#fall out of friendship

[pollyna]

au in which Mav and Goose fall out of everything in their life when Goose survives hop 31. It's gradual, because Mav tries to stick around after Goose is good enough to teach at Top Gun and in ever naval flight class the brass can think about, but Mav isn't one for teaching and the sky perpetually calls him. He wants to be up there more than anything and Goose can't, not in a jet at least, and when he pisses of the new Admiral on the base it almost a relieve to go back in the middle of the ocean. Because Mav hopes he will stop feeling so guilty towards Goose and all the life he relegate him to.

From there it's a step far away from each other every day to the point Mav can't remember the last time he talked to Goose or a news about Bradley didn't come from Carole. It hurts but it's more of a dull pain you feel when you go around to poke yellow bruises than actual pain.

They see each other after what it feel like months but it's actually almost two decades later, when Mav is back on the American soil, a wedding band on his hand and a husband who, sometimes, it still calling him Mave-rick like when they were at Top Gun. Bradley is on the stage, getting his pair of golden wings, Carole and Goose are between the people and when Carole sees him her smiles is as big as the sun, Goose's smile is smaller and he nods with his head and Mav nods back. They call out for Bradley's name and they all look back towards the stage. There will be time to say hi to them later, with the photos. And maybe, there will be time for a beer with Goose too, a hug from Carole and a ring to show off.

There is going to be time and events and maybe they will go back to be as closed as they were or maybe they won't, but Mav is greatful that they will have the chance to see how it will go.

[fairsweetlonging]

truth serum / system reveal au where shen qingqiu gets hit with an uncloaking spell that reveals the system in the reflection of his eyes every time it pops up.

during one of his missions, in the treasure hoard of some dragon-like creature, he finds a golden, oval shaped hand mirror, its gaudy style more victorian based than anything (airplane you hack!), that doesn't seem to do anything when he looks into it. but when he does, it reveals the system's screen in his eyes.

he doesn't notice this, of course, because he can't see it, and the system, surprisingly, stays quiet.

the peak lords think he's cursed.

maybe mu qingfang is the first to notice, during the mandatory post mission check-up, when shen qingqiu is scrolling through his most recently accumulated points and mu qingfang can see the strange vividly-blue lines reflected in his pupils. it's gone when shen qingqiu blinks, like it was nothing but a trick of the light.

it comes out when yue qingyuan is visiting and, just as he's done laying out the plans for a new mission, shen qingqiu's eyes glaze over and a bright blue box takes over the whole of his iris. shen qingqiu goes quiet; the thing in his eyes moves, shifts, pulses for a second, like static worms crawling all over his pupils. then he blinks, and it's gone, and shen qingqiu accepts the mission that yue qingyuan was almost sure he would decline.

maybe there is an intervention, when the peak lords corner shen qingqiu at qian cao peak and try to figure out what's wrong, subjecting him to all kinds of treatments and curse-finding spells that turn up empty, they can't find anything.

of course, the silencing threat is still very much up and running. at first shen qingqiu was kind of confused by the whole ordeal, but when the peak lords start describing a "strange blue box", he realizes, with sickening suddenty, that they're describing the system. and he can't say anything.

this only makes everything worse, because their fellow peak lord now keeps evading every question and acts like he doesn't understand. liu qingge points right at his face and asks, "that blue box, what is it?" and shen qingqiu laughs nervously and starts talking about how bright the weather is and surely it's the sky and nothing to worry about!

even worse, during the intervention the system thought it was a good idea to start talking to him, so now even the peak lords who hadn't seen it and who might have been persuaded by light tricks and reflections, get a first row view that no, that definitely isn't a trick of the light.

they try to do the whole thing of "are you in danger, blink twice" but shen qingqiu can't even do that because it's still a direct admittance!

maybe eventually he starts saying vague confirmations that don't actually confirm anything, like "this master hears what you're saying", or maybe he goes with a classic "this master can neither confirm nor deny that." but the system starts warning him for that too and eventually he stops saying anything, which worries the others more.

luckily mu qingfang catches on that every time they ask a direct question about the box or shen qingqiu says anything vaguely confirming, it appears. it doesn't appear when they ask about curses or demons, so it must not see that as a threat.

for a little extra angst: maybe the peak lords keep pressuring him for answers, and at some point shen qingqiu gets fed up and snaps out something like, "why don't you understand that i'm not allowed to answer that!" the system counts this as a direct admittance, threatening it's existence. so it punishes. shen qingqiu has a qi deviation so bad it lasts two weeks and takes two people every day to cleanse his meridians. the system doesn't appear in that time. it doesn't appear for a long while after that, either. the peak lords stop asking, mainly because shen qingqiu will instantly leave the room if they do. they don't stop searching for a cure, though.

shang qinghua returns from a business trip and catches on the second someone mentions a blue box and forced silencing.

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[hum--hallelujah]

Pete and I attacked the laws of Astoria with promise and precision, a mess of youthful innocence...

@/elytrians // Patrick in 2005 // Pete on Twitter (iirc during the hiatus) // Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes // @/killingmyselfbutnotdying // The Kids Aren't Alright // Pete on Instagram // @/planetgraves on Twitter // Pete in 2007 // @/b1uejean on Tumblr // G.I.N.A.S.F.S.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

While you were fighting in the war, I was falling in a pit.

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[slymanner]

God dude these two scenes and how roxie moves hurt my heart so so bad 🥹

it's like a mix of anger, feral, emotional breakdown, and complete sadness that just fucks me up soooo fucking bad.

it's like she's a pet who got abandoned by their owner but they see them again after years of sadness and depression of them being gone and leaving them like that and all that anger and sadness just manifest's into one bundle of emotion's towards them they cannot control.

roxie baby ur gonna be okay u deserve better :[

[starry-bi-sky]

*stares at disciple SQQ falling into the abyss au*

oh you are so "SY-is-SJ" coded. You are so "fell into the abyss and suddenly remembered that oh i've been Shen Jiu this whole time, not just Shen Yuan. we are one and the same". you are so 'crumbling under the weight of the system and being in the abyss and the despair of never really being free and having suffered in both lives' built. you are so 'scrambling to come to terms with your existence and battling with which life is really yours, only to realize that they both are'. You are primed for going off the rails.

I'm so normal about this guys. i promise.

[newtonbridgerton]

i genuinely miss the delusional bliss between parts 1 & 2 where creloise hadn't been blown to smithereens yet

[linktoo-doodles]

None of these people know that kenji was an undesirable child

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

There's just something about them that makes me happy

Love it when my media gives me a guy, and then gives me that guy again! Peak design!

[hualianisms]

feng xin gets seen as someone who's subservient and a blind rule-follower but he didn't really quite come off that way to me in the novel. if he were a total rule-follower he wouldn't cuss with such vulgar words all the time in heaven - but he clearly doesn't care about social etiquette in heaven or elsewhere. he talked back to xie lian on multiple occasions. when xie lian threatened to break up their friendship in book 2, feng xin's response was to laugh and insinuate that xie lian wouldn't survive a day without feng xin. clearly talking back to xie lian. he even punched xie lian in the face in book 4. he disagreed with xie lian's actions in book 4 when xie lian began to do things like nearly kill an innocent mortal just for insulting xie lian, bc this goes against feng xin's own moral compass.

i personally don't see him as a subservient rule-follower but as someone who deeply respects xie lian for xie lian's principles and moral compass (which feng xin agrees with bc they align with feng xin's already-present strong principles of his own). it's not blind following but deep respect out of having shared principles.

[polyquestria]

A Twilight x Discord ship art but in a divorced kind of way? (Cause that's how i ship them)

This is the first thing I thought of

[thekidsarentalright]

literally no matter how u look at it patrick was planning on playing hallelujah before he even got to the piano, he no doubt knew 27 was coming later and Chose to play that. he played that for pete. that was literally just for pete and pete alone. people tease patrick for not being very outwardly affectionate like pete is when talking about their friendship but he just played the song that saved petes life for pete on stage in front of thousands of people . if that is not love i dont know what is

[millenianthemums]

quick rough thing for this au because it’s still rattling around in my brain a whole lot

[spookyveggies]

Haven’t drawn much worth posting in a while, but instead I’ve been making FOB friendship bracelets! My hope is to make a ton so by the next time they have a show near me so I’m prepped and ready to go :)

SMFS, WAMS, and True Blue are my favorites so I’m probably gonna end up keeping those ones :3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Playdate in peril, the homosexual thoughts be upon ye.

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