#he can convince andrew to come with him for the drive

[ninyard]

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one time andrew is having some problem with his car and mentions it to neil in front of matt and matt knows literally anything and everything to do with cars so he offers to take a look. he ends up knowing exactly what the problem is and how to fix it, so him and andrew spend a couple days over the course of a week doing different things for the car; going to a mechanic to order in parts, matt checks the whole thing over in case anything else needs a service, and then matt talks andrew through what exactly he’s doing to fix the problem. andrew’s loves cars but is less knowledgeable about the mechanics side of things, but he hangs on to every word that leaves matt’s mouth, in case it’s information he’ll need to use again. matt shows him how to do something and then gets him to try it. they fix it pretty quickly, and andrew thanks him by throwing him the keys for a couple hours afterwards and tells him it’ll never happen again. (he’s not entirely serious, but he does spend those few hours anxiously waiting for matt to come back)

[rafeandonlyrafe]

christmas stocking

words: 1.3k

warnings: established relationship, reader has really good relationship with parents, implied bad family situation for rafe, christmas celebrations

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“hey momma.” you say with a smile as you answer the phone, clicking it to speaker so you continue to work. 

“hi baby girl!” your moms voice rings out through the speaker. “did you figure out what time you're leaving?”

“looks like tomorrow at 10 am, then we should be to yours by dinner.” you hum, glancing at the clock while continuing to pack up. “oh, change of plans by the way. rafe is coming with me.” 

“oh yay!” your mom squeals. she only met rafe once when she came to visit you in the outer banks at your new house, but it was so early on in your relationship that she didn't really get to know him well, and things are a lot more serious now. “i can't wait to have my babies home for christmas.”

“does that mean andrew will be able to make it?” you ask, inquiring about your brother.

“they'll be here, but leaving the day after christmas for his wife's family.” 

“okay, that sounds good. itll be nice to have the four of us back together, plus rafe and diana.” you hum. ever since your brother went away for college when he turned 18, and you left two short years after to move to the outer banks, it was hard to get the whole family together, even for the holidays. you spent the last two christmases in the outer banks, one spent alone in your new house, the other with the camerons.

you were shocked by how different their christmas was than what you were used to. it was cold and devoid of any traditions besides what was seemingly forced on the kids of the family. you ultimately had a good time with rafe, but you missed the familiarity and fun that you had with your family. 

rafe was originally going to stay in the outer banks, not wanting to intrude on your family, but you finally convinced him last night that everyone would be happy to have him.

“okay so tell me about what i can get for rafe.” your mom says, and you just know she's bent over the counter with a notepad and pen in hand, not wanting rafe to be left out of opening presents.

--

“ready to go rafey?” you ask, looking at the back of the car, trunk filled with your suitcases, while the back seat has already wrapped presents, both for your family and ones for rafe, as well as his for you.

“i am. last chance to say if you forgot something.”

“nope.” you shake your head, “ive gone over my checklist three different times.”

“alright, off to your parents then.” rafe says, leaning over and pressing a kiss to your lips before taking off down the road.

--

“can we stop? i gotta pee.” you say, looking at the sign for an upcoming rest stop.

“again?” rafe sighs, but there's a small smile gracing his features as he turns the indicator on, pulling off to the road stop.

you hop out of the car, but rafe follows right behind you, not letting you go in by yourself, always extra cautious when you're out in public, especially away from the outer banks. 

“gonna get us snacks.” rafe says, keeping his eye on you as you head into the bathroom, only turning to the vending machines when you disappear behind the tile wall. 

--

“hey baby.” rafe says softly, stroking over your thigh to wake you up. “we're almost there.”

you stretch with a yawn, rubbing at your tired eyes. you blink them open, realizing the roads are now familiar, about to pull off the highway at your home town exit.

“thanks for driving, rafey.” you say, leaning over the center console to give him a kiss on the cheek. you clean up the car a bit while he finishes the drive, gathering up the wrappers of the chips and snacks and shoving them into a bag to throw away later.

“im so excited.” you say as rafe turns down your road, and your parents house comes into view.

“i can’t wait to get to know them.” rafe says, pulling into the driveway. you can’t help the squeal you let out in excitement as you rush out as soon as the car is in park, briefly turning your head to make sure rafe is following you as you step onto the porch, not bothering to know before flinging open the door, knowing that your parents are no doubt waiting right inside for you.

“mom! dad!” you shout, jumping into their arms as they swallow you into a comforting hug. you press a kiss to both of their cheeks before turning to rafe.

“i brought these for you.” rafe sticks forward his hand, in it a bouquet of flowers, presenting them to your mother.

“oh, rafe, darling you shouldn’t have.” your mom coos, pulling rafe into a hug before rushing into the kitchen to place the flowers into a vase. rafe gives your dad a firm handshake before offering to help carry in your bags.

you smile and look out the door as they chat casually, happy that rafe seems to be fitting in instantly.

--

“its just so different.” rafe says softly, stroking his hand absentmindedly over your back as you’re curled up next to him on the couch.

“what do you mean?” you hum, pressing your lips against his shoulder, even though you can guess what he’s talking about.

“your family is just so… easy going. and you all get along so well.” rafe says, looking around the living room at your parents sharing a couch, and your brother and his wife sitting in matching armchairs, all chatting happily amongst themselves.

“im lucky to have such an amazing family.” you say, looking to rafe. “and that you’re a part of it.” “i dont want to intrude though, baby. so if you have any traditions you want to be just amongst your-” “shh.” you cut rafe off, a smile on your face. “we all want you here. my mom was so excited when i told her you were coming. you love me right?” you ask, which rafe of course nods. “and we are planning to be together forever right? so of course my family is going to want you around, to include you in our traditions.” “sorry, dears, i couldn't help but overhear.” your mom says with a slightly blush to her cheeks. “forgive me for eavesdropping, but i actually have a gift for you rafe.”

rafe begins to say that he doesn’t need any gifts, but your mom cuts him off with a quick stern look, one he’s seen in you many times.

your mom returns to the room with a small wrapped box in her hands.

“thank you.” rafe says sincerely, setting the box on his lap. you smile, already knowing what is inside, seeing it before when andrew first brought diana to christmas celebrations.

rafe opens the box carefully, attempting not to rip the paper and make a mess, aware of the eyes on him.

“a christmas stocking.” rafe says with a smile as he pulls it out. you wait for him to notice, and you can tell from his body language the second his eyes read over his own name, hand stitched by your mother, signifying rafes place in the family. he tenses for a second before melting completely, body slumping against yours.

you wrap your arms around rafe, knowing this is an emotional moment for him, his moment where he realizes how loved and accepted he is.

“we are so happy you’re a part of our family, rafe.” your mom says, accepting his hug when he stands to embrace her and thank her for the gift, looking to the mantelpiece with all of the family stockings hanging, where his will soon join.

your dad strikes up a conversation with andrew, and you know its to take some of the pressure and attention off rafe as he ducks his head into your neck, pressing soft kisses to the skin there.

“i told you you wouldn’t be intruding.” you whisper, running your fingers through his hair.

“yeah, yeah.” rafe says sarcastically. “you’re right.” you give him a look, before he concedes with a nod. “as always.”

[omgthatdress]

Everything I know about the royals comes from Tumblr memes and one bonus episode of a totally unrelated podcast but now I'm morbidly curious, so: what's up with William? And the Middletons? Or if that's a longer story than you want to explain, do you have recommendations for where to read about this that is likely to be fairly accurate?

I don't have any facts I just have pure fucking speculation if that's okay. :)

Like I've been saying for a long-ass time the one thing I absolutely LOVED about The Crown was its portrayal of generational trauma. It very skillfully showed how being a shitty husband who cheats on his wife and treats his kids like garbage was passed down from Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark to Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh to King Charles and then to Prince William. Hell, it probably started long before that but holy shit THE CYCLE OF DYSFUNCTION AND ABUSE BE REPEATING ITSELF.

And if you really want to dig into it, well.... I think he and Harry followed a pattern that a LOT of siblings of bitter and messy divorce fall into, one kid sides with the mom, one with the dad. It's been said a LOT that Harry was Diana's favorite son, so it probably started with that. And OF COURSE William is gonna side with Charles because well... he's the heir. They have that shared trauma.

And then there's the way the whole "heir and spare" thing absolutely perverts any relationship they might have had as brothers. Charles managed to have a decent relationship with his siblings, I think, because first of all, Anne was a girl, and then Andrew and Edward were significantly younger than him and Anne, so there wasn't this unnaturally massive imbalance of power between them. One of the reasons I've come to believe the monarchy should be abolished is because of how badly it damages the structure of a family in a way that no one should have to deal with.

I think Diana might have been able to guide William into being a better person if she'd have lived, but idk. It may be wishful thinking. His relationship with her became kind of strained when he was a teenager and she was going on TV to tell the whole fucking world about her sex life. I think Diana did the right thing exposing the family like she did, but I can also understand how a 13 year old boy would be absolutely humiliated by that.

THEN there's the whole way he was a MASSIVE heartthrob as a teenager, and was intensely sexualized for it. Like it will absolutely mess with you when you have girls screaming and throwing themselves at you when you're still trying to figure your own sexuality out. It will also massively inflate your ego and convince you that the whole world loves you and there's nothing you can do wrong.

SOOOOOO

as for his relationship with Kate. She's much harder to pin down because she hasn't spent her entire fucking life in the spotlight, and the Middletons are sill granted a certain degree of privacy that the Windsors aren't. I don't think they're as absolutely fucked up as Diana's family was but I still definitely think her mom was a major driving force behind her staying with William.

I think there actually was some initial mutual attraction and that they may have even actually been in love. Buuuut then he waited ten years to propose to her, during which he cheated and they broke up and got back together. Honestly, I don't know what Kate's damage was with all of that, whether or not she was able to convince herself that William wouldn't be another shitty husband, or if she was willing to put up with his bullshit if it meant she would be queen.

Diana was more or less picked out as a bride for Charles because it was assumed that she would be a meek and beautiful wifey who never caused any problems. I mean, she was 19 and he was 32 for fuck's sake. She very much wanted to be queen. BUT what everyone wasn't counting on was that Diana would *gasp* have some serious emotional needs. She was deeply traumatized by her own parents' incredibly bitter divorce, overwhelmed and deeply lonely in her position as princess, and on top of that, suffering from bulimia and then post-natal depression. She needed love and support and Charles spent the whole marriage balls deep in Camilla.

Kate had a much more stable upbringing and had more than a few months to get to know both William and what her role as a princess would be. Ultimately, the vibe I get from her is that she's willing to be the perfect meek beautiful wifey who puts up with William's bullshit if it means she can be royal, which is exactly what Diana was supposed to be.

And I don't mean that to knock or belittle her. She's good at it. She looks incredibly happy when she's doing that. It's her career. It's an exchange I can actually really understand making, especially when your only other prospects involved working for your parents' party company.

But I could be extremely wrong about all of this Maybe she's absolutely miserable but she feels like she has no other options and worried about losing her kids and is terrified of what happened to Diana. It's hard to know, and I wish The Crown would have at least committed to *something* rather than just brushing all of this off.

[so-ithinkicandance]

Andrew!Peter Parker x GN Reader General Dating Headcanons

Andrew!Spidey is quite possibly the kindest, goofiest, and most in love man there is, and he isn't afraid to show it. He actually gives you all of his heart and soul till he understands why he loves you so much more than anything this pitiful world could ever attempt to convince him.

He hasn't always had a very positive view of himself or of who he is, but there you are. And you simply make him want to cry because you are basically the embodiment of everything the goodness, kindness, and hope he has ever attempted to discover in himself.

It comes as a shock when he reveals that he is Spider-Man, but you didn’t run or hide. He's glad he told you since he always disliked lying to you and keeping it a secret. He made a commitment to never withhold anything else from you after telling and telling you everything.

Sure, he's guarding you, but he's also afraid you might suffer harm as a result of him. In fact, it almost caused the two of you to split up earlier in the relationship since he took the blame for jeopardising your safety. You never once placed the blame on him and you were quick to forgive him, but you had to help him learn how to forgive himself. You have to tell him that you're a team and that it's alright to move on and forgive himself because he carries the weight of the world on his wide shoulders.

You are frightened the first time he carries you across New York because, in addition to thinking you will be too heavy for him to carry, you are also terrified of the idea. He reassures you, reminding you of his strength, that he can carry you and that he won't let go. You hardly open your eyes to look the entire time, clinging to him, but you make it! The entire time, he gives you comfort by assuring you that he has you and will keep you safe—and he does.

Aunt May adores you very much. She notices your kindness and can tell Peter loves you just by looking at him. You are always invited whenever she extends an invitation to Peter to visit. Peter makes fun of the fact that Aunt May prefers you to him.

Aunt May likes to share all the embarrassing tales with you and gossip with you about how Peter was as a young lad.

He is impulsive and will take you on a picnic on top of a building in the centre of the city while taking you on a swing through New York. He will visit you at work during your lunch break and drive you to a location with a nicer view than the staff area where you can eat your meal.

The two of you have so much fun together. He’s your best friend and that means that you can authentically be your silliest selves around the other without a care or without judgement. You dance around the kitchen singing your Elvis impressions full pelt, you play hide and seek in pretty much every large department store you visit because why not? There’s just so much laughter in your relationship with Peter and you adore it.

Peter isn't embarrassed to display his sensitive or helpless side to you. He's had nightmares about his parents, Uncle Ben, or the horrors of villains he's battled many times, and you're the one who comforts him by enveloping him in blankets, bringing him tea, and giving him temple kisses. You assist him in processing all of the trauma that he puts himself through.

Sometimes, particularly when he’s having those nightmares or going through a rough patch, you need to remind him to take care of himself. You’re the one who makes the meals and almost forces the plate into his hand to eat it instead of eating processed junk. You’re the one who gets in the shower with him, scrubbing the grime, dirt and blood of him, washing his hair and leaving little kisses on his collarbone. You’re the one who always packs a water bottle and snacks in his backpack for when he’s going out on patrol just so you know that he’s got something to eat and drink.

His computer background and phone background are photos of you. The one on his phone is a candid photo of you laughing that you hate but he loves because he loves that smile of yours. His computer background is a photo of the two of you at one of your family members weddings.

Peter always kind of knew that he wanted to marry you. After one and a half years of dating, Aunt May gives Peter his mother’s old engagement ring. It’s simple but beautiful and it holds a lot of meaning. Peter carries it with him, he’s not sure when he’ll ask you but he carries it with him every single day just waiting for the right moment.

Peter always know what to say to make you weak at the knees. It’s like he has a bank of the most beautiful things to say to make you giggle and blush like a teenager.

He enjoys kissing you. He kisses you on your lips, tummy, shoulder, neck, wrists, and knuckles in addition to your forehead, temple, and nose. If he had the slightest chance, he would kiss you nonstop. He simply enjoys kissing you.

He has a cocoa, coffee, and earthy scent. The chocolate is normally a snack from his backpack that you've packed, and the woodsy aroma comes from how much he enjoys being outside and learning about nature. He typically consumes coffee continuously to stay awake throughout the long evenings.

He is not reluctant to publicly declare his love for you. He never fails to hold your hand, give you a hug, or declare his love for you in the middle of the street. He would practically serenade you until you asked him to stop if it bothered you.

He’s very chill, he’s very low pressure so if you’re not feeling up to doing something, he doesn’t mind. He wants you to be comfortable so however he can help and whatever he can do to make you comfortable, he’ll do it. He doesn’t make you feel bad for it either.

Peter celebrates every single win with you no matter how big or small. He’s so proud of you and just wants you to know that so even if it’s something simple like you managed to figure out something in work or you managed to nail the recipe for those cookies that you’d been trying to perfect all week, he’ll celebrate and be so proud of you.

You are the one who gives him a massage and helps him shower after a difficult argument. You'll take care of him, tend to his injuries, and make sure he's both psychologically and physically healthy.

He makes you feel like the sexiest and most beautiful person alive. He could compliment you for hours as he looks into your eyes. He kisses you with so much passion that it makes you forget about everything. He worships you and your body, kissing you everywhere. He would spend hours making you feel good, making you orgasm over and over before he even thought about pleasuring himself. Sometimes, maybe after a hard fight, he’s rougher and more desperate, skipping the foreplay and just desperate to feel you. Most often though, he takes his time, teasing you and praising you. He makes you feel so unbelievably good, better than you ever thought you could feel.

He’s taller than you so the height difference when hugging him standing up is just *chefs kiss*. It also means that he can reach for the stuff you can’t get because you’re too short.

He has so many nicknames for you. He makes a new nickname or pet name up every day pretty much. Some are funny, some are cute and some can never hear the light of day again.

You sleep wrapped around each other, cuddled right into each other’s skin. He loves sleeping with your head on his chest, it makes him feel like he’s protecting you and keeping you safe. He also enjoys being the little spoon. He’s versatile.

You want to take his clothes, but since he's a really lean guy, he buys sweatshirts in a larger size and wears them before giving them to you. This way, the sweatshirts are not just the right size for you but also smell exactly like him. He never once criticizes you for your weight, shape, or size; in fact, he gives you compliments.

[safficranger]

Fake Scenarios In My Head #18

(Can be read as sequel to FS#13)

Their case has hit a wall; a neighbor of the perpetrator provided a last-minute alibi for him. Alex is convinced the neighbor is lying, but she can't prove it or understand why he would lie for someone he barely knows. For hours, she sits in her office with Olivia, papers strewn across the little coffee table, couch, and desk, combing through every piece of evidence, searching for the key to cracking the case.

Alex's assistant knocks on the open office door to get her attention. He wears a huge smile and hands her a small package with Alex's name neatly written on it in delicate handwriting. "The delivery guy just dropped this off for you."

She gets up from her desk, thankful to stretch her legs for a bit, and curiously takes the package from him. "Thanks, Andrew."

"Any progress with the witness?"

"No, not yet," Alex sighs. "Any other calls for me?"

"Nothing I couldn't handle."

"What would I do without you?"

"Drown in paperwork, probably," Andrew chuckles. "Can I do anything else? Maybe get you a coffee?"

"That would be amazing. I could really use a break," Olivia interjects.

"Coming right up."

Olivia stands up, stretching her muscles and groaning in pain. "I'm too old for this," she jokes and Alex just laughs in response.

"So... what have you got there, Counselor? I assume it's not related to our case," Olivia asks, pointing to the package.

"I'm afraid this won't help," Alex replies, grinning as she obviously recognizes the handwriting.

"So, you don't want to open it?"

"Aren't you curious, Detective?" Alex laughs.

"To be honest, I am. Kind of comes with the job, you know," Olivia shrugs. "And I could really use some distraction here."

Alex nods in understanding. She unwraps the package, revealing an elegant black box with a brand name embossed in shiny silver. She runs her fingers over the smooth surface, tracing the letters with a barely hidden smile before carefully opening the lid. The inside is lined with black velvet, and a single beautiful flower blossom sits within, the brightly colored petals contrasting the velvet beautifully.

Olivia furrows her brows. "Flowers?"

"A Flower Detective. Singular," Alex quips. "A Strelitzia blossom to be exact."

"Stre... ok yeah... Still... a pretty unusual way to deliver a flower," Olivia remarks.

Alex shakes her head, smiling. "If it were only the flower, I would agree." With that, she lifts the flower, and Olivia spots a beautiful silver necklace nestled inside the velvet bed. The necklace is a cascade of silver spheres, gradually increasing and then decreasing in size, a delicate chain threaded through them to create a fluid cascading effect.

"Wow," she exclaims. "That's beautiful, Alex."

"It really is," Alex says quietly, her voice suddenly full of emotion as her eyes wander from the necklace back to the flower in her hand. Her fingers delicately trace the intricate design of the necklace, and she can’t help but smile at the thoughtfulness behind the gift.

"Who sent it, Alex? Is there a card? Does the flower mean anything to you?" Olivia's curiosity is piqued, and she leans in closer, eager for details.

"Yes, the flower means something to me." She smiles lovingly, slowly twirling the flower between her fingers. "No need for a card. I know who sent it."

"Oh... okay," Olivia says, drawing out the words to give Alex the opportunity to elaborate, but she stays silent.

"So... do you want me to help you put it on?"

"Not now. I'll save it for a special occasion."

"Got something particular in mind? A hot date, maybe?" Olivia teases.

Alex places the flower back in the box and closes the lid with a grin. "Maybe..."

Olivia leans forward, clearly not satisfied with the vague answer. "Alex, come on. Give me something to work with. Who's the mystery person? Is it someone I know?"

Alex chuckles, shaking her head. “Wouldn't you like to know.”

“Do they by any chance drive a Mercedes?”

"Nice try, Detective," Alex replies, her tone light but firm, a small smile on her lips. “Can we please drop the subject now?” She leans back, crossing her arms, clearly not planning to give anything away. There's a playful glint in her eyes, showing she’s more amused than annoyed by Olivia’s questioning.

Olivia sighs dramatically, throwing her hands up in mock defeat. "Fine, keep your secrets. But don't think for a second I'm done with this.”

Before Alex can respond, Andrew returns, balancing a tray with three steaming cups of coffee. "Here you go, ladies. Freshly brewed and just what you need."

"Thanks, Andrew," Alex says, gratefully accepting her cup.

"You're a lifesaver," Olivia adds, taking a sip and closing her eyes in appreciation. "Perfect timing, too. I was just about to resort to interrogation tactics."

Andrew gives Alex a questioning look, but she just waves it off.

“Anything else I can do for you?” he asks.

“No, we’re good for now, Andrew.”

As he leaves, Olivia gives Alex a knowing look. "This isn't over, Counselor. I'll be watching you."

Alex just laughs, raising her coffee cup in a mock toast. "To mysteries and the detectives who love them."

Olivia clinks her cup against Alex's, grinning. "I'll drink to that."

Thank you @hg-mills for inspiration

[dayurno]

how do you think kevin deals with the fact that andrew and neil reek of cigarettes. i feel like he would take away kissing privileges unless they quit honestly. and change your clothes before coming into bed with me thanks. and brush your teeth as soon as you are done smoking please. i feel like he would be very effective at getting them to quit.

i think well (thinks hard on it as someone whose most kissing experience comes from kissing smokers) i think he would be reluctantly acceptant... there is only so much he can do you know! but yes i agree he would draw the line at stinky smoke clothes in his bed. kevin is i think, if you can believe it, a lot more willing to tolerate this kind of thing for andreil than he is for anyone else, so along the years he'd eventually start mellowing out a little. i do believe he'd have an easier time convincing them to quit by mentioning 2nd hand smoke + the fact they might actually give him breathing issues if they keep it up. if that's not what gets andrew (and similarly, neil) then my only other guess is that when aaron and katelyn have their twins andrew immediately swears off cigarettes.

i think neil officially stops after he graduates because he wants to focus on his professional career, but andrew is a bad influence and neil would smoke with him on occasion, which would drive kevin up the wall :)

[thedivinevera]

XANTHUS NSFW

ALPHABET

Xanthus x reader, Xanthus x fem!reader, Xanthus x afab!reader, vampire x reader, zsakuva! Character x reader

!NSFW ALPHABET!, Vampire x human, established relationship, p and v smut

Tw; NSFW, dirty, dirty, dirty, mention of toys, Nsfw alphabet, wrong spellings, bad writing (seriously)

Xanthus Nsfw alphabet, from a to z all of the sin and disturbingly detailed NSFW information using my bad writing and sleep deprived mind 🥹🥹, live, laugh, love Xanthus

A/n there is no Nsfw audio for Xanthus not like Luca, Andrew and kayson 😔😔✊, i've had like pending series for xanthus and planning to repost my works in Tumblr from my Wattpad which are all zsakuva characters

A= Aftercare (what they’re like after the act)

A 10/10 would fix a bath with you and would cook food or snacks, he's a vampire so even how many rounds you both had done he still has some energy to take care of you, while you had all of her body parts shaking from pleasure and guts rearrange

B= Body part (favorite body part their own or their lovers)

Your neck and lips. Love to take blood on your neck and also love to take kisses. You can make him thirst home by your neck and give him life by your lips. For his, he loves his hand because they're handy ahahhah

C= Cum (anything that has to do with it)

Wants his to be deep in your inside, as a vampire he doest have to worry about you getting pregnant because he's a vampire, he's dead. Dead cannot give birth to another life. If it's yours then he wants it in his mouth. Like your blood, he also loves your white fluids is just as delicious as your blood is

D= Dirty secret (Pretty self-explanatory)

Wants to have a little predator x prey roleplay, you know like he would hunt you as his little prey then you need to hide and he would catch you and would fuck you brainless while he takes blood from you also like to see you depends on him, would love to see you cry and asked him to make you cum. Xanthus secretly loves it when you're dependable to him it gives him power and reassurance

E= Experience (do they know what they’re doing)

Has enough, and probably already tries a decent amount of kink to pleasure you, most of them are just loveless sex nothing more or if there's feeling involved it's something he convinces himself is true, but being with you is everything. Sex with you is like the first sex he's been so passionate, so eager. He always had control over himself when it comes to intercourse but he can't control himself to you, to not just take you right there and here

F= Favorite position

Missionary, cowgirl, and spooning, so he can see your face and have good access to your neck, his favorite is missionary it's the default but to have the privilege to see your face while he fucking you and to also have good access to your neck is such a jackpot for him

G= Goofy (how serious are they)

Very serious when he's trusting to you but once you both finish would catch some hideous jokes and dirty ones that you need to cover your face up, probably joke about how he would pay so much to feel you again and if you're a stripper he would definitely pay a lot just to fuck you. If you like to joke in bed you would get silenced after some deep hard thrust

H= Hair (grooming habits)

The carpet matches the drapes and also it's not shaved bald just long trims you can still see his pubes around the cock it's not that long it's short. He trims quite often, more when he knew that your sex drive is sex driving again

I= Intimacy (in the moment romantic or rough/dirty)

Combination of romantic with roughness I cannot really see Xanthus calling you names mostly because he thinks sex as a very special thing and he cherishes you very well to even dare to call you that also there are some chance that Dontis is probably listening you both, and don't want to get teased again

J= Jack off (do they masturbate and how often)

He didn't do it often, he has a full control to himself and i also doubt that this old man has a high sex drive after all this years and centuries but to be honest he can be easily aroused by you just because it's you

K= Kink (kinks what they like possibly unusual)

This old man is a vanilla with a high strength and stamina, loves to keep it romantic, just kisses and good ol basic ( a/n there's nothing wrong with vanilla sex it's enjoyable as a more flavored one) but he likes to tie you up also like possessive sex, when he get jealous he loves to fix it with sex unless it's a big thing but if it's just some little jealousy then yes. Mostly you're the one who try the kink since he already experienced it

L= Location (where they like to get it on)

In his bed or couch. Just like i said he likes to keep it romantic and everything so i doubt that he likes doing voyeurism

M= Motivation (things that makes them tick/turn ons)

Everything that you do that look very sexual or when you look innocent (reference to the "whiskey") gives him the urge of corruption

N= No (turnoffs or absolutely won’t do)

Hurting you like i mean the legit hurt where you can see some bruises in your skin also don't like threesomes or even letting someone touch you aka voyeurism. He's possessive and he knew that Sharing you would make him act aggressive

O= Oral (receiving or giving and how skillful they are)

By receiving, he wouldn't deny it, he likes it when you suck him under his desk and his eyes roll back because of pleasure and head and back laying down to the leather chair while you choke in him. By giving his the best, just like what i said he likes your cum as much as he loves your blood and kisses. Would overstimulate you with his tongue and its not helping that he's so great at it. 100% would turn into a hungry man when you remove your panty and sit on his face or if you don't like to sit on his face and choke him with you weight then to damn bad he would force you to grind and sit comfortably to his face and would have his eyes look at you with lust and no he don't care if he can't breathe anymore he's already dead remember?

P= Pace (how fast they are and how long they last in bed)

Fast and rough with a little romantic sometimes he also like a slow and romantic pace really depends on what mood are you in

Q= Quickie (do they prefer fast and hard)

Love it sometimes, just sometimes. He loves it when you had a little quickie when he's busy in the gallery and cannot take care of your needs of course he cannot have any other creatures or anyone to satisfy you so he would do anything even making you cum in the private room on the gallery

R= Risk (do they like to try new things)

Would try if you want to try it, just doesn't like having a threesome, gangbang nor just a mention of anyone seeing your body but otherwise as long as you're comfortable then he's ready to cooperate

S= Stamina (how many times they can go and how long each round lasts)

So fucking long, i swear you never saw him being exhausted or tired after many rounds like hell you're already passing out and he still has his pace (a fast and rough thrust). Don't try to be nice and give him the permission to use you as much as he can because while you already pass out many times and wake up with him still thrusting inside you, he still has his pace on the same as the pace from the start

T= Toys (are they game for using sex toys on themselves or lovers)

Ho ho ho. I doubt that he likes using toys a lot i love tot think that xanthus is a boomer and doesn't know how to use technology that's why he prefer writing in a notebook and he just said that he likes writing more than typing because he don't want you to laugh at him for not knowing technology but yeah he would just probably use a little vibrator (which is he loves the effect but hate to use) and a dildo because it's a lot more easier for him (no technology nor buttons needed) after all he just need to pump it down your hole

U= Unfair (how do they tease or do they enjoy suspense themselves)

Sometimes he would tease you but he actually prefers you use him as your personal toy or something like that. Ride him or do everything he's ok with it. Just like what i said he already experienced a lot of kink by himself so he wants you to be the one who explore more so yes he likes to suspense himself you know so you can have more time to try things before he fills you up

V= Volume (are they loud, what sounds, and do they talk)

Sometime quite but sometimes would pant and moan occasionally but otherwise he's not really as loud, He prefers listening to your voice than his

W= Wild card (random sincannon of any sort)

Love it when you use him as a personal dildo he would just lay down to the bed while you bounce to him as much as your heart's content. Loves it when you get jealousy and try to please him by again bouncing on his cock and milking him while you had this coy smile, so innocent like you're not fucking your pussy down balls deep on his cock

X= X-ray (what’s down below in dem pants)

( Holding a ruler) 5 and half inches with a circumference of 2 and half when it's hard. It has a pinkish brown hue his head/ tip is pinkish

Y= Yearning (sexdrive level)

Probably lower than a normal he's already fucking old basically 500 years old ahahhah this grandpa already have his sex drive spend and turn to dust after all this years ahahaah

Z= Zzzz (do they sleep after if so how quickly after)

No, not really, you would but not him definitely he prefer to clean you while your sleeping so you don't feel uncomfortable also give you water or massage your muscles, he has a lot of energy despite all of this fucking and love making so it's not a surprise that he wouldn't sleep fast after you both are finished

Votes are appreciated

[y2ksnowglobe]

Deep appreciation for episode 30 (Van on the Run)

This is a long post where I just ramble on all the moments that make me love this episode.

The dethroning of fleshlight tag as the worst thing that anyone ever said.

The "Hey Andrew" story

Big old butt crack down the middle of the orb

Terry Jr. asking why Ron isn't wearing pants

"I'd better write that down as a note. Terry Jr., easy to lie to."

Lark literally taking a note about how unpaid interns die sometimes. (This turns into my firm belief that Mae Hailes is a paid intern)

Ron insisting Paeden is his half-brother. "My dad is my dad too!"

just gonna weep and tear my hair out real quick over that one.

Ron's insights on the patriarchy

"My stepson is here, and I am looking at him in the eye right now and it's not weird at all. It's not weird. We're just making eye contact right here." "It's a little weird. You have not blinked in several minutes." "Now it hurts to blink, so I'm not going to ever…" "That's not how it works. You have to blink." "No. It's like my eyes are getting…" "Dad, blink." Like what a way to start normalizing Terry Jr. calling Ron "Dad"

Sparrow's stealth hug

Just...starting to really see the dead inside Grant is both heartbreaking and really funny.

Nick's shaky fist bump makes me wanna cry.

I am always there for a good low perception roll joke.

Reveal that Ron just carries to lure that killed Willy around with him.

"Yeah! Your dad is George Washington!"

THEORY TIME: Like this episode is where we get most of our information about the kids' time in Ravenloft, and like...I don't buy it. Looking at how the kids phrase things, I've been solidly convinced that the O-Dads have Geas'ed the hell out of these kids so they can't give any specific details about what was done to them, but I feel like there's a loophole where they can talk about things that weren't done. So, for example: Nick specifies that Bill ignored him. I'll keep coming back to this as we keep going.

Weird detail: Darryl is with Glenn on the murder Henry's dad train at the start.

God I love to hate Barry Oak so much, he makes me skin crawl and he is in top form in this episode.

"I AM DRIVING WITH MY FRIENDS, FATHER! I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER!" It's such a teenager-y thing to say and I feel like it really gives a snapshot into what their relationship was like back in the day.

I really wanna get a snapshot into Nick's mind as he hears his dad completely lose his cool about Barry. Like, my boy did such a good job trying to act unbothered and brave, and then Glenn just is deeply and visibly upset about Barry almost killing him (which is valid, I just feel like it's a new experience for Nick)

Lark and Sparrow jumping in to drive when Henry lets go of the wheel. Like, not sure what happened with Sparrow, but Lark has been an epic driver from the get-go.

ANOTHER THEORY: Sparrow is really interesting in this episode. He willingly covers his ears when asked by Henry, and he's the one who hits the brakes when Henry tells them to stop the car. He's also just weirdly chill and forgiving, and like...I do not buy this as love wolf shit, he is clearly under some kind of magical influence to make him more compliant. You do not get the Sparrow that looks scared in the drone footage in episode 28 to this remarkably chill and forgiving kid without magical interference.

Freddie putting his foot down that Glenn would not mess with firearms while drunk

Barry's "Oh kakaw kakaw" when he's shot is probably in my top ten vocal stims from this show.

Lark enthusiastically supporting Glenn shooting Barry makes me so happy

Henry going from trying to be firm and calm as Glenn loses his shit, and immediately shifting to "ooooh, I hate you so much" as soon as Barry starts talking to him is so funny. Just all the ideals fly out the window.

Find it super interesting how Henry cites "respecting his choices" as a thing here considering what happens later on with the bracelets.

I both do and don't want to know if Anthony already had the idea for the Lark and Sparrow homunculi when Barry offers letting Henry take his kids and run and giving up all the other kids. Like regardless of whether or not it was planned, I do love the idea that Barry is giving this offer because he knows he's got the real ones tucked back in Oakvale.

I love the word abscond, okay?

Love Barry framing his failure as a father as disappointment in Henry's choices. I want to kick him in the face.

Mr. Mustache calling Ron "Honey"

"No. You just exasperatedly asked why a bunch of times. A.k.a. the Henry Oak special."

Geas theory follow up: Lark telling them they forgot to feed them fits into the loophole of being something the granddads didn't do, so they're allowed to mention it. Also this part of starting to hint at what exactly went down is so just *chefs kiss.*

Freddie's "WHY?" When Matt asks if Darryl can perceive that Ron peed his pants.

Freddie being told the charm needs to be in an enclosed space and immediately going "What if we had an umbrella?"

Freddie picking the first audio result for Fantasy Tavern for the sound.

"Bring us your hottest moms!"

This next bit always slays me and I don't even know why:

The jokes about the level one adventurer group is beautiful. I hope things turned out okay for that fighter and four rogues.

Henry making up Mr. X only for Mr. X to be real.

Ron thoroughly describing the fake voice he's going to do, only to reveal it's just his normal voice.

Ron's whole exchange with the other rogues.

Henry describing Glenn's fantasy voice as Italian

Anthony trying to keep up with what the crew are trying to do as they're attempting to get a room.

Also, everything is in shillings now for no adequately explained reason?

The random bar patrons who are gonna be so disappointed when they make it to the other side of town to find out that Hi I'm Ron is not playing.

The start of the NPCs realizing they could have asked for more money gag.

Glenn almost going to see what's up with Mr. X but then getting bored.

Anthony doing a C3P0 impression

Geas Theory update: Grant phrases it as "they weren't nice" and the most detail we get from Grant is that "Willy's really mean" only for him to then say, "It was fine, I guess." Terry tops out at saying that Willy "shouted at them a fair number of times" and that's as intense as any of their descriptions get. Like this is sus as heck. Especially since at minimum, we know that Lark and Sparrow got homunclui'd and that somehow, Barry got the twins to sit quietly. The boys are underselling this and the only one that would be in character for would be like...Nick (who we already saw was super shaky). Darryl even prompts Grant saying it's okay if it was rough and they were scared and we still get no further information.

Ron's scary story is so good for so many reasons. Like the way he tries to make it spookier by making Willy a man with a fishingpole for an arm, by calling fish "food that breathes underwater" like that mixed with the realization that he's telling the story of how Willy died is just...an excellent combo of scary and not scary and it's just a baffling bunch of weird that is pure Ron.

Terry being baffled by Ron asking if they want to sing Rock-a-bye Baby, only for it to turn out Ron doesn't know the words.

"You find more knives than not knife in his pants."

The fact that Lark was smuggling knives for a breakout attempt is just so lovely, go off my murderous little weirdo.

Also seeing Henry taking weapons from his kids knowing where this ends up is just (collapses into a ball of sad)

Henry deflecting from the werewolf questions by just switching to the topic of puberty, only for Sparrow to be too receptive to wanting to learn.

Darryl overhearing Paeden saying that Grant's dad is cool only for Grant to not say anything in response.

"Did Ron kill his dad?"

Seeing Darryl be actually upset about the fact that he's the only one who'd want to see his dad, but his dad's not there. And seeing Darryl actually grapple with the idea that he doesn't understand Glenn, Henry, and Ron's relationships with their dads, and like the weird feeling of not being able to relate being isolating, but still realizing it's an isolation you should be thankful for.

Ghost football ft. George Washington and one of his slaves

"Dude, that was the entire snarling id of the American masculine psyche in one image…It was like football, George Washington, your dad, and the Sword of Damocles that is slavery."

Glenn in the dream space

Bill Close calling Glenn tiger is just like such a small detail but it's like one of those moments that we really can actually see him being a dad, I think?

The gut punch of "Do you love me?" and "You wake up." like God DAMN!!!!!

Like this episode is such a buffet of character dynamics, and jokes, and lore, and room for theories, and I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!! WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO REALIZE IT'S MY FAVORITE????????

[final-boy]

haissgisheishue sorry this is so random but I remember you made this fnaf au like a year ago in the summer I think?? And it was something along the lines of Michael going outside instead of Charlie and he gets killed by William and I think he possessed foxy I can’t find the actual art so I don’t know for sure BUT. Im curious to hear more about that au. Like give us the lore behind it WHAT HAPPENED (if that’s ok with you ofc)

Dead Mike AU!! Cuz i never gave it like an actual name lmfoaidnsakll ill be honest i never ended up developing it a BUNCH but basically what would have been like the first chapter or so if it were a fic wpuld be (with like the BIGGEST of help from @/peariandpine figuring half of it out with me lmfao :

- Party of 83 happens like canon, Mike is bullying his little brother and CCs head is crushed - this au would also be going off the idea of CC being the protag of fnaf4 so hed be in the hospital

- this causes a bigger rift between Michael and his dad ofc and i wanna say the fourth night is when the catalyst of it all happened

- Michael, after another fight with his dad refuses to go to the hospital alongside him after work , preferring to just go on his own later > Charlie gives him his jacket

- William leaves the hospital more annoyed and amgry than he was before because he had still expected Michael to come at some point anyway AND because thru his preexisting jealousy of Henry is angry at the man for trying to console him - he takes it as an insult esp since Henry has never lost a child and has two (sammys here btw lol) perfectly alive, healthy kids

- as hes going home, stewing in that anger and jealousy he sees who he thinks is Charlie walking alongside the road and begins to pull over already thinking of killing the girl only to be met with Michael

> he demands Michael get inside the car, Micheal refuses and William steps out to try and get him in - some nasty words are exchanged and William gets,,violent

- Michael panics and runs into the nearby woods , getring slowed down by the jacket snagging, eventually throwing it off to the side

- unfortunately, for him he hesitates upon coming across a river and that gives William more than enough time to catch up

- William, again just absolutely angry and hopped on adrenaline (and a lot of his own self hatred bubbling to the surface) starts taking his frustrations out on Michael - hes not thinking clearly at all and with Michael looking SO MUCH like him it really is not helping him out until...Michael goes silent after Williams dunked his head in the water

- Michaels not responding and now Williams starting to come back to reality and begins to panic, realizing exactly what hes just done - Charlies death, while it still would have been a very on the spot thing, would not have been as messily executed and , in Williams mind, would have had a purpose

- he then tries to convince himself that this is okay actually because michael killed his other son so really this was punishment.....only for CC to Live in this version

- Michael here would actually be taking a page from Andrews book and attach himself to Williams soul instead of any one specific animatronic - since Foxy has always been his favorite tho he does tend to mess eith it more when in Freddys and manifests himself throigh its image when messing with William

- this drives William ro try and get Michael back somehow, whichever way he possibly can to absolve himself of this, to put things back together again,,,

- this au would have also led to Charlie, Sammy, Liz, and to a smaller extent Evan, trying to find Michael after his "disappreance "

- this would also just be a huge more psychological horror on Williams end tbh 😭 i dont think ALL of the things happening and supernatural occurences would be because of Mike - Will is severely paranoid, hes not in the right state of mind at all, and i think hes kinda managed to create his own personal agony monster

For awhile i was considering having Mike possibly not have even possessed ANYTHING and would have left it as purely Williams own descent to madness

[karatekels]

Silver Seduction - Part 2

Okay okay okay, I lied – this is going to be a 3-parter, but I’m almost done the last part, I promise! Because of the way the request was worded, I wasn’t sure if the person who submitted the prompt wanted it to be a darker encounter (Terry taking the reader against her will), so I settled for something on the edge of dubious consent. If that is not something you are comfortable reading, PLEASE stop now! (Part 1 | Part 3)

Tw: Dubious consent; Kidnapping

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“I promise, I’m all healed up, and Mr. Miyagi has really been putting me through it with his training! I know I can beat Barnes at the tournament!” Daniel explains confidently, practicing his crane kick as he balances on the log you’re sitting on. You’re at the beach, trying to relax after the events of a couple days ago, but it isn’t working.

Still, you smile up at him, but inside you feel terrible. While you had also fallen for Terry’s lies, you couldn’t help but feel guilty, like you’d been an accomplice in his plan to hurt Danny. You’d been beating yourself up since everything had happened, feeling so stupid for letting yourself be tricked.

“I’m sure you’ll be great, Danny,” you say absent-mindedly, your chin resting on your hands. Daniel leaps off the piece of driftwood and on to the sand, coming to stand in front of you.

“Hey, are you okay, Y/N?” he asks, and you look up at him, his eyes shining with concern. “I promise, I’m not gonna let Mr. Silver anywhere near you, okay?”

You nod at him, smiling in a way you hope his convincing – the boy needed a boost to his confidence – but you aren’t so sure. The way that Terry seemed to have organized everything scared you. How could one person put together such a messed up scheme? Ugh, you were sick of spending all of your time and energy thinking about what had happened, and decided that enough was enough.

“Okay, Danny,” you agree, standing up and giving him a friendly hug. He squeezes you extra tight, and as you look over his shoulder, you think you see someone standing in the distance. You blink, and there’s no one there. It must have just been the waves reflecting the setting sun, you reason, and shake your head, looking back at Daniel. “We should celebrate your upcoming win!” you say enthusiastically, gesturing to the ice cream shop just down the boardwalk. “Ice cream?” you suggest, and he nods, and the two of you start to head down the beach together.

“Oh, hang on, I forgot my bag!” you say, “head on over, they’re going to close soon. I’ll catch up!” You return to grab your tote bag, slinging it over your shoulder, and cut across the beach to get to the boardwalk more quickly.

Suddenly, you feel a tingle down your spine, and you can feel eyes on you. Glancing over your shoulder in your peripheral vision, you see three figures following you at a distance. Panicking, you speed up, reaching the sidewalk quickly and feeling safer. Nothing was going to happen to you with witnesses and people driving around, right?”

“Hey, Andrews,” calls one of the men from behind you, and you turn automatically.

It was Mike Barnes, flanked by two other boys you didn’t recognize. You freeze.

“What the hell do you want?” you demand, trying not to let your fear show. Had they been watching you and Daniel? For how long? And why?

“Mr. Silver needs to talk to you,” Barnes says nonchalantly, his arms crossed. He looks like he doesn’t really want to be here, like he’s passing on the message because he was told to. The boy was the same age as Daniel, he was too young to be some lunatic’s errand boy. Did Terry had the nerve to bully some kid into sending her a message? You feel yourself suddenly getting angry, upset that Silver seemed to be meddling in the lives of every boy in the valley.

“Oh, does he?” you say angrily, fists clenched. “Well I believe I told Mr. Silver to stay the hell away from me, so beat it!”

Barnes sighs deeply, a regretful frown twisting his face. He looks resigned, turning to each of the boys beside him and nodding towards you. The immediately crack their knuckles and walk towards you, quickly closing the distance. You step back, and turn to run, but before you can your arms are grabbed and you’re dragged to the curb. You hear tires screech to a sudden stop nearby, and before you can scream, the door to a dark limousine is opened and you find yourself thrown inside, landing on someone’s lap. You try to lunge for the door, but the car takes off, knocking you off balance, so you settle for scrambling off of the person you’re sat on and dive into the other seat, turning to face your abductor.

“Hello, Y/N,” Terry says cordially, exhaling cigar smoke out the partially-opened window to his left. “Have a fun beach day?” he asks innocently.

“T-Terry?” you stammer, mouth dry. “Were you spying on us?” you ask incredulously, and his eyes darken, an angry expression flitting across his face. He takes another puff of his cigar, and by the time the smoke clears, his face is devoid of emotion once more.

“Maybe,” he says, casually. “I gotta tell you though, Y/N, I didn’t take you for the kind of girl who would go after a younger guy.” You bark out a humourless laugh – this guy must be really insecure if he was threatened by you hugging a friend.

“What are you talking about? I gave Daniel a hug, because he was trying to make me feel better about what you did to us!” you exclaim, before you make a sudden realization. “Oh my God, Daniel! He’s going to be looking for me! Let me out!” you demand, lunging for the door, but Terry blocks you with an arm, reaching across the limo for a bottle of champagne, effectively blocking your exit.

“Drink?” he asks calmly, as if he hasn’t just kidnapped you from a busy public boardwalk.

“Are you crazy?” you shout, utterly baffled by how calm he’s being, but he looks at you, waiting for you to answer his question. “No, you psycho! Now let me out of here, or I swear I’ll-”

“You’ll what?” Terry asks, bemused. You open your mouth, trying to come up with an answer, but you can’t come up with anything, and your jaw snaps shut. He smirks, pouring himself a glass of champagne. “That’s what I thought,” he says smugly, sipping the bubbly beverage. “And don’t worry your pretty little head. I told Dennis and Snake to tell Danny Boy that you had agreed to come with me to talk,” he explains, as if that makes any of this okay.

“You want to talk?” you ask incredulously, “about what? I have nothing to say to you,” you spit out, crossing your arms over your chest and pointedly looking out the window.

“Yes. I want to explain myself, and apologize to you,” he says smoothly. You refuse to look at him, scoffing.

“You want to apologize? And you think kidnapping me was a good way to do that?” You roll your eyes and look out the window, trying to figure out where you were. You were quickly leaving the city limits, winding your way up to where the big, fancy houses were located. “And where the hell are you taking me?”

“We’re going to my home,” he states, as if it’s the most obvious thing in the world. “I figured we could talk over dinner,” he says, giving you a charming smile.

“Like hell we will,” you growl, trying to find a way to open your window, but it’s locked. The only way out was to get past Terry, and you knew that the odds of accomplishing that were unlikely.

“C’mon, Y/N, just give me a chance. We had a good thing going, you and me!”

“You must take me for an idiot if you think I’m going to sit with you and listen to you make up some bullshit excuses. You and me have nothing, got it? There is no you and me!”

“Are you saying that because you really believe it, or out of loyalty to that little prick?” he asks cockily, his arms spread along the back seat of the limo and his legs crossed, looking like the picture of ease as he surveys you. You gape at him.

“You lied to me! You beat up a kid!” you exclaim, shocked that he would have the audacity to even ask that, like he didn’t know the answer. He sighs, his piercing eyes locked with yours from across the limo, and then stands up. Stooped over – he was so tall! – he comes over to sit beside you. You lean away from him, moving as far away as possible, and glare at him. He gives you a comforting smile.

“I was as honest with you as I could be,” he says, sounding sincere. But how could you believe anything this man said? “I had to keep up the lies about Cobra Kai so Danny wouldn’t get wise, but everything else, the time I spent with you, that was all real, I promise.”

“How can you possibly expect me to believe that?” you snap at him, scowling. In response, he grabs you by the wrist and pulls you closer to him, laying your hand over his heart. You feel it thumping against your palm hard and fast, and your breath hitches.

“I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, Y/N,” he says, a glassy, far-off look in his eyes. He shakes his head, snapping out of it. “I don’t feel guilty for a lot of them,” he continues, staring into your eyes. You find yourself leaning closer to him, feeling hypnotized by his icy blue eyes. He certainly seemed to be telling the truth. “But I feel guilty for lying to you. I liked you the minute I saw you, and if you hadn’t been with LaRusso at the time, I never would have lied to you. C’mon, can you honestly tell me that you don’t feel anything for me?”

You swallow past the lump in your throat, biting your lip as you think over his question. Your hand is still on his chest, and you can’t deny that you feel drawn to him.

“I did feel something for you,” you admit shakily, emphasizing the past, “but I can’t trust you.”

“Give me a chance, Y/N,” he says, his voice low, and you find yourself leaning closer to him to hear. “Let me make it up to you, let me prove to you that you can trust me…” he cups the side of your face with one of his large, warm hands, and your eyes flutter closed at the contact.

The next thing you know, his lips are on yours, kissing you heatedly. Your eyes fly open in surprise and you gasp, inhaling his cologne. Your whole body felt like it was on fire, and it was… intoxicating. Without thinking, you give in, acting on instinct, kissing him back passionately, your hand traveling up his chest around his neck, pulling him closer. You feel him smile against your lips, pleased, and his hands wrap around your waist, pulling you flush against his firm chest. You moan into the kiss, feeling dizzy and overwhelmed by the sensations, and he growls in return, pulling you onto his lap. You’re losing yourself in the kiss, wanting to get even closer to him, when you suddenly realize what you’re doing. Your eyes snap open, and you push his chest with both hands, shoving yourself off of him with a cry, and moving back into the other seat, across the limo from him.

His eyes open lazily, looking over at you, running his tongue over his lower lip. You feel something in your belly clench in response to the action.

“What’s wrong, doll?” he asks, “You can’t tell me you weren’t having a good time just now,” he leers, giving you a wicked grin. You try to calm your breathing before responding to him.

“Look, even if you weren’t a lying jerk, I’m not the kind of girl that… that does this sort of thing!” you exclaimed, frazzled, your hands on your burning cheeks.

“Come on, haven’t you done anything risky before, just because it felt good while you were doing it?” he asks, sliding back into the seat beside you and toying with a lock of your hair. You pull away; you couldn’t think straight when he was touching you.

You shake your head, looking down at the floor, embarrassed. “I’ve…I’ve never done any of this before,” you admit in a quiet voice.

“Oh, baby girl” he croons, lifting your chin with a finger to turn your head back to look at him. “I wish you had said something! Forgive me for assuming; I just can’t believe someone who kisses like that doesn’t have any experience.” He laughs, and you hate how much you love the sound of it.

“R-Really?” you ask, surprised. He nods, giving you a warm smile.

“Are you kidding? That was incredible!” he exclaims, taking one of your hands into both of his. “But if you need to go slow, Y/N, I’m happy to do so. Let me take care of you, show you a good time…” he trails off, kissing the spot below your ear. You tilt your head to the side to give him better access without even thinking about it.

“But…but it’s wrong,” you emphasize, and your words sound hollow to your own ears. “What if someone found out?” you ask, nibbling your lower lip nervously. What if Danny found out?

“Oh, is that all you’re worried about?” Terry asks. “Don’t worry your pretty little head about that, doll. We’re heading up to my place, and no one there would dare say anything about it if I say so. It’ll be our little secret,” he says, winking at you. You blush despite yourself, and he grins, feeling you giving in.

“Let me make you feel good, Y/N, and give you what you deserve,” he murmurs in your ear, running a hand up your leg. You shudder at the contact, and the limo slows to a stop. You had arrived. Terry slides down to the seat by the door, looking back at you and offering you a hand.

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Alright, Part 3, coming right up - nobody kill me!

[magicsilas]

The Spirit Bares it's Teeeth- Book Review (Part 1)

The bolded leaders indicate the CAWPILE method. (characters, atmosphere, writing style, plot, intrigue, logic and enjoyment)

Before I write my book review on "The Spirit Bares its Teeth", I would like to echo the author's sentiment. This book is hard, it contains SA, body harm, graphic violence, ableism, pregnancy and other such topics. It touches open nerves. It will hurt, especially those who have scar tissue built. There is no obligation to read it, and those who don’t, I too applaud you. There is more bravery in walking away that words can ever express. The Spirit Bares it Teeth follows Silas in 1800 Victorian England. In this world building there are people with violet eyes who can manipulate the veil between the living and the dead. These people are called speakers and they have their own little government.

(C)The characters in the book are written with care, each of their voices and characteristics are unique. When it comes to the main character, Silas, there is no doubt on his motives and what drives him to do what he does. The secondary characters of Louise, Charlotte, Isabella, Daphne, and George were a whirlwind to watch. They were each equally memorable, with their placement in the story and their actions that lead to certain events. Even the characters we never met first hand were memorable, in the way the other characters describe them. The cunningness and their depictions drove the story forward and into the heart. They each helped turn the story into the beauty it is. Between them, I did not particularly see growth, but more so a crumpled piece of paper turned flat. As the whole story progressed we were able to see them for who and what they truly were. It is something I deeply appreciate in this novel.

(A)The book was highly immersive, I could clearly picture everything that was being described. It was gross when it came to the medical gore. In some scenes I did notice the use of less description, and this too was amazing since it allows the audience to imagine what they view as more grotesque. The scenes were palatable, and convincing in the twist and turns of organs. The time period relevant language also did an amazing job portraying the atmosphere of the time. When it came to the multiple conversations of gender, it was also convincing. As a trans individual, the way Silas described their feelings made total sense, it mirrored how I felt in my own body and gender. The book made me angry, and I hope that was the point, since it is noted that Andrew Joseph White, writes out of anger. The injustices queer people, neurodivergent people and anyone else ‘othered’ by society can be reflected in our modern society. It points to what is still wrong and what people everywhere are trying to solve, what they die fighting for.

(W)When it came to the writing style, I enjoyed it. It was not difficult to follow and all the medical analogies and jargon were easy to pick up. With that it added a whole other dimension to the book. The addition of the rabbit in the book was an interesting concept, but perfectly describes the way people try to stay alive, even if it is not the best. It was another part of the writing that added dimension. In about the first half I noticed more narration than actual dialogue. It was not a truly bad thing, I liked being in and out of Silas’ mind. As the action picks up, there is more dialogue. The quirks in the writing made it all the more engaging and interesting to read. With the type of writing style A.J White had, I will be sure to pick up more books of his.

(P)The plot was both direct and indirect. The pacing was a rather even one, it felt slightly slow at the start but it really wasn’t it, it was leaving everything to build up. Once the pieces of the puzzle started to click, it seemed obvious as to where the plot was going, but at times I would stop and question if it really was heading that way. For me, that made it all the more engaging, to see which way it truly went. It allowed me to cheer for the characters and lament their losses. The plot itself was not the most complicated one I have seen, but a good middle, it has threads to tie up rather than just a string. With the ending of the book, there were pieces left behind, but it gave the characters life beyond the pages. It is also something I enjoy, when characters live past the book, when a life can be envisioned for them.

[scftdevil]

TOMAS BRIGHTMAN

the basics:

name: tomas zachariah brightman age: forty seven zodiac sign: leo one good trait: clever one bad trait: stubborn

habits:

one bad habit: very judgmental of his own work one good habit: makes sure to see people often for his mental health one habit they can’t break: teasing beyond reason one they’ve broken: drinking what they’re afraid of: henry will grow tired of him

family:

their parents names: amber ellis and andrew brightman their siblings names: julie brightman favorite childhood memory: playing detectives with julie and the reynolds kids in the woods behind their houses childhood toy: the big box of legos his grandmother kept for them at her house. she'd put down a blanket, dump the bin out and put on her westers while he and julie built. embarrassing story: tomas takes too long to learn lessons. one year, he permanently scarred his elbox because he took a corner bad and wiped out. then he was convinced he could pull it off. he injured the same elbow, the same spot, five times that year, doing the same thing over and over and over. by the first snow fall, he could take that corner in a way no one could believe. favorite family member: he would have spent his whole life saying cinnamon, the family dog he adored but then, two weeks after her graduation, julie was killed in a car accident due to a drunk driver, so now it's only julie. a story about that family member: there was this long winding trail behind their grandma's house, where locals used to go driving through too gather wood for the winter for their woodstoves. up until julie's death, tomas and julie used to walk down the trail to this huge overlook that took in the whole valley their grandma lived on the edge of. julie took her grad photos there, tomas used to sketch it, and he has put inspirations from that spot in three pieces, though he's never come up with a story for it that didn't hurt too much to tell.

what they prefer:

coffee or tea? coffee. showering in the day or night? day. taking baths or taking showers? baths. tv or movies? movies and tv shows. writing or reading? reading and writing. platonic or romantic love? romantic. iced tea or lemonade? lemonade. ice cream or smoothies? ice cream (tiger is his favorites but he can only get it in canada and he hasn't gone back to canada since his grandmother passed away, ten years ago.) cupcakes or cake? pie. beach or mountains? mountains.

favorites:

song: through the echos by paolo nutini band: leon bridges, hozier and paolo nutini (it's not a band but what a band it would be if it were) outfit: tomas is in heaven in tweed jackets or thick knit sweaters and jeans. always jeans. he loves a good sunglasses moment too. place: the overlook behind his grandma's house. memory: not when julie walked the stage or anything but before she had to go to a grad party, he and julie walked down to the local lake and sat on the dock with a bottle of champagne and talked about what adulthood would look like from here on out, now that they were both all grown up. he doesn't think about what she said she wanted to do, that hurts too much, but he does think about how goddamn proud of them he was. of her. person: henry ashford. (i could lie and say literally anyone in his life (in fact, i think alex penn has been taking his classes for five years while doing a double major is and always will be a lifelong friend despite their massive age gap. they get along really well, they are mutually supportive and also alex was the one to tell tomas about the actual fanfic (if it can be fanfic) that some of his students had written about henry & tomas (it was vvv tame, lots of yearning and lots of references to tomas' plays which he hated most) and tomas doesn't now but alex is going to ask him to mentor for his masters next year) but i won't lie because it's henry. even if henry wasn't canon, it would be henry because tomas' feelings transcend dimensions alright? it's always henry.) movie: tomas zachariah brightman has never picked a single film in his life. good will hunting, knives out, clue, dead poet society, when harry met sally, fantastic mr fox, the others, about time, st elmo's fire, and every horror film he's ever seen. show: house (he always skips season eight though)

for @saudadexmses

[kissmejusttokiss]

Strangerdale: Wayne Munson Edition

(Note, these are pretty much word for word transfers of tweets between myself and @grandmastattoo, any errors have been corrected but there’s very little editing has been done other than that.)

(Important information: Wayne is in a doomed romance with Fred Andrews. It is doomed because Vecna is in love with Wayne and will ultimately kill Fred to try and get his man. Also, Wayne/Vecna/Cheryl (and maybe Megan (of killer doll fame) at some point but that’s unimportant for this post) are in one of the only group chats that exist within Strangerdale.)

Wayne is fully aware of all the strange(r) things happening around town, he sees an awful lot with the weird hours he keeps for work, but he just chooses to mind his own business until it starts affecting him or Eddie (or, as Eddie gets closer with the others, Eddie’s friends.)

Genuinely, like, Wayne was fully aware of the Gargoyle King from the very beginning, because he was driving home from a late shift one night and almost hit the geezer with his car. He would have investigated further but he wanted to make sure he was home before Eddie went to school, so he just left it.

He also is fully aware that Jughead and Eddie are half-brothers. He planned on telling them when the Riverdale gang first turned up, but then he saw how much Eddie hated Jughead and thought it was better to just leave it.

He & Fred Andrews provide most of the parental support in Strangerdale. (They also carpool together to Steve and Archie’s games and always take the boys (and Eddie ofc) for dinner at Pops no matter whether they win or lose.)

Was once part of the Southside Serpents but does not consider this information important or relevant.

Can make a mean roast dinner.

He films every school musical/play that Eddie takes part in (and is pleasantly surprised with how many that has been since the Strangerdale kids arrived) with the same eagerness as the mum from Mean Girls.

The flashback version of Wayne is played by the same actor wearing a backwards cap like that one scene in saw:

 Is close friends with Megan (the doll).

Wayne’s Halloween Costume: (credit to @grandmastattoo entirely for this)

Gotten straight out of the back of his wardrobe because he hadn’t planned on going out for Halloween. He drops a cheeky pic in the group chat and Vecna nearly combusts on the spot. Cheryl, meanwhile, is unimpressed. “God it’s just so uncreative Mr. Munson… You can’t just wear your date night outfit out for Halloween…” (while Vecna is having a nosebleed in his nightmare realm).

Fred Riverdale shows up to their little dad gathering in the same outfit because he's on a mission. Everyone wants to hook up with Wayne on Halloween, meanwhile he's trying to convince Eddie that he’s not too old for them to trick or treat together. Wayne doesn’t even realise he’s a sex-symbol around town, he’s just minding his own business being hot while everyone throws them self at him (the only reason people put up with a twenty-year-old Eddie Trick-o-Treating is because Wayne is always with him.)

Wayne & His Many Romances:

(Best summarised by this quote from known menace and character of the year, Murray B after being invited for beers with Fred, FP, Wayne and Hopper “And you all used to fuck?!”)

It’s not a question of who he did bang but a question of who he didn’t…

Also, btw, Gladys is Wayne’s sister. So I just want to take a moment to imagine the first time she brings her new boyfriend home for dinner. Wayne & FP just sit across from each together like:

Wayne & Fred (Romance of the Century):

(Their origins: kind of obsessed with how my brain went from “Fred & Wayne have the same vibes, they would be friends” to “do you think they ever explored each other’s bodies” (but, also, the answer is yes… they were the og Steddie)

Their reconciliation comes mostly after Eddie takes part in the gauntlet (see this post).

Wayne sees how much pain his boys are in and it kicks something loose in him. When Steve finally goes back inside after talking to him, Wayne forces himself up despite his aching knees, gets into his truck and drives all the way to Fred’s house. He’s not sure what he’s even planning on doing until he gets there. He just knows that he has to go. Fred answers the door in his pyjamas, his eyes still filled with sleep, but he takes one look at Wayne, who still has flecks of blood on his shirt, and lets him in. “Coffee or something stronger?” “Something stronger.” “Yeah, I figured it might be one of those nights.”

(Warning: Tragedy!) The two are tentatively considering rekindling the old flame and had just agreed to get back together. Then they get stuck in Vecna’s realm and Fred makes the sacrifice because Eddie needs Wayne more than archie needs him. Wayne is there while he dies in Archie’s arms, so much he wants/needs to say but letting them have their moment.

(Soundtrack moment: Billie Eilish - TV “And I'll be in denial for at least a little while, What about the plans we made?”(season four, episode 26: plays during the scene after Fred’s death where Wayne is going through old photos of the two of them and reminiscing about what could have been)

Vecna immediately drops a message into his and Cheryl’s group chat post-Fred Riverdale’s murderification, thanking her for the advice (get rid of anything standing in your way!) and she loses her mind while trying to explain that she DIDNT MEAN MURDER?!?

(He treats vecna-ing wayne like it's a date. Wayne's scrambling for the exits and vacna's curling a tendril around his finger like 'omg what *are* we'. There’s no horrors except the base horror of Vecna’s twisted mind, but there is a table with a two glasses of wine and some candles (their server is a demobat in a waistcoat…)

[steelbluehome]

AFP hosted by Yahoo News (click for article)

Trump 'more relatable than we want to admit': biopic star Sebastian Stan

Andrew MARSZAL

Tue, 21 May 2024 at 3:23 pm GMT-4

'The Apprentice' star Sebastian Stan prepared for the role by devouring magazine interviews, watching videos and obsessively listening to audio of Donald Trump.

Sebastian Stan immersed himself 24/7 in Donald Trump's early life to research the new biopic "The Apprentice" -- and came to an unexpected realisation.

"A lot of the behaviour and the personality is much more relatable than we want to admit," said the Hollywood star, who has won critical acclaim for his uncanny performance.

The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, has drawn huge controversy and legal threats from the ex-president, particularly for a scene in which Trump is shown raping his wife.

But much of the film portrays a younger Trump as a nervous, naive outsider from New York's outer boroughs, trying to find his way in a cut-throat and elite Manhattan world he knows little about.

It is an approach sure to surprise, or even anger, anyone expecting or wanting a left-wing political hatchet job.

For Stan, who was born in Communist Romania and did not move to the United States until he was 12, that sense of Trump striving to belong resonated.

"My mother told me that I had to become somebody," he told AFP in an interview.

"There was a lot of shame, when I grew up, coming from Romania... 'don't tell people' and 'blend in.'"

The 41-year-old Stan has rocketed to fame in recent years, in large part due to his role as the Winter Soldier in a number of record-breaking Marvel superhero films.

But Stan drew parallels between his mother's message, and the intense pressure put on Trump and his brothers by their brutally tough father Fred.

As the film starts, Donald Trump is failing to convince his father that he can pull off a daring hotel deal.

Instead it is Roy Cohn, a formidable lawyer with powerful political connections, who believes in the young property developer, taking him under his wing.

While Trump is initially queasy about Cohn's willingness to "violate a few technicalities", he quickly adopts and even surpasses his mentor's embrace of the dark arts in pursuit of fame.

The movie shows how "anyone that grows up in America" can be corrupted by a capitalist society that rewards greed, ruthlessness and ambition, said Stan.

"Nothing is ever good enough. You look at people achieving things, but there's always more, you've got to have more," he said.

- 'Hardest scene' -

Stan prepared for the role by devouring magazine interviews, watching videos and obsessively listening to audio of Trump from the late '70s and early '80s.

He would listen "non-stop," whether driving, walking, shopping or even "on headphones in the bathroom."

Stan tried to avoid the many "Saturday Night Live"-style parodies of later-era Trump, noting that "you just had to put the noise away."

The role calls on Stan to gain weight as the years progress and he "tried to eat as much as I could" before certain shoots. Because not everything was shot in sequence, other scenes required prosthetics.

And then there is the much talked-about rape scene.

It occurs after an argument, in which Trump's first wife Ivana belittles him for growing fat and bald.

In real life, Ivana accused Trump of raping her during divorce proceedings but later rescinded the allegation.

Stan said preparing for that scene did not particularly trouble him.

Instead, "the hardest scene, that I was always afraid of", was another in which Trump mourns the loss of his older brother Freddy, an alcoholic who died aged 42.

Trump is shown genuinely caring for Freddy as well as Ivana, before his humanity is eroded by the power and wealth that devours him.

"It's interesting how much we don't want to remember about him," said Stan.

[whitepolaris]

Satanic Imps, Warring Witches, and More

For graveyard fans, Memory Hill is a must-see. It was founded in 1804 in Milledgeville, Georgia's capital for sixty-one years. One mass burial site contains the dead from Old Georgia Lunatic Asylum, interred in trenches. Another mass grave holds forty-nine unknown Confederate buried in a clockwise fashion, facing points of the compass.

But that's not all that's strange about this cemetery. It also the final resting place of a man driven to despair by death. Thomas Jefferson Fish was devastated when his wife and daughter died young. He had a substantial brick mausoleum constructed in Memory Hill, then carried his favorite rocking chair into the crypt and locked the door. There he killed himself with a pistol. Visitors often knock on the bricked-up entrance to the crypt because local legend clams that occasionally Fish will deliver a faint answering rap.

And there's P. J. Taylor, who set off some very odd vibes in the cemetery. Taylor was convinced that the burial place harbored evil spirits. For the eternal protection of himself and his wife, Elizabeth, he commissioned an elaborate wrought-iron fence to surround their plot. Incorporated in the fence are eighty-seven devilish imps, small effigies that peer outward to drive off evil spirits. Each Halloween at midnight, legend says, the imps awake to clank, yell, and scream. If the fence is touched at that time, the imps will be released on the world.

Nearby is the newly marked graves of Dixie Haygood, who has gotten the local reputation of a witch. Locals are careful not to get between Dixie and the sun, according to cemetery historian Louis Andrews, who explains, "'Cause you know that witches live and feed on the sun, so don't ever block the witch's view of the sun. She'll put a curse on you."

Adjacent to Haygood's plot is the grave of John Yates, who is believed to have been posthumously cursed by Haygood or to have been a witch himself. "We can't keep him in the ground!" said Andrews. "Every time we dig six feet and put more concrete and cement on him, he comes out and throws his tombstone helter-skelter, all over the ground. . . . The only answer we know at this point is that it's a War of the Witches."

Although the grave itself has been lost, an isolated gravestone honors America's last Wild West outlaw, Bill Miner, known as the Gray Fox, who rode with the James, Dalton, and Younger gangs. In 1914, late in his life, Miner attempted to rob a train in Gainesville, but perhaps old age had gotten the beset of him by then. He failed and was incarcerated at the state prison in Milledgeville. He attempted to escape three times, failed at that, too, and died behind cars at the age of seventy-one.

Other burials include Mary Ann Nelson, madam of Kitty's House of Pleasure, the city's best cathouse during its years as a state capital; Susan Myrick, who coached the Gone with The Wind cast in speaking southern dialect; and Flannery O'Connor, one of Georgia's finest writers.

And there's more violence at this seemingly peaceful spot. Alice Fox Holliman spent a day in 1965 sitting on a bench near her mother's grave, then took out a pistol and killed herself. Marcy C. Berry also rests here. She killed her two brothers with poisoned coffee. Although she was found innocent, her can of poison was later discovered. Marcy eventually married Lester Tidwell, but the union fell apart when she attempted to kill him with a butcher knife.

[yeonchi]

Kisekae Insights #49: Kamen Rider Zi-O Part 7 - A look at the characters

Now that we have covered the entire plot of my Zi-O adaptation, I’m going to do a quick overview of the main characters in it. Some details about each of the characters can be seen throughout the last 6 parts, but this post is dedicated to summarising them in detail.

While I have maintained the use of adaptation names for certain characters, some characters have been referred to by their original names throughout this mini-series for Kisekae Insights. I’ll elaborate more on this as I go through them, but the tl;dr is that I’m appealing to readers’ familiarity with names of their original counterparts.

Sougo Tokiwa

Sougo Tokiwa is a parallel isotope of Hiroki Ichigo taken from July 2012 (at the end of the Three Kingdoms series). After finding himself in the Ohma War of 2068, he ends up in July 2018 with amnesia, hence why he is only 15 years old at the start of the series and not 21.

In the original series, Sougo appears to act like the Sentai Red Rangers of recent years - overtly positive with a repetitive catchphrase, abstract goals and a lack of character flaws. At least in the adaptation I can attribute this to Sougo’s amnesia and having dreams beamed into his head from the future, plus his prime self’s autism playing a significant role in his cloudcuckoolander personality.

Sougo will go out of his way to help people wherever he can, as that is what he believes a king should do. This goes to the point where he would even go so far as to help his own enemies, such examples being convincing his other self that there are people who care about him, encouraging Kensuke to keep fighting despite his ideal timeline no longer coming to pass, and helping Swartz realise that he does care for his family and that despite being a rogue AI program, he has a heart (he also prioritised this over 2012 Akari which goes to show how much an idiot like Sougo can care about people).

The other Sougo Tokiwa (Ohma Zi-O)

The other Sougo is native to the Zi-O timeline and is also the one who would be involved in the bus accident in 2009 and become the Ohma Zi-O we see in 2068. The main Sougo’s interactions with Ohma Zi-O alludes to how the latter crossed paths with his main self several times in the past.

After having lost his parents, the other Sougo gets a drive to set off on his own and become king, but over the next nine years, the pain of leaving Parker behind and losing three female companions made him a cold and bitter figure. It’s only thanks to meeting the main Sougo that the other Sougo begins to loosen up and appreciate that there are people who still care about him.

When the main Sougo becomes Ohma Zi-O, the other Sougo tries to remind him of his dream to become the nicest and kindest demonic overlord, but in his defeat, he senses a deeper sorrow from the main Sougo than he had experienced before. When the main Sougo makes his decision to destroy the timeline, the older Ohma Zi-O happily accepts this as he can be set free from his pain and sorrow.

Geiz Myoukouin

Geiz Myoukouin, also known as Andrew Cui, was an officer from the mainland in 2011. Late that year, he worked with Yuki Nagato to resurrect Parker Zhou before she sent him into the future to answer an influence coming from it, becoming a parallel isotope in the process. Geiz ended up in 2063 with his memories scrambled and joined the Resistance. Five years later, their forces would suffer near annihilation at the hands of Ohma Zi-O, which led Geiz to steal a Ziku Driver and some Ridewatches from him before taking a Time Mazine and heading to the past.

Geiz’s motivation to defeat Sougo comes from his serious and blunt attitude; while he was hostile to Sougo at first, he warms to his optimism and kindness, going so far as to convince him to give up the Ziku Driver and his dream of becoming a king. When that failed in part due to the Time Jackers’ actions, Geiz ended up convincing Sougo to become a king again, promising to defeat him if he became Ohma Zi-O. In the original, Geiz in his dying breaths would eventually trust Sougo enough to become the nicest and kindest demonic overlord as Ohma Zi-O. In the adaptation, however, Geiz makes good on his promise to defeat Sougo when he becomes the vilest and evilest demonic overlord, though his intent isn’t to kill him, but to save him.

When Kensuke arrived with the prophecy that Geiz would become a saviour, his stance towards Sougo becoming Ohma Zi-O wavered. After Geiz elects to defy Kensuke’s prophecy and fight together with Sougo, he seeks a future where he can become a saviour alongside Sougo as the demonic overlord.

Luna

Luna, real name Mahina, was the daughter of the virtual Hiroki and Fifi Forget-me-not in the supercomputer on Never Land. After having her memories and powers sealed by Swartz as a little girl, Mahina was thrown into the Time Vortex and ended up in the year 2058, where she was taken in by the Resistance and given the name Luna. Ten years later, she was saved from being turned to dust by Ohma Zi-O when her guardian pushed her into a nearby trench.

As Geiz travelled back in time in an effort to kill Sougo before he became Ohma Zi-O, Luna took a Time Mazine and followed him, managing to rescue Sougo and get him away from Geiz. Her approach to dealing with Ohma Zi-O was to prevent him from becoming Zi-O in the first place instead of outright killing him. When that failed, Luna was convinced that Sougo would not become the Ohma Zi-O they knew in the future because she found almost no evidence to that conclusion. However, when Sougo gained Zi-O II, she sided with Kensuke as she suddenly realised that the reality of him becoming Ohma Zi-O was becoming more possible by the day. After saving a young Sougo (who unbeknownst to her at the time was the version native to this timeline and not the Sougo she knew), she came around to the idea that the future could be changed.

In the third part, Luna discovered her power to stop time and was horrified by it, but thanks to Zhuge Sōta’s help, she was able to accept who she was. Although Luna wasn’t interested in becoming a Kamen Rider initially, thinking of it more as a boys’ thing, she would come around to it after finally discovering her past and realising that her failure to prevent her father’s plans made her a burden to her friends. With the help of Sougo and Ohma Zi-O, Luna would become Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi and fight alongside her friends.

My face claim for Luna is Marny Kennedy, who is best known for playing Taylor Fry in Mortified. This really is the 30-year-old teenager situation from Power Rangers, isn’t it? As a tribute to the classic Australian children’s series, some more actors from the series (along with Parallax) have appeared in the Geiz and Woz episode of Before Quartzer as part of the Resistance in 2068.

Mark Roberts

Like his original counterpart Junichirō Tokiwa, Mark Roberts doesn’t have much of a role in the series besides running 9TO5 and being the guardian for Sougo, Geiz, Luna and later Kazuto and 2012 Akari (for a short time, anyway). In the year that Mark got to know Sougo, he noticed all the people coming and going from his repair shop and when Geiz and Luna temporarily left, he gained the courage to tell off Sougo for hiding his loneliness, encouraging him to be honest with his feelings so that he won’t become a king lacking in empathy.

Throughout the series, Mark does catch on to Sougo and his friends being Kamen Riders (particularly because they tend to openly discuss their matters within earshot of him), so when the reveal exposition dump happens in episode 30, he’s cool with it and he asks Sougo to continue using his powers to protect people. When Mark hears about Sougo becoming Ohma Zi-O, he is optimistic that the nice and kind Sougo he knew is still there as his friends promise him that they will do their best to bring him back to normal.

The entire thing with Junichirō being able to fix the Ridewatches in the finale comes out of nowhere and is never explained, so I decided not to write that in for Mark in the adaptation. Him fixing things other than clocks I understand, but it doesn’t work like that for Ridewatches.

My face claim for Mark is Andrew Blackman, who played Taylor’s dad, Don Fry, in Mortified (tbh he kind of looks older nowadays than the actor who played his original counterpart despite being younger than him). Fun fact, in Year 10, Andrew Blackman and his team from the Complete Works Theatre Company came to our school to perform some scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth and answer questions about it because it was a study topic in our English class. I volunteered to play Lord Ross (they got other students to play some smaller roles as well). Suffice to say I don’t have the same confidence for acting and public speaking than I had back then and- holy shit, that was 10 years ago? It’s been so long since the Day of Retribution (deep meaning).

Kazuto Hongō

Kazuto Hongō acts as the counterpart to Black Woz in the adaptation.

Kazuto was originally from an adult visual novel series called Koihime Musou, which is a feminised version of Dynasty Warriors, or more accurately, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After being transported to the Koihime world based on late-Han Dynasty China, Kazuto returned to the modern world and brought his harem with him. Allying himself with the Chōsōkabe clan, they would come into conflict with Parker and his army, which he and his harem would join.

Kazuto’s harem wouldn’t be brought up in the series, but they would become lost following the Genesis Meltdown. He initially opposed Parker after his army split but then joined him again as part of the Date Army. In the normal timeline, Kazuto would continue to have adventures with Parker in The Kongming Adventures.

After the Date Army’s defeat at the hands of the Sanada Army in 2011, Kazuto was captured and would have been executed if not for Ohma Zi-O bringing him to 2068 to be his right-hand man. I think you know the rest of his backstory from here.

Kazuto is devoted to the mission that Ohma Zi-O gave him to ensure that the main Sougo would become the demonic overlord according to the history written in his book, the Twilight Chronicle. He would do anything to ensure this goal, going so far as to work with the Time Jackers to achieve this. As time went on however, Kazuto would come to accept Sougo becoming a different demonic overlord to what Ohma Zi-O was, which led him to be greatly surprised when Sougo actually became Ohma Zi-O towards the end of the series.

After Sougo destroyed the timeline and returned everything to normal, the parallel isotope Kazuto was given a new mission to look after the Sougo in the new timeline before Ohma Zi-O released him from his service.

Swartz, Ora and Heure (Time Jackers)

Swartz, Ora and Heure are the family from the supercomputer on Never Land, Swartz being the virtual Hiroki, Ora being Fifi Forget-me-not, and Heure being their son Takuhiro. Swartz wiped their memories and changed their appearances when he threw Luna into the Time Vortex and began his crusade against humanity.

When he created a new body for Hiroki after he destroyed his old one, the virtual Hiroki absorbed his negative emotions and memories while also gaining the ability to stop time. Seeing the truth of humanity in how other people treated people like Hiroki led him to go rogue (ironically triggered by the arrival of Sougo from the future), creating a convoluted plan to seek revenge against humanity by creating Ohma Zi-O, then having him liberate Hiroki in his past before working to make him Ohma Zi-O, from whom he would steal his powers at its peak to usurp him as the king of time.

Swartz carried out his plans with a ruthless demeanor, being willing to conduct experiments on even his own allies, as shown when he made Ora and Heure into Another Riders. Despite turning on his fellow Time Jackers to take back the time powers he had given them, he does start showing care for them by giving them the Gold Drive and Diend Anotherwatches and even instinctually defending his children from enemies. This would lead Sougo to convince Swartz that he did have a heart despite denying that he had one, something that would normally be the case for an AI avatar like him.

Ora appears to be more laidback however she is actually cunning and manipulative, creating Another Riders by having their users make contracts with her when they are on the verge of despair. Given that she was supposed to be based on Fifi Forget-me-not I would have cast an older actress instead of a teenager, but I don’t suppose it matters that much.

Heure, being the youngest of the Time Jackers, acts a bit childish as he hides a ruthlessness within himself, revelling at the suffering of others. His villainy does have his limits as when he suspects Swartz of colluding with Kensuke in secret, leading him to ally himself with Kazuto to steal Kamen Rider Woz’s powers and build an Another Rider Army for Hiryuu.

Kensuke Nitta

Kensuke Nitta acts as the counterpart to White Woz in the adaptation.

Kensuke is the protagonist of the Sengoku Koihime series, being a spin-off sequel to Koihime Musou in the vein of Samurai Warriors. He is the nephew to Kazuto and in the games, he is transported to another Koihime world based on the Sengoku period of Japan, where he gains a harem just as his uncle did before.

In this series, Kensuke comes back to the past from the year 2040. Unlike Kazuto whose allegiance is to Sougo and Ohma Zi-O, Kensuke’s allegiance is to Geiz as the saviour Geiz Revive. In contrast to Kazuto’s Twilight Chronicle, Kensuke possesses the Future Note, which he can use to will the future by writing or speaking into the tablet-like device.

Kensuke’s goal to push Geiz into becoming the saviour contains sinister aspects to it that he does not disclose to anyone. Unlike his uncle or even Swartz, Kensuke is amoral, sociopathic and manipulative, willing to stop at no end to push Geiz into becoming the saviour. He has a tendency to go into fits of rage when things don’t go his way, even going so far as to allow the world to be destroyed when he future he envisioned would no longer happen. Thanks to being encouraged by Sougo, however, he decides to establish Quartzer with the new goal of becoming the keeper of time.

Later on, Kensuke would directly work towards achieving his goal by force, working to ensure that Sougo becomes Ohma Zi-O on the true Ohma’s Day and making him fight Swartz as Another Decade Complete with the intent of having them destroy each other. When Geiz transforms into Geiz Majesty for the first time to fight Sougo as Ohma Zi-O, Kensuke’s initial goal was indirectly achieved.

In the megalomania caused by the thwarting of his ultimate plan, Kensuke reveals his true feelings about Kamen Riders, that they are no different from the powers of evil and that they were originally created to be weapons for destroying humanity. Of course, he is proven wrong by Sougo, the other Sougo and their fellow Kamen Riders.

Hiryuu Kakogawa

As I stated before, Hiryuu is modelled on a friend I used to know when I was little because our mums knew each other.

Hiryuu Kakogawa would have ended up as collateral damage from the accident in 2009 if it weren’t for the other Sougo saving him. He witnessed the other Sougo freezing people in time and rewriting their memories while he was stuck on a hospital bed without any powers, leading him to resent the other Sougo. Thanks to Swartz’s manipulation, he was led to believe that the accident was the main Sougo’s fault and sought to obtain the powers of former Another Riders as Another Zi-O, coming into conflict with Geiz over fighting Sougo before being defeated by the combined efforts of the two.

Sougo tried to convince Hiryuu to let go of the past and live for the present, but he was unable to do so, instead opting to take what he deserved from Sougo as he changed the timeline as Another Zi-O II. When Hiryuu failed and Swartz abandoned him, Kensuke recruited him into Quartzer and gave him a mission to obtain the Ancient Kamen Rider Ridewatches. At this point, Hiryuu learns of how the Heisei era became such a mess with all the rewrites and retcons, blaming Sougo for it because he just wanted someone to blame. He would work with Kensuke to achieve his goal of resetting the Heisei era and ruling over it as the keeper of time.

When Sougo became Ohma Zi-O, Hiryuu would gloat at Sougo’s proclamation of being the nicest and kindest overlord as his vile and evil actions were made public. After becoming Another Ohma Zi-O himself, Sougo has to tell Hiryuu again to let go of the past and live in the present as he and the other Sougo defeat him.

Akihito Hayasaka

Akihito Hayasaka acts as the counterpart to Red Woz, who was created from Black Woz in the final stage show.

Akihito is the protagonist of Harukoi Otome, the predecessor to the Koihime series. It’s set in the same school where the other two protagonists went, with some references to Harukoi Otome being made in Koihime Musou.

Initially, Akihito acted as Tsukuyomi’s Woz servants so that he could give her the power of Tsukuyomi ABC, then he lent his assistance to the Time Jackers. This was done on the orders of Kensuke, his true boss. After revealing his true allegiance to Quartzer, Akihito works with Kensuke to fight the Riders as they merge to become Another Ichigou, later merging further with Hiryuu and the Quartzer trio to become Another New Ichigou.

I’m not good at writing character development so the characters in the adaptation are essentially carbon-copied from the original, with some influence from Zero-One during the final part of the story. Regardless, I hope I’ve been able to do better in adaptation than the original.