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sso-montana Ā· 3 months ago
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Sive, probably: get your vampire under control
Montana being able to use her magic again might have been good for zombie eradication but definitely not for everything else in the vicinity of said zombie eradication
Florence approves, Cornelia is concerned
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junova Ā· 4 years ago
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abstract ā€” the one where ransom gets a taste of his own medicine, but you happen to be so much sweeter than heā€™s ever been.Ā 
pairing ā€” ooc!ransom drysdale x fem!readerĀ 
wc ā€” 4.1k+Ā  im so sorry lmaoĀ 
warnings ā€” cheating (if u squint its very vague), angst, fluff, slight self deprecation, ransom is kinda nice idk, i want a soft!ransom drysdale now pls,Ā this is also very messy so read at ur own risk!
[m blabs] ā€” howdy howdy! first time ransom fic. woot woot! still kinda finding my voice w writing so i hope you like it! <333Ā 
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His mouth set in a hard line as you continued to curl into his chest, the span of your confidence seemed to be wiped away with a nightmare from the past. Part of him was upset you hadnā€™t told him anything, the blind leading the blind, as you stepped foot into his family event. Seeing the last person youā€™d ever thought would be there.Ā 
Surely by now, he thought you would trust him but it was more than evident you still didnā€™t. You persisted on hiding everything from him, anything you were sure might tick him off.Ā 
Well, Ransom wasnā€™t necessarily known for biting his tongue.Ā  Although, in your presence, he was learning what to say and where to say it.Ā 
It really surprised him. Not one woman had been able to tame him, not since heā€™d be fucking everyone in sight. His desire was endless and not one single individual would be enough for his fill.Ā 
Then, he found you drunk and sobbing on the concrete, right outside of the bar he was exiting. To this day, he still couldnā€™t tell you why he stopped for you. He never really paid attention to anyone if it wasnā€™t to his own benefit. Ultimately, meeting you was, even if he wouldnā€™t realize it then.Ā 
You flinched from his touch when he patted your shoulder, gently asking if you were alright. If anyone asked him, Ransom would surely deny he felt you pull at the strings of his heart in an instant.Ā 
He just knew.Ā 
Maybe itā€™s why it took him so long to accept it, to believe in what he felt for you. Definitely not because you did nothing but be the most wonderful human heā€™d ever met. More had to do with him.Ā 
Ransom dropped you off the first night you met in your small apartment downtown, definitely on the rougher side where he thought his Rolex sporting his wrist may get stolen.Ā 
A cute little thing like you living in a neighborhood like this ā€” didnā€™t make much sense to him. Then again, it certainly checked out with his privilege why he didnā€™t.Ā 
Truly, Ransom didnā€™t realize how fortunate he truly was. Of course being a trust fund brat gave him the ignorance to live in an unmatched state of bliss.Ā 
He still remembers the moment.Ā 
Watching as you fumbled with your keys, finding it more than difficult to open your front door. It was cute, with your tongue poking out between your lips in concentration. Now, he wondered how heā€™d forgotten why heā€™d gone to get hammered at the bar in the first place.Ā 
ā€œHere, let me help.ā€ New to Ransom, he offered a giving hand. Grabbing the key from your jittering fingertips before unlocking your door. He tried to hand you back your keys, but you pulled him so close, your chest touching his own. Dragging two rapid hearts through your apartment.Ā 
ā€œYou smell like him.ā€ A dopey smile on your face lighting every dark sight of Ransom, not that youā€™d know it did. ā€œI smell like who?ā€Ā 
ā€œMy ex-boyfriend.ā€ Your hands cupping his cheek, but you were too drunk to realize how Ransom flinched from your touch.Ā 
He didnā€™t push you away either.Ā 
ā€œBut he definitely didnā€™t look this good.ā€ Defying all laws of his own nature, Ransom let you stay in close proximity to him as you felt him up. Your hand resting on his chest, traveling lower stopping at his stomach. ā€œDefinitely didnā€™t feel this good.ā€Ā 
He watched as you sighed, your puffy eyes were only slightly swollen and the mascara was still staining your skin with the rest of the makeup you wore. If anyone had asked him, youā€™d looked like a wreck but he still found you alluring.Ā 
Ransom always liked his women looking more than fucked out, usually from gagging around his cock. Not crying over a broken heart. Nope. He definitely did not like dealing with a woman's sorrow.Ā 
ā€œHe never let me touch him though. Guess that should have tipped me off.ā€ You let your hands travel back up, wounding themselves around his neck before they applied more pressure ā€” pulling him into you.Ā 
Ransom found you pretty confident for not even knowing anything more than his first name and the car he drove you in. You were definitely craving attention and maybe heā€™d be more than happy to oblige but the little voice in his head Dr. Shoal told him to listen to was being a pestering, little bitch.Ā 
What did Ransom want?Ā 
Right now he wanted to drown himself in some sweet ass pussy. He knew you would give yourself easily to him, especially in your drunken state. Clinging onto him like he was a vine.Ā 
The smaller part of him, the better part, knew you were drunk out of your mind. Absolutely plastered, but you had to stand there looking like a goddess.Ā 
He didnā€™t really know why he was letting you touch him, maybe in hopes the deeper, darker side of him would win like it always did. Ransom knew better, even if he tried to hide it from everyone including himself.Ā 
He liked you. From the very first moment, he knew heā€™d have to get you. Whether it cost your own sanity or his, Ransom didnā€™t care.Ā 
Itā€™s why he left you drunk and alone, safely tucked into the comfort of your sheets with his number left in your phone. Even taking the liberty of texting himself from it.Ā 
He could never be too careful. Letting you slip through his fingers was simply not an option.Ā 
Thanks to him, you didnā€™t forget about him.Ā 
The next morning your memory only held vague images of a handsome stranger helping you home, thankfully he seemed to be nothing more than a doting gentlemen. The first for you to ever come across.Ā 
Until later in the afternoon the following day, Ransom introduced himself and checked up on you, worming his presence into your life.Ā 
Then he kept talking to you everyday, surprising even himself in the matter. Truly, he couldnā€™t help it. Part of him loved how gently you spoke to him on the phone. No one ever talked to him with such a level of care.Ā 
He always warranted yelling, usually he was the one who stirred the pot. He enjoyed it, and thrived in a chaotic environment. Itā€™s what he grew up in. Ransom was more than comfortable with his own family yelling and cursing him out until the sun came up. He did just the same.Ā 
So, whenever you sweetly asked him how he was, it threw him off guard.Ā 
Not a single soul even cared or bothered to ask him anything. Truth be told, Ransom was a sack of shit treating everyone like they were the gum beneath his shoe. It didnā€™t matter who talked to him ā€” Ransom was simply more superior in every conceivable way.Ā 
He would succumb to not a single soul. Paving his own way through life, with only the money from his trust fund of course.Ā 
Then the two of you fell into each other and he could pinpoint the exact moment he did.Ā 
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The weeks and months blended together. He couldnā€™t really tell you why he was still lingering around, while he got nothing in return. You did get him off once or twice, but he wasnā€™t fucking you like he really wanted to.Ā 
Maybe it was the innocence in your eyes pulling his soul into the very little good he still had left within him. Or maybe it was the way your thumb dragged over his cheek when you thought he was in slumber, blissfully unaware of your touch.Ā 
More importantly his favorite thing, the way you let him hold you when the two of you cuddled. Your arms wrapped tightly around his waist, bouncy cheeks pressed into whatever knit sweater he decided to wear that day.Ā 
It was all the little things, unknowingly making him fall in deep like he never had before.Ā 
Unwelcoming to him, his mother came barreling in one Sunday afternoon, while you slept in his arms. Even as Linda screamed his name, you never jolted, out like a log. Safe in the peace he kept you in.Ā 
Linda looked annoyed, irritated he even had company in the first place but not surprised. What truly shocked her was they both had clothes on.Ā  Not truly believing Ransom was capable of such a sinless interaction.Ā 
He knew what she wanted; he didnā€™t even have to move from his position to continue a private conversation. Not that it would get him off the couch, and out of your embrace in the first place.Ā 
ā€œI said no. Donā€™t know why you bothered coming here.ā€ Linda angrily sighed. ā€œYou should at least show up.ā€Ā 
Ransom didnā€™t notice, but subconsciously continued to run his fingertips up and down your spine. Linda did. She noticed that he didnā€™t even care she was judging him, but let you remain unbothered sleeping in her sonā€™s embrace.Ā 
ā€œItā€™s for Walt. You need to be there.ā€ She stepped closer, hoping the increase in her volume would wake you. ā€œI expect you to grace us with your wonderful presence as does the rest of the family.ā€Ā 
The sarcasm dripped, attempting to coax him out of the four walls he never seemed to leave. Not recently, anyhow.Ā 
ā€œI already told you, I canā€™t.ā€ Now Ransom was irritated and he really wished she would calm the fuck down. It was one day, one event. There would always be another, that much wasnā€™t lost on him. ā€œI have plans. Send him my best.ā€Ā 
Assuming it was the rumbling of his chest when he spoke, you moved jolting yourself in his arms, before remaining still again. His heartbeat continues to soothe you.Ā 
ā€œYou have plans? What else could be more important than your family?ā€ The louder Lindaā€™s voice grew the more you stirred, pissing him off.Ā 
He really needed to change his locks.Ā 
Even if he had no intention of going, he needed his mother to leave. Really for your own sake ā€” trying to save you from Linda giving you a cold shoulder followed with a third degree burn.Ā 
ā€œFine. Iā€™ll go. Can you just leave?ā€ She accepted Ransomā€™s submission, before looking at your figure. Sound asleep and clinging to her one and only, sinking your claws into him.Ā 
She really didnā€™t like the way Ransom was looking at you. Linda was positive he would never be able to care about someone other than himself, but here he was, holding you close to his chest.Ā 
Almost like his life depended on it.Ā 
ā€œWho is she to you?ā€ With a raised eyebrow, eyes narrowing to you before meeting back with Ransomā€™s cerulean blues.Ā 
ā€œI donā€™t know yet.ā€ Ransom paused looking down at you, so beautiful. Holding a light so pure, so radiant; he hoped no matter how cruel he could be, heā€™d never act like that towards you. ā€œMaybe someone I donā€™t deserve, but want to be better for.ā€Ā 
His rough, calloused fingers drawing mindless patterns on the exposed skin of your waist. He didnā€™t know what Linda said next or when she left.Ā 
Time seemed to stand still, his confession hitting his chest fiercely. He let himself sit with it for a moment, before you woke up. Enjoying a moment where he didnā€™t have to deal with anything, he didnā€™t have to say a word.Ā 
He could just enjoy the moment without eyes judging him or you questioning why his eyes seemed to shine just a bit brighter whenever you were around.Ā 
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It was the first of many. Moments where he felt small pieces of himself chipped away into your care. Planes of existences within him no one had ever scratched the surface of.Ā 
Much like right now as you cried into his chest, begging for mercy.Ā 
Because you were afraid. Terrified you had made the worst mistake, an unforgivable one. You lied about your past and to Ransom it felt like more than a betrayal. More accurately he felt a dagger in his heart placed strategically with your murderous hands.Ā 
Heā€™d never felt such empathy and pain at once. Maybe heā€™d never been empathetic a day in his life at all.Ā 
Until now.Ā 
To make matters worse, he knew his entire family was watching the whole scene from the window. It wasnā€™t from worry or concern for either one of you. Mainly all of them enjoying pain being inflicted on Ransom.Ā 
Linda of course wallowing in her ego, he could practically see her bask in her own pride. Another thing sheā€™d been right about checked off the list.Ā 
The rest of the family watched the two of you fight with shiteating grins permanently stamped on their face. Theyā€™d never seen Ransom care about anyone but you. To watch the relationship he held so close to his heart blow up so publicly, only fueled the fire to Ransomā€™s rage.Ā 
Except Harlan.Ā 
Even through his hot, beating anger Ransom was trying his best to comfort you. To calm you down even if you had been the one to be caught red handed. Harlan couldnā€™t believe it, someone Ransom seemed to care about more than himself.Ā 
More than any of his family. Not that Harlan was offended. Well, maybe a little, but more so he was thrilled his grandson finally found someone he had to grow up for. Someone he had to earn, not buy.Ā 
No bribes. No schemes. No games.Ā 
Just you.Ā 
ā€œHugh, please talk to me.ā€ How could he? Itā€™s not like he had much to say. Maybe he did, he just wasnā€™t sure how to get the words out without hurting you or himself.Ā 
ā€œI know I lied and I fucked up, but please ā€” we need to talk about it.ā€ Soft hands reaching for his own, but he brushed them off, his hands snaked higher on your waist. ā€œWe should have talked about this the moment you met me.ā€Ā 
Dead silence is all you were met with as he walked the fine line of pushing you away, leaving you behind and pulling you closer than he ever had.Ā 
ā€œYouā€™re right. I should have told you the truth but can you blame me?ā€ He met you with solemn eyes and his own heart beating rapidly. ā€œYes I can.ā€ Ransom was trying to act cold and distant but the two windows to his soul told a different story.Ā 
ā€œThatā€™s fair.ā€ Even as he was holding you, Ransom still felt like he was a galaxy away. He was withholding himself from you like a turtle retracting into their own protection. A year ago, before he met you, he knew he would have never even recognized it.Ā 
Now, you made it possible for him to be aware of just how much he had changed. He broke old habits of his own just to please you so when you disappointed him, this unreachable high standard he held you to, it shattered his sense of self.Ā 
ā€œDid you still love him?ā€ Ransom questioned you. ā€œI did. At the time, heā€™s all I ever really knew. I thought thatā€™s what love felt like. The only image of love I had was the one he gave me. So, I ran with him and it crushed me.ā€Ā 
Ransom had to pretend the words you were speaking didnā€™t split him into you two. The image of you falling in love with someone else was enough to make him wanna strangle your ex.Ā 
His friend.Ā 
ā€œThen we just got into one really big blow out. Right in the bar in front of all of his friends I had met for the first time that night.ā€ You reached for a chunk of his sweater, clenching the material in your hand, like you were trying to convince yourself to let the words fall from your mouth.Ā 
ā€œHe told me how much Iā€™d been irritating him and I couldnā€™t help but notice every girl he flirted with and touched right in front of me.ā€ You tested the waters, placing both of your hands over his chest, the beat of his heart calming you down.Ā 
ā€œThen I just cracked. It was only one of the many fights weā€™d been having over the course of the past few months. Everyone single argument pushed me closer to the edge, until the last one actually did.ā€ You sighed, watching as he frowned.Ā 
ā€œI ended things that night, before getting thoroughly plastered and soon enough crying on the cement. Wasted and lonely out of my mind, until I met you.ā€ You moved your hand from his heart, cupping his clean shaven face.Ā 
ā€œYou made me realize I never knew what love really meant or felt like.ā€ This piqued Ransomā€™s interest.Ā 
You said love.Ā 
Could a tragedy bring out the words Ransom craved to hear more than anything in the world?Ā 
Maybe you cared about him, more than anyone ever showed him. But loved him? How could someone be as hateful as him be worthy of someone like you?Ā 
Even if you had broken his heart, heā€™d done far worse to more people than he could count. He wasnā€™t really in a place to judge but it didnā€™t change the fact it still hurt. A lot.Ā 
ā€œHugh.ā€ You heard him gulp rather loudly. ā€œYes?ā€ His tone came out as more of a question than a response.Ā 
The silence he gifted you was unsettling at the very least. ā€œYou've barely said a word.ā€ He was surprised he didnā€™t scurry off in his beamer the second he saw the guilt reach your eyes.Ā 
He was surprised he hadnā€™t let his anger take over and let the rage he felt inside body take it all out on you.Ā 
He was surprised he somehow couldnā€™t inflict a single hateful word towards you, even as you sat with his heart in your hands.Ā 
In pure bliss of just how much you owned him.Ā 
ā€œI hate it. This fucking corner youā€™ve back me into. Not to mention for the prying eyes of my entire family to watch the show.ā€ The sharp tone he uses sensoring you. ā€œYou used me just to get back at him.ā€Ā 
ā€œLike I was some pawn in your game and I really even shouldnā€™t be mad.ā€ He paused, trying to choose his words as carefully as he can. ā€œIā€™ve done the same thing to so many different women. Used them and threw them out at my earliest inconvenience.ā€ To your surprise, even Ransomā€™s, a single tear left his eye showing you how much you really meant to him.Ā 
You hated yourself for letting it get to this point.Ā 
ā€œBut you? I could never even think about hurting you. I could never live with myself if I treated you like everyone else because youā€™re so much more than that to me.ā€ The tears continued to roll. The dame Ransom kept shut his entire life, opened because of you and he just wanted to make it stop.Ā 
He would give anything ā€” even you.Ā 
He just wanted to not feel like a piece of shit for once in his life. For a moment, he thought he might have a chance to be something more than the picture he portrayed in everyoneā€™s mind. You showed him maybe it was more complex than it seemed.Ā 
ā€œI just assumed I was that for you.ā€ You sighed in frustration, softly wiping his tears away. ā€œYou are, though. You are more than that.ā€Ā 
ā€œThen how could you be so okay with lying to me?ā€ The crease between his eyebrows only created more of an indention as he felt the anger trying to escape out of him.Ā 
You let the tension get to you first.Ā 
ā€œBecause I-I was scared if I told you the truth, youā€™d never tell me.ā€ You puzzled him once again. You softly reach up between his furrowed eyebrows, the pad of your thumb smoothing it out.Ā 
ā€œTell you what?ā€ His mind was clouded with the possibilities of what he could have missed.Ā 
ā€œI canā€™t spell this one out for you.ā€ You were tired of being the one to do everything first. Even if your intentions werenā€™t free from fault once you realized who he was, your feelings for him were anything but.Ā 
ā€œI donā€™t know what you want from me. You only let me fall for you because you knew how much it would hurt him.ā€ He bit back, growing impatient and tired. ā€œAny other time, I would have cared. Probably would have been more than happy to assist. But you made me-ā€Ā 
Then Ransom cut himself off, jumping out of the swing and away from you.Ā 
ā€œIā€™m sorry. I canā€™t do this. I thought I could.ā€ He literally sprinted to his beamer, but you chased him.Ā 
You were hell bent and just as crazy as he was. Maybe itā€™s why it worked for as long as it did.Ā 
ā€œHugh! Get back here.ā€ You were running, thankful youā€™d gone for a more casual outfit today, the sneakers supporting your feet far better than the heels youā€™d usually wear.Ā 
Maybe if it was someone with a normal childhood upbringing you would have just cut your losses but this was someone who chose to be called Ransom.Ā 
This was someone who chose to run away from love and care because the only affectionate way he knew how to treat someone was to throw money at them.Ā 
This was someone who had the communication of a ten year old because thatā€™s when his own mother didnā€™t bother to mess with him anymore before sending him off to boarding school.Ā 
This was someone who didnā€™t know how to love ā€” and to be loved.Ā 
By the time you caught up to him his was digging for his keys, but he couldnā€™t fucking find them.Ā 
ā€œHugh Ransom Drysdale.ā€ Your tone was sharp and he knew you meant business. ā€œFor once in your life, stop running away.ā€Ā 
ā€œWhy not? What good has it ever done for me to stay?ā€ His back was facing you, his broad shoulders stilled with the rest of his body. Almost like he was ashamed of what he was hiding.Ā 
ā€œI canā€™t speak for everyone else. I canā€™t speak for your mother or for Richard. For Harlan or for anyone else you thought might abandon you and really did.ā€ You inched you way closer until you knew he felt how close you were to him.
ā€œI can only speak for me.ā€ Giving yourself, the final piece of you to a man who might run away from it.Ā 
You were so close he felt your breath on his back, and it made him tremble. He was shaking, terrified of it all. You didnā€™t let him be for long.Ā 
Intertwining your fingers with his, as he kept them at his sides, rubbing your thumb along the palm of his hand.Ā 
ā€œIā€™m sorry for the way I hurt you. Lied to you. You never deserved it. Never.ā€ You thought it would be easier if he didnā€™t have to look at you while pouring your heart out to him. A theory proved to be right as he gave your hand a squeeze.Ā 
ā€œYouā€™ve done nothing but treat me like a princess. Youā€™ve done right by me, more than anyone else Iā€™ve ever met in my life. It made me feel inadequate. My dark secret, always looming over us like a dark cloud of my own personal doing.ā€Ā 
ā€œIā€™m sorry I havenā€™t done the proper thing by us and made you feel like I used you. You had every right to feel it because I did.ā€ You took a deep breath, mustering up the courage to face whatever the future held for the two of you.Ā 
ā€œI never expected to fall in love with a trust fund, playboy brat.ā€ You felt him take a deep breath, like a breath heā€™d be holding all his life could finally be set free.Ā 
ā€œI love you, Hugh.ā€ The next thing you knew he had you pushed up against the car, lips hungrily attacking your own.Ā 
All forgiven because you love him. You actually were in love with him.Ā 
He couldnā€™t fathom it really because youā€™d been the first. To accept him just as he was. The first to refuse to call him Ransom because you like the way Hugh rolled off your tongue better.Ā 
You liked how he felt on your tongue, too.Ā 
The first to tell him Fran and Marta should call him Hugh because you wanted to be the only one who got to. The first woman to cook for him, willingly and not attached to the Thrombey payroll.Ā 
The first woman he had ever fallen in love with.Ā 
The first one heā€™d stick around and not run away for.Ā 
So, he kissed you. Hard. Softly whispering how much he loved you into the kiss, because maybe he wasnā€™t ready to say it outright. Loud and proud.Ā 
Yet, he felt it with every bone of his body ā€” no longer lost in the blues.
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a-flickering-soul Ā· 4 years ago
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do kylux for the ask meme šŸ˜³ you + me = mental illness
i love you so much for sending this in this truly is the mortifying ordeal of being known
putting this under a readmore because it is LITCHERALLY 1.2k words because i am literally clawing at the walls of my enclosure about these two
ANYWAYS go ahead and send me a character and iā€™ll give you some headcanons bc im having fun doing these!!!
Kylo Ren
Sexuality Headcanon: ambiguously queer. Donā€™t make me think about him having sex he makes me so angry
Gender Headcanon: he Must be a cis man. He has so much mommy issues. He is such an incel. He is so full of toxic masculinity. He must be a cis man.
A ship I have with said character: Kylux. Every single angle you take this ship from itā€™s funny and good. Canonā€”they hate each other and want each other dead. AUā€”they still hate each other but theyā€™re (probably) less fascist and genocidal. Itā€™s just so funny. They are so obsessed with each other. They gaslight each other into love confessions. Itā€™s unreal. Iā€™ve been thinking about Kylux for the past month and I feel like an entire geological age has passed. You can tell Iā€™m a Kylux shipper and a R*ylo anti because I almost exclusively refer to him as Ren instead of Kylo. The gay angel went to superhell for Kylux to go canon in Lego Star Wars (twice) and a kidsā€™ comic book. God mocks me to my face.
A BROTP I have with said character: This got literally shot to shit but post-TFA when a bunch of people headcanoned Rey as Lukeā€™s kid and she and Ren were cousins and he reluctantly babysat her because he was literally ten years older than her (hhhhh.) and they had this weird mildly-contentious relationship as adults where they grudgingly acknowledge they are both the most powerful Force users in the galaxy and are the only ones who mutually understand the legacy they bear and care about each other but also cannot be in the same room together and hold a civil conversation for more than five minutes before resorting to uncomfortable silence. Like when youā€™re at a family reunion and youā€™re automatically shunted with the only other kid around your age so you have to make conversation but you are just so fundamentally different thereā€™s nothing to talk about. Unreal.
A NOTP I have with said character: Hhh. R*ylo. Iā€™m one of those evil lesbians who hate that ship viciously and one of my dreams is to be one of the mean antis that that bully a shipper in a story thatā€™s clearly exaggerated or made up and then get cancelled for having good taste.
A random headcanon: Ā I think he and Phasma used to spar a lot. I keep thinking about the five years he spent on the Finalizer pre-canon and I canā€™t reasonably justify the Knights of Ren hanging out with him for the entire time on a literal military ship and I like the idea of them being the only people that are reasonably on par physically (I also like how Phasma is an inch taller than him because....whew).
General Opinion over said character: God. He drives me wild. I have a lot of thoughts about him and how good he was in TFA and the pre-canon comics/novels as a really fucking good example of a morally-conflicted villain (especially the comics where it made it really clear that he was very much manipulated and gaslit since likeā€¦ten years old). Like! The way he could flip at will from drawing strength from both the light AND dark side of the Force is just!! So cool! The way his strength literally derives from moral conflict is just really interesting to me butā€¦.idk the way post-TFA he was thrown into a redemption (Rendemption) arc that hinged on Rey being a literal genuine fascist sympathizer made me just really disappointed. He had a lot of amazing potential to be either a really interesting semi-redeemed Byronic antihero OR a full on unhinged animalistic power-mad villain that Rey has to mercy-kill like a rabid dog. And then. Well. Yeah. I like him a lot in very specific contexts and flat out hate him in most others.
Ā Armitage Hux
Sexuality Headcanon: gay! He is gay! I have an entire list of reasons why heā€™s gay and it grows daily! Without a doubt a homosexual! Gay and repressed!
Gender Headcanon: Also a cis guy even though I still do have a lot of half-formed thoughts about gender in the First Order/post-collapse of the Empire society.
A ship I have with said character: Kylux! Again! Iā€™m obsessed with how obsessed Hux is with Ren. He hates him so much itā€™s unreal. I keep reading the novelizations and thinking so fucking hard about how consumed Hux is with hatred for this one man. Heā€™s so repressed. Heā€™s so damaged. Itā€™s unreal. The brainworms in my head have metamorphosed into moths and theyā€™re flapping their wings so hard theyā€™re disintegrating my grey matter. I think near-daily about how he personally went down to retrieve Ren from the collapse of Starkiller Base and yet would not touch him to drag him to shelter in the Hux graphic novel. Would you take off your glove to check his pulse or would you attempt to feel it through the leather and touch somethingā€™s dead skin rather than his living warmth. Iā€™m so deeply unwell.
A BROTP I have with said character: Him and Phasma!!! The way they are on first-name terms with each otherā€¦.the way one of the few times in the graphic novels you see him smile is when Phasma comes back onto the baseā€¦..the way they plotted to kill Brendol togetherā€¦.truly evil mlm/wlw solidarity you simply love to see it
A NOTP I have with said character: Oof I see a lil bit of shipping him with Resistance members (I think Iā€™ve seen him with Rose and also Poe??) and I know TROS made the decision to have him defect from the First Order (out of. again. his obsessive hatred with another man. writing choices.) but it makes me INSANELY uncomfortable seeing people of color being shipped with a literal fascist parody of British colonialism and imperialism lmao likeā€¦.just ship Kylux bro theyā€™re mutually bad people AND a power couple
A random headcanon: Frankly at this point I joke so much about how much like a sick Victorian orphan he looks like that I could write an entire fake medical file for him but Iā€™ll spare you all and simply say that I am incredibly partial to the headcanon that Hux is a freak that bites string cheese instead of peeling it like a normal person. Alsoā€¦the implications that he Personally placed the tracker in Renā€™s belt rather than someone else, so that he alone could keep tabs on himā€¦..Iā€™m unwell. Enough.
General Opinion over said character: If Ren is a character I love to hate, Hux is a character I hate that I love. I just. I canā€™t stop thinking about this gay little war criminal. It truly, genuinely baffles the mind how much information there is about him. It triggers that same little part of my brain that goes wild over like. ARGs and stuff. Thereā€™s just so much lore. With every new piece of canon or semi-canon information I learn about him I can feel my grip on sanity slipping. He owns a black robe. He has a personal hitman in the First Order ranks to poison people he doesnā€™t like. He drinks tea. Heā€™s a bastard son. Heā€™s great with kids. He was in charge of a squad of feral orphan child soldiers at five years old. I just. I just donā€™t get it. Iā€™m enamored with him. His compulsive attention to grooming. His hubris. His ambition. How literally unhinged he is (the ā€œrabid curā€ line genuinely lives in my head rent free). The way he systemically killed every single person who saw him weak and abused as a child. Thereā€™s just so much to talk about with him. Heā€™s so evil. Heā€™s so fucked up. I love him so deeply. He is such a horrible person and he is so fun to make fun of and he is so fun to think about. God wants there to be a bullet in my head so badly.
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