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whet-ones-write · 4 years

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Omegaverse Alpha Kuroo, Semi and Tendou Headcanons - NSFW

So as My first three Alpha headcanons were so popular I thought to do some more! Sorry Daichi and Noya anon I’m still working on your ask! I just think / fighting with myself if I bullet point it or do it as a story but we’ll see how it comes! So have Kuroo, Semi and Tendo!

Masterlist: Here (To be sorted) Requests / Headcanons: OPEN - Like them? Please leave feedback / Reblogs! I love to know what I can improve / what you like!! If you want to be tagged in Future posts just let me know! Probably will write a lot more for the Omega verse.

Eita Semi;

★ At first you couldn’t place whatever the scent that Semi had, it wasn’t strong like some other Alphas that you knew but it wasn’t anything that stood out to you. Though when you got closer to him and got to know him you realised just what it reminded you of. It was of your own Alpha father figure. It was something about it that just sent you back to that fatherly figure that made you want more of it and never be without it.

★ Though this Alpha is known for being quiet and brooding. His attitude didn’t phase you as you tried to get to know him. It was you who initiated the want to be close because of the familiar scent that brought you to him but he never pushed you away nor made any advancements until Tendo started talking to you. He knew the other hot headed male Alpha wouldn’t take you from him but whenever you did enter he couldn’t help but suddenly start to hover over you protectively purely because there was another Alpha near you.

★ As a sign that you weren’t mated but at least together he would buy you something like a choker or a ring. Something Physical that you could proudly display and would spare no expense with it.

★ For your first time being knotted it would most likely be in his rutt when his mind wasn’t clear with what he was doing. Though thankfully you weren’t in heat so there was a less likely chance for you to get pregnant he still couldn’t believe he did it. Apologising at the end quietly that he shouldn’t have done so but you make sure to tell him that it was ok, and just think next time much to his delight that there would be a next time.

★ If you were to have children together he wouldn’t be completely oblivious to it. He would have his suspicions but wouldn’t say anything wanting you to be the one that told him. Though if you denied it or didn’t see it even if it was clear he would speak up about it not wanting to risk your life or the life of his first unborn children.

★ Though he rarely got into protective mode there would only be a few times in which he would get in such a raw mindset that he would need to be. An example would be if there was another Alpha looking for your attention while he was present, clearly fighting for your attention. Though Betas and Omegas wouldn’t trigger this it would only be when he feared he could lose you to someone else and would take them on even if they were bigger than him, he wouldn’t be scared to fight for what he wanted.

★ Though this guy was born to be an Alpha he rarely displayed the common traits only because there wasn’t any need to. Ushijima while on the team would be more than enough for the whole group. Semi is one for brains rather than brawn and would rather follow another Alpha than fight for leadership in the group. Though still fight for you blindly while following others not wanting to pick fights unnecessary.

★ Though he would be clueless at first when it came to your heat and heart he would make sure that he read books, asked others that he could trust as well as other sources to learn as much as he could nad prepare for it both mentically and physically as much as he could before learning what you liked and what you didn’t like.

★ He would be a very attentive and caring Alpha making sure you were wanting for not even if others thought that he was mean or cruel to you. You knew him better than that and knew that something was just bugging him or that something was on his mind and that he would speak to you about it later. To some he was a closed book but you were able to open him up and show that there was more to him than people saw.

★ Where ever you wanted to mate or make a nest he would happily do so but he would also try to make you inclined to do it in a large open space like the living room where he could stuff it full of cushions, pillows and blankets so then he wouldn’t never have to travel too far for food or water keeping you healthy and happy.

Tendou Satori;

★ If you like fire, burning of logs or any kind barbeque this guy will surely smell like it. His attitude, scent and hair all match and would only burn brighter when angry, protective or in rut.

★ He would be the one to approach you first, you having his eye he just couldn’t bare to be apart from you the moment he laid eyes on you. Hovering almost to the point where you snapped at him, why are you following me? You would question while he would only blink and only lean his head to the side like it was obvious. “Well I like you and want you, so I want to get to know you, what you like, dislike and everything in between” He would give off a goofy smile and with that you were gone, that smile would melt anyone’s heart.

★ The first time he would knot you would be when his rut suddenly started acting up without him noticing and on top of that you were in public, having a lovely meal and he would be begging you for help for some kind of release. Though thankfully you had only just sat down and you were wearing a dress which could cover up most things while you ate and waited for his knot to deflate. Though made a mad dash home as soon as you could so no one could suspect a thing.

★ He would be the type of Alpha to have his instincts take over far more often than he should, thinking with his heart and gut rather than his brain. He would instantly start insulting and barking at any Alpha that dared try and get close to you besides the ones he trusted like Ushijima and Semi. Though if his bark didn’t work his fists would quickly knock any other alpha into next week for daring to even look at you in a way that wasn’t appropriate.

★ His sign of possession would be leaving hickeys all over your neck whenever he could or anywhere else that could be visible if you let your guard down. In his opinion would be the most prodonimate way of saying you were his and you were in no way allowed to cover it up much to the teacher’s dismay. They knew better than to get in the way of a young Alpha and what he wanted, it was just easier to let them be.

★ He would all be for having kids when you got older and this man would enjoy every moment of it. He would whisper all sorts of filthy things in your ear in your heat which only encouraged his own rut, letting his innermost carnal desires unfold and take hold of him.

★ You would always be the one to bandage up his fingers and gently kiss them as if that would help him but it would only fuel the fire in his heart to do better for you. It somewhat became a good luck charm for him, and would get angry if you couldn’t do it or wouldn’t if you both had a fight. As originally he had hurt them in a fight for you from another Alpha that turned out to be just a friend but that taught you not to make him angry.

★ He was a clueless Alpha though, always leaving it to the last minute to get what you wanted or needed for your heat and or for his rut. He just couldn’t prepare even if he wanted too, as soon as he would remember, something else would take up his mind, but he made sure that you had the most important things, or to have you remind him several times just in case.

★ Though he had the confidence and attitude of an Alpha sometimes he just didn’t feel it all the time when Ushijima overpowered him. So to reaffirm what you already knew, you could easily and each time prove to him that he’s your alpha and that would never change if you had anything to say about it, on top of that you would always confirm that you wanted him as your alpha and show him physically that that you wanted him no matter how much better Ushijima or other’s might be.

Kuroo Tetsuro;

★ This man would smell surprisingly fresh, like the outdoors near the sea but not as strong as being right on the seafront. Though when he walks into a room though his smell is fresh, it’s stronger than most showing just how much of an Alpha he is compared to others.. (I hope that makes sense)

★ Don’t give this Alpha ideas because if you do he will run with it for miles. Oh you want that sexy pair of lingerie to parade in? He’ll buy it and make you wear it as soon as you get home. Toys? Don’t worry he’s probably already got them, you talk about being breed like a little slut? Be prepared not to walk the next day because he loses his mind, and his feral side comes out with words. One would think and wonder how he could say such things in the heat of passion because it was just that mind blowing, you couldn't understand how.

★ Try and convince me that he would at first do the Kinda wild kabe-don to get you attention before moving onto the Standard Kabe-don to really show his alpha status and attitude. Though if you didn’t resist him he would lean into the Tender Kabe-Don and only let you leave with a kiss because he knew he would have you if you would just let me take control over you in the most primal of ways.

★ For as much as he would be an asshole to you it was how he showed you he loved you. Slinging an arm around your shoulder and bringing you close to him as you both walked, laying his claim over you and just being really close, kissing your temple as you talked and smirking knowing he is the cat who got the cream.

★ Coming to your heat he would make sure he would have everything you needed and more without even needing to ask him if he knew what you wanted. He would have secretly gotten it out of you without evening knowing and hoarded it all before it would happen.

★ Though the first time would knot you would be when you both had been dating for a while and found himself unable to keep himself at bay any longer he had always pulled out before but this time he was the one begging and questioning you if it was ok as he wanted nothing more than to just be one with you for at least a little bit afterwards, wanting post sex cuddles and love, peppering you with kissed as he squeezed you in his arms tightly but with only your permission would he do so.

★ He wouldn't really have to fight others for your attention as he was not only confident in himself but around others. If anything you had to fight for his attention as he was needed in most areas of the school though you knew it was for mostly academic reasons sometimes you couldn’t help but feel at least a little jealous of all the others that got to spend time with him.

★When he couldn’t be around you he would give you a shirt or a jumper of his to make sure you smell like him while he wasn’t around and to have other’s know just who you had as a partner.

★ Though when you were alone together he was the most caring person you could imagine. Loving you, wanting to just hold you and be close to you. Though while out and about he would make sure yes that you were close but to also just let you take the lead as he was happy to follow wherever you wanted to go.

★ This man would know you’re pregnant soon after you knew you were and would be able to figure it out, though wouldn’t be shy to tell you and be concerned over your health and well being for everyone involved.

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toloveawarlord · 4 years

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You can find my masterlist in my bio!

25 Days of Christmas Day 6

Characters: Vira, Comte, Vlad

Prompt: “Come here, you’re shivering.”

Tagging: @plumpblueberry @christmaswarlock @sakura-1819 @starry-starry-night24 @kissmetwicekissmedeadly @thewitchofbooks @ikemensengokufangirl @stardust-dreamer13 @gay-noodle-clan @nad-zeta @canaria-blackwell

A/N: A little glimpse into Comte and Vira’s past, before they became estranged!

It never boded well when she disappeared, not on a night where they were intermingled with humans. Comte weaved through the crowd, giving calm, controlled smiles, and hellos to all those he passed while searching for his young daughter. Even at nine years old, there were old families seeking to gain favor by sending their sons to court her.

He stepped out to the balcony, gaze sweeping from the right hallway to the left. Nearly missing them, golden eyes found the raven-haired girl shove the boy away with enough force to topple him over.

“Please leave-” Her voice weak, body trembling.

Not from the cold. Comte inserted himself between the two, shielding her from view. The boy scrambled to his feet but bit his tongue of whatever insult he would have thrown at her. “I apologize for her behavior. Vira is not feeling well and would be quite upset if she caused you to become ill as well.”

The boy relented, dusting himself off as he returned inside.

Comte turned his attention to the young pureblood. “Come here, you’re shivering,” he said, draping his coat around her shoulders. A close call.

Vira couldn’t catch her breath. Golden irises reflected crimson red; fangs prominently stick out. His blood would have tasted most delicious, and oh how she’d desperately wanted it. “It hurts,” she whined, hot tears streaking down pale cheeks.

“I know,” Comte answered, drawing her into an alcove away from view. He dropped to one knee, brushing her curled hair from her face. His free hand tugged his shirt aside to give her access to his neck. “Drink, little one. You don’t wish to hurt anyone.”

A mantra spoken time after time. He reminded her that drinking from humans was dangerous, especially for her with such a hunger and no self-control.

The little girl hesitated for only a moment before sinking her fangs into his skin. Warm blood coated her tongue. For a young vampire, her bite was only pain. The numbing only that of a mere tingle, an attribute that would grow as she matured.

Comte weaved his fingers through her soft locks, gentle and reassuring. The pain a small price to pay. “It’s alright, mon trésor. I’m right here.” It wounded him to see her suffer so. It mattered not how much she drunk, the gnawing hunger returned in little time to torment her again.

“Now, now, Vira, let’s not drink all of daddy’s blood,” Vlad interjected with a gentle smile. The girl pulled away, giving them both a sheepish look. “If you’re still thirsty, I’m more than willing to sacrifice a little.”

Her tongue licked over her bloodied lips with a simple shake of her head. “No, I’m feeling better now, Uncle Vlad.” Her eyes only golden once again spied the plate of sweets in his hands. “Is that for me?”

The white-haired vampire chuckled. “It will aid in slowing the hunger.”

“And likely give you a stomachache in the process. Only a little, Vira,” Comte said, slipping the jacket back on to cover the bite mark that had already begun to fade. His head swam. Even though she was small, she had drunk enough for an adult to be well satisfied.

It was worth that brilliant smile.

Vira sighed contently as she stuffed another bite of red velvet cake into her mouth. Food aided in soothing the raw instinct as well. “It’s delicious. Do you want a bite, papa?” She delighted in sharing her spoils.

“No, little one, you enjoy it.”

“They are going to light the tree in the square. We don’t wish to be late, do we?” Vlad cast a glance to the large clock clinging to the stone wall. A tradition they’d done for the last few years. Traveling to this time on Christmas Eve was all she could speak about for three weeks leading up to it.

Is it time for the Christmas Tree lighting? Can we go see the lights now? We don’t want to miss it!

Alarm flickered across her features, golden irises sweeping over to her father. “Are we going to miss the lights this year?” Devastation threatening to spring forth like a dam erupting.

“Of course not. Let’s fetch a carriage.”

The town square was packed with more humans than the event they’d been guests of. Comte reached for Vira’s hand, keeping her tucked into his side to protect her from being separated. She raised up on her feet, struggling to see.

“Whoa!” Vira squealed when she was lifted up onto her father’s shoulders. “It’s so big! Do you think it’s the biggest one in the world?” She dropped her gaze down to him, fingers absently playing with his hair.

“Perhaps. It’s quite larger than the previous years.”

Vira hummed to herself, scanning the fir once again. “It has to be close. We should go look for the biggest tree next year. I’ll bet it’s somewhere really cold.” Her body shivered at the thought. They’d visited many places and many times, sometimes on a quest to answer a question plaguing the little vampire.

“You’d be surprised how tall they can grow in tropical climates,” Vlad replied, breath hanging in the chilled air. He delighted in her puzzled expression. There was a big world out there, waiting for her to learn all about it.

“Then, we’ll have to go a lot of places to find it. Do you think it’ll take a long time?”

The crowd began to cheer as the event began. Street performers and carolers took turns entertaining, building up the suspense to the lighting of the tree. It hardly caught his attention, not like the innocent wonder that accompanied Vira’s soft gasp of excitement. The lights dancing across her features, sparkling in those pure golden eyes.

“We’ve all the time to explor, mon trésor”

His Christmas wish a simple one.

Always find joy in the little moments, little one, for time will ceaselessly try to steal them away.

#ikemen vampire #ikevamp #ikevamp comte #ikevamp vlad #ikevamp fanfiction #vira #comte daughter #he loves her so much #and still does in the present #she was a cutie as a kid

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docholligay · 4 years

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LIVESTREAM WINNERS AND TOP POINT COMMENTS

THose of you who read the schedule already know this but the winners are:

HOLLIGAY INVOKES THE SPIRIT OF CLOSET GHOST

and

WE COOK FOR DINNER IN THE APOCALYPSE

Please join me for both! It’ should be a terrifying, thrilling time.

AND NOW, THOSE OF YOU WHO MADE ME FEEL THE WARMEST. Thank you to all who answered--I know this was super self indulgent and it means a lot to me that you took the time. So, literally 12 out of the 13 of you got at least one point (One person did not give any details, or even a quote) MAZEL.

Point allocations are below!!

One point winners:

4(?)ish years ago, you sent Jet a series of letters/cards/funeral lilies, from different Sailor Moon characters. The lilies were for Mako. One card was from Michiru, after Haruka's death. I have never been able to find them again, but I just loved the care you put into them--how they were all written specifically from the character, the fact that you even put tear stains and perfume on the cards. It was just so creative and touching, and it felt like the characters were real for an instant, mourning and living and giving you a peek at their lives. --- @kumeko (That was A Little Letter, and Mako’s was actually a separate thing for the same contest!)

“Before you get yourselves killed I want to go on record as saying this is the stupidest thing you’ve ever done.” Rei stood with her hands on her hips at the front of the garage- from that short story about Mina and Haruka strapping an engine to a shopping cart. You can really feel how rei must feel, the resigned exasperation mixed with genuine, but hidden, concern for Mina and haruka’s safety. I think i have said the exactsame thing before people i know do stupid shit. --- BeefSalad33 (oh ma, an oldie but, I think, a goodie)

OH MAN. I am always thinking nonstop about that piece where Minako confronts Seiya about bullying Haruka, specifically for the line where Mina spits out "you think she'll love you for this?" and UGH that LINE. it HAUNTS me, I want to BITE DOWN ON IT AND NEVER LET GO, I WANT TO PUT IT EVERYWHERE EVER BECAUSE IT HURTS SO GOOD, AND I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT SEIYA. --- @wouldntyoulichentoknow (I’m so glad that I’ve managed to make both you and jetty grit your teeth and care about Seiya at some point ahahah)

"*But flowers grow from death and decay, don’t they? That has always been true, you know that, Mako. You are a rose of perfect beauty, grown in the rich fertilizer of your loss.*

She threw the stress ball across the room, knocking over the cup on the sink, spilling the ice down the drain."

The contrast between reminding herself of how life works, and then still being bitter about it, and knowing what she is and being frustrated about it. It's a lot, when sorting out various issues- i have trauma, and that makes me better at empathizing with people, i'm adaptable long-term, and that means i can put up with some bullshit, that kind of thing, but that doesn't mean those are wholly good things. It's nice to see it put into words, and so plainly, and with such a strong reaction of it.

Roses can still grow wild, as pretentious as that sounds with how your passage resonates to me, but it's still nice to feel that. ---- @katrani (I’m so glad it resonates with you! I liked that line a lot! )

2 point answers:

Christmas Carol, Stave 1 - “You are a terrible person,” she jutted out her chin, feigning strength. “Fareeha deserved much better than you. But,” she took a deep breath. “I still hope she forgives you, someday. Someday, I hope you will deserve it.” It feels like cheating to use the most recent thing you’ve written, but nonetheless this section conveys so much about your take on Mercy, so quickly. She may be an idealist, the peacekeeper and builder, and she may want Pharah to have a relationship with her mother that’s not this disaster, but that doesn’t stop her from acknowledging that Ana’s been the primary factor in making it what it is and telling Ana that directly. I love how you write Mercy (and Tracer for that matter) as very warm characters who try to see the best in their situations but won’t gloss over the fact that sometimes, someone does have to be shot in the fucking face. “Good” doesn’t mean “hopelessly naive”, even with a pacifist, and I appreciate that you have characters who show that.

Bonus, and a fringe case as technically part of the Fushigi Yuigi hateblog: “She was still trying to get home, had been unable to get Tamahome to let her poison him, and then Nakago had hugged her into his chest until she had been forced to flatten him with a punch to the nads. She was tired, she was hungry, and she was trying to have a moonlight bath to consider her options and wash the stink of a man off of her.

And then, Tamahome, again.” - Haruka-gets-dumped-into-Fushigi-Yuugi-as-Yui was a delight that entire episode, but this post was one of the best. Is it really just narrativizing your frustrations with the many, many writing choices that were made here? Absolutely. But it’s a fun little bit of comedic pacing here, especially with the utter exhaustion of Haruka that this bullshit isn’t over yet. (“Fuck my life” to the moon wondering if Usagi could help and regretting how hard it would be to drown herself are close runners-up on that front.) --- Regalli

(Mercy is, in many ways, my attempt to write someone who is MOSTLY a pacifist that I can respect. It’s not easy for me! I often find pacifism to be cowardice, because so often in life the people I know who are pacifists are, well, not the folks in the street. So i thought, could you write someone who is very hesitant to kill, who believes that even Doomfist, even Reaper, even whoever, deserve care if they are hurt, who believes that a sword will not leave her hand free to uplift the fallen, and make her brave? And make her strong? And so was born, Mercy, who proved that, yeah that person, at least in my mind, can exist.)

I think one of my favorite passages from your writing is from "The Rest is Commentary". Particularly the part that starts with "I am a doer. " That entire paragraph is wonderfully written, with mix of beautifully descriptive language to describe *why* you don't trust words. It's slightly paradoxical, but it also fits with the rest of the essay (?) so well. And even beyond that, I love reading when you write about your faith. You are deeply devout woman, and a personal aspiration to me. When you write about your faith, it reminds me that there is work that needs to be done to live it, and not easy work either. But it is very much worth every bead of sweat, and every drop of blood. --- @shavedjudomonkey

(Thank you so much! I love that people have connected so much with my Jewish writing)

3 point answers:

From Requiem for the Great Consummation, I adore the word play with "compose." Ie, in the line, "Michiru folded her hands in her lap and composed herself." Why? I'm a musician. So, Michiru, with her music, holds a special place in my heart. (Why Ami gets the music attacks is beyond me. WTF?) I don't think the writers ever really understood what it takes to be a musician, and while fanfic writers often include Michiru's music, I've never really seen it done well. (I'm sure it has been. I just haven't seen it.) Music is all about structure. It has to feel free and soaring, but it can only be that because of the intense amounts of tension and structure underneath. A kite without a string plummets. When I reach for high, soaring notes, that's when I have to be most conscious of having a solid base. Making music Is constant tension. So, often when I see writers portray musicians, it's all "she never felt so free and untethered as when she sang/played the,violin/piano/whatever." And I think, "wow, really? She must have been Crap." So, back to compose/compose. This wordplay shows that tension. The "I have rehearsed this 5,000 times and am still working so hard I'm sweating standing still in this freezing auditorium so that it can look and sound completely free and easy." This is Michiru's entire life. She is composing herself. She is outlining complex rhythms and tensions and resolutions that even though you hear when the piece is played, you don't fully take in or understand, and all you consciously comprehend is 'wow, pretty.' Because that's how music works. Organs have keys that can't be heard by the human ear, and composers include them in their pieces. Why? We can't hear them! But we feel them. If you look at the score for an orchestral piece, it contains So. Many. Notes. So much going on. But when you listen, all you hear is that melodic theme. But if you take out anything underneath, things change and cam fall apart. Michiru lives her life like that. She creates herself, composes herself, and it looks elegant and free and easy, but it is so so very tightly controlled and rehearsed, and that particular wordplay showed off that side of Michiru's music, which is one I don't get to see explored much. --- @incorrecttact

(Thank you so much for this!! I am NOT a musician, but so much of Michiru and music speaks to me, the structure of it, the discipline, the way it allows you to express yourself while hiding behind something else. And yes! I think of that double meaning so much!)

I want you to know... that this was very, very difficult. I made a notepad and collected shit I'd pulled out from your work where I could find comments where I did such, and then I AGONIZED. Here is where I landed but know it's so close with other things god.

"Winston worked in earnest at his inventions, and Emily went back to teaching, and the two of them began to cook for each other again. Family dinners once a week resumed, grew with some of the new recruits that were being folded into their family. Pharah and Mercy’s daughter took them to the zoo, the park, out into the world. Dva had continued the game they had all been playing before Tracer died, their party picking up after the terrible and well-done loss of their beloved rogue. ***Life did not return, but it grew forward. It bloomed again.***" — A Clock's Fading Chime

I ended up choosing this one because I hate it a little when I read it. Not because it's not good but because it's SO PAINFUL. I love so much about the way you talk about love, and I think grief is all a part of that. We grieve because we loved. The idea of the grief period, especially for those in a close circle of a lost person, being like the cycle of the seasons where a flower may die but life blossoms in the soil it left behind is so evocative and perfect and everything leading up to that last line is the soil for which that line got to bloom. The slow, simple way life returns to them, that they adjust to the heavy rock in their pack (A piece of yours I revisited for this and a metaphor I will always carry with me) and start growing stronger together. And that they find it WITH EACH OTHER too just god, it kills me. But would I rather wish it wasn't necessary? YUP. FOR SURE. It hurts to think about someone who plays Lena's role dying in our own lives and trying to mend the rift between those left behind. But it brings all those possibilities and who may have gone already before to mind because it feels so grounded in the reality of what these experiences are like and shit it's just a great sampling of everything I love about your work. Beautiful prose, saying so much with so little, grounded in stuff that feels read, and ending on a banger, transfixing line. ---- @thoughtfulfangirling

(Thank you so much! I LOVED that whole series of fics around that, as it is in the way that I often like to toy with the nature of grief, and the way that we go on. Things aren’t ever the same, but we go on. And I’m so glad you gt into it too! It’s very self-indulgent for me, basically everything with OW, so I love when other poepl like it)

4 point answers:

Given that I am not Jewish, I hope this isn't overstepping my bounds, but your passover Seder speech really spoke to me this year. Specifically the bits about the relationship between cowardice and metaphorical bondage:

"This is a celebration of our freedom from bondage, but it is a also a reminder, a call that we must ensure we do not, in cowardice, return ourselves to bondage. "

Without explaining too much, and risking the kind of parasocial oversharing that you lamented the other day in a post, this particular push and pull has been at the forefront of my mind this year. The intense gravity that the familiar, the easy, the safe, can have, versus the genuine terror of pressing out into the unknown in search of something better.

Trying to change, and to do better, and to press on, is fucking terrifying, and hard. But, that is not an excuse. And I appreciated the reminder. --- @blastoise-m

(Not overstepping at all! I am so glad that it speaks to you, I really, really love this kind of writing, and I really should get back to doing more of my Jewish writing. My rabbi is leaving, because we apparently don’t have the money to have a rabbi! And he’s readying people to be lay leaders, and called on me to be someone who could give Divrei Torah (sort of like our sermons) because of my tendency to do stuff like this, and it’s very scary! But really exciting as that’s the kind of stuff that had me interested in being a rabbi, is picking this stuff apart and applying it to our own lives HI YOU ASKED FOR NONE OF THIS SORRY)

"There are no beautiful deaths in this world, and am sorry that you must know it. Rei never was allowed to say goodbye. I watched Haruka grow weaker and more ill every single day. We each have been jealous of the other, at turns, but I tell you this truth now: Our lives mean much more than our deaths. You and Seiya had a wonderful love story, and you raised a wonderful daughter, and unfortunately it is very often difficult to finish a story in a satisfying sort of way. It is not the end of your story, simply of hers. For you, it is a new chapter"

I think this is still one of my top 5 fav fics that you've ever written. I still think of it randomly once in a while. It's such a small moment but it sold me Usagi and Seiya in a way never would have expected. It's such a moment of growth for both Usagi and Muchiru. A small moment of connection for two people who are so different.

This is wrapped up in the entire MaS series, which I could never separate from this work let alone this quote. The entire series is a series about love and all its many permutations. About finding meaning in a world when you think your meaning has been taken away. About carrying on when you think there's no reason to do so. And I think this quote really encapsulates all of that.

This story, this entire series, is one the favorite things I've ever read and I'm so glad that you decided to share it. --- @madegeeky

(I truly and in all ways love how much you love this fic, it cheers em and makes me so happy every time I am reminded of it. And thank you for loving that line! I FEEL that line. It’s been true for every death that has come to me, so I love when it has meaning for others. )

The 5 point answer:

"God separated the sky and the sea, and that’s true, but there will always be the horizon where they blend."

I'm not much of a quote person. I'll often remember the feeling or the takeaway but rarely the words themselves. This, though, has stuck with me.

There is so much in this world, and so many people, who see everything as absolutes. Black and white. Good or bad. Right or wrong. And as I've grown and changed, that has come to bother me more and more.

This quote is such an elegant and accessible way to express how that oh-so-common point of view is a fallacy. And really it's just a lovely line that invokes both lovely imagery and feeling. ---- @seolh

I FORGOT I WROTE THIS, and like the completely arrogant piece of shit I am, when I read it was I was like, “Oh fuck, that’s a solid line.” And yes I am with you on getting older and relizing that the horizon line can be so fuzzy out there, sometimes, and this quote WEIRDLY came back to me when I needed it, a lot, and so thank you!

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Reviewcaps: X-Men Evolution: Strategy X

I take my first look at X-Men Evolution the second and less famous, but no less loved, cartoon about everyones faviorite mutant outcasts. In our first episode Scott blows up a gas station, Nightcrawler finds what it feels like to have a home, Toad tries to join the x-men and both of the latter two end up nearly dying because Chuck forgot to teleport proof the one room in the house with deadly lasers. All this and football under the cut.

A few days ago I realized something weird: I hadn’t reviewed any superhero cartoons on here. What makes that weird to me, is that I realized when writing this that Superhero cartoons are what MADE me a superhero fan in the first place. I grew up as a little kid watching the spider-man and x-men animated series, and watched most marvel shows that came about as I grew, and became a lifelong fan of Green Lantern and the Flash thanks to Justice League , the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles thanks to the 2003 cartoon (another franchise I absolutley adore I haven’t covered on here for some reason) and the Teen Titans thanks to well.. Teen Titans, not to mention all the great original superhero shows at the time like the legendary Danny Phantom (even if butch heartman can take a short walk into a cave full of bears lately), My Life as a Teenage Robot, El Tigre.. the list of good shit goes on. So being on an X-Men kick again lately, I decided to revisit what turned out to be one of the first of this wave, and a show I’d had the opporoutnity to binge for a while , first on hulu and then on D+, and wanted to revisit to see how it holds up, while, if not as fast as I watch them, reviewing them here to combine my two intrests. And it probably wont’ be the last marvel animated series I binge or cover here, nor the last superhero show I cover so if you have any, Marvel, DC, from other companies or completely original, shoot me an ask or reply to this and i’ll see if I can get to it. For now we’re starting the evolution. Evolution was the first X-Men cartoon, and somehow one of 5 overall not counting the hulk vs wolverine movie, pryde of the x-men pilot and various crossover apperances in other cartoons, to follow the 90′s one, which as you probably know was a huge hit that defined the x-men for a generation of young fans, was a huge sucess and launched the mostly great sorta shared cartoon universe with classics like Spider-Man the Animated Series (Which not concidentally is what made me a lifelong fan of the webslinger), The Incredible Hulk, and the second season of Iron Man and Fantastic Four.. and yes only the second as the first seasons were both by entirely diffrent creative teams and gave us things like this.

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Yes that is Johnny Storm doing an objetivley terrible hip hop song, no it dind’t cause that building to sink into the earth, and yes it is so bad it’s delcioius. Sadly the rest of hte series is more flat and boring than “bwahahahaha” but my point is made. The point is Evolution had a steep hill to climb, and with the previous cartoon compressing most of the decades long Chris Claremont era and some of what came after into 5 seasons of good if cheesy stuff, the creators clearly, if only because Ic an’t find a making of, decided to go in a diffrent route, making their own unique take on the characters and world of the x-men instead. For starters rather than being vetrans with years of experince, either from being an x-man or just from general life experince like the comics were since the 70′s aside from the ocasinal exception like Kitty Pryde and Jubilee, they’d be teens, grappling with hormones alongside blue fur, head lasers and not being able to touch anyone. This wasn’t something x-men had shied away from, New Mutants and Generation X existed, but it was the first time in decades the X-Men themselves were kids. Sure Storm and Wolverine weren’t aged down, but there were just as many missions that were just these teenagers hoping to surivive the experince and keep mutants a secret till the world was ready.. and then dealing with the fallout when an unready and hateful world found out anyway. And I honeslty like the direction: The previous series had done the mostly straight adaptation bit, there wasn’t anywhere to go and aging scott and jean back to teens, and having nightcrawler and rouge get to be ones for the first time though, was an intresting idea, as was having Kitty Pryde be a teen alongside them instead of their plucky teenage member Another intresting direction was, while Xavier’s still existed and was where the cast lived and learned to use their powers, the X-Men also went to regular high school. While it’d take till season 3 for them to actually have to deal with being out mutants in the setting, it was still an intresting tactic: The X-school in the comics, while no less studious is still an isoalted boarding school and when the New Mutants met some friends in town, most had only heard whispers about the old Xavier Mansion and were delighted to visit for a slumber party.. granted this being an x-men schindig our heroes ended up having to deal with an alien who eventually became one of their closest friends that night but still, for the x-men having the robot, or technoorganic in this case, NOT try to murder them on purpose and be a loveable 80′s sidekick instead is an easy night. While i’ts not done perfectly here from what I can remember, the main human characters we see are nightcrawlers love intrest amanda (who is thankfully NOT his adopted sister this time around thank christ), local stock blond football bully and flash thompson impersonator Duncan, and Scott’s nondiscript friend paul, who I can’t think of without thinking two things; one , what do you WANT paul:

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I mean a man so vauge just can’t be trusted. The second is that paul looks a lot like Doug Ramsey and i’m suprised they didn’t just.. make him Doug and have him go through a similar arc from the comics:A crush on kitty and the rest of the team finding out he’s a mutant and eventually bringing him into their world. For those unaware Doug Ramsey is a mutant with the ablility to translate any languge, including computer code from the get go and body laungage when he came back, an easy fix to him being the non-combatant of the group no one thought of, who died tragically in story sacrifcing himself to save his girlfriend’s life and out of story because the artist tricked the writer into killing him off. Thankfully he did come back about two decades later, took a level in badass thanks to a combination of the body language thing above meaning he could anticipate moves and dodge and computers having advanced to the point that part of his powers was now 80 times more useful, and has recently become a key part of the dawn of x relaunch. He’s also a faviorite of mine as you can probably tell and given how much the early 2000′s loved their computers, it’s weird to me they didn’t think of this and it’s even weirder he didn’t show up with the lions share of the other new mutants next season, along with Karma and Warlock which somehow has become a recurring theme thanks to the movie saving them for sequels that ended up not happening because fox stupidly put the movie in Limbo where it remains until maybe next month. But yeah even if muted a bit the idea of the x-men going to a public school alongside their training is a decent one.. sure a hero going through high school is again a cliche, but it’s a thing the x-men hadn’t done in this way before or sense, and was intresting to see in action. Most high school scnees in x-comics are usually some poor mutant having their powers manifest and either hurting someone by accident, being treated like crap for it by their class or hunted down for accidently hurting someone before the x-men show up to kick their asses and welcome this youngster. Or getting rejected by family and friends then coming to the x-men.. there’s a lot of angst directions to go in. My point is we’d never seen the x-men try to blend in and have a more standard school experince, and combining that with them hiding their powers instead of being out in the open at first made for a unique dynamic for the x-men that makes well tread ground nice nad fresh even 20 years later.

So that’s our basic setup going in: The X-men wake up, go to school, then save the world or train to save the world while harnesing wonderful and dangerous powers and protecting the helpless agaist less charitable mutants. The basic x-setup with a 2000′s era superhero high school show flavor. Good stuff. But we’ll see what it does with this premise, how good it holds up and what’s still delightfuly cheesy about it as I take a nice look at the first episode Strategy X

We open at night and

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Yup Scott and Jean are at the football team where the aforementioned Duncan, guy voted most likely to peak in high school in last year’s yearbook poll, is playing some foot ball and trying to flit with Jean Grey whose the first X-Man we meet and is somehow receptive to this despite his radaiating douche and is lucky this Jean’ , unlike say the time transfered one from the comics who thought the best approach to helping Bobby Drake come out of the closet so he could help his older self do the same and be his best self, was to just blunty say he’s gay and refuse to let him explore thtt for himself or get someone more quliafied to help her. And yes that did indeed happen and yes the original x-men were brought into the present for a while and yes it was weird Moving on. Still i’m pretty sure duncan’s thoughts would read like “Man she looks good.. I want to bang her so hard she uh.. wakes up sideways.. yeah that’s it. Your a legend duncan, a total legend. “. As you can probably tell I don’t have fond memories of this character or this sorta but not really love triangle, and question why they couldn’t of just had spyke be the other man in the triangle if they wanted to do this. Granted Spyke himself is kinda annoying, but it still makes more sense to have him fill in for angel or wolverine in a jean-scott love triangle than this walking burnt end. The warren, scott one worked, as much as a 60′s love triangle could because warren was conventionally handsome and had angel wings while scott has to keep glasses on just to not murder anyone he looks at, so there’s a bit of contrast there, while with WOlverine it’s straight laced dependeble scott versus unhinged manly man Logan. You know before recently where they just decided to all bone in a pile and wolverine even goes on vacation with them. And that’s not a joke I made up, that’s actual canon. Both make logical sense while Jean would be intrested in both in the former case, as Scott was still a kind and dependable leader, and tempted in the latter case if never acting on it before recently and with her husband’s full consent and either watching from the closet or taking one up the ass for jean to watch. Duncan in contrast is just wholly unlikeable and it makes me question why use him as the third in this love triangle, ESPECIALLY since the show would later introduce another scott and jean based love triangle with Rogue wanting scott that’s way more intresting, and even people wanting those two to hook up don’t want Jean with Duncan! Instead of creating a vitable alternative to make a later love triangle more intresting or create some shipping wars or anything of value any hint jean may be intrested just wastes screentime and tests my patience and is thankfully breif here. As for why Jean’s here sh’es taking pictures for the school paper since the Daily Bugle wasn’t intrested in photos that weren’t of spider-man and they already had a teen photographer for that. Porker or something. Anyways this episode ofa low rent friday night lights knockoff is interuptted when one of duncan’s buddies on the team spots local trouble maker and ,judging by context, bully punching bag Todd Tolansky, aka Toad which is a cruel nickname turned slightly lesss cruel code name here, pick pocketing the people in the stands, and sensing a flimsy context to punch a nerd, Duncan goes to tell the coah he’ll be busy for a moment totally not carving someone’s face in again. Coach says as long as he leaves him breathing, and through a straw still counts and since their so far ahead as long as he’s back for the celebratory rampage anything goes. Also spotting Toad’s stan pines approved sticky fingers is Scott Summers, leader of x-men and all around cool guy. Scott here is a bit more emotive than he was int he comics at a time, a trait he’d have later on in the late 2000′s and even currently and a version I prefer to the “has something shoved so far up his ass you can see it when he opens his mouth” boring straightman of the 90′s cartoon. He’s a bit more impulsive, a bit more emotivie but still a good and well thought out leader and the tactical genius, at least as far as I can remember, that he’s known for being. IT’s a good portayal so far, it reminds me of 2k12 leonardo: he’s still growing into being a leader in some way but clearly has the talent and drive for it and a deep sense of heroism> That deep sense is shown here as Scott leaves to go confront toad.. and then confronts Duncan and buds when he finds them about to squish Toad. Unlike Duncan, whose “heroism” consits of a filmy excuse to beat a third hole into todd’s head, Scott wanted to stop Toad because it’s the right thing to do, and wants to stop Duncan because his actions are just as wrong: Sure Toad is stealing stuff, but it’s clear from the way he and his buddies grin widlly at seieng toad pick pocket that they just want an excuse to pummel the kid and not get in trouble for it. It’s confirmed when Scott makes a resonable offer: Since Toad still has the money and most of the lifted wallets, he can return what he stole, which Toad not wanting to die today agrees to, but Duncan refuses. Scott however gets the three thrown to the ground and while Toad escapes, with the two other idiots in persuit, an enraged duncan attacks. But since Scott Summers, even teen scott summers has batman level judo, it’s an even fight despite Duncan being bigger and more muscular.. until Jean runs in shouts scott no.. despite you know Duncan starting this and Scott merley defending himself, distracts Scott long enough for him to get shoved to the ground.. and loose his googles, sending an optic blast out before he can clamp his eyes shut, knocking duncan over and igniting a nearbye propane tank. Toasty! Also yikes. Cue the opening theme and credits. While the opening Creidts are very 2000′s, they aren’t half bad but the main draw is the theme song which.. honestly I feel is great and very close to the 90′s x-men theme in quality, only not being AS good because that one’s one of the best theme songs period. but this one’s no slouch as it’s fun, energetic and will get stuck in your head. Good stuff. After the theme we cut back to the credits where Scott is closing his eyes despeartly holding his powers in. It was a good opening and a great way to show off the premise of the show and just how dangerous mutant powers can be even accidnetally, with this followup showing it’s not inetentional. it was even shown before as while scott’s eyes flash, he notably never uses his powers in the fight and they only came about accidnetally. We also get some JeanScott ship tease as she finds his glasses ,and with Duncan having a concusion and not remembering anything, a bit that hasn’t aged well, things seem well.. except the cop seems to notice something supscious.. before help arrives in a rolls royce. Charles Xavier, voiced by the icomprable David Kaye who I feel is one of the best daviers and does a great job here and quickly makes the guy see nothing supscious, a classic use of his powers and an understdanable one: while yea going into someone’s mind isn’t a great tihng to do.. scott being possibly outed as a mutant this way would only land the poor boy in a jail cell, as it did for Bobby Drake in the comics when his own powers activated and hurt someone. We also meet storm who unlike the others isn’ aged downa nd is one of two senior staffers for the school, a touch I like as she was a great mentor figure to kitty pryde and the comics and the roll suits her, while evolution also tones down the ham 80 degrees so she’s even more like the comics; reserved but utterly confident and badass and a good #2 to xavier. Xavier also likely wiped Duncan’s memory of scott’s power triggering I figure.. I mean he could’ve got concussed but I wouldn’t be suprised if chuck manipualted that too. Jean comforts Duncan for.. again some reason. Like he was just in a fight with her best friend and she’s a telepath.. I get she’s being respectful but time and place. Scott is naturally Jelly, but Toad.. genuinely thanks Scott for the help while Scott brushes it off. It was the right thing to do and Toad is still a creep, but it’s still a nice gesture. Also toad eats a fly to show that yep he too is a mutant. Xavier and Storm go to the train station and pick up a mysterious teen clad all in robes. Ohohoo hominus. Meanwhile somewhere in the westchester area, Wolverine comes in! Snkity sknikty snoik. He’s voiced by, and dresses exactly like, Scott McNeil, a vetran and awesome voice actor who I honestly think does a better job than his prdecessor. Not that 90′s wolverine is bad, it’s just McNeil has more of a range even while keeping the gutteral growl of hte former and can tur it off at times while his previous acto rwas pretty much on snarl mode constantly. He wasn’t bad, all the 90′s voice actors were at 100 most of the time and undersndably given the hamm nature of that cartoon, but its’ still a ncie change of pace and one we’d see again with steve blum in the next cartoon. More on that obviously when i inevitably cover Wolverine and the X-Men He picks up a paper about the explosion, and sensing he must go his people need him, cuts the top off the water he ordered, because you can’t get beer on a childrens cartoon, and thanks the clerk who wonders what the fuck just happened. And it’s a weird ass scene especially because in this series the x-men are trying to keep a lid on mutants and Logan’s just .. causally cutting off a water bottle because fuck it. It fits the character a LITTLE but it’s still just weird and out of place. Speaking of weird and out of place sabertooth is stalking logan on a mountaintop because..

Thank you wrestlecrap. He dosen’t show up again and is apparently introduced several episodes from now, and sports a design similar to the 2000 movie which isn’t a terrible look apart from the long lead singer from Creed haircut. The next morning at Xavier’s scott’s annoyed at jean taking her time in the bathroom because “women amirite?”.. yeah...

On that gag. Before the two dart off for school Xavier calls them in to meet the new kid: Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, whose blue and fuzzy as ever, though without the fully yellow eyes he usually sports, though I figure it’s less because they wanted to make him more humanoid, though his Kelso from that 70′s show hair certainly helps with that too, and more because that way his human disguise he’ll get in a bit can just be an easily just recolor and redres his civlilan design. Though why he couldn’t just have the yellow eyes in elf form and give him regular ones in transducer form, epsecially since they had to make a whole new outfit and ears for his non elf form anyway is beyond me, but whatever. At least he’s a full part of the team here and oh so adorkable. As you can probably wager by the fact there’s only 3 x-men and one asshole here, Evolution takes it’s time introducing everybody, the first few episodes using the debut queue style of storytelling and introducing the main cast about one or two per episode.. which I like a lot as it gives each of the x-men room to breathe and get a proper introduction, while usually doing the same for the latest addition to the brotherhood. IT’s a godo way to ease us into a decently sized main cast and let each get their own origin story of sorts. Good stuff.

Jean and Scott are shocked by the poor boys three fingers, but Charles helps asuage kurt.. by pointing out scott’s fuckup then berating him. Both don’t come off great: Scot whines about having two cannonballs under his eyes, which while fair is something he knew going into a situation where they might get knocked off and didn’t prepare for, while Charles lambasts him for “not having more control”.. and his tone implies it’s more about his POWERS. If it was about self control fine, that’d be godo character stuff but if it’s of his powers.. Scott didn’t use his powers at all during the breif scuffle and was only let loose by pure shock, and something you easily covered for minus the explosion part. It could just be both having a point but I dunno. But with that Xavier does show kurt that even human passing mutants like Scott have huge struggles and he no longer is alone. Jean is curious what his power is and Kurt demonstrates his teleporting, impressing both and bonding the three a bit. Xavier sends them off to school, and they’ll talk more about kurt tonight. At school Toad is getting dressed down by principle darkholme, aka mistque whose apparently also his boss.. yes while the founding x-men are two upstanding well trained, if one a bit hot headed youths, Mystque got.. a guy who pick pockets because as we later see the house she got for them looks like the ghosts of the frat who used to live there did a number on the place. Yeah easy to see why your guys later become the comic relief villians Raven. Anyways she plans to have Toad use his newfound leverage with scott to try and sneak in with the x-men before shapeshifting into a knockoff brood to scare him because she’s a dick. Also how the hell would she explain that if someone walked in and DIDN’T comically walk right back out and just explose her posing as a monster for the student body to see. Not a bad show of her powers but a really goofy and nonsenical one. Also yeah unlike the comics raven can change her shape further than just humanoid.

Back at the school Kurt is excited to see his spacious and luxrious room, his parents, whoever they were, having sent him here, and is even more excited when Xavier gives him a gift; an image inducer. This is something that actually comes from the comic: it’s a device disgused as a watch that holographically makes Kurt look like your standard human. Kurt in the comics of course used it to look like errol flynn. Naturally Chris Claremont eventually realized the implications of a person of a minority who looks diffrent masquerading as someone else to blend in and Kurt later decided to go without it, as he shoudln’t have to hide himself. Evolution does use it better though: For starters when Kurt says he’s finally normal, Ororo assures him he always was, this is just to help a bit and the idea of him needing to blend in makes sense since the x-kids are going to public high school and mutantkind is more hidden to avoid prosecution. It’s sitll a BIT shaky, but it’s at least trying to avoid a lot of the pitfalls of the concept and modernizie it a bit and I can give them credit for that.

Back at School scott’s preparing to lunch, telling paul to save him a seat. Good old Paul, when Toad comes up to him thanking him again and revealing his own mutant powers and stealing Scott’s glasses because that’s how you charm someone. Toad offers to hang but Scott wisely refuses and moves on though he does use the cafeteria pay phone to call Charles, who already found out about todd via Cerebro and despite Scott’s understandable reservations about letting a literally slimy pick pocket who talks like goddamn j-roc , know what i’m sayin, into the team, Charles in a very charles xavier move says they can’t turn their back on ANY mutant, even the assholes. Now read that in a patrick stewart voice. Your welcome. Scott wonders if he should ask Todd over to play fooseball and ask about joining his teen militia but Chalres said no need, he’ll take care of the audition himself. He then explains Cerebro to a curious kurt, global telepathic mutant tracker basically, and prepares for the audition.

That night Toad goes to the mansion.. with a costume already. And rather than evaluate all the costumes up front i’m going to do so as they show up in series. As such.. toad’s is REALLY good, a nice armor look with a small part peaking up resembling a collar of some sort , a nice update of his silver age costume’s collar. It really feels frog like and really is neat. Storm, who is watering her garden a detail I like, heads out and rains on his parade. Her costume is fine, a standard storm outfit, nothing really outstanding but still not bad. Storm then sends lighting at him to see what happens when a Toad is struck by lighting.. probably the same as everything else before he runs inside and runs into kurt.

Kurt then shows up, and while I’d forgottten this, he was already in costume from earlier having gotten his at the same time as the inducer. His costume.. is about the same as the comics except hte gloves and boots are yellow, i’m somehwat eh on it but I get doing so to have him fit with the black and yellow color scheme of most of the other x-men in some way. Though i’d love to see a black and yellow redesign of his classic oufit someday that’d look spiffy. But yeah it’s pretty good and one of the standouts of the evolution costumes. The two trade barbs thanks to toad being kind of a dick about nightcrawler and end up having a petty squabble and tussle for a bit around the mansion. Xavier still considers Toad x-men material while Storm considers not missing with lightning this time. In all seriousnes this is more good character stuff for Charles, as it shows that no matter how troublesome, he’ll welcome any mutant child in with open arms. Though I question why neither questions the fact that a mutant they just met somehow brought his own top of the line uniform, but I chalk it up to that probably not having been written into the episode and either being an error or execs wnating to show off his battle suit to have a proper superhero tussle to close out the episode. However said tussle, which is really more a hilarious fight between an asshole and a dork, is interupted when Kurt accidnetly ports them into the danger room, an x-men staple.. no really “new mutant accidently enters or finds the danger room” is old hat at this point, most iconically with Kitty in the comics shortly after she joined.

Naturally not wanting to have to clean up another set of teen corpses, he just got the Vulcan smell out of there, Xavier dispatches Cyclops and Jean to go deal with it.. since Jean dosen’t have a code name here since marvel forgets to try and get her a non phonenix one better than marvel girl and it annoys me. Anyways fashion show time again, and yes i’m aware these aren’t from strategy x, but I didn’t want to just use hte model sheet shots from the wiki so I combed for decent action shots. Scotty’s costume is decent, a bit bulky with the very 90′s shoulder pads and boots, but otherwise looks pretty good, a nice combination of his 90′s uniform and his second x-factor uniform. Even with the bulk it looks really good. On the oppsite end.. we have Jean, who easily has the worst outfit of the main x-men by a mile, with a weird lime green stripe for some reason. Maybe they were going for phonenix colors I dunno, but it just looks half assed in comparison to the rest of the gangs outfit. The gold rings and fingerless gloves are a nice touch, but this one’s still just bland in comparison. Like they couldn’t figure out how to update jeans 90′s outfit so they put her in a jassercise outfit instead.

Scott and Jean arrive with Jean saving nightcrawler, Kurt asking if sh’es an angel, she asking if he’s a demon and me asking if I can get a trashcan to vomit in. It didn’t work for George Lucas a year before this why did you think it’d work here? Anyways Kurt realizes their not in xavier’s snuff dungeon, as far as he knows and it’s simply a trianing room and tries to disarm it, but it instead nearly blasts toad who nopes outta htere, scott too injured to follow. And while when watching the episode yesterday It hought it was a bit abrubt.. it really fits. Toad is a bit of a coward from memory, bosatful and cocky.. till reality reminds him he’s freaking toad as seen with the bullies earlier and mystique after that. So of course he’d run the minute things looked dicey and it looked like xavier reguarlly put his students through the hunger games to thint he herd. Xavier bemoans that Toad simply isn’t ready.. sure he’s a mutant and xavier likely senses mistque’s involement.. but he genuilly WANTED to help todd and give him a real home and support.. its just Toad/Todd dosen’t WANT it or to put in any real work to be better, and you have to WANT help to get it. Kurt blames himself and ports out feeling he dosen’t deserve to be there and Scott goes after him while out front Toad runs into a returning Logan, whose ready to add another dead teen to the pile out back when Xavier insists he let him go... he’s not an actual threat, and as we find out later Xavier removed the schools location from his mind and probably gave it to toad in the first place, so while Logan says he’ll be back.. he has no way of coming back and there’s no sense roughing up a teenager, when that’d just draw more attention to them and give Toad an angle to work. That being said Charlie still gladly welcomes Logan back though both smell trouble on the horizon.. and also toad. He tends to leave a scent that one.

We then get what I feel is the best scene in the episode: Cyclops finds Kurt in the room with the blackbird, which this show remembers is an actual type of plane and that the x-mens is simply a souped up version of , though I can’t tell you what version he’s saying it’s superior to because I don’t know planes THAT well. But Scott comforts Kurt, saying it’s OKAY to fuck up: the entire point of this place is so they can afford to make the mistakes they can’t make out there and learn and grow as people. Everyone screws up, as Scott himself did rushing in without a plan at the start, but the point is you learn from it and do better next time and Kurt decides to stay. Welcome to the X-Men Kurt, hope you surivive the experince. Also Scott decides to show him where they hide the sodas.. which either Chuck is a dick about their pop or that’s code for booze.. or possibly both. I could see Logan really liking root beer alongisde his nightly 6 pack.

We close out with Mystque berating toad for running the hell away and for you know, getting mindwiped.. the latter is far from his fault, but the first part.. yeah Toad kinda sucks at this and Raven screams for him to get out, with her turning back into her natural form for the first time.. and then being confronted with HER boss with Magneto, from.. somewhere.. he appearas as a spooky projection but I don’t know if he’s using a device to amplfy himself or he just hides in the closet of her office all day for when he needs to consult her on their evil schemes. Probably the latter. Anyways Erik wisely consults her to be a bit easier..while toad is a bit of a dipweasel.. they can’t afford their ranks being thinned.. and really he’s not wrong. The x-men currently have them 6 to 3. Even if he’s the weakest of the three of them, they can’t afford to spare him. He then ominously says htis is only... THE BEGINING.

FINAL THOUGHTS: Strategy X is a decent start for the series but not without it’s problems, with one or two questionsable moments like the whole angel and devil exhcange or the entire “Storm stalks toad as he goes to the mansion” scene as a way of testing him, which makes both her and charles come off bad and makes me wonder how the hell that was an actual test of anything. But it’s held up by good character: While Jeans kind of a bit of wallpaper here, the rest of the x-men and our three villians are all given great character moments that show them off to the audience well and really show the writers get the characters while taking their own spins on the younger ones: Nightcrawler, who could be a bit of a dork in the comics, see here his seduction tequnique.

I mean damn if that shit isn’t still Sexy but still. They just ramped it up a bit since this version is younger and more naive, while Scott is likewise a bit more rambunctious and likely to question Xavier, while still being a good hearted guy who knows how to lead. It’s good stuff. While the quality isn’t PERFECT, it’s a good start and I look forward to watching more and EVENTUALLY reviewing more on here. If you liked this be sure to let me know and like I said above if there’s any other marvel show or any dc ones you want me to cover, and any specific episodes at that, lemme know. Comics too. And until we meet again, courage. PS.. what the hell is up with the title of this episode? No really it has nothing to do with anything. Is it Mystuues’ inflitration plan?

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Masamune x Polish!MC

Thanks a lot to @datenoriko for suggesting this and for @nad-zeta for writing hers (VERY INSPIRING, SERIOUSLY, GO CHECK THOSE OUT) headcanons :D Here’s my version. I wrote for Polish MC in particular, because I didn’t want to be disrespectful and there’s a lot of historical nuance that I could butcher otherwise.

[Note from future Lorei: This is honestly very stupid and I cannot believe I didn’t write it when I was 15, geez.]

Content Warnings: profanities, kidnapping, pain, injuries

Background information & notes:

Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was partitioned by Habsburg Austria, Kingdom of Prussia and Russian Empire. As the result of annexations, the country disappeared from the world maps for 123 years. I will not go into detail about how the situation of Polish people was different in each of the parts, since that’s besides the point, but well - keep in mind that it did differ greatly. One can argue that the marks of it are still visible today, both in infrastructure, architecture and language.

I was born in the South-Eastern region of Poland and as such, that’s where I’d like my MC to be brought up.

MC is in no way representative of how each and every woman from Poland is. I tried to write her based on the women of my family, my friends, classmates, basically - the people I’ve seen and spent my time with.

I will not include anything religion-related, although it is a thing that’s present in lives of everybody (even atheists) here (to be more precise, Catholicism). Why? Because it is a very controversial topic, one of huge complexity.

... There will be profanities, because I love my Polish swearwords - and CURSE YOU ENGLISH. WHEN I YELL THE CURSE I WANT TO SOUND LIKE A FREAKING FERAL ANIMAL

Broken English in italics = broken Japanese.

There will be a dictionary at the end, so don’t worry.

Masamune

Upon meeting her, he did not understand anything she said - well, none of them did. However, she did rescue lord Nobunaga - a funnily dressed foreigner that seemingly didn’t speak Japanese couldn’t be that bad, could she?

Yet she still was thrown into the dungeon. In his mind, that was the perfect opportunity to investigate on his own.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Masamune sneaked into her cell. Soon, his blade was on her throat. “ Who are...?” he started, but was instantly cut off by her yelling: “ Czy was tu wszystkich kurwa do reszty pojebało?!” He stood there, staring at her. Seeing his confusion, she pointed at him and then tapped on her temple a couple of times, an unimpressed look on her face.

Was she suggesting that he was insane? Hah, that certainly was some lass. He laughed loudly and gestured for her to follow him.

Well, it certainly took some explaining, but in the end, she got a job as one of the maids. After all, you hardly need to understand language to sweep the floors and do the cleaning.

However, she... Didn’t exactly fit in. Not just because of her weird mother tongue - she was taller than most women and not exactly petite. Appearance wise, she resembled the Portuguese missionaries, but that wasn’t exactly this either.

Masamune came around to “bother” her at times. To his surprise, she started to picking up the basic words by herself. Sometimes, she’d point an object, say something (presumably the name of it in her language) and wait for him to do so as well.

One day, she did just that while cleaning the floor of a veranda. “ Chrząszcz.” It took a second to register. Was that really a word? “ Chrząszcz,” she repeated, staring at him. Right, he had to reply, otherwise she’d never stop. “ A beetle.”

Later that day, he tried to pronounce the word. He couldn’t do it. Actually, he started thinking that she was making it all up.

That, however, changed once he heard her sing. Unaware of his presence, she continued working, the song filling the air: “Gdy swe oczy otworzyłem Wielki żal ogarnął mnie Po policzkach łzy spłynęły Zrozumiałem wtedy, że Czarny chleb i czarna kawa Opętani samotnością Myślą swą szukają szczęścia Które zwie się wolnością”

To his delight, she started speaking broken Japanese within a couple of months of her stay at Azuchi. Finally, he could satiate his curiosity - or at least he planned to.

She went out to do the shopping in the afternoon, but didn’t return after the dusk. Thinking something bad must have happened to her, Nobunaga issued a search. Masamune volunteered to lead it.

She woke up with a start, her head throbbing. She looked around - where was she? It seemed to be a tiny hut of sorts. She got up, trying to catch a glimpse of whatever was happening outside through the crack in the door. A man was guarding it. Did she hear a river? Whinny of horses? She had to escape - she search for cracks in the walls, until she found one. She recognized that armour. They were looking for her! She had to make some noise!

She yanked at the door, but it didn’t want to give out. She banged at it with her fists, yelling: “ Tutaj! Ratunku!”

The kidnapper didn’t understand the weird language, so he didn’t react at first. However, once the heard the approaching horses, he decided he had to silence her. He got inside the hut and gripped her by the wrists, telling her to shut up.

To his surprise, she struggled against him, breaking free of his hold on her.

He pinned her arms to the wall of the hut, threatening to hurt her if she even squeaked. “ A weźże ty mnie kurwa w nos pocałuj!” she yelled, before headbutting him.

Surprised, the man didn’t react instantly. Taking advantage of the opportunity, she kicked him hard.

It didn’t exactly work, though. Infuriated, the man wanted to punch her - yet, he didn’t notice the rescue that had just arrived. Masamune stopped his fist in the air.

Masamune didn’t see her in the couple of the following days, as they all worked to find out who was the person behind her kidnapping - and why was she even considered a target in the first place.

When he finally met her, he was stunned. Her entire forearms were covered in bruises in the shade of deep purple, almost black. He lifted her hands up, saying: “ I’ll check you up for wounds. Wounds. Check. You.” To his surprise, she shook her head and smiled brightly. “ Boli, znaczy że żyje. Hurt mean alive.”

It dawned on him then - he never really saw her smile before. They were complete strangers, but he wanted to know more.

With the language barier in place, it wasn’t exactly an easy task. Granted, she could understand simple sentences - yet, it wasn’t enough. Masamune was up to the challenge and so, he asked her to teach him her language.

Given the grammatical cases that influenced form of both nouns, adjectives and numerals, he soon started regretting his choice. The nouns had gender? Two future tenses? And what was up with all those ch-h, rz-ż, u-ó pairs that sounded exactly the same, but somehow weren’t interchangeable? Not to mention how some words seemed to consists exclusively of consonants. Rybołówstwo? -wstwo?

“ Okay. Your turn. Na wyścigach wyścigowych wyścigówek wyścigowych wyścigówka wyścigowa wyścignęła wyścigówkę wyścigową numer sześć.” Masamune blinked fast. “ It was the same word over and over again, right?” “ Nope. Maybe w Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie?”

It seemed she tried to torture him. Though, having her laugh, even if at him, made him feel warm.

One day, he was taking a stroll and heard her voice. This time, however, he understood the words she hummed to herself. “ Raz i dwa, raz i dwa, Dziewczynka Wojenka na imię ma. Trzy i cztery, trzy i cztery, Dziwne ona ma maniery. Pięć i sześć, pięć i sześć, Wcale lodów nie chce jeść. Siedem, osiem, siedem, osiem, Wciąż o kości tylko prosi. “

“Where do you come from, if you sign about war like that?” he asked. “ Can’t tell you. You’ll think I’m mad.” “ Try it either way.” “ You see, future. But I can’t say wars aren’t a thing anymore. Sadly.”

After that, they spoke for a while. Apparently, her grandparents were both in partisan army. She grew up hearing their stories - or much rather, what little was said about the horrors of the war. What surprised him, though, was her request.

“ Will you teach me how to use a sword?” “ A sword? Why?” “ I can’t be helpless. I have to adapt.” “ That’s the spirit,” he laughed.

She certainly was a curious creature, one with a will to survive. She was amusing... Although sometimes she did find a way to get on his nerves.

“ I am NOT cute.” “ You are. You have lisp and can’t say “r” like little child that can’t speak good yet.”

Dictionary & Notes:

“ Czy was tu wszystkich kurwa do reszty pojebało?!” - “Are you all fucked in the damn head here?”, although not exactly. The Polish version doesn’t entail anything that could indicate any connection to psychological disorder or madness. Both “kurwa” and “pojebało”(pojebać) are swear words that would be translated to “fuck”. Recently those words lost a bit of their shocking effect, but if you ask me - you still don’t want your mother to hear you saying those. Under any circumstances. Direct translation would be “Are you all fucking fucked up here?”

“Chrząszcz” - a beetle. However, can we appreciate the nasal “ą” sound and the fact that it’s the only vowel in the entire word? Apparently, it’s hard to pronounce for foreigners :D

“Gdy swe oczy otworzyłem /Wielki żal ogarnął mnie /Po policzkach łzy spłynęły /Zrozumiałem wtedy, że //Czarny chleb i czarna kawa /Opętani samotnością / Myślą swą szukają szczęścia /Które zwie się wolnością” - lyrics from song, you can listen to it here. “ When I opened my eyes/ a grief overwhelmed me /Tears run down my cheeks/ Then I understood that // Black bread and black coffee / Possessed by loneliness / Keep searching with their thoughts for happiness/ name of which is freedom” (excuse the translation, I wrote it myself). I don’t listen much to Polish music, but this was somewhere around ever since I remember - I think many people would recognize it? Plus, the theme of freedom seems to be rather common one.

“ Tutaj! Ratunku!” - “Here! Rescue me!”

“ A weźże ty mnie kurwa w nos pocałuj!” - “ Fuck, kiss my nose.”; There’s another version of with, “pocałuj mnie w dupę” (kiss my ass). This one is more polite? Less crude? Either way, it means “I’m fed up with your bullshit.” Note: weźże is an verb derived from “weź” (to take) by adding a particle “że” at the end. Said particle indicated irritation and frustration. Construction weź + do something (weź idź na spacer - go on a walk!) is basically an order/ a request said with some level of irritation.

“ Boli, znaczy że żyje. “ - “If it hurts, it’s alive.”/ “If you’re hurting, you’re alive.” ; that one isn’t exactly universal, but it was a huge one for me. I always heard it from my grandparents and aunts.

Rybołówstwo - ... Fishing. When pronounced, it’s “rybołóstwo” - we still have a cluster of consonants here, but it’s easier to deal with.

“ Na wyścigach wyścigowych wyścigówek wyścigowych wyścigówka wyścigowa wyścignęła wyścigówkę wyścigową numer sześć. “ - “During the racing event the racing car got ahead of the racing car number six.”; tongue-twister If you were wondering,the adjectives are in bold. The crossed out word is the predicate of the sentence (the verb).

w Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie - in Szczebrzeszyn a beetle can be heard from the reed; tongue-twister.

“ Raz i dwa, raz i dwa, /Dziewczynka Wojenka na imię ma. /Trzy i cztery, trzy i cztery, /Dziwne ona ma maniery. /Pięć i sześć, pięć i sześć, /Wcale lodów nie chce jeść. /Siedem, osiem, siedem, osiem, /Wciąż o kości tylko prosi. “ - song lyrics you can listen to here. Lao Che is a band that I think plenty of younger people interested in rock music will know. “One and two, one and two / The girls is named little war / Three and four, three and four / Strange are her manners / Five and six, five and six / She doesn’t want to eat ice-cream at all / Seven, eight, seven, eight/ She just keeps begging for bones.” ; All the songs from this particular album (Dzieciom - For Children; yes, it’s for adults that used to be children) are stylized to resemble a rhyme for children - at least in the lyrics and at first glance.

A note: Japanese and Polish “r” are extremely different. Japanese “r” resembles Polish “l” sound a lot - and many children can’t pronounce “r” at first, exchanging it for the “l” sound. In other words, Masamune speaking Polish would have a really hard time due to his slight lisp... And he’d sound like a little child that tries, but fails. :) IT WOULD BE SO CUTE!

When MC says her grandparents were in partisan army, she means they were part of AK - Armia Krajowa, during WWII. Whether that’s a good or a bad thing, I’ll let you decide for yourself. I don’t want to make this post any longer.

“ Seeing his confusion, she pointed at him and then tapped on her temple a couple of times, an unimpressed look on her face. “ - That’s basically how I’d show somebody another Polish saying “A puknij się w głowę” (Tap yourself on the head), which means “are you nuts”.

O, yeah. I don’t know if you can find the translation of the entire lyrics online, but if you were curious... You know, hit me up. I can translate them.

... I got too excited. Would you be mad if I wrote another one of those? I kinda want to...

Tag list: @datenoriko , @nad-zeta , @tsubaki3192 , @choi-jiyu If you want to be tagged under my future works, let me know (any way works)!^^ Also, if you have some preferences (for example: you’d rather not be tagged under some series, etc.), please, tell me.

#masamune date #ikesen masamune #ikemen sengoku masamune #ikesen #ikemen sengoku #ikemen series #my hc #im soo nervous all of the sudden #please dont hate those #and listen to those songs #they're good i swear

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Love in Its Many Forms

Loosely based on ‘If I Get my Way’ by Little Mix

TRIGGER WARNING -HEARTACHE, TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS, SELF ESTEEM ISSUES, SELF NEGLECT

very, very lossely based on personal experiences.

Love comes in many forms. There is platonic love, romantic love, parental love, familial love…’

So many different types. You are lucky, because you love your best friend. Many people love their best friend, but, like… okay, you are in love with him. Completely, head-over-heels, heart beating fast in love with him. He’s a good man and he is smart and he’s funny. He’s stubborn and sarcastic, but he is always treating you with respect.

The downside?

He has a girlfriend.

The plus side?

There really is none. She’s awful.

For months , you have had to listen to him talk about her. How her face looks when she laughs, the smoothness of her hair, the way she chews on her pencil when she’s thinking, the way that she skips when she walks.

At this point, you know her better than you know herself.

You now know everything that he loves about Cassidy.

Ever.

Single.

Thing.

Because you are in another one of those moments that seem to be the thing that movies and teenage sitcoms are about- watching your best friend be with the girl that he loves, while you’re in love with him.

It’s cruel, isn’t it? Listening to him talk about her over and over and over again, relying everything he loves about this girl.

Actually, no. That’s not what hurts the most. What hurts the most is hearing her name in connection with the pain that he has been feeling ever since he started dating her is the worse thing. Because the same hands that he loves to hold and rave about hold his heart in them, and she models and plays with it to her own heart’s content, not once thinking of how it will make him feel.

The same eyes that he loves to stare into hold a vile kind of arrogance, one where she knows that he pines for her, that he loves her with everything he has and she uses it.

She’s dirty, disgusting, and manipulative.

Yet she shines like fool’s gold for him, and she blinds him. He gets so lost in her physical beauty that he can’t see the ugliness that paints her on inside.

He’s so in love with her, and that hurts. It just doesn’t hurt nearly as much as watching him waste his time on a girl who is never going to love him like you want to.

So here he is again, right? Sitting in your living room and talking about yet another fight that he had with his so called girlfriend.And you are trying to listen to him. You really, really are. But there’s only so much you can take when your best friend is spending too much time worrying about his relationship with a girl who only uses him.

‘’You shouldn’t be with her if she makes you feel like this,’’ you sigh, placing a hand on his, ‘’She doesn’t deserve you.’’

‘’She’s just.. I don’t know. She is dealing with a lot,’’ he reassures, telling you, and himself, the same lie that he’s been repeating for the duration of their relationship/

‘’That doesn’t mean she can treat you like garbage,’’ you deadpan, ‘’You didn’t put up for this with my dates and boyfriends. I won’t do it for you.’’

‘’Thank you,’’he gives you a genuine smile, ‘’You’re a good friend.’’

You’d be just his friend if that’s what he wants, which it clearly is. It's just watching him with her, hearing about her, talking about her all of the time… it's draining. It’s draining and it hurts and you don’t know why you continue to allow him to discuss this girl who obviously doesn't appreciate him. She takes his love, the love you’d so gladly return, for granted.

So what do you do when the boy you love is with someone who doesn’t treat him right?

You ignore it. You go on dates and o class and to work and you bottle it up inside, because if he wants to be with her, you’ll support his dumb decision.

Okay, it’s not dumb. He loves her and you love him. So you want him happy.

And support it you do.

Until one day, you don’t.

You’re at the mall wit him and he’s discussing some promise ring he wants to buy this girl, okay. He’s going on and on about how he thinks that they’re relationship is changing, and she’s the one for him, and you nod and make appropriate comments at the right moment, yeah?

Until he says that the whole promise ring thing was her idea, and that she said it’ll make her happy and guarantee that she says with him and you can’t watch him stay involved with her.

“That is a load of crap!,” you tell him, wincing when you do. Because you’d honestly meant to say it in a nicer way, but these are the words that came out of your mouth and now you have to deal with it!

“What?”

You realize that you’re putting your friendship on the line by speaking the truth. But maybe that’s the best thing to do. Because you’d rather lose him as a friend than continue to watch him lose himself to her, and he’s not even gaining anything from it.

And maybe that’s what love is- sacrificing for the other when it is appropriate.

“She doesn’t love you, she is just using you.”

He laughs bitterly, a stark contrast from the delightful chortle you’ve fallen in love with these last few years, ‘’I am not surprised that you're saying that. She said you’d be like that.’’

‘’Because she is using you and you’re falling for it!,’’ you snap, punching eating each syllable with a clap.

‘’You’re just jealous,’’ he mocks you, clapping his own hands.

‘’Jealous of what? Her? You? Sorry, I’m not jealous of you and your horrible relationship.’’

‘’Then why are you acting like this,’’ he raises an eyebrow, ‘’I thought you’d want me to be happy!’’

‘’You think that I don't want you to be happy?! I’m the only one, between me and her, that wants you to be happy. If I had my way,’’ you close your eyes, bracing yourself for the impact that your words are going to have.

On him…

And on yourself.

‘’If I were with you… If I had my way, I wouldn’t treat you like she does. I would take care of you. I’d love you. Like,actually love you. Because what she’s giving you? That’s not love. Yet you stand here and accuse me of being jealous of someone who doesn't even have a real relationship with you? No! I’ve been on your side long before that girl even me by. All she does is lie toy up and play games with your head and your heart. Every. Time. I am so sick and tired of hearing her name, of hearing you talk about her. I’m fed up with letting you cry on my shoulder about the same old things with her. It hurts. I’ve always put you ahead of me, but I have to think of myself every now and then.’’

‘’So what does that mean,’’ he swallowed thickly, cleaning and unchelching his hands.

He’s nervous.

‘’It means I’m done here. I didn’t say all of this to make you feel bad or anything but I just… If it’s selfish, i don’t wanna be right. I can't watch you be with ehr. You and I both now she doesn’t treat you the way that you deserve to be treated. I don't’ care if you don't pick me. I can’t watch you be hurt by her because that hurts me too. So… goodbye.’’

You don’t give him time to respond. You just head in the other direction as fast as you can, away from him, away from his attachment to her, away from the one you’ve fallen in love with.

Because there’s only so much that you heart can take.

You don’t feel bad. You cry and vent, but you believe this is self-love, and it is. As much as you love him, you love yourself, too.

Two days go by without him speaking to you.

Two days turn into two weeks faster than you can blink your eyes, and it hits you that you might’ve totally just lost one of your best friends.

You can’t tell if it’s worth it or not. Because you took a leap of faith and did something that was good for you, but now you don’t have him. You don’t have him, but you haven’t heard ‘’Cassidy’’ or anything else about her in two weeks.

‘’Whatever,’’ you slip on your apron, ready to go toy uor barista job and forget his name for a little while.

Except you can not, because he has the nerve to waltz in there and order an iced coffee with a shot of vanilla nad extra cream and extra sugar and he looks worse for the wearnad your heart goes out to him and crap, why do you still care?!

You find yourself spending his coffee break with him, letting him ask you questions before you must ask the question that has been bubbling inside you.

Your resolve is a dam, and the flood of questions has just cracked it wide open.

‘’Why are you here?’’

He blinks once, twice, again, before shrugging, ‘’Cassidy and I broke up.’’

And, ooh, you’re seeing red. How dare he come here because she hurt him? He’s been breaking your heart and he has the nerve to come to you because his girlfriend dumped him again?

‘’Look,I don’t know who you think you are, but-’’

‘’I broke up iht her,’’ he raises his hand, ushering for you to sit down, ‘’Because what you said… well,you were right. I hate to admit that, but you were right.’’

‘’About?’’

‘’About her using me. I guess I knew it from the start, but… I don’t know,’’ eh shakes his head, ‘’I had to let her go. The longer I held on, the more it hurt.’’

‘’Well… good. I am glad that you let go of her,’’ you and, ‘’That's good.’’

‘’Except now I’ve lost this girl that means the world to me, and I feel like an idiot.’’

‘’Dude, look, I promise you’ll get over her-’’

‘’I was talking about you,’’ he chuckles lightly. ‘’You’re my best friend. Or, you were. And you were long before I even met her. So, I’m hoping that we will still be able to be friends. I understand if not, though.’’

You chew on your bottom lip, mulling it over.

He is human and humans make mistakes. And if he’s willing to look past your declaration of love, then maybe you, can too.

Because after all, love comes in many forms,. He loves you enough to admit his wrong doing and try better. You love him enough to give him a chance.

And maybe it’s not the kind of love that you’ve been thinking of for a few years now, but it’s a start. It leads to more friend dates and his self esteem increases and he only goes on dates with individuals that treat him nicely, as do you. It’s love because you can tell him when a girl feels off and he’ll let you know if your date gives him weird vibes. He does the same for you.

Because you love each other.

Six years later,that love will blossom and bloom into a marriage, a house, a dog and a baby on the way. But you don’t. For now, though, you are content with loving him like he is.

DISCLAIMER- I DO NOT OWN ANY MARVEL CHARACTERS TAGGED, OR THE SONG. THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTFUL AND RESPECTIVE OWNERS.

#peter parker x you #peter parker x reader #t'challa x reader #t'challa x you #tchalla x reader #reader insert #bucky barns x reader #bucky barnes x you

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Sasuke x Witch! MC

Content Warnings:

Background: none

Sasuke x Witch!MC: fire

Background:

She was born and raised in XXI century Japan.

Her childhood was rather ordinary: she had both parents, went to kindergarten and then to school, had friends, studied - just in general, led her life like any other person would.

However, when still in primary school, she discovered she possessed a certain kind of ability.

One day, she spilled tea over the book from school library. The librarian being a strict person, she presumed that even if she had brought an exact copy of the book and apologized, she’d be in trouble for the reminder of the year.

Panicked, she tried to at the very least save the cover, wiping at it with tissues.

The paper tore, though, leaving her no hope left.

Unsure of what else she could do, she let head fall onto her desk, smacking the wet book in the process. She wished it had never happened - but what was that, if not just a inane thought?

However, to her surprise, when she stood up, it was perfectly fine, as if she had never spilled anything over it.

As she learnt in the years that followed, she could turn things - although she wasn’t sure what sort of things exactly - back in time.

Having a very vague understanding of how exactly time worked and whether it could cause any consequences to arise, she opted not to use her power too much.

The more questions she asked, the less answers she had - and so, her passion for science sparked.

Sasuke x Witch!MC:

Aiming to deepen her understanding of the world and possibly of her powers as well, she went on to study at the university.

She was in one group with a man she came to like - Sasuke was smart, always seemed to get her culture references, but most importantly, shared her interest in physics and history. More often than not, he was the highlight of her days.

They oftentimes studied together, especially before the exam sessions, when they’d go out to have some food and then lock themselves in the library.

To her delight, they were lab partners. Everything went well... Until it didn’t.

Sasuke had to leave the room for a moment - an urgent call? Oh, she didn’t even remember anymore, holding in her hands the broken piece of equipment.

She looked around, assessing that everybody was busy with their work - luckily, nobody paid her much mind. Instantly, she touched the thing and rewound it back in time.

As if nothing happened, she returned to work, Sasuke soon coming back as well. Little did she know, he saw exactly what she did.

The week being almost over, they walked together towards the train station. “ So, about earlier, in the lab... How did you repair it?” he asked, appearing to be somewhat distracted.

She almost jumped out of her shoes, startled by the question.

In the end, she couldn’t lie to him.

In the following weeks, they conducted a series of experiments to find the limitations of her ability. They weren’t able to discover the mechanism allowing for the phenomenon to occur, though.

As they found out, she couldn’t rewind anything by more no than 23 minutes, it was safe to turn living organisms back in time and, had she used her ability on herself, she did possess the notion of what was the last thing she had thought about before the change.

It appeared that her ability worked by replacing the thing (inanimate or animate) from the present with one from the past.

The months passed and the holidays began. To her surprise, Sasuke asked her to come with him to Kyoto - for research, he said, most possibly having also some other reasons in mind.

The lightning struck the temple, the wormhole sending them back to Sengoku.

She awoke there in the burning building. Somewhat confused, she looked around - an unconscious person was lying on the ground. Blinded by smoke, she pulled them out of the building, not quite sure as to what was happening.

Everything that happened later was unbelievable. One thing bothered her as well - what happened to Sasuke? They were there together, after all. Was he sent back in time? If so, then to what period? Was he somewhere around?

She acted based on the premise that he must have been somewhere around. As such, she accepted her position as princess and used her days to scout for information.

To surprise of the warlords, she was rather inventive, oftentimes going out of her way to help with fixing things, sometimes adding adjustments to the construction of said items or suggesting different design altogether.

It wasn’t that she loathed their company - no, pretty much the opposite. However, when she saw the ceiling panel move, Sasuke’s head peaking from the gap, she couldn’t think of staying in Azuchi anymore.

“You’re...” she started hesitantly. “ Your friendly neighbourhood ninja, exactly,” he answered, descending silently onto the floor. “ I just... I... I couldn’t find a... Where...” she stuttered. “ That story is longer than The Song of Ice and Fire. But that’s not important. You need to get out of here.”

She didn’t think twice of it and followed him, only later learning of his current job. Together, they decided to return to the future.

However, that didn’t go exactly as planned - in eyes of the public, she was a traitor to the Oda clan. Sasuke, on the other hand, abandoned his lord. They did not expect that other clans would go such lengths to try to exploit them.

They had just departed for Kyoto, when a group of armoured men started following them.

Initially, they pretended to be unaware of said fact, attempting to lose said tail. Yet, to no avail.

Time was slowly running out, the chase getting closer and closer. She could feel their breaths on her neck - and finally, they had to meet.

The men drew weapons, threatening to hurt them, had Sasuke not given the Oda princess to them.

They ran for their lives, the prospect of her being a prisoner terrifying them.

A day passed - and nothing had changed for the better. If anything, Sasuke realised they wouldn’t make it no matter what. They stopped for the night, too tired to move. Without a moment of hesitation, he asked her to trust him and do as he said.

His plan was for her to turn herself back, over and over again, until she was just a small child. Then, he’d try to bring her to the closest village, from where he’d try to escape.

“ I can’t do this. I can’t leave you like that,” she pleaded. “ Please.” “ You will die.” “ I may.” “ We will cause disturbance to time.” “ We don’t know that yet.” “ What do you mean?” “ I think your current self will end up starting another timeline. It will be identical, save you know what will happen. If you rewind yourself immediately, you should start another one. Do this until before you fled Azuchi.” “ Sasuke...” she started, but he cut her off: “ I can’t have you die here, but I can’t come up with different solution either.”

She clenched her jaw, silently agreeing to the plan. Before she began, he leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead. “ I will find you again. I promise.”

They changed their course, Sasuke hoping to hide in some village. His grip on the reins tightened, as with each second she grew younger - and so, by the end of the day, she was just a child.

To her, it felt as if three months ago were a single eternity away from her - yet, she reached it. The fire.

Days passed. Sasuke descended onto the floor of her room yet again. Tears in her eyes, she hugged him tight, just to explain what had happened.

“ Please, don’t make me leave you again,” she sobbed.

This time, they found another way - one which involved making more friends at that.

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