#it chpt 2

[pricelessreviews]

[iamhereonlytobeanunstableshipper]

The way they have me LOSING MY MIND. Yes, I know he was not only talking about Mobius. But I also know that Mobius is the only person from that group that Loki has called a friend. And we know how Loki is with admitting feelings, he's not the best at that.

Loki cannonigally wants Mobius. I'm fine, tho. I'm great.

[abs0lute-cha0s]

Was tired of the style I drew him in the past, so I went with something different.

[ratsnu]

all bow to our lord and savior jamilmads

shoutout to @cyanspica’s fic: Three’s a Crowd

[deadhawke]

Tried my hand at digitally coloring this panel instead and while I may not be the best at it the determination is real and I'm pretty happy with it

[pixpirs]

[lurkingteapot]

Kidnap ลับ จ้าง รัก novel summary: chapter two, "Sleepwalker"

I finished chpt 2 ahead of ep 2 airing and decided to post this now for accountability. If the episode is anything like the chapter, we're in for a ride.

Full summary (comprised of the notes I took as I read along) under the cut, very likely contains SPOILERS for episode 2. No comparison with the actual episode other than what we saw in the preview, seen as the episode hasn't aired yet. Under the cut, there's a short impression, then a long blank spoiler space, then the detailed summary (~1.5k).

Impression:

This story is so funny. I laughed a lot over the course of this chapter -- Min is a delightful mix of clueless, good-hearted, and practical; Q is Very Done with everything, and Men delights in being a bratty little brother with all that entails.

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Min brings Q to his house; unties Q. Q immediately tries to run. The alley Min and Men's house is in is a dead end and pretty deserted, and on a canal. When Min catches Q again, he takes his phone and yeets it into the canal. He's very aware of the fact that he probably made enemies of the people who hired him and that they'll kill them both if they learn he left Q alive. Back in the house, he puts fake blood on Q for a picture of "evidence" that he sends to James. Q and Min agree on a plan: Min will pretend he dumped Q somewhere but that Q wasn't actually dead and escaped/saved by an anonymous 3rd party; that way, it's not exactly his fault and (he hopes) everyone walks free. Q isn't at all happy about being held prisoner regardless. Min agrees to share everything he learns about the people who hired him with Q once everything's settled in return for Q leaving him out of it when he goes to report things.

Q takes a shower and chooses a clean shirt from Min's wardrobe, but the one he picks, Min doesn't want him to wear – it was given to Min by Men. He gets Q to take off the shirt by just looking sad at Q's sarcastic "what, is he dead?"; he makes fun of Q for being a sucker, after. Despite Q's protest, Min ties their wrists together so Q can't escape while Min's asleep. Min falls asleep immediately because he's exhausted, but wakes because Q is having a very vivid nightmare, thrashing and talking in his sleep. It's a bad nightmare – he fights Min when Min tries to wake him; Min ends up basically hugging him to pin his arms to his sides. When Q realises he's safe, he sags into Min's side, not caring who holds him. Nightmare appears to have been a flashback.

When Q regains awareness of his surroundings, he gets mad at Min for holding him – seems astonished when Min tells him he was having night terrors and talking in his sleep.

Min mixes a red soda for Q because that's apparently his panacea (note: sponsorship segment?) from growing up in a film crew. Q feels bad about startling Min and tells him he hasn't had night terrors in a long while. He calls Min a crappy criminal for caring so much. When Min tries asking Q about his nightmare (he was shouting for his dad), Q shoot him down. Min feels bad about the way Q's wrists are rubbed red from the string he tied them with and offers to untie him if he promises not to run. Q agrees and this time, he means it.

Min goes to sleep on the sofa in the living room, locking Q into his room. When Q wakes, he's mad about it. Min wakes to his phone ringing. It's Khanomjeen – turns out Min lost track of the day of the week over the whole kidnapping business and forgot that Men was supposed to come home (in that he knew Men would come home Wednesday, but forgot Wednesday was today.) It's already past noon, and Khanomjeen and Men are about to arrive. Min panics – tries to get Q to shut up and not let Men know he's here. Q's not having it – for one thing, he needs to pee. In his haste to get Q to the bathroom and back, Min threatens Q, but Q isn't pressed. Min pushes him, and he falls onto the bed. Min tries to subdue him by wrangling his hands above his head and pressing down on his wrists, straddling Q. Q just isn't scared of Min, not even one bit. Men walks in on them and immediately backs out, apologising and claiming he didn't see a thing, have fun! Min realises what position they're in and explains, in a panic, that it's not what it looks like.

Q looks at Men and realises that he probably had medical issues, and that the cost of caring for those probably were what led a guy like Min to take a shady job. Khanomjeen is pretty annoyed – "oh, so THIS is why you forgot to pick up Men?". Men is like "Q's totally my brother's type", Min tries to deflect like "how would you know, I've never even been in a relationship". Q protests the 'spoiled rich kid' descriptor Men saddled him with (as Min did before). Min tries to explain Q's presence by claiming he's a fellow stuntman and they were rehearsing a scene. Men doesn't think Q looks like a stuntman, slight as he is. Min claims it's for a BL show (…) and continues to dig himself a deeper hole, then leaves, claiming he has to take Khanomjeen home – she doesn't particularly care because it means a few minutes of alone time with Min. Q and Men talk; Q realises he knows the expensive private hospital Men was at. Men tells them their parents are dead and proceeds to try and sell Q on Min. Q: "we're just friends" Men: "yeah, and I'm just saying."

Min comes back and gently nags Men about his meds; Q feels like he's seeing a different person. Everything about how he interacts with Men make it clear to Q that Min acted from desperation when he took the job – which doesn't make it okay, but Q feels like he kind of gets it now.

Min read up on how to proof a room for a person with parasomnia and proceeds to do just that. Q is baffled. They're about to fall asleep. Min makes Q promise not to try to run, "for my brother's sake if nothing else". Q sarcastically asks whether he should pinky promise. Min expects Q to have night terrors again, and he does; this time he sleepwalks to the door. Min uses what he learned reading up on parasomnia, tries to get him to settle, leading him gently back, and they end up so close their noses brush, lips almost touching. Q's still asleep. When they're back in bed, Min thinks on how Q is SUPER his type, again, and how did he end up in this situation? Min ties their wrists together very loosely to make sure he'll notice if Q sleepwalks again.

The next morning, Min goes to collect the money for the job from a locker at a remote park on the city outskirts. He pays Siia Muu back the 300k he owed and is already thinking of how he can find money to … pay back his employer? and to settle the interest payments (?? I thought he still had money left?). He's accepted he'll probably always have debt + will just have to try and spread it out.

James calls him in a panic: apparently he only just learned (?????) that Q is Big Kachaa's son, Big Kachaa just got ambushed, and did Min get rid of all the evidence? Min hurries home, thinking at least he and Q are on the same side for now. He calls Men, who tells him Q just left. Min feels like he's been struck by lightning.

Q arrives home to see his dad's car dented from being deliberately crashed into and the windshield (bullet-proof glass) riddled with bullet damage.HIs dad looks worse for wear from the ambush, but is on the phone with his subordinates anyway, as usual. Q waits to be noticed, then gets mad when his dad does not just refuse to pass the case to someone else, but doesn't even notice Q is dressed strangely (in Min's way-too-large-for-Q clothes), or that he was gone for three days. His dad always seems to put doing the right thing first, even though it cost Q's mum her life, nearly cost Khachaa his on several occasions, and now nearly cost Q his (though he doesn't tell his dad that). Q storms off. He had to watch his mum die and really resents his dad for it -- Q feel like as his dad can't change the world, or even just the system, by himself, so why can't he have a little consideration for his family?

Q decides to leave again and makes his way back to Min's house. Min is shocked and angry at first -- Q promised not to run! -- but when he sees how upset Q seems, and that Q must've cried, he relents. Q makes a proposal: they should blackmail Q's father, and Min take the ransom. Min thinks Q's lost the plot, so Q changes tack and reminds him that (as Min told him initially) he knows his face, he knows where he lives, so Min doesn't really have a choice, right?

Notes: yeah ... apparently neither Min nor James realised Q's dad was a fucking bigwig cop prior to taking the job. I don't know either. How are they so bad at this. Also Min's faith that telling the folks who hired him Q escaped will go down okay as long as he pays them back seems painfully naive, but what do I know, this IS the GMM BL verse.

Q asking Min "so ... I'm your type?" was not in the novel, so I'm excited to see how that happens. A lot of the other things from the preview make more sense now that I've read the chapter, though. I look forward to watching!

[otrtbs]

me having thoughts on mcd? of course i do so glad you asked it is my area of expertise

aside from the like people need a warning gang, theres two other sides. the ruins the story bc you dont get as attached bc someone will die BUT there is also the tragedy of it. like reading a loving a story despite knowing they will die. the inevitability of it because someone has to die and yet you fall in love with the characters and watch the characters fall in love anyway and you let yourself get hurt by it

but also who needs tags i do not read them

linds, u do know your way around mcd town very much so yep yep yep!

see, if i want a good haunted by the narrative moment where i know i'm gonna love the characters AND that they're all gonna die i just read canon compliant LMAOOO like,, that's why that's there for me

but i also get the pain of wanting to step in an intervene and stop what you know is inevitably going to happen

but i like AUs bc,,, anything could happen. everyone could be happy, or they could all die, or they could all grow wings and start flying idk. but i like the spontaneity of it ,, the thrill of possibility. dangle their life in front of my eyes and let them live. kill them with reckless abandon. let me be scared of it all bc,, idk i haven't seen this film before,, idk the ending.

(this is also why i've never read they both die at the end because i literally cannot make myself care abt the two characters knowing that they die. at the end. like COME ON akjhkdrjkjh)

okay i'll stop yapping now

[allgremlinart]

ao3 down but im ok. 👍

[thunder-shadow]

i WILL post always the fool chapter 4 tonight ‼️ probs b4 i go to bed LOL

[trash-bin-ary]

VERY exited for you to get to a particular chapter 2 character:3

Sudden fear, I’ve been on the internet enough surely I would know of a deltarune character that would make people think I would have,,, an emotion to

[tulippanes]

how i feel after i say im not doing anymore smaus to focus on the ones i already have only to make another smau

[glassrowboat]

Hey guysssss *insert lip biting emoji*

[abs0lute-cha0s]

Happy (late) 3rd anniversary for chapter 2!

[figgyroo]

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Using all my bisexual powers to write a tomshiv/tomgreg oneshot smut fic with a reference to Temple Grandin; talk about Succ Sundays!