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Here is the Place {Timothee Chalamet Oneshot}

Wordcount: 2467 Requested by: @h-a-j-i-m-e-ru Summary: After a fantastic double-date dinner, Timothee takes you somewhere special.

The table was set with burgundy and white linens, fine porcelain plates, sparkling silverwear, glistening glasses and a golden vase with roses that matched the napkins. The chandelier above the table held little lights that flickered as if they were candles, and gave everything a warm-looking glow. You couldn’t believe the beauty of the place that your date had picked out for this evening - and you also couldn’t believe that it wasn’t packed to the brim with people. It was like a secret hideaway, and gave the two famous men the privacy that they desired. And speaking of those two men, one appeared to be like an angel while the other - well, he looked fine but not nearly as good as the man that you were here for.

“Wow, good evening Timothee,” You leaned in and pressed a kiss against his cheek. In a smooth motion, he did the same, then another to the colder cheek. “This place is beautiful.”

“Much like you tonight,” He said, then extended an arm to pull out your chair for you.

“Oh, how smooth,” You chuckled, tucking yourself in though you wanted to be close to Timothee for longer. Whatever cologne that he was wearing was divine. You had to admit, this man lit a fire inside of you, one that you could feel the warmth of long after your dates were over. He sat across from you, his hair a halo of black curls, contrasting against the white of his dress shirt.

Timothee Chalamet. You knew a lot of people would kill to be where you are right now, sitting across from him, at the same table as James McAvoy. The two men had met through Saorise Ronan, who had worked with both of them, and despite the age difference, had sparked up a friendship. You met Timothee when he reached out to you after seeing some art that you had done of him and posted online, then the two of you set up your friends together. And things since then had been ... well, magical.

Your glass was immediately filled with wine upon sitting down. You didn’t even need to ask - Timothee had clearly set things up before you and your friend had arrived together. “Hello James, are you well?” You asked the more casual-looking man. The Scot looked over at you from a grin, though his eyes betrayed that it was hard to look away from the lovely visage of your friend.

“Very well, and you?” He asked in return.

“The same,” You said, letting the conversation end there so that he could go back to looking at your blushing friend. You were in the same boat as her. Whenever Timothee’s eyes looked over you, you felt a blush go across your cheeks. At the very least, you never had to spend money on blushing makeups when he was around. Menus were put in front of you, and the waiter stood silently not far away, awaiting orders. It didn’t feel like he was lurking, so he was doing a rather good job.

You ordered what looked best to you, and took to mind some of the recommendation’s that Timothee gave. James and your friend immediately engaged in conversation, leaving just you and Timothee to look at one another. “Perhaps I should have gotten two tables,” Timothee said with a laugh. You chuckled along, agreeing, since it seemed you two were invisible to the duo.

“I don’t mind it so much. It’s nice to see them so happy, isn’t it?” You were beaming like a star. “And I’m sure that they feel the same way about us, if they stopped making heart eyes at each other for even a second.”

“It’s alright, I don’t mind having you to myself for a while,” Timothee said, making your heart flutter. Your knees were shaking beneath the table, and you used the excuse of politely setting a cloth napkin on your lap to rub them to try to get them to calm down. This was your third date together, and you were hoping - well - you were hoping for something big to happen tonight. A kiss on the lips was what you were hoping for most, but if he wanted to go ahead and ask you to be his, you were already more than willing to say yes.

His foot found yours under the table, his ankle brushing past yours. God - as if you didn’t need more reasons to blush today. “So what did you do today?” He asked, picking up his wineglass. He seemed so calm and collected, but in the golden light, you could see that there was a touch of pink on his own pale cheeks.

“Oh, just a bit of work. The gallery show is coming up soon and I’m a bit nervous that I’m not going to finish this piece on time,” You sighed. You picked up your own glass, and swirled the liquid inside rather than take a drink straight away.

“If you need any further incentive, I got myself a ticket to the show,” Timothy said with a grin. You tilted your head at that, and looked at him with confusion. He mimicked that. “Was I not supposed to?”

“Well, you could have saved yourself the price. I was going to ask you if you wanted to be my date, eventually.” You realized that the day was coming up sooner than expected, the time was moving so fast. You had been running out of time to ask him.

“I assumed you were bringing your friend - I’m sorry,” Timothee frowned. “I can return the ticket, or donate it-”

“Oh, no,” You said, returning the glass to the table then reached out to take his hand. It was such a forward gesture that it surprised even you. But you squeezed it anyway. “The thought that you would actually pay to go is just - I’ve never dated anyone this supportive before, I guess is what I’m trying to say. It’s a bit surprising but it’s very much appreciated. Thank you.”

Timothee’s eyes never left yours. It made you have the feeling of butterflies in your stomach. “I’ve been hoping that you would ask me - why don’t I give the ticket to a friend of yours as a gift?”

“I’m sure they’d like that,” You said, turning towards your friend to see if they even heard that, but alas, the conversation that she was having with James was too deep for anything to penetrate.

The rest of the dinner date went off without a hitch. The food was absolutely amazing, the ambiance was great, and of course, the company was incomparable. When your group of four returned to the street outside, James put his arm around your friend and looked at you and Timothee with a grin.

“I think we’re going to go for a walk over that way,” He said, motioning his head behind him. “I’ll see you guys later, yeah?”

“Text me when you get home,” You said to your friend, leaning in to give her a hug.

“Don’t wait up,” She said with a smirk, making you chuckle. You said goodbye one last time, then were left alone with Timothee. As much as you loved dinner, this was the part of the night that you were hoping for the most.

“Would you like to go for a drive?” Timothee asked formally, offering you his arm.

“I would love to,” You said, wrapping your hand around his arm. He lead you towards the dark car that he had parked across the street. It was a sleek and smooth car, not flashy enough for people to take pictures of it while passing by, but definitely luxurious once you were inside of it. He had opened the passenger side door for you, then closed it once you were on the leather seat with your seatbelt on.

Starting up the car was rather silent - the radio didn’t blare, and the engine barely purred. Rather than keeping both hands on the wheel, Timothee took a chance and put his hand on your knee. It was a respectful place, and you felt his respect, but you wanted to be a little daring tonight. You took hold of his hand and brought it up a little higher, halfway up your thigh, then left it there. You were pleased to see that it got a reaction out of him. It was his turn to blush, to feel the butterflies. He kept his eyes on the road as he drove through the tree-lined street, but you could see his smile. Every stop sign and red light, his gaze wandered.

“Are we going anywhere in particular?” You asked, settling back against the seat. Your head was tilted towards him rather than to the window, the scenery not important tonight. You liked the way that he had a rogue curl hanging in front of his forehead. You liked the way that his eyebrows slashed across his pale face, how his dark eyes lit up like a cat’s whenever a passing car’s headlights hit them. You liked the way that the car smelt like him - almost like a mixture of brandy and pine. And most of all, you loved the way that his muscles looked beneath that shirt, the fabric resting on them perfectly.

“Just a little place that I know,” He told you. You pouted at the vagueness of his answer, though it did keep you on your toes. He turned on the radio, playing classical music ever so softly. Everything just felt so warm and cozy in the car, there was only one thing missing. And Timothee felt that too. His hand tightened ever so slightly on your thigh, sending a tingle through your body.

Eventually, he turned off of the main road and onto a small, rather winding one, which lead to a small parking lot. There was only two other cars there, which made you a little suspicious. “Here is the place,” He said, parking perfectly in one of the spots, and turned off the car. You took off your seatbelt and got out before he could circle around to open your door, which made him pout. You ignored this and looked around, but couldn’t see much. It was too dark out here. There were small lights which illuminated a footpath, and then some more in the distance.

“And what is this place?” You asked, leaving your wallet tucked under the seat of his car. Whatever place this was, it didn’t seem like it would be expensive, or even cost anything. The air was sweet, and fresh out here. It smelt of lavender and rose. A park, you thought, but didn’t guess aloud.

“Somewhere special,” He said, being vague again. You shook your head, wondering if this was a retaliation for not letting him open up your door.

“Well, you better lead me then, because I can barely make out a thing.” You reached for him and he took hold of your hand in his, then put another arm around your waist so you were very close to him, nearly in front of him, in fact. You could feel his hairs on the back of your neck as he leaned in, resting his chin on your shoulder.

“Move forward. I’ve got you, don’t worry.”

“I’m not worried,” You tried to insist.

“Then why are you squeezing my hand so tightly? I’m not going to let anything happen to you.”

“Maybe I just like the feel of your hand,” You retorted, making him chuckle right against your ear. He said nothing more as you lead you forward. The path was made of dirt and large slabs of stone embedded in the ground. He was right to be holding you, since you nearly tripped a couple of times.

Once you were at the end of the path, there were many more lights. They were strewn across the ground in ideal positions to shine out from underneath the flowers that were planted around. It seemed to be a large garden of some sort. Something out of a fairytale.

“And how many people have you brought here, Prince Charming?” You asked, turning around and put your arms around his neck. His arm stayed around your waist, and you felt like you were in some sort of Disney movie. He would make an amazing Prince Eric, now that you thought about it.

“You’re the first - other than my mom, of course. She used to bring me out here when I was a boy. The lilacs and the orchids were her favorites.”

“I can picture it,” You said, closing your eyes slowly. You hadn’t met his mother, but you could imagine little Timothee running around in the grass, getting stains on his trousers, picking the flowers and returning them to his mother. “This place really is special, then.”

“I told you it was,” He let go of you and took a seat on the ground, not caring if his trousers got dirty. You followed suit - who cared about a little gas stain. That’s why dry-cleaners were for. “I wanted to ask you something at dinner but with James and y/f/n there, it didn’t seem quite right.”

“Oh?” You asked breathlessly. Your hopes were up high now. Though knowing Timothee, he could make this into a silly situation. But he seemed to be as serious as you were.

“I know it would be hard and everything, giving the media these days,” He said, pulling little bits of grass out of the ground and making a neat pile of it in front of him. His fingers, so long and so nimble, were his way of distracting himself from getting nervous. “And they would be asking you questions all of the time, and you would be approached by every designer to wear their clothes for my premieres and such...”

“Are you trying to find excuses not to ask me?” You questioned, raising an eyebrow at him.

“No, no, I just want to make sure you know what you’re getting into with me.”

“Timothee, one of your fans livestreamed out first lunch together. I figured that out pretty quickly. Now get on with it, because I’ve known my answer for quite some time now.”

“Do you want to be with me?” He finally sputtered out. You’d never seen him so shy before, it touched your heart.

“Only if it means we can come back here.” You answered, pressing a soft kiss to his cheek.

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dreamofbetterthings · 7 years ago

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“I already was. Charles Xavier x Reader”

Prompt 64: “You’re so beautiful.”

Celebrity: Young Charles "Professor" Xavier (Played by James McAvoy)

Movie: X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and X-Men: Apocalypse Spoilers: None

Summary: You and Charles share two classes while at Oxford. although the two of you have never talked, you can't help but find him fascinating. During a party, you try your hardest to impress the young genius, but after you leave he eventually stops by your dorm to reveal some feelings of his own.

Warnings:This is pretty much the embodiment of me whenever I like anyone, so it is going to be pretty weird and awkward.

A/N

My official schedule for posting is finally up in the bio of my page. Thank you so much @BITCHOF707OFFICIAL for requesting this. I am so sorry that this is later than expected. I had everything written and ready to post, then my brother got nosy and made me accidentally delete this whole story. I said if I ever had to rewrite something I would let you know, so this is my second time rewriting this. I wish I had saved the original because I was dying for you guys to read it, but I hope version two is as close to the request as possible. If it isn’t then let me know.

"So how do you think you did on your presentation?" You shook your head and raised your shoulders. "I don't know, Hank. I stayed up for two weeks working on it. Checked every website that the professor told us to use, only used the links he sent through email, and even with all the coffee I drank I still think that most of my information was wrong." You take a sip of your Pepsi and sigh. Hank gives you a reassuring pat on the back and smiles. "Don't think like that. I'm pretty sure the professor will be a little more lenient with us this term." He notices someone walks into the room and lightly elbows your side. "Would you look at that. Seems like lover boy actually left his dorm." Your eyes dart across the room and that's when you see him.

Charles Xavier

One of if not the smartest person in the entire school of Oxford. The two of you have class together, but since he sits in the back and you further towards the front, you hardly think he knows you exist. Hank watches in amazement as you watch your classmate mingle with the others. "Why don't you just go talk to him?" Snapping out of your little trance, you glance over at your friend very amused. "Do you remember how hard it was and how long it took for me to talk to you? I have a better chance of meeting Beyonce." You hear Charles laugh from across the room and your heart melts. The timing was so accurate it seemed he heard what you said. You opted for someone just told him a joke, since it only seemed to make sense.

Suddenly, a brilliant idea popped into your head. Patting Hank on the shoulder, you asked: "What If I do something really cool and he's all like: Oh my gosh that's so incredibly cool, wanna get married?" A laugh leaves Hank's lips this time, and he asks you, "Okay, sure. What are you going to do to possibly get his attention?" You scratch your chin and put your hands up. "I don't know, what do you want me to do? Talk about my presentation so he could point out every error I made? Or how about I call him over like "Hey Charles! Check this out!" Turning around in your chair, you attempt to do a small roundhouse kick to Hank's side.

Keyword: Attempt

Apparently, your balance along with luck just wasn't on your side that night, because not only did you almost slip and fall out of your chair, your foot missed Hank completely and instead hit the table you both were sitting at. Everyone's drinks spilled onto the table, and as you quickly sat up to clean them up, you noticed your phone sitting smack dab in the middle of a pool of spilled vodka. After picking it up and cleaning off the table, you turned your head to see that Charles was no longer standing by the bar, and a frown formed on your face. "I'm so sorry everyone." Apologizing to every person who sat at the table, you got up to leave but as your luck would have it, things only got worse.

As you turned around you immediately were face to face with Charles, his drink accidentally toppling forward and staining your shirt. Your eyes become wide as you realize who was standing in front of you, and before he could say anything, you ran off. Your feet carried you out of the party area, and all the way back to your own dorm. Luckily your roommate was still at the party so you'd get some time to yourself. After quickly taking a shower to wash away all the bad decisions you made during the night, you throw on a pair of sweatpants and a random shirt from your drawer, letting your hair air dry. Falling back onto your bed, you huff as you think back to the events that happened not too long ago.

Embarrassment hits you and you yell "Why am I so stupid?!" causing your powers to work overdrive and your roommate's light to explode, glass flying onto her things. You grab a pillow and cover your face with it, clearly upset. You thought to yourself. Why was it so hard for you to talk to him? The two of you have been in class together since sophomore year, why is the senior year all of a sudden a big problem for you? Who sits there and just randomly tries to do a roundhouse kick in the middle of a party? And sitting down? Yeah, he definitely noticed you. After you made him spill his drink on your shirt, he totally likes you. You let out a large sigh and think that Hank was right, you should have just tried to start a conversation instead of making yourself look stupid.

Had you done that, I wouldn't have a reason to come after you, now would I?

You lift your pillow off of your head and call out "Hello?" After no answer, you think you must be going crazy. Then the voice speaks to you again.

I can assure you-you're not going crazy.

Sitting up on your bed, you look around, and for some odd reason, continue to talk to the voice in your head.

"Who are you? How are you doing that?"

You should probably open the door to find out.

"How do I know you aren't some kind of murderer?"

I am indeed not a murderer. You can take my word for it, or you can go against your better judgment and see whose on the other side of the door. I promise you won't regret your decision.

There is light tapping on the door, and after having a small argument with yourself, you get up to go open it. After all, murderers don't knock on doors, right? You open it and on the other side stands Charles, leaning against the door frame with two fingers resting against his temple.

I told you-you wouldn't regret it.

Your eyes go wide as you look at the man before you. Pointing at his fingers against his head, you ask "That's you? In my head?" He gives you a small smile and nods. "I must say, I thought it was pretty funny that you thought you had an easier chance at meeting Beyonce than talking to me." You step aside and let him in, as you close the door you point out. "So you have telekinetic powers? Cool! Wait a minute... that means you heard my entire conversation with Hank, didn't you?" Charles goes to sit on your bed and shakes his head yes. "Yes and no. Your thoughts are quite loud, but I wanted to respect your privacy. I didn't hear anything that you didn't want me to hear. I walked over because I heard you call my name, but as you saw me, you walked out. I wanted to make sure you were okay, and the closer I got to your door, I heard you were upset because you didn't listen to what Hank told you. That was it, only bits and pieces, I'm still trying to control it."

Sitting next to him on the bed, you point over to the destroyed lamp on the other side of the room. "I can manipulate explosives. My life is a death trap if you leave me alone in a science lab." His laugh echoes through the room, and your heart swells again. "You seem to have pretty good control over it." It was your turn to laugh, and maybe it was because you were explaining why, but you didn't notice Charles' eyes light up when he heard you laugh. He takes a hold of your hand, and you quickly look down as his fingers intertwine with yours. He gives a light, but firm squeeze as he looks you in the eyes. "You're so beautiful." A bush creeps onto your cheeks, and he continues to talk. "Please excuse my straightforwardness, but I was secretly hoping that you wouldn't just have me talk to you at the party, because I wanted to find the right time to tell you how I felt. You didn't have to do all that stuff to impress me, because I already like you, a lot. I involuntarily hear the way you think about me in class, and I must say I'm very flattered."

You tucked a piece of hair behind your ear and muttered: "I didn't think you knew I existed, so I wanted to do something to make you interested."

"I already was."

The two of you sit there in a comfortable silence before he asks. "I was wondering since neither of us has class tomorrow, would you mind accompanying me tomorrow afternoon? I found the most wonderful garden the other day, and think you'd like it." You nod your head in agreement, and he smiles “It’s a date.” He stands and you walk him to the door.

I'd give you my number, but I figured hearing my voice was the next best thing.

A genuine smile spreads across your face and Charles leans down to your ear level. "I'll pick you up at noon. Goodnight, darling." He leaves a soft kiss to your cheek, and begins the walk back to his own dorm, leaving you standing in your doorway in shock. Snapping out of it, you close your door, and lay on your bed.

As Charles makes it to the end of the hallway, he hears you talk to yourself again.

"So you mean to tell me I didn't have to do any of the crap that I did tonight? Oh, my goodness, I am so stupid, why did I do that?"

He laughs to himself and turns the corner, looking forward to your little outing in the morning.

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reactingtosomething · 8 years ago

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Reacting to Atomic Blonde

Suck It, Daredevil

The Setup: Charlize Theron was the best action star of 2015, and two years later she may have just reclaimed her crown, in the solo directing debut of former stunt coordinator David Leitch (half of the duo who directed John Wick and some second unit stuff on Captain America: Civil War, doing their part to save Hollywood action scenes from subpar ALL THE SHAKY CAM AND ALL THE CUTS Paul Greengrass imitation).

Heralded by possibly the coolest trailer of the year -- at the very least, the coolest that didn’t have a House of Mouse effects budget -- and backed by a uniformly stellar supporting cast including Sofia Boutella and John Goodman, Theron’s also making a decent run at James Bond’s status as Most Dashing Lothario Assassin, because why not. (And not just for straight dudes.)

In short, this has too many of RtS’s favorite things not to be an obvious choice for a Reaction. SPOILERS for Atomic Blonde after the jump.

KRIS: I guess I’ll open with a Caroline Framke tweet

MIRI: Please do

KRIS: https://twitter.com/carolineframke/status/891158770117685248

MIRI: I was really hoping it would be that one

KRIS: (The RT:like ratio, as of now, is 146 to 1200)

MIRI: Omg

I may be one of those likes

MARCHAE: LOL

KRIS: RtS is definitely one of those likes

MIRI: Can't remember if I RTd

Update: I did RT

very proud of my lack of shame

KRIS: Although I guess stabbing is really the least of what she does to some of those guys

MIRI: Carry on

Right

But there Is definitely some stabbing

KRIS: So this wasn’t, like, EVERYthing I wanted/expected it to be, but the “long take” fight alone is worth the price of admission twice over

MARCHAE: Yeah she is incredibly hard core (and trust that was not in the source material so i was happy they def. gave her some swag)

did either of you get a chance to read the text it was based on

KRIS: I loved that it was basically telling both Daredevil and Birdman to go fuck themselves

MIRI: Hahahahahahha

No I didn't

I'm not nearly the fight choreography conosieur that Kris is, but I was so fucking into this

(Wow spelled that so wrong autocorrect was stumped)

KRIS: I mean I did not have any reservations about any of the other fights, it was everything around the fights that was kind of uneven

MARCHAE: go on

KRIS: Not BAD, but uneven

MIRI: Say more

KRIS: Pacing felt weird sometimes?

This felt longer than its runtime

MARCHAE: (yes that is truth..>YES IT DID)

MIRI: Yeah, I can agree with that

KRIS: Maybe a little twistier, plot-wise, than was really justified, especially since it end-loaded the twists

MIRI: Yeah, the last few minutes were a bit of a mind fuck and not in a totally earned way

KRIS: The sound mixing was VERY interesting, but I wasn’t always sure it needed to be so showy

MIRI: This movie is showy down to its bones

and some ways that works better than others

KRIS: Although it did add to the disorientation

MARCHAE: (re the twists the text was similar in that way…)

KRIS: The sound mix I mean

Like going back and forth between having music in a scene be diegetic and not

I did like the way they used it in the bar where Lorraine meets Delphine though

MIRI: I feel like it was better directed, acted, and choreographed than it was written. Does that make sense?

KRIS: When you assume the REALLY LOUD CLUB MUSIC is diegetic but it cuts out really suddenly when the guy (was it Bremovych there?) offers a light

Yes

MIRI: Yeah, that moment was very nice

KRIS: But I feel like pacing often comes down to direction

MIRI: Fair

KRIS: All the performances are definitely great

MIRI: Seriously, all of them

MARCHAE: hmmm that’s interesting - I think that comes back to the writing - if the story has pacing problems - then that’s ultimately a structural problem with the story, no?

MIRI: I especially loved Lorraine’s German contact

KRIS: I think editing can have a lot to do with pacing too

MIRI: And obviously Theron, McAvoy, and Boutella

I think it can be any of the three, or a combo

MARCHAE: yeah… i thought about that as well @kris

MIRI: They all need to be good for it to work

KRIS: Did you feel like it at least played fair with the audience for most if not all of the twists?

MIRI: Yeah, I would say so. Things felt justified to me

KRIS: I felt like I got lost two or three or five times but at least some of those seemed to be deliberate and then I had “ohhhh” moments in act 3

MIRI: Hahahah which ones?

MARCHAE: Yeah, I think it is supposed to be a bit of a mystery which is kind of nice

KRIS: God I don’t even know, there’s was a lot happening

But the one I’m still confused about is that I don’t remember what happened to the guy who killed Gascoin

MIRI: I was secretly hoping you’d name them all so I could refer to your superior memory

Ice pick to the brain, right?

KRIS: Oh, my mistake, it is Gasciogne

I’ll take your word for it

But there were several Angry Bearded Men

MIRI: I think that was the same angry bearded man

He had the list and was going to sell it

to the watchmaker man

MARCHAE: Oh yeah

MIRI: and Percival ice picked him because Gasciogne was his friend

KRIS: Oh man I totally thought Marton Csokas was playing Bakhtin but IMDB tells me I was wrong, I guess it was just two Angry Bearded Men

MARCHAE: HA!

MIRI: Shit, who was Bakhtin? Is that ice pick head?

KRIS: Yes

MIRI: I need to open the imdb page

Ok, Bremovych was the one who beat the guy in the warehouse, right? And smashed the boombox?

KRIS: Oh wow Gasciogne was [played by] the stunt coordinator [Sam Hargrave, who also doubled for Chris Evans in Captain America: Civil War]. Did not recognize him with his (not-angry) bread in the post-show interview

not-angry beard, not bread

And yes

MIRI: WHAAAAATTT???

KRIS: Bremovych was the boss

MIRI: He looks SO different with long hair and a beard

KRIS: He was EXTREMELY Angry

MIRI: Holy heck

Also, he grew that beard so fast!!!

KRIS: That scene could have ended sooner

MIRI: Yeah, wasn’t my favorite

KRIS: Not even for the brutality, which was partly offscreen, it was just one of the pacing things where I was like why is this happening

MIRI: Yeah, it dragged a little

And it wasn’t at all shiny

Like, even when things are grungy and bloody in the rest of it, it’s shiny

MARCHAE: so this is my last time brining up the text … it was very similar to me in that way

so similar that indeed some the dialogue came straight from it

MIRI: (not literally, like stylized)

Guys, go to Til Schweiger’s imdb page immediately

Not only is he a fox

KRIS: Like awkwardly long, you mean, Marchae?

MARCHAE: I wasn’t surprised to see that it did have pacing issues - i honestly think that they thought they would make up for that with the action scenes.

MIRI: Apparently he’s Germany's best-known actor and also the country's most successful director

(He’s the watchmaker guy)

MARCHAE: @miri - WOW!

@kris what do you mean the text

KRIS: That scene in particular

MARCHAE: so here’s the thing… she doesn’t fight AT ALL in the text

in fact i think she fires a gun once

MIRI: WHAT

WHAAAATTTTTTTTT

That is a significant change

MARCHAE: and as far as other acts of violence it was literally like a few gun shots if i remember correctly

KRIS: Like is Bremovych’s introduction just panels and panels and panels of kicking noises and pained reaction shots?

MARCHAE: not even…

MIRI: And makes the fact that they stayed so close to the text in other ways fascinating

MARCHAE: it is incredibly slow and much of the action, similar to in the film would be in the last couple of dozen pages

MIRI: What?

MARCHAE: legitimately i believe they slayed her out made her tough because otherwise it would have been a historical drama

and that would have been an entirely different film

MIRI: Also because the director is a stunt guy, probably.

MARCHAE: it was not an excited graphic novel (GN)

exciting*

that’s why i thought it would be interesting to read and see the movie i was like wow this will be an awesome comic

and it is if you are interested in historical GN about russians ( I am not generally)

but I was expecting LOADS of fighting

nope

so to see that on the screen made the film 1000000 times more enjoyable

MIRI: Nice

I really really loved that the fight choreography wasn’t Sexy lady Fight Choreography

MARCHAE: but they definitely compensated for the other shortcomings which i thought was this weird desire to stay close to the source in terms of story but create a film that would be able to kind of catch some of the wind that was left behind by the other female centric films of the summer season

ok that’s all

YES

MIRI: They were deliberate about the fact that she was smaller than most of the guys, yes, but she fucking fought

She took hits

MARCHAE: i also love that she’s not young

or incredibly frail

MIRI: She was brutal and they were too and it was amazing

KRIS: Lorraine getting the shit kicked out of her was definitely the distinctive thing

MARCHAE: that made the back of my knee caps hurt

but she held her own and prevails

MIRI: I do have the tiniest quibble with the fact that they kept her unmarked from fights that totally would have bruised/scraped her up in the beginning because they needed her in sexy club outfits

But past that point they did a nice job of letting her be marked by the fights without being afraid to make her less pretty or whatever

KRIS: It gets you invested in the character AND gives Lorraine the character development/revelation of having the stronger will, as the stunt guy put it

I guess I assumed she was using makeup to cover stuff up early on?

MIRI: Eh, I don’t 100% buy that but it also doesn’t super bother me

MARCHAE: i don’t know that it registers with me much… i think because she’s so battered at the end …

doesn’t she soak in a tub of something at one point?

KRIS: I think the ice bath is just at the beginning, which is advanced in the timeline of the story

MIRI: Yes, in the beginning bookend she’s in her AMAZING giant ass tub filled with ice cubes

And she does something similar in Berlin

All of the tubs in this movie were giant and I want them

The Berlin time was where you got the cool underwater shot of her face in the neon light

KRIS: Oh right

MARCHAE: i just never quite figured out what it was that she was able to look mostly okay…

i thought it was medicinal but i guess it was just ice

MIRI: Well she did do a bunch of makeup after that

MARCHAE: also it was an incredible shot

MIRI: And it couldn’t hide everything

Which? Neon Berlin bath or opening London bath?

Both were cool but I’m assuming you meant the London one

MARCHAE: the blue one?

MIRI: The one they used in the trailers, where she then adds some of the ice to her drink?

MARCHAE: YES

MIRI: Yes! That was very cool!

With the perspective flip and all

M: And the bathtub is SO BIG

MARCHAE: it was so good

so i know you all mentioned earlier that it wasn’t shiny

KRIS: There was a lot of playing with perspective in the cinematography

MIRI: Only that warehouse scene

(re: not shiny)

MARCHAE: gotcha

MIRI: The rest totally was

which I mostly loved

And to Kris’s point--yes! Most of it very cool

MARCHAE: sorry i was just going to add that i thought it was a sexy looking film

which i suppose also goes to kris’ point about cinematography

MIRI: The one I think about most is the sexy one, actually--the cut from them making out in the club to the sex scene

(which again, they used in the trailers a lot)

(well, the red band ones anyway)

MARCHAE: i did like that

KRIS: I feel like there were also a lot of reflections

Like when she’s leaving Delphine’s apartment near the end

MIRI: Yes! God that one broke my heart

MARCHAE: (side note…there is no Delphine in the text)

KRIS: And for awhile it’s just two Lorraines and I was like “hmm this is unnecessary” and then you see Delphine

MIRI: well, Theron did say that she’d need a Bond girl if she ever played Bond

KRIS: I think having a female love interest was actually the writer’s idea

MARCHAE: OhHHHHH

MIRI: That makes me so happy

MARCHAE: yeah it had to be because it didn’t exist… it takes the place of another relationship or is ore of a composite

I liked it and I thought it made the character much more interesting and gave her more than we generally get

MIRI: As does the way Theron has addressed Lorraine’s bisexuality in interviews

I was really afraid that it would be a surface level portrayal of bisexuality

KRIS: “I remember sitting in a room one day thinking about how do you make this different from other spy movies,” Theron says. “It’s really hard. Who is going to be the love interest? Kurt, who’s a punk rock writer, suggested she falls in love with a woman.”

http://ew.com/movies/2017/04/26/charlize-theron-breaks-down-her-steamy-love-affair-in-atomic-blonde/

MARCHAE: Nice!

MIRI: I was afraid she would have an emotional connection to the dude and a purely sexual, over-sexualized connection with the girl

But it was not that at all

MARCHAE: no - i mad that delphine died and i think bugged by how she died as well

KRIS: But I also liked that the emotional connection wasn’t really just “whirlwind romance” but also ended up being about Lorraine mourning what being in “the game” does to people

MIRI: I am angry that Delphine had her damn headphones on when she knew someone might come and kill her

that was dumb

MARCHAE: **snaps fingers @miri and @kris**

MIRI: Kris, that’s a really good point and I agree

MARCHAE: i wished she’d been able to fight more i think.

AND YES MIRI DUMMMBBBBBBBBB

KRIS: It at least didn’t feel like a fridging, though, in that Lorraine’s motivations weren’t really changed and she never had like a breakdown scene or anything

I think on some level there’s an expectation of a Sofia Boutella character Kicking All of the Ass

but at least to me it was important to the story that she be green

MIRI: (btw that’s not to say there aren’t bi people who are bisexual and hetero or homoromantic or to cast shade on them! It’s just a very often a very stereotyped portrayal in media)

KRIS: She’s on her first assignment and “only been here for a year” vs. Percival, a station chief, having “gone native”

MIRI: Yeah, it did mostly work for the character

and I liked that she was green and in over her head

It made her a very nice foil to both Lorraine and Percival

KRIS: Especially with Lorraine being allll the way on the other end of the spectrum as a triple agent

MIRI: How old is McAvoy?

KRIS: 38

MARCHAE: born 1979

MIRI: Oh, he’s a bit older than I thought--he’s only 4 years younger than Theron

I thought he was more in the middle of her age and Boutella’s

KRIS: Boutella is also older than she looks

MIRI: Holy crap she is

born in 82

Wow, I would have said mid twenties

I’m so bad at ages

MARCHAE: I didn’t realize she was as old as she is!

KRIS: I do think mid 20s is what she’s playing here

MIRI: Yeah, seems like

Can we discuss the outfits? Because they are amazing

MARCHAE: OH MY GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

I turned to my friend and said i need to start dressing like all of these women! it was its own character and kind of a love letter to the era

MIRI: Lorraine’s commitment to GIANT sweaters/tops with no pants is AMAZING

MARCHAE: YESSS

YESSS

KRIS: (To go back for just a second, my objection to “whirlwind romance” definitely applies to couples of all configurations -- it’s the one thing that doesn’t totally land for me in Casino Royale)

MIRI: It says SO much about her

KRIS: I did like that as a consistent choice

MIRI: She’ll dress however she has to for work

But whenever she can be, she’s COMFY AS HELL

MARCHAE: and i appreciated it and she fights in a hoodie i think at one point

MIRI: I mean she still looks amazing, but no pants, giant shirt

Yes!

MARCHAE: although i didn’t love that she was perpetually in heels!

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

my feet hurt for her but that’s an aside

MIRI: Yeah, I feel like some flat ankle boots would have been better

MARCHAE: although am glad she can work it that way

MIRI: But I do believe that she would do it

KRIS: Yeah

MARCHAE: kudos to the women who can fight in heels

oh yeah all the marvel women seem to do it

KRIS: I also thought Theron was taller than me, but she’s the same height

MARCHAE: how tall is that?

so our readers have a frame of reference :)

KRIS: I think we’re not actually supposed to notice most of the Marvel heels though

I’m either 5-9 or 5-10

MIRI: Kris wants to remain mysterious, Marchae

or not

KRIS: IMDB lists her at 5-9 1/2

MARCHAE: LOLOLOLOL

miri i thought the same

(we aren’t?)

MIRI: Not sure. We might be supposed to just accept that that’s how superhero women look

Like Barbies, with their feet always arched

MARCHAE: interesting

KRIS: (I feel like they’re mostly to make Johansson and Smulders tall enough to make framing shots easier? I don’t know though)

MIRI: I think that’s definitely part of it, if not all

I’m just being snarky

KRIS: Gamora being the (infuriating) exception

MIRI: I like to play to my strengths

Ughhhhhhhh readers, please refer to our Guardians Volume 2 reaction for more!

Percival’s sense of dress is batshit and amazing

He wears sweater vests as shirts

And his giant coat!

MARCHAE: LOLOL

KRIS: Hard to go wrong with a good giant coat

MARCHAE: (ok another book spoiler… Percival is an older man who’s always in a trench coat- ALWAYS)

MIRI: Whaaaaaat

Is he all wily and gone-native?

Does he drink Jack and hide things in his fake cast?

KRIS: I loved the fake cast

MIRI: It was brilliant

MARCHAE: well yes and no.. he has no cast at all he’s completely in tact because there was not a ton of violence and he is a bit what’s the word not aways nice

the fake cast was great!

MIRI: Does “a bit what’s the word not aways nice” mean he was a dick in Marchae-speak?

MARCHAE: LOLOLOLOLOLOL

KRIS: I know this wasn’t McAvoy’s first Fun Role but it was the first one I’ve seen him in

MARCHAE: yeah he kind of was

MIRI: He’s fun in First Class!

KRIS: I guess First Class-era Charles Xavier has a little fun but he pretty quickly has to do the Mentor thing

MIRI: Fair

KRIS: He’s fun until he gets his doctorate, basically

MARCHAE: I DID NOT REALIZE THAT WAS HIM IN ELENOR RIGBY

KRIS: Yep

MARCHAE: get the heck out

I liked him in Split

he’s kind of a good actor

KRIS: He rarely gets to do his own accent (Scottish)

MIRI: I LOVE his accent

MARCHAE: (HE WAS ALSO GNOMEO!!!)

KRIS: Oh he’s great, I’ve been a fan since pre-Chronicles of Narnia

MARCHAE: oh my word i am learning of all these movies i’ve loved him in and didn’t realize it was him

wow then i guess i Love him too

thanks gang

how cool!

MIRI: He’s amazing in Atonement

KRIS: I wonder if I should’ve seen Victor Frankenstein

Probably not, but still

MARCHAE: lol

KRIS: Does someone want to talk about the music?

MARCHAE: it was it’s own character and definitely a love letter to the 80s i appreciated it as a detail that was paid particular attention to in the film

MIRI: I like 99 Luftballoons

MARCHAE: and i sometimes watch people when i go to the movies which i know is weird, but you saw a lot of people dancing in their seats and lip singing to it

KRIS: Is “love letter” enough of a reason to do something though?

MIRI: Just in general

MARCHAE: it was cool

KRIS: I liked the use of covers

But maybe post-Baby Driver I’m a little oversaturated on the whole “music as a character” thing

MIRI: I mean, this whole movie is kind of a love letter to its aesthetics

KRIS: Also partly because the composer for this is the composer on the Guardians movies

Which do the same thing -- heavy, showy music supervision, totally forgettable original score

MARCHAE: I don’t know Kris - I think maybe it is sometimes because you interact with people on a different level

MIRI: Yeah, I couldn’t tell you a single thing about any of the original score

KRIS: Say more MM

MARCHAE: I think because i was very young during the time in which the film is set, but the music triggers memories of what was happening, so now in my mind i am going back saying -yes the Berlin wall - and not from something I learned in class - but instead at home as a kid - but it’s because the music triggered that more than the image necessarily… also because of the kind of tv i was watching as a kid so like the cartoons

KRIS: I will say that the near-oppressiveness of the soundtrack in most of the movie made the music-less long-take fight that much better for the contrast

MARCHAE: but then you ALSO now get to engage those people who maybe weren’t sold on the movie at least now excited about how it sounds and what will be next

KRIS: I guess that makes sense, but what does it have to do with how I interact with people?

MARCHAE: I think as a writer/director you are interacting with all of my senses (save smell but I’ll even argue that)

so i hear how it, what it makes me think of after the fact and why

am i dancing in my seat and saying thats my jam

or i loved it

i think that kind of thing

KRIS: Oh, so when you said “you interact with people on a different level” that was the general You, not You-Kris

MARCHAE: yeah general you

not you KM

sorry i should have been more clear

MIRI: The English language is imperfect

KRIS: I’m curious to see more movies from both David Leitch (this) and Chad Stahelski (the other John Wick director, who directed JW 2 solo)

Because I want to know if Stahelski is a better solo director or if there’s something else behind the pacing differences in this and JW2

I mean besides the obvious genre difference

MARCHAE: (aside number 554 from marchae - i need to watch JW and JW2 )

MIRI: I need to watch JW2

KRIS: I keep forgetting MM hasn’t seen the first one, especially ever since we realized she loves action movies

MIRI: I keep forgetting that amazing fact

❤️

KRIS: (WATCH HAYWIRE)

MIRI: (WE WILL AT SOME POINT I PROMISE)

KRIS: I feel like somehow we haven’t said enough about Charlize Theron

KRIS: (WE DON’T HAVE TO REACT TO IT I’m just saying)

MIRI: (ALSO I MIGHT FINALLY BE READY TO WATCH BLAICK SAILS)

MARCHAE: (I WILL)

MIRI: Let’s talk about Theron

Because she is AMAZING in this movie

KRIS: She definitely holds the whole thing together

If the performance had been a few notches less confident I would’ve gotten bored

I think

MARCHAE: she is brilliant

to go back to the text she gives that character so much LIFE

KRIS: I mean even just the button on the first interrogation sequence -- the pause before and the delivery of “Fuck”

MIRI: People laughed out loud at that moment

MARCHAE: oh yea

she has this kind of wit about her that i love and she’s coy which is awesome

and she freaking in her 40s

KRIS: That was one of the more successful uses of a dragged-out moment

50 is the new 40, not to be a cliche

MIRI: Are people saying that?

KRIS: Even more than John Wick this made me think of Banshee, which also has a 40-something female action lead (though she’s not THE lead)

MIRI: I mean I endorse it wholeheartedly

KRIS: I mean just in general with regard to __ is the new __

MARCHAE: LOL

MIRI: Between this and Proud Mary, I’m all in for movies about women old enough to be my aunties killing people with great skill

KRIS: I’m always going to prefer hand-to-hand to gunfights (and gunfights to car chases)

MARCHAE: And doing so unapologetically it’s about time we get to see women use their bodies in ways that are indicative of strength

i do love a good car chase that ends with a fiery crash

MIRI: @Marchae YESSSSSS YES YES

MARCHAE: those are cool

MIRI: @Kris, how did you feel about the Atomic Blonde car chase?

KRIS: It was fine, and it wasn’t really about the cars was it?

Unless I’m forgetting a car chase

Which I would believe

MIRI: Ah, so you mean you’re not into Baby Driver car chases (as much as gun fights, at least)

KRIS: Right

MIRI: No, it was more cars as blunt weapons and gun shields, not a drag race or anything

KRIS: BUT there is a fun little Charlize Theron car anecdote in the Anne Helen Petersen profile I posted earlier

MIRI: About her in the Woody Allen movie?

Oh, I’m mixing up movies from that profile

KRIS: ...I think I am forgetting a car chase

MARCHAE: HA!

MIRI: From Atomic Blonde?

MARCHAE: she also learned a lot of her own stunts

MIRI: Or something else?

KRIS: Yeah

MARCHAE: There were two

KRIS: When you said it I was just thinking of Percival chasing the car Lorraine had gotten into when she landed

Jesus Christ Kris

MARCHAE: YUP

MIRI: Ohhhh, I forgot about that one

MARCHAE: i was just typing that

with the shoe

MIRI: I was talking about the other one

K: I guess I blanked on it since it’s part of the oner and especially because we never leave the inside of Lorraine’s car

KRIS: Start looking for the name 87 Eleven a lot more, I think

MIRI: I did like the shoe thing

KRIS: They’re the stunt/action design people

MIRI: They did damn good work

MARCHAE: they were really good!

KRIS: This and the John Wicks

Also a “Special Thanks” on Power Rangers?

MARCHAE: ok i get it… I’ll watch JW 😊

MIRI: Huh

Maybe they consulted

KRIS: Stephanie Beatriz started training there recently, not for a part but to get in shape for potentially being an action hero

MIRI: WHAT

KRIS: She’s posted a couple of “I’m dying” videos to her Instagram story

MIRI: she'd be good, too. She has dance training

I need to watch more Instagram videos

KRIS: I feel like we’re running out of steam but we have to go back to the long fight

MIRI: Pause for a sec, grabbing my laundry

KRIS: I felt like a lot of the apartment fight was in the trailers so I was a smudge concerned the same would happen in the stairwell

While we wait, here’s Jessica Chastain punching the air:

https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/891493560993947648

MARCHAE: LOL

yes

they were both brilliant fight scenes!

KRIS: I absolutely will not accept The Huntsman as the only time Jessica Chastain gets to be an action hero

MARCHAE: she’d make an amazing superhero!!

KRIS: Especially because that was such a stunt-double-heavy character

She’s in talks to be in the next X-Men as a Space Empress

But I don’t think she’d get to do much fighting

MARCHAE: dang! i’d love to see her kick some doors down

MIRI: Ok I’m back!

And I fully support Chasten as action hero!

*Chastain

KRIS: So a bit of this fight is the very first thing most of the world saw of Atomic Blonde

Which obviously turned out to be the smartest possible trailer move

(Maybe “most” is an exaggeration)

MIRI: Right, but the sheer length of it is not something you understand from the trailer, which is nice

KRIS: Yeah, basically the trailer part ends before Spyglass gets his little comic beat

“Two more”

MIRI: Because it means you don’t lose the impact in the moment by showing it in the trailer

KRIS: And I was like “Aw, only two more?”

MIRI: Loved the Spyglass beats

KRIS: But then everyone just... kept... getting... back... up

MIRI: that one, and him doing the tape in the apartment

MARCHAE: RIGHT

MIRI: Yeah, she has the most will, but they all has a LOT

KRIS: So hang on, have either of you watched Daredevil?

MIRI: especially bleach blond guy with the neo nazi haircut

Key-face

KRIS: Or at least that fight? You know the one even if you haven’t seen it

MIRI: I have only watched part of the first season

Not that one, not

*no

MARCHAE: I starting watching part of the first season

MIRI: I’ve heard of the fight you mean

youtube

MARCHAE: ( I actually liked it and am not sure why I didn’t keep going)

KRIS: It’s the end of the second episode

MIRI: Same!

Oh, then maybe I did and I’m just blanking

huh

KRIS: We don’t need to watch it right now but the salient points are that it’s maybe still the best fight scene TV has ever had

And does a similar thing with exhaustion

MIRI: Oh, interesting

KRIS: But they tried to one-up themselves in season 2 with a longer, flashier oner

(Which incidentally also involved a staircase)

But without the exhaustion bit

MARCHAE: Nice!

MIRI: Staircases are good. They give new height differences

KRIS: And it’s Cool and all, but feels much emptier as an exercise than the first one, which is confined to one hallway

MARCHAE: I liked seeing them on the stairs there is also a new element of danger and stakes … like if i fall or get thrown over…

KRIS: Which is why this fight in Atomic Blonde felt almost like a direct response

MARCHAE: ohhhhhhh

KRIS: And specifically a Suck It, Daredevil

I mean I don’t know if it actually was

But I enjoyed thinking it

In that Daredevil s2 fight Matt just absolutely owns everyone who comes at him

Which can be cool

MARCHAE: now i really want to watch

KRIS: But the back-and-forth and the exhaustion justified the technical showiness in AB

MIRI: I liked that Lorraine was really good, but wasn’t Impossibly Better Than Everyone

KRIS: Also really liked the commitment to improvised weapons

MIRI: Key-face is super good too, she’s just got more will in the end

I love that

MARCHAE: Yeah that was brutal

MIRI: The hot plate!!!

KRIS: And the shot revealing the corkscrew, and the audience reaction to seeing the corkscrew

MIRI: WHY IS IT ALWAYS CORKSCREWS????

MARCHAE: I’m cringing thinking of it….

KRIS: I guess because you can hold them for punching?

MIRI: In the last calendar year, I have seen three movies where a woman stabs someone with a corkscrew

THREE

KRIS: What were the other two?

MARCHAE: they are small and compact

MIRI: The Girl on the Train

MARCHAE: OHHHHH yes

*cringing again*

MIRI: and Clinical, which is a Netflix movie the company I used to intern for produced

KRIS: Oh I haven’t seen but I guess there would have actually been wine in proximity

I read Clinical

MIRI: Yeah, the fight between her and the girl in the kitchen

Spoilers for both of those, I guess

KRIS: Yeah to go back to something Miri said it was a cool choice that the fighting in this wasn’t as stylized as in something like John Wick

Which made the choreography in a larger sense more creative

Because of the improvised weapons, the use of the locations, etc

MIRI: I really like how most of the movie is so stylized, but the fights were so gritty

KRIS: Whereas the locations in so many action movies are basically irrelevant

MIRI: I mean, obviously super choreographed because they’re not insane

MARCHAE: they felt authentic

i could not every fight in that way, but you looked at that and thought yup a person could actually do this… it was believable!

MIRI: Honestly, the lack of stunt doubles made this so much better

KRIS: OH

MIRI: Because it can feel that real

What?

KRIS: I really loved that Lorraine covers her face in the end of the apartment fight, when she’s outside before the last two cops arrive

And that I thought this was going to be a moment for a cut to a double

But then they hold the shot until she lowers her collar again

MIRI: Why did you love that?

KRIS: Just to have my expectation of a double subverted

MIRI: Ah, gotcha

KRIS: It felt VERY oh, here’s a good excuse to cut around her

And then it wasn’t, it really was just Lorraine protecting her identity

MIRI: I just didn’t know why she did it--she lowers it immediately after, so it doesn’t seem effective to keep her identity secret!

I guess from those two cops

Or anyone who might have been coming, but then no one did

MARCHAE: that’s what i thought, it also looked really cool, she’s a spy and has to just keep cover, she’s always on alert

KRIS: And of course the other thing about the realism of the fighting in this is the gender thing -- Natasha Romanoff is always kicking and spinning

MIRI: Which is a cool and valid fighting form

But it shouldn’t be ALL THE TIME

KRIS: And Charlize Theron’s legs are like a mile long so not just from gender but from Charlize Theron you would expect something similar

MIRI: I loved that Lorraine was a brawler

KRIS: And obviously men can kick and spin and that’s the point of like, Tae Kwon Do, but outside of Asian productions you don’t see it a lot in movies

MARCHAE: i am thinking and you really don’t, KM

KRIS: There’s so much throwing people into other things in this too, which is great

Just like, use every object and surface that’s harder than a fist

Because hand bones can break relatively easily

MIRI: I loved when they went through the film screen

MARCHAE: that’s what made it so gritty and brutal - it’s like what you’d hope you’d do if an intruder were coming into your house

YES

KRIS: The movie they were watching there, Stalker, is one of Andy S’s favorites

I wonder if there was any significance to that choice

other than the year

MIRI: Of course it’s one of Flash’s faves

Flash/Andy was our screenwriting professor most committed to Art

I really loved the umbrella thing

KRIS: Yeah, I find Convenient Crowd Things hit or miss but this one worked for me

MARCHAE: it looked great too

KRIS: I guess because they’d established Merkel well in advance

MIRI: perhaps because it was an Engineered Crowd Thing

KRIS: Right, but even those

MIRI: I really did love Merkel

KRIS: Just a poor choice of words on my part

MIRI: Oh, gotcha

KRIS: I guess I mean that I bought Merkel having that level of influence

And usually I’m like, really? This would have taken a lot of logistics

MIRI: Yeah, I’m with you

KRIS: Also, it matters that it didn’t ultimately succeed

Because BETRAYAL

MIRI: Multi-layered betrayal!

MARCHAE: HA

it really was (please promise you’ll read the texxxttttt it’s just so awesome to see what was changed and what was kept the same)

MIRI: Now, why exactly was Percival trying to kill Lorraine? (Was he? She says so, but Spyglass makes more sense)

KRIS: I think Spyglass was definitely the main target but she’d have been a loose end, right?

MIRI: That makes sense

I got a little lost in the twists at the end

KRIS: Seriously

MIRI: And he knew she was Satchel

But not that she was a triple agent, of course

MARCHAE: all of these things i agree with

KRIS: Yeah, the Satchel thing is something I’d want to try to pay more attention to on a rewatch

Just a lot of moving parts and sibilants to keep track of

MIRI: Definitely

MARCHAE: and gathered from it… but i do want to rewatch because it was a lot

MIRI: Sibilants?

KRIS: S sounds? Did I use it wrong?

MIRI: No, that’s right! Just didn’t follow and thought it had a different meaning I didn’t know

But you meant names with s sounds, etc. Which there are a lot of

KRIS: And which there’s no good reason for

MIRI: True

MARCHAE: LOL

KRIS: Any other thoughts?

MIRI: I loved it

MARCHAE: READ THE BOOK!

KRIS: I had a brief thought about how nudity was shot

MIRI: Share it

KRIS: Which was just that there’s nudity when it makes sense but even in and around the sex scene the camera didn’t seem to be leering

Like there’s not active avoidance of nipples or anything but also no lingering on them

MIRI: Agreed, though the buzzfeed review I saw earlier mentions the camera leering on her legs a bit, but no more than it leers at punches or neon or anything

KRIS: I mean “showy, aestheticized sex” is also accurate (I do like Alison Willmore a lot as a critic)

MIRI:Your bench of critics is so deep and I love it

KRIS: And now I’m just watching this gif she included of people being thrown down that stairwell

MARCHAE: he does have a good variety

KRIS: I wonder how many actual cuts there were in that oner

MIRI: I’m thinking about how similar Lorraine and Percival actually are

in that they have such long-term false personas and they’re SO GOOD at maintaining them, but also not perfect

KRIS: (Now I want a crossover with The Americans)

MIRI: Also we have not discussed her scene with the Russians at the end

And we should because it was baller

The shot of the gun in the ice was great

KRIS: Yeah

MIRI: Like, we saw a decent amount of it in the trailer

MARCHAE: ohhhhh yessssss

MIRI: and yet is was still so effective

And that wig and the outfit were amazing

MARCHAE: she was also barefoot

KRIS: Right, the story context automatically makes it way more interesting

MARCHAE: ( i mean she was probably just over it after wearing heels the entire movie)

KRIS: I had more or less forgotten there was one more action scene left

MIRI: There’s so much in this movie

KRIS: And it’s the most stylized fight but still had that, I guess, un-rushed quality to it?

MARCHAE: there is a lot - i repeat again, they knew they had to to make this an action film! those scenes let you forgive so much

MIRI: Yeah, there never felt like much danger to her in that one, whereas there was in the others

KRIS: Lorraine wasn’t like a John Wick-level gun wizard

K: I might be wrong about this, actually, GUESS I’LL JUST HAVE TO REWATCH ALL THESE MOVIES

Yeah! I guess that’s it too, that she felt totally in control of it

MIRI: She knew exactly how it would play out

And that she’d get to go home soon

Also, can I just say how much I loved the “cocksucker” moment, and the end callback to it?

KRIS: YES

Surprisingly hilarious take on the “What?” “What?” conversation trope

MIRI: You can play the tape back

They did a good job letting there be comedic moments without shoehorning them in

KRIS: (This is minor and SUPER action-nerdy but I also appreciated Theron/Lorraine’s pistol handling when she wasn’t shooting -- how she folds her arms in to keep the barrel at the right height and orientation for having to quickly aim and shoot)

(You can tell if an action star did their homework by how often they keep their arms totally extended when holding a handgun)

K: Actually I think worse is the thing where they hold it by their face while pointing the barrel straight up

MIRI: I did not at all notice it, but that’s a cool detail!

(I’m now sitting on my bed holding out a finger gun in various positions to see what feels right)

KRIS: I don’t think we can do a better, more fitting ending line than the movie’s own

You want the honors?

MIRI: I’m honestly blanking on what it was! I’m so embarrassed!!!

KRIS: I’m glad it was convincing

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Next up: X-Men cartoons with a Guest Reactor. Unless Liz and Marchae get around to watching The Bold Type soon enough. (WATCH THE BOLD TYPE, LIZ AND MARCHAE.)

#Atomic Blonde #Charlize Theron #James McAvoy #Sofia Boutella #David Leitch #Lorraine Broughton #movies #Miri #Marchae #Kris #reaction #Literally Strong Female Characters

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carey-pricemas · 8 years ago

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Updated Queue!

Ok I know I fell so far behind earlier this week, but I’m trying to stay on track I promise! My smuts might take longer to get out because I’m struggling with them so if you requested a smut... bear with me please! That being said... here’s the updated queue!

Today- (maybe) Freddie Andersen- smut

Sebastian Aho- team finds out about you through Instagram

Thursday 6/15- Brady Skjei- makes her sing for him

Morgan Rielly- smut

Martin Jones- free rein

Friday6/16- Alex Wennberg- nervous about telling him youre pregnant

Brendan Gallagher- wearing a Chucky jersey

Connor McDavid- Family is Sabres fans

Saturday 6/17- Tom Wilson- The first time again part 2

Kasperi Kapanen- celebration smut

Matt Martin- jealous

Sunday 6/18-Auston Matthews- jealous of basketball team

Kasperi Kapanen- smut someone overhears you

Jakob Chychrun- boys and girls club

Monday 6/19- Martin Jones/Sidney Crosby- Skin by Rihanna

Brendan Gallagher- calm down (wink wink) during playoffs XD

Derick Brassard- pregnant during playoffs

Tuesday 6/20- Any Rangers player- John Green quote

Andre Burakovsky- friends with Patrick Kane

Andre Burakovsky- protective from man in bar (no one knows)

Wednesday 6/21- Morgan Rielly- large age gap

AJ Greer- Beach volleyball for team Canada

Colton Parayko- doesn’t know you speak English

Thursday 6/22- Mitch Marner- Sees self harm scars

Auston Matthews- both busy but make it to sons game

Auston Matthews- smut doesn’t like Dylan

Friday 6/23- Carter Hart- A million reasons by Lady Gaga

Alex Galchenyuk- smut same circles but never met

Mikkeal Boedker- run into each other at grocery store

Saturday 6/24- Jeff Skinner/Justin Faulk- harassed/assaulted and they save you

Austin Matthews- jealousy birthday smut

Connor McDavid/Mitch Marner- Late Late show about song

Sunday 6/25- Any Caps player- political law firm but then player gets traded

Brady Skjei- celebration smut

Zach Hyman- proposes through book

Monday 6/26- Matthew Tkachuk- Secret Love song by Little Mix

William Nylander- car smut

Mitch Marner- messes up Valentines day

Tuesday 6/27- Any player- your teenage son is gay and introducing you to first boyfriend

Andre Burakovsky- broke up and reunited at Casino night smut

Jacob Trouba- Part 2 of Walk in the Park

Wednesday 6/28- Auston Matthews- African dancer and he gets jealous

Morgan Rielly- smutty

Kasperi Kapanen- tutoring him in college

Thursday 6/29- Morgan Rielly- one of the guys Morgan’s overprotective and jealous

Auston Matthews- teammate finds sex toys (ropes)

Morgan Rielly- escape Leafs event and find each other

Friday 6/30- Dmytro Timashov- watch scary movies

Artemi Panarin- tired of being called cute smut

Alex Galchenyuk- Chasing Ghosts by Against the Current

Saturday 7/1- Sidney Crosby- damsel in distress

Artemi Panarin- love the sounds you make smut

Morgan Rielly- fluffy

Sunday 7/2 Taylor Hall- transition from Edmonton to NJ

William Nylander- first time smut

Rasmus Ristolainen- fluff

Monday 7/3- Auston Matthews- yeast infection and dr visit

Leon Draisaitl- getting ejected during A PLAYOFF GAME

Oliver Ekman-Larsson- love at first sight

Tuesday 7/4- Alec Martinez- Cinco de Mayo festivities

Auston Matthews- tired and clingy

Jordie Benn- wants to be a family with you and daughter

Wednesday 7/5- Auston Matthews- jealous of Laine

Auston Matthews- bad day brings food

William Nylander- snaps boredom Willy takes to fair

Thursday 7/6- Johnny Gaudreau- cheer him up after getting swept

Jo Drouin- sitting front row at a game

Brandon Montour- get into a fight

Friday 7/7- Filip Forsberg- free reign

Auston Matthews/Sidney Crosby- autoimmune disease

Steven Stamkos- free reign

Saturday 7/8- Brenden Dillon/Timo Meier- free reign

Jakob Silfverberg- for noranihilia

Aaron Ekblad- free reign

Sunday 7/9- Filip Forsberg- free reign

Brent Burns- free reign

Roman Josi- free reign

Monday 7/10- Martin Jones- free reign

Chris Tierney- free reign

Nikita Kucherov- free reign

Tuesday 7/11- Mikael Granlund- cute/fluffy

Jonathan Marchessault- free reign

Nino Niederreiter- free reign

Wednesday 7/12- Morgan Rielly- avoid feelings talk and he thinks you don’t like him

Brendan Gallagher- angry/hate each other smut

Charlie Coyle- Lipstick part two

Thursday 7/13- Auston Matthews- you do his makeup and Mitch puts it on Instagram

William Nylander- wearing something that turns him on unknowingly

Pekka Rine- celebrate sweeping Hawks

Friday 7/14- Auston Matthews- you’re sick and he and Mitch take care of you and your kid

William Nylander- free reign about butt and thighs

Auston Matthews- meeting friend who doesn’t like the Leafs

Saturday 7/15- Sidney Crosby- wakes up and mutters I love you a lot

Artemi Panarin- free reign

Morgan Rielly- part of the group but he likes you but just friends

Sunday 7/16- Colton Parayko- bffs and in car accident and he tells you feelings

Ben Hutton- fluffy smut

William Nylander- same height insecurities

Monday 7/17- Mitch Marner- gf has chronic migraines

Alex Nylander- faking hickies prank

Tyler Seguin- Company by Justin Bieber

Tuesday 7/18- Auston Matthews- Gaston song with his name and he loves it (in secret)

Sean Monahan- after wrist surgery

Morgan Rielly- fluffy/funny butt touching

Wednesday 7/19- Mats Zuccarello- free reign

Auston Matthews- Toronto Furies, play Aus to see who better player is

Jakub Vrana- part two of Doughnuts

Thursday 7/20- Mitch Marner- making fun of passion over el clasico

Alex Galchenyuk- smut

Charlie McAvoy- free reign

Friday 7/21- Sam Reinhart- season ticket holder, sees you at the game

William Nylander- happy with himself after seeing scratches

Morgan Rielly- after getting knocked out of the playoffs

Saturday 7/22- Mikael Granlund- gives goal pucks to his son

Morgan Rielly- They Don’t Know about Us by One Direction

William Nylander- sees bruises after sex (non-smut) and he feels guilty

Sunday 7/23- Jamie Oleksiak- taking son to meet the team

Leon Draisaitl- dominant hot smut

Andre Burakovsky- meets at a charity event, sees again later when he has a gf (probably also a multiparter

Monday 7/24- William Karlsson- ILYSB by LANY

Leon Draisaitl- smut after finishing exams/graduation

Nazem Kadri- hit on Ovi

Tuesday 7/25- Auston Matthews- trying to turn him on in an elevator with teammates smut

Michael Latta- Smut hot when he fights

Auston Matthews- getting knocked out of playoffs and shutting you out so he doesn’t take anger/sadness/frustration out on you

Wednesday 7/26- Jonathan Toews- sequel to I’ll say yes for toews19

Andre Burakovsky- sleeping and he steals the sheets

Auston Matthews- argues about dishes

Thursday 7/27- Andre Burakovsky- surprising you at graduation

Michael Latta- smut angry after game and takes it out on you

William Nylander- sleeping and someone posts a picture

Friday 7/28- Tom Wilson- club and Tom gets jealous, heated

Zach Fucale- smut after not seeing each other for awhile and she wears his jersey for first time

Adam McQuaid- overprotective of gay son

Saturday 7/29- Milan Lucic- visiting with Bruins over the summer

Auston Matthews- riding his thighs dirty

Auston/Willy/Mo/Freddie/Kappy choice- insecure about height/speaking Spanish/ Take on the World by You Me at Six, or Speakers by Sam Hunt

Sunday 7/30- Auston Matthews- thinks shes cheating and comes after her after fight

Adrian Kempe- Somebody Else part two

Claude Giroux/any Flyers player- partying with team and blurts feelings while tipsy

Monday 7/31- William Nylander- reader talks Swedish and Willy loves it (heated)

Tyler Seguin- nsfw smut

Auston Matthews- friend but he wants more but you’re unsure of his reputation

Tuesday 8/1- Dylan Strome- Dive by Ed Sheeran

Sebastian Aho- free reign

Tyler Seguin- based off his IG “love me” trying to get your attention

Wednesday 8/2- Mikael Granlund- he thinks you’re dating him for his money

Alex Nylander- smut

Tyler Seguin- part 2 of Orders

Thursday 8/3- Tyler Seguin- friends dancing and he flirty teases you

Jakob Chychrun- teaching kids to skate

Auston Matthews- smut based off of Fire and Desire by Drake

Friday 8/4- Connor McDavid- AHL ex who won’t stop bothering you

Brendan Gallagher- meeting family for the first time

Dylan McIlrath- free reign fluff/steam

Saturday 8/5- Auston Matthews- muscular and self conscious about it

Auston Matthews- field hockey player stages of relationship

Dylan Strome- congratulate him after winning Western Conference

Sunday 8/6- Sam Reinhart- You’re Here part two

Auston Matthews- act like they hate each other, but really in love

Auston Matthews/Morgan Rielly (probably Mo)- scavenger hunt fluff/steam

Monday 8/7- Morgan Rielly- trying to get him to unwind after game by being a distraction

Colton Parayko- smut comforting

William Nylander- long lost buddies and run into each other while out with team

Tuesday 8/8- Auston Matthews- convinces him to go to country music festival

Mitch Marner- dark; abuse, cutting, mental health problems

David Pastrnak- cute and fluffy

Wednesday 8/9- Alex Nylander- cute/fluffy about hair/haircut

Auston Matthews- taking care of sick girlfriend

Charlie McAvoy- cute/fluffy

Thursday 8/10- Jeff Skinner- comforting about self harm scars

Mitch Marner/Willy Nylander- fight and admit they like each other cute or smut

Morgan Rielly- Leafs event with Mo and meet team for the first time

Friday 8/11- Sidney Crosby- have twins

Alex Nylander- morning smut

Alex Nylander- about being a bad cook

Saturday 8/12- Auston Matthews- in his POV; reader stressed and cuddles

Charlie McAvoy- smut

Noah Hanifin- Just a Friend part two

Sunday 8/13- Auston Matthews- stressing over testing

Charlie McAvoy- smut

Mitch Marner- reader speaks German

Monday 8/14- Morgan Rielly/JVR/Gabe Landeskog- Say you won’t let go by James Arthur

Ben Hutton- smut

Casey Cizikas- making fun of each other over concussions

Tuesday 8/15- David Pastrnak- Disneyland tickets/fluff

Auston Matthews- smut after surgery he worries he’s going to hurt her

Sebastian Aho- Teaches the reader Finnish

Wednesday 8/16- Michael Latta- babysitting his niece and calls you to come help/Latts insta with the baby

Nico Hischier- smut

Lawson Crouse- fluffy free reign

Thursday 8/17- Jesse Puljujarvi- cute/fluffy free reign

Mikael Granlund- teasing him with team smut

Elias Lindholm- childhood friends meet each other when older

Friday 8/18- Nico Hischier- meet at draft and show him around the city

Roope Hint- FWB smut

Andre Burakovsky- She’s Not Me by Zara Larsson

Saturday 8/19- Connor McDavid- Slow Hands by Niall Horan

Sebastian Aho- sweet first time smut

Leon Draisaitl- tries to give you a perfect birthday, but messes it up

Sunday 8/20- Matt Martin- come home wanting quiet and he’s playing COD with boys

Auston Matthews- friends since childhood start dating

Nico Hischier- depression, but he comforts her

Monday 8/21- Carter Hart- concussion and taking pain killers, makes him loopy

Tyler Seguin- calls mom to ask for ring, but mom thinks its another prank

Morgan Rielly- surprising you at your graduation

Tuesday 8/22- David Pastrnak- reader gets wisdom teeth out and recovery

Tom Wilson- Trainer for Caps smut

Auston Matthews- Fire and Desire by Drake

Wednesday 8/23- Alex Nylander- baby and baby names

Sidney Crosby- smut

Auston Matthews- reader is ace

Thursday 8/24- Alex Nylander- introduced to parents but mom doesn’t like her

Artemi Panarin- fight and makeup smut

Auston Matthews- coming home giggly drunk

Friday 8/25- Mitch Marner- parents are getting married and siblings

Beau Bennett- drunk hook up, bond next morning

Nico Hischier- high school AU

Saturday 8/26- Sidney Crosby- son from other relationship and first Mother’s Day

Morgan Rielly- clubbing and see him after breaking up

Timo Meier- free reign

Sunday 8/27- Tyler Seguin- Ben Bishop’s best friend meet through him

Willy/Alex Nylander- problems with self harming

Dmytro Timashov- cooking/cleaning when stressed Dmytro doesn’t know why

Monday 8/28- Colton Parayko- honored for military service at game

Sebastian Aho- friends teasing about you and Aho in bed

Auston Matthews- they surprise you for Mother’s day

Tuesday 8/29- Morgan Rielly- wear black and boys tease about being too badass for Mo

Jesse Puljujarvi- soft smut

Alexander Wennberg- Slow Hands by Niall Horan

Wednesday 8/30- Leon Draisaitl- can’t sleep, helps you fall asleep

Andre Burakovsky- shower smut

Dylan Strome- has crush on you but you aren’t interested

Thursday 8/31- Andre Burakovsky- Finnish rap music and chirping

Kasperi Kapanen- girlfriend is a soccer player

Alex Nylander- first sleepover and seeing her dressed down and no makeup

Friday 9/1- Colton Parayko- work for the Blues and Hutton catches you kissing

Sidney Crosby- Small Bump by Ed Sheeran

Alex Nylander- comes to your dance competition

Saturday 9/2- Geno Malkin- go on a cruise and he takes care of you after you get sun poisoning

Connor McDavid- takes care of you while you’re drunk/hungover

Tom Wilson- someone insults her and he defends you

Sunday 9/3- William Nylander- makes banana pancakes

Mitch Marner- Canada playing home country and Canada wins and y/n is mad

Carter Hart- snuggling and listening to the rain

Monday 9/4- Auston Matthews- bring child to family skate/practice

Jake Virtanen- vacation in a cabin first time smut

Zach Werenski- takes puck to face and bummed but he gets to spend more time with you

Tuesday 9/5- William Nylander- cute ringtone for gf and boys tease and possible proposal

TJ Oshie- takes you home from club smut

Auston Matthews- you have a bf and he seduces you to cheat

Wednesday 9/6- Mitch Marner- chipped tooth vs Finland

Leon Draisaitl- smut

Brayden Schenn- free reign

Thursday 9/7- Willy Nylander- active about Bell Let’s Talk cause you struggle with mental illness

Auston Matthews- before game smut

Willy/Auston/Freddie/Mitch- short and nerdy

Friday 9/8- Brady Skjei- BFFs and secretly in love with one another and you confess

Auston Matthews smut- friend of WAG and hookup after game then he asks you out

Auston Matthews- buy a puppy together

Saturday 9/9- Jordie Benn- dating but kept quiet cause shes shy, but he lets it out

Brayden Point- dirty smut

Carey Price- Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift

Sunday 9/10- Auston Matthews- bff and comforts you after a guy wants to use you as rebound

Sidney Crosby- smut

Morgan Rielly- son’s draft day

Monday 9/11- Jesse Puljujarvi- Eyes Closed- Halsey

Cliff Pu- meet on vacation and lose touch but moves to Canada for school

Teuvo Teravainen- Supersankari by Laura Närhi

Tuesday 9/12- Sebastian Aho- nopsajalka by lupaan olla

Tom Kuhnhackl- takes her to Germany to meet family

Marco Scandella- getting divorced, but Marco convinces her to give him second chance

Wednesday 9/13- William Nylander- celebrating making semi-finals

Auston Matthews- listening to music and dancing surprise smut

William Karlsson- fluffy free reign

Thursday 9/14- Anders Lee- free reign

Auston Matthews- mom doesn’t like you and speaks to him in Spanish, but you are fluent in it

William Nylander- So Wrong part two

Friday 9/15- Sebastian Aho- proposing

Nick Schmaltz- smut

William Nylander- high school AU king and queen at dance

Saturday 9/16- Sidney Crosby- wedding day fluff

Connor Brown- smut

Alex Nylander- watching Willy play in the Worlds and spending time with his fam

Sunday 9/17- Auston Matthews- Worried his teammates don’t take you serious because you’re younger than him and in college

Trevor van Riemsdyk- gets jealous over teammate talking to you at club smut

Leon Draisaitl- with kids or pregnant gf/wife

Monday 9/18- Phil Kessel- pregnancy or children fluff

Auston Matthews- Because You’re Mine by Kitty Kallen

William Nylander- y/n leaf interviewer and Willy flirts with you

Tuesday 9/19- Mitch Marner- gf plays hockey and gets in a fight and he’s worried/thinks its badass

Pekka Rinne- work with charity but first time meeting team as his GF at a game

#nhl imagines #nhl imagine

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thorne93 · 8 years ago

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Not What You Thought It Was (Part 4)

Prompt: What happens when Victor Frankenstein and an electrician’s assistant meet? History.

Word Count: 2350

Warnings: Spoilers, if you have NOT seen Victor Frankenstein and want to - TURN BACK. Maybe language. gore, etc.

Notes: This took me forever to write, and for that, I’m angry. But thanks to @queendivaofthedark I finally got it. Also, this is based on the 2015 Victor Frankenstein with James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe

Tagging: @cocosierra94

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Making lunch, you were in the apartment alone the next day. Igor and Victor had gone off for parts you believed.

A knock came and you happily answered it.

“Oh, Inspector Turpin. I’m sorry, Victor is gone.”

“Gone?”

“I mean, he won’t be back for quite some time,” you corrected politely.

“That’s quite alright, it’s you I’d like to speak to anyway,” he said, letting himself in. You shut the door as he spun to face you. “Trousers? A woman...in...trousers?” he asked.

You glanced down to your attired. “Well, yes. It is my home afterall, I’ll dress how I please.”

“Figures that Frankenstein would court a woman of such...caliber.”

You shook your head lightly, ignoring the remark. “What is it you needed, Inspector?”

“Could you tell me a little about Mr. Frankenstein’s hobbies? His...interests?”

“Why do you care to know about that?” you questioned, wondering where this was going.

“Merely to know how and where he spends his time.”

“Oh.” You started to pace around the room, your hands behind your back. “Well, when he’s not at school, he’s typically here, doing research, conducting experiments, reading.”

“What sorts of experiments?”

“Oh, you know, he likes to see if he can keep things alive.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, we have a small indoor garden he frequently works with,” you added, trying to keep a wicked smile off your face. You knew you had this inspector going, and it pleased you that he thought you were that dimwitted, only to discover you weren’t so easily fooled.

“I see. So where is he when he goes out at night?”

“I’m not entirely sure, Inspector. Our social lives aren’t exactly intertwined.”

“And why is that? Are you not engaged to be wed?”

“We are but frankly, we try to socialize with other people, otherwise we would kill each other.” You laughed a little. That was hardly true. What was true was that you were free to party and socialize with whom you wished and Victor was a recluse.

“Yes and do you help him in these...experiments? I hear you work at a local electrician's shop.”

You nodded. “Yes, that’s right. I work for an electrician but what does that have to do with anything?”

“And the experiments?”

“Yes, I help.”

“And does it bother your conscience?” he inquired, his cold, dark eyes staring into yours.

“To practice science, not in the slightest.”

“To challenge right and wrong, to challenge our Lord and savior.”

“Look, Inspector, I know you and I probably share different beliefs. Unlike Victor, I can respect that. You’re more conservative and I’m progressive, that’s all. I don’t believe what I’m doing is.”

“And what about what he’s doing?”

“I beg your pardon?” you said, confused.

“I mean, do you think the man who lies with you at night is the same man who you sit next to in the lab?” he asked.

You blanched. This man had more gall than you imagined.

“That’s none of your business. I’d like you to leave now,” you said.

He perched an eyebrow and began to leave, as you held the door open for him. He turned to you and said, “But let me ask you this. Does he love the experiment more than he loves you? Or perhaps he simply loves himself more than he loves you.”

The tiniest smirk came to his face as he left.

As soon as the door closed, your heart took a hit from the Inspector’s word. Usually, something like that wouldn’t have bothered you. But the question he posed at you...it was one you had begun to ask yourself lately.

Victor was changing. He was mad. You had been trying to hold onto hopes and notions that weren’t there. You were holding onto fraying strings. You had tried and tried to pull him from his madness but nothing was availing. You hated the Inspector for forcing you to think of it, see the truth…

Perhaps he was just trying to get in your head, to divide you, to pit you against each other. At any rate, you weren’t going to listen to a man so deep in his religion he could hardly be rational.

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Some time later, Victor had returned home and begun sketching again while you tidied up the house. You’d offered to look at the sketch and help with building the being but he asked that it be left to him. Igor was out doing God knows what.

In the meantime, Victor’s drawing and sketching had become manic. He was mumbling to himself frantically, sketching rapidly, sometimes even hitting his head to think straight. You watched on from afar as you dusted, swept, rearranged, picked up. It was almost like you weren’t even in the room. No matter what noise you made or how you stepped around him, he didn’t respond. He was lost in a world all his own.

You heard some keys jangling at the door and you assumed Igor must be back. That was partially true, but in with Igor came the hulking, tall man that was Victor’s father. You nearly dropped the vase that was in your hand.

“Where have you been? Not wise to be out on the town when there's a manhunt on,” Victor advised, making you surprised that he even realized someone had entered the flat. You were stricken with fear as he came in, suddenly stepping on the piece that was the creature’s heart. “Get off his heart!” Victor demanded in a harsh tone, pointing at his father’s feet. You could do nothing but stand and watch.

“Get up,” Mr. Frankenstein demanded in an intimidating tone. This man always sent shivers down your back. You’d met him around ten times since you’d been with Victor. “Leave,” he instructed to you and Igor. You quickly went to Igor and grabbed his arm gently and wheeled him into Igor’s bedroom. You spun and held a finger to your lips as you stood against the doorway to eavesdrop.

Victor seemed animated however. “Father, I'm so excited that you've come. Your timing is impeccable. I've had such breakthroughs with my--”

“I don’t care,” Mr. Frankenstein said with frustrated exhaustion. The words made you feel for Victor. His father was the one man he tried desperately to impress, to make happy, to make him proud. But he also loathed him for not seeing how important his research and experiments were. “I don't care about your poorly researched theories or your disastrous experiments.”

You closed your eyes and tried not to focus on the pain you knew this was causing Victor, and even you. His father didn’t understand the research like you did. He didn’t understand how close you all were or how important this all was.

“Not poorly researched, I've told you--”

“Victor, silence. Yesterday I received a telegram...informing me that you are to go before the board of directors at the college. They say you neglect your schoolwork. They intend to expel you.”

Holding in a gasp and a shock to the heart, you kept silent and still. Igor’s eyes were on yours the entire time. You two shared a look of shock and sorrow for Victor. He had really lost it, hadn’t he? He was neglecting schoolwork? How could he do that? What was he doing all day at school then?

At this, Victor became upset. He always turned...more childlike around his father. Not childish but it was almost as if he lost power or a voice when his father was around.

“No, they can’t!” he begged.

“Can’t they?” his father challenged.

“The work I am doing is far more important than anything they are conducting at that damn school,” Victor spat.

You shook your head and clutched your chest. What lengths would you have to go through to save him from this madness?

“You're a fool, Victor. You always have been. If only you could have been more like Henry. But you...You just bring shame to the name Frankenstein.”

A whimper was caught in your throat as you had to swallow the harsh words of his father.

Victor responded arrogantly, “I will ensure that the name of Frankenstein is never forgotten!”

A slap rang out in the apartment and a thud, making you froze. Now, your blood was boiling. No longer were you afraid of this man. You stepped out of the room and ran to Victor and checked his cheek, glancing up to his father.

“Y/N, you are supposed to keep him from doing such foolish things!” Mr. Frankenstein shouted at you.

You stood up to face him, Victor still laying on the floor, his hand on his cheek.

“Sir, I’m doing my best to support Victor, to help him in his endeavors.”

“And that’s precisely the problem! You should be stopping him from these experiments. Tell him this research isn’t worth his time. For God’s sake woman, can’t you see he’s greedy for something which will never be his? He’s a laughing stock!”

“He’s made progress,” you countered.

“Progress in what?”

“Giving life.”

“Aren’t you supposed to do that? As a woman you’re supposed to bore his children, make him settle down and be a family man, push him to finish medical school.”

“No, as his partner in life, I am to support him and help him, and that is what I am trying to do.”

“I should’ve expected as much from a woman who works at a man’s job and wears improper clothing. You’re just another disappointment of Victor’s in his long list of mistakes. I hope you two make each other very happy, because you’re not making anyone else happy.”

He spun on his heel and left. You crouched beside Victor as soon as he was gone, wondering if you’d burst into tears. You left to get ice for his mark. When you returned, Victor was sitting up in his chair, still holding the swollen red cheek.

“Thank you,” he softly said, taking the ice.

“It’s my job to take care of you,” you said sweetly as you pushed the hair out of his face.

“According to my father it’s your job to stop me,” he said with a scoff and roll of his eyes.

“Shh,” you instructed, kissing his forehead. “But your schoolwork, Victor, how could you?”

“Oh, so now I’m getting it from you, am I?” he questioned, irritated.

“I’m just trying to understand why you would throw away your work and career away.”

“Because of what we are doing here!” he nearly shouted. “Because of what we are doing, I don’t need that blasted school and those overrated grades and accolades.”

You sat a moment, still crouching in front of him, your hands on his knees. “Darling, I love our research, I love you, but I thought that the research was a side project and that your schooling would take precedence.”

“No. Finnegan needs a man, I’m working to do that.”

You smiled gently at him. “I know, darling, I know. But perhaps...perhaps you should’ve focused on school a bit more.”

“Well it’s too late now, hmm? At least if I’m not at school I’ll have more time for our research.”

Your mouth screwed to the side. He was looking at this entirely wrong. Perhaps...perhaps the inspector and his father were right. Regardless of the ethical side of this experiment, he was entirely obsessed with this endeavor, stopping at nothing, letting all he’s worked for get destroyed for some half-cocked notion.

You loved the experiment and the research, that was still true. You still wanted to see if it could be done, but it could be done slowly, piece by piece. Not to abandon all else in this journey to the answers. That’s where you and Victor differed. He was all consumed by this, but you were willing to take your whole life to find out. Sure, before Igor you wanted answers immediately, but now that you saw what it was doing to the love of your life, you started to loathe it. It was taking him away from you.

But you wouldn’t give up on him. Victor was your life, your love, your partner. You’d do everything in your power to support him. And if seeing this….abomination was the key to unlocking his sanity, you would do it.

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After a few hours, you retrieved Igor, letting him know it was okay to come out. He joined you out in the main area of the flat and asked Victor what he was sketching. Victor answered and then proceeded to hit himself, calling himself stupid, until you ran up and soothed him.

“He’s not big enough,” Igor suddenly said.

“Yes--what?” Victor asked as you both came away from the window to see what he was talking about.

“Gordon was fast and strong, sure, but he couldn't sustain any of that. And towards the end, he was having some real trouble breathing,” he informed.

“That’s right. He also had some auditory issues. He couldn’t tell where sounds were coming from.”

After that, the men went back and forth on getting a better charge, with you throwing in your opinion and thoughts. Until they realized that the body, regardless of the charged used, still can’t just accept that. It would need the means to sustain all that power.

“What if we doubled it?” you suggested.

“Doubled what, my dear?” Victor asked affectionately.

“Everything. Two pairs of lungs, hearts, liver...The problem is the 1 shell can’t contain the amount of energy we give it, right? What if we were to create a man that had 2 of everything, then the power would be dispersed.”

Igor and Victor stared at you in awe.

“That’s not a bad idea, actually,” Igor agreed.

“Not a bad idea? My future wife is a genius!” He lunged at you and kissed you excitedly and all over, making you laugh.

Igor suggested whiskey to celebrate and Victor agreed. You decided to not partake, as you wanted to remain sober for the brainstorming and you had work in the morning.

#not what you thought it was #victor frankenstein #victor frankenstein fic #victor frankenstein x reader #igor #igor straussman #james mcavoy #james mcavoy fic

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embee-the-nd-enby · 8 years ago

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Atomic Blonde thoughts-that-also-kinda-turn-into-synopsis-with-critique from a bi woc

Overall: - Charlize Theron plays an excellent badass again - unnecessary Death, but arguments can be made that it wasn't for as nefarious a reason as some are portraying (still beyond fucked!) (and also still with HIGH trigger rate so pls be safe my lil noodles) - am holding out for a Twist sequel for Twist Sequel purposes but also for the directors and producers to redeem themselves - 8 0 s S Y N T H P O P What we saw in trailers: Charlize Theron, Lorraine Houghton, wayy bisexual, pulverizing a bunch of white dudes (rather creatively as well), whose line of work gets those close to her (her lady lover) hurt What i saw in the movie: Charlize Theron, Lorraine Houghton, wayy bisexual, pulverizing a bunch of white dudes rather creatively, whose line of work gets those close to her (her lady lover) hurt, 8 0 s S Y N T H P O P The action: incredible. Charlize Theron did all her stunt work and the scenes were done very excellently in my opinion just because it was very... real? I'm not sure if i'll explain this right. But like when Lorraine going against multiple guys, it isn't the whole "wait until she's done fighting that one before i attack" like she would get overwhelmed if she hadn't already pummeled one before moving on to the next. She was incredibly creative in her weapon types and uses. The weapons with silencers didn't sound like Star Wars weapons going "pew pew!" Everyone was t i r e d after beating the shit out of each other! Like there were attacks from both sides that wouldn't work because they were weak, coughing, wincing, weezing, bleeding, all that. Looks: well first it was rockin to see 80s punk rockers again, so nice. AND ALSO THE MUSIC. THE AURAL AESTHETIC WAS GREAT. My dudes it's bloody as heck. The creativity in weapons extends to her wardrobe and that was so dope because those are her tools: badassery in fighting and style going hand in hand. Lorraine looks DISGUSTING when she gets beat up; her hair is a mess, makeup no longer visible under the blood and bruises and swelling. She's not the unrealistic killer woman that men have made as pristine and pretty all the time and that was great to see hollywood show that in a woman. Diversity/Representation: Pretty damn white. There is a person of color, a woman, a lesbian woman! But still in singular which is wack and outdated and i'm tired of it. The main character, a woman, is bi which is GREAT (i am partial of course) but once again, we're left in single digits. I am tired enough to allow the benefit of doubt that a majority of the male character's sexual orientations were not addressed and therefore technically can't write them off as straight.................. but i mean... Lorraine's bisexuality and wlw relationship was not made into a big to-do with her associates and colleagues. It just Was, if you get me. Which was nice! They were gay together without commentary on it being wrong/immoral/hot/whatever. When fighting, the men never sexually harassed or taunted her (i.e comments about 'liking feisty ones' and any comments about coercion and sexual assault). There are more comments after SPOILERS on this down below! Plot: fairly standard for these intelligence-agency movies where it's more focused on the what's-happening rather than why. I mean they address that in the end, about 'not even remembering what it's about' and all that. But pretty bland. However! There were some great twists! Somewhat predictable, depending how into the story you are i guess, but good twists! Also the fact that they didn't make Lorraine the emotional raving widow after finding out her dude lover was killed. They didn't make her intensity stem from mourning a guy, or that her ferocity was because of some guy; somebody is killing operatives, there is a mole, people are after her, and she has work to do Acting: great. I really thought all the characters that were established were portrayed throughout the entire movie. Lorraine is hardened from all the shit she's seen and been through, SMART AF, dry and witty as hell, confident as hell, but also vulnerable because she still has/will go through shit (more on this later under SPOILERS !) Percival is played douchey throroughly. There are some wisecracks and moments of humor that give him some likability but he doesn't lose the doucheiness (more later!) Delphine is a young naive woman but earnest and ambitious and is played through and through. She's not written/portrayed as useless or helpless like the comments i've been seeing say. She's out of her depth but can still make attackers struggle. She also knows she wanted to do the right thing but also is aware that she went about it in a way that's out of her league (there's also a really fucking annoying thing about what was written in her Naive personality that i discuss more later) Atomic Blonde was quite flawed. Duh. The plot was so very thin, could be summed to 4 words and yet wasn't all that clear at times? It was so white. Shocker. The diversity and representation was reduced to tiny single digits: one (1) person on color; one (1) lesbian; one (1) bisexual; two (2) women (or i guess technically three are actually on screen in some sort of focus). I enjoyed the wlw for obvious reasons, but i still had to contend with the Male Gaze aspects. Like Charlize Theron was one of the producers of the movie but there were scenes that we all know were also for men to enjoy *sprains eyes from rolling* i do enjoy that Delphine's character was initially a man in the graphic novel but they made her a woman. SPOILERS Right. So. The trailer shows us Delphine getting sexually involved with Lorraine and then later to be personally/romantically involved: 'everyone that gets close to you gets hurt' and a person attacks from behind. So we are expecting another lesbian death to add to the Trope Toll. And we do. She is strangled in lacy undergarments by a male in her bedroom area (she also was listening to music through earphones while she is expecting an attack like ??? That level if stupidity and naivety was not deserved. She fucking works for French Intelligence, they wouldn't hire a moron). So all this obviously enraged me but as someone who is not a lesbian, i can't imagine how traumatic this can be for y'all and i'm sorry that hollywood did you dirty like this again. Delphine was a woman confident in her sexuality and also wearing underwear around was rather commonplace. HOWEVER the story could have still flowed and ended superbly if Delphine wasn't killed in the triggering way she was, or ended up alive (I seriously thought she would since there had been several twists in the story already and i'm still kinda holding out for her making a surprise-return). She was prepping the photo proof of Percival's backstabbery, was then attacked, fought back and injured Percival (EXCELLENT stab, fuck i was so happy for a moment) and fought to the end, I will say this though: Delphine's death wasn't for shock factor, it wasn't BY A LONG SHOT the most gruesome death, it wasn't because she was lesbian, it wasn't because Lorraine is bi, it wasn't because she was a woman, etc. A lesbian didn't die to make the story more gripping or whatever. She died because she was someone close to the main character (which, like, damn do i stay glad the character was a woman or do i wish it was another man killed off, like??) Once again though, the story could have progressed, ended, and seriously improved if Delphine didn't die. Percival that limdick roach fuck. James McAvoy played that through and through. Lorraine sees through his (easily believable) façade of mainstream douchey behavior and carelessness and whatnot. She knows she can't trust him further beyond the Don't Trust Anyone rule. While awful, his awfullness didn't really exceed beyond. Like he double crossed almost everyone the entire movie. Big whoop. There wasn't anything about his character that was extraordinarily evil ufeelme (save for how the murder scene played out). He just kept sending people after Lorraine and was fairly standard trash. Lorraine is sneaky and smart af. Charlize did a spectacular job playing the armored main character that's resourceful and strong as all-get-out. She didn't take shit from anyone, was portrayed both dignified and sexual rather than having to be one or the other. She was gritty and not interested in looking good for anyone but herself, but Charlize was able to add vulnerability very well. Small things like after a massive guns-n-fists fight, a dude pulls out a double-edged knife and you can see a flicker of panic coz she's fucking tired and hand-to-hand with knives is harder than guns. She also cuddles with Delphine after they have sex! Then big things like having a moment to grieve after finding Delphine. She had, to whatever depth or extent, developed feelings for Delphine and so yet again a person she cared for is gone. And we get to see this ultra-composed, efficient, brutal badass allow herself to feel. And then she goes after Percival with a renewed vigor and kills him brutally after all the shit he put her through and she avenges Delphine. Overall again: - hollywood refuses to surprise me - 7/10 - probs wouldn't see it again, like buy-my-own-ticket again, but would not be opposed to seeing blonde Charlize Theron kick ass in heels to Duran - still down for seeing non-shamed, not-overly-sexualized-for-men wlw

#atomic blonde #tw: violence #atomic blonde spoilers

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thorne93 · 8 years ago

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Not What You Thought It Was (Part 2)

Prompt: What happens when Victor Frankenstein and an electrician’s assistant meet? History.

Word Count: 2633

Warnings: Spoilers, if you have NOT seen Victor Frankenstein and want to - TURN BACK. Maybe language. gore, etc.

Tagging: @cocosierra94

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Life with Igor and Victor became a rather easy routine. Within two weeks, you and Victor had extracted every organ from the animal, and even added others, and Igor had given life to them. When Victor was at school though, and Igor reading in his small study, you went to work at the electrician's.

And your sole focus wasn’t simply the experiment with Victor, either. You had a few small projects of your own regarding electricity, building all sorts of small to medium contraptions.

Finally, Gordon was ready. The first time he was given life, you ran to Victor and kissed him hard, throwing your legs around him. He cheered happily and kissed you back. You and Victor had tested the electricity to him once and he started to breathe, then the charge would get lost, but it was progress. The night it worked, you both agreed to show Igor just what his work had accomplished. But before that, a celebration was to be had for the achievement.

You and Victor got ready in your room as Igor dressed in his. Victor picked out a satin royal purple gown for you and you quickly got ready in it. As quickly as one could with stockings, petticoats, and a corset. You let your hair fall down in tight ringlets, with the top part sweeping back up out of your face. Matching your gown, you had some fine jewelry of a deep amethyst necklace that smattered over your collarbone with chandelier earrings. You put on some petite black lace gloves and you were ready. Victor of course wore his greatest finery and grabbed a cane as you met Igor in the middle of the flat and set out.

“Where are we going?” Igor asked.

“We’re going to a club that I have rights to thanks to my father.”

“Oh, I’m not sure I’m cut out for this,” Igor said, suddenly nervous.

“Nonsense, Igor, you’ll be fine,” you said sweetly.

“All you need to do is keep your back straight, your words clean, and try your damndest not to embarrass me,” Victor said.

You all entered and quickly joined in on the festivities. You all sat with a group of ladies as Victor started to talk about how women weren’t needed for the fertilization process. Talking of babies in vats, and sperm, and thinks not exactly suitable for his status. The women seemed disgusted by the notion and Igor embarrassed. You were used to his outbursts though and thought nothing of it

Obviously, Victor had started to drink too much, as he could in social settings. Well, he could drink quite a bit no matter where he was. You left him for a bit to go dancing as Igor went off by himself as well.

Suddenly, Victor had gotten louder and you broke your dance to calm him down but he said he wanted to find Igor. He immediately found him upstairs with a girl. You jogged to keep up with him.

“He finds ordinary people--” Igor was saying.

“Ordinary,” he finished as he slid between the two. “You’re the fallen angel,” Victor noted. “Plummeted from any other great heights lately? Maybe you should try this one. It's only, oh...all of 30 feet,” he said as he leaned over. “You've had worse.” He laughed and you groaned internally at him. He could be a downright ass when he was drunk, but you remained quiet.

“I'm afraid the only thing plummeting here is my opinion of you, Mr. Frankenschteen.”

“Excuse you,” you spoke up, a fire lit inside you. “That’s my fiance you’re speaking of.”

“Well your fiance is being incredibly rude to me.”

“My fiance saved your bloody life,” you said as you moved forward toward her.

“No, Igor did,” she argued.

“Victor did,” you asserted, your eyes burning with irritation. “It’s not his fault you failed to execute your act as an acrobat.”

“I beg your pardon,” she said, offended as if you just slapped her.

You narrowed your eyes on her but Victor pulled you back. “Alright dear, that’s enough defending me. Would you care to join us?” he asked the girl that you were rapidly growing to hate. You wanted to turn and slap him for inviting her. She joined you down at your table and he began to explain his experiment.

Now, of course, I can't tell you everything, but suffice it to say...Igor and I stand upon the cusp of...creating life out of death,” he informed as he animatedly spoke, reminding you of why you loved him.

Mr. Frankenstein,” she started.

Victor, please.”

“I find your promise more than a little unsettling.”

“Oh? Superstitious, are we?” He glanced at you and winked and you tried to hide your knowing smile.

She slightly shook her head. “No. Are you not afraid to challenge the natural order?”

You scoffed as Victor asked for Igor’s opinion.

Igor hesitantly answered her. “Once, I would have agreed with you, Lorelei, but think about it. Twenty years ago, electric lights would have been thought of as magic. Your injuries in the circus would have been fatal. Everyday science and technology changes the way we live our lives. Look at me.”

“Precisely,” you agreed. “Igor speaks the truth. Science is ever changing.”

“Oh, and I suppose a lady would know all about science?” she challenged, her eyes steely on yours.

“As a matter of fact, not all of us parade around in nothing to earn a living. I am a scientist.”

“Oh? So you are in on this lunacy as well. You’re as deranged as your fiance.”

“Have you ever lost anyone?” you suddenly asked.

She took a moment to respond before shaking her dark curls. “No.”

“No, I didn’t think so. And that’s why you don’t understand. Because if you did lose someone, you would understand why research such as ours is groundbreaking and life changing.” Your jaw set as your eyes stayed on hers with a strong conviction.

Victor went on to explain your shared dream of healing the dead. Where victims can face their murderers, where soldier’s can be brought back to life. He did a small demonstration with his card trick and then you all left for the evening.

“Igor, you shouldn’t see her again,” Victor instructed. You agreed by nodding.

“What? Why? She’s kind to me.”

“She’s uneducated. She lives in the dark ages,” you explained, picking up your skirts.

“But…” Igor started to object.

You spun on your heel and stood before Igor. “But nothing. Igor, that girl was incredibly rude to all of us. To mainly Victor, who need I remind you, saved her life and yours.” You’d defended and protected Victor far too much to let some half-wit girl from the circus tarnish his name, reputation, or assistant.

“Yes but…”

“Come, we have something to show you. It’s our monster. Our creation,” you promised with a wicked gleam in your eye.

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The next day, you helped Victor and Igor get Gordon loaded and over to the college for the demonstration.

“Oh, darling, I’m so excited!” you almost squealed, sitting in your skirts in the carriage. “If only I didn’t have to wear all of this garb,” you complained with a pout. Victor leaned over and kissed you.

“Not for much longer, my love. We will be the most wanted scientists in all of Europe and you can wear any damned thing you want!” he howled and stamped his cane.

“Do they know what we’re bringing?” Igor asked.

“No, merely that it’s a private project,” Victor answered. “But soon enough, the world will know what we’ve created.” He turned to you and said, “Darling, I want you to check out the electrical equipment, if you don’t mind.”

“I’d love to,” you said with a beaming smile.

Victor and Igor worked on getting Gordon into the hall, unbothered, while you checked the power units, tested them, and calibrated them.

“They’re ready, my love,” you quietly informed as you stepped up behind Victor.

“Excellent, thank you.” Victor had started his speech and you and Igor primed the dynamo for him. Once it was ready, he charged him and the only thing that happened was an awful smell filled the room as well as flies exploding from the exposed orifices of the homunculus. The patrons that were watching seemed disgusted, and started to leave.

You’d been hopeful, of course, but what if this monstrosity was not what you thought it would be? What if it was just an empty shell of nothingness? What if this housed a breathing being, but not life? What then?

“Wait, don’t go. Y/N, more. Harder,” Victor instructed. You ran and cranked the wattage and voltage and told him it was ready. On three, you shocked him again, but nothing happened. In the midst of the failure, a young blonde man was cracking jokes at your team’s expense. At your fiance’s expense.

“Full charge, you two!” Victor shouted when the spectators started to leave. You primed it and when he was ready, you hit the lever. He was knocked back and Gordon had life. You checked on Victor but he was entirely fixated on the monster. “Do you see?” he asked, his mouth nearly foaming. Gordon sat up, he seemed calm at first, but then he started to turn. He attacked everyone and slammed Victor back into the machines.

“Victor!” you screamed as you ran to him.

“Not me! I’m fine! Go after him! Don’t let him escape!” he shouted at you as Igor was already on the way out the door. You debated for a second more but joined Igor in the hunt for the thing. Finally, you found him, and he was entirely rabid. He had pushed Igor over the banister when Victor found them quarreling. You were trying to knock Gordon off and help Igor over the side, but when Victor came out, he was more concerned with Gordon.

“Victor, help me! Not the monster!” you instructed, agitated.

Once he got him off, you and Igor both yelled, “Kill it, Victor!”

He seemed to hesitate, but then he knocked him out and killed him.

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You were all home, you’d taken off your false skirts and stood in breeches, vest, undershirt, and riding boots. Igor and Victor had started a screaming match while you made a pot of tea.

“It was out of control!” Igor shouted.

“We made progress today!” Victor retorted.

“Yes, we did, love, but at what cost?” you asked. You’d been quiet while they argued but he was becoming out of control himself.

“It was homicidal!” Igor said again.

“I had no way of knowing that Gordon would do that,” he countered.

“We know that, darling,” you agreed as you rubbed your hand on his arm. “But perhaps...perhaps it wasn’t meant to be,” you tried.

“What are you saying?” he asked, yanking away from you. “You want to throw away years of our work for one failed first attempt?”

“No..” You turned to Igor. “Igor, please. It was one bad apple. That doesn’t mean the next one will be like that.”

“The next one?” he scoffed. “Have you gone completely mad? We can’t make another one. No.”

Suddenly, the blonde student--who’d been quietly observing the fight with you--had spoken up and was lavishing Victor in compliments as you stood with your arms crossed. He asked if you could create more. Victor said he could if he had more money, to which the boy, Finnigan agreed.

“More.”

“A man. A thinking, intelligent being.”

Soon, talk of building a human being took place and Finnigan said he wanted another demonstration once it was done. They bickered a bit more and soon as the door closed behind Finnigan, Victor turned on Igor viciously.

“You did not create this technology and yet you presume to tell me how to use it. You should know your place! Your ignorance of the ways of the world cannot hinder the furtherment of my experimentation.”

Victor, don’t shout at him. Maybe he’s right,” you tried as you stepped forward.

“Oh, so now you’re siding with him?” he asked savagely as he pointed at Igor.

“I’m merely saying that this time was a bit of a disaster, why do you think a human will be better?”

“Because he’ll be civilized!” he shouted as if it was obvious. “You fail to understand this! I thought you wanted this! I thought you wanted this as much as I did!”

“I do, but perhaps we should try another animal before we try to build an entire man,” you tried. “We couldn’t control a chimp, how can we control a man?”

He got closer to you and Igor and darkly said, “That man represents our only ally on this planet. And if he wants us to make him an entire zoo of homunculi, that is exactly what we will do. If it ensures the furtherment of our research. Am I making myself clear?” Neither of you responded and he raised his voice, making you both jump. “Am I making myself clear?!”

“Yes, Victor,” Igor said, as if he’d had the fight beaten out of him.

“Victor, please, this isn’t rational,” you tried as you started to race after him.

“Leave me be!” he shouted as he opened the door to the basement and descended. You sighed and spun to face Igor.

“Don’t mind him. He’s a bit of a mad scientist. Someone threatens his work and he goes entirely bonkers,” you joked, trying to make light of what you knew was a very serious situation.

“Why is he like this? Why is he so determined to do this?” Igor inquired.

You bit your lip, not sure you should share something so intimately private. But you decided to divulge. You led Igor to a sitting area in the flat.

“When Victor was little...He and his brother went out into a wintery storm. A blizzard had come up, they had no way of knowing. Henry had kept Victor safe, but when they found them in the morning, Henry had died. He blames himself, of course.” You smiled sadly and tried to keep the tears back. “So...he feels like he has to put the balance back.”

“And you?” Igor questioned as he dipped his head down to look at you. “Why do you go along with it?”

“He isn’t the only one who’s lost someone,” you informed, your eyes meeting his, another sad smile playing at your lips. “My sister Margaret, died of scarlet fever.”

“That wasn’t your fault.”

“No, but I would like her back.”

“But...this...what we’re doing. It’s clearly not bringing them back to how they should be,” Igor argued.

You leaned forward and put your hand on his face, gently stroking down. “My dear, you’ve never lost anyone either, have you? If you had, you would know you’d give up anything to have them back. So maybe Gordon didn’t work...But that doesn’t mean we should stop trying. No one’s experiments work the first time.”

“Yes, but, do you honestly believe bringing your sister back that she’ll be the same?”

“I don’t know. I just have to hope. Science gives us miracles every day. Gordon was a mish-mash of parts that weren’t his. Applying the same science to a human who’s already whole, might be a different result.”

Igor didn’t say anything for a moment.

“I know it sounds mad. I know.” You hesitated for a second. “So you see, he’s not mad. Merely heartbroken. Our broken hearts is what kindred us too each other. But if it could happen, think of how happy we could make people.”

“Or how scared. I think very few people would agree with this,” he said softly.

“Well...you did,” you reminded him.

#not what you thought it was #victor frankenstein #igor #victor frankenstein fic #james mcavoy fic #victor frankenstein x reader #james mcavoy

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