and also keeps up with the curriculum - just in case his kid has any trouble with homework. Part of him does want them to have great grades, as otherwise would reflect poorly on him, but at the end of the day, DJSS would want them to do their best, to learn out of a genuine sense of curiosity.

I can see DJSS and his kid having study sessions, in which he casually complains about all the new things that he "should know about" like the old man he is, but feeling a surge of pride whenever his kid corrects him - something about seeing himself in them and whatnot. If they end up becoming interested in his own field of work, he'll be SO smug and happy about it.

Let's be honest, his kid is bound to have at least some interest in something space-adjacent given... Well, their father being a literal black hole and astrophysicist. It would be suuuuper funny to me if his kid became interested in astrology instead during their rebellious teens, just to spite him. Either way, if they choose something else entirely, he'll support them (after some nagging like "are you SURE that's what you want?" etc).

Maybe this is the way he could properly bond with his kid, while also rekindling his love for teaching and letting go of some bitter old habits and views.

DJSS is the type of parent who really starts to connect with his kid once they grow up, when the passage of time hits him all at once and he worries about them not being close.

Somehow, it's easier to DJSS to deal with a rebellious teenager or a struggling young adult than dealing with a child or toddler.

Probably one of the very few characters who can stand having a sassy kid who talks back or drops the most devastating comebacks ever - he can't complain there, they picked up that attitude directly from HIM, he can tell. They've absolutely heard him talk down to NSR staff and anyone who pisses him off.

I get the feeling he and his kid would banter a lot, growing closer while struggling to find ways of being vulnerable around each other - because another thing that his kid gets from him is that lingering distance. They're probably used to independence, to doing things on their own and not ask for help unless strictly necessary because that's exactly DJSS' own modus operandi.

So it's all awkward, baby steps towards progress. But the second DJSS and his kid become besties, it's absolutely OVER for everyone else. Everyone in NSR knows better than to try and out-sass them when they're together.

Expect a lot of debates, just a lot of them about anything and everything. Either for shits and giggles, to discuss theories or really in-depth stuff. People often assume they're arguments because of how seriously he and his kid seem to take it, but it's all in good fun.

Personally, as combative and defensive DJSS can be when it comes to subjects he's passionate about (or because of his pettiness), I don't see him being the type to ever argue with his kid. At this point, he's fully come to terms with his role as their dad. If there's anyone worth listening to on this side of the universe is his kid. Had it been anyone else, he would've just walked out the door and ignored them, but that's his kid. Their opinion is important to him.

And here's a random assortment of headcanons I don't have enough to expand on!

DJSS is absolutely the type of parent who gloats and brags about anything his kid achieves to every single other parents in the vicinity. He might have a hard time being verbally and physically affectionate with his kid, but damn if he doesn't love talking everyone's ears off about their achievements.

He doesn't take many photos nor have any dedicated albums to them as a family, but he 100% saves all of their tests and essays and homework and drawings.

Has a lot of small tapes recorded throughout the years for his kid. These range from sneaky recordings of them as a kid babbling about silly things, him reading bedtime stories to them when they were young, heartfelt apologies or speeches that he never got the courage to say outloud, retellings of specific events like their first failed exam, their first broken bone, their first trip somewhere... Or very domestic things like grocery shopping lists, etc etc. He's dramatic and extra like that.

Least likely to threaten his kid's romantic partner to treat them right or else. DJSS trusts their judgement. However, expect to be blacklisted from any NSR-owned facility and store within Cast Tech should you break his kid's heart.

I like to think that his kid calls Eve "Auntie" and that she's the only one within NSR to get that special treatment, since I HC DJSS and Eve as besties <3. She's also the one to save them from DJSS' fashion sense cause he thinks it's perfectly fine to wear shorts in the middle of winter.

DJSS is entirely indifferent about their preference for EDM or Rock, that's their business. But he would love to be involved when/if his kid starts to dabble in music.

DJSS does have space-themed nicknames for his kid, but he's worried about being cringe so he only uses them whenever his kid isn't within earshot. He couldn't care less about random people hearing him use these nicknames and whatnot, but as much as he denies it, he wants his kid to think he's cool.

[fearowkenya]

Cold-blooded, ruthlessly efficient, and cruel in its methods. These are words that can be applied to an alligator, sizing up its target as it lurks beneath the surface and waits for the perfect opportunity to drag it into the depths. The same words can equally apply to Shuuji’s father, who never stops watching his every move, judging Shuuji for missteps he doesn’t even know he’s making as he tries to live up to unclear and impossible expectations.

Stressed, scared senseless, and operating entirely on adrenaline. These are words that can be applied to somebody attempting to escape from an alligator, desperate for a shred of hope. The same words can equally apply to a participant in a game of capture the flag, where one team’s lone survivor fights for their life in hopes that a singular small success will turn the tides.

Shuuji gets a weird text at the worst possible time. Ryo risks his neck for the sake of the team. There’s alligators.

yeah im not posting the entire fic under the readmore , im not prepared to spend another two hours of trial-and-error on formatting. anyway i have so much to say about digisurvive but im unfortunately not the type to talk about stuff unprompted until im much more confident n comfortable. instead i'll talk about the First Ficwriting Experience Since 2016

ive seen all four endings but i havent done what im calling my Victory Lap playthrough yet. what i mean by Victory Lap is that i got my guys at lvl 80+ and the only real purpose of going thru it all again is to see any early-game missed dialogue and take unnecessarily-meticulous character notes

im not about to claim to be a Blorbo Expert w a PhD or anything but i think ive got a pretty solid understanding of the bulk of the characters and can manage a pretty accurate portrayal . shuuji and ryo are definitely the easiest characters for me to write , and im anticipating that the same will be true for kaito. i cant say for certain tho since i havent explored his voice much yet but im more or less confident that i can do a good job

at first i was like oh god oh fuck i cant write aoi but i thought about it for 2 seconds and it turns out that uhhhhhhhh i was a lot like her when i was a teenager. the insecurities are exactly the same, it is so horrifyingly uncanny. so for me, saki is the one that i find the most difficult to characterize and i love that because it seems so deliberate. this girl DOES NOT want you to perceive her and is doing her best to ensure that you do not notice that she has anything to hide. if you are good at writing saki, i have a lot of respect for your tremendous power

but thankfully sakis presence in this is minimal so i dont have to worry about that just yet. what i AM worried about are my formatting choices. i think theres a lot of potential in fucking around with indentation, typeface, and text placement, so im taking a swing at trying to push it further than i have before. i think it can serve so well to imply when something is happening, what else is happening at the same time, and how it makes the characters feel without having to outright say so. i dont want it looking like a geronimo stilton book tho so i gotta learn to strike a balance lmao

SO much of the way i enjoy character portrayal comes from tone and nonverbal communication, especially really subtle stuff like eye movement and body language. i think it can be so challenging to write that stuff in a way that doesn't feel clunky or encumber the pacing. the thing im practicing right now is saying stuff without saying it, and also trying to improve my imagery & symbolic language. im having a lot of fun with it

mkay im actually late for work so i need to post this damn thing and move on my with my day. thanks for your time!!

[forsakenmissives]

I know nothing about football but I'd still like to hear about the au :3

see bc i complain and then i don't even know where to start LOL

ok so ig i'll start with the title From the Sidelines and a little description i have, to pique interest heh

Arthur is Camelot FC's star striker and captain. Merlin is the kitman. Life is hardly ever fair.

anyway . i suppose that's. a little misleading. that being said i think this grew into something waaaaay larger than i originally planned @.@ like it was supposed to be a fun little addition to the surprisingly small amt of footballer arthur fics we have but now this fic has double daddy issues (balinor my beloved...), coming out, sports injuries, shitty coaches (aredick die by my sword) and never making the national team. HUH??? i just wanted merthur to fuck on the pitch... (joke) (just in time for fuck him on the field friday)

also there's side stories. like one is when the players get handcuffed tgt for 24hrs but they've got an uneven amt for it and merlin gets roped in

and then there's the valentine's day arwen special that i somehow accidentally made into a statement about arthur's attitude toward his sexuality?? and feelings for merlin??? through his anxiety about his date with gwen????

“All good?” Merlin asks. “Never better,” Arthur replies, then pivots and walks directly into his closet. He stares at his barren shoe rack before he feels hands on his shoulders, and Merlin is turning him around and guiding him back out. “Wrong way,” he hears him say. “Right.” This time, Arthur marches out his room then down the hall to the front door. “I’ll be back.”

i'm allowed to give this info bc i don't know if i'll ever actually post the extras. i dont' even know when i'm gonna finish the main story sjkdfhgjkf

oh yeah another side story takes place in 2007 (that might be the title for it idk) and it's about uther buying camelot fc for arthur's tenth birthday LOL dont question the legaltiy of arthur playing for his father's club. i dont know and i dont care. this is fiction SIMILARLY dont say shit abt arthur being a striker and captain. it's happened before. it's literally fine. dont even worry about it

there's like. ik i rly only talked about the side stories but u have to realize just how much has already gone into this fic and i wouldn't even say i'm halfway done. i don't think i've written out a single match which is also funny bc i've been keeping up with the prem and actually think i can do it now. i just keep dragging my feet abt it lol

i think the hardest part for me is when im gonna have to seriously injure arthur. i didnt want to but i think it's an important way for his and merlin's relationship to progress and also would explain merlin's attitude toward him in january. its less abt injuring him and more abt him having to sit out of games not for like. lineup stats/compatibility reasons

oh my god typing this all out made me realize we haven't met like. half of the guys on the team yet. i was sitting here like "i need to rewatch eps with all the knights bc i dont trust myself to write percy and elyan accurately" but now i just realized i dont even know if mordred is on the like. squad yet or if he's still with the u18s (after a brief check with my info page he is. i'm gonna be sick)

like i said there is a LOT of info on this . sorry this was so long i just needed to ramble a bit and it also made me realize some info i still need to include so yayyy :3 thank you nonny if u have anything u wanna know in specific like fr anything PLEASE ask. i'd love it so much if u asked. u saved my life <3

[edward-remus-lupin]

this is likely going to come off as being completely out of the blue but i saw your url in the notes of a ryan ross post and so i have to ask. which if any ryan ross written songs do you think are remus lupin coded. for context i’m currently (yes in 2023, embarrassing but whatever) making a character playlist for him and it’s driving me bonkers how WRONG all the other playlists about him seem to be

hii sorry for my late response, i hope you don't think i was ignoring this ask i just wanted to actually sit down and write something well thought out and cohesive, also ryan ross and remus lupin is my exact niche of insane people interests so you've come to the right place, i have a lot of thoughts about the both of them but have never really thought about the overlap but i guess now i am, they mean the world to me fr fr, i'll put the songs below the page break!

camisado- this is immediately the first song i thought about when i got this ask, not to get into ryan's relationship with his father but I think the song reflects well with remus's complicated relationship with john (and no in a atyd way but in a pre 2017 marauders fandom way)

behind the sea (alternative version)- i just say alternative version because i love ryan's voice my beloved, but anyways i really love the imagery in this song and just in general i think ryan grapples with understanding your place in the world from the changing of the verse from we're all too small to talk to got to we're all too smart to talk to god and i just think remus gets it

heart of mine- sorry i dont know if you ship wolfstar but if you do... i would think of this song more from sirius's perspective but still very much The Both of Them

london beckoned- no comment just trust the process

dangerous blues- this is just remus for the vibe of the song, he grew up in the 70s he would fuck with this heavy and also once again wolfstar sorry

defiance- i think this would really go with like 6th/7th year remus on the brink of facing a war that no one really knows what's coming and everyones scared so they just have to hold onto what they still can of their slowly wasting youth

northern downpour- once again wolfstar which ik its not what you asked for but it still fits i think sorry

mad as rabbits- very all the marauders fucking around in their youth vibes before they actually had to start worrying about the looming danger

this is all i got at the moment, thanks so much for the ask it was a really fun study break, please feel free to message me if you need any more recs or if you like disagree with some of these songs lmfao, good luck with your playlist! please drop the link when it's done!

[thenixkat]

i just think the opening theme has a lot of implications about the nature of kaiju in the setting with how it opens but i need to aquire more info to like organize my thoughts I do still firmly sit in the camp that post kaijufication, Kafka is a kaiju that can shapeshift to look like a human and not human that can turn into a kaiju. WHich is supported apparently supported by his xrays later in teh series. So, how breakable and human functioning he is in human form doesnt gel with me. IDK ALso Kafka's greatest ambition being to keep his promise to his childhood bestie and fight monsters by her side is adorable

but also like, sir, pls dont kill yerself to fulfill yer goal for a lady who dont even call to check in on you. Even for platonic reasons. Like you can make new friends

like as far as I gathered tiger lady dropped this man after he failed to pass the test to joing the government monster slayers. ANd like dude tried for years, I assume he tried every year till he aged out of being able to apply until the age limit got raised. And she mad/disappointed at him for not being able to make the cut. Like, yo, people have limits. Not everyone is physically able to get into the job they really fucking want to get into even if they do their best, sometimes a person's best isnt good enough like good on him for deciding to give it one last try, but like deciding to keep going in a test with broken bones b/c youve decided that yer not gonna give up anymore is not very healthy mindset

like, riding the angsty teen into battle is better than walking on that broken leg but being jostled around like that is not good for his wounds damn hhh ok. damn they not letting that man have a W for more than five seconds are they? I do wish whoever worked on this dub would translate the Japanese text on screen. I have the same complaint with Dungeon Meshi for doing the same thing. Like, dubbers used to fucking translate the text too what happened to that?

rich blond girl has daddy issues and I'm probably supposed to care but no. I hate her for what she did to my guy's vehicle, the vehicle his boss let him borrow at that. Rude ass kid oh hey, an antagonist. That mushroom headed humanoid kaiju with a better design than the protag. Shot the rich girl and is reanimated the other kaiju that died during the test heheh nice

ok that got a laugh from me! Rich girl going through it with daddy issues and not being ok with the intelligent kaiju that just revived the one she just killed. Shouts 'I have to be perfit!' and gets fucking slapped into a building by the revived bull kaiju. heheheheh the fuck is that facial hair

also rich girl's emotionally neglectful father and source of daddy issues hahahaah she got slapped again hah I assume this isnt supposed to be funny but I don't give a singular shit about this asshole rich kid. Ha ha she got slapped ok, Kafka's bad at secret identity-ing and also way nicer to rude kids than I would be

damn yall can't let this man be cool for more than a moment b4 trying to be funny yeah Kafka stronk another one punch gore rain Kafka gives advice to kids about taking risks that he very much doesnt follow. Angsty teen comes and chews his ass out for transforming in the middle of the monster killing exam at the monster killing headquaters b/c the angsty teen is worryed that his friend might get executed angsty teen is an increadibly responsible teenager i should probably learn his name, I do like him

Ichikawa apparently. lady fucking talk to yer ex childhood bestie damnit. both of you need to socialize

ma'am that's not what i ment yer not good at expressing yer feelings lady ok at least rich girl aint a snitch i'll give her that bad guy intelligent kaiju really in a damn bathroom listening to the news and disappointed that their stunt didnt kill any humans

uh bad guy humanoid kaiju can also shapeshift into a human. WHich explains the clothes hanging up on the stall …why this mfer got to get naked to listen to the news??

oh… uh… bad guy kaiju shifter… is one of Kafka's coworkers at his kaiju clean up job ok interesting that's def an interesting hook to end an ep on

[rowritesstuff]

okay! i have a request! dad!kaz x mom!reader where maybe their kid gets kidnapped and the reader is distressed and kaz is just beyond angry and rips the whole city apart, in search for their kid. and when they find them its just teary family comfort??

if you dont feel it, dont worry about it!<3

Blood Be Damned (Kaz Brekker x Female Reader)

A/N: The quality of this just kinda goes 📈📉📈📉📈📉 I hope you don't mind that I kinda messed with the dad!Kaz idea (nothing bad, I promise!). If you don't like it, I swear I will write a new version of this. 😂 Also, in my head this takes place post-CK, so Kaz and the reader are probably roughly 18. I also hope y'all like the name I picked for the kid. Also, I need to go to bed, so I didn't do a final proof read. Deal with it. 😘

Ro's Masterpost

WORD COUNT: 2k

WARNINGS: Teen parenting, possibly OOC Kaz (but it's fucking adorable), missing child and kidnapping, mentions of torture, blood, mentions of death, mild violence, slitting the throats of stuffed animals?

GIF found on @naslostcontrol

Kaz had been busy lately, so he was behind on his work. Very behind on his work. Because you were nice (and because you would do practically anything for the man), you decided to help him get it done, meaning it would be a late night.

It was currently just about nine bells in the evening. You were sitting on the bed you and Kaz shared most nights while Kaz was putting Alyx, your daughter, to bed.

Or, at least he was supposed to be.

You were interrupted by the door opening and giggles disrupting the silence. The source of the laughing was Kaz and Alyx, who was receiving a piggyback ride from Kaz.

"She's supposed to be in bed!" Although you were slightly mad; Alyx should have been in bed by now, you couldn't help the loving smile that took over your face.

You never expected Kaz to get along with your daughter so well. Even before you and Kaz were together, he gave Alyx nothing but kindness and care. Alyx had adored Kaz since they met when she was just a few months old. When your relationship with Kaz grew, he swiftly stepped into the role of Alyx's father figure.

Kaz turned his back to face you and let Alyx fall onto the bed in front of you. The small girl erupted into more giggles. "Someone wanted to say good night to the most beautiful girl in the world."

"Hey!" Alyx exclaimed.

Kaz kissed Alyx's forehead. "Sorry. The second most beautiful girl in the world. Right after Alyx."

You pulled Alyx into your arms, cradling her. "Although I am very happy that you wanted to say good night, you need to be asleep." Your gaze went back to Kaz. "I swear to the Saints, if she's grumpy tomorrow, you'll be taking care of her."

Kaz rolled his eyes; he would gladly take care of your daughter any day, no matter what mood she was in. He scooped Alyx back up and placed a kiss on the top of your head. "I'll put her to bed now."

"Thank you."

As Kaz moved to leave the room, Alyx shouted out "good night!" to you.

"Good night, darling!" The door closed behind the two people you loved most in the world.

Shortly after they left and you continued working, Kaz came back and settled down at his desk. He removed his leather gloves, which despite making huge progress on overcoming his touch aversion, he still often wore around Alyx. Alyx was a very touchy, somewhat clingy child. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. Kaz refused to ask her to be more careful with him, or even let you ask her, so he wore the gloves.

The two of you worked in comfortable silence, occasionally asking for the other's help every once in a while until the early morning hours. As more and more time passed, you felt the exhaustion hit you harder each hour. The words on the page blended together, though you could barely focus on understanding the combinations of letters. Your eyes grew heavy as you tried to work through the tiredness.

You must have fallen asleep at some point because you woke up to Kaz shaking you and frantically saying something about Alyx. You couldn't comprehend the words coming out of his mouth.

"Slow down," you said once you were mostly lucid. "What's going on?"

"Alyx is missing."

You sighed. "She's probably just wandering around in the kitchen or something."

Kaz put a stuffed lion toy in your lap. "This was in her bed."

You picked the toy up and inspected it. As your fingers ran around the plush fabric, your breathing shook. Alyx had a stuffed crow, which she loved to death, but she never had a stuffed lion.

You started to take some deeper inhales, attempting to get into a mindspace to think rationally.

Alyx wasn't in her bed.

There was a stuffed lion toy in her place.

You had no idea where she was or when she was taken.

That's all you knew.

Kaz took the toy from your hands and tossed it on the floor to deal with later. He took your hands in his gloved ones, running his thumbs over your knuckles. You knew he was trying to calm you or ease your mind with gentleness, but it wasn't working.

He pulled you into him, resting your head on his chest. He lowered his mouth to your ear and whispered, "I will find whoever did this, and I will make them regret it."

Kaz limped into the bedroom late the next day. After carefully leaning his cane against the wall, he took his coat off and hung it up. His gaze navigated to the bed, where, thankfully, you were sleeping.

You hadn't slept the night before; you were worrying and trying to find Alyx. Before he had left earlier, he asked you to get some sleep, though at the time, you didn't seem happy at the request.

Kaz made his way to the bathroom, quickly finding the washbasin. He removed his gloves, as he stared at his reflection in the mirror. Spots of dried blood decorated his right cheek. He set his gloves aside on the counter, more blood from the gloves smearing on the surface.

Hours and hours of interrogating Dime Lions and torturing Dime Lions and none of them gave any information. They all claimed ignorance. He'd sent Inej on multiple sweeps of Dime Lion territory and nothing.

Alyx was nowhere.

Kaz gripped the edge of the counter, his hands wet from washing the blood from his face. He stared into the water in the washbasin.

She had to be somewhere. Someone had to know something. He didn't care how many people got hurt in the process, he would find Alyx for you. For him.

He knew that Alyx saw him as a father figure and he knew that he cared for the girl, but her being gone made him realize the true paternal love he felt for her. Alyx had a presence that brightened up every room she stumbled into. Kaz missed her smile, her hugs, her laughter, her tears, her curiosity, her light that hadn't been killed by Ketterdam yet.

She was his daughter, blood be damned.

And he was going to find her and bring her home.

He wiped the tears from his cheeks before he went back into the bedroom and changed into clean clothes. From behind him, he heard blankets shifting around. He turned, and there you were. Eyes open, hair tangled; you still looked half asleep. You looked up at him.

He shook his head. Your eyes closed as your hand rubbed your face. "I've sent Inej on another sweep, this time of all of Ketterdam." He sat on the bed as he buttoned up his white shirt. You moved closer to him. "Knowing her, she'll find or intercept something and we'll find Alyx and bring her home to you-"

"Kaz, stop."

He turned his upper body to face you, confusion etched on his features. He removed his hands from the undone top button of his shirt and he placed one on your blanket-covered side. He silently waited for you to continue.

"Please stop sugar-coating this and giving me false hope."

"It's not false hope. Inej may actually find something."

"Kaz, it's been well over a day-"

"Don't you dare tell me what I think you're about to."

You sat up and took his face in your hands, eyes flooding with tears. His hand stayed on your side. "It kills me to even think about it, but we need to be realistic. We're in Ketterdam, for Saints sake. This place isn't known for rainbows and sunshine." Your voice cracked and wavered as you spoke.

Kaz remained silent as tears trickled down both your cheeks and his cheeks.

"Y/N, I have no idea where she is." His other hand went to her other side. "We don't deserve this. Alyx doesn't deserve this."

You pulled him into you as sobs racked the both of you.

You watched Kaz as he slept next to you. You were sitting up in your bed as Kaz's head lay on the pillow next to your lap. Despite his roughed up hair and messy appearance, you admired his peaceful beauty. Your fingers ran through his dark hair, calming you.

He had fallen asleep in your arms, which had only proved to you how deprived he was of sleep. You had to briefly wake him to move into this position, which was much more comfortable for the both of you.

Five quick taps at your window made you zone back into the world outside of Kaz. You removed your hands from his hair and you quickly got out of bed, finding Inej crouching outside the bedroom window. You opened it, letting her in.

Inej held out an opened letter to you. "What is it?" you asked as you took the letter out of the envelope.

"I intercepted it before it got to the recipient. It's a communication from within the Razorgulls."

You skimmed the letter, finding mentions of a toddler girl and Kaz, though he was addressed as "Dirtyhands". The toddler girl must be Alyx, who the letter said was "Dirtyhands' daughter". Whoever sent the letter had Alyx.

"The Razorgulls took her. But they left a stuffed lion."

"Most likely to throw us off their trail and onto the Dime Lions'. And it worked."

"Do you know where this came from?"

Inej nodded. "I wrote the address." She handed you a slip of paper.

"Thank you so much," you whispered before kissing her cheek and pulling her into a hug. "I owe you everything."

"Just focus on getting your daughter back." Eventually, Inej broke the hug and left the room through the window. You ran to the bed and woke Kaz.

He woke up, slightly delirious, but once you told him that you knew Alyx's location, he snapped into full attention.

It was a simple two-person job, with you and Kaz being the two people. When Inej scoped out Alyx's location, she found there was only ever two people guarding the building, which you could very easily take out. The Razorgulls were careless.

You and Kaz studied the building from behind the side of a wall. In front, you saw the two guards Inej had told you about. They would be very easy to take care of. The guards paced around the front of the building, chatting with each other.

Kaz turned to you. "You take the right guard, I'll take the left. Once we get in, I'll focus on finding Alyx while you deliver our message. I'll find you once I have her." He took your hand in his gloved one.

Your other hand played with the strap of the satchel that crossed your body as you nodded. "Let's go."

You and Kaz snuck around in opposite directions, making your way for a sneak attack on the guards. On the way, you picked up a decent-sized rock. You hid behind the wall of the building, watching Kaz on the other side. At his nod, you ran toward the guard on the right.

You brought the rock down on the guard's head, knocking him out fairly quickly. When you looked back up, Kaz had knocked out his guard. The both of you bolted to the front door, swiftly opening it and running inside. You ran up the staircase as Kaz searched the first floor for Alyx.

You eventually found what appeared to be the office room in the building. You stopped at the wooden desk and opened your satchel. You lined up the five stuffed gull toys on the desk. After taking your knife out of your pocket, you carefully made a slice on the throats of each toy bird. Satisfied with your work, you placed the knife back in your pocket.

Not long after you finished, you heard quick footsteps behind you. You turned, and there she was. Alyx ran to you and you scooped her up in your arms, holding her tight as your eyes slipped close.

The tears falling down your face didn't matter. The world didn't matter. Nothing else mattered in that moment.

The sound of a cane clicking against the wooden floor made your eyes open again. Kaz stood awkwardly in the doorway, watching you hold Alyx. After making your way to him, you kissed his cheek.

"I love you," you whispered. "I love you both so much."

[sunnysviolin]

this is probably gonna be really really weird (also sorry if you dont answer questions like these) but if you havent talked about this already- what are your thoughts on sunny's and mari's parents? like, as in how they treated their children. i only saw a little bit in the tags of another post so i was wondering if you had a more in-depth explanation because it sounded interesting!

It's not weird! I answer pretty much any type of question, so feel free to send whatever you want. I have loooooots of thoughts about Sunny and Mari's parents, but I'm only going to talk about Mari's relationship with them here, because this got really long. Maybe I'll talk about Sunny and his parents if there's an interest

TW: Bad Parenting. I don't really know if it's abusive per say, but Mari is golden child, and so there's a lot that goes with that. I'm giving the bad parenting warning and putting it under read more. If there's some tag I should be adding, just send me an anon!

So I have lots of feelings about the different match ups here so I'm going to go based on each parent first, and then the things Mari never said

Mari's Mother always wanted a daughter. She had a strained relationship with her own mother, so she spent a lot of her childhood dreaming about what she would do differently when she had a daughter of her own.

She and Mari do a lot of little activities together. They do flower arrangements, sew and embroider, and sometimes scrapbooking too. Mari's mother was always happy because she was getting to live out all of the dreams that she had, and Mari is everything she ever thought her daughter would be.

Mari on the other hand sometimes feels stifled or pushed into a box by her mother. She adores her and she wants her mother to be happy, but it sometimes feels like her mother won't be happy with her unless she can make Mari exactly as she wants. Her mother never liked her playing softball, or playing pranks, or doing anything outside of what a 'good daughter' would do, but those were all parts of Mari.

The memories that always stood out to Mari was going shopping for new clothes at the start of every year. Her mother would take just her and it would be a girl's day for the two of them. They would go get new clothes, and then have dinner together at the nice restaurant in the mall. Her mother loved these days and treasured the memory after Mari was gone.

Mari hated them.

Mari didn't like going clothes shopping with her mother, because it was her mother shopping for her. Even when she got to be in her teens it was always still the same. Her mother would drag her around the mall and push her into store after store. She would pick out dress after dress, sensible skirts and dainty blouses, all with a childlike glee that Mari could never bring herself to ruin. Her mother treated her like a doll, and Mari just felt like she had to take it, because if she didn't, then there would be a space between her and her mother. She wouldn't know what to do with that space.

Mari's Father sees her as his star. He is incredibly proud of her, and he's always telling people how bright her future is. He went to every softball game, and after she couldn't play anymore, he helped her to find other interests. He never feels like he has to worry about her, because she's going to come out on top no matter what.

Their father wants Mari to succeed to her highest potential, so he pays for every extracurricular he can that she has the time for. He was the one to suggest she start taking college prep courses. He doesn't realize how damaging his perfect image of her is for Mari, because he loves her and he thinks that she thinks that love is unconditional.

He never even considered that his love might not be, but for Mari, it isn't. She's so convinced that she can't fail, and if she does, her father won't see her the same way anymore. He won't be proud of her, or tell his friends about how amazing she is. Her father just thought he was always building her up, but in reality it was more like a teetering pillar that he put her on top of that was always dangerously close to collapse.

After she's gone, the idolization of Mari only gets worse with her parents. They both know the truth, even though neither of them is willing to say a thing about it (for their own separate reasons) but in their eyes Mari can do no wrong. They both had wonderful perfect relationships with her that were stolen away. They never get the chance to see where they might have gotten some things wrong

[tiny-katara]

i still have more proof that taylor swift is a zutara shipper. there is so much and @burst-of-iridescent had some i hadn't even thought about and they were so good??? amazing job i loved that post, but this is like part 3 lol and it was going to end there but 16 songs was too long and so 8 are here and 8 are on the next :)

also shout out to @coneyluke for inspiring all of these!!!

"part 1" | "part 2" | "part 4"

Love Story

"That you were Romeo, you were throwin' pebble/And my daddy said, 'Stay away from Juliet'/And I was cryin' on the staircase/Beggin' you, 'Please don't go'"

this sounds like a no war/war ended early au where ozai is still nasty and probably racist and all that fire nation supremacy garbage but zuko just thinks katara is just the prettiest person ever and can't let it go.

"Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone/I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run/You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess/It's a love story, baby, just say, 'Yes'"

katara does not care what people think and is like "c'mon zuko let's go forget about thlse losers" and he's like "you know that's a good point" and then they... spar idk. it's also got that "i'd drop everything for you" and that's so on brand. i don't think i need to remind anyone here that the lightning exists. also katara pulling a sokka. "you know where i come from im kind of like a princess myself"

"We keep quiet, 'cause we're dead if they knew/So close your eyes/Escape this town for a little while"

ozai is not happy and zuko is afraid but don't worry katara is a master waterbender. they would just sit and daydream tho i think.

"'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter "

i see your "scarlet letter is katara" and raise you "zuko is the scarlet letter bc fire" or whatever, but maybe they can both be the letter im fine with that

"Romeo, save me, they're tryna tell me how to feel/This love is difficult, but it's real/Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess"

i can totally see zuko freaking out about all of the drama that comes with stupid ppl not realizing how iconic katara is bc that is also very zutara of taylor. and also no one can truly tear zutara apart and they do always make it out the messes <3

You Belong With Me

"You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset/She's going off about something that you said/'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do"

i mean no hate to m/ai buuuuut... she is upset a lot and that does fit. katara and mai handle zuko very differently, but m/ai's anger/upset-ness seems to mostly come out when she and zuko are having a spat. m/ai and zuko also dont get each other in general-- not just the humor thing. it reminds me of when sneezy reviews put this section in her zutara video with a lot of fancy words that basically boil down to "she doesn't get your need to free the world from your father like i do" so like... yessss zutara understanding each other that's like a good chunk of the appeal (for me at least).

"And she'll never know your story like I do"

same kind of concept as before, but scar. catacombs and scar touching/understanding scar absolute classic zutara.

"If you could see that I'm the one/Who understands you/Been here all along/So, why can't you see?/You belong with me"

i mean... just sayin'. zuko can be a bit of an oblivious airhead sometimes (we love that about him tho).

"And you've got a smile/That can light up this whole town/I haven't seen it in a while/Since she brought you down/You say you're fine, I know you better than that/Hey, what you doing with a girl like that?"

again, m/ai and zuko don't get each other and katara is not having it bc she does get zuko and she is very conveniently in love with him if he would just use his brain and notice.

"Oh, I remember you driving to my house/In the middle of the night/I'm the one who makes you laugh/When you know you're 'bout to cry/And I know your favorite songs/And you tell me 'bout your dreams/Think I know where you belong/Think I know it's with me"

again we got our girl katara saying "buddy i understand you and can give you mutual care you deserve bc you're wonderful" and also the night driving gives nightmare comfort and oh no they accidentally fell asleep together and that's very good zutara energy and coincidentally one of my favorite tropes.

Come Back... Be Here

"You said it in a simple way/4:00 a.m. the second day/How strange that I don't know you at all/Stumbled through the long goodbye/One last kiss, then catch your flight/Right when I was just about to fall"

this has post-war teenage zutara. they've just kind of had their "i might like you" moment and they're saying their goodbyes and we get another southern raiders like hug and katara is off to rebuild her home with her family and they're teetering on the edge of something, but split.

"I told myself, don't get attached/But in my mind, I play it back/Spinning faster than the plane that took you"

and like once the adrenaline of being home and the war being over and everything wears off, they're just thinking about each other...

"And this is when the feeling sinks in/I don't wanna miss you like this"

...and then they have that "oh no i might be in love with them"

"I don't wanna need you this way/Come back, be here"

zuko is just wishing he'd asked katara to stay or come back or just something. he thinks about her all the time and he knows that katara would be able to help him with all of the chaos and finding his mom and he just suddenly is in desperate need of her and is fighting that need with all he's got.

katara is working hard in the south pole and she's kind of stuck doing what she was before, and she has a while to spend thinking and (ofc) she's thinking about zuko and how they would do chores on ember island together. they shared the burden and she wonders how he's doing bc she's feeling overloaded and somehow underwhelmed at the same time and needs zuko's help.

"Taxi cabs and busy streets/That never bring you back to me/I can't help but wish you took me with you"

trade is increasing between the nations and zuko always races down to the docks at top speed when he spots the water tribe ships, but it's never what he hoped for and he knows it's stupid to keep doing, but he just does it. katara sees the ships return and leave and considers hopping on one every day. she's wishing she'd stayed with zuko.

"This is falling in love in the cruelest way/This is falling for you and you are worlds away/In New York, be here/But you're in London, and I break down/'Cause it's not fair that you're not around"

i mean... kinda makes sense if you've read the whole thing but they're just slowly appreciating the other more and more and falling in love and suffering bc they're not together, but one katara decides she's had enough and low-key hijacks a ship, bends it there at top speed. zuko watches it pull in at a really strange hour and does his whole dashing to the docks routine, and katara is there!!! and they hug and stuff but then she passes out bc she was doing some pretty intense waterbending. and then it's happily ever after bc i say so <3

Enchanted

"Your eyes whispered, 'Have we met?'/'Cross the room your silhouette/Starts to make its way to me/The playful conversation starts/Counter all your quick remarks/Like passing notes in secrecy"

did someone say... oma and shu reincarnation au??? if they didn't, i did bc look they just click they get each other. zutara understanding is immediate but like... then zuko makes a bad choice but like it is crazy how quickly they identify what's making the other upset and respond appropriately. very reincarnation of them.

"This is me praying that/This was the very first page/Not where the story line ends/My thoughts will echo your name, until I see you again/These are the words I held back, as I was leaving too soon/I was enchanted to meet you/Please don't be in love with someone else/Please don't have somebody waiting on you"

this feels like the betrayal part of the au where they're having a crisis bc zuko made dumb choice and he's like "i wanna go back this is not what i wanted" and katara is just like "i wanna see you again but also i hate you how dare you this is so complicated don't date knife girl" or something like that.

Out of the Woods

"Looking at it now/Last December/(Last December)/We were built to fall apart/Then fall back together"

catacombs to the southern raiders??? post war zutara?!?! either one is good with me.

"Ooh, your necklace hanging from my neck/The night we couldn't quite forget/When we decided, we decided/To move the furniture so we could dance/Baby, like we stood a chance/Two paper airplanes flying, flying, flying"

zutara + necklace = important!!! zuko holding onto katara's energy kinda thing and this might be a little dumb but like the furniture reminds me of their differences and setting them aside to be together.

"Remember when we couldn't take the heat?/I walked out, I said "I'm setting you free"/But the monsters turned out to be just trees/When the sun came up you were looking at me"

the heat you say? i do know a firebender in this relationship... but "setting katara free" feels very on brand zutara to me bc he doesn't want her to get all mixed up in the fire nation drama but katara is not having it and beats everyone up or something and then she's looking at him and then it's all good! (probably)

Begin Again

"He didn't like it when I wore high heels/But I do"

kata*ng right after the war. aang is still short and gets a little fussy when katara wore heels to be taller.

"Turn the lock and put my headphones on/He always said he didn't get this song/But I do, I do"

a*ng just not getting katara. he doesn't get her songs like he doesn't understand her.

"Walked in expecting you'd be late/But you got here early and you stand and wave"

a*ng was always late but now our boy zuko is here!!! and zuko feels like a punctual guy to me personally, so if you wanna avoid this part, valid.

"You pull my chair out and help me in/And you don't know how nice that is/But I do"

reminds me of zuko just casually doing stuff around camp to help and not thinking about it but katara can't stop thinking about it. A*ang isn't bad, he just doesn't think to pull the chair out to ease katara's burdens.

"I've been spending the last eight months/Thinking all love ever does/Is break and burn, and end/But on a Wednesday in a cafe/I watched it begin again"

kata*ng ends. katara thinks that she blew it with the avatar and she's stupid for dumping him but she knew she had to do it (like the back of her hand you might say). she thinks it's over and she can't do better, but she and zuko fall in love and suddenly she can see everything clearing up.

"And we walked down the block, to my car/And I almost brought him up/But you start to talk about the movies/That your family watches every single Christmas/And I want to talk about that/And for the first time/What's past is past"

katara almost talks about a*ng the ex but zuko is telling her about his mother and his old traditions with her, like the turtleneck pond and katara doesn't even want to talk about the avatar ex situation anymore bc she and zuko have missing moms to bond over.

Run

"And my so-called friends, they don't know/I'd drive away before I let you go"

zutara is pretty much canonically the ride or die type of relationship and i really don't think the gaang truly knows how ride or die they are.

"There's a chain 'round your throat, piece of paper where I wrote/'I'll wait for you'"

zuko was chillin in the fire nation until katara returns and he sent her a little notes while she was gone about how he missed her but was sure it would be worth the wait. katara is shook and her cheeks turn pink.

"And run, like you'd run from the law/Darling, let's run/Run from it all/We can go where our eyes can take us/Go where no one else is, run"

zutara knows all about running from the law lol. they are professionals they can get in anywhere like the sneaky little criminals they are. but again, this has their ride or die energy. they don't care what anyone else says because they love each other and that's what matters.

"I could see this view a hundred times/Pale blue sky reflected in your eyes"

blue eyes. that's it.

"There's a heart on your sleeve/I'll take it when I leave/And hold it for you"

they're not subtle. we all saw the lightning. their hearts are definitely on their sleeves if not the entire shirt.

"There's been this hole in my heart/This thing was a shot in the dark/Say you'll never let 'em tear us apart/And I'll hold onto you while we run"

zuko's always had a hole in his heart and the gaang helps to fix it-- especially katara. zuko is loved and the hole is gone <3. and again, zutara is all about staying together despite it all.

Long Live

"We were the kings and the queens/And they read off our names/The night you danced like you knew/Our lives would never be the same"

end of the war when zuko is the fire lord and you know what katara 100% counts as the one who beat azula. i can see zuko and katara dancing after the war at a like celebration before she goes home and talking about how different everything is now.

"You held your head like a hero/On a history book page/It was the end of a decade/But the start of an age"

i don't really know what to even say just look at zuko at his coronation. he is ending the war and starting a new age. that's not strictly zutara but idc. zuko is very important lol.

"Long live the walls we crashed through/How the kingdom lights shined just for me and you/I was screaming long live all the magic we made/And bring on all the pretenders/One day, we will be remembered"

zutara winning the war and then fire nation party for besting azula and they're just generally celebrating. they've won and will go down in history.

"And the cynics were outraged/Screaming, 'This is absurd!' 'Cause for a moment a band of thieves/In ripped-up jeans got to rule the world"

this has the energy of people arguing about who is supposed go rule the fire nation and some are just aghast at the concept of fire lord katara.

"Long live all the mountains we moved/I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you/I was screaming long live that look on your face"

again the gaang ended a war that is a mountain moved. and also azula counts as a dragon i have decided and it is the truth now you can't take it back.

"Will you take a moment/Promise me this/That you'll stand by me forever"

zutara!!! forever!!! like we deserved.

"But if God forbid fate should step in/And force us into a goodbye/If you have children some day/When they point to the pictures/Please tell them my name"

this could be so tragic with the canon implications where they get split after the lightning/healing and put with their other partners and rarely see/interact with each other. just telling them about the other and-- it's killing me.

"Tell them how the crowds went wild/Tell them how I hope they shine"

they both would wish each other's children goodwill if they were forced apart. imagine them telling their children about the agni kai and trying not to get lost in that moment and those feelings bc even when they've greyed they're still just as strong and know they'd do it again if they had to.

[dianagj-art]

Oh yeah I forgot to post this one, also it might be the last bc i have news about this whole AU (don't worry, it's good news)

More of Yiga Link AU

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The story behind the image is bellow the cut as always

Link cuts his hair, making himself some sloppy bangs that would hopefully help him hide part of his face if there was a Yiga on the small village Mipha left him. Next morning some guards go search for him, "The princess wants to speak with you," he thinks he is in trouble and gets ready to run away but follows up. As they walk there and they are closer to the Domain he sees a small group of zoras watching him, they fought and pushed each other, one of them giggled when Link looked at them. He recognized them as the tree very curious and exited heads that looked at him in the water yesterday.

The guards take him with Mipha at the infirmary, she is sitting besides a zora, their scales seemed darker and desaturated "Are you good fighting?" she quickly asks, her formalities dropping a little, "All those wounds from the yiga attack, not only were you sent to be killed by a bunch of them, you survived long enough to get sttaced more than once" she turned to look at him and he could see the desesperation on her eyes "so, do you know how to hold a weapon or not?"

"I- yeah?" he is confused by this new beheavor.

She breathes out a little nervous but calming herself "good" She raised her chin and squared he shoulders "then I had found a way for you to pay us back, as you wanted" She explains there is a Lynel on Polymus mountain and is harming zoras, and is moving closer to the village he stayed at night. The zoras usualy would deal with that kind of things, but the lynel has shook arrows and they didnt do well against electricity. Link agrees to it, a lynel wasn't so bad, he had fought those before.

Mipha goes to talk with her father while she sends link to the armory so he can pick up a weapon, he takes a sword and almost takes a shield but there were metallic and with shook arrows they might not be a good idea. Mipha returns a little put off, and thanks him for agreeing to such a difficult task, but the king had deny his help. The king doesn't trust him (gee, i wonder why) and says it was a Zora problem and he would not rely on an outsider to fix it. The awkard tension gets broken by a clater behind them, little Sidon had a trident on his tiny hands, the whole shaft was at least four ties bigger than he was.

"Sidon!" Mipha takes the spear from him, "you are not big enough to carry one of those," the zora prince looks at her and whines, "one day you will be, I'll teach you to spar and you'll be the most ferocious zora warior anyone have seen," Sidon nods and smiles to her.

Link is not allowed to keep the sword and at the end of the day he goes back to the village. He thinks again of leaving, the longer he stays there the easier it would be for Yiga to find him. Though his clan may think he is dead, and maybe it would be better if they thought so. Maybe he could stay here, these people were starting to trust him, he could hide here for a long while. It wasn't impossible for Yiga to disguise themself as other species but it was harder than just do Hylian and Gerudo.

Someone knocked on his room's door and he went to open it, just to be sushed and pushed inside again by the princess.

"Close the door" she said and he quickly did. "I brough you some things" she put a bag on the bed and pulled out a zora sword, offering it to him. "You chose a sword didn't you"

He looked at the sword and at the princess, was she alone here?

"Why are you here?"

"I cannot stay and see my people be hurt by that beast, something must be done."

"The king-"

"My father doesnt trust you," she spoke over him, "but I do," she said offering the sword again.

He could kill her, here and now. It would be easy. He could kill her and run away right now. They would know it was him when they found the body, but they didn't know who he was.

"Why?"

"I dont know," she admitted, "it's more of a feeling, than a rational dessition."

He took the sword and every fiver of his body told him to do the job, but then he looked into her eyes and that feeling got pushed down. He had no idea of why she trusted him, and he had no idea of why... But he trusted her too.

"alright"

She smiled and walked to the door, " the rest is in the bag,"

He walked to the bed to see what she was talking about and found a zora armor, ar as much armor as they used, there was a swim suit too, one he had seen a few hylians use on the village. Aparently, it was specially made by zoras for hylians to use, the long sleeved shirt and the toursers help to keep the body temperature, the webbed gloves and flippers helped to swim better and aparently they didn't feel weird to walk or grab things. He was about to test that.

They also talked about another piece of clothing zoras made, but he had heard that one they ony give to the best-

He froze, looking inside the bag, at the very bottom was a helm. A zora's helm. He took it and caressed the odd material with his fingers. He looked at the door, he couldn't believe the princess had just give this to him.

Link quickly puts eveything on and meets her outside.

"I was afraid it wouldnt fit you," she said, fixing up one of the shoulder plates, "but it fits you quite well"

"yeah, but... I don't think using metal againt shook arrows is a good idea."

Mipha laughed, "don't worry, you'll be fine, That's not our problem." "Zora's scales are specially weak against electricity,"

They go to the mountain. As they sneak to the Lynel he stops and turns to her.

"Princess, you don't have to come, I can do this on my own"

"No. I am the princess, it is my duty to protect my people. I'm going with you." stared at her for a moment, for someone so small and seamingly calm and docile, she was quite stuborn. He nodded.

"Have you ever killed a Lynel?"

"no,"

"have... You ever fight one?"

"no... Have you?"

"At least a docen" he said, thinking the situation over again. This wasnt good, she was more than vulnerable against shook arrows, the rain wasn't helping and would make everything more dangerous for both of them, and he thought that at least she had fought one of these before. "Okay, here is what we are going to do" he explains a simple plan and they walk the rest of the way.

(here imagine a very cool fight with the Lynel)

They fight the Lynel together, Mipha gets hurt with a shook arrow and Link has to fight on his own half of the fight, he finish it up with a spin attack. He goes turns to Mipha and he sees she is glowing, the same way her hand did when she healed him, she raised one hand and the water around her starts to act... Weird.

There was sphere around her where water stoped falling and slid down, like if there was a glass. She lowered her hand and faced her palm towards the grass, then raised her hand a little. The water started to slip inside from the bottom, forming a perfectly smooth mirror-like surface, it moved forming lines until it formed a symbol under her, he had seen that all over royal decor. It was the zora's symbol. The water glowed with her and after a few seconds the sphere was gone and rain started to fall over her as normal.

"did you... Controlled the water?"

"yes"

"is that something you can do?"

"if you are wondering why I didn't use it before" she said trying to stand up, Link quickly went to help her, "I'm not good at it" she said and raised her chin "Yet"

Link laughed slightly and Mipha laughed too.

"You are full of surprises, princess"

"Mipha," "just call me Mipha"

Link smiles, they look at the dead Lynel with a little satisfaction.

"My people will be safe now. Thank you, Arem, you really helped us" she said, calling him by the fake name he had given them, he looks at her, his smile dying a little, "you payed your debt"

"Zoddem"

"what?"

"My real name is Zoddem" he said sofly and looked away, he felt her weight shif away from him

"Why did you lie before?"

"I don't know if the yiga know I'm still alive... It was just a precaution" he still couldnt meet her eyes, he didnt even know why he was telling her this. He should have. He should have just kill her when he had the chance and run away. He still could, here. It would be easier to get away with it, stab her chest with a shook arrow and blame it to the Lynel, run away, let them find the body on the morning, the king was going to send a troup here anyways.

"Then your secret is safe with me," Mipha said with a little smile. Link looked at her, surprised, and he was more surprised when he say that glint in her eyes that told him she wasn't talking of just his name. Now he was sure. She definetly knew he was yiga.

And she still trusted him.

Link smiled, he trusted her too.

-

Link and Mipha had taken the long way to the Domain, the sun was already raising by the time they reached the bridge. And the next patrol sent to the Lynel was alredy parting, they meet each other halfway and immediately went to the Princess aid. Link was left to explain things to the king and he didn't know how much he should tell, but he ended up telling the true.

The princess had gone behind his back, she sneaked out at night to recuit him and go kill the lynel.

The king wasn't really pleased to know Mipha had gone to face the Lynel, he was not pleased to see Link had gone with her, and he definetely wasn't pleace to see Mipha hurt. But he was happy she was back, safe and soud. And that thanks to Link, the lynel was dead.

The whole domain celebrated that day, and Link realized he not only had completely gained Mipha's trust, he had gained the whole damain's... He had to go. He had to go before something bad happened. But he had injuries of his own and when he gave Mipha a visit to see how she was doing, she promissed to heal him after she felt better.

He took her word for it and accepted the help from other healers meanwhile. He left the domain by noon, tired of so many zoras congratulating him, it felt weird. But arriveing to the small village was no different, they had alredy hear the neews, aparently 3 zora children had run all the way there to tell the tale.

Link had an idea of who they were.

The next day he went to the domain, Sidon wanted to swim with Mipha but she was still tired, so he offered himself to take sidon to swim. Link had returned his borrowed armor but kept the swimsuit, it was already filled with cuts from the fight so he cutted off the legs and the hands and kept part of the arms as long bracelets. Half of the helpfull things the zoras had crafted into it were gone but it still was comfortable to wear.

Bazz, Gadison y Rivan are the tree children that keep tailing Link. They are facinated with him. He killed a lynel, he was a hylian that made incredibly high jumps to the water, he survived a yiga attack.

"You are lucky we didn't obey our parents and went furter down the river," bazz said "if we hadn't we wouldnt have found you"

"You mean we are lucky we found him," Gadison said, "if we hadn't he wouldn't have killed the Lynel"

Link stops dead on his tracks, he looks at them confused, not even knowing what to say. They found him?

"yeah, but if he wasn't alive he woundt have kill the lynel" they were about to start fighting again but link stops them

"wait, you found me?"

"Yeah, we saw you fight off those yiga" Bazz says punching the air.

"Actually we didn't see any fight, we just saw them slash your chest and fall back" Rivan said, pointing at his chest.

"But there was at least a docen of yiga soldiers!" Gadison said exited, resting over Rivan's shoulder "if you made it that far you must be an excelent fighter, aren't you?"

"Of course he is!" rivan said, pusing her off, "he alredy kill a lynel!"

They started fighting again, link just looked, not knowing how to stop them. Luckly Mipha showed up behind him.

"/name/!" He raised up and turned to the voice

"Princess Mipha!" Bazz yelled, pushing the others aside and standing stight before them

"Hey!" the other yelled.

Mipha was being dragged by her tiny brother, she looked a little better but her scales still seemed too pale. When they were close enough, sidon dropped her hand to run and take his.

"Sidon wants to know if you can take him swiming again," Mipha said calmly, "he even promises not to bite" link looked down to sidon and the tiny boy smiled to him. Before Link could say anything bazz took his other hand and pulled.

"But he was going to teach us how to fight!"

Link looked at him confused. Sidon pouted and pulled too. The other two zora kids joined in.

"Yeah, he said he was going to teach us!"

He never said that. He stamered, not realy knowing what to say or do now. Mipha laughed softly she crouched in front of the kids and smiled to them.

"I'm sure he will be free to teach you tomorrow"

"YES!" the kids yelled, leting go off link and runing back to the domain with exited yells. Mipha looked at Link, at the growing frown of his face. He had never actually be mad at her, but there was a playful and knowing glint on her eyes

"With your parents permission!" she said, and it was followed by a groan from the kids. She stood up and smiled at link, "they'll never let them, they are still too young to start training"

"how old are they?"

"30" link looks at her distressed, "oh! We age different than hylians, we have the longest lifespans on all of hyrule, in hylian years it would be... Around six years old, maybe seven"

"oh... I started training younger than that" Now mipha was the one who looked distressed "it's normal for us," he brushed it off

Link spends another day swiming with sidon, and to his surprise, there was no bitting today.

The next day he meets with Mipha and she finally has the strenght to heal finish healing his wounds, they weren't so bad now and they did leave a scar, but the pain was finally gone. The Bazz brigade showed up with him, aparenlty his parents did let them train with him.

Link spends a whole day teaching them the basics of sword fighting under some guards supervision. When he asked them why dont they train them they explain that the kids were still too young and reckless, bazz's dad was a captain and had already try to teach them, but they had turned around at the first mention of "dicipline" but the kids were exited this time with Link, so their parents let them train with him on the hopes they would become a little more diciplined and praying that it wouldnt end in them chasing eachothers with sticks.

A few days latter Zelda shows up, they stay close to the Village since it was easier to set up camp there. Link is with Mipha and Sidon, since the prince keeps being insistent that he acompanies them on his swiming lessons. There is always guards whenever Link is with the royals.

A new guard walks in, "My princess, she is waiting for you," Mipha looks up "oh!" she lets Sidon at Link's care and climbs up the waterfall, Link is still impressed by that.

Zelda talks with mipha to take her the zora champion. Mipha jumps and goes for sidon before going up again, she agrees with zelda. Then zelda goes talk with the king zora. Link has no idea they are there.

Meanwhile Mipha and Link take a walk, Link notices there's quite a lot of hylian soldiers, Mipha mentions off hand the princess is there and explains the situation with the devine beasts.

"She is searching for the pilots already" he mumbles, and thinks he could trade that info with the yiga as a try to get back home, but they probably already knew that, he would need something else, "do you know who the other pilots will be?"

a soldier shows up, sidon is missing and there's a lot of monsters. They go searching for sidon, he's with the lynel. Link and Mipha look at each other and nood, they kill the lynel together (again), with a whole less effort and less injuries as before. But after everything calms he scapes and is never seen again in the Zora Domain.