#he doens't hurt people like that

[irregularbillcipher]

going over old fic notes and outlines and character talks with friends and it's always really funny when i get to the stuff i was developing early-mid 2019 where bill just literally kept kryptos around to rag on, and he genuinely just. did not like the man. like was just completely annoyed with his general existence. boy have things changed

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

I believe Aang was right to end the war by sparing Ozai. But the only (imho) valid reason some people say he should have done it is because they wanted Aang to realize that pacifism is flawed.

I'm gonna disagree with you here, because a lot of the flaws fans talk about pacism and how ATLA in particular handles it as a concept are 99%:

1 - People being ignorant/racist and not knowing the difference between pacifist monks and "make love, not war" hippies.

2 - People being ignorant/racist and refusing to understand that there are different kinds of pacifism, even within the same cultures/people groups.

Aang is very clearly not the type of pacifist to go "You can NEVER react with ANY kind of violence towards someone else, even if it's to defend yourself/someone else" (which does exist, both IRL and in the show, just look at the owl spirit in "The Library").

We see him fight, and even be quite aggressive in said fights, in a lot of episodes. We also see he has no issues with invading the Fire Nation. More importantly, for the longest time the Avatar State was a result of him being pissed off enough at some kind of injustice that it makes him lose control, meaning he is very clearly affected by the horrors of war to the point of RAGE.

What makes him a pacifist is the way in which he doesn't WANT to lose control, doens't WANT go from aggressive to full on cruel, and, yes, wants to defeat his enemies, but not kill them.

And as I keep repeating, the show DOES make him question that last boundary he set for himself. He gets told by a past Avatar, who was also an air-nomad before anything, that, when there is such a large threat to everyone's life, including his own, he has to put aside his own spiritual needs and take a life - provided there isn't another option. But there was, so Aang took that, even after he decided that, yes, if there was no other way, he WOULD kill Ozai.

What people don't like is that Avatar, although questioning some types of pacifism, is far more interested in questioning the way people are WAY too eager to use violence to solve their issues, and, more importantly, expect someone else to get their hands bloody.

Fire Lord Sozin starts the war because he, according to himself at least, wants what's best for everyone and would like to share the Fire Nation's glory and great life with the other nations. He tries to do by invading foreign territories, killing his best friend, and commiting genocide. The fucker even has the dragons, an obvious Fire Nation symbol, to be hunted to extintion.

When Jet is angry at the Gaang for ruining his plan to free a village from the Fire Nation's control by blowing up a dam, Sokka asks "Who would be free? Everyone would be dead."

Zuko is banished because he spoke out against a Fire Nation higher-up's plan to use soldiers as fresh meat to bait the enemy into a more vulnerable position, thus assuring the nation's victory in that battle. He openly says "These men love and defend our nation, how can you betray them?"

When Zhao wants to kill the moon spirit, Iroh tries to stop him by pointing out that the Fire Nation needs the moon too (seriously, if it wasn't for Yue's sacrifice and Zhao's death, the Fire Nation would have had to create a word for "Big-ass wave that wrecks everything and kills people" like Japan did).

When Aang is deliberately trying to trigger the Avatar State because he doesn't want anyone else to die in the war, Katara, who had her life ruined by said war, is against it because while she opposes the Fire Nation, she cares about Aang and, in her own words, seeing him in so much pain and rage hurts her too. When Aang can't force himself to go nuclear, an Earth Kingdom ruler attacks Katara and makes both her and Aang, two very traumatized child soldiers, think he is going to kill her.

More importantly, when Ozai wants to burn down Earth Kingdom cities, he says "A new world will rise from the ashes, and I'll be supreme ruler of everything", to which Zuko concludes that, if they don't save the world before his dad takes over, there won't be a world to save.

And what does he say to Aang when he is about to kill him? "You're weak, just like your people. They didn't deserve to live in world, in my world."

Avatar does questions pacifism, and is critical of it on ocasion (again, watch "The Library"). But it's biggest theme is being critical of VIOLENCE, of resorting to it immediately without considering any other option and acting like it doesn't have long-lasting negative consequences, both to the person suffering it to the person inflicting it (see Azula's breakdown, Zuko's angry outburts only making him more miserable, Jeong Jeong growing to resent being a firebender, Zhao accidentally burning his own ships, etc)

The show is constantly highlighting that, yes, sacrifices need to be made for the greater good - but that CAN'T be normalized because it inevitably leads to a never-ending cicle of cruelty, as well as suffering to the one who has to do the dirty job (because lets not forget there's a big difference in how a soldier that is constantly in battle sees the war and how a king that just gives the orders but never goes into the actual combat sees the war).

The show embraces pacifism, despite knowing some versions of it are flawed, because the narratives themes are:

1 - EVERYONE is capable of great good and great evil

2 - No group has the right to impose it's own lifestyle onto others

3 - If everyone is either dead, mentally (and physically) scarred for life, or preparing to kill someone as revenge, then being killed by someone who wants to avenge that person, who will themselves be killed for revenge later, then the "greater good" you're sacrificing everything for doesn't actually exist because NO ONE will have a good life in a world that is stuck in the cicle of violence.

[ancha-aus]

RealAgeAU Drabble - Session Zero

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Okay. Before anyhting else. This is in the first spring the guys are in farmtale. Nightmare has been six for almost a year now, like 11 months ish. So the gang has been in Farmtale for like 8 months ish (they have had night with them for 10 months)

Look. You all agreed to this timeline hopping when you started reading my drabbles. I have warned you all at the beginning of this ride. ANYWAY! We going in!

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Ngihtmare stares up at the building as he keeps a very tight hold on Dust's shirt. Dust still has him in his arms as he calmly waits by the enterance.

Killer had dropped them off for now and was going to park the car while they waited under the little covering by the front door.

Dust nuzzles his skull softly "Hey... it is just for a little while. And I shouldn't be long."

Nightmare just pushes closer to Dust "Why need to even go here? It is stupid. You teach me stuff."

Dust nods "Oh trust me. I agree. I am perfectly able to teach things." Dust looks unhappy as well.

Fauna, the nice deer monster from their town, laughs softly "But unless you actually get registered you aren't allowed to do that."

Dust huffs and Nightmare looks at her "So? Why do i need to go here?" Nightmare could just take a break while Dust gets the stupid license to home school and then they can pick it up again. Dust already said they aren't ina hurry.

Fauna smiles softly "This is also to see how you are doing mentally Nightmare. A lot has happened and your health is important."

Ngihtmare just pushes clsoer ot Dust "I am fine." he is fine. He has his... his four! He has a home and peolpe who care about him. What else could he want? Sure his body aches and if he moves a lot it still hurts... and when he is alone at night the nightmares return. But that is beside the point!

He is happier and safer than he has been for a long time. How can they just not see that?

Fauna smiles softly "Well you have been healing a lot. but this is a good thing! you will get to learn so many things, and they will figure out where you are with your schooling to help you better focus and see where you can learn things. Not to forget other children to play with."

Nightmare freezes at the implication of other children and looks up at Dust begging. Please. Please don't leave him.

Dust nuzzles his skull and mutters softly "I will stay right by your side."

Fauna is clearly about to say something but then Killer rushes unver the cover and pants as he drips water "This rain!! It gets everywhere!"

Dust shoots him a disapproving look "really?"

Killer grins "Had to walk quite the end to get here. No parking places. Well! Lets get this whole mental evaluation over with!" and he marches in. Dust shrugs and follows him.

They check in with the receptionist as Nightmare keeps his skull against Dust's collarbone. He watches as he stays quiet to try and listen. file away eveyrhting he hears and keep an eye on where the exit is. Just in case.

They get to the right room and meet some people inside. The director Augustus and the head teacher Miss March.

They talk for a while and Nightmare just keeps trying to stay plastered against Dust. He knows it is dumb and needy and clingy and he shouldn't be this weak after all he experienced but he is terrified and Dust is safe.

They do the stupid tests and talk and they just keep asking him questions he doens't want or know how to answer.

Then they have lunch and all Nightmae wants to do is go home and sleep in their bed.lay together with his dad- four! His four! and relax. let today pass and never think about it again.

They have a few more talks before they meet up with Augustus again and he smiles at them "I must say i am relieved."

Killer looksup and shoots Dust a look as well.

Dust frowns and Ngihtmare feels hismelf be pulled closer "about what?"

Augustus blinks and chuckles "I am sorry. I didn't mean it in any negative way. It is just. I read the file you put together with miss Fauna and I had been worried. but. It seems like your son is a very strong and brave young man."

Nightmare is unsure how to react and just pushes closer to Dust. He knows it is part of the story that Dust is his biological dad but they joy at hearing that bond being refered between them? It is a lot.

Augustus sighs "There is trauma. that is obvious. However. He speaks for himself. and while scared he just needs some gentle encouragement from either of you to feel reassured. The ability for him to still form these meaningfull and supportive bonds with others really showcases that he is on the right track to heal."

He pulls over another report "The physical health is also healing. Very slowly but with the slow recovery of his own magic it is to be expected and all well within the realm of normal healing."

he sighs as he looks at them "Now... about his schooling. He is a smart kid. Very far with reading and languages. But the other aspects of his schooling are very lacking at the moment. but nothing that can't be caught up with." Augustus waits a moment before continuing "Normally. I would recommend full days here."

Killer hisses and glares "No." Nightmare shrinks closer to Dust as Dust just pulls him closer again.

Augustus nods "I had already assumed that would be your answer." he smiles "I will still have to try. I assure you he will be safe here. We have a top staff that all work together to ensure the safety of the children. We are specialised in offering help for children of bad situations. TO help them heal and experience the things any child should get the chance to experience."

Dust glares "He doesn't want to."

Augustus nods "of coruse he doesn't. It is new and scary. It is away from those who keep him safe. But it would help him grow. help him heal. see that not eveyrone in this world is out to hurt him. that those who hurt him were the outliners and should never have gotten the chance to see him."

Dust frowns as Killer jsut glares "We are not leaving him here for days on end."

Augustus nods "While we recommend the full program we can always do a shorter one. One that focusses on trying to help him catch up wiht his learnign and to just keep an eye in case his mental health degrades." he pulls over another piece of paper and hands it to Killer.

Killer snatches it and reads it.

Augustus speaks calmly "It is half a day a week. Normally for children who spend a long time in a hospital. It will mean that he two hours of private tutoring and after that he would spend an hour with the class before and another hour after lunch." he smiles "a much more gentle introduction to school and being near others."

Killer and dust share a look.

Killer leans closer "And how long would this all take? Seeing as we are planning on home schooling him again as soon as Dust got his license."

Augustus looks thoguhtful "Catching up with the school work will take a long time. mentally healing fuly even longer. But as you are not planning on using the full program we can at least give him a stable start to continue healing from."

Fauna frowns at them "What if it turns out that he likes classes? that he likes being in a group?"

Nightmare shakes his skull as he pushes closer to Dust.

Dust rubs his spine softly and Ngihtmare feels hismefl relax. Killer speaks with a grin "If. and only IF Nightmare says he prefers group classes and stuff. Then we will look into options."

Dust nods as he keeps holding him "It will be a long process. We will need to make sure the people he is near know not to touch him. THe children will have to know to be gentle. Nightmare will have to rest a lot and if anything happens with his magic we would have to be called." Dust looks pointedly at Augustus and Nightmare sees the other shiver under the intimidating glare.

Dust just keeps staring "Which is just the start of the list."

Killer grins and the tension disappears "Which is why one of us will remain nearby just in case!"

Augustus frowns "That would go against the aim of the project to help him build up his ability to trust people. We would be at large of a risk that he could fall back into habits of only going to you."

Killer nods "I dn't see anything wrong wiht that." he glares "We are not leaving him. and you can't make us leave."

Augustus frowns and thinks deeply before nodding "What if. You don't stay in the room with him. but you can remain near? We have our waiting rooms for people between appointments or waiting for pick up. YOu could remain there. That is nearby in case of emergencies and knowing you would be in the building could be helpful to make everything feel safer?"

Nightmare is kinda shocked at how considering this guy is. He had seen others before. Who just demanded everyone do what they say because they know better. And this guy probably knows better. He has seen many people before and helped many people. It is why miss Fauna encouraged them to go to this place in the nearby city over the small town psychologist.

Something about having build this whole thing to help others and everything being specialized to be able to help those who have been hurt in this way.

But here he is... letting them decide stuff.

Killer looks considered and him and Dust share a look. DUst shoots Augustus a look "Why are you being so okay with us wanting things different and special?"

Augustus looks shocked before laughing a bit. Then he smiles "Because we are all different people. Two can have the exact same thing happen to them and have a completely different response to the trauma. Two can have the exact same response to the trauma yet need different healing plans." he sighs "We are all individuals who deal and work through things in our own ways. I can advice the most successful routine and what i have seen works before. But you three will always know you three best. You know what you can and can't handle."

Augustus smiles "Maybe after a very sessions and classes I will have a better personalised idea on what could help Nightmare. But before I can do that I need to get to know him a bit more. The mind is a complex thing. It takes time to understand. And you can't understand it if you aren't willing to listen."

Fauna smiles and nods "THe body is rather easy to heal. It will heal if giving the right things it needs. But the mind won't heal unless it is ready to heal. Until it wants to heal."

Augustus nods "exactly. It takes a lot of effort to work through trauma. But the first step is wanting it. Which is why i won't force a program or routine unto anyone, even if i truly believe it will help them."

Killer and Dust consider it and end up agreeing to talk with everyone at home about it.

They do a few more tests and scans. mostly on his spine and ribs to note down the progress. After that they say goodbye to Fauna and leave the building.

The rain had calmed downa lot and turned into a light drizzle as they walk back towards the truck.

Dust hums and nuzzles his skull "you okay?"

Nightmare shrugs "I don't want to do school there."

Dust blinsk adn laughs "I don't think any of us want you to do that either." then he sighs "But it is slightly required to at least get some help."

Killer groans "For real. If we don't at least try this people will keep being problematic." then he frowns "It is also nice to have more medical experts check your wounds nad magic tiny boss."

Nightmare frowns as he pushes close to Dust and thinks.

Eventually they get to their ride and Nightmare mutters "Only for a little while. Just to calm people down." then he wants homeschool again.

Dust nuzzles his skull "We wouldn't ask anything else of you. an we will be wiht you the whole time."

Yeah... that makes the idea bearable. As long as it doesn't take too long of course.

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[purple--queen]

i am 99% sure that Teen/ Billy doesn't know that he is somehow connected to Wanda. Which makes the line "You're so much like your mother" so much better. Agatha is not saying it like it is a compliment. She mocks him. She talks about Wanda and the fact that Wanda never wanted to hurt people, that she just wanted Vision & a familiy. Teen/ Billy says right before that line, that he doesn't want to hurt or even to kill people. Of course Agatha is mocking it because she knows. Wanda never wanted to hurt people, but she did. Teen/Billy dont want to hurt people but he could. The thing is, that he doens't know that Agatha is meaning Wanda. He thinks she means his mother. the women who raised him. The women who told him, that hurting people is not the way. Who probrally told him, to use his magic for good. So when Agatha is saying in that mocking tone that he is like his mother as if this is something bad, he does not think about the Scarlet Witch he thinks about his mother Rebecca Kaplan.

[spacedace]

hey in your tags you mentioned a “batfam leverage au” can u explain what that is

Happily! :D

So I'm not sure if you're familiar with the show Leverage, but the quick summary is that it's about a group of "bad guys" (a hacker, a hitter, a grifter, a theif and the mastermind that directs them all) that help people who have been hurt by the rich and powerful by using their skills to pull heists and cons on the bad guy of the episode to ruin them and get back whatever was taken/right whatever was made wrong.

It's an amazing show that I can't recommend enough, very clever, very funny, big found family vibes and an OT3 that's *this close* to being canon (and has been supported by the writers). The heists are amazing and it's all around an AMAZING show.

Anyway, the BatPham Leverage Au is basically just: a collection of DP & BatFam members join together to make a robin hood heist team like in the show Leverage. I have a couple versions of the BatPham Leverage AU rattling around my head, but most fleshed out right now are:

Business of Family - the Uncle Oz AU (Penguin Adopts Jazz & Danny): My plan for this story is for Jazz and Danny to decide to start running heists in Gotham on the people in the city that tend to fly under Batman's radar but who are still very much doing a lot of harm to the city and it's people. The Leverage AU part of this story is going to have Jazz as the Mastermind, Jason as the Hitter, Tim as the Hacker, Danny as the Thief/Maker (basically engineer), and Elle as the Grifter (shapeshifting Elle for the win lol).

Another Leverage AU I've been thinking about for awhile but that I haven't turned into a story yet is one where Team Phantom (Danny, Jazz, Sam, Tucker & Elle) are tasked with finding and returning various Infinite Realm artifacts that have ended up in the mortal world. And for some reason Gotham has just so many Infinite Realm artifacts in it. Like most of the artifacts in the world are in Gotham for some wild reason (it's Gotham there doens't need to be more of a reason).

They're on the run from the GIW/Fentons, so they're trying not to advertise any ghostly/liminal powers if they can help it, so they largely do heists without powers (minus Tucker doing all his hacking and everything from the Ghost Zone and some occasional invisibility/intangibility when it's called for, but they really do try and keep any power use to a minimum).

In this AU, Jazz is the Mastermind (again, because I love that role for her haha), Tucker is the Hacker, but that's when I can't quite decide who should be who.

I love the idea of Sam being a Hitter, but I think she'd be able to play Grifter pretty well knowing the rich as well as she does, Danny would love being a Hitter and being able to fuck some assholes' shit up while being completely feral but he could also still be a good Thief. Elle could go either Grifter again, but I like her as a Theif in this one, maybe running into Damian in the vents while she's trying to get into a vault or something lol. (I think it'd go with Danny: Hitter, Sam: Grifter, Elle: Thief, but I have no idea if that'll stick if/when I ever write this lol)

Whatever the team looks like, because there are so many artifacts in Gotham & because they can't just use their powers willy-nilly to grab them and run, they're going to be in Gotham for a long time, possibly years. Which means they need some kind of side hustle to pay the bills, which leads them to doing more heists, but this time on various rich assholes that deserve to lose a bunch of money.

Eventually they get on the Bats radar, and there'd be some fun cat & mouse back and forth with the BatFam trying to catch the Phantom Crew (Danny shouldn't be allowed to name things, but he already told Red Robin that was their team name before anyone could stop him). Eventually the GIW do show up and things start getting even more complicated (and maybe someone activates an artifact, resulting in a powerful entity being released in Gotham that they all have to team up to fight).

I have no name for this au other than the DP X DC Leverage Au, but I do know that'll have plenty of Anger Management, Brain Dead (or really Brain Dead + Everlasting Trio, don't know what the ship name for that is), Serious Chaos.

It'll also have Batman aggressively trying to adopt them all because he doesn't actually have anything against them stealing from these assholes as long as they don't hurt anyone. They're acting outside of the law yes but they're doing it in order to give justice to those who have been made victims by the system and he's all about that (the real final battle of the story is between Bruce & Selina who both want to adopt the Pham, who would like to know if they get a say in any of this - they don't).

[camelliagwerm]

hmmm, for oc questions: does bull ever meet arthur's family? how does that go or not go?

Ohh yes, he absolutely does and it's. a mixed bag.

The thing to note about House Trevelyan is that they are deeply Andrastian and very traditional. Safe to say a good bunch of them are not exactly... pleased with Arthur's choice. For them, it's more of a concern that Arthur has shacked up with a Qunari rather than another man, and not giving much of a damn about decorum in the process. But, if Arthur cared about the opinions of the majority of the family who treated him like a pariah because of his magic, he would've brought home someone more "suitable". But he didn't, and since then he's learned to stop people pleasing people who won't appreciate or respect him regardless of a choice he makes for himself. If his brother (Bann Trevelyan) gets mad about it, he can die mad about it.

But! His aunt Lucille — the closest thing Arthur had to a mother growing up — is the most important family member Bull is introduced to — Arthur briefly visits Ostwick after some reports of rifts pop up around the southern coast of the Free Marches after the events of Inquisition. If you will, please imagine Bull very carefully shaking Arthur's barely-clearing-5ft 80-something year old aunt's hand like she's made of glass. But she thinks he's delightful, he's very respectful towards her (Arthur explains to him that she was like a mother to him, sort of like how Bull had his Tama as they're making their way over to her estate) and most importantly, she's pleased her nephew is happy.

And then there's Matilda, Arthur's twin sister. She honestly heard the gossip (that the Inquisitor was having an affair with his bodyguard) before Arthur ever introduced him to her. She visits him at Skyhold some time after Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, Arthur and Bull have barely been together long enough as an official couple (for time reference, Arthur gives Bull the dragon's tooth the day before they're due to leave for Halamshiral.) So her first instinct is to draw Arthur aside and ask if everything's okay, that he's being treated well because if Arthur told anyone what Simon had been like towards the end of that relationship, it would be his twin — Matilda does feel somewhat guilty about that as she encouraged Arthur to pursue that relationship. She doens't want her brother getting hurt and Bull's first introduction to her is when she strides into the Herald's Rest like she owns the place, barely dispenses the introductions and tells Bull that if he hurts Arthur, he'll have hell to pay. Bull's gotta respect the sheer balls and reassures her Arthur's wellbeing is his priority (at this point, Arthur hasn't told him the details about Simon, but he's picked up enough and can tell Matilda's concerns aren't out of nowhere.) Honestly, Tilly would've been like that with whoever Arthur had ended up with.

The last family member who meets Bull proper is Eugénie, Arthur's niece and Matilda's eldest daughter. She's polite about it, but Bull can tell she's envious of them. Arthur got to choose his partner out of love, Eugénie doesn't get that luxury as an heiress whose inheritance is in freefall because her father chose the wrong Orlesian royal to fight for. Eugénie even tells Arthur on her wedding day that she doesn't get the luxury of being able to roll around in the hay with whoever passes her fancy. In short, she doesn't approve at first but does later give them both an apology a couple of years down the line.

[nekohime19]

Heart behind the lie # 24 : Good people can hurt you too

They settle and try a session about the pilgrims, it doesn't go well, but it doens't go bad either

The sun rays fell upon the sage's face, Sun Wukong frowned, disturbed by the warmth nipping at his skin, and tried to hide further in his lil bud, in vain. The sun was a persistent pest. The King woke up, fur disheveled and drool still falling on the side of his mouth, and narrowed his eyes at the porthole. It was quite early, the sun wasn't that high, but still it managed to bother him. He knew he should have made some curtains last night. Sun Wukong curled around his lil sage, and watched her sleep fondly, he wouldn't budge an inch before she woke up. Sock didn't like to wake up to an empty bed, she was bossy like that. 

Sun Wukong looked up when he heard sounds echoing in the other side of the room, he was greeted by the very unfamiliar, but also very cute, sight of an awakening Macaque. The warrior slowly rose, fur sticking up like an urchin and eyes still veiled by drowsiness, he yawned, fangs flashing in the morning soft light, and rubbed his face with his paws. He left his sheets and stretched, stilling a bit when he caught sight of the sage and stifly nodding at him. Sun Wukong nodded back, heart pounding inside of his chest, he wouldn't mind seeing that scene for the rest of his mornings. 

“‘m gonna take a walk.” Muttered the warrior as he left the room, Sun Wukong followed his silhouette with his eyes and, once he was sure he was alone, he collapsed on his lil sage and let his tail wag relentlessly. 

Sock woke up after a few more hours, she licked her cowlicks before allowing the sage to leave the bed. Together, they wandered a little on the airship and ended up in the kitchen, enticed by the smell of food. Pigsy was in the kitchen, bustling around the closets as he was preparing their breakfast, surprisingly enough, Macaque was also there. The warrior was nervously following the pig around, intently listening to him as the chef barked orders. 

“Never thought I would ever find you in a kitchen.” Snickered the sage as he eyed the warrior, not so subtly looking at his naked arms. 

“Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want. Why are you here?”Sighed Macaque, he looked from the pan he was working on and eyed the sage with suspicion. 

“I'm here to feed my lil sage!” Proudly declared the great sage as he picked Sock up, Macaque softened a little at the sight of her. “Sandy told me the cat food was around here…”

“Top left, the closet next to ya.” Replied the chef as he finished a batch of dumplings. Sun Wukong cooed happily and skipped to the said closet, he feed his demanding lil lady and watched her wolfing her food with fondness. 

“Is this the first time you are feeding her or is she just always this hungry?” Snorted the warrior, he left his pan and leaned over the countertop to watch the lil sage inhale her food. 

“She's a real walking belly.” Replied the sage. 

“Macaque! Is the rice done?”Asked the pig with furrowed eyebrows. 

“Almost!”Called Macaque, he turned towards the sage one last time and muttered “Well, I really gotta finish this rice. Or you'll have macaque rice for breakfast.”

“Eww, I don't want to eat your filthy fur.” Snickered the sage. 

“How dare-”

“Macaque! Flirt later, cook now!” The warrior spluttered, ears flickering in embarrassment and returned to his pan. The sage quietly snickered at his misery, enjoying the pout taking place on the other's face. “And if ya're just here to distract my helper, get out of the kitchen, Sun Wukong.” It was the sage's turn to be flustered, he quickly picked up his lil lady, who was happily licking her whiskers after her meal, and ran out of the kitchen with a hammering heart. 

He crossed paths with MK on the deck, the boy was swinging his staff around, probably trying to do some light exercise before breakfast. Sun Wukong observed him a moment before clearing his throat. The kid jumped, surprised, and turned towards him with a sheepish smile. 

“Oh, heyo Monkey King! You slept well?”

“Yeah, I slept with my lil sage, so I slept well.” Chuckled the sage as he played with his lil bud paws, making her wave at his mentee. MK snorted at that and approached him to pet Sock. The lil sage, ever the attention lover, meowed happily and nuzzled in the boy's palm. “You're doing some exercices bud ?”

“O-oh, yeah. You know we haven't been able to train much so I'm trying to stay in shape.”

“Hm, maybe we can train a little after breakfast, what do you say?” Proposed the sage, his mentee’s eyes lightened up instantly and he nodded frantically. Sun Wukong chuckled a bit and let his lil bud go when she started squirming in his arms, she probably saw some bird lingering around the ship and wanted to chase it away, she was awfully territorial after all. “You know… Macaque told me I hurted you, when I was feral. I'm sorry”

“O-oh, it's nothing, really. You weren't of sound mind so it's okay.”

“No it's not.” Cut the great sage, tone low. “Truth is I'm not a very good mentor. With how I dealt with the samadhi fire and all…I'm sorry I put you through that.”

“Well… it's okay, we all make mistakes. I made mistakes all the time.”

“Yeah but I'm not supposed to make mistakes. I'm supposed to protect you.” Sighed the sage, maybe having this sort of talk while he was still in his pinch-printed pajamas wasn't the best idea, he felt nervous. 

“Everyone makes mistakes, Monkey King.” Softly replied his mentee. 

“Not me.” Muttered the King, the phantom touch of the circlet tickling his forehead. They were fortunately cut by the dragon girl before they could delve deeper in their talk. He didn't want to talk about it any further. He knew one sorry wasn't enough to atone for his wrongdoings, but it only meant he would have to work harder, to be better. Sometimes, he wished the circlet was still there, it was easier when he could atone himself through pain. He brushed his somber musing away when he followed the kids to the lounging room. He took his plate from Macaque and muttered with a playfully tilt : “Hope it's not poisoned.” 

“I make no promise.” Replied the warrior with a fanged smile, he sat next to the sage and dug in his own plate. To his great pleasure, the dish wasn't poisoned, he ignored the proud smile blossoming on the warrior's lips when he wolfed down the rice. Even if it was good, he wasn't going to feed Macaque's ego. 

“Why were you helping Pigsy?” Asked the sage after he put his bowl down.

“...Well, he was the last one I didn't talk to…you know, concerning the whole LBD mess and how I wasn't… kind with you guys.”

“You were making amends…”

“You can word it like that, I guess.” Like each time Macaque tried to interact with the group, Sun Wukong was torn between two very opposite feelings. He was proud that the other was trying to be better, but he couldn't help the bitter pang that tore his heart, the jealous thing hissing in his chest (Why did Macaque never try with the pilgrims?). It was unfair to think like that, he knew it, but he couldn't help himself. “You're okay?” Macaque's question pulled him out of his thoughts, he shook his head and awkwardly smiled at the other. 

“Yeah, yeah, I'm okay.”

“You know, I talked with Sandy a bit earlier, and he said that if you're up to it we can keep doing our therapy sessions…”

“Oh, that would be cool.”

“Yeah… if you're free we can do it in the afternoon?” Tentatively asked Macaque as he played with the tip of his tail. 

“Yeah.” Gulped the sage, tail thumping happily besides him. 

“Cool.” Muttered the warrior, he took their empty bowls and helped Pigsy clear the table. Sun Wukong let his eyes follow after him, as they often did when Macaque left a room, and tied his tail on his leg to stop its joyous thump. The last thing he wanted was to make a fool of himself before Macaque.

Once everything was cleared Sun Wukong followed MK outside. He trotted towards his lil bud, who was lazily sunbathing on the deck, and drowned her in coos before seriously taking place in front of his mentee. 

“Let's spar a little without your staff, then we can work a bit on your magic.” Proposed the sage, MK took place and they began to exchange blows. The sage had decided to teach his mentee some hands to hands combat at Macaque's recommendation, he hated to admit it but MK was pretty defenseless without his staff. The kid took the lessons fairly well, even if he did struggle a bit with hand movement. The sage only wanted to teach him basic martial arts for now, he would ask Macaque later (seeing as he was more knowledgeable in this matter) which style suited MK better. 

They spared a little, evading the other's fist, blocking it with the side of their hand, and exchanging blows after blows, sweating under the rising sun. MK was still struggling with balance (probably because he wasn't used to fighting without his staff) but he did quite well nonetheless, going as far as to avoid the sage's tail, a trick he always fell for on their first lessons. They stopped after a bit, the fight ending without real victor, and Sun Wukong decided to check the kid's magic. 

“So I heard Macaque helped you with your cloud and all. Any progress ?”Asked the sage.

“Well, it's still hard to keep it together, but I can summon it for a bit longer!”Excitedly explained his mentee. Sun Wukong was pleased with this answer, he watched, with fond eyes, as MK tried to summon his cloud and succeeded in keeping it for a few seconds. Sun Wukong was generally the kind of teacher that liked to let MK experience something with his senses, his body, whether it'd be magic or combat, before explaining it fully. Macaque was the complete opposite, he liked to explain the concept of it to MK, to let him grasp the theory, before letting him practice. And while MK learned fairly quickly with his way of teaching, he seemed to be more receptive to Macaque's way with more complex matter, like the cloud. And if the knowledge that Macaque was a better mentor in certain aspects could have wounded his ego a few months prior, now it only filled him with warmth. 

They complemented each other in their teaching. He preached patience and inner peace, pushing MK to feel with his body, to let his senses guide him through his battles. Macaque was teaching decisiveness and selfishness (something important in any battle if you wanted to get out of it alive), he explained every mystery to MK, let him understand the way everything worked, for him to have a better grasp on who he was and what he was capable of. Like always, they were like the two faces of the same coin, the sun and the moon, opposites but complementary. 

Sun Wukong decided to end the training after a few more hours, he could see the dragon girl shuffling in place while waiting for MK in the corner of his eyes. The sage watched with bewilderment as his mentee was tackled and dragged elsewhere by Ao Lie's descendant, the poor boy was still sweating from their spar, he could barely catch a break. Sun Wukong trotted towards his lil bud and petted her lovingly, she rolled around and showed her fluffy belly. He hesitated a little but submitted easily, like always. The second he dared to touch the floof he was mercilessly bitten. 

“Why do you let Macaque rub your belly and not me?”Whined the sage as he sat beside her. “I'm supposed to be your favorite!” Sock looked up at him with an unimpressed face, at least as unimpressed as a cat could muster, and turned away to resume her nap. Sun Wukong wailed as if he was pierced by a poison coated blade and spent the next hour lamenting his fate beside his lil bud. He lightened up when Sock liked his snout, probably to shut him up, and finally let her nap in peace. 

He didn't do much for the rest of the day, he decided to mimic his lil lady and found a good spot under the sun, letting the warmth glide over his fur and appease his mind. He only moved when midday came, and skipped eagerly towards the lounging room to get his meal. After another well-cooked dish, he followed Macaque to their room and they both waited for Sandy to appear. 

The tea-lover entered a few seconds after they both decided to sit on Sun Wukong's bed for this session, as usual, cups of tea were served and they waited for a couple of minutes before beginning anything, letting themselves take in their surroundings and their inner state before delving in their pain. 

“It's a bit of a peculiar situation, but I'm willing to do this if you both want to.” Softly began the tea-lover. 

“Thank you for that Sandy, you really put up with a lot for us.” Awkwardly chuckled the King, he saw Macaque nodding in the corner of his eyes. “I guess I wanted to talk about something…” Admitted the sage as he slightly turned away. There was one thing he was curious about, one thing that bothered him. Sandy told them that repressing feelings will only make them sick, until everything blows up in the worst of ways, and Sun Wukong didn't want to let his feelings fester inside of him until they poisoned his way of seeing Macaque. He will express himself, even if his words might trigger the other. 

“Go on, Mister King.” Encouraged Sandy. 

“Well, I noticed how you're getting closer to the group, you know.” Muttered the sage as he awkwardly scratched his neck, tail nervously flickering in his back. 

“Yeah, I'm trying, at least.” Replied Macaque as he rubbed one of his arms, a tell-tale sign of his anxiety. 

“And it's great that you do that. And don't take it the wrong way, but I guess it makes me a bit bitter.” Macaque didn't reply to that, and judging by the way his eyebrows shot in confusion, he didn't understand what the sage meant by this. 

“And why is that, Mister King?” This was the moment of truth, what he would say could be the opening lead to a very tense, but very necessary talk, or it could drive Macaque away from him. Nonetheless, he wanted to do it, if he worded it carefully he might be able to avoid triggering the other. 

“I just… guess it makes me bitter when I see you trying to be better for the group when you never tried with the pilgrims.” Macaque tensed, each inch of his skin stilling. The warrior breathed slowly, perhaps to calm himself, and took one sip of his cup. 

“They're not the same people. And it's not the same situation.” Sighed Macaque as he put his cup down. 

“Well, yeah. Fair. Guess it's just wishful thinking on my part.” Muttered the King as he played with the tip of his tail, trying to calm his frying nerves. 

“It would have never happened either way.” Sneered the macaque, he crossed his arms and dived deeper in the bed, perhaps to distance himself. 

“...I think you would have liked Ao Lie though. He was-”

“Wukong.” Cut Macaque, tone tight. “It doesn’t matter what their personalities were. I would never have gotten along with the likes of them.”

“What do you mean by the likes of them?” Repeated the sage with the hint of a growl in his voice. 

“You really want to do that right now? You know how it's gonna end.” Warned the macaque as he curled on himself. 

“Maybe, but it doesn't mean I can let you say whatever.” Scoffed Sun Wukong, anger flaring in his chest. 

“Isn't the point of this to let me say whatever, to let me express myself ? If you want to talk about it, then don't be mad because you don't share my feelings.” Macaque turned towards him with eyes of steel. The sage immediately felt his rage sizzle out and he looked down. Macaque was right, he needed to clear his heart beforeall, if not, this particular conversation would only hurt them both. 

“Sorry. I-I just…it makes me mad when you talk about them like they're evil.”

“Well it makes me mad when you talk about them like they're saints.” Mumbled the warrior, they stood in an awkward silence, letting their words ring in the room. “I saw you training MK, this morning, how did he do?” Asked Macaque, a very awkward way to change the subject, but Sun Wukong indulged it nonetheless. 

“Good. Your lessons with the cloud really helped him, thank you for that.” Replied the sage, he tried to lighten his tone, but there was a lingering bitterness in it he was unable to completely chase away. Macaque sighed at that, probably sensing the tightness in his voice, and messed with the end of his shirt. 

“Do you really want to talk about the pilgrims?” Tentatively asked the warrior.

“... I mean we do have to talk about it at one point.” 

“You're not gonna like what I will say.”

“I know. But I'll try to listen…”

“I'll try too then.” Macaque stopped fiddling with his hanfu and let himself fall on the bed, he stared at the ceiling, perhaps trying to choose the right words. “I don't like the pilgrims.” Sun Wukong winced, caught off guard by the spite in the other's tone. “More precisely, I don't like them because they hurts you, and because they're the reason you… ended me, ended us.”

The sage tightly gripped his sheets, claws slightly ripping the cloth. It was hard to hear this, but he promised himself to not let anger blind him, he wanted to do this. If he wanted Macaque to hear him, he had to hear Macaque. 

“They're not… I can see why you would think that but… they weren't bad with me… And what happened between us was my fault, not theirs.” Muttered the sage, breath slow and labored. 

“... What? What do you mean they weren't bad with you? Wukong, you literally have a scar because of them.” Sighed the warrior, he looked defeated, almost as if he lost the most important battle of his life. 

“Well, yeah. But I deserved it.” Replied the sage, he tried not to think about the fact Macaque knew about his scar. “I was… I needed to be taught, to atone.”

“Not like this. You were chaotic, but you never deserved this, you were never evil. Everyone made mistakes. Would you be fine if MK was treated like you were because he made a mistake?” Sun Wukong tensed at the thought, the mere idea of MK living what he endured was revolting, his fur bristled and he flashed a hint of a fang. 

“MK don't deserve this.” 

“Then why do you think you do?” Asked the warrior as he put a hand over his face to hide his expression. 

“...I'm not like MK. I'm… I was bad.”

“I never once thought you were bad and I was with you for all of your foolish years. Why do you believe what they told you more than me when I was the one you spent your youth with?” Sun Wukong flinched, letting the words sink in his heart. It was at the same time soothing and wounding to hear this, to hear that he didn't deserve pain. 

“Macaque I ruined our lives. How can you say I wasn't bad?

“You didn't ruin it. You're not… the only one to blame.” Macaque turned towards him and sighed when he caught sight of his flickering tail, the appendage was seized by nervous twitches. “Look, I know you like the pilgrims. But even so, don't just brush away what you endured as if it didn't hurt you. It makes me mad to see you… like this. You're allowed to be hurts, or mad.” Macaque rose from the bed and brushed away the glistening tears shining in the edge of his eyes. “Sometimes, it's not the people you hate that hurts you.”

The warrior left the bed and drank the last drops of his tea. 

“I don't think we can keep talking about this.” Mumbled the macaque. 

“Why?” Asked the King, he shivered at the way Macaque looked at him. 

“Because you don't believe a word of what I'm saying and you're just trying to reign in your anger.” Sun Wukong flinched, ashamed of being caught that easily. “And I… I don't think I'm ready to hear you either. To hear that they were good, in some aspects. Not today.” Macaque nodded at Sandy and walked away with a shy : “I'm not mad. Just tired.” Disappointed crossed the sage's mind, and it hurts almost more than the last time they fought during a therapy session. 

“Well, that didn't go well. I think I almost like it better when we scream at each other. It's better than him being disappointed in me.” Sadly chuckled the sage. 

“I don't think he's disappointed in you, but more of the fact you both can't agree.” Softly replied Sandy. “But I must say, Mister King, nobody deserves pain.”

“Are you siding with Macaque? I'm telling you they weren't bad people.” Muttered the sage. 

“They don't need to be bad people to hurt you. Mister Maquawke hurts you, but he's not bad, or do you think he is?”

“It's… Macaque is a complicated person.” Sighed the sage. Sandy, ever the sweetheart, chose to not insist when he picked out how uncomfortable Sun Wukong was with this particular subject. “Looks like we're approaching our destination.” Muttered the King as he gazed at the porthole, and the shadows of mountains he could see far in the landscape. 

“I better go steer this ship then. Are you gonna stay here, Mister King?” 

Sun Wukong looked at the door for a few seconds, he was almost tempted to go out and search for Macaque, but he decided not to and curled in his bed. 

“Yeah, I'm gonna take a nap.”

Sandy softly nodded at him and left quietly, not after leaving another cup of the sage's favorite tea behind. The King laid still on his sheets, thinking about Macaque's words. He couldn't understand him. He couldn't fathom that another could even think he didn't deserve what he endured.

Because if he didn't deserve it, then why was he hurt?

If he wasn't bad, then why did his master punish him? 

Did they all simply hate him to the point they wanted to see him squirm in his own blood? 

Did Guanyin, Tripitaka and the Buddha himself loathe him so much they wanted to see him crumble? 

Everyone made mistakes, they say, but did that apply to beings such as Guanyin and the Buddha? Did they make mistakes? It was easier to think he deserved it, easier to think he was tortured because he needed to atone himself and not because the whole wide world hated him and wanted him to taste his own blood. 

His thoughts were broken by very familiar moews, Sock barged in in the room and jumped on him, rubbing her fluffy head in his arms. 

“I swear, you have a sad monkey detector somewhere.” Chuckled the sage as he cuddled his lil bud. “Every time I'm upset, you always know somehow.” 

He hid in his lil lady fur, soothed by her purrs. Maybe he shouldn't think about that, he was too tired for this sort of musing. 

A nap sounded good for now. 

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[not-goldy]

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"since we're sharing trauma" where? Who said that? I didn't..??? Also sorry that you grew up in such a horrible environment. But neither me nor jk grew up in such (based on how he talks about his family).

"if i was at jm's place i would have stayed away from such kid" hm i would have done the same and do wonder why jm didn't do the same but then i remember how exactly is his nature. I'll give you an example yrs ago jm went to everyone's solo MV shoot. No one went to jm's but did jm held it against anyone? Did he thought that they didn't come for me so i won't go for them as well? No. He does his things as what he think is he should be doing as a good supportive friend. Same thing this solo era even tho only yg and hsk went to meet him physically jm was the only member who went for each and every member to support them physically. Thing is he cared for jk say as his brother cause jk is same age as his own younger brother. Thought that he should take care of jk like that. It's not just jk that he took care of it's everyone he takes care of that's in his nature to be like everyone's hyung. You should see him with people who are younger than him and how much he gives them comfort and cares for them. Taehyung is same age as him but he still babies taehyung. Just because you are shit to him doesn't mean he's suddenly gonna start acting shit to you again that's in his nature. His astrology says that he's got traits where he tends to give alot to people even if he doesn't get same in return. It's his personality trait.

if jk was 13 then jm was 15 see how old jm is than jk right??

It doens't hurt y'all to accept that jk was brat when he was young, he did got some shitty habits like when he himself said he had a habit like "what's mine is mine and what's yours is also mine" that's a shitty habit to have but with time he understood it's not a good habit and changed it with all the boys being around him. He changed that habit because of those 6 boys around him.

no one ever questions if jk hates taehyung why? Does anyone ever questioned if jk hates hobi? Jk hate jin?? did anyone ever questioned if jk hates any other members? Then why jm??? Cause that's exactly how it looked on the cam (not hate but as if he doens't like being around jm in early yrs). You tell me why the three members said No when they asked if jk likes jm.

I get that the fandom is full of tkkrs and things like these are widely spread by them but then there's actually some content where jk has been mean to jm which anyone can use against them. For example vminkook were doing live and jm said this is my bare face in cam and jk's immediate respose was "ugly right?" Wow such a cool thing to say to someone who's insecure about his looks right goldy??? Have any explanation for these kinda moments??? As i said he himself has given some material where people thought he doesn't like jm and that's when the question was raised and that's why jm also chose the question to ask him whete three members said No. Do you have any explanation why 3 members said No??? I'm all ears please do tell me.

I don't know why you are conflating Adult Jimin with young Jimin- no, young Jimin would not have gone to support people who don't support him, matter fact adult Jimin wouldn't either if he felt bad vibes from the person.

He's not a pushover. He has standards and self respect. I refuse to believe a man who stood up to his best friend and told the one man he claims he loves he was cutting him off would support people who don't support him.

Same person who said he loves those who love them and scream fuck haters on his song??????????

We have very different views of who he is as a person.

He can be very kumbaya but only to a point. To a limit. Push against that limit and you will find out.

Lmao, no one is saying Jungkook wasn't moody angsty bratty as a teen, its something BTS themselves point out over and over and namjoon explained he went through a teenage rebellious phase as well and they all had to learn to deal with that.

The hyungs and Tae have approached this phase with much maturity, empathy and compassion, explaining how Jungkook would cry a lot cos he missed home etc.

We just saying we not gonna hang him demonize him villianiize him for being a normal teenager and for dealing with normal development challenges that comes with being a teen.

All I'm hearing from you is attempts to justify why you hate a teen for his actions towards other teens. You sound like you would make for an abusive parent, a bad teacher and baby sitter- stay away from children. You can't handle them. And pray to God if ever you have children none of them struggle with complex difficult emotions cos you sound like you'd be the kind of parent who would further traumatize them if they do.

You are giving one child is a model child preferred child favorite child because he plays by the book but oh the other is such a bane in your existence.

Do you.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Actually, I wonder if that's why he believes in Shouto's ability to become #1. Fire is actually very limited in what it can do, we know he chose ice because it makes up for his weaknesses. But in his mind is it "I am #2 with only fire, Shouto has fire and ice so that's instantly better. He will be better than me and that means #1."

Also in CC, do any of his kids know about Hikari or is that an accidental secret? Not really talked about so no one other than Enji and Rei know about it?

Honestly yeah that's the whole point!

Also re: Hikari!

pretty much everything about Enji and Rei's lives pre-marriage and children are just. A mystery to the kids.

They don't talk about their families. There's been occasional mentions of people, and that was more common when the kids were younger. Like like like. Toya and Fuyumi very solidly remember having Selkie as an uncle, but he and Enji have a falling out later so Shoto and Natsuo really don't remember him much.

And yeah there's. There's bits and pieces that the kids have put together. Fuyumi has seen the box of momentos Enji keeps buried in the closet (but she was a kid playing hide and seek so she didn't understand it at the time). Toya knows that the CD collection he got as a 15th birthday present belonged to someone else, but he doens't know who. They know that Enji and Rei's marriage was initially something arranged, but they don't know how much choice she had(on this end at least) or what kind of people her parents were and why they were arranging the marriage.

(This is actually me working with the different stories we get in Canon. Because at one point during a flashback, Toya(about 10 I think?) says that Rei was sold because her parents were so poor they had no choice. But then we get the story from Geten of the Himuras being wealthy old money who arranged marriages because they were obsessed with a pure bloodline.)

It's just a thing that they really wanted to avoid talking about because it's the. You know you get super emotional talking about shit that hurt. Plus for most of the time there was the excuse that the kids were to young to fully understand. Or there's some bits and pieces that they don't even think they need to talk about because it's definitely something normal and not at all traumatic!

[unstatedmartini]

to me it's really absurd that rafa is like 'wow he was a shitty friend to iris and he has to come to terms with that' my dude you've been a shitty partner and fiance for hiding this? and tk doens't even get to be angry about it?

i don't know what to tell you! you are absolutely welcome to your opinion, you're not going to catch me arguing that people don't have the right to feel however they feel about soap opera twists on the wee woo show. i just...i get it. from a character perspective i totally get it. i get why carlos lied, i get why he kept lying, i get why his focus is more on being a shitty friend (not maintaining the relationship with iris which could have hurt her) than being a shitty partner (keeping this secret which in his head was only hurting him). i get it!

that being said tk would have been well within his rights to be pissed, but he chooses to be forgiving instead because he loves carlos and he understands what a deeply generous and loving and sweet and also insecure and anxious and occasionally dishonest person he's marrying, and he chooses to love ALL of him not just the nice shiny parts

and i just love that!! i love stories about messy imperfect people choosing to love and forgive and grow with one another more than pretty much any other kind!!!!!

[thewritersaddictions]

Drabble: Joel Miller- Dad Jokes

Did Joel always have such a rough exterior? Yeah, he did with people that he didn't know, or while he was trying desperately trying to keep himself protected.

Joel was a creature of habit. A set of things that made him comfortable, but now that had been taken and ripped away from him. Right in front of him, in his arms, he had the joy of life sucked out of him.

He stayed cold for many years. Cold to the touch and cold to the heart. Nothing not even what you thought he was supposed to sound or feel like was Joel anymore.

Joel tried for the longest time to keep emotions and anything that would or could hurt him at bay. emotions of his daughter dying in his arms. Shove that deep down in his chest, away from the burning light of the next morning sunrise. Knowing that he wasn't able to protect Tommy from joining the Firefiles. He shoved that one down too. Everything that was hurting him was shoved further and further into the pit of his stomach. It left Joel feeling heavy and angry.

The pain didn't stop there though. He turned numb and just like that he was trusted back into the realm of love and friendship. Tessa, god she was so damn straight with Joel. She was the sweetest person that Joel had met since his daughter Sarah. She was everything that kept him going even though he wanted nothing more than to be with his daughter once more.

But love is a bitch and she takes even the best things from people who don't deserve it. Tessa bit, too many emotions clouded Joel's mind as he tried to figure out how they had gotten here. How he had somehow ended up with a girl not far from Sarah ages when she passed away. How had he gotten here back to taking care of another person.

Sure Joel had tossed the idea around in his head. Was Ellie more than cargo or was she just that. Had Ellie and Joel's time together meant anything like his time with his daughter. There was that but there was also something different, For years Joel had yearned for that role of a protector all over again. He wanted someone who he could protect to make up for the loss of his daughter. Not a replacement but for forgiveness.

Maybe Ellie was that forgiveness, Maybe Sarah had in some god-like way Ellie in his path. Maybe Sarah was trying to help him come to a realization that the anger and self-pity could be turned into something worth it again. Something that would make a difference in the bleak world they now lived in.

It took longer then excepted for Joel to come around. For Joel to be comfrotable with Ellie being around him. Relying on him, wanting to learn more about the world that she had been lied to about by FEDRA

He gathered his thougths when he went to Bill and Franks. He didn't want to let her go, not to the tw ofo them. He was good friends with Frank and Bill, but he had been taking care of ellie for to long already now.

"Joel?" Ellie asks him softly in the dark night. "What Ellie?" "Do you have any dad jokes?" Ellie asks. She tired it's in her voice but still she asks through her long yawns. Pushng sleep away, Joel can't help but think back to sarah. his heart squezzes a little at the thought.

He remembers a few. A few of Sarahs favorite that her dad used to use on repeat. Sarah would laugh loudly. A hand on her stomach as it ached from laughing so damn much. Joel smiles at the thought of his daughter with a wide smile on her face, bright eyes that loved him. "yeah I think i've got a few in my back pocket. Why do you wanna know?" Joel asks Ellie. It rough on the extorit his question. He doens't mean to sound like an asshole that just how he sounds nowadays.

"Well will you tell me a few?!" Ellie says. Joel looks over at Ellie. The truck isn't that big but he's been looking up at the roof of the truck. When he turns Ellie looking at him with those child-like eyes. One that are waiting for adventure, ones that are waiting;yearning to grow up quicker then they have to.

"Cool it kid, but yeah." Joel says he gives a few seconds for the air between the two of them to cool down. "Have you ever heard the chocolate record player?" Ellie brows scuch together. Joel has to push down the smile growing rearing it ugly head. "It's pretty sweet!" Joel says finsihing the joke.

Ellie rolls her eyes. "Come on Joel you've got to have better ones!" Ellie complains. So, Joels thinks. "How do you make 7 even?" Joel asks. He's letting in the happiness spark by spark. 'Oh I know this one." Ellie says. Surpisingliy to Joel she get's it right. It reminds him of Sarah always a quick wit. "All you have to do is take the s away!" "Shit kid, you actually got that! Are you pulling my leg with these dad jokes?" Joel asks Ellie. She smiles and for a second there's a whole different person in the passenger seat next to him.

"Maybe Joel, but can you tell me one more?" Ellie asks a yawn interuptting her towards the end. "Sure kid." joel says. He starts thinking.

He's trying to think of one that will get a laugh out of Ellie. A deep, belly aching type of laugh out of her. He wants to see that same smile on Ellie face that he hadn't seen in more then twenty years. Joel wants to feel like he isn't here in the truck waiting and listening out for clickers or anything else that might be hauntig the both of them.

he wants to live in a dream for just a little longer. Joel wants to think and beilive that he's just driving across the country trying to find allthe best features that the country has to give. "okay Ellie, one more. Here we go," He looks over at her once more.

"I once got fired from a canned juice company. Apparently I couldn't concentrate." Joel can see the qucik looks cross over Ellie face, and then she's laughing. For what reason Joel doens't care. She laughng probably something she's never done not like this. She's a pure child, and for the first time in forever and a decade.

Joel feels happiness wrap around his cold heart.

Completed on: 02/22/23

Posted on: 02/22/23

Last Of Us-

A/n- This got out of hand, but I hope you enjoy a cute father x daughter between Joel and Ellie

[solarwynd]

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This fandom includes either a bunch of immensely intelligent people or straight up dumb asses who don't understand even simple normal things.

Idk what this fight and all was going on on twitter, i did saw it on my tl but i just can't into their stupidity. I thought armys were fighting with other fandoms regarding music promotions and the gun gesture and all.

When i saw the real a day ago all i thought was "wow" and i moved the heck on. The only other thing that thought was "oh they can film themselves while wearing army clothes that's good". That's because i know they're not allowed to film content while serving and can't get their voice recorded hence no military member was shown in any bangtan bomb.

Idk when people are going to get over military. see it was written that they were going to serve in the military the moment they were born as a South korean, Doens't Matter if they're BTS or what not. although i do believe the government should have taken into consideration how much BTS benefits the country and exempt them but that didn't happen and we already accepted it. I don't get this crying and throwing up everytime they see members. it's one thing you missed them it's another to always start some old discussions on tl every single time. Let those things rest bro. Do people not have common sense? Am i too old for these things? I'm 23 and idk if I'm being dramatic or it's them who's being dramatic.

I love jimin with my all heart, i treat him like he's my baby and feel protective towards him alot, he triggers the motherly instincts in me and i wouldn't want to see even a small thing hurting him, but i know he has accepted it even if it's forced. We can't keep going back to the same discourses again and again. Most of the times now days the crying on tl seems fake even. The same way armys have admitted to fake some extravagant tweets where they have literally accepted that they don't even feel those feelings they just tweet it. Those weren't regarding military of course but I'm saying some people are just doing it for the sake of it. They don't know what they're doing, don't know why they're boycotting, they want to boycott yet they're selling out all the merch like actions are just contradicting. others are following things like a ship who don't think for themselves and move in the direction majority is moving.

Idk why a video of the man dancing in his uniform be causing some guns and all kinda discourse as if all of them haven't held it during their training for the first two months. Like watch it and move bro it's NOT that hard.

“When i saw the real a day ago all i thought was "wow" and i moved the heck on. The only other thing that thought was "oh they can film themselves while wearing army clothes that's good".

Literally my same thought. I got happy because maybe that could mean jimin could promote pjm2 when the time came through a vid or something. Even though I feel like he probably wouldn’t. But anyway.

Armys have prided themselves (and BTS) on being the most conscientious fandom and group. In retrospect a lot of it was for their own gratification and lauding it over kpop fandoms out of self righteousness, but the outcomes were usually positive. Like the organizations that sprung up, the donations, raising awareness etc. So you know, fine. But just like kpop stans, the majority of armys also don’t really care about things until it starts to affect to their stanning experience or reflect on bts to the point they start feeling guilty. So some of them become obsessed with appearing morally superior, hyper analyze and need BTS to be infallible for their own piece of mind.

And some of them indeed are following the crowd mainly because they don’t want to get “canceled” for not actively being involved. Like what good is your so called activism if it’s only to keep a following on SOCMED? Being socially aware and taking initiative will never be a bad thing, but it really just looks like trying to upkeep a certain image that they made for themselves and it’s never been entirely genuine.

[hermiones-amortentia]

Let's talk about Hermione

Everytime I reread books I just get amazed how logical Hermione is and how much she prioritises the ultimate goal over any emotions. If you see her character she always tries to rationalize everything. Even people's feelings. Her explanation on Cho's feelings reflects her rational side more than her empathy. It's like 'oh it's obvious why she is feeling the way she is now. Because of this and this reasons'. Her straightforward logic why Lavender's bunny might have died weeks ago or a cat's job is to hunt rats or telling Harry she has been right all along about the potion book on the night Dumbledore dies. You can feel she struggles with consoling people and giving a shoulder to cry on. She doesn't do that. She tries to help them in her own way. But she will never give you a hug and tell you 'dont worry. Everything is gonna be alright. I am here'.

I don't think she is apathetic or emotionless. Hermione feels many things deeply. She can't stand people being mean to her friends(she actually loses her cool the moment Malfoy insults Hagrid. Not when he insults her), she gets offended and hurt by Ron pretty easily when he says anything insensitive. But somehow I feel she guards her emotions. She doesn't let them control her(well most of the time. Because 6th book proves even she can be irrational, illogical and an emotional mess). She probably fears that if she lets her heart make any judgment it won't align with her brain and logic.

She is always goal oriented. No matter how hard the situation is, she is always focused and determined towards the ultimate goal. During the horcrux hunt Ron's emotions take over his judgment. Harry is feeling hopeless. But Hermione's still focused. She gets hurt, emotional but unlike 6th year she doesn't let her emotions control her.

I think most of her irrational, illogical and emotional moments in the series are regarding Ron. In 1st book she cries in the bathroom and misses a class because of Ron. Something Hermione(that too a 1st year Hermione) doesn't do usually. Then she lies to professors when she could have told them the truth. She is miserable in 3rd year when Ron isn't talking to her and even apologizes to Ron once something is very rare for her character. Then her irrational jealousy about Fleur, Madam Rosemerta, Lavender, her breaking a legit school rule for no reason other than giving Ron an advantage. And the whole time she is being a mess when Ron is with Lavender...

Hermione doens't like to be ruled by her heart over her brain. When she feels 100 different emotions at once and that makes her act irrationally it scares her. That's why she guards her emotions. I feel like she thinks it makes her vulnerable and weak. But 7th book Hermione I think comes with the term that sometimes she needs to let go. Sometimes she needs to switch off her big brain and follow what her heart and emotions are saying.

I would love to see Hermione opening up about her feelings and emotions. A post war book about her growth and how she deals with PTSD, Career and ofcourse her relationship with her parents and Ron would be so amazing.

[ancha-aus]

RealAgeAU Drabble - Godly Intervention

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Reaper glances around for a moment as he searches Outertale. Trying to not be seen by any universe goers. He should be somewhere here...

Reaper makes sure to stay out of sight. best to not spread panic when he is seen in public.

Luckily this shouldn't be too hard.

Error is very predictable with where he hangs out.

The only reason it took Reaper this long to do this is because he is busy and at work.

He floats to the next asteroid and spots the one he had been looking for. He goes over and sees Error just tugged away between the rocks as he works on something in his hands. it looks like a beanie but it is rather small. It is very unlike Error to make somethign the wrong size when he sets his mind to it.

Error doens't even look up "No i don't know where the paint drinker is."

Reaper crosses his arms as he floats next to him "I am not looking for Ink. I was looking for you."

Error hums and keeps looking at his knitting "Will congrats. you found me. I am busy."

Reaper leans against the rock "This is not something that can wait Error."

Error sitll does not looking up "I am not in the mood for more god lessons Reaper."

Reaper just watches the other and speaks "I know you are hiding him."

Error's hand spasms before he continues knitting. One of the loop is now not the right size but Error ignores it "I don't know what you are talking about."

Reaper sighs "Error I know your magic. I know you put a wall of some sort around an universe. And I have seen the code change in other universes as well. I know you moved stuff around. You aren't nearly as sneaky as you think you are." and he glares at him "Which is why i am here. You need to be more careful."

Error actually stops and shoots him a curious glance "What?"

Reaper just stares at him "You need to be more careful and clean your tracks better. Your magic is very obvious and it is bond to get noticed by other gods." he gives him a look "And Fate and Balance both will be deeply unhappy if they find out."Balance had not been happy when it became obvious that Dream, and so assumingly Nightmare, picked something outside her domain.

Fate hadn't minded much until it became clear that by their picks both of them could change the endings of certain stories.

Long and short of it. Both are deeply unhappy with the twins. But Dream had managed to find his inner punk and just told them he doens't see how that is his issue anymore as he doesn't work for or with either of them.

Again. Fate and Blance are very unhappy. Especially if they find out that Error of all gods knew where Ngihtmare has been hiding this whole time.

Error keeps frowning at him and looks to the side "How did you figure out?"

Reaper sighs as he rubs his neck "As i said. I felt your traces of magic all around. but i didn't know why. Then I saw a viewing window and could hear Killer shouting for Nightmare about dinner. I left before i learned more." plausable deniability. Makes it easier to lie to gods as long as a part of your answer is still the truth.

Error curses and nods "Fuck yeah. I will keep an eye on my windows... Not used to having people come by."

Reaper nods "You are lucky that Ink has the memory os a sponge."

Error snorts "please. If i was lucky he would ahve a working memory and i would havne't to remind him of the importance of destroying every few weeks... or our fucking truce for that matter." he glares into the distance.

Reaper sighs "Look. All I am saying. Stay safe and try to be more cautious. If Fate and Balance find out you are in trouble."

Error laughs "hah! Not like it matters. They hate me anyway."

reaper shoots him a serious look "They can seriously hurt you Error. your domain is connected to theirs."

Error shrugs "euh. They didn't care enough to stop the war between Ink and me. Why care about this?"

Reaper knows why. The two hate losing. and the twins finding a way to sneak out of their overwhelming domain? Yeah, they see that as losing.

Reaper sighs as he turns. He did what he came here for "I just figured you should know."

Error frowns "How much did you see? through the window?"

Reaper tilts his skull. strange but sure. "I saw nothing. just heard Killer calling for nightmare. I left right after that."

Error sighs in relieve and nods "good... Why are you even helping me?"

Reaper gives error a look before shrugging "You and Geno are friends." which is the loosest way to describe their situation and weird soul split kinda brother situation.

Error snorts loudly as he shakes his own skull "Your crush on him is hilarious by the way." he looks back to his knitting thing and starts to undo some of the work to get to the out of order loop. "And you call me obvious." Error snorts to himself.

Reaper glares at him "Just be less obvious." and he quickly leaves.

Sigh.

he will catch both of them for more god explanation and training later. He needs to do stuff.

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[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

Wait- y'all think jungkook is passive agressive towards taehyung? I mean i did get the vibe Sometimes like that but you can't say that out loud about "partners in crime" can you? Not that i care about amis just that i thought it'll be like me making jungkook look bad but seems like there are people who noticed too.

Remember that live in 2019 (ig) where taehyung was trying to say something nd jk was like "that's not important" again nd again that jm had to step in and shake him saying why's he not letting taehyung speak only then did jk said "ok you can talk before shut live or after this" something, then those cooking scenes from ITS2, then just from the concert DVDs where he's like hitting tae's butt playfully to get back his jacket, Then the"just because you're wearing green suit doens't mean you have to act like a frog" and many more. I know tkkrs love to portray how jk hates jm over small small things but imagine if jk did all this to jm? I don't see jungkook acting like that towards jm. Even in their last live where taehyung says "I'm listening to you jm so please speak" and everyone's like what? Then tae be like "y'all weren't listening to him" and jk literally said "we were all listening to jimin/we were all responding to him only" lol. Ain't no way jm's talking and jk will not listen or interrupt him intentionally.

Now a question to you have you ever thought jk and jm were bitc* or passive aggressive towards each other? Any incidents?

Jungkook looking bad? More like him coming across as more relatable. We're all acting bitchy sometimes, even about unimportant things. It's normal. Look at Chloe Sevigny now making dull people angry on twitter cause she said she's had it with athleisure and people always with their pets out and about in NY. She's right, she shouldn't be booed. And Tedros needs to be taken down a peg sometimes. Jimin is feeding his delusions (no, he cannot become a better dancer), but Jungkook is right there to make sure no one gets ahead of themselves 😄 That last wlive was funny.

Now, this is not because of my biased opinions (honestly), but my poor memory cause I was trying to think of Jikook being bitchy with each other, but I can't think of anything specific. They used to have that scolding thing going on, but there was usually nothing mean underneath. Like, despite any arguing we saw on camera or annoyance, it's like they were making sure no feelings were actually hurt. Even when they were young. And no, I do not need or have the time to entertain age old stories and boring arguments about JK "hating" JM in the beginning or being hurtful. No one bring that to my inbox cause I'm just gonna roll my eyes and delete. Move on

Being bitchy for the sake of it means not caring about that at all. I'd know, lol.

[blue-sterling0357]

Don't mind me slipping in, only minutes after you opened your inbox but I was jsut thinking about your michaelis family au and was wondering how was sebby's parents life before they were in love with each ther, can i have hcs on that along wih the kids finding out about their love story!!!!

(lovely idea! It is not often somebody asks me these things, but I love it! Like I L O V E I T !!!!)

Sebastian Michaelis's parents, Lady.Aurmelle X Sir.Alistair Michaelis HCs (before the Michaelis kids were born...)

✥ Aurmelle, a quarter-demon, met Alistair when she doing a contract as a maid for a man in the 1100-1200s, when he aksed her to accompany him to a meeting with his enemy because he wanted to have a truce with him, incase he tried to assassin him.

✥ Upon entering the room, Aurmelle who used to go by 'Abigail' at the time immediately sensed the presence of another demon in the room and got defensive of her master's soul, and Alistair who used to go by 'William' also got defensive of this half-demon wandering near his meal.

✥ Upon seeing each-other they knew that the other was a demon as well and despised each-other, probably as during such old time, it was extremely common for demons to try to take another demon's master's soul as well as their own master's soul. They were also severely hostile towards each-other, until Abigail went her way after finishing her contract and they didn't meet each-other for another few decades.

✥ After meeting again, Aurmelle has recently devoured a few souls and didn't have the need to work a contract for a certain while to satiate her hunger and thus could just explore the world between humans under the disguise of "Aurmelle", when she was going shopping when she bumped into William, uinder the name "Alistair", yet they both instantly knew each-other's scent.

✥ Though, since this time Aurmelle wasn't in a contract and explained how she wasn't in need of a soul, did Alistair excepted her to be a bit close to his master, and eventually his master took her in as a servant, where both the demons worked together for hours on end.

✥ Eventually, Alistair and Aurmelle both fell in love with each-other and got into a relationship, upon revealing their relationship to their master, Alistair's master got Aurmelle accused for witchcraft for seducing his trusted servant to try and get information for other witches and got her hurt.

✥ This severely angered Alistair and he ended up killing the whole village, broke his contract earlier and ended up devouring many souls and made Aurmelle devour many too, which resulted in both having human emotions for quite sa long time which helped them live away and between humans better.

✥ Alistair and Aurmelle didn't have to make contracts for a long time but needed to do work for support their house. As they were now more free, they could do things any couple could.

✥ Alistair would often get Aurmelle flower's with special meanings behind each and every single one, Aurmelle thus learnt the whole flower language, so it wouldn't take her so long to translate her beloved's message for her.

✥ Alistair, who soon ended up marrying Aurmelle after a short time of their relationship, met many other beings, including a half-siren and half-demon named Meribella, who had a extremely blood-thirsty, immortal, cannibalistic, superhuman husband, who tried to kill him on multiple purposes, but after understanding his love-sickness of his wife, he understood why he would try to kill someone of the opposite sex who tried to get near his spouse cause in honesty he would do that too and became good friends with him.

✥ Upon getting married, Alistair would often design and create outfits for his wife, as his wife who used to make her own clothing as to hating the society's designs wouldn't use the needle and hurt or prick her delicate fingers, also because he doens't want to see his wife work.

✥ As they got married, they would travel around the world and would often find people who'd try to summon them in exchange for something, but since they didn't have a need to devour souls, they turned those humans into half-demons so they could get their revenge on their own without needing any help, and after they were done with their revenges, they didn't have a need to devour souls, but they lived forever and could eat human food normally, so as to have some company, Aurmelle and Alistair took them in as servants, who were more than happy to comply with that.

✥ Sooner or later, serving the couple, the servants quickly became a family with their masters and were overjoyed at the signs of Aurmelle's pregnancy and excited at a hopefully little kid joining their family.

✥ Sooner or later, Aurmelle got pregnant, during this time, Alistair was quite delicate, often bursting onto people as to the stress of being a good father and making sure his wife was alright. After the birth of their first child, who happened to have a tiny part of him human as well, curtsy to his maternal grandmother. The young demon named Sean, grew up to be quite like his father, in matter of looks and personality.

✥ With a toddler Sean, Aurmelle got pregnant again, this time with another boy, whom though they didn't name, got the name 'Sebastian' for his looks being similar to that of his mother, whom named herself 'Sebastian' in one of her contracts where she was man, and after the second child, Aurmelle gave birth to two more kids, "Eleanor" and "Sillian", both of whom were a mix of both their parents.

✥ Growing up to be just as successful dmeons like their parents, had many great and famous contracts, and were absolutely chaotic, just like their parents, the siblings would often bicker and fight, but overall loves their faily of their siblings, parents and their uncles and aunties who were their servants...