#i guess i FORGOT that the reason i resolved to leave korea IN THE FIRST PLACE was BECAUSE of hagwons

[foxcassius]

and katie is like "just go to the er, dont ask permission Just Go" and while i agree with the sentiment i have so much work to do!!!!!! i cant just do fuck all about all the books and tests i have to check!!!!! I HATE BEING A TEACHER!!!!!

[kmindset]

The Monsters In All of Us: Two (M)

Member: Vampire! Jungkook AU

Summary: Shh! Just read it

Word Count: 2119

Warnings: Mature content, Slightly NSFW, slightly graphic

A/N: Don’t forget, I post this story on AO3 now as well I recommend reading it ter because this got posted a few days ago and I just forgot to post the whole thing here. Username: kmindset Anyway, enjoy!

“The hunt has to be worth it tonight, Kook. I’m not stalking around in five-inch heels for another high cholesterol half-wit.” Moisturizing your face was the easiest part of the night so you rubbed it in like a light massage.

“It will. It’s opening night at that vegan bar and grill.” He bent down to rest his chin on your head. “Most of them are pretty pretentious but worth it.”

You chuckled. Tonight you and Jungkook were doing one of your favorite things Poly Baiting. Scouring night spots for vulnerable humans looking for a fun time with the both of you was horrible, very much so, but you are vampires. You have to eat too and sometimes animal blood from the butcher shop isn’t satisfying enough.

“Why are you even bothering with that? You look as youthful as the day I spotted you through your Sseugae chima.”

“Because it smells goods and what kind of youthful looking woman am I without skin care products?”

“Hm, true.” He leans down to wrap both arms around your shoulders from behind. “Even if you looked as old as you are you would be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.”

You chuckled. “One, “thing”? How specist of you. Two, if I looked as old as I am I would be bones, skin, and hopefully some hair.” You turned your head to look in his eyes. His carmine pupils drawing out a fresh wave of lust. Your hand stroked his cheek sweetly. “Thank you, sweetie.”

By the time you get there the place is packed.

There are people in trendy outfits on the dance floor at one end and other people enjoying their meals at the opposite end.

“The irony is so strong I can taste it.” You snicker.

He holds your hand, walking first. “I don’t taste anything, so let’s hurry this up.”

The music sets a fun vibe in the building making even you want to dance but Jungkook is focused on one thing. Razor sharp senses refocus. Many of those around you seem to be a good enough crowd. Some older yet trendy with a contrasting group of confused looking men sat next to a rather happy looking man. ‘Hmm, poor dears got dragged here.” you think. For a moment you contemplate setting your fangs on them but by their disgust, at the appetizer, their friend is tearing into you suspect they’re suffering enough.

“Hello!” A cheerful young man with light hair and a button with the logo greets you and shows you to an open area with a few couches. There are people lounging around and deep in their food or their own conversations.

“Hi!” A woman with two ponytails immediately greets you.

“Hi!”

“How long have you been vegan?”

Years of lying for food and general survival having you speaking a lie in no time flat. “Ah, I’m actually vegetarian looking to go vegan and my fiancee’ here is-”

“Disgruntled and hungry for anything.” He interrupts with a mocking smile. However, the woman doesn't even pick up on his ridicule as she continues smiling. A naive one and a vegan. Jackpot!

“From the reviews of the original building in Incheon, it’ll turn you vegan for sure!” She rambles on about her 6 years as a vegan and the struggle of being vegan in Korea. You’re barely paying attention when you feel Jungkook tense beside you. He seems off-put by something but you don’t smell anything. You choose to ignore him and continue chatting up the girl whose name you’ve already forgotten. Jungkook’s clairvoyance usually doesn't tense him up unless there is something unusual or bad going on and by the grip he has on your shoulder, it can’t be good. Luckily, the chatty woman excuses herself to the restroom.

Before you could even turn to him he whispers. “Something’s not right here.”

“Is it little Miss “Vegan is Better”? Because she won’t be a problem for much longer.”

He shakes his head with a deep frown. “It’s something else. I feel another in pain.”

Jungkook’s senses are so strong he can sense the pain of family and nearby vampires. A handy power for avoiding hunters and aiding your kind.

“Hunters possibly?”

He nods slowly. “We should leave.” He takes your hand to guide you out. Near the exit, the chatty woman blocks your path.

“Hey, you guys! This is my boyfriend, Rod.” She finally takes notice of your path. “Leaving already?”

“Yes. Really sorry, bit of an emergency.” You swipe her phone from her hand, quickly typing out your number in her notes with ‘Y/N: aspiring vegan’ next to it.

“We should meet up sometime and you can help me go vegan.”

Jungkook discreetly tugs on the back of your jacket in quiet urgenance. You guess the sense has gotten stronger.

She nods with an excited smile and waves you goodbye.

Once you are out the door Jungkook says. “It was him.”

You turn back in confusion of who ‘him’ is and meet the eyes of Vegan girl’s boyfriend.

He was staring back at you with a pointed glare.

Him.

“How could he be a hunter? I couldn’t smell him!”

“I don’t know! I’m freaked out as well!” Your husband is sat on the couch with head in his hands. It had been decades since you had seen him this worried. You were stood over him, stroking his hair gently. “It wasn’t a strong smell but I felt something else before the whiff. It was as if he was somehow blocking his scent. But barely.”

Jungkook’s state of distress was something you rarely saw. The scariest of times being when you were pregnant with Harley and hunters were hot on your trail from your increased bloodlust.

For a while, you thought about assimilating just to make it easier on Jungkook. Two of your sisters still lived in London from the days of King Henry VIII. They choose to stay for the better acceptance of your kind. In fact, your mother moved there with your father after her second husband was staked in Vegas and remarried your father.

“Should we report this back to Feratuan?” you ask.

He thinks for a moment. “Not yet. No need to alarm anyone for no reason.”

“No reason!? A hunter concealed his scent Jungkook! And by the way, he was looking at me you would have thought I was the one with the smell! And I guarantee you all that fucker should have been smelling is Light Blue by Dolce and fucking Gabbana!”

“Lily is here.” He announces calmy before you heard a light knock. A sign passes your lips as you cross your arms in annoyance.

“Come in.”

“Hey.” She comes in with a solemn look. Obviously, her paternally inherited clairvoyance picked up on something.“What’s going on?”

You looked to Jungkook to answer.

Her worried father sighs heavily. “We don’t know. We think a hunter was concealing his scent and that somehow he knew what we are.”

Your daughter’s eyes widened in fear. “Oh my god! Seohyun said that happened to her the other day!”

“Who?” Jungkook’s eyebrows furrowed identically to yours, both confused and alarmed.

“My friend! She’s a first gen. Only on her 2nd lifetime. She was attacked a few weeks ago!” Your mouth hung open. “It happened outside the library in Hongdae. She said she was waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up but she was attacked from behind. When her father asked why she didn’t hide or prepare herself she told him she didn’t smell them coming. It wasn’t until they were way too close that she could faintly smell them.”

“Oh my goodness! How did she escape if it was multiple?” Jungkook questioned.

“Luckily her boyfriend showed up. He’s a first gen too but on his 10th lifetime.”

“10? After 9 is when I lost count,” you mumble, momentarily distracted from the matter at hand.

Jungkook nods at his daughter’s words in understanding. Generally, vampires on a higher lifetime have had enough experience to ward of multiple hunters but an attack could still lead to death. “While you’re here, alone, we need to speak to you.”

She nods slowly and lowers to the adjacent couch.

“Your mother and I noticed Daniel’s marks. Every time we see him he seems to have a new injury. He seems fine with it yet when we ask how it happened the boy can’t seem to remember.” He explains in his best and seldom sed ‘authoritative father’ voice.”I’m not going to bullshit, Se Yeon, you know good and well what I’m leading to.”

The barely matured vampire purses her lips. She straightens up in hopes of seeming confident but you know better. More than one hundred and fifty years of motherhood and a maternal and vampiric need to protect your children has made you more than knowledgeable about all of your children. Currently, your daughter’s body language was telling you that she was trying to seem unafraid of her father’s intense gaze but inside was rather frightened and a little ashamed of the evident disappointment that he was not making an effort to hide.

“Se Yeon,” you spoke carefully, not too gentle yet still stern. “We aren’t angry. We just want to know if what we’re suspecting is true.”

If any of your hearts naturally beat there would have been many between when your heart actually did and when she spoke. “It didn’t start out so carelessly. I hadn’t fed in a few days, I am not sure if it was sheer laziness or a distaste for the crowd the weather brought, but I was stagnant.Daniel stopped by and noticed my color. He assumed I was sick and insisted on “caring for me”. I tried to tell him to leave after he brought me some horrendously made chicken soup and useless medicine. Finally, he resolved to cuddle with me. “Cuddles are the most effective meds my darling.” She mocked his words but you saw the smile she held for a brief moment. “In my carelessness and intense need for him to shut the hell up, I allowed him to lay his head on my chest.”

Jungkook was still listening intently and rather impatiently, for the point but you already had your hand over your face. “He didn’t hear a heartbeat.” you finished for her.

She nodded. “It took a moment but right when I thought he was falling asleep he sat up! It caught me off guard, my fangs nearly released. He started freaking out about how this was really bad and I needed to go to the hospital quick! There was no way to calm him and I could only think of one thing to do. So, I played along and acted as if I was afraid. I asked him to hold me. That brought him down enough to stop yelling. He pulled me in to hug me and I buried my face in his neck and…” she gestured outwardly and the two of you nodded for her to continue. “I took just enough to put him out, licked it to heal, and when he woke up he was back on my chest and I had a heartbeat.”

“Courtesy of him.” Jungkook quipped. You nudged him to be quiet.

“It was enough for him though. I asked if everything was alright and she told me about his crazy dream that I didn’t have a heartbeat. I told him everything was fine and let him hear my heartbeat. I was so scared though I told him I wanted to be alone. It was too close a call.”

Jungkook stood and rubbed his neck before ruffling his hair, a frustrated habit. “That doesn’t explain the multiple other marks, Se Yeon.”

Her eyes drifted to the floor. You moved to sit by her and held her hand in gentle encouragement. “It was addicting. S-Something about it was delectable and...familiar? I honestly don’t even know why the urge to drink from him is so strong but it’s as if-” she paused, her head shook as if she wasn’t even comprehending her actions or the taste. “It’s as if I don’t want anything else.”

Her eyes stayed on the floor as if searching for some type of answer but your worried ones drifted up to your husband’s. He was focused on her. His eyes held so many things and you knew he would never admit any of those things to his children, especially Lily, but this went far beyond the problems of your subspecies. This was a father’s worry.

He was willing to do anything and everything for them and for you. But he wasn’t sure what yet.

Additional author’s note: Sorry I forgot to add that in addition to new chapters of the story I’ve also posted the dictionary for this story to help you all understand certain words I use for this fic as well as a side story that is just Jungkook and Y/N with lots of fluff, angst, and SMUUUUUUUUT that I won’t be posting here. Pleeeeeease, go check it out. AO3 username: kmindset

[calliecat93]

Miraculous Review #4: Timebreaker

So far we’ve gone over three episodes. Stormy Weather established out main group of characters, the basics of their personalities, and introduced the concept of the show. The Bubbler was a bit more dramatic, enlarges the cast a little, shows more depths to Adrien, and introduces some longer plot threads about his family as a result. Mr. Pigeon allowed itself to me more comedic, showing ti won’t be feelsy all the time, as well as to show more depth to Marinette’s character. All three of these perfectly establish the show, it’s status quo, and are very well done.

So now we get to Episode 4. I debated on doing this one before or after Copycat, which I have LOADS to talk about. The reason being is that this episode focuses on one of Marinette’s classmates, all fo whom have just been background characters at this point, while Copycat continues to focus more on the core cast, Ladybug and Cat Noir especially. The reason I ultimately decided to hold off was because Timebreaker was the fourth episode I ever saw and it’s aired fourth in the majority of it’s international run, such as South Korea and the USA. So... yeah we’re just gonna keep it at fourth. So with that, lets begin.

Overview

It’s Marinette’s parents anniversary! Aww! First, let me say this, I LOVE TOm and Sabine. Not only are they loving parents, but they’re both freakin’ adorable. Them trying to look nice as if they’re a pair of high school kids going out on their first date with Marinette acting like the level-headed mom, assuring them that they look fine, is freakin’ adorable. We get so many dysfunctional couples in shows nowadays that I’m glad that we get a happy, functional one here. While the two are gone, Marinette is left to wait for a client, local reporter Nadja Chamack, who is coming to pick up a cake. A VERY good-looking cake I’d like to add. The two leave and Marinette is left on her own... well Tikki’s there, but you get what I mean.

Also out is one of Marinette’s classmates, a girl named Alix Kubdel. It’s her birthday so her father, a museum curator, has taken her out. He also gives her a birthday gift... an old pocket watch. Alix points out that she has a nicer, digital watch, but her father shows that this is no regular watch. It’s a family heirloom and it’s holographic. Okay, that’s awesome! Alix therefore gratefully takes it, but soon receives a message reminding her of a race that she’s to participate in against another classmate, Le Chien Kim. She’s reluctant to bail, but her father gives her the go-ahead so off she goes.

Guess who else is supposed to be there? Marinette. She made the race banner, but forgot about it until Alya contacts her. So now we have a problem as Mrs. Chamack will be coming shortly. Marinette however thinks that she can go to and from quickly enough. How does she buy herself time? by transforming and using her superhero abilities to get to the race location faster. Our heroine ladies and gents! But hey it works and the class likes her banner. Even Adrien compliments it. But it looks like Alix is a no-show...

Nah! She makes it! So the race is two laps long with Alix using her skates and Kim going on foot. Whoever crosses the finish line first wins. TThey gear up to start... but Alix stops. Why? Well since she’s about to race, there’s a good chance that her new watch could get lost or broken. So she hands it to Alya for safe-keeping before the race starts. However since Alya is recording, she gives it to Marinette, who is holding the banner alongside Nino. So Marinette drops it, but luckily Adrien catches it. Looks like things are gonna be okay then, right?

Wrong. Chloe swipes it form Arien and ends up turning the hologram feature on. THis causes her to drop it, but that’s not what breaks it. What breaks it is Ali running over it, not having seen it. She wins the face... but it ends up meaing nothing once she sees the remains of the watch on the ground. As expected, she’s upset and angry. The others feel guilty (minus Chloe, but what’s new?), but it does nothing as Alix angrily blames all of them. She skates off with Marinette chasing after her. She tries to think of a way to get it fixed, but Alix is having none of it. Damn, and on her birthday to. But what does anger do in this show? Yep, akuma time.

So Alix becomes Timebreaker and heads back to the students. Marinette ended up missing the akuma due to her dad calling her. Why? Well Mrs. Chamack arrived to find the bakery closed, so she called Tom to find out what’s wrong. Marinette plays off that she’s just listening to music in her room and missed it. However she soon realizes what’s happening and is forced to go after Timebreaker. Oh but trust me, that’s not the worst of it.

Timebreaker arrives and touches Kim, freezing him in place. As it turns out, Timebreaker’s power is to steal energy from people in order to power up her skates. Once she has enough, she can go back in time to before she ran over the watch and can prevent its destruction. The problem is once she steals someone’s energy, they fade out of existence. In other words, Timebreaker murders people in order to get time travel powers. Damn, just... damn. That is dark. Even when Ladybug and Cat Noir step in, Timebreaker makes plenty of progress, taking out several students. She even uses her knowledge about the students to her advantage, playing off one students kind nature to get her close enough to touch. Gotta give this to Timebreaker, she’s effective.

Soon Timebreaker is able to make Ladybug trip up. She goes in for the kill... but Cat Noir gets in the way, getting hit instead. It gives Timebreaker the last bit of energy that she needs, but Hawk Moth isn’t happy as not the ring will fade from existence. Oh he’s not the only angry one. This is the first time where we get to see Ladybug really pissed off. When Timebreakr comes at her again, she outright grabs her arm and outright tosses her to the side. Yeah, don’t anger Ladybug. You’re screwed if you do. However Timebreaker still has the power she needs and can just get the Miraculous in the past as well as prevent the watch’s destruction. She revs up and goes back in time, Ladybug ending up dragged along when trying to use her yoyo to stop it.

The two girls end up at the moment before Chloe turned on the hologram. Ladybug tries to warn her to stop, but that and Timebreaker rushing at them causes Chloe to drop it anyways, once more breaking it. And once more, Alix is angry, but this time blames Ladybug. So once again Hawk Moth sends an Akuma, so we now have two Timebreakrs. You gotta give Hawk Moth this, most villains would b incredibly confused, but he just rolls with it. But you know who s very confused about all of this?

Yep, Marinette. Can’t blame hr there. Ladybug tries to explain the whole thing and fortunately Tikki confirms that the two are the same person. So here’s the deal. While Ladybug and Cat Noir deal with the two villains, she sends Marinette back to the bakery to take car of Mrs. Chamack. Marinette runs off as Cat Noir arrives, so the two heroes take on the two villains. But once they realize that they can’t beat Ladybug and Cat Noir, the Timebreakers decide to collect more energy and proceed to go on a rampage on anyone nearby, forcing out heroes after them.

Fortunately Marinette reaches the bakery, albiet not before Mrs Chamack made the call, and gets the cake to her with no further problems. With that resolved, she transforms and goes back to the fight. So we now have two Ladybug’s, much to Cat Noir’s glee. Their faces say it all... so now what? The girls use Lucky Charm, and end up with a cone and bike lock. Cat distracts the Timebreaker’s as the Ladybug’s try to figure out what to do. It doesn’t take long fortunately as Cat Npir uses Cataclysm to force the two in the opposite direction, Ladybug A uses the lock to lock the two’s skates together, and Ladybug B makes a ramp to force the two in the air. So out heroines manage to swipe off the skates, break it, and restore things to normal. 

Not only does the... miraculous... wave... thing (did they ever name that?) does more than just undo the damage/resurrect the victims. It wipes the parallel Timbreaker out of existence, fuses the two Ladybug’s into one so that she retains both set of memories, and it fixes Alix’s watch. Ladybug returns it to Alix, who forgives her for the whole thing and promises to be more responsible with it from now on. So once more the good guys win and the bad guys lose, yay!

Later, Tom and Sabine return, having had to leave early due to the call. Fortunately since Marinette did still get the job done, she’s not in any trouble. They just tell her to pay more attention from now on instead of listening to loud music in her room. Marinette agrees, and we end the episode with happy family hugs! Best kind of ending!

Review

This episode is... alright. It isn’t bad by any means, but I think I like the three before it better. As I said, those episodes put together perfectly establish the show. I guess with this one, we’re now in the groove so to speak so didn’t feel the need to add much more character depth or try to stand out as a result. Due to it, while it’s not the best episode int he series, it’s still a really fun one to watch.

Time travel stories, unless you’re Doctor Who, can be a hit or miss. Mainly because they are usually VERY confusing when you think about it too hard. The episode did alright with it at the very least it tied up loose ends. We can argue about if there being two Ladybug’s or two Timebreaker’s should have broken the universe or something, but ultimately the...w ave thing that still needs a name, pretty much fixed any problems. Which due to the fusion, I assume that the timeline where Cat and various students were killed was wiped out of existence. But hey, who knows?

The A-Plot revolves around Alix, who up to now... and after this, is a background character. This is good as it fleshes out the classmates and gives us reasons to care about them. They had to make us care about Alix very quickly though so that we would care about the watch being broken and hr subsequent akumatization. Which I think they did very well. Alix is presented as overall nice, while competitive it’s not overly so, and she had every right to be angry when the watch broke. Sure the first time she was the one who ran over it, but it wouldn’t have happened if Alya, Marinette, and Adrien had held onto it and if Chloe didn’t mess with stuff that isn’t her’s. Or if... you know, any of them had just put the thing in their pocket if they needed their hands free, I’m just saying. But yeah, her feelings were understandable and she is overall likeable.

Timebreaker is terrifying. First, love the design. Second her power legit scares me. I admit I thought the idea of taking energy to power her skates was... kind of dumb. She couldn't just already have the power? Then again that would lead to more confusing time travel stuff, so meh. But still, think about it. If she so much as pokes you, you end up frozen and then slowly fade out of existence. Timebreaker commits G-Rated murder. Sure it’s kid friendly and everything gets fixed int he end, but it doesn’t change the fact that Timebreaker is the first villain with a body count. And remember there were two of them for a while. But yeah, Timebreaker had a pretty innocent motive (go back and save her watch), but the method and her glee over it makes her terrifying, specially since in one timeline she successfully killed Cat Noir. Remember that.

If I had only one complaint, a complaint I admit is probably jut me thinking too hard, is the resolution. Now how it was done, the Ladybug’s method was crazy awesome and I’m glad that the watch was repaired. But... they kind of made it seem like it was Ali’s fault for not being responsible? My issue is, she was responsible. She recognized that she could break or damage the watch during the race and trusted it with her friends for safe keeping. It was them who broke ehr trust and broke it. Sure she did run over it, so I guess she should have watched where she was going, but again that wouldn’t have happened if the others did a better job at holding onto the thing. Again, pockets. But gain, this is probably just me thinking too hard and more Alix saying that to show that she’ll be more careful form now on. So it’s really a nitpick if nothing else.

The B-Plot is okay. Unlike before where the B-Plot was where the real story was or furthered the characters, this one truly was a B-Plot as the A-Plot this time was the story It’s not unimportant, but it has no real significance either. All it really does is distract Marinette form seeing the akuma head for Alix and any issues Marinette could have faced form not being at the bakery like she was supposed to got fixed due to the time travel stuff. As such, it’s there to fill in time more or less, but I wouldn’t call it filler either since you still need it for the plot to go like it did.

There are good things that came out of it. Once more we get to see a bit more of Marinette’s home life and know her parent a little more. We met Sabine already in The Bubbler, but we get to see mroe of Tom. And as I said, I adore these two. They are very nice, sweet people who love their daughter and each other. They’re very happy together and while we don’t see their date, their happiness to go on one for their anniversary was super cute. They’re also very level headed as when Tom gets the call about Marinette being a no show, he doesn’t get angry. He simply calls and asks what the hold up is. They could have had him get angry, but they thankfully keep him calm and patient, willing to talk to his daughter first before he gets upset. This is what we call good parenting my friends. And in the end, despite having to break the date early, they aren’t angry or upset. They light-heartedly just tell Marinette to pay better attention in the future. I am SO happy to have both a happy married couple and a happy married couple who are good parents in something. It feels SO rare to have both nowadays. Thank you Astruc!

Character Development

Aside from Alix which we covered int he Story section, there really isn’t any. I guess what I can say is that it showed some more depth to them. Like up to now, Cat Noir has been flirty, but we didn’t really have anything to show how deeply he truly cared about Ladybug. Pretty sure taking a blow that killed him and knowing it is on way to show how much he truly loves the girl. The moment also leads to us seeing Ladybug get REALLY pissed off. Yeah, she did in The Bubbler too, but then she got distracted by Adrien and once transformed again, had calmed down. Here? Timebreaker outright killed her partner, plus Alya earlier, and you can tell just from that screencap that she crossed a line. Remember, Ladybug tossed her aside with zero effort and I imagine that she could have done worst if the time travel stuff didn’t kick in.

The only other thing that I can think of is that the episode shows how kind-hearted and good of a friend Marinette is. First, this may be the first time Marinette’s actions weren’t driven by Adrien. Sure she mentions him being at the race as a reason to go, but that came off more as an afterthought. When the watch breaks, while Alya and Adrien feel guilty, Marinette’s the only one who both feels guilty and actually tries to make things right. She goes after Alix and tries to think of a way to fix the watch and set things right. She truly felt bad for her involvement and wanted to help her friend. Maybe she should have waited until Alix cooled down, but still it was sweet of her to try. It was nice to see and shows that while flawed, Marinette is ultimately a caring person.

Conclusion

It was a nice episode. We got to flesh out a mainly background character, got some cool action, a time travel story that didn’t break my brain, and a cute B-Story. Is it one of the best episodes? No. This one is overall pretty average. It’s not bad, but it has nothing really noteworthy either... aside form Cat Noir’s sacrifice, but that gets undone quickly. It’s okay, but there are better. However I still really enjoyed it and as long as an episode is enjoyable, that’s what ultimately matters.