#heart eyes @ them tbqh

[captainderyn]

I am Very Normal about finally getting a war-steed like I've been working towards for 10 years in this game mhm super normal about galloping around Rohan with Wulfwryn's Big Steed.

(Also exciting news: after 10 years (well, 4 since I made Wulfwryn) her name is officially Wulfwryn in game instead of Wulfwry. Shoutout to whoever finally coughed up the 'n' that's been taken for years)

[ultimateshixiongfuckertournament]

Noncanonicals Tournament Round 2, Match 4

Match 4 is between John 'Jack' Seward from Dracula (shizun/mentor: Abraham van Helsing) and Han Ying from Word of Honor (shizun/mentor: Zhou Zishu)

Propaganda under the cut! (Warning: Propaganda may include spoilers about the characters and their media)

John 'Jack' Seward:

Actual quotes from the letter in which John Seward introduce Van Helsing:

"I am in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of. I have written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of Amsterdam, who knows as much about obscure diseases as any one in the world. [...]

Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal reason, so no matter on what ground he comes, we must accept his wishes. He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy."

I feel like this speaks for itself tbqh.

Also, here's Van Helsing's answer to Seward's offscreen summons:

"When I received your letter I am already coming to you. By good fortune I can leave just at once, without wrong to any of those who have trusted me. Were fortune other, then it were bad for those who have trusted, for I come to my friend when he call me to aid those he holds dear. Tell your friend that when that time you suck from my wound so swiftly the poison of the gangrene from that knife that our other friend, too nervous, let slip, you did more for him when he wants my aids and you call for them than all his great fortune could do. But it is pleasure added to do for him, your friend, it is to you that I come.[...]"

The Gangrene Incident is never explained beyond this. Just. Jack sucked Van Helsing canon and real

Rest assured that they are like this from here to the end of the novel

--

See above; also, let's remember the fact that Jackie can apparently do a bang up Dutch accent to give full bodied performances mimicking his professor. Van H also implies that he and Jack are blood-married.

--

Even though they are mentor/student, Van Helsing strongly believes Jack is his equal in many ways and confides in him just for emotional stability. Stereotypically the mentor pushes the student outside of his comfort zone, but it is Jack who introduces the professor to everyone else in the story. Van Helsing tells another character that Jack helps alleviate his loneliness. He writes his "in case I die" memos to Jack specifically, because there is no one else who would understand him better.

Oh also Van Helsing has a running theme of barging into Jack's room unannounced, waking him up gently from his sleep, invading his personal space with little protest.

#you have to understand just how MUCH jack wants to fuck van helsing#so badly#he is constantly heart-eyes at van helsing even when he thinks van helsing might be a bit mad#like literally he writes about how GOOD van helsing would be at being a madman if he were to do so because he's the bestest at everything 😍#he and van helsing talk about the two of them being as one#they mirror the ultimate main couple in that - just as jon and mina write their 'if i should die' notes to each other -#van helsing writes his to JACK as the one whom he loves most#anyway in conclusion jack wants van helsing and his 'all encompassing sympathy' SO bad#and honestly i think getting some of that aged D might fix him#like not all of his problems because dear god man. but like. at least a few could be solved with a good solid dicking

#did we. or did we all not read jack asking van helsing to be his pet student AGAIN

#when it comes to mentorfucking#there's no greater mentorfucker than jack seward

Han Ying:

He idolized and was mentored by Zhou Zishu to the point of recruiting other young martial artists to revive ZZS’s dying sect and willing to die live happily ever after for it.

#han ying wants to fuck zhou zishu SO BAD#han ying#shizunfucker tournament

#my sweet ying'er wants to fuck zzs so bad he's gagging for it

#HAN YING HANDS DOWN#would have licked his boots if he asked

[full---ofstarlight]

wip wednesday

i just wanted to write out the full not magical gale scene tbqh. anyway, here's some steamy making out (nothing too spicy yet, idk if i'll ever finish this)

There’s a mischievous spark in her eyes. She kisses him again, and he grasps her waist with both hands, holding her firmly against this body. She’s warm. Not miraculously hot or unnaturally cold. Her skin does not pulsate with power. She is just warm and soft and her hair tickles his face. There is so much hair, thick and soft and full. Some of it gets caught between their lips. 

He wants to apologize. He feels like it’s his fault, somehow. But she simply brushes it out of the way and leans to kiss him again, parting his lips with her tongue. One of her hands pushes his hair back, her fingers gently raking against his scalp. The other is still firmly on his shoulder. She shifts her body so that she fully straddles him now. 

It’s the feeling of heat between them, heat coursing through his body and making his heart beat faster, that makes him pull away again. 

“Are you sure you want me like this?” he asks. “I can offer you so much more than… well, just me.”

“Gale,” she says, softly, and she looks at him so warmly that his breath hitches. “You don’t have to give me anything.” She touches the side of his face, her thumb brushing his cheek, and then leans to kiss him gently on the corner of his mouth. 

He still doesn’t know if he believes her, but before he can say anything else, she kisses his neck and the hand that is on his shoulder slides to his chest, right over his heart. He’s hyper aware of his heartbeat now — not just his heartbeat, but the aching void where the orb lies in false slumber. It doesn’t hunger like it once did, but Gale knows that this is temporary, that right there in his chest lies the arbiter of his own destruction.

Delvyre’s hand rests right over it. He reaches to curl his fingers over hers. Her lips meet his throat and he feels her tongue hot and wet against his skin. His breath hitches. She kisses down to his collarbone and then gently traces her lips over the dark magic that still stains his skin.

No, not the magic. Not the orb.

His heart.

Her lips brush against his heart, softly and gently, and for a moment he doesn’t feel that empty ache that throbs in his chest. 

A new kind of hunger overtakes him. A carnal one that engulfs him and burns through his body. From his lips, a groan escapes, and he grabs Delvyre’s hip to cant their bodies together.

She chooses this moment to sit up now, a satisfied smirk tugging up on her lips as she leans back, looking down at him. The moonlight hits her hair, turning the copper strands into gold. She trains her flame-licked eyes directly on him as she slowly unties the strings of her corseted top.

[saraminia]

Just going through something under the cut. Don't worry about it. I guess it was long overdue for a good cry.

Every now and then I'm hit with the fact that I will be alone for the rest of my life. And it's nobody's fault but mine. I don't love myself enough. I just don't. In fact I'm disgusted with myself tbqh. Obviously nobody wants to be with me. Even I don't want to be with me ffs. And really, I don't want to be with anyone else either. But still, I'm lonely sometimes. I have enough love in my life. I'm full of it. But there's no denying that something is missing. There is something so sad about folding queen size sheets alone. It's hard. It doesn't need to be so hard. Sometimes I whisper "goodnight" to my empty bedroom when I go to bed. Hoping that somehow those who I love will feel me saying it. Everyone I love is so far away. I'm always afraid they don't feel my love. And then there's all the love I can't give the way I want to. The love that has nowhere to go. So it just sits inside of me, bubbling and crackling and making me overwhelmed. Making me sick. I don't want to admit I want a person who fills my energy instead of draining ne. I want that feeling that when I say I want to be alone, I mean alone with them. But I'm not able to open up. I'm not able to fall in love. How can I give someone a heart that already belongs to someone else. I need to find another way to love and another way to live. I can't even imagine a scenario where I would be someone's first choice. And really, that would scare the hell out of me. How could I ever be enough. How could that broken halfhearted love I'm capable of ever be enough. And how long until all my past traumas would resurface and I'd be riddled with mistrust and jealousy. No, I will never be enough. Not in my own eyes. And I'd only ever be capable of loving with some fragments of my heart so how could I expect someone to love me with all of theirs. I can't. So I continue to live alone. My children are getting older now. Soon they won't come so often anymore. And my parents are getting older, too. Soon I'll be taking care of them. And then they won't be anymore. And I'll be alone. I'll be living my life alone for the rest of my life.

[kingsmoot]

i’ve been ruminating lately on joff and ramsay as rly strong parallels in terms of like what goes into making a monster

because these are both bastard heirs to their houses whose mothers were violently brutalized by their (supposed, in joff’s case) fathers and who are wholly defined by their entitlement

like yes they have violence in their hearts (i think it’s very obviously unfair to compare Literally Leatherface* with a little boy because joff is given power and authority by those around him/the system he is born into while ramsay is physically an immense and powerful man who has power regardless of his status as a legitimized bastard just because he is built like a shit brickhouse and is a serial killing cannibalistic hills have eyes guy) but the key to both of them in relation to their societal power is their sense of being owed

and in both cases this has been ingrained in them by their mothers, cersei and the unnamed miller’s wife

and in both cases these are women stripped of their own agency (once again to varying degrees, cersei is raped and brutalized but is still a queen, while the miller’s wife lives in poverty and is not even given a name), violently assaulted, raped, and beaten, who channel this unfathomable rage and helplessness into their boy child. their son who has a chance in the world and in the system that destroyed them. like specifically they need for joff and for ramsay to succeed as heirs because the same system that destroyed them must bolster their children. otherwise what is it for? what was any of it for? since the system will never can never change or be replaced, what else is there to do? since the system can only ever beat me down, what can be done but for my son to have all that it owes him? all that it owes him for what it did to me.

* i don’t think it’s fair to compare ramsay and leatherface either tbqh with you bubba has different motivations and the sawyer family is a very different societal critique but listen it sounds snappy

[ofstarsandowls]

Confession Time: i don't really call the dragon-like vessel form belos took when possessing the titan's heart "titan belos", nor do i like when others call it that name tbqh, because like:

he's not really a "titan" in the way, say, luz was when she temporarily gained the actual (papa) titan's powers

the form barely looks like an actual titan

i don't know how else to word this, but. it's not really a form that was born out of "consent" from the (papa) titan.

tbqh, idk if i really like the name "kaiju belos" for the form, either. sure, it's more accurate and describes the design of that form, but it's just feels like. too simplistic of a name for it, in my eyes? especially given what belos as a character is and what he represents?

if anything, i would simply call this form of his...

Devil Belos.

that's the name (and tag) i've been using to refer to it by/as (with his regular goopy monster form seen in Hollow Mind, King's Tide, Thanks To Them and For The Future simply called "Monster Belos")

[wellhalesbells]

15 Questions, 15 (or whatever) Tags

I was tagged by @kikiroo​ - thank you!!  *heart hug!*

1. Were you named after anybody?

Nope.

2. When was the last time you cried?

Um, I cannot stress enough that I cry at the drop of a hat in fictional situations (pretty much never in real life) so it was either Ted Lasso or reading The Celebrants by Steven Rowley, or it could’ve been The Emperor’s Bone Palace by Hailey Turner - I just finished that.  I can’t remember if I did or not, but I was so stressed out, I probably did, things went poorly for a bit there and I was a wreck.

3. Do you have kids?

I do not and have no plans to.  I’ve never wavered on that, I’ve always been very ‘who knows, could change,’ about it but so far: nah.  And I feel like if I had ever wavered, my sister having two pandemic babies and me being her entire village (I am the only relative who lives in the same state.  And the people who are best at babies do not live in the same country.) has nudged me more firmly towards: that’s really not for you, broh.  I love them to death but I am so glad I get breaks where I just get to be a selfish monster for seventy-two hours straight.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Neever.

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

I played soccer for maybe a few weeks in middle school and then I was like: this is just running, and running is so much worse than sitting, was everyone aware of that?  I’ll be on the bench if you need me. *throws up a peace sign*  Though I did just tell my sister that I would absolutely fucking kill at basketball against K-1st graders and I stand by that.

6. What’s the first thing you notice about someone?

Sense of humor.  Honestly, I don’t know if it’s an ace thing or not, but I can’t even describe people beyond: heightish and hairish until you interest me as a person, which is usually because you make me laugh.  It’s kind of embarrassing sometimes because I really do not notice, and sometimes I’ll be asked to describe someone I’ve been in the vicinity of for, like, two months and I’m like: I genuinely cannot tell you a single thing about this person, I’m so sorry.  I just don’t track details.  That’s why I try really hard with names.  I can’t tell you what they look like in any detail (do they wear glasses? Have freckles? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), but I can tell you their name.  And sometimes that can feel like a superpower tbqh, because you know who people come to find out the new person’s name: moi.

7. Eye color?

Blue.

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Oh scary movies, hands down.  They’re my favoritest things.  I regularly have them on as background noise.

9. Any special talents?

If I do have them, they’re a secret even to me.  I like to have that Kathleen Madigan mindset about it: “What if we’re all prodigies, but it’s just at something we’ve never tried yet? ... What if I sat down at a pottery wheel and made a cup and people were like: Holy Christ, lady, that is the most phenomenal cup ever made.”  It could happen!

10. Where were you born?

St. Pete, Florida.

11. What are your hobbies?

Writing, reading, tending to an imaginary beluga whale that lives in my nephew’s bathtub, creating to do lists over and over again that I have no intention of ever completing, and playing Pokemon Go.  There’s a girl at my work and we were the two nerds who were really into it, we would get together, do the fests and the raids and community days and such.  We have now converted half our workplace into either reactivating their accounts or creating them and there are now at least two more people who are just as - if not more - into it than we are.  (Like, they had to make a Pokemon Go policy because of us spreading it like a virus, lololol.)

12. Do you have any pets?

I have a doggo that I accidentally made obsessed with me and super introverted.  You know how they say owners start to resemble their dogs?  Nope.  I broke her and now we like to stay in, are wary of strangers, and essentially try to occupy the same space at all times - I blame COVID, honestly, we were both way more normal before that.  Or she was, anyway.  The good news is I can let her off leash ‘cause she’s going precisely zero places without me.

13. How tall are you?

5’

14. Favorite subject in school?

English in high school, Evolutionary Psychology in college.

15. Dream job?

I hate to say it but: I do not dream of labor.  Anything I’m passionate about doing, I would immediately tarnish by needing it to now be the source of my livelihood.  It would lose all its joy because I would put immense pressure on it.

Though if I could somehow make bank through sleeping? Yeah, that.

I don’t know who to tag because I feel like I’ve seen everyone do this on my dash so: um, whoever hasn’t done it yet and wants to - consider this me tagging you!

[alienwlw]

What are your fave BLs :)? I'm wanting to get into more Asian BL shows so I would love some recs! I've seen Cherry Magic, 2gether and Color Rush. Totally ok with like any content also akdlakaj

hello!!!! okaaay here goes, with some quick summaries and vibes of my absolute favorite bl series'

the eight sense- a kdrama that tackles themes like depression and guilt while also being a really touching story about two men falling in love. lots of yearning and heartache. you can stream this on viki.

old fashion cupcake- ruined my entire life tbqh was extremely perceived by this series. a jdrama about two office workers who decide to start having 'girl dates' to revitalize the older man's life. also on viki.

the untamed- a cdrama which means its censored (nothing can be explicitly shown so all the romance is implied-- heavily) this one is also INSANELY long but it's an amazing story about giving in to power and how it can twist and corrupt you and the romance at the heart of it is literally the greatest one i have ever seen and i will forever to this day think about wangxian every moment of every day. is up on netflix though also in various places w various quality of subtitles.

not me the series- thai drama about freedom fighters trying to take down a corrupt leader in thailand (and a man who takes the identity of his twin brother in the gang to try and find out why he was hurt and put into a coma) gun and off are my #1 favorite bl drama actors i love them together and they are soooo good in this. you can watch this one on youtube! they're also currently in cooking crush which is ongoing and also on youtube. offgun supremacy !!

kinnporsche - insane mafia and bodyguard thai romcom crime thriller most insane shit u might ever saw vegaspete is life. is up on iqiyi.

semantic error- autistic man accidentally seduces sworn enemy when he's tricked into working on a project with him??? kdrama that can be found on viki; also has a movie edit since it's quite short.

stay with me- another censored cdrama about two school rivals slowly forming a family with each other made me absolutely insane cried my eyes out this one is also up on viki

you can also find my (ongoing) list of faves here

let me know if you get into any of these or want more details about other ones on my list that i linked! thanks for the ask!!

[wraithsoutlaws]

Different anon but I wanna say i love your DD cyberware hcs! Which honestly are really more like canon if you read certain maelstrom convo shards..but also their signature eye cyberware is an optic nerve split so they take the nerves attached to the back of the retina and reroute them to the faceplate resulting in a super fuckin wide field of view, and apparently the FPS on those bad boys is in the hundreds resulting in killer headaches/migraines if used for too long

Bonus question! Does Al like cockroach? I don’t think I’ve seen her interact with him

man if that were me i think i would shove my head into a pillow and never leave BUT that being said i do have a couple other thoughts on that topic brewing in another post so im gonna leave it at that on this one for now but to answer your question

yes!!! i have severely neglected al content here unfortunately but she loves cockroach and cockroach loves her! i'm not sure i ever mentioned it but al also has a critter friend (because i'm really predictable and weak). she finds a hurt possum on the road and nurses him back to health. she names him Axel, after the man who helped raise her and whom she misses very much. axel is like the anti-cockroach in that where cockroach is a generally good hearted boy, axel is rabid and menacing and will bite most people who approach him except for al. so she has a good rapport with lil guys already and is absolutely delighted when she meets cockroach. instant best friend tbqh

[waltwhitmansbeard]

OK🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ it's not a lot but I just could not stop thinking abt it first of all I LOVE vex and keyleth being all sisterly, kynans funeral:( also love tiberius being the one to send Gaben, truly perfect that made me really happy

anyways off to what we're all here for, angst! I love the vaxleth hivemind sm cause since the moment everything with Gaben happened I thought mm great nightmares, like u said its pretty much every night, I think about her groggily opening her eyes and for a split moment she sees 3 shadowey figures, then suddenly gone, sometimes Feeling a cold sharp ache in her back and into her soul, sometimes she has to check her own pulse. Or she sees kynan, lying in a pool of his own blood in the middle of her chambers, it's truly just Awful. also possibly when it gets colder, and there's a chill in the air, Vax wakes up and feels keyleths slightly colder against him and his heart just Drops and he's snapping up and checking her over, thinking she's dead again, gone and cold in his arms. he subconsciously smothers her in blankets and clings to her when she seems too cold.

anyhoo THE CABIN, my jaw dropped I couldn't believe, especially with how Vax thought of similar things in earlier chapters, WHAT IF korrin consulted vex a few times while it was in construction, he still isn't well versed and personal with Vax and just wants to make sure this home is perfect for both of them, like small details scattered around the build that are like little nudges to the twins cabin or even their old home in byroden. THATS ALL I GOT FOR NOW ILL PROB BE BACK OK SMOOCH BYE

omfg there is so much here idk where to begin

tbqh having draconia deliver finefirn back to keyleth was literally just me being lazy as hell. i did not want to write the manhunt or anything like that, so i was just like, fuck it, he appears one day.

you just know that vax and keyleth’s nightmares are fucking terrible after everything. i cannot imagine how many fucking knives vax keeps around the bed now. esp to know that she died but only a handful of people know that, that’s gotta be a head trip. they’re both just incredibly fucked up, which is exactly how i want them.

i don’t actually think there’s a ton of detail in the house, mostly bc korrin would want them to be able to create the home that fits both of them, but there’s definitely a garden out front for her and a place to hang his armor. i imagine the ashari crest in a bunch of places. have i built this cottage in the sims??? maybe!!!!!

[roktavor]

ooh 💥🎁🦈 please!

Sorry I'm getting to these late - I was just going to bed last night when I saw the ask-!

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change? Tbqh I would love to know where Giorno was/what he was up to/why the fuck he wasn't in Florida during the finale of Stone Ocean, it's haunted me for years,

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share? How about...Josuyasu zombie AU one-shot...? >_>

Flat on his back, Okuyasu’s arms tremble, struggling to hold off the brunt of Josuke’s weight. Made difficult by the way he keeps lunging in, poised atop Okuyasu. Fingernails scrabbling for purchase on the ground, bloodstained teeth gnashing around a scarf. It takes all Okuyasu has to hang on. His hands are cramping, the ends of that scarf wound around them. A flimsy fabric barrier between Josuke’s mouth and his skin, very much breakable but it’s all he has. Rather. It’s all he dares to use. Hurting Josuke would be – Okuyasu can’t. His heart is jittering frantic in his chest, and his eyes keep blurring with tears. He blinks them away as fast as they come. Has to keep it together, because this could get real bad in a lot of ways if he loses focus. It’s hard. Faced with empty bloodshot violet eyes that are all glazed instead of sparkling like they should be. Like they used to be. Months and months ago.

It's what I'm planning to post next, so, :")

🦈 Which character is the toughest to write? Bruno Buccellati - 8/10 times I will sit down to write his POV and my brain goes "I Have Never Met This Man Before In My Entire Life". The other 2/10 times he's thirsting after Abbacchio, which easy for me to grasp, 😌 I also struggle a lot with Lee Cheongsan, the handle I have on his character is so slippery and fleeting. But he's new to me, still, so we'll see.........

[kindsummer]

fear of water comment becoz guest is still disabled - when you said upsetting i didnt think you meant upsetting upsetting 🥲 loved the spooky atmosphere and the myth element!!! and the 'whatever is between captain and lieutenant' yeah. What the fuck did they have going on. Absolutely loved this so creepy and tense and the pin on the ground.... fuck u for breaking my heart..... (cant wait to see what u write next!!!)

ao3 is really, truly cockblocking guest commentary icb it. the cruelty of it all (although rip whoever got spammed with negative guest comments).

listen, i warned, I WARNED Y'ALL DID I NOT!!! when sam and i plot shit gets dark real fast sometimes and her immediate suggestion was that andy died. i'm the one who made it cool and spooky ooky with the mythical vibes. i think the worst part of it is the 50 years later with the kid finding the dog tags that eddie wanted to find and just throwing them away like they meant nothing!!!! literally sobbed my eyes out writing the last half.

seriously burgie we're all wondering what captain haldane and lieutenant jones have got going on...............i don't think even THEY know tbqh. love that for them, not in this context tho.

i'm glad u are excited because my next move is to start writing the justified!speirton au that you asked for! i've basically plotted it, but i've got to rewatch s2 to get the vibes down again since i plotted a bit too long ago now for me to jump into writing. aside from that, i've got a couple of other one-shots in the works aside from the mota/oc fic im halfway through, one is about mister robert leckie and his survivor's guilt (and you thought THIS fic was tragic...), one is a sequel to the only smut fic i've ever posted on ao3...iykyk, and the third is a gene roe centric fic involving a murder mystery and sad but strong sibling dynamics. stay tuned !!!

[forgottenrian]

dslkjfadksljfjdsf cassandra living for the drama always <33333 cassandra, letting rian put an engagment ring (or whatever) on her finger: 'time to commit to the bit!' no, but i love that for her <3333 esp bc kate has confirmed that marian is hella against this hahah so an engagment is most likely thE most that'll ever come out of this, but tbh idk that it'll ever actually get to even ~that stage tbqh!

kflajsdfkldsjkfkjdsf omg her view of what this engagment would be!!!! lkjasdlfkjksdjf cillian: 'wait did you say im imprisoned and waiting to DIE???? i don't like this plotline v much' ;DDDD

no but its kinda funny bc it lowkey ~would go a ~touch like that but it wouldn't ~feel like that even if cillian succeeded bc @forgottencillian ABSOLUTELY ~would hate that yet another young woman is being forced into an unwanted marriage by the regime of roderick the terrible!!!!!!! and he probs ~would indeed do smth pr impulsive abt it since ~this young woman is actually asking for his help!!!!! but she'd probs never know he did, bc his move would probs be to try and implicate rian in some astairan plot in order to blackmail him and 1) get lorcan's full help backing the revolution and 2) get him to back out of the engagement alkjdfkldfjdsjf he'd ofc have to do this as cillian frost, so he def couldn't tell her abt any of it, and lbr idk if that whole gambit would even go how he hoped anyway!! but here we are hahahaha also, like, even if he ~did pull it off, itd probs feel super anticlimactic to her, as cillian is just like 'oof god that sucks -- gotta go!' when she tells him, and then she doesn't see him for awhile and a couple days later rian gets cold feet abt the marriage and backs out alsdkjflksdjfkjsdf and this is the best case scenario *facepalm*

omgggggg i looooove how she's gonna handle these talks tho!!!!! laksjdfkljdsfkjldkjsf also rian will bore her to deathhhhhhhh i am sure!!!!!!! this man does noT know how to flirt!!!!!!! at all!!!!!!!! and he'll def wanna talk politics and it would never occur to him to try to kiss her or anything bc, tbf, he is sure that she is ~not into him and that this is all a business arrangement etc!!!! he ~would, at least, fulfill the villain role of informing her that he knows she has other suitors and he will not put up w that once they're formally engaged and that (his version of 'you'll learn to love me speech') they'll find a way to relate over time he's sure laksdjfkldfjdfs

i ~do think tho that 1) making cillian jealous ~would work!!!!! #facepalm AND 2) impressing rosie w how horrid it is to be expected to marry rian would ALSO work!!!! that dude literally betrayed astaira!!!!!! (~to cassandra's dad but rosie is noT here to be thinking abt these details too hard! ;D lakjsdfkljdsfkjsdjkf) he is def the worst!!!!!! second only as a bad bf to cassimir!!!!! dsklafjkdjsfjsdf meanwhile, rian is probs just sighing a bit bc he sees cassandra nd rosie kinda glare at him and then start whispering and he's just like 'that can't be good' laskdjflkdsljkf

'rian: preferably you will not talk at all!' LEIGT THO!!!! kljkfljsadkjfkjsdf he and francesca bridgerton just looking for some peace and quiET!!!! lajsdflkjdsjkf and, like, once he learned talk was expected between them, itd be all politics/small talk and def no romance/flirting (beyond, like, he brings her a plate of food or smth...i know, i know stoP! she's gonna SWOON!)

i do think he's a bit of a romantic at heart so like he lowkey ~would like to romance her if they are going to married!...but unfortunately he literally has zero idea ~how sooooo he'll just stand there awkwardly beside her and hope she makes the first move or tells him what she wants him to do!! alksdjfksjdf i do think he's lately been tryna learn (which is another weirdness -- bc he's got his eye on another woman! lakjdflkjdsf) but yeah its slow going at best! lkajdsfkljsdf just an all-round great time for EVERYONE <3

OOC | Rían & Cassandra

so!! honestly i think rian's idea of marrying guin is a pipedream if he wants daddy's support in that (tho ngl running off w her or marrying her two seconds are roderick dies or smth are ~not off the table as far as he's concerned, thanks to her claim!) BUT there is a varmont princess roderick ~might consider wedding to him (tho idk if he'd actually go through w it or not tbqh!) and that's our cassandra! lbr itd be a TOTAL disaster and im guessing @forgottenmarian would v much have other ideas on that one hahahaha but anyway!!! he ticks boxes for ~roderick's requirements:

royal/king (since he was the firstborn male as far as roderick's concerned pre!roderick, he should've been monarch, not eilia) and thus roderick assumes he'd come w the support of the most powerful single country roderick's got/that it might help bend fences w the angry astairans (he is ofc quite wrong im sure, but!)

he's bent the knee (this does come w the backhand that roderick will never respect him but w the positive that he's a male of royal blood whose still alive and not a direct relative lakjsdfkjsdf)

he's clever, capabale, and obdenient to roderick

so yeah!! that's all pr good as far as roderick's concerned!! if he were to do this, he'd wanna give him smth much bigger than one single lordship, since roderick's own grandson would stand to inherit whatever rian has etc etc etc and that has to be sufficiently grand if roderick's bloodline will be there etc etc etc but yeah!! being real, i def think marian could easily dissuade roderick from this notion, so idk that this would ever transpire, but ~he would be all for it, even when their personalities inevitably clash lakjsfjkdsf bc lbr itd def tip roderick's bid towards rian being named roderick's stewart of all astaira when he inevitably moves on to conquer the next thing lkajsdklfjdsf but anyway!!! laksdjfkljdsf

[child-of-hurin]

[spacetravels]

lol who plays monster prom give me a prompt....... i wanna dooble some cute monsters.......

[forgottenarthur]

arthur and guin as all-but twins!!!! omg i love it <33333 they're gonna break our hearts aren't they I WEEPPPP no but i adore it and i can totally see that!!! they've both had the responsibility of younger siblings, in their own ways, thrust upon their shoulders while also being the eldest and thus the first to fully grasp the position they're in as their various parents/stepparents pit them against each other, etc, so its really this unique niche they share, and i do think the 'big three' so to speak are also in a pr unique position, too, bc there's so much expectation on their shoulders abt the future -- even tho none of them truly want it, deep down, even if -- as in arthur's case -- they've managed to convince themselves that they actually ~do

her admitting she doesn't want it to arthur!!!!! i feel like that'd reinforce a lot of things for arthur, too, bc that'd also activate his protective brother side, like, he's not just becoming emperor to please they're dad, he's doing it to protect his sister from a life she doesn't want!!!! and, obv guin doesn't know who she supports for the crown, but i do think arthur would probs be like 'but its me, right?' bc he just wants someone to believe in him

honestly her being like 'stop trying to impress dad!! just do the job!!' would totally blow his mind lakjsdfkljsdjff arthur's whole way of looking at the world is soooo colored by his impressions of what his father wants/believes/approves that he sometimes has trouble even knowing what ~he truly thinks of things bc he's so caught up in tryna be his father's perfect little soldier, yknow? i do think that, while she's def 100% right hahaha what's kinda messed up is that arthur legit believes he's ~doing that on some level when all he's doing is just what she says: mucking up tryna realize the impossible so his dad might consider saying 'son im proud of you' even tho deep down even arthur knows that'll never happen tbqh

lsakjflksjfkljsdfjksdfa honestly ive been thinking abt it and i don't think arthur would ever ~actually kill his siblings if it came right down to it! like, if it was desperate and he was pressured enough etc he might plot it all out etc and maybe he'd be all ready to go but then it'd come down to the moment and he just...couldn't. even edmund. he might spend time resenting and hating and railing but ultimately he has a warm heart and he just wants love but he thinks he's unlovable

i actually think there was an incident in the astairan conquest where arthur took this town and was faced w a rebel witch who was stirring up the ppl inside the walls and, like, what his dad would've done is shut the gates and burn every single person in there as a lesson to the surrounding area etc, but instead arthur tried everything he could to reason w them and finally, instead of burning anyone, he beheaded the witch and any outright traitors but showed mercy to the local townsfolk whose only crime was believing in their ancient gods, and honestly i think that lost him a lot of points in his dad's book, and has arthur lowkey feeling like he's unworthy bc he feels like he should always do what his dad would do etc but deep down he knew it wasn't right and he couldn't just shut innocents inside and burn them all to death just bc there was a witch in there who was rebel rousing and they had a different faith system and yeah!! laksjdflkjsdf anyway idk how i got talking about that but yeah alksdjflkjsdf arthur isn't as callous or cruel as he wants to think he is sometimes

ughhh guin being terrified of ruling but willing to do it for the greater goooood!! bb girllll!!!! honestly, if she really wanted, arthur might someday be persuaded to help her fake her death and go off somewhere but honestly i don't think he's there yet bc their dad's goals are still paramount to him, and roderick def still wants her around, alas poor guin ughhh

honestly these two just being so simpatico and like ~getting it~ when they look into e/o's eyes is so powerful lajsfkjf and honestly i think arthur is there, too, and honestly deep down all he really wants is to just see everyone he loves happy but honestly their goals are all at such insane odds its nigh impossible and they'll never be happy and arghhhh babiesssss

OOC | Arthur & Guinevere

LAURENNNNN!!! IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS FAM KLAJSDJFSDJF ok so arthur adores his big sister!!!! no question!!!! he would literally kill or die for her if it came to that!!! but, at the same time, he's also devoting a frankly unreasonable amount of time to trying to destroy her chances of becoming empress in the hopes that ~he will become emperor, bc being ruler = being dad's favorite, right? and that's all he really wants is for their dad to love him which he doesn't think he does alkjsdfjkdsjf

however!!! he believes that society is sexist (le sigh) so he just ~assumes that she has less of a shot at ruling than he does bc she's a woman which alkjdfksdf yikes but anyway the upside is that he's less aggressive about tryna upstage her than he is about edmund, since edmund's male and she's obv not so alksjdfkjsdfj

anyway despite all of this he really is a devoted brother in his way he's just always in direct competition and its complicated alkdsjfkjldsf