#it's a juicy scenario

[scoops-aboy86]

Claudia Henderson: Honey, I put some sandwiches in your duffel bag. Now, um, why do you need such a big bag of oregano?

Eddie Munson: Uh… Steve’s Italian?

[sorsabruh]

Bro get's absolutely smashed into Bee by his lil bro Jawbreaker...😭

And has not been more embarassed in a lifetime.

[ The two brothers were training under Bumblebee's supervision but upon Soul underestimating Jawbreaker due to their size difference, the younger brother decided to prove his capability with a hard headbutt straight to Soul's ass while he was distracted. ]

...Bumblebee has probably already gotten used to these things happening HAHAHSJD justice for him

[smithsibsceo]

i would actually explode

[lunarmoves]

I neeeeeed to know Moon’s reaction to the last drabble. How's our Moon man feeling? The audience needs to know

moon looking thru sun's eyes at the events unfolding in their room:

LMAOOO jkjk... unless?

i've only very sparingly thought about moon in bleeding wires au ngl. in my head, the strip scene in that drabble happens before the glitchtrap virus, so moon isn't all too scared to interact and talk to reader. honestly, with the way sun is, moon definitely falls for you first--and he falls hard. how could he not? you're just so.... you! you aren't afraid of him, and you talk to him and listen to his stories. you walk around the plex with him when he goes on his security strolls. you make him feel seen.

and honestly... he doesn't get that feeling a lot. he's the naptime attendant, so he's only out for about 2 hours every day. it's nothing compared to how long sun is out. it makes moon feel forgotten sometimes. sure he's able to roam at night, but what's the point if you rarely have night shifts or you have to leave before midnight?

i think this is what frustrates moon. and it doesn't stop this ache he has for you. it's alleviated when he gets to see you through sun's eyes, but it's not the same yk? he wants to physically be with you.

so when that scene happens with sun? moon is pissed.

he knows sun is complicated, he knows sun doesn't even understand his own feelings. but moon knows. he is so very aware of his own emotions. and the fact that sun gets to be the one close to you instead of him? that sun gets the first kiss from you? oooooh he's mad and frustrated as hell LOL. it definitely draws more of a wedge between him and sun

[collectivecloseness]

omg so hopping on the being kidnapped by yan!f4 train imagine a couple of days after they’re all trying to be super nice to you, as if that’d make up for what they’re doing. Including Nancy, although I’m not sure if she’d be avoidant or extra attentive

A kiss for you too anon mwah. You’re absolutely right this needs to be talked about

After the initial couple of days of screaming and crying and fighting and all that angst, from you and the other four, they’re trying to lighten things up. Since you’ll be staying here for a long time, they want you to get used to living with them! To know as quickly as possible that they really are going to look after you now you’re home and they do love you, they’re sorry they were too scared to tell you sooner.

They all try to bring you things, whether that’s necessities like water and food, or simple nice things like a tv, some clothes from your home, some games - nothing you can use to contact outside though sorry, think of it like one of those detox’s they’ll say.

Items like that, but also gifts. You were lavished with gifts when they were trying to court you anyway, some you’d didn’t even know were their doing. But now they’re physically trying to hold themselves back from piling it on.

Yeah if you’d just joined their home like normal, choosing to get into the relationship after they won over your hearts in the way they were hoping to, they’d be piling the gifts so high you wouldn’t even be able to move in your brand new bedroom. But because of these circumstances, they don’t want you to think they’re trying to buy your affection/trust/forgiveness/love. They absolutely want to gift you everything ever the universe has to offer, but they’re aware everything is still a lot for you right now.

You might not be exactly in the mood for presents. They don’t want you ripping up a top they got you, using this new lamp to throw at their head (every lamp has been removed from your room now), using a pocketknife meant for protection by your lovers to help you escape from your lovers.

They’re not stupid, or emotionally unintelligent. They’re aware gifts are not even any sort of priority for you right now, actually with the way you’re acting they may just make you more pissed. So they save some lovely already gift wrapped items in their closets. Holding off booking that date at the new restaurant you haven’t been able to afford yet. Hoping that new movie stays in theatres long enough they don’t have to wait a year for a video release for you.

Definitely still they do give you presents. But not nearly as many as they’d smother you with if everything was perfect and lovey dovey and domestic harmony, and not like this.

They’re all trying so hard to be nice and helpful and kind. They really are.

And they won’t stop doing so for you, no matter how you act towards them, they understand, and it’s their jobs to not act even worse now, to be better no matter how you react to them.

After the initial couple of days of calming you, trying to explain your new life for now while you’re temporarily not quite understanding the situation that they themselves are in; it’s okay, they get it, they didn’t expect things to turn out this way either, it’s alright to feel upset, but they promise they’ll look after you; and also whilst planning amongst themselves how to keep you here and what the fuck they are gonna do now, they can at least prioritise from keeping you here and calm enough not to hurt yourself or anyone trying to escape, to trying to look after you emotionally and physically on every other level.

One of the ways they do that is they start decorating your brand new bedroom! Because unfortunately, they didn’t have time to do that before you moved in, which they are not happy about. Again, they are still mad at Nancy, for the situation she’s put all five of you in.

They bring new things in to spice up your room every day, someone having to be waiting by the door, because while Eddie might walk in with his arms full of posters, Steve has to grab you midair as you launch yourself through the opening. Eddie once had to wrestle you up into his grip and off your feet when you scratched Robin’s face up. The time you hid behind the door to leap out was scary too, for them, but Robin was waiting a few feet outside your entrance, physically blocking your path, when Steve had been knocked on his ass after being tricked into thinking the room was somehow completely empty.

But once the door’s closed again it’s okay. They’ll take you beating at their chest or yanking their hair out, and they know you won’t really try and hurt them (until the lamp incident... And unknowing that you’re seriously considering hostage taking at some point).

Nancy went through a catalogue with you months ago, back when you two were ‘friends’, just for fun she said, but it was to find your favourite wallpaper. She planned for the future back then, Steve sniped. But when talking to you, Steve asks if your favourite is still the same, but if not he’ll go through a different one with you! You can pick! Him and Robin even go together after work to get some of those paint colour sample cards.

You momentarily think about eating the pages from the catalogue, just to see if it’ll help your escape in anyway. At least instilling panic in the others that you’ll never be happy here, might work - it also might make things much worse. So that, and the worry if they’ll even take you to a doctor if something did happen, stops you from going to town on the paper. That and you really don’t want Steve’s fingers in your mouth, not when he’s secretly been this obsessed with you, even if it did meant you could bite him till it hurt.

Cuddly toys are something they think about getting, as you can’t hurt anyone or threaten to hurt yourself with them. The time you did threaten that last thing, they...

But at least you’ll have some comfort. Something soft and picked to be personable for you and safe. Something you can use for catharsis, talk to, cuddle, keep as a security blanket; especially when you won’t use them. And especially when you have so many nightmares, and you won’t let them help you when they come to wake you up, not even a little bit. That really kills them.

Maybe after hugging the toy they picked out for you, you’d eventually start to hug them finally again too. They also think about adding a scent of theirs into the toy.

Eddie was actually keeping a stuffed toy packed away as one of his many presents, to give you when you were feeling better, so he was a little annoyed when Robin went and straight up gave you one herself. She probably should have thought it through, finding the stuffing all shredded, shoved underneath your bedroom door, almost made her tear up. Although the four hearing you angrily bark that you’d set it on fire if you could was more horrifying...

Maybe they’d prefer if it was only them you could get hugs and comfort from right now. You’re also still not exactly giving a warm welcome to many of their gifts.

They can’t exactly bring much from your home, since you’re technically a missing person, but they get everything they can! Swapping from your old home to your new one here and there, over time. It’s alright anyway, even though they want to give you things from home to help soothe your transition, to help you stay connected to you. They know your personality soooo well, they know exactly what to get for your room! Even if there is some bickering over some of the interior design details.

The gang remember you pointing out how you liked a unique set of drawers, in the bedroom of your favourite character in a movie you were watching. They looked it up after the movie night, but the furniture didn’t actually exist, just a set piece. Eddie, Steve and Robin work really hard on creating that piece for you in the garage, a print of it hanging on the wall as they put their Hawkins High woodwork classes to use. They’re worried you won’t accept your gift if Nancy’s ‘tainted it’, after you had a pretty harsh ‘conversation’ with her the day they begin that project.

You bursting into tears at the sight of it when they happily present it to you in your room after weeks of dedicated work, was not at all the reaction they were wanting for you...

But they do try so so hard to perfect your bedroom. Not only is it going to be your room forever (well, unless you all move in your future), but at the moment, you’re going to be spending a lot of time in there. They add onto your room little by little nearly every day, to show their love for you constantly. Their dedication to making this work. That you are a part of their home now, this isn’t just a phase, they’re not going to throw you out like garbage. They promise you of that.

But also, Eddie desperately tells the others he wants you to keep your personality, your individuality, for you to keep being who you are. Not just ‘their love’, but you. He doesn’t want you to change, he reminds them none of them do, and he wants you to always know you’re still you, you don’t have to be reduced just because one freedom is temporarily restricted right now.

You’re not a mindless hostage, and if they ever sense they’ve begun to make you feel like that then they’ll have failed, they all decree to each other there and then.

It’s good Eddie is very emotionally intelligent. Of fucking course they all agree with him. But the larger details are something they can forget about, when keeping you safe at home is so prevalent on their minds.

Minor details of additional door locks, or the threat of having to create rules, or not being able to talk to other friends and family longer and longer, are not meant to chip away at you into becoming a traumatised and hopeless zombie.

Sure, Nancy is beaming the first time you let her sit on the corner of your bed, and Steve nearly cries when he manages to give you his shirt to change into and you don’t attack him (you didn’t notice it was his). But when they notice you disassociating, or losing hope and thrive for life (not survival, but the joys of being), or catatonically agreeing with thing’s from overwhelming grief, they immediately switch up just a little bit. They like you not hating them, they don’t like you becoming a shell of yourself.

Nancy accidentally used the term ‘middle ground’ once when talking about this, and Eddie actually flipped the coffee table over. She hadn’t meant it like that. They were all some type of exhausted, but they understood you must feel worse. I mean they really do empathise with you, they’re your soulmates so of course they love and understand you. And they realise they have each other, and right now you’re fighting that, you think you’re all alone.

They’d rather you swear at them with the same witty comebacks you’d use in a drunken fake argument, or to scare off bullies harassing them, see that fire and fight and stubbornness they fell in love with, hell that even made them feel safe, rather than you not reacting at all. They just want you to love them again. They’ll work so hard on it, because they know they would do anything. Shit, after nearly losing you and each other in the Upside Down, multiple times, having you here safe with them is more than enough for them to fight for your future together. Fight for you.

Robin hates what she’s done, or rather what she’s doing. She doesn’t want to emotionally or psychologically torture you either. Even though she’s trying to displace herself a little bit from her actions. Her mind is usually a little all over the place, but she’s making lists of what favourite foods and drinks they have of yours in house, and when something is low on stock so someone needs to pick it up soon, it all helps her feel like she’s helping you. Even if you tell her to her face you don’t feel like she is.

Robin’s really glad to have Steve as her boulder here, like he always is. To remind her that you don’t really mean it, you don’t hate her, you are just upset, and Robin- they all understand why you are. Robin likes being there for Steve too. She knows he needs her love and support just as much as she needs his, and especially when you’re not accepting their love and support at all, it’s nice for them to be able to be there for each other in this horrible period of transition right now.

Even though Nancy tries to add her own ideas to the plans they all have to make now, shes definitely vetoed from speaking a few times by the other three.

They keep apologising for her to you, but slowly, they start to bring Nancy into the room with them as well, so you can get used to her as well as the others, since they all really do wanna work this relationship out with you. So you can all be a happy family.

Yeah Nancy messed up, and not only do they understand you might not want to see her, especially after she hit you what the fuck, but they also don’t want her anywhere near you sometimes. One of the only things they want in life is to protect you, and Nancy broke that promise they silently made to you when they first fell in love. If she was anyone else, this would be majorly different, but she’s their partner and part of their family. They still love her, and they know no matter what she loves you too. They really do want everything to work out in domestic bliss between you all :’) <3

Every time Nancy’s come in your room you’ve at least utilised the others against her. Sure apparently they won’t turn her in and set you free, but your comfort is seemingly soooo important to them, to the level they’ll at least tell her to leave your room, when you beg up at them to pull at their heartstrings.

You absolutely try some psychological manipulation wherever you can, with each of them individually. In fact sometimes you’ll ask for one of them alone, when two or three of them come in. Because not only is that person honoured and feeling more protective over you in a way, more like they are the only one who can help you, but it allows you to wiggle your way into their minds and souls a lot easier; whilst also making whoever you do turn away feel like they should do more to make them be the person you go to with your needs next.

You’ll try pulling them apart from each other, tearing down any semblance of this ‘family’, or you’ll see if you can strengthen their bond but without Nancy, or anyone you think is more of a threat - you’ll try and analyse your best options of getting out of here over and over. Of course, only some of those plans include you being nice to one or a few of the others. Some don’t include them at all, or... play on the thought you might have to be not very nice to them at all. But you really don’t want to think about seriously hurting them. Not just these couple of days, or even weeks, in yet.

You’re betrayed, but you still emotionally feel like they’re your best friends. You went through all that trauma with the Upside Down and everything trying to save them, you know everything about them, and how harsh their lives have been, it hurts to view them in a light that makes them less human, or less deserving of your empathy, but just because you don’t want to seriously life threateningly injure them, not at this stage, especially when you have so many other options, doesn’t mean you won’t stop fighting to get out.

Although fighting means being smart. Sometimes it means not trying to get out right that second. But sometimes it also means making sacrifices. Sacrificing a part of yourself by doing things you’d never dream of, or hurting someone because they hurt you first. And they’ll keep doing so. They did this, they’re still doing it, you have to put you first, you have to survive.

But if anything, you really don’t want to be like them.

[lunar-years]

i love it in fics when Roy reacts before he's processed his feelings and says/does something he very soon after hates himself for saying or doing and then he spirals in guilt and regret and apologies. something about it resonates soooo deeply like yeah!! lets give this guy a hug and some grace!! let's shower him in it!!

[mad-hunts]

okay, but real talk, y'all... who's gonna invite barton over to do masks and gossip with them? because i know he's VERY morally atrocious, but i just know that he likes to take care of himself and would also be a fan of learning new blackmail material about people at the same time, so i promise he won't try to pull anything at a hangout like this JSJSJ he'll be enjoying himself too much to do evil after all LMAOOO

[ronanceisintheair]

"I think Nancy hates me," the words fall from Robin's lips as soon as Nancy Wheeler walks through the doors of Family Video, some kind of disconnect between her brain and mouth filter. Because she truly doesn't mean to say it out loud.

Robin wanted, she needed so desperately, for Steve to think everything was hunky dory

Nancy doesn't even look in the direction of the counter, "Mike can you make this quick, we don't want to keep Will and Jonathan waiting." She looks at her watch.

Robin can't help the way she winces at the emphasis Nancy puts on Jonathan's name. Her chest tightening for a moment.

"It was just a fight Rob, " Steve looks from Robin to Nancy and back, and he can say that because he doesn't know the truth.

Robin hadn't told him the full story, how could she, she didn't even like that she had to live in the reality of it.

"Just give her space and time. Plus shouldn't you be excited for you date with Vickie? She is still picking you up after work, right?"

Robin puts on a fake smile, because Steve is right, she should be happy that she has a date with Vickie.

This is what she wants...what she wanted.

[sunhated-a]

I have been thinking about the relationship between Muzan and the Twelve Moons. Though it extends to the methods he deploys to maintain control over the Moons. Whereas canon Muzan uses immense methods of brutality to foster an atmosphere of fear, my iteration prefers manipulation.

He makes his creations love him, adore him to the point of veneration. It was by his hand that they were led to salvation, and it was his generosity and mercy that allows them to thrive as demons. But he fosters a sense of dependence upon him.

If they simply follow and fall in line, their wishes will be fulfilled so as long as they follow his judgement. And it is this need that he exploits to manipulate to his own ends.

Every demon's need is unique, and so he molds himself to present himself as someone they admire and wish to follow. If the demon has been rejected and isolated in their human life, he is amiable and charismatic, even kind. Fostering a special relationship between himself and said demon. If the demon he seeks to reach respects strength above all, he presents himself as a strong and capable leader.

And he will go to great lengths to sell this deception, with calculated risks and sacrifices to prove his own devotion to his followers. Perhaps some part of him truly does care about them to some extent, some more than others.

A headcanon I have as well is that Muzan had a hand in the events that lead to the destruction of some of the Upper Moon's lives. He sought strong demons to add to his ranks. And, it was those who led lives full of despair— those who were utterly helpless to the whims of fate that made the strongest demons.

It was he, in disguise, who cultivated the scheme to poison Hakuji's dojo, and presented himself as Hakuji's salvation. It was he who sold Hantengu's location to the authorities, leading to his planned execution, all with the intended goal to present himself as his savior.

He has been the architect of their destruction, and the catalyst of their rebirth. Pushing them away from their humanity through circumstances of his own creation. Manipulating them into thinking him as their savior, and dedicating their lives to him. Using them to his own ends.

[manasurge]

I can't wait until we can finally go to the Nayos map and ppl start making Kryptis OCs :3c hehehe

[sixofravens-reads]

also wait, Fourth Wing has a sequel out already?? I thought that book literally just came out a couple months ago

HANG ON, I GOOGLED AND IT CAME OUT IN APRIL. HOW TF DID A SEQUEL COME OUT SO FAST AND IS IT ABSOLUTELY TRASH?!?!

[if-mirrormine]

4. Which cryptyd being do you believe in?

26. A scenario that you've replayed multiple times?

49. Can you skip rocks? (The important questions yk)

4. which cryptid being do you believe in?

call me basic but im gonna go with the loch ness monster. there's too much going on under water that we don't know about so i feel like it makes sense. or at least some equivalent.

26. a scenario you've replayed many times?

i wish i could tell you but that would be a spoiler for a later scene in mm... it involves a certain absent father though, i'll tell you that much!

49. can you skip rocks?

no and it always infuriated that my brother could😭😭

[mockingmolly]

Man, the contrast of M9 getting Molly back in the form of Kingsley, versus BH potentially getting Laudna back in the form of Matilda? With tm9, Kingsley was quite possibly the kindest way they could have gotten any semblance of their friend back. It had been a year without him and none of his friends existed as he would have remembered them anymore, and he would have been faced with the struggle of trying to find his place in their group again, coming back a contrast to the person they built him up as while he was dead.

And furthermore, he came back into a time of newly-won peace, after they had managed to defeat the threats that had been building up since his death. They got him back specifically because of their success, and gave this fresh-memoried person a world ahead of them to reclaim themself the way molly never truly had. But Matilda? If the soul they pluck from the afterlife is the girl who died and stayed dead on the tree, instead of the one who spent 30 years living in the aftermath of it, they’re essentially dragging up a girl who has long-since been at rest, to thrust her into the deep end of the biggest threat any of them have ever faced, and inevitably expecting her to be able to swim and keep up. A girl who died without having any grasp of her powers, nor life experience beyond what she knew at the outskirts of the briarwood’s rule. Plucked up and dropped into a group of strangers who are dealing with some pretty intense grief, and the weight of the world on their shoulders. 

Laudna has, of course, gone through a lot. There’s no reality in which she isn’t deeply fucked up by what happened before, upon, and after this second death. Reckoning with the sudden loss of Delilah over her shoulders and what it means for her going forward is going to be a journey, but she’ll have her family by her side through all of it. She’ll have the knowledge she’s gained through 30 years of unliving and a grasp on what’s at stake in the world she’s coming back to. The world she seems to want to come back to, as shaken as she is.

If the soul they reach out to is Matilda, there’s no guarantee that anything they could say will appeal to a stranger that’s been dead and at rest for decades. And even if they do, i can’t help but feel like uprooting and forcing a soul they don’t know into a life/burden they have no way out of is also one of the crueler outcomes in all of this.

[vintage-bentley]

I usually agree with your takes, but I loved that ending. This is the middle part of a three part story, it makes sense they're not together at this stage. In my opinion the most important part is that the declaration had been made and the romantic feelings are known now. I really don't doubt that there will be a S3. This is now canonically a romance between two same sex characters, one of whom is a devine figure, is that not a good thing?

I’m warming up to it. My initial reaction of anger came from First Kill flashbacks…where the same theory was in mind—there’s another season, so we can’t have the happy ending yet…but the happy ending never came, and my girls are forever heartbroken. I’m so scared of that happening here. If we don’t get season 3, that’s it. That’s where it ends.

It does make sense that they’re not together here, and this particular conflict is really interesting to me. It’s just that it’s not confirmed yet if this is a three part story, y’know? But I guess that’s the gamble of making a TV show.

What I’m trying to say is that my heart says NO NO NO because this a comfort show for me, so it sucks that now it has this ending, and that there’s a possibility it will always have this ending. But my head says YES YES YES because this is how good love stories go. They fall in love, there’s conflict, they resolve it. If we get a season 3 with that conflict resolution, that’ll be amazing.

But yes, it’s an amazing thing that this pairing is now canon. They’re canonically romantically in love and I’m super happy about that. It’s just sad that unlike First Kill, we didn’t really get any romance before it was ripped away from us.

I’m also super bitter about the heteros.

[bluegarners]

Sorry! I thought you mentioned one in the tags of mysterycitrus's poll about Bruce picking a favorite kid in a hostage situation. Maybe I misunderstood? (Very possible lol)

oooo i see! no need to apologize!!!

there is no actual fic unfortunately <//3 perhaps one day soon the wip will turn into a fic, but it's just a wip right now! it is one of those ideas that would involve sooo much doom-thinking and emotional processing, and i am currently in the throes of midterms, so i don't quite have the capacity for it... i think soon though! it would be a short fic for sure bc dragging out that level of tragedy would actually make my stomach churn, but ohh how delicious of a tragedy it would be, no?

[21chrysanthemums]

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