#i just have such an obsession with this scene

[presumeddeaddie]

listen i know this is probably tired. wrote about a million times. but i can't ever get this scene out of my head, it means the world to me and i just wanted to write about it so i did and it's cool if anyone else wants to cry with me abt it.

"Yeah, that'd be gr--"

Buck's eyes are open for one second, feeling a deep sense of pride for the man before him; of course, Eddie's the reason that a child is saved from an unnecessary demise and also won't have to live with the pain of being the accidental cause of his mother's death. In the next second, his eyes are forced closed instinctively and he lurches back some when his face and upper torso are suddenly splattered in a mist of a hot, low-viscosity fluid.

Once his eyes flutter back open, Buck knows and feels that something is wrong before he sees it. His ears are ringing, and the smell of hot metallic is familiar enough to be classified immediately as blood. What isn't familiar to him is the taste. Sure, he's tasted blood before, something that can be argued as a part of the human experience, but he's never tasted this blood before.

Buck can't make sense of it. He's tasting the hot, red blood of Eddie. How, when Eddie was, just a second ago, standing before him, talking and unharmed and ready to continue being the upstanding man that he is by accompanying Charlie to the hospital? What has happened in the blink of his eyes to change, well, everything?

His senses are overwhelmed, cloyed with the smell of copper and acrid, hot powder, and the taste of salt and metallic (later, Buck will come to the conclusion that the blood also tasted of something distinctively Eddie, though he'll never voice that crazed thought out loud). His ears are still ringing, external stimuli sounding muted and far. By far the most overwhelmed? His sight.

His eyes lock with Eddie's, and it's as if everything else outside of Eddie's eyes is frozen still. Time, and even his breathing, might as well have stopped while Buck stares into Eddie's eyes, which conveys a story that mirrors what's being told by Buck's eyes. Confusion.

Eddie's eyes are the only thing Buck's mind can focus on. It's on those big, brown eyes Buck usually loves to look into. His own eyes remain fixed on Eddie's, following them all the way down to the ground where Eddie collapses, losing Eddie's eyes in the process. Buck tries desperately to understand, simply unable to comprehend what everyone else has processed right away--Eddie's been shot.

The only thing that brings Buck back to reality and away from his undying gaze on Eddie is when his side slams into the door of the fire engine cabin behind him. This both breaks Buck's spell from watching Eddie and turns his limbs back online when Captain Metha's weight brings them hurtling to the ground. It seems to work in kick-starting his breathing back up as well, a low gasp escaping past his lips as clarity starts to arrive.

"Get down!" "Shots fired! Shots fired, firefighter is down, I repeat: Firefighter is down!" "Shots fired! Shots fired!"

Shots fired, as in multiple shots? Buck's been so zeroed in on Eddie that he doesn't realize another shot had been fired at Captain Metha who raced to get Buck (clearly frozen in shock) down to the ground and out of the way as an open target for whoever started this nightmare. Even at that moment, he doesn't linger on the thought, too busy shifting from his side onto his belly. Mehta's bearing down on him, so instead of getting up like he wants to, he adjusts so that he can find Eddie with his eyes again.

When he notices the large pool of blood spreading from Eddie's body, the panic and horror he feels lodges his heart into his throat, robbing Buck of air and sanity for a long moment. This can't be happening. This can't be real. Everything was perfectly fine, and now, Eddie's seriously harmed.

He fights to find Eddie's gaze again, and when he does, Buck's eyes hold firm. He continues to feel the panic building up so quickly that he's panting for air, unable to alleviate it.

Each and every passing second, he hopes to wake up from a nightmare and find that his brain's being astonishingly cruel, but instead, he sees Eddie growing still and his eyes slowly losing focus until they flutter closed.

No. This isn't happening. Buck doesn't want to accept it.

He wants to scream. He wants to cry. He wants this to be anything other than what it is.

Eddie's been shot. Eddie's dying.

The fear and agony Buck feels at the notion of losing his partner to this is so acute that he has to shove it deep down, refusing to let it overtake him and drown him. Buck had to do something similar a while back when a well had collapsed on top of Eddie, who was 40 feet deep inside of it, during the rescue of a child, allowing himself a brief fit of intense grief before he resolved to save Eddie; He didn't care if anyone else thought it was a lost cause. The day that Buck gives up on Eddie is the day that he's no longer breathing. It was true then and it's something that will be true forever.

No. Eddie's not dying. Buck isn't going to let him. Buck's going to save him.

[zaahvi]

GLORY TO THE RISEN GODS

[sherurose]

"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[bet-on-me-13]

Danny commits to the Bit a bit too hard...

So! For the first few weeks after his accident, whenever Danny would try to help the people of Amity Park, he would be treated as a Villain.

No matter if he had just defeated the Big Bad of the Week or saved a Cat from a tree, everybody in town only saw him as a Monster or Villain to he feared and hunted down. Danny was really getting sick of trying to get them on his side, until Sam made a suggestion.

"Why not just...play into it?" She said, barely looking up from painting her nails.

It was just an offhand suggestion, but it stuck with Danny. Why shouldn't he lean into it? The people of Amity Park already saw Ghosts as Evil, and they already assumed he was in cahoots with the Ghosts attacking the town. Why shouldn't he just...play into it?

So he does just that.

From that day on, whenever Phantom was spotted he would dramatically monologue about his Evil Plans, or claim that another Rogues attack on the City was his own act of terror.

Box Ghost destroys the towns Warehouses? It was on his orders.

Ember mind controls masses of Teenagers? All part of his Plans somehow.

Every Adult in Town is kidnapped by Young Blood? Danny gave them over to a friend as a Gift.

He crafts an identity for himself as the most Vile and Horrible Ghost that has ever attacked the City, using his own infamy to cement his legend even more firmly. The town only sees a Monsterous Villain, who has eveded capture near effortlessly for months on end, who constantly attacks their City and gets away with it.

Of course he still needs an excuse for how his plans keep getting stopped, and he gets it when his girlfriend Valerie becomes the Red Huntress. Before that, he just claimed infighting or the Fentons getting lucky, but Valerie becoming the Town's Hero meant he had a plausible excuse for how he kept getting "Foiled".

Val was suspicious, because she was not as involved as Phantom painted her to be, but in the end she had no proof of him faking his defeats. And she couldn't come up with any explanations for why he would do that in the first place. I mean, who would fake being a Supervillain? It had to he something else.

This did come back to bite him a while later, when the Justice League decided that enough was enough, and dispatched Justice League Dark to recruit Red Huntress and help Deal with him.

Coincidentally, that was the same day Pariah Dark attacked the Mortal Realm and sucked Amity Park into the Ghost Zone.

And honestly? Danny had spent over a Year proclaiming himself as a Villain who commanded Ghosts to attack the Human Realm, and he had heard about the Right of Conquest being Absolute in the Ghost Zone, so why not make it official? Why not overthrow the Ghost King, become the Ghost King, and cement his identity as a Villain while also forbidding Ghosts from entering the Human Realm without his permission?

He may have gotten a bit carried away and forgotten that the Villain thing was a disguise...but hey! He was still preventing Ghost Attacks! ...mostly. That's got to count for something right?

He may have let the Bit run a bit too far...

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[cinematicnomad]

9-1-1 ▸ 7.05 you don’t know me

[nerdynuala]

Taking the first steps of my not-so-slow but definitely steady descent into a new hyperfixation fandom

[copia]

"It. Is. Going great, now. Innit."

PAPA EMERITUS IV and SISTER IMPERATOR in RITE HERE RITE NOW (with ASHLEY MCBRIDE and KEVIN "JESUS" KAUFMANN)

[pygmypouter]

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

[hyakunana]

"Did you… also have someone taken from you right before your eyes?"

[mischiefbuckley]

EDDIE SHAVING, DANCING AND BUCK SHOWING UP FULL SCENE

[myokk]

[fluffyartbl0g]

The one piece reread only makes the hardest moments hit even harder,,,, even when you’re rereading it poorly in portugese

Or AKA, i found out today that HINATA SHOYO reads one piece and I haven’t recovered since

[casualavocados]

An idiot like you...an idiot like you...

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 9

[kanjichris]

"why don't you want him to know how much you love him?" "that's a little personal. he knows." "uh-huh."

[nenoname]

stan twins the canon cptsd brothers i will always think about all your unaddressed issues that would make perfect plot fuel for your spinoff

and also the whole 'stan getting that poem by bill via a website which contrasts with bill getting one from the axolotl via a website' foreshadowing thing

like idk i would love something like su future but like more optimistic, aka not an accumulated breakdown that has to be mostly resolved off screen at the end :/// but something thats being kinda addressed throughout? (although would love to see one of them turn into a monster thats always fun lol)

stan having severe issues from his dad and those years of being homeless that we keep on getting more info on but never really getting confronted on (the drifter catalogue and tijuana incident...), him being completely alone for like twenty years when running the shack before soos comes along to the point that 1998 is noted as his low point, and him not really learning about bill+what he did to ford until ages after he killed him if he ever did get the full context

while i think amnesia and everyone seeing him as a hero actually helped with stan's 'i'm a worse version of my brother' thing its still a lingering issue too and we now got him being insecure over his own hands

ford being immediately thrown from 'being tortured by bill' to 'being stuck in the multiverse and being chased by bounty hunters constantly', him fully expecting himself to die when destroying bill, and him only now being safe for the first time in 30 years ....relatively safe, he's still in constant danger because of course he is

idk in the end the series wants them to be happy and they deserve it, its why i wasn't too worried about the book being like 'ooh bill is back!! and the book is haunting ford' thing cos i knew they'll be ok

[schnee-gheist]

Okay so i've seen alot of talk about what type of job Danny would get out of Casper High and there's stuff about him becoming a teacher out there and i think that's cool but hear me out...

Janitor Danny.

He'd be working at Casper High obvi, so he can stay in Amity. it typically only requires a high school diploma to be a janitor, so he wouldn't need to worry about going to a college or university that's outside of Amity.

Not to mention the freedom with it! people wouldn't question why he's just gone, because you don't usually see janitors around anyways. he doesn't need to worry about people questioning him going into the janitors closet to go ghost because that's HIS closet. (that also means he can keep things inside of it. say a thermos or two?)

He could be in the most random ass place and ppl walking by would just be like. 'yea okay he's just cleaning that's cool 👍' meanwhile Danny's dangling halfway out of a window frame on the top floor.

You also don't have to really talk to anyone else for it. just clean and then clean some more, there's like no interactions needed except for sparse greetings. most people tend to avoid janitors anyways be it courtesy or (especially in Danny's case) Creepy Janitor Vibes. ifykyk

Also he'd be spectacular at the job?? intangabilty to make things instantly dry or to reach the really hard spots, super strength to move heavy objects to sweep under them, automatic water through melting ecto-ice, flying around to reach high up areas, telekenosis to clean several things at once, <- even moreso with duplicates.

(He'd have to use these pretty discreetly or when nobody's there but they're still useful)

Taking into account how well and fast he is at cleaning, any suspicious shit he does can just be shoved under the rug because "who tf cares where he is this place is SPOTLESS. I'd rather not fire the one guy here who's actually doing his job well."

Could even work w/ multiple janitors working at Casper High, they'd just see him a bit more and maybe question some objects stashed away in closets (could also lead to some HILARIOUS identity reveal scenarios)

but yeah no. janitor danny 👍