#elijah answers

[ask-the-dhmis-clock-bois]

KICKS DOOR OPEN, HIHIHI HELLO AGAIN!!! 👋👋👋 :DDD

[bibuckleykinard]

PLEASE TELL ME MORE

Honestly Kayla, finding this in my inbox is the highlight of my week, one of my favourite blogs on here @nilefreemans

I honestly have so many thoughts about bucktommy overall but tommy kinard is such an enigma in many ways and it’s kind of like sudoku where it’s a fun puzzle to play around with headcanons based on intentional and unintentional canon information and i have so many thoughts whenever i see gifs

cause like yeah it’s very easy to just be like yeah i’ve seen pics of lou with earrings but choosing to interpret it as an intentional character element adds so much to tommy’s character

cause yeah ear piercings are way less gendered now but i know i certainly grew up hearing so many gendered rules about who could or couldn’t get their ears pieced and the “gay earring”, and i imagine that would have been so much more amplified for Tommy, just the layers of pressure and closeting he is seemingly under prior to chimney begins— which makes the pierced ears even more interesting because jt means in universe that there was some point in time that tommy felt like he could step out of those confines and take what looks like this tiny little step but in reality is profound for him but only temporarily since we don’t see him wear them even outside of work iirc.

and i’m just fascinated by these little pockets of liberation for characters like tommy —like for ref. I watched spn and one of my favourite fic tropes is Stanford Era Dean where for a brief moment he doesn’t have to be hunter nobody is perceiving him and he gets to just be himself a queer man— which just feels very Tommy

like i don’t have hard or fast ideas and tommy doesn’t seems like the most traditionally impulsive (like buck) but more of a measured impulsivity where maybe he doesn’t seek things out but he’ll eagerly engage when it’s there- i mean see every time chimney has ‘dragged’ him into things/information out of him

So while I could easily see it being a throwaway line of like “oh yeah I forget about em, I got them when I lost a bet” or as a more active rebellious move of like hey I can't do something grander but I can do this and the kind of people who would see this as gay are the people I'm looking to spite right now

But my personal favourite is (again a lot of this is me just wanting an version of the stanford era dean segment of A Thousand Lives fic but Tommy pre-buck) I really enjoyed the idea that Tommy got his ears pieced because he wanted to just sincerely, even more so if in a bitter sweet way it’s in this blip of tommy’s life prior to coming out when he’s out to himself and dating men, going to queer spaces etc. and one of them is some queer man with the patience of a saint who one evening in a moment of calm intimacy probably brushing their hands through tommy’s hair and when noticing his ears ask tommy if he’s ever thought about getting them pierced- and at this window of post army and either pre LAFD entirely or just pre-buck 118- he has just enough courage to say yes and agree to getting them pierced, and like eventually this partner would somehow convince him to do some level of gender bending expression or drag like a Halloween costume (like please can somebody draw Tommy doing rock horror) and then bittersweet it’d probably link back to tommy being just not being ready for or in the right environment to be really fully out and a mutual break out as the other guy looking for a more visible relationship

i really wasn’t expecting this to be this long i had to fully delete a tangent i had about my thoughts on tommy and love actually but that’s for a different post lmao, again really honoured that you enjoyed my rambly tags enough to want to hear more, i wish i wrote fic so i could put these ideas together better but at least it’s there

[sleepyystarss]

Baby space Toya.... The babiest ever :( <3

BABY SPACE TOYA!! He does a little babbling but usually just grabs at things and ahhhh

[cobrakatharsis]

au where johnny is the most popular attraction in the aquarium (maybe he's a mermaid or a snake creature ??) and daniel is his favorite trainer

i’m so sorry it takes me SO DANG LONG to answer asks i am the slowest writer the world has ever seen

HOWEVER. i absolutely love this idea, anon, you are fantastic

johnny was owned privately by one terry silver in what was a fairly extensive collection of illegal exotic “pets”, though none were anywhere near as interesting as johnny himself. he’d been a gift for silver’s lover, john kreese, and subsequently seized when kreese was arrested for something or another in the midst of a spat with silver and snitched on johnny’s existence.

he’d thought johnny would be put down immediately, if not seized for experimentation, but instead johnny was brought to a sanctuary aquarium where many large ocean mammals are being rehabilitated and researched, and countless other large displays attract the public with fish and creatures and talks by the scientists who work there.

daniel isn’t particularly passionate about the ocean - it had more been a job of convenience, getting an internship here after moving to california with his ma in his senior year - but he’s grown to love it all, grown to be a deeply popular trainer with the animals and with the public, and he’d been immediately fascinated with johnny. johnny is like nothing anyone’s ever seen, and he’s beautiful. he could look almost human if you only looked at his top half and didn’t look too closely, but at his waist his pale skin gives way to dark scales in blood-red and black and gold, stretching into a long tail - roughly three times his torso length - that curls and dances in the water. his fins where his hips would be were he human, and at the end of his tail, are intricate and frilled, glittering champagne like his hair.

his eyes are sharp and dark. they look almost all-black to the untrained eye, but daniel knows they’re really blue - a circle of pale colour, if you’re able to look closely enough, which matches the hue of his skin at the edges of his gills and his lips and his sharp fingernails. he’s cold to the touch in most places, especially his hands and face, but his blood pumps warm.

they’d thought him incapable of speech, at first. he’d come to the sanctuary afraid and sullen, visibly sickly and thin. utterly silent, and very still. he’d been kept for the last few months or so in a small container of cold, stagnant water in a dark storage unit, hidden away like an illegal firearm by his previous owner terry silver to try and prevent his retrieval by police, so the first grasp at his trust had been daniel and the rest of the staff getting him into his new enclosure. they’d started out in a private one in the research and rehabilitation facility, sprawling and deep and full of safe enrichment, kept warm by heaters, and daniel had been assigned to be his trainer. he brought johnny food and spent all hours of the day with him, talking to johnny almost all the while and aiming to earn his trust. he called johnny goldie, since they didn’t have any other name for him, and daniel liked to compliment the gold in his hair and tail.

the first word johnny had spoken had been his own name, to daniel. he’d swam up to the surface of the water one day, where daniel was lounging on the decking beside the edge of the pool, writing on a clipboard and chatting to johnny like he usually did about anything that came to mind. he jumped when johnny reached out and touched his ankle with a cold, gentle hand, unused to johnny coming so close, but smiled broadly.

“hey, goldie!” he’d said. “you hungry? or you just exploring?”

johnny tilted his head, dark eyes affixed on daniel almost nervously. shyly. “…j—johnny.”

daniel’s jaw had dropped. johnny had explained in stilted speech that he thought it was only fair daniel got to know his name, since he’d told johnny his on the first day they’d met - “hey, man. my name’s daniel. i’m gonna be looking after you, okay?” - and from there he’d never really stopped talking. his personality, a little prickly but funny and sincere and endearingly spacey, had begun to shine through, and daniel was even more enchanted by him.

johnny started swimming around more in his enclosure, exploring, and even finally started playing, engaging with the weighted rings daniel tossed in the water for him or the inflatable balls they played catch with. he beamed with his gorgeous smile - dark eyes squinting, sharp teeth bared - when daniel climbed into the water with him to swim and play or just paddle his feet at the edge, and he even began climbing out of the water and shuffling across the deck - excited and cute like a seal - to curl up next to daniel’s side on the deck when he was sat there working.

the two of them immediately became a sensation when johnny agreed to be moved to a public enclosure when he was ready, engaging with the public past the glass during opening hours. he waves at people and swims to greet them or just examine them up close, sometimes smiling at them and sometimes glaring, pulling faces, dancing around to the wonder-filled gasps of children. he and daniel put on shows, playing together or swimming together or doing tricks, making johnny beam and laugh, and daniel does talks and answers everyone’s excited fascinated questions about johnny as his handler - but johnny only ever speaks to the staff he trusts - most frequently to daniel - and only when there’s no one else around to hear.

silver and kreese hadn’t allowed him to speak, he confesses quietly to daniel one night, when they’re lay together on the sloped deck with the water lapping at their feet. they hadn’t allowed him to do much. he was decorative. and not even a wanted decoration, if his abandonment in his last few months outside of the sanctuary was anything to go by. silver hated him.

“i think you’re perfect,” daniel tells him, and means it. he doesn’t mention the money that johnny brings into the sanctuary with all of the people that come to see him, nor the entertainment he provides for them. instead, he rests his cheek against johnny’s hair - impossibly soft when it’s dry - and tells him, “you’re my best friend.” johnny presses closer to him, clinging to daniel like he often does, and daniel learns another new thing about johnny - he can cry.

he learns a lot of new things about johnny when they’re curled together like that every night. more details about what life had been like with silver and kreese, bits and pieces of a story that always breaks johnny to pieces as he explains in agonised whispers that he hadn’t always been like this. he hadn’t always been a monster. but daniel also learns that he certainly doesn’t kiss like a monster, just like he doesn’t do anything like a monster. he kisses slow and soft and shy, whines sweetly as daniel takes the lead. his lips are cold, as is every bit of skin daniel touches, but he warms up quick, and he looks even more human like that, cheeks and lips and chest flushed blood-warm and pinkish. eyes sweet and blue up close.

he’s in an especially good mood for the shows the next day. and the crowd explodes with wonder when johnny surges his torso gracefully up out of the water to catch daniel by the shoulders and lean up to gently nuzzle their noses together, beaming as daniel holds him securely by the waist. he swirls in the water like a drop of ink, long tail twirling in a blur of red and black and gold, when he drops back in, and daniel beams right back at him, raising his arm to the audience’s praise of his and johnny’s ‘special connection’. it feels special. it feels like everything.

[rodolfoparras]

FRR, like I need to fuck a baby into that man, LIKE HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT TO its price. He has the biggest chokehold on me it’s crazy

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This is @lieutnt fault for discussing pregnancy hormones

Cw; breeding, 18+

Thinking about Price who cant get enough of your cock even after you’ve managed to knock him up who’s always up for riding you even though he’s sporting a bump now, with a hand on his bump and the other on his headboard he’s sinking down on your length, a slight smile on his face because fuck he’s missed this, being able to ride you at whatever pace he wants, you’ve been so careful with him seen him as a fragile little thing, he’s woken up countless of nights, horny and wanting for you to roughly fuck him into the mattress til he forgets who he even is, only for you to be as gentle as ever and making sure you avoid the bump in your way,

He had tried talking to you, telling you there was no need to be this careful with him but you hadn’t listen so he’d used his fingers and toys just like he’d use your cock but it wasn’t the same, didn’t make him feel as good as you’d make him feel so he took matters into his own hands, pushed you down onto the mattress before sinking down onto your length, eyes fluttering shut head lolling back as he finally gets what he’s been desiring

You’re trying to speak, trying to tell him to be careful, trying to tell him he can hurt himself but he makes it clear that there’s no need to worry while practically bouncing on your dick, secretly thanking the army for all the physical training or else he’d be far exhausted by now, but he continues to chase his release riding you at a steady pace

Doesn’t stop at one round but continues with him spread out on the bed while you piston your hips into him, and he can’t help the smile on his face, eyes fluttering shut while white knuckling the sheets, even going as far as tightening his legs around your waist and bucking his hips up to meet your pace.

You go for so many rounds , his cunt is all red and puffy at the end, leaking with your cum and trickling down onto the bed , but you just use two fingers to push it back into him, hoping and praying he can bless you with another kid

[teecupangel]

What if Desmond was trans, and was the one who got pregnant with Elijah?

He would fight tooth and nail to leave Abstergo as soon as possible, that’s for sure.

Elijah would have already been 7 by that point and Desmond would be worried if Abstergo got him hidden elsewhere or if he’s still with the kind old lady who takes care of him when Desmond was at work.

If Abstergo didn’t know about Elijah, they soon will once the old lady start asking around to why Desmond hasn’t returned home.

He would also not cooperate with the Assassins unless they can reunite him with his son and that would cause friction between him and the others.

To Desmond, his son is his top priority and he’s not going to compromise about being with his son. He doesn’t trust anyone enough to simply believe them when they say his son is ‘safe’.

This also means that in the case of the whole ‘die to save the world’ situation, Minerva has an ace in the hole to stop Desmond from sacrificing himself.

“Are you willing to leave your son behind when you die?”

It’s no longer a matter of ‘the world versus my life”, it’s a matter of “do I truly believe that my son will be safe and alright if I sacrifice myself?”

[thatfanficstuff]

For the writing ask _

😀😝 xo

Oh, I love this gif. Thanks for sending it!

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Angry

Pairing: Elijah Mikaelson x Reader

When you broke up with Elijah Mikaelson you'd expected many things from him. Disappointment, irritation or maybe even indifference. What you hadn't expected was his anger.

He didn't yell or argue, he simply narrowed his eyes and walked away. Every time he saw you after that he stared with a clenched jaw and sharp gaze. No words had been spoken between you since that night three weeks ago.

Now you were spending the evening with his siblings at Nik's request. After an hour or two, Elijah disappeared. Once you noticed, you rolled your eyes. Really. The man was a thousand years old and was acting like a toddler. Frankly you were tired of it.

"I'll be back," you told the hybrid.

He smirked and took a sip of his drink. "Take all the time in the world, love. None of us are going anywhere anytime soon."

You shook your head and left the room to head to Elijah's personal library. It was technically his study but there were far too many books for it to be anything other than a library.

You stepped into the room without knocking and shut the door behind you.

Elijah stood at one of the windows with a drink in his hand and his back turned toward you. "Why are you here?" he asked after a long beat of silence.

"Why are you so angry?"

His head snapped in your direction with a look of confusion on his face. "You can't be serious."

You arched a brow and shrugged.

His long strides ate up the space between you until he was standing right in front of you. "Perhaps you recall the ending of our relationship."

"Of course, but I don't see why you are upset about it. It's not as if you were invested in the relationship. I needed more. I told you that." What you didn't say is that you were head over heels in love with the man in front of you. That you had cried for weeks before finally ending the relationship.

Sure, he called you his girlfriend. He bought you trinkets and spent time with you when he could be bothered. And that was the problem. You were an afterthought. A woman that filled a role and the space by his side when he needed to keep up appearances. And it wasn't enough for you. Not anymore.

He pointed at you with the hand holding his glass. "Not invested? You think I wasn't invested?"

You just looked at him, uncertain what answer he was looking for.

He sighed and set his glass down on the table beside him. "This. This is why I am angry." He studied the floor for a moment before looking back up at you. "I am angry with myself for ever making you feel that way."

You sucked in a little breath, surprised at his words. He gave a sad smile and stepped forward, closing the distance between you. His hands cupped your face as he looked you over.

"You are the center of my universe. My entire being revolves around you and I am devastated for ever letting you believe that it doesn't." He licked his lips as his eyes darted down to yours before looking back up. "Please, please, come back to me and let me love you the way you deserve."

You saw nothing but sincerity in his eyes. "I love you so much, Elijah. But I can't do this if you don't love me the same. No more pushing me away. I won't survive the heartbreak a second time."

His lips pressed against yours in a hungry, desperate kiss. After a long moment, he pulled back only to lay his forehead against yours. "I swear to you, I will never give you reason to doubt me again."

A/N: so this turned out way longer than expected.

[andreal831]

I am so mad we didn’t get real mommy issues Elijah. Like we can read into it but no storyline abt him with his parents. When he went to Esther after the ball to apologise for his younger siblings’ behaviour and Esther cupped his cheek, THE FACE HE MADEEE. Like he made Esther doubt her plan for a second, he also out of all his siblings wanted to be a real family the most he wanted it to work sm. They didn’t even show us him that disappointed at Esther’s real plan.

I often wonder if Elijah's mommy issues are worse than his daddy issues. I could write a book on how badly they both messed all of their children up, but particularly Elijah.

As you said, you can tell this by his characterization, however, a lot of people overlook it because he is not as blatant with it as other's, namely Klaus. But how he interacts with everyone and even the relationships he has show just how badly these issues are.

From the flashbacks, and even his present day actions, you can tell that a lot was put on Elijah from a very young age. He feels personally responsible for his siblings. Not only their well-being but their behavior. The scene you pointed out perfectly shows this. I had to go back and make a gif of it. Esther is actively planning to kill her children and tells Elijah that she "wish[ed] the others were more like [Elijah]." Elijah doesn't fully get the gravity of it, but as the audience we do. Maybe if the others were more like Elijah, Esther wouldn't feel the need to kill them all. The pressure this simple 'compliment' puts on Elijah to keep his siblings in line is indicative of the guidance he has gotten his whole life. If he could keep his siblings well behaved, bad things would stop happening to them.

People call out his suits and his "cleanliness" but it's literally a trauma response. Esther, at one of the lowest moments in his life, used magic and told him that if he kept himself clean, everything would be okay. She then emphasizes this by coming back to life and reminding him that he is the 'moral' son, even knowing everything she knows about him.

This is reinforced when just a couple of years later, Esther imprisons and tortures Elijah, calling him a monster. She had all of the same knowledge in TVD as she did in TO. We can blame it on bad writing, but it's canon, so if we are accepting it as is, it's pure manipulation. It was a reminder from her that he allowed himself and his siblings to slip and that made him a monster.

Elijah throughout the shows struggles to connect with anyone in a meaningful way. Even those he loves outside of his family are easily discarded when necessary. While he feels guilty and lonely doing so, he does not hesitate to protect his family. The entirety of 'always and forever' is based on the fact that Esther and Mikael raised them to believe that their family was more important than anyone else. They were willing to anger nature in order to protect their family. To Elijah, that literally meant his siblings lives mattered more than anyone, including himself.

He so desperately wanted a family, wanted his family, to be happy and together. Yes, he makes plenty of mistakes along the way, but his underlying impulse is to protect his family. He wanted to make his parents proud, he wanted their love, but we never see him receive it. Even as a child, he is basically discarded. Elijah struggles with his self worth because of this. He even tells Hayley he has no purpose to his family if he isn't fighting to save them. He feels he has no worth outside of his role in saving his family.

Esther's neglect left lasting wounds in Elijah that are only brought up on occasion and then quickly glossed over. Even after he found out what he did to Tatia, we get like one episode for Elijah to grieve and then it shifts to him begging Klaus for forgiveness for some reason. Elijah never has a moment to just feel. His pain is always deprioritized in order to support his family.

Thanks for the ask!

[boiling-potato]

Ooohh~!! what about Elijah and Talissa's weapons~?? >:33

Hmmm,, Sureee!! ^^

Having a lot of fun drawing weapons anyway Soo here!! Also, Elijah and Yoake,, scythe buddies~! Yay! Lol (Side note: sorry, I got lazy with Elijah's sword. It's like, 3 am right now)

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Elijah and Talissa belong to @gachaclubideas !

And Yoake (the one mentioned) belongs to @n0vatsu !!

[ask-the-dhmis-clock-bois]

elijah… be NICE to Clarence >:(

[dckweed]

➺ MASTERLIST

below you'll find a master list of my collective series of works on tumblr. currently, i'm only adding those that are specifically a series because those are the most that i get messages about and i have alot of singular posts and it would be too time consuming currently to go through and add them!

⤷ TOP GUN: MAVERICK (open for requests)

⤿ Jake 'hangman' Seresin

Sugar Sweet: one, two, three,

Babygirl: one, two, three, four, five, six, seve, eight, (this series is also open for request!)

⤿ Bradley 'rooster' Bradshaw

⤿ Robert 'bob' Floyd

THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six,

⤿ Pete 'maverick' Mitchell

⤷ STRANGER THINGS (currently closed for requests while i catch up)

⤿ Steve Harrington

love grows: one, two

⤿ Billy Hargrove

I feel so stupid: one, two, three

Not parent friendly: one, two, three, four

⤷ FARGO

⤿ Gator Tillman

THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,

TNTYK BLURBS: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

⤷ STAR WARS

⤿ General Hux

what was i made for?: taglist, one, two, three, four, five, six

⤷ BRIDGERTON

⤿ Benedict Bridgerton

tormented tragedy: taglist, one, two, three, four

⤷ THE VAMPIRE DIARIES & THE ORIGINALS (open for requests)

⤿ Elijah Mikaelson

Devilish Delights: one, two

[sleepyystarss]

HII HII SORRY M EXCITED I run the Lust Sans agere blog!! I love TMNT too!!

AA HELLO! I have a utmv blog I think you followed too :DDDD! I was a little nervous to say hello. Tmnt is so cool! LUST SANS AGERE BLOG ON TOP

[cobrakatharsis]

terry/ruben/chris !😌

:D okay so this one was written around the time i THINK i made some posts about the idea of the three together? it’s really just the outline of an especially self-indulgent crackship fest starring terry mccain (tig’s character from excessive force), ruben patterson (billy’s character from shootfighter), and chris no last name (ralph’s character from naked in new york)

(all released in 1993 btw. fantastic time)

so, ruben moves to new york to chase the underground shootfighting ring there - he’s already in deep and feels like he can’t get out, isn’t sure he wants to, but either way he still needs the money. while he’s masquerading as a normal person during the day, frequenting cafes and libraries and anything to make him feel half human, he meets chris, and they hit it off surprisingly well.

chris is taken by ruben’s handsome face and strange demeanour - he seems ~mysterious~ - and ruben is dazzled by how earnest and hardworking chris is, how eager he is to just spill his guts. the first few times they see each other, it’s chris just doing all the talking - endlessly, about his latest auditions and his writing process and the movie he watched last night and this poem he’s had stuck in his head and how the coffee doesn’t seem at good today, but ruben doesn’t mind one bit. he…likes chris, likes listening to him talk, and the less ruben talks, the less chris knows. he doesn’t really want chris knowing anything, even as they slowly start to dip into “dating” territory, but it’s hard for chris not to know.

he knows something is wrong. as they steadily get closer, he begins more and more to suspect that ruben is involved with something bad - petty crime? the mob? - but ruben won’t tell him anything, as desperate as chris is to try and protect him. ruben knows he stands a much better chance of protecting chris than the other way around, and he wants to protect chris from everything he’s involved with. chris just has to try his best to wiggle in close enough to pick up some of the pieces of ruben when he has to, a task that’s even worse when he doesn’t know how ruben keeps getting broken in the first place.

meanwhile, terry enters the stage. he’s on a mission to infiltrate and dismantle the shootfighting ring, particularly one of the main men running it, and in doing so meets ruben and starts building a bond with him for solely mission reasons. until, of course, he gets involved - he likes the kid, and he wants to protect ruben, especially from all the fallout that’s going to occur when he breaks the ring up, but somehow that blends into him seeing ruben more, spending time with ruben and his boyfriend, and he knows he’s in over his head but can’t find it in himself to stop. he likes ruben a lot - likes chris a lot too, even though chris clearly doesn’t trust terry one bit.

chris doesn’t have any context, but can’t help feeling that terry’s involved with whatever ruben’s involved with. he feels dangerous, and it makes chris antsy. he’s terrified that terry poses some sort of threat to ruben, and even more concerned that terry is just another tie on ruben, something else keeping him at least half-submerged in the darkness that’s clearly trying to take him away from chris. chris and terry’s relationship is, thus, tense, but they’re respectful with ruben between them - they both love him, and it’s clear that he loves both of them.

my idea was the whole thing coming to a head — chris startles awake to a phone call in the dead of night, and terry’s on the other end sounding more torn up than chris thought him capable of. terry says that ruben’s hurt, and though chris is used to ruben being hurt - constantly covered in cuts and bruises, wraps and bandages he won’t take off - this is apparently bad. ruben came way too close to a loss and got punished for it too, and suddenly chris is yanking shoes and a jacket on top of his pyjamas and running to some shady place he’s never even heard of before, a guy he’s sure he hates’ voice echoing in his head as he chases something he had no idea about.

they can’t go to the hospital, terry made that clear, so it’s just chris and terry together - and all their love for ruben - to try and sort it out. patch ruben up, rationalise why he’s done all this, and - most importantly - get that ring dismantled.

[homecomingvn]

Hey everyone, long time no see! Apologies for the months of silence - but I’m back now! I needed to take a much needed step back from HOCO and focus on some other projects of mine (as well as play a ungodly amount of BG3 hehe).

On my break, I also decided to kinda tear down HOCO and rebuild it from the ground up. I wasn’t really pleased with how the story was going and I think that really contributed to the burnout I felt with the project. I still would like to include the premise of the various life stages, but may go about it in a different way than I had initially planned - things to think about more I suppose!

Anyways here’s some behind the scenes of what I’ve been up to - starting with revisiting the cast’s (+ Nico’s) main outfits and updating them :3

[teecupangel]

Sorry for bothering but I can't stop thinking about Desmond and Elijah now and I need someone else to suffer with me... I start thinking about the possibility that Desmond knew about Elijah's existence but forget about it because the bleeding effect

A lot of Desmond memories are erased 'cause we know Animus and one of them are the memories about Elijah. This wasn't a conscious decision by Desmond, just something he forgot about himself

Wanna make it more painful, nonny?

At first, Desmond kept Elijah’s identity a secret because he was in Abstergo’s clutches and he’d rather die than let his son be captured as well. He may not be with Elijah’s mom but he managed to convince her that he ran away from a cult and that he’s worried that they would come after him.

If she learns that he went missing, she would know what to do next.

Run away, as fast as she could, to keep Elijah safe.

He asked this of her because he actually believed his dad and his ‘merry little friends’ would take Elijah too if they learned of him but now he’s just glad that this would keep Elijah away from Abstergo until he can escape and find them.

He wanted to run and find them once Lucy took him out of Abstergo but, at that point, he knew that the best way to keep Elijah safe was to take out the Templars.

To hit them hard enough that they would need to lick their wounds long enough for him to find Elijah and his mom and keep them safe.

But then…

The Bleeding Effect takes over.

He Bleeds as Altaïr and…

People assume he means Altaïr’s first son when he talks about Elijah.

Why won’t they think that?

They already know that Desmond had a vivid dream of Altaïr and Maria before.

He already started to Bleed as Ezio as well.

They didn’t know that Desmond had a son.

So it was safe to assume that he was thinking of one of his Bleeds’ son.

They don’t know the age difference between Altaïr’s two sons but they do know that Desmond is the descendant of the second son, that’s information that the family line of Desmond’s mother had been proud to say more than once.

So they assume Desmond’s memories of Elijah are Altaïr’s memories of Darim.

And the more they ‘remind’ Desmond that, the easier it becomes for Desmond to believe that he was just Bleeding.

Until the day he sacrifices himself…

Amidst the pain that wrecked his body…

He thinks…

“I’m sorry, Elijah.”

[andreal831]

you had said a few times in your metas that Elijah taking after Dahlia than his parents was something that made Esther (and by extension Mikael) awkward and more distant with him. but why did it never extended to Kol?

Wouldn't his preference for witchcraft, especially the dark arts, mischievous, cunning and outgoing traits make him more comparable to Dahlia, than say Elijah's warmer and paternal nature?

To me, it's the immediacy of it.

Elijah was born mere months after Dahlia took Freya away. The pain was still fresh for Esther. And then instead of the golden haired daughter, she got a dark haired boy who was calm and quiet, much like Dahlia. She hadn't even gotten the chance to mourn her daughter when they moved to an unknown land with unknown people and she had Elijah quickly after. Kol wasn't born for years after that. And he was born after Klaus, which, in Esther's own words, healed their family.

Esther was in a much better mental place when she had Kol. She had Klaus and Ansel and had settled into her place in the new world.

I also think Finn and Kol's hair darkened as they got older, just based on these two photos up top. Elijah appears to be the only one that grew up with that dark hair. Kol's hair as a kid was still brown, but not as dark.

But to your point about personality, I think Elijah reminded Esther more of Dahlia than Kol did. From what we can see, Dahlia was a parental figure to Esther, just as Elijah was to his siblings. Dahlia wasn't wild and reckless like Kol. Rather, she was willing to do anything for family and loyal to a fault. Kol is a lot more free-spirited and thrill seeking, while Dahlia didn't like that in Esther. Kol likely reminded Esther of a younger version of herself, while Elijah was the younger version of Dahlia.

Thanks for the ask!