#it mustve been terrifying for him

[mammalsofaction]

People pretending like all of Heinz's evil schemes are harmless and incompetent like he didnt once made multiple robot clones of Perry to frame him from crimes he didnt commit, thusly forced him on the run from the organisation that RAISED him who was now trying to JAIL him, running from the Flynn Fletchers (his greatest fear had always been having them jailed if he ever fucked up in his duties), and the only way he could win was to fight a hundred robot clones of HIMSELF, arguably far more aggressive and stronger in order to correct his name.....

And then he DID win.

[rosalinesurvived]

I freaking love this scene so much, you dont even know. Its so heartmeltingly cute: they’re discovering his powers together! They’re in on the secret together!!! Mason being presumably the first person to actually, seriously just reach out to Corey, just some feeling of warmth. Its what Corey probably needed so much after losing Lucas in such a way, not to mention his parents. No wonder he fell so hard

Its also so much fun to compare this scene to the Liam-Mason Gym Scene in Season 4 Episode 5, just the contrasts.. *chef’s kiss*

[thechurn]

and people sang along!!! and turned on their phone flashlights and he saw it and now he knows once and for all that there are people who love this album even 12 years after its release. im so happy rn i could die

[listofwhyyouloveher]

Can I hc’s for the greasers with a so who’s a boxer?

Summary: greaser boys with a boxer so hc!

Warnings: none

Author's Note: dont know much abt boxing so sorry </3

JOHNNY CADE

Hes kinda terrified of you lwky

Very very shy, will NOT make the first move

Ponyboy will have to slip up abt his crush for him to actually admit it

Everytime socs pick on him you either beat them to a pulp then or later.

Everyone knows not to fuck w him cuz they’d have to fuck w u

PONYBOY CURTIS

Only started talking to you because of your boxing

Yeah he thought you were cute but soda dared him to go ask you to help him fight 

You actually did tho and kinda scared him shitless because he was like WTFFF

Safe to say those socs never bothered him again

SODAPOP CURTIS

he was hanging around bucks with pony when a whole crowd started to form

He, obviously, went to check it out and saw you fighting a man twice your size

When you came out of the makeshift ring with some small cuts a bruises he immediately offered to help you clean up

Gave you his clean shirt hoping you'd come find him to return it to him

STEVE RANDLE

Saw you getting jumped from outside the DX and he ran over with power tools fully ready to kick some ass

You were just standing over them and like looking around for witnesses

He was literally inviting you inside being like “that mustve been so hard!! Let me get you a drink!!”

Asks you to walk him home because hes ‘scared’ (js wants to talk to you more)

TWO-BIT MATTHEWS

Was js goofing around with Steve when he saw you

Jaw dropped when he saw ur beefy arms 

Lwky he was drooling

Steve pushed him into you and he nearly fangirl screamed when you caught him

DALLAS WINSTON

Let's be real he 100% tried to fight you or scare you in some way

It definitely ended in you winning or a tie because he got tired

Because of that he always asks your permission to do something because he lost his authority over people

Like “let's go to the DQ, wanna go to the DQ??”

Will try to fight for you when people are acting up

DARREL CURTIS

He's not scared of you, rather, he's just really happy to find someone who is his equal in strength 

Lwky expects you to come help him run his little daycare of ponyboy +soda because of how rowdy they can get and how scared they are of you

Even though you might be hella good at it, don't ever expect to fight when ur around Darry

He's 100% doing it for you and walking away victorious

[ge]

smth about chung myung remembering tang bo as a silly, clingy, and sort of whiny guy... then contrast it to how tang bo actually acts around everybody else....chung myung's clearest memory of tang bo being his smile whereas tang bo only found that when he was with chung myung.. tang bo giving chung myung reason to stay alive. this danmei coded and for what.

DONT DO THIS TO ME.. do you think it really hit chung myung that he was the only person to ever really understand and know tang bo.. even his own family only had records of a man that was unrecognizable to chung myung.. his smile, his mannerisms, even his own personal techniques belonged only to him and chung myung, and no one else in the world.. chung myung is the only record of the real tang bo ever having existed.. it mustve been terrifying even more to realize the memories of tang bo slipped further and further away into obscurity as the days passed, time slipping through his fingers leaving chung myung to wonder if tang bo had ever laughed a certain way or if it was just a false memory created in his absence to fill the gaps.. several years have passed since chung myung woke up a hundred years in the future, i dont think he even remembers what tang bo looks like anymore

[rottmnt-background-screenshots]

HEY HI I JUST REALISED SOMETHING TODAY [<- watched the first 4 minutes of the rottmnt movie in 0.25 speed] THAT I THINK MIGHTVE BEEN OBVIOUS BUT IDK

SO LIKE

Ive always noticed the bat but what i did nOT NOTICED WAS HER DEAD FUCKING BODY SLIGHTLY TO THE RIGHT????? LIKE WAHT???? WHAT HAPPENED THERE? THEY DIDNT EVEN BURY HER?? AND SHES REASONABLY CLOSE TO MIKEYS BIG MYSTIC THING SO THEY MUSTVE LOST HER RECENTLY

and another thing

can i just point out how incredibly accurate mikey is?? like all these dogs are incredibly far away and on differnet levels/places he could not possibly see [at least not all at once] and he just,, wipes them all out in one fell swoop!! maybe something to do with how his eyes are glowing is helping him see more?? like maybe that black and white shot with only his chains and the enemies was mikey vision for the moment??? bro im making shit up at this point lol.

idk i just thought these details were cool + up your alley!

Oh yeah, I actually have a post about seeing April in my queue haha :') yeah I imagine the movie starts at the end of a battle that has probably been going on for days, they likely recently lost a lot of people.

Also, yes. Mikey became *terrifying* like, he's got so much power and is so cool! And those shots of his power flashing the color out of the frames are so cool!

[corens-relisten]

MAG 33 Boatswain's Call

im still hyped abt ep 32 omg but thats in the past! time for the present.

tim insisting on how "great" and "lovely" the students are... ik what you are (:

but honnestly, that scene mustve been just awful for jon. all he wants is to be seen as a competent archivist because he knows he shouldnt be there. he knows that sasha is more compenent. he knows that he doesnt know what hes doing. tim coming in and pointing out his mistakes would be fucking terrifying for him! i could go on but i wont lol

spoilers omg!!

omg is this the lonely? im only a little in. oh wait... i just imagine all ships as the Lonely. OH WAIT OH WAIT OMG ITS PETER LUKAS!! I WAS RIGHT i love him (: mhm the emptiness, the sea, the silence. The Lonely!

spoilers over

i dont have too much to say about the statement itself. for once, i agree with jon, this doesn't have anything explicitly supernatural. ofc, i know better, but still

anyway, im very much sick and its really shit! i cant even go draw! so (le gasp) no offering??

ofc theres an offering (: just my vibes rn, doesnt have much to do w tma (but ik some of the characters relate lol)

[imyourbratzdoll]

Is this ok

Barnabas collins with a new bitten vamp reader

She didnt realize she was a newborn until barnabas mentioned it . Mustve been from a night walk in the woods as she had an accident and needed some transfusion the therapist at home didnt knew the bloodbag she hooked was the same that she too from barnabas "to make him human again"

hi, I hope what I wrote is okay, and I hope you enjoy it.

summary - barnabas notices you look somewhat different, looking more similar to him than an average human.

warning - mentions of death.

the gif I use isn't mine, divider by @newlips

Barnabas stares at you, brows furrowed as he studies you. There is something strange about you, something so familiar that he can’t place his finger on it. He slowly moved toward you, a clawed finger pointing at you, and your eyes looked up at him with innocence. “What? Have I done something wrong?” You ask, feeling disappointed that you seemed to already upset the older man in the short time you’ve been here. You’ve noticed that he keeps staring at you, possibly judging your appearance. 

“You. You’re a vampire. How?” He glares, circling you as he takes in your paleness and features that are similar to his. He watches you pout and look at him, confused.

“I’m not a… Vampire?” 

“Do not lie to me, child.” He growls, straightening his back as he stares down at you. “Your paleness, your claws and the fangs prodding your bottom lip. Show me that you are, in fact, a vampire.” You shake your head, feeling your mind become fuzzy as you can’t believe what you hear. “If you do not believe me, go into the sun.” 

You look at him, confused, a brow raised as you wonder why the sun. “How would going into the sun prove that what you are saying is true?” 

“When vampires go into the sun, they set on fire. So, go.” Barnabas shoos you, pushing you softly to the curtains. You carefully move it, and the moment the sun hits your flesh, it sizzles before setting aflame. “Ah, huh! I knew it!” You jump back from the sun with a scream, staring at your charred hand in confusion. “Now tell me, how did you become a vampire? Did you steal my blood?!” 

You look between him and your hand before shaking your head. “I–I don’t know… All I remember is that I was being chased through the woods by something… I felt terrified. It was huge and scary… I remember my flesh being clawed into and ripped apart, and I remember lying there, feeling myself bleed out as I was left for dead… There was someone….” You sit as you continue. “I remember waking, blinded by a bright light, and I was hooked to something. But before I could investigate, I fell asleep, too exhausted to keep my eyes open. Which, I guess, brings me to now. I woke, and I looked different and felt different.” 

Barnabas rolls his eyes, “Must’ve been that darn therapist. She has a knack for stealing my blood to try something.” He stares at you again, “I guess I can help you.”

thank you for reading!

feedback and reblogs are greatly appreciated.

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

Catching up on JJK and omggggggggggggg ahahahahajdjndnznsjajakkazjjdnsjxhndndjdn Gojo does the impossible and while he's catching his breath they seal him AHHHHHHHHHHHH "hey, Saturo! Long time no see" ahahahahsj "my six eyes say you are Suguru Geto but my heart and soul say you are not!" first of all such a raw line second were they dating or did Suguru die (and when did that happen!?!) back when they were still besties?? AND LASTLY "Nanami!" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the emotions everyone mustve felt when that broke the silence like ahhhahahahhahhhhh i wasnt expecting that but oh it was perfect and Nanami's reaction ahshsjks you can see the fear and the surprise that one of the students is screaming bloody murder for him. Like. What was he feeling that mustve been terrifying AHHHHHHH "Gojo! Has been! Sealed!" "Change of plans" now is not the time but i didnt realize my shipping goggles were on until rn

and i still cant go into the tag bc i havent finished the season yet

[dragon-curse-au]

Custard mustve been terrified before ehe died but hey deserved

I CAN FINALLY SEE ASKS HIII

Oh absolutely he was. It was a very slow and painful death for him. Sadly, the beasts (except maybe shadow milk) didn't know of what custard did so that was not at all the reason they attacked the republic, it was simply due to being so populated. Eternal sugar and silent salt wanted to cause carnage to rival that of their spicy... Ally.

It can ultimately be considered karma though. Nobody was around to save him either. Financier saw to it that clotted cream made it out safely. It was the last he saw of her so her fate was left ambiguous. In the end, the republic collapsing was probably a mercy to everyone who survived

[cringefailcabitha]

sorry i dont have tumblr (i only use it to stalk cabby art LOL) and idk if youll answer this but i am known as the cabby yapper by my friends so i wanted to bring this up to someone who thinks about her as deeply as me

do you ever like think about how terrifying mephones plan for a season 4 would have been to cabby specifically? out of all of the final 3 she has been hurt by the game the most (with no closure mind you unlike balloon), i think having to go through everything again would genuinely break her. even if shes less misunderstood the game still puts pressure onto her to be a facts machine, a strategist. when shes literally the kindest person ever, trying to comfort silver (despite his constant mistreatment of her), and sacrificing almost every post merge challenge for the sake of somebody else (i.e giving up her inani-mate for yinyang, sacrificing herself in episode 13 to put herself on the line with yinyang even if she was manipulating them out of obligation, AND EPISODE 15 SHE DEFINITELY WOULD HAVE WON IF SHE HAD USED HER FILES and completely foiling blueberrys plan, but she didnt because she cared about bot)

in the episode when shes reading the file, the screen actually starts shaking a little. implying she was absolutely horrified at what she was reading. and she had every single right, especially considering what shes gone through.

the other thing that’s absolutely insane to me is the fact that this information was conveyed to her via a file. aka her disability aid, something she relies on. that mustve been horrifying to see something so person to her used against her in such a way.

sorry i regurgitated a lot of this info from the shut i put on tiktok. im just genuinely crazy about cabby

ALSO UR A CABTUBE TRUTHER IM LITERALLY SO IN LOVE WITH CABTUBE i am lesbian cabbys number one truther and see her shipped with men far too much. but like i was so hoping test tube would at least apologize or something. it irritates me how they can make one sided silvercandle canon but they cant show us anymore one-sided cabtube. just make her blush or something. but tbh it made me emo when test tube (and pb bc they nodded) oraised cabby, it made me genuinely crazy.

also unshout out to everyone bullying cabby this episode genuinely why were half of them so mean please let silver Die slowly and painfully. also if lifering (i hc him and cabby as father and daughter, like u cannot convince me lifering and floory arent her dads) switched up on cabby i will personally take his soul like the grim reaper he will be seeing these hands.

sorry feel free to ignore this!

-🍭

😭 I was for real thinking about that earlier today like hasn’t she been through enough… Yes Cabby is a very competitive person but after everything that happened to her in this season and the fact that she’s Still in a vulnerable place right now I don’t think she would find it particularly enjoyable to not receive a prize and then immediately be thrust into a new season of competition— and as a team leader, no less.

Test Tube thanking her for apologising was,,, weird to me. I literally rolled my eyes. It gave me the impression that she (and Paintbrush) think Cabby *should* be apologising to everyone for making some of them uncomfortable? And I just don’t agree. As polite as it is, I think it’s way overstating her actions. Like… why is it “right” to apologise to the entire jury for her past behaviour making “some of them uncomfortable” pre episode 7 when she had never even worked with half of them when said behaviour was supposedly occurring? It’s so frustrating to me, like… how much smaller does she have to make herself for them to be satisfied? I don’t get it.

And of course, “making them uncomfortable” thing again comes back to her files. It’s basically impossible for her not to internalise the idea that keeping information is bad because she Might get things wrong (which. Is another thing. As far as we’ve seen, her writing is almost always correct, barring Bot which is an obvious outlier, and erroneously attributing Suitcase turning on her alliance in season 2 to Balloon’s manipulation.) In episode 15 too, aka the worst Test Tube episode to me, she says Cabby thinks everyone is just “what she happened to write down” as if Cabby is careless and doesn’t do her due diligence when writing her files. Which to me directly contradicts her calling Cabby’s Fan file “impeccable” and having “so many notes” back in episode 2?

And as for Test Tube’s assertion that Cabby would turn on her the moment she stopped being useful, and that she treated everyone like chess pieces on her little board, it really felt like her jumping to conclusions because of what happened with Fan. Because she has done that to no other member of the Pinkers. And there is way less manipulation on Cabby’s part in the show than Test Tube’s irritation would have it seem.

I’m not sure if the writers intentions were to make Cabby as manipulative as Silver from the beginning, but if it was and that’s why this is all going on, well. Mission status isn’t exactly a success to me— the only manipulation she does is in episode 2, when she tries to get Bot to vote out Fan (and presumably the rest of the team as well), and episode 7, where she makes a big show of approaching Silver about how it would be better for him to stack the ice cream because, knowing him to be lazy and careless, it would increase the odds of him screwing up the challenge and make it easier to vote him out.

I’m at least relieved that Test Tube seems to have been thinking about things whenever Cabby says something self-effacing or seems to be nice, because it gives me hope that she may finally realise she’s been taking it too far and maybe Cabby will get an apology, but the fact that she’s been just sitting on it for like 3 episodes by now is killing me,

[sammygender]

12!

ask game

12: the unpopular character you actually really like and why everyone else should like them

sam obviously

i'm disconnected enough from mainstream fandom that i actually have no idea which characters are unpopular to them... i think amelia is pretty widely hated but i like her well enough especially as an arc for sam. i liked michael in s15 (and not a second before). him and adam's relationship was really fascinating they shouldve done more with it.

as for within my mutuals/samblr.... i honestly have no idea. i love the leviathans in s7 because i just think theyre fun but does that count as an unpopular character? sadly i am a hater to my core and there are far more popular characters i dislike a little....

OH wait i know. LATE SEASONS LUCIFER. everyone hates his ass and i will admit by s13 i was going Can somebody just rip up mark pellegrino's contract already (doubled in s14). but i actually really stand by him. smarter people than me have written better meta about this but there's just something so insidious about the way he acts in late seasons knowing hes inflicted irreperable torment and damage on sam.

like. ur century long abuser & torturer & rapist is always making edgelord dirtbag jokes and acting like a 14 year old with daddy issues and saying hes a virgin and hes awful obviously but hes awful in such a petty human way except hes Not. it lulls everyone into this false sense of security where they know lucifer's like, evil, but he's also just this annoying douche they work with sometimes, feels evil the same way your extremely right wing Young Conservatives make-me-a-sandwich coworker is kind of evil, and no one actually knows what happened in the Cage cause sam never talks to anyone about it, and i just think about how like........incredibly awful and isolating this mustve been for sam.

lucifer wont take anything seriously so how can anyone take Him seriously?? people complain about how hes a serious threat in like s5 and s7 and afterwards hes just a joke but i Like that. because he hasnt stopped being a serious threat hes just now petty, impulse-driven, apathetic, perpetually-teenage from the stunted growth of an ancient being in the Worst Possible Way. and hes still horrifically evil and sam is still incredibly terrified of him..

its just like! great to play around with! tfw your abusive ex is obviously a dick to everyone who meets him but he just kind of seems like a joke so no one can really take it all that seriously and now you just look kind of crazy for being this scared of him because tbh he seems too stupid to play the sort of psychological mind games he did and torment you that badly! sorry thats so interesting. then u add JACK into the mix? showstopping. astounding. jack Knows hes evil but like... thats just some guy. thats his dick dad who's kind of mean to sam. but like dean's his dick dad who's kind of mean to sam. shrug emoji.

anyway tldr i love late seasons lucifer. immortal deity adopting the aesthetics of evil (unfunny misogynstic white man). i dont know how this turned into a manifesto for him but. shrug emoji.

[cheemken]

Another thing about the movies, each main character saw the number 180 before the accident happened and killed them all. Like Flight 180, hearing the number 180 on the radio, and race car 180 for examples

So if we’re going with Diantha seeing everyone’s death in a dream, imagine the thing that convinced her the dream was real was some kind of number or symbol she saw before the ambush happened

Also yeah, imagine the ABSOLUTE guilt Lance, Iris, Cynthia, and Leon (I forgot Hop existed for a minute lmao) felt for choosing to save their family over the other people in their regions. They chose to betray their job as Champions for their family. Perhaps the reason they chose to save their family and not let them die is cause they hoped they’d be able to escape capture?

But back to Diantha, imagine her trying to find a way to get all the Champions to come to Kalos so they’d be safer in numbers. But people like Iris and Wallace can’t because they’re guarding items that Team Rainbow Rocket would want for themselves

Unless of course Diantha just straight up tells all the Champions about what she saw. Calls an emergency meeting in Kalos and pretty much starts with

“So this might be a shock for all of you, but we’re all going to die within the next few days”

“…Diantha what the fuck”

Can you imagine how that mustve been for Dia tho😭😭

Homegirl wakes up in cold sweat, screaming, crying, almost threw up. Augustine ran to her room asking her what's wrong, worried as fuck, then she pulls him close, hugging him, terrified he'd suddenly disappear, her hands were trembling as she's going on how she'll make sure nothing happens to him and to everyone. Like, mfer is so confused but he's like really trying to calm her down. Imagine how paranoid she'd be, always having one of her mons (yes ofc its Gengar bc I still love this hc) watch over Augustine in Lumiose, making sure Lysandre doesn't get near him, and even spy on Lysandre. Then when she gets to the League she even tries to confront Malva abt it, and ofc that kinda shocked everyone and even Malva bc holy shit they haven't seen Diantha this pissed and terrified. Like, her hands are legit shaking, grabbing Malva by her shoulders, glaring at her, it got to the point Diantha ended up calling her Tyrantrum, the imposing dragon fossil glaring down at everyone. Malva eventually fesses up, she knows damn well Diantha's too pissed to mess w, and despite her always wanting to spite Diantha, she knows if she did rn she'll be the one dying bc she knows the lengths Diantha will go through to make things right.

And god just chdmdb Diantha explaining to them what her dream was, that she was so goddamn sure it was a premonition, and the others were sceptical at first but then again, she managed to find out abt Malva being part of Flare bc of that dream, even told them of Lysandre's plans and him being the head of Flare, and Diantha's starting to spiral again Drasna had to calm her down.

Then ofc, Dia calls in the other Champions, said it was an emergency, and y'know, they came as soon as the call ended bc Dia honestly sounded like she's abt to experience her fifth meltdown for the day and it's only 10 in the am, tbf she is on her fourth meltdown for the day—

When the others got there, Diantha is trying so so hard to calm herself bc Jesus Christ homegirl did not eat anything today bc she was hurrying to the league in a panic and that dream still continues to haunt her, so yeah she's like, at her limit

So she's there, taking deep breaths, and then looks at the other Champions, telling her of the dream, of the premonition she had. And ofc some of them couldn't believe her, especially w how detailed she is abt their deaths and the events that's gonna happen, but like, y'know, even Leon himself said that Rose really acting suspicious lately, even more so than usual, he's been more demanding, more isolated, as if he's planning smth. And ofc, that kinda surprised the other Champions too bc Leon and Diantha don't even get along well, they don't even agree on almost everything, but w Leon showing that he actually believes in what Diantha is saying is enough for the other sceptics to actually believe her, and they should start planning on what to do now bc if not then they're all gonna die

[byjovewhataspend]

🌫️ 🦇

(i forgot that the askmeme had emojis instead of numbers. i was like why are you calling me a white croissant. what did i do to deserve this-it mustve been something awful)

Questions about Game Shark though!!!

🌫️ how does this character feel about lying? Oh they feel bad about it, it generally feels like a failure to have to lie, theyll always find a way to spin it around into 'i wouldnt have to be lying if i was doing a better job right now' but they definitely DO lie, and quite a lot! in fact a lot of their life right now is built on some Big Fucking Lies that he's terrified will get out soon.

Some small lies they have told:

"oh my boss present mic? he's fine, of course he will be on time to do the speech, he just stepped outside the venue to take a call"

(in reality mic is So Ill from overdoing it and game shark feels guilty for not controlling him at the party but WILL manage to get him on stage just in time)

"i took a poll amongst the staff to make sure the break room was full of foods everyone likes <3" (in reality half of them are foods no one likes-- including him-- because if no one ever takes them he can just eat all his meals at work and have them all be free)

🦇 biggest material fear (ie heights, bugs etc)

Talking on the phone (no im joking)

generalized social anxiety, nothing else can really compare. He is able to push past it for other people (he makes SO MANY calls related to Present Mic and his agency, organizing other peoples business) but if he had to call for anything for himself he'd be jsut petrified

He got second place in the last year of his school and was SO RELIEVED he didnt have to give the farewell adress that he cried. He also almost never says a single audible word on Mics radio show, despite him being fully in control of the engineering aspect of it

He actually has a somewhat normal face, that Snouty look just shows up when he's anxious, and my little dude is stressed/anxious/worried about something ALL the time.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

what kny character do you think has the coolest design?

oouhhgg ok so thats. a hard one. im gonna split it between humans and demons bc that is a really different metric, and also i like gushing abt character design <33

human designs? probably between uzui and shinobu. they're both so completely in-line with who they are as people. uzui's look is Loud and Sparkly in such a way that feels very personalized and Intentional, for lack of a better term. he knows what he's doing and he's pulling it off! simple as! the eye makeup, the gloves, the Huge Fucking Dual Cleavers? absolutely On Point. shinobus design, to me, is more Character Focused than actually Looks Focused. the butterfly haori+hairclip is Such an iconic look, but its also what it means for her Character. that haori-- and her standard uniform-- feel just a bit too large for her. the sleeves cover her hands, constantly fluttering behind her-- even the pants feel slightly unfit. That paired with her constantly placid expression and even tone of speaking-- it really does say volumes. its such a stark reminder of how... unfit she is, for lack of a better term. how she's trying to fit into being a person that she Isnt in an attempt to cope with the loss of someone deeply important to her. also the butterfly silhouette she gets when she is in motion? Absolutely Peak.

(also cheating a little to mention mitsuri my best friend mitsuri who wins on account of being mitsuri)

demon designs? these are less for Character Reasons and more for "ayo what the fuck" reasons but: the hand demon and gyokko. the hand demon (who im so miffed doesnt have a name iirc) is fucking terrifying and does such a good job marking that narrative hurdle for tanjiro of the final selection. its monstrous. its scary. It Sure Is A Hand Demon! mustve been Awful to animate, but damn they pulled it off. and gyokko... Look At Him. look at him? look at him. ive drawn him exactly one time and it was simultaneously awful and ridiculously fun. what a freak.

. anyway cheating again the real answer is HAIRO BABEY CAN I GET A YEEHAWWWW

[lightlycareless]

CHAPTER 34 HAS ME RUNNING IN CIRCLES CLAWING AT THE WALLS LOSING MY MIND,,, HELLO?? HELLO??? naoya just absolutely losing his mind writhing in emotional pain,, incredible stuff i agree w the staff. it is exactly like a car crash and i can not take my eyes away. hes so cringefail mariya. girlbossing standing in between the two of them... very strong of her. i talk a lot of shit abt naoya but i hate conflict and i'd probably start shaking and crying if i had to deal with him so mariya being able to just put herself right in the middle of all that and act totally normal about it is VERY impressive. props to y/n too for acting so normally too-- either that or naoyas just extremely oblivious to body language and emotional cues and doesn't notice them freaking the fuck out. 50/50

naoya detective arc,,,, it would be charming of him if he weren't so deranged. in fact its KINDA terrifying how incredibly focused and driven he was to figure everything out no matter how far back he had to trace it. like-- it'd be INSANELY hard to hide anything from him unless absolutely everyone involved in it was able to be IN on it and know how to keep up a lie to him. kinda fucked!

tho on the detective arc part-- it makes perfect sense for HIS deranged ass to immediately jump to the worst conclusion that y/n lied to him, despite the fact i imagine its still possible the package could've been stolen from inside the estate by one of the staff? as in, the worker got the wolf stamp, but it could've been jumbled up or stolen after entering the estate. not like he's thinking that far ahead tho,,,

FINALLY he sees her w naoaki and we get a whole-ass confrontation-- im going NUTS here this was SO intense. naoya's arc here plays on one of my FAVORITE villain tropes, the 'villain who genuinely doesn't realize he's done anything wrong'. those are always so good but rarely do we get the moments of said villain realizing how badly he's fucked up im SO excited for how this is going

the way naoya is genuinely sure he's not done anything wrong and doesn't realize how badly he's hurt her vs. naoaki thinking he's just pretending to be oblivious to get out of consequences- DELICIOUS STUFF. naoaki pulling the "because you *love* her?" in whats probably intended to be a mocking way and then realizing "oh shit. he does actually. oh this is a fucking mess isn't it" and feeling kind of guilty about it... is it weird i want them to make up at some point too in all of this? god knows naoya needs some fucking friends (besides ranta)

"Naoya doesn't... *can't* care for me... because he doesn't care for anyone but himself." Y/N WITH THE STEEL CHAIR,, FROM THE TOP ROPE,, might as well have just shot him. definitely did the equivalent of knocking him unconscious considering he apparently doesn't remember anything that happened afterwards. i like to imagine he just dropped unconscious right on the spot and they just left him there.

the dream sequence part KILLED me i genuinely believed up until maybe midway through this was real. ALSO HE CALLED HIM BROTHER,,, my onii-san joke rings true,, at the funniest possible fucking time,, wish he'd say it outside of a dream,, the y/n sneering at naoya and laughing at him was i think what gave it away-- i was willing to believe her and naoki went off to finally fuck after all that but sry y/n i do NOT believe you're willing to make fun of him that hard to his face yet. yet. i think you should though some time

but fr this WHOLEE dream sequence is soo important to his character its so good at illustrating the fear of failure and rejection and abandonment-- they're SO crippling for him to such a degree he ends up making it worse on himself and making this fucked up self-fulfilling cycle houghhh its so much,,

naoaki getting woken up in the middle of the night to naoya slamming into his room demanding to know where y/n is-- i NEED to know what he thought in that moment he mustve thought naoya's gone fucking insane esp when he just LEAVES right after without explaining anything

and then y/n probably thought she was gonna fucking die when he just showed up out of nowhere. actual jumpscare moment. also her being intrigued by just how disheveled and awful he looks? me too.

WHAT WAS HE GONNA TELL HER. IM WAILING AND CRYING DID HE EVEN HAVE ANYTHING HE WANTED TO SAY OR WAS HE JUST DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET HER TO STAY,, AUGH,, depending how loudly he collapsed to the floor and loud his crying was i wonder if y/n were able to hear him?? i think she should definitely see him crying at least once-- i wonder how she (or naoaki) would even handle him just breaking down into tears,,

ohmygod i wrote. a lot here. anyways. 20/10 chapter. im chewing on him. tysm for these incredible developments im foaming at the mouth to see whats next

Hello!!!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS JUST EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED HAHAHAHAH I THRIVE IN OTHER'S ANGUISH.... lol.

Ahem, anyways... 🤭 I'm glad you liked this chapter!!! This has to be up there, in my top 10 moments of the story (we still have others though... but yeah, still up there) and the one I was dying to write for the longest. I don't know if it was enough "punishment" for Naoya, but it's good to see him be reminded of his stupidity :)

His downfall is something that I think many were expecting tbh, or at least see him get kicked down a notch lol He was out there thinking himself to be the king of the hill for far too long, someone had to remind him he’s not that special 😂

I’m pretty sure the staff’s perception of Y/N changed drastically once again, into a more positive I mean. They’re out there admiring how she was able to do what many couldn’t and can’t help but wonder if she has the potential to ruin the Zen’in if she wanted to—of course, that stops when Naobito is added into the equation, but they still like to daydream about it haha.

Mariya is a character I would consider 100% fed up with Naoya’s (or just about anyone from the clan) shenanigans, so that makes it easier for her to stand up to him, although I’m sure she’s still intimidated by him. Thankfully her extensive knowledge of how everything works around the estate helps her out in these situations, it’s kind of like a… “gray area” for her to exploit—something she can use if she ever gets in trouble with Junko or Meiko for example, she can easily say “I was just doing what was requested of me” and they’d be like “unnnghhhh I guess!!”

Besides, she has job security in the sense that Meiko considers her to be the best worker there (after her, obviously lmao) so she wouldn’t dare lose the order Mariya provides; because she’ll whine and cry about it, enough for Naobito to intervene, making him wonder why she was fired, forcing Meiko to say “well, because Naoya–“ and yeah, I don’t think anyone to be in that situation hahaha so she’s safe.

I’d say Naoya is greatly oblivious to body language when it comes to… socializing? Cause he’s great when it comes to analyzing targets in a jujutsu environment, but even then, I think he’d still be somewhat bad compared to others 😂 he's the kind of person that believes brute force overrules everything else, so he shouldn't worry about those menial details. (Kind of like Endeavor from MHA? Like he's a great hero, but in the sense of crime fighting, he didn't really care about making a fan base or anything else really... OUTSIDE OF SHOTO OF COURSE)

And because Y/N has always been “coy” when he’s around, he doesn’t think much of it outside of being normal behavior from her, so yeah, he didn't get any sense of "something's going on" when she acted the way she did.

Naoya being derange isn’t a surprise to anyone at this point 😭 I’m telling you, he does things that under any normal context it would’ve been sweet, but since he’s… him, it’s not lmao. I can’t imagine how terrified Y/N was upon hearing he went all the way down to the post office just to find out what happened with his gift. He’s determined, that’s for sure, and it makes her wonder what other things he's done already—although at that moment, at the same time she was hoping she’d be able to escape this situation… well, alive, she was mostly worried that her letters might be uncovered too. Thankfully Naoya was focused on something else 💀

And yep, the way he jumped into conclusions was eerie, but I think it was because deep inside him, he knew that was what actually happened. He had enough of bad history with his wife to know that she, more likely than not, discarded his gifts. Did he ever wonder why? No. Would he dare to ask? I don’t think so. And even if he did, would he understand? I think he’d feel offended if anything, more so when Naoaki’s gestures had been happily received. Oof.

Maybe if he wasn’t so paranoid (or heart broken, let’s be real) he might’ve considered someone else from the staff, leading him into another wild goose chase; good, this is revenge for what he put Hinata through.

I’m glad you liked the confrontation!!! It was above everything, awkward, cause there’s no actual confrontation coming from Naoya if that makes sense? Like he’s not open to actual conversations, he just wants to know the why of certain things, and if it fits his ideals, good, if not, God help us.

I definitely believe Naoaki thinks Naoya is so… “isolated” from the real world that he might actually, genuinely not know what he’s doing—can’t blame him, he had Naobito and the rest of the family as guidance lol—but his inability to even consider other possibilities is what always frustrates him 😂 poor Naoaki, he can’t go on with his life without being constantly disappointed by his relatives. (Have Mai and Maki disappointed him too? I wonder...)

My favorite part, and I’ll never stop talking about it hahahah, was when he asked Naoya if he “loved” Y/N aughagaga DAMN the skepticism was there 100% for sureeeeeeeeee, he was hoping to hear his brother say something like “yeah, I do” so he could be like “bullshit!” and continue to take out his frustrations, but the way Naoya remained quiet, looking away almost as if embarrassed!!! Now that’s when he knew there were feelings for her—beneath the complicated layers that make him a monster, Naoya was still capable of harboring sentiments for someone else (Allegedly… all allegedly…) and Naoaki immediately felt bad for putting him on the spot like that. He still cares for his baby brother after all 😭😭😭

I certainly feel bad that their relationship turned into this—I can only wonder what occurred on the manga for Naoya to want them (more) dead lol. If he’s already unhinged at 19, imagine at 27 💀 Ah, but one can dream….

AHAHAHAH Him just spacing out immediately after Y/N said that is, ugh idk satisfying and sad at the same time—like sure I feel sorry that his wife was like “no, you don’t care” and I could’ve had her say something like “ewww” but Y/N isn’t that disrespectful; and come on what was Naoya expecting 😂?? For her to be like “omg I’m so sorry Naoya I should’ve known” please!!! She was appropriate enough to state the truth, that he doesn’t care for anyone but himself, he should’ve just taken it and left them (which he did: I imagine he remained quiet, spacing out as he stared at the two before turning around and disappearing into the hallways. Naoaki and Y/N look at each other, wondering what happened before wondering if he’s going to return. Naoaki tells her no, but that she should be careful nonetheless. Y/N goes with Mariya, tells her staff what went down and collectively decide to keep a low profile—Hitomi offers to keep a lookout on Naoya, only stopping when she overheard that he was in his room and has been for the past few hours. They go on with their day, or attempt to, and that’s when Mariya decides to let them know of her secret hideout)

To irritate Ren, I decided that the song that best fits this scene is this one. And just for a little, tiny part before the chorus and Mel B's part hahahahha. That's the only thing that actually applies to their whole dilemma at this point.

Now, the good part… The dream sequence was the one thing I’ve been wanting to show you for a while now hahah I just kept teasing you about it, and I’m glad it got the reaction it did hahahahhahahhhahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I was 99.9999% sure that most of my readers would immediately catch on to the fact that this was a dream, since I’ve never portrayed Y/N to be that crazy, you know? Like her making fun of Naoya is off the table completely; sure, she’s made some jokes here and there, but they’re always lighthearted—or at least I think that’s the impression one gets when reading them—never off the rails as this dream sequence 💀 leave that to Naohiko lol.

Either way, I tried my best to cover the fact it was a dream, and if someone saw right through it, it still served to show just how messed up Naoya is on an emotional at this moment.

But yeah, this nightmare worked really well ‘cause there was that lingering question of whether Naoaki and Y/N were finally going to do something more… intimate. I feel that if I hadn’t worked their relationship up to that point it would’ve easily been like “nah, this is a dream goodbye” 😈 glad it worked in the end hahahah!!!

Now that it’s mentioned, the scene where Naoaki is disrupted by Naoya is ironically funny—it was so out of the blue first he was like “I sleep” and then Naoya comes into his room to ask the most random question before leaving.

Naoaki for sure thought he made it up—he was worried for Y/N and overworked by all his duties that he was like “Man, I’m even starting to dream about Naoya wtf??” his slumber overtook him almost immediately after; had he not been that exhausted you can be 100% certain he would’ve gone after Naoya.

And I agree—Y/N for sure thought she was going to die at that moment, although it was a fear that quieted down a bit for the sake of her staff’s wellbeing… yet, the thing that surprised her the most was to see Naoya so… disturbed—he’d seen him angry, arrogant, a complete monster… but she’d never seen him so defeated. So yeah, I think she believed she was going to die, but more in a sense of shock of not knowing what the hell was going on.

Now, for your last question… Naoya desperately wanted to keep her there above anything else, but his broken heart also wanted to tell her that he did care for her, at least to some extent, if not then why would he have married her? A mystery for sure. If I had to boil it down to a singular reason, it was him wanting to tell her how much he wants to be with her. Happily, be with her.

(No one heard Naoya cry, outside of Y/N retreating as quickly as possible, I envision him to be a silent crier in a way, not wanting anyone to hear him out of fear of being reprimanded more than shame—Naobito as a father must’ve been really, really tough. And if anyone did hear him, they would’ve never thought it was him to begin with.)

Thank you so much for tuning in for another chapter!! 🥺❤️❤️❤️❤️ I really greatly, enormously enjoy your asks, they give me so much insight about things that sometimes escape my mind!! Kgagagkak I don’t know how to describe it, but they motivate me allot 😭❤️

I can’t wait to show you the rest of the story…. Another…. Specific part I want you to read (well, more than one, but that one is another favorite of mine) hahahahahaaa

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