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Hey, Lance? Why did you react to the mention of Red like that? Is- Is something wrong...?
The Dragon Master's breath catches in his throat, a knee-jerk reaction that only serves to heighten your confusion and concern.
The silence that lingers after that question hangs heavy between the two of you. He refuses to look back at you, refuses to answer aloud for far too long.
It makes your mind wander, as he mulls it over- clearly, he knows many things that you don't. What exactly about Red would have him go so quiet? After how open he'd been about everything, why was he...?
"It's nothing against him."
Lance's voice cuts off your thoughts. Ah- you'd started to space out. He's looking at you again, a more somber expression on his face.
"Then what is it? If something's wrong with MY brother, don't I deserve to know?" you ask in turn, when he fails to follow up on his words.
"There's nothing WRONG with him," he answers quickly, seeming to bristle a bit. "It's just..."
"Just what?"
"I- I can't exactly provide a clear answer to you, miss. You and your brother are people that I can't understand like other things. That's what unsettles me so much.
Neither of you belong in this world. I can't see the two of you like I can everything else. Him especially. Only what's occurred while you're both within this place. So I'm..."
Lance trails off again. You tense your jaw, frustration bubbling in you.
Breathe, Leaf- in, hold, out, hold. Repeat. Breathe.
Though your attempt to calm only does so much- your next words still coming out with an audible bite:
"Get to the point."
"I'm SCARED for you!" he finally snaps back, before sighing heavily and pinching the bridge of his nose.
"... Red is NOT someone to be scared of," you reply while the man regains his composure, "you don't know him like I do."
"I understand that well. Don't assume I don't. I might as well have a sibling of my own- I know how those things are."
His walking slows down, and he runs a hand over his face and back through his hair.
"This just... it doesn't sit right with me. What he said to you back there, to 'keep going'... He doesn't know what he's talking about. He doesn't belong here. Doesn't know this place, or what lies ahead. And if he does..."
He swallows thickly.
"... I'm scared that he doesn't have your best interest in mind. You should be going back, not forward."
"You don't know anything about him, then," you spit, glaring at Lance.
"He's already saved me multiple times! He's never done or told me anything that wasn't in my best interest. He LOVES me, I KNOW it-"
"You didn't seem very sure of that in Mr. Fuji's home."
Your words die in your throat.
...
"... But I trust him," you insist, your voice weaker than you'd wanted it to be.
"I... I trust him. You don't have to. But I do. And I will never, ever stop. The... the amount of times, that he's saved me- even just helped me- in weird ways, with stuff he really shouldn't know... I couldn't even begin to count. Why would this suddenly be different? Why would he turn against me now?"
You look down, finally breaking eye contact with the older man.
"... So I'm gonna keep going. No offense, but... I trust him more than I trust a guy I just met that's a weird version of someone who only cared about me as a challenger."
"âŠăă仄äžă«ćăźăăšăæ°ă«ăăăŠăăăă ăăȘăŒăă"
"Huh?"
"Nothing," he sighs, shaking his head.
"I know my words have no sway over you in regards to this- and I won't be able to travel beyond this void. I'm just begging you- please consider another way. I don't want you to end up like... I- I don't want you to get hurt."
You look up at him again, meeting the man's pleading eyes. Even though you still feel that bitterness crawling inside of you...
You can't deny the sincerity in his eyes.
"Well..." you mutter, finally caving just a little.
"If it gives you peace of mind... I'll be careful. Just have a little faith in me, okay? I'm confident that everything will be alright."
"... Of course. I... I believe in you. I know that you're a strong girl- it'll take more than this to topple you."
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#missing numbers#how it feels to disappear#leaf aoyama#dragon master lance#[BIG thanks to carrion for helping w the japanese there]#[this ended up being a long one but this was a very good question to springboard off of.]
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fuck it since my birthday is in like one day i'm gonna use my birthday wish to tell y'all to look at the shit going on in southern Appalachia right now after Hurricane Helene. look at it and talk about it and spread resources about it like wildfire because nobody else fucking is and it feels like we're on our own out here.
there are people who are stranded in hazardous areas that are still safer than trying to leave by driving on the increasingly hazardous roads. i'm personally going into my third day without electricity at this point, and haven't been able to get any gas for a generator to even keep our fridge working. there are very few places with power or running water, and cell service has just barely been restored in the last hour. ground crews are working hard to repair things, but there are many, many areas that are entirely inaccessible that may not receive these fixes for several more days if not weeks. i'm afraid my own neighborhood might become one of those areas if repairs don't get to us soon, and since we're much more rural i have a difficult time trying to be optimistic about it.
we're very far inland. i guarantee you damn near everybody here was expecting a little more rain and wind like we usually get during hurricane season, if they even heard about the hurricane beforehand in the first place since most people only got about a twelve hour notice before landfall- after several major areas had already been flooded. our terrain protects us from most major weather events- most locals have never encountered a single tornado or legitimate tornado warning in our entire lives. nobody i've talked to or heard from about it seems to have had any idea that it would be this bad. everybody's wishing that they took it more seriously, but we've never, ever had to before. i've seen people comparing it to Hurricane Katrina and honestly i'm not sure if that's all too inaccurate. today while looking for a single working gas station i drove by a military helicopter parked in front of the elementary school i went to when i was little.
please for the love of god, talk about us. talk about the good memories you had here or the beauty of our mountains, and talk about how devastated we are as we watch historic structures, buildings, and entire towns get wiped from the face of the earth like they were never even there. stop dismissing us as uneducated hicks and rednecks and hilllbillies and fucking help us.
r/Asheville resource/updates megathread (Asheville is the largest city in western North Carolina)
How to set up disaster roaming for cell service
WLOS Live updates
Duke Energy power outage map
WNC Landslide Map
Hotels accepting locals
Emergency shelter locations
I live in western North Carolina so all of my own resources are centered around that. If anybody from the other impacted areas has additional sources they'd like to add, please don't hesitate to do so.
#hurricane helene#natural disaster#appalachia#tropical storm#north carolina#tropical storm helene#i've been reblogging a good few posts about it on my main blog (@spingtail) but i get more reach here#i understand that it's hard to get actual resources for people here with how hard we've been hit & very spotty cell service anywhere#which is why i ask that yall at the very least just TALK about it. dont let us disappear quietly. holler about us until we can holler back#i'm sorry if this post comes off as aggressive or something unfortunately i've hit the point of disaster grief where i'm angry about it#and especially about the fucking silence. asheville was cut off from the world through all means except air for several days#chimney rock is fully gone and it feels like nobodys talking about it except the folks who live here & the loved ones who cant contact them#fuckass storm
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Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?
#ive been super curious about this because people seem to have really strong opinions on the queue! so many people seem to HATE it#but i love using the queue! i dont really know exactly why i like it so much- i started using in like... 2016 and its a fundamental part of#my tumblr experience now. i think i started off just using it for offline hours so id hit most my american mutuals (/ for aes posts)#but these days basically everything goes in my queue (cept time sensitive things & like. current hype and original posts-#anything 'normal' posting is in the queue)#idk it feels. nice to me! i like to spread out my posting and not rb 30 things in half an hour and then disappear for the rest of the day#esp since my spaces are so circular- the same post runs on my dash a dozen times minimum. and i get to put it on ur dash a week late!!!#and its so nice to have small interactions with mutuals in incompatible timezones; to open up my notifications in the morning#and go: oh! my friends were here <3#its such a Part of the tumblr experience for me i dont think i could ever truly change now. maybe switch to timed queueing#but my availability changes so much i prefer to just. know i guess#but (i am so sorry for all that) im curious about how other people feel!!!!!! itd be so interesting to hear abt why people do/do not like i#i know some people like the experience of spamming and going. some people think it makes this seem to much like influencing or whatever#everyone has their reasons and i want to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#nyxtalks#poll#queue#no see answers option because you must fall into one of these
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Anyway shout out to Dewey who constantly looked like he was having the worst time of his fucking life in the pitches
Just an 11 year old pissed off at the world it seemsđ
#insane he ended up being so happy go lucky in canon#like in the art book they talk about the character shift dewey had once ben auditioned#and he made them realize they could take a more comedic approach with him#but initially deweyâs character seemed very negative and irritable#they had the label âthe bad boyâ of the 3 on him for a bit too#bc of the massive chip on his shoulder and how unsatisfied he was at the time#and tbh you can see bits of that in the pilot#deweyâs character and overall demeanor is very different in the first two eps of s1#i LOVE my boy as the bright impulsive ball of sunshine and danger that he is#but this original pitch of him intrigues me a lot#like i can talk about pitch!dewey for hours bc#kinda feels like wasted potential idk LMAO#bc he didnât entirely disappear at least in s1 so#just a lot of dewey thoughts#bc thatâs my boyđ«¶#ducktales#ducktales 2017#dewey duck
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*pets him with a slightly damp toothbrush*
#simon riley#simon ghost riley#call of duty ghost#cod ghost#i was listening to lana del rey while painting him and for a moment everything made sense#call of duty modern warfare 2#cod mw2#cod mwii#every time i add pure black or pure white to my painting i feel like. im committing a crime#doesn't matter how dark or bright the piece is#digital art#digital painting#fanart#medibang paint pro#i keep disappearing for months on end and you guys keep staying and waiting....#i don't deserve y'all </3
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Billy and Marvel have very different fighting styles.
For one, Billy treats every fight like a street fight: nothing is off limits. The boy will bite, scratch, kick, and claw. He fights dirty, and he will throw anything he can at you. His moves are unpolished, based on pure instinct or what matters in the moment, which makes his moves unpredictable â atleast until someone finds a pattern.
But Marvel, they fight in the ancient technique of Pankration. (Pankration is an Ancient Greek fighting technique, which is a combination of wrestling and boxing. It used to be in the Olympics and apart of Ancient Greece battle technique. It has limited rules and sometimes fights resulted in death. Olympic wins were usually counted by submission or knockouts. It is also said Heracles and Theseus used this fighting method in myths) The fighting styleâs devastating and outright brutal. But it gets the job done, and is very intimidatingâmeaning itâs the perfect fit for the Champion of Magic. But for a friendly superhero? Not really.
Itâs not like Captain Marvel can win here either, itâs between fighting like a street rat with no rules or fighting like youâre still in Ancient Greece, when everyone lacked entertainment and morals. Which are both pretty bad, because the choices are:
Captain Marvel, the superhero whose never uttered a curse word in public, gotten rude or actually expressed any strong negative emotion, clawing at a supervillain like their on the verge of death and the one thing theyâll do before slipping away from the world is taking the villain with them. Theyâre kicking, thrashing andâŠbiting? Biting. They are kicking, thrashing and biting using pure fight or flight instinct with sparse strikings of lightning pounding down from the sky. or
Captain Marvel, the guy whose nickname is âThe Big Red Cheeseâ and poorly hides a grimace every time someone uses the nickname, kicking a supervillain square in the stomach, then picking them up and throwing them on their head. Once the villainâs down theyâre over extending their shoulder, then the other, before putting them in a stranglehold...
Both ways are justâŠ
wtf?
Neither are really expected and I canât imagine which ones funnier.
#Heracles is just cheerleading them on no matter the method#Fighting is his favorite hobby#Black Adam takes a deep breath everytime before coming to Fawcett#Marvel does NOT hold back when it comes to him lol#I wonder how the public feels about it tho đ€#Sorry for disappearing btw ran out of ideas#billy batson#dcu#captain marvel#shazam#captain marvel dc#dc captain marvel#hc#hcs#rambles#Fighting techniques#dc
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law and luffy are so fun bc the fundamental basis of their relationship is that they were both there for each other in one of their most isolated, life changing moments of grief, and theyâre the only reason the other survived it. they may not necessarily know all that much about each other, but they do know parts of each other that not even the closest members of their crew (their family) know now. like obviously by the end of dressrosa law sees and understands the reason luffyâs crew follows him, but I think a less obvious truth is that when law saves him luffy sees and understands the reason lawâs crew follows him. I just think about luffyâs instinctive faith and trust in law on punk hazard; he looks at law and understands that as much as he pretends not to be law is fundamentally the person who saved him before he is anything else. and I think they both kinda struggle to categorize the specific and unique way in which they are important to each other (although admittedly luffy stops caring to much much sooner LOL), bc it IS different than their relationships with their crew or their family. not necessarily any more or less meaningful, just different. and idk i guess i just think itâs all very sweet, in the end, that they managed to find each other like this.
#the parallels between how law befriended shachi+penguin and how he befriended luffy haunt me a little. you have one(1) trick gayboy#but theyâre both there for these moments of apotheosis that nobody else gets to see and itâs. I wonder sometimes how their crews see it.#your captain disappears and returns fundamentally changed and the only person who saw it was this random dude? just some fucking guy.#idek. their entire dynamic just makes me feel so out of my mind. relationships built on an understanding of grief go CRAZY#trafalgar law#monkey d. luffy#one piece#op meta#lawlu
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i think obsessive/selfish/misguided love or âharmfulâ love in general as an antithetical theme to gravity fallsâ theme of love and family makes so much sense. if you think about it, a lot of the conflict in the show is born out of selfishness and obsessiveness and loving people as objects or means to an end. obviously, you have the big examples like gideon for mabel and giffany for soos, but every time both sets of the pines twins have butted heads, itâs usually been because of that too. just in like, a different way.
stan and mabel are both relying on dipper and ford to stay anchored to them forever to secure their happiness, and even though itâs a totally okay thought to have and dipper and ford werenât in too much of a rush to consider their feelings, itâs a bandaid solution at best! dipper ends up NOT leaving because thatâs the right thing for them but itâs not totally because the pines twins are a âset of twoâ who canât be separated. itâs a decision they make mutually! mabel even says that she would be okay with dipper taking the apprenticeship, she just needed a minute to be frustrated!
and then of course you have stan and ford where stan leaving ford meant stan would lose his only friend, but even in their adult years, they clearly still love each other (ford and stan both apologizing profusely every time they land a devastating enough hit) but their selfish desire to have the other admit theyâre the âvillainâ, to have a scapegoat to blame a whole series of factors on, overtakes them and buries that love. even as old men theyâre still trying to get something out of the other before anything else (fordâs house and name, stanâs âthank youâ). stan and ford want to love each other deep down so badly but this giant means to an end is in the way
you even see that sort of motif with characters like dipper and pacifica, where dipperâs crush on wendy almost always has negative results because, not only can it never be due to the age gap, but every time he tries to court her, itâs usually in the way a prize is to be won. he makes an itemized list of a process that is âguaranteedâ to impress wendy, he literally brakes the laws of space time just so robbie wonât date her (as if one single snow cone is keeping him from his success), gets a job at the pool just so he can hang out with her, and jumps at the opportunity to prove robbie is evil. etc etc. and with pacifica itâs clear that her parentsâ love is very transactional and conditional. if EVEN that.
so the fact that book of bill is setting up bill to be like a clingy ex to ford- more than that, itâs setting up ford to be the only human bill cares about THIS much! it feels like the ultimate way to tie bill to that theme of how love can harm as much as it can heal. like, heâs always been an obstacle to the pinesâ happy ending, but this way, we see his reaction to love in his psyche play out, and you understand why heâs the opposite and obstacle to the pines. the stan twins hurt each other and it takes an entire showâs worth of growth for them to fix it. gideon hurt mabel but him letting dipper and the group into her bubble proves heâs willing to change. bill hurt ford and he throws a temper tantrum and denies everything, trying to use force to get things back to the way they were because in his own twisted way he really does love and care for ford. iâm sure even a traumatized millenia old dream demon could change but for now bill doesnât! and that kinda makes him and fordâs relationship the perfect tie in to the themes in the show
#gravity falls#billford#moth flies#like what they had was real! and it disappearing is the saddest part#it just baffles me how people could go ânope it was all strictly businessâ about bill and ford. not even in a romantic way#any way. ALL ways. âbill has feelings for ford and once upon a time ford did tooâ is just so interesting!!
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Vash's glasses going glint
#trigun stampede#vash the stampede#tristamp#vash#the way the opaque reflections on his glasses are used is very smart#for foreshadowing and colors#and to cover his eyes when he's hiding something#it is specially noticeable in the first episode#this reflection happens a lot of times#it adds an air of mystery around his persona#and makes us doubt about his intentions feelings and honesty#also it is exactly the episode where we know less about him#the opaque glint disappears in the next eps#and becomes more transparent#along with him#and knowing studio orange doesnt do anything randomly...#or maybe i smoked cat hair and im high#it just came to my attention how in the first ep theres a lot of this visual device#and then it isnt#*rambling*#my gifs: itachanta
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"Pinepaw, I'm so happy to see you."
@barrenclan (sorry for being obnoxious. You posted the issue like 2hrs ago and i'm losing my marbles already. I hope youre happy with yourself)
#my art#patfw#patfw fanart#patfw spoilers#how are we feeling guys....... how are we feeling#that new issue. sure happened..#yaay family reunion........#he had it coming im so fucking happy hes finally dead jesus christ i NEEDED to see him bleeding out so bad#this comic has a way of instantously making all of my artblock mysteriously#disappear so i can redraw panels while kicking my feet and giggling. how does that work
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ms jay herself (and apple)
#ive been grappling with her design the most i feel.... i need it to be good enough for her đđđ ily jay ilysm wehhghghhhh#dude drawing the pin i realized just how much circles dont exist to me. theyve disappeared from my art completely. fuck you circles. fuck y#just roll with it#jrwi riptide#jay ferin#jrwi apple#i will tag every little critter ok it just feels right#my art#ok theres one bastard left i will deal with him.. later. maybe tmrw#fuck i got to the part where he gets some tats hhhgotta figure out how i wanna draw those#jay bad posture while tinkering is real to me. shes all hunched. shes shrimping.#she tinkers at night while the others r sleeping n she stretches n yells n wakes them up#guys i love drunk jay so much.... when her and lizzie got plastered... so good...........
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New place, same fight
Danny loves his friends, they have been with him since they were little and they have experienced too many things together, things that have helped them grow, things that only strengthen their friendship. Because Sam and Tucker were everything to him, as he was everything to them.
But at the same time, Danny could admit that he hated his friends; not always, but there were times where they wouldn't stop fighting, where they forced him to choose. The halfa could understand, Sam and Tucker had different world views, they saw different things and occasionally Danny thought they only got along because of him.
That was okay, he learned to live with them, to be the center of their arguments. And when they moved from Amity to Gotham, when they decided to rent an apartment together and go to the same college (which miraculously had all their majors), he thought everything would be fine.
It was idiotic of him. Because at the time he could only see a repeat of what had happened in high school; Sam was having a protest about the cafeteria menu and Tucker had organized the meat lovers (again), and the halfa knew how it was all going to end.
The point is, Danny was tired of repeating the same cycle, a cycle that apparently included Waylon and Poison Ivy fighting in the cafeteria at his new college (and how the hell did his friends manage to get the Rogues of Gotham into their fights?), so when he saw the people in bat suits he exploded.
When Sam and Tucker turned to ask his opinion he shook his head, pointed at Lunch Lady, who had her arms crossed and decided it wasn't his problem before disappear. Literally, no matter if half of Gotham was calling him meta, he was tired.
Red Robin gawked at him before turning his attention to Lunch Lady, who was gathering all the meat around her to form a giant meat monster. And Danny decided it wasn't his problem.
Apparently, Sam and Tucker decided that the bats could take care of it before they looked worried and started looking for Danny. It became obvious that the bats needed help when Danny looked at a giant meat monster two hours later, the halfa arched an eyebrow in dismay, weren't they supposed to be professional heroes? Lunch wasn't even trying...
#dpxdc#Danny loves his friends#but hate their arguments#he thought that they had passed the whole stage of discussions#but apparently not#Danny doesn't even know how Lunch Lady found out about the chaos#maybe she was following him#maybe all the ghosts followed him to gotham#that would be worrisome if he didn't care so little#Danny is no longer a hero and he refuses to go back to that#as much as he refuses to be the center of his friends' discussions#Sam somehow got Ivy and Robin on her side#Tucker settled for having Waylon and Nightwing somehow#dp x dc#dc x dp#Bats had never dealt with ghosts#Lunch Lady far outclassed them#the fact that Robin and Nightwing kept arguing was only a disadvantage#Tim has a feeling that the meta boy could fix everything#but he doesn't know how to find him since he disappeared#the boy's friends also refuse to help until they find him#Lunch is actually having fun#she's not mad she just saw an opportunity and used it
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It's 2/22 today so you get a Sollux :D đ
#tbh I'm not sure how I feel about this one but I got tired of working on it so I'm posting it now before changing my mind đ©#if it suddenly disappear you'll know why lol#homestuck#homestuck fanart#sollux#sollux captor#my art
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Slaps my lavellan this bad boy can fit so many abandonment issues
edit: uploaded the right picture lol
#dragon age#solas#lavellan#dragon age inquisition#oc: avelea#solavellan#dai#my art#I could not bear to cover up solasâ neck and shoulders#I donât know how the inquisitor got back to the team#but my hc is that they ended up finding her and helped her back to the palace for treatment#imagine the love of your life broke up with you#promised you answers and then disappeared without a trace#could be dead or alive#youâd feel insane! youâd go crazy#2 years pass and you start to feel normal again#BOOM HEâS BACK#also he still loves you#you changed him#made him hate himself more#and he still wonât choose you#kisses you one last time#implies youâll never meet again#disappears again#personally Iâd explode#but Lea definitely disassociated until the gang showed up
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First kiss
Just a quick heacanon that won't leave my head...
But I so imagine Damirae first kiss as a complete accident. They're lounging by the shore outside Titans Tower enjoying the tide and each others company. Nothing new for them when Raven turns to look at Damian, maybe he's saying something but pauses as Raven looks closely at him lingering on his face. Damian stops what he's saying on the verge of asking her what's wrong as she starts to lean in into his personal space. This whole time he's kinda holding his breath. He'd recently come to terms with the fact: Yes, he does have a crush on his best friend. He feels her hand on his cheek and our Boy Wonder puckers up and leans forward closing the distance between them.
It's a brief kiss- a peck before they pull apart. Now they're looking at each other in shock but before Damian can say anything Raven giggles and tells him he had sand on his face. Damian's flustered because he just impulsively kissed Raven and on top of that he misread the situation. It just makes Raven laugh more before she leans in and kisses him again.
#I find it so sweet how Damian's impulsivity catches up with him#Like baby she was getting sand off your face and now you've kissed your bestie#damirae#something bf i disappear again#demonbirds#damian x raven#raven x damian#I feel he would so be the first to make a move implusively#he toils over telling her his feelings and on a mission and things don't look great he just kisses her#Quite honestly I think raven can tell he likes her but thinks she's delusional and won't act#these two are DUMB
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heyyyyyy if u didnât notice Iâve been thinking about the tadc puppeteer au a lot haaaaaaaa
#im sorry itâs just#i canât stop thinking about it#like what if gangle doesnât just start out possessing Jax every day?#what if after the first time she just starts doing it randomly no matter what Jax does?#what if she starts threatening Jax to not ask for help?#what if the tadc crew minus Jax and gangle obvs start out thinking itâs a slightly creepy but mostly harmless way to get back at Jax?#what if they donât listen when he shows just how violated he feels cause âitâs Jax and heâs just embarrassed from getting his karmaâ#and they slowly learn how wrong they were?#what if Jax starts locking himself in his room so she canât get to him as everyone gets more concerned & gangle gets even more exited?#what if gangle lies to the tadc crew that sheâs just moving jaxâs sleeping body and not actually possessing him?#what if Jax tries to weaponize this by taking revenge on her in front of everyone so she cant posses him without revealing her secret?#what if it backfires?#what if gangle decides to take control of him anyway?#and he just removed his only security from her?#what if I cried?#puppeteer au#tadc au#tadc art#tadc fanart#anyway I hope my tags donât disappear
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