#jerry the hammer brother

[itsamenickname]

Okay, so do you guys remember how I talked about how both @jelixpo and @deckof-dragons/@anomander-dragnipurake inspired me to write my story, To Break the Bonds Within Two Kingdoms back in the Ao3 chapter 11 notes?

Well, what if I told you that there was another Bowuigi story idea I had in mind while brainstorming TBTBWTK?

That's right, what you are about to read is another rough Bowuigi story idea I had that actually originated back in late April-early May 2022 (right around the same time TBTBWTK was first born). While I ended up choosing TBTBWTK to flesh out and actively work on, I felt bad for keeping this WIP hidden within my computer files for almost an entire year (okay, I kind of told one person about this idea back in mid-November 2022, but it wasn't to the extent of what you're about to see).

And since the Mario movie is coming out today, I thought what better way to celebrate the momentous occasion than by sharing this fun little Bowuigi story idea? :)

Also, before I forget, if anyone wants to do something with this idea, then by all means go for it. (Just let me know if you have done something with the idea so that I can see it.) :) As I just mentioned, this was something I've thought of back in early-mid 2022, but because I want to not only finish TBTBWTK, but also work on a second (and bigger) Bowuigi story after TBTBWTK is done, I figured that it would be better to at least share this rough WIP/idea than to leave it in my computer files for no one else but myself to see.

Anyway, I apologize in advance for the extremely long post (and for any grammatical errors), but I hope you guys like the idea all the same! :D

(Adding a cut here to help make this post shorter.)

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Okay, so imagine a time in the Mushroom Kingdom where Bowser is living a good life. He and Peach recently signed a peace treaty together (and by recently, I mean like 1 month ago), not to mention that he's been dating Luigi for about 6 months now and has never been happier (per Luigi's request, they are keeping their relationship a secret which Bowser doesn't mind at all).

But on one mysterious night in the Dark Lands, Jerry (yes, the same Jerry from TBTBWTK) informs Bowser that he has a surprise visitor waiting for him in the throne room. Well, this didn't make much sense to the Koopa King. If it was Luigi, Mario, or even Peach, Jerry would've explicitly told him, but the fact that the Hammer Bro. not only refused to elaborate about the visitor, but also seemed kind of hesitant and nervous when Bowser asked for more info about the said mysterious visitor? That just seemed really weird to Bowser.

And oh boy was he right when he stepped into the throne room and saw the one and only King Boo.

Now, even though Bowser wanted nothing more than to kick the ghost king out of his kingdom, Luigi's kindness actually rubbed off on him just enough to where he instead angrily asked King Boo why the hell he's here. When Luigi talked to E. Gadd last month, the professor said that the ghost king was still trapped in that canister from the adventure of The Last Resort, so it didn't make much sense that the ghost king who he thought was trapped is floating right in front of him.

So King Boo explains to Bowser about his new plan. He rants on and on about how he is just so sick and tired of getting defeated and captured over and over again, so King Boo devised a new plan. He figures out that the best way to defeat the Mario Bros. (especially Luigi) and take over the Mushroom Kingdom/rest of the world is by teaming up with Bowser. Sure, King Boo understands that Bowser may not have a good track record when it comes to defeating Mario, but he figured that as long as Bowser distracts Mario and Peach just long enough, King Boo could use that stall to trap Luigi in a painting.

Bowser, of course, shoots down the idea. He explains to King Boo how he just recently signed a peace treaty with Peach and he doesn't want to do anything that would break Mario, Peach, and especially Luigi's trust (although he doesn't mention Luigi to King Boo). And even if he and Peach hadn't signed a peace treaty, he has very well learned from his past mistakes and knows deep down that Mario and Luigi can, and will, easily defeat both of them.

But before Bowser can leave the throne room, King Boo manages to stop him in his tracks by explaining how he knows that he and Luigi are dating.

King Boo also blackmails Bowser by saying that if Bowser doesn't agree to team up with him, he won't hesitate to posses Bowser and force him to kill Luigi with his own hands.

As much as Bowser wanted to call on King Boo's bluff, he's inwardly really scared to. If King Boo was making threats to him, Mario, Peach, or anyone else (should point out that the Koopalings & Jr. don't exist in this timeline, but I'll leave that up to reader's discretion), Bowser wouldn't care about the idea of King Boo possessing him. But King Boo was making an indirect threat to Luigi, the one person Bowser would not hesitate to lay his life down for. If anything were to happen to the love of his life, it would kill the Koopa King (no matter if it was his fault or not).

So Bowser grudgingly agrees to King Boo's plan as the ghost king is excited to finally set his plan into motion. But before he forgets, King Boo mentions one little important thing:

This new alliance they have has to be a secret. No one, not even Kamek and Kammy, can know about it. Everyone has to believe that whatever is about to happen is Bowser's ideas and his ideas alone.

And if anyone finds out about their alliance/plan on their own (or if Bowser tells anyone about their plan), King Boo will kill Luigi himself and force Mario and Bowser to watch.

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So time skip to around 2 weeks later where Bowser has caused so many problems to the MK to the point to where Peach is sick of it. She sets up a royal meeting with herself, Mario, Luigi, Toadsworth, and the royal court about what they should do with Bowser. The royal court is honestly spilt on either declaring war on the Dark Lands (they have a justifiable reason to declare war because Bowser has broke parts of the peace treaty) or try to reach out to Bowser and meet with him peacefully.

Eventually, the arguments get so stressful and out of hand that Peach gets mad (and I mean really fucking mad) and orders the royal court to let her, Mario and Luigi discuss this in private. While the royal court (especially Toadsworth) are hesitant on this, they eventually follow her orders and leave the brothers and Peach alone in the room. When it's finally just the three of them, Peach just takes this time to calm down and take a few deep breaths (which Mario and Luigi don't mind and allow her to take as much time as she needs).

Once she is really to talk about it again, she explains to Mario and Luigi how she is kind of dead set on declaring war on the Dark Lands. As a few Toads pointed out earlier in the meeting, Bowser broke parts of the peace treaty, not to mentioned that she had actually privately reached out to him on multiple occasions, but has never received as response back.

Now Luigi (who had been mostly quiet throughout the entire meeting due to his anxiety and his tough decision on whether to stand by Peach or Bowser's side) tries to defend Bowser by explaining how both the MK and the Dark Lands had worked on the peace treaty for almost 3 months (not to mention that they've officially signed it last month) and theorizes that there has to be a reason that Bowser is causing so much trouble that they don't know about. Luigi begs Peach to give him time to talk to Bowser before she decides to declare war on Bowser's kingdom.

Now here, I should point out that both Peach and Mario know that Luigi and Bowser are friends, but they don't know that they're dating. So obviously, when Luigi begs Peach to let him talk to Bowser, Mario (being the protective older big brother that he is) hates the idea. He still doesn't trust Bowser and is afraid that allowing Luigi to talk to Bowser (especially right now) will ultimately get his little brother hurt or worse, killed (it would destroy Mario if anything happened to Luigi).

But despite Mario's protests, Peach makes a deal with Luigi: He has one week to talk to Bowser and make him change his ways. If Luigi succeeds, then she won't declare war on the Dark Lands. However, if he fails, Peach will declare the treaty null and void and declare war on Bowser's kingdom.

So over the course of the next 5 days, Luigi tries to reach out to Bowser in multiple ways. He tries to write him letters, meet at their usual spot on the usual days they hang out together, little things like that. However, none of his ideas work. Now, that's not to say that Bowser hadn't received Luigi's letters. In fact, Bowser has actually received every single one of his boyfriend's letters (at one instance, Bowser started to tear up as he carefully touched Luigi's handwriting, which led to King Boo taunting him on whether he should respond to Luigi's letter or not.), but...Bowser is honestly scared. He wants to tell Luigi that he hates doing what he's doing, he wants to tell Luigi about King Boo's ultimate plan to take over the MK and the rest of the world, but...he can't. He doesn't want to put Luigi in any form of danger, so he figured that the best way to keep Luigi safe is by completely shutting him out.

But that kind of backfires on Bowser because on the afternoon of the 6th day, Luigi gets a new idea.

He gets the idea to sneak over to Bowser's Castle (without Mario, Peach, or anyone else knowing) and talk to Bowser face-to-face (for the first time since Bowser's alliance with King Boo) in hopes of forcing his boyfriend to talk about why he's doing all of these bad things.

But as for what happens when Luigi finally arrives at Bowser's Castle?

Well, I'll leave that up to you. ;)

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire 1957

"Great Balls of Fire" is a song recorded by American rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis. It was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. The song was featured in a performance by Jerry Lee Lewis and his band in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll film Jamboree.

It sold one million copies in its first 10 days of release in the US making it one of the best-selling singles in the US at that time. It reached number 2 on the Billboard pop charts, number 3 on the R&B charts, and number 1 on the country charts. It also reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, and appeared on the New Zealand Singles Chart and the Dutch Top 40. It was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone. In 1998, "Great Balls of Fire" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In the 1986 film Top Gun, LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) plays the song in a bar with his family and Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise). The song is performed again in the sequel, the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick by Goose's son LT Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller).

"Great Balls of Fire" received a total of 75,4% yes votes!

[phone-kisser]

And now I present. Me. Talking. About dialtown characters. I'm so good at this

Tw for OPINIONS.

OLIVER

My son. MY SON. I love this stupid dummy dum-dum idiot fartface. He was my original favorite!! I played his route the most at first when I first accidentally downloaded this game. Either way, 10/10 character very squishy very lovable

RANDY

Wow what a boy! What a goober! I stole his name. Very good name. He was my second favorite. I love his character arc. The first ending I got in his route was him going insane and killing madame mediocre with hammer. Honestly great ending in my opinion I didn't really appreciate madame mediocre's presence

KAREN

I love this gal. She's so silly. I would like to paint with her and talk about horses because horses are a FUCKASS thing to fixate on (/vpos) and I love it. I love KAREN DUNN. She deserves the world and I would give it to her in a HEARTBEAT if I could but I'm unfortunately not strong enough to lift the entire world 😞

BIGFOOT

...I honestly have no words for Bigfoot. His route wasn't my favorite but I enjoyed playing it. Funny haha teaching Bigfoot toaster

JERRY

JERRY MY BELOVED.. JERRY I LOVE YOU BABY DITCH YOUR WIFE AND KISS ME INSTEAD I SWEAR I'LL BE A BETTER WIFE THAN SHE EVER COULD JUST GIVE ME A CHANCE PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE YOU WON'T REGRET IT

...I think I like jerry.

NORM

I love Norm very much!!!!! He started my weird thing for cowboys. I really like cowboys. Like. REALLY like cowboys. Thank you Norm I could never hate a cowboy because of you

MINGUS

I kinda hated her for a WHILE. Until the end of chapter three I was literally like "ew get off my screen" every time she came on. Now of course I have evolved from my CHILDISH ways. (No I haven't) And decided that she really doesn't deserve to be HATED...

But she's still not my favorite character.

THEOROAR

...WHO ADDED HIM TO THE LIST. FUCK YOU THEO. I HATE YOU. I DISLIKE YOU. YOU'RE AN UNPLEASANT PERSON. I HATE YOU SO MUCH. WHY ARE YOU HERE. GET. GET OUT

BILLY

I actually like Billy a little too much and I'm not elaborating

STEVEN????

Yes I know steven is in fact NOT a dialtown character but. FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

I love steven very much he's like a wet cat and I really like that in a man yknow

HIS THEME IS SO GOOD. I LOVE HIS THEME SO MUCH. ALSO HIS SPRITES ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS EVER LIKE HOW COULD YOU HATE SOMEONE WITH SUCH A BANGER THEME AND ADORABLE SPRITES. YOU CANT. FUCK YOU CARTER. (..my brother. Love you bro)

[cryingalexanders]

So I did some research on which silver and bronze age writers were behind certain Lex Luthor stories, and assigned them in this list:

Jerry Siegel

Adventure Comics #271 "How Luthor Met Superboy",

Superboy #86 "The Army of Living Kryptonite Men",

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #23 "The Curse of Lena Thorul",

Superman #149 "The Death of Superman",

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #64-65 (with Jack Schiff & Leo Dorfman)

Otto Binder

Superboy #121 "Jor-El's Visit to Earth",

Superboy #139 "The Town that Hated Superboy"

Edmond Hamilton

Superman #164 "The Showdown Between Superman and Luthor",

Superman #168 "Luthor -- Super-Hero!",

Action Comics #318 "The Death of Luthor!",

Superman #175 "Clark Kent's Brother"

Leo Dorfman

Action Comics #295 "The Girl With the X-Ray Mind",

Action Comics #296-298,

Adventure Comics #387-388 "Lex Luthor's Outlaw Nephew",

Action Comics #332 "The Super-Revenge of Lex Luthor",

Action Comics #363-365,

Action Comics #417-418 "The Conspiracy Of The Crime-Lords"

Len Wein

Superman #248 "The Man Who Murdered the Earth"

Elizabeth M. Smith

Action Comics #486 "Hero for a Day"

Elliot Maggin

Superman #286 "The Parasite's Power Play",

The Joker #7,

Superman #292 "The Luthor Nobody Knows",

Superman Annual #9,

DC Comics Presents Annual #4 "Welcome to Luthorcon III!",

Superman #416 "The Einstein Connection"

Cary Bates

World's Finest #189-190 "The Man With Superman's Heart",

Action Comics #407 "The Fiend in the Fortress of Solitude",

Action Comics #318 "Luthor's Hammer of Hate!",

DC Special Series #5,

Action Comics #510-512,

Action Comics #544 "Luthor Unleashed!", Superman #385-386,

Superman Annual #12

Martin Pasko

Action Comics #500,

Superman Family #214 "The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor"

Marv Wolfman

DC Comics Presents Annual #1

Misc:

Heroes Against Hunger - Various Writers

I was actually rather surprised by some of this. Finding out that Leo Dorfman wrote the Action Comics #363-365 "Leper from Krypton" arc, indicates he's actually been quite influential on Mark Waid, in my opinion. (And I definitely think that Cary Bates in particular influenced Grant Morrison. Bates' stuff ranges in quality a little, but the higher end stuff is fantastic.) I also didn't remember that it was Siegel who introduced Lena, and I was shocked to find out he co-wrote that mad Lex/Lois romance in earth-64.

And I didn't list every story, obviously. I just tracked down ones that were memorable to me for one reason or another.

[neon-green-reagent]

Vampire Films That Suck My Blood

But don’t SUCK. You know? What I mean? They’re good. Anyway. 

Let’s start with the super obvious ones you’ve probably seen. And if you haven’t, go see them, they’re classics. Near Dark (my personal favorite), The Lost Boys, Interview With The Vampire, Horror of Dracula (Hammer), ‘Salem’s Lot, Blacula, From Dusk Till Dawn, Let The Right One In, and Fright Night, by which I mean the one from the 80s. Now we can get into some deeper cuts. 

Night Owl | Filmed in black and white and set against the backdrop of the New York nightclub scene of the early 90s, this one is OOPS ALL VIBES. It’s full of house music and brutal murders. One of those films that feels intensely gay despite its best efforts to be straight. Very moody and arthouse. Obviously I recommend the hell out of this for a very specific crowd of people.

Pale Blood | What a nutso concept. A human is running around killing people in the style of a vampire. So a real vampire shows up to stop him. With Wings Hauser being super unhinged, as he tends to do. Lots of neon lighting that makes it all extremely 80s. And a neat little turn at the end that gives it a satisfying twist. 

Bliss | Vampirism as addiction. It’s been said, but this isn’t just about having an insatiable need. It’s about getting so goddamn high that you destroy everything around you and awaken from being blackout destructive and realize you’re ruining your own life. Pretty intense stuff. Meaning it’s very bloody and wild. It goes the extra mile, for certain. The main character is a painter, so there is also a super gorgeous painting that she creates in her very high moments that I wish I could have on my wall. 

The Night Flier | An adaptation of a Stephen King short story starring Miguel Ferrer, which I personally feel should be recommendation enough. But I’ll gladly keep going. Ferrer plays a tabloid journalist who is chasing after a serial killer who thinks he’s a vampire. THINKS, right? He just THINKS he is? Well, the deeper he goes, the more it looks like he has a real one on his hands. And he’s so fucking cynical that he’s probably going to stare into the abyss and the abyss will stare right back. 

30 Days of Night | Hey, I just recently rewatched this one. It still slaps. In Alaska, there are periods during the year where the sun doesn’t rise at all. In this case, a bunch of vampires are like SWEET. And go there and absolutely body slam everyone in town. A handful of survivors are left trying to defend themselves against these superhuman creatures that are... just the scariest looking fucking things. It looks like if a human were crossbred with a shark. What a LOOK. There are so many memorable and standout moments in this movie. Truly just watch it. 

Fright Night Part 2 | We all know the first movie. But the sequel tho. DAT SEQUEL. The big draw being Jerry’s sister Regine and her entourage of absolute characters that follow her everywhere. They’re out for revenge for the death of her brother, and suddenly the tables are turned. Charley becomes the one that can’t resist the vampire’s charms, and Regine is laughing all the way to the blood bank. She’s a queen. 

Vamp | Another intensely memorable and awesome female vampire. Grace Jones dominates the screen here as Katrina. A vampire stripper who kills when she mates. She for sure steals every scene she’s in, but the movie is also bombastically neon 80s with the dumbest and most fun sense of humor. It’s a charming movie with an amazing villainess. 

The Hunger | AND ANOTHER! Sorry for being so gay, but here’s a lesbian vampire movie. Miriam Blaylock is a vampire looking for love. And she both cares and doesn’t if that means eventually keeping your desiccated, still alive body in a box somewhere down the line. She’s a complicated lady. This was beautifully shot, very dream-like, and also stars David Bowie for some extra gay. 

Dracula (1979) | Genuinely my favorite version of Dracula. It was based off of a stage play version. Which means all the names are reversed and nothing lines up with the book, but Dracula just seems fated to be adapted very loosely. Frank Langella swaggers rather moodily through the piece, melting every woman he passes with a look. I like this take, that Dracula is just a Chad that no one can possibly outdo because no one is good looking enough to stop him. It’s all rather romantic and swoony while also featuring one of the most terrifying ghouls in cinema history. 

The Forsaken | Vampirism as an STD. If you’re bitten, you’ll battle daily with the virus that’s trying to consume you. Which makes the movie coded extremely queer, which is very fun for everyone, because it thankfully doesn’t stop there. The bad guys are super flamboyant and fun. The good guys are getting a little too involved with each other and sort of ignoring the girl sitting between them. And it makes one wish they could’ve just made it as gay as they wanted to, but the subtext is still very fun. It’s also action packed and exciting. Think 2001 version of Near Dark. 

[krispyweiss]

Sound Bites Presents: The Best of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2023

Editor’s Note: the 2023 edition of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass ended one week ago today. Having returned to backward Oiho after a glorious three days in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the blog recounts his favorite sets of the festival. Read Sound Bites’ full coverage here, here and here; and see more photos here, here and here.

Rickie Lee Jones - Horseshoe Hill stage, Sept. 29; Banjo stage, Sept. 30: Given 45 minutes for her festival-opening reading from “Last Chance Texaco” and another hour for music the following day, when she played the titular song from her 2021 memoir, Jones got more stage time than any other performer. And she put it to good use. After sound-checking with a snippet of “The Horses,” a high-spirited Jones read excerpts about her time as a 14-year-old hitchhiker in California and how her admiration of the hippie ideal eventually turned into contempt. She closed the session by playing a solo-acoustic version of “The Moon is Made of Gold,” a song written by her father.

The following afternoon, Jones and her band played to a ginormous crowd - “I haven’t seen so many people in front of me for so long,” she said, clearly enjoying the moment. Crooning at the mic on “One More for the Road;” playing guitar on a New Orleanian rearrangement of “Danny’s All Star Joint;” sitting at the piano for “We Belong Together;” and playing banjo on an untitled work-in-progress she had unveiled two nights earlier on guitar at the benefit for Camp Winnarainbow, Jones was effervescent and as appreciative of her audience as they were of her. Sound Bites obviously doesn’t know Jones, yet it made him so happy to see her so happy over the three days of performances he and Mrs. Sound Bites witnessed. Rickie Lee, gold.

Tommy Emmanuel - Arrow stage, Oct. 1 - Allotted a criminally stingy 50 minutes, Emmanuel was the only solo-acoustic act to make an audience stop talking and simply gasp at what they were hearing and seeing. That’s because he is a band unto himself and he introduced his phantom accompanists while playing bassline, percussion, rhythm and lead simultaneously on his acoustic guitar. “Sixteen Tons” and “Nine-Pound Hammer” found Emmanuel singing; “Imagine” was instrumental save for the audience and the guitarist’s famous, inhuman “Beatles Medley” closed the set, which should’ve run an hour.

Eilen Jewell - Rooster stage, Oct. 1 - Playing songs from her pre- and post-pandemic albums, Gypsy and Get Behind the Wheel, respectively, Jewell was positively enthralling during her 45-minute midday set, which wrapped with a near carbon-copy of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Green River,” allowing secret-sauce guitarist Jerry Miller to shine.

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram - Towers of Gold stage, Sept. 29 - At 24, Ingram sounds like he’s been playing guitar for 50 years already. This up-and-coming bluesman is going to be a huge star and he spent his 50 minutes demonstrating why he may very well be thought of in 2073 in the same way Buddy Guy is today.

The Travelin’ McCourys - Banjo stage, Oct. 1 - With Punch Brother Noam Pikelny filling in for Rob McCoury on banjo, the sons of Del played some of the least-Hardly Strictly music of the entire festival, as a large swath of the audience bounced along in unison while the band smoked a bluegrass “Scarlet Begonias” in the park the Grateful Dead filled with music so many times in the days of yore. “Seems appropriate,” Ronnie McCoury said.

Doc Watson Tribute - Horseshoe Hill stage, Oct. 1 - Joined at various points by Andrew Marlin, Valerie June and Jon Langford, Mitch Greenhill, Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman offered an intimate set that included “Summertime,” “Handsome Molly” and “Tom Dooley” among others. It all ended with the life-affirming experience of a couple of hundred people singing “Keep on the Sunny Side” under a canopy of trees in a light afternoon fog.

Bettye LaVette - Rooster stage, Sept. 30 - At 77, LaVette remains a powerful performer, stalking the stage and employing her raspy voice to great effect. Bob Dylan may have written “Things Have Changed,” but LaVette owns it.

Irma Thomas - Rooster stage, Sept. 30 - Thomas, 82, played HSB’s most-rambunctious set, closing Saturday with a barnburner that reached its apex with “I Done Got Over It” -> “Iko Iko” -> “Hey Pocky Way” -> “I Done Got Over It.”

Honorable mention: The McCrary Sisters - Rooster stage, Sept. 30 - Rather than a full performance, which they merited, the McCrarys played a handful of five- to 15-minute spots that included uplifting renditions of Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground” and “Amazing Grace.”

10/8/23

[damnrightshow]

1. "We're In Love" THE DECISIONS (Soul Direction)

2. "I Can See Him Loving You" ANDERSON BROTHERS (GSF)

3. "Flight Too Many" THE T.S.U. TORNADOS (Volt)

4. "What It Is ?" CURTIS LIGGINS INDICATIONS (Kaycee-Soul)

5. "I'd Like To Have You" NORWOOD LONG (Groovy Groove)

6. "I Need Your Love" THE IMPASSIONS (White Eagle)

7. "Help Your Brothers" CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY (Zell's)

8. "Tra La La" THE GREAT DELTAS (Englewood)

9. "Stay Together" SOUL EXCITEMENT (Pink Dolphin)

10. "Soul Combination" SOUL COMBINATION (Involved)

11. "Trouble" BLACK LIGHTNING (MCA)

12. "What They Doing" CHARLES PRYOR AND POWER OF LOVE (Double 07)

13. "You Was Dancin' Need To Be Marchin' So You Can Dance Some More Later On" THE ADVANCED WORKERS WITH THE ANTI-IMPERIAL SINGERS (People's War)

14. "Dap Walk" ERNIE & THE TOP NOTES INC. (Fordom)

15. "Funky Wagon" JERRY COOK (Troyx)

16. "Nothin' But A Party" THE BLENDERS (Cobra)

17. "I Can't Find Another" THE SPECIALS (Satch)

18. "No Words" FUNKA FIZE (Royce)

19. "Gotta Git Down" THE FAMILY SOUND BAND (Artist's Recording)

20. "Peace Still Is With Us" APOLLOS SHOW BAND (Jonlewis)

21. "Where Do You Go" JBC BAND (Jeree)

22. "Havin' A Party" FLIPSIDE (Flipside)

23. "Captain Of My Ship" SEVENTH WONDER (W.G.)

24. "Fast Man" THE PC'S LTD (Fran)

25. "Clap Your Hands" REGINALD MILTON

26. "I Turn You On" THE LATIN BREED (GC)

27. "Ca Ba Dab" SOUL SWINGERS (Topaz)

28. "Mr Fortune" THE HITCHIKERS feat THE MIGHTY POPE (Heart)

29. "Get Up Off It Baby" THE SOUL AUTHORITY UNLIMITED (Bet)

30. "Butter Nut Part 2" THE BLACK TRUTH BAND (The Black Truth)

31. "I Really Love You" THE MYSTICS (Teako)

32. "It's An Explosion" THE ROYALE Ⅶ (Windmill)

33. "How Good Is Good" MICKEY & THE SOUL GENERATION (Mr.G)

34. "The World" SANDI & MATUES (Matues)

35. "Fell Into A Bag" RIVER CITY FUNK BAND (R.D.M.)

36. "Since I Was A Little Girl" HARD DRIVER feat VIVIAN LEE (Hawes)

37. "Funky Thing" LARRY ELLIS & THE BLACK HAMMER (Al King)

38. "Running Wild" SUNRISE MOVEMENT (Ghetto)

39. "Staright Ahead" BOBBY BOYD CONGRESS (Okapi)

40. "Disatisfied Man" OLIVER CHRISTIAN (Legrand)

41. "What's Going On" MR. CLEAN (Radio City)

42. "Where Is The Love" JACK SASS BAND (Visa)

[chaos-grimlin]

Hi! Can I have a GN! Y/N w/ Sally hardesty? Thank you :)

Yes you can Anon! I'm going to do normal dating headcannons but if that isnt what you wabt request again and be as specific as you want!

before the massacure

Shes quite shy when it came to asking you out, but when she did she was overly excited!

100% told Franklin everything since he was the one that told her to man up and ask you out.

Sally is a soft person i believe so shes very gental and loving with you

When it comes to showing you off shes VERY scared about it

She'll think shes too clingy

Will hold your hand tho

When you and Sally go on dates Franklin is always there.

Her friends love you, well all but Jerry.

Jerry also liked Sally so hes a bitch when it comes to you

She most likely loves to fall alseep on you

She seems like the type of girl who will take your clothes and wear them no matter what

She is very bubbly when around you!

During the massacure Sally

Sally was scared you'd get hurt and die

She always pulled you to her and kept you out of harm's way

Shed rather her get killed then you since you where all she had left...

She cried so much when she saw Nubbins let Grandpa drop the hammer on your head

She HATED hearing her lover scream pain

Once Sally was free her first priority was you.

She untied you and you guys ran

In the end she ended up pushing you out of the way and ended up getting sliced by Nubbins because she wanted to protect you

You two end up escaping and your love cor each other grows stronger

After the massacure

You and Sally both struggled to get over what had happened

This almost ruins you guy's relationship...

Sally has trouble sleeping at night and on nights she does she wakes up screaming as nightmares of her dying brother fill her head

Please stay there and comfort her!!!

Hold Sally and let her cry

You both have trauma(who wouldn't?)

You are both able to help each other and although you two arent able to forget that horrid night...you two are able to heal and love each other more then ever

Sorry if this isnt long!

[adamwatchesmovies]

Prehysteria! (1993)

Do you ever feel like going back and revisiting that one obscure movie you saw as a kid that no one else has ever heard of but you know for sure exists? I distinctly remember seeing Prehysteria! as a child. Well, at least one of the three movies. All I remembered were those awesome miniature dinosaurs. I couldn’t recall ANYTHING about the plot… and there’s a reason for that.

Slimy museum curator Rico Sarno (Stephen Lee) returns from an expedition in South America with five mysterious eggs. When he accidentally swaps coolers with Frank Taylor (Brett Cullen), the widowed raisin farmer and his kids - Monica (Samantha Mills) and Jerry (Austin O’Brien) - discover that their dog is now the proud mother of 5 miniature - but fully-grown - dinosaurs!

The film is basically a mix of Gremlins and Jurassic Park but without any edge and only the blandest of human characters to keep the plot moving. I’m sorry, 6-year-old Adam, but this movie is bad. It isn’t devoid of merit, but it's sub-par entertainment, even for kids.

The best - and really, only redeeming - element of Prehysteria! is the dinosaurs. Even then, a lot more could’ve been done with them. Jerry and Monica’s new pets - Tyrannosaurus Elvis, Brachiosaurus Paula, Stegosaurus Jagger, Chasmosaurus Hammer and Geosternbergia Madonna - are pretty neat in a few ways. Of course, there had to be a t-rex and I wouldn't consider a stegosaurus an obscure species of dinosaur, but the rest are fairly unique, which will please amateur archeologists plenty. The creatures are brought to life with terrific puppetry and stop-motion effects. Considering the film’s low-budget (which shows whenever the use of a green-screen is required), the pint-sized thunder-lizards look great. If only the beasts were given any personality. At the end of the day, it hardly feels like you get to know them at all. It's a shame because the humans who adopt them? They’re complete throwaways who hardly convey the genuine sense of wonder you’d expect from meeting actual dinosaurs, miniature or not.

The unique animals are thrown in a plot that’s so generic it’s hard to care. Rico Sarno is a one-dimensional greedy… museum curator? Huh? The only ones stupider than him are the two goons he hires to help him steal the dinos: Ritchie (Stuart Fratkin) and Louis (Tony Longo). They’re so dumb even a kid could tell the peril in this film is non-existent. The kids are a bit better, I guess, but they’re just typical “younger brother who doesn’t like his older sister” type. The dad is another kind of enigma. He sells fossils to the museum - an opportunity to make doe eyes at Vicki (Colleen Morris), who works at the museum’s desk - but has no interest in dinosaurs whatsoever. It just feels weird. How does he even know what he’s digging up if he has no interest in archeology? I guess we can talk about her too. It’s no spoiler that she ends up on the Taylors’ side against meanie Mr. Sarno when she learns he wants to exploit the dinosaurs for money. As soon as you learn Frank is widowed, you know that means they’ll end up romantically involved. There are no surprises at all and the conclusion is so hurried some of it doesn’t make sense.

You might wonder if I’m upset at a “treasured memory” getting debunked. I’m not. I had a good time with the movie back then and I had a bit of fun with this rewatch… if only because it made me appreciate how much my taste has evolved. I think the funniest thing about Prehysteria! is that while all of the dinosaurs are named after famous musicians, only Elvis contributes to the soundtrack. Even then, it might’ve been an imitator. This movie does not have the budget for Madonna, not by a long shot. All it had was the money to make the dinosaurs look good. That's not enough. (September 25, 2022)

[marcmarcmomarc]

Nintendo movie casts

The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2

Chris Pratt as Mario

Charlie Day as Luigi

Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach

Jack Black as Bowser

Keegan-Michael Key as Toad

Jack Dylan Grazer as Yoshi

Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong

Ginnifer Goodwin as Princess Daisy

P!nk as Rosalina

Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong

Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek

Eric Bauza as Diddy Kong

Danny Trejo as Wario

Neil Patrick Harris as Waluigi

Khary Payton as Penguin King

Juliet Jelenic as Lumalee

Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike

Cassandra Lee Morris as Dixie Kong

Mae Whitman as Toadette

Kevin Afghani as Mario’s Dad

Jessica DiCicco as Mario’s Mom

Karan Soni as Chunky Kong

Eric Bauza as Koopa Troopa Soldiers

Eric Bauza as Toad General

Jessica DiCicco as Yellow Toad

Rino Romano as Uncle Tony

John DiMaggio as Uncle Arthur

Jessica DiCicco as Aunt Marie

Brian Hull as Mario’s Grandpa

Denis Leary as Swanky Kong

Jessica DiCicco as Mayor Pauline

Frank Todaro as Blue Toad Guard

Tru Valentino as Yellow Toad Guard

Anna Brisbin as Mario’s Niece

Richard Ayoade as Banktoad

Wallace Shawn as Mailtoad

John DiMaggio as Boom Boom

Cassandra Lee Morris as Pom Pom

Carlos Alazraqui as Toadsworth

Cristina Vee & Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Lumas

Kdin Jenzen as Birdo

Christina Aguilera as Perry the Parasol

Ice-T as Funky Kong

Rosario Dawson as Candy Kong

Terry Crews as Rambi

Zac Efron as Enguarde

Brian Hull as Squawks

Maurice LaMarche as Goomba

Ben Diskin as Koopa Paratroopa Soldiers

Brian Tyree Henry as Sledge Bro

Scott Menville as Dry Bones

Grant George as Hammer Bro

Nate Bihldorff as Shy Guy

Dee Bradley Baker as Snifit

Dee Bradley Baker as Bob-omb

Frank Welker as Piranha Plant

Todd Womack as Spiny

Jason Liebrecht as Buzzy Beetle

The Donkey Kong Country Movie

Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong

Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong

Oscar Isaac as King K. Rool

Eric Bauza as Diddy Kong

Cassandra Lee Morris as Dixie Kong

Karan Soni as Chunky Kong

Ice-T as Funky Kong

Rosario Dawson as Candy Kong

Cristina Vee as Tiny Kong

Jennifer Coolidge as Wrinkly Kong

Cristina Milizia as Kiddy Kong

Jordan Peele as Lanky Kong

Denis Leary as Swanky Kong

Terry Crews as Rambi

Zac Efron as Enguarde

Brian Hull as Squawks

Tim Blaney as Rattly

Kevin Michael Richardson as Squitter

Paul Tibbitt as Expresso

Justin Rupple as Winky

Torbin Xan Bullock as Clapper

Cheech Marin as Glimmer

Sloane Murray as Ellie

ExoParadigmGamer as Perry

Mr. T as Klubba

Jess Harnell as Klump General

Stephen Stanton as The Brothers Bear

Rob Izenberg as Very Gnawty

Alex Hirsch as Master Necky

Cree Summer as Queen B.

Jerry DeCaupa as Really Gnawty

MacInTalk as Dumb Drum

Greg Baldwin as Master Necky Snr.

Alan Tudyk as Krow

Matt Chapman as Kleever

ProtonJon as Kudgel

Steve Carell as King Zing

Steve Purcell as Belcha

Ian Hecox as Arich

Jeff Bennett as Squirt

Danny McBride as Bleak

Cheech Marin as Barbos

The Kirby Movie

Kate Micucci as Kirby

John Mulaney as King Dedede

Antonio Banderas as Meta Knight (in English & Spanish)

Karan Soni as Bandana Waddle Dee

Eric Bana as Rick

Dee Bradley Baker as Kine

Steve Buscemi as Coo

Henry Winkler as Chef Kawasaki

Richard Ayoade as Taranza

James Arnold Taylor as Magolor

Richard Horvitz as Daroach

Mela Lee as Susie Haltmann

Max Mittelman as Marx

Fryda Wolff as Gooey

The Star Fox Movie

Jason Schwartzman as Fox McCloud

Bill Hader as Falco Lombardi

Liam Neeson as Wolf O’Donnell

Blake Shelton as Peppy Hare

David Spade as Slippy Toad

Martin Short as Andross

Ed Harris as General Pepper

Kevin Michael Richardson as Leon Powalski

Bruce Campbell as ROB 64

Brian Hull as Pigma Dengar

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Andrew Oikonny

Jason Isaacs as James McCloud

Bonnie Hunt as Katt Monroe

Bobby Cannavale as Panther Caroso

Ariel Winter as Fara Phoenix

Carolyn Lawrence as Miyu

Deneen Melody as Fay

Anairis Quiñones as Krystal

EarthBound

Marissa Lenti as Ness

Amber Lee Connors as Lucas

Fryda Wolff as Paula

Issac Ryan Brown as Jeff

Roger Craig Smith as Poo

Cristina Vee as Kumatora

Frank Welker as Boney

Pikmin

Timothy Dalton as Olimar

Kevin Michael Richardson as Louie

Red Van Buskirk as Alph

Christopher Wehkamp as Charlie

Tati Gabrielle as Brittany

Keston John as President

Hajime Wakai as the Pikmin

Brian Sommer as Bulborb

Animal Crossing

Kimiko Glenn as Isabelle

Dee Bradley Baker as Tom Nook

Jason Liebrecht as K.K. Slider

Marc Maron as Mr. Resetti

Splatoon

Emichuu as Squid Sister Callie

Cristina Vee as Squid Sister Marie

EmuEmi as Marina Ida

Casey Lee Williams as Pearl Houzuki

Amalee as Shiver Hohojiro

Arryn Zech as Frye Onaga

Caleb Hyles as Big Man

The ARMS Movie

Peter Von Gomm as Spring Man & Springtron

Utada Hikaru as Ribbon Girl (in English & Japanese)

Tadanobu Asano as Ninjara (in English & Japanese)

Mena Massoud as Master Mummy (in English & African)

Dilraba Dilmurat as Min Min (in English & Mandarin Chinese)

Romi Dames as Mechanica (in English & Japanese)

Eva Green as Twintelle (in English & French)

Thomas Doherty as Byte

Doug the Pug as Barq

Miyu Irino as Kid Cobra (in English & Japanese)

Frank Welker as Helix

Kellen Goff as Max Brass

Rose McGowan as Lola Pop (in English & Italian)

Brian Tee as Misango (in English & Japanese)

Maia Mitchell as Dr. Coyle

Sonic the Hedgehog

Ben Schwartz as voice of Sonic

James Marsden as Tom Wachowski

Colleen O’Shaughnessey as voice of Tails

Idris Elba as voice of Knuckles

Tika Sumpter as Maddie Wachowski

Nicolas Cage as voice of Shadow

Megan Hilty as voice of Amy

Natasha Wothwell as Rachel Handel

Adam Pally as Wade Whipple

Shemar Moore as Randall Handel

Lee Majdoub as Agent Stone

Tom Butler as Commander Walters

Melody Niemann as Jojo

Sarah Surh as Faucet

Jesse McCartney as voice of Silver

Lake Bell as voice of Rouge

John Mulaney as voice of Vector

Bruce Campbell as voice of Espio

Kaley Cuoco as voice of Charmy

Cristina Pucelli as voice of Cream

Eva Longoria as voice of Blaze

Ella Purnell as voice of Sticks

John C. Reilly as voice of Big

David Spade as voice of Jet

Jessica DiCicco as voice of Wave

Bobby Cannavale as voice of Storm

Ryan Reynolds as voice of Mighty

Jake Johnson as voice of Ray

Peter Weller as voice of E-123 Omega

Lindsay Jones as voice of Cheese

Jason Isaacs as voice of Metal Sonic

Gaten Materazzo as voice of Chip

Jack Black as voice of Mephiles

Hamish Blake as voice of Infinite

Chloë Grace Moretz as voice of Sage

Hugh Jackman as voice of Orbot

Marc Maron as voice of Cubot

M.C. Gainey as voice of Zavok

Andy Samberg as voice of Zazz

Diane Guerrero as voice of Zeena

Dennis Quaid as voice of Master Zik

John Goodman as voice of Zomon

Ryan Potter as voice of Zor

Frank Welker as voice of Chaos

Cherami Leigh as voice of Omochao

McKenna Grace as Maria Robotnik

Khary Payton as voice of E-102 Gamma

Anairis Quiñones as voice of Tikal

PAC-MAN

Jesse McCartney as Pac-Man

Andy Samberg as Blinky

Kaite Crown as Pinky

Spike Jonze as Inky

Joe Mantegna as Clyde

[itsamenickname]

Sticks and Stones May Break the Bones, But Words and Actions Can Destroy a Man's Self-Worth

The story you are about to read on Ao3 has been something I've been wanting to write for at least a few months now. While I will warn that it might not be as polished or fleshed-out as my current fanfic, I still wanted to take the time to write this story and share it with all of you because working on To Break the Bonds Within Two Kingdoms (TBTBWTK) for the past year (+2-3 months) has been such a fun and wonderful adventure that I would not trade for anything else.

And if you haven't already, please, PLEASE be sure to check out both @deckof-dragons/@anomander-dragnipurake and @jelixpo's blogs. They are the ones who have inspired me to write TBTBWTK in the first place, so please be sure to take some time today to see all of the amazing fanfics/drawings they have done.

Thank you all for joining me on my Bowuigi adventure. :) Whether you found me on Ao3 or on here, I appreciate each and every single one of you taking the time to read my stories and I hope to see you in the final chapter of TBTBWTK. :)

🎉🎂 Happy 1st Birthday To Break The Bonds Within Two Kingdoms!!!🎂🎉

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(Trigger Warning!: the story you are about to read is going to have a serious topic (i.e. off-screen/mentions of sui attempt) that may unease or disturb some readers. If this serious topic make you uncomfortable, please do not read this story! Stay safe everyone and please don't ever forget that there are people in this world who love the wonderful and unique human being that you are. 🩷🩷🩷)

[the-firebird69]

They are looking for a pathway for the South for ice sheets and that's up by Europe no it's on the North American continent and they're above Canada it's not exactly where they're going to put these sheets and they are looking quite firmly fervently they're old sailing ships as if they hold some kind of Clue about what's going on.... It was 1847. And it's kind of like that song when the doves cry their witnesses and that's what the Inuit were back then and they're Jason's crew and people and they witnessed a lot of stuff for some reason they didn't tell anybody and they would attack people and these people from the ships and they're keeping a secret something that they have not done anything about supposedly but I really do a lot of spying and they have a lot of information on topics such as witnessing for a long time and it's important to know this.

Is a Inuit history because clothes were there too so people are looking at these guys differently they're like natives of every place and they want to know about the Grand canyon. And yeah you can't deal with us here in this rhealm.

Awesome thinks you discounted his brother too quickly and that you don't understand the clans and we do

1845 it looks like somebody rated it and they checked and they said people use hammers or something really weird and he thinks it was the Inuit and they later found out it was. HMS Erebus and it was the captain Franklin's flagship. And he's one of the Franklin's which is the McDonald's plan. Coming up because drones and small vessels that are investigated with robots for being destroyed and they found Jason's tribe doing so they're going after him for the information and they found a ton of it and that's what they're saying to do. . It was the King William Island and one of the boats made it back to where they're trying to get to. They needed to Northern Canada and disappeared. . Shovel Crews were found eating and meticulously as if dined on and I suspected that it was Jason's Crews doing it and we believe it's true and they were trying to become them to question them. The king Williams is the one who was Jerry Jr who was Tommy f and it correlates with the timing of the events that are occurring in that they're looking for missing crew or robots please call people who are adventurous robots or people like that. And Jason that is Justin caught wind of it this morning and he heard this you're like robots no it said that you're like robots but he remembered it back in San Diego so they're out doing that kind of job and you're supposed to find these things and yeah we think it is coming from Saturn

Thor Freya

And Jason is in a pitiful position and he usually is and it's happened to him for thousands of years. He's out there finding stuff he's not doing much about it when she's done forever and other people come along and take it from him and it's nothing new. It is new this time he says but he says it every time and he never does it. So they don't care about it and they're grabbing him and getting the information and some of them don't do anything because they're going to end up going to war with these robots they understand something he's been picking people off and try and look but they need to know and there's a lot of them and there's a lot of them that left and went to the planet huge ones too and everybody is kind of embarrassed and I understand what our son and daughter are saying you're not watching the ball and you're blaming everybody else and you're annoying as s*** you didn't let us look at it and now they let them look at it and they see what happened and it's going to be a nightmare

Zues Hera

Did you see that it is a pain he has to be here and it's really gross and these guys are diggers and pickers and sit on not doing anything now they're all running out there. Like half of them came back and it's oppressive and half of them is going on again the same people you know a bunch of the same people and they're going to look for these robots and they're doing it now enlarge bunches they're finding a critically huge number of them and everyone's worried

Olympus

[sidecarghost]

Castiel’s Rescue from the Empty🌈

Destiel Crack featuring:

Sam saves the day by opening Bi-frost portal for Dean.

Destiel has Jerry Maguire for the feels.

J2M screencaps from spn s10e3/s15e13/s15-rbr-promo and rainbow screencap from Thor Ragnarok

Transcript below the cut

Dean: *sobbing* Cas, I know this isn’t the end for you. We always find a way back to each other. The Empty won’t beat us. Sam: Dean, I think I know how to rescue Cas. I read in the lore that the Norse hammer, Mjölnir, can open portals to other worlds. Dean: Do you mean like rifts? Sam: Uh yeah, kind of I guess. But the bifrost portal looks more like a rainbow. Sam: Ok, here goes nothing. Mjölnir, jeg befaler deg å åpne broen og ta broren min til sin elskede. Dean: WEEEEEEEEEEE! *riding on a rainbow* Castiel: *sees a glowing beacon of light in the Empty* Castiel: Hmm... why does that glowing blob sound like Dean playing on the monkey bars? Dean: Hello Cas. Castiel: Dean-- Dean: I rode a rainbow here to rescue you. I know that sounds gay, and I've said gay isn't my thing. But after soul-searching, I realized I'm not straight and that's okay. Dean: I need you Cas. My life's not complete, not nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete because I'm not sharing it with you. I couldn't hear your voice or watch the light rest on your face. I miss my -- I miss my Cas. Dean: I love you. You -- complete me. And I just had-- Castiel: Dean, shut up. Just shut up. Castiel: You had me at hello. Castiel: *faces Dean* You had me at hello. Dean & Castiel: WEEEEEEEEEEE! *riding on a rainbow* Dean: Damn it Cas! I wanted to grip you tight this time! Castiel: Ok cowboy, I promise next time you can be on top, and you can do the gripping. Sam: Really guys? It takes God ending the multiverse for you to finally admit you want to jump each other's bones. Castiel: Sam, I think your brother must be a broom because he just swept me off my feet. Sam: Just kill me now.

[thirstyvampyre]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Notes

General

Love the camera shutter sound intro, it's my notification tone lol

People are just casually hanging out at the cemetery as the investigation goes on lol

Outside of Newt, Texas

Franklin and Nubbins should be friends

The astrology stuff being lined up with the plot is cheesy but I also like it

I love the aesthetic of abandoned places

Bela Lugosi mention

Sally and Franklin have stayed at the house before

Franklin is so freaked by Nubbins lol

She's totally only looking for Jerry and not the other two

Close to the gas station, no phone there

Art as a horror movie tbh

The dinner scene is everything

Sawyers

Live near the house

Gas generator

Sunflowers

Barns

Two story house

Yard swing

Teeth, skulls decor and random

Animal hides

Some parts of the house neater than others

Chicken in small suspended cage

The red wall with the skulls and head looks awesome

Cannibals

Nubbins

Hitchhiker

Poses corpses and parts for aesthetic presumably

Was at the slaughterhouse

Brother and grandfather worked there

A bit of a stutter

Takes pictures

Head cheese

Erratic and jittery

Cuts his palm with Franklin's knife

Cheerful but sensitive, not in an empathetic socially aware way

Invites them to dinner

$2 for a picture

Blows up the picture

Cuts Franklin's arm with his straight razor

Marks the van with his blood

Looks like he might have been to the house before, subtle bone arrangements

Slams the door as Drayton tries to get out lmao

Mocks the tied up Sally

Resents Drayton just being the cook and not helping the killing

Gets impatient

Fast runner

Gets hit by the truck

So obvious that it's a doll lol love it

Hot, seems like fun

Bubba, Leatherface

Pig sounds

First kill with a mallet

Puts girl on meat hook alive

Iconic chainsaw

Carves up bodies

Scared of the intruders

Kisses grandpa on the top of his head

Sensitive

3 masks: a man look, old woman, pretty woman

Patiently helps and encourages grandpa

Accidentally cuts his thigh

Throws a tantrum that is very aesthetic and includes a ice skater twirl 👏👏👏

Precious sweetheart

Hunk with junk in the trunk

Drayton

Gas station doesn't have gas

Tried to get them to stay at the gas station

Barbecue

Beats her with a broom while laughing

Practical

Not as outwardly messed up in the mind as the others

"Halfwits, coonshits"

"Naphaired idiot" to Nubbins

Abusive physically and verbally

Alternates between laughing and disapproving at the dinner table

The cook

Traditional country man

Bastard

Grandpa

Literally looks like a corpse

Somehow still alive

Drinks blood and enjoys it

Best killer there was, one hitter

Can't hold the damn hammer

[skylarmoon71]

Leonardo x Reader- Oneshot (Fanfiction)

You were the type of person that could jam out to any kind of song, as long as it had a catchy beat. Music was always your number one love, so whenever you had a chance, you would be banging out to whatever genre you felt like. Mikey was somewhat the same. He'd introduced you to so many amazing songs, and you returned the favor. That's why the boys were never surprised when they saw you with a pair of airpods, bobbing your head as you hit the punching bag.

"You're supposed to be focused (Y/N)." you saw his lips moving when he came into view, but you couldn't make out the words. You blushed when you felt Leo's eyes on you. You always tried to avoid singing or dancing around Leo. The rest of his brothers, you didn't mind, but when his sapphire orbs landed on you, your nerves would go crazy. "I-I know Raph I just got bored so I thought why not." you weren't a big fighter, but you did pay attention when they practiced, so you picked up a few things. You honestly thought the lair would be free for the next hour since they were on patrol. Your eyes drifted to the watch and you gasped softly. "Oh crap I didn't realize it was this late. " you grabbed your bag, pulling out your phone to check for notifications. Because you were enjoying your session so much, you completely lost track of time. "I gotta get going, I'll see you later guys." Mikey grinned, waving happily and the rest of them smiled as you paced out of the room.

"Have you guys ever heard her sing?" Leo was curious, because he thought for sure he'd at least hear you once, since you almost always had headphones on.

"Of course dude she's really good!" Mikey replied, dropping on the couch. He kicked his feet up, stretching, and Leo's forehead creased.

"Really?"

Raph shot Leo a look. "With the way you're always staring at her I'm surprised you missed it. "

"I-I don't stare at her!" Leo defended. Donnie cleared his throat, "You uhh, kind of do."

"You look like a puppy chasing a bone. " Mikey interjected.

Leo didn't reply, just headed for his room.

~~~

Baby, Jerry-Jerry, mmm (Ah; hol' up, ah)

El tiempo contigo me pasa corriendo, oh

Hacemos el amor todo el fin de de semana

Y siempre me quedo con gana'

Supongamo' que no hay nadie más que toque tu piel (Uh)

Que no existe él

Leo's eyes opened, distracted by the melody that filtered through the hall. He followed the noise, a little bit confused. No one was ever in the dojo this early, except for maybe him. He was positive his brothers were all asleep. It was seven in the morning.

Imagínate en mi cuarto comiéndote a beso' (Yeah)

Como en los viejo' tiempo', qué rico sería eso (Uh; uh-no)

Imagínate en mi cuarto comiéndote a beso' (Ah; ah)

Como en los viejo' tiempo', qué rico sería eso, baby (Na-na-na), eh

As he got closer, he could make out a female voice, and the song definitely wasn't english. He turned the corner, and the sight of you bent over made his breath catch. He averted his eyes nervously. Not expecting it. You must have dropped something, because when you straightened, you went back to humming, gripping the broom handle and continuing your task. Leo had no idea why, but he was sort of hiding behind the door.

No' peleamo' y arreglamo' (Arreglamo')

En eso siempre estamo' (Estamo')

Desde que no' conocemo' (Uh-uh-uh-uh)

Pero siempre lo hacemo' bueno

Si tú quiere', no' grabamo' (-bamo')

Y despué' lo posteamo' (No, no)

Pa' que todo el mundo vea (Vea)

Lo cabrón que la pasamo'

His eyes widened. He almost couldn't believe it. He heard the man in the background, but the distinct sound of your voice is what grabbed his attention. It was so soothing. And the words were slipping off your tongue easily. He had no idea you could even speak another language. He was in a daze, he moved from his spot unconsciously, watching you guide over the floor in glee, enjoying the lyrics almost as much as he loved hearing them.

-OH CRAP!"

Leo jolted at your yell. You dropped the broom in surprise. That's when he realized his sudden entrance probably startled you. "Sorry, I should have said something. " You looked down at your shoes, embarrassed. "I can't believe he heard me."

"Ugh! I'm sorry Leo, I just wanted to clean the dojo for you guys before you woke up, and I got a little bored so I turned on some music. I must have sounded like a cat getting murdered, I'm really sorry if I disturbed you. " he shook his head frantically, stepping closer to you. "Are you kidding me, your voice is amazing. "

Did he really think so? You nibbled on your lower lip. Leo was a nice guy, of course he would say that.

"You don't have to say that..just to make me feel better." He placed his hand on your shoulders, capturing your full attention.

"I'm not. Honestly (Y/N), you have an incredible voice." The song switched, and when you recognized what was now playing, your eyes looked away nervously.

I don't know, it's just something about ya

Got me feeling like I can't be without ya

Anytime someone mention your name

I be feeling as if I'm around ya

Ain't no words to describe you baby

All I know is that you take me high

Can you tell that you drive me crazy?

'Cause I can't get you out my mind

You forgot that your music was on shuffle. You knew Leo registered the words playing, and for some reason, it conveyed how you felt about him perfectly. His hands were still resting on your shoulders. He looked like he didn't want to move away, and you didn't want him to. Music has always been your way of conveying what you felt. So maybe this time, it was exactly what you needed. When the other verse started, you sang along, not breaking eye contact this time.

Thinkin' of ya when I'm goin' to bed

When I wake up think of ya again

You are my homie, lover and friend

Exactly why

You light me up inside

Like the 4th of July

Whenever your around

I always seem to smile

And people ask me how

Well your the reason why

I'm dancing in the mirror and singing in the shower

Leo could only watch in amazement at your confession. His heart was hammering beneath his plastron. He could barely believe what he was hearing. You were glowing as the words flowed from you effortlessly.

Don't care what others say

If I got you I'm stray

You bring my heart to life yeah

You light me up inside

Like the fourth of July

Whenever your around

I always seem to smile

And people ask me how

Well your the reason why

I'm dancing in the mirror and singing in the shower

You smiled with every punctuated word. Leo was staring at you with so much unfiltered adoration. You were mostly shocked you hadn't gone into cardiac arrest yet. You were constantly careful around Leo, but now it felt like you didn't have to be.

"You got me singing in the shower.." you whispered. Leo smiled, his hand resting gently on your cheek. When he took that last step forward, you melted, folding into his arms when he pulled you forward, kissing you. Goosebumps rose on your skin, and stood unto your toes, desperate to match his height and delve into the heavenly feel of his touch. Leo was slow with his kisses, and gentle. It did wonders to you. Your stomach was in literal knots.

"Leo.."

If you thought this was how he'd react to your singing, you would have done it ages ago. Thank the heavens for your vocals.

When he pulled back, he was smiling like a kid. "So, are you going to tell me what the lyrics mean?" he asked. You blinked, still in a daze from the kiss.

"What?"

He laughed. "The lyrics to the song earlier, you really getting into it. I'm curious." you flushed.

"Oh..." Explaining this was embarrassing since it was pretty sexual.

"I-I uhh, It's..."

Leo titled his head. "It can't be that bad." he encouraged. If only he knew. "I-It's about making love..." it was said so quietly, and when he registered what you said, his eyes grew wide. "O-Oh!" The both of you were still standing pretty close, and you swore your skin heated up. You remembered when the video popped up in your recommendations a few weeks ago. When you watched it, you couldn't help but imagine yourself in that situation with Leo. His hands touching you sensually.

"Have you ever thought of me that way.." He shouldn't have asked, but he couldn't help it. The moment you said it he could see your expression change. Something was definitely there. You clench your fists at the question, taken aback by his bold question. Was it okay to tell him you'd wanted him for longer than he even realized. "I have." you admit. You were really confessing a lot today. "Have you?" it was his turn to confess. His eyes drifted. "N-No, mainly because I never thought there was a chance that you could..that we would be.." he was tripping over his words, but you understood. He might have held feelings for you, but he never crossed the line out of respect. "I guess now it's okay then, if you want to say anything, do anything.." you whisper. Leo got exactly what you were insinuating.

"There's a lot I want to do to you (Y/N)."

"Please do!" your mind responded immediately, you refrained from saying it aloud. You'd just recently figured out your feelings.

"But I think for now it's best we take it slow. We have plenty of time to explore that. " He leaned closer to your ear, pressing a soft kiss just beneath your jaw.

"To explore each other.."

"Bloody hell." How did he expect you to take it slow when he was saying stuff like that.

"O-Okay." Leo grinned, satisfied with your red cheeks. He liked the way you responded to him. It gave him a weird sense of power. He supposed it was the same power you had over him.

"I think I'm in love with you (Y/N)." He had time to tell you that too, there was no rush. When the time was right, he would.

[pls-let-me-out]

Invisible String

21st of December

“Do you not like my friends?” 

Will almost jumped out of his skin. Niccolò was standing just a couple of feet from him, with his hands in his pockets, and a scowl on his face. He was wearing Will’s–it was actually Niccolò’s, but Will had always worn it–scarf, and a black beanie.

Will’s lips tightened. What could he say? He did like them. They were fun to be around, and had a great sense of humor. Plus, seeing them tease Niccolò was entertaining.

“It’s not that,” Will settled for. “It’s–I don’t know.”

“You do know,” Niccolò said. “Just–nothing. We should go. Seen anything you like?”

Will shook his head. They were looking for a Christmas tree, apparently they would be shooting a little video for a Royal Family thing. When Niccolò was explaining it, Will was too busy being scared to death to listen thoroughly.

“Wait!” Will called, when Niccolò was already at the end of that tree aisles. Niccolò looked back at him with a frown, which had Will’s fingertips tickle with the need to smooth it out. “Can we get hot chocolate before we head out?”

Niccolò rolled his eyes. He didn’t say no.

 “What do you mean presents?” Niccolò asked, his face turning into an even more prominent scowl. “We don’t need to get each other gifts.”

“I’m not spending money for this dumbass,” Will said, taking the cup from Niccolò’s hands to take a sip. He was immediately kicked in the shin by Niccolò, but the biggest punishment was the taste of that thing inside. “Is this death? Am I tasting death?”

“It’s coffee, you genius,” Niccolò said, taking the mug back. “Sorry I’m an adult and don’t put milk in it.”

Will just grimaced. “I see why you’re so bitter. You’re poisoning yourself.”

Niccolò opened his mouth, but Piper interrupted them before he could talk, hitting the wooden table. She sighed, exasperation clear on her face. As clear as the fact that the gifts exchanging wasn’t her and Annabeth’s idea, probably Persephone’s. Maybe even Hazel’s.

“What Annabeth and I are trying to say, is that it’s only normal you two exchange gifts. You will spend Christmas together, won’t you?”

Will turned to Niccolò. “My time and company are going to be your present.”

“Hope you kept the receipt.”

Annabeth rubbed her temples. “Guys.”

“Honestly, if you want us to have gifts so much, you should just buy them for us,” Niccolò said, looking smug in his chair. “Then we’ll give them to each other. We’d be even more surprised!”

Will sighed. “Don’t be rude, you ass. I honestly haven’t even changed my money to euros.” He grimaced. “I guess I’ve been kind of leeching off of you.”

Niccolò shrugged. “It’s my fault you’re here in the first place.”

Annabeth clasped her hands together. “Then what’s better than using the Royal Family’s money to buy each other gifts?”

“Not buying each other gifts,” Niccolò said.

“Donating the money to charity.”

Niccolò nodded, very vaguely waving his hand toward Will. “Yeah, that, too.”

“I honestly don’t even know what I could buy you,” Will said, putting his elbow on the table and his chin on his fist. “What could you possibly want? You’re already rich.”

“I’d like McDonald’s. I haven’t had it in so long.”

“We can arrange that.”

“I’m not sure there are any McDonald’s around.”

Will grimaced. “Isn’t this city a nightmare?”

���I’m not even replying to that,” Annabeth said. “C’mon guys. You’ll have to put something on social network sooner or later, it could be the two of you opening gifts. People want to see you.”

“People can see me on Google Image,” Niccolò replied. “Seriously. It’s none of their business what we’re doing.”

“You are a public figure, Nico.”

“Also,” Piper continued. “As you know there’s always been speculation about your sexuality. People are wondering whether you and this soulmate of yours will be lovers or platonic.”

“And I’m sure they’d love it,” Niccolò said.

Will couldn’t help a grimace. Up until a few decades back, courtship between two soulmates of the same sex wasn’t accepted. Will hadn’t even thought it would be an option for them. Niccolò was a prince, didn’t he need to have heirs or something?

Fuck. It only made things more complicated. Will knew himself, he knew he wouldn’t be able to stop wondering, if there was even a sliver of hope for the two of them. He buried that hope thinking about his parents.

“I’m sure they’d love to see me with a boy, wouldn’t they.”

Will’s eyes snapped back up at Niccolò, and it hit him like a bucket of cold water. He had forgotten how cold the other’s face could turn. How his voice could become blank. How distant he became.

“They’d love to see me bonding with a man, wouldn’t they?” Niccolò asked, as if he the words were clawing out of his throat.

I’m bisexual! Will wanted to scream. I’m bisexual so stop saying shit like that, like it’s disgusting. He wanted to say it, instead he just pushed the chair back, and stood. What was he expecting from someone who had lived his whole life in a palace? It was only a given that Niccolò would be homophobic. In times like this, Will’s life reminded him of a staged joke.

“It’s just gifts,” he said. His voice was steadier than he thought it would be. “Let’s just take a scarf each and be done with it.”

“It would be different. You’d be soulmates,” he heard Piper say, but he was already leaving the room. He could feel eyes boring holes in his back.

 Before letting them use the sleigh, Piper took at least a hundred photo. Most of them had either Nico or Will with an indignant expression on their face, as the other talked passionately. Ten minutes later, and Nico couldn’t remember what they had been bickering about.

He was half hunched over his sleigh, the cold wind in his face, on the path ahead he could see both Will and the instructor. He could see them, when his eyes weren’t forced closed by the pain in his knee.

“This is the best thing I’ve ever done,” Will said later, when they were sitting on the panoramic spot, feet dangling over the edge. A smile was spitting his face open, darkness had already began falling. He was dressed in a bright orange suit, so that the instructor wouldn’t lose him on the track. Nico had little to laugh about, since he himself was in green. “Thank you for bringing me here.”

Nico managed a grimace. The huskies were panting, just a few meters away. The instructor had disappeared back into the hotel, soon Will and Nico would have to get going.

“Kayla would have loved this,” Will said, his voice softer.

Nico knew those eyes. They were the same he had in every photo with Bianca and Hazel, that love struck gaze brothers wore only when they were talking of a sister. So Nico asked about it, heart hammering in his chest. “Your sister?”

Will nodded. He never talked about his family, or at least not with Nico. He should have been a fool not to notice the strange atmosphere and gazes exchanged between Will and Piper. A part of him wondered if Will was falling for Piper. He wouldn’t be the first to do so.

“Yeah, the oldest. Kayla Knowles.” He shrugged, and took a deep breath. “Don’t you think it’s crazy, how we’ve lived alone for days, yet not talked about anything of our lives? Do we–do we actually know each other?”

Nico tightened his lips. It was not the time to talk about the mess they’d made, pain shot through his knee. “I don’t think we do.”

Will nodded. “Yeah. I thought so.”

For a moment, less than a second, Nico wished Will had fought him. He put his hands under his thighs, to avoid doing stupid things, like poking the mole under Will’s left eye, and bicker like only they did.

“This is the part where you start telling me things about yourself,” Will said. He put his chin on his bent knee, giving Nico a sidelong glance.

“Oh. Uh. Elysium. That’s my kingdom’s name. Ancient Greeks believed it was part of the Underworld, for a time. Black flowers grew on the shorelines, and it was so hard to reach them. Too many storms. I thought it was Elysium too, when I was little.”

“Isn’t your father also called Hades?”

Nico grinned. “Grandfather thought he was so funny, when he chose his sons’ names.” He cleared his throat, embarrassment darkening his cheeks even more when silence stretched. “Isn’t it your turn now?”

Nico thought Will mock him, at least a little. ‘Maybe I should tell you the story behind Texas’. Will didn’t, as if he understood how personal Elysium was to Nico, what a great thing it was to admit that, for a time, he’d been foolish enough to want the throne.

Will took a deep breath, his knuckles turned white where he was holding the railing. “I have eight siblings. Lee, Michael, Austin, Kayla, Jerry, Gracie, Yan and Victoria. Lee and Michael were older than me. Now I’m the oldest.” He sniffled, bringing his gloved hand to his nose. “When they–we didn’t live together. We saw each other during holidays, birthdays sometimes. The first year after Michael and Lee died, I didn’t know how to be the oldest. It’s different, you know? I always had them, and they were before me. If the youngers needed something, something clever, they went to them. I couldn’t bring myself to see the others, after the two of them died. I didn’t–I didn’t have anyone to go to.”

The breath was knocked out of Nico’s lungs.

Will chuckled. “I guess I overshared a bit. Sorry.”

“You didn’t,” Nico blurted, so fast Will whipped his head around. He cleared his throat, spoke with far more calm. “You didn’t overshare.”

“You sound pretty put out.”

“I was just thinking about what I wanted people to tell me, after I lost Bianca.” He tasted bitterness on his tongue, so heavy it laced through his words. “I can’t remember.”

“I don’t want you to tell me anything.”

“Yeah. Neither did I.”

Will put his head on Nico’s shoulder. His hat was cold, a bit wet with snow, his breath warm, even through all the layers. Nico leaned against him.

 The others were waiting for them inside the hotel. Piper and Leo had managed to convince Jason to stay one more night, to sleep in an igloo room together. Nico had half a mind they would try seducing him. Percy and Annabeth would go to Paris, Annabeth wanted to see Notre Dame. She had never seen it in person. Nico recommended her to see the Dome of Sacré Coeur Basilica first.

“You were talking about Paris?” Will asked, sliding down next to Nico with a cup of hot chocolate in his hands.

Nico ignored that it’d been a gift from the instructor. Only for Will. With Nico standing right next to them. It seemed impossible for Will to go anywhere without having someone fall for him. It had to be the curls. Or the freckles. Maybe the eyes, always so bright and beautiful.

Nico shook his head, to get himself out of the trance.

“-there a couple of times, with my family,” Will admitted, nodding his head. He took the cup to his mouth, and grimaced at the first sip.

“Did the Hot Instructor poison you?” Nico asked. He knew it wasn’t possible, but at least then they’d have a good reason to send him to jail. Or at least never seen him again. He wasn’t so petty after all.

Will huffed. “It’s too hot.” A glint lit his eyes, as he looked at Nico through a thick layer of eyelashes. “Just like the instructor.”

Nico scoffed, crossing his arms. “Yeah, if you’re into bulky men that spend their days riding towards the sunset with huskies.”

Percy snorted. “Who isn’t into that?”

Nico bit his cheek. Annabeth caught his eyes, cocking an eyebrow. Nico sunk lower into his chair, tightening his grasp on the cup holder. Nico didn’t need to look at Will to recognize the mirth in his eyes.

“Anyway,” Leo said. “Before omo celoso here interrupted us, we were listening to a story.”

“You should really stop treating people’s lives like they exist for your entertainment,” Jason told him. Piper giggled, and Leo sent him a wink. Jason’s whole face turned as red as a tomato. Nico imprinted the memory into his head, just in case he ever needed to have something to tease Jason about.

“I was telling them about the time I went to Paris,” Will said. He grimaced. “We were on the Eiffel Tower when my Father’s girlfriend discovered he was cheating on her.”

“With whom?” Leo asked, eagerly leaning on the table.

Will and Piper both burst out laughing. “Well,” Will said, clicking his tongue. “I was eleven at the time. My parents, uh, they divorced when I was eight.”

“Just a quick note,” Piper said. “His oldest half-brother is two years younger than him.”

“Thanks,” Will said. He fixed his eyes on Nico, before dropping to the table. “Very helpful. Uh. So, we were on the Eiffel Tower, and my father’s girlfriend sees him passing the waitress his number. She goes absolutely mad, and she was right, really. My father’s a really lewd man. So she gets his phone, calls a cab for herself and orders a flight back to California. She finds the messages he had exchanged with his lovers.”

“God, that’s so disgusting,” Annabeth said.

“That’s not the worst he’s done,” Piper replied.

“Wait, how do you even know?” Percy asked her.

Piper sent Will a panicked glance, and he cleared his throat. “We were neighbors. Kind of.”

“Oh my God, isn’t that so cute?” Jason exclaimed, his eyes on Nico. As if he knew Nico was storing teasing material. As if this was his revenge. They knew each other well enough for it to be possible. “You two would have met through Piper!”

“So no one’s going to talk about the fact that we discovered it now?” Percy asked. He was ignored.

“I can’t believe we’ve been robbed of the chance of introducing them to each other!” Leo wailed loudly, gathering the attention of the other costumers. “We’d’ve held it over Nico’s head for the rest of our lives.”

“Holding something over my head?” Nico scoffed. “With your height?”

Leo hit him in the shins from under the table, making him hiss. He sent the hit right back, but hit the table.

“Jealousy’s taking your aim away, hombre,” Leo commented.

He was lucky Will’s attention was on Annabeth, or Nico would have used him to replace the table leg.

“I’m absolutely not jealous,” Nico hissed, trying to hit Leo again. He hit the table instead, a jolt of pain shot through his leg.

“You know, just because you’re prince doesn’t mean you can destroy the furniture,” Will chirped with a sickeningly sweet smile, using napkins to rub the spilled chocolate. “By the way, you now owe me a free chocolate.”

“You lost two sips at most.” Nico took a long sip of his coffee, the bitterness heaving on his words, not only his tongue. “If you want another, go back to flirting with the instructor.”

Will leaned closer, batting his eyelashes with a coy smile. “Maybe I’d rather flirt with you for another.”

Nico shoved him by the shoulder, a grin stretching on his lips. “Fuck off.”

They both laughed.

 Will fell on the sofa next to Niccolò with a loud sigh. Before turning the TV on, he complained about his tiredness, his old age, the weather.. Niccolò didn’t say a single word, but his eyes were

“The house is silent again,” he said.

“Yeah.” Niccolò cleared his throat, looking away. He crossed his legs, looking like he didn’t know how to act now that they were alone. They would be for a few more days, so he’d better get used back to it. It was unnerving Will.

“I’d gotten used to having them around. Have you always been so close to your cousins?”

Niccolò grunted. “I wouldn’t say we’re close, even now.”

“You look like it.”

“Maybe we are.” He stayed silent long enough for Will to think he wouldn’t add anything. “With–with Jason. It’s more complicated with Percy. I’ve seen him much more than Jason, and we–I had–” He cleared his throat, but his hands were shaking, and Will wanted to wrap his own fingers around Niccolò’s. He knew the other wouldn’t like it, though. “He was already around when Bianca died. So. I took him out on him.” He passed a hand through his hair. It wasn’t very long, less than an inch, what with being cut short in the military.

“He looks at you like you are his little brother, though.”

“I hated it back then.” He nodded toward the television, before Will could do as much as thinking about asking more. “So, why are you on YouTube again?”

“I just realized I never got around to watching your eleven awkward moments.”

Niccolò groaned.

 Niccolò was around fifteen years old. He held a scepter, or what looked like it. People all around were looking at him, cameras going off. He kept looking around, never keeping his eyes on something a second too long. Then, he mouthed at the King, and his words had been written as subtitles:

What was I supposed to do now?

 The MC smiled at Niccolò. Niccolò nodded and smiled. Hazel talked, the MC responded. Niccolò looked at the crowd. Cheers and screams grew louder. Some people shouted his name. Others that they wanted to marry him. Niccolò grimaced.

Prince Niccolò: Great King of Shut the Hell Up

 Niccolò got out of the car, walking toward the entrance of the hotel without paying much attention to the people screaming his name. That is, until someone shouted “Prince Neeks!”

It was a reporter. And Niccolò, disdain clear on his face, closed the button of his jacket. His lips were tilted downwards, his chin and nose all scrunched up.

“It’s Niccolò.”

 Will was doubled over in laughter, half down the couch. Niccolò sat still, only a slight twitch on his mouth, not quite a smile. Not quite a frown either.

 “So, how does it feel like to be the Prince?”

“Well. I’ve always been a prince, so. It feels like every other day feels.”

The reporter laughed. “Can’t say I know what that is.”

Niccolò nodded. The reporter nodded. They nodded at each other.

 “God, this is such a torture.”

“You really do make everything awkward. I wish I’d filmed our first few hours together.”

Niccolò groaned from behind his hands.

“I would be a billionaire by now.”

 “Nico say hi!” Came Piper’s voice from behind the camera. She was filming an Instagram story.

Nico looked up. He was sitting in front of a piano, a grimace on his face as soon as he took in the scene. He didn’t move.

Eventually, he waved. He sent a panicked glance to something behind Piper’s phone.

“Say hi!” Piper insisted.

“Hello.”

“Hi.”

“But I did!”

“You should’ve said hi.”

He hesitated. Sighed. Waved again. “Hi.”

 “You have a beautiful soul,” a girl told Niccolò, holding her phone in his face.

His gaze was focused on something out of the frame, a grimace on his face. “Yours, too.”

The girl’s phone fell, her gasp alerting Niccolò that something was happening in front of him. From the ground, the camera still recorded.

“Sorry. You were saying about your sauce?”

 Niccolò fell asleep a little after their third video. It wasn’t even half past ten, but he snored lightly. Will lowered the TV volume, put the red blanket with reindeers on him, and leaned back into the couch.

Niccolò was beautiful. He was beautiful under the sun, when the snow glowed all around them. He was beautiful in the morning, when he always stopped mid-stairs to rub his eyes. He was beautiful as Will watched him, with the blue light of the TV, the golden one of the fireplace, shining on the little pout he always wore as he slept.

The knot enveloping Will’s stomach tightened. He took the remote again, and searched for another video. He was met with his parents’ faces in the home. They were young back then. He clicked before he even realized it.

“Before Apollo’s new auto-biographic film comes out next March, we decided to take a walk down memory-line, with the evergreen love between Apollo and Naomi. Both young when they met, they had just become part of the music world. Their first single together sold millions of copies, enough to–”

So enthralled on the old family photos, Will didn’t realize Niccolò had awoken, and his hand had sneaked around Will’s wrist.

“So you are a fan?”

Will looked away from the TV. It was so strange, hearing the woman talk (gossip) about his family, and having Niccolò in the same room. Guilt fell heavy on his chest, constricting his lungs.

I’m their son.

“I–” His breath broke.

They are my parents.

“They –”

They are the reason I can’t look at you and think we could ever work, even if we fell in love and were crazy for each other.

“A fan, yeah.”

Niccolò smiled, stretching his arms. When he stretched his legs, he grimaced. “Yeah, I thought so. You looked pretty taken with Apollo the other day.”

Will nodded. “Yeah.”

“He has a sister, you know?” He yawned, his mouth opened so much his jaw could have dislocated.

Will nodded again. He knew. He had only met her on two occasions, his brothers’ funerals. If his siblings’ funerals were the only times they would ever meet, Will hoped to never see her again.

“I don’t like her,” Niccolò mumbled. His eyes drifted closed, and a second later he was snoring again.

Less than a minute, and his cheek was on Will’s shoulder. Dark hair brushed again his nose, and he took a long breath. Pomegranate. Niccolò tasted of them.

Will turned off the TV, and closed his eyes. He wasn’t tired, but he matched Niccolò’s breath. He slept.

 Spotted!

Prince Nico of Elysium and his soulmate have been spotted being cozy in Livigno. Although their stay in the Italian city was made public days ago, clear photos of them hadn’t been released yet (go to gallery). The Prince’s sexuality has been subject of speculation for many years, with Cupid’s–stage name of famous pap–confirmation that he is, indeed, homosexual. However, it isn’t known whether the Prince’s soulmate might be homosexual as well.

The Royal Family hasn’t released any statement regarding the nature of their relationship, although close sources state have stated, that ‘The Prince is quite taken with a close friend of his,’ but the name hasn’t been revealed. Who between Nameless Soulmate and Nameless Friend will win the Prince’s heart?

Stay tuned to discover!

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