#family facing chaos

[anderwater]

THE BEAR 2.01

[three-realms-archive]

Checking In

“Remind me again, why Serenity Manor wasn’t an option…”

You ask this question for the fifth time that day, stumbling into Beel. The sixth-born Avatar of Gluttony motions for you to hand over the three luggage bags you were currently attempting to lug into the lobby of an extremely grand hotel. You watch, catching your breath, as Beel lifts the bags with much more ease; walking calmly over to the nearest human bellboy. You can’t help but find him so adorable, oblivious to the bellboy’s nervous surprise at the demon’s superhuman strength. The bellboy’s voice is, unluckily, the only sound that isn’t coming from your boisterous, troublemaking family.

You continue making your case to Lucifer as you turn away from Leviathan and Belphegor – who are stood behind you, enamoured with a fishtank built into the wall and some plush, velvet-lined sofas; respectively.

“Lucifer,” you start. “You know I love you guys… ”

Lucifer is at the reception desk and looking disapprovingly at Mammon and Asmodeus, who are ‘ooh-ing’ and ‘ah-ing’ at a fancy-looking vase, at the same time as he rifles through his waist bag for a booking he insisted on printing. Even though it was so much easier to just show the online confirmation.

“… But we’re, like, historically prone to making a scene.”

As if on cue, the sound of pottery shattering echoes throughout the hotel lobby… followed by stammering from Mammon and a high-pitched squeal from Asmo. The bellboy shrieks and scurries away with the trolley of your luggage as soon as Beel takes his eyes off him - looking instead at his older brothers disapprovingly. Shaking his head, Beel jogs over to where they’re standing and immediately crouches down to tidy the shattered, ceramic hazard off the floor. He has the sweetest of intentions - declaring simply that he’ll take care of the broken vase shards so no one cuts themselves on them - but you have your doubts about his methods when you hear the sound of crunching and see porcelain pieces sticking out of his mouth. Mammon and Asmo not-so-subtlely stand over their younger brother, hiding him from view.

The hotel receptionist gives Lucifer a look. With a wordless sigh, Lucifer hands over his credit card to pay for the damages.

“I had hoped,” the eldest brother strains that word, the two of you watching a very large price appear across the till screen, “that your presence here would at least be enough to tone down their childishness. I see now that wish was just folly.”

Next to him is Satan, who eyes the reading material on the coffee table next to the sofa Belphie had deemed comfy enough to nap on. The Avatar of Wrath huffs. “Folly isn’t exactly new with you, Lucifer. But you still haven’t answered MC’s question: why aren’t we at Serenity Manor?”

“Unfortunately, this time, I don’t have a clear answer, myself.” Lucifer explains. Satan lets out a snort, which the eldest ignores. “Diavolo requested specifically that we stay at a hotel. Something about… ‘human, brother-ly bonding traditions’. Those were the words.”

At this point, Belphie has begun to chew on one of the sofa’s pillows in his sleep, feathers all over his face. The receptionist - hand outstretched towards Lucifer with the intent to hand back the credit card - freezes at the sight. The Avatar of Pride sighs again, motioning to the receptionist to just charge damages to the card.

MC suddenly paled.

“… Ah.” They stated tentatively. The winced a little under the powerful, combined gaze of Satan and Lucifer. “Then this… may have been… my fault…?”

“Explain.” Lucifer frowned.

“Well, Prince Diavolo and I had tea about a week ago. He asked about human families after I said that the Manor and House of Lamentation were a lot bigger than normal human houses and I may… have mentioned…”

MC’s voice got quieter.

“That brothers sometimes… share a room.”

Lucifer and Satan froze.

“So. We’re a social experiment for His Highness, then. Wonderful.” Satan concludes bitterly, ignoring a brief glare from Lucifer. Though, it’s not as if the eldest wasn’t sharing some of the sentiment himself, now digging through his waist bag of Beel’s food receipts and strangers’ phone numbers (given to Asmo) with extreme fury. He mumbles bitterly under his breath about how ”Lord Diavolo hadn’t mentioned sharing rooms”.

Satan tries to look to the magazine he had seen earlier for something to salvage the day…

… But Levi had gotten to it first. Now it has a few pages torn out. Manga-style doodles are on each page, including Henry and the Lord of Shadows holding hands and eating from the same ice cream in crudely scribbled boxer shorts - right out of a beach episode.

Satan looks at you. You look at the receptionist. The receptionist looks at Lucifer.

Lucifer sighs for what will certainly not be the last time today.

“Just… charge whatever you require to that card.”

(i wanted to imagine these guys on a family vacation, causing a scene in the human realm. i like the idea of mc just saying things and diavolo is just like ‘yes i like this i shall now make my subjects do it and they shall find it fun’.)

[forsoobado137]

I'm obsessed with the NA bros having an online cooking show. That one comic where they're making sushi kills me. Everyone expects that America will butcher their cultural dishes until it's an unrecognizable grease plate, but Canada doing it as well is just perfect. And I love how Canada has on a ninja costume. I bet America wears a themed costume for each episode and makes Canada do the same.

Does anyone remember Unus Annus? I feel like it's that exact vibe except they are both Mark and Ethan. Oh France is probably so disappointed in Canada lol. He's taught him how to make coq au vin and bœuf bourguignon, but Canada will never be a gourmet.

France and England would be guest stars and the episode would just end with them losing the plot and bickering. Also, England's cuisine would get slandered the entire episode. "Dude, you know WW2 is over, right? You can stop with the rations!"

[maomaopilled]

(warning for tgaa spoilers)

my hc that you couldn't even pry from my cold dead fingers is that kazuma and gina moved into the 221B attic after ryu and susato left. mainly bc the whole dynamic between them and sholmes and iris would be so so funny and chaotic. i feel like gina probably wouldn't need much convincing to move in? but sholmes and iris probably bothered kazuma until he couldn't put up resistance anymore and he just let them absorb him into the family. and i think it's cute if the 221B family is comprised of anyone who lived there at any point ... and i guess barok is honorary 221B bc he is iris' uncle lmao

[freckled-forests]

Having been a longtime fan of the Alex Rider books, I was very curious whether or not they would keep the book Scorpia ending. I felt like they either had to go all the way and have that bullet really kill him so as to provide closure for the series, or they would have to cut it out entirely so as to not leave any loose ends.

At first, I was hoping they would be true to the books because it would be such an interesting way for the series to end, but after all of the grief and heartache Alex went through during his arc, by the end of season three I was desperately hoping they would let them walk away and be with the people that love him. It would've felt so heartrending and pointless to have Alex survive everything only to die at Kyra and Tom and Jack's feet.

So when the false credit screen glitched out to reveal that sniper barrel MAN

[tragicotps]

Lyra, Marisa x Asriel entering Jordan College

[campbenji]

do we think sammy has told yaz that her family isn't speaking to her

[leavemetoplaythesims]

florence pre meeting felix vs. florence (and fran) post meeting felix.

[echoarts03]

Storytime!

My family has spent the past few weeks working to get hardwood floors put into our house, and this morning was the day where we could finally move my stuff back into my room (my room was done last.)

My cousin, who works in our family's carpentry business, is used to lifting heavy stuff, so he offered to help.

Idk why this stuck with me, but I HAD to draw and share it with you guys, LMAO!

Don't steal my art or repost it on other platforms, please.

[18catsreading]

Brennan: he [the dwarf] grabs you [Riz] and goes "you're in the wrong part of town, gobby."

Riz: "I, uhh"

Dwarf: looking to eat dwarf flesh, are ya?

Riz: "what? No, no, no, no, no!"

Brennan: he takes a flintlock pistol out. [As the dwarf] "Open your mouth if you're hungry"

Fig: I disguise myself as him and I say "stay away" .

Brennan: As Him?! You disguise yourself as the dwarf doing this? *Incredulous*

Kristen: I come up and go "you're dead. You've been dead for days."

Riz: I already ate you

Gorgug: you've been freaking dead this whole time

Riz: I already ate you, man!

Brennan: no, no, no, no. We're not gonna move past it! *Pounding fist on table* I'm not going through another Hilda Hilda! [To Emily] your first thought to get this guy to stop was to he him?! Him, as well?! Am I -- Is it just me?

Zac: is anyone around say --

Ally: you should grab her wrists and say I've got it from here

Emily: I wanted to be someone of this world, and he's the first person I've really met.

Murph: the logic is sound

Brennan: ok. All right. You disguise yourself as him. You [Kristen] say "you've been dead"

Kristen: you've been dead for days.

Brennan: give me a deception roll

Emily: that's going to be a 25

[beeholyshit]

HI BEE. I HOPE THIS IS OKAY RHEJRHSJD MWA

OMG THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH

I LOVE HOW YOU PUT THE ONES YOU WOULD TRUST TO HOLD YOUR DRINK I NEEDED TO.

[lilyharvord]

Please understand that in my Coriane Barrow Calore vs Maven fic (that lives rent free in my head) that Coriane is the Mirror Ball and Maven is the Archer, however those titles are not exclusive and they can exchange them between themselves.

[lesbianaglaya]

dishonored and dishonored 2 love to tell me that corvo is an object. and then go noooooo we didn’t say that what are you talking about. and then they have him be a statue like a for real statue.

[movedto-mastcrmarksman]

more tag drops // dynamics & people

@danversiism -> DANVERSIISM -> More than blood it takes heart and courage to be a sparkly badass // DYNAMICS -> DANVERSIISM -> Family is the people who you fight for and complain to

@darehearts -> DAREHEARTS -> Men go abroad to wonder at the circular motions of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering // DYNAMICS -> DAREHEARTS -> From where I come from we take care of our own

@prcspcr -> DYNAMICS -> PRCSPCR -> If you are human you might as well face it you are going rub people the wrong way

@nyhura -> DYNAMICS -> NYHURA -> She is order and I am chaos we get lunch sometimes

@blindbastard -> SHIPS -> BLINDBASTARD -> A leap of faith is both blind and deaf

@mr-tony-stark -> SHIPS -> MRTONYSTARK -> Will you wait for me the way birds wait for the sun to rise? Will you kiss me as the sun rises?

@biitchcakes -> SHIPS -> BIITCHCAKES -> And her kisses on his skin felt like wisps of butterfly wings turn to a slow inferno

@amethystarrows -> DYNAMICS -> AMETHYSTARROWS -> When I am with you there is no place I'd rather be

@gammaragee -> SHIPS -> GAMMARAGEE -> It's in the eyes always in his eyes that danger and trust are held

[radiaking]

i imagine that both coop and barb liked to keep work at work. and there is in fact evidence to support this theory, mainly in the scene where coop tells henry on the phone that barb doesn't like to take work calls in the evenings and hangs up. i do not think this is something coop would do if that 1) weren't true or 2) barb didn't tell him to say that (even if that's not true/as in she like screens work calls and just wouldn't want them from an assistant lmfao). the fact that she does not say anything about this when she then immediately walks into the room and he tells her about the call would also suggest that this is an agreed upon thing/boundary barb has re: work that coop is aware of and respects, etc.

anyway. my point is idt it would seem weird at all to coop if barb didn't talk about work much at home. he wouldn't find this suspicious. in fact, he finds it very odd and unusual when she is wearing one of the pip-boys at home. this is New behavior from her. and i think vault-tec higher ups are basically directly responsible for the blurring of this line that occurs when barb enters coop's workplace not just as his wife but on behalf of vault tec. how she jokes about it being 'practically the family business'

i'm not saying this wasn't or couldn't be some sort of insidious behavior on barb's part (tho we know how i feel about villainizing barb/making her into some Big Bad manipulative bitch when absolutely nothing suggests that) to further ensnare coop into dealings w/vault-tec in hopes that perhaps he also would feel like he was in too deep to back out, but i don't think so. i think she was just pressured to deliver something that would guarantee her a spot in that management vault where her and her family would be safe.

but you can tell she's uncomfortable w/this. and that this is new for her too. but her work has become too personal to her now. her work directly affects the safety of her family, she can't not bring that home with her. she can't not let it infect her every waking thought. vault-tec is a disease and she's caught it.

[mobiused]

Abood @abood-gaza2 and his wife NEED you to save them. Proof they are vetted here. It costs ~$8000 to evacuate to Egypt and that number is increasing all the time due to sick people trying to capitalise on misfortune and chaos.

"I studied accounting, graduated with a high average, and worked in a chain of clothing stores that my father owned. But due to the unjust aggression, all our shops were destroyed, and we lost our source of livelihood and work completely. I was displaced from my home more than 10 times, each time trying to find a safe place, but there really is no safety here. Here we live death, fear, and loss at every moment. We love life and we always have ambitions and dreams that we hope to achieve and we are determined to achieve them as well."

Please help this beautiful family who are currently living in tents and facing a harsh and dangerous winter coming up evacuate as soon as they can, and read their story. They're 1/4 of a way to their goal. Get them closer, every little bit counts.