#it prob doesn’t help that i work from home so most days i don’t get ready to the extent i did when i went to a physical job

[besarelcielo]

how do y’all make yourselves photogenic or were you just born that way? and also how do you all take selfies every day and look so good in them daily…i know some ppl take like 1,000 pics and the world only gets to see the good ones but i can’t bother to take pics of myself most days like i don’t get the urge or desire at all to take selfies unless im stepping out and even then i feel more of a “i’d better document myself because one day i’ll die and not have the chance” type of pressure than an actual desire to show the world how i look lmao

[micksture]

hello i’m back on the grind and today i bring you the fullbody refs i nearly did a backflip over 🌞 hope you’ll like em

notes under the cut

CHARLIE

- Former Princess of Hell. She resigned from her role and place in the royal home because if she didn’t, she wouldn’t be able to fulfill her dream of redeeming Sinners. Her parents had different plans and expectations for her, and deem her as an embarrassment. Charlie lived in a dingy apartment and worked a couple of jobs for a few years to gather money. She struggled, but she finally earned enough to afford an empty, run down building. At the start, she and the gang will have to start rebuilding and renovating it to make the hotel she planned to build :p

- More goat motifs (ears, nose, horns, pupils, legs and hooves)

- Doll-like joints, which make her movements awkward and robotic at times

- Fangs and buck teeth <3

- Fluffy, puffy hair!!! The color is a mix of Lucifer’s hair back when he was still an angel (golden) and the hair he has now, after falling (red)

- One snake on each side of her head. Both of them are different species and have different personalities. They’re also super venomous, but she doesn’t rlly use that ability

- A mole under her left eye because I just couldn’t help myself hehe

- Tail that she can’t retract and has all the time. It’s a bit too short and just bothers her most of the time by accidentally knocking stuff over

- A blue ‘blouse’ (it’s actually a long sleeve top with buttons printed onto it, kinda like those silly faux tuxedo t-shirts) and shoes with accents of the same color, as any variant of blue is a vital part of the very loose dress code for the hotel’s workers. She also wears blue earrings and always adds a bit of blue to her makeup :3

- Other than that I think her outfit is pretty much similar? At least to the Pilot one

- I tried to sneak in some hearts to her design and just overall make her look friendly and awkward lolz

VANHI

- Former Exorcist angel. She gained consciousness during an extermination and was discarded solely because of that fact. Exorcists are programmed to be killing machines that feel nothing and don’t ask questions, so when they gain consciousness (which is very rare), their higher ups – so Lute and Adam – get rid of them. Vanhi was found by Charlie two days later, miraculously still alive. Charlie rushed her back to her apartment and slowly nursed her back to health, recognising her as an angel, but not an Exorcist. They’ve known each other for 3 yrs now, and they took some time to grow fond of each other but they’re getting there

- Obviously, the name change… She did used to be called Vaggie (when she was still an angel), changed it after being banished from the holy troops and left behind in Hell

- STRRRONG 💪💪💪💪 probs the strongest one out of the main six characters, at least physically

- Lots of scars all over her body from previous battles

- Long teased hair put up in a high ponytail for practical reasons. The black tips are dyed. Also RACOON TAIL!!!!!!!!

- Some moth motifs, like the antennas that mimic a bow and also her hair kinda resembles the wings of a moth when it is down.

- A funky ahoge (I think that’s what it’s called..) that looks like a halo :3

- A different eyepatch + protective gloves

- She wears a pink and white striped pullover under her blue shirt and she also has mismatched socks 👾

- Angelic spear, obvi.. its’ handle is a little bent in the middle, because Adam tried to snap it in half for dramatic effect and failed LMFAOJEBW BOZO

ANGEL DUST

- He’s a famous pornstar under Valentino’s contract, and he has been for some time now. Before that, he’d perform in clubs

- Lots of Valentino’s influence in his choice of clothing: shorts, boots, the black top, pink gloves + fur scarf, rings and the collar. The only thing that wasn’t gifted to him by the overlord is the pinstriped shirt and hat that he’s had since the very arrival in Hell. ALSO SHOUTOUT TO MY FRIEND FOR THIS IDEA: the buttons on his suit are little flies because he’s a spider!!!!!!

- Six eyes, four arms (but he can also grow out two more), pedipalps and abdomen to rlly play into the spider theme

- His teeth are stained with Val’s red saliva

- He has lots of toned pink spots all over his body. I couldn’t rlly decide on an exact design for his markings and I felt like there was already a lot happening on him so I just went with little pink speckles

- Very fluffy :v

ALASTOR

- Powerful Overlord that came back from his seven years of radio silence to invest in the biggest flop of a project in Hell and stick around, seemingly just to laugh at its’ failure

- Toned down colors yay

- Long, pinstriped crimson suit worn over a beige dress shirt, 1930s inspired shoes (they still have the silly hoof prints on the bottom don’t worry) and a tie because I’m sick of the bazillion bowties 👿👿👿

- Voice box located between the top of the knot of his tie and the bottom of his high neck ruff. He often uses it to speak without moving his mouth

- The two sharp ridges that peek from under his neck ruff and have a white glow to them are actually a part of a collar. He’s forced to wear it because of his deal. It’s made of angelic metal, so he can’t really take it off anyway

- For the deer features, I changed his ears to be a little more deer-like, made his antlers bigger and gave him a deer nose :p He has a tail and hooves too but he hides them as much as possible

- No fuckass bob 🙏

- Couldn’t help myself and gave him a pencil mustache 🕴️

- Staff inspired by a 1930s microphone. It can be shortened to a regular mic or expanded to work as a cane!! It's a sentient being and it often adds to situations/conversations by playing sound effects. And yes it does have tiny antlers hehe

- Different monocle

- Some green accents because his magic is green idk

HUSK

-A former Overlord, long past his prime. His enjoyment of Alastor’s 7 year absence was short lived – now, he has to deal with even more annoying people in the hotel. He works the bar and because of Charlie’s request he’s allowed to only fix up mocktails instead of real alcoholic drinks

- Based his design on a mainecoon cat, so he’s super fluffy. Lots and lots of fur, which is unkempt because he gave up on trying to care for it a while ago

- Owl wings. His right wing is clipped (because of the deal with Alastor) and he can no longer fly. He can’t even expand this wing to its’ full length without having to painfully strain it to get it to move out even a little bit

- boy why u so eyebrow…….

- I live for chubby Husk <3

- A bunch of scars

- A rough beard and a droopy mustache

- A stained, patterned blue shirt with rolled up sleeves and a missed button at the top, tiny magician hat, black pants + suspenders and a green cloth to wipe empty glasses

- Give this poor man a break…

NIFFTY

- Used to work at a tailor shop and one day, she came across Alastor when he went in to get his suit fixed after a fight. Rather than being presented with a deal offer, she offered her soul to him herself. He agreed, of course, but he was so weirded out by this that he decided to spare her life to further observe her antics. They’ve grown fond of each other and now have a father-daughter relationship of sorts

- I rlly leaned into the idea of her being a bug… She’s a grasshopper/ant mix, so she has antennae and mandibles

- Fluffy, glowy hair that she curls with hair rollers every day

- Green eye (same shade as her dress)

- Freckles :3

- Big patterned dress, a matching head scarf, blue apron and blue cleaning gloves

[sadie-bug345]

greasers when they’re sick

i myself have been deathly ill for the past week so whilst i am bedridden i’m writing this🤡🙆‍♀️🤩 ANYWAYS LETS GO

ponyboy:

hates missing school solely cause my guy despises talking to teachers abt what he missed

also cause he thinks he gets super behind when guy just skipped one day of school😭

probably holes himself up in his and sodas room and when soda comes in to check on him after work it’s like PITCH black and pony is just sitting in a pile of tissues

”what do YOU want?” says pony with a voice similar to kermit the frog cause bros nose is SO stuffed up

and soda just assumes pony is in one of his moody, poetry reciting moods again and slowly exits the room, leaving only a baloney sandwich in his wake💀🤡😭

johnny:

def the type to not accept help

like he would go to school sick and the second someone brings up how his voice is screwed up he’s like 😐”what’re you sayin bout me?”

if the gang does quarantine him to a room he’d def just be able to entertain himself and prob come up with his own secret language and fictional multiverse or smth

idk he just gives the type to be fully okay with being alone for a bit but the meds he’s on make him all wacky too so it’s an interesting mix for sure

sodapop:

i’m sorry this guy has the most nastiest cough 😭

idc if he doesn’t smoke a lot he just got those mucusy coughs

other than that everyone’s having a good time, making jokes and feeling good and then soda pauses his laughter and unleashes the most rattley cough and then everyone just goes quiet and he just looks like 😃

definitely unfazed by sickness in general

until one day my guy just has the worst time and breaks downnnn🥰

we’ve all been there too esp when you’re sick and shit just goes downhill and everything sucks and you hate everything and everyone

darry:

now johnny doesn’t accept help but that’s NOTHING compared to darry

he has peak older-sibling syndrome and is just used to only helping other people

so when those people that he takes care of flip the script, my guy is just weirded outtt

like he def appreciates two trying to make him soup but he just doesn’t know how to react

goes lowk crazy with not being able to work or straighten up the house just cause he always feels like he’s gotta do SOMETHING productive with his time

dally:

i’m sorry but guy is def the type to go to school FULLY sick and either not say a word about it or complain like a lil bitch the whole time

also he totally smokes while he has a cough like soda which is so unhealthy i can’t even😭

just overall his habits and life doesn’t get upended by “some fuckass cold” (his words, not mine)

like bro please you just gotta rest sometimes😭

the gang is able to get him to stay at the curtis’ couch one day and bro just WIPES OUT

istg he’s out for like 15 hours straight in the full daytime and everyone is scared to walk past in case they wake him up

but dally is a crazy heavy sleeper so he actually gets a lot better after calming down for once🥰

two-bit:

honestly stays home from school like a normal person

except bro gets one cold and then just doesn’t show up to school for like two weeks😭

and it’s not cause he’s a wimp it’s just cause guy finds an excuse to skip out for a so called “vacation” and he rolls with it

and then he’ll just spawn back in on campus like a month later like nothing happened and everyone just expected two to take a dare too far and end up in the hospital🤡

steve:

CANT STOP WONT STOP

bro just pushes thru the pain😭

he probably takes way too much of the recommended dose of general meds (don’t do this please🧍‍♀️)

and then goes all loopy for hours straight

and people are kinda sus about it but honestly it’s steve so who is really all that surprised

LMAO THAT SOUNDS MEAN SORRY STEVE

ANYWAYSSSS i think imma post a romantic kinda sick reader x greaser thing so that’ll hopefully come out soon while im still coughing my lungs out🫶

[propertyofrjl]

i’ve always had a problem with ages in MCD, they don’t makes sense (ik it’s cause at the start the npc’s aged quicker and stuff, but let’s fix one of the main ones that confuses me) Brian.

so first of all, i don’t think Brian is Dales son, Brian is darker skinned than both dale and molly, so what if he has a different dad. molly didn’t cheat, oh no, Brian is simply a child from a past relationship (i’m about to dump this head canon on all y’all so buckle up)

i think our dear sweet Molly is from O’kasis, she a very religious person, dedicated to Irene, and O’kasis is a very religious city, it makes sense. now i can see Molly being kinda poor while living in O’kasis, not the best support system, this is where she meets and “falls in love” with this guy, he’s a criminal and he’s trouble.

Molly’s probs like “i can fix him” when in fact what he does is breaks her. he’s abusive both physically and emotionally, and does what he wants no matter what she says. and Molly doesn’t fight back because she thinks this is punishment for something.

but then molly finds out she’s pregnant, and there is no way in hell she will raise this baby with a man like this guy, so in the dead of night she sneaks out with a small bag of treasured items, maybe a change of clothes, and that’s it. she finds her way to Nahkara village before stowing away to Scaleswind (the birth place/home of Irene, of course she’d be drawn to it)

she arrives and with the help of some kind strangers she settles in a small home, she has Brian and makes a living helping the elderly neighbour with his chicken farming, telling anyone who asks that Brian’s father passed away leaving her a widow (both o’kasis and scaleswind seem like places that would frown upon premarital sex) so Brian grows up thinking his dad was a good person who died (he most def sees the elderly neighbour they help as a grandfather)

then when Brian is around 8 or 9, Molly’s out one evening giving the chickens their last feed of the day when she sees a wagon coming into the city, there sitting with the reigns in his hand is her ex partner, Brian’s dad, and she me never felt more terrified. she runs inside and locks herself and her son indoors. that’s the day Brian finds out that his father his an abusive cruel man, and it causes anger to bubble up inside, anger at his dad for being that way, angry at his mum for lying, angry at himself for being a product of someone who hurt others.

with the help of the old neighbour they yet again, slip out of the city walls under nightfall. an old merchant on his way to bright port offers them a ride, but Molly is worried about going to another well populated town, but the merchant explains he has to stop off at a small village before bright port, it’s sounds perfect. so on to the wagon her and Brian get.

it’s daybreak of the 3rd day travelling when they arrive at this tiny little village of Phoenix Drop. and with the kindness of the lords wife’s (Matilda was always willing to take in ppl in need) they had a home. They were shown to their new house and around the village by a kindly guard (DALE) and with that they started their new lives.

when aphmau comes along she still sets up Molly and Dale (who’ve been smitten with each other for years now) at first Brian is excited cause he’s got a new dad, but then Dale starts going on and on and on about guard academy, Brian’s happy to go, but when he gets there he meets another student who’s got a step parent, only the step parent sent this kid away to get rid of them. this gets Brian thinking, and the more he talks to this kid the more it sticks in his head that Dale is doing the same thing (when really Dale is just so happy to have a son and wants to share being a guard with him too) and then when Brian comes home and finds his mother expecting a baby it’s like a moment of solidified acceptance, that Dale was trying to get rid of him and it worked.

then when Brian is arrested for betraying everyone, molly and dale visit him, Molly can’t stop crying no matter how much Brian pleads with her to not cry, but she can’t and so she walks out with Alexis in her arms. Dale is left looking at his son with a blank expression. Brian turns to his “father” coldly, spitting how Dale finally got what he wanted, a family without Brian.

and then Dale let’s out a dry sob which catches Brian’s attention. and Dale apologies to HIM. “if i ever made you think you were unwanted in this family, then i failed as a father…i’m so sorry my boy”

and Dale’s always called Brian his boy, but it hits so much harder in that moment because it’s the spark that ignited the copious amounts of doubt Brian begins to feel, that maybe all these years he was wrong, that Dale did in fact want him after all.

…

ANGST

[aleksa-sims]

RL Story

Why does everything go wrong at the same time for me? I guess that negativity is contagious? 🫤

I just came home after spending most of the day at Sandra’s, to help her decorating her apartment. Shortly after I arrived, I saw Nico’s cell lying on the table in the living room. He forgot his phone this morning! Since I knew his PIN (The Number of his soccer-jersey shirt, plus once back/reserve.🤨 So sutpid! 🤦‍♀️) I thought I’d take a closer look at it. I checked his phone. Yeah, I know! I was spying on him. 🫤🤷‍♀️And omg, I got totally mad at Nico! I saw that a girl Patricia and another girl Bianca, constantly texted him. Especially on his social media. He never really texted or answered back, after he & I got back together, but the more I.... "researched", I noticed that Nico met that girl Patricia in Italy. THIS fucking summer!!!!!!!! And that Bianca was her sister. So... Nico was messing around with 2 sisters??!!😠Such an ass!! That's why he didn't want to talk about Daniel & me or ask me quuestions, when he came back home 3 weeks ago! Bcs he was hiding who he met in Italy. Jerk! I hated Nico that moment. He kept this shit from me. Somehow I didn’t trust Nico anymore. I mean, sure, we weren’t together this summer and I also slept with Daniel, but he knew about it!!!! Nico wanted me to go back to Daniel, to sort things out with him.

And that’s exactly why I wanted to stay with Daniel 10 weeks ago. I felt like Nico didn’t give a shit about me, like he used to (Philip). Of course, I confronted N. that day! I wanted to know, who that Patricia is and what went on between them? Why is she still texting him?

Nico: I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, but we weren’t together. I also knew this thing was gonna make you feel insecure. That’s why I didn’t want to mention it. And honestly? Why do you even care what I did when we were apart? You were with Daniel! You married him and still are, damn it! Besides, I didn’t plan on seeing someone else or anything. I knew her sister. There was something between her and Philip once. And in Italy, I met that girl Patricia, her sister. She worked there during the summer in the hotel. That's all.

Me: What? Philip dated her sister???😲 Aghh... thats-... thats so gross what you and Philip do- or have done. You know damn well what I mean.... I thought with you all this shit was finally over. And I just don’t understand why you kept it from me? How am I supposed to trust you now, when you have to go abroad again?... Agh, you and your fucking soccer! 😩🤦‍♀️

Nico: Are you done?🤨 .... You're not fair!! But anyway. I don't wanna fight! We're so happy babe. ILY, so.... let's just forget this shit. You’re not well rn. You haven’t slept for 3 nights. Something seems to be bothering you. Maybe it would make more sense to talk about that.

Me: You wanna talk about me? Well!! Yk? I keep thinking about Daniel, N.! I just can’t forget him, I want him! 😈... I’ve seen him with someone else and since then, I feel like I'm crazy over him. And you’re no better than Daniel! You hurt me too! Just... fuck off, N.!

Nico: You say I hurt you because you’re mad at Daniel?... That doesn’t really feel good to me either, to hear how much you still want him!! 😠

Me: Then you know how I felt, when I found all those messages you got. Why is she still texting you?

Nico: She wanted to know if I was back in Italy. I told her I’d stay home, with my pregnant girlfriend. I asked her to stop texting me.

Me: I don’t want to talk anymore. I just get sick of imagining what you and Philip are doing and what you two did to me.😠

Nico: I'm getting tired of this!! Don’t overdo it! You force me to get mad.

Me: Shut up, Nico! 😩🤷‍♀️

Nico: Finally divorce Daniel! Either you calm down, or I’ll sort this out my way. If I do, you will do as I tell you! So tell me, babe? Should I take care of your probs again? To make you feel better?

Me: What are you going to do? Are you going to threaten Daniel? Just like you threatened Dominick back then?

Nico: I'm off! 🤦‍♂️😠

Yep. 🤷‍♀️😞

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[hakirachan]

Hey guys. Hakira here. Just a rant below the cut, read if you want. Or don’t. I don’t care.

I usually don’t vent on this blog. It’s mostly full of crack, shits and giggles, which is why you probably weren’t expecting this kind of post. But I just need to explain something in case I suddenly stop posting one day. (I know you guys probably don’t care; in fact, most of y’all probs won’t see this, but I needed to post this anyways. Sorry.) It’s kinda depressing so feel free to keep scrolling now that you know that.

So, I’m at a really shitty point in my life. It feels like everyone’s against me, like I’ve got almost nobody supporting me, and I feel like I’m hated by everyone I’ve ever looked up to. I know, sooo original. Well, it’s deeper than that.

I’m still living with my parents (somehow), but it’s always been pretty toxic ever since I was a kid. As the youngest, I can guarantee that the “youngest sibling is the favorite child, oldest gets all the work” stereotype is complete bullshit. I was told to do some things that kids that age shouldn’t have had to do. At just 6-7 years old, I was forced to take heavy bags & boxes (and I mean 40-50 pounds each) of my dad’s old shit down to the curb and wait there until they got picked up by his friend (“to make sure it didn’t get blown away” or something like that) in the middle of a fucking snowstorm, with temps below -10 degrees Fahrenheit [around -23 degrees Celsius]. Almost lost my fingers from that. They made me set out & pack up most things for a family campout on my own when I wasn’t even staying at the campsite; I was staying home with a mean, nicotine-addicted (took out a cigarette the moment my parents pulled out of the driveway; refused to stop smoking even though the smoke was making my 8-year-old body nauseous) babysitter because I had a B- in one of my classes. I know this doesn’t sound that bad, but the problem is that I wasn’t even 10 when these things were happening. It’s not really anything too serious, but I was still basically ripped out of my childhood way too early. But, enough about my childhood; now my present life. I’ve relied on my friends for comfort for most of my life because of my dysfunctional home. Recently, though, my friends have become more distant and toxic. Spreading rumors, talking shit, leaving me out, and pulling pranks that go too far (like ruining the outfit I worked so hard to make the day before my band concert). I’ve only got three friends I trust; however, 2 of them I hardly talk to anymore (not because anything happened, we’ve just got different things going on in our lives). So, there’s only one real friend who’s always stuck with me. However, there’s nothing he can do about my family at home. As I said earlier, my family’s always been toxic and dysfunctional. It should have gotten better over the years, but no. It’s gotten worse. They’ve cussed me out, threatened me, and recently, I’ve even been a victim to some domestic violence. I talked to the cops about it, and to a lady from the state who deals with these kinds of things. However, since there were no visible marks and no proof of it, they couldn’t log it as abuse because they can’t just go off of what is said; they need some hard evidence to actually do anything. So, since I don’t have the money to move out of my parent’s house, I had to watch my only hope at escaping this mental and verbal (and now some physical) abuse quite literally walk out the door. I’ve been having suicidal thoughts and self-harm urges for the longest time. And, I’m ashamed to admit it because I’ve talked so many people out of it irl, but recently I have been self-harming. Thing is, while I had helped so many other people, nobody ever helped me through these dark times in my life. In fact, some people (who I helped through their trauma) literally told me to self-harm and to just kill myself when I tried venting to them. I just can’t deal with this shit anymore. I’ve tried and I’ve tried, but I can’t see the “bright side” anymore. There is no more “bright side” for me. I’m on the edge right now, literally. But I’ve got you guys to thank for getting me this far. Thank you so much for being here for me, even though I don’t usually vent, and you guys didn’t know what I’ve been going through up until now, so you weren’t actively trying to support me. Even so, thanks for appreciating me and not treating me like I’m more worthless than a dead plant. I love you all, and I hope you guys have great lives. So, if I change my mind, then I’ll see you guys later. If not…well, don’t mourn me, I’ll be in a better place. So long, guys. also im gonna give this a few days in case things get better (though let’s be honest, they’re probably not gonna) so don’t miss me just yet. If I’m gone for like, over a week, then you can assume I finally freed myself from this hell

shoutout to my mutuals, you guys are awesome and were great help to me (im not gonna pin you so you don’t feel obliged to read/reply to my dumb rant): dumb-mc-sheep cldhart08 acronym49 cricketproofreads im-an-angy-alpaca trash-opposum

And special shoutouts to my two fav mutuals (sorry other moots) @family-disappointment and @avatarofstars! You two were some of the greatest motivators for me to keep going. I’m sorry that your efforts (while unintentional) probably weren’t enough this time. I love you both and wish you both the best lives you can have! (And sorry for bothering you with the tag, just wanted you to see this last little note to you both💜)

This is Hakira, signing out.

:)

[andiinaraethtash]

Chapter 25: Put Your Trust in the Light That You Cannot See

Notes:

Happy Easter to those that celebrate it, and happy Sunday to those that don't! TW: attempted suicide. The attempt doesn't get carried out, but he does try. Also, continued discussion of aftermath of possession and what that can do to a person's mental state, etc. (ps: 'He' is not who you think it is) Chapter title from Where the Shadow Ends by BANNERS

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

It’s three days later, three days of grueling exercise to regain mobility and stamina, three days of intense boredom and for once wishing to be anywhere but home, that Katherine finally agrees to let him visit the Grimlands. It’s all Scott can do not to throw his hands up in celebration.

“The rules I set out before still stand,” she insists, but her eyes look lack-lustre, like she’s lost something and doesn’t know how to get it back. Scott wants to ask if she’s okay, but decides not to pry for once and let her figure out what’s going on before making her spill.

“That’s fine,” Scott says, forcing himself to stand on aching limbs, and stretches, trying not to wince as his muscles scream at him. He’s been practising walking and he’s almost regretting it, but he also knows if he hadn’t been practising, Katherine wouldn’t be letting him go.

From the stairwell, Jimmy sighs and crosses his arms. “This isn’t going to end well.”

Scott musters a glare in his direction, but it fades quickly, and he lets his shoulders slump ever so slightly. “Maybe not, but as I’ve said, I need to do this.”

“Why?” Jimmy asks, but he doesn’t sound exasperated or anything. He just sounds curious, a tilt of his head helping to get his meaning across.

Scott hesitates for a long moment, trying to come up with an answer that makes sense. “I just… I guess I feel responsible. Not for all the destruction, I know that wasn’t entirely my fault, but for not visiting sooner. He’s my friend—they all are. I can’t let them think I’ve forgotten or have better things to do or anything like that.”

Katherine purses her lips. “They don’t think that, Scott, I can promise you that. They know you were hurt, and you need to recover; they’ll understand if it takes you a while to be able to visit.”

“I know that here,” he says, tapping the side of his head, “but here…” this time he taps his chest, indicating his heart, and lets his voice trail off.

Jimmy comes over to him almost immediately, and cautiously, like he’s expecting to be batted away, puts a hand on Scott’s shoulder. “I get it. I do. I just… I’m worried that you won’t like what you see.”

“Are they all alive?” Scott asks even though he knows the answer, and at Jimmy’s nod, he adds, “Then that’s enough for me. I’m going to see them, Jimmy.”

Jimmy sighs again. “Fine. Okay. Let’s do this.”

The other two hover as Scott makes his way down the stairs and out onto the green mountainside. It’s strange, seeing Rivendell filled with people and colour again; he’s spent so long thinking that he’d never see it as anything but eternally winter-bound slopes that seeing it lush and full of life now is… jarring to say the least.

A few people are milling around between the embassies, and he sees the relief on their faces as they spot him, even from this distance. He manages a small smile and a wave to acknowledge them.

It’s good to see the people again. He’d feared that they were all killed either by Exor’s wrath or his own inability to control the gifts Aeor had given him, but no, they’d all seen the signs of a coming battle and had fled, some to the Crystal Cliffs, but most to the Overgrown.

The path they had taken is actually under repair, Scott can see, and though he didn’t give the approval for the change, he knows Katherine probably did, so he has no problem with it, especially seeing it paved with stones dyed the cyan, white, and gold of Rivendell, and the reds, pinks, oranges, and greens of the Overgrown. It’s a fitting tribute to the road that literally brings the two empires together.

Katherine nudges him, and he looks back at his companions in time to accept the rockets Jimmy is handing him before it gets awkward. Katherine takes off first, using a rocket to help her delicate wings give her altitude, and Scott, after a deep breath, follows her.

His wings ache, it’s been so long since he’s used them. His icy pair had been more of a set of elytra than the powerful snow owl’s wings he’s grown up with, so he’s become used to gliding rather than actually flapping his wings and truly flying. So he’s using muscles that have long since atrophied, and for all that he’s been exercising, it hasn’t really prepared him for the strain flying has on his wings, back, and shoulders.

He only uses the rockets once he gets to an altitude he can glide at, then he deploys them liberally to boost himself forward. As much as it adds to the strain on his wings, it also reduces the amount of time and effort he has to put into flying to get to where he needs to go, and he’ll take that over a minor decrease in stress to his wings.

Still, by the time the plains of the Grimlands come into view, Scott is having to grit his teeth to keep back the exclamation of pain as his wings strain to keep him aloft. Finally, he can’t go any further, and he swoops down to the ground, landing so he can catch his breath.

Jimmy and Katherine land next to him immediately, and Jimmy shakes his head. “I told you this was a bad idea.”

Scott waves him and Katherine off, even as he sinks to the ground, crossing his legs and slumping forward. “I’m okay, I just need a break.” Katherine and Jimmy share a look over his head, and he scowls. “No, really, I’m fine, I just need a quick break. Besides, we’re almost there.”

Both of the others sigh, almost in perfect unison, and Katherine covers her face with a hand for a moment before straightening. “Okay, okay. But if you’re not feeling up to flying in the next fifteen minutes, I’m sending Jimmy ahead to get some horses from the Grimlands’ stables.”

Scott’s head snaps up. “Oh, no, that won’t be necessary.” He really prays it isn’t. The standard horse from the Grimlands is quite literally skeletal; riding one is uncomfortable at best and downright agony at worst. It’s a threat from Katherine and they all know it.

So he makes sure he’s caught his breath within five minutes, stretched out his wings within seven, and on his feet within ten. “Okay, I’m ready.”

Jimmy and Katherine both give him skeptical looks, but he ignores them, braces, and takes off, giving them no choice but to follow. It’s painful, but he feels better than he had, so he’ll take that as a win.

Even traveling by flight, the remainder of the journey takes the better part of two hours, and Scott is sweating and shaking like a leaf by the time Eastvale comes into view. He’s so tired he wants to collapse, but he keeps going anyway, coming in to land on the path going up to the manor.

The guards outside startle at his, Jimmy’s, and Katherine’s landings, but they quickly rush forward and help Scott stay upright until Jimmy can loop an arm around his waist and drag Scott’s own arm over his shoulder.

“I told you,” Jimmy mutters, and Scott sighs. He’d probably been right, but Scott is nothing if not stubborn, and besides, he has to know.

Katherine sighs, thanks the guards, then leads the way into the manor. “I’ll go tell Gem we’re here, but you are going straight to bed. There’s a room a few doors down from fWhip’s, that one should be available. C’mon, this way.”

She ushers them through the throne room and up a staircase, then opens a door on their left. “Here. Jimmy, get him settled?” Without waiting for a reply, she heads off further down the hall, ducking into a room on the far side without so much as knocking.

Jimmy sighs and looks up at the ceiling, as if asking it for guidance, before turning back to Scott and mustering a grin. “C’mon, let’s get you in bed.”

Scott nods half-heartedly, and lets Jimmy guide him over to the bed, where he all but collapses. Aeor, but lying down feels good. he’s so tired he doesn’t care that he’s still got his boots on, or that he’s face-down on the feather mattress, making breathing difficult.

Jimmy sighs again and starts wrestling his boots off. “Really, Scott, if you were this tired we could have stopped for a longer break.”

“Katherine threatened to get horses for the Grimlands, remember?” Scott says, his voice muffled by the bed coverings, and Jimmy stops what he’s doing. Scott can’t see him, but he can only imagine that he’s tilting his head to the side in confusion.

“What was that?”

Scott groans and lifts his head enough to get out, “Katherine threatened to get horses, remember?”

Another sigh. Scott wonders if Jimmy’s doing alright, because he’s been doing that a lot lately. “True. But we could have taken more breaks, given you time to rest.”

Scott grimaces, rolling over onto his back and wincing when it pins his wings at an awkward angle. He doesn’t say anything for a minute, just watches and listens as Jimmy sets his boots aside and grabs a pillow, throwing it at Scott’s head. Scott doesn’t have the energy to catch it or throw it back, so instead he drags it under his head and sighs in relief.

Stretching, he rolls over onto his side and curls up ever so slightly. Without his consent, his eyes slip closed, only to snap open a moment later when something touches his wings. He looks up, surprised to see Jimmy sitting on the bed next to him, a hand in his feathers.

“Sorry, i just…” Jimmy gestures vaguely at Scott’s wings. “They look a little worse for wear.”

Scott glances at his wings and purses his lips. They really are worse for wear, and ordinarily he’d preen them into place, but he’s so tired and the thought of reaching behind him to put the feathers back into the proper places makes his arms ache. But letting anyone touch his wings, set them to rights, that’s incredibly intimate. The last time he’d let anyone do it, it had been his mother.

But at the same time, this is Jimmy. If he can’t be vulnerable around him, then who can he be vulnerable around?

So with a heavy sigh, he rolls back over and relaxes his wings, giving Jimmy access. There’s a long moment where neither of them move, then Jimmy tentatively reaches out again and straightens some of his auxiliary feathers, smoothing them into place. Scott’s shoulders drop, and he lets his eyes close again.

“What’s this?” Jimmy’s voice startles him out of a doze, and he sits up, turning to see Jimmy holding the dim red crystal that had been Xornoth’s prison.

Realising it must have fallen out of his pocket at some point while he was lying down, he makes to grab it back, and Jimmy yanks it away. “Give it back, Jimmy.”

“Why do you have this still?” Jimmy asks, looking and sounding worried.

Scott manages to grab it from Jimmy and holds it close, inspecting it quickly for any damage. He knows it’s magical, and thus likely can’t be broken or even scratched, but he’s a little paranoid. It’s all that’s left of his family; he thinks he can be forgiven for worrying.

“Scott…”

It takes a moment, but he finds his voice, though he doesn’t look up at Jimmy. “If it was Lizzie, would you be able to let go of the memories?”

He can hear Jimmy’s frown. “I thought you didn’t remember him.”

“I didn’t,” Scott says, “not until Aeor died.” Jimmy inhales sharply as he puts the pieces together, and Scott nods. “Exactly. I… Aeor, Jimmy, I’m so confused. I want to hate them—all of them—but I can’t. Even Exor. I look at him and I see the brother I lost, I look at Aeor and I see myself. And Xornoth…”

Jimmy is silent for a long moment, then sighs. “I guess I understand. I just don’t understand why you brought it here.”

Scott doesn’t answer at first. It’s not like he can tell Jimmy the truth, so instead, he eventually lowers his hands down to his lap and nearly falls over, he slumps so much. “If it were Lizzie…”

He sees Jimmy nod out of the corner of his eye, then force a smile. “I think I’d have to fight Joel for custody of it.”

That startles a laugh out of Scott, and he lays back down on his back, clutching the crystal to his chest. “That’d be hilarious.”

“Maybe for you,” Jimmy mutters, then starts smoothing the feathers back into place again.

Scott hums, letting the quiet intimacy of the moment soothe something jagged in his soul. Without meaning to, he falls asleep.

______

Gem startles when the door bangs open, and whirls around, hand on the hilt of her sword, only to relax when she sees Katherine striding toward the nearest unoccupied chair.

Next to her, Pearl stares. “What are you doing here? I thought you were staying with Scott?”

“I am,” Katherine grumbles, and Gem raises an eyebrow.

“Scott’s here?”

Katherine nods. “He insisted. I set up a few rules, and he’s agreed to them—”

“How’d you manage that?” Pearl wonders aloud, but Katherine ignores her.

“—but he wore himself out on the flight over here, so he’s sleeping—or he should be, at any rate. Jimmy’s with him to make sure he does as he’s told.”

Gem manages a smile, reaches over to the bedside table, and pours a glass of water for Katherine, who takes it with a small but grateful smile. As she tosses it back in one big gulp like it’s a drink of alcohol, Pearl sighs.

“Well, if you’re looking for good news, I’m afraid we’re fresh out. He’s awake… we think… but he doesn’t respond to anything. Not Gem, not me, not Sausage. Not even light. He doesn’t flinch or even blink. It’s…”

“It’s like he’s a living, breathing corpse,” Katherine finishes, and they both flinch. She grimaces. “Sorry. But after what you described happening in the Nether, are we really surprised?”

“He’s still in there,” Gem insists, “I know it.”

Pearl nods. “What’s gotten into you? You’re usually the optimist.”

Katherine exhales carefully, clearing thinking over her words. “The Overgrown hasn’t spoken to me since the battle,” she finally says, and Gem quickly shares a look with Pearl, looks worried.

“How long do you usually go without talking to it?” Gem asks, resisting the urge to pull out her research book. It’s not often Katherine talks about how her relationship to the Overgrown works, even if she talks about the Overgrown a lot.

“Usually only a couple of days,” she says, and Gem immediately grimaces. It’s been well over a week since the battle, and if there’s been no communication between a force of nature and its guardian since then, something must have disrupted the balance of nature.

And Gem knows exactly what that would have been.

Pearl seems to have caught on as well. “Do you think all of the gods were…?”

“I don’t know,” Katherine says, frustration bleeding into her voice and escaping in the form of tears. “All I know is that it’s silent, and it’s never silent, it’s always humming or whispering in my mind, even if I can’t tell what it’s saying. And I’m scared, I’m so scared, because what if it’s dying or already dead and I wasn’t there to protect it?”

“Oh, Katherine,” Gem says softly, coming around to kneel next to her, putting an arm around her and pulling the smaller woman closer. “You’re not a failure for having differing priorities. I’m sure we’ll figure it out—the most powerful people in the empires putting their minds together? With the exceptions of Joel and Joey, we should come up with some good ideas.”

Katherine nods, shudders, then straightens. “Right. That’ll keep to another time—though hopefully not too long?” She looks to Gem for confirmation, and she nods. “Anyway, as you know, Scott’s here. He was being so obstinate about coming that we just gave in and convinced him to at least let us come along and make sure he doesn’t hurt himself or get into any trouble.”

Gem and Pearl exchange wry smiles. The two of them and fWhip have this method of communicating without speaking through facial expressions and body language alone, and while it drives everyone else mad, it does come in handy. Right now, for instance, Pearl is silently asking Gem if she wants to go check on Scott, and Gem is hesitating, because she does want to, but she also wants to stay near fWhip in case there’s any change.

She sets a hand on fWhip’s arm, glancing from him to the door, and Pearl picks up on the source of her hesitation, scooting her chair closer to the bed. Gem twists her mouth into a small grimace, but nods, and Katherine sighs.

“You guys are doing that thing where you’re not talking, aren’t you?”

“We’re talking,” Pearl says, grinning cheekily, “just not aloud.”

Katherine makes an offended noise, and Gem pats her shoulder as she stands and goes to the door. “I’m going to check on Jimmy and Scott. Keep an eye on him, and come get me if there’s any change.”

“You don’t have to tell me twice, Gem, I got the message the first time,” Pearl says over Katherine’s exclamation of, “Of course!”

Gem smiles, but it’s tight and feels wrong on her face. She’s scared to leave her brother, even if it’s with Pearl and Katherine, two people she knows and trusts explicitly. But there’s the possibility of something happening and her not being around to stop it—and suddenly she understands why Katherine was acting so distressed earlier. She hadn’t been there when something happened to the Overgrown, and now she’s helpless. If anything happens to fWhip—well, anything else—she won’t be able to forgive herself.

She finds the door at the end of the hall open just a crack, and pokes her head in to see Jimmy combing through Scott’s wings, fixing crooked and loose feathers. He looks up, startled, when she does, and his hands go still. “Oh,” he says softly. “You look awful.”

She lets out a huff that’s supposed to be a laugh. “I could say the same to you,” she says in a whisper, and is surprised when Scott’s voice grumbles from the bed.

“Yes, we all look terrible, but unfortunately we’ve had more important things to do than to look pretty.”

Jimmy snorts and swats at Scott’s head. “You’re supposed to be sleeping.”

“I’m resting,” comes the annoyed reply. “Which would be a lot easier if you were quieter.”

Gem holds up her hands in defence. “Hey, I’ve been quiet.”

“Well, be quieter. I want to sleep.”

Gem shares a look of fond exasperation with Jimmy. She mouths, ‘He’s such a grump,’ and Jimmy chuckles softly as he pats a feather down into place. Scott grumbles unintelligibly and shifts so that his wing whacks Jimmy over the head, making Jimmy squawk in outrage.

Gem laughs then, a genuine one that doesn’t hurt as it comes out. It’s just… so normal, so mundane, and it feels for a second like one of the three of them hasn’t had a near-death experience recently, like one of them didn’t have to see a person they love dearly nearly kill themselves, like one of them isn’t slowly losing their brother while he’s still alive.

And there’s something to be said that they can bounce back from such trauma so soon, either that they’re strong and don’t need help, or they’ve been through so much that such traumatic events are normal.

(It’s probably the latter.)

Scott finally sits up, shifting his wings again so they fall behind him, and Jimmy sits back so he can have his space. “How’re you doing, Gem?” Scott asks, and she shrugs.

“It’s just the not knowing that’s killing me. Otherwise I’m okay.”

Scott nods, and Jimmy looks sympathetic. Of course, out of all of them, he’d understand best. He’d been in the same boat while they were waiting for Scott to wake up, and she recalls Sausage saying that Jimmy had said something similar. She shares a small smile with him before Scott clears his throat.

“I was actually hoping to talk with you, preferably alone.”

Jimmy raises an eyebrow. “Now, wait a minute—”

“Jimmy,” Scott cuts him off. “I’ll be fine. Go check in with Katherine and Pearl, or take a walk, but I need to talk to Gem. Alone.”

Gem frowns, but nods to Jimmy, who sighs heavily before standing and giving Scott a look. Gem didn’t quite know what the look was for, but she does her best to keep her face neutral when Jimmy turns around. She doesn’t want him to think she doesn’t know what she’s doing.

(And no, she absolutely doesn’t know what she’s doing, lately it feels like she never has, but she doesn’t want her friends and allies to lose faith in her.)

Jimmy leaves the room, and Gem arches an eyebrow as she takes a seat across from the bed. “What’s this about?”

Scott is fiddling with his hands, like he used to fiddle with the Xornoth crystal, and he takes a moment, probably to compose himself, before asking, “How sure are we that Exor’s corruption is gone?”

It’s not what she’s expecting, so for a moment all she can do is stare before blurting, “What do you mean?”

“I mean,” Scott starts, then hesitates, “Is there any chance that some measure of his corruption might still be around?”

She tilts her head, considering his expression. It’s simultaneously hopeful and resigned, and she can’t help but wonder what this is about. “I’d have to do more research, but Aeor seemed pretty sure that this would end his reign permanently. Scott, what’s this about? Cause if it’s about fWhip…”

Scott shakes his head. “It’s not, it’s…” He trails off, before sighing and opening his hands to reveal what he’s been cradling: a familiar crimson crystal.

Gem can’t help it; she physically recoils. She’d hoped when she gave it to Shrub, she’d never have to see it again. It had been on the ground next to fWhip’s severed arm, and she’s had to restrain herself from trying to smash it to pieces. It’s responsible for so much hurt and ruin, and while she understands the emotional connection Scott has with it, she doesn’t like it, and never will. Just looking at it reminds her too much of the way it had looked embedded in fWhip’s hand.

Of course, Scott notices her reaction, and immediately tucks the crystal away. “I’m sorry, it’s just… if there was any chance…”

“You want to make sure it’s not corrupted anymore,” Gem surmises, and Scott hesitates. She raises an eyebrow. “That is what you want to do, right?”

Scott sighs heavily. “He’s my brother, Gem.”

And immediately her heart somehow drops to her feet and rises to lodge in her throat. “You want to set him free? After everything?”

“You want fWhip back, don’t you?” he shoots back, and she nearly snarls, because the two are nothing alike.

“Your brother went into it willingly; fWhip’s will was taken from him and crushed. How are those even remotely similar?”

“Because I know Xornoth, and he’d never have done what he did without some sort of—of mind control or coercion, I know him Gem, he’d never do what he’s done, not of his own free will.”

She almost can’t believe what she’s hearing. “Scott, how old were you when Xornoth killed your parents? How can you be certain?”

Scott deflates slightly. “I’m not,” he admits quietly, and she stares at him for a moment before he adds, “That’s why I want to free him. Not just because I think he deserves the chance to live free of Exor’s corruption, but also because we need to be sure the last of it is gone.”

She’s trying to come up with a counterargument, but she comes up short. Sighing, she gives in. “Fine. But only if Shrub is okay with it, because he was responsible, indirectly or not, for the slaughter of her people.”

Scott nods quickly. “That’s fine.”

“It’s non-negotiable,” she corrects stubbornly, scowling ever so slightly. “And I want at a minimum Pearl, Lizzie, and Pix there in case something goes wrong or he’s still… y’know.”

Scott sighs, but nods, and she tries not to think of the million and one ways this could go wrong.

_______

“I’m sorry, you want to do what?” Shrub asks, sounding nervous. Gem can’t blame her; what they’re proposing is ludicrous.

Scott huffs from his seat across the room. Currently they’re in fWhip’s study, which hasn’t been tidied much beyond getting rid of the scraps of paper that had littered the room and scrubbing the ink stains off of the floors and walls. The room still looks to be in disarray, but only slightly more than usual.

“We want to let Xornoth out,” Scott says, even if that’s not entirely true.

“You want to let Xornoth out,” she corrects. There’s a big difference in her mind. She may understand why he needs to know, but that doesn’t mean she’s happy about it. “But I’m only doing it if you’re okay with it, Shrub. He was the one to slaughter your people.”

Shrub makes a face that Gem can’t interpret. “I’m… not so sure he did, actually.”

Gem stares. “Shrub…”

“I went home,” Shrub explains quickly, “the night Pearl brought you to Rivendell, I was late, remember? That’s because I’d found my way back to my homeland, and only came back because I needed supplies. I haven’t been able to try to get back since, so I’m not sure it’s still there, but when I was there, it was empty. No people, no animals, no corpses. That means either someone buried them, or they all escaped as well. They must have.”

Gem exchanges a look with Scott. She doesn’t want to burst Shrub’s bubble, but she knows that kind of hope can be deadly.

“Look, Shrub, I hope you’re right, but that doesn’t negate what he put you through.”

Shrub raises an eyebrow. “Oh, so that’s why you’re asking me instead of Joey or Sausage. Because my trauma is worse than theirs.” Her tone is odd, and Gem tilts her head to the side, trying to figure out what she’s getting at.

Scott stands, and goes to kneel in front of Shrub. “No one’s trauma outweighs the others’. You told me that.”

Gem isn’t sure when that happened, but she’s not surprised; it sounds like something Shrub would say.

She meets the smaller woman’s eyes, and sighs. “You’re right. I should ask them as well.”

Shrub nods, beaming, and hops out of her chair. “While I’m here, is it okay if I see fWhip? It’s been a while.”

Gem nods distractedly, and Shrub and Scott leave as she starts drafting a message to Joey. She can ask Sausage in person, seeing as he’s somewhere in the mansion right now, but she wonders how in the world she’s supposed to phrase this to express that this is a terrible idea without outright saying so.

______

Scott watches as Gem sets up two different rituals, one to open the crystal, and one to seal Xornoth back in, just in case. He wishes it wasn’t necessary, but he also knows this is one condition everyone else had agreed on. If it’s what it takes to know if his brother is still corrupted, he’ll take it.

He’s honestly surprised that Joey and Sausage agreed to go along with this, but they did, so he’s not going to complain. He needs to know, and while he knows Gem doesn’t like it, she has to understand, given what she’s going through with her own brother.

Next to him, Pearl shifts, but when he looks over at her, she doesn’t look nervous, just impatient. He’s glad someone isn’t dreading what might happen.

On the other side of the hilltop they’re gathered on, Pix, Lizzie, and Joey are all looking around, fiddling with weapons, and generally looking trepidatious, even Pix. He can’t really blame them; this is the big bad demon they’ve spent so long fearing and fighting.

Gem looks nervous, too, standing next to the circle of stones and pebbles that make up a series of concentric rings, surrounded by a chalk circle, which is periodically interrupted by eight stone pillars. She hasn’t put the last item on its pedestal, waiting until they know whether or not Xornoth is still… Scott doesn’t want to consider the possibility.

Right now, they’re just waiting for their backup, which comes in the form of a pack of wolves, led by Shrub on her Mother Wolf, all racing each other and yipping excitedly. Scott smiles at the excitement, even though he knows it won’t last long.

He’s right; as soon as the pack crest the hill, they slow, quiet down, and slink into formation around the circles Gem has marked out. It’s an eerie shift, going from exuberance to dread, and he wonders how they all know—or if they know—what’s about to happen.

Gem glances around the loose circle, and squares her shoulders. “Are we all ready?” She asks, and they all nod, some more hesitantly than others.

As Scott and Pearl pull out their weapons, Gem braces herself, picks up her staff, and slams the butt of it down on the outermost stone circle, which lights up purple, then the middle circle lights up magenta, and the smallest circle, the one in the middle, lights up red. The crystal, which had been laying on a pedestal in the very centre of the set-up, starts levitating.

Arcs of purple, magenta, and red lightning start rising up from the circles, getting higher and higher until they reach almost the same height as the crystal. Once there, the lightning changes from arcs to bolts, latching onto the crystal, which glows brighter and brighter until Scott can’t look at it anymore, and there’s the sound of something cracking, then shattering—then the lights all die at the same time, and there’s dead silence.

Scott opens his eyes tentatively as the stars fade out of his vision. He looks to the centre of the ritual, and his breath is stolen, because lying there on his back, magenta hair spilling across the his blackened wings and the dry grass, is his brother—and not the corrupted version he’s gotten to know over the last year. No, this is the version he remembers from his childhood.

Without thinking about it, he sheathes his sword and charges forward, nearly stumbling over the stone circles that made up the ritual set-up. He falls to his knees next to Xornoth, ignoring the cries from Pearl, who’s three steps behind him, and Gem, who he can see out of the corner of his eye has her sword and staff both at the ready.

Tentatively, Scott lays a hand on Xornoth’s shoulder, about to shake him awake, but before he can, Xornoth gasps, eyes flying open, and pushes himself up to his elbows. Scott jerks back in response, startled by the sudden movement, and lets his hand hang in the air instead of on Xornoth’s shoulder.

Out of the corner of his eye, he notices Joey hurriedly fixing his hair, which had been fine, what was he doing, but his attention is on his brother, who’s panting heavily and looking around with a wild look in his eyes.

“Xornoth?” Scott asks nervously, and the other elf pales, whipping his head around to stare at Scott for a long moment before lunging to his feet and pulling Scott’s sword from its scabbard.

Scott stumbles to his feet, putting as much distance between himself and his brother as he can, but Xornoth doesn’t charge or otherwise attack.

Instead, he turns the sword on himself, and Scott barely has any time to cry out before there’s movement in his periphery and suddenly Pearl is there, knocking the sword from Xornoth’s hand and hitting him over the head with the pommel of her sword. He drops like a sack of bricks.

Scott stares, and stares, even as Pearl grabs his sword and offers it to him. After a long moment she sighs and just sticks his sword in her belt, then gestures Lizzie forward.

“Come on,” she says, “we should get him somewhere more secure.”

As Lizzie gathers Xornoth in her arms, Pix and Joey trailing after her, Shrub comes up to Scott. At some point during the last few minutes, she’s gotten off the Mother Wolf’s back, and she rests a hand on Scott’s arm.

“Hey,” she says softly, “are you okay?”

He blinks, his first move since Xornoth had tried—oh, Aeor, he’d tried to kill himself. His big brother had tried to kill himself with Scott’s own sword.

Scott’s suddenly very glad Pearl has his sword, because he’d probably do something inadvisable to it if he had it.

“Scott?” Shrub asks again, and he takes a deep, unsteady breath.

In a voice that threatens to break, he manages, “Why would he do that?”

Shrub hesitates, then wraps her arms around Scott in what’s probably supposed to be a comforting hug, but instead just feels stifling. “We don’t know what’s going on in his head right now.”

“Do you…” Scott almost can’t finish the question. “Do you think he’s still being controlled?”

Shrub shakes her head. “I don’t. Though I have to tell you, that doesn’t mean he’s back to normal. That kind of imprisonment… it has to leave scars.”

“I know that,” Scott snaps, then immediately regrets it. “Sorry, I just…”

“You’re scared,” Shrub finishes for him. “Yeah. I would be, too. But Scott, he’s got you on his side. That has to mean something.”

Scott nods, but he doesn’t say anything. Aeor, what had Xornoth been thinking? Didn’t he recognize Scott? Doesn’t he know who Scott is? Surely if he remembers his life before Exor, he wouldn’t… he wouldn’t try to kill himself.

That leaves three options in Scott’s mind: either there’s still some remnant of Exor still controlling him, he’s unable to think of living without Exor… or he remembers everything he did as Exor’s champion and can’t bear to live with the guilt.

He’s not sure which he’s hoping for.

Notes: Betcha didn't see that coming, did ya?

[foogadooga]

roleplay

hello! I’ve been looking for more people to roleplay with so I’m deciding to say something, we can rp here, or on discord but either way I’d appreciate at least messaging here first (so I know I can trust you)

I do want to say I prefer to play children, however doesn’t mean I can’t gladly play adults! I can usually match length too!

I don’t really play whumpers very often, but I do play both caretakers and whumpee! (With a preference for whumpee)

Looking for caretaker:

Y/c (caretaker) was at home. Their friend killcode had gone home a few hours ago and they were relaxing for a bit, when there was a knock on the door. but opening it revealed two of killcodes three kids (prob won’t play them as literally kids because yeah unless your chill with that) standing at the door, one visibly beat up and passed out while the older of the two was holding them. “Please. Help.” The older one. Whispered slightly.

y/c (caretaker) works at a popular coffee and pastry shop. It's a nice place and opened just recently. One day a guy came in, followed by a dozen young children, quickly order a pastry for each of them plus a tea for himself. The guy came back a few days later by himself but he seemed much different. He seemed to lack any confidence he had when he was there with the little kids, but non the less he gave his order and sat down. After a few months he was becoming a regular and y/c was growing interested in the shy teacher.

Y/c (caretaker) was walking around an old abandoned hideout for eclipse (known whumper) with some friends when they found a journal that use to be eclipses, containing notes about two experiments he had been working on, each one was sickening and more like torture then anything, but what was worse was when y/c hears banging coming from a near by room.

It was raining and Y/c (caretaker) was walking home with their friend. But when they get home they notice a few suspicious boxes on their porch. Friendships are broken, y/c learns parts about themself they never knew existed, but most importantly. Now theyre stuck with these.

Looking for whumpee:

Moon (caretaker) and eclipse (bad caretaker) were going on a late night coffee run, it was raining out and it was almost 1 am, but eclipse insisted they get his kinda coffee, so moon gave in and went to get him coffee, but on the way they found y/c (whumpee) injuried

[minijenn]

Fuck it letssss goooo

Ok so the plot of the UF movie does follow the SU movie… sort of. Lemme explain.

Things actually kick off back during UF2, probs right before or during Diamond Days. One certain Triangle Fucker is quickly starting to realize he may not win this time around, but if he’s going down he’s sure as hell taking the Crystal Gems and the Pines family down with him. So we Bill goes to pay one certain Spinel standing alone in the garden a little visit, as a… contingency plan to let someone pick up where he left off.

He basically spoils the fact that Pink is gone, leaving out a lot of the major details, and while Spinel refuses to believe him (still thinking Pink will come back for her eventually), Bill still points her in the direction of both the rejuvenator and the injector. He also leaves her with the schematics to build a memory gun and you can already probably guess where this is about to go.

Flash forward to the start of UFF, which kicks off with the movie. Everything is finally good and peaceful in Gravity Falls, the Diamonds have chilled the fuck out and Bill is McFcuking Dead. And then that goddamn sad clown comes in to cause Problems, just like in the movie

And like in the movie, the Gems get taken out by the rejuvenator and Steven gets hit too. Still, Steven has all four of the Pines by his side to stand against Spinel and oh wait nope Nevermind because Spinel whips her newly made memory gun out and shoots all four of the Pines with it (before you ask about Ford, idk it’s a special memory gun made with gem tech that can go through metal so it bypasses the plate in his head shut up shut uuuup)

So yeah Steven is Panicking bc not only do the Gems have no clue who he fucking is but he also has to deal with the Pines’ memory loss (this memory gun doesn’t produce tubes so there’s a worry that their memories are just gone forever)

Bill probably intended for the gun to just wipe the Pines’ minds completely clean but it malfunctioned. So instead, it wipes their memories of the past three years (so it resets them all back to right before UF1 essentially).

So running through what they lost: Dipper and Mabel wake up and 1. Are shocked that they’re suddenly Teenagers and are not 12 like they remember being and 2. Don’t know who Steven, the Gems, Ford, or any of their other friends are (3. Bonus, Dipper has no idea where his bizarre metal arm came from and it aptly freaks him the fuck out)

Ford is shocked bc to his recollection he should still be wandering dimensions but suddenly he’s home and Stan is just as shocked bc damn guess the portal worked and damn guess what that means it means these two are at each others throats again

Stan (ironically) has the most recollection out of the fam, he’s the only one who knows who Steven is and while he doesn’t remember the specific span of events over the past three years he’s probs in the best position to help his family out (alongside Aaron, sad soppy wet pathetic man that he is, and Stonemason, who def isn’t crashing out because Dipper and Mabel have no clue who he is)

That’s probs all I’ll reveal for now even tho I do know the general order of how the Pines get their memories back, how it reflects on their growth throughout UF and UF2, and how Steven is the driving force between them all (esp Mabel, who he helps remember via fusion and Dipper, who he helps remember via a love song bc I have an Agenda)

Even so it is going to be quite a bit of fun and will give the entire Pines family something to do in the movie, which is more than I can say for my original plans (or lack thereof there were no fucking plans)

Anyone wanna hear me ramble about my UF movie ideas?

[justsomevoltronstuff]

Hello! :D I know it’s a silly question..but i was playing sims(as one does) and I wondered if you had any hcs of the paladins interior style? Like what colors (not only their signature I guess)and type of furniture? What type of home/apartment?I’d appreciate the help! Have a nice day!

okay absolutely have not had mental capability for like anything creative but I’ve also started a job in real estate so interior design make me go brrrrrrrr lately-

Shiro I feel like is either really plain and like necessities only or really homely. Like he either has the most basic cheap couches and tables and chairs and like, the plain white plates you can by at Walmart for like 10 bucks (you know the ones) and all the walls are just whatever color the previous owners/renters had them as so he has a random light pink room, a green room, etc. OR OR OR you walk in and get smacked in the face by comfort, like he has knick knacks and pictures and random antiques littering every surface, he has a china cabinet with the fancy dishes, he has a cabinet dedicated to coffee mugs and like only two of them match cause the rest of that set broke ages ago, all the other Paladins have their own designated mug, like it’s never specified but like, you KNOW the teal one with the cow that god knows where came from is Kieths, and that’s just how it works. I don’t think he has a specific color pallet bc it’d depend on like what the house looks like, and it’s either minimalistic or the vibe of the house.

Kieth has an apartment, his bed is on the floor, the only reason he has a couch is because Lance and Hunk just showed up with it one day and left it there. His cabinets are boxed Mac and cheese and canned beans, he uses paper plates/bowls and plastic cups/silverware, and there’s only like two pictures in the whole place, one of him and the other Paladins (and Allura and Coran) and one of him, his mom, and Kosmo. He’s not much of a stay in one place type so he doesn’t have a lot BUT if he were to decide to settle and make a home it’d have a garage, a huge backyard, and enough space for any and all of the Paladins to visit, and let’s face it, Lance probs did most of the decorating, as long as Keith has a place to sleep he doesn’t really care much what it looks like.

Lance is Aesthetic™️ and you can’t change my mind. He’s full on redecorating his house for every single holiday, his attic is a maze of shit only he knows how to navigate. His kitchen is probs black and white with a pretty accent color and his dishes all match the kitchen color scheme, like the fancy ones with the swooshy designs, ya know? So. Many. Throw pillows. Lol. Has pictures of his family and the paladins everywhere, along with various pieces of art. Walking in is like stepping in a magazine but at the same time feels so comforting.

Hunk plants everywhere. I don’t know how to explain it, but he’s a total plant dad. His kitchen is immaculate, the kind of place you love to hang out in, also has mismatched mugs bc he likes to collect them from places he’s gone and it’s a go to gift for him. I think he has a bunch of books on everything from How To guides to the entire Riordanverse. Tools scattered everywhere and various projects littering almost every surface. Has a blanket his grandmother knitted him draped over his couch. Random Voltron merch everywhere bc he can’t help himself when he sees it.

Pidge is either a clean freak with a perfectly put together house (as long as you don’t open those drawers) or it’s a fuckin mess and a half with a walking trail from one room to the next but otherwise there’s no way in hell. Also has projects literally everywhere, collections of random space tech, we’re not gonna question it. Probs a fairly monotonous place, lots of whites and greys, has an entire bookshelf for family pictures and sentimental things but aside from that, it’s the house of a scientist. Has a plush green lion on her couch. Has two perfectly cleared out mostly untouched guest bedrooms in case her family or any of the paladins visit.

~Admin Rori💜

[legendofzoodles]

LOZ Character Analysis/Rant

The Hero of Twilight

The core of his character is duality. You look at the official character art and you assume he’s this dark, serious brooding hero (and there’s a smidge in the form of the loneliness that comes with traversing the Twilight covered kingdom without anyone able to see you), but then you play the game and you realise he’s just as much of a dork as the other hero incarnations.

On one hand he’s the cool lone wolf type and on the other, he a soft farm boy who by simply walking into the room will make your pet love him more than they love you. 

But that’s oversimplifying a bit.

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Life was routine before the Twilight Invasion. Little village, little worries. Link spent his days working long hours at the ranch and the farms. On his days off, he’d spend his time sword training with Rusl, running errands for the villagers, hanging out with Ilia, playing with the village kids or spending some quiet time alone at home. Occasionally venturing out into the Faron woods.

Link wouldn’t have been bored of his life, he’d have been content with it. In the backstory I made up for him he hasn’t lived in the village all his life and has been part of the community for less than that. So for now he appreciates what he has. 

He’s really close with Rusl’s family. To them he’s like the son who moved out but still comes round for dinner at least once a week and spends time with his younger brother, Colin. In the backstory I made up for him they practically raised him, so it makes sense that they’re the closest thing Link has to a family. He doesn’t have any (living) blood relatives around.

It’s pretty much established that he radiates big bro energy. Incredibly patient with the children no matter how bratty they act, he’s reliable in every sense of the word, thrives off responsibility and he’s a great role model with a big heart. 

Life for the simple goat farmer was predictable, comfortable and peaceful. And he didn’t see any reason to ask for more than that.   

But then the Twili invade Hyrule and his entire world is flipped on its head as he is thrust into a great conflict far bigger than himself. 

So going off of the inciting incident when the Bulblin tribe raid his village and kidnap the children, Link would probably regret failing to stop them for most of the journey. I don’t know whether to go with the in-game events or the ones posed in the manga, but I don’t think it matters (his arm getting chopped off was cool though and fits with his lopsided Ordon clothing- the stitched green sleeve that’s belted around his torso). Either way, that guilt would motivate him for the first couple of temples in the adventure.

I found it interesting that in the game, he got dragged into the Twilight instead of passing through willingly. He ran up to the gateway without hesitation, but then stopped in his tracks when he saw the black wall. It’s not at all a bad thing though, that was a normal reaction for anyone to have when faced with the unknown. Referring to the backstory I made up for him, the reason he stops is because he recognises the patterns on the wall as similar I gave him ones adorn a few of the spellbooks he has at home (now’s probs a good time to mention that some of the spellbooks originate from the Interlopers).

Moving onto the titular Twilight Princess herself, Link would have disliked her at the beginning, because a couple things tipped off to him that something was up with her. Firstly she watched him get dragged into prison by the shadow beasts but didn’t help him, which will have made him immediately not trust her. Then she makes fun of him for having been turned into a wolf, talks down to him and basically treats him like a servant. Plus, after meeting Zelda she manipulates him into going along with her plans by impersonating his friends. At first, Midna was rude, uncaring to the world of light and only teamed up with Link to achieve her goal, essentially using him like a tool. 

And he was probably very much aware of this and only stuck around because she know a lot about what was going on and could help him rescue the village kids. 

Regarding the destiny stuff posed by the Light Spirit (I headcanon that this Link only worships the Ordon light spirit. It’s just funny to me), he probably didn’t have much of an opinion on it in the beginning, not realising the true weight of his new responsibility. Then again he’s not the type of person to get easily overwhelmed, so he would have come to peace with it pretty quickly, deciding to just to focus on one thing at a time and manage things as he went.

Sticking with Midna ended up being the right choice. With time she proved to not be malicious and willing to help out the world of light, as long as it furthered their goal too. Together they undid the effects of the Twilight and restored power to the Light Spirits. As Midna starts to warm up to Link, opening up about why she’s doing what she’s doing and telling him about what he’ll be up against, he in turn warms up to her (well, apart from when she left him alone in that burning building in Kakariko- I think it was the bomb shop guy’s house. That probably fueled a nightmare or two for him in the future). 

Btw, Midna never hated Link, she distrusted him to start with, but didn’t harbour any genuine animosity towards him.

Moving on, how does Link feel about turning into a wolf? 

At first it’s fucking weird. Definitely the strangest shit to happen to him, and that’s going up against competition like the hell spawn wall walking nipple chickens. The transformation came out of nowhere and before it was explained to him, he probably worried if he’ll ever be human again. That being said, he gets the hang of it pretty quickly- going back to my story- since he was raised by wolves when he was really young, he has a good frame of reference for how to maneuver in his new body. At first he probably didn't feel like himself and only saw the wolf thing as a means to an end, but gradually got used to it over time.

The awful experience of the villagers attacking him when he came back in wolf form is the reason why he keeps it his secret. He understood why they acted how they did, he had the animals to guide and comfort him (speaking to the villager’s pets for the first time must have been a lot of fun) and he doesn’t hold a grudge at all. But it still hurt. Particularly the memory of having Rusl brandish a flaming torch at him while his wife screamed in terror from behind, will forever haunt his nightmares.

Colin’s sacrifice when he shoved Beth out of the way and got held hostage had a big impact on Link. It shows Link the power of inspiring courage in others, makes him realise just how much Colin and the others admire him and it’s the moment that truly sets him on the hero’s journey. In another way it kind of robs him of his choice to back out of all this. Colin, despite having no power or skill to back it up, has the courage to push Beth out of the way and put himself in danger. The fact that Link inspired Colin, inspires Link to keep going with this quest.

Midna and Link probably assumed the quest was over when they collected all the pieces of the Fused Shadow, until Zant rocked up at the Lanayru Spring and undid all their progress. That must have been extremely frustrating for them, but what was even more devastating was what the Usurper King did to Midna. The rush to Hyrule Castle as the rain fell and the stupid monsters appearing making the piano track cut out for the battle theme, was the lowest point. By now the two could be considered friends and Link was pretty desperate in getting to Zelda, to the point of ignoring all the screaming townsfolk as he ran through Castletown. 

Speaking of Zelda, how does Link feel about her? Well, a mixture of respect because she’s the Princess and indifference because they’re strangers, even at the end of the game. He pities her for her current circumstance, is grateful for her sacrifice when she saved Midna, and he wouldn’t be angered that she surrendered to Zant so much as underwhelmed. Like his predecessor was. He forgives her for it of course, and doesn’t blame her, because it was clear to him as he explored the land that Hyrule has been a state of decline for decades now. It’s not her fault she inherited a broken kingdom, and like Midna, would never wish harm on her. 

However, he doesn’t have much faith in her army. His dislike for Hyrulean soldiers was kicked off when the cowards refuse to escort Ilia, Telma and the Zora Prince to Kakariko.

Next up, the Master Sword! Link’s opinion of it is that it’s an incredible weapon. It has only ever been exclusively beneficial to him: it’s a huge step up from the Ordon sword, it cured him of the shadow crystal curse and it’s able to revert the corrupted Twili back to their original state. He respects its power and thanks to the teachings of the Hero’s Shade, never relies on it or becomes overconfident in using it. 

Oh gosh, ok now for the Hero’s Shade. So in my story Link has had a golden wolf appear in his dreams a few times throughout his life. He was never sure if it was friendly or not, but when it appeared to him for the first time in the flesh, you best believe he went after it for answers and only for it to shapeshift into a armoured skeleton and transport him to this dreamlike world. The skeleton said nothing as it began to attack the young hero, who fought as best he could before being knocked down and given a lecture about strength. From there he teaches Link all his advanced sword techniques, meeting with him at different points of the journey, also teaching him songs from his first adventure. Link assumes this spectre is mentoring him simply to better prepare him to defeat Zant and this Ganondorf because he’s the chosen saviour. It’s not until the final hidden skill has been passed down that Shade reveals his identity as his ancestor, the founder of Ordon Village and lays out his reasons for teaching him. 

Que heartbreaking scene when he reveals that he’s been watching over the young hero all his life, add in some lore regarding their family, that he’s very proud of him and that now his soul can finally rest. Maybe have Shade phase into a more human appearance and give his descendant a long hug before disappearing into ghostly particles. (Sheesh, I need to write out a short story for that)

Sidenote: the Hero’s Shade/spirit of the Hero of Time has nothing to do with Midna and the Twili. She doesn’t know him at all and kind of watches his escapades with Link from the sidelines. 

Link would’ve had a bone to pick with the sages who botched Ganondorf’s execution. Mostly due to how their failure ended up causing the downfall of both realms of Light and Shadow, but also thanks to Midna telling him her backstory (when it is revealed much later on that she’s the Twilight Princess). He’s allowed to take it personally because it ended up causing Midna to suffer as much as she did, and he now cares a lot about her. They also don’t do shit to help them other than tell stories and send them on a fetch quest to reclaim the mirror pieces, so I think Link would have very little respect for them. 

Ilia’s lost memory definitely took a toll on Link through the latter half of his adventure and was a major source of anxiety. He worried constantly about it in between slaying monsters and solving puzzles, talking with Midna, Ranado, Telma even Shad about ways they could restore it. He probably didn’t spend much time with her while her memory was gone as to not confuse or overwhelm her, because it was painful for him and because he just didn’t have the time. When it is restored it’s like a huge weight is lifted off his shoulders and things go back to normal for the two of them.

Link likes the Resistance. A whole lot actually. They’re the only ones standing up and doing a damn thing about the current state of affairs, and they’re doing the fucking most, which is is more than he can say about those with much more power than them. Going quickly through the members:

Telma is like the teasing aunt who’s easy to talk to and knows when to set you straight. She can be a bit much for Link sometimes, but he enjoys her company and is grateful for her keeping Ilia safe. 

Auru is like the no nonsense uncle who acts all strict and serious, but he’s a total goof once you get to know him better. He’s not really friends with Link, he’s more like a friendly acquaintance who’ll have his back no matter what and gives great life advice.

I see Ashei as a cold loner gothic type. Who’s similar to Link in the sense that they’re both people of few words, come off as kind of aloof in their mannerisms, they both believe that actions speak louder than words and they’re both tough as nails. That being said, Link is much warmer, slightly more talkative and more expressive than she is. Still, those two get along like a house on fire, able to skip the small talk in every encounter and act like old friends. I like to think that the reason Link only has one eye of the hawkeye goggles in LU is because he gave the other half to Ashei (she’s an archer as well as a swordswoman)- who in return gave him an ornate crossbow from her father’s weapon collection. Just imagine these two emo buddies sniping monsters with their long range weapons while exploring the snowy mountains together.  

So...Shad. These two did not like each other to start with. I did say that during Midna’s desperate hour Link was solely focused on saving her, but I forgot to mention the one thing that did divert his attention. And that was overhearing Shad say in the bar that those who don’t know the city life do not know fear. Well, it was a horribly elitist for him to say and that small comment rubbed Link the wrong way. 

From there Link avoided Shad’s company as best he could, because almost everything he said annoyed him (he’d say backhanded comments that sound like compliments about his strength but are really just pleasant insults). Which to Link’s credit, Shad did kind of look down on him for being a simple country peasant. They were kind of forced to work together to restore Ilia’s memory and access the canon in the basement, and that made them at least respect other’s talents. It would be a missed opportunity if Shad didn’t follow Link into the City of the Sky, and I feel like he would do that. 

That way, their petty frenemy dynamic would eventually turn into a genuine friendship as they navigate the decrepit city together, maybe have Link save Shad a few times (humbling Shad) and have Shad gush adorably at every little thing (showing a side of him that Link finds he actually likes). 

That being said Shad would absolutely pester Link for possession of the dominion rod. Link would always refuse of course, but that wouldn’t stop the scholar bugging him with every argument and justification he can come up with. 

Goes without saying but Link despises Ganondorf and Zant. Not only because of all the suffering they caused, hurting his friends, surrogate family, tragedies like the death of the Zora Queen and taking over kingdom, but again everything they did really screwed over Midna. So he has no sympathy for Zant even when Midna pops him like a balloon, although the sudden violent action did startle him. 

Also...can I gush over how amazing their bond is?! Watching them grow to really care for and depend on each other was the highlight of the game for me. The cute side glance they do when getting ready to fight Dark Beast Ganon is the best thing ever. Or when Link holds Midna bridal style after she shattered the barrier around Hyrule Castle with the Fused Shadow (just- I can’t, they’re such a great duo!). 

So TP as a whole, Link definitely went through many hardships, but the quest as a whole improved his life. He’s now a famous figure within the kingdom with a fanbase in Castletown, he’s found a cool group of people he really clicks with and can go on adventures with whenever farmlife gets a little too boring and he’s connected more with his lineage. Zelda will 100% give him some sort of reward for all he’s done, I’d argue she’d knight him, as well as giving him his title as the Hero of Twilight. 

That being said there are a couple wrinkles in this bright future.

Midna left. That’s a weight he’ll carry for the rest of his life and he’ll never get answers as to why she did it. Maybe I’ll do a character analysis of Midna to explain why, but for now know that it deeply hurt both Zelda and Link. 

His past. Or at least the past I gave him. There’s a lot he doesn’t know like: who his parents were, what happened to them, where he came from, how he ended up in the care of a wolf pack and why they abandoned him (like his parents and Midna...oh geez). Those are answers he’ll spend his life looking for. 

Miscellaneous things:

Link isn’t dismissive of magic. He doesn’t distrust it like the Ordonians, he has little to no problems or fears regarding dark magic and doesn’t look down on those who use it excessively or as a crutch. Quite the opposite in fact, magic fascinates him. He’s had an acute interest in it and those who can use it since he stumbled upon that chest of books years ago. Hardly uses it much himself because he’s...magically inept. Absolutely talentless when it comes to performing magic. There’s that and he also doesn’t use magic himself much because he’s aware of the consequences (learning these during his adventure, such as when the Lanayru Light Spirit gave him that freaky vision of the dangers of the Fused Shadow) of delving too far into what’s forbidden. 

He may not use magic much save for the shadow crystal, but we can all agree that he doesn’t even need it. The. man. is. buff. My boi be over here throwing every whole ass goron on Death mountain to the ground, picking up huge iron cannonballs and bodying goats for breakfast. He can bench-press a mountain and this platform’s future.

Despite his humble upbringing, Link is surprisingly sharp with pretty good streetsmarts. He was able to learn the Hylian language fast despite being a (very) late bloomer, naturally good at problem solving and decent deduction skills. So don’t think he just sat there while Shad was chatting all that shit, nope, he clapped back with his own brand of wit.

Throughout the game you encounter a lot of dead people, like tons of wandering spirits and poes. Link is probably desensitised to them. I’ll say he stopped getting shocked or put off by their appearances upon visiting the Arbiter’s Grounds.

I have a headcanon that this Link is secretly a romantic. Not that he’s this amazingly suave ladies’ man (nah he’d be the opposite). It’s just that he doesn’t have much experience when it comes to love, his only exposure being Ilia’s old storybooks, Beth’s advice, anecdotes from his farm buddies and Rusl/Uli’s stories of when they courted. Beth and Ilia’s views would be pretty idealised and not so realistic sources of information, making him believe in things like love at first sight, soul mates- sappy stuff like that.

I can easily see TP Link being a popular figure in Ordon, with more than one secret admirer pining after the rancher. The reason they’d stay secret is just due to how unapproachable he comes off as to those outside his orbit and he doesn’t normally go out of his way to meet new people. Total sweetheart once you make the first move and get to know him.

Just don’t bug him while he’s doing his farm work, it won’t go over well.

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Thanks for reading! Feel free to add your opinions in the comments, I’d love to read them. Also for the record TP Link has always been my favourite.

From Shadows is a story I made up while playing TP, here’s the origin story I made up for Twi:

Hero of Twilight Backstory

[girlblogger666]

Eddissy teen pregnancy part 2!

An: in relation to my last post 🧸

Chrissy just taking it easy at home now that schools over

While Eddie works like crazy now that his hours are more flexible, but also because babies are really expensive

By the time June rolls around, Chrissy is starting to show and boy does it look adorable on her petite figure

When it’s Father’s Day, she’ll surprise Eddie by wearing her old cheer uniform that she’s starting to outgrow

“Happy Father’s Day, daddy”

Hed just stare at her with wide eyes because he’s so in luv and she’s even more gorgeous now that she’d b showing and also boner bc he did that to her

I think as the weeks would progress, they’d receive more judgment not just cuz they’re young, but because of the bad rep the town has for Eddie

When they go to the department store to buy some last minute things or even just go for a stroll on a nice day, everyone gives them the eye

On some occasions when they’re out, chrissy would spot her old “friends” from cheer snickering and talking behind her back because of the fact that she’s knocked up

It doesn’t bother her tho bc for one those people we’re never kind enough for her to ever truly like and two she’s way happier with her life now

Most nights when Eddie isn’t working late, they spend it together lying in his bedroom talking about the baby

Chrissy would be on top of him, her tank top lifted just above her abdomen so Eddie’s hands can freely roam around her tiny bump

“I swear, Chrissy,” he’d whisper into her soft hair, “if the baby comes out and it’s Jason’s….”

“Eddie!!” She’d gasp before playfully swatting him as they’d both burst into a fit of laughter (god I just love picturing them laughing together 🥹😩)

They’d have a lil calendar on the fridge so they don’t forget when each appointment and checkup is scheduled for

Eddie’s second fav thing, besides Chrissy, is going to each appointment with her

Sure they get stares from all the older couples in the waiting room, but all of that doesn’t matter once they get to see their lil bb on the ultrasound screen

On the appointments that Eddie unfortunately can’t attend, Chrissy writes everything in her little notebook so that she can tell Eddie later, but uncle Wayne will always go with her so that shes never alone

I think at some points bc how young Chrissy is she’d truly feel like she doesn’t know what she’s doing, so this would lead to her calling her mom out of the blue one day while breaking down and asking for help

That’s not to say that everything her mom has done to her is erased, but it’s more so to have that motherly figure guide her with basic stuff once the baby arrives, though she’d sense disappointment in her mothers tone

Still, Chrissy doesn’t want to push her family away entirely and she’s happy to know that her little brother is thrilled that he’s gonna be an uncle

Eddie still manages hellfire meetings outside of school bc he loves his boys

So one meeting he brings Chrissy showing off her bump and all and the guys are just stunned bc not only did Eddie snag Chrissy, but she’s also gunna have his baby

I think Dustin would be the one whos most shocked, so Eddie would take note of that and walk over to him

“Hey Henderson, how would you like to be a godfather?”

Eddie’s a rlly proud daddy 2 be 🥺

Tysm for reading babies ✨ I’ll probs make a part 3

[not-me-simping-for-blasty]

another helping of living w/ bakugou thoughts:

pls i am so sorry, i feel like i bombard y’all with these constantly, but u don’t understand, he literally lives in my brain full time

- if you’re rolling your sleeves up, to wash your hands before dinner, he’ll whack your hands away and do it himself. very much “you’re takin’ too long, idiot. i wanna eat already. let me do it.”,, don’t be fooled tho, you could do it in 2.5 seconds and he’d still open his mouth. bc it has absolutely nothing to do with u and everything to do with him wanting to be close to you

-ik he watches the mha equivalent of the history channel. i just know it. dude is a grandpa at heart, n im so confident he would 100% sit down and watch a 3 hr docu on like, old weaponry or some nerdy shit

-bakugou is annoyingly arrogant, but only about things that don’t matter. like, he’ll fully sit in front of you and tell you he’s stronger/faster/smarter in passing conversation,, but when he does actually impressive shit??? the man clams up. absolutely clams up the second you praise him, trying to brush off whatever ridiculous feat he just pulled to protect u with a “It’s not that big a deal, shut up about it already, dumbass.” 

- pls mans is an absolute simp. u ask him to do something and he’s on his feet in a second. ofc he’s complaining but he’s also then following that up by doing things you didn’t even ask him to do. fan behavior honestly.

-when you’ve had a bad day, he’ll make u food and throw blankets in the dryer for u. don’t expect much verbal comforting from him, bc obviously, but he’s pretty good with actions. you always feel a little warmer after he’s wrapped you in a blanket n fed you something ungodly spicy

- i have absolutely no basis for this but ik he secretly watches kids movies. like, if it’s animated then he’s there. ofc no one is allowed to find out about this ‘embarrassing’ behavior tho, except maybe you. maybe. if you accidentally happen to see it bc he’d never tell u himself.

- he’s a beast to wake up in the morning, but he’s a lot more easy to convince if u pet his hair. or rub his back/shoulders. maybe even kiss his neck. look, u cannot tell me that he doesn’t want to be absolutely coddled in the morning- especially when he can get away with it so easily. 

-bakugou always pulls ur legs into his lap if u sit down next to him. pls he’s so weird, he’ll just like, tap his fingers on ur calves absentmindedly while he’s watching tv

-he probably created a playlist of songs ur ‘allowed’ to play around him. meaning, it’s only the songs on ur phone that he likes 🙄

-bakugou always takes his work phone calls outside. like if his phone rings he’ll just stand up n walk tf out the door to take it. even if it’s cold. u ask him once about it n he just “Work stays at work. This is my fuckin’ home. Now shut up about it already.”

-you’ve never once seen this man wearing socks around the house. don’t ask me, i cannot explain this whatsoever, but i just kno this man walks around constantly barefoot 🤢🤮 unfortunately.

-he’s like, the most functional person ever in almost every aspect, but the stuff katsuki is bad at?? pls he is hopelessly bad. like, lets say art stuff. omg he just doesnt have the patience for it, okay, so say goodbye to any dreams of cute lil couple’s crafts. like, he’ll sit there while u do yours, but his will look like utter shit

- during the week, katsuki is either at work, training, or at home. pls, he works so hard during the day that i highly doubt he’s anything but an absolute homebody during the work week.

- bakugou gets pissy if u re-arrange any of the furniture on a whim. pls he likes comfort and familiarity n if he stubs his toe on the stupid coffee table one more fucking time, he’s going to scream

-its a rare occurance,, especially bc of the crazy hours he works,, but bakugou rlly likes making dinner for u to come home to. he just likes to feel like he’s taking care of u tbh

-he still goes to bed at like 8:30. or thats what u think, but rlly he just goes to sit in your room and have some time to himself for a bit. as much as he loves u, he prob still needs some alone time to recharge

-bakugou takes meticulous care of any plants u have in the house. like he’ll water them on a strict-ass schedule, n preen them when necessary. pls the way he’ll curse them out if they even dare to wilt under his care?? very much “What the hell, you bitch? ‘m doin’ everything fuckin’ perfect! Grow already!”

-katsuki is such a little bitch when he’s sick. he’ll be running like a 103 temp, brain literally melting, and still trying to get up and work out. the only way u can get him to chill the hell out is if u take a nap with him. ofc that means u always get sick too,, but hey- lil sacrifices right??

-he never lets you get the door. like, if there’s a knock n neither of u knows who it could be,, pls he’s on his feet so fast. waving u away n looking thru the keyhole w/ sm suspicion

-he has his spot on the couch, n u will not find him sitting anywhere else. like, that’s his spot. u better pray for anybody who mistakenly takes it

-bakugou doesn’t like dirt or grime, so he won’t allow you or himself, to sit on your bed with clothes that have been outside. like, even if you’re just sitting on top of the covers, he’s gonna throw a fit and demand you change your clothes first bc “No way in hell am I gonna let your dumbass dirty up my bed.”

-katsuki rlly likes when it storms outside. he’ll go sit in front of the window and watch the rain, sipping on a warm drink while he waits for more thunder. 

-living with bakugou is incredibly frustrating, bc he’ll just show up with new skills all of the goddamn time. like you’ll be like, “hmm i’d love to remodel the bathroom someday”,, and the very next weekend bakugou is meticulously re-tiling the bathroom floor by hand, probably also painting the walls in a new color, maybe even installing a new sink just to spruce it up. n then he’ll just present the entirely new, upgraded room with such weird nonchalance that it pisses u off. pls and if you watch him while he does these little projects, with all the weird precision and skill he suddenly gains?? pls you’re sure he must be possessed by the ghost of a craftsman

- when he hangs out with the bakusquad, he’ll drag you along every time. he expects you to sit with him the entire time and act as a social buffer?? basically, someone’ll ask him a question, one he deems stupid and therefore not worth answering, and bakugou will just look at you expectantly. he’ll just stare at you blankly, hardly even blinking until you pick up the slack and answer for him. you call him out on this many times, but it doesn’t matter. it doesn’t change anything. he does this over and over and over again

-bakugou gets really unsettled when you guys fight. like, he can’t sleep and he’s snapping at everybody, and is somehow more aggressive than usual. he always wants to just make up already, but the pride in the way won’t allow it

-he’s a weird stickler about intended furniture functionality?? like, the table is for eating, and the couch is for watching tv, and then only way you’re gonna get him to mix the two is if you ask him rlly rlly nicely

-finally- i have no basis for this one, but ik it in my heart: bakugou has a very intense fight with your thermostat nearly every single day. he swears up and down that it never ‘behaves’ for him, but every time you check it, it’s working perfectly fine

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ahahhaa sorry y’all for the super random spam today,, but here were are back to our regularly scheduled bakugou programming,,,, bc idk if it’s obvious ur honor, but i love him

[swtki]

Punk Gf Headcannons - P.P

Pairing: Tobey! Peter Parker x Riot Grrrl! Reader

Summary: Babey boy x a true punk

Warnings: Swearing, riot grrrl attitude, mentions of mosh pits, Flash being a bully, Real punk shit (many many music refs), I am a gatekeeper girlboss, Reader is described as having both hair and a buzz cut (separately), Reader is gnc, mentions of N@zi punks (fuck off over produced by Martin Hannett take 4), Mentions of fighting (nothing graphic)

A/N: Gatekeeper girlboss moment

He meets you before the spider

But you scare him

A lot

Woman cuss? Woman LOOK at me??

You prob saved his ass from Flash

“I’ve been in pits more brutal than whatever pussy punches you can throw my way, Flash!”

He’s 🥰

“You okay?” your voice is like honey to him, but hes still pretty sure you could kick his ass.

So for the rest of senior year he pretty much only waves to you.

cue summer after graduation

What a wacky co-winky-dink that he should happen to be photographing Spiderman (who is conveniently nowhere to be found) helping out with an altercation.

Basically a bunch of N@zis showed up to a show full of yellow and purple laces

Peter was pretending not to notice your scuffed up docs

Be a good member of the community, kick a racist in the mouth!

“Oh God! Y/N is that you? Are you okay?” bruh the blood on your clothes aren’t yours.

He looks good, strong and more masculine than he was a few months ago.

I mean you’d be lying if you didn’t harbor some feelings for the dork you saved from the big bad wolf.

He walks you home like the good man he is

He loves hearing you talk about your passions

He was raised by May, so hes not a #incel contrary to what one might think.

You exchange numbers, and honestly he takes about three days to muster up the courage to call and ask you out.

ofc you say yes, how could you not?

You’ve died your hair again, a bright vibrant color

He loves it. So much.

He also loves the fact that you don’t care what he thinks.

No bra when you don’t want one, no shaved legs or armpits when you don’t feel like it

Makeup some days, all natural the next

Did you show up one night with a smooth head? yes 😌

He almost had a heart attack

but he was addicted to rubbing your head.

Like it was his coping method of choice

He can always find his way home by the sound of Bad Brains playing in the loft apartment you both shared.

Bad Brains slaps stream them

NOW

People get so confused by you two

You’re like 😾❕🎸⛓ and he’s like ☺️❤️📸🧸

Obv you figure out hes spiderman

bc he’s never been in a mosh pit so how he got all these damn injuries 🤨

You don’t say anything though, he doesn’t need to know all about your secrets either

You probably gave him a leather jacket for his birthday

vintage ofc

it swallowed the poor man

he wears it year round

He worries ab you, but he knows you can throw some kicks if you need to

Still, he rarely lets you walk home alone.

he’d rather be hand in hand with the girl he loves the most.

IF YOU LIKE MY WORK, REBLOG IT AS WELL! WITHOUT REBLOGS I AM DOING THIS SHIT FOR NOTHING!

[teeterarting]

here's a list of things i love about PSMD for no reason other than i think it deserves appreciation (spoilers)

the hero gets adopted by a nuzleaf. Hero, a young child that doesn't know why they were brought into this world, attacked by beheeyem, scared and alone, finds someone that takes them under his wing and gives them a home. it's really sweet that once Nuzleaf brings them to the Village, Hero's not alone anymore.

yes it was all a trick, he deceived you. but being betrayed by your father figure hits so much harder. it's much more personal, especially when both Hero and Partner are kids. and when Nuzleaf goes through all that ordeal in the post game, then gets accepted back into the village?? And his little speech to Hero????? it's heartbreaking and incredibly touching at the same time

everything is just so cute!!!! you go to school with your new friendo and you're friends with the schoolkids, and you make the trip to school every morning taking in the scenery, the smell of dew and fresh grass, and the sun on your face... and you take classes about Mystery Dungeon mechanics, and principal Simipour is a big BRO, the school nurse Audino is super kind and helpful... and you get to play with your pokemon friendos in summer vacation, and explore a dungeon with 'em... AND your bond with your Partner begins to form, getting stronger and stronger from then on. PSMD's beginning arc is so warm and pleasant, it's like reliving childhood memories all over again, when things were happier and you didn't have to worry about how cruel the world is. this story section's one purpose is to get the player used to the game's mechanics, as well as foreshadowing. unfortunately most of the school kids get forgotten later on, but I still love this part for everything it is, even if unintentional.

it's not just the beginning that's cute. PSMD'S ENTIRE WORLD IS ADORABLE. It's just filled with life every town you go. there are a bunch of pokemon locals and they all have interesting things to say, in the main story and the post-game. there's a point where their comments get repetitive, but that's bound to happen in any PMD game. Even then, the days are never the same. one morning you wake up and the Lively Town locals are exercising, then the next they're having singing lessons, and then they're practicing martial arts. and you get to connect with (or recruit) some of them just by.... chatting!!! Sitting next to that big ol' venusaur and sharing stories, laughing and having fun. it's good stuff.

Sometimes you find travelling pokemon in dungeons and it's jsut the coolest thing. Imagine you're exploring a dungeon, then your Connection Orb notifies you there's a fellow explorer in the floor. First thing you do is try to find them, and when you do - oh dang a travelling Archeops!!!! And then they just,,,, exchange their experiences and thoughts on exploration and how hard it is to fend off those enemies and the cool treasure they found the other day (the game calls it "[Team Name] and [Traveller pokemon] compared notes"). then the traveller heals you, fills your belly and restores your PP. and they go on their way. idk man it's such a cute interaction. explorers chatting, empathizing and helping each other, bc their job is not an easy one...

PSMD Partner is the most developed Partner in any PMD game yet. They start off as this naive, hyperactive kiddo, then stuff happens, and worse stuff happens, and you get to see how they grow and change and by the end they're a different person than they were before (in more than one way ...). It's just so nice to be by their side, from the beginning to the bitter end, and watch their growth. in contrast, Hero is a little unbalanced in that their backstory is not explored as much, and their personality is kind of a blank - probs meant to be vague so the player can be in their shoes. to me this just gives you the opportunity to shape their character however you want, so you can have tons of different hero/pardner dynamics.

The music is rlly flippin' good. Some of the tracks are recycled from previous entries, but when they go original??? it's a blast!!! "Echoes of the Mystical Forest" is one of my favorites in all four entries, it has no right being so amazing for a random dungeon. "Time to Set Out" makes me cry immediately (also i think it would be a better fit for the parting ways scene at the end...). Don't even get me started on "Second Dark Matter Battle", it has everything an epic climax needs and MORE. the Partner remix????? absolute genius

speaking of which, Dark Matter ITSELF,, is freaking amazing. Its actions were foreshadowed in the very beginning, though they were not blatant through the game. i do think they could have done a better job at showing the pokemon's negativity raising in the world, as well as negative feelings in the characters... but it's not like Gates did a good job at it, either (outside of cutscenes, all the locals in Post Town are incredibly nice to you and fights didn't "break out often". it's like the game tells you the world is a dark place, but what it shows in gameplay doesn't add up). so i'll cut them some slack. Still, I find Dark Matter a more compelling villain than the Bittercold for several reasons. it is sentient. its speech is a jumbled amount of voices all talking at the same time - the anguished voices of the world. It actually concocted a plan to hurl the planet into the Sun, using pawns like Nuzleaf and Yveltal to do its dirty job. in the Voidlands, Hero and Partner discover its past, and how it'll come back after defeat, like a cycle. when Partner accepts Dark Matter, they accept negative feelings as something everyone has within themselves. Most of all, the fact that Dark Matter is a manifestation of negative feelings doesn't make it just a generic threat, a final obstacle to be defeated so the world can be saved. It makes Dark Matter - negativity itself - a natural part of the world, the yin to its yang. and that's why I LOVE IT SO MUCH DANG IT EVEN THANKS PARTNER FOR THEIR ACCEPTANCE

The fact that Dark Matter can possess pokemon that have "even the smallest amount of darkness in their hearts". it makes me think of Mr. Nuzleaf and what he might have gone through in the past to make him so easy to be controlled. Did he hold a grudge against someone?? Did he commit a crime?? Had Nuzleaf always been malicious???? And if so, is this why he shows so much remorse in the post-game??????? because he had always been this vile fiend and then he met this small kid and got attached, but still carried on with his evil actions because his malice was still stronger than the positive feelings and Dark Matter's hold on him intensified?????? I don't know!!!! and as much as i wish the game could have given us that sweet mr. Nuzleaf backstory, it's pretty fun to have freedom to come up with your own version.

Everything about Super's climax is just phenomenal. Every single flippin' legendary is there to help you. Arceus is in the game. MEWTWO IS THERE. and when things are looking hopeless, they really seem hopeless. First the Tree of Life is dying, then your allies get turned into stone and sent to hell The Voidlands, Arceus gets turned into stone, the entire world is stone (except for several mon' that are still safe and holding onto hope, but they're so few). Your Harmony Scarves stop working and you and your Partner are back to your feeble, basic stage forms. You are bordering exhaustion, you have no Emeras, it's just you and your Partner against an eldritch abomination that's killing the life on the entire planet like a parasite, devouring all hope. but you still fight back. Given how adults in the game always discourage the village children from going adventuring, that they cannot do this or that because they're so little and fragile, it's awesome how Hero and Partner beat Dark Matter as tiny kids.

PSMD is not a flawless game. in fact there's plenty of things that hold it back and i even mentioned some... but it's still full of love put into it and it resonates w me more than PMD Explorers of T/D/S and Gates to Infinity (Rescue Team is a close second). its my all-time favorite PMD game.

[tsukishimas-shortcake]

Relationship Headcanons

↦ Character(s): Hakkai Shiba x fem!reader

↦ Rating/Warning: No rating though there are some light mentions of abuse (if you have read the manga you are aware of what I am talking about, I’m not going very deep into it though it literally just mentions it), mentions of anxiety attacks (no detail though), fluff, not proof read

↦ Word count: 1.8k (longer than planned, sections are bolded)

↦ Your Momo’s Receipt: Hello~ I’m post yet another TR headcanon and this was requested by the lovely @strawbub I hope this doesn’t disappoint, it did get longer than planned but I enjoyed writing it. I'll prob do a part two that's more of a scenario based on your first date or something since I didn't go into it here. Please note: for those of you who don’t know my blog is currently under construction, meaning I will not be updating my masterlist for the time being.

So how did you guys meet, well mostly because of Yuzuha,

One day in like elementary you’re walking home and you see this super pretty middle school girl just like yelling at this small group of guys

The guys end up running off just because they don’t wanna deal with her or the attention she's drawn to them

Behind her was a boy, taller than her but obviously younger. You didn’t assume they knew eachother though.

The boy and yuzuha began walking in opposite directions because one was going home while the other was going to pick up something like groceries

You’re so entranced by how she stood up to them yet she’s a girl who was far smaller and you end up catching up to her, almost stepping on her heels

You end up absent mindedly following her into the grocery store and eventually she just freezes, turns, and stare directly at you

Your eyes widen since you must’ve been staring and she just goes “may I ask why you’re following me?” And you explain how cool she was earlier. She invites you over for dinner (esp since her older brother won’t be home) and figured it’d be good for Hakkai to meet someone his age

You end up going over but Hakkai didn’t come down to eat so you never actually got to meet him, though from then on you would see Yuzuha every so often, visit every other weekend or so

But no matter how often you came over the next few months, you never once met hakkai,

That was until you both reached the end of your middle school education and we’re about to begin high school

You had gone over because you were going to borrow an old work book from Yuzuha, and when you go to knock on the door the door opens before your closed fist could hit it, instead hitting a firm chest

You blush and quickly apologize but the person in front of you doesn’t move at all, doesn’t say anything and almost looks like they drifted into space with their dead stare

You assume this is yuzuha’s older brother because you’ve also never met him and you immediately turn to walk away but Yuzuha calls over hakkai’s shoulder

“Y/N-Chan! You just got here where are you going?” This was def not yuzuha’s older brother. There’s no way she’d be that happy with him around; oh my god. Realization hit, the guy who you hit (though it was more of a tap) was hakkai.

The hakkai you had only caught a glimpse of in yuzuha’s photos, never talked to or actually seen in person despite going to the same school and living in the same neighborhood

He must hate you. That’s why he avoids you. That’s def why - is what you think

Yuzuha drags hakkai back inside and invites you in; you sit down with them in the living room and watch hakkai visibly relax now that he’s inside his house, his own space, with a pillow behind him and a blanket covering his lower half, he almost curls up into it as he continues to avoid your stare

“Hi hakkai…Kun? Im L/N Y/N” you say and you see his face dead pan once again

Yuzuha can be heard laughing from the kitchen as she comes back in.

She leans over and begins explaining that hakkai literally just freezes with any interaction between him and girls who aren’t in his family

You nod, thinking maybe it’s an anxiety thing? Which is the case with you, but only because he’s been watching you since you’ve come over (not in a creepy way) wanting to and working the courage up to talk to you

The 5th or so time you came over after that encounter he was inches away from introducing himself before the house phone rang causing everyone to kind of “wake up” in a sense

Every time since then he gets closer and closer but isn’t able to say anything; he even realizes he has a crush on you.

The way you sit when you do homework and how cute you look when you’re focused.

How your forehead scrunches up when you’re trying to figure something out and you end up just sitting back with a small huff followed by yuzuha’s signature laughter.

It’s also a huge thing that you get along with Yuzuha.

So enough with first meeting time for the confession.

He ends up confessing accidentally. He didn’t know you were coming over to begin with so he was flustered out of his mind. And how was he supposed to know you hadn’t actually fallen asleep and you could hear him over the tv

The tv was more white noise than anything and the day was hot since it was the middle of summer causing the window to be open and the sound of soft wind and small birds to drift in; this was the hot that makes you tired so you were all sprawled out of just sitting in a daze

So while resting your head on the table you’re dozing in and out but then you hear hakkai begin to speak, something he never really did around you

Now did you and hakkai text? Yes. Did it take him an hour to reply because his brain would explode when you replied to him? Yes. But was it a start to communication? Also a yes.

You hear him say your name quietly before he moved closer, you can feel his gaze on your features

“I like you” is all he says. Simple and sweet. But you sit there in shock, trying not to blush so he’ll have no idea you heard him but he can tell because your forehead scrunches

You heard him and are focused on if you should reply or not. And he knows that.

You open your eyes and just look up at him, he’s closer than expected. His hand close to yours on the floor and he reaches over and grabs it lightly. Hoping you’ll also return the gesture by holding his hand instead of leaving your hand limp inside his.

And you do, thank goodness, and Hakkai almost mentally can’t handle it.

Once you start dating it’s more so just hanging out at his house or yours; however he talks a bit more and you text a lot more. He’s gotten better at replying. It usually takes him like 15 minutes now

He’s kinda stressed about your relationship but not due to anything you or him did

He’s stressed because of the mentality his older brother gave him

Is he even allowed to be this happy?

He finally has someone thats small enough and naive enough that he can protect you; compared to constantly being protected it’s a sudden, strong, yet good change for him

He’s touch s t a r v e d

Yes Yuzuha shows affection; but he stopped accepting her hugs when he was around 8 just because he physically wasn’t able to handle it due to his bruises and such

But with you, even with his bruises and all you take care of him. Able to coax him into using medicines and toning down the physical violence (that he can control himself)

He also finds it super soothing when you lightly brush over his scars (especially those that his brother gave him), it helps him believe that scars are only physical and can fade with help

One thing that stresses him out the most is trying to hide you from his brother. Any time you leave something at the house its easy to pass it off as yuzuha's but when it comes to things like photos he has with you, he can't hang them up, show them off, or have them as his phone Lock Screen, etc. because he just really doesn't want his brother to know and target you since he'll then know that you're his weakness (aside from yuzuha as well)

Sometimes won't explain why he can't hang out and has legit pushed you out of his house before at the last minute notice of his brother coming home

Will always make sure you get home safe though, usually by having Yuzuha go with you since then she can just say you're a friend from school

Your parents love him, though they were a bit hesitant it became a "you always have a place to stay" because they learned about their family situation from you and yuzuha. So expect him to spend the night when he's too scared to deal with his brother. Same with yuzuha. (yes I know this isn't yuzuha head canons but its hard to write for him without mentioning her when they're so close)

We're talking three person sleep overs. Yuzuha and you of course share the bed and Hakkai takes some time to even set foot in your room much less sleep on a mattress that's on the floor

He has a small heart attack every time he comes into your room because he's overwhelmed with everything, he's never been so comfortable and it makes him feel restless. Like he's never and I mean n e v e r been less stressed and slept better than when he does so in your room

The smell, the colors, just being surrounded by you is something that completely changes his mood

Once showed up after he fought with his brother, tears in his eyes and clothes a bit tattered and you just pulled him to your room, and sat down with him.

You laid on your bed with him laying down onto of you, head on your chest as you rubbed his head and only said a few words "its not your fault"

He ends up crying so hard he falls asleep and gets dehydrated and you have to make him drink a bunch of water when he finally wakes up.

NSFW

super fucking careful w you

almost annoyingly so, but you're understanding

He knows that he might be taking things frustratingly slow but he knows that since you understand and know his history that you can help him get through it

Your first time you think you'll have to call it off because he's shaking so bad

"baby... are you sure it won't hurt you?" he keeps asking.

pretty sure that's the longest its ever taken him to finish because he was so anxious

despite being so slow and hesitant, late he isn't too scared to get a bit rougher

but im not talking anything crazy im talking like he's willing to pull your hair a bit or nip a bit harder at your neck.

Please never ask him to do anything like degrade you or some type of harsh physical rough shit, he can't

like literally im 99% sure that if you ask him to choke you or something he will pass out because of the anxiety attack he would have at even the thought.

in short with nsfw though he is sweet boy. He's a switch through and through. Loves when you take care of everything because then he doesn't have to be scared of hurting you.