#dragon hoarding instincts real for this fucked up guy
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queercatboyrights · 4 months ago
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literally have no fucking clue what I'm doing in Fallen London but I'm still having a good time about it so it all works out I guess
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amusewithaview · 7 years ago
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The Dragon of Hell’s Kitchen
IN WHICH @shu-of-the-wind AND I ARE MUTUALLY TERRIBLE AND ENJOY TORTURING MATT MURDOCK MORE THAN IS SAFE, SANE, OR REMOTELY HEALTHY.  Or, when two authors of our particular bent get together, Matt Murdock S U F F E R S.
amusewithaview
OMG YES
i think we've surpassed Dom!Matt and gotten into territorial Dragon!Matt who is hoarding both hell's kitchen and his significant other
shu-of-the-wind
HE /KNOWS/ AND AS SOON AS HE GETS HIS SUB ALONE HE JUST
HANDS EVERYWHERE
AND "WHO DO YOU BELONG TO"
yeah basically he's a dragon xD
This Is My Person Do Not Touch
amusewithaview
YES BASICALLY
matt would be like hi yes these are my people, do not touch and that is MINE, DO NOT TOUCH
shu-of-the-wind
DO! NOT! TOUCH!
DO YOU NOT SEE THE HICKEYS
amusewithaview
like there are a bunch of "MINE"s but there are levels of how fucked up you'll be if you stray over that line
shu-of-the-wind
YUUUUUUUUUUUUP
(consider now: weredragon Matt Murdock
Matt who is half dragon and can't shift and now all his instincts are driven right into This Is My City You Don't Touch)
amusewithaview
I AM CONSIDERING
the dragon of hell's kitchen, half myth and all monster
shu-of-the-wind
(....Matt who maybe has gleaming red scales up his spine from the small of his back to the middle and over one of his shoulders)
amusewithaview
do not go out after dark if you've got mischief on your mind
shu-of-the-wind
He can smell it and he'll scorch it right out of you
amusewithaview
i am grinning the evilest of grins right now
shu-of-the-wind
I'm glad
(also: the horns are real
He shifts when he goes out at night and those horns are /real/)
amusewithaview
i slightly want a crossover with my dragon!darcy fic where they meet and greet and it's very amiable because no overlapping in hoards yes, good
shu-of-the-wind
!!!!!!!!!! Yes omg xD
No overlapping in hoards, all is well
shu-of-the-wind
We will get along fantastically so long as you don't touch my hoard
amusewithaview
OH MAN, YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BE THE BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN THEM???
JENNIFER WALTERS
shu-of-the-wind
ABSOLUTELY
Darcy: ....mine.
amusewithaview
because she is bruce's cousin and, while not a scientist, very smart and also hulkified
BUUUUUUUT
shu-of-the-wind
Matt: I FOUND HER /FIRST/
amusewithaview
she's a lawyer and hangs in the kitchen
YES
shu-of-the-wind
Jenn: OH MY GOD BOTH OF YOU /FUCK OFF/ (jk she loves them but being a tug of war toy between two dragons is not fun)
amusewithaview
jen has to deal with two dragons snapping and snarling over her and also OBSESSIVELY TRYING TO CARE FOR HER WHEN SHE GOES ON RESEARCH BINGES HELP BRUCE STOP LAUGHING AT ME
shu-of-the-wind
Skdjdjfhsjbfjed
amusewithaview
bruce: *sips tea darcy has flown in for him from india*
shu-of-the-wind
Matt who will come in to her office with food and /glare/ in his way until she eats it
amusewithaview
tony: shhhhh, just let it happen
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy who turns up without warning and books of English common law she had flown in from Dover
amusewithaview
darcy makes care packages with tea and coffee other assorted nonsense and then makes the saddest most manipulative puppy eyes if they go unused and somehow she always KNOWS
shu-of-the-wind
YUUUUUUUUUUUUP
amusewithaview
matt HATES darcy's little sisters because they like taunting him and they visit REGULARLY
shu-of-the-wind
SNORTS
(she might have set them on him deliberately)
("Darcy says stop stealing from her hoard."
"Stop setting my paperwork on fire.
amusewithaview
darcy totally wouldn't do that, honest, she just pointed out that there was another dragon in the city and that it would be proper to pay respects oh and have you guys met foggy?  YOU SHOULD MEET FOGGY
shu-of-the-wind
SNORTS
BLESS
Foggy who was the first member of Matt's hoard after Jack Murdock died and so he's just like
So used to being fuss over /constantly/
(Matt's hoard is in broad terms Hell's Kitchen but he takes special care of the people closest to him)
amusewithaview
foggy does not realize that darcy's sisters and/or mother are not eyeing him up as potential hoard but as potential MATE
shu-of-the-wind
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Matt /does/ and he doesn't have a clue how to feel about it
amusewithaview
on the one hand MINE and on the other hand he is... oddly proud of foggy?  and also having foggy spawn around for the rest of forever sounds delightful?
MATT IS SO CONFLICTED
WHAT IS HIS LIFE
shu-of-the-wind
....goddamn now I want to do a dragon!Matt au with regular human Darcy whoops
amusewithaview
why do you want regular human darcy (not that i am objecting)
shu-of-the-wind
I'm not good enough at smut to do the BDSM au xD
Mostly to differentiate from your dragon Darcy au xD I think
amusewithaview
I BEG TO DIFFER THANKS
shu-of-the-wind
Although witch!Darcy with dragon!Matt could be super interesting
amusewithaview
YOU DO SOME OF THE BEST SLOW-BURN AND UST IN THE BUSINESS
shu-of-the-wind
sksjdjsjhdjsjdbejd
JEJDJSNFBJSBFJENDNJABFJSJD
LIES
amusewithaview
witch!darcy who totally thinks dragon!matt is warning her away from his territory and doesn't realize he's trying to hoard her until he's neck-deep in her life and she tries to run but WHOOPS, TOO LATE, YOU DONE BEEN BAGGED AND TAGGED GIRL
I ONLY SPEAK THE TRUTH
shu-of-the-wind
Re the dragon thing YUP HE LIIE
HE SMELLS HER WITCHINESS FROM ACROSS THE DAMN CITY AND WHEN SHE SHOWS UP IN THE KITCHEN ONE NIGHT ALL HIS INSTINCTS /SCREECH/
shu-of-the-wind
AND HE JUST STARTS GIVING HER THINGS AND TURNING UP OUT OF NOWHERE AND BEING AWKWARD AND GLOOMY AND HIGHLY DEFENSIVE OF HER FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN TO IRRITATE HER
(or so she thinks)
amusewithaview
witch!darcy slowly acclimating to being part of a dragon's hoard and grumbling all the while, ignoring foggy's shit-eating grin because she's not sure of the source, finally granting that she is being hoarded and bitching about it and foggy spills the: actually he's COURTING you beans and she flips out all over again
shu-of-the-wind
And then WHOOPS
SNORTS
YEAH BASICALLY
amusewithaview
YES PLEASE I LOVE THIS MAKE IT A THING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP I WILL WRITE YOU A RECIPROCAL THING PLEASE
shu-of-the-wind
!!!!!!!!!! DEF CAN DO
I have class at two tomorrow but I can write before that xD
amusewithaview
LOL - no deadline, i am working on a thing i owe emma/waffles now because she wrote me a porn and then requested a pregnancy fic but i gotta rewatch FF: rise of the silver surfer first
shu-of-the-wind
Witch!Darcy who might be able to cast any spell she wants in the technomagical realm but getting a dragon off her back is fucking iMPOSSIBLE
(The first time she does healing magic on him and sees all those scales up his back and all the scars like she realizes she doesn't /want/ him to leave her be, now)
amusewithaview
*snort* and then getting a dragon off her back is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE once he gets a ~taste of her in a physical and not magical way
shu-of-the-wind
Y U P
(dragons bite during mating)
amusewithaview
OF COURSE THEY DO
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy starts getting /very/ proud of the bite marks on her shoulders
amusewithaview
darcy has three or four patches of red scales she has to keep hidden because sometimes when matt bites WITH INTENT it leaves actual permanent marks
shu-of-the-wind
Y u p
amusewithaview
:D
shu-of-the-wind
(the first time /she/ bites /him/ he loses his goddamn mind)
amusewithaview
i just want all of the grumbly matt and reluctant/oblivious darcy while foggy knows EXACTLY what's going on
shu-of-the-wind
Foggy teases the living shit out of Matt when Darcy's not there
amusewithaview
darcy all: I DO NOT NEED A DRAGON IN MY LIFE THANKS BYE
matt: YOU DO AND HIS NAME IS M-A-T-T
shu-of-the-wind
"I don't get why dragons don't just /say/ something instead of all this fussing."
Matt: /growls
amusewithaview
matt: i give you permission to stay in hell's kitchen (dragon translation: if you move into my territory you're MINE)
shu-of-the-wind
YUP
Y U P
consider: Darcy moves out of the tower because she keeps fucking up Tony's equipment by casting spells with it and the first night in her new apartment in Hell's Kitchen the Dragon shows up and just kinda
shu-of-the-wind
Glowers at her for a bit
amusewithaview
foggy: is gleeful but also slightly concerned re darcy because he knows matt's proclivities (that thing with the necromancer's daughter in college was super trippy)
shu-of-the-wind
(Matt's brain, shrieking: MINE! MINE!! MINE!!!!! NOW MINE IN MY HOARD MINE I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S A WITCH AND THUS DANGEROUS M I N E)
amusewithaview
foggy: meets this grumbly witch with colorful knit hats and scarves and suddenly understands why matt is coming home with TONS of skeins of colored yarn
shu-of-the-wind
sjdjrjdjrjd
He leaves it on her fire escape every day until it rains and then he starts leaving it at her doorstep and Darcy just /sighs/
amusewithaview
foggy: sidles up to matt, "those don't even match"
matt: *twitches violently*
shu-of-the-wind
Because does he /have/ to do this with such /nice/ yarn
(Matt who buys yarn purely on feel because it's his dream to have something made by his witch and he couldn't stand it if it were scratchy)
amusewithaview
darcy: dude, stop leaving passive aggressive commentary on my sartorial choices
matt: you mean?  presents? 
darcy: what?
matt: *silently glowers and slinks away without explaining*
foggy: *dies laughing*
shu-of-the-wind
(also, he has a vague idea that softer is better quality)
S N O R T S
Matt is huffy for like a week
Because they were /presents/ goddammit
amusewithaview
matt finally finds a present that darcy WILL accept and spends like a week preening and joyful and then darcy shows up and wards his office to hell and back while he's out (this is where she meets foggy) because she has some harebrained idea that the present confers a DEBT and she knows better than to be indebted to a DRAGON
shu-of-the-wind
Matt who turns up one day with this really gorgeous set of knitting needles and leaves them on her desk and she's just
Is this an apology or????
/wards everywhere
amusewithaview
only it turns out that now she's just surrounded matt's workspace with the scent and taste of her magic so he's literally inundated ALL THE TIME with how talented and awesome she is and HE CANNOT STAND IT
shu-of-the-wind
Matt who has to /walk through her wards/ on his way in and out of the building every day and his knees give out every time
shu-of-the-wind
Matt just /whines/ and Foggy is like
Just write her a love letter or something you psychotic lizard
shu-of-the-wind
(Karen thinks all of this is fucking hilarious)
SJFJDJJFJED DARCY REALIZING KAREN HAS MAGIC AND WINDS UP TAKING HER AS AN APPRENTICE AND MATT'S JUST LIKE
HE'S SO PROUD WHEN KAREN MANAGES TO CAST SPELLS BUT ALSO NO YOU'RE MESSING UP DARCY'S WARDS
NOOOOOO
amusewithaview
matt shows up at her place and just stares at her with intent until she opens her window:  WHAT DO YOU WANT 
matt: *literally just breathing her in*
darcy: *hello, anyone home???*
matt: thank you for the warding, it's giving karen a headache though
darcy:  ???? i need to check on soemthing
darcy: so karen is a budding witch and also she's now my apprentice bye
matt: WHAT.  W H A T. NO
shu-of-the-wind
(Matt winds up being a cunning lil lizard and showing up at her bedroom window every night to "check on Karen's progress"
amusewithaview
karen's first project is putting wards on the office and she layers them with darcy's which is totes cool because since darcy is stealing matt's secretary she OWES him again so she goes and WARDS HIS APARTMENT BUILDING
shu-of-the-wind
Really just to get himself covered in her smells and her magic)
amusewithaview
MATT IS UNDONE
shu-of-the-wind
HE IS THE BIGGESY MESS
The only time he's a bigger mess is when Darcy takes it upon herself to make a protection charm for him
Laid into a cross made out of sterling silver and /drenched/ in her smells
And he's just like
HER MAGIC IS ALL OVER ME ALL THE TIME
amusewithaview
darcy does not realize that she is now part of matt's hoard until some big climactic event hits the city and he FINDS HER and takes her someplace SAFE with foggy and karen and a few others and darcy looks around and puts two and two together and goes NOPE, GOTTA GO VISIT MY GRANDMA OUT OF STATE FOR A WHILE
matt is like a cat wearing a catnip collar
shu-of-the-wind
Y u p
He keeps /playing/ with it
amusewithaview
foggy: "you're gonna go blind...er"
karen: *snorts*
shu-of-the-wind
(Darcy's grandma is just like. Mi amor, you have a dragon willing to do /anything/ for you. Get on that boy.)
amusewithaview
darcy's grandma: honey, you got yourself into this mess, might as well make the best of it.
shu-of-the-wind
Yuuuuuuuuuuuup
amusewithaview
darcy is still in violent denial of matt's fuzzier feelings and only JUST THEN accepts that she is in a hoard and maybe friends with a dragon
the difference between darcy who thinks she is grudgingly allowed in the dragon's space and darcy who realizes she is hoarded and FRIENDS with the dragon is lots of magic.  and hugs. and matt S U F F E R S
shu-of-the-wind
(Matt who /freaks out/ when she comes back into the borders of the Kitchen and basically flies to crash into her and drown in her smells because YOU CAME BACK YOU CAME BACK YOU CAME BAAAAAACK)
shu-of-the-wind
He might possibly bury his face in her hair and breathe as deep as he can each time
amusewithaview
darcy: oh my god are you like this every time somebody leaves and enters your territory?
 matt: no
foggy: YES
karen: *looks at foggy skeptically*
foggy: college was... weird.
shu-of-the-wind
(there was an incident after Foggy went on study abroad that they prefer not to discuss)
amusewithaview
YES
foggy escaped their dorm room eventually, but he was wearing matt's clothes and ONLY matt's clothes for like a week.  MATT IS MUCH SMALLER THAN HIM AND IT WAS AWKWARD
shu-of-the-wind
Sidifueud and Darcy gets used to the idea of being friends and then like. Possibly Kitty Pryde (ironically, a dragon were herself) shows up and is like
Girl that boy has been wooing you for months
Do you have any idea
You're driving him /nuts/
amusewithaview
He has basically done the dragon equivalent of lighting fireworks in the shape of MARRY ME and simultaneously peeing around her in a circle and also literally carving out his heart and presenting it to her
like, he gave her SCALES to use in her spells
HIS SCALES
darcy: ...but i used the scales on wards FOR HIM
shu-of-the-wind
Kitty is /astounded/ when she hears that because oh my /god/ do you have any idea how we /feel/ about our scales
They're chips of our /souls/ basically
amusewithaview
kitty: *sees the wards and HOWLS with laughter because, seriously, that poor boy*
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: ....but... Matt...no...that's...I'm in his hoard, I'm not... you're--
Kitty: honey that boy would actually throw himself into ice for you and that could kill him
amusewithaview
kitty: next time you see him i want you to put both your hands on his cheeks and hold him and then see what he does
amusewithaview
darcy: whyyyyyyy?
darcy: wait do you think he's gonna... kiss me or something?
shu-of-the-wind
Christ Matt would just fuckin drop into the floor his knees go out so fast
amusewithaview
kitty: i think he's gonna go catatonic
kitty: and it will be HILARIOUS
kitty: i'm gonna take pictures
shu-of-the-wind
Sjdjdjsjdhsjdj Darcy doesn't work up the nerve for the whole day and then she just kinda does it in a joke way but Matt is like
amusewithaview
darcy: *firmly* you're wrong, and i'm gonna prove it
shu-of-the-wind
Suddenly and completely high on life holy shit this is the /best best thing/
amusewithaview
matt just... is completely still but also vibrating so hard darcy's arms shake
amusewithaview
like he's going to burst out of his skin but also he is incandescently HAPPY
shu-of-the-wind
And his eyes are /huge/ and he's just
There's this really slow smile that turns into something huge and brighter than she's ever seen on him
And then /whoops/ her heart's gonna burst
amusewithaview
I KIND OF WANT MORE DARCY DENIAL BECAUSE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A DRAGON IS *FOREVER* AND ALSO HE NEEDS TO DO MORE WOOING NOW THAT SHE REALIZES THAT'S WHAT HE'S DOING, LIKE - DOES HE WANT KIDS?  HOW BIG IS HIS HOARD?  HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN HIS HOARD?
what does it mean for HER and her MAGIC if she mates to a dragon?
shu-of-the-wind
Y U P
amusewithaview
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS, MATT
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy like
Tears her hands away and /bolts/
shu-of-the-wind
Because SHIT IF KITTY IS RIGHT THEN
UM
U M M
amusewithaview
matt is literally too stunned to chase her
shu-of-the-wind
Foggy: ... what'd you do now?
amusewithaview
like he just kind of stands there and SWAYS for a minute
shu-of-the-wind
Matt: ???!???!?!!?!?
Matt who essentially has just had Darcy say "yeah you can court me if you figure your shit out" with her hands and then she panicked and ran away
He's overloaded
amusewithaview
kitty hunts darcy down: you're going to have to talk to him
darcy: i know, that's the mature thing to do -
kitty: well, yeah, that too, but i meant that he's going to hunt you down sooner rather than later and you're gonna wanna be prepared
shu-of-the-wind
Aidjdiej Matt who like
amusewithaview
darcy: hunt... me down?
kitty: if this was a couple centuries ago you would have been stuck in the back of a cave or castle until you didn't smell like anything BUT HIM and then MAYBE you'd get outings sometimes if the wind was right but luckily dragons have grown as a species
shu-of-the-wind
He holds off until Kitty leaves Darcy alone because she's in /his hoard/ but Kitty is also better at breathing fire than him
amusewithaview
darcy: ???!!!!?!!
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: I will set his tail on fire if he tries that with me.
Kitty: You already have him mostly trained it's fine
amusewithaview
kitty:  oh honey that's encouragement.  use ice if you need to get the point across
shu-of-the-wind
HEJFHHEJDD OKAY BUT
amusewithaview
I HAVE THIS MENTAL IMAGE OF DARCY HURLING ICE CHIPS FROM A CUP AT MATT WHENEVER HE DOES SOMETHING SUPER DUMB
LIKE, JUST, HANDFULS OF ICE
shu-of-the-wind
AFTER THEY GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER DARCY WILL JUST FORM ICE IN HIS CLOTH WHEN HE'S BEING AN ASSHOLE
AND YUP
Y U P
HANDFULS OF ICE AND SNOW
amusewithaview
and matt is just PAINED like "darcy this melts and gets wet everywhere"
darcy: THEN STOP BEING A DUMBASS
shu-of-the-wind
"STOP BEING A DIPSHIT"
amusewithaview
darcy: I WILL FREEZE EVERYTHING YOU LOVE INCLUDING MYSELF
shu-of-the-wind
Skdjjejdjejdj
amusewithaview
darcy: *encompasses her whole body in a two inch layer of frigid air
shu-of-the-wind
Winter is the worst and best season
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy comes in with snow in her hair
And Matt's just like
amusewithaview
but she also wears lots of knitwear
shu-of-the-wind
I MUST P MY HANDS EVERYWHERE RIGHT FUCKING NOW
*PUT
Darcy, bemused: I have heating spells, you know
Matt: I AM GOING TO BREATHE ON YOU ANYWAY
amusewithaview
matt: *high on darcy smell and darcy feel*  LET ME WARM YOU UP MY WAY
shu-of-the-wind
I'm still just
The first time Darcy bites him Matt loses his fucking mind
amusewithaview
:D
shu-of-the-wind
Like
amusewithaview
it's worse than that time darcy used one of his leftover scales to make herself a protection amulet
shu-of-the-wind
He loses his /fucking mind/ and won't stop making little growly chirpy noises and nipping at her and hands /everywhere/ and Darcy's like
Holy shit that's a thing for you, huh
amusewithaview
matt: *literally beyond speech*
shu-of-the-wind
He can't talk for /hours/
amusewithaview
darcy: *adds play-biting to her repertoire of 'how to drive matt absolutely nuts'*
shu-of-the-wind
It's only after when Darcy kinda rests her fingers to the mark she left like "sorry I bruised you" and Matt is like
amusewithaview
darcy: proceeds to gently nip his fingers in public WHENEVER the opportunity arises
shu-of-the-wind
"You should never ever ever apologize for that"
amusewithaview
matt: both hates and LOVES this
shu-of-the-wind
"Please bite me all the time"
amusewithaview
matt: MORE BRUISES PLZTHX
shu-of-the-wind
MATT IS SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE HE WANTS TO DRAG HER INTO HIM AND NIBBLE AT HER BUT HE /CAN'T/
IT'S NOT HUMAN AND HE HAS TO PRETEND HE'S HUMAN BUT HOLY /CHRIST/
amusewithaview
and darcy just GRINS at him and she is SHOWING HER TEETH and he CAN'T DO ANYTHING
shu-of-the-wind
I'm gonna have to write this in the morning goddamn
amusewithaview
and if she's feeling EXTRA mean, she'll kinda tap at him with her magic too and matt is just: total shutdown, cannot function, has to be guided like he's ACTUALLY FUNCTIONALLY BLIND AND DEAF AND MUTE TO THE WORLD
shu-of-the-wind
Y U P
amusewithaview
I LOVE ALL OF THIS
shu-of-the-wind
She gets frisky on snow days especially and will tap at him with her magic to kinda give him an excuse to cling to her as close as possible
amusewithaview
BUT ALSO I NEED TO GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING SO I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP NOW
shu-of-the-wind
Okay I have to go to bed but please consider:
Darcy: I get to keep my job. And do what I want. I'm not gonna be in the apartment all day.
Matt: *buzzing out of his own skin* Obviously.
amusewithaview
i honestly feel like we should share this entire convo with the world because it's hilarious
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: You can't growl when people talk to me.
amusewithaview
Matt: sounds fake but okay.
shu-of-the-wind
Matt, through his teeth: Fine.
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: And you can't bite my neck in public. Or my ears. Or anything really.
Matt: KEJDJEJFHEJDJJWD
amusewithaview
Darcy: You also can't growl when people touch me INNOCENTLY.
shu-of-the-wind
Matt, darkly: No touch is innocent.
amusewithaview
Darcy: YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, DO NOT LAWYER ME HERE.
shu-of-the-wind
Matt: I DON'T LIKE OTHER SMELLS ON YOU.
amusewithaview
Darcy: THEN HELP ME SHOWER THEM OFF.
Matt: ....this is an acceptable compromise.
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: THEN WHEN I GET HOME AT NIGHT YOU CAN SHOWER WITH ME OR SOMETHING IDK
Matt: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shu-of-the-wind
/snorts
Darcy: ....you don't want me to stop doing magic or anything right because--
Matt: DO ALL THE MAGIC PLEASE OH MY LORD
amusewithaview
Matt: NEVER STOP YOUR MAGIC EVER
Matt: YOU SHOULD MAGIC ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES
Matt: AND MY CLOTHES
shu-of-the-wind
ALL OF THEM
AND THE BLANKETS
AND THE WALLS
AND EVERYTHING
shu-of-the-wind
MAGIC THE FRIDGE
amusewithaview
Matt: AND MAYBE COME REFRESH THE WARDS IN MY OFFICE ONCE A WEEK JUST IN CASE
shu-of-the-wind
I DON'T CARE
amusewithaview
Matt: OR DAILY, DAILY IS FINE
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: ....but Karen.
Matt: DAILY.
amusewithaview
Matt: SHE NEEDS THE PRACTICE
Matt: YOU'RE ONLY HELPING HER
omg i need to SLEEP NOW
IT IS MIDNIGHT
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: ....or I could just. Ward you in the morning
amusewithaview
Matt: EVERY DAY?
shu-of-the-wind
I'm sORRY I JUST LOVE THIS SO MUCH
amusewithaview
Darcy: ...sure?
Matt: SOLD.
shu-of-the-wind
Darcy: It takes like ten minutes
Matt: /swoons
amusewithaview
Matt: SHOULD YOU REFRESH IT AT LUNCH TOO?
Darcy:...no.
Matt: *pouts*
shu-of-the-wind
I can't stop laughing oh my god
BDSM turned into dragoncrack I love it
amusewithaview
other dragons cannot decide whether to laugh at him or be jealous of him
shu-of-the-wind
(jealous. Definitely jealous.)
amusewithaview
and darcy has to meet all of the local dragons so matt can show her off and also so he can say HANDS OFF
shu-of-the-wind
SNORTS
Frank Castle, sadly: ....I could use a witch.
Years later: Karen is a fully fledged witch and fond of his dumb ass for some reason.
amusewithaview
darcy: HAAAAAAVE YOU MET KAREN?
karen is like: this is my dragon.  he is an idiot.  and he bruises easy.  i love him.
amusewithaview
frank: *is always holding karen's flower no matter where they go*
frank: *literally has a necklace of flowers that karen made for him as a joke once, and then it turned into an actual protection ward and now he WON'T TAKE IT OFF EVER*
shu-of-the-wind
FRANK LOVES HIS FLOWER NECKLACE
SO MUCH
amusewithaview
it is made of daisies and carnations
shu-of-the-wind
THE TERRIFYING PUNISHER WITH DAISIES AND CARNATIONS AT HIS THROAT
NOBODY DARES COMMENT
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when he has to go into REALLY dangerous situations, karen breaks out the crown
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/clears throat
KEKFJEIFJISJFJS
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Oh My good
(go to beeeeeeeeeed)
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I KNOW
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The flower crown is all daisies and thistles xD
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BUT THIS IS HILARIOUS AND NOW I AM PUNCHDRUNK AND I JUST
DRAGON MATT
WITCH DARCY
I WANT TO SEE HIM SUFFER
like you should literally name this fic "i burn, i pine, i perish"
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I WILL DO THE THING AND SEND YOU SNIPPETS
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O H M Y G O D
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and it should just be like 10,000 words of darcy making matt suffer
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SOLD
I AM SO DOWN
I WILL DO THE THING
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darcy makes matt suffer and foggy is LIVING
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Foggy is overjoyed
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like he is making popcorn for the entire supernaturally aware portion of hell's kitchen
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Foggy, the first time Matt comes back from failing hard at giving Darcy presents: ....new pick not working out?
Matt: Shut up.
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Foggy: ooooooo, feisty
Matt: /growls
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Foggy: What DO you get for the witch who has everything... and wants nothing to do with you?
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Foggy: You don't scare me, gecko boy
Matt: I'M NOT LISTENING
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Foggy: She's on Stark's payroll, pretty sure she could buy and sell us several times over.
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Matt: N O T L I S T E N I N G
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Foggy: Well maybe you should START listening AND using your WORDS.
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Matt slams the door and Foggy is just like
I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME
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USE YOUR WORDS, NOT YOUR NOSE
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Thor, meanwhile, is watching all of this from Stark Tower and COMPLETELY APPROVES of Darcy's new valiant protector.
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Thor shows up one day and is like
I HAVE SLAIN MANY MIGHTY DRAGONS BUT NONE HAVE HAD SO FINE A TASTE AS YOU
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Foggy: Does she smell as suspicious of your intentions as she looks? Because wow.  She thinks you're sketch as fuck, man.
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I AM CONTENT LEAVING MY LIGHTNING SISTER IN YOUR CARE
Foggy is /losing his shit/
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Matt:...*is slightly relieved he doesn't HAVE to fight for Darcy BUT HE WOULD DO IT IN A HEARTBEAT*
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HE WOULD FIGHT AND WIN
DEMIGOD OR NO
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FOR HER
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Darcy, at a distance: STOP MEASURING YOUR DICKS JESUS
Kitty: Honey, no, it's a dragon thing
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Foggy actually receives knitwear from Darcy before Matt does and he actually feels kind of bad about it but Matt just tells him to wear it because it's soft and perfect and ONE of them should get to wear something from her...
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Oh my god Matthew you dramatic child
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Foggy: .... are you... getting high off of my new scarf?
Matt: NO.
Foggy: I'm going to put this in the closet.
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Darcy like
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Foggy wraps the scarf around Matt's stuff because he is a Good Bro and then takes his stuff before Matt so Matt has plausible deniability.
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Eventually starts giving Matt knitwear
And Matt doesn't wear it
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Because he's /hoarding it/
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WHYYYYYYY
OMG YESSSSSSS
it is his pillow
and darcy thinks he doesn't like the pattern or something so she KEEPS TRYING and matt is just like YESSSSSS GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR KNITWEAR
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Matt: IT'S IN MY CLOSET
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Foggy: I'VE SEEN YOUR CLOSET, IT IS NOT IN YOUR CLOSET, YOUR CLOSET IS FULL OF LIES AND SO ARE YOU.
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Darcy eventually confronts him like
Dude if you don't want it I'll stop giving you knitwear
Matt, panicking, shows up the next day wearing gloves and a scarf and a hat
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none of them match even REMOTELY
all of them are weirdly worn out
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(and socks)
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ALSO, I want Matt to be slightly inexpressive in human form because stuff doesn't translate well but he's actually the MOST EMOTIVE DRAGON EVER like other dragons are like Dude, Chill, CONTAIN YOURSELF MATTHEW YOU ARE MAKING US LOOK BAD
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Darcy: ....wut
Matt: MOAR
HE'S THE CUDDLIEST DRAGON
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He like
He's the most expressive lil bean of a red dragon
He wiggles and his tail flicks around and he flares his wings and he has all these cues
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And in human form he's this walking stump
With no ability to express himself
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in dragon form he has an entire MANE of semi-flexible horns that retract and lay flat and puff up and do all sorts of things
and in human form he has fluffy hair
it doesn't translate well
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It really doesn't
Oh my god just
With that in mind
Matt racing to Darcy when she crosses back into his territory
But he's flying and running because dragon form is faster
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And whoops there's a massive horse sized red dragon aiming right for her should she run
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IF SHE RUNS THEN HE HAS TO CHASE HER AND NEITHER OF THEM ARE READY FOR THAT OH SHIT
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Darcy: YOU ARE NOT CRASHING INTO ME WITH CLAWS DUDE
CHASING GAMES OH GOD
MATT LOVES CHASE GAMES
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I HAVE TO GO TO BED
I CANNOT
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IT'S HIS MAIN FLIRTATION MECHANISM THAT ACTUALLY TRANSLATES
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I HAVE WORK AT 8:30AM
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I mean me too xD
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Guh
GO
GO SLEEP
GO
GO
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GOOD NIGHT SHUU
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GO
GO
GO
Gnight :3
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THIS HAS BEEN AWESOME FUN AND GOOD NIGHT!
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I'll send you snippets
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YAAAAAAAS
OKAY GOOD NIGHT
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SLEEP WELL
Today at 4:39 PM
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Honestly want to publish this conversation of dragons on tumblr
May I, please?
shu-of-the-wind
Of course of course
:3
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YAAAAAAAS WILL DO WHEN HOME
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Struggle in Seattle -Anxiety and The Big City
It was two in the morning and I was riding in the back of an ambulance while crying at the top of my lungs. 
As standard, I was loaded in head first, feet to the doors while clutching my Soviet-Era teddy bear that has accompanied me across the globe since I was three. He was a sturdy toy, unnamed but well loved, covered in coarse gray fur and, as I liked to joke, probably stuffed with twigs and radioactive material. For some unknown reason, my brother and I used to fight over him frequently as children to the point where my mother had to resew his head back on at least a handful of time. But now, he was with me, and he was my only anchor to the earth that I had left at least a week prior and just recently became lucid enough to make the toughest decision of my life. I was going into voluntary psychiatric hospitalization and I was going alone.
Oh, and it was TWO IN THE FUCKING MORNING!
The ambulance ride reminded me of being trapped in the eye of a tornado and with no way out except to brave the storm and pray I got out alive. The outside swirled by in dark flashes, only briefly illuminated by the passing of outside lights that immediately faded back as we drove past them. I was accompanied by two first responders, one driving and the other, a young, thickly set guy no more than 27, sat in the back with me and calmly talked me through the trip. He made no reaction to my cries of terror, but simply engaged in talking, keeping me focused on random topics until they could deliver me to the arms of the mental health ward in Overlake Hospital. Jokes on him though, I cried the entire ride and even more when we finally arrived at the hospital doors. If my anxiety didn’t stop for me, it sure as shit wasn’t going to stop for him. 
Let me stop right here and tell you why I was going to the mental health ward. I had been having non-stop anxiety attacks for a week after battling a crippling flu the week prior. I was entirely nonsensical; frequently crying, moaning, and screaming while completely neglecting my personal health and hygiene. I didn’t eat, I didn’t shower, I didn’t go to work or engage in hobbies, I simply cried until I was exhausted enough to sleep and slept for ten to twelve hours a night with frequent naps in the day. It was the second time in my life my mental health had paralyzed my life so severely and the first time I had to be hospitalized for it. Correction, I chose to be hospitalized for it, something that I had to keep reminding myself over the next three days. Especially when at the end of three days, I wouldn’t be going home, but to a new house in Seattle. I was hospitalized the weekend I was supposed to move thirty miles away. Some say that the stress of the move is what might have broken me but at the time, I couldn’t really say what it was. Heck, I couldn’t say much of anything that didn’t sound like a garbled scream anyway.
Anyway, so there I was, two in the goddamn morning, rolled into the mental health ward, clutching a teddy bear with my purse at my feet and nothing but the clothes on my back. My husband would later tell me that letting me go and admitting to himself that he couldn’t help me anymore was one of the hardest things he ever had to do, but he was relieved that I was going somewhere safer than the house. Somewhere where I could really focus on getting better and just tap out of the real world. The ward itself was relatively nice and consisted of a donut shaped hallway with rooms on the exterior and a shared hang-out room in the middle with puzzles, coloring pages, and a TV behind a plexiglass box. Very One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest as one of my visitors pointed out later. Of course, the tour was done as soon as I arrived because when is a better time to show a person their new surroundings then when they are a sleep deprived, raving lunatic? Thankfully, it was a short tour and I quickly got my vitals checked and allowed to lay down as they did my intake before, blessedly, passing out in a haze of sweet relief. 
I don’t remember much that night, but I do remember instinctively getting up two hours later and trying to run off. No terror or reason, just escape. Luckily, I got startled into lucidity when one of the nurses asked where I was going to which I simply furrowed my brow and turned back around. I was not escaping tonight.
Also, I’m pretty sure a vampire came in and stole my blood at five in the morning. They said it was nurse but I have my doubts. 
The three days slowly but surely crawled by. The first day was the hardest, of course. Getting used to the new situation, facing being alone during an unstable mental health situation, trying to get back to eating and cleaning myself of my own accord while dealing with the overwhelming shame and guilt of being in there in the first place. It was a lot! On top of that, I had to go to group therapy classes and just try to get it together. Fortunately, I was not alone. The mental health ward is very popular this time of year. 
Everyone there had their own reason for putting themselves in there. Some had been entertaining suicide and didn’t want to go down that path, some had been struggling with bi-polarism and alcohol and taken a turn for the worst, while others were dealing with an anxiety related eating disorder or an un-diagnosed personality disorders or a co-morbid relationship with mental struggle and drug addiction. Some, of course, simply crashed into the floor of life and couldn’t get back up on their own. Two in particular stand out to me, not for their overwhelming problems or strangeness, but for the help that they had given me simply being present and our ability to share our feelings. I shall call them O and K. 
O was a wonderful, non-binary person who had struggled with homelessness and a series of strained relationships accumulating in a living situation consisting of them, their former lover, and former/current best friend all in a studio apartment on Capitol Hill. Though I couldn’t truly say what the circumstances were that had driven them to strongly consider jumping in front of a train but I can say that merely thought of them wanting to do it was enough to shock O into taking themselves straight into voluntary psychiatric. K, on the other hand, was a sweet, nerdy girl with a fierce streak of violence and anger that she hid well but wasn’t shy about bringing up. She carried around a set of beautiful pens that she doodled with and had a history of short term institutionalization, so she was a welcome help to my frayed nerves. Much like O, I’m not exactly sure what brought her in, but I was glad to have her. 
Of course, I was also very lucky to have visitors everyday. My husband came on the first day with a change of clothes and words of encouragement, followed by a visit from both my mother and husband the second day. My mother was happy to see me but I could see it was hard for her, probably for both of them, though the relief of me being there painted over any worry. Ultimately, it was good for me to be there. This sentiment was also reflected when my partner Kyle and best friend Whitney came on the last day followed by my other partner Chris and his room-mate Tyler. I was hoarding love like a dragon hordes gold and I wasn’t letting it go. I was very lucky to have the support system I had, something that I took full advantage of by calling everyone I could on the shared phone. I even spoke to my brother who had managed to call upset that I hadn’t phoned him about my condition and to inform me that he loved me and he had diarrhea. You know, all the important things.  
Anyway, I can go on and on about my stay at Overlake. The classes I took, the maddening cat puzzle I worked on, the other patients, the adorable male nurse that made the stay easy on the eyes and the other nurse who was obsessed with Russia’s participation in WW2. I learned a lot and I carried my work folder around for days after I left. I watched the Bumblebee movie which I never thought I do and made friends. I struggled, but ultimately survived. I eventually ate on my own, showered often, brushed my teeth and was even allowed to roam the hospital grounds as long as I checked in with the nurses every half hour. I even full on, guffawed laughed at the goofiest ass clown fish I had ever seen in the lobby that wouldn’t stop humping on the anemones. Seriously, if you ever find yourself in Bellevue, Washington at the Overlake Hospital, check that shit out, it’s hilarious!
The point is, I got better. I wasn’t 100% by any means, but I was out of the worst of it. I was functioning and ready to get a move on as I had bigger fish to fry. 
Seattle and my new home. 
And then the panic attacks came.
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