#i also think fasting can be kind of neutral bc anyone who has a busy day might inadvertently end up fasting
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i'm sorry but i just don't think intermittent fasting is a good diet, like i'm glad it works for some people and i am willing to acknowledge that there are studies showing certain positive impacts of it like i'm not gonna deny any of that, but at the end of the day, i think it's more likely to cause more harm than good for the average person
#i don't think fasting is necessarily bad#like as someone who's grown up with religious fasting i think on a spiritual level it can be positive#and better mental health will help to have better physical health#i also think fasting can be kind of neutral bc anyone who has a busy day might inadvertently end up fasting#and depending on a bunch of other lifestyle factors that could be good bad or neutral#but intermittent fasting specifically as a diet being broadly recommended to people with health problems? no!!#basically i saw a video and my gut reaction is to be like shut up about IF#but then i was like. okay let me take a step back and listen to what they are saying#i am willing to acknowledge that it can be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle#personal
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Streamer!Scaramouche [2]
thanks for all the support in the first part! i wrote a second part where scaramouche plays genshin + the reader comes in (i tried to make it as gender neutral as possible, so let me know if thereâs something off!). youâre a close friend of scaramouche and also a voice actor!
i had been planning this since i wrote the first part, but because i was busy and uninspired i couldnât finish it. but here it is and itâs actually pretty long (over 5k words...)! i hope you guys will like this!! obviously heâs a little nicer than he is in game but,,, for the sake of the plot + it being a modern au, it had to be done sjnfdskjf
He was selected to play the beta for genshin because of his popularity and tbh he really wanted to play it
The game hadnât really caught his eye all that much when he first heard about it but he saw how everyone online went crazy over it (plus other streamers who also were selected to play it in early access kept talking about it) and he became more curious to know what it would be like and if itâd live to everyoneâs expectations
However he couldnât really play it until it was officially released because he had a very busy schedule, and when he saw other streams of people playing it he was,,, lowkey jealous because it did look fun
When it was finally released and the game finished downloading and installing, he went live right away
And since so many people were looking forward to seeing him play plus the game was getting so popular so fast, that stream of when he first played hit his biggest milestone of live viewers ever
ANYWAYS skip forward to further into the game
when it comes to the gacha,,,
weâve established that this boy is loaded. he wonât hesitate to throw some big amounts of money at the game to get every single character and weapon he wants and get their constellations to the max
i feel like heâd make little bets (and it works as a way to thank the chat for the support) like âif i get (insert newest character) in the first 50 pulls, i will gift 50 subsâ
heâd be SOOOOOOO LUCKY itâd make everyone who doesnât play think that it must be very easy to get the 5 stars or that the drop rate must be very high,,,
so in the end heâd have to gift the subs and itâd be funny to see the chat go absolutely crazy because everyone is commenting at the same time trying to see if they got lucky too and got the sub
but the chat goes so fast that they canât even see their own comment after they send it sNDJGDJSKÂ
heâd end up turning subs mode on for a while because it goes crazy
and thatâs when heâd see people going âI GOT THE SUB-â all excited and he canât help but chuckle and congratulate them for being one of the lucky ones
probably another game he can use to play with some subs once in a while! they could play co-op and when heâs a very high level heâd go to the worlds of some of his subs with lower level to help them with whatever they need
SO, LITTLE SKIP HERE
this is where i want the reader to slide into the picture
youâd be a voice actor, and also you have been a friend of his for a very long time
he met you even before he started streaming and you were always so supportive of him, as he was of every and each of your dreams
in fact, he would have invited you over more than once to stream with him
people donât say anything bc theyâre afraid of scaramouche banning them (itâs happened before) + they understand it can be disrespectful... butâŚ
some people lowkey ship you two a little bit,,,,,, you didnât hear it from me. scaramouche donât ban me----
so one day heâs making another livestream playing genshin (sponsored by mihoyo to promote the newest update and event) and theyâre going to release a new characterÂ
AND he has told everyone that you are the voice actor of the new character, who will be introduced in the event and is also getting their own banner
so everyone is very curious of what theyâll be like, if scaramouche will try to get them (obviously he will, he has every single characterâŚ. the amount of money he has put into the gameâŚ. just thinking of it gives me the heebie-jeebies)Â
could he even,,, main them,,,,
spoiler: he wonât because heâll stay honest till the end (and no hard feelings) but there are other characters that he has built up to the max just like them and still work better with the way he plays but heâll still find a chance to use them often
he didnât know anything of what the character you voiced would be like because you wanted to keep it a surprise and he knew his audience would enjoy seeing his first reactions
I think the character you voice in the game would have the role that Scaramouche has in the actual game, and their design would be fairly similar (maybe similar color palette) to the design fans made for him as a genshin character (the one i mentioned that he uses for popup notifs of subscriptions and all!)
needless to say heâd absolutely love their personality and the charisma you showed in their lines
of course when he finally gets them he shows everything about them including all their voice lines and he compliments y/nâs voice acting⌠that was the first time people suspected that....
mayhaps⌠scaramoucheâŚ.
has feelings for you....
itâs in the soft gaze in his eyes,,, the gentle smile on his lips,,, his soft voice when saying âI think this one is my favorite line of theirsâ
and just how BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL his laugh sounds when someone comments he should invite you and ask you to do that voiceline live for him and everyone else
heâd jokingly reach for his phone and be like âshould i call them? i couldâÂ
(but he wouldnât because he doesnât want to disturb you, you may be busy, considering you still hadnât replied to the messages he sent to you before he started the stream a few hours ago)
if anyone dares be mean to you saying you got the chance to voice act for genshin just bc of scaramouche
or implies that he did something to get you there heâll get quite mad even tho he wonât speak up about it (he might if enough people say it)Â
people can see something shift in his gaze,,,, and he bans them permanently right away
itâd be kinda funny when he does those âreading unban requestsâ streams and he goes past immediately rejecting people who said those kind of stuff, not even reading the apologies JSNKJFNDSJKGNSDK
some people say heâs too strict about it but literally his stream his rules. people who donât like him should just not watch him
and people who like him should NOT speak badly about you or doubt your talent and effort, which is what brought you that opportunity in the first place
one day heâd be streaming playing the game, he had been using your character and gathering materials to get their last ascension
and at one point heâd grab his phone and look at the screen for a second before putting it back down and saying he had planned something else for tonight besides playing genshin for a while
then, the doorbell would ring (before he could even close the game-) and itâd be heard from his setup room so people in the chat heard it and theyâre all like???
itâs definitely not takeout because scaramouche never orders takeout when heâs on his own, he usually cooks for himself and just orders it when heâs with friends and they all feel like eating something different
actually, offtopic, but i have a feeling heâd be very responsible when it comes to food and like heâd cook himself proper meals all perfectly balanced and all- he could afford having someone cook for him but his house = his privacy and personal space so heâd rather do it himself
itâs like, past 10pm, so no way it would be a package or mail at that time
and then he says âwe have a visitor tonightâ
and then the chat goes crazy saying âCHILDEâ âHARBINGERSâ but mostly âY/N!??!?/PLEASE LET IT BE Y/Nâ
AND IT WAS YOU!!!!
and omg you brought takeout--------
it had been a while since they had seen you in scaramoucheâs stream and you didnât have your own channel (even though there were many people who encouraged you to open one)
SO everyone was very excited
i feel like scaramouche wouldnât be the biggest fan of eating on camera so you guys would put the food away so that you can eat it later on your own without an audience
and you two would just spend a while talking to the chat, watching videos
AND reviewing fanart and fanmade content together!! itâd be so cute especially fanarts of the two of you together, little animatics or comics of funny clips or memes from his streams of you two,,,
someone made a little felt plushie of the genshin character you voiced and the way you COOED because it was SO cute
only those who were truly paying attention were able to notice the soft smile on scaramoucheâs lips and the way he looked at you as you gushed over how cute the little plushie is and how talented the person who made it is!!
also youâd tell him you saw signora make a stream where she talked to some of her fans on discord individually to give them advice on their life/problems (nothing too serious) and it was very funny and you wanted to do that with him someday
and heâs like âthat⌠could be a huge mess. people could say some crazy stuffâ and youâre like âNO but i talked to her about it and she said she got her mods to talk to them first and approve them before they moved them up to the channel where she was to talk to herâ
and heâs like âstillâŚâŚ.. what if people lie and then when they get to talk to us they say something-â
and youâre like âBOY!!!! DO YOU NOT TRUST YOUR FANS *GASP*â and everyone in the chat is also going âGASPâ âHE DOESNâT TRUST USâŚâ âIS THIS YOUR IDOLâŚ..?â âSAY SORRYâ (all good fun, obviously heâd love to talk to everyone if he could make sure there wonât be anything disrespectful said)
SO!!!!! you two say youâll plan to do something like that soon and everyone is very excited, they can already tell itâll be both super cute and hilarious
before he ends the stream, you two watch some videos together
some are about some upcoming videogames and he talks about them and what he knows and explaining things to you... he is.. so knowledgeableâŚ
the way you look at him as he goes into a little rant about it⌠cinematic parallels with the way he looked at you before
ONCE AGAIN, people arenât blind. they notice. but they keep it to themselves bc scary scara (the way i had to resist overusing this one joke with his name-)
so the stream ends and you two walk out of the setup room to go to his living room and eat the takeout you brought while watching something on tv
he apologises because the food is cold now, but you brush it off saying itâs ok, you had missed being on his streams and you two can just heat up the food again
he doesnât look at you in the eyes as he mutters that you know you can join his streams whenever, and instead just says it as he makes his way to the kitchen to heat the food
you join him in the kitchen soon after and tell him you also bought something for dessert and put it in the fridge already before
and honestly he didnât know how much he wanted to eat that dessert until it was in his fridge, so he canât stop himself from sighing and saying âgod, i love youâ
thereâs silence for a second, right as the microwave beeps as it finished heating the food
it feels eternal to him, but you immediately started laughing and said jokingly âof course you do! youâre welcome!âÂ
heâs happy you took it as a joke because thatâs not how he planned to confess (he didnât plan to confess anytime soon in the first place) but at the same time ?? heâs lowkey offended inside because? you took it as a joke?? is it so unrealistic that you wouldnât even think that he meant it romantically?
itâs at that moment that he realises that if he didnât want to confess before, now he does.
he wouldnât want anyone to know about how he let that slip because heâs sure no one in you twoâs friend group even knows he likes you
but you,,, actually,,,,, were actually caught off guard too because scaramouche wasnât precisely one for words of affection and he showed his care for everyone with his actions
in fact, you had never heard him say those words before but well- it was kinda nice- if only he meant it as you feel it- but he couldnât, right? whoâd confess their feelings so casually while looking at a dessert in the fridge with desire-------
that night, it gets pretty late and to be honest heâs a little too tired to drive you home as he usually would, so he asks if youâd like to sleep over
it wouldnât be your first time doing so, not even the first time you stayed unplanned, and he had a couple guest rooms that you could use so you accepted
also, staying for longer meant you could keep watching some more of that series with him without worrying about it getting late
or,,,
âactuallyâ you said in a low voice, almost a whisper, since it was getting late and you two had been in complete silence while watching the series âi lowkey still wanted to stream some moreâ
he scoffs but then lets out a short chuckle, replying in the same volume
âitâs past 2am, whoâs going to watch me stream now?â
âi wouldâ have mercy for his poor heart- âbut iâd be the streamer too this time so it doesnât countâÂ
âwhat even would we doâ
âcan we play that co-op game you played with childe? it was so much funâÂ
had you not brought it up, he wouldnât have offered that ever because? if he had recently played it with childe he didnât want to stream it again and make it feel repetitive for his audienceÂ
(jokes on him because when genshin came out they put up with it being the only thing he streamed for over a week. theyâd rewatch any game if itâs you two playing it)
but to be honest, he didnât really want to stream anymore that day and just wanted to be with you, just you and no one else
he got up from the couch and walked towards the hallway, making you look up to him in confusion for a second, but then started getting excited knowing this meant he was going to let you play it with him
âi donât really feel like streaming anymore today, but we can still play it. letâs goâ
the next day, you two wake up around the same time and make breakfast together
scaramouche i feel is not very talkative in the morningsÂ
in fact, i feel like heâs just not the most talkative in general. heâs more the type to listen, but itâs different during his streams because heâs doing what he loves and talking about what he loves
and when it comes to you and he talks more itâs because heâs talking to who he loves----
before youâre going to leave and youâre standing at the door about to say goodbye to him, he suddenly speaks up before you can
âdo you want to go somewhere tomorrow?â
you raise your eyebrows in curiosity from the sudden request, but then smile at him and nod
âyeah sure! what do you have in min-â
âitâs a dateâ he said, interrupting you, which was weird enough of him (since he would never interrupt you), but his words were even weirder-
âh-huh?â you felt the heat rising to your cheeks, and scaramouche just repeated his words
on the outside, he looked so casual and just, confident- bUT INSIDE he was actually panicking a little bitÂ
but just a little bit.
After a moment, you smiled at him again, this time somewhat more shily but also excited for your date!
âI look forward to itâ
Just with that, you two knew you had made the first step
You werenât just friends anymore
You two had hung out on your own many times before, in fact and as it was mentioned before, you two had even slept over at his house or yours many times before
but it had all always been purely platonic, and you guys had never even questioned that aspect of it even after realising you had romantic feelings for each other
heâd spend the rest of the day thinking of what you could do the next day, as if he hadnât been brainstorming for ideas all night either
i feel like he hasnât gone in many (if not any--) dates before
solely because he has never been interested in romance plus he had never liked someone or at least, not as much as he liked you
and even when he found out he felt something for you, he just always told himself he was okay with how things were, because heâd never experienced anything beyond friendship and didnât feel the need to try and maybe ruin the friendship
SO he didnât have many ideas of what a good date could be
he definitely didnât want a clichĂŠ corny date, but he really didnât have any idea of what was good enough for a date
(and if for future dates you want something heâd consider a ââclichĂŠ corny dateââ heâd do it for you and actually enjoy it)
the last thing he wanted was to have to ask you what you could do for your date
1- because he didnât want to show you any side of him that didnât look like he always has everything under control and heâs always composed (as if you wouldnât want to see every side of him, even his most vulnerable sides- youâd have to work on that with him when you two become official)
2- he⌠kind of wanted to surprise youâŚ..
but it really got to the point where he really didnât know what youâd like the most (or what heâd like the most too) and what he wanted most over anything else is to not disappoint you in you twoâs first date
SO he finally texted you asking if there was anything special you wanted to do (and therefore indirectly admitting heâŚâŚâŚ.. just really wanted to ask you out. so much he did it without thinking of what heâd do if you said yes--)
you didnât seem to mind, and in fact you were happy he asked for your opinionÂ
overall, scaramouche was very independent so he wasnât one to ask others for advice, opinions or anything, much less for help regarding anything
âhow long has it been since we last went to the arcade? we could go there! i heard from childe that they added new games!â
and heâs like !?!?!?? THATâŚ. isâŚâŚ.. the perfect idea
âthat actually sounds perfectâ he admitted, and the message brought a big smile to your faceÂ
âjust donât get mad at me when you lose at all of themâ he sent right after, teasing you, and you couldnât help but let out a laugh out loud
âthe last time i won in your favorite gameâ you reminded him, and even after he read your message, he took a little bit to reply
(he needed a second to put the pieces of his pride together SJNFKJDS)
âdonât get used to it, it wonât happen againâ
âwe will see about thatâ the more you two joked like this, the more excited you got thinking about tomorrow
scaramouche was sure now that itâd be a great first date that youâd both remember forever
the next day, it was almost the time for the date and scaramouche was going to pick you up at your house
i feel like scaramouche would be very fashionable and even in his style he doesnât try to hide that heâs loadedâŚ
not that he cares about buying cheap clothes, literally heâd say if he likes it and itâs good (aka itâs not cheap because itâs made of something that wonât make it last longer than 3 weeks) heâll get it
but it just so happens that many times⌠the clothes he likes most are from famous brandsâŚ
AND THIS DAY!!!!!! heâs putting together one of his favorite outfits because itâs a special day
it almost hurts me just how nonchalant heâd look on the outside, making it a little hard to know exactly just how much this date meant to him (because as i said heâs not one to be very vocal about his feelings or even his thoughts)
BUT i trust that you⌠since you know him wellâŚ. can see past all that and you know that this is not just anything casual to him. this is special.
STILL!!!! heâd try his best to not let the blush rise to his cheeks and show, as well as to not let his voice shake when he complimented that you looked very good
ANYWAYS i think i think Scaramouche wouldnât be one for big pda
the most heâd do where anyone can see is hold your hand or put his arm around your waist
WHICH IS WHY heâd try to be all smooth (and he would manage) reaching for your hand and lacing his fingers with yours
he wouldnât make eye contact because then heâs sure itâll show on his face that heâs getting somewhat flustered, but heâd still ask if youâre okay with it, to which you said yes
the area where the arcade was is always somewhat crowded so when you two were getting there, scaramouche would tighten the grip on your hand a little bit to make sure you wouldnât let go and youâd be pulled apart by people trying to walk past however they can
you know that if you two got serious about your relationship, he would want to be the first person to share the news with his fans
BUT since he was so popular now, you two lived in a pretty big city and now were at a popular area (+ scaramouche wouldnât be the type to try and hide his identity because heâs never had people make a fuss when they recognise him)
you were a little worried someone would see you two and maybe take a picture and post it online and itâd go viral before he can admit it himself
because of that, you end up throwing back to him the question he had asked when he held your handÂ
âare you sure this is okay?â
your question confused him because he didnât know what you mean, so he finally looked you in the eyes and waited for you to explain further
âitâs just- what if somebody sees us and recognises you?â
he looked away from you and back at where he was going, taking a few seconds to answer before he just shrugged
âi donât careâ
you softly let out a breath you didnât know you were holding as you waited for him to say something, and almost missed the way he whispered
âas long as it doesnât affect youâ
for someone who seemed and actually tried to seem to self-sufficient, who appreciated his friends but was also okay on his own because he was absolutely comfortable with himself, he was actuallyâŚ
more selfless than people would ever know, especially when it came to you
you two would have SO much fun in the arcade, trying every single game many times
this time though, scaramouche won in his favorite game so he lived up to his words
you two won so many tickets you literally didnât even know what to do with them once you got the couple prizes you were interested in
you bumped into a couple fans of his, so you talked for a while
once again, you were met with suggestions of opening your own streaming channel, and even scaramouche said âiâve told them that many times too, but they always say they think their streams wonât be fun enoughâ
and the fans are like âNO!! literally everyone thinks youâre super nice and fun!! of course you donât have to if you donât want to, but weâd love it!!â
one of the fans (exaggerating a little as a joke) said âiâll be your number 1 fan i swearâ and the three of you laughed, except scaramouche who just scoffed and smirkedÂ
âi am ALREADY their number one fan. but good tryâ <- scaramouche in his head. say it outloud u coward.
but at the same time it was a joke scaramouche chill pretty much everyone knows youâre their number one fanâŚâŚ. even though you think youâre so smoothâŚâŚâŚ. they just donât say anythingÂ
they were very nice and fun to talk to and you knew scaramouche and you didnât really want anything else from the prizes, so you offered you twoâs tickets to them
âwe donât really need these anymore so maybe youâll have more use for them!!â
they got SO excited, the way their eyes lit up :( scaramouche is convinced youâre an angel but heâs also very happy to see how joyful his fans got because those were more than enough for the prize they really wanted-
so after that cute little interaction and having used up your energy for competition, you two leave and think of buying some ice cream or a milkshake or something to end the date nicely and to enjoy while you walk back home
the arcade was not exactly very close to where you two lived (it was far from your house, but even farther from his-) so he asked if you were okay with walking back or if you two should get an uber or something, to which you said you were okay
walking back with him meant!! a little more time you could spend with him
and he was happy you said that because he was feeling the same way and still didnât want the day to end
weâll see more about the kind of things he likes and dislikes if heâs released as a playing character BUT FOR NOW i really get this vibe that heâd LOVE boba tea
i even think heâd?? enjoy tea in general??? classy boyâŚ
SO you two would end up going to get some bobaÂ
it was very touching how, when reading the flavors they had that day, he suddenly and casually went âoh, they have your favoriteâ and you looked at the one he was pointing at and !!! indeed it was your favorite!!!!!!!
he remembers this kind of details very well
you take the chance to talk some more as youâre walking home
scaramouche asks about your job with voice acting and you tell him that you actually have been recording some new lines for your genshin character lately because in the next update thereâll be an event involving them
heâs looking forward to it but he teases you a little asking if itâs okay for you to spoil him with such information
but itâs okay because itâs not like heâd tell anyone, especially knowing it could get you in trouble
when he drops you off at your house, he has a hard time saying goodbye
literally youâre standing at your door and heâs in front of you, a couple steps away, looking away from you
you donât say goodbye either, mainly because you know scaramouche is working the courage to say something, and you can also sort of guess what he wants to say
you think of saying it first, but then think that it would make scaramouche proud to be honest about his feelings and confess first
âiâve liked you for a long timeâ
you canât help the smile that makes its way onto your face, unconsciously reaching a hand up to slightly cover it
âi feel the same wayâ you replied to him in a soft voice
he took a deep breath and exhaled it softly, finally lifting up his gaze and making eye contact with you
it was already dark outside, so you couldnât appreciate the faint rosy blush on his cheeks well
âcan i kiss you?â
your eyes widened for a second, not expecting him to ask and if anything, thinking heâd just step forward and do it
so you were a little embarrassed and caught off-guard to reply properly, so you just nodded and put your hand down as he took the last couple steps and his face was right in front of yours
heâd cup your cheek in one of his hands, feeling the warmth of your skin
you closed your eyes, and he looked at you for a second longer before he finally leaned in and closed the short distance that separated your lips
at that moment you both knew that you had been missing on so much more when you two just settled and were content with your friendship
but!! that was about to change now, so it was all worth it
after that, scaramouche would make clear that this would be the first day of your relationship!! and even if he didnât say it with words, you could just feel his happiness!!
so!! after that, because of work you two got a little busy the next couple months so dates werenât very frequentÂ
or at least, they werenât dates like the one you first had
but still whenever you two were free heâd go over to your house, or youâd come over to his to play, stream together, or literally just spend time together doing anything
he wouldnât let people know you two had started dating straight away (if anything, only his other streamer friends -aka you twoâs friends in common- knew)
but the day he said it, he wanted you to be there
SO one day you two were streaming and you were currently reacting to one fanart of you two together
so he looked at you and you made eye contact and it was like you two spoke with your eyes like
âdo we tell them nowâ
âletâs tell them.â
so scaramouche would clear his throat and without closing the fanart, heâd say he has something he wanted to announce
everyone was excited thinking itâd be some new project, maybe involving you
maybe some merch??? and the fanarts had reminded him of it???????
BUT THEN he straightforwardly said
ây/n and i are datingâ
and everyone goes aBSOLUTELY CRAZY
amidst the chaos, you two catch a comment saying âwill you unban the people who shipped you twoâ and you laugh
and you look at each other like âdid you read that one?â âyeahâ
and scaramouche is like âyeah, i guess i will have to unban some peopleâ
and when some get unbanned theyâre like âfREEDOM!!!!â
and jokingly theyâre all like âAPOLOGISE!!!!!!!! SAY SORRY!!!â so he just laughs and you join them being like â!!! apologise!!! you banned them for it and!! look at you now!!â
so he ends up trying to hold in another laugh as he mutters a halfassed âsorryâ and everyone starts commenting claps and hearts and celebrating that he apologised. now justice has been made.
the rest of that stream suddenly feels livelier and brighter!! you two are laughing a lot and so is everyone in the chat!!Â
and also the new genshin event wouldâve already just been released that same day so you can talk about some of your experiences with recording or what you thought of it
and scaramouche would let you play it yourself!! (he still hadnât played it) and it was also the first time you played genshin live!! youâd show people the characters you have and everything and tell them some anecdotes
people would be SHOCKED because you!? donât have the character you voiced!? D:
and youâre like âyeah⌠i pulled for them and used up all my primogems and⌠didnât get themâ
and your banner is back because of the event, so scaramouche wonât let this slide!!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL GET YOUR CHARACTER.
your luck is terrible compared to his so at one point youâll literally feel bad for how much heâs spending for you to get it
but he doesnât mind at all and everyone is having fun so!!
and once you finally get them youâre sO HAPPY and everyone in the chat is celebrating
and you think itâs over but scaramouche is like ???? what are you doing?? open the wish page again. youâre going to get them c6.
and youâre like oh my gOD PLEASE NO DONâT SPEND MORE MONEY ON ME FOR THIS
but he wonât listen and heâll do it
so!!! heâll always do his best to be the best boyfriend he can be for you!! so you better give him your heart!!!!
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soulmate au!ezra/reader
this is solely the fault of one single anon who called out something i put in the tags and now itâs a whole universe but you know what?? itâs the love of my life. anon i hope u see this đ i also just want to say i know there isnât A Lot of soulmate talk in this one but itâs important for the narrative okay bear with me
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It might be the ugliest ship youâve ever seen.
Not that youâre really one to judge, the one you charter out when youâre running point on a job is a mismatched patchwork of rusty panels held together with electrical tape and hope. If thereâs the slightest possibility you might be a teeny tiny bit disappointed in it, itâs only because agency jobs are usually a little cushier. A little safer for once. You could do with a bit safer.Â
Your family might prefer a lot safer, but youâd sooner take your chances in open space without a suit than take a job working scrapyards. At least risking your life on digs gets a decent payout.
âYou the danger mouse?âÂ
Itâs not an accent you hear often on the Pug, the majority of the stationâs population is human, but you turn with a smile to meet the bright purple eyes of the Thanne. Armour-strong scales and sharp teeth, but he seems kind and mild mannered despite his clear predatory biology. You nod as you readjust the pack on your shoulders.
âIâm Iras.â He holds his hand out to you. A distinctly human gesture made a little awkward by the sharp edged scales and extra fingers, but you shake it nonetheless. Heâs your captain for this job after all. You wonder where a Thanne became so well versed in human custom, the species as a whole tend to keep to themselves instead of branching out into the universe like so many others, until his crew members appear on the boarding ramp.
Iras gestures to each of them in turn. Summer, a blonde woman with dark skin and a kind smile, and Milo, an older man with a swirling tattoo above his left eyebrow that matches the navy blue of his eyes.
âIs it just us?â You ask. You could have sworn there was a fifth name on the manifest youâd been forwarded, but teams are always subject to change. You just hope youâll have your own room.
âEzra always leaves things down to the wire, heâll show up right before weâre due to push out.â Summer laughs fondly, throwing an arm around your shoulders like sheâs known you her whole life. Youâre usually a little wary with brand new teams but the way sheâs already chatting away makes you feel at home. The last agency job you were sent on got dicey, fast, somehow youâre sure the same wonât happen with this lot.
âThere he is.â Milo leans out of the ship to point out into the docks.Â
You turn to see a man sauntering through the throngs of harvesters towards the ship, and itâs odd. The rest of the crowd seems to melt away as he closes the distance, even the weight of Summerâs arm on your shoulders feels not quite there. You take the moment to study him. He looks all business with his dark hair and his charcoal grey shirt and the neat pack slung over his shoulder, but his pants and boots have seen better days and the streak of blonde at his temple makes you smile. Itâs nice to finally be with a crew without a single stuffy addition.Â
âItâs not often I get to congregate with like-minded souls.â He grins when heâs in earshot, a flash of something feline in his eyes. You donât want to admit that you like it.
âLike-minded?â You tilt your head at him as you follow Summer up the ramp and into the ship. Ezra slips in behind you just as it starts to raise. Just like the others said.
âWeâve all got the same death wish, Sunspot.â
The launch, at least, is smooth despite the beaten up ship and itâs only about twenty minutes before youâre far enough from the Pug to punch a lane to the next system over. At least it isnât far, thereâs only a day between now and making planetfall. Somehow, youâre not surprised to find that itâs more of a barracks and bunk beds situation rather than each having a private quarters. Last time you were hired by the agency, you definitely got your own room. But it gives you a chance to chat with the others as you unpack.Â
Milo explains the air isnât breathable, so heâll need to double check to make sure everyoneâs filters are running at capacity. But he reassures you that itâs a comfortable temperature, so itâs good to know you wonât be sweltering in your suits or freezing your asses off.Â
You pick the bed on the wall beside the door, taking out a few essentials from your pack and tucking the rest safely away in the storage compartment. Just as he did back at the docks, Ezra is the last to find his way to the room. He settles his things on the bunk opposite yours because the universe has it out for you, apparently.Â
âDid I hear one of them call you the danger mouse?âÂ
You struggle not to roll your eyes at the nickname awarded to anyone stupid enough to do your job, although admittedly he doesnât sound like he knows why. You offer him your name instead and pretend the way he rolls it around in his mouth doesnât send a shock right down to your bones. Youâre not in the habit of sleeping with colleagues, not until the jobâs over at least. But youâd be lying if you said youâre not tempted.
âThey call me in when a siteâs unstable but too profitable to close.â You answer, tugging your sleeves up as the climate control settles to a comfortable temperature.
Ezra raises an eyebrow, waiting for you to continue, and you pull off your gloves. They land on your thin mattress as you hold your hands out between you. Not even the slightest twitch.
âSteadiest hands on the Pug.â
âSo they are.â Thereâs a challenge in his voice that threatens to send a shiver up your spine. Itâs clear he doesnât doubt your skill in the field, but the return of that glint in his eye from the docks has you wondering exactly what else heâs thinking about as he studies your hands. Itâs not hard to work out.
Itâs been so long since you had to travel out of the system, you forgot how much inter-system lanes can fuck with the human brain. Youâre half asleep for the thirty minutes you spend sorting your things for the morning, barely enough energy to change into the sweatpants and ratty t-shirt you call pyjamas, before you crawl into bed and settle down almost immediately.
Only you donât get to sleep for as long as youâd like. The rest of the crew seem to have filtered in after you, the shift of sheets and snores float through the dimmed room. Except, itâs not just that. Thereâs shuffling and bed creaking from further down the line of bunks. A hushed giggle sounds in the silence and-
 Oh god. Oh no.
Theyâre not. They canât be, they- they are.Â
Youâre very awake all of a sudden, eyes wide as you keep them firmly on the ceiling and wishing as hard as you can for an alarm to start beeping or something. Anything to get whoeverâs banging Summer to stop. A deep voice hushes her when she laughs again. Iras. Knowing is somehow worse. The mechanics- you donât even want to think about it.Â
You turn onto your side slowly, but loud enough to hint that maybe they should find somewhere else for their escapades, and fold your pillow around your head as a kind of makeshift set of earmuffs. Whether theyâve quieted down or it muffles the noise, youâre not sure, but it seems to have worked enough. You catch Ezraâs eye in the almost-darkness, much in the same position as he holds his pillow over his own ears.Â
Itâs embarrassing for the both of you, even as you share a conspiratorial look. But somehow, itâs less awkward to have to hear Iras and Summer going at it when you know heâs awake. He winces when a particularly loud squeak echoes through the room, and it takes everything in you not to bust out laughing. You fall asleep again eventually, making faces at Ezra in the dark until neither of you can keep your eyes open anymore.
Youâre surprisingly well rested come the morning, when the whole ship jolts as it punches into the system and youâre almost thrown out of bed. So much so that itâs easy to forget that you woke up at all until you shuffle into the main living compartment of the ship. One of the crates by the wall has been cracked open, Milo hands out granola bars for breakfast.
Summer and Iras are sitting in the same chair, feeding each other, and it might be cute if youâd been awake longer and hadnât been woken up by their activities in the middle of the night. You slump into a free chair, face twisted in disgust for a moment. Youâre pretty sure nobody else sees until Ezra laughs and drops into the seat beside you. Theyâre nice people, from how they took you as a friend immediately, but that doesnât change the fact that itâs just a bit much for your perpetually single heart to take.Â
âItâs a week-long job, they canât take a break?â You watch as they finally pry themselves apart to start, you know, actually working. But not without a genuinely gross kiss that definitely toes the line of public decency. Suddenly the half-eaten bar in your hand isnât all that appealing anymore.
âSoulmates take no breaks, Sunspot. Iâm sure yours would be hard pressed to be anywhere but in bed with you whenever they get the chance.â Ezra winks and it takes you a moment to remember where you are. A glance at the pair makes your new knowledge obvious, the way they seem to be touching, even now, on opposite sides of the room.Â
âIâm not sure I believe in all that red string stuff.â
Once the ship is safely landed a short walk from the site, the days you spend digging pass with ease. The deposit is a decent size, it takes all five of you to cover it completely, and the payout should be enough to keep you all comfortable for a little while even with the agencyâs cut. The crew around you fill the time enough that you barely notice the week coming to a close.Â
Summer sings in the mornings as she cleans her equipment and readies her pack for the day. Miles talks gently to the cells as though they can hear him, shushing them any time he worries a gem might corrupt. Iras seems to have a secret superpower when it comes to the ration packs, they always taste better when heâs the one on lunch duty. And Ezra spends the afternoons regaling you all with tales of ancient beasts, laying eggs that fossilise into the very gems youâre harvesting. Although youâre not sure how true they are.Â
You almost get through the whole dig without a hitch. Almost. But aurelac is a tricky thing, even a change in the wind can turn a site for the worst. Youâre all sitting around at lunch when it happens. The telltale smoke wafts up into the air for no visible reason at all and although youâve collected enough to cover the quota, youâd still rather not lose viable gems.
âGet to what you came here for.â Iras gestures in your direction and you dive into the pit head first.
Youâre not even sure you stop to think as you follow the harvesting steps at lightning speed, salvaging half the corrupted cells before someone tugs you out by the collar of your suit. The rest of the site starts to smoke the moment youâre out of range, spitting and hissing and rendering the rest of the gems worthless.Â
âDanger mouse indeed.â Ezra chuckles over the comm system, hand still fisted in the fabric of your suit. For once, the nickname makes you smile.
While you all go your separate ways after the ship has docked back on the Pug, Summer makes you all promise to meet later at a club youâve only heard of in your friendsâ messy night out stories. Still, you pinky swear when she holds her hand out to you and try to remember if you have a single item in your wardrobe thatâll pass as club attire. Or at least something that isnât so worn there are holes in it.Â
Even if itâs a song he knows, thereâs no chance that Ezra could recognise it with the volume cranked so high through the cheap speaker that everything but the beat is distorted. Still, it doesnât stop people from dancing.Â
Heâs a little late, as usual, but he doesnât need to worry as Iras appears behind him and claps a hand on his shoulder, pointing to a booth across the room where Milo is looking increasingly uncomfortable.
It doesnât take long for Ezra to spot you and Summer in the middle of the dance floor, as he follows Iras around the edge of the space to the booth Miloâs claimed. Youâre both more jumping than dancing, yelling the unintelligible lyrics of the song into each other's faces. He canât hear your breathless laughter as Summer spins you in a circle, smile wide and bright, but he can feel it in his ribs. The drums of the song kick in at the same time the swirling lights of the club light you up like some kind of celestial being, just as you catch his eye through the crowd. And everyone else disappears. The rest of the world, rest of the universe, fades into the background. Just like they did the first time he saw you, glaring suspiciously at the ship on the docks.
Summerâs dragging you back to the table when the song comes to a close, the both of you out of breath and laughing, and Ezra has to try desperately to remember how to speak when he watches a little bead of sweat slide down the side of your neck. And stop himself from just licking a line straight up it. His silent suffering only increases when Milo holds out a shot of the most potent alcohol the Pug has to offer and you down it without so much as a flinch, winking at him when you return the glass to the table for good measure.Â
Milo calls it a night only an hour later, clearly only having braved the crowds of the club to celebrate the job. Summer and Iras are tangled in each other on the dancefloor, or the booth, as they keep the shots coming. You, at least, decide to keep your wits about you, declining every drink after the one Milo had handed you. Nobodyâs going to fuck with a Thanne, even in as seedy a club as this, so you donât worry about Summer as she gets sloppier and sloppier. But thereâs no spiky non-human boyfriend looking out for you down here, itâs just you and the knife you keep at your hip.
You pull yourself from the dance floor, eyes tracking the room for the missing member of your party, until you feel a set of eyes on you from above. Ezraâs leaning on the bannister of the stairs, his unflinching gaze set solely on you. And you canât help but smile. You follow him up to the mezzanine without hesitation when he glances upwards and back to you. The buzz of the shot has mostly faded from your veins, replaced by something much more dangerous by the way heâs looking at you. The way heâs looked at you since you met him.
Itâs not hard to spot your friends from up here, leaning over the barrier with Ezra to people watch. He crafts stories about every stranger who catches his eye. The man hunched over the bar in a beaten up jacket, the waitress who fiddles with her necklace any time her hands arenât occupied, the pair of lovers tucked away in the dark corner on the other side of the mezzanine. You find yourself sliding closer to him the more he talks, wrapped up in the warmth of his voice even in the rundown club. Your shoulder knocks into his as you mindlessly bop to the music and listen to his made up stories. Utterly enchanted. Itâs hard to remember a time when you felt this way with anybody, if you ever did at all. To tell the truth, itâs hard to remember anyone before Ezra. And neither of you have even made a move yet.
He's got his arms braced on the barrier, and you find yourself lifting the one closest to you so you can slip in between them. Surrounded on all sides and you couldnât feel more comfortable. To his credit, he doesnât falter in his vivid storytelling about the group now settled in the booth your crew had claimed earlier, not even a stutter as you turn in his arms to face him. Heâs decided theyâre here to celebrate the beginning of a new job, rather than a successful harvest. His eyes flick to you for the barest moment, enough to notice yours are firmly focused on the way his lips move around his words, before searching the club below for another story. Another way to keep his mind and mouth occupied so he doesnât accidentally admit all the sinful things he wants to do to you when you press your ass up against him like that.Â
âEzra.â
He shouldnât be able to hear you over the music, but youâre nose to nose and heâd be hard pressed to ignore the way you practically purr his name. Heâs expecting you to make another flirty comment in that voice that sends his mind reeling into all manner of indecent places the same way you have been all night.
âCan I kiss you?â
He doesnât expect you to just outright ask him.Â
âYeah.â Yeah. Hell of a time for his eloquence to fail, not that it matters anyway. Youâre on him the moment he stops speaking.
Itâs like the sun explodes inside him, the way his stomach bottoms out the second your lips touch his. Thereâs nothing soft about it, not the way he might have imagined there would be. If heâd been so bold as to let himself imagine what kissing you might be like. Youâre all warmth and heat and you still taste a little bit like the shot youâd thrown back earlier, and he finds himself falling. Not that Ezra minds, he hopes his parachute never opens if it means youâll keep kissing him like this.Â
You let your fingers roam under his jacket, twist themselves in the thin fabric of his t-shirt, and you sigh into his mouth. God, you knew heâd be good at this. His hands leave a trail of starlight as they trace over your body, never quite choosing a place to rest. They start to settle on your shoulders, only to skim down your arms and squeeze harshly on your waist, to play along the strip of skin he finds just underneath the hem of your shirt, to grip harder than he might mean to onto the meat of your ass through your pants. You gasp, break the kiss for barely a moment, and stop his apology in its tracks.Â
He doesnât protest when you walk him backwards, still groping at each other like itâs just the two of you in the whole club. Ezra only groans when his back hits the wall and you push even closer into him, as if there was even any space left for air between your bodies already. Heâs not about to complain. He could kiss you for a thousand years and it still wouldnât be enough. Itââll never be enough, not for a soul as hungry as his. You pull back too soon, far too soon, and it takes a solid minute for his brain to kick in and break the vice grip he still has a little too low for the public eye.
Oh, that look on your face. Heâs in trouble.
âWhere are you off to?â Ezra asks, flushed and breathless, a hand stretched halfway out to where youâre backing toward the stairs.
âHome,â You say with a sly smile, âYou coming?â
He canât push off the wall fast enough.Â
You donât live far from the club, a ten minute walk at the most, but Ezra manages to make it a solid twenty with the way he keeps pulling you to him. Not that youâre about to complain. Youâve been waiting a week to let him get his hands on you. At the press of his lips on your neck, the shudder it sends down your spine, you wonder if part of you has been waiting even longer than that.Â
Youâre trying, desperately, to type in the keycode to your apartment. If Ezra could calm down with the grabby hands, you might have gotten it right straight away.Â
âNo roommates?â He asks, kissing along your shoulder, and you take the temporary reprieve to kick your brain into gear and remember the fucking numbers.Â
âHugo wonât be too upset if I make him sleep on the couch.âÂ
The door slides back into the wall to reveal a dark apartment, a strip of light from the hall falling on a very orange cat. He stares at you for a second, clearly not particularly pleased that heâs been so rudely roused from a nap, before he settles back to sleep stretched out on the couch cushions. Hugo. Ezra is silently relieved that the roommate is just a cat, heâs not sure heâs got the self control to stay quiet tonight. Or to make sure you do.Â
You waste no time once you gesture for Ezra to walk in ahead of you, flicking the switch on the wall to slide the door shut and pulling him back to your lips. He doesnât hesitate to crowd you up against the cold metal.Â
Although you could devour each other until the closest sun explodes and swallows the station whole, Ezra has to break away. To think, to breathe, to tease you a little about the moan he just swallowed from you. But you beat him to it.
âGotta catch your breath?â The smile on your face threatens to make his knees buckle, and with you pressed up against the closed door the way you are? He might just let them.Â
âWhat do you want, Sunspot?âÂ
You left a lamp on in your bedroom, the door cracked just enough to let a little filter through to the main living space. Still, heâs almost completely silhouetted against the warm yellow glow. As if heâs some kind of ethereal being, maybe he is.
âMake me see the stars.â You pull him in as close as you can and let your lips brush over his as you whisper. His next words make you shudder almost as much as the way he drags the zipper of your jacket down, slowly, tooth by tooth.Â
âAs you wish.âÂ
And boy, does he deliver.
Youâre expecting things to feel more unfamiliar than they do, as you explore each other for the first time, but itâs like youâve been here before. Once, twice, a hundred times before. Every move feels oddly choreographed. Ezra knows exactly how to take you apart and put you back together again, the way he pulls every twitch and moan out of you so expertly. Youâre no different, as your fingers map the plains of his chest like itâs muscle memory.Â
You shake it off, put the thoughts to the back of your mind. Youâve been around the block a little in your time on the Pug, it only makes sense that he has the same kind of experience. But shared experience or not, you canât deny how much having him so close feels like a homecoming of sorts.
Itâs the best sleep of your whole fucking life and, honestly, youâre not that surprised. Ezra makes a damn good pillow. Even if you both wake hours later into the day cycle than either of you normally would. Even if heâs more of a morning person than you are. Itâs kind of nice, to sit still snuggled in your pile of blankets and watch him potter around your apartment as Hugo winds around his ankles like heâs been there for years.Â
Your fridge, however, is heartbreakingly empty and renders his offer of making breakfast pointless. Instead, he pulls his shirt on and offers to take you to the best little diner he knows, tucked away in the heart of the marketplace. Itâs a hard offer to turn down.
âWhat kind of gentleman would I be to have so much income at my disposal and not treat such a beauty as yourself to a good meal?â He winks as he flashes his credit chit at you as if you didnât scan in for your paychecks at the same time. You laugh as you empty a food pouch into Hugoâs bowl, and tell him he better show you all the good breakfast spots. You shrug off his raised eyebrow and mutters of a ânext timeâ. As if he didnât already know.
Still, Ezra takes you by the hand the moment your apartment door secures itself shut behind you, leading you through the hall and out into the street, and youâve never felt more wanted.
Itâs like everythingâs brighter, walking leisurely through the bustling market stalls with Ezra. The smells are stronger as spices in the air cling to your nose, the cacophony of vendors calling out almost sounds like music, and you start to laugh. Hand in his, in the middle of the maze of stalls full of food and tools and trinkets. As if itâs just the two of you in the whole universe.Â
At least Ezra doesnât look back at you like youâre crazy. He smiles too, just as big, and you feel bathed in warmth the same as when the sun comes out planetside.
Youâre both still grinning when he leads you deeper through the market, down an alley and up a flight of stairs to an unassuming door.
âIs this where you murder me?â You joke just as the door opens to reveal a short older woman with an eyepatch, who pulls Ezra down into a tight hug as soon as heâs in arms reach. He introduces her as Merse, the woman whoâs run the best diner no oneâs ever heard of on the whole station. She slaps his arm for his cheek, but her grin grows twice as wide when she spots your intertwined hands.Â
Ezra pulls you through the doorway after him as he follows Merse, chatting about how she always keeps the best table open just in case he brings a friend and you try not to smile too wide when she wiggles her eyebrows at you. He says something to you, but youâre too distracted by the view from the big windows.Â
The far wall is completely glass, overlooking the main docks, lined with booths. A small family sits in one of them, their two children standing up on the seats to watch the ships come and go. Youâve never seen it from this angle before, always down in the masses and scanning the boards for new jobs. Itâs kind of beautiful. In a rusty, patchwork sort of way.
Merse points you towards one of the booths with a promise that sheâll bring you the best breakfast youâll ever have, something tells you sheâs not lying.Â
Itâs not long after you slide into the booth that she comes marching out of the kitchen with two plates, wafting steam that makes your mouth water and your stomach rumble. Rice and vegetables and eggs and all sorts of things youâve never even seen pile high, and youâd worry you wouldnât be able to finish it all if you werenât so hungry.Â
âYou know I wonât break, right?â You push your fork around in the remaining rice on your plate as you watch Ezra absorb your words. He thinks about it for a long moment, dark eyes over you before settling on your own.
âWhatâs this about?â He knows, you know he knows. More importantly, you know heâs going to make you say it. In the middle of the day cycle, in this family friendly diner.Â
âJust,â You exhale sharply, âMaking sure youâre aware.â Your body floods with a shyness thatâs alien compared to the confidence you had last night and suddenly, your breakfast is the most interesting thing on the Pug. You can practically feel him smiling at you, but you donât dare look up to meet it.Â
He was right though, the food really is some of the best youâve ever had.
Itâs not until youâve wandered back through the market, still hand in hand, and found your way back to your apartment that Ezra decides to bring it up. He may have been more than a little distracted last night, but heâs sure he spotted a set of old books sitting on a shelf above your couch. You freeze, ready to go on the defensive about how ink and paper will never be obsolete, until you realise heâs genuinely interested. Heâs not judging you by any means. Something about the curiosity shining in his eyes makes your heart flutter more than you care to admit.Â
He could watch you talk about your books all day, every day, for the rest of his life. How your eyes lit up when you recognised his interest, a paperback lover himself. You canât seem to stop yourself as you dive into the intricate details of your favourite classics, two or three hundred year old texts that make you feel like youâve lived a thousand different lives at once. He wants so badly for you to keep talking but the more impassioned you become, the more he wants to kiss you.
You trail off at some point, he loses track when you climb into his lap to point out notes youâve made in margins and the books lie scattered on the couch beside you as you kiss him until neither of you can breathe. Youâre still a little achy from last night, deep in your bones, and you hiss when his teeth scrape across your shoulder.
âWonât break, is that right?â Ezra chuckles darkly and nips at your jaw, âCan I try?â
âPlease.â
You wake at the creak of your bedroom door, sometime in the early hours. Hugo noses his way through the narrow gap and hops up onto the bed, curling up on the unclaimed pillow by your head. Ezra sleeps deeply, face buried in your neck, and you let the warmth of him wash over you. It ebbs and flows like a tide, that familiarity. The undeniable fact that something about this just feels right. Youâve known this man a week and yet youâre here wondering, as he rests in your arms, if he might want more than just this with you.Â
Oh, but you are so afraid. Afraid to put a name to anything about him because what then? Will he tell you that youâre simply a placeholder in his life for something better, or that his heart might bleed through his skin when youâre apart? Youâre not sure which is worse. Not that it matters, there is no word in any language that would be able to explain exactly how you feel about the man asleep in your arms. Itâs enough, you think, to have him with you at all. In any capacity. Whatever pieces of his soul he bares as your breathing evens and his mind wanders. That is enough, and you will protect it with your life.
You have to part ways at some point, of course. Another week of rolling around in your bed sheets together, on the couch, on your pitiful kitchen counter, up against the wall, and Ezra gets a call from the agency. Itâs a last minute job, the crew only need an extra set of hands to fit the safety standards, but itâs several systems out from the Pug. Itâll take him away for at least a month. You trail after him at the docks, with promises of messages in his absence and all manner of unsavoury activities on his return. Itâs with a deep kiss and a wolf whistle from a couple of dock workers on their break, that you wish him luck. And ask him to hurry back.
Summerâs message surprises you when it dings through on your tablet. Some gajillionaire on Dallore T53 has found an aurelac deposit on the grounds of his new estate and wants it gone. Sheâs preoccupied, already out on another dig with Iras and a new crew. But itâs the kindness of her even thinking to offer it to you that makes your heart swell. Itâs been a while since youâve had real, honest to god, friends.Â
Youâd go in alone, normally, for something like this. But now? Now, youâre punching in Ezraâs comm pin before you can even really register what it is that youâre doing. He only got back a week ago, and you made him settle in back home before he could settle in yours. Itâs not like the two of you would be doing any resting on his return to your apartment, exactly. The job was a pain, heâd told you, it ran months longer than anyone expected and youâre sure heâs still exhausted. He wonât agree, but you find you have to ask. Just in case.
âSunspot?â He sounds happy, rested. And you breathe a sigh of relief, at least he can follow your orders when he wants to.
Hugo snakes around your ankles at the familiar voice, the same way he does any time the man himself walks through the door. If you didnât know that the little orange devilâs alliances lie in who feeds him, you might think he loves him more than you.Â
You explain about the job, make sure to stress that he doesnât have to come. That you donât even really need to take it if heâd rather you stay close by. Okay, you donât say that out loud, but the smile you hear in his words through the speaker makes it known that heâs heard you. Loud and clear.Â
It doesnât matter in the end, not when he accepts before you even have a chance to give him any details. You donât know why you were so worried he might say no.
âAny excuse to be warmed by your light, Sunspot.â Hugo brushes up against your leg at the same time Ezraâs voice practically drips through the speaker, smooth as honey.
âIs that a euphemism?â
âDo you want it to be?â
You choke on your breath and he laughs like youâve told the funniest joke in the universe. Heâll kill you one of these days, youâre sure of it.
You charter the ship you usually take on private jobs, the space a little smaller than you remember with another person on board, but itâs not like either of you arenât used to being in close quarters with each other by now. At least Ezra has the decency not to be mean about the beaten up exterior, she still flies true. Heâd grinned at that, told you how a rough outside often means the opposite of the interior mechanics. The glint in his eye is enough to know heâs not just talking about the ship.Â
At least the planet is in the same system as the Pug, so thereâs no need to punch through to a lane. You fly in silence for a few hours, the familiar feel of the controls under your fingers as you guide it through the sky. Ezraâs eyes remain firmly on you although you pretend as though you donât notice, and it takes him a moment to come back to the present when you ask him to flick a few switches and prepare to enter the atmosphere.Â
The coordinates the client gave you to land are only a short walk from the house itself, a great stone castle-looking thing. Itâs kind of ugly, the way the limestone juts out above the treeline. A big white block among the rich reds and oranges of the leaves. They grow that colour all year round, perpetually stuck in spring and summer. It must be nice to have the kind of money to find somewhere like that and decide youâll build a house there. The air is breathable, and a quick look at the planet file proves itâs never too hot or too cold. A perfect place to build a house really. Although, if it were you making that kind of decision, youâd maybe go for a design thatâs a little less cubist.Â
The deposit isnât huge, but itâll be a good payout nonetheless providing the cells are all in good nick. You and Ezra wade through swathes of long grass and wildflowers until you find a spot to set up camp. At least youâre not stuck in bulky suits and having to lug around your equipment.
You couldnât have asked for a more perfect dig if youâd tried. Each of the cells sit far enough away from each other that even if one were to fail, it wouldnât corrupt a whole mess of the others. Although with both of your talents, it doesnât surprise you when you collect every last crystal without a single misstep.
Youâd told Ezra the profit would be split down the middle, equal pay for equal work. But it doesnât stop him from sliding an extra gem into your pack to cover the ship charter. After all, youâre the one who was offered the job in the first place. Heâs just following his heart, the one that walks around outside of his body and throws itself into deposits mid-corruption.
You hold one of the little gems aloft in the sunlight and watch as it sparkles.
âI used to think it was weird how rabid people go for these. But the more I dig the more I get it, isnât it the most beautiful thing youâve ever seen?â
Ezra tilts his head like heâs studying the rock, but his dark eyes donât leave yours.
âItâs a close second.â
Sap.
Night falls before either of you realise just how late it is, clearing out the last few cells of the deposit. Itâs not worth going back to the Pug now, he reasons, and you find it hard to disagree. The ache of the few days youâve spent digging has settled deep in your muscles, the thought of having to run through docking procedure when youâre so tired is enough to make you wince.Â
You let him take you for all youâre worth under the watchful eye of the heavens, and find thereâs more stars behind your eyelids than you could ever hope to see in the skies. Itâs all you can do to cry out the name of the only god to ever make you feel this holy. Ezra.Â
He wakes with the sun, the same way he always has on jobs, to find you curled so tightly against him that it bubbles up from his toes all the way to his throat and he finds his eyes threatening to spill over. Everything in the universe seems to slot so perfectly together when youâre like this. Ezra sighs, content to never let the moment end. You are so beautiful.
He shifts up onto his elbow a little, still cradling you against him, and lets his free hand trail softly over your face. Tracing the shell of your ear, the curve of your cheekbone, the bridge of your nose. The dawnâs sunlight breaks over the trees and filters through the fabric of the tent, bathing you in soft green light. He could stay here, holding you, until the universe implodes. Ezra doubts heâd notice such an insignificant thing with you beside him.Â
But end it must, and he rouses you gently with soft whispers and kisses against your temple. You stretch in his arms, not unlike Hugo, and sigh as your joints pop and settle. Packing up happens slowly, moving around each other so naturally itâs as though youâve done it a thousand times before. Every time Ezra passes, you drop a kiss wherever you can reach. His shoulder, the arm of his jacket, that little patch on his jaw. He pretends not to blush when you catch his hand and carefully press your lips to the little tattoo between his thumb and index finger, you pretend not to notice when he does.
Youâll be the death of him, heâs sure of it. The way you keep watching him out of the corner of your eye, the way your smile is so bright when he catches you that he can barely stand to look at it. With the tent and equipment packed up, his fingers itch to thread through your own as you start the walk back to the ship, thereâs not a word in the universe strong enough to describe just how much he hates that both his and your hands are too full.
Itâs odd, thinking about it. How you met by pure chance, hired by the agency just because you were on the same station at the same time. Would he have ever met you if youâd chosen a different career path, if he had? Maybe somewhere, centuries before or after this moment, where youâre meeting again. Different lives, different times, spanning across all of existence. Maybe, right here and now, youâre starting to feel the way he does about you. Just a little. Maybe heâll get up the courage to ask what you think, how far you want to take things. Heâd give himself to you in a heartbeat, without question. In a way, he already has.
Ezra canât stop himself.
âWhat do you make of the red string of fate?â
âAll youâve seen of the universe and you still believe in soulmates?âÂ
âMaybe Iâm more foolish that I made myself out to be.â He shrugs, trying not to let his eyes fall to the little finger of his right hand. Trying not to clench his fist to show you exactly how much your disbelief affects him down to his bones, as though his soul itself is frowning. Youâre smiling. Uncharacteristically quiet, but you seem appropriately pleased by his answer and stray a little further out into the long grass.
Curiosity gets the better of you.
âCan you see yours?â You have to call out across the gap youâve unintentionally created, yellow stalks swishing in the breeze between you, and for a moment youâre not sure he heard.
Ezra looks at his right hand, at the thin red string tied neatly at the knuckle of his little finger, and follows the line as it threads through the grass to where itâs knotted at your left.Â
âNo.âÂ
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[đĽ] get to know me tag
tagged by: kris <3 @calicooky also @jiminslight once tagged me in a 30 questions tag game similar to this too but I lost it bc I'm moronic pls forgive me ;-;
tagging: gahhh idk who has done it or not buttttt @mintagust @nvmguk @rmverse @kimchitae @kkulmoon @kimtaegis @kimtaehyunq @hobeah @textsfrombangtan as usual pls feel free to ignore this if u wish to uwu
when is your birthday? may 31st next year
what is your favorite color? blackred (yes that is one colour yes)
what's your lucky number? luck? what's that?
do you have any pets? i have a younger brother :)
how tall are you? ...........i'm not
how many pairs of shoes do you own? hhhh half of my stuff is at my dorm so i can't give u a definite number rn yikes hmmm but more than 8 i'm sure
favorite song? like choose one? i can't :O it's butterfly prologue mix lately tho
favorite movie? my attention span is too short to survive a whole movie in one sitting nowadays rip but uhhhh i used to like tangled a lot as a kid??
what would be your ideal partner? someone whose name starts with a "t" and ends with an "aehyung" and rhymes with "baehyung" but idk anyone like that so :/
do you want children? why would i want that omg
have you gotten in trouble with the law? i am the law u.u bow before me u.u
what color socks are you wearing? socks? in august? bro i live in a tropical country
bath or shower? cold showers hnnng
favorite type of music? if i like smth i just like it i don't care about the "type" uwu
how many pillows do you sleep with? like... 3
which position do you sleep in? starfish lmao
what don't you like when you're sleeping? when there's even one (1) single ray of light in the room i am sleeping in. i prefer total darkness. just like my soul.
what do you have for breakfast? one tall glass of milk and one peeled almond for idk what reason i just eat it
have you ever tried archery? no but now i wanna :o
favorite fruit? mango! ayeee
favorite swear word? "lol ok" works every time :D
do you have any scars? yeah this tiny one on my knuckle which i got from a huge fake dinosaur costume's teeth while i was on a dinosaur ride in a mall 5 years ago... true story
are you a good liar? will u be(lie)ve me if i say yes?
what's your personality type? mbti wise i'm an istj-a but i also qualify as a chaotic neutral so yeah that
what's your favorite type of girl? all girl are my fav type of girl except the girl who put other girl down for absolutely no reason other than trying to look better than that girl
left or right handed? right but i taught myself to write with both hands out of boredom back in 2017 but yeah no i'm still right handed
favorite food? if it's spicy then there's like 98% chance i'll like it
are you clean or messy? my room legit always looks like if u called me in the middle of the night and told me that we are fleeing the country in 10 minutes, i won't even take more than 5 to pack up literally everything bc I'm always ready to LEAVE (it's actually bc i live in the dorms so i leave home and return a lot)
favorite foreign food? taehyu-- *GUNSHOT*
how long does it take for you to get ready? like 25 minutes in the mornings (including waking up, brushing teeth and showering) but most of it is bc i have really long hair which actually take a lot of time to comb and like 10 min if it's any other time
most used phrase? "huh?"
are you a good singer? i don't think so
do you sing to yourself? nah i'm more of a humming to myself kind of person actually
biggest fear? not having a backup plan for smth
do you like long or short hair? LONG! i'm a hardcore long hair enthusiast~ i mean my own go down past my waist
are you into gossips? no lol my frens hate me bc i'm always never interested in anyone's business hhsgsj
extrovert or introvert? i'm active on tumblr,,, take a wild guess?
favorite school subject? mathematics :)
what makes you nervous? taehyung dropping kth1 without any warning o_o
who was your first real crush? like irl? idk man i have a shitty memory (definitely not dodging the question mhm no)
how many piercings do you have? one in each ear
how fast can you run? depends on what's chasing me
what makes you angry? that hybe keeps cockblocking actor jin e_e
do you like your own name? yeah my real first name is actually very pretty haha
what are your weaknesses? *bites lip* taehyung
what are your strengths? *winks* taehyung (pls don't block me) ok ok jokes apart i think my brain power is my actual strength no lie
what is the color of your bedspread? grey and white plaids :o
color of your room? at home it has blue walls, at my dorms it has... light yellow?? i think?? damn sae smh
i can't believe u made it till here??? how bORED ARE U LMAO??
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Class 1-A Gender and Sexuality Journey Headcanons
This is mostly just me really liking messy self discovery because I am a messy bitch.
Kyoka Jirou
First off, Kyoka is a trans girl. She socially transitioned when she was really young and began medically transitioning in high school bc her parents are super supportive and great (we stan a supportive parent)
She first thinks she's bi when she's 14 and comes out as such at 15
She dates Kaminari for a while second year and after they break up she's pretty certain she's a lesbian
After high school, she has a couple years where gender is kinda nebulus. For a while thinks she's a nonbinary lesbian but then decides she's just GNC and punk but definitely full girl
She gets more comfortable in her gender after that, but starts questioning her sexuality again
And ends up back at bisexual, but like not attracted to dudes. Girls and nonbinary people only please
Also she and Momo reconnect in their mid twenties and hit it off and get married
Denki Kaminari
Denki is completely comfortable calling himself straight up until he's 17
But don't get it twisted, he definitely was already acutely aware he was into dudes
Because wow boys are pretty
But he also just kind of ignores it because OMFG GIRLS
But after his other friends start coming out, he gets more comfortable thinking about his sexuality but doesn't bother labelling it
Specifically he doesn't want to label it because he gets comfortable with it after her starts dating Kyoka and doesn't want anyone thinking he's calling himself not-straight for dating her
But a couple months after he breaks up with Kyoka, he starts fooling around with Hitoshi and like really he's at the point of no return so he just slaps the bi label on himself and goes about his day
Towards the end of third year, he starts playing around with GNC and really vibes with the genderqueer label, but still uses he pronouns because he's used to them
He and Hitoshi break up after graduation and Denki really throws himself into exploring his gender and sexuality
And starts using he and they pronouns and typically dresses on the masculine side of androgynous but with lots of cool makeup
He gives polyamory a shot, but he keeps finding himself feeling like he's third wheeling other people's relationships and decides its not for them
In their late twenties, he and Hitoshi hook up at a reunion party and hit it off. They keep things casual for several months before suddenly they decide to move in together and in a blink of an eye, they're in a legit committed relationship without knowing how it got there but it feels right to them.
Eijirou Kirishima
No flavor for this one. He figured out he was gay when he was 12 and it stuck. His moms are lesbians and support him wholeheartedly.
Katsuki Bakugou
I think Bakugou also grew up with queer people in his life so he was never really in the closet
He was pretty certain he was asexual and aromantic until Kirishima weedled his way into his heart
At 17, he decides that he's probably demi-pansexual and demiromantic but that feels like too much so he just says queer.
This boy knows all the words though. Keeps very up to date with the local and global state of queer communities but doesn't talk about it unless prompted or provoked
At first he was very private about his relationship with Kirishima because it was no one's fucking business but after seeing the rampant homophobia in the hero business, he became very loud and very proud of his boyfriend very fast
Eijirou and Katsuki probably got married at, like, 21 and did not give one shit when people pointed out they were young. And they're together for the rest of their lives so those fuckers can suck it
Mina Ashido
Mina is your classic bisexual disaster and spends her teens and early twenties going between calling herself straight, bi, and a lebsian depending on who she's currently into because this bitch has zero object permanence
She chills out in her twenties though and is comfortable calling herself bisexual at long last
Hanta Sero
Sero is pretty comfortable being straight right up until all his friends come out
He spends a couple months questioning his sexuality before knowing for certain he's straight
But he's that one straight dude that always ends up dating bi and pan girls by complete happenstance
Hitoshi Shinsou
He really does not know what his sexuality is
Sometimes its yes
Sometimes its no
He says queer because he can't be assed to look into any of the microlabels
He just knows he's not straight and that's good enough for him
Momo Yaoyorozu
This girl is a lesbian but trying to convince herself of that was A PROCESS
She denies it for years and years
Its not until after graduation she thinks, but doesn't dare say, she's bi because she tells herself she's "mostly into guys anyway" so "it doesn't really count"
Slowly her percentage shifts away from guys and to girls
She's 23 before she accepts she's a lesbian
But she doesn't come out until she's 28 because she's scared since her parents expect her to end up with a man
Ochako Uraraka
This girl is mostly into guys. Like she's pretty sure she's straight because all the crushes she had so far have been on boys
When she's 18, she starts to suspect she might like girls too but is really too shy to explore that feeling at first
But when she does? Oh boy she will not stop talking about how wonderful and perfect girls are and how unfortunate her attraction to men is because she feels insecure in her validity as a bisexual woman with a preference for men
Tsuyu Asui
Tsuyu has known she's a lesbian since she was 15 and was very comfortable with that
She questioned if she might be bi a time or two but always came back to being gay
She does realize she's an ace lesbian at 18 though but she's also okay with that
Her goals in life are to own a house by a lake with a beautiful wife
Tenya Iida
Tenya is pansexual
Literally he just cannot see why gender would be a factor in choosing a potential partner
He never came out because he was 20 before he realized that this was not the default state and others weren't just being picky by having a different sexuality
And by then, every knew because he made no attempts to hide his partners
He was really stressed at first about it, and asked Tensei why no one ever told him he should be more careful with publicly showing his sexuality but Tensei was just like "we just thought you knew what you were doing, dude. And it looks like it worked out"
Izuku Midoroya
Again, Izuku is too swept up in "nghh girls pretty" to think too much about his sexuality when he's younger
When he gets a crush on Shouto, he doesn't recognize it as a crush at first because it felt so natural and comfortable and he was used to being uncomfortable around people he liked
So he has a crush on Shouto for years before it hits him: Oh I'm not straight
He stays in that nebulous not-straight state for months because he does not have time to deal with that
But once he stops procrastinating his sexuality, he cannot decide if he's bisexual or pansexual or polysexual and he gets super wrapped up in researching microlabels and its super overwhelming
He even questions his gender for a little bit but settles on he's a cis man pretty quickly
He does eventually start dating Shouto and just calls himself gay for a while because it's easier than trying to piece together ten microlabels like he's tempted to do
However after Shouto begins exploring his gender identity, Izuku gets more comfortable just calling himself pan because he realizes that gender never really played a part in who he likes.
Shouto Todoroki
He came out as gay at 14 to piss off his father depsite the fact he didn't actually have any feelings about his sexuality at the time
No he decided he didn't care what his sexuality was. He was gonna be gay.
And he forgot he did that until he was 17 and was like, oh- I should probably figure out my actual sexuality, after being questioned due to his close relationship with Izuku
So he thought about it for about 15 seconds to say, well, I do like Izuku so I'll just be actually gay now
That stuck until after graduation and into his twenties when he started questioning his gender
He figured out he wasn't particularly attached to masculinity or femininity and found comfort in the agender label
They started using gender neutral pronouns and grew their hair out long but that's really all that changed
They came back to their sexuality after that and decided it was just "men"
Izuku tried to be helpful and offered terms like androsexual, but Shouto didn't find them very useful so they like to tell people their gender is no and their sexuality is dude
It gets the point across
Yuga Aoyoma
Okay, so we all know heâs gay
But despite how flamboyant he is, this boy is a closet case
He definitely had a crush on Izuku first year, but he couldnât handle that yet so he definitely lived vicariously through Ochakoâs crush on him
I donât think he came out until after high school
And zero people were surprised
He probably does drag too
And heâd look fabulous doing so
Kouji Koda
I think Kouji is aceÂ
I donât think this is a word he had for himself until he was in his mid twenties
He just assumed he was a late bloomer and heâd been told he just had a low self esteem
But he finds the ace community and suddenly everything makes sense and he feels comfortable in his own skin
Once that falls into place, he discovers heâs also aromantic
He ends up having a platonic life partner and they have lots of pets and plants together
Fumikage Tokoyami
Fumikage figured out heâs bisexual when interning under Hawks. Like fuck, he had the most embarrassing crush on this guy whoâs aesthetic is so embarrassing
I donât think he had much trouble accepting that heâs attracted to guys though
Like a demon lives in his head
Heâs mostly suffering because he has a crush on his cheerful, friendly mentor
Dark Shadow is very happy about this development because itâs a chance to embarrass him and make him uncomfortable
Fumikage gets renewed interest in being able to control Dark Shadow to shut his whore mouth
Unfortunately Dark Shadows outs him to his mentor
Fortunately Hawks is really cool about it and tells DS to have some chill and doesnât give Fumikage a hard time about it, but Fumikage doesnât get invited back for another internship with him and finds himself assigned to do work with sidekicks afterwards
Mezou Shouji
Mezou doesnât fuck with gender
Itâs not that he necessarily feels disconnected from his masculinity but rather that he just feels like gender is archaic and useless
So heâs pan and bigender (male and agender)
Definitely would make jokes about be attracted to frying pans and this is how he comes out to Fumikage in their third year.Â
Rikidou Sato
Rikidou doesnât really date in high school
Soon after graduation he ends up in a relationship with a girl that lasts five years before he realizes heâs gay
One time someone tells him he should have known sooner since he likes baking so much and he punches them in the face (I like to imagine this person was Mineta for face punching purposes)
He ends up good pals with the woman he was dating and sheâs his maid of honor at his wedding :â)
Tooru Hagakure, and Mashirao Ojiro
Iâm sorry if one of them is your fave. Theyâre both straight and cis and have never questioned it even once.Â
#bnha headcanons#bakugou katsuki#kyoka jirou#kaminari denki#midoriya izuku#todoroki shouto#kirishima eijirou#mina ashido#sero hanta#uraraka ochako#tsuyu asui#mezuo shouki#rikidou sato#tokoyami fumikage#iida tenya#hitoshi shinsou#aoyama yuga#kouji kouda#lgbt headcanons
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So, it seems that some of yâall have taken an interest in Niko!!! Iâm so glad. Anyway, hereâs part two
Nikoshi is torn between charging up to hug his literal fucking idol and keeping up a cool kid facade. Fortunately, the cool kid facade wins out. If Niko had touched Kevin, he would not have been able to stop himself from flinging the kid across the lawn. Thereâs something thatâs just so⌠so⌠Riko about the kid that Kevin is on the verge of breakdown.Â
Ichirou kind of ushers him into the house and Kevin sits down very mechanically on the couch. From the kitchen, Aaron walks out and is faced with Niko for the first time. Nikoâs heard about Kevin Dayâs husband before but heâs never seen him.Â
âYouâre really short,â is the first thing out of his mouth. This kid, this absolute asshole, walks into his fucking house and the first fucking thing he says is âYouâre really shortâ???? Aaron is so stunned by this kid and his bullshit that he doesnât even say anything.
Amalia wanders out from the kitchen at the commotion in the living room and the second she sees Niko her first reaction is friend????? New fren??????? Sheâs very excited. Before she can go out and say anything, Aaron snags her and makes his way into the living room to sit beside Kevin and sets her in his lap. She keeps squirming bc she wants to meet new fren.Â
Anyway, Ichirou has already called the two of them and has informed him of who the kid is. Theyâre going to have to take him to the doctor and get some âblood workâ done to confirm Ichirouâs suspicions but they already know. He looks too much like Riko to not be his kid
Ichirou asks a few questions, all of which Aaron has to answer seeing as Kevin is too busy silently flipping his shit. Both Niko and Kev spend the whole half an hour just staring at each other in awestruck silence.Â
Ichirou leaves and Aaron says itâs time for dinner. They all eat at the dinner p quietly, except for Amalia who has run out of patience. She insists on sitting next to Niko and blabbering on and on about something or the other. Sheâs 5 at this point so sheâs mostly talking about her crayons and showing Niko that she can count to fifty. For the most part, Niko is content to listen to her bc it means he doesnât really have to talk.Â
After dinner, Aaron takes Niko upstairs to show him his room and hands him some clothes. As soon as Aaron heard the news, heâd gone down to target and just picked some random basic shit out. He tells Niko that theyâll go to the mall soon so that they can pick up a few things thatâll actually fit him. Nikoâs never had new clothes in his life. He doesnât know how to feel about it.Â
He puts all of his emotions aside for the time being. Heâll have to evaluate them later. Niko starts to pull his shirt off and he hears Aaron gasp. Only then does he realize that the bruises from his last foster havenât faded yet. He goes red and backs away, trips over something and falls onto his butt.Â
âNiko-â Aaron started, moving forward. Immediately, Niko flinched violently and Aaron stilled. Schooling his face into neutrality, Aaron dropped his hands to his side. âGet changed and come down. I want to see the bruises.âÂ
âNo,â Niko spat.
âIâm not asking,â Aaron countered flatly. âAs soon as youâve changed, you will come downstairs and we will treat the bruises. Are we clear?â Niko nodded. Aaron backed out of the room, shutting the door to give Niko some privacy.Â
âWhat bruises?â Kevin asked, starling a curse out of him.Â
âKev, heâs covered in them,â Aaron replied. Anger burned in his chest. In that moment, there was nothing Aaron wanted more than to hunt down whomever had hurt Niko so badly and beat them black and blue. All that kept him grounded was the pain of his nails biting into his palms. He felt Kevinâs arms wrap around him and he left himself be held. âHe looks worse than I ever did,â Aaron whispered. His voice sounded hollow, even to his own ears.Â
âHeâs going to be okay, baby. Heâs here now. Weâll take care of him,â Kevin assured as he stroked his hair.Â
A few minutes later, Niko steps out and lets them take him downstairs. Amalia is long gone, put to bed so that she doesnât witness this absolute horror that her dads are about to see. Aaron has a makeshift clinic set up in the house and he makes Niko sit down on the little bed and take his shirt off.Â
Kevin curses and gets smacked for cursing in front of Niko. After figuring out how old they are, Aaron sets to work massaging creams into them to heal them faster. His hands are firm, unyielding, but gentle enough that they donât hurt. Itâs a foreign feeling to Niko. Heâs never not been touched by anyone without them intending for him to hurt.Â
Aaron asks Niko if there are anymore. Niko is tempted to lie to him but something in Aaronâs dark brown eyes coaxes him into telling the truth. He wriggles out of his pants to show him the bruises on his legs.Â
Lashes from rulers stripe his legs. A few scars have accumulated from the metal part cutting into his skin. Kevin sucks a breath in through his teeth when he sees them. Heâs been hit with the metal edge of a ruler before. Heâs got the same scars on his legs.Â
Aaron rubs scar cream into them and takes care of the remaining bruises. Heâs so pissed off and it shows on his face. Niko, the poor, sweet bean thinks that Aaron is mad at him. So many adults have gotten angry with him for being such a problem.Â
He slides off the table when Aaron tells him to and changes back into his clothes. They dismiss him so he slips back upstairs. Kevin and Aaron stay downstairs to talk for a little while. Neither of them say it outloud but they both come to the consensus that, Rikoâs son or not, they will protect Niko with their lives.Â
Itâs not quite as easy as youâd think. Riko was such a bitch and he caused them and their families so much pain. Over the course of the next few months, every time Niko raises his voice, Kevin flinches violently. There are times when Aaron has to discreetly escort him away to help him avoid the impending panic attack.Â
Theyâd told Bee that they were taking in Rikoâs son and sheâd mentioned that it would be hard on Kev but Aaron hadnât thought it would be this bad. Itâs been almost twelve years since Rikoâs death but Kevin is still such a broken man.Â
That doesnât mean he isnât trying. Kev drives Niko to school himself every day and picks him up from the bus stop every morning. They work on his history projects together and stress out over math together. Aaron is an amazing science tutor but heâs also very insistent that Niko actually learns things for himself.
Over the summer, Kev takes Niko to the court Every. Single. Day. Aaron, whoâs the head physician for Kevinâs team is almost always sitting on the sideline with Amalia to keep an eye on them. He doesnât need Kev killing their kids.Â
Most of Kevinâs frustration comes from the fact that Niko shows absolutely NO POTENTIAL. I mean, baby boi is just tripping over his own two feet and can barely keep track of his steps while holding the ball only to have Kevin just FUCKING BARREL INTO HIM BC HE KNOWS NO RESTRAINT ON THE COURT BC HEâS A DUMBASS!
Anyway, Aaron eventually intervenes and kicks Kev off the court. He just kinda sits a really huffy Niko down on the bench and asks him if somethingâs wrong. After a great deal of gently coaxing, Niko admits that Kevin is kind of scary.Â
Aaron digs his shit out of the closet and steps on the court and he helps teach Niko the basics. In a week, Niko is playing incredibly well for his age and Kevin is pissed bc how tf did Aaron manage this????
Anyway, Niko is playing really well by then so he tries out for the team and makes it! Heâs playing varsity despite being in 7th grade and is a starting offense dealer.Â
He tried out for dealer in middle school but he only ever plays as a striker at home. Itâs his secret and heâs not keen to show his hand just yet. Heâs also a halfway decent goalkeep. That being said, both Aaron and Kev are comparing him to the best goalkeep in the Southern circuit so calling him half-way decent is an understatement but I digress.
Anyway, heâs an incredible player bc he has a lot of individual skill but heâs not much of a team player. More than once, heâs mouthed off to the wrong kid and gotten himself into trouble. That being said, heâs really fast so heâll just nyoom off before anyone can beat his ass and no one has the time or energy to pursue him for it.Â
Itâs not until 8th grade that he gets into serious trouble.Â
Kev and Aaron are called down to the school bc Nikoâs gotten himself into a fight. When they get there, they just about die. Their baby boy has a massive black eye and thereâs bruises on his arm from someone holding him down. They are so so so pissed off.Â
When they ask what happens Niko doesnât say anything. One of the kids says that he was bullying them. Neither Kev nor Aaron buy that.Â
What happened was a bunch of kids were picking on someone and Niko was having none of that shit. He absolutely unleashed and shreds the kids, picking out insecurities they didnât even know they had and trashing them. So caught up in roasting these hoâs Niko didnât realize it was time to dip until it was too late. The kids beat the crap out of him and he can barely stand.Â
When the kid Niko was defending ghosts into the room Kev and Aaron immediately know whatâs going on.
Niko,,,,,,, has caught feelings. Babie is looking at this kid like they hung the goddamn moon and, honestly, they couldnât past them. Winter Aziz (they/them) is,,,,, stunning and it wouldnât surprise either of Kev or Aaron if theyâd crafted the moon. The two of them are now betting on how long itâs going to take Niko to figure out he likes the kid.Â
But back to the actual story.Â
Anyway, once Winter gives their side of the story, the dean admits that the boys were in the wrong. Two of the boys end up getting suspended. Apparently, Winterâs parents are busy so they offer them a ride home. In the rearview mirror, Kev can see Niko squirming bc Winter is just sitting so close!!!! They stop by this lil diner that Niko loves and buy him a milkshake. They offer to buy Winter one too but they decline. Niko ends up offering to share and its ADORABLE!!!! Aaron snaps a pic and sends it to Kev so that they can both be reminded of this cuteness.Â
Anyway, needless to say, Winter and Niko are now best friends. They do everything together and have a lot of,,,,,,, sleepovers in which Kev and Aaron feel really bad bc Nikoâs gone gone for his best friend and Winter doesnât seem to notice.Â
Thatâs bullshit. Winter knows Niko likes them. Theyâre just not ready to admit that they like him too.Â
Over the summer before 9th grade, Winter becomes a part of their summer practice. Theyâve taken an interest in sports medicine bc they can be close to Niko.
Midway through July, Kevin gives up trying to get Niko to be a team player. Heâs just not the kind of person who can teach him how to be that kind of person.Â
But he knows someone who can.Â
Itâs a late night on the court and Nikoâs run himself ragged.Â
âItâs no use to play against an empty goal,â a voice Niko knows too well said. It took every ounce of his energy to sit up enough to see Neil Josten standing above him. âWhy donât you give him a real challenge?â he asked as he stepped aside, revealing a man who looked exactly like Nikoâs dad. The man said nothing. Instead, he moved quietly to stand in the goal. âBetter hurry up, Niko. Andrew doesnât like to be kept waiting.â With that, Neil left Niko on the court to face off against the best goalkeep in the Southern circuits all on his own.
#just a pipe dream#the foxhole court#all for the game#tfc#aftg#aaron minyard#aaron micheal minyard#kevaaron#kevin day#kevin day hc#ichirou moriyama#riko moriyama#neil josten#andrew minyard#andrew joseph minyard#nikoshi doe#winter aziz
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How much do you weigh? what a weirdly personal question
If you are outside, what are you most likely doing? sitting in the shade reading a book
Do you think you can love someone without trusting them? yes but not in a way that will ever be truly fulfilling
Whatâs your opinion on people who go hunting for sport? i live in a very rural area so i grew up with hunting for sport extremely normalized but once i actually developed and used my critical thinking skills i realized how morally reprehensible it is. literally just begging these people to use their brains.
Do you have a fairly fast or slow internet connection? eh its pretty fast
Have you ever been someplace tropical? florida lmao
Are you sensitive to caffeine? somewhat. i dont really consume it that much
How do you usually get around? driving myself
Have you ever been accused of being too clingy? no bc iâm generally pretty independent unless i reallyyyy like someone
What do you think about Kim Kardashian? neutral
Can you speak any French? je parle un peu français
Favorite yogurt flavor? iâm lactose intolerant so i recently tried dairy free yogurt and i hated it sooo i guess none
How much money do you have in your wallet right now? i dont have any cash in my wallet rn lol
What bottled water brand do you like? deer park or aquafina
Your favorite way to eat chocolate? brownies
How often do you listen to country music? sometimes.
Linkin Park or Avenged Sevenfold? neither
Last surgery you had? my wisdom teeth surgery
Have you ever played guitar? no but i wish i could
Is there someone in your life whose career/life choices you find immoral/unethical? Have you ever told that person your views? Do you find it difficult to support them (emotionally or otherwise) because of their choices? um i dont think so
What trait do you feel you lack that you wish you possessed? a little more confidence
Have you ever considered writing your memoirs? maybe
Do you find it difficult to stay invested in online relationships? i dont have very many online friends anymore but when i had a bunch i loved talking to them
Are you the type of person who pays close attention to the release dates of movies, music, etc., and will, for example, go see a movie or buy an album on the date it is released? If so, when is the last time you did so? only for something i really like.
Do you have any stickers on your laptop? a bunch
Would you rather have a job for which you had to go in early in the morning or one you had to stay late into the evening at? early in the morning so then i have the rest of the day to myself when i get off
Do you use any apps to track your health or medications? i have a workout app but thatâs it.
Whose opinions/recommendations do you value most? my mom, sister, and my 2 best friends
If you couldâve been at any historical event, which would you have liked to witness firsthand? probably the womenâs suffrage movement or the civil rights movement
Is there something that you really want to do but are afraid of doing? If so, why are you afraid of doing it?i want to tell him how i feel but iâm afraid iâll ruin the friendship
What is something society âexpectsâ you to do that you donât want to do and/or donât plan on doing? wear a tampon iâm sorry but i canât do it
Have Jehovah's Witnesses ever come to your door? no
Are you well-known by people in your area? eh somewhat
Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis? no and i dont want to
What's your favourite type of bird? owls!!
What tv show(s) have you been watching currently? iâm watching loki, hsmtmts, planning to watch s2 of never have i ever, and i started one piece but i havenât watched in a while
Have you ever dated a smoker? no but that might changeđł
Do you share a middle name with any of your siblings? no
Have you ever been a member in a band? No.
Can you cry on command? If so, have you ever used it to your advantage? No.
Do you have separate emails for personal and business? i have my school email and personal email
Have you ever missed a flight? no
Have you ever seen a lunar eclipse? i think so.
Have you ever taken a ride in a convertible? i literally rode in my best friendâs convertible last night lmao
Why did you last need to use a band-aid? i dont remember
What fruit do you eat most often? bananas and clementines
Who was the last person you visited in the hospital? maybe my great uncle?
Has someone ever tried to start an argument with you over Facebook? What happened? no but iâve been in a few on insta and twitter.
Have you ever had an unusual type of milk (eg. oat, rice, almond)? i donât straight up drink milk but i love things made with almond milk.
If you could experience life as a Disney princess for a week, which princess would you pick and why? elsa i want ice powers
When youâre at home, do you spend most of your time in your room? sometimes but normally during the day iâm in the living room with my family
If you like to sleep in late, have your parents ever told you off for doing so? No.
Do you find piercings attractive? Yep.
Do you like potato chips? Loooove 'em.
Whatâs the most stalker-like/creepy thing youâve ever done? If you donât think youâve done anything like that, whatâs the most stalker-like thing someoneâs done to you? iâve looked up a few peopleâs houses on zillow in my day.
Do you think itâs a double standard that a woman can hit a man and expect to get away with it, but if a man hits a woman itâs assault? absolutely, you shouldnât hit anyone
Whatâs your favorite old Disney movie and favorite new Disney movie? my top 3 are princess and the frog, tangled, and frozen 2. i also love the little mermaid
Name something âtrendyâ or popular that you dislike. idrk
âDirty talkâ in the bedroomâŚlove it, like it, donât care, dislike it, or hate it? it depends on what it is. it should also be mixed with some loving or praise talk imo
What is/are your favorite type(s) of ethnic food, and whatâs your favorite food within that type? i LOVE italian food specifically fettuccine alfredo and i also love asian food such as general tsoâs, sweet and sour chicken, lo mein, shrimp fried rice, LUMPIA đ¤¤
How would you describe your relationship with your hair over the years? iâve always liked my hair color and thickness. i always go back and forth between growing it out long and cutting it short bc i can never choose which i like more also it has lots of red undertones so iâm thinking about dyeing it a deep red
How do you feel about your SO daily/regularly checking up on a couple of his exes on social media? hypothetically it would be a red flag to me. a clear sign they havenât moved on from the past
Do you prefer your guy to wear cologne or not? a good smelling cologne on a man will quite literally make me bust a nut.
Ladies, how important is it to you that your SO wears/would wear a wedding ring? iâd want them to unless it didnt fit or something
What was the turning point that led you to decide for or against having children? iâm very close with my family so iâve always loved the idea of having one of my own with my future spouse
Is having your âdreamâ wedding really that important to have? i definitely have ideas for my wedding and i would want it to go a certain way according to our plan but in the end if things go wrong or plans change it wouldnât matter as long as iâm marrying the loml.
Do you consider it cheating if your SO goes to a strip club and then doesnât tell you? i wouldnât consider it cheating if he was just watching but i would be angry that he hid it from me
How old is too old for trick-or-treating? i dont think it matters unless ur posing a danger to little children
Do you sleep with your arms over or under the covers? depends but mostly under
Do you own any t-shirts of your favorite band? i have nsync and harry styles shirts but thats it
Fries or onion rings? Fries.
True/False: youâve had an odd dream this week. all the time but most of the time i forget them right after i wake up
Do you find tattoo sleeves attractive? depends
Do you like carving pumpkins? Yeah.
Whatâs an animal you want to have as a pet but canât? i think raccoons are adorable but its kindaaaa hard to domesticate them
Have your parents ever caught you drinking? no bc my parents let me drink in the house and iâve told them abt every time iâve drank at college
How would you react if your celebrity crush came to your door? i would absolutely piss and shit on myself.
Has your mom/dad ever walked in on you kissing or anything more with someone? no
The person you have a crush on is drunk and goes to kiss you, you know they donât realize what theyâre doing, but do you kiss anyways? i would stop it even if i want to bc i donât want them to regret anything and i wouldnât want them to kiss me if they donât like me bc it would hurt too much.
What would you prefer to get from a guy/girl: flowers, a hand written poem, a picture he drew of you or a nice night out? i would love them all but something abt a guy taking the time to write a poem for me makes me melt
Do you any shirts with any kind of images of food on them? no.
Which holiday is the most fun to decorate for? halloween
What was the first website you had an email account on? gmail
Have you ever written a fanfic? YES AHSHDH.
Tattoos or piercings? tats for sure.
Whatâs the last gross movie/show/video you saw? the scene where alexei breaks the inmateâs wrist in black widow is SO GROSS i cringe every time
Would you rather live in a huuuge house or a little cozy one? definitely a little cozy one
Do you have a tutor for anything? No.
Whoâs the best kisser you know? iâve only kissed one person.
Has anyone ever threatened you with a knife? No. I'd like it to stay that way.
(If youâre a girl) Has anyone ever called you "shortie" instead of girl? no and i hope they dont
Do you have a deep voice? not really
Do you play games with boys/girls, like 'hard to getâ? no thats dumb
Is there a Sonic where you live? yes iâm a whore for sonic
What do you like on your pizza? pepperoni or sausage
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why does everyone hate yukio what did he do pls gimme some spoilers
almost forgot to answer this! :o for anyone who wants to avoid MAJOR spoilers, please don't proceed any further!
Okay, so hereâs the thing. I also donât know much past Act 1 as Iâve only experienced snippets of Act 2 and Act 3 on Twitter because I donât really mind spoilers. (Doesnât really ruin my experience of the game!)
But not everybody hates Yukio. A lot of EN only players tend to have mixed feelings about him or donât want to judge him yet until weâve got everything from JP server localised.
Personally, I donât want to hate Yukio, but itâs kind of hard not to since heâs a father who left his family and friends without any explanation. Just up and left.
Now, here is what we DO know so far from Act 1.
At the very beginning of the game, Izumi receives an invitation that was meant for Yukio. Izumiâs all determined that this is how sheâs going to be able to track down her father only to be met with MANKAI that is literally on the verge of getting destroyed to become a cabaret club.
(A cabaret club is kind of like a host club, just more refined and high-class. Tbh, Sakyo could have raked in a lot of cash with that if Izumi didnât appear.)
Unfortunately, Yukio is nowhere to be seen and Matsukawa has no idea who Izumi is until she explains why sheâs there.
Fast forward to where we meet Yuzo. Thereâs this one scene in Act 1 that happens where Yuzo thinks about how proud Yukio would be if he saw Izumi now. And then thereâs another scene where Yuzo is on the phone.
I canât remember the conversation well, but it was implied/proved/people guessed he was talking to Yukio on the phone.
And like. U know. Let me talk to my fucking dad.
Anyways, I got over that moment pretty quickly bc I was like, whatever, not worth it. I really donât need a dad in this damn game anyways, but it wouldâve been pretty fuckinâ nice right??
Thatâs pretty much all I know CLEARLY.
But then Act 3 comes along with the original A3! leaders.
As in, the original members of the ORIGINAL MANKAI. You know, the one that Yukio formed back in his late high school days and kept together up until his mid 30/40â˛s. Before he dipped. Yaknow.
Kasumi (Spring), Hiro (Summer), Zen (Autumn), Syu (Winter).
Kasumi, Hiro, and Zen are the leaders who only have good/neutral opinions on Yukio while Syu seems to despise him. Something happened in the past that left a bad taste in Syuâs mouth, (I vaguely remember what, but I donât want to say just in case I twist the characterâs words) and when he reappears, he kind of voices his distaste for Izumiâs dad.
And then thereâs Reni. Oh my god, thereâs Reni. Iâm not too heated or surprised or intrigued by this information, but MANKAI was founded by both Yukio and Reni. (Correct me if Iâm wrong.)
Reni was so enthralled and encouraged by Yukioâs acting, so much so that he agreed to form a troupe with him (or the other way around?).
They worked their asses off gathering members for this troupe, worked so hard until they finally made it big enough to qualify for a Fleur Award. One of the most prestigious of awards to win as a troupe.
But like, something happens??? I donât know if it was explained yet what exactly happened, but this thing causes Yukio to flee. I donât know if these are rumors or canon, but people have said that Yukio fled the damn country over something that we donât know.
Like. Unless ur wanted for murdering someone or because u need to find refuge, I donât really think u have the right to leave everyone and everything in the dust just because u fucked up.
Doesnât matter if it was to save the company or the faces of the people he worked with because either way, the company nearly fell apart with Sakyo and heâs made an enemy of Reni and fuckinâ Syu, the boomer e-boy (attack me, idc) doesnât like him either.
Anyways, these are just things Iâve read in passing so take this info like a grain of salt or just completely disregard me.
FOR ME, PERSONALLY. I just donât like absent fathers.
How many games have I gone through where the MC has no dad or has lost a dad (Iâm looking at u Fire Emblem. Especially you, Three Houses. I want Jeralt back).
And then very personally, I grew up without a dad and was raised by my two older brothers. My mom was busy working so many jobs that I rarely saw her, and even with my brothers around, I was still left to my own devices because they were busy with school and working as well.
My dad left my family in debt. He was absent for more than half of my life. I had no idea where he was, I was never told why he wasnât with us, I have no recollection of having him in my life.
Izumiâs lucky enough to remember Yukio since he left her when she was still in her teens so she can still cherish those happy memories, but itâs also unfortunate that she has to live the rest of her life without her dad (assuming that he isnât going to come back or make an appearance).
The absence of my dad took a huge toll on my family, to be honest. My mom worked tirelessly and my brothers had no one to go to. My brothers fell into this lifestyle of gang violence, substances, and lots of illegal activity. There was really no one there to steer them away because I was too young and my mom wasnât there enough (I canât blame her).
Itâs not hard to imagine that Izumi lived similarly to me. Being an only child in her case, she was probably alone most of the time when her mom was working.Â
Doing the chores at home, staying out late because she doesnât want to come back to an empty house, getting a job and involving herself in way too many extracurriculars so she has an excuse not to be at home.
Iâm actually really surprised that Liber hasnât made Izumi resent Yukio because I know I would be super fucking pissed rather than be keen on discovering his whereabouts. I donât give a fuck.
I know itâs just a game, but damn, bro.
Anyways, Iâm just one of many few who dislike Yukio and it may be because of personal reasons (I know that for me, it is very very personal).
Donât let my opinion sway you, really, I think you should experience everything in EN server when the time comes to really form an opinion. I know for me, whatever happens next with Yukio, if itâs good news like heâs coming back or he has a good reason for leaving, itâs going to be very difficult for me to be okay with just that.
The jealousy, loneliness, and pondering your worth as a child??? God, I wish that was never me. And to think Izumi probably had to go through that during her teen years??? Phew, I think a lot of us know that feeling too well.
I actually have a WIP that I started last month that touched bases on Izumiâs growing up through high school without Yukio so if I ever get back to that again, youâll kind of get to see my self-projection lols.
Anyways. thatâs all I have. Hope this answered your question, anon! Thanks for asking.Â
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wangxian au where lwj is a popular hand model and wwx is an independent jewellery maker [Part 1]
[Twitter thread version]
wwx is a go-getter kind of guy. he likes pretty things and pretty people. so his job is a win-win in that he makes pretty things for pretty peopleâ well mostly
lately all his brain has churned out is designs that only the very nice old ladies in his neighbourhood indulgently buy from him
heâs grateful for it but nevertheless itâs been disheartening looking for the elusive muse for his next project
jiang cheng only sighs whenever he mentions this and rants about how if wwx just LISTENED to him and actually put effort into commercialising his bestsellers instead of hyperfocusing on one body part/gem/technique and hopping from one product to the next; and in general just making his business a chaotic mess where clients couldnât guess what he would put out next, that he would have a better shot
but ofc wwx sighs even more at this and just goes âbut jiang cheng~â
what kind of argument even is that? but jc lets it go bc wwx supplies him with endless half-finished projects that are complicated-looking enough to give his students a good challenge when drawing still life
so anyways, wwx is still making old lady jewellery and being generally pitiful when he stumbles across an intriguing article on twitter
ââ˘â
lwj on the other hand has been fastening and unfastening his cufflinks for an hour straight. thatâs pretty much status quo for hand models who have to spend hours on end either doing repetitive gestures or holding completely still
lwj doesnât mind though, he has always had steady hands and dextrous fingers, practically an advertiserâs âwet dreamâ as his agent, nhs, puts it
said agent pulls him aside when itâs finally time for his break. nhs looks harried, which isnât out of the ordinary, but heâs also not meeting lwjâs eyes which sets of alarm bells in his head
âokay before i tell you,â nhs starts without prompting, âpromise not to fire me.â
lwj doesnât narrow his eyes, but the twitch of his eyebrow is close enough, âi will be fair.â
âthatâs not a-â nhs sighs, âgood enough i guess. do you remember that photoshoot you did with da-ge a few months back?â
lwj nods. how could he forget? it had been... an experience for sure. it was a photoshoot for a book cover for a popular teen novel
and while lwj didnât meet fellow hand models often, he had come across other âparts modelsâ as they were called
spending the better part of two days caressing nmjâs abs was... by far not the most unpleasant job heâd had as a hand model
nhs holds out a copy of the novel for him to see. the cover they used is from the second half of the photoshoot where they took a few wider shots
lwj sees nothing wrong with it. itâs a standard cover, if a bit lewd due to all the... ab touching. in fact the entire cover is just nmjâs abs and wide shoulders
lwj doesnât think his hands serve any other purpose than obstructing the view in the poorest attempt to keep it pg. still he fails to see the problem
nhs wrings his hands together, âthere was a blog post about it. do you know anyone named su she?â
lwj thinks for a moment, then vaguely recalls the name with a sinking realisation
ââ˘â
wwx is still thinking about the article when jin zixuan comes to drop jin ling off at his apartment. unprompted, wwx asks him, âdo you think i could sell feet pics?â
he can see jzxâs soul leave his body as he drops jin lingâs overnight bag on the pavement. wwxâs favourite new hobby is dropping these bombs on jzx and watching him dissociate from reality as he tries to answer wwxâs insane questions with logic
being a father has changed him. a few years ago he would have just slammed the nearest door in wwxâs face
âwhy... do you want to sell feet pics? is your business not going well?â jzx asks, and actually looks concerned. well, now wwx feels bad
âmy business is just fine.â wwx says grumpily
âreally? jiang cheng and yanli seem to think otherwise.â
âyou eavesdropped on them didnât you?â
jzx is entirely unashamed, âiâm just concerned.â
âagain, my business is fine!â
âyou know if you ever needed money-â
wwx turns jzx around and pushes him towards his car, âdonât you have things to do? get jin ling out of the car seat, itâs getting late.â
since the peacock has acquired immunity to his teasing by straight up being ~nice~ to him, itâs only fair that wwx sends jin ling back with so many new toys that they will take up at least a whole corner in his unnecessarily gigantic home
ââ˘â
lwj meets his brother for iced tea at a cafe near huaisangâs office. lwj does not like iced tea but has deliberately kept this from his brother because lxc loves it and has made it his personal mission to try every iced tea flavour he can get his hands on
it is also the easiest way to lure his brother out of his busy schedule. lwj knows lxc would take time to meet him anyway, but he wants lxc to indulge in something he likes once in a while
âwangji, you seem restless.â lxc says, concerned
lwj takes a tentative sip of his black currant iced tea. itâs abhorrent
âdo you remember su she?â lwj asks
lxc, âthe one from your cello class?â
lwj nods
âthe one who broke his string and his bow in the same day?â lxc asks, almost looking amused
lwj winces, âyes.â
âdid he ever come back to the class after that?â lxc asks
lwj shakes his head, then taps the glass with a gloved finger
âhas he been bothering you again?â lxc asks seriously, âif he has-â
âitâs-â lwj sighs, âcomplicated.â
before lxc can make assumptions, lwj unlocks his phone and shows it to lxc
lxc reads silently for a minute or two, then his eyes widen. âhe posted this on the novelâs discussion forum?â
lwj nods
âhow did he even-â lxc says, then pauses in thought, âis it because of the cello class?â
âmn, perhaps.â lwj says, âhe saw the book cover i did with huaisangâs brother. he is a fan of the novel.â
âso he went and researched the models who were on the cover?â lxc frowns, âhow did he even find that?â
âmy name is public information.â lwj says, âit would certainly be hard to find, but it is available nonetheless.â
âare you going to be okay?â lxc asks.
âi am worried it will impact your reputation. my job is not... conventional.â lwj doesnât meet his brotherâs gaze
âwangji, that is the least of my concerns. you did not want to do conventional modelling by choice.â lxc says
he isnât wrong, lwj hadnât wanted to have his face photographed, it had never appealed to him. no matter how many compliments he received on his looks
his popularity started and ended within the advertising circle and nhs never offered him jobs he didnât want. putting a face to his popular hand modelling career was not an ideal situation
especially since it had reached a lot of the novelâs fans whoâd begun discussing him on other social media platforms
âi will handle this.â lxc says, âthis is not right. you especially drew up contracts with advertisers to avoid this situation.â
âbrother-â lwj starts
âhe should not have posted pictures of you.â lxc isnât even drinking his iced tea, lwj notes
âit is already out. there is not much we can do.â lwj says reasonably
lxc doesnât quite seethe but he doesnât touch his iced coffee again
ââ˘â
wwx finally admits to himself that he may be experiencing a slump. he hasnât touched his tools in two months and his work bench has acquired a thick layer of dust on which jin ling drew a frowny face with his fingers then immediately tried to lick them
and what does one do when lacking motivation? harrass his brother in his cushy office at the university of course
to his credit, jc lets him prace around and poke at his things for a solid ten seconds before snapping at him. which means he and jyl must actually be worried about him
âwei wuxianâ jc says through clenched teeth when wwx has pushed the paperweight on his desk to the very edge, trying to see how far jc would let him take it
ah, so not worried enough to break into his house at night, wwx notes
âso, do you think i could sell foot pics?â wwx uses his favourite new icebreaker
jc puts his head in his hands like wwx put the worldsâ weight on his shoulders. if he listens closely, heâs sure he can hear a repetition of âwhy why why whyâ in jcâs head
âwhy...â jc forces himself to say
wwx shurgs with a grin, âi read an article about it. apparently a lot of people are into feet.â
âinto... feet...â jc says
âyeah like they get off-â
jc holds up a hand to stop him, âi get it. did you come all the way across the city to ask me this?â
âyes and no.â wwx says, âi wanted to ask if you could draw me some.â
âsome... feet...?â jc is going to kick him out soon, wwx can feel it
wwx places his chin in both his hands and tries to look pitiful, âisnât it better than me buying foot pics? think of how that would reflect on you if anyone found out.â
jc feels a headache coming on, âplease tell me youâre using them as reference to design anklets or something.â
wwx laughs, âof course! what did you think?â
jc glares at him, âi will ban you from campus.â
wwx bothers him a bit more and then gets thrown out more gently than he has come to expect from jc, still not sure if jc will actually fulfill his request
and maybe itâs because his luck has been down for too long that life took pity and decided to throw something good at him, he turns the corner to see one of the most beautiful men he has laid his eyes on
his attention is focused on the folder in his hands, and itâs late enough that there are no students milling the corridors. this is probably why the aforementioned beautiful, stunning, abolutely breathtaki- man manages to walk straight into wwx
several things happen at once. wwx sees it coming unlike the other person, so he reaches out to steady him. turns out there isnât much need of that because the man gets his bearings back alarmingly fast for someone caught by surprise
the folder in his hands does not have similar balance though, and falls to the floor, splattering itâs contents halfway across the hallway
the man looks... well neutral, but the speed at which he drops to his knees lets wwx know that itâs not something he wants wwx to see
which, of course has the opposite effect. when wwx looks down to see the photographs that have not yet been put back into the folder- he is left speechless for once
the immediate and most obvious explanation is that this guy is an art student who is using these pictures as reference... but of course wwxâs first thought is Oh mY gOd this guy has a hand fetish because his talk with jc is still fresh in his head
once that thought is in his head, wwx notices a number of things in quick sequence
this dude looks uncharacteristically nervous for an innocent art student, and heâs wearing GLOVES like a CRIMINAL whoâs STEALING pictures of those pretty hands from an art class for his own pleasure
art students donât wear gloves, especially not in the middle of summer! and no one can possibly require that many pictures for just one body part
satisfied with his reasonable conclusion, wwx opens his mouth to accuse the man only to realise that he is upright once again with all his stolen pictures securely in his folder
âare you stealing those?â wwx asks straightforwardly
the man actually does seem to be caught off-guard for longer than two seconds this time
then he proceeds to walk past wwx
âhey wait!â wwx blocks his path again, âi get it, you know? we all have needs and iâm totally not judging you for it. but there are sites for this stuff.â
the man finally looks at him, and wow heâs even more attractive than wwx first thought and his eyes are so pretty and- he walks past wwx again
wwx, yet again, catches up to him and decides that walking beside him is more effective. âgood quality photography like that is usually quite expensive you know?â
the man continues to ignore him so wwx grabs the folder in his hands and gives it a good yank
âwhat are you doing?â the man finally speaks. even his voice is nice. wwx is sure people would send him hand pics for free if he asked
âreturning this to the rightful owner.â wwx holds the folder out of his reach
the man takes a deep breath, then pulls at one of his satin gloves- SATIN, how did wwx not notice that- and holds his beautiful hand up to wwxâs face
wwxâs brain immediately short circuits as he thinks âmaybe ~I~ am the one with a hand fetishâ because thatâs... one pretty hand
one... familiar hand. the same even tone, smooth skin and long, elegant fingers with perfectly manicured nails...
while he stands there, gaping like a fish, the man snatches the folder out of his hand and starts walking away with quicker strides
by the time wwxâs brain reboots and the realisation finally sinks in- he has finally found the muse he has been looking for- the man is already gone
ââ˘â
lwj admits that he is... slightly stressed out, and is definitely showing enough signs of it that nhs has caught on
âyou went to visit wen qing yesterday.â itâs not a question so lwj doesnât answer. âdid you perhaps run into an old acquaintance?â
lwj shakes his head, âit is not what you think.â
this sparks curiosity in nhs which is a toss up between better and worse than the implication that lwjâs stress stems from accidentally meeting su she at the university
âdid you run into a fan?â nhs asks and itâs actually a reasonable concern since lwj wants to avoid even being /known/ at all costs
lwj shakes his head. he trusts nhs which isnât as surprising now as it had been to him years ago when he had agreed to give nhs free reign over the work he chose for lwj
âsomebody from the university knows of my identity.â lwj says finally.
nhs seems to think it over, âit was inevitable. even after taking down the blog post, people are still curious about you.â
lwj wants to tell him that itâs actually his fault but he stays silent as nhs continues his train of thought.
âyouâre exciting because people have seen you without actually seeing you. youâve worked with big brands and celebrities and it normally wouldnât spark interest-
- but unfortunately for you, you are attractive. it will die down after a while, we just have to ride it out for now.â nhs concludes.
lwj nods, feeling reassured. nhs is usually right about these things, which is why lwj regards him so highly
he has a video shoot for some fancy kitchen installation company after that, and he tries not to think about the man who accused him of stealing his own pictures while he very slowly chops a mango on the surely unsanitary granite counter
heâs working with a photographer he knows well, one of the best in his line of work. song lan has a good eye for what would look enticing in an advert and doesnât make him do weird, suggestive things like kneading dough in slow motion. lwj suppresses a shudder at the thought
after cutting enough magoes to feed ten people, the shoot finally wraps up and one of the PAs on the set holds out a basin for him to wash his hands in
the warm water is soothing to his aching fingers and he lets his hands soak but not for longer than a few seconds to prevent his skin from pruning. he then rubs the special concoction that is his version of the best moisturiser and puts his hands in soft cotton gloves
song lan comes to greet him after and expresses his sympathies about his pictures making rounds on the internet
lwjâs eyes widen ever so slightly, âyou know of it?â
âmy boyfriend is a fan.â he says with a fond shake of his head, âotherwise iâd have no idea.â
luckily before lwj can start to panic, nhs trots up to them and the conversation ends there as heâs dragged to his next shoot
ââ˘â
âfor the last time, i donât know your âguy with pretty handsâ.â jc says, exasperated. âwhatâs with you and body parts nowadays? if itâs a kink thing.. please rethink your life.â
wwx sighs. he knew going to jc was useless, but at least it confirmed his suspicion that the guy isnât an art student
however, that makes the task of finding him and then begging him to model wwxâs jewellery harder. because yes, wwx has spent the last five days cooped up in his workshop making complex hand chains
now if he only had more than a memory to draw inspiration from...
itâs frustrating. wwx should have at least asked for his name and number. how can he be this stupid?
âvery easily.â is jcâs reply to this
âjiang chengggg.â wwx whines, âi have to find him or my creativity will die a horrible death.â
jc looks like he is ageing before his eyes. âif i ask around the staff will you promise to only come to my office during emergencies? youâre freaking my students out.â
âyes!â wwx agrees enthusiastically, then frowns. âfreaking them out? iâm so nice to everyone!â
âyou tried to get at least five of my students to draw your pretty boy from description.â jc deadpans, âthey think heâs a criminal.â
âa criminal after my heart, aha!â wwx says with finger guns.. and gets thrown out by jc for his efforts. itâs less gentle this time
a few days later, jc calls him, âapparently âhis identity needs to be protectedâ. is he actually a criminal?â
âhe was wearing gloves...â wwx mutters, âiâm kidding! not about the gloves, but i donât think heâs a criminal.â
jc makes a doubtful noise on the other end. âwell, whatever. so yeah, anyway, i canât get wen qing to tell me anything. you can come bully her yourself if you dare to.â
âwhy does it have to be wen qing?â wwx groans, âsheâll roast me on low flame before she tells me anything. why couldnât it be wen ningâ wait. wen ning probably knows him too. jiang cheng iâm a genius!â
jc hangs up on him but it doesnât dampen his spirits at all. heâs so close to finding him.
ââ˘â
shoots where he has to hold objects for an extended period of time are already unkind to his muscles, but holding objects with /postures/ is even worse. his fingers are so stiff after his seven hour shoot with swarovski that when one of the assistants on set hands him a cup of warm tea, it slips right through his grip and shatters on the ground unceremoniously
everyone freezes, and then start to buzz around him, asking if he is feeling unwell or if he needs to sit down. because lwj never drops /anything/. itâs in his job description NOT to drop anything
god, lwj hates jewellery shoots the most
nhs hears about this, ofc. lwj suspects he can be at multiple places at a time. so lwj is neatly packed into a SUV and sent away to get a relaxing massage and manicure
lwj would usually put up a fight but his muscles have been aching for days and nhs has theatened to text his brother at least three times this week. he doesnât want to risk a fourth
wen ning, the meek but kind masseuse greets him with a bow, âlan er-gongzi, are you well?â
lwj nods, and is about to ask about wn as well when he hears the door of the masseuse parlour bang open behind him
âyou!â comes a shout and lwj turns around, alarmed
the man who accused him of stealing his own pictures is standing there, pointing a finger at him
âif i was unclear the last time, i did not steal those photographs.â lwj says
the man seems stunned for two seconds, then frowns. âsteal.. i know that you didnât steal them.â
lwj nods, then starts to walk further into the parlour- except for the hand that grips and brings him to a stop. lwj would usually rip his hand away, but the slight pressure sends pain shooting up his arm
and lwj definitely didnât realise how stiff his muscles were until then. he must have made a noise, a mixture between surprise and a wince, because the man lets go immediately
âare you okay?â he asks, looking alarmed
lwj closes his eyes to compose himself
âwei-gongzi, what are you doing here?â lwj hears wen ning ask
âi came to find him.â the man replies
lwjâs eyes open in shock. find him? does he know of lwjâs identity? is he a fan of the novel? this has gotten way bigger than either lwj or nhs predicted if people are actively seeking him out
âi think you have misunderstood.â lwj says, projecting a calm exterior even though heâs feeling a little cornered. cornered.. by a single person... what has his life come to?
but today itâs one person, next... he doesnât even want to think about it. he has never wanted to be in the public light and does not want the /crowd/ and god forbid- the /noise/ that comes with it
he had gotten comfortable in the happy equilibrium of popularity and anonymity- the only thing which had lured him into accepting this job and has kept him in it thus far
... and it seems to be crumbling right before his eyes
âwhat? no i havenât. i wouldnât forget your face.â the man says, âhey stop running away-â
but lwj is already walking past him to exit the massage parlour. he needs to call someone. nhs most probably. or a cab.
the other man is speedy though, and blocks him right at the door, extending his arms and legs to cover the width of the opening as if lwj was thinking of sneaking around him. (he was, but thatâs not the point)
âokay maybe iâve come across as creepier than expected.â the man says, âbut i swear i just want your hands!â
[wen ning shakes his head furiously in the background]
the panic lwj feels must be enough to be showing on his usually blank face, because the man backtracks
âi mean- no- that came off as even creepier oh my god. iâm not a serial killer, i promise.â
[wen ning makes a big X over his head with his arms]
the man takes a deep breath and actually seems to think before speaking this time, âhi, my name is wei ying. iâm a jeweller by profession. whatâs your name?â
âmove aside.â lwj says.
âdo you promise not to run and actually hear me out? because it was so hard to track you down, god, it took me a week!â
[wn texting nhs: pls come and save lwj i think heâs about to faint]
âa week...â lwj says, âyou tracked me down for a week?â
âno! i mean yes but not in a stalker way!â wwx seems to be having a mini meltdown, âyou know just nice good olâ asking around about the cute guy i saw at the uni... not... stalking...â
luckily lwjâs phone begins to ring, cutting wwx off. [wen ning is very thankful for this. he doesnât think having the police here would be good for business]
âbrother.â lwj says, still a little strung up
âwangji, iâm almost there.â
âwhat?â
âhuaisang told me you were ill,â lxc says, âand i was in the area so i told him iâd take you to the doctor.â
lwj turns to give wen ning a scathing look. âhe exaggerated. iâm fine. you donât have to come here.â
lwj doesnât think his brother will take the fact that he has acquired a stalker well
âiâm outside.â lxc says
lwj resists the urge to sigh. heâs going to strangle everyone in this room, then himself
âiâll be there in a minute then.â lwj says.
âiâm making my way to the parlour.â lxc says, disregarding him completely
âbrother i can walk.â lwj says calmly. murder is on his mind.
lxc hangs up on him. lwj actually sighs this time.
âif you donât want my brother to report you, you need to move aside.â lwj says to wwx.
wwx opens his mouth as if he wants to continue to dig himself into a hole, but then moves aside degectedly
then he removes a business card from his wallet and puts it in lwjâs shirt pocket.
âyou can look me up, iâm not lying. i really am a jeweller and iâd like to work with you.â he says
before lwj can protest, lxc is already at the entrance, carrying what looks like half the pharmacy in a paperbag
âwangji.â he greets, and then pauses to nod politely at the other men, âletâs go.â
lwj follows him silently
ââ˘â
wen ning sighs and flips the sign on the door to âclosedâ resigning to the fact that wwx will remain a permanent fixture on his floor for a while
âso you thought he was a creepy thief and now he thinks youâre a creepy stalker?â wn asks.
wwx, who has told him all of this between groans, groans again.
âdo you... want a free massage?â wn offers
âyes.â
lwj fights the urge to touch his shirt pocket while in the car with lxc.
âyou need to go to the hospital wangji, you donât look well.â lxc insists
âi will eat every medicine in that bag if you drop me off at huaisangâs office.â lwj replies
lxc looks alarmed, âyouâll definitely need to go to the hospital then.â
âi will eat every medicine in that bag if you /donât/ drop me off at huaisangâs office.â lwj amends, neatly closing all the loopholes
âat least let me come with you.â lxc says in his last ditch attempt to find out exactly what has left his brother so rattled
âi will eat-â
âfine okay. i just worry about you, you know? you never tell me when something is bothering you anymore.â lxc says
âif it is important, i will tell you.â lwj says. he doesnât want lxc to worry but also doesnât want to lie.
lxc nods, accepting this, then turns the car around
ââ˘â
âwei wuxian.â nhs raises an eyebrow at the card lwj has placed on his table. âthis is the man who has been stalking you?â
lwj nods.
âare you certain?â nhs asks, looking conflicted.
lwj gives him a look.
âokay, okay! just making sure!â nhs says, raising his palms in defence.
âyou know of him.â lwj states.
âwell,â nhs says, âhe didnât lie to you, he really is a jeweller. he is very elusive though. he tends to drop these groundbreaking collections every fall and then disappears.â
lwj tries to align the man he met today with this talented, cryptic jeweller persona. if they really are the same person, then perhaps unhinged genius fits him better.
âif heâs serious about working with you...â nhs gets a gleam in his eyes that lwj doesnât like. this is /not/ how he pictured this conversation going. heâs slowly but surely developing a migrane
âlook, iâm never going to force you to do anything.â nhs says, âbut will you let me speak to him first? i want to know if this heâs the real deal of if we need a restraining order.â
restraining order. this is escalating way past lwjâs mental capacity at the moment.
nhs seems to see that, âyou need to go home and rest. iâll have a masseuse meet you there. let me handle this.â
he says it with such firm conviction that lwj has no choice but to trust him, so he nods.
[Part 2] [Part 3]
#wangxian fic#wangxian#lan wangji#wei wuxain#lwj x wwx#lan zhan#wei ying#the unatmed#cql#mdzs#my fics#hand model au#long fic
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AMYCUS CARROW is A DEATH EATER in the war, even though HIS official job is as A CURSE BREAKER & HIT MANÂ the TWENTY SIX year old PUREBLOOD is known to be PATIENT and RESERVED but also VIOLENT and TWO FACED. some might label them as THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE. fc: ryan goslingÂ
ANTHEMS:
feel it still - portugal the man // devil like me - rainbow kitten surprise // dead manâs arms - bishop briggs // fever pitch - rainbow kitten surprise // devil eyes - hippie sabotage // dark side - bishop briggs.
pinterest board (x)
BACKGROUND / FAMILY:
Amycus Abigor Carrow came crashing into the world screaming for his sister. Born the eldest to the Carrow dynasty, he was expected to eventually mount the role as the heir to the family legacy, but Amycus quickly proved himself to be Quite the Disappointment.Â
As a young child, Amycus was soft spoken, easily intimidated and quiet ( main inspiration for baby Amycus: Radu from And I Darken tbh ). Mostly clung to the familyâs staff, always crying, always craving closeness. For a while, he was just as angelic as he looked.Â
Never saw much of his parents while growing up. His father was a successful businessman who only had kids because he was supposed to ( to carry on the blood line ), and wanted nothing to do with him. Instead, Amycus was left in the care of his grandfather.
His grandfather was FUCKED. An absolutely terrible man. A Death Eater before his time. An actual demon. Canât say enough bad things about him, ya feel.
Either way, his grandfather was absolutely disgusted by Amycus, who could never fit into the mold that had been created for him. Thought his grandson was a poor excuse for a Carrow and thought he could change that through pain and violence. So, lessons were drilled in using corporal punishment, and the emotional and physical abuse he suffered eventually turned him into something colder and darker. What had once been soft, turned harsh, rough around the edges. A shell of a boy was left behind, not a trace of that sweetness left behind once they were done with him ( but were they ever? ).
Amycus basically became filled with resentment against everyone in his family, with the exception of Alecto. She has always been there, from the day they were born. She was the one to dry his tears, the one to hold his hand, the one to tell him where to hide. The one constant, his safe haven. They come as a matching set, and Amycus would kill ( and definitively has, too lbr ) for her.
Gained a definite rebellious streak pretty early on, which only became more aggressive as he got older. Once he reached his teenage years, heâd do ANYTHING and everything to fuck with his father & grandfather. Kinda stopped caring about the punishment, so used to pain that he stopped fearing it. Almost stopped feeling it.
Definitively grew up in his sisterâs shadow, and was always the lesser Carrow.
When he turned fifteen, he moved out and never looked back. Decided to make his own future, and just never spoke to his family (Alecto is always the exception we all know this) again. Because fuck yâall, basically.
SO. His familyâs plans had been for him to finish his education at Hogwarts, and then follow in his fatherâs foot steps and take over the company and the family name. Amycus had different plans though, obviously.Â
His family were... so angry with him. But they definitively pretend ( because canât have Amycus ruining their good reputation, am I right ) that they were the ones to encourage Amycus to find his own path in life and become a curse breaker.
Though, Amycus was never denounced as a Carrow ( because they didnât wanna air their dirty laundry to the world, ya know ). Most pureblood families have noticed though that Amycus isnât exactly... close with his family. I mean, at pureblood parties, he literally pretends that he canât see them.Â
AESTHETIC / VIBES:
old gramophones, blood stained mirrors, broken glasses, bleeding fists, standing in silence for hours, chipped teeth, unwavering loyalty, unhealed scars, getting home at the crack of dawn, red wine, eyes too blue to be trusted, long showers, god complexes, the color of dusk, messy hair, blood soaked suits, always cheating death, a rebel just for kicks, dried crimson on dull blades, half smiles, just beating and beating until the world stops, no conscience, half empty wine bottles, impersonal offices, a face that doesnât quite match his demeanor.
HOGWARTS YEARS:
Was a hat stall between Hufflepuff and Slytherin.Â
patience/loyalty/dedication vs self preservation/resourcefulness/dedication mostly.
At Hogwarts, Amycus felt in power for the first time. Ended up becoming the aggressor, finding solace in pain and violence. Found that he was good at inflicting pain, and liked being good at SOMETHING. Had never really felt that before. :/
Eventually got a taste for blood, and started getting into fights with other students, each run in more violent than the next.
STILL, did not end up in detention, because for a while, the teachers couldnât believe that someone like Amycus ( who was mostly known for being very quiet and looking sweet ) would hurt another student. It would take for him to eventually get caught in the act, until that perception shattered.
Was that kid who used bugs and insects to practice unforgivable curses on. Eventually progressed to torturing students as well.
Excelled in charms, and can do wonders with a wand when he puts his mind to it. Most other grades were pretty shit though.Â
AFTER HOGWARTS:
Once he graduated from Hogwarts, he was meant to take his place in the Carrow dynasty ( grandfather somehow STILL believing that he would come to his senses ), but fuck that. So he basically left the country as fast as possible, and became a cursebreaker.
Which just made sense, because he has always been good at inflicting curses, and breaking them isnât that different. He is very good at what he does.
First few years were spent working in ancient tombs abroad, mostly. That kind of work fit him really well, because he could wear whatever he wanted, didnât have to talk to people too much, could do his own thing. Was also always someone around to beat up.
After a while, he started missing his sister, and returned home, where he found work at the ministry of magic. Today, he works for the removal of curses, jinxes and hexes office, which is a subdivision for the improper use of magic office.Â
Really likes his job? BUT. Also has a #second job.
On the side, heâs sort of a gun ( wand ) for hire, and will kill anyone who needs to be killed, for a price. Gives zero shit about the money though ( but the client needs to be rich, ya feel ).
Most of his clients are members of the sacred 28, who somehow always seem to want SOMEONE dead.
Honestly, I havenât 100% figured out how he conducts this business because obviously he wants to remain anonymous. He probably has some sort of dramatic way of getting people to give him names that need to die idk. #to be determined
Joined the Death Eaters mostly because of his sister? But their agenda also really fits him, because violence? Bigotry? Death? Sign him tf up.
He isnât the most invested in the whole pureblood supremacy thing ( but would he ever admit that? thatâs a no ), but overall likes Voldemort and what he stands for.
Though heâs also lowkey intimidated by / afraid of Voldemort and is quite pleased with the fact that he doesnât have to report directly to him.
For the Death Eaters, Amycus mostly works as an information gatherer, which is basically just a euphemism for him being one of their main torturers, who will torture people until they tell him whatever it is the Death Eaters want to know. He usually works together with his sister and they are disturbingly good at what they do.
AS A PERSON:
Cares very little for most people and is so so so selfish.
Lacks most of the finesse of his sister, tbh.
100% neutral evil. Kind of has a moral compass, it just points in the wrong direction at all times? Mostly just does whatever is best for him and Alecto though, and has zero interest in any righteous bullshit.
Does he think that heâs doing the right thing? Nope. Heâs well aware that heâs a wolf in sheepâs clothing. A bad dude. Does he care? Also no.
Might just be the most private person youâll ever meet? He seldom reveals anything about himself, and when he does, itâs usually not true.
Will also lie about the dumbest and smallest of details.
SO self disciplined. Always in complete control, and itâs very hard to get a genuine reaction / rise out of him. Also so so so patient, and is happy to wait for whatever his current end game is.
Drinks and smokes heavily, but doesnât personally think that he has a problem.
Mostly just a dumb asshole.
SO COLD.
Thrives off violence and is a total brute tbh.
Never fucking does what anyone tells him to do.Â
Someone: pls do this Amycus: *does the exact opposite*
Bisexual !
Pretty good at hiding his death eater ties since heâs⌠paranoid as FUCK. And also keeps to himself. Always wears a mask. But some people probably suspect⌠stuff anyways, if theyâve like. Spent longer than two hours with him. Listen if Amycus wasnât such a fucking asshole he probably could get away with it (/scooby doo villain voice). But then again, others will probably think heâs just cold af.
Looks a lot nicer than he is, which works to his advantage most of the time? Like he just looks like a nerdy, good dude. Is a total demon, but looks like an angel.Â
STYLE / FASHION / APPEARANCE :
Wears glasses (x), but somehow manages to fucking break them ALL THE TIME. The only thing keeping them together is magic.
Wears mostly wizard suits for work ( bc he has to :/ ), but will wear those long black robes in his free time. Think a vampire cape, flying in the wind. Ultimate drama. He really is THAT guy.
Will also wear stupid wizard band t-shirts a lot when working.
Keeps his hair short.
Like 70% of his wealth is probably spent on buying new clothes, because he keeps fucking ruining them by getting blood on them? Or just having them ripped to shreds in a fight, that works too.
Looks like heâs wearing the same exact shoes every day but actually has like... 200 different pairs. They all look the same.
Eyes appear either blue or grey, depending on the lighting.
Has some tattoos, and a half sleeve on his right arm, going from his shoulder to his elbow.
CHARACTER INFLUENCES :
caleb haas ( quantico )- the snark. the assholery. the background. the black sheep.
clay haas ( quantico ) - just the right amount of polished. the style. the general aesthetic. the hair.
angelus ( btvs ) - the disregard for human life. the darkness. the occasional brooding. the quips.Â
holden ford ( mindhunter ) - the scheming. the hidden ambition. the slyness. the resolution.
lucifer morningstar ( lucifer ) - the smile, the general vibe, the quips, the mannerisms, the darkness.
eric northman ( southern vampire mysteries ) - the confidence. the general dumbness. the stubbornness.
demon dean winchester ( supernatural ) - the occasional charm. the being an actual demon-ness. the blood lust. the bad jokes. the weakness for a pretty face.
wolverine ( x men ) - the violence. the moodiness. the hatred. the occasional gruff demeanor.
takeshi kovac ( altered carbon ) - the violence. the fucked up moral compass. the buried anger. the instinct to fight.
elian ( to kill a kingdom ) - the rebel prince. the angry heir. the sarcasm. the dialogue.
radu ( and i darken ) - amycus as a child. the softness. the sweet face. the loyalty to his sister.
hannibal lecter ( silence of the lambs ) - the calm. the politeness. seems so civilized, so nice. isnât though.
FAVORITE CHARACTER TROPES :
DISSONANT SERENITY - someone smiling gently in the middle of death and carnage, seeming almost enlightened as they slit throats left and right.
THE BERSERKER - throws himself into battle with such reckless abandon, that it seems like he wants to die. never, ever retreats.
FACE OF AN ANGEL, MIND OF A DEMON - looks nice, is a demon.
DEVIL IN PLAIN SIGHT - obviously up to no good, but few people seem to take notice.
EVEN EVIL HAS LOVED ONES - loves his sister.
BLACK SHEEP - the family screw up, someone who rejects their role in the family.
DARK AND TROUBLED PAST⢠- something terrible happened in the past. tragic backstory. yada yada.
EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS - or at least his own moral compass.
MAN OF WEALTH AND TASTE - turns out evil has quite a lot of money and excellent fashion taste. most of the time.
PRAGMATIC VILLAINY - only does evil things when it serves him or his purposes tbh.
VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY OPTION - must fight.
OPPORTUNISTIC BASTARD - doesnât really have a plan, totally winging it.
#maraudrshq:intros#abuse cw#child neglect cw#child abuse cw#murder cw#death cw#blood cw#violence cw#torture cw
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Hello, I hope you're having a great day! Sorry to ask but do you have any headcanons regarding your collection of Kanas? They're all so interesting! (Also your art is lovely!)
Donât be sorry to ask! Itâs actually kinda nice that someone is asking me about Kana content. And thank you for complimenting my art alhfkahfjafhkjh
I will talk about the Kanas as if they are all in the Revelation path (in which they can interact with everyone) because I think itâs more fun that way
Weâll start with Izana!Kana
-one of my friends thinks itâs troublesome to keep calling him Izana!Kana so she just calls him âKazanaâ and I think itâs cute
-when transformed into a dragon, he is fairly small. No one is sure why. Instead of being of a decent dragon size like his mother, heâs more like the size of a rather large dog. popular theories include he may yet grow into a larger dragon, he is small as a human so he is small as a dragon, and maybe heâs small and a little odd looking because of whatever odd dragon genetics Izana may have contributed.
-unlike the other children who usually get kinda excited when the opportunity to go swimming in a lake or whatever presents itself, he avoids the water. Says he starts to hear a strange voice and his head hurts. Azura in particular is concerned over this, though when she asks him to tell her about it, he becomes even more prickly than usual over the subject and avoids her too
-he likes Midori. Midori likes him⌠because heâs a dragon and fun to experiment on.
-aims to surpass his father in looksâ or at least, thatâs his excuse for putting on makeup and dressing up. He just finds it all aesthetically pleasing.
-surprisingly enough, avoids Forrest (thinks heâs tacky)
-Gets taken out of his deeprealm early bc âreally, is there anywhere safer than Izumo?? itâs neutral, no oneâs gonna hurt himâ but then escapes to his deeprealm anyway bc heâs like 9 and wanted to be taken seriously so he has to grow (it didnât really work out)
-gave up on trying to control his hair and accepts it for its faults (besides, having lil hair antennas makes him taller⌠sort ofâŚ.)
-absolutely adores the colour pink
-is sometimes subject to terrible nightmares
-wanders off on his own a lot
-will always be kind of short
-tried to pick a fight with Orochi once, realized that was a bad idea fast
-very proficient little mage, but certain tomes/scrolls/spirits need to be kept away from him bc he will cause damage
-the sort of kid to transform in the middle of dinner, refuse to transform back, and then lay on the table and roll around in spite of being told to cut that out already
-gets grounded for a month and half bc he decided to fuck with the messengers and nearly brought Izumo directly into the war
-but really heâs just moody. sorta like a cat. heâll occasionally go up to someone he likes and curl up near or on them and go to sleep or just. stay there bc he wants company.
Now for Niles!Kana
-as opposed to the other Kanas, heâs more around 15-16.
-loud boy
-got his ears pierced courtesy of Soleil
-AWFUL DIETARY HABITS courtesy of Velouria
-why did these two things happen? parents asked Nina to babysit him and she left them with whoever was closest and not busy to do other more important things
-his consumption of odd/rotting things is not limited to dragon form as it was discovered when he was found raiding the pantry for spoiled/rotting foods (Jakob and Felicia still arenât sure how they feel about this. On the one hand, this kid is useful in that heâll eat this stuffâŚ. on the other, thatâs Corrinâs kid and what if something bad happens??)
-can be bribed with candy
-can be overly friendly at times and has a little bit of trouble with the concept of personal space
-gets along just fine with Nina, but if theyâre getting along especially well, be suspicious. theyâre plotting something.
-has a few crushes but he wonât tell anyone who they are
-likes his cloak/cape thing because he can wrap up in it
-Keaton doesnât allow him anywhere near his collection after an incident in which Kana nearly ate half of it
-used to be really clingy when he was younger
-has a tendency to be really blunt sometimes but usually doesnât realize what heâs said until after heâs said it
-the only cooking he actively avoids is Reinaâs. No one is sure what she does, but if Kana wonât eat itâŚ. it canât be safe.
-walks with really heavy steps because otherwise he is too quiet when approaching and scares people
-gets really bad seasonal allergies
-very good at tracking things
-prefers to fight as a dragon
âŚand now Takumi!Kana (even though I havenât really posted anything with him)
-youngest Kana, around 6-7. Pure, sweet bab
-absolutely adores his big brother Kiragi
-extremely good with small animals (sometimes follows Shigure around)
-very shy and clings to his Mama a lot
-wants to grow his hair out long someday like his Papa
-is a little scared of Ryoma
-likes flying on pegasi and kinshi but doesnât want one of his own
-calls a lot of the women older than him âAuntieâ even if they are not related
-asked Azura to make him a little necklace for his dragonstone bc he was afraid heâd lose it somewhere
-only one of the Kanas to not have hair that sticks up like little antenna (which will change when he gets older and his hair more out of his control)
-self-conscious about his ears
-a bit of a picky eater
-really needs to be developed more bc he is super adorable
Annnnnnd to end the post, lame doodles of the Kanas as adults.
Thank you for asking about my Kanas!
#long post#reply#anon#fire emblem#doodles#nonsense#fe art tag#my art#Kana#i haven't drawn anything kana related bc i am so bogged down by school work#that'll change soon#my semester ends in two or so weeks yaaaaaay#i hope all of this satisfies your curiosity somewhat#aaaaaaa#Anonymous
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was that ( c. evans )? no, itâs just ( nathaniel ânateâ clifford). they are the (27-238 ) year old ( vampire ). i heard theyâre (outgoing and easy-going  ) but also ( flirtatious and happy-go-lucky). rumor has it they ( havenât ) pledged allegiance to the hollow. i must warn you, neutrality is not an option. â  Hihi dear peeps, A here again with a new character & i would love to plot with anyone interested in forming connections or all kinds of plots with Nate here ;) â  Just like this post if interested and iâll im you <3  Â
soooo he is amaraâs ex-husband and father of August. Since he is from ancient greece like Amara, Silas and the others, his name ofc isnât actually Nate Clifford, as he has recently adopted that in the 21st century in order to blend in with the times. His real name is Aegeus.
Life in Ancient Greece, some time in the 1st century BC, as a normal human:
So far, Andrea and I have plotted that he and amara married out of love and it was not an arranged marriage, tho i think their union was probably approved by both their families considering that they didnât elope and that most marriages were usually arranged by the families at that time, and theirs warenât. She was 14 and he 24 when they got married, big age gap i know, but then again it was very, very common during those times to even marry someone 30 years older ryt? XD But anyway, he and Amara fell really fast and headlong in love with each other.
 So far i have it in my head that he was a nice, independent, had pretty smart brains, determined, decent & very well-mannered, kind, brave and quite the dutiful son to his parents. He was also rather proud ( not really much in the negative way but more in the sense that he valued honor and respect a lot, takes pride in keeping his dignity, face, name and family name as well as family honor upright. he can also be brash at certain decisions.
He and Amara had a very loving, happy and faithful marriage which was why August was born with so much love and adoration from both his parents quite soon after their union. Poor man didnât get to be with his son for long tho, as about a year after August was born, he got sent way/ joined the war (I have to clear this detail with Andrea first tho before 100% confirming it as part of his story;D haha)
Life after Ancient Greece and as a vampire:
Okie so he died at war, when he was 27, unfortunately leaving behind a widowed Amara and baby toddler August :( In the year of 1811, he was suddenly resurrected back to life as a human by a witch in London, who was hungrily trying to see if she could create a resurrection spell and he was one of the 3 ppl that she successfully brought back to life and which she randomly chose from very diff past centuries. Her spell however, wasnât fully successful in the end, as 2 out of the 3 people she brought back to life, died after only a week. And hence, amaraâs ex-husband was also about to die very soon and so the witch, desperate to ensure the survival of at least one of her âmagical science lab-rats/ pet projectsâ, she then asked a vampire friend of hers to help turn him into a vampire so as to make sure that he live. He was very weak as a resurrected human at that time and barely conscious most of the time and not really aware of what was happening to him. So it was only after he had transitioned into a vampire, only did he fully wake up, was conscious and brimming back to health, full of life. Brains working, senses alert and everything, he was thus told abt what they both did to him and he then ultimately remembered who he was, his whole identity and former life as a human with Amara in the ancient times. He was thus grief-stricken and devastated to know that he was know alive in a completely diff era and Amara and his whole family was obvs. long dead for more than a thousand centuries already. Since he was now a vamp and knowing that he would then have to live for an infinite number of years without his family and friends from the past, he then seeked help & bumped into a kind-hearted witch whom he begged her to help him. Now this 2nd witch also happens to be one of Xandriaâs ancestors in the past btw :)P He requested her to help him take away all of his memories of being alive in ancient times, basically his whole former life as a human & most especially of having a wife and child, as it pained him too much & it was too suffering for him to think about both of them especially. And Xandriaâs London ancestor at that time, determined to keep her promise to him to help relieve him of his painful memories of the past, then spun him a new life story lie, after she had removed his real past memories and told him a simple story of him âbeing born and raised in that current 18th century and that his family members were dead already and he himself had been in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and was caught in a crossfire sword&gun fight between a group of people , leading to his untimely death. As he was almost dying, he was then revived by a passing vampire who took pity on the man having to die so youngâ, the very same vampire who had turned him earlier in the first place & who happened to be Xandriaâs ancestorâs lover! ( thus as yâall can see that besides wanting to be kind to the poor lad, she also wanted to protect her loverâs butt and not having Aegeus come after him for revenge of having turned him into a vampire against his will. She also kept a few secret diaries during her lifetime, so she did also write in the whole account of everything that had happened and what she did, in one of those diaries, which is now in Xandriaâs collection of diaries, which Xandria had dug up among many others of her ancestors, over the passing years and compiled into her own keeping for knowledge. ( about half of the women and some of the men in Xandriaâs family tree of ancestors, including Xandria herself, kept diaries lmaoXD)
She and her vampire lover then helped him to adapt to both living as a supernatural while still perfectly appearing as a ânormal humanâ in the 18th century and after her death, said vampire also helped him for a little while longer on how to change his culture of living based on whichever time period he was in and how to blend in and quickly adapt to each passing of period of change in the human society. As he still had a few traits from his former life, he was a quick learner, and grew to be very independent and bold & by some miracle, seemed to have a strong sense of business acumen. Thus for the past 2 centuries, he had worked very hard from the bottom to the top of society and eventually dabbled in many, various enterprises and business deals over his 211 years of living as a vampire.
Hence, he has by now accumulated a great amount of wealth and he also has changed his identity and name over the years to appear as a perfectly normal 27 year old âhumanâ and traveled widely to many diff places. He came to the States after WW2, and has been living in many diff places all around US until now.
He has come to NOLA largely because he wants to oversee the starting operations of a new branch of one of his businesses there and isnât really bothered nor cares about whatever is brewing in NOLA right now. He also had this very tiny , weird feeling in him some weeks back, that seemed to be calling him to NOLA, that tiny subconscious gut feeling that is kinda giving him a hint that it is imperative that he be in NOLA rn. But he had then quickly brushed off this feeling shortly after he felt it as nothing much to it and dismiss the small unknown hint. Heâs just there to attend to his affairs, have a fun time, enjoying himself as much as possible in this vibrant city and then leave. His personality currently is of a v flirtatious, fun and easy-going person with a happy-go-lucky , v carefree personality, & also with an enterprising business mind on the side . Heâs also a non-committal person and enjoys his bachelorhood way too much to settle down anytime soon, hahaXD. He is also very friendly and likes to dwell on the positive instead of the negative.
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