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Fanfic idea: Nocturna, after disappearing during the crisis, wakes up to find herself in the current universe, where she spots the Red Hood, and can't help but compare him to the blood night sky she last saw, and oddly, the young Robin whom she had tried to adopt
#can you tell i like the precrisis#bdjsbdks#thisnis nothing really. im not sure where to go from here#do they know eachother? does jason feel he recognizes her? and there flashes of memories from an earth long forgotten?#nocturna is Also against killing. how will meeting this different version of her son go#how will they react to eachother#nocturna noting how painfully different AND similar he is to who she remembers#WAIT#THE DEATH#SHE WAKES UP AND ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS SHE DISCOVERS IS JASON TODD IS DEAD AND DIED AT 14-15 OR WHATEVER#nocturna#jason todd#jason todd robin#red hood#i Know that nocturna comes back to the comics at some point i looked uo before making this post. but im p sure thats like#not the same#she wouldn't have the memories#when the crisis was happening the sky had become red and she had Feelings about that. mostly negative ones#and idk i wanted her to connect red hood w something about the night#she sees him w/o the hood and his hair makes her think of the moon in the night sky. for added detail you could say#that the white had taken on a cresent shape#depends how much white hair you think of jason w tbh#dc comics#i dont like tagging bwah#fic prompt
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Alright new Jason Todd headcanons in a dpxdc setting:
Danny is a "liminal" ghost, rather than a "half" ghost. He's alive and dead at the same time. (He's like Jesus Christ (in the church denomination I grew up in), fully ghost and fully human.) Danny, in human form, can go through a ghost shield, because he IS a living human.
Jason, however, is a reanimated corpse. He isn't a ghost, wouldn't have a ghost core, etc, he has a normal human system that runs ON ectoplasm. Jason CANNOT go through a ghost shield, because he is always an ectoplasmic entity. Danny can go through the Fenton Ghost Catcher and be split into a ghost and a human; if Jason went through the ghost catcher, he would straight up die.
(For my purposes I'm gonna say that Jason became an ectoplasmic entity upon his resurrection, but wasn't very stable. Dunking in the Lazarus pit stabilized his system but also poisoned his ectoplasm.)
I do think that Jason could learn certain ghost abilities if he learned to harness his ectoplasm, especially if they detoxed him off the Lazarus waters. He's probably already enhancing his stealth and strength in ways he hasn't really noticed. I think he's held back by the amount of physical matter he's lugging around, so maybe he couldn't fly, but I'm imagining temporary invisibility, or intagibility of like, a limb at a time. Maybe he can't walk through walls, but in a fight he can dodge by instinctively making the targeted part of his body intangible.
#i saw someone call jason a 'revenant' in a fanfic once and that is juicy as hell so I'm stealing that- that's what he is in this au#Jason's ectoplasm does react to other ectoplasmic entities so they can sense eachother#but for ghosts he's fucking weird because he doesn't have a core for them to resonate with or w/e#danny would probably think that he's another halfa/liminal at first but the more time they spend together the more that doesn't add up#so I know that I'm trying to give Jason ghost powers but honestly this whole thing is kind of a bum deal for him#he gets all of a ghost's weaknesses and barely any of the benefits#honestly I'm conceptualizing this as more of a disability than a superpower#discovering that youre less alive than you thought you were and you're technically just a walking talking corpse running on supernatural go#is fucked up and creepy and upsetting!#and it's something that he would have to come to terms with before he could start exploring what new opportunities it might give him#and i think that's really interesting#it's part of why I love messing with Jason in dpxdc stories so much#danny is fully ghost and fully human and he never feels like he fits in anywhere already#Jason is not quite human and not quite ghost so you can imagine how that would go for him#anyways i think they should be best friends and visit frostbite in the realms to make sure jason is healthy and also they should maybe kiss#and listen to the black parade together and talk about dying and stuff#danny fenton#jason todd#dp x dc#dpxdc#danny phantom#dc#batfam#my rambles#revenant jason todd
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I get a little crayz seeing this specific shot of Ivan...Ivan putting on a mask makes me crazy. It's the way his expression doesn't reach his eyes, the lack of sincerity in his smile.
But in the second image, he looks so annoyed he can barely care to school his expression and you can SEE the grimace in his eyes (EYE LINES!!!). There's such a stark difference in the persona he puts out there for people perceive him as vs how he naturally is gthybwsdgyc__(I need to see more of Ivan's natural expressions)
#i lol'd and then a serious'd#he'rds so me <- person who is still practicing in the river#alien stage#alnst#alien stage ivan#alnst ivan#the images seemingly dont relaye to eachother but...hear me out here i still love the paralelll..#i need to see more of ivans resting face cauee woww#i wonder if the other characters. besides sua have ever witnessed these kinds of ivan faces have they ever thought twice?#“more observent people could tell there was something wrong with him” show me that kind of situation i beg...i want to see how ivan would-#react to getting called out like that. he's like a on and off switch because he thinks people prefer him that way#has there ever been a person who genuinely verbalized that he should just...be natural?#I WISH#when he looks serious i like him so much more....i relate and he just looks more like himself yk?
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smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.
#jrwi show#jrwi fanart#jrwi riptide#gillion tidestrider#made this within a short span of wahtever bc i gotta go up to the mountains for my stupid gay job tonight n im trying#nnot to frrRREAAAK THE FUCK OUUTTTTTTi dont wanna work but. get that bread we fuckin shall i guess#ONWARDS TO THE FISH TORMENT!! sometimes flowers feel pain when you trim them before their blossoming. atleast i imagine so#i used to draw gillion with loooong hair tied into a big ol braid. and then it was confirmed that he had short hair when he was little.#AT FIRST I WAS SAD. but then i realized the duality of. when they were little. gill had short hair. edyn had long hair.#AND NOW THEYRE OLDER. and gillion has long hair. and edyn has short hair#both mirroring eachother. looking up to eachother. subconsciously or not. they most certainly care. and most certainly miss eachother.#GILLION ALWAYS LOVED HOW LONG HAIR LOOKs. atleast i imagine so. he hasnt cut it since he left the undersea. sure he wanted to go back home#but even at the very start. he knew he was free in some way now. free to grow out his hair. an adventure would await him before he returns.#he knew it would be a while. so he cant let this go. he cant let this sought-after hair-length get cut away from him again#not yet. not yet. i like to think he loved music too. I SAW SOMETHING INTERESTING A BIT AGO#i see alot of ppl commenting on my baby gill comics like;'i wouldFIGHT this teacher i wanna KILL EM i want them DESTROYED#all very good and nice sentiments! i LOVE the energy here! and it would be nice. to have that catharsis#but the story of young tidestrider is not a story of catharsis. it is a story of agony and being so so small and so special and also so dum#and sucking so bad. and just being a kid and doing the things that a little kid does and so many tired tired people reacting badly to it#youre supposed to be the hero that will save us. our world hangs in the balance and you are the one who tips the scales.#YOU are supposed to SAVE US!! you NEED to SAVE US! CAN YOU PLEASE STOP SQUIRMING IN YOUR STUPID CHAIR!!#you'd think that young tidestrider ought to prevail. and be tucked someplace all safe and sound.#elders gone missing and rotting in a jail. their cultists nowhere around. but theres no happy endings. not here not now.#this tale is all sorrows n woes. you may dream that justice n peace win the day. but thats not how this story goes#BIG ideas for this lil baby gillion series. if anything i make ever gets disproven im killing myself in a well as to poison a water supply
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I am once again thinking about Vanders non-perminent 'Peace' in The Lanes
Because it wasn't going to last at all, Vi and the others arent the only ones stealing things from Pilltover, someone would've eventually stolen from somewhere that was as important as an apartment owned by the Kirammans even if Vi and the others hadnt gotten that tip from Ekko. And that wall of peace wouldve snapped.
It may have kept some people safe but Zaun was still having enforcers come through, It wasnt a step forward or a step back. It was a non-moving middle ground.
Vander stopped moving in an effort to keep people safe. While Silco was dragging Zauns blood covered body to freedom even if it killed everyone he was tugging into the sun, including himself. He only took a moment to pause when he realised it meant sacrificing Jinx
#I dont really grasp why people think that Vanders plan was a good one. Yes it avoided War but war was always going to happen#especially with how pilltover and zaun were reacting to eachother#even Vi noticed this. “when did you get so comfortable living in someone elses shadow”#I dont know what my point was but I was just thinking alot about it#maybe ill come back to this later when my brain is working#arcane#arcane vander#arcane zaun#arcane pilltover#arcane silco#hot take but if I had to choose id go with Silcos plan. idk#I just needed to spew nonsense for a second
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idk just kinda insane to me how, seven years on, steve and reece still very openly cherish the one and only ep of their anthology series that was filled with gay subtext
#🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ don't know what to tell you chief#just that no other episode is given this treatment#shirts & mugs + cardboard cutout at their bfi#that figurine thing on the table of official n9 merch that had them as a king & queen bc what the fuck are they anyway#how plodding on was Basically a tribute to the ep itself#how they react with fondness whenever the ep's brought up in interviews#the *way* they talk about it with such pride and teasing to eachother#how it's the Only Episode to have won them a bafta????#just. my guy. they ADORE this one. years on it's still so special to them#and it just so happens to be the ep with a LOT of yearning and heartache and grief and was so fucking *gutwrenching*#in its themes of love and loss and alcoholism and oh my goddd#even christine isn't given this treatment and it's widely considered to be The Best IN9 Episode#funny that!#she speaks#bcdr
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Got crazy in calll again and was forced to make this
Anywyas i was like “hahah what would my mc react like?” And then realized they’d be like omg at the amount of money, accept it, and then still call Ais 10 minutes later
#touchstarvedgame#touchstarved ais#ais touchstarved#Leander#leander touchstarved#touchstarved leander#TouchStarved Game#meme#TouchStarved mc#self insert#TouchStarved self insert#Leander is so pathetic I need him desperately#I need to see them nearly kill eachother and go kyaaa :3#it’s my right I think#anyways ais makes me weak in the knees and idk how I’m supposed to react I need to draw him more and then actually post my art#Anywyas good morning TouchStarved fandom 😁😁 how we feeling about that 2 year wait#jinks art#Jinkiesmariz
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hch mid-season finale how we feeling?
I wanna know if u guys still have theories and headcanons and anything else that u haven't seen yet in the story: plss drop them in the reblogs or replies!!! we need smth to fill these weeks of wait :3
#high class homos#I'll start!!!#1 i need more ulyssa.#i feel like we'll see her more since ffion is involved#i would LOVE for them to speak but#if they DO see eachother#its prolly gonna be like#briefly#without talking#one of them sees the other and thinks “omg its her”#OR they look at each other and just don't talk#2 LETS HOPE THE KING WAKES UP#3 august and ffion reuniting#its gonna break me for sure#4 more lucas x marla please#5 more michel in dresses please#we still didn't get much about this aspect of them#didn't we?#6 im curious to see how they'll react to this same-sex marriage law#remember how ulyssa wanted to see saph because she also cared for rhe women (super based)?#now she'll prolly be pro-law#festion too#but the other three? it'll surely be a problem we'll see#at least i think#7 festion and xander and Percival's novel#please drop percival's novel#8 SOME MORE LUNA AND HOW DID SHE MEET THE BANDITS??? THEY SAID THEY KNOW JER#she was apart of a clan??? SHES AN ICON FOR BANDITS???? PLEASE MORE LUNA PLS#kikiposting to its finest
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Idk did the reunion seem a little… stilted to anyone else? Like there was a lot of emotion and Eman and Natasha had a lot of really good chemistry but it was almost like they were holding back. Like there was more they wanted to do/say but didn’t want to overstep (wink wink) because it’s been 10 years and they dont really know where the other stands
#like it’s almost like they didn’t know how to react around eachother anymore#which makes sense because of the time gap#star wars#ahsoka spoilers#ezra bridger#sabine wren#sabezra
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slams fists down on beautifully crafted oak desk
#uh started the rewatch Now .Earlier ;; THEY HURT ME SO FUCKING HBABBDNDFGPOGGr#I CRIED LIKE FOUR TIMES WHILE WATCGUB THE FUCKING PILOT#it just lays it all out so perfectly#the entire time morty was like protesting to rick and complaining but when jerry was kicking him out he defended him#I cant. theyre smiling because of eachother#god i looovoreergkt how much of the stuff rick says to morty is to impress him teach him or just scare him#like the way rick blows stuff out of proportion just cause he wants to see how morty will react hes . so obsessed with him#for tHE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE… MORTY HAS A FRIEND:&!:#and they’re so. they like speak fondly towards eachother rick is way more soft and earnest when talking to morty n morty is outwardly#impressed and fascinated with the things rick does from time to time and he trusts him#and all the emphasis on how rick sincerely only gave a shit about morty. whenever he talks to the rest of the family it’s either exaggerated#or blunt and if mortys there then hes all rick focuses on#and how it’s repeated rick Needs morty to help him . no one else not even someone more helpful and agreeable nope just morty#if it’s not morty rick doesn’t want it at all#and like even as early as the cold open for the pilot. you can see rick become impressed when morty suddenly becomes assertive once he-#actually hears the bomb and starts getting up and trying to kick rick off the drivers seat#big tough guy all of a suddenLIKE YOU CSN TELL HE DIDNT EXPRCT THAT AT ALL AND HES SURPRISED#ive been thinking a lot lately about how . one of ricks favourite qualities about morty imo is his sense of morality and refusal to just-#take stuff when it reaches a certain point. like he Loves that side of morty so much and doesn’t mind too much when it comes out because of-#something he did. yeah that part in the pilot cold open is like the first thing of that go back and look at how taken aback rick is#and i love how sheepish rick is around morty every now and then. like he so clearly tries to look cool to him and to know what he’s talking#about he needs to twist everything to be correct . all the time but also in front of morty specifically#crazyyyy crazy how he managed to find the one real morty#ohg. uitltogfo ouhkdfjrjp iuubbvv ? ledjndflfidnf#odiespeak
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Idk why everytime I think of Komaru I imagine her to act like, 78% ish Mabel Pines from gravity falls. Maybe it's just me. But I like to think how silly her and Makoto's dynamic would be.
Komaru, laying on the ground after a harsh but not too major fall and landed onto a bush underneath. Smiling sheepishly towards her brother who was standing, looking down on her, arms cross with the look of her familliar dissapointed mother would look.
Makoto: "what are you doing sneaking through my window???"
Komaru: "gotta get to my room"
Makoto: "through my bedroom?!?!?"
Komaru: "I mean, It's called sneaking in?"
Makoto: "why can't you use the entrance?? You're not an intruder Komaru, the security would recognised you!"
Komaru: "and uh... I just wanna test out my hacking gun?"
Makoto, resisting to sigh: "Komaru you don't need the hacking gun anymore, it's only gonna harm us both more than good"
Komaru: "it saved my life before!"
Makoto: "and what about tonight?"
Komaru, paused to think of an answered and ended finally said: "fair enough, tonight the hacking gun betrayed both of us"
Makoto: "will you promise me not to do that again?"
Komaru: "aw man, the last few times I did this you weren't complaining. Then again you were dead asleep so—"
Makoto: "YOU'VE DONE THIS BEFORE???!!??"
☝inspired by a scene in a fic I once read, idk where but somehow this is the only scene I remember cause it's so silly.
#danganronpa#makoto naegi#komaru naegi#danganronpa ultra despair girls#lunardr thoughts#to think of how she'd react and banter over hinaegi is all I need to keep moving#teasing Makoto over it#she's so definitely would#knowing their usual sibling banter is the only thing that was familiar between them#i like to think they're both more protective of eachother#considering they are eachother's only family left
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Renee/Phoebe slowburn real I am speaking it into existance
#class of 07#class of '07#renee williams#pheobe stewart#(thank you first ep for the i am __ stickers so i can get everyones surnames beside Tegan and Megan)#like they have THE convo in the first episode about how Pheobe was on the outs bc she a scholar ship kid#and renee reacts in such a way that i think she also was going to Ridge Heights at an expense to her family so didnt get to go on trips#and it tracks with her being TAFE accredited Nail Tech which is seen as a more lower middle class asperation#(not a bad thing mind but a general aussie cultural observation)#and then they become FRIENDS?!!?! THEY COVER FOR EACHOTHER??#THEY START THE REVOLT AGAINST SASKIA TOGETHER? RENEE BEING IN DANGER IS PART OF PHEOBE STOPING THE BLACK MAIL!!!#i am personally on the 'dont date your class mates from catholic school' bc i am personally biased HOWEVER i think renee/pheobe would work#anyway i think they're neat
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#they totally won't emotionally abuse eachother#Wendy totally didn't abuse Cartman in Chef Goes Nanners.#Cartman Totally didn't abuse Wendy in Br3@ast C@nc3r Show ever.#Cartman wrote cp of Wendy and published it.#Wendy kissed Cartman without consent.#Wendy beat tf out of Cartman to the point he could've died and hurt him.#She says kissing Cartman made her feelings fade and went back to Stan meaning she used Cartman and s@ and s3xually hrssed hi m by stealing#kiss from Cartman. HIS FIRST KISS TOO!#This is proship abse.#Candy is clear abse and a nightmare version of heterosexuality and you Candy shippers say “hOw rOmAnTiC!”#No hate towards Candy shippers#just a rant/vent#I'm sorry idc if you talk to me about Candy#I won't react negatively.
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are you still the dexter velseb theory guy cause if so i'd love to hear your thoughts & ideas about it ^^ /nf
YESSSSA TY FOR REMINDING ME TO TALK ABOUT IT AFTER SM6 . i was thinking about this last night cuz it like just hit me That episode confirmed that dexter never had a father figure around OR he left early on . michelle doesn’t mention one at all she doesn’t say anything like his father took it hard too Nothing. and i LOVE that because it both implies a lot of stuff about his upbringing and puts things into more perspective AND ALSO leaves a TON of room for this theory . although i will say ever since theorising michelle being his mom i have like. switched over to that. loving the concept of dexter having a super strict forceful overbearing dad who wanted him to be a coldblooded killer just like him is like the main appeal of the theory to me but the canon thing instead being him only having a super gentle understanding mom?? JUST AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER. I LOVE BOTH. Idk if what im trying to say is clear enough so basically. i still love the theory and everything it entails but i dont actually believe it anymore. like it’s still real in my mind but i dont actually take it as real outside my brain does that make any sense at all
#also related to theorising about who his dad could be#i Dont think its father gregor. the only reason he reacted like that in that scene is bc its just fucked up!!!!#him and michelle clearly don’t know eachother outside of him recently moving in and her coming to him for guidance#like that’s Not how you talk to ur wife yknow#also i can’t remember if this was actually real i think it wasn’t but gregor got confirmed as jack’s dad#and yknow. some people have that headcanon but there’s been Nothing with dexter and jack even knowing eachother#so yeah. not on board with that theory at all#TY FOR THE ASK❤️❤️❤️#spooky month spoilers#this like. wasn’t what this ask was asking for j just realised that. sorry about that j hope this suffices
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Kingdom of Ash Chapter 64
Chapter; Highlights
Hours later, Yrene was still shaking.
At the disaster they'd narrowly avoided, at the deaths she'd witnessed before that wave had struck, at the power of the queen on the plain. The power of the prince who had prevented the ensuing steam from boiling alive any caught in its path.
Yrene had thrown herself back into healing during the chaos since. Had left the royals and their commanders to oversee the aftermath, and had returned to the Great Hall. Healers drifted onto the battlefield, searching for those in need of help.
All of them, every single person in the keep or the skies or on the battlefield, kept glancing toward the now-empty gap between two mountain peaks. Toward the flooded, decimated city, and the demarcation line between life and death. Water and debris had destroyed most of Anielle, the former now trickling toward the Silver Lake.
A vision of what would have been left of them, were it not for Aelin Galathynius.
She'd been asked to inspect the queen when she'd been carried in to a private chamber by Prince Rowan, the two of them borne off the plain by Nesryn. Yrene hadn't been able to stop her hands from shaking as she'd hovered them over Aelin's unconscious body.
There had been no sign of harm beyond a few already-healing cuts and slices from the battle itself.
Nothing at all beyond a sleeping, tired woman.
Who held the might of a god within her veins.
Yrene had then inspected Prince Rowan, who looked in far worse shape, a sizable gash snaking down his thigh. But he'd waved her off, claiming he'd come too near a burnout, and just needed to rest as well.
So Yrene had left them, only to tend to another.
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To Lorcan, whose injuries ... Yrene had needed to summon Hafiza to help her with some of it. To lend her power, since Yrene's had been so depleted.
The unconscious warrior, who had apparently tumbled right off Farasha as he and Elide had passed through the gates, didn't so much as stir while they worked on him.
That had been hours ago. Days ago, it felt.
Yes, she needed to rest.
But a horn, clear and bright, blared from outside.
Everyone halted-then rushed to the windows. Yrene's smile grew as she, too, found a place to peek out over the battlefield.
To where the rest of the khagan's army, Prince Kashin at its front, marched toward them.
Thank the gods. Everyone in the hall muttered similar words.
From the keep, an answering horn sang its welcome.
Not just one army had been spared here today, Yrene realized as she turned back to the water station. If that wave had reached Kashin.
…
Lucky. They had all been so, so very lucky.
Yet Yrene wondered how long that luck would last.
If it would see them through the brutal march northward, and to the walls of Orynth itself.
Lorcan let out a low groan as he surfaced from the warm, heavy embrace of darkness.
"You are one lucky bastard."
Too soon. Too damn soon after hovering near death to hear Fenrys's drawl.
Fenrys's smirk was a slash of white.
"You've been out for a day. I drew the short stick and had to look after you."
A lie. For whatever reason, Fenrys had chosen to be here.
Lorcan thumped his head back on the pillow. "Elide." Her name was a rasp on his tongue.
The last he remembered, they'd ridden through the gates, Aelin Galathynius's unholy power spent. Then oblivion had swept in.
"Helping with the healing in the Great Hall," Fenrys said, stretching out his legs before him.
Lorcan closed his eyes, something tight in his chest easing.
"Well, since you're not dead," Fenrys began, but Lorcan was already asleep.
Lorcan awoke later. Hours, days, he didn't know.
The candle was still burning on the narrow windowsill, down to its base. Hours, then.
He didn't care. Not when the dim light revealed the delicate woman lying facedown on the end of his cot, the lower half of her body still on the wooden chair where Fenrys had been. Her arms cradled her head, one outstretched toward him. Reaching for his hand, mere inches from hers.
Elide.
Her dark hair spilled across the blanket, across his shins, veiling much of her face.
Wincing at the lingering ache in his body, Lorcan stretched his arm just enough to touch her fingers. They were cold, their tips so much smaller than his. They contracted, pulling away as she sucked in a sharp, awakening breath.
Lorcan savored every feature as she grimaced at a crick in her neck. But her eyes settled on him. She went still as she found him staring at her, awake and utterly in awe of the woman who had ridden through hell to find him ...
Tired. She looked spent, yet her chin remained unbowed.
Lorcan had no words. He'd given her everything on the back of that horse anyway.
But Elide asked, "How do you feel?" Aching. Exhausted. Yet finding her sitting at his bedside... "Alive," he said, and meant it.
Her face remained unreadable, even as her eyes dipped to his body. The blanket had slid down enough to reveal most of his torso, though it still hid the scarred-over wound in his abdomen. Yet he'd never felt so keenly naked.
It was an effort to keep his breathing steady beneath her sharp-eyed gaze. "Yrene said you would have died, if they hadn't gotten to you when they did."
"I would have died," he said, voice like gravel, "if you hadn't braved hell to find me." Her gaze lifted to his. "I made you a promise."
"So you said."
Was that a hint of color stealing across her pale cheeks? But she didn't balk. "You said some interesting things, too."
Lorcan tried to sit up, but his body gave a burst of pain in protest.
Elide explained, "Yrene warned that though the wounds are healed, some soreness will linger."
Lorcan gritted his teeth around the sharp stab in his back, his stomach. He managed to get onto his elbows, and deemed that progress enough. "It's been a while since I was so gravely injured. I'd forgotten what an inconvenience it is."
A faint smile tugged on her mouth.
His heart halted. The first smile she had given him in months and months. Since that day on the ship, when he'd touched her hand as they'd swayed in their hammocks.
Her smile faded, but the color on her cheeks lingered. "Did you mean it? What you said." He held her stare. Let some inner wall within him come crumbling down. Only for her. For this sharp-eyed, cunning little liar who had slipped through every defense and ironclad rule he'd ever made for himself. He let her see that in his face. Let her see all of it, as no one had ever done before. "Yes."
Her mouth tightened, but not in displeasure.
So Lorcan said softly, "I meant every word." His heart thundered, so wildly it was a wonder she couldn't hear it. "And I will until the day I fade into the Afterworld."
Lorcan didn't breathe as Elide gently reached out her hand. And interlaced their fingers. "I love you," she whispered.
He was glad he was lying down. The words would have knocked him to his knees. Even now, he was half inclined to bow before her, the true owner of his ancient, wicked heart.
"I have loved you," she went on, "from the moment you came to fight for me against Vernon and the ilken." The light in her eyes stole his breath. "And when I heard you were somewhere on that battlefield, the only thing I wanted was to be able to tell you that. It was the only thing that mattered."
Once, he might have scoffed. Declared that far bigger things mattered, in this war especially. And yet the hand grasping his ... He'd never known anything more precious.
Lorcan ran his thumb over the back of her hand. "I am sorry, Elide. For all of it."
"I know," she said softly, and no regret or hurt dimmed her face. Only clear, unwavering calm shone there. The face of the mighty lady she was growing into, and had already become, and who would rule Perranth with wisdom in one hand and compassion in the other.
They stared at each other for minutes. For a blessed eternity.
Then Elide untangled their hands and rose. "I should return to help Yrene."
Lorcan caught her hand again. "Stay."
She arched a dark brow. "I'm only going to the Great Hall."
Lorcan caressed his thumb over the back of her hand once more. "Stay," he breathed.
For a heartbeat, he thought she'd say no, and was prepared to be fine with it, to accept these last few minutes as more of a gift than he'd deserved.
"Say it," she whispered, fingers stilling in his hair. Lorcan opened his eyes, finding her gaze. "I love you."
"Yrene said you might always have this," she said, her hand mercifully falling away.
"Then it will be the scar I treasure most."
Fenrys would laugh until he cried to hear him speak this way, but Lorcan didn't care. To hell with the rest of them.
Another one of those small smiles curved her lips, and Lorcan's hands tightened in the sheets with the effort it took not to taste that smile, to worship it with his own mouth.
But this new, fragile thing humming between them ... He would not risk it for all the world.
Elide, thank the gods, had no such worries.
None at all, it seemed, as she lifted a hand to his cheek and ran her thumb along it. Every breath was an effort of control.
Lorcan held absolutely still as she brought her mouth to his. Brushed her lips across his own.
She pulled back. "Rest, Lorcan. I'll be here again when you wake."
Anything she asked, he'd give her.
Anything at all.
Too shaken by that soft, beautiful kiss to bother with words, he lay back down.
But until then, he wanted her here. Sleeping at his side, where he might watch over her. As she had watched over him.
Elide seemed to read that on his face, and her cheeks reddened further. "Later, then," she breathed, limping to the door.
Lorcan sent a flicker of his power to wrap around her ankle. The limp vanished.
A hand on the knob, she gave him a small, grateful nod. "I missed that."
He heard the unspoken words as she disappeared into the busy hall.
I missed you.
Lorcan allowed himself a rare smile.
#Chapter 64#Kingdom of Ash#Sarah J. Maas#Yrene Towers#no spoilers please#first read#read with me#read along#First Read along with me NO SPOILERS PLEASE though warning for post & tags up to KoA 64 & more reacts/notes/quotes in tags below#Elorcan#Yrene-Shaking-Queen&prince quote a pair-Blood glowing-the Line-No time for those levels-He watched her#A tired sleeping woman who held the might of good within her veins-He can heal himself but should take the help but also sweet#to want to tend each another-Carranam with hafiza? How do the healers work-a smile-another prince has arrived-not just one-luck again#GET TO ORYNTH-LorcanLIVES-Fenrys-Darkness embraces him-lol-Their fight-Chosen-Since you’re not dead?-A candle to tell time#A kindness-His hand-Utterly in awe-Through hell to find him-He’d given her every word-Aching exhausted alive&he meant it-#I made a promise-Didn’t balk-😂-Inconvenience-She smiled2-Forgiveness can you imagine🥹-Only for her-For this sharp eyed —#cunning little liar who had slipped through every defense-Let her see all of it-Many loves kindling-poor Gavriel just avoiding everything#What then?-So Lorcan said softly-Every word-And I will-I love you-I will be with you always-I have loved you-He was glad he was lying down -#-so he didn’t pass out-the light of her stole his breath-Since vernon-The only thing that mattered-Most precious-For all of it-#A mighty lady of Perranth-History repeats-I know-With wisdom in one hand and compassion in the other-A blessed eternity-Stay#ALL THESE STAY LINES-So Close-Defiant storm-All these ship making me nervous it’s going to well don’t hurt my bbs-The scar I treasure-BOTH-#Fenrys would laugh talking this way-He would not risk it for all the world-She wasn’t worried for once-Anything at all-I’ll be here#Soft beautiful lingering-Sweet who would’ve thought he’s a lil softie after all-Unbreakable-Dundundun-Watch over him#Driving eachother insane but in a hot way lol-I missed that-I missed you-The brace -Lorcan smiledAGAIN2times-No cages ever again#WELCOME HOME KASHIN YOU ARE GOOD NEWS WE NEEDED YOU#what’s the speech Fenrys?-never known anything more precious yeah that’s elide
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i don't know why im so obsessed with chisato lately, i just feel like she gets it (insane)
#i mean so does sayo tbh#this is maya's insane head canon corner but i feel like both of them probably feel like a lot of their desires are inherently bad you know#for different reasons of course#but in effect i really can't imagine chisato as someone who could like go on a date with a girl without like deeply examining herself#and trying to figure out how she's the monster you know#and sayo is like omg sayo has so much going on#she probably is like half i don't deserve anything and half i deserve everything#in a non sayohina scenario how do you think sayo would react to hina getting a girlfriend first because like#idk it would be crazy inside her mind especially if it's someone sayo likes right which i could totally see hina not realizing#and then herself feeling like absolutely garbage for hurting her sister again when she kind of didn't do anything wrong#ah this ran away from me idk#in a sayohina context things would also be insane but there are more qualified users out there to talk about it#im not really much of a sayohina shipper cause i think they should like be miserable forever and constantly step on eachothers toes#like metaphorically i mean
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