#ik this is going to explore a lot of gray morality and everything and this anime is the highest rated literally everywhere

[clovernment]

started naoki urasawa's Monster bc i want to procrastinate on studying but no one told me id be bombarded with my course material right on screen

[miffyhoon]

dancing with the devil. preview

IN WHICH, he wants you but you need him.

pairing : fuckbuddy!jake x afab!reader

genre : angst, smut, fluff ????, hurt no comfort, totga

warnings : heartbreak, mature and sexual themes, drinking, smoking weed, usage of profanity (a lot!), jake can be a dick, morally gray characterization, just hear me out it's a ride of emotions

taglist : OPEN leave a comment or ask!

wc : 1k??? idk sorry LOL (estimated 15-20k)

reblogs are super appreciated 💝

THE BASS SHOOK YOUR BODY, reverberating in your chest as you navigated through the sea of bodies in the crowded living room. You were shocked as to how hundreds of university students could fit in a shitty basement suite, but who were you to complain? Lights illuminated the crowd in hues of the most vibrant of colours, casting large shadows against the walls. You had never been one for loud, crowded places, but tonight was different.

Tonight? You were on a mission.

Your eyes scanned the room, searching for a familiar face amidst the chaos. And then, you saw him.

Ah, Jake Sim. The very (and only) reason you even thought of, let alone decided to go to a party. It's not like you didn't drink or didn't have any friends, quite the contrary, actually. You just never found any interest in mingling with sweaty bodies for hours just to stumble home and wake up with a raging headache.

All of that is thrown out the window, anyway. You're already here, faced with the purpose of your arrival.

You and Jake have a somewhat complicated relationship. You've known of each other since middle school and even became apart same friend group for all four years of high school. But back then you weren't friends with Jake.

No, no. You weren't allowed to be friends with Jake.

Park Sunghoon, your now ex-boyfriend and current best friend of Jake absolutely hated the idea of you getting close to him. You never understood why he hated the idea of you and Jake being close; you never got the chance to even talk to the guy, let alone give Sunghoon a reason to forbid a friendship. You were quick to assume maybe he just didn't like you being around guys, which was even quicker to be ruled out as a possibility. You were friends with every other one of his best triends except Jake.

It's no surprise to anyone that Jake found you extremely attractive. Hell, he found you more beautiful than anyone, anything he's ever seen. He sees more than just physical perfection; he sees the essence of everything he's ever longed for. Your eyes hold a universe of secrets and desires, each flicker of emotion a tantalizing invitation to explore the depths of your soul. Your smile is like the first light of dawn, it dances across your lips, a melody of joy and mischief that leaves him breathless.

Jake jumped at the chance to talk to you the second he heard the front door of his and Sunghoon's shared apartment slam shut, the second he saw his best friend standing with his head hanging low in the middle of their shared space. He knew that was it. You guys were done and he yearned for you both but God, was he excited. He knew Sunghoon messed up when he didn't tell you he was leaving to study abroad until days before his departure. He knew you were going to break up when your face shifted through all kinds of confusing emotions when Sunghoon told you he was leaving. He knew this was his chance to finally get you.

He remembers how surprised you were when he first texted you out of the blue, even if it was a simple

hey

ik this is so outta nowhere

but

how are you doing?

He remembers how surprised he was when you started responding to him in longer sentences. He remembers when your conversations prolonged for hours. He remembers when you confided in him on your problems. He remembers you told him when something good happened, and most of all? He remembers when you finally agreed to go to a party to let loose, forget about Sunghoon and get lost in him instead.

Sometimes he feels bad for himself. Sunghoon was being selfish and kept you away from him for the past four years? Jake thought Sunghoon was the luckiest motherfucker alive for having you as his girlfriend. He envied that Sunghoon would be able to call you his, he would be able to wrap his arm around your waist and pull you close to his body around everyone, he would be able to kiss your plush lips that he could only dream of tasting, he would be able to hear you would moan out his name and chant it like a mantra. At the same time, Jake understood why Sunghoon kept you from him.

Sunghoon knew the way Jake looked at you.

He never said it, he didn't want to confront it, so he dealt with it how he could to keep both your love and his friend in his life.

It's funny how time can be so cruel.

It was inevitable that you started to slowly fall for Jaks as time went on. He filled the void that his best friend left in your heart. He was there for you and was objective with his opinion, he was soft yet stern with his words, he made your bad days good and your good days better, he made you feel new heights of joy, and he was exactly what you needed. You wanted Jake and there was nothing you could do about it; you fell before you could catch yourself. You were unsure with if what you felt for Jake was right, if Sunghoon is upset that you talk- Wait, did he even know you guys talked?

Yet, you found yourself excited and void of any feelings of uncertainty when you saw Jake sporting a toothy smile on his face as he took another sip of God knows what in his cup.

He stood out like a scorching flame in the darkness of an abyss, his golden hair catching the hues of neon casting the room as he laughed with his friends. There was something so captivating about him, something that made everything around him glow, something that drew you in despite your better judgment.

With a deep breath, you pushed your way through the compact crowd, determined to make your move before doubt could take hold of you and push you away from this scenario. As you approached him, your heart pounded in your chest, the sound drowned out by the pulsing music. You could feel the second he saw you; the heat of his gaze burning your skin as you drew nearer, anticipation mingling with nerves in the pit of your stomach.

When you finally reached him, he looked down at you with a grin. It sent shivers down your spine, goosebumps coated your skin, so much so you couldn't tell if you were cold or if this was just the effect he had on you.

"Well, well, well, look who decided to grace us with her presence," he teased, his voice low and husky, yet loud enough to reach your ears over the deatening music.

You laughed, trying to ignore the flutter of butterflies in your stomach as he pulled you into a warm embrace. His arms looped loosely around your waist after pulling out of the hug, you swear your skin was burning under his touch.

You could smell the alcohol radiating on his body.

Alcohol. That's what you needed.

Before you could stop yourself, you grabbed the red cup in his hand and downed the rest of what he had left. You felt the fiery burn flow through your body and veins- why the fuck is this so strong?

For a moment, there was a flicker of something in his eyes, a vulnerability that you had never seen before. A dark gaze that you couldn't quite put your finger on.

God, Jake could cum to the image of you downing his drink.

"Couldn't stay away, could I?" you shot back, your tone playful despite the rapid beat of your heart.

"I'm glad you came," he said, his lips ghosting the shell of your ear, "didn't think you would."

"Yeah?" you respond, Jake looks at you with a slight shrug before grinning.

"Yeah, but you did," he tightened the hold on your body and pulled you closer to his, your arms found home looped around his neck, "for me."

You felt the warmth spreading to your face after his last sentence. You weren't sure whether it was the alcohol or the fact he made you so flustered. Maybe this wasn’t a good idea. But, before you could overthink any farther Jake interrupted your thoughts.

"It's okay though," he leaned in closer to your face, lips centimetres apart, "I came here for you."

Ah, there it is. The feeling of being wanted and craved, the feeling you so desperately thirsted for after Sunghoon left. You grew so accustomed to having him around, four years, just like that. Gone.

That doesn’t matter anymore though. No, none of it matters with Jake’s face so close to yours, so close that you could count every eyelash if he let you.

He was about to kiss you, you're sure. You could feel his breath ghosting your lips, but then he loosened his grip on you and back away. Before you could question if you did something wrong, he grabbed a hold of your hand and pulled you into the crowd, seemingly forgetting about his friends the second you arrived.

All that mattered to him was that you were here, in front of him, and he wasn't going to let anything keep him away from you again. He was going to get what he wants because Jake?

Jake always gets what he wants.

"Sorry princess, my favourite song is playing and I need to dance," you laughed in his face in disbelief. He mirrored the smile that you had.

Happiness looks good on you, he thought.

You were swept up in the whirlwind of the night, lost in a haze of laughter and music and stolen glances. But even as you danced with Jake all night, you couldn't shake this odd feeling that beneath the surface, there was something darker lurking, waiting to pull you under.

But for now, you pushed those thoughts aside, allowing yourself to get lost in the moment. After all, tonight was about forgetting, about losing yourself in the chaos of the night and pretending, if only for a little while, that everything was okay, that this is your new normal.

adie yaps : this preview is a repost bc it wasn’t doing that good 😭 hopefully it does better this time lolollllll bc i have no motivation to finish it rn

++ preview and overall story is subjected to change where i see fit.

[illusorygardens]

welcome back to another episode of invi revives a dead oc from a fandom it hasn’t been in for years! on this episode: medusa gorgo!

yeah ik i wasn’t clever but idc.

medusa (much more commonly known as just dusa or dusey) and ozpin grew up in the same town together! don’t ask what town idk. probably coquina because why not. yes she’s a mary sue and no i don’t care don’t @ me.

originally (and this was when vol1 was out and vol2 wasn’t so…) i had medusa and ozpin be married, but medusa was off doing missions and whatnot. but now that this is post vol8, i have slightly changed this and now she and ozpin have this weird relationship where they were sort-of attracted to each other but never got the chance to explore their feelings bc SOMEONE started hearing ghosts in his head and then they just… didn’t.

medusa is his left hand? sort of? she knows most of it bc she was there when ozpin started panicking over everything that was going on. the stuff ozpin learned later (ozma and salem’s daughters being killed by salem, how to get into the relic vaults, how to identify maidens) she doesn’t know. everything else she does. yes even the salem thing bc ozpin Stressed Out.

medusa and ozpin were on the same team, too! team cmzn (pronounced crimson). don’t ask who the other two are idk them. they’re dead af though, i do know that. they were the #1 team from beacon that year. it’s probably ozpin’s fault.

medusa’s semblance is called “shedding” and it’s shapeshifting and being able to mimic semblances. while shapeshifting burns aura slowly, using a mimic semblance burns aura much faster and could actually kill her rather than just causing an aura break.

(she tries not to shapeshift into faunus who have more limbs than she does. mostly because she will trip over her own two feet.)

her color is this green but she wears a lot of black with her green. her emblem is a snake turning into dust crystals. because fuck yeah dude!

she’s a classy lady (even if she’s a femme fatale lmfao) and wears elegant clothes. yes they’re usually bodycon. post-fall of beacon, she doesn’t wear her green outside of her emblem and dresses more in mourning clothes (less bodycon, more stereotypical russian tzarina).

post-fall, she’s also in atlas! mostly to keep an eye on ironwood (and for good fucking reason that douchebag piece of shit) bc she knows ozpin was wary of him so she took ironwood’s offer to stay in atlas and become a professor there while she’s staying. she teaches about semblances and auras.

bc of the whole Thing with ozpin with oz freaking out abt the whole reincarnation thing, she genuinely expects nothing from oscar. she even manages to get legal custody bc dear fuck dude that is a 14 year old that you technically kidnapped could you make it look legal.

anyway if qrow or ozpin happens to be oscar’s dad/s, medusa is his mom. she will start fighting people for her new son don’t try her.

she also threatened to kill ironwood when he was going to shoot oscar. after she shot him in the hand and shot the fucking gun off the edge.

fuck you ironwood. piece of shit. (yes i like morally gray characters but i just hate ironwood he can die in a ditch.)

when oscar gets taken by the hound, she’s ready to murder salem. she even goes with Da Boyz to go get oscar and adopts emerald on the spot. her daughter now. get bent salem.

also after the whole Thing ironwood did in the most recent episode, you can be damn sure she adopts all the schnees and kills ironwood. her children now. ozpin they’re parents.

(ozpin’s ghost: i don’t remember agreeing to—

medusa: look at our sweet children honey)

also if you read twoz, you’d know polychrome is not from oz. medusa is not from remnant.

she’s from our earth babeyyyy