#just a fun little what if

[thunderc1an]

Tigerpaw has a friend

[3-2-whump]

Canon Divergence: The Diamond AU 💎

TW/CW: SPOILERS for Eternal, death of a main character (mentioned), Stockholm Syndrome, forced marriage

Dear Readers,

By the time you read this, the series Eternal has been over for a bit, and Thomas Costa is well and truly dead.

But it doesn’t have to be The End! I mean, fanfiction is a thing, canon divergence is a thing, and even I couldn’t resist the siren call of ‘but what if he didn’t die?’

So in this AU, which I’m calling The Diamond AU, Tom doesn’t die. This could mean 1) he either manipulates, mansplains, or manslaughters his way out of the trap Julio and Nico set for him, or 2) that he gets arrested for tax fraud earlier in the timeline and gets put away for a few years. Well, either way, he makes his way back to Khaled, he apologizes (and means it this time), and spends several more years with him, eventually culminating into a proposal with a fat-ass diamond ring. Khaled at this point would not exactly be able to say no, although, if he is feeling bold enough, he might set forth some conditions before accepting (e.g., 'stop treating me like shit,' 'stop sharing me with everybody,' etc.). SOOOO, within a month or two, Tom and Khaled would be married in a courthouse, moved out to a modest seaside cottage, and passing as husbands to the unsuspecting populace.

I didn't go with this ending. But that doesn't mean that you can't! And honestly, you don't even have to do anything with this ending if you don't want to, because this is just one possible thread out of many! I just shared this canon divergence because it was something I seriously thought about doing at one point, and because I made some sick art of this AU:

Pictured above: Khaled Costa, having a smoke break in their new house

Anyway, have fun with this possibility I guess

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@defire

[lisalindtstillons]

I have a secret confession. Sometimes when I’m reading Pact, I imagine Blake as Emma D'arcy

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[blu3b3rryj4mp1r3]

where they got their names from =)

[kwadlayns]

talk to me in french, talk to me in spanish 🍒

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

We all know the semi-canonical ‘all the Robins know to hide/duck inside of Batman’s cape, even as adults’ thing.

We also know that Danny ‘is LITERALLY a ghost’ Fenton sucks at remembering his own intangibility while ALSO forgetting to look ahead of him.

All I’m saying is, Danny Fenton (or Phantom, if you’d really like) would absolutely SLAM into Batman on accident while running on roof tops and Bruce ‘Brooding Instinct’ Wayne doesn’t even think twice about letting the kid hide and scanning around for danger before there’s a record scratch of ‘wait who tf is this?’ kicks in.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[joshuamj]

Okay, but what if EoW!Zelda had to impersonate Link

[lyxchen]

His gentle hands are covered in blood

(Had some fun with the colors on procreate so more versions are under the cut also if you like my art then please reblog it, thank youu)

[technically-human]

Those souls from Lust grabbed him for a reason

[egophiliac]

tsum events really are just the best, huh

[madootles]

the two seater couch from mag 175 has seen better days

[mipexch]

i love animating these little freaks

[time-woods]

idont think he likes this song very much . .

[akanemnon]

Turns out this new Dark World is paid DLC

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