#i had to pick three games for it so i ended up randomly choosing one of the other ones available on the 3ds so theirs a chance

[elisedonut]

the 3ds has access to so many harvest moon/ Story of seasons games and I am having a blast playing through them

I haven't made it very far and have only really played Sos: 3oT and SOS (well and Rune factory 4) so far but I have all of them now and there are just so many you can play on that thing

Also i hung out with my mom the other day and had her guess which of the bachelors I chose in each of the ones id played so far and she guessed so easily and then bullied me about how young Kiel and Mistel look

She was like "hm- of course you would go for the ones with baby faces are they even adults?"

and I'm just "i mean like the game let me marry them so i kind of just assumed they were yeah"

She also took one look at Wayne and went i bet you saw him and immediately went ew cowboy which is funny because yeah i did

like he did grow on me and I do like him quite a bit now but my first reaction to him was indeed ew a cowboy

Really though she knows me to well because every one of her guesses was right actually

though she did cheat a lot by choosing two options

Specifically it was like

SOS: Mistel or Fritz

3OT: Ford or Yuzuki

RF4: Kiel or Doug

Which like technically none are wrong like Yuzuki is right on the money tbh if i ever replay it ill be going for him. Fritz would probably not be for a bit if i ever play again Ill probably go for Raeger  Or Iris . Doug is very interesting and is high on the list if I replayed but id probably do like Margret first

it was also fun because anytime characters that leaned alot more Masculine looking popped up she was just like oh no for sure not that one

which i mean- yeah

[sc0tters]

Strike Out | Luke Hughes

summary: a series of events that lead to Nico finding out about your boyfriend, the newest edition of the New Jersey Devils no less.

request: yes/no

warnings: sexual scenes, p in v, swearing.

word count: 1.46k

authors note: this is more plot than smut (less than 600 words are smut) and I really liked this one. The prompt Luke with Nico’s sister gave me many options yet this was one I’m happy I took.

Luke knew he was playing a dangerous game.

Not only you the total it girl at NYU with men double taking you whenever walked past. But you were also his captains younger sister.

Nico and Jack had both given him warnings about you when Luke first joined the team at the end of last season. Yet the moment Luke locked eyes with you all of those warnings were out of the window.

You were the girl of his dream for lack of a better phrase. You had the banter, the personality, but most of all you got on with Jack. And of course you knew how to wrap Luke around your little finger.

So when it took you less than three weeks to get the boy into your bed Luke finally realised what Jack meant by you were trouble.

It wasn’t in the sense of you were twisted with the cops but rather that you were addictive. Someone so far out of anyone’s league that people weren’t sure if you were real.

That’s what you were, an enigma to everyone but Luke.

Or at least that’s what he liked to say as he stuck into your dorm because somehow it was safer in there than it would have been if you were in the apartment with Jack.

As much as Luke knew he shouldn’t stay in your dorm as it meant you two were awkwardly on top of each other due to the weird size that dorm bed were. He could never help it as he got to see you in his old band tees that you had stolen from his closet during one of the many trips you had taken to Jersey.

Nico and Jack at this point were either choosing to ignore what was clearly going on or they genuinely couldn’t see it.

But that meant you and Luke were feeling more adventurous than you had before.

Constantly pushing the boundaries being less careful than before as you were now even spending nights in the Hughes apartment.

As your life360 began to have these spurs where it randomly turned off only to be turned on when you were minutes away from Nico’s apartment. You seemed to feel this thrill as your brothers phone calls came in wondering why your location had gone off.

Dawson made the mistake of walking into the Hughes apartment one day when Jack was running late making him the first and only one to have seen it.

You had been straddling Luke’s lap when the Mercer boy walked in “Hughesy I didn’t know you had - y/n!” The boy clutched his chest in surprise as you locked eyes with him.

Some would have called this, strike one.

After all of the threats that Nico gave the boys Dawson was surprise that it only took him this long to get with you.

Luke was quick to place you next to him and before either one of you could beg for his silence Jack was home “oh I didn’t know you were going to be here y/n.” Swollen lips and messy hair didn’t seem to be picked up by the older Hughes boy as he flashed you a friendly smile “you want to stay for lunch?” He added letting you and Luke know that you were in the clear with him.

The younger Hughes boy frowned as you got up “I’m actually meeting Nico for lunch.“ You explained sending Luke a wink “I’ll see you soon Hughesy.” His nickname rolled off of your tongue as you left the apartment “I didn’t know that you two were friends.” Jack had to say that you and Luke were not a pairing he thought he’d ever see.

Next you seemed to grow ballsier than ever.

After a successful preseason the entire team were at Nico’s apartment for a celebration party.

Of course your brother sent you an invite as you were spending that weekend in New Jersey.

Much to Nico’s dismay you were hidden from your brothers side for most of the night.

Primarily because you were a bit too focused on a certain Hughes boy “baby you’re going to have to keep quiet.” Luke raised his finger to your lips as you rode his cock.

Your eyes fluttered as your nails raked up his chest “you’re so good for me.” You groaned as his finger rubbed against your clit “y/n you there?” The knock at the door made Luke wrap his lips around your breast in an attempt to suppress his own moans.

Say it with me now, strike two.

You’re chewed at the inside of your cheek “little busy.” You whined making the mental note to kill Luke later.

The boy smirked from beneath you as your hands locked into his hair “Jack is just looking for Luke and he said he saw you with him last.” That almost felt like strike two in the now game of baseball that you had Luke had found yourselves in.

Nico groaned as you remained silent “I sort of wanted an answer from you kid.” It made you roll your eyes as Luke squeezed your ass “I’ll help you find him in a sec.” Your head fell back when Luke’s lips grazed over your collarbone.

You grumbled “I would have liked if you could do it now.” You were grateful that the door was locked because Nico would have opened it by now.

If Luke hadn’t been bringing you close to an orgasm you would have killed your brother “Nico give me a minute.” You were dangling closer to hitting the older boy “okay jesus I’ll see you in the kitchen.” When Nico finally left Luke was able to go back to what he was doing beforehand.

He watched as your lips pursed “I’m gonna come Luke.” You cried making the boy beneath you capture your lips in a kiss.

It was hot as he held your hips against his “where are you going?” Luke complained as you got off of him before he had the chance to do as much as cuddle you reached for your dress “remember Nico?” You spoke in a duh tone shaking your head.

The red dress wasn’t doing a lot for your body “maybe you should find something else.” Luke mumbled seeing the bruises already forming on your collarbone “maybe you should get dressed before our brothers realise that we’re both in here?” You proposed realising that he was right.

The Hughes boy pulled you back by your hand “you’re so hot when you’re bossy.” Luke mumbled pecking your lips.

Finally and by far you’re most stupid of all moments.

Otherwise known as the time that Nico finally caught on.

It was when Luke had scored his first goal of the regular season and you couldn’t help but praise him tonight.

Naturally you in the crowd as it was in New York but as you ran past the crowd of family and friends of the Islander players you were trying to find Luke.

It shouldn’t have been a hard challenge given his height but still there you were trying and failing to find him “there you are!” His voice came from behind you.

He wrapped his arms around your torso so by the time you had spun around you were now facing him “hey.” You smiled looking up at him.

His hands comfortably found their way to your cheeks making Luke grateful that he had taken his gloves off moments before “what are you doing?” You mumbled trying to see what he was getting at as you could hear your brothers laughs echo off of the walls.

Luke ran his thumb over your lower lip “he is so busy talking to Jack that neither one of them is going to notice a thing.” The Hughes boys words made you feel at ease “bout time I congratulate you on that goal then?” You smiled as he nodded dropping his head to yours.

The two of you forgot how good it felt having his lips on yours as you two had been so busy recently that the idea of hanging out was simply out of the question “what the fuck is this?” A loud voice pulled you two back to reality.

Strike three, you should have been out.

Your eyes went wide as you saw the irritated Nico in front of you “look Luke I might not be good at these things but-” your ramble was cut short as Luke matched your expression “run?” He asked slowly repositioning you to block your brothers attempt at running after him.

Part of you wanted to do more as Nico cut in “I’m going to kill you Hughes.” The captain saw you as his little baby who needed to be protected at all times, even if that was from Luke Hughes.

“definitely run.”

[xemily-similex]

Mechanic VS Glamrocks

It's dark and damp where you are cornered, the only light you can actually see with coming from the bright overhead light in the protective cylinder. Your breathing is quick, and your pulse quickens. You thought that working with the Glamrocks would be fun. Cool, even. This is something from straight out of your nightmares.

Three of the main four have you surrounded in Parts and Service. Roxy and Chica are standing guard on either side of the door to the cylinder, but the angry green gator is the one that has you trapped here. Freddy is nowhere to be seen, but you know if the fatherly tempered bear was here, you wouldn't be subjected to this!

You wipe the sweat forming on your brow and squirm. You just wish for this, this torture to end!

"Monty, please!" Your plead and it falls on deaf ears… microphone? Whatever the animatronics use to hear with. You could almost cry. The unshed tears of strife were stinging, and threatening to fall, but you had just enough pride to keep them at bay…for now.

You couldn't keep doing this, you couldn't take it!

Monty looks at you cruelly and bellows a laugh that echoes within the metal of his casing and the cylinder itself, amused by your apparent discomfort. Chica and Roxanne are cackling at your expense, as if your pain were funny to them. It probably was, thinking about it. They wouldn't have been so amused otherwise, you think to yourself.

You're getting to a point where you are uncomfortable. You thought the Glamrocks were supposed to be nice. Kind. Cared about the feelings of others. The treatment you're getting now is nothing short of cruelty, of barbaric-ness, of insanity!

It was like they had all gone mad, and their only objective was to kill you.

Monty blasts Take Me On louder from his speaker. You bite your lip.

"This is so stupid! You always pick the songs I can't resist!" You whine, your arms elbow deep in robotic gator guts. He had fallen, again, into the marsh in Gator Golf and had filled up with dirty, disgusting water. Monty was now propped up on the huge chair in the protective cylinder and you were doing your damnedest to dry him out and save him from any lasting water damage.

"Go ahead, Mechanic, you're gonna lose anyway." Monty says cockily with a laugh.

You and the Glamrocks were playing the usual game of 'IF YOU SING OR DANCE ALONG TO THIS SONG, YOU LOSE A KIDNEY!'. Except no actual kidneys are in danger. Only your pride.

"You're getting a free show, stop complaining so much." Roxy quips after she rights herself. She begins primping, fluffing her fluffy white hair and using the glass of the cylinder like a mirror. She began effectively ignoring everyone in favor of admiring her reflection, losing her amusement in anything outside of herself.

Chica squawks loudly after a couple minutes, and flaps her arms like her real life counterpart, knocking over cans of oil, paint and air duster, startling everyone. "Ohh! Oh, Monty play this one, play this one!" She stills, sending him a link through the animatronic only network, you assume. It was the only time they go unnaturally still like that, unless they are charging or powered off. You just got done checking over Chica, so you know she had full battery and no cause to just randomly turn off at the drop of a hat.

Monty nods, wicked smile forming on his minimally moving maw. You don't think you're going to like what's to come.

Music and theatre have always been your thing. You were still a theatre kid at heart, dramatic and over the top, and you sung like a canary, especially when you were alone, down in Parts and Service by yourself, flittering around after closing. Trying not to disturb the public with your 'off tune screeching' as Moon liked to call it.

You would just belt out whatever song was wracking around in your brain. It was almost like you had a playlist in your head, cocked and loaded for you to pick and choose from. The Glamrocks, on stage and off, have only added to your growing list. You still love it though, and it's one of your favorite things about working with literal rockstars.

It's also you're least favorite.

Even if you don't really know a certain song, if it has a good enough beat, you kind of have to just vibe with it. It puts you in the mind of Freddy and his programming to jam out on DJ Music Man's dancefloor. You have joked that you have the same programming.

Did that mean you were any good at it? Absolutely not. You admit, you are mid at best. Try telling your heart that, though. You heart believed itself to be a rockstar of the same caliber you're working on.

So now, you were wiggling in place, trying to stay still and stay focused while getting the water out of Monty's deep chest, and dry out his wiring before he started short circuiting. That meant very delicate work, which meant that you had to take your time which meant that your head had to be next to his speaker, where he could blast every song you loved and you wouldn't be able to get away, lest leaving him to rust.

You flex and curl your toes and do controlled breathing to try and work through it.

You were a third of the way done by the time he finds the next song.

"Damned copyrights." Monty curses while the song loads. He, along with all the animatronics, are hooked up to the Plex's WIFI and can access any music streaming app there is. The only catch is that they may access any music but can't play any music. Labels being afraid of the Band stealing songs for their shows or something. So, Monty had to go and find some unofficial lyric video or fan-imation project so he could play the song.

You start to laugh, calming down enough to effectively work. "Yeah, you almost had me the-"

Careless Whisper plays. Loudly.

You scream. You cry. You gag. You beg.

You lose yourself to the tune of Careless Whisper. Twice.

You slam Monty's chest plate shut. It took you an hour and a half to finish a twenty minute job. You are still a little bit proud of yourself, given such harsh working conditions.

The Glamrocks go to leave, filing out one-by-one and you go about cleaning up your mess. Monty pops his head back into the cylinder. "Hey, Mechanic, you want some singin' lessons? You were a lil' flat back 'ere." You throw the shop towel in your hand at the gator. He catches it flawlessly.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever! Don't try to fall into the swamp water next time." You quip with a smile.

The towel hits you in the back of the head forcefully enough to knock you forward.

[vntako]

vn* in a bottle: petit game collection vol.1

hm, i guess there's a bit of an irony talking about this before needy girl, but here we are. i played this with my darling and had a really nice time

this game is a spin-off of needy girl overdose / needy streamer overload. it's collection of 3 minigames and a developer's notes room. it's retro goodness, not that i'm that old to know. i did play toradora portable though, and that had some extra content similar to this. i guess that main difference is that you're paying for this extra content, huh. i feel it's pretty worth it if you really like needy girl

only one of the minigames is a vn, so let's talk about that last

break out kangel

it's kangel breakout. this one is entirely in japanese. it'd be fine if there wasn't a little bit of dialogue, but otherwise you're not missing anything

i'm not sure how common it is to have strip breakout as an extra minigame in vns, i've only played one other that has something like this, but it kinda feels like a staple to include if that makes sense? i could be wrong. i don't exactly know what to search online to find that kind of info, too

anyway this is just strip breakout. break the blocks, collect the falling power ups and uh remove kangel's seifuku. simple as that. she's ofc wearing smth under that, there's no nudity in this game

don't die, kangel!!

this one may generally be found to be more enjoyable than breakout. it's a shmup where you shoot your fans with meds. i like the art, it's super cute. though i could say about every kangel and ame art in this game

there's a bit of story that's mildly engaging, i found it neat. you're typically here for the gameplay though

the street is just a background, you stay entirely on this screen. you have pills to use as ammo, and your only objective is to not die (like the title tells you). after a few waves of nerds, a boss appears. and there's three bosses to beat

after a wave you get to pick a new pill. picking the same type of pill upgrades it. they're pretty self-explanatory. then it randomly shuffles some of it into your ammo every time you reload. also you reload with RMB, which also lets you dash a bit

it doesn't take that long to beat (this is stage 1's clear screen though). i had a fair bit of fun with this one. you do have to beat the boss, but you can let every other nerd just pass you

kangel's room

this is the credits. the people who worked on the game have stuff to say, so listen properly!!

ame's happy happy dating game

i couldn't screenshot this one properly, so please forgive the clutter. i don't really wanna crop it all so in exchange i offer you uh, you get to see my wallpaper

it's been that for a few months now

ame wants to go on a date with you, so you better choose well!! i think the most interesting part of this game is that it let p-chan monologue their thoughts. they're kinda messed up

ignoring the fact that i only took this screenshot now, you get to pick where you wanna take ame on a date for the next few days

since you get to pick, there's a good and bad ending, naturally. better not give her a bad time, mmkay?

i realized once some cgs showed up that this is where people have been getting those nice ame wallpapers from. the art for the vn is nice, it's really neat and clean, and ame looks super cute. the music is mixed a bit weirdly at times (kangel's theme is so loud) but overall i liked the aesthetic direction here

p-chan is here to give us a description of the world as someone really close to ame. however they describe things reflects how ame sees it. ame is fleshed out so much more than we see her in the base game through p-chan's monologues here (the base game does it great though lemme just clarify). i mean more to say that this format lets people stay and really be with ame past the webcam app on p-chan's screen. it feels a bit dangerous, to occupy the same space as her. and of course it is, ame being who she is. though that goes the same for all humans

i think the bad ending represents a lack of consideration and care one might have towards people. i went for it "just to see what it would be" without regard for how someone might feel about it. it tracks given the conditions for that bad end, too. impulse, disregard, the absence of seeing while doing.

going for the good end kinda feels like a chore, given you have to see everything in the game. though, it's supposed to feel more like a prayer, i think. a connection with ame, of sorts? seeking out and trying to understand her through the places she goes and hearing what she thinks. it might not be something you'd consider pleasant, but few things in life really are. even less so for humans. ame is a human

it's easy to connect with angels, all you need is the internet. i want to connect with human beings, too

[rotomblr-island]

I’ve never played Tomodatchi life and I haven’t seen a playthrough that shows what happens after marriage so. How do the babies work. Do you make a whole new mii?

So, i'm about to explain way more than i need to. enjoy?

So when two miis are married, eventually one of them might get a love bubble. When you talk to them, they'll say that they and their spouse are thinking of having a baby. You can tell them they should or they shouldn't.

If you tell them they should, three days later you'll get a phone call. You'll then be transported to the couple's house, where the two kf them will be standing and one of them will holding a baby who's facing away from you. They'll announce that they had a baby and ask you if you're hoping they had a boy or a girl. You can reply with "Boy," "Girl," or "Either is great!" Replying with boy or girl will always cause the baby to be a boy or a girl, while saying either will have the game choose randomly.

When the parent says "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" The baby will turn around and their face will be revealed. It will be randomly generated based on their parents' faces. The parents will say, "How do they look?" To which you can say "So cute!" or "Hmm..."

If you say "So cute!" They'll move on to the next question. If you say "Hmm..." it will take you to the mii editor, where you can change their face and hair as you please. If you leave their appearance as is, it will change slightly as the child grows, and their hair will grow. If you change their appearance, it will stay exactly that way until they're an adult.

After that, the parents will tell you they were thinking of naming the baby... some random name from the game's list of baby names. You can tell them that's a good name which will take you to the next question, tell them to pick something else which will cause them to suggest another random name, or say "Hmm..." which will let you input a name yourself.

After choosing a name, the parents ask you what kind of personality you think they'll have. You can say "Just like mom," "Just like dad," "Who knows?" Or "Hmm..." You can probably guess what those options do.

After that is the end of the Birth. Over the next few days, you can watch the baby grow from infant to toddler to kid. When they're an infant or toddler, the parents will occasionally call you, asking you to help them get the baby to stop crying. If you agree to help them you can play a kind of tedious minigame. There's also a little minigame for the kid stage, but the parents won't call to ask you to do it.

After a few days (I don't remember how many, i think it's like 4 or 5 but it might be more,) You'll get a phone call and be transported to the house again, where the parents will announce that the baby is all grown up. You can choose to either have the baby move into their own apartment, making them a normal islander, or to travel the world, making them a traveler who goes to other people's islands through streetpass, and can never become islanders. Travelers are supposed to be able to occasionally come home to visit via spotpass, but i don't think that feature works anymore now that the 3DS online servers have been shut down.

Regardless of what you choose, you can choose to make any edits to the child's appearance, profile, voice, and personality you want, and then you get a nice little photo album slideshow of the baby's childhood while the game's credits roll.

[deusvervemakesgames]

Project RBH Devlog 0039

Got a lot done last week!

As you might recall, there were three big things I wanted to get done: improving the enemy spawning system, improving the enemy AI, at least in regard to navigation, and making it so that enemies drop health on death.

I started with how the enemies are spawned in. Previously, the enemies were placed in the rooms using objects that would pull from lists of possible enemies, and choose one to spawn. This system was good for encounter design as I could place support units like turrets out of the way and let the shock troops charge. However, there were too many enemies in each room, and they would always be in the room the player spawned in.

To fix this, I created a new spawner object. This one checks for player proximity and then spawns enemies randomly within a certain range of itself, making sure to avoid spawning things inside of walls.

The way that this works is that it chooses a random coordinate within range, runs a collision check in a small circle around that coordinate, and if there’s nothing there, it spawns the enemy and repeats the process until all of the enemies have spawned in. Doing it in sequence like this gives the player a chance to process each enemy as it spawns in, and that little animation make it not only look better but draws the player’s eye to the new threat. In the future, I’d like enemies to not act for a second or so after spawning in as well, to really help sell their warping in.

Though, admittedly, there were a few issues before I worked out the best way to check a coordinate as a valid spawning point.

This dramatically shifted the way the game plays, and for the better. By spawning in enemies anywhere, they come from multiple directions which encourages the player to keep moving to avoid the incoming attacks instead of standing still firing at a horde.

The next major change to make was to have the enemies figure out how to move around obstacles. This turned out to be much easier than I expected it to be. GameMaker has built-in pathfinding tools, which is pretty standard for most game engines nowadays. So to make the enemies figure out the concept of walls, the first thing I did was convert the level to a grid at the end of level generation, with the empty space being valid terrain while walls and pits are not. Like so.

Then I told the enemies to use that grid to navigate their way towards the player until they were close enough, at which point they stop moving so they can stand there and shoot at you. This had a small problem, however, in that standing just around the corner meant that they would stop pursuing you because they were close enough even though they couldn’t shoot you. I fixed this using a simple line check. Much like that circle check I used to determine if a spawn point was valid, this one line of code checks for objects in a specific place—namely, in a straight line between the enemy and the player. If there is still an obstruction, the enemy continues following their pathfinding to walk around it.

The other big thing I did last week is far more minor than the other two, but still important. Enemies can now drop hearts when they die, and picking these up will restore some of the player’s health! This, combined with the reduced number of enemies per floor, gives the player a lot more longevity than they had before, while also introducing new decisions to make on the fly. Like, “is it worth it to try and leap into that crowd of enemies for that heart, or is there a better way to get it?”

I also gave it a small sheen animation to draw the eye, and a flicker effect to show when it’s close to expiring.

Progress on this project has been incremental; comes with the territory of being a solo dev working in my spare time. But with this, all I need to do is fill out the random upgrades, figure out a boss fight, and get some non-placeholder art assets (or at least better placeholders) and I’ll have a full demo on my hands.

Until next Devlog!

-DeusVerve

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[airi-of-hearts]

♥️ The Monster Within ♥️

The worst thing Airi has done to survive in the Borderlands.

Hearts. It had to be a Hearts game, of course.

Airi hadn’t given much thought to any sort of moral code back in the real world. She obviously knew what was right, what was wrong, what was valued in polite society and what kind of behavior was discouraged. But it wasn’t as if her morals were put to the test in such an extreme way in her day-to-day life.

Don’t cheat on an exam, sure.

Don’t push the girl who ruined your audition down the stairs, fine.

On and on: Do no harm. Do unto others. The golden rule.

In general, she minded her own business, even when sometimes she couldn’t raise her voice to defend herself, something fierce awoke within her when it came to standing up for her friends. “Mistreat me, I might let it pass; mistreat my friends and I’ll kick your ass” could have been her motto.

The Borderlands were deadly. In more ways than one, for this was also a place where parts of you could die even if your body didn’t. Your kindness, your ability to care for others, your will to live even.

Hearts.

Eight players, divided in pairs assigned randomly. Each pair could pick their own game, the winner of that game would clear the game, the loser would be eliminated. Players could cheat or otherwise try to win their games to the best of their abilities. If they couldn’t decide on a game or if there wasn’t a clear winner by the end of the allotted time—thirty minutes—, then both players would die.

There was a table with a chess board, a deck of cards, even a gun in case anyone felt like playing Russian roulette.

The players looked at each other, assessing their possible rivals, weighing who they’d have the best chance to win against.

A second later the screen lit up announcing the first pair: two young men that had entered the arena together. Tough luck. They looked at each other, then at the table, then both shook their heads and went to a corner of the room to talk.

The second pair was more mismatched: an older lady and a middle-aged man. The man all but ran to the table to pick up the deck of cards. ‘Poker!’ he yelled. The older lady considered for a moment then shrugged and nodded. Both of them walked wordlessly to another corner of the room to play.

So that was the trust part, every player would try to convince the other to play what they wanted, and surely all of them would try to cheat somehow.

The burly man who got paired with a skinny girl immediately proposed arm wrestling. Airi didn’t pay attention to what the girl said because she was already analyzing the last player, the one she would have to beat to clear the game. He was a young man, perhaps her age, maybe even a few years younger. He seemed anxious, scared to death. With good reason. So it’s either you or me, she thought.

She looked around the room. The guys that had arrived together were still deep in conversation, surely trying to find a way to clear the game together. That was not possible, it was not in the rules. Whatever happened, the winners would have blood on their hands.

Of course, someone could take the high road, choose to sacrifice themselves. And for what?

The screen showed Airi’s face along with that of the young man. She smiled at him. He looked at the table and then at her, undecided. Good.

‘I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel like playing chess, come on, let’s talk for a bit,’ she said.

He followed her to the remaining corner of the room.

Airi was glad none of the people she knew were here. She had promised them, she had promised her friends she would return. Andro, Cass and Hérc, Yalina, Unmei, Caspian, her beloved Aki, she thought about them. What would Soma say? What would Chishiya do? Well, if she wanted to ask them, she would have to make sure she’d see them again.

She talked to the young man, trying to make it sound like she was as scared as he was, stalling for time.

‘Let’s just flip a coin for it,’ she suggested casually with three minutes until the time ran out, taking out a coin from the back pocket of her denim shorts. ‘Good luck,’ she added.

Airi threw the coin in the air and called ‘Heads!’

The coin fell flat on the floor. Heads.

The guy was terrified, but his fear was short-lived. A little over a minute later, four red lasers took out the four players who had lost their games.

Airi picked her coin from the floor before it got drenched in blood. Her lucky two-faced coin. She barely heard the voice announce: ‘Congratulations! Game cleared.’

The moment the young man trusted her, she knew she’d won.

[ladala99]

Wolvden - Pack Restructure Planning

It’s come to my realization that this whole breeding project thing is 1) not fun, and 2) takes up a lot of space that I could be using for things that are more fun to me.

And my Non-Canon pack was created based on the game’s original breeding limitations, which are no more, plus my desire to do a breeding project, which I no longer wish to do.

My Canon pack was small due to the game’s original limitations as well. Now there’s a much greater chance for expansion.

So next generation (which will be after I am on Lioden for a generation) I plan to do something different. A complete restructure with more drama, more canon wolves, and hopefully more fun gameplay!

Setup Everybody in the breeding project group will be chased and I will see if anything from the Non-Canon Hunters group should be salvaged due to their higher stats. Probably not many, though, if any. Emergency Raffle Girls will continue to exist as they have a very important niche plus only take up three spaces.

The Canon Pack will stick around, however, and more intact than previously. Before, I would just have the lead pair stick around and slowly chase the other wolves once pups become of age to become the new Canon Pack. No more. The royal line gets to spread itself a little farther, now, and the new leader’s siblings may have pups of their own. If they’re lucky.

Sub-packs While the main pack will slowly become filled with the pups of the main pair, the rest of the pack will splinter. I’ll be starting with just one sub-pack, though I will probably increase the number fairly quickly.

Sub-packs will be centered around their own hunting teams, and will grow families of their own. Each will be led by a member of the royal family, though they may not be the only breeding pair of said pack! Or even breed at all, potentially.

Breeding The main pack and each sub-pack will split the number of breedings available each month as equally as they can. The main pair will always get priority no matter what.

But this seems like it’ll get excessive really fast, right? Well, there’s a couple of things that will be making it less so.

New Wolf Intake For every 3 royal family wolves, there will be 1 new wolf from some other source.

I’ll be reserving a group - possibly putting them in with the ERGs - to new NBW intake. Any Chased wolf I want to keep or just any really nice-looking wolf will start here. Once there is a slot for them, I’ll choose one to enter a pack.

If there are not enough NBWs to bring in, a wolf of my choice from a randomly-generated page in the Enclave may be adopted.

Intakes will based on the total number of royal wolves in all packs, but they will be assigned a pack randomly. This means they may end up in an overpopulated pack or one that doesn’t have any eligible mates.

In addition, all intake wolves will have their personalities rolled completely, including sexuality(1/10 chance of not hetero) and preference towards royal or non-royal wolves, whereas before I had intakes have the most convenient sexuality and preference.

Currently, I have a 50/50 chance for a royal wolf to prefer wolves from the non-canon pack and NBWs. I will still have this 50/50 chance, but now for royal wolves this means Intakes vs. pups between intakes, and for non-royals it means royals vs. non-royals.

All this means is that it will be much harder for a compatible pair to exist!

When doing Enclave picks, I will be roll where the pup is going and each pup’s personality so that I can be fully selective in my choices.

Premature Death Another limiting factor is that life will now be more dangerous. To keep the pack from getting too large, once a threshold for the total adult pack wolves is met (max hunting teams+~2 Pupsitters per hunting team+other more limited roles(4), so right now it’d be 32 for me), every week I will be randomizing wolves to die to get back down to the threshold.

The randomization will be by sub-pack, and then by wolf, so wolves in a larger sub-pack are safer than those in a smaller one, because inequality makes more drama.

To make things a little less dire, I can re-randomize within the sub-pack to another wolf if I don’t like the first choice. But only once - if it’s the same wolf or one I like even better, too bad! They’re gone. (This is going to happen to a Tier 3 or a mutated one or something, I just know it)

If the Lead Wolf dies, I’m not spending GC to replace them officially, but as far as pack lore/function goes, they’ll be dead and a new leader will be chosen! Voted for and everything. I will do everything in my power to not let it happen, though. At least with the initial leader.

If a sub-pack’s lead wolf dies, there’ll be a vote within the sub-pack only for a new leader. The royal line will have priority in being options, but if there are none left or only one left, non-royalty can become sub-leader.

One-off Roles Roles such as Herbalist, Scout, and Mentor will by default be from the main leader’s pack. However, if they need replacing, they will be replaced by a wolf from the largest pack or sub-pack.

Gridlocks and Consolidation/Migration There is a chance that there may be no wolves who can breed due to conflicting preferences and small sub-pack size. If this occurs and no wolves in the full pack can breed, then wolves may migrate between sub-packs to find a suitable mate.

If a sub-pack becomes too small, the wolves in it may decide to join another sub-pack. Doing so will free up the space for another of the full pack’s Lead Wolf’s pups to start a sub-pack.

Creating New Sub-packs New sub-packs can only be created by a sibling or direct descendant of the Lead Wolf, once they have a pair-bond and at least one pup (can be adopted). A new Sub-pack can only be created when there is another hunting team slot open.

Voting Voting will be pretty much unchanged. Leader gets 4 votes, Leader’s mate gets 3, Leader’s direct descendants get 2 votes, and all other wolves get 1. Most votes will be done pack-wide as is the case now.

Leadership Choices I’ll be keeping the same three categories for leadership choices: best-looking (in my opinion), best stats (now based on birth stats since those are visible now), and the wolf that votes the winning choice most often.

As they are now, only direct descendants of the previous Lead Wolf can be the next full-pack Lead Wolf.

While choosing a new Lead Wolf will change the eligibility of leaders of the sub-packs, the reigning leaders will not be ousted from their roles. It will only affect who becomes sub-pack leader once the current leader needs replacing.

Other Alterations From My Current Gameplay

“Home Biome” when generating a wolf’s preferences will now be the biome they are born in as listed on their page rather than the pack’s “Home Biome” as a whole. NBWs’ “Home Biome” is the biome they were found in. NBWs also roll personality when obtained and can be chosen between when they enter the pack.

When Lead Wolf changes in the full game (aka previous Lead Wolf becomes 8 and retires), I can customize the Lead Wolf and Mate completely. I get enough GC that I can justify this. My limited choices might make it more difficult to get pretty wolves consistently, after all.

All wolves will have one Focus Stat randomized at birth/adoption/befriending. The other Focus Stat will be selected by me.

What Will Stay the Same Most general gameplay. I’ll still be using the same Herbalist limitations and Biome Movement/Scouting limitations as before. Still voting for where to Hunt, what to focus on buying/siding with during events, and such. Leader gameplay will be pretty much unchanged. It’s mostly just pack management that will be changing.

[fnrrfygmschnish]

So, recently I've found myself watching a lot of YouTube videos of random people talking about various versions of D&D and related games, and though I've never actually played anything it's been pretty interesting.

I ended up ordering this book, and it showed up at the post office this week!

It's essentially the same rules as a version of "basic D&D" (as opposed to Advanced D&D, because for weird legal reasons they had to have two separate D&D product lines back then) that was going around in the early 80s, but with certain names changed to avoid legal trouble (you can't call your floating eyeball monster a Beholder or use the term "Dungeon Master," or they'll sue you.)

After reading through a bit, I decided to poke around with character creation a bit and then did a bit of a "test run" of the combat rules. So here's our party, as represented by random toys I had lying around...

Stomptoitles the cleric, who was so broke that he had to choose between armor and a holy symbol; ended up going with the armor because it was somewhat unclear exactly what the holy symbol was used for and I figured it was only needed for casting spells -- which clerics in this version don't get until level 2!

Wimp Lo the thief. We trained him wrong on purpose, as a joke! He started out broke too, but thankfully the ammo for his sling was just random rocks he found on the ground.

Jason Wideman the fighter, who was very unlucky with his HP roll (ending up with only 3 HP), but much luckier with his starting money roll (he could afford plate mail *and* a shield on top of various other starting stuff.) He was also terribly unlucky with his to-hit rolls, which I took as his not terribly smart self (int 9 and wis 7) taking a while to realize that sticking a spear between a skeleton's ribs only works if they *have* anything between their ribs.

And Neen Jah the magic-user, who looks like a ninja because it turned out I didn't really have any figurines who looked even vaguely wizard-y. Just for fun, I rolled his starting spell randomly rather than picking Magic Missile or something -- and ended up with "Read Languages" which was, of course, not useful in a fight. So I had him use some of his nicely sized pile of starting gold to buy a tinderbox and a bunch of flasks of oil and "cast" Molotov Cocktail instead.

I had them come across a group of skeletons (some of which look like mummies because it turned out I only had two of these dollar store skeletons and one didn't want to stand up on its own.) I rolled randomly to see how many and got six, which seemed like a bit much -- so I had them show up in two waves. Once they had taken care of three, two more appeared from around a corner!

Poor ol' Stomptoitles forgot he had the power to "Turn Undead," and got killed in one hit (the sword wielding skeleton slashed him for 5 damage, and he only had 4 HP.)

Neen Jah, lacking a usable spell and not wanting to get up close, chucked holy water (which missed) and then a couple flasks of burning oil (one of which hit, and the damage from the lingering fire destroyed that skeleton the next turn), but got unlucky when the last two arrived -- his last oil flask missed, then one ran up and killed him.

Jason fought a group of them up close pretty much the whole time, with his armor ensuring that they almost never hit him -- he only actually got hit twice despite being the focus of 2-3 skeletons pretty much the whole time. Plate mail and a shield together feels *really* strong, which seems appropriate. Eventually he was beaten, thanks to his unfortunately low HP and a lucky roll from one of the last two skeletons, but it took a while and he finished off a couple skeletons pretty much singlehandedly.

Wimp Lo got hit once early on and then immediately ran 50 feet away to snipe at them with sling-stones from a safe distance... but because we trained him wrong on purpose as a joke, he kept rolling 1s and 2s. When he did hit, though, those rocks did the job pretty well! He took out more skeletons than anyone else and in the end was the only survivor.

Some thoughts on things that stood out to me: plate mail and ranged weapons both feel really strong, which seems fitting for the whole medieval fantasy concept. I noticed that I started coming up with more description of what was happening over time -- how when a skeleton rolled a 5 it just missed its target entirely, while an 8 meant the attack bounced off Jason's armor and a 15 was close enough that it had to be actively blocked with his shield. Character HP being a die roll at level 1 leads to very fragile characters so I can definitely see why more recent versions let you go with the max possible HP at level 1 and only rolling dice for it after that. The idea of the wizard throwing Molotov cocktails for lack of an attacking spell was a lot of fun and more than makes up for the fact that you only get a single use of one spell at 1st level.

It was a pretty neat first experience with the game, and basically my first experience with *any* game along these lines. Despite the lack of... y'know... other people to play with. Maybe someday!

[pomrania]

…never thought I'd have an idea for a game that uses PLAYING CARDS, given how much I like dice, but here I am. It started last night when I already had another idea, but I was trying to come up with three different ideas all total, then I realized "you know this has some potential", and then I was lost. I still intend to come up with some other gaming things based on this idea! It's just that I need to do THIS one FIRST, because I already have it.

Materials required: deck of playing cards, possibly some way of writing things down (depending on whatever I work out for end conditions)

Slightly different from the stuff above, as the in-game goal here is to drag out the discussion as long as possible, but also to conclude it with "we can't make any progress on summoning the Great Old Ones at the moment".

At the start, everyone picks a suit of cards. Try to distribute them as evenly as possible; if there are four or fewer players, don't have any repeats. The suit you've chosen represents your accepted knowledge or expertise within the cultists: spades for Forbidden Lore, hearts for Connections, diamonds for Money, and clubs for [something thematic I need to figure out still].

Randomly deal out cards to each player (the exact amount needs to be determined eventually). Play starts with the person whose birthday is closest to the current date; in case of a tie, it goes to the upcoming date, and then to the younger person if a second tie-breaker is needed.

To start a round, you play a card from your hand (generally the lowest one), and give a reason why you can't start the summoning ritual any time soon. The next person in order plays a valid card from their hand, and responds with a reason why the previous argument isn't valid (and they CAN start the summoning ritual). The person after that, plays a valid card from their hand and says why THAT argument wasn't valid, and they CAN'T start the ritual; and so forth. You play a card from your hand, and you respond to the previous person's argument; so it goes back and forth between "we can do it" and "we can't do it". If you can't think of a way to respond to the previous statement, but you CAN play a valid card, it's highly encouraged for the rest of the group to help come up with something together; "being able to play a valid card" is what represents in-game being able to come up with a good response.

Generally, you can only play a card if it's of equal or greater value than the previous card. Aces count as having a value of 1, then there's 2-10, jack - queen - king. So if the previous card was a four, and in your hand you have a three and a seven and a nine, only the seven and the nine are valid cards to play; but you'd probably want to play the seven, as it's lower, which means a greater chance of the next person being able to continue.

If you find you have no valid cards to play, then in-game you have no response to the previous argument, and that issue is settled in favour of what they'd said. (And something about it might get recorded, in some manner; that's still to be worked out.) Begin a new round, starting with you.

There's two instances where the suit you'd picked, is relevant. First, if you have a face card (jack, queen, king) of your suit, you can play it on your turn to end the round in favour of "we can't start the ritual". (The next person then begins the next round, after you say your thing.) In-game, this represents you calling on your acknowledged expertise; you know what you're talking about, so if you say it isn't feasible, who are they to question you. You can choose not to use this; the goal is for all discussions to be settled in the proper direction, but also for them to take as long as possible, which is unlikely to happen if you play "the round ends now" as the second or third card of a round.

Second, the ace of your suit can be played regardless of the previous card's value; and since it has a value of 1, it essentially resets the clock. This represents you calling on your expertise to say "we've missed a foundational issue here"; your point needs to be somehow related to the current discussion, but doesn't need to be a direct response to the previous person's argument.

At the end, however rounds are tallied up, there are a few options. If you were lucky, and you were able to often enough give good enough reasons why the summoning ritual couldn't be started, and drag things out long enough where you couldn't, that's the ideal; the cultist group gradually disbands, leaving the world intact and you still alive to enjoy it. Otherwise, you all die; at the hands of the more fanatic cultists, if they realized you were stalling, or at the tentacles of your summoned dark god, if you went along with the plan for too long; and the world might or might not survive, but you're not around to find out either way.

Feedback is encouraged, especially if you have any familiarity with stats distributions when using playing cards, or how to mathematically represent two different factors which need to be considered for "win condition" (discussions that end on "we can't start the ritual now", and length of discussions). Feedback on either of those issues can also be compensated with artwork of your pet as a dragon or as a wizard.

Game idea: Don't Call Cthulhu. You are all cultists, but none of you REALLY want to summon the Great Old Ones to destroy and recreate the world in their own fearsome image; however, you dare not appear reluctant, lest you get used as a sacrifice by more fanatical cultists.

Game mechanics revolve around coming up with reasonable-sounding objections to starting the ritual now, arguing against those objections so you don't look like you're giving in easily, and finding ways to uphold any objections while still making it seem like progress has been made towards starting the ritual.

Eg, "we don't have any chalk to draw the diagram", "we can just get some chalk", "we need the highest-quality chalk possible in order to do this perfectly, which we'll need to special order".

[foxstens]

finished ender lilies. time to talk about it

god damn this game is so fucking beautiful. the atmosphere, the art, the music, the backgrounds, the story of each boss and miniboss you encounter, the cutscenes. it’s all so fucking beautiful. AND SO FUCKING SAD. like i wasn’t paying 100% attention to the story and have yet to watch a video about the Lore but fuck everything about this game is just so sad. what i did get about the story was all very reminiscent of hollow knight just even sadder and bleaker since unlike in hk where despite the world going to shit there’s still people around just doing their thing and, you know, surviving, in this case there’s none of that. even blasphemous still had some people around. ender lilies? no one but you and your spirits. it is so sad

the game kind of suffers because of this, personally i like having characters to get attached to in any media i consume but in this case it’s really only lily and the spirits, and while the spirits do all have their sad-as-fuck stories and they do end up feeling like your friends by the end, it’s just. there wasn’t as much catharsis as there could have been imo. might also be bc of the lack of voice acting, which isn’t a bad thing per se, it was just very noticeable to me.

the game has a really big map, in the beginning it feels very linear like every room is just a rectangle and you’re going in a straight path but pretty much after the first two areas it opens up and you get access to two areas simultaneously, after which you get to choose between three areas. and as you go through those you just randomly find yourself in other areas - which is one of my favourite experiences in these types of games

it’s actually pretty hard to get lost in this game in my experience, because the areas and the in-game rooms all feel very distinct and the unreachable items/paths are pretty memorable but the actual map fucking sucks. like having a minimap that shows your position and incomplete areas and unchecked exits is a great concept, but the map doesn’t actually show you the location of anything and it also doesn’t reflect the layout of the rooms so it is easy to get lost if you’re trying to follow the map. basically the exploration is fun except that upgrades are often hidden and you don’t have map markers or anything so it’s super easy to miss stuff and when you have to use an online map to go from place to place and pick up all the shit you missed or can access now - that’s when it gets a lot less fun. eh that was only about an hour for me at the very end of the game so it’s not horrible but still. a better map would’ve made the exploration so much better

in regards to exploration there’s also the sheer number of enemies. it didn’t bother me while first going through an area but when backtracking or trying to actually explore sometimes there’s just so many of them and they’re hard to avoid... so annoying. i do appreciate the fast travel though, benchwarping is so cool and i never felt like the benches were too far apart even if some rooms and shortcuts did get confusing at times. bosses in particular never had a bench be more than one or two rooms away. 

as for the gameplay, i enjoyed it a lot. the movement felt smooth and responsive, and i got the hang of the dodge really fast, though it felt a lot better when i finally got it upgraded into a real dash. i played on keyboard and had absolutely no issues, everything worked as intended, no complaints there. 

the combat is also fine, it took a while getting used to how little impact there is when you hit something, but it makes sense because it’s basically ghosts fighting ghosts. and different weapons feel different, so that’s nice. the enemies are pretty varied, i liked all of them apart from one particular type of enemy which shows up in the bullshit area of the game and is, of course, complete bullshit. by the way the boss in that area is also bullshit - even if it didn’t take any more tries than the other bosses

i did appreciate the sheer variety of the spirits you get, but most of them felt pretty situational and i only felt the need to get creative with them until the last two bosses. it doesn’t help that you literally can’t max upgrade all of them without grinding for hours, so that was a bit of a wasted opportunity

the relics also felt a bit uninspired, sure all of them were useful but i also barely ever changed them because i had enough slots for what i needed - like with the spirits i only felt the need to get creative during the last boss - or to do the jump puzzles which... why do they even exist in the first place lmao

as for the difficulty... hm. im really bad at gauging that in general but. i wouldn’t call this an easy game, but i also wouldn’t say it’s hard. i think it’s a game you can play and beat casually, but you probably won’t have fun if you don’t put a little effort into learning some stuff. idk if that makes it hard. i actually have no idea what makes a game hard overall

but the bosses i’d say are downright easy apart from the last two. because once you realize what their telegraphs are and you start paying attention to that, you also realize that there is about a thousand year gap between the telegraph and the actual attack. if you have a basic grasp on the dodge ability it’s so easy to whale on them you don’t have to worry until they enter their third phase and go into crazy mode, but even that shouldn’t be too hard bc they only gain a tiny speed boost and like two attacks, and you can just cheese them with the right spirits. or you can just keep doing what you did until then and dodge at the right time and whale on them afterward lmao

the two bosses that this doesn’t apply to are also not actually difficult to figure out, but they are hard to defeat because they have a fuckton of health and they do a shitton of damage. the second to last boss has one particular attack that’s impossible to dodge if you don’t jump dash and land with the right timing, or keep yourself in the air for like 5 seconds. it’s fucking bullshit. and the last boss is conceptually so fucking easy, he only has three actual attacks and you avoid all of them by keeping yourself in the centre of the arena and airborne, but he does spawn adds that do a fuckton of damage and take multiple hits to kill no matter the weapon. the last boss is amazing looks-wise but as a fight it is not fun or engaging at all. def at the bottom of the list of final bosses i’ve fought 

so i guess this post has quite a lot of negatives but i really did enjoy the game, i did pretty much everything the base game had to offer and never felt like quitting for any reason, it’s not the best game ever due to all of the things i mentioned above and it was also shorter than i would’ve expected and liked it to be. i do think it’s a great game, seems pretty underrated as far as i’ve seen even tho it has a lot to offer and tbh i’ll probably end up replaying it pretty soon or just more often than i’d typically consider. 

[broomsticks]

BROOMSTICKS MY LOVE! It was so hard to choose but I'm going with 9, 25, 28, and/or 32, with 25 and 28 absolutely being inspired by our conversation just now XD

from this fic writer ask game (no time limit on this, feel free to ask anytime!) 

❤️❤️❤️ oooooo you picked some great ones!

9. Tag 3 fic writers you think are underrated/unknown in the fandom/fanfiction community.

oooooh so i don’t really quite know who’s unknown, but some new people i’ve loved following since the last time i posted shoutouts to hp/marauders/wolfstar & misc-fandom/pan-fandom blogs:

@leogichidaa! amazing regulus & black family meta (sirius and regulus and healing from enmeshment, the lost boys: sirius, percy, and BCJ) and fic

@tracingpatternswrites whose Sirius' first full moon in Azkaban fic murdered me

@everythingbutcoldfire -- lovely lovely valentine’s day aroace remus lupin fic, and excellent reblogs & thoughts on aroacespec stuff too

i refuse to stick to 3 haha it doesnt count if i rec people for things other than fic right???

@mkaugust writes wonderful poetry & also microfic may wolfstar!

@carlav-blogs so wholesome! those tattoos!!! the details are ENDLESS.

@remixloonylupin the tenderness. your style. oh my gosh. (pspspspss also writes incredible fic about transness and psychosis) 

25. Do you listen to music as you write? If possible, link your writing playlist.

hmmmm some of the time, maybe half? i definitely listen to music a lot BEFORE i start writing, to get me into the mood/ clear my head sorta — it’s also happened before, once or twice, that i’m poking around spotify without the intention of writing and i get randomly bitten by the urge to fling out some words. not necessarily good words, but — whatever, we take those XD

28. How do you deal with writing pressure (ie: pressure to update, negative comments, deadlines, etc)?

uhhhh BADLY. (also, my writing pressure is pretty much all internal rather than externally imposed, if that matters!)

1) sometimes i try to push through the bad, and — sometimes it works, honestly. sometimes brain is just being a dumb and cuts out the tantrum after a while.

2) trying to get my head in the right space — so, music, and — that’s mostly why i have these lying around tbh: self care tag / encouragement / overcoming perfectionism

3) venting to understanding people!!! one of the most important things i’ve found (am still learning) is that so many people—literally even the most amazing ‘why are you not writing original fiction you could be making a killing’ / ‘you??? reading MY TRASH?? why do you even BOTHER honestly’ writers—can relate to these writing struggles! & not just the struggle, but also that indescribable desire to do it anyway. it’s weird and wonderful and literally the only reason i even dared to start let alone am still going (ish) hahaha

32. Copy and paste your top three favorite lines/jokes/sentences you’ve ever written. What fics do they come from?

billie believe me when i tell you i agonized over these for A G E S, seriously considered skipping the question, etc etcetcetc

from my andromeda halloween/yule drabble series, star of wonder:

The tree itself was still as green as ever. It would look just at home bare out in the biting cold, or all dressed up beside the roaring hearth fire. Unchanged, steadfast, evergreen. Just the same in the cozy Hufflepuff common room filled with the aroma of baking bread and the elegant Slytherin one with its enchanting music, in the Black family manor or in the Tonks’s small Muggle cottage.

the summary of my peter drabble, Resolution:

Since he was eleven, Peter’s New Year’s Resolution had always been the same: this year I will be braver.

the last sentence to my RL fest remadora, the grace unasked for:

And he learns that, even at the furthest ends of the earth, you're always sheltered under the same sky, watched over by the same moon.

especially because it was pointed out to me by a lovely commenter that this is apparently really similar to a poem that i may have come across before but certainly don’t consciously remember!

thank youuu for the ask!

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 287: Family Reunion

Previously on BnHA: The Tomura For One VS Deku And Pals clusterfuck reached new levels of clustfuckery as AFO possessed Tomura’s body and stabbed Kacchan and Endeavor. Shouto was all “good thing I leveled up offscreen so as to be able to fly around whilst carrying 400lbs worth of people”, and did just that and it was like, damn, son. Meanwhile Deku’s rage went Mach 100, and he kicked Tomura’s ass for almost two whole seconds, but in the process he apparently forgot that IF TOMURA TOUCHES HIM THAT IS VERY BAD, and so he stupidly let Tomura touch him and Tomura was all “GAME, SET.” Fortunately for Deku, his quirk plays by its own rules, and so the chapter ended with us cutting to the METAPHYSICAL OFA/AFO PARANORMAL DREAMSCAPE OF MYSTICAL BULLSHIT, where AFO!Vestige was all “lol Tomura y u mad”, and Nana!Vestige was all “SUP DEKU, YOU’RE JUST IN TIME, LOOKS LIKE IT’S ASSKICKING O’CLOCK.” I’m paraphrasing a bit, but that’s more or less the gist of it.

Today on BnHA: AFO is all “well if it isn’t Tomura’s grandmother who I murdered that one time”, and Deku is all “?”, and AFO is all “fucking vestiges, man, wild”, and Deku is all “??”, and AFO is all “ANYWAYS GETTIM TOMURA”, and OFA is all “NOT SO FAST”, and Deku is all “???”, and really, same. AFO then goes off on some wild tangent about how Deku is unworthy because he couldn’t protect everyone and needed help from OFA and got mad about his friends being stabbed, which is such a cold take it gave me hypothermia, but it ends up not mattering since Deku and Tomura both wake up seconds later with OFA still in the possession of its rightful owner, HOW ABOUT THAT. The chapter ends with the LoV approaching on Gigantomachia’s back with Dabi practically salivating at the mouth, and Toga trying to reignite an old fandom blood feud. Toga why would you do this to me. Toga.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

[CROWD LOSING THEIR MINDS] FINALLY THE NANA HAS COME BACK TO BNHA!! IF YA SMELLLLL WHAT THE NANA IS COOKIN!!!!! [RINGSIDE BELL CHIMING WILDLY] [LOUD AIRHORN NOISES]

“chapter 287: mistake” omg. yeah I’ll say you made a mistake, AFO. I HOPE YOU ENJOY THESE FLEETING LAST MOMENTS OF YOUR SHITTY EVIL LIFE

(ETA: so in all seriousness this must be referring to AFO’s belief that All Might/OFA made a mistake in choosing Deku, right? “I can’t believe you went and chose this shounen manga protagonist as your champion, what were you thinking.” I’ll just put this out there: however many comic books AFO read as a child, it clearly was not enough.)

wow Deku how slow are you

yes you’re inside OFA you dimbulb, did you think your clothes suddenly vanished out of the blue and the ghost of Nana just randomly appeared in the real world by some freak coincidence?? can you believe this kid. breaks his arms a measly 10-15 times in a row and all of a sudden he can’t think straight, get it together Deku

but also brb having a moment at the fact that his thoughts immediately run back to Kacchan, even with all of this nonsense going on and Nana about to lay the beatdown on AFO’s potato-lookin’ ass. forget that noise, all he wants to know is whether or not Kacchan is all right. fuckin’ geez. AM I OVERREACTING HERE A BIT. probably

(ETA: ALSO!! the way he just trails off!! “Kacchan is...” and then he can’t bring himself to complete the thought. oh my god my heart.)

HOLY SHIT

okay,

damn but this man sure knows how to ruffle my feathers. as eminently detestable as ever!!

could it be any clearer here that AFO is not on Tomura’s side?? for a moment I thought he had actually grabbed him by the back of the head in order to get him to look. but nope, he’s just resting his pointing hand on top of his head instead while he’s all “HEY TOMURA LOL IT’S THE GHOST OF YOUR DEAD PATHETIC GRANDMA”

for those keeping track at home, this would be the first time that Deku has heard this information -- that Tomura is Nana’s grandson -- and possibly the first time Vestige!Nana has heard it as well. Nana died when Kotarou was still a child, so for all we know the Vestige!Nana didn’t even know she had a grandson, lol. TODAY ON “MAKESTE RANTS AT LENGTH ABOUT THINGS THAT WILL PROBABLY BE ADDRESSED WITHIN THE NEXT THREE PANELS”, anyway moving on

lmao for the record I fucking LOLed at this giant question mark immediately bubbling up over Deku’s head

no idea what AFO is about to ramble on about now, haven’t read that far yet. but let the record show that Deku’s immediate reaction to hearing “BTW NANA IS YOUR ARCHNEMESIS’S GRANDMA LULZ” is everything I could have hoped for

(ETA: fandom nailed the shit out of this one with the confused Mr. Krabs meme lmao.)

okay so now AFO is monologuing at length about how he would sometimes have “riveting dreams” about the previous owners of all the quirks he stole. but once he gave the quirks away they stopped bothering him?? holy moly let me just take all the notes

okay so he’s saying that Vestiges are created whenever someone has their quirk stolen by AFO. but if they then disappear when he gives the quirks away, does that also mean that whoever receives the quirks also gets the original owner’s Vestige bundled in every time?? that would be wild okay hold up let me read the rest of this

so he’s saying that the Vestiges are actually the “consciousnesses” of the original quirk owners, which have become embedded in their dna or something. SOUNDS INCREDIBLY DUBIOUS TO ME LOL but on the other hand this is a world where children can be born with airplane heads, so my disbelief can hardly afford to pick and choose what it’s gonna be suspended at! anyways though, how does he know he’s the only one who was able to converse with them? did you conduct detailed six-month follow-up interviews with everyone you gave quirks to or what

and if it really is the case that this ability was formerly exclusive to him, isn’t that more evidence than ever that OFA and AFO are actually THE EXACT SAME QUIRK oh whoops am I getting ahead of myself again, sorry

MEANWHILE TOMURA IS ALL, “GRANDMA?”

“WHY AM I HERE, WELL LET ME TELL YOU A STORY, GRANDSON. YOU SEE THAT MAN GROWING OUT OF YOUR RIBCAGE THERE? WELL IT’S JUST THE FUNNIEST THING, ACTUALLY”

WAIT SO IS HE SAYING THEY’RE SOULS OR NOT??

this makes it sound like they won’t ever get to rest, which sure sounds like a soul thing to me. well whatever, soul, consciousness, I guess it’s just semantics at the end of the day

anyways though, so this asshole is finally done talking (I’m sure that won’t last), so now we can finally have the heartwarming reunion we’ve all been waiting for

sigh

-- actually, no, not “sigh”!! you know what!! because Tomura says “whatever the reason���, but that’s only because he doesn’t actually have a fucking clue about the reason. like, I don’t know if the knowledge that AFO killed Nana would be enough to give him pause, but if he knew the whole story and knew that AFO was behind not only Nana’s death, but the rest of his family’s deaths as well... now that would be a whole different thing

anyway. but at least it’s becoming clearer now why AFO spent all that time raising Tomura up as his heir and brainwashing him even though he seems to have been planning this body takeover the whole time. it’s all because he loves making people miserable! yaaaaay

btw HAS NANA HAD THE EXACT SAME MOLE ON HER CHIN AS TOMURA THIS ENTIRE TIME WTF. am I just the least observant person who ever lived lmao

lol wtf

ground: [randomly starts exploding]

Deku: “ONE FOR ALL IS BEING ERODED!!!” LOL IS THAT WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE, OKAY THEN. I’ll take your word for it

y’all I cannot fucking get over this “AFO growing out of Tomura’s hip socket like a fucked-up ventriloquist dummy” shit though

you do realize that absolutely no one can take you seriously right now, right?? it’s important to me that you know this

WHAT’S THIS NOW

seems like SOMEONE has had it up to here with a certain SOMEONE ELSE’S bullshit lmaooo bye Felicia

I SAID GOOD DAY!!

you guys why is he not dying!!

-- OH DAMN

love how Deku is just lying there like “YOU KNOW THOSE DAYS WHERE YOU’RE LIKE, THIS MIGHT AS WELL HAPPEN.” poor Deku

(ETA: where in god’s name is OFA Prime standing. why are my thoughts fully consumed by this lmao.)

are Nana and OFA Prime even doing anything?? why are they sticking their arms out like that. wait hold up is this all a big metaphor for the back-and-forth going on between Tomura trying to steal OFA and OFA being all “actually no you can’t, please enter your password and click on all the boxes with bicycles in them to prove you’re a human first”?

OH SNAP OFA PRIME SAID NO THANKS

“SORRY BRO WE’VE ALREADY MADE OURSELVES AT HOME HERE”

I have only just noticed that metaphysical!Deku has the same scars as actual!Deku. and yet his arms are not currently broken! that doesn’t really seem consistent to me but whatever!! maybe he saved right before the boss battle, that would be smart of him

anyway, that’s great and all that OFA Prime is here helping out, but I really wanted to see Nana fight AFO in a one on one though so I’m a bit disappointed. also why is it only the two of them?? where are Banjou and the others. of all the times to be sleeping on the job

FOR FUCK’S SAKE, THIS MAN

WOULD YOU STOP. WOULD YOU JUST QUIT IT ALREADY

oh shit hold up

doesn’t this confirm that the reason he wanted to transfer his power to Tomura is because he believed it would make him strong enough to finally take OFA because of Quirk Singularity? jesus christ. and here he was so sure of himself. but it turns out he doesn’t actually know shit! you can’t just fucking take OFA like that ya dingdong that’s not how it works

(ETA: SO, A THOUGHT -- is there any sort of subtle hinting here in the way that he words this? “if your strength is combined with mine”, as opposed to “if my strength is combined with yours”? no idea if the admittedly-so-small-as-to-be-almost-inconsequential distinction between those two sentences exists in the original Japanese or not, but I find it very interesting that the English wording implies that he’s the one adding Tomura’s strength to his own, rather than vice versa.)

now he’s insulting Deku!!

excuse me sir WHO ASKED YOU anyway. and never mind that being consumed by an, AND I QUOTE, “unquenchable” rage is your protege’s whole THING, and that he also needed your help to avoid being burned to a crisp a short while ago. where do you get off I swear

(ETA: also just want to point out that in the panel before this one he says that he’s been “watching through Tomura”, which pretty much confirms that his consciousness or whatever is alive inside of him all the time. Tomura is definitely not getting rid of this guy any time soon.)

WOW

first he calls Kacchan useless, then he calls Deku a simpleton, and don’t even get me started with Nana. just, you guys. this man is just... a very, very rude man

NOW OFA IS ALL “THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT MAKES HIM SUCH A GOOD PROTAGNIST YOU BUTTMUNCH” AND OMG PREACH

“DESPITE HIS COMMON SENSE” sdfkllk my man he already has one brother roasting him, take it easy guy

AHH WHAT

IS THIS BACK IN THE REAL WORLD

YEP

hahaha nice try Tomura

so Deku’s all “I didn’t lose my power! BUT” and I assume the “but” is the part where his arms are still broken and shit, and meanwhile Tomura’s body is almost healed up now finally

they’re both wiped out and now AFO is again petitioning Tomura to let him take over goddammit

“you won’t lose your mind” yep, he sure won’t! scout’s honor!! pinky swear!!

meanwhile Deku is getting fucking desperate flkjl;k my baby. and Machia is going to show up any second now too, probably. what else can fucking go wrong at this point

oh shit I shouldn’t have asked

get ready to rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruuuumble, probably

OH MY GOD

WELL AT LEAST SOMEONE HERE IS HAVING A GOOD TIME. jesus

so as soon as he heard Endeavor was there he got all, “TIME FOR THE BIG REVEAL”, is that right? WELL JOKE’S ON YOU TOUYA, YOUR DAD DOESN’T SEEM ALL THAT CONSCIOUS AT THE MOMENT, SO THAT’S GOING TO DRAIN A LOT OF THE TENSION FROM THE SCENE WHEN YOU GO ALL REVERSE DARTH VADER ON HIM AND HE’S ALL “ZZZZZZZZ”

meanwhile Toga is having unsettlingly quiet angst

jesus christ Toga this is all we need right now

“WAS JIN-KUN NOT A PERSON” sdkfjlk Horikoshi I swear. please have mercy on this fandom. this is the debate that refuses to die!!

but seriously ffs, the issue isn’t that Jin deserved to die, it’s that the countless people whom Jin would have either directly or indirectly killed didn’t deserve to die either. people don’t only become people when you attach names and faces to them! we all loved Jin because we’d gotten to know him, but that doesn’t mean his life was inherently worth more than the lives of all the people he would have killed. sometimes there’s just no good answer

like, it’s just crazy to me that because the heroes are all “we want to protect everyone!” but then aren’t always able to do so because that’s literally impossible, whereas the villains are all “we don’t care about anyone other than the select few people that we actually like!”, the villains somehow wind up getting the better PR. it just so happens that it’s infinitely easier to be loyal to the interests of a few people as opposed to ALL THE PEOPLE. like, no shit, it’s easier to stick to your moral code when you barely have a moral code. and so the villains can kill thousands and no one bats an eye, but if a hero fails to save even one person they’re hypocritical moral failures. like what the hell

BUT ANYWAY, sorry to go off on a tangent there lol, it’s not really a big deal. I’m just preemptively trying to stave off more discourse about it lol but who am I even kidding

anyways lol, but of course they won’t kill you unless they have no choice, Toga. but when it comes to catch-22 situations, it’s a bit much to infer that the heroes don’t consider the villains people just because they opt for the choice that spares more innocent lives. I sure as hell don’t want my babies out here killing people, but to say that they can’t no matter what or else they’re no different from the villains is just...

anyway so the chapter has now just ENDED, just like that!! on a shot of Ochako’s face!

I SENSE ANOTHER THROWDOWN COMING. and it had better not be a total letdown like the last one! NANA BARELY DID ANYTHING HORIKOSHI, WHAT THE FUCK. I started out with such high hopes lol

but I will settle for Toga VS Ochako, and Deku VS Tomura: The Sequel: Shouto’s Revenge! SPEAKING OF HEROES WHO HAVE NO QUALMS ABOUT MURDERING PEOPLE lmao

[starryseung]

𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔 90'𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 [ 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒏𝒂𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 ]

𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒋𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒈

I would travel thousands of miles just to be with you.

𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈

you and han might’ve met at school, through mutual friends

then of course the classic ‘mutual pining without you two realizing you’re falling for each other’ game until one of your friends point it out

and then on days he doesn’t have a busy schedule, he’ll walk you home from school

slowly it’ll be a habit, and you’ll grow closer and closer

sometimes unconsciously he’ll intertwine your fingers with his

sometimes when it’s raining / freezing cold he’ll give you his jacket

“no ji, you’ll freeze to death,”

“at least i’ll freeze to death for you,”

*winks*

𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔

dates with jisung aren’t fixed at one spot

he loves showing you different places he discovered throughout the weekend

usually its the townside, because he loves watching nature and sunsets

also loves taking you through the woods (but only during broad daylight because he still hasn’t recovered from that werewolf story his friend told him in grade 2)

once you’ve reached your destination, he’ll laugh and jump up and down, kissing your hand and face a thousand times

but the journey towards the destination is literal hell

“y/n, i know men are supposed to carry women, but i’m pretty lightweight, and my legs might snap any moment now,”

“y/nnnn please gimme a piggy back ride up the hill i might faint”

“wow y/n i’m offended i don’t think you deserve all these awesome places i take you to,”

and when you glare at him, he’s a 180 flip, because you might just break his bones for choosing such a faraway location in the first place

“i-i mean you don’t deserve them because you’re so much prettier than them!”

𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔

okay see kisses with jisung are always quick and short because even if you’ve shared these moments a hundred times, each of them still feels like the first one

but sometimes he takes his time, kissing your forehead, then your nose, then your cheeks, then skips your lips and moves down to your chin

but when you pout / whine he’ll chuckle softly and come back up to kiss you

so yeah kissing with jisung is very giggly and soft all the time

but otherwise, he’d never notice how soft and bubbly his cheeks are if it weren’t for you

you’re always kissing and pinching his cheeks (like you should!!)

and he won’t act like he doesn’t like it; he’ll laugh it off or reciprocate your love because he feels very loved around you and wouldn’t change it for the world or better.

thank you, y/n

𝒍𝒆𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒙 

I want to grow old with you.

𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈

you first meet him at the café he works!

initially it wouldn’t be much, just you hurriedly ordering your coffee and leaving

but then you’ll notice the small hearts he scribbles after your name on the cup, sometimes even going as far to write a lil “you’ll do great!” or “you look really sweet today”

so one day you decide to go to his café with your friend

and while leaving you slip in your number to him, but turns out this ball of sunshine is trying to slip in his number to you; so you have a new thing to laugh about

so yeah you start hanging out after his shifts, sometimes you wait for him to close the café for the day

“y/n you know you don’t have to wait for me tonight, it’ll get pretty late,”

“no lixie, i’d rather go home late with you than go home alone,”

but he knows you only wait for him so that you can eat all the donuts and cupcakes with him after his shift ends

but its a win-win for both of you, so he doesn’t mind :D

𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔

so he knows it’s like top 10 anime betrayals to his workplace, but he loves taking you to pet cafés

one, because he loves animals

two, because you love animals

three, because he loves you playing around with these animals

“awh felix can we steal this one? it’s so cute,”

and he’s just laughing because you’re so c u t e

“i don’t think that’s allowed, y/n,”

but not gonna lie i bet he has tried sneaking out a dog for you, but he got caught by one of the workers there

“o-oh! when d-did this little guy fit into my j-jacket pocket!”

super adorable uwu

calls you angel and princess, while you’re calling him sunshine all the time

loves decorating your hair with flowers

oh! he loves braiding your hair too

like when you’re over at his place he’s always experimenting with your hair; doing little salon roleplays with you and prettying your hair

but sometimes when he’s tired from work he’ll let you braid his hair

also loves having matching outfits

before dating him you thought matching couple outfits were cliché and stupid, but after dating him, you realize how different they are

dating felix also means your fashion sense improves a lot👀

𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔

felix, like hyunjin, has very kissable lips

he probably tastes like vanilla,plus he’s a great kisser

you’re wondering where he learnt all that from

making out with felix happens every other day, but its usually in bed with him on top of you while you guys are watching some movie / playing video games

also he’ll probably end up sleeping like that as you two slowly get tired

his face on your chest / on your shoulders and hands tight around your waist

this boy really loves you okay you better not make him sad >:(

𝒌𝒊𝒎 𝒔𝒆𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒎𝒊𝒏 

You complete me.

𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈

at! the!! library!!!

you’re trying to pick a book from the second-to-top shelf, but since the universe decided to give you the most inconvenient height possible, here you are, contemplating if you should just drop the whole shelf down to get that book

but thankfully, seungmin is to the rescue!

he’ll smile and wordlessly take the book and hand it down to you

everyday its the same story; there’s a book that you really like, but its too far for you, but slowly you don’t mind because somehow seungmin is always there around at the same time to take that book for you

one day he decides to take initiative, but realizes he’s a coward and can’t do shit

so he’s over the moon when you come and sit next to him

“hey, i’m sorry for the trouble, but uhh i need some help with this assignment…”

and of course he’s there to help you! he’ll clarify where you need him to and explain you better than ever

slowly interactions increase and before you know it, you’re lying on your stomach on his bed with your legs dangling in the air as you two have your noses in a book

you learn more and more about each other, ultimately to the point where you know better about each other than about yourselves

𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔

initially when you two have just started dating, there would be study dates at the café down your block

but later you two take each other out on weekends, sometimes to the movies, sometimes to the town fair.

ahh but when dates are at the fair… >:)

let’s assume seungmin doesn’t have good experiences with rides

so naturally you will… take him to the rides only mwahaha

“y/n do you not love me? why are you doing this,”

you’re just evil laughing, you sadist

dates for seung-y/n are just sleepovers at each others house

he’s laughing like crazy when you’re messing shit up

“seungmin can you help me i’m stuck in this shirt,”

seungmin: proceeds to laugh for the next ten minutes at your contortionist-self

now unlike changbin, seungmin will not show you off to his friends

he doesn’t like the concept of ‘claiming you’, but he doesn’t like sharing you either.

“hey, isn’t that too revealing for a party?”

“seungmin? its a knee length skirt??”

𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔

kisses = pecks on the lips / cheeks

you’re simply cooking / studying and he’ll wrap his hands around your waist from behind and rest his head on your shoulder

“what is my y/n doinggg?”

and he’ll kiss your cheek

sometimes leans forward to kiss you on your lips too

but in general kisses are soft

he’ll have a hand on your stomach, one on the back of your neck to rub smooth comforting circles

to be honest your relationship is more like best friends because you’re just always there for each other and can talk about the most stupidest things openly

you: “you know i’ve heard stars are all our forefathers looking down at us,”

seung: “really? i though they were just balls of gas though,”

you: “nah, i don’t think that’s true,”

𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒋𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏

I love everything there is to love about you.

𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈

he moved in the same neighbourhood as yours, and since he was the only person around your age (and the only normal one your age), you had to be friends with him

you two meet up every evening at the neighbourhood park, and he doesn’t really mind your company, especially when you bring you little brother with you

“awh, is that your little brother? he’s so cute!”

“yeah, he is; thanks!”

“he looks nothing like you!”

he’s initially very shy to talk to you

but when he realizes how cool your personality is (and how pretty you are🤭)

he’s knocking at your door everyday to take you and your little brother to the park

he always buys you ice cream though, and somehow it’s always the flavour you like

“oh thanks jeo— ah i don’t like this flavour” :(

“don’t worry y/n! i’ll get you another one!”

𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔

homeboi is very shy

the fact that he’s dating the perfect person for him (!!!) is enough for butterflies and grasshoppers and bees and dinosaurs to fly in his stomach

he gets really fidgety, but he feels a little nervous thinking about the fact that most of the ‘firsts’ in your relationship are celebrated by you; first ‘kiss’ (to which he held your hand home, then went to his house to dolphin scream into his pillows), first ‘date’ (in which you took him out to the beach to watch the sunset and have snacks) and first ‘one month’ (where you took him out to an expensive restaurant, even when he refused a couple billion times)

phew that was a long point

so he decided to celebrate your first ‘out-of-town trip’, where he drove you all the way to a cherry blossom forest

he also took a thousand pictures of you, coming back home to print one of them and safely put it in his wallet

he feels every small moment spent with you so endearing, he finds himself smiling randomly

𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔

as previously mentioned, your first kiss was initiated by you; you two were walking home from the neighbourhood park like always, and jeongin had carried your brother in his arms, playing with him

you couldn’t stop thinking about how your first kiss would be, and so when he dropped you off to your house, you simply had to kiss him

he puts your brother down, waving him goodbye, and just when he’s about to say his farewells to you, you instantly peck his lips, after which both your eyes were wide is plates

“i-i’m sorry i should've—”

“ah no it’s okay, uh,” he scratches his neck, biting his lip to control his smile

and you simply chuckle at his cuteness, muttering a small ‘bye’ and ‘love you’ before going into your house

and the way his face changes once he’s out of your sight is just— *chef’s kiss*

he’s running home, and when his brothers ask him what happened, he’s just ignoring them and goes to his room to scream and laugh his heart out into the sheets

his family thinks he’s insane by now, but of course! he’s in love!

plus that with the cutest person in the whole world!

a/n; and it’s finally up! it didn’t take me long to write this because the ideas just came flooding in sdfkhsdjk but thank you so much for your feedback for hyung line! also!!! this is the only two fics which do not have a read more cut because I’m using a mobile device for posting these,, sorry🙈

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[lilacsandwhiskey]

I have an request Maybe drake and Riley skinny dipping? I did it once when I was in high school.

hi anon, this is so fun and something i can def see Riley getting Drake to do:) thanks for sending this!

Crazy

Pairing: Drake Walker x Riley Brooks

Warnings: streaking, nudity, suggestive, language maybe idk? 18+

Pls forgive me I woke up at 2 in the morning randomly and wrote most of this bc it just flowed out of my brain :-)

Drake never had intentions to bring a girl to his cabin. He never thought it would be this way, falling deeply in love with someone he wasn’t sure he could have, and now she was suggesting they go skinny dipping. Now here he was - doing not one, but two things out of his comfort zone. Riley really somehow got him doing some crazy things.

It all started when Riley kept talking about how tired she was of everything going on at the palace and how she’d desperately needed a break. She even asked Maxwell if there was any way she could take leave and go home for a little bit, but Bertrand forbid it, mentioning that she may not come back and oh, of course, it’d put someone else in the lead.

When Drake overheard her frustrations, he went to war internally. He knew he had his own little getaway, but he also knew the risks. But for her, he was so willing to take the risks. Drake heard small cries outside her door and the ear instantly ceased and his more than risky side took over and now here she was. Inside his cabin, a sacred place for him that no one besides Liam and Drake’s family had ever seen before, and even then, Liam hadn’t been here in years.

“It’s so beautiful.” Riley grazed her finger tips over the mantle on the fireplace, exploring each picture that was sitting there. Her smile grew at each frozen memory in time, assuming who was who. Drake leaned up against the doorway, fighting the urge to walk up and wrap his arms around her. A smile played on his lips, feeling closer to her than he had before. “You didn’t tell me you were as adorable as a kid as you are now.” She grinned, looking over at me. “Big accusation right there, Brooks.”

After Drake had cooked dinner, they sat across from one another, sharing stories that Drake never thought would leave his lips. They drank whiskey, red faces, laughter erupting, and not a care in the world. Drake knew how hard it was to sneak around in the palace to get closer to Riley, but right now in this moment, he didn’t fear for getting caught. He just wanted to be there with her.

“What’s one thing you’ve never done but always wanted to?” Riley asked, a giggle slipping her lips. “Hmm, that’s a tough one. I don’t want to be cliche and say skydiving or hike the Appalachia, I’m not sure. What about you, Brooks?”

She grinned, leaning into a bit closer. “Skinny dipping.” Drakes eyes widened. “Is that so?” “Mhm. I think we should do it.” She suggested, leaning back in her chair. “I think we should stop drinking for now.” Drake said with a laugh, rising up and scooping the glasses out from in front of either of them. Riley pouted, soon followed by a grin, but understood.

Hours later, it was severely dark out besides the stars that tended to show off and show out in the sky, since there was a lack of light pollution in Drake’s little haven. As they sat on the back patio, Riley snuggled up on the bench with Drake’s arm fixed around here, they had definitely lost that buzz from the whiskey but we’re no doubt drunk off each other’s presence.

“I’m doing it.” Riley said, pushing herself up from the bench and standing in front of Drake. His eyes lifted to meet her green orbs, sparkling with excitement. “Hm?” Drake responded, breath beginning to quicken as she went to tug the bottom of her shirt, pulling it off in one whisk, leaving her in just shorts and a bra.

“Coming with?” She licked her lips with a twirl and began skipping towards the small lake behind the cabin. Drake groaned, recognizing that this woman had ahold of him - Drake had never met someone so full of life but it made him feel so alive. To be around her made him feel like something, someone.

He quickly followed suit, leaving behind his denim shirt on the porch, swiftly reaching from the back and tugging his white t-shirt off. “Whoop whoop!” Riley called out, watching his chiseled body be revealed. As she walked, she stepped quickly out of her shorts, causing Drake’s breath to hitch in his throat, now seeing her in only her bra and a black lacy thong.

As they inched towards the pier, Riley waited on Drake before picking off her final articles. He slowed as he walked towards her. “Don’t tell me Drake Walker is chickening out.” “Never with you, Brooks.” He grinned. They both quickly lost the rest of the articles of their clothes. Drake was really in for it. He tried so hard to stop his wandering eyes, knowing that he had imagined time and time again what she looked like beneath her layers.

Drake licked his lips, praying that his body wouldn’t react the way he felt it was going to, so he knew they needed to get into the water. “Grab my hand.” Riley said with a smirk. “On the count of three.”

One.

Two.

Three.

They both took off running, screams escaping both of them as they hit the chilly water. Riley’s head came up out of the water, searching frantically for the man who came with her. “Drake.” Just then, a head popped up out of the water. Pushing back his wet brown locks, he gave you a smile. “Yes?” “C’mere.” Riley said with a laugh, locking her hands together around the back of neck.

They both knew this was a dangerous game they were playing. Riley could feel the way Drake’s chest and stomach was hard against her own, she knew his sculpted he was. Drake was bold enough to slowly bring his hands down to her ass, grabbing lightly and indicating her to wrap her legs around him. Laughter still erupting from them, it slowed when Riley looked Drake right in the eyes.

This was a moment she wanted to capture forever. Not dressing up and prancing all around the palace in a dress that was too tight. Not the tiny sandwiches and tea parties. Just them.

Riley searched Drake’s face, unsure of the thoughts going through his mind. “You okay?” “Yeah, just don’t want this moment to end.” He replied, licking his lips. “It doesn’t have to.” Riley said almost in a whisper. “Please don’t say that, Brooks.” Riley felt her heart break, knowing the pain he was feeling. “I want to make a choice.” “Bertrand has made it very clear that-“ I don’t give a shit right now. Right now, I’m here with you. I am in a lake naked with Drake Walker. And if this is my only chance to tell him that this is what I would choose over and over again, then I’ll take it.”

Drake crashed his lips to Riley’s, fire pulsing through his veins. He knew this wasn’t the life he was getting, nor deserved. He knew he didn’t have much to offer her in comparison to what was at bay for her. But right now, he didn’t care. This was all he needed to get to sleep tonight.

[achliegh]

Olive and Otto

Olive and Otto

Masterlist :)

@domesticatedbeetlenamedjorge

This is an AU still set in the SW universe but a little to the right and maybe down the block. I want Leo to have a little secret!

This is the 22nd chapter of this little series I have and it's a little spicy. Enjoy!

FAMILY SKATE! Part 2 and Final Chapter!

I just wanted to say thank you all for reading this, it makes me so happy because my writing feel like garbage to me but y'all treat it like its precocious and I have cried happy tears over things y'all have said. I just can't thank y'all enough.

TW/CW: Smut, Drama, Arguing, Questioning Sexuality, Food, Panic attack

Characters belong to @lumosinlove

Family Skate was booming, everyone was a little taken back at the two hurricanes with adorable old timey names. Those kids tore up the ice, for only being three those kids could probably out skate most the team. Remus’ little brother, Julian, Loved Otto. Like he didn’t leave his side the entire time they skated. Olive would skate around with Kuny, she was so fascinated when he would speak Russian to her. She was absolutely taken by the giant Russian and she wanted to understand this new language so bad that Kuny taught her some bad words and Sergei told him off for it.

Sometimes the kids would be talking to someone and just randomly switch to either French or Spanish without even realizing it and then get upset when Leo or INK would tell them to “Speak English, Sweetheart”. Otto and Marc were skating together when Otto had a dizzy spell and fell over, everyone froze for a second remembering what Leo said about the little boy earlier.

“You okay?” Marc held his hand out and was looking at Otto worried because his new friend just fell over for no reason. Yeah he was younger than him but Marc had never seen someone just drop like that. Otto nodded and used Marc’s hand to stand up.

“I want to sit” They skated over to where INK was sitting on the bench talking with Eloise and Celeste, Otto was very good at knowing when he hit his limits for the day and today was the first time since his surgery that he had been on the ice for more than a few laps with his dad. He crawled up between Eloise and Celeste, he kicked his skates a little as he watched everyone skate. “Ma-maw, why can’t I live here? I could have friends.” He looked up at his grandma who was stunned by what he said and so was Celeste. “No one likes me at school at home.” He didn’t understand why it was a big deal that he didn’t have many friends. He did enjoy all the kids here though.

The Weasley kids were fun and had treated him like he wasn’t a downer. The Dumais' treated him like a little brother and some of the other kids whose names he didn’t remember played tag with him and didn’t go easy. He didn’t want to go home.

“Oh honey, you’ll be up here all summer. Then you can play with all the other kids then. Just enjoy your time here, you have three more days with your daddy before he has to work and your mama has to go to work back home.” Eloise was just trying to talk him into enjoying his time now but she wasn’t expecting him to talk about friends, he never did. He was like Leo in that sense, kept to himself but was very observant.

“If you want I can give your maman my phone number and you can call Marc anytime after school.” Celeste petted his hair and he leaned into her touch. He nodded, having a big ole smile on his face and his cheeks were a little red, he thought Celeste was so pretty.

Olive was racing Charlie and beat him for the third time, he looked exhausted but she was still revving to go. She was incredibly fast but she was also very small, she skated around the outside and caught up with Leo. She somehow got between Leo and Finn, she grabbed each of their hands and let them pull her.

“Daddy, did you see how fast I was! I beat Charlie!” She got listed up by them and laughed as they put her down, not noticing the absolutely lovesick expression Logan was watching them with. “I want to play hockey someday! I want to be just like you! Oh, daddy do you have a boyfriend yet? Mama wants to get married to June!” She looks up at him when he laughs at Finn's face who is firetruck red. She really doesn’t want her daddy to be lonely anymore, it makes her sad. She was really angry when he left but when he facetimes mama the first time crying, she wasn’t angry anymore, she was scared. She can’t take care of him so who will.

“Olive, what would you say if I had two boyfriends?”

“Whoa! That would be so cool! You would never be sad!” She smiles flashing those incredible dimples and hears Bill calling for her. “I gotta go race, by Daddy!” She skates off leaving a laughing Leo and a red Finn to call Logan over.

After the Pick-up game Olive was watching the entire time while Ott had fallen asleep with his head on Celeste's lap. Everyone got changed and showered, after they piled into cars and drove to Dumo's. INK can’t cook for shit so she was sitting on the couch chatting with the team while Leo and his mother cooked in the kitchen with Celeste. Wyatt was talking to Pascal and Arthur in the dad way, with a few signatures on his shoulder.

She was watching everyone when a pregnant redhead sat neck to her, she groaned a little and looks at INK.

“How far along are you”

“About 6 months” She smiles at INK and rubs her stomach. “I’m Lily by the way, Pots is my lover.” She nods towards said lover who is being cheered on as he chugs some kombucha. INK snorts at him and laughs. “How did you do it?”

“Do what?”

“Have twins, I can’t even imagine the strain it took on you.”

“I had to drop out of school and was bed ridden for the last three months of my pregnancy. It was really hard but Leo never left my side, the stupid idiot sweetheart.” She smiles and rolls her eyes. “I never wanted kids when I was younger because I was afraid I would end up like my parents, then Leo and I did some stuff and it was probably a less than 1% chance that I would get pregnant and it happened.” Olive ran past them with her Daddy's Jersey on her that was much to big, she almost trips on it and laughs as Adele chases her playfully. “I can saw that those three definitely saved my life.”

“Three?”

“Yeah, Olive, Otto, and Leo. I couldn’t have done anything without him. He is the best dad, and he supports those two with everything he has. We also don’t want to put them into the public eye until they can choose for themselves if they want to be followed like that.” She takes a sip of her wine and looks at Lily. “I don’t really have any advice to help you because the last few months I mostly slept and cried. If you need me to get anything for you I will though.”

“I just want to get to know you, you’re someone who has raised two adorable children and you’re still smoking hot!” That surprises a laugh out of her and Lily join in the laughing after a minute.

Leo walks out of the kitchen. “Let's eat y’all!” Finn and Logan kiss his cheek as they walk into the kitchen to eat, Pots and Nado also smack big wet kisses on his cheeks as they walk past. He shoves them and follows everyone else.

“No, Otto you know you know you can’t have that.” He takes a peanut butter bar away from him and shakes his head. “I don’t feel like going to the emergency room tonight.” Otto is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, he seems to forget how serious it is to eat stuff that might kill him. Usually no one has any form of nuts in the house, but this isn’t their house.

The child he just took a treat away from starts to cry and he sighs, walking over to where the treats are he asks celeste what's in each one and grabs a double chocolate brownie for Otto and hands it to him. “Don’t eat it until your plate is empty, okay?” Otto instantly stops crying and nods running off to join his sister. Shaking his head he feels arms wrap around his shoulders.

“You’re so good with them” Leo smiles and looks over to his dad. He looks so proud of him, he kisses his son's head and pats his shoulder. “I’m gonna go eat with Pascal Dumais” Leo snorts as his dad giddily goes to sit next to his teammate.

As he looks around he has never felt more at home, INK and June were talking with Lily and Natalie. Olive and Otto are eating and talking at the kids tables, Finn and Logan are openly flirting and stealing cute glances at him. He felt so calm and like he could breathe.

Suddenly Pots jumps up.

“They are the picture in your stall!”