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okaystoptellingmetomakeanaccount · 8 months ago

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OKAY ALRIGHT EVERYBODY LISTEN. No more just posting thoughts in tags. It is time to explain why The Shadow War is better than Last Crash of the Sunchaser.

Last Crash is obviously beloved for all the emotional stuff. It’s where all the tension that had been building up through the season (kinda) snaps. It was not actually building up. It was shows a little bit and most of it is done in this episode. And it’s very well done I mean it feels like this has always been a thing, even if the show has just made it up. But it does feel like l of this emotional baggage has always been on these characters. The balancing of the Sunchaser signifying whenever everyone is emotionally stable/the plane itself is literally stable is a fucking genius move. Gotta say that. Sunchaser is a very good episode. But it’s not without faults.

That emotional stuff. It’s what everyone loves this for, and why it’s so beloved. But it only really happens in the last 10 minutes. The rest of the episode is a lot of silliness. Everybody always ever talks about those last emotional 10 minutes. Never about the rest of the episode. Which is good fun, but remember that people don’t love this episode. They love the last half of it.

A critique I’ve seen from the FS that I agree with is with a small scene from Scrooge’s flashback. The moment where he spends all his money to find Della. Like that is supposed to be the biggest of sacrifices, but the show hasn’t really done anything to make us feel that. If you’ve read some comics you know how much Scrooge loves his money, but that doesn’t work with this Scrooge. DT17 Scrooge just does not care as much about his money. He cares more about the adventure. That’s made very clear by the show, and so this specific scene just doesn’t hit the way it should have. I would say it’s unsuccessful at what it’s trying to achieve if you are just a normal watcher.

Now, the spear of selene itself is also a bit silly. “Yo mama was a doofus and flew a rocket into space without caution and she died. Btw i build the rocket. Why? Idk, thought she would like it.” Be honest, it’s a very silly thing to have this very well executed drama about, if you deconstruct it even a little bit.

The reason for the fall out of the family is silly, but the fall out itself is masterful. I gotta say that. We all know that. The way it mirrors the end of chapter 11 of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is genius, and how it recreates the uber famous Scrooge panel where he sits is his chair, mwah, chefs kiss, ten chefs kisses. “I am”? David Tennant i could fucking kiss you. How the comic book panel it’s recreating has Scrooge saying that he wants to be alone, and then have him saying here that he is happy being alone again while obviously lying. I mean in the vacuüm of the show you don’t see that and it’s just a good emotional scene, but with the comics in mind these last few minutes work extra well. Which in this case is fine, because it doesn’t rely on the comics to be impactful.

The emotional fall out that comes from it with the duck family is masterful, but also, we see most of that not here. Because here is where last crash of the sunchaser ends. The rest of this incredibly great drama happens in the next two episodes.

Why The Shadow War is a fucking masterpiece.

The Shadow War does what ducktales does best. When it’s at its peak. When it is not relying on anything else. When it’s not adapting any source material, and manages to use Barks’ stupendously versatile characters (and Webby) in these amazing original stories that cannot be told via any other medium than this. When it uses it’s own specific style of storytelling. Full of comedy, satire, heart, adventure and drama. Always in the spirit of the comics, but never the same in storytelling.

We have two plots running here. Scrooge who is getting interrogated by Lena/notMagica and the rest of the family on Donald’s boat.

The family stuff continues the drama exceptionally well. We see how Huey Dewey and Louie try to cope with the situation. Huey and Dewey go for the extreme and want to cut any relation as far from their lives as possible, while Louie doesn’t yet feel like we should go this far for just one thing. (He’s the one that cares the least about the mystery of his mom after all, or at least is the best at hiding that he cares, as we see in season 2) Webby feels similarly. She is upset with Scrooge, duh, but he was just not feeling it that day. She has already forgiven him. Very Webby thing to do. She tries her best to rekindle the family together with Launchpad and her grandmother. But what is important is that for her, this is not just the family as it is for everyone else. This is her family. And it is her only family. She has lived for years in isolation and while she loves her granny dearly, she never had a greater family. Now she finally does, and it is already slipping away from her. Already it is falling apart.

The ducks have always been about family. Donald Duck comics are always about family, unlike Mickey Mouse comics, which have always had a bigger focus on friendship. This is a clear point throughout the entire show. Here is where we can really feel it well. Like when watching we almost became a part of the duck family. Webby through the series has always been our little viewer insert. She knew the duck family from the start, but only as these legendary far away figures. For most English speaking viewers, it’s like having heard about these old comics that were apparently amazing, inspired so many things, but having never actually read them. Now through the series both Webby and the viewer finally get to experience these kinds of things up close. It’s not the same as the tales, but it feels just right. Now the season is ending. Angones has told that they went into every season like it was their last. Never expect to be able to do more. Disney is a difficult company. The showrunners were feeling as much as they could possibly lose the duck family as the character they wrote, and when watching you just feel that, but translated through an exciting finale.

The family drama continues on a surface level really well too. I could just quote all the lines those waterfowls are quacking on that boat and it should be enough to convince you. It manages to talk about a shared loss which especially the younger characters find difficult to deal with, and when the understanding comes, it’s really compelling. A lot of the boat scenes are also really funny.

The Scrooge plot then. notMagica has been looking forward to this for centuries. The great warrior Scrooge McDuck, richest duck in the world, stronger than the strongiest, smarter than the smartest. She walks in through Lena’s body (which is excellently terrifying) and he’s depressed as fuck. It’s like an exaggerated version of what Artibani showed in L’ultima avventura. Only there he had lost his money. We know DT17 Scrooge isn’t comics Scrooge, and DT17 Scrooge has lost what he has most dear. His family.

notMagica manages to slap some sense into Scrooge (kinda) (also make comic references) (can i also say how much i appreciate the dutch translation of this show? They catched all the references and more. Like for example in this episode; Plain Awful is not literally translated, but is given the name Doffe Ellende like in the original decades old translations. Same with crown of the mongols, which is specifically renamed to crown of genghiz khan to reflect the title of the translated comic), but simultaneously manipulates him to keep him weak, without the thing he actually needs. Like Tennant’s other character would say: ‘brilliant’.

And then i mean when notMagica rises from the shadow magic eclipse thing. Thats the sickest fucking thing ever.

Then Lena undoes the Magica manipulating by being real and saying things. What a legend. I love speeches. Don’t you love speeches?

Also it’s often very funny.

The second part of shadow war. The day of the Doctor Ducks.

I’m not gonna talk about how the shadows coming alive are actually an allegory for some kind of societal problem. They’re just really great funny shadows. I’m sorry.

This episode is primarily the end of Lena’s arc. All of her trust issues, probably existential crisises and all the shit she went through before this, it gets all capped off here. ‘Cuz she dies. Kinda. I dont feel like writing about Lena. There are already way too many texts about Lena. Point is, here is where it all comes together.

Here is also where the family drama started in last crash finds its climax. It might have been cooked up in last crash, but here is where we truly see to what it has lead, with the destroyed money bin as a physical example of the falling out of the family.

We cant go without talking about the Barksian modulator in the room; Donald’s voice. So eh. Not gonna talk about any behind the scenes stuff that may or may not have happened. I don’t have anything against it. It feels like a blown up version of the more heroic side of comic Donald. People say it feels like PK, which i kind of agree with, but thats just because of the general hero direction. There is nothing i find distinguishly PK about it. I dont know what to think of naming it after Barks.

But then the most important point. The entire episode is just full of epic. Donald does his thing, the kids do a little detectiving which builds up to the big reveal for them related to Lena. And then when the fight comes we see all the best parts. The outstanding action, lighting, scenery. The comedy from both notMagica and HDL, which flawlessly flows into Webby’s speech about her losing everything. Then notMagica giving her anti-speech. Lena’s dramatic sacrifice and Webby’s reaction immediately after. The entire climax is simply amazing. The first half of shadow war is very cleverly and intricately build up, while the second half finishes all that it needs to in the neatest bow imaginable, while having fun with making everything cool asf. It never misses a single beat and all the best qualities of the show shine like coins out of Scrooge’s money bin freshly cleaned by Donald. The irony and satire is sharper than the sharpies, the emotional scenes are stronger than the strongies (real word i swear) and the way it just does everything is done smarter than the smarties. Or whatever he says in English.

Then the cliffhanger dude. We see the camera focus on the moon while the music fades its original tone and plays those legendary 4 notes from the ducktales video game in what already sounds as the wonderful rendition of the song we will be hearing in the later upcoming season. Then the following 6 notes play, and the rocket, a tv, and then Della Duck is revealed.

You better vote for The Shadow War. It’s Ducktales 2017 at it’s very best. Peaktales fr.

Thank you for reading my ‘essay’. I forgot what else i wanted to write. Euh. Bwe. Shadow your wars or something.

ROUND #1

#ducktales #magica de spell #donald duck #ducktales 2017 #ducktales reboot #new ducktales #the shadow war

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trying-to-get-somewhere-real · 3 years ago

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Ava Daniels is a Good Person: a brief rant

Ok so I still haven’t gotten over the feeling of wanting to fight people who think Ava Daniels is a bad person even though it was just one tweet like 3-4 weeks ago comparing her unfavorably to Lena Dunham in Girls…I’m still just like, upset about it because the more I rewatch this show, and the more I spend my entire life reading Hacks content on tumblr dot com and AO3, the more I believe that as flawed as she is, as much as she can be a super destructive little shit, Ava is actually a good person and does many good, selfless things for people in S1 (well, mostly for Deborah because *reasons* but still).

Like things that just seem to come from a place of kindness and care and nothing else (e.g., basically all of her interactions with DJ show kindness without the expectation of getting something in return—going to the jewelry show, talking to DJ after the bday fight, driving her to her wedding; and the kindness and care she shows to/for Deb in the back half of the season could fill a super lengthy post that I won’t subject all of you to but things like everything she says to and does for Deb in 1x06 (taking care of her physically, wanting to hear about her life, telling her the way she was treated by Frank and her shrink was just plain wrong, telling her she can make anything funny, suggesting she share her truth with the world just because she owes it to herself), defending Deb to DJ after the bday fight, calling Deb to make sure she doesn’t miss DJ’s wedding, telling Deb that what Ira did was upsetting, stealing the picture from the comedy club, telling the Brits that Deb is actually a really good comedian and rejecting their job offer, getting Deb the present for her last show/writing the note that goes with it, etc. etc. - I’m happy for anyone to add to this btw, this isn’t an exhaustive list).

Of course, I think that Deborah changed Ava’s life and allowed her to access these parts of herself that she hadn’t in so long (ever?), but I think the capacity was always there. It’s useful for me to take off my shipper goggles and try to view Ava’s actions not only through the lens of her loving Deborah, but through the lens of being someone with the capacity to be very good to people generally. Ava is not an anti-hero (to me, at least), you know? In my mind, Ava wasn’t really able to be Good and Kind before because she had no one in her life with whom she could feel safe enough to show her full (uncool, unpopular, insecure) self to and receive some of that Goodness in return (although tbh she takes some big leaps with Deborah in 1x06 before Deb has shown her much Goodness of her own yet…because by then Ava’s starting to realize exactly what Deb’s been through, and because Ava’s fundamentally a good person instead of a monster like Frank, she actually cares and just wants to be Good for Deb! Again, just because she cares. Like that’s exactly my point - Ava starts to show kindness before it’s clear that she’ll get it back in return.)

I guess for me the fact that Ava and Deb can have a super combative relationship at times, and Ava does so many impulsive things without considering the consequences (which can be very bad for various people in addition to herself...like Deb), it feels easy to forget at times that she also does so many good things. Maybe that’s why these moments can be so surprising on first watch--it feels impossible to recover from New Eyes because suddenly Ava seems to CARE SO MUCH--who even knew she could do that?! Anyway, I just think she’s neat.

#hacks hbo #ava daniels #ava x deborah #the reason this is a love story #is because they do loving things for each other #and ava actually does them first imo #they are both difficult #and ava is obviously still learning how to not be selfish #but she is very much doing it #and the idea that she's just this self-centered annoying privileged little girl irks me to no end

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whateverthedragonswant · 3 years ago

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Alright, can we talk about how Eddie could have had 4 different other female love interests (other than Shannon and Ana of course) and the show chose not to pursue them despite any chemistry that may have been present between the actors?

1) Lena Bosko:

Granted, Ronda was only on for a couple of episodes so tbf pursuing any type of romantic story line for a main character and a guest star for a very limited run would have been ridiculous. Especially, since it wouldn't have made sense for Eddie's character and where he is emotionally when he meets her. There still could have been some flirting or a very obvious attraction, but the show chose to veer away from that altogether. Instead, they made it very clear that she becomes an almost stand-in for Buck (when she's with the 118): Eddie calling her to bail him out of jail, her taking Eddie to the fights so he could have a healthy outlet for his anger, being partnered with him during the shopping trip -- all of it. I won't get into why I think they did this right now, but the point is, they did it. They chose to keep it at a surface friendship level, rather than allow anything to occur between these two characters. Lena had a purpose to serve and she served it. (though I will admit, I wish they would bring her back for a couple of episodes, I loved her)

2) Marjan Marwani:

When the crossover happened, Ryan and Natacha had a lot of chemistry. I won't lie, when watching it the first time, I started wondering if something might develop between them, even if it was just a simple flirtation (until we saw his goodbye scene with her). Tbf, it would be ridiculous and extremely challenging to both characters' arcs for anything to be pursued for them other than a friendship. Eddie has his own story, and so does Marjan (as we see after the crossover, she wouldn't have been available at that point in time) on two different shows. It's not impossible but it would be especially difficult to maintain something like that unless they were going to be crossing over repeatedly and frequently. I did enjoy their scenes (I LOVE Marjan so much btw) and I look forward to more if we get additional crossovers, but bottom line is, they chose not to pursue anything here, even a simple attraction. Instead, they parted as friendly acquaintances who held respect for one another.

3) Maddie Buckley:

I know, I know. It feels like I'm committing some great sin even by putting her on the list but I've got to talk about it, just for a second. I'm so sorry, Chim and baby Jee, I'll make it fast I promise.

We all remember the scene where Eddie and Buck shared one brain cell between them about carrying the couch into Maddie's new apartment in season 2. We see that Maddie looked at those two and was like "oh right, one brain cell" and went back to being cute and very obviously into Chimney. When she mentions Chim being cute, we see Buck thinking she's talking about Eddie. The show could have definitely have gone in that direction, if you think about it (just for a second, I promise!). Then this would have cemented the brothers aspect of the Buck and Eddie relationship as well as keeping it purely platonic and familial. Maddie could have completed the Buckley Diaz family (and they could have even kept Buck involved) and she would have been a great help with Christopher. She could have been someone Eddie could rely on and someone who absolutely could have made him feel like he was enough. As their relationship developed, they could have been a great emotional support for one another and a solid family unit would have been formed. Tbf, Maddie and Eddie were nowhere near where they would have needed to be for this type of relationship to happen had the show pursued it, where they were both emotionally in the story line at that moment. But there still could have been a flirtation, an attraction, something that could have grown over time. We could have easily gotten that kitchen scene in Eddie's house where Buck brings cookies to be different, where Maddie is hosting instead of being a guest as well. Instead, they chose to veer away from that altogether and eventually we got Madney (which imho was the absolute right call, I love those two, they're perfect for one another).

4) Ali Martin:

I'm not going to lie, I didn't see chemistry between her and Buck during the earthquake episodes, not enough to bring her back and make it a thing anyway. (though obviously the whole "My name is Ali, not Abby" line makes more sense now) But when she came back and they pursued it, and there was some chemistry between them, I was like "alright, let's see where they go with this" and I did like her character, but I digress. My point is, she and Eddie could have just as easily become a thing. Granted, in the story line when she does come back, Eddie is not in a place to get into another relationship, emotionally or literally. At the time she comes back, Shannon has re-entered Eddie's life. So I get them not pursuing her as a possibility and instead bringing her back for Buck's story line. But the point is, they could have gone that way and they didn't.

And not mentioned on this list is any other possibility that they could have had Eddie attracted to someone else that they meet during a rescue, or times at each other's houses, another lady firefighter, just some random character he bumps into on the street, but they don't. Not only does that not seem to suit Eddie's character (since he talks about how dating is complicated as a single dad) or fit into his emotional landscape at certain times during his story, but the show purposely kept it this way.

Instead, we get two official love interests the entire two seasons he's been on the show:

1) Shannon Diaz:

Listen, I won't lie, I loved Shannon. She wasn't perfect and she had made mistakes, but one thing I never doubted when she returned, was how much she loved Christopher and how much she wanted to make things right between them. Even though she and Eddie get involved again, and I am sure she still loved him and always would, her focus was Christopher and herself. I think they brought her back to not only give Eddie closure, but also for her character as well. Sadly, I think the only person who didn't get closure from this return was Christopher, and it breaks my heart for him to think about it, but I'll get back to the point. Eddie loved Shannon; Shannon loved Eddie. Eddie wanted to try for a second time which Shannon truthfully tells him that she's still getting used to being someone's mom, and maybe someday she might be ready to be someone's wife, but now is not that time. She's focused on Christopher and herself. It doesn't mean that she doesn't love Eddie or care for him, she obviously does, but just like Maddie was trying to start over, so was she. The way her story ended saddens me greatly, not just for Christopher and Eddie, but also because here she was, on the cusp of moving on and rebuilding her relationship with her son, and boom! That's it. Regardless of any mistakes she made, regardless of how much her rejection hurt Eddie, that is just tragically sad in itself. And one of the reasons I love Eddie's character so much is that while he was hurt, while he was trying to do right by Christopher and put his family back together, he never lost sight of the fact that he made mistakes just like her. He says it right to Buck in 2x10. He says it to Bobby in 3x08. He even stands up for her when we see the flashback scene in 3x15. So while I appreciated that and I do kind of wish they had let her live her life, this is how the show chose to end things between them, before she died.

2) Ana Flores:

I think the show has dropped a major hint (in 4x13) as to where this relationship might be heading or at the very least, what's going on beneath the surface. Ana has become another Shannon for Eddie. Not that Ana is planning on leaving, not that she wouldn't willingly co-parent Christopher (if it came to that), but the show purposely chose to let the audience know that Eddie is going down a similar path with Ana, that he had already gone done with Shannon and was willing to go down with her again before she mentioned she wanted a divorce. He is pursuing things romantically with Ana for Christopher. Carla basically says as much with "Just make sure you're following your heart, and not Christopher's, okay?" It doesn't mean Eddie wasn't attracted to Ana or that he didn't even like her, but his heart isn't in it. Which is cemented by Eddie's expression when he watches Christopher and Ana laughing together as he's lighting the candles on Carla's birthday cake. The show is having Eddie realize this early in his relationship with Ana in order to alter the course he's currently on because it's deja vu all over again.

Not to mention a few obvious parallels:

Eddie contacts Shannon to help Christopher get into the new school; he meets Ana at the new school where she's Christopher's teacher

Eddie talks about how it's nice when he, Shannon, and Christopher are at the beach which is followed by Shannon asking what they are and if her being Christopher's mother is all she is to him; when Buck asks him how the date with Ana went, Eddie says it's nice, she taught him math; when Carla asks how Eddie feels about Ana, he says it's nice, it's easy being with her

Eddie tells Buck in 2x08 that he's confused and not sure if he's letting Shannon back in for Christopher or himself, after Buck suggests he let Christopher see Shannon since he's let her back into his own life; Carla tells Eddie in 4x13 that he should make sure that he's following his heart and not Christopher's

Eddie never gave up on Shannon and their marriage/family once he returned from Afghanistan, he didn't push Shannon or run after her, but he always hoped for her return and did everything he could to keep her around after she comes back into Christopher's life; Eddie has the webcam conversation with Ana where she says (due to Christopher's reaction) if they need to take a break, she'll understand & Eddie immediately tells her no, he and Christopher will figure it out and "In the meantime, I don't want you going anywhere. Got it?"

Where it all leads? I couldn't with a 100% certainty tell you. I, like many of you, think I have a pretty good idea of where it's headed

The show has been going back to this relationship time and time again. To the point, where it's right in front of your face and extremely hard to ignore, where people who hate this ship have to cry "queerbait!" which of course it's anything but (SPN veteran here). This show has excellent representation and even continues that in its spinoff (Lonestar). While the show may have figured out that the Buddie ship is one of their most popular pieces and are milking it for all its worth when it comes to promotion and ratings, that doesn't change the fact that the writers/show have/has been going there with these two characters before the obvious shift in season 3. They literally have been showing them as a unit and testing the waters with them since Eddie's arrival in season 2. For example, the scene where Eddie talks to Buck after Maddie is taken and Buck takes Chim's phone from the crime scene, that was an obvious testing of the waters and they absolutely passed. But then when Shannon dies, we don't see Buck being an emotional support in the scene where Eddie walks through the hospital waiting room and goes right to Bobby. We see Eddie and Christopher there for Chimney in the hospital but neither of them there for when Buck's leg is crushed. We see Buck being the one to give Bobby a heads up so Christopher could be at the firehouse. We then even see the shot where Chim and Hen (partners) are at the top of the fire pole, sliding Christopher down to Buck and Eddie (two eventual partners) who catch him together. And that was just the fourth episode of the season. Testing the waters. Not to mention, while Buck likes Christopher and we've seen them interact, their relationship develops further once season 3 starts, beginning with the card scene. This is also where Buck and Eddie's relationship also begins to deepen (the whole "get up" scene, showing more of Eddie's reactions to dialogue and events relating to Buck) even before the tsunami happens.

When I started to watch the series, I fully went into it unbiased and let the story take me where it wanted to take me. But soon it became pretty clear that the Buck and Eddie relationship has become something more than a simple partnership, more than a friendship or brotherhood. These two are literally co-parenting Eddie's son, and that's before the legal guardianship conversation. They have formed a family unit that the show just double downed on. Everything Eddie was looking for emotionally in Shannon and then in Ana, he has found in Buck. And regardless of whether Eddie realizes some deep-seated feelings he might have or not, the show purposely brought Taylor back into the picture because Buck is still not where he needs to be emotionally for anything to develop further between the two characters or just them as a family unit. These guys' relationships/dating has been used to advance them forward in their story lines. First we had Buck 1.0, then he gets with Abby, then we have Buck 2.0 who is the version Eddie meets. First we had a still married Eddie who eventually gets involved with Shannon again, then we have widower!Eddie, then we have dating again!Eddie. They are literally progressing these characters forward, from stepping stone to stepping stone, to end up in the same place, crossing the same finish line.

Plus, there is one big parallel that I think foreshadowed the similar emotional journey these guys would find themselves on: Buck waited for Abby, even though Abby was obviously moving on, and he remained faithful to her the entire time. Only when he was forced to look at the situation did he move on. "I have to figure out who I am without you." Then Abby returned in 3x18 and gave Buck closure, when she had been in Phoenix vs LA for the past year -> Eddie literally did the same thing with Shannon (who left him in El Paso and went to LA) until she returned and eventually made it very clear that they were done and she was moving on

But to be fully objective, I have to entertain the possibility that maybe Buck is not the person Eddie's journey is leading towards (which to me is just ludicrous considering all of the time they've spent setting this up in both Eddie's and Buck's arcs separately never mind together). Regardless, the point is Eddie has not yet had a canon love interest that will provide him with everything he is looking for, everything he needs, for him and for Christopher both. Considering that the show ended Eddie's story for this season on this high and very tense point (surviving the shooting & the question surrounding his relationship with Ana), it will be very interesting to see where they take his story moving forward. Especially since there seems to be something for him on the horizon that we don't quite know what it is yet and he has yet to have someone who he not only develops a close emotional relationship with but also provides stability, security, love, strength, teamwork, support, and overall acceptance.

Oh, wait *facepalm* he already does:

My bad 😏

#eddie diaz my beloved #eddie diaz meta #buddie meta #kind of?#911 fox #buddie mention #eddie diaz #eddie and shannon mention #eddie and ana mention #eddie and buck mention #buddie #buck x eddie #911posts

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katiemcgrathiseverything · 2 years ago

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🍒 hiii this is for the 2k thing haha thanks for participating ❤️

blog compliment:

you reblog peak lena luthor content! everything that you reblog is just 🤤!!!

plus the tags that you write on posts add so much depth and it’s clear that you’re a really big fan of katie (tbf you’re so much more knowledgeable about supergirl than i am, can i pick your brain some time?)

and you’re so nice and helpful to your anons, it’s lovely!!!

excellent header choice btw katie doing a stare down is everything

sorry this took so long btw, your other request will be up eventually!!!

Hi! Thanks for your kind words. Of course you can pick my brain… what’s left of it that is 😂😉!

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thevoidfishsminstrel · 4 years ago

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“Okay so is everyone clear on the plan?” Alex looked around the DEO mission briefing table, hands flat on the surface in her most commanding and authoritative stance.

Nia and Brainy nodded, Nia with her arms crossed and Brainy with his hands steepled in front of him in a serious manner. Kelly rolled her eyes but nodded too.

“Good.” Alex gave a curt nod and pushed away from the table. “We will meet back here at 19:00 hours for the debriefing.”

“Um… babe?” Kelly put a hand on Alex’s forearm and leaned towards her and Alex softened, smiling dopily at her. “Our dinner reservation is for 6:30.”

“Yeah and Brainy and I have a date too.” Nia looped her arm through Brainy’s, grinning.

“Yes.” Brainy looked pleased with himself and subconsciously leaned further into Nia’s side. “We are going paintballing.”

Alex hummed. “Okay well everyone just keep the group chat updated and we’ll meet up tomorrow.”

They dispersed and the plan was set into motion.

Phase 1 - Alex

Alex strode through the halls of the DEO with purpose, rubber soles of her boots not making much sound. Part of her envied the intimidating click of Lena’s heels but J’onn had shut down her suggestion of adding studs to the bottom of her boots, claiming it would undermine the stealth aspect of the design.

She entered her little office and flopped down in the chair, propping her feet up on the desk. She dialed Kara’s number, chewing on a jolly rancher from the secret stash in the drawer that Kara thought held boring paperwork as it rang.

“Hey Alex. What’s up?”

“Hey Kara. I - … where are you? Shouldn’t you be at CatCo?” The faint sound of traffic and the wind crackled through the phone speaker and Alex frowned.

“I’m just on my lunch break.”

“Oh.” Alex glanced at her watch. There was still an hour before phase 2 so Kara would probably be back at CatCo by then. “Ok. So what are you doing tonight? Sorry again that I can’t spend tonight with you.”

“No it’s fine - you have fun with Kelly. Lena and I were just going to have a movie night together.”

“Really?” Her eyebrows rose. That was easier than expected.

“Yeah, well neither of us was going to spend Valentine’s Day with anyone else so…”

Hm. That was going to be Alex’s argument. At least Kara was unknowingly cooperating with the secret plan.

She and Lena were getting insufferable with their heart eyes and yearning and so Alex had decided to take matters into her own hands with the help of their friends. (Kelly had been somewhat reluctant but Alex promised they wouldn’t push Kara or Lena to do anything, they would just… gently direct them in the direction they all knew they were heading anyway.) And so Mission: Get The Idiots Together was born. … Along with the group chat where they complained about the two idiots in question.

“Well ok then. Have a good day.”

“You too. Bye, Alex. Love you.”

“Love you too.”

Alex hung up and leaned back in her chair, steepling her fingers together and feeling like a Bond villain. Ah yes, it was all coming together now.

Phase 2 - Nia

Nia: Guys it’s all falling apart already

Nia glanced around the CatCo bullpen again, leg nervously bouncing. Her phone buzzed in her hand and she looked back at it, totally-not-suspiciously under her desk. It was a reply from Alex.

Alex: What?? What’s going on?

Nia: Kara’s not here

Alex: She told me she was at lunch over an hour ago! She must be back by now

Nia: Well she’s not! What do I do???

Brainy: Do not worry - I have just just seen her exiting L-corp and she informed me she was heading back to CatCo.

Alex: Ok great. Nobody panic.

Kelly: You guys are taking this way too seriously

Nia: Ok I’ll just do it when she gets back

Alex: Oh btw Kara said they’ve already planned to have a movie night together tonight so that makes our job easier

Brainy: Wait - if they’re already meeting tonight then what is the purpose of my visit to L-corp?

Phase 3 - Brainy

Brainy frowned down at his phone but at that moment the elevator dinged and the doors slid open on Lena’s floor. He stepped out, putting his phone away and nervously smoothing his shirt. Improvisation. He could do that. This plan definitely wasn’t going to end in disaster.

He nodded politely to Jess and she smiled. “Hello. I am here to see Lena Luthor.”

Jess bit back an amused smile and picked up the phone on her desk. “Miss Luthor? Querl Dox is here to see you.” She put it down after a moment and gestured to the large double doors. “You can go right in.”

Brainy nodded again in thanks and moved towards the office. Perhaps they should have drafted Jess into the plan.

Lena stood up and rounded her desk with a slightly confused yet genuine smile as he entered. “Brainy. To what do I owe the pleasure?”

He cleared his throat, standing awkwardly in the middle of her office. “I just came to see you. As friends do. Which we are.”

Lena’s eyebrows climbed almost imperceptibly. “Right. Drink?”

Brainy shook his head and she moved over to the side of her office to pour herself a glass of water. “So… I hear you and Kara are having a movie night tonight.”

A little bit of water sloshed over the side of the glass as Lena was pouring it. She had a faint blush on her cheeks when she turned back around which was odd because the AC in her office seemed to be working fine.

“Yes. Well we assumed you would all be too busy to join us. Are you and Nia doing anything tonight?” She sipped her water and moved back to lean against her desk.

Brainy lit up at the mention of Nia. “Yes! We are going paintballing.”

He spent the next half an hour talking about his date with Nia and Nia in general until they both had to get back to work.

Phase 2 (attempt 2) - Nia

“Kara!” Nia slid up to walk along beside her as she stepped from the elevator into the bullpen.

Kara smiled and started walking towards her desk. “Hey, Nia. What’s up?”

“Nothing! I mean… lots of things. The sky, the ceiling, …clouds.”

Kara looked at her a bit weirdly and she laughed awkwardly.

“Anyway… just came to see how you are, mentor.” She lightly punched Kara in the arm.

Kara raised an eyebrow, looking down at where Nia had punched her before slowly sitting down at her desk. “I’m good. Thank you.”

“Great! Oh by the way,” Nia smoothly segued into her part of the mission with complete subtlety and absolutely no suspiciousness, “I accidentally double ordered flowers and chocolates for Brainy. I figured I’d give one lot to you and maybe you could do something with them.”

She rushed over to her desk and grabbed the bouquet of flowers and heart-shaped box of chocolates waiting there, depositing them in front of Kara.

“Oh wow. Thanks Nia.” Kara grinned up at her before picking up the box of chocolates and peeling off the sellotape.

Nia’s eyes widened and she tried not to scream in panic as Kara opened the box and just started eating the chocolates. Kara offered one to her with a smile and she managed to croak out a “no thanks” before she ran off back to her desk to inform the group chat of the latest development.

Phase 4 - Kelly

Kelly sighed as her phone blew up with notifications of her panicking group of friends. How this had ended up being her life was a mystery.

The elevator slowed and opened to the bustling CatCo bullpen just as she saw Kara disappear through the emergency exit at the back. She sighed again and got straight back into the elevator, unlocking her phone.

Kelly: I’m guessing Kara just got called away for a Supergirl emergency?

Alex: Sorry

Kelly: Phase 4 failed

Alex: Shit. Brainy, I need you to take over phase 4 when Kara gets back to the DEO. Kelly, you just get to L-corp.

Nia: Wait but if I’m now going to L-corp to give Lena chocolates instead won’t it be a little suspicious that we’ve all suddenly decided to to go visit her on the same day?

Alex: Shit you’re right. Ok, Nia, you take over phase 6 while you’re at L-corp and Kelly, you come by Kara’s later for phase 4.

Phase 4b - Brainy

Brainy stared at his phone, unsure whether he was still supposed to be attempting phase 4. Before he could ask, Kara strode up beside him and sat on the desk he was sitting at.

“Did you see how hard I hit that guy?” Kara grinned, swinging her legs.

Brainy gulped, quickly turning off his phone and sliding it back into his pocket. “Yes. Very impressive. Is Alex back yet?”

Kara shook her head. “She and the backup team are just on their way back with the bad guy.”

He nodded. Right. Motivate Kara to tell Lena about her feelings. He could do this.

“Did you know that the mortality rate of unmarried people is much higher than that of married people?”

Kara’s head snapped over to him with a mildly horrified expression. “What?”

Perhaps that was not the right starting point. “Well… maybe that means one could keep someone they care about from dying so much by… marrying them?”

Kara chuckled. “Unfortunately I’m not sure marriage is a cure for death.”

There was a sadness creeping in behind her eyes and Brainy began to panic even further. Making Kara upset was definitely not part of the plan. He blurted out the first thing that came to mind to try to cheer her up again.

“Do you want to see a video of baby pandas that Nia sent me?”

Alex gave them a bit of an odd look when she got back to see them laughing at videos of pandas rolling around but Brainy would say improvised phase 4 had been a success.

Phase 2.5/ 6 - Kelly Nia

Nia strode into Lena’s office with her most friendly and least suspicious smile.

“Nia. What a surprise. You and Brainy in one day.” Lena stood and gave Nia a brief but warm hug.

She was wearing a jade sheath dress that brought out the green in her eyes, with sleeves that came down to just above her elbows. Her usual deep red lipstick was missing, replaced with a natural colour (or it may have just been lip balm). Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail and had been left slightly wavy rather than perfectly straightened. At least they didn’t have to worry about making sure Lena looked good for tonight.

“Hey Lena. I just came by because I ordered too many chocolates for Brainy and I thought maybe you could have one to give to someone or something.” She sat casually in front of Lena’s desk, pulling another box of chocolates she had bought on the way over out her back and setting them on the desk.

Lena sat back down with an amused smile. “How thoughtful of you. Thank you.”

“You know,” Nia relaxed back into the chair, looking off into the distance in a completely normal and not at all overly dramatic gesture. “I’m so glad Brainy and I talked about how we felt. We’re so happy together and I can’t imagine how much I would have regretted not saying anything. You know… because we’re so happy together now and we wouldn’t be if neither of us had said anything”

Lena nodded slowly. “I’m glad you’re both so happy together.”

“And you know, we should always speak our minds.” She adopted the persona of a motivational speaker, channeling her inner Kelly. “Because we can’t let ourselves be silenced, Lena. You are a powerful woman with a great mind, great hair, and a jawline that could cut glass.”

“... thank you?”

Nia placed her hand over Lena’s on the desk, nodding seriously. “You’re welcome.”

And with that she stood and strutted out of the room.

Nailed it.

Phase 7 - Alex

Alex turned up at Kara’s just after she got home. Kara opened the door, looking very confused at the sight of her sister.

“Alex? What are you doing here? Don’t you have to get ready for your date?”

Alex pushed into the apartment, patting Kara’s arm on the way past. “I just came to see my little sister beforehand. Make sure you’re doing okay.”

Kara closed the door with a raised eyebrow. “Why wouldn’t I be?”

Alex shrugged, dropping her bag onto the kitchen island with a clunk. “Well I just wanted to see you since I can’t spend the evening with you. I didn’t want you to feel alone.”

Kara glanced at her watch. “Oh. Ok. Well Lena’s going to be here soon so you don’t have to worry.”

Alex waved her off and moved into her bedroom, flicking through the clothes on the rack.

“... what are you doing?”

Alex ignored her, picking out a neat navy blue button down. “Hey, why don’t you wear this? I haven’t seen you in it before.”

Kara frowned. “I’ve definitely worn that around you before.”

“Well I don’t remember.” She shoved the shirt into Kara’s arms and directed her towards the bathroom. “Put it on for me.” She decided Kara’s beige slacks were good enough, not wanting to push too far. Her hair was already perfectly curled in a half up half down look as though she had only just done it so that was fine.

Kara appeared again a moment later in the new shirt looking confused. Alex interrupted her before she could say anything.

“Brrrr. It’s cold in here.”

Kara frowned. “Is it?”

“Yes. Us humans get cold, you know.” She moved into the kitchen, not taking any questions. “You should light some candles.”

“Candles? To warm my apartment?”

Alex ignored her, rifling through cupboards for matches. She found them with a bunch of Kara’s own candles. A rather large number of candles actually that all looked new and smelled nice. Looks like she hauled all those candles over in her handbag for nothing.

Kara helped her set up the candles nicely around her apartment, continuously glancing over at her as though worried Alex had sustained some kind of head injury.

Alex was saved from having to come up with a more plausible explanation by a knock on the door.

Phase 4 (attempt ?) - Kelly

“Kelly? What are you doing here?”

Kelly hugged Kara and made her way into the now softly glowing and smelling faintly of sandalwood apartment. “I came to see you. I know how hard it can be for some people on Valentine’s day if they don’t have a romantic partner. But it’s completely normal and we shouldn’t be made to feel any less for it - in fact there are plenty of people who never have a relationship and lead very happy and fulfilled lives.”

Alex elbowed her in the side, smiling innocently.

Kelly cleared her throat, pushing back at Alex a little. “Although we also shouldn’t be afraid to look for a relationship. It’s important to be honest with ourselves and others, and sometimes things that seem scary can actually be okay and very rewarding.”

Alex nodded along beside her and Kara looked between the two of them.

She nodded slowly. “Right.”

Another knock at the door drew Kara’s attention away and Alex sighed in relief, holding her hand up to Kelly for a sneaky high five which she returned with an eye roll.

Kara’s voice took on a breathy awed quality that only ever appeared around Lena as she opened the door. “Lena. Hi.”

Lena smiled shyly, ducking her head. “Hi.”

Kara stepped aside to let her in, taking her coat.

“Hey Lena.” Alex waved at her.

Lena’s eyebrows rose slightly. “Alex. Kelly. I thought you two had a date?”

Alex nodded excessively, taking Kelly’s hand. “Yes we do. And we should really be going so that we’re not late.”

They awkwardly sidled between Kara and Lena out of the apartment, looking one last time between them before smiling and walking off down the hall.

Alex grinned as she heard the door close behind them. “Do you think it worked?”

Phase …???

They were just leaving Kara’s building when Nia and Brainy came running up to them.

“Alex! Kelly!” Nia doubled over, hands on her knees and breathing hard as she reached them. She thrust her hand out towards them, bouquet of roses clutched in her fist. “Kara forgot the flowers at CatCo.”

Alex gasped and snatched them from her hand, turning to rush back inside. Everyone else ran after her, taking the stairs two at a time. They stomped down the hall to Kara’s door and Alex pushed it open, all four of them bursting in.

Kara and Lena were locked in an open mouthed kiss in the kitchen, Lena pressed up against the island as Kara gripped her hips, thumb slipping under her shirt. Lena’s hands were tangled in Kara’s hair, pulling her closer in a decidedly non-platonic way. A bouquet of plumerias sat on the island behind them and the dining table was laid romantically with a meal that looked to be from France.

The pair sprang apart at the loud bang of Kara’s door against the wall, Lena ducking her head and pulling her lips into her mouth as Kara moved slightly in front of her as though attempting to hide that they had just been thoroughly making out.

The four in the doorway gaped at the scene before them.

“Well. I guess the plan worked.”

#supercorp #I may or may not have completely forgotten valentines day was a thing until I opened tumblr this morning #so have a hastily written oneshot #a ‘lotl writing

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calibancangetit · 5 years ago

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What if a witch did the spell to call a familiar (the one used by Sabrina in season 1) but messes up and ends up linked to Caliban? Could that be a good request? I really like your writing btw 💖

This is such a brilliant request! I’m sorry it’s kind of short, but I thought it was kinda cute. I hope I did it justice, and thank you I really appreciate it! 😖💕

The Familiar’s Fury (Caliban Imagine)

Fear clouded your mind, and the farther you walked into the forest the more scared you became. Sabrina assures you that this was the best way to find a familiar, but something told you that it was probably better to get one off that catalog Aunt Zelda told you about. You knew Sabrina meant well, but ever since the pagans were destroyed and her second self took over Hell, she’s been having a very lassez-faire attitude about the world.

“Why does everything always turn out so well for her?” You mumbled as you kicked some stray rocks in your path.

You loved Sabrina. She was so kind to you when her family took you in a couple months after Sabrina’s first failed attempt to sign her name in the Book of the Beasts. You were a long lost cousin of sorts to the Spellmens, and they did everything they could to make you feel like a true Spellmen, including being a witch. However, you were certain Sabrina’s ways of the dark arts would only lead to a worse path for you.

A cold breeze blew through the trees, creating a worse mood throughout the forest. You pulled your cardigan closer to you and immediately regretted not wearing warmer clothing.

“Let’s just get this over with.” You groaned as you began the ritual.

You tried to remember every detail you could from Sabrina’s instructions. You were sure you did it right, but when you finished absolutely nothing happened. You pouted when the silence of the forest answered the question you were thinking.

“It didn’t work.”

You shrugged your shoulders before grabbing your bag that you put down before the ritual. You adjusted the things inside before spinning on your heel to head home. However, your face was met with a broad chest.

You looked up and saw a pair of green eyes and a beautiful smile facing you.

“Well, if I knew a woman as beautiful as you was going to be the one to take me out of that rock, I would have dressed better.”

You screamed as you pushed him from you; the force of your push had him stumbling backwards for a second, but he recovered swiftly. Your eyes went wide as you were completely dumbfounded by the whole ordeal.

“W-who the hell are you?” You asked as you reached into your bag for some kind of weapon.

Unfortunately, you only had a small, dull pocket knife. You raised it up and aimed it at him with as much confidence as you could muster. The man only eyed the knife before waving his hand causing it to fly from your hands. Your chest heaved as you tried to make a run for the knife once more, but the man had already grabbed you by your arm. You pulled against him, but he just tightened his grip on your wrist.

“I don’t usually illicit such a response from a woman like this; well, except one.” He mumbled but you only continued to stare at him in horror.

“W-What do you want?”

He smiled at your question before slowly releasing your arm. You rubbed your sore wrist before frowning at him and patting your clothes off.

“You summoned me here and out of my imprisonment. I just wanted to thank you is all.”

You cleared your throat awkwardly as you held onto the strap of your bag, “Oh, well, you’re welcome. Was that all?”

His face dropped suddenly and you felt very uncomfortable under his gaze, “Well, I guess so then. I guess I’ll be off,”

A circle of fire surrounded him as he disappeared into thin air. Your fingers played over the skin he touch, and you swore you felt like he was still touching you.”

You shook your head when suddenly a spark of fire started in front of you. As it died out the man from earlier fell to the floor in front of you.

“What the-” he whispered as he took a look around his surroundings. His eyes landed on you and he quickly scrambled up to his feet before pointing a finger at you.

“Look I get it. It was fun the first time, but quit summoning me. Don’t you think once was enough?”

You scoffed as you face contorted into one of disbelief, “I didn’t summon you at all. I was summoning a familiar. I don’t even know who you are,”

“Caliban. Prince of Hell. Ring a bell?”

“How could you be prince of Hell, while Sabrina is queen?”

Rage filled his eyes as he stomped over to you as backed you up to a tree.

“You know, Sabrina! How the hell do you know her? I never saw you with her when she was fighting for the crown!” He interrogated.

A rush of confidence hit you at the mention of your cousin’s name. “Let’s just say I was doing some soul searching during that time, asshole!”

You pushed him off of you before making a run for it. You heard his footsteps chase after you, and just before you saw the treeline, you were tackled to the ground.

“Get off!”

“Would you shut up! Someone’s here!” Caliban hushed you.

Your voice went quiet when he saw who he was talking about. Four men creeped through the forest as they snickered to themselves.

“I know I saw her. She was a witch, doing some kind of spell. She was chanting. We can’t have any witches here.” One of them explained as he held his rifle tighter.

Caliban moved off of you before casting a glamour to hide you both from the men. You hid yourself as far against the ground as you could.

“Witch hunters.” Caliban whispered.

You nodded as you watched the men leave further into the forest. As soon as they were out of earshot, Caliban took off the glamour. You let out a deep breath before thanking him shyly. He kneeled beside your laying form before chuckling.

“Don’t worry about it.”

You kneeled and brushed off the dirt and leaves that clinged to your clothing. Caliban stood up and lent a hand to help you up.

“Why did you help me?” You asked as he handed you your bag that fell.

“It would seem that I am now obligated to help you.”

You furrowed your eyebrows before asking him to explain further. He sighed and showed you his arm that had your name scrawled across his wrist. Your fingers traced your name on his skin before staring up at him amazed. You didn’t notice the way Caliban’s breath hitched at the way your fingers danced across his skin, or the way you he couldn’t stop staring into your eyes. He quickly shook himself out of it and recovered smoothly.

“Well, (Y/N), it would seem that I am your familiar,” he said with a smug smirk.

“Shit. I’m gonna kill Sabrina.”

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ravenforce · 5 years ago

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In Another Life

Prompt: "Hi again! I always look forward to reading all your work, would you be interested in doing a cross-over?? One where the reader is dating Carol at the beginning but then they break up (you can decide the reason why) and the reader moves to National City where she meets Lena. Then the reader falls in love with Lena and they begin dating. After a while, Carol returns and tries to win the reader back. You can decide how it ends - reader ends up with Carol or Lena or they start a poly-relationship??”

Requested by: @lmaodrag1037

Pairing: Carol Danvers x Reader, Lena Luthor x Reader

Word Count: 6103

Warning/s: DC X MARVEL Crossover. Angsty with a happy ending (depending on who you ship R with.)

A/N: This prompt sat on my pending list forever. I’m so sorry it took so long but here it is. I hope you guys like it. I’m sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes that still escaped me. And lemme know what you guys think! Stay bright, my darlings. xx

***

You didn’t know what went wrong. You were okay. You were more than okay, together; even though she’s away in space most of the time. You manage, you make it work. Then just after putting the world back together, your world started caving in. This is supposed to be a happy moment! You just defeated a titan and revived the dusted half of the population. So you’re confused as to why Carol is mad at you again.

“Y/N are you listening?” Carol snapped her fingers at you.

“I’m sorry, I was elsewhere.”

“Clearly,” she said annoyed.

You haven’t seen your girlfriend for three months since she volunteered to go with Gamora on a short mission off-world. You realized it's happening a lot recently. Every time she’s on Earth, she’s always rather pissy with you.

You sighed heavily. “What’s happening, Carol?” you asked, exhausted from all the day's work of being an Avenger and also an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. All you wanted was to come home and maybe cuddle with your girlfriend or your best friends Nat and Maria (since Carol’s always, well absent).

Carol spun around to look at you. There’s some anger reflecting on her beautiful hazel orbs. “What’s happening is, I’m breaking up with you,” Carol says plainly like she’s not breaking your heart.

“Excuse me?” you blinked at her twice.

“I didn’t think you had it in you,” she said gritting your teeth.

“What are you talking about?” you asked confused as hell what she’s on to.

“You and Maria sleeping together!” Carol said angrily.

You wanted to chuckle but one look at her face and you know she wasn’t joking. You looked at her defiantly. “Did you snort some space drugs or something?”

“Agent Johnson said,” Carol tried to say but you cut her off.

“Agent Johnson?!” you asked incredulously. “You believe her word more than mine?” Your voice shaking, and it wasn’t from the pain you’re feeling inside.

“She saw Maria come out of your room in the wee hours of the morning!” Carol tried to defend her accusation.

You thought back of the last time, Maria slept over in your room. It was a few weeks ago. You were training the new recruits, you were sore and awfully lonely. You’ve been missing Carol a lot. So you settled for a movie night with the girls but Nat’s on a mission, Pepper’s with Tony and Morgan in the lakehouse, and Wanda’s out on a date night with Vis. You were close to crying when Maria knocked on your door.

”I take it’s just us tonight?” she asked after you nearly dragged her inside your room.

“Yes. Nat’s still on a mission. If she wasn’t she’ll be here,” you said while popping the wine open. Maria flops down beside you on your extra expensive couch care of one Tony Stark.

“Of course she will, I won’t let her miss it,” Maria said before reaching for the remote and flipping through your watchlist on Netflix. You ended up doing a marathon of How I met your mother, again. Both of you falling asleep after a season or two. You felt Maria hopelessly try not to make too much fuss getting out of your extra soft sheets.

“Doing the walk of shame?” you mumbled your futile attempt at a joke, before burrowing deeper into your warm sheets. Maria chuckled.

“Yeah, Nat’s home,” Maria said before kissing the top of your head and jumping off the bed.

You just hummed and chuckled then went back to sleep.

You shook your head to clear away the memory and look at your girlfriend.

Ex-girlfriend, rather. She broke up with you a minute ago, you had to remind yourself.

“I gave you my word, Car. No matter where you go, no matter how long it takes, you’ll always have me, didn’t I?” you finally let the tears roll. You have minor injuries from today’s mission; you’re exhausted, and now also heartbroken.

“You know what my father did, I told you the story,” you tried to continue but you’re full-on crying now. Carol knows the story of how your father cheated on your mother multiple times, and how it ruined you and your family. Carol knows, Carol remembers you promised you’d never do that to her no matter how long she’s gone.

Carol wanted to reach out. A part of her head is screaming abort! Abort! Abort! But instead, she frowned deeper and crossed her arms. She couldn’t ignore what she heard.

“I gave you my word, yet here you are accusing me of being the very thing I loathe,” you said looking up at her, tears already drying on your cheeks. “You’re throwing away everything we had for five years, to take the word of a girl you know for months. I hope it’s worth it.”

You wiped your face using the ends of your sleeves. Before Carol can say anything else, you opened a portal behind you and disappear through it.

***

Opening portals through space and time is your power as a mutant experiment. Opening portals are very serious business, it requires intent and total concentration to land where you wanted to be precisely. It can be dangerous, potentially disastrous to open portals when you’re unfocused. You certainly didn’t want to suddenly open one 35,000 feet above the ground, and free fall from the sky without a parachute ever again. So, you’re extremely grateful that you’re standing on concrete after leaving Carol behind.

“Who the hell are you?” you heard someone ask behind you.

When you turned around you saw a beautiful woman with the greenest eyes you ever laid eyes on. You held your hand up to show her you mean no harm.

“Who sent you? Who do you work for? Are you working for Agent Liberty?” the pretty lady asked; face completely neutral but voice slightly shaking.

“No one sent me. I don’t know who Agent Liberty is,” you tried to explain. You wanted to introduce yourself and explain further but suddenly your vision blurred and your knees gave out.

***

Lena gasped when your body hits the ground. She didn’t know what to do, she didn’t know who you are or where you came from exactly. All she knows was you walked through a portal. She walked closer to you and inspected your body. You’re wearing some sort of latex suit, a little like Alex’s D.E.O uniform but with a different logo on it.

“Alex,” she whispered before pulling out her phone and calling the older Danvers’ sister.

Lena didn’t want to explain on the phone. Alex sent Supergirl ahead to check if you were a threat but when Supergirl arrived she had to hold back the urge to take a photo of Lena; sitting on the concrete floor of her rooftop in her expensive suit and cradling your head on her lap.

“Lena,” Supergirl said to catch her best friends attention. “Are you okay? Did she hurt you?”

“No. She didn’t hurt me. She passed out before she can tell me anything though. Help me bring her to the lab,” Lena said without taking her eyes off your face. Kara had to bite her lip to keep herself from actually squealing.

“Alex said we should take her to the D.E.O. If she needs medical attention, Alex can take care of her.”

Lena knew it was the best thing to do. So she nodded for Kara to take you.

“I’ll be right behind you,” Lena said before Kara flew away with you.

***

When Kara arrived at the DEO, Alex was already ready to receive you with her medical team.

“What do we have, Supergirl?” Alex asked while she fusses over you on the gurney.

“Lena said all she knew was she came through a portal,” Supergirl answered while keeping at pace with her sister.

“Portal? Like Cisco’s portal?” Alex asked while checking your vitals.

Supergirl made a quick sweep of your person to check on anything that could trigger a portal, like the watch Barry gave her but there was nothing on you except your skin-tight suit. Alex noted the black insignia that’s blending in your suit.

"Querl,” Alex called as he passed by.

Querl walked towards the sisters. “You need me?”

“Scan our database for this insignia. We need to know who she is, and where she came from.”

“I will do that,” Querl affirmed before leaving the medical ward. As he exits, Lena came in the room.

“How is she?”

Alex quirked an eyebrow at her sister. Supergirl just smiled and shrugged.

“She’s gonna be fine, Lee. She’s fatigued and extremely dehydrated,” Alex assured their friend.

***

You blinked once, twice before the room came in focus. You’re in a medical bay but it’s certainly not a hospital. It’s very reminiscent of the one at S.H.I.E.L.D actually.

“Oh, hey! You’re awake! I’m Supergirl btw,” a blonde woman with blue eyes in a red and blue suit introduced herself. She reminds you of Carol because of their suits color scheme similarities. You tried not to flinch at the memory of her. Kara noted the sudden sad look on your face.

“Where am I?” you asked before a redhead in a black tactical suit came in. She smiled at you briefly before standing against Supergirl. Together they look like a powerful duo, like Nat and Carol, actually.

“You’re in the D.E.O, Department of Extranormal Operation. I’m Alex Danvers, I’m the Director.”

“Aren’t you a little too young to be a Director?” you asked feeling a little silly. It must be the medically-induced drugs. Alex couldn’t help but smile.

“Maybe,” Alex answered.

“I’m Y/N. I’m an Avenger, and S.H.I.E.L.D agent,” you said full-on beaming before lying on your back and passing out again.

***

When Kara and Alex arrived at the conference room, Lena was already there and talking with Querl.

“Any updates, Querl?” Alex asked as she looks through the monitors.

“There is no Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D anywhere in our databases. I run facial recognition as well but nothing came up either,” Querl explained, clearly frustrated by the situation at hand.

“I called Barry but they said they got nothing,” Kara piped in, their backs turned towards the door.

“Who’s Barry?” you asked so suddenly that everyone nearly jumped out of their skin. Including Supergirl. They turned towards you wide-eyed. No one gets to sneak behind these team.

“How did you?” the blonde stammered.

“Oh! Hi again! I woke up alone in my room, and I thought it was rude of me to pass out mid-conversation. So I thought of the Director, and opened a portal to her,” you explained while glancing at Alex.

“Told you she’s can open portals,” Lena murmured low enough but she still caught your attention.

“Hi! I’m Y/N. You’re the lady from the rooftop.”

“I’m Lena. Lena Luthor,” she said cautiously.

You beamed at her. “Sorry for passing out on you too. It happens sometimes, when I open a portal too far from my starting point,” you explained.

A man name Querl asked how you’re portal jumping without any tech with you, which prompted you to tell them about being a product of mutant experimentation. It was kind of weird that they don’t know what that is or what mutants are. So, you ended up explaining that too.

***

It took several hours of storytelling, interrogation, and an alien mind reader before everyone decided you’re not an actual threat. Another hour before you decided that you can trust them. Another hour to set up a fake identity for you, and at the moment, Kara, Alex, and Lena are arguing where you would be staying.

You cleared your throat. “If it’s all the same to you ladies, I’ll stay with Querl.”

Querl just grinned smugly at them. “Brainy? Why?” Alex asked, angst by your choice.

“He offered. I agreed,” you answered simply. Thankfully, Nia didn’t find anything wrong with that.

Lena laughed before walking up next to you. “I’m sorry, we should have asked.”

You beamed at her. “You should have. I would have gone with you,” you said cheekily before following Querl and Jonn out of the conference room. Had you not walked away, you would have seen the blush that crept up on Lena’s face and the teasing she had to endure from both Kara and Alex.

“Someone has a crush,” Kara sing-song.

“Oh, shush! I do not,” Lena tried to lie but Alex and Kara knew better.

You know you just got out of a relationship but you’re currently stuck in another universe, might as well make use of your fresh start. You need to heal before anything else.

***

The decision to live with Querl was tactical on your part. You’re not trying to leave immediately but you still need to find a way back to your universe. Maria and Natasha will give you hell for leaving without telling anyone. Even though you didn’t exactly plan on being stuck on a parallel universe at all. Your heart ached thinking about home, thinking about your friends, thinking about her.

Your heart ached as you lie on Querl’s guest room, thinking about all the times Carol came home to you after a mission. How the strongest Avenger likes to cuddle like a baby when she’s bone-tired. Your heart aches remembering the sound of her laugh and how it used to give you so much joy watching her goof around with Thor and Peter. Your heart ached reminiscing the way her arms made you feel safe, her lips made you feel at home. Your heart broke a little more remembering the last time she told you she loved you.

“Penny for your thoughts?” Querl asked from the threshold of your room.

“I’m just wondering if there is a universe where she and I ended up happy together?”

In the course of your interrogation, the D.E.O along with James and Lena asked thoroughly about your life and the event before you landed on their Earth. You didn’t have a choice but to tell the truth, even if it’s still a little raw for you. Querl know who you’re talking about, and he wisely didn’t spout a formula that calculates the number of universes in which you and Carol are happy together. He just wished you a good night.

***

You’re not quite sure how time flows between parallel universes but you’ve been on Earth-34 for three months now. Figuring a way back home has been fruitless, to say the least, and it has been taking a back seat since you finished D.E.O training and started a more active role in the organization. Alex assigned you as a D.E.O liaison officer at L-Corp, which you didn’t have a problem with. In the three months, you’ve been on their earth, and after being inducted as an official member of the Superfriends, Lena is secretly your favorite.

It’s a harmless schoolgirl crush, you didn’t pay any mind. Lena is an amazing human being, a lot of people admire her. She’s intelligent, sassy, and quite literally, breathtaking. It’s not like you stand a chance to date someone as amazing as her if you’re ever stupid enough to ask her out. Which you aren’t, so you’re sticking with friendship. Friends are good; friends rarely break each other’s heart.

So you’re bewildered as to why Lena’s hellbent on arguing with Alex at game night nonetheless about why she didn’t need you as her additional security.

“Alex, L-Corp has the most advanced security since our latest upgrades last month,” Lena says as quiet as she could inside Alex’s open kitchen.

“We know but having Y/N on the ground with you at all times makes me feel more at ease. She has powers, and her fighting technique is unprecedented,” Alex tried to argue.

“I’m not a child, Alex.”

”I didn’t say that you are, Lena.”

“Agent Dallas,” you suddenly spoke from where you’re sitting on the floor. Alex and Lena turned to look at your back as you continue to play monopoly with Kara.

“What about Agent Dallas, Y/N?” Alex asked before taking a sip of her beer.

“Agent Dallas has superb fighting abilities. Not to mention she’s an excellent markswoman too.”

Lena and Alex scrunch their eyebrows together, trying to figure where you’re going with this. Kara nodded towards their direction that caused you to look at the two over your shoulder. “You can assign Agent Dallas as Lena’s security detail if she didn’t want me,” you said simply before rolling the dice.

Lena looks angst at the suggestion.

“Oh no, she thinks you didn’t want her,” Alex whispers in Lena’s ear teasingly before walking towards you and the others.

***

Lena was awfully silent through game night. She participated, of course, but there’s a pensive look on her face all night. When it was time to go, you tried to insist that you’ll walk to your new apartment but Lena shoot it down with one look.

It’s fascinating how one person can remind you so much of your family. With one look, Lena can shut you up and shut down any of your crazy ideas just like Natasha. Her intelligence and love for all science and technology can rival Tony’s. Her superb leadership skill can match Steve’s. Her loyalty is like Maria’s, and her caring nature’s just like Wanda’s. You can’t help but smile to yourself as you watch National City in the comfort of her Porsche.

“Thanks for driving me, Lee. Goodnight,” you said when you felt the car come to a stop.

Before you can exit the vehicle, Lena reached out and caught you by the sleeve of your white polo.

“Y/N,” she said softly. You turned to look at her bewildered. “What’s wrong?”

She licked her lower lip, and no one could fault you when you got entranced by the movement. “The reason why I didn’t want you to work at L-Corp was…” she paused.

You quirked your eyebrow to prompt her to keep going. “…was because I think it’ll be inappropriate to ask you out when you do,” she rushed out in one breath. You blinked once to clear away the fog that suddenly hangs in your head. One more to let what Lena sink in.

“Well. Technically, you’re not my boss; Alex is,” you said slowly and seriously before breaking out into a smile.

“Y/N!,” Lena whined before crumpling the sleeve of your polo. You couldn’t help but laugh. You leaned against the center console of her car and gave her a quick kiss on the cheeks before exiting the car. Leaving a blushing happy Lena Luthor.

***

You give it to Lena to know how to make a girl feel special. On your first date, she arrived at your apartment promptly, and with your favorite bouquet of flowers at that. She then took you to the most expensive and exclusive restaurant in National City, where you had a five-course meal and talked the night away. Lena drove you home way past midnight but didn’t stay the night. Plans for the second date was made the next business day.

Your second date didn’t happen until after another month because Lena got busy and you got busy making sure she’s safe always. On your second date, you took Lena out to ride your new Ducati motorcycle to a rustic restaurant outside the city limits. The place was warm, inviting, and private even for a Friday night. Lena absolutely loved it that you ended up staying in a cheap nearby hotel because you both were too sleepy to drive back. Lena argued that she can call her driver and pick them you up but she relented when you question her sense of adventure.

That night the only available room in the hotel only had one double bed.

“I can take the couch,” you said as you both stare at your current predicament.

She walked to the bed and sat down in front of you. “Y/N, we’re dating. We can share a bed.”

You tried not to blush but Lena’s just too beautiful that you couldn’t help but kiss her.

“What was that for?” she asked breathlessly.

“Nothing. I’m just really happy I’m here with you.”

It took a while to get where you are but you’re better now. You still miss Carol, a part of you will always be Carol’s but you’re happier now. Lena makes you so happy.

***

Dating Lena is possibly one of the most beautiful experience you had in your life. And you’ve had so many in this lifetime. You survived being tortured and experimented on. You defeated a titan, twice! Heck, you even managed to go out in space. You thought you’d lost your home when Carol broke up with you. You thought Earth-34 was just another adventure but it turns out it has become home too and without fully realizing it, a year has officially passed since you arrived on their universe.

You were supposed to be celebrating your “Earth-34 birthday” as Alex and Kara call it but an emergency occurred. A group of possibly hostile vigilante’s are spotted downtown. Kara and Jonn flew at the scene first. Querl and Nia drove there next. Alex went directly to the D.E.O, while you drove Lena first to her penthouse where another agent was to take over your place for the time being.

When you arrived downtown, you were floored to see Carol sizing up Kara while the rest of the Avengers are aiming their weapons at Jonn, Querl, Nia and a few D.E.O. agents. You would have laughed at the hilarity of how the two blonds look almost identical but the scowl on everyone’s faces stopped you. Instead, you yelled at the top of your lungs,

“Stand down!”

Your family immediately turned towards your voice. You walked towards the center and in front of Natasha. She holstered her gun, when she turned towards you, you expected her to pull you in a hug but instead, she threw a punch at your face. You stammered a step backward, you held your hand up to signal everyone to stand down. Your lips are bleeding, and before Kara can fuss about it; Nat pulled you in a tight hug.

“I miss you so much, idiot,” she murmured against your hair. You wrapped your arms around her sturdy frame. Maria joined the group hug immediately.

“You know these people?” Guardian asked. You can hear Tony mocking his suit from Nat’s comms. You had to reign in the chuckle.

“They’re the Avengers,” you answered before leaning your forehead against Maria’s.

“We,” someone said behind you. You didn’t need to turn to know who it is. You know that voice in any universe. “You’re still a part of our team,” Carol continued.

***

“You didn’t tell me Carol and I’s suit are almost identical,” Kara whispered as you walk side-by-side at the D.E.O.

“I’m surprised she even told you about us,” Nat quipped, clearly overhearing Kara as she and Maria walk behind you. You turned on your heels to look at Natasha. She might be joking but you know the hurt was real.

“Tasha,” you said. She smiled at you; she’s gonna be pissed again when she found out the truth.

“She couldn’t stop talking about you actually,” Kara supplied excitedly as the three of you entered the training room, which is the only room big enough to house the lot of you.

“Are we still waiting for someone?” Tony asked on his typical bored CEO demeanor.

You couldn’t help but smile because god you miss him. Lena’s gonna freak when she finds out he’s here, and they can finally meet. Speak of the goddess herself, Lena burst through the door of the training room in her signature CEO entrance. Carol, Maria, and Natasha noted the way all your focus going in on the newcomer. Carol frowned deeper.

“Y/N?” Lena asked for you immediately.

“I’m here,” you said unable to untangle yourself from Maria’s embrace. Maria narrowed her eyes at Lena. Lena frowned as she watches Maria’s slender figure, hugging you from behind. You pleaded for Lena to remember all your stories.

“Who are you?” Carol suddenly asks. Steve bristled at her tone.

You watched Lena take in Carol before standing ramrod straight (not that she’s one to slouch). “Lena Luthor, CEO of L-Corp. Y/N’s girlfriend, who are you?”

Tony snorted. Maria and Nat tried to snicker quietly but failed miserably. “Carol Danvers. Captain Marvel,” Carol introduced herself. And then a thick, awkward silence descended upon the room.

“Okay, ladies. Play nice,” Alex asserted her power. “I’m assuming you came here for Y/N?”

Steve affirmed after introducing himself and the whole team.

***

Everyone turned to look at you. Maria noted your stiff posture in your arms. She knows you too much to know your decision even before you can make one. She smiled sadly at you. You need to come clean now.

“I can’t..” you stammered out. Everyone waited for you to continue. “I can’t go back, Steve.”

Tony didn’t speak, he just watched you. Before anyone else can say anything, Carol spoke. “Tony worked on the simulation and technology in half a year to get to you.”

You have no doubt he did. Your heart hammered in your chest. Kara looked at you sympathetically, clearly picking up on your heartbeat. “I spent the last half, jumping from one earth to another to find you.”

“I didn’t ask you to,” you nearly yelled. And there it is, the anger that you felt when Carol accused you of cheating on her suddenly bubbled up inside you. “Heaven knows I appreciate you all coming here but no one asked you to find me because I found my way back.”

You can hear a pin drop at the silence that followed. Everyone waited with bated breath for you to continued. You saw the realization dawn on Tony’s face faster than everyone else.

“I figured a way back to our universe on the sixth-month mark of my landing here,” you said slowly.

***

Everyone gasped, except Querl. Carol motioned for you to step outside the balcony. You followed her without question, you owe her at least that. Carol didn’t speak for a minute, and you just watched her regulate her breathing.

“Did you hate me that much?” Carol asked. Eyes closed, face turned towards the sun.

“I never hated you, Car,” you said as you watch the side of her face. “I was mad when you accused me of cheating on you. I was heartbroken when you took Daisy’s word over mine but I never hated you. I love you far too much for that.”

Carol noted the use of present tense and you know her well enough that she caught it. You tried to smile at her. “I will always love you, Carol but I’m in love with Lena,” you said softly. There’s no use beating around the bush.

You watched every emotion that passes through her face as she processes that she’s going home without you. Regret, jealousy, sadness, surrender.

“I’m sorry, Y/N. I was stupid,” she said with tears running down her face that you immediately pulled her into a hug. You’re both aware that you’re still in full view of both your teams but at that moment you didn’t care. “I love you,” Carol sobbed against your hair. You rubbed soothing circles against her back.

“I know. I love you too,” you said tearing up too. “Maybe in another life, we can try again.”

***

All goodbyes are bittersweet, only you know this isn’t one. There’s no way, Nat and Maria won’t be portal jumping to you whenever they can, now that they have a way to you and vice versa.

Steve came up to you first. “I’m really proud of what you achieved here. You know S.H.I.E.L.D is always open for you,” he said before pulling you in a brotherly hug, which you gratefully returned.

Tony came up next. “Stark Expo is opening again soon. Come home and bring your girlfriend, she’s a delight,” he said before ruffling your hair like the annoying brother that he is.

Maria and Nat came up together. Maria pulled you in against her in a back hug; which you thought might be Maria’s favorite position to hug because she’s taller than you and Nat. Nat stood in front of you, reaching out to touch your cheeks.

“Kara gave us this,” Nat said showing what seems to be a normal phone. “She said we can use it to communicate seamlessly. So call us, anytime for anything, like always and we will be there.”

“I will,” you promised before leaning towards Nat’s hand.

“And please, visit often. We miss you terribly. Friday’s still movie night when we’re not out on a mission; do come and bring your superfriends. Alex said, you have game nights on this universe, maybe we can all hang out sometime,” Maria said hopefully.

You smiled before turning your head and kissing Maria’s cheeks. “It’s a date,” you said before you turned back towards Nat and saw Carol walking towards Lena.

***

“Hey,” Carol said a little self-consciously to catch Lena’s attention who’s talking to Alex.

Alex smiled encouragingly before excusing herself. “Hello, Carol,” Lena answered. Less hostile but still very much guarded.

“I was rude awhile ago, I’m sorry.”

“You are but nothing I’m not used to. I deal with it every day with my investors trying to always undermine me,” Lena answered matter-of-factly.

Carol rubbed the back of her neck. “I know Y/N is strong and can take care of herself but please, take care of her,” Carol pleaded.

Lena smiled, before extending her hand. “She is and she does but rest assured, I will see to it that she’s well-taken cared of; I promise.” Carol sighed before smiling up at Lena and shaking her hand. This isn’t the result Carol wanted but she doesn’t have the heart to stand in the way of your happiness.

***

Tony opened the portal when everyone bid their farewells, and one by one the Avengers walked through and back to their universe. Before it closes though, Nat turned back to you.

“Hey, by the way, you need to come home on December,” she said vaguely. You quirked your eyebrows at her.

“December 4th to be precise,” Maria piped in.

“Why?”

Nat laughed before taking Maria’s hand and showing you a diamond ring around it. “We’re getting married, idiot.” You look dumbfounded for a second.

Maria looked past you. “You’re all invited, I’m sure HQ can accommodate. Promise you’ll come.”

“I wouldn’t miss it for the world,” you said after you recovered from your initial shock. Maria and Nat waved at you before the portal closed.

***

Alex and Kara stood by your side for a minute or two to offer their silent support before walking away and back to the command center. You stared at the wall where your family walked through for another minute before you heard the telltale sounds of heels behind you.

“Why didn’t you tell me you found a way home?” Lena asked quietly.

You turned to look at her. “I’m sorry, I just didn’t think it matters. I wasn’t gonna go back,” you answered; worried that she’s pissed at you.

“When did you know you’re not gonna go back?”

“The morning after our second date.”

Lena raised her eyebrow at that. “When we woke up at a dingy hotel?” she asked surprised.

You tried to stop it but when the memory surfaced, you couldn’t help but break into a goofy smile. “Yeah,” you said dreamily.

“Why then?”

You blinked the lovestruck look in your face and focused back on Lena. You grinned at her. “Oh,” you paused for dramatic effect.

“Well, you smelled divine while drooling all over my arm,” you said cheekily while closing the gap between you two.

Lena gasped. “How dare you accuse me of being unladylike?” she asked in mock offense but you can clearly hear the playful tone in her voice.

You laughed before pulling her hips flush against yours. “Life’s all about choices, and on the cusp of knowing how to leave or staying, I choose you.”

Lena shakes her head affectionately before pulling you in for a passionate kiss.

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I get that interview was HBO forced but it sounds insane when last season, he was saying Jaime needed to get away from her for good. I mean no nice post about Gwen after the last ep. I dont believe it was about not wanting to stir the hornet's nest if him and B didnt get together as he posted a huge loving one about Lena and that was a very controversial part of the plot. If hed know posted a gwen one saying"sorry JB didnt get a happy ending but here's me and Gwen in happier times" i dont get it

I think it’s very weird too…Imma analyze it. Not that I’m gonna reach any solid conclusion but I will just lay out all my thoughts.

Whatever the reason Nik doesn’t post or reply publicly to Gwen is, it has nothing to do with his personal preference for Braime or Jaime x Cersei. Even if we make the insane assumption that Nik appreciated that Jaime dumped Brienne to return to murderous Cersei and die with her without serving any purpose in the main plot (what lead actor of 8+ years would ever like being unimportant in the ending plot) and saw “pOeTRy” in it, it still doesn’t explain why he should prefer posting about Lena over Gwen. We would be naive to think he made a post about Lena and not Gwen because he prefers Cersei to Brienne. So, we still have no clear evidence of what Nik’s private thoughts and feelings are for his character after the ending.

Here’s what we have:

We have two interviews: one with HBO rofl and one with that journalist who collaborates with HBO and was an insider (I’m not gonna search his name) in which he stans Jaime’s choices, his love for Cersei and the tragic poetry in it all. Then we have him promoting the episodes and the documentary in his instagram and twitter, however he is entirely emotionally detached from his character and his fate. I would say he lowkey looks entertained in his weird af episode promo videos and secretly amused while filming the “thank you” video after the last episode where he says “Come on, it was great” and suggests a petition for an Arya (huh?) sequel.

We have two videos uploaded on yt with him: one is a video of a stalker in which Nik looks uncomfortable and passes the question to the random guy next to him who apparently happens to be a GOT fan, have an elaborate opinion on the last season, hate D&D and think they threw away Jaime’s beautiful character arc. What are the odds…The second is a skit in Jimmy Kimmel in which Nik drags his own character by making him stupid and clumsy, a sad little being because of his maiming and, most importantly, an unrepentant sister fucker. All of Jaime’s worst qualities displayed for laughs, plus that he’s actually a likeable but very stupid person. The skit ends with a dragon randomly burning him and his family alive and those credits

So, we have straightforward criticism towards D&D by Kimmel and NCW actually participates in it. This is what this skit means - that this level of writing, this kind of lame character and that ludicrous death is something that only Benioff and Weiss would like to produce. And, well, the Olsen sisters (although I think they’re cleverer than that).

So, we have two videos where NCW’s intentions are dubious AT BEST.

Then we have all the promos. When left to speak on his own, Nikolaj would say how the ending was beautiful and made sense and he once mentioned he sent a letter to thank them for this genius plot…Right. But then when asked or caught off guard (1:04):

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Nobody tries to sugarcoat it, look at the title of the video: … NCW is ‘happy’. Then of course we have our Lady and Saviour Gwen who tries not to laugh as Nik struggles to find what to say and not just stand up and flee.

Also, this one. The best one:

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I could make a thousand gifs for this but just watch again the entire video:

0:07 - Gwen’s face when Nik says he thought the script was fantastic

1:13 - “N-no..NO!!!” when asked if he would change something in the ending and Gwen’s reaction to that. Then, our leader Gwen proceeds to mock him: “So, it’s an immaculate- It’s immaculate?” to which Nik impulsively replies: “NO!” and goes on “do you ever read a book and think you want to rewrite this?” which implies, that yes he would want to rewrite it but knows he can’t.

(3:03 - 3:06) - VERY IMPORTANT ONE. When Gwen wondered who was closer to predicting the actual ending, Nik says “I was, yeah” and OMG look at Gwen’s face. It’s very subtle but she’s trying to communicate with her eyes a “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT” to him without being seen by the interviewer. It’s kind of a wife done with her husband’s shit look tbh, that level of subtlety. And Nik answers back with his eyes in equal subtlety and it’s like he says a “What? I truly was right lol….”. To me, this seems to mean that Nik always knew or feared that D&D would eventually destroy all his work and was eventually proven right. Unless this all is about Dany being killed by Jon but I doubt at this point Nik and Gwen cared enough to go all cryptic and eye communicating for this. No, it was about them.

3:09 - Nik is surprised and then clearly amused at the information by the interviewer that Kit was the one who came closer with his prediction. He can’t hide his smile and says an ironic “good for him” while looking knowingly at Gwen who then says this must be a lie. This shows that it is known amongst the actors that most of them are disappointed and Kit was one of them. Both Nik and Gwen apparently knew Kit hated his ending too and would never expect this to be how the show would wrap up. BTW that writing and that backlash really got to Kit, I hope he recovers soon. But think about this, Kit went into rehab for stress and alcohol, Emilia was devastated and gave a somewhat concerning interview and Nik’s public behaviour regarding GOT is inconsistent and unpredictable. I am thus assuming the writing of the final season and the backlash fucked them up way more than they let on.

This interview is a gem but here’s the most important part, perhaps the core of what baffles us:

1:32 - After all the miserable no-nos poor Nik mumbles, Gwen tells Nik what we all think: “I think it’s just a question, you know? Maybe you want to answer it?”

Of course he’s in a total loss for words. Literally, he doesn’t make any sense. Some incoherent sounds come out of his mouth and that’s it. This can mean two things: either he truly thinks the ending is perfect or the ending made him such a mess that he can’t even process it verbally two years later.

Either Gwen is much braver and Nik is extemely paranoid or Nik actually has many more restrictions in what he is allowed to say. I believe Gwen wanted Nikolaj to be as open as her about it and she still tries to make him open up but he doesn’t. In all the promos without exception, Gwen looks as if she knows Nik is full of shit and secretly agrees with her. If Gwen knows that for a fact, then we can’t argue and it’s actually what makes sense anyway. Nikolaj agrees with Gwen but is not eager to discuss it openly yet, or ever. This could be because he is very professional or because he doesn’t want to get a bad name as a “backstabber” of his projects or it might be a situation of a more sensitive nature.

If those rumours that the S8 script was changed are true, then Nik and Lena might have had a serious breakdown with D&D and a negotiation might have taken place. For instance, Nik and Lena were really unnecessary in E6, Nik’s scene in E1 could have been eliminated as well and Lena does not appear in E3. Yes, they are big actors but paying them 1,2 million for every episode seems a tad excessive when Emilia and Kit are now famous too and have like 300% times more screentime. All this is wild speculation but maybe they stretched their appearance in the episodes as much as possible and gave them a good amount of money to agree on the butchering of their characters and their importance as former lead actors. I mean, especially Lena was downgraded to a secondary character in this season. Lena had to really fight to see her salary rise in the previous seasons. And now it’s a million for every episode? Wow. How many minutes was she staring out of the window in S8? Maybe they were silenced and payed a shitload of money to stop complaining and promote the show and praise the writing as what it was supposed to be. Maybe they payed them in order to promote Peter, Kit and Emilia for the Emmys instead, who knows. When so much money is involved, things can get frustrating in ways we don’t even fathom. This is wild and rough speculation but all I’m saying is there may be reasons Nik avoids talking freely about his character that we can’t know.

Besides, it’s not just a Gwen problem. It is not a Gwen problem. Gwen revealed she sent a “Jaime is a fuckboi” meme to Nik privately and he answered playfully as ever (but again as if he’s in denial). They posted a story together a couple of weeks ago. Nik did not just ignore Gwen’s instagram post. Daniel Portman posted the photo and tagged Nikolaj too. Nik ignored him as well. Bryan Cogman, who Nik and Gwen owe a lot to, commented under the photo in a very sweet and emotional way. Guess what, Nik ignored him too! It’s ridiculous to think Nikolaj has stopped communicating and caring about Gwen AND Daniel AND Bryan just because his character returned to Cersei. Furthermore, the fact that they all keep tagging him shows they don’t think their relationships with him have become tense.

That’s not it. It’s not about Gwen. The only way that Gwen is involved in all this is that she wants Nikolaj to open up so that he would give a little acknowledgement to her character and the relationship with Jaime because she feels very much for Brienne. I’m sad to say, however, that it seems to me that Nik did not take that blow more lightly than Gwen. In fact, his behaviour is more inconsistent and troubling whereas Gwen’s openness about it made her confront that sore subject more healthily after all. I start believing Nik was actually way more devastated than Gwen. At least Brienne remained a decent character, ever faithful to her ideals, ever innerly strong. Jaime was entirely trashed, let alone that he was supposed to be a main character. If Nik can’t even handle a photo that reminds him of his destroyed character arc, I wouldn’t be surprised. Maybe Gwen wants Nik to open up so much for his benefit as well - he keeps it bottled up and she might know first hand how that affects him.

Long story short, the reasons Nik doesn’t post anything about his feelings for Jaime’s character arc, his relationship with Brienne and his collaboration with Gwen probably are both professional, after begrudging deals and agreements and restrictions from HBO, and very personal, inner and private, as he’s still trying to cope with a disappointment that crushed down on him from what used to be his dream job and a role he hoped would be a (or the) peak of his career. I bet all these years Nik was hopeful Jaime would be extremely important and fully redeemed in the end but also extremely scared and anxious that the writers won’t give him what he hoped for and what made sense. Would I exaggerate if I said this should be the biggest professional disappointment he ever experienced, provided that he didn’t like the character’s ending?

From everything Gwen has said about him, I have surmised that Nik is very emotional and anxious but with a very blasé and superficially amiable attitude. He avoids expessing emotion in real life which is why he might be dissociating a lot lately. He tries to distance himself from that part of Jaime’s character that involved Bryan and Gwen because this is the part that he loved and lost. Honestly, I can’t think of any other logical reason he ignored Gwen, Dan and Bryan one after the other and never made a post about his own character specifically or his good times with Gwen. It’s obviously not that he suddenly hates all of them to the point of not even replying. Even if HBO restricts him on what he can say in interviews for a while, there is no other explanation for this other than that D&D’s genius writing fucked him up emotionally as much as Emilia and Kit and he does not want to deal with it even though Gwen probably thinks it would be for the best if he did.

Now after I wrote all this, imagine if Nikolaj actually doesn’t give a shit and is just happy going on with his life while I am here wasting time. But… I don’t think so. I will never not believe Nik didn’t love Jaime to pieces. He had big dreams for this role, I am sure of it.

#nikolaj coster waldau #jaime lannister #gwendoline christie #nik and gwen #jaime x brienne #braime #got negativity #more

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wendynerdwrites · 5 years ago

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For the record, I am NOT an Emilia Clarke stan AT ALL BUT

...Making fun of her for losing the Emmy is fucking asinine. Look, I’m not thrilled with some of the stuff she says either. I have made that clear. I was literally mocking something she said the other day. But she cherished the fuck out of Daenerys as a character and had that character destroyed. And anyone who wants to argue that the writing for Dany was good can eat my ass. I have made it very clear how I think Dany is nowhere near the hero people think she is, but I’m not going to pretend that the show didn’t make almost every wrong decision regarding her characterization for several seasons. The writing Emilia had for seasons assured her that she was playing an altruistic liberator and feminist icon. They left out almost all of the overtly questionable shit Dany did in the books and internal strife and then all the awful shit she did in the show was framed as “YAS QUEEN!” BS or didn’t have their actual implications and circumstances addressed at all. So yeah, I do kind of get where Clarke has been coming from. On top of that, they had Daenerys get murdered via embrace with her lover, had her “choose fear” over being spurned by a man, and had her replaced by an “emotionless” dude who was left out of an ENTIRE SEASON OF THE SHOW. So yes, sorry guys, but there was a TON of sexism surrounding Dany’s writing.

The whole show has been soaked in misogyny for a long ass time and Daenerys is no exception. Does it annoy me that Clarke was defending that bullshit until it was her character that went down? Sure. I totally think she says things that are questionable at best and are loaded with double standards. No question. But she fucking loved Daenerys for a lot of VERY good reasons. And she is hardly pulling her feelings from her ass. The fact that Daenerys was a feminist character screwed over by shitty, sexist writing is a pretty popular (and fairly defensible, to an extent) take, especially for show-only people. Thousands upon thousands of people agree with her and she is far from the only person saying such things, okay? So of COURSE she is going to add her voice to that discourse.

Is Dany’s storyline just sexism? Hell no. I’ve met many Dany stans who have admitted she is a tyrant well before season 8. But that doesn’t mean that she wasn’t an extremely important character and to pretend that Emilia Clarke, of all people, doesn’t have more reason than anyone (save for maybe GRRM) to be salty and unhappy about how she was written is absurd. And while it wasn’t “just” sexism, there was a shitload of it in there regardless.

I know some people are going to say, “Well, she can feel whatever she likes, but to say so publicly is unprofessional”. Alright, fine, but then you have to apply that same standard to Kit Harington calling the final season “Disappointing” and saying that his response to season 8 was to not even watch it. You have to apply that standard to Peter Dinklage mocking the shit out of D&D and season 8. You have to take Ian McElhinney to task for going public about how he literally wrote a letter to D&D back in season 4 about killing off Barristan. But no one does. I wonder what those other actors have in common.... hmmm...

Emilia Clarke was just given the scripts she was given. And she poured her heart and soul into that character. Daenerys Targaryen MADE HER as an actress. She spent a third of her damn lifespan playing Daenerys. Not just the scenes we saw on screen, but countless hours of multiple takes, filming deleted footage, rehearsing, table-reading, memorizing lines, costume fittings, makeup, effects work, screen tests, press, award shows... Imagine spending eight years of your life being told “YAS QUEEN! FEMINIST ICON!” doing all these iconic moments where your character frees slaves, makes grand speeches about destroying evil men and leading people, then in the final hour being told “BTW, your character is a mass-murdering psycho now. Go study speeches by the most evil men in history to rehearse.”

You think, with Clarke’s schedule, that she has time to consider all the implications and obvious consequences of everything Daenerys does? She doesn’t write or direct the show. She has to devote all her energy to portraying the character in the script. And she was doing this despite the fact that during the run of the show, her brain nearly exploded twice. Like, literally. She survived two aneurysms and had to undergo painful treatments and surgeries, had to process all of that trauma and then go back to work as if nothing was amiss.

So excuse her for maybe being pissed that the rug was ripped out from under her regarding a character she was so devoted to.

Talking about it does not warrant losing an Emmy. She wasn’t saying anything that countless other people weren’t. You don’t have to agree with her, but mocking her for it is fucking gross.

Also: The Emmy’s are complete horseshit. The actresses on GoT are ALWAYS shafted at them, and always have been. You want proof? Lena Headey, the best damn actor on the show (sorry Dinklage fans, but I feel like he got really tired of his character --- for very good reasons--- after season 5 and he seemed like he was sort of phoning it in in seasons 6-8. By the very high Dinklage standards, anyways. Not that he wasn’t good, he was, but not season 1-5 good. You could see his frustration with the writing on his face. Meanwhile Lena was consistent throughout the whole show, and I will put Cersei’s best moments up against Tyrion’s any day), has nothing. Lena Headey doesn’t have an Emmy for playing Cersei. You know what part of GoT DOES have Emmy’s? The episode with the line, “You want the good girl, but you need the bad pussy”, for writing. Seasons 5 and 8, for Best Drama. Consider that for several seconds. So pretending that the Emmy’s has anything to do with merit or “professionalism” is delusional AF.

I don’t find it funny that Emilia lost. Granted, I don’t really have strong feelings on her winning or losing, because seriously, fuck the Emmys (I also don’t have strong feelings about shows and actors I love like Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Fleabag, Alex Borstein and Phoebe Waller-Bridge winning because once again, fuck the Emmys). But I definitely have strong feelings about people mocking her for it. It’s stupid, unfair, and gross.

And for Sophie/Sansa stans joining in: Sophie lost too. And congratulations, you are now in the same league as people who make fun of Sophie over Dark Phoenix bombing. Feel good about yourselves?

#emilia clarke #daenerys targaryen #game of thrones #the emmys

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hanmeiultship · 6 years ago

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Bermuda Triangle (Overwatch Hanzo x Mei FanFic)

Mei Ling Zhou, a third-year student at Bermuda University, lazily tapped snowball, her small robotic friend to turn off the alarm she set on it. She was ensconced in her blankets ready to fall back into her deep sleep until snowball splasher her with a mist of cold ice water. Although she was upset she thanked it for the gesture and tiredly crawled out of bed. Her hair was an absolute mess and her glasses were dirty from the all-nighter she pulled with her dorm mates. Angela and Lena were some of her closest friends and luckily her roommates as well. They helped each other study from time even though they aspired to be different things. Angela a pediatrician and Lena, an animator. She cleaned off her glasses and histrionically dragged her body towards the washroom. “UUUuuuggghhh...SNowBALl I don't want to go to class”. The adorable robot nudged her cheeks, squishing them in hopes of making her move faster. To no avail, she continued to slowly shuffle towards the showers and prepped to wash up. She stepped in and closed the glass doors, turned on the water and let a cold stream wake her up. She was used to the freezing temperatures and thought of the climate as comforting instead of alarming and uncomfortable. She wrapped her towel around her body and left the bathroom refreshed. She sat on her bed and began drying her hair. Her towel dropped from her body exposing her curves to the emptiness of her room. Just then she heard a familiar voice from the other side of the door. “Hey love didn't mean to disturb ya, but if you're not ready in the next 15 minutes, we’ll be late.” Lena’s time warning sped up Mei’s process. She threw on some underwear and sweatpants along with an oversized sweater. She quickly put her hair in a top knot and fixed her glasses on her face. She threw her makeup pouch into her shoulder bag and stuffed the lingering books and papers scatted around the room into the bag. The door creaked open to reveal a concerned Angela with a plate of puff pastries slathered with honey. “Dear are you ok? I'm so sorry if the study session was overwhelming. I made breakfast but it's not as hot as it was earlier, you still want it?” Mei’s head snapped as she saw the food. It was still warm and the sweet smell of fresh honey filled the room. She powered down snowball and pushed him into the bag. Snatching the pastry off the plate, she thanked Angela and hurried her out of the room. “Xiè xiè! Now let's get going we’re gonna be late.” She looked confused. “ What do you mean? We still have 30 minutes until class starts...” Lena’s giggles could be heard from Mei’s room. “It’s the only way she’d hurry up.” A smirk grew on Angela's face as she made her way back to the kitchen area to turn off the lights and handed Mei a napkin to hold her treat. “Well, I guess you could eat on the way to class. We’ll stop by the cafe too since we have all this time.”The two nodded in agreement and turned off the rest of the appliances in the house. She locked the door behind her and walked with the two as she fiddled with snowballs power button.

They made their way down the silent hallway, keeping their conversation to a whisper to avoid any confrontation with any other sleeping students. “So Lena, why’d you want us up at this ungodly hour?” Mei and Angela waited for a response but instead, we’re answered by a familiar voice as they exited the dorms. “GIRLS! I haven't seen you in a while!” Lucio, one of the music majors attending Bermuda as well as Lena’s love interest. They often spent time on the weekends listening to artists and sketching their thoughts. Although he majored in music, he loved to draw in his free time. Lena greeted him with a giant squeeze while the others waved from a distance. “I didn't want to leave alone and make us look suspicious. I’m taking you with me too Angie!” Angela was once again in a state of confusion as Lena grabbed her hand and ran off with Lucio following suit. Mei was furious. She rushed out of the house with wet hair and a half-eaten pastry to ultimately be left by her friend, her crush, and their love doctor. she angrily bit into the sweet treat and mumbled in her native language so no one knew of the horrible things she thought when she was angry. She walked down the path of the campus, making her way to the cafe. She cooled down while eating the to-go breakfast and talking with Snowball. Just like the dorms, outside was quiet. So silent that you could hear the rustling leaves from chipmunks scampering and the few chirps of birds. Her footsteps on the cobblestone were the loudest of the noises heard. That and the bell that would ring from time to time of the opening cafe doors. This is the time teachers would make their way from the building to grab a quick drink before starting the day with restless students and endless paperwork. She threw the napkin into the nearest trash bin and took a seat on a nearby bench. The cool breeze hit her face, soothing her body and clearing her thoughts. She was no longer upset with her friends (even though she has all the right to be) and had entered a tranquil state, with snowball between her hands. She caressed the robot as it beeped and hummed back to her. For the first time in a while, she felt calm and stress-free. Until she heard two more familiar voices...

(This is chapter 1 of this fic. I’m probably gonna post the rest on Fanfic.net since I just made an account for just entering the Overwatch community. I’m writing this mainly cause there isn't enough Hanmei out there. I’ll probably write some fluffy/smutty one-shots later but for now, this is what’s going on. If you have any ideas feel free to share. BTW this is my first fanfiction so criticism is HIGHLY appreciated)

#overwatch #hanzo shimada #hanzo #mei ling zhou #mei #hanzo x mei #hanmei #smut #fluff

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imagine-lcorp · 7 years ago

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One Drink, One Song (One Shot)

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L x R where R is a really quiet DEO agent and is assigned as Lena's bodyguard and Lena tries to coax the reader out of her shell? Lots of fluff please?

A/N: Hi again everyone and happy holidays btw, i hope you get to have a great time! Here I give you this fic based on the request above, I don’t know what came over me to write a this one like i did, but here we areeeee! So I really hope you enjoy this. Kudos to the anon that sent it <3 and please, remember that my ask is open for you, anytime. Enjoy!

Lena Luthor x Shy Bodyguard R//Word Count: 1,938

"Uh, I'm not sure we should go, Miss Luthor." You followed Lena out of her office in a hurried pace.

"Come on, (Y/N), you and I deserve a break." There was a smile on her face when she stopped at the elevator doors and turned to look at you. "And, please, I told you to call me Lena."

"Um, yeah, M-Lena, but I don't think it's a good idea." You were looking between her and the elevator.

"Why not?" She raised an eyebrow. You couldn't help the blush that appeared in your cheeks while you tried to come up with all the reasons this was a bad idea.

"Well, um, we will be exposed. I don't know the place, or the people that go there. Um, we would have to check the route and call-"

"(Y/N)" Lena said putting a hand on your arm and stopping your little rant. "You don't have to worry about all that."

"Actually", you looked up and rubbed the back of your neck, "I kind of have to."

"It's just one night. We are going to be there a couple of hours and then," her smile turned into a smirk, "you can take me home." She pushed the elevator button.

"I-" You stammered, your cheeks turning bright red. "I still don't think it's a good idea."

"So we're going? Great!" The elevator doors opened with a ding and Lena stepped inside. You couldn't even protest as you had to rush inside before the doors closed.

It had been three weeks since you became Lena Luthor's escort. J'onn had specifically assigned you for this mission, at Kara's request, given you were one of their best undercover agents. Both Kara and J'onn couldn't stress enough how important it was that you kept both eyes on her, so you had to become her second shadow.

It was in your personality after all, being a shy person made you look disinterested, nervous around people, and less outgoing than most. However, precisely because of that, nobody expected you to be a trained DEO operative with great expertise in the use of multiple weapons and hand to hand combat.

You could tell Lena was surprised when she met you. Like many others, she was expecting a ripped, eight feet tall goon, to follow her around. Not the timid soul that you were. You had hoped she would be too busy to actually notice your presence, which would have made the job so much easier for both of you. But even when you tried to keep your distance, she would notice you. After a couple of days, she took a liking on you and your sheepish manners.

When you didn't try to conceal that side of you, you were an open book. She would sometimes catch you looking distracted at the city, in front of her window. She would look you out of the corner of her eye, and try to hide her smile, when you looked at her board of investors with a frown, a scoff, or rolling your eyes, when they tried to comment on her rather than her business. Or she would silently laugh at the way you tried to awkwardly apologize, when you stumbled with someone at the office. She found it endearing.

You may have been an experienced DEO agent but, she believed, you needed to learn how to loosen up a bit more. That's why, at the end of the week, she decided you were going out.

"Okay, if we are doing this, we'll have to do a few things first." You insisted before she entered the bar. You weren't that reckless to go inside without a plan.

"So eager to start the night? I like that attitude." A smirk playing on her lips. She also never missed a chance to make you blush with a sassy comment.

You tried to ignore it as you focused on more critical matters. A lot of people went out after office hours but her business attire was too fancy for a night out. Everything in her say multimillionaire business, her heels, black pants, red silk blouse, fancy pea coat, and hair in a tight bun. Something difficult to overlook.

"We need to change." You said, taking your black jacket off and handling it to her. It was still a warn evening, so you didn't have to worry about the cold. "Take this and, uh, maybe you would want to loosen your hair." You made a gesture with your hand, pointing at your own head.

She tilted her head and looked at you closely, your jacket still hanging from your hand and your eyes attentive. You had the feeling she was thinking on another smart comment but she simply agreed.

"Alright." Lena handed you her purse and coat and you observed as she put on your jacket. She took the barrettes out of her hair and shook her head to let it fall loose over her shoulder. "How do I look?"

The change hadn't been that great but you wondered if there was nothing she couldn't wear. Even when you tried to make her look ordinary, she looked beautiful, as usual. "Cool." You tried to hide the sudden blush in your cheeks.

"Then, let's get inside." She gave you a satisfied smile, took back her bag and coat, and turned to the bar doors.

Half of the bar was already filled with laughter and chattering from people enjoying some drinks. You took a moment to scan the place, checking for emergency exits, the people around. There was someone on the stage, microphone in hand and signing to the lyrics of a song you didn't recognize.

"Oh, would you look at that." Her tone a fake surprise as she pointed at a poster. "Tonight is karaoke night." She walked directly towards the bar and ordered a glass of wine.

You focused all your attention on her after hearing that. "Um, you're not thinking about..."

The bartender put her glass in front of her and took a sip of it. Then, she placed it gently on the table and hummed. "Maybe... if there was someone that wanted to go on stage with me."

Your eyes when wide open, getting the feeling that she had planned this all along. "That someone being...me?"

"Don't you tell me an expert DEO agent with deadly training cannot with this challenge?"

"Karaoke isn't exactly a top secret mission." You looked away, between the stage and the people around.

"One drink, one song." She said. You turned to her with a question clear in your face. "You take one drink with me, you sing a song with me, and that's it. We can go back to the routine after we finish."

She was offering you a deal. A few simple task to complete and you would be on your way to her penthouse, leaving her safe and sound with the next round of security J'onn had assigned to her. One drink, easy. A beer, not strong enough to get drunk but good enough to enjoy the night. One song, not so easy. You weren't a big fan of being in the spotlight but, if that what it took to speed up the night, you may as well do it.

You sighed and took the seat next to her. "Beer, please." You told the bartender. Lena leaned on her chair, her lips turning into a triumphant smile.

Once you took a sip from your beer, things weren't that bad. You discovered that Lena was an excellent conversationalist, driven by her curious instinct but always respectful of the boundaries between the both of you. As a DEO agent, and her bodyguard, you couldn't get into details about your job, so she would ask you instead about the things you enjoyed. Lena was finding that part of you fascinating. It wasn't only your sheepish behavior but your caring, attentive, and funny personality that shined through it.

An hour had passed when Lena finished her glass of wine and you were almost done with yours. "Ready for that song, (Y/N)?" She asked, rising from her chair.

"For the record, I'm doing this for your safety." You drank the last of your beer and the easy part was done. You followed her to the stage, resigned to the inevitable. You could hear her laugh at your remark.

There were a few things you knew about Lena Luthor. She had memorized most of her employee's names, her usual meals looked like recipes from Whole Foods, and she would have a glass of scotch after a pretty stressful day. However, when Lena requested Baby One More Time by Britney Spears, you had to slap your forehead, because Lena Luthor also loved 2000's music.

The people at the bar were already in high spirits and you stepped on stage with a round of applause. You turned to see Lena, taking the mic and trying to reassure you with a playful smile. She looked like she was about to deliver one of her famous TED Talks. You, on the contrary, looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

Lena took the lead when the song started and you made your effort at singing with her. You were impressed at how she didn't even have to look at the screen for the lyrics. For the first time, since you became her bodyguard, you saw her truly loosen up. There was no poker face, no witty comments, and no sign of the CEO. She was smiling, making faces, and even coming up with some dance moves, making a show of it. You couldn't help but follow her enthusiasm, it was contagious.

"I must confess that my loneliness is killing me noooow." You sang, the bar filling with the sound of your voice. You were dancing, jumping up and down, on the stage. Soon, the song was over, the crowd was cheering, and you couldn't stop smiling.

After that, Lena kept her end of the bargain. Once you walked off the stage, she went to pay for the drinks and let you lead the way outside. You were a few blocks away from her building, so she convinced you to take a little walk.

"You were certainly out of your shell tonight, (Y/N)." She chuckled.

"Uh, thanks?" You smiled and shook your head. "But, what about you? I didn't know you could pull something like that."

"Well, there is so much you still don't know... and you have to admit that was fun."

"Yeah, It...It was." You gave her a shy smile.

It wasn't midnight yet when you arrived at her building. It had been a short walk indeed. "Here we are. Just like I promised." You walked her to the front doors when she turned suddenly. "Oh, I almost forgot. I still have your jacket."

"Oh, it's alright, you can keep it." After that, you wanted to slap yourself in the face. "I-I mean, um, it suits you." You sputtered and stopped before saying anything else.

Lena smiled at the hard blush that appeared in your cheeks but thought better not to comment on it, for your sake. What you had done tonight had been enough torture so she would save her sassy comments for another occasion. However, she appreciated the gesture.

She walked back to you and did something you didn't expect. "Thank you, (Y/N). Goodnight. "She leaned and left a small kiss on your cheek, leaving you dumbfounded as she went inside.

"Goodnight...Lena." You whispered, following her with your eyes until she disappeared in the elevator. Maybe karaoke night wasn't a bad idea after all.

#lena luthor #lena luthor imagine #lena x reader #lena luthor x reader #lena luthor fic #one shot #request #one drink one song

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pippytmi · 7 years ago

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Hi there, i don't know if you're still doing song prompts for Supercorp or not but if you are can i suggest the song Perfectly Perfect by Simple Plan please?

i am always taking song + AU prompts omg thank you! sorry for the wait btw!

This week’s biggest headline reads “10 Surprising Things You Don’t Know About Kara Danvers,” and if that isn’t the biggest irony in the world Kara doesn’t know what is.

Lena buys the magazine that runs the story like the asshole she is. She has it resting on the mantel when Kara comes home, tumbling in so exhausted she almost misses it altogether.

“Lena,” Kara huffs when she spots it, shoving the offending magazine into her pocket as she makes her way into the living room. “What’s this?”

Lena looks up from the book she’s intently reading, eyes crinkling in amusement. “Your latest interview, duh,” she says. “It’s a pretty good one.”

Kara rolls her eyes. “You said that about the last one, too.”

“The last one had plenty of good parts. I particularly liked when you described your working relationship to Cat Grant as a ‘mutual appreciation for good hummus’.”

“To be fair,” Kara protests, “that pretty much is our working relationship. And if Cat asks, I was severely misquoted.”

“Mm-hm,” Lena hums, going back to her book as Kara presses a kiss to her temple in greeting. “I liked this new article the best yet, I think. Even I didn’t know that you have a pet fish named Nemo.”

“Most of those ‘facts’ are just stuff Cat and I threw together,” Kara grumbles, shrugging off her jacket and debating whether or not to take a shower or start making dinner. “It’s a fluff piece, nothing real.”

“Next time write your own fluff piece,” Lena suggests, sending Kara a mischievous smirk and patting Kara’s leg until she takes a seat on the couch too. “Name it ‘Kara Danvers’s Dirty Little Secret: Her Girlfriend’. You won’t even need nine others.”

“You are not a dirty secret,” Kara says, and shower be damned, she buries her nose into Lena’s hair and lets herself get distracted. ��I’m sorry I have to act like it.”

Lena just sighs, and shifts closer, so much closer that Kara’s lips brush her neck. “I wasn’t trying to accuse you of anything,” she murmurs lowly. “I get why you have to do it, really. Your career’s important.”

“Not as important as you,” Kara insists, but it’s a weak argument and she knows it; it’s one thing to say it, and another altogether to show the world that. “But you know how my aunt is. She’s convinced I’ll blackball myself if I try to announce that I’m dating a Luthor.”

Lena is quiet for a moment, book slowly closing as she draws Kara’s arms around her middle, sinking back against her as Kara humors the movement. “I don’t blame her,” she says, finally.

“Lena, no. My aunt’s just a little behind on the times,” Kara says, but Lena won’t let her keep going.

“She’s right, though,” Lena continues. She takes one of Kara’s hands and presses a small, sad kiss to the back of it. “Don’t be angry about it. My reputation proceeds me, you know that.”

“You mean your brother’s reputation,” Kara mutters venomously, and Lena laughs, a little.

“Yeah,” she says softly. “That too.”

It’s clear she doesn’t want to think about it anymore, so Kara tries to distract her instead. “We got the photoshoot taken care of,” she offers. “It was terrible.”

That prompts a much more genuine laugh. “How was it terrible?”

“It was like a hundred degrees out and we were wearing leather jackets and boots! Besides sweating buckets, we had to get so many hair and makeup touch-ups. I think I have an entire mascara brush growing in my eyelashes right now.”

“Is that why you smell like an entire can of hairspray?”

Kara shivers, more for dramatic effect than anything. “Don’t even mention the hairspray,” she says. “My hair will never recover.”

“You are so dramatic,” Lena laughs, craning her head back to kiss Kara’s jaw fondly. “Was that all you did today? You didn’t record?”

“No, we didn’t get a chance,” Kara says, dropping her head onto Lena’s shoulder with a relieved sigh. “But I was thinking up a song—I’ve been working on it in my head a little. It’s not much, yet, but it’s getting there.”

“I thought Alex wrote your songs,” Lena says. “You’ve said it before, punk rock songs aren’t your thing.”

“This isn’t a punk rock song! It’s a love song,” Kara says. “For you.”

Lena shifts so she’s facing Kara, an eyebrow quirked skeptically. “You’re writing a love song?”

“Yes! Is that so hard to believe?” Kara pouts. “I’m trying to be romantic.”

Lena smiles, as if trying to bite back another laugh, and cradles Kara’s face between her hands tenderly. “Don’t get me wrong, Kara, it’s very sweet,” she says. “But what are you going to do with a love song? Alex would never let you play it.”

“She has to, she’s my sister,” Kara assures her, and Lena shakes her head mock-tiredly, though she presses her smile against Kara’s cheek. “I don’t even really have any lyrics in mind, but—it’s more like a feeling.”

“No lyrics. Off to a great start.”

“Hey, you don’t get to judge my creative promise,” Kara says, pinching Lena’s thigh indignantly and making her yelp. “I have a name for it though. Luthor. Just Luthor.”

“Luthors and love songs won’t mix,” Lena scoffs, brushing it off all too easily, but Kara doesn’t back down.

“Have you ever considered that I love the name Luthor? It’s yours,” Kara says, and even when Lena frowns, all she does is thumb comfortingly over Lena’s furrowed brow. “Really. You always talk about how you’d love to get rid of it once and for all, but I like it. And there’s something catchy about it, you know—Lena Luthor. It just rolls off the tongue. Kinda how Kara Luthor would, am I right?”

It is a risky move, to mention that when the ring Kara hasn’t had the courage to give her yet is still hidden in the depths of her bag, but it’s worth it to see Lena’s frown morph into a curious, soft upturn of her lips.

“That is…so cheesy,” Lena replies, but she looks a little struck, as if unsure what exactly to say in response.

Kara grins, dropping a lightning-fast kiss to Lena’s lips before she lets go of her girlfriend in favor of getting to her feet. “I’m going to take a shower,” she says. “Want to join? You can help me get all this hairspray out of my hair.”

“Sounds sexy, I’m in,” Lena jokes, and she takes Kara’s hand as it’s offered, intertwining their fingers so softly as if everything’s changed, somehow; even her smile is a bit reserved, a bit unsure, and Kara squeezes her hand and hopes she relays how lucky she feels.

(Lena might be hesitant, but Kara? Kara has never been more sure of anything in her life.)

#i had to take a fluff break sorry guys!!!#but im going to get to every single angst prompt i swear it im sorry im taking 3 years #supercorp #kara x lena #supergirl #anonymous #i need a fic tag

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how i fell in love

character: sungwoon genre: slight angst, fluff word count: 1.6k author’s note: i feel like this really sucked but i have no idea how to rectify it and that sucks even more?? :((( btw I'm thinking of making this into a series with wanna one,,,, do y'all want to see it happen?! :0)

• to-do list:

• one. grab sooin’s files from professor yoon

• two. get two chai lattes for david tomorrow on the way to school

• three. send sungjae the chemistry class notes

• four. finish haejung’s part up for the literature task (deadline is tomorrow!!!!!!!)

• sighing in accomplishment, you scratched yet another task off the list. you’ve finally finished seven of them; you’ve helped chris order a table off etsy, printed out lena’s notes, tuned your guitar to lend it to jisook tomorrow afternoon and more.

• if anyone were to step in to your room at this point of time, they would slowly back out, utter a small prayer, and close the door quietly. post-it notes were strewn all over the place, your bed was even messier than how mama 2017 went down.

• the last time your mom called you for dinner was ages ago, and the pink-and-orange-streaked sky had now been replaced with a sea of a black and sparkling stars.

• this was a regular thursday night for you,,, despite having finished your work already in school, you were still huddled at your desk, busying yourself with the errands your classmates had entrusted you with

• even though that meant that you rarely had free nights, you just couldn’t seem to say no to them. besides, the grateful looks on their faces every time you helped them out (and occasional treats) would just make your day. (be gone, cheese!)

• but sometimes,, just like how it was today, it would do nothing but to suck the life out of you, and you could not help but to blame yourself for having such a submissive personality. you really wanted a break but you still had many assignments left and you were on,, the,, verge,, of,, death

• just then, your phone buzzed.

• sungwound: yo can i come over

• sungwound: why aren’t u replying me

• sungwound: i mean pft i won’t even need to get ur permission because ur parents love me but

• sungwound: i’m starting to think that u’ve been kidnapped

• sungwound: I’M GETTING WORRIED??1?!?!??!??

• sungwound: i’m wounded that u aren’t looking at my texts

• sungwound: k nvm i’m coming over in five mins, make sure u don’t die

• BUT because you were too engrossed in rearranging your notes for sungjae, you missed those texts and left your worried best friend, sungwoon to fend for himself///1/‘’1/

• and that was why when your door was flung open,, you were just like “m OM i’ll go down and eat a snack later iM fI NE!!!!”

• sungwoon, in a fighting stance: “i swear to god if you do not get your hands off that laptop in two seconds you might have to catch some hands”

• you turned around and jumped, hit your head on your ceiling, left a hole there and shot to the outer space

• jk but that literally was how shocked you were to see him

• but wo w sungwoon with fluffy pyjamas and and tousled hair?? an aesthetic concept that u’re totally digging

• you also noticed that he had carried a duffel bag with him too

• you, squealing: “YOU’RE SLEEPING OVER?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?”

• him, in an equally high-pitched tone: “YES!!!!!!!!!!!!”

• he launched himself into your arms,, squealing gibberish and laughing (like how he did when jisung handed him his fairy wand in wanna one go)

• (0_0) (0o0) \(0o0)/ 1!!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1! <- your heart/mind at that moment

• after holding on to his soft body for a whole five minutes you pushed him off, telling him apologetically to give you twenty minutes to finish up your work.

• all while chanting *nope i do not like him, i’m a nun, i shall devote my life to my boy bands, i do not have an attachment to this amazingly beautiful boy* in your mind

• sungwoon, holding his hand to his heart and sprawled on the ground: *gasps in korean* *rolls up sleeves* look y/n, i’ve climbed hills and swam seas to finally reach your house,, and you’re telling me to mIN D MY OWN BUS INES S FO R 20 MINU TES!!!??!?!!? REALLY??!?!?! IN FRONT OF MY SALAD????

• you, focusing on your computer screen: firstly,, you live just a block away and secondly,, there ain’t no salad here hAh so CASE CLOSED

• and then it went surprisingly quiet for ten minutes,, and your sungwoon-o-meter told you that this was dangerous but hell nah your focus was just as strong as park seojoon’s in she was pretty btw great drama

• first attempt: just as you predicted, a few moments later, you found a small gummy bear right below your nostrils. “c’mere c’mere” he chanted, tickling your chin and trying to bribe you out of your sitting position.

• second attempt: “look (look) at (at) me (me)” tried to whip out his echoing talent but nuh-uh.

• third attempt: “i’M tELLiNg yOuR pAreNTS”

• finally giving up, he pulled up a chair next to you, quietly sifting through the contents on your table.

• just then, he noticed something.

• snatching the to-do list from your clutch, he read through it, the look on his face hardening.

• “what the hell is this?” he gritted his teeth, fixating his intense gaze on you. shocked and frightened at his sudden change in mood, you stumbled over your words. “e-erands f-for my f-friends?”

• he scoffed, “your friends? you call them your friends? they’re using you, for god’s sake.” he scanned through the list again, shaking his head and turning to you. “why can’t you see it? they are using you.”

• “n-no, they said they were busy.” you felt the need to stand up for your friends, especially since they looked like they’ve got so much on their plate when they pleaded with you, puppy-eyed look on their countenance.

• he closed his eyes, as though trying to steady his furious, short breaths. “believe me, i can guarantee you that all of them, who have given you these tasks, are either at a party, drinking, sleeping or watching netflix right now. in fact, haejung just posted a picture of her with her boyfriend half an hour ago.”

• whipping out his cell phone, he scrolled to her profile, confirming what he just said.

• “but-“

• “look, y/n. you have to understand this. you can’t keep helping people like that.” he reached for your shoulders, gaze boring into yours.

• “think of it this way. if everyone in the world only has one last glass of water to drink from, people who can’t take the thirst anymore will start sipping from their glass. and once they’ve downed the entire thing, if they are greedy, they’re going to ask others or more water. and people like you,” he pointed at you, his tone exasperated and furious.

• “people like you, who puts others before yourself, will give their water to them. i get that you’re magnanimous and will hate to see anyone feel down, but before you know it, your drink will be empty. you will be the one suffering, whilst they enjoy the water you’ve given them.”

• “i’m blessed to have such a kind-hearted person by my side but, i hate it that you’re so naive. why can’t haejung finish up her own part for the project? i know for one it’s because she knows that you’ll do it for her and not complain about it afterwards! didn’t you see sungjae watching anime during lessons just now? he should face the consequences of his own actions! and lena is just lazy to walk over to the library to print her stuff out. why are you wasting the ink for a thirty-page document for her when she can’t even be bothered to waste her time and get it done herself?” he rubbed his temples, pacing up and down the room.

• “you’re the smartest person i’ve ever seen, but you’re an idiot too. and you know what’s the worst kind of idiots in the world? kind idiots. because people will trample all over you and make you do their work. and i hate that you’re just that.”

• huffing, he walked to the end of the room, sliding open the balcony door and slamming it, going outside to clear his mind.

• and at this moment, while others would expect you to be mad at the seemingly offensive words he had spouted our, you found yourself feeling nothing of that sort.

• first came the intimidation. this was the first time he had shouted at you like that, and you were shocked at how mad he was. the five hours you’ve been friends with him, he had only bickered with you, getting frustrated sometimes. but never like this.

• then came the realization. that you were in fact, just a puppet made for people to drag and pushed around. that people you thought you knew and liked were now anything but what you thought of them. and that you should probably get yourself away from them as soon as possible, though it might just be the hardest thing ever.

• then came the great epiphany that

• holy feck,, you liked him. you liked sungwoon and tonight’s incident just confirmed and in fact, caused you to fall for him even more. this was the first time someone ever cared for you like that, and it was...strange.

• but nice.

• and warm.

• and comfortable.

• and makes your heart beat-box and do dub-step.

• snapping out of your daze, you placed your hand on your chest in a bid to calm your erratically beating heart down.

• just then, sungwoon came in. he shuffled towards you sheepishly, rubbing the nape of his neck and looking anywhere but you.

• “u-uhm, i’m sorry for shouting at you just now, you wanna put some face packs? i brought some from innisfree over. we can use those and w-watch a movie?”

• you, observing his handsome features that now seem to be more prominent to you: ......

• “i’ll teach you my skincare routine???”

#wanna one #wanna one scenarios #wanna one imagines #wanna one fanfics #yoon jisung #hwang minhyun #ong seongwoo #kim jaehwan #kang daniel #park jihoon #park woojin #bae jinyoung #lee daehwi #lai guanlin #ha sungwoon

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