#legit these people have all the time in the world to play and grind

[vandevos]

Okay normally this would be an update but this may just be me having enough of Vault Hunters.

I was gonna hop onto my world tonight and do some quick chores, plus I needed to update to the current version anyways. But when I got into the world, I had one to two frames, period. Shut the game down, used task manager to end some processes, booted it back up, my frames went up but now there’s extreme periods of stuttering. And I cannot tell where it’s coming from. For me at least the modpack’s unplayable. If anyone out there knows what’s going on please let me know.

As far as the pack itself, I think I’m over it. The sheer amount of randomization you have to slightly through, the expense of repairing gear and constant readjustment of mod costs to require grind times that casual players like myself can’t put in, the decision to have chests and coin piles attached to an attribute rather than a tool type, it’s all becoming too much. And now they drop a patch that’s eating up frames? If this ain’t the last straw idk what is.

Thanks for reading, and happy hunting.

[kiraswritten]

Pyro x Reader (Smut)

pairing: pyro x reader warning: smut (not full blown but it gets pretty steamy), excessive swearing bc i love to swear, and excessive use of parentheses word count: 2k+

authors note: ya if you've read Just Maybe, this is legit word for word but it was originally written for Pyro. wrote this ages ago on another blog and i’m just trying to consolidate everything on here! :)

You’re not the type of person that wants to be in a relationship; not you cause you’re still young and why would you want to be with one person for the rest of your life so early on?

You were the type of person that liked to have a certain sense of freedom and no way was a committed relationship a thing you desired, which is why your relationship with Pyro is perfect.

He felt the same way; he too didn’t want the commitment and the hassle of feelings; those things were messy and a lot of things in Pyro’s life was already fucked up.

There you were, on his bed, straddling him only in your bra and panties (He took those off long ago), as he nipped and sucked on your neck, wonderful sounds of pleasure leaving your lips. It was a typical Thursday for the both of you; after training the two of you would take a quick shower (sometimes together) and end up in Pyro’s bed, usually naked.

“You smell like Apples,” he mumbled against your skin, dragging his teeth along the crook of your neck.

“New body wash, you like?” You teased, grinding your wet heat against his crotch.

“Tease, you know I do.” He said, biting and sucking on your neck until he left a bruise.

“You ass I can’t cover that!” You hissed, glaring at him.

Pyro rolled his eyes, “Everyone already knows we fuck; you’re acting like such a priss.” His hands trail down to your waist, slowly pushing off your lace panties.

“As much as I love these on you, they need to come off.” He grinned.

You lift your ass up (earning a groan from Pyro, he loved watching you getting naked), letting him pull off the thin article of clothing from your body, then chucking it off somewhere in the far corner of his room.

You sit back down on him, a sly grin on your face as he looks up and down your body.

You bring your lips to his ear, “Consider yourself lucky cos a pretty girl is sitting on your lap like this,” you bite at the shell of his ear, “I wonder who you saved in your past life to be this lucky.”

Pyro closed his eyes, gripping your waist tightly, he grinds his crotch on you, a moan leaving your lips. “Yeah Baby, I’m lucky as hell. You dripping wet and ready for me, I’m the luckiest man in the world.”

You loved how the two of you can’t seem to get your hands off of each other; no matter how many times the two of you go at it, the intensity and hunger for each other grows each time.

Pyro latches his mouth onto your nipple, earning another moan from you, he flicks and gropes the other one with his hand as you hold onto him. He leaves love bites all over your chest, proud of his work.

“Pyro I can’t wear my tank tops ‘cause of you,” you whine but enjoy the pleasure he’s giving you.

“Just wear them, it’ll be hot.” He says into your skin. “Like me.”

He flips you over, your back on his bed, he trails kisses down to your hip bone, grazing his teeth, then trailing kisses down to your thighs. You close your eyes, gripping at the sheets, “Oh fuck you’re so wet babe,” he says, he licks a trail at your entrance, making you squirm under his touch. “Fuck John, if you don’t fuck me this instant I swear I’m gonna kick your ass!” You yell out, impatient at how he’s playing you.

His eyebrow twitches; he hated it when people called him John but with you it turns him on knowing that you only did that when you were sexually frustrated by him.

“All you had to do was ask,” he sneered, sticking a finger into your wet cunt.

“Fuck,” you gasp out, your back arching off of the bed.

“I need you, please,” you gasp out, “I can’t with foreplay right now, I want you inside me,” Pyro quickly discards his boxers, kicking them off to the floor. He makes his way to you, hovering over your naked body, his eyes glazed over with lust.

He parts your legs with his knees, you bite down on your bottom lip in anticipation, he always liked making you squirm under him. His eyes look down on you, his arm near your head, propping him up while his other hand is wrapped around his cock, giving it a few pumps before lining it against your entrance.

“You want me Babe?” He has his shit-eating grin plastered on his face; you knew how you looked under him; you knew how red your cheeks were, lips swollen, eyelids half-lidded, chest heaving; he had you right when he wanted you. “Please-” “Please what?” He rubs his tip against your wet folds, teasing you.

You knew he wanted you to beg for his cock, he wanted to hear you moan and whimper just for him. “I’m not begging, just be a good boy for me and give me what I want.” You whine, lifting your hips for any type of friction.

He lets go of his cock, his hand grabbing your hip, pushing your down. “Boy? What did you just call me?” His eyes grew dark, the pressure of his hold on your hip grew tighter, “Oh honey, I am not a boy,” He growls, slipping himself inside you with one forceful thrust. “Oh fuck,” you cry out, arching your back off of the bed.

“Yesyesyesyes!” you sigh out, Pyro grins at your reaction, quickening his thrusts. He shifts his weight and uses his elbow to hold himself up, both of your pelvises pressed against each other. Your arms wrap around his neck, pulling him into a kiss; all tongue and teeth clashing, you needed to taste him.

It ends with him rolling off of you, lying down next to you as the two of you catch your breaths, his fingers slowly interlocks with yours. You think nothing of it but you can’t deny it quickens your heartbeat when he does.

He’s only done this recently. You don’t ask him why he does it and he doesn’t tell you why either. The two of you lie in silence (sans the heavy breathing) till you’re reasonably calm.

You begin to get up from the bed, wanting to go to the restroom because you needed to go (no uti’s for you). His grip on your hand pulls you back slightly, causing you to look at him. “Come back after?” he asks, his usual icy grey eyes soften at you.

You nod your head as you let go of his hand, quickly grabbing his shirt and boxers from the floor; ignoring the burning sensation in your thighs. You quickly dress in his clothing, scurrying to the bathroom. You finish your business and walk back into his room; he’s half dressed, barely, only in boxers as he fixes the pillows back to their original positions.

He’s changed the bed sheets; the old one stuffed into his hamper. You close the door and jump into his bed, loving the softness of his new blanket.

He lies next to you, his arm wrapping around your waist. You turn your body towards him, resting your head on his chest; this is normal, nothing’s changed. Can my heart stop beating so fucking fast?!

You’ve been lying to yourself for a while now; you’re terrified of commitment yet this is the longest relationship you’ve had with someone. You didn’t want feelings to mess up the thing you had with Pyro, it was good, you were happy.

The plan was foolproof; the two of you would stay best of friends, no feelings attached when the two of you fucked; just sexual frustrations poured over one (sometimes yours, so two) bed(s), no strings attached. Your relationship in bed is strictly in bed and your relationship as friends were out of the room.

But your heart decided to join the party and made you confused.

You caught yourself more times than you’d like to admit, daydreaming of going on dates with Pyro, hell, even holding his hand in public and it scared you. This was supposed to be fun and mess free and you suddenly find yourself tangled in your own emotions.

It didn’t help that when the two of you were in public, he’d hold you by your waist as if it were natural, or you’d be sitting on his lap during break, it’s like he needed to be touching you when the two of you weren’t grabbing each other in bed. It only occurred to you how much you needed to feel his presence recently and that scared you.

You didn’t want this; you didn’t want feelings, but here you are, in bed with the guy that you might have (maybe) feelings for. “Py,” you say, breaking the silence, he loved it when you called him the shitty nickname you gave him but he’d never admit that to your face.

“Yeah?” He asked, his eyes still glued to the ceiling.

“I think we should stop this whole thing,” You feel your cheeks heat up, cause i’m pretty sure i’m in fucking love with you and i don’t want to be. “Huh?” He says, surprised, he sits himself up on the headboard, his arm still wrapped around your waist.

You look up at him, meeting his gaze, his eyes a darker shade of grey.

“The whole ‘this’ I-I think we should stop.” You watch his reaction to your words, he furrows his brows in confusion, “Is there something wrong? Did I do something wrong?” He asks and you immediately feel shitty,

“No, no! It’s not that, nothing like that. You-uh, you’re great-amazing even!” Oh fucking god I shouldn’t have said shit. “I just, I think we should just stop with that now, I mean- don’t you wanna do it with someone else?” You cringe at your words, you wanted to kick yourself in the ass for saying those words cause you don’t mean them at all.

“Do you?” He asks, his throat feeling tight, “Did you find someone else you wanted to fuck?” The last word cut into you, making you bite down on your lip.

“No, that’s not the point-Jesus- Pyro no, fuck, just forget it, forget it.” You turn your body away from his, closing your eyes. He slinks back down on the bed, this time pulling you closer, your back against his chest.

“Talk to me,” he says quietly, his voice void of any emotion.

Something inside you snaps and all you want to do is tell him everything; tell him that you’ve (probably) fallen for him and it eats at you. You broke the rule and all you wanted to do was run away.

You don’t reply and he doesn’t push any further; he was lost in his own thoughts, wondering if he did anything wrong.

Did she find out? He curses himself silently, am i that fucking obvious? He wonders if you noticed how needy he’s grown to have you near him, he wonders if you’ve noticed how he looks at you when you’re doing homework or cleaning, or doing absolutely fucking nothing, he wonders if you know that he’s head-over-heels for you and he wants to kick himself in the ass cause he broke the rule.

He was lying to himself the day the two of you decided this whole ordeal. He was being selfish and he wanted you for himself.

You didn’t want to feel this way; you didn’t want to ruin whatever it was that you had.

“Feelings ruin shit.” you mumble, loud enough for Pyro to hear.

“I think I fucking love you okay and- okay I lied, I don’t think I do, I probably do-like there’s a good chance I do and I’m sorry I broke the rule, god why am I still talking-” You were cut off by Pyro pulling you into his chest, hugging you tight.

“I love you too, fuck you scared me. I thought you didn’t want me around anymore.” He says, unable to control the smile that spread across his face.

You look at him, blinking the tears from your eyes (you didn’t even realise you were crying), he lets out a chuckle, wiping the tears from your face, “You baby,” He teases, and you swat his arm, and he laughs this time, hugging you tighter.

You melt into his touch, he presses a soft kiss on your forehead and your heart bursts cause this was one of the scenarios you’ve thought of and it’s so much better than you imagined, “I swear to god if you tell anyone this I’m gonna set you on fire,” and the magic is ruined. “That’s the Pyro I know, ruining moments like this.”

[taco-night-frenzy]

Graveyard Keeper Review

I couldn't post this on Steam since I technically don't own it there (even though I paid for the DLC) but I wrote this all out for a Steam Review and I am not wasting it.

ANYWAYS. Here's my review of the game Graveyard Keeper under the cut.

Warning, it is negative, and I did not like it very much. I don't hate it though. I gave this game a solid 40 hours with all the DLCs.

Really thought I'd like this game, but it gets old and it gets old FAST. I wouldn't say it's a terrible game by any means, I legit got some entertainment out of it at the start, but it quickly falls apart when you realize you just never…. do anything. I played this game with all the DLCs installed and I think that give it a feeling of lots of 'content' and made it addicting for a while when I wasn't quite sure what awaited me.

This is like baby's first Factorio/Stardew Valley game but you get the worst of both worlds.

You're tasked to be a Graveyard Keeper, but honestly, that's like 10 percent of the game. You very rarely do any graveyard keeping. And when you do, like everything else in this game, it is extremely poorly explained. The thing you'll be spending more time than anything doing is just… walking back and forth. You're given a clunky teleport pretty early on and maybe later you'll find out you can keep buying speed potions if you can't live like this anymore, but that seems to be it. There's no mounts, there's no better system of travel, no upgrading that.

The gameplay revolves around your standard Factorio / Stardew Valley type things… gather resources, find a way to min/max gathering those resources etc. It's a bit addicted at first because min/maxing them is incredibly easy when you understand the game. Sadly, when you understand the game, you also realize there is nothing awaiting you for doing any of these tasks. The 'rewards' you get are mediocre at best.

The soundtrack is also just… not good. You get maybe 2 songs on a 2 minute loop for this intensely long grindy game. Bring your own music.

I'd say by far the worst part of this game though is the writing. I don't think this matters to some people and that's fair, but the writing here is just bland, boring, dry, and riddled with typos and spelling mistakes. There's some sort of spelling error in almost every scene.

The plot and the characters are way worse than I expected. The plot turns out to be an ISEKAI. Yes, that's right. This is a cut and dry ISEKAI somehow. You play as John Milk Toast Normal Guy and get hit by a car and end up in this boring world that makes you a Graveyard Keeper. That was a red flag off the bat, but I tried to be open minded.

Throughout the game though, you'll learn that not a single one of these characters is likeable in any sense. They're all vaguely buttheads and kind of rude. They have a lot to say, but it's never fun, it's just bad stale jokes and quips without any kind of style or flair added to them.

(Note: I LIKE rude characters. But they're ALL weirdly low level rude and dull as dishwater.)

The OTHER red flag should have been noticing all the DLCs just titled after popular TV shows. Stranger Sins, Better Save Soul, etc…. none of these references have literally anything to do with DLCs. It is just, "Hey this one is sin related, let's make the title look like Stranger Things."

And tying in with the rewards sucking, your rewards 90% of the time are just waiting through these incredibly dull scenes that feel like they were written by a 15 year old boy going through an edgy phase (but also doesn't want to upset Mom)

Final Bit: This game is just sadly mediocre. It's not a terrible game, but it is certainly not good. It has no strong points. Play Factorio, Oxygen Not Included, something like that if you need the grind. Play Stardew Valley or Sun Haven if you want that Harvest Moon farm feel. This game does not scratch the itch of either. If you can get the full game and the three DLCs all at once for extremely cheap? I guess it's not the worst, but it is still not fun enough.

[erdariel]

Also like some of those like "once you have an elytra" or "when you've got netherite" are very... it's always kinda strange to me to hear people talk about those as a casual easy-to-do things???

like, i get that for some people it is. but personally? i'm a very casual player, i don't really get around to playing minecraft (or anything for that matter) that often. i used to, when i was a child, but i just don't, anymore. it's not rare that several major updates go by without me playing. i play sometimes, it's fun to dabble in it now and then, but i'm not very good at it, plus i tend to play very cautiously because when i don't play a lot it's really frustrating to lose all my stuff. i don't have a lot of patience for very grindy things either. oh and i never learned how to do redstone more complicated than running a line directly from a button or lever to a piston or lamp or something

so let me tell you, i have never gotten an elytra. literally never. i'm not sure if i've ever had netherite either, and if i've had it it was on a server where a friend who's better in the game gave it to me. i've never had any sort of redstone-based farms or machines. i've never had a villager trading hall - partly because i couldn't be bothered to reset villagers until getting a trade i want and doing all the things with zombies and whatnot, but i think even if i had the patience for that sort of grinding, i just... wouldn't vibe with the typical trading hall setup, i'd probably let them be like, free range, you know?

so yeah. i'm very glad that the game is designed to be something that children can have fun with. because that ends up meaning that also casual players who aren't willing to sink hundreds of hours of practicing and grinding and whatever to have everything in the game at their fingertips can have fun with it. i'm glad they're designing challenges for early and mid-level players, because that means i can play them! (i've not gotten around to it yet, but i've been thinking of maybe making a new minecraft world and cheating myself some gear to go find a trial chamber to try that out; it seems fun, but i don't have the time and energy just now to do full-on playing and getting all the stuff the "legit" way)

it's just the sad truth I guess that most of the really active online community are the super skilled players for whom everything is easy, so they're the ones providing comments and feedback on new features, and the noobs like me don't necessarily have their voices heard as easily, and a lot of the really good players forget that we exist and we'd like to get to have fun with the game too

"Minecraft needs to be rebalanced! It's too easy to get mending! It's too easy once you have elytra! All the challenges and bosses are optional!"

Yes. That's the point. That's GOOD actually. My little brother needs to be able to play minecraft as much as I can. It's a sandbox game, not an RPG. You can create difficulty and add challenge and modify files! Those are features in the game and regularly adjusted for just that purpose. But the base game is meant to be accessible and universal.

Especially when a lot of "content" comes in the form of professionals, people who earn a living being good at the game and have hours a day to put into it, our perspective is skewed. I love the hermits, but any time they say a farm "only took two hours" to build? I cringe. When hypixel pvp creators talk about how lame netherite makes vanilla gameplay, I sigh. And when someone complains that it's too easy to cheese a mechanic or obtain a villager trade I kind of want to scream.

It's easy *for you*. It's boring *for you*. It's not that it needs to change drastically, you just need to approach it differently. You have a moral objection to how "easy" it is to get a mending villager? Make the rule for yourself that you can only get mending from the loot table. You think elytra take the fun out of travel? Don't use it.

And before you say "well can't they just use accessibility features to make it easier?" NO. That's not the point of those features. Accessibility features that disable quicktime events or remove puzzles aren't to make a game easier, they're to make a game PLAYABLE. Accessibility features in minecraft are to disable view bobbing, change the visual distortions, add directional subtitles....things that make the game playable to people who need them.

Basically, please chill the fuck out about minecraft being easy. If it's too easy and you can't come up with a solution for that, maybe it's just not a game you enjoy playing. Download a mod pack or go play something different.

[2dkapsddr]

August 30th, 2024 - Arcaea, IIDX 31, DDR World, PIU Phoenix

WAHOOOOOO!!!! MASSIVE DAY TODAY!!!!! I was gonna get my new Nike Frees today finally, I was gonna go test them out at Round 1 Bowling & Amusement, and most sudden yet amazing of all... A BOBA SHOP NEAR ME WAS HAVING A P3R COLLAB!!!! ASSFDSJFJSDKLFJSDJFLSKDJLKF I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN NEAR ME SINCE FOREVER!!! AND IT ACTUALLY JUST HAPPENED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!

so of course, i went there and posted a few pics :] but while i was there and drinking a collab drink, i got a few plays in of the new Rotaeno DLC -- featuring hit new awesome scores including Dual Doom Deathmatch (FTR-8+, MAX-20) and Waltz for Lorelei (FTR-8+, MAX-15) as FTR PMs #169 and #170 respectively!!! ohyeah, and also some really good attempts on Inverted World (FTR-9, so close to a sightread PM...) and Dual Doom Deathmatch (ETR-10, could maybe be a PM soon enough?)

like i said, however!!! i was gonna go to Round 1 to test out my new Nike Frees as soon as they arrived, and arrive they did!!! they felt like MONSTERS oh my god i have no idea how they got them to be so lightweight... but it's beautiful and i wasn't gonna let a Day 1 opportunity like this go to waste!!! so, full of Nastea and a dream, i carried my way over to the Round 1 to get some games in... but first!! a word from our warmup sponsor, IIDX!!! where i recently decreased my green number from 325 to 300 to 305 to potentially acc better...

and by god, would you look at that upscore on Show [SPA-9] despite being on random!!! i got that original AA with nonran!!! and now i can surpass it just because of a simple speed change!!! oh right, and a few other score shoutouts: Be OK and EURO-ROMANCE (both SPA-10) E-Clears, Cinderella [SPA-10] so close to hard clearing... maybe next time... but in the meantime, AO-1 [SPH-10] AS 10 HC #2 OF MINE!!!! BEAUTIFUL SONG BEAUTIFUL CHART BEAUTIFUL SCORE!!! also a long-awaited E-Clear on Megalara Garuda [SPH-10] as formerly attempted by little ol' me!!! (nadeshiko SPA-10 still a dogshit chart)

...and now, for the moment you've all been waiting for!!! after all the hand games and warmers i had before even thinking about coming here, you've got some real nerve... but it's okay beca- wait wait wait no way . nooo way . what in the god damn... on my first score pic of the day and essentially second set, first try of the song... i got FIRESTORM [ESP-16, 42p] AS 16 PFC #2!!!! JOINING FORCES WITH OUT OF FOCUS CSP-16!!!! WOOHOOOOO WE'RE LEGIT GAMING HERE!!!!!

additionally including some of my other scores, of course (sorry i just had to boost myself on my own post), i also got some banger new Flare EX scores, including but not limited to...

Golden Arrow [ESP-16] 995k, 46-4-0-1!!!

C-C-C-N-N-N [CSP-17] 988k Sightread!!!! Area record baybee!!!! (for like only an hour lol)

Ishtar [CSP-16] Flare EX baybee :] 995k again wahoo

Double Tornard [EDP-15]... it's actually not that bad!! rly fun chart even if i can't really keep up with it speed-wise :[

...then, for just a little bit, i switched over to pump to complete some challenge song recommendations from people on twitter dot com and potentially get some other songs in. but honestly? i don't know if it was the bright ass lights from the smx cab, the normal mode failing you out on 2nd and 3rd stage, or just my general exhaustion, but i was Pissed at the game and kinda sick of it, wanting to give up despite not having played any of the challenge songs yet...

it was seemingly no more than a passing thought, however, as i ended up getting a sick new AAA clear on DO or DIE S20 right after ranting!!! and then i got to play the rest of the recommendations in the same set!!!!

switching back over to DDR, i heard about this tournament that was closing its submissions that weekend...! with no other real goals in mind (besides potentially some more Flare Skill from 16s and whatnot), i agreed to give it a go and grind out the qualifier charts for the challenge: those being Tribe, Hyper Bomb, and Elemental Creation!

Tribe was a bit tricky yet doable, seeing as I got a 56p PFC in three attempts, and then Hyper Bomb was a bit of its own struggle MA wise (though i got a 2g FC anyways!)... but perhaps the most surprising result for me was my Elemental Creation!! Nearly an AAA on the ESP-17 at first since i was too scared to try the Challenge, but then a sightread 980k when i DID try the challenge chart...! Incredible!!! What's more, I gave Tribe a few more tries on this other slightly more consistent cab given I wasn't really satisfied with the perfects on my PFC... and after a few attempts on That, I managed to sneak away and end off the session/qualifiers with a 35P PFC BAYBEE!!!!!! YOOOOOOOOOOO

[hueseok]

day by day.

as surprising as it sounds, you and taehyung didn’t just meet after a considerable amount of drinks, shameless dance floor grinding, and a one-night stand turned legit relationship—because as it turns out, you two have met each other approximately three more instances in the past, every encounter building up until finally, the universe decided it was time.

pairing: taehyung x reader

word count: 8.2k

rating: 18+

content: fluff | smut | strangers to lovers au | a dash of supposed one-night stand au | eventual established relationship au

warning/s: profanities | a scene where yn is being bothered by a guy in a club | mention of divorced parents | implicit + explicit sexual content: making out, grinding, oral (m. + f. receiving), car sex, doggy style

author’s note. this plot feels low key confusing but i recently finished reading anxious people by fredrik backman and i completely fell in love with his writing style ! so me being me, wanted to have a go at it and have fun hehe (p.s. this has been in my drafts since november but i only got the chance to finish it now bc of 2022 grammys taehyung so hehehehehe) also dedicating this fic to @rosedtae bc rose is one of the sweetest taehyung-biased people i know !! <3

You and Taehyung first met when you were both five years old.

Only the two of you didn’t know that it was the other back then, because when you’re a kid, you don’t tend to remember the dozens of strangers you encounter as your mom forces you to accompany her to the market for two weeks’ worth of food—or based on exact scenarios that played on the night you guys met, was at a Halloween party your dad forced you to go to even though you didn’t want to and wasn’t keen to go as a fairy princess either.

No hate towards fairy princesses, of course. It’s just that you didn’t like to wear the wings that came along with the costume, heavy behind your shoulders and hitting everything it walked past at. You might have knocked a few pumpkin baskets and some decorations all over the office without you even noticing it in the first place.

When you’re a kid, you don’t tend to be that apologetic for your actions too (at least not to strangers that much), but you were, and you became more apologetic when the wire part at the end of your wings particularly knocked over a little boy’s glasses off as he came to the Halloween party as Clark Kent. Not Superman, but Clark Kent, complete with the over-waxed hair with that single twirly strand on his forehead and a button-down polo that was opened, revealing the real Superman costume inside.

That boy was Taehyung.

He stared at you the second his lensless glasses fell on the ground. You stared right back, surprised at first, before you slowly crouched down and picked it up, handing the accessory back to him.

“I’m sorry,” you said.

“It’s okay.” He smiled, eyes doing a one over on your appearance. “Are you a fairy?”

Red casted on your cheeks. “Yes.”

“That’s awesome. I’m Superman!”

“You are?”

“I am. Look—” he pointed at the logo on his chest— “it shows right here.”

“Oh, yeah.” You laughed.

That was inevitably the start of a one-night long friendship, a friendship that happens to be as shallow as it gets because forming bonds used to be much easier when you’re young and you haven’t had people prove you otherwise. And in the case of you and Taehyung, both of you enjoyed each other’s company as if you were still going to see each other again tomorrow, which maybe wasn’t as impossible as it seemed, since there have been a lot of instances wherein people claimed that the world was indeed small.

Before parting ways, all of the children of the office staff gathered together in the center of the event hall to take a picture with the mascot hired for that night. Most of the toddlers fought their way to ensure that they’d get to stand next to it, while you opted to stay by the side, one wired wing of yours hitting someone once again, only this time directly on the face, as Taehyung’s specs were pushed far too inwards on the bridge of his nose.

You two shared a look, laughed loudly, and the event photographer clicked on his camera at the precise moment you both did.

***

You and Taehyung never saw each other again until you were 14 years old. However, unlike the previous occasion that acquainted you both, you were now clueless on who the other was.

You two never really met again after that Halloween party. Your parents got divorced when you were 10 years old, and since then, you have been living a life where you seemingly had two homes. It wasn’t that depressing though; growing up, your parents were determined in not making it look like they were on bad terms—or maybe they were just excellent at hiding that they were—so you managed to carry on with your life without being too troubled about which house you had to spend every important yearly event out there, or to ask both parents attend a school program.

Taehyung, on the other hand, always had an amazing relationship with his very much in love mom and dad. In fact, it was his father too that accompanied him at the Party™; the difference between you and him was just that he didn’t really need convincing back then to attend it, considering that at that age, he was already drawn to any type of event that required him to dress up as his favorite superheroes or cartoon characters.

Anyways, despite never seeing each other again after that evening, both you and Taehyung still had a memory that involved a fairy princess and a cute toddler version of Clark Kent. You two didn’t catch each other’s names that night—hence the costume names being the only basis—because perhaps it just didn’t feel like a must to do or because even though your names were literally written on the given sticker name tag on your chests, kids just weren’t that good at reading yet to remember.

“I feel sorry for that guy,” you said to your friend as you juggled the coins left in your palm. You were in an arcade with three of your friends, just got out of school and decided to make a quick visit to the local arcade center because the four of you flunked a test five hours ago.

“Why?” asked your friend.

“Because he clearly sucks at shooting.” You nodded at the boy at the basketball hoops game.

Your friend chuckled. “It’s not like you’re any better, ____.”

“I think I am though?”

“Nah. I’m sure you’re just as bad.”

The boy at the basketball hoops game was actually Taehyung. He really wasn’t good at shooting balls admittedly too, but he was competitive, and his close family friend that felt more like his annoying older brother than anything else—who was also named Yoongi—kept on telling him that if he succeeded in beating his score, then he would buy him the PlayStation game he wanted for Christmas that year.

Yoongi was only two years older than Taehyung, and the reason why they were friends in the first place was because their mothers have been friends since college. That was the reason why Taehyung was in this arcade with him as well, because both moms were having their nails done in a nearby salon and the two boys eventually became too bored to stay still in that cramped up room filled with gossiping middle-aged ladies and a loud television playing a rerun of a show that was centered around a cheating husband and a vengeful wife to want to stay.

“One more game.” Taehyung turned to him when he failed to beat his score yet again.

Yoongi smirked. “That was supposed to be your last try, Tae.”

“Just one more!”

“Just accept it. You’re no match for me.”

“I’d have to die before I say that.” Taehyung huffed. “Come on, I promise this will be my last try.”

“And if you fail again? What will you bargain for?”

He thought about it. “Um, I don’t know, what do you want?”

“I don’t think that���s how bargaining works.”

“How does it work then?”

“Not sure, but I think it involves you giving me something that is precious to you.”

“My PlayStation console is the only precious thing I can think of at the moment.”

Yoongi raised his eyebrows. “Okay. So, are you willing to give me your console in exchange for another chance to get a game?”

“That doesn’t sound fair at all…”

“That’s the point.”

Taehyung glared at him, making Yoongi grin. The latter was still going to convince his mom to give Taehyung a game this Christmas without him winning the bet nonetheless; he just wanted to tease the hell out of him so that he can get something out of it too.

“I’m just going to play over there now,” Taehyung said after five minutes of visibly sulking in front of Yoongi, gesturing to the side of the room where all the claw machines were positioned.

Yoongi smirked and nodded, telling him not to go anywhere out of his sight while he played another round himself with the basketball hoops, and Taehyung muttered a ‘yes’ as he trudged forward to his destination, stopping by a machine that had Pokémon medium-sized keychains inside.

He didn’t realize it at that time, but the girl that was playing the claw machine beside him was you. You appeared as oblivious as he did because like established, the two of you didn’t remember the other after the Party™. Plus, it was safe to say that both your features didn’t remain exactly the same for you to ever recognize the other; you were already undergoing puberty, so maybe if there was any time that the fairy princess and Clark Kent were going to meet again, this might not be the ideal moment for it.

Taehyung cursed quietly under his breath as the Jigglypuff he was trying to get fell from the claw, bouncing back on its previous place.

Meanwhile, you, who was still beside him, successfully caught another panda bear stuffed toy for the fourth time, which meant your job there was done.

You didn’t see him scowl at your back the second you dashed away to meet your friends. If you did, you would have asked what the problem was and proceeded to win him that Jigglypuff as a gift to stop him from looking devastated.

Because for an adolescent 14-year-old boy, Taehyung was certainly too cute for his own good for you to willingly ignore.

***

Six years later, you and Taehyung crossed paths once again. You were older (obviously) and more mature (of course) and still unfortunately unaware of each other’s existence for that matter.

This time around, you both were in an art museum that you had to go to for a general course you had in college, while Taehyung just went because it was what he wanted to do for leisure. From that sentence alone, you could understand that the two of you had different sentiments over art.

You weren’t alone, however. You were with six classmates that only included one guy you were fairly acquainted with within the group. He was Namjoon, and though you and him weren’t that close, you weren’t less than friends either. You could assume that you were friendly enough considering that throughout the whole self-tour in the exhibit, neither of you dared to leave the other’s side, clearly not that comfortable with your group mates to do so.

Oh, and Taehyung? He wasn’t alone as well; he was with a girl he’d been dating for almost a month back then, a nice sorority girl that one of his friends set him up with. The girl was basically Taehyung’s ideal type—beautiful face, beautiful personality, and most especially, she shared his love and appreciation for the arts—though the only problem was, she seemed to be hopelessly hung over an ex, judging by how she kept on uttering the guy’s name every time an opportunity rose, much to Taehyung’s disappointment.

Regardless of that, she hasn’t done anything that was truly worth breaking up for (Taehyung was in denial that this relationship was bound to erupt in flames sooner or later), hence why he kept on doing everything that could possibly make him like her more—the reason why they were in this art exhibit for starters too.

“Can I stop by the restroom real quickly?” she asked him as they walked to the other hall.

“Sure.” Taehyung smiled.

As she fled, Taehyung stopped by a huge painting. It was an abstract one, with lots of circles and squares in particular and various colors adorning it. He was too busy staring at it, analyzing it, appreciating it, to notice the group of college students in the same age range as he was scurrying beside him, examining the same painting with you and Namjoon in that very group, just positioned at the far back where the both of you could be mistaken not to be a part of them in the first place.

You and Taehyung never met eyes, nor did they notice each other. You and him just stood a few feet away, minding your own business, until Taehyung’s date came back, and your group moved to another spot.

For a split second, your arms almost touched as you passed rough one another. You were busy talking to Namjoon to notice, while Taehyung was too preoccupied with his girlfriend to take mind of almost bumping into the stranger if it weren’t for you, the said stranger, who moved slightly to the opposite direction that prevented your collision.

The next time you and Taehyung would meet, it wouldn’t just be your elbows that would find themselves crashing, but perhaps something near your cupid’s bows as well.

***

You and Taehyung were hanging around in the same club when the both of you were already 25 years old.

It was a Friday night, and your partygoer of a best friend insisted that you girls take the time to unwind after a busy week from work. You had complained to them prior about a co-worker that was driving you absolutely nuts, mostly because the co-worker kept on asking you ridiculous questions and bothering you with requests that you knew very well could be accomplished on her own, but of course, you being the ever accommodating officemate tried to be as helpful as you could considering that that co-worker of yours was a relatively new employee in the company.

“Don’t look just yet—” one of your besties began to whisper towards you— “but a really hot guy is staring at you right now.”

You raised your eyebrows, pausing in sipping your drink before placing it down gently on the small table, intrigued to say the least. “How hot are we talking about?”

“Too hot.”

“Be more specific.”

“He could be an actor or a model if he wasn’t already.”

“Is he my type?”

Your bestie stole a longer glance at the stranger she was pertaining to. “I don’t think so. But he’s hot enough to compensate for that.”

The guy she was talking about wasn’t Taehyung. It was surprisingly the jerk he was going to save you from approximately 10 minutes from that moment, just when you and your friends decided to go to the dance floor to have fun and sway along the music and the man that’s been eyeing you made his way to where you were, intending to catch your name and maybe have more than just your number before the night ended.

In the same dance floor, Taehyung was screaming the lyrics of the song that was playing inside the club with his three companions: Jimin, Jeongguk, and Hoseok. The four of them went here upon Jimin’s request, reckoning that their friend group had failed to do anything fun for the last couple of months after Hoseok got himself a steady girlfriend. Of course, they didn’t hate the girl nor directly blamed her for Hoseok’s sudden retirement from the party life, but it would have been nice to still go out every once and a while and let loose with Hoseok included in the get together and not just via facetime or a vide being sent to the latter, urging him to go the next time they went partying.

While Taehyung sang on the top of his lungs, his line of vision abruptly fell on a girl dancing by the far-right side—only she wasn’t dancing that much anymore and was more like arguing with the man that was just standing behind her, evidently frustrated with her expression hard and body language defensive.

Taehyung couldn’t help but stare a little too long, curious, and vigilant since this scene that was playing in front of his eyes was something he was well familiar with, especially in a club filled with people who typically kept themselves out of the matters of other people. And in the exact time the girl—you, as it should be pointed out now—shoved the guy’s chest to have him have an acceptable distance between the both of you, that’s when Taehyung found himself striding to your spot, hurriedly marching and placing a solid palm on the man’s shoulder to push him back when he attempted to approach you again.

“That’s enough, dude,” said Taehyung coolly, forming a barrier with his body as he stood between you and the man.

You looked at Taehyung, not able to see his face from where you were situated due to his stance. He conversed with the guy that was bothering you, unfortunately the same guy who one of your best friends repeatedly claimed was hot, which wasn’t entirely untrue but because of shitty personality he just showcased and the arrogance that was literally oozing off his body, you immediately knew that you weren’t going to go ahead and waste your time on him, a fact that he obviously couldn’t accept that easily as he continuously pestered you in giving him more of your attention.

Sometimes, that’s what you hated about handsome guys who indeed knew they were handsome. It gets in their heads too much and then they have themselves convinced that any person that would even think about rejecting them would be making the biggest mistake of their life, as exhibited by this fellow that Taehyung was still trying to get rid of in the nicest way possible to avoid a fight from ensuing.

“Who the fuck even are you?” The guy scoffed at Taehyung. “If anyone should scurry off, it’s you.”

“Actually,” you recomposed yourself, clearing your throat and impulsively hooking an arm around Taehyung’s, “he’s the boyfriend I’ve been telling you about.”

Yeah, you’ve been using the ‘sorry, I have a boyfriend’ card since you got a whiff of his bad aura from the first sentence that slipped off his mouth, and yet he didn’t care one bit, believing that you were just lying (which you clearly were) to get him away.

The jerk scoffed once more. “Do you expect me to believe that bullshit?”

“Now, you’re just being pathetic,” Taehyung said with an annoyed laugh, playing along. “What does my girlfriend have to do to make you leave, huh? Is it that hard for you to find another person who might tolerate your shit that you have to keep on acting desperate?”

“What the fuck did you just say?”

“Oh, look, he’s more stupid than I thought too.” He drawled.

That hit the nerve, though instead of biting back, a bouncer appeared, led by one of your friends, and the guy rolled his eyes, no longer planning to execute what he was intending to do before leaving the scene. However, before he finally did, he didn’t stop himself from making a fool of himself one last time by shouting at the bouncer in annoyance to create an illusion that the reason why he was fleeing wasn’t because he was as hell intimidated by the tall and buff guy, but because he was somehow the one being burdened in this situation and not you.

“Hey, are you fine?” your friend asked, her eyes flickering from your face in worry to your grip on Taehyung’s arm that was still tight. She raised her eyebrows at the sight, a smirk ultimately conquering her features as she got a clear message of what exactly was happening here, and when you noticed it, your cheeks burned, glancing sideways and coincidentally locking stares with Taehyung that took your breath away. “Well, it seems that you are,” she said. “I’ll just be at our table, okay?”

You replied with a nod, a nod that was so half-hearted you didn’t even look at her as you did so, too distracted by Taehyung who was gazing at you so earnestly as you were gazing at him in return. “I’m ____,” you dazedly murmured, unsure on how you were going to begin without sounding too awkward, failing anyways with what you just embarrassingly said.

He smiled, a gentle hand grabbing yours that was holding his arm so he could properly grasp it on his own instead in a form of a handshake. “You doing okay, ____?”

“Yeah…”

“Good.” He couldn’t let go of you just yet. “I, uh, wanted to say sorry for intruding, by the way. I know maybe you could have handled it on your own but—”

“Don’t worry.” You cut him off, smiling, subtly admiring his handsome visuals that was frankly inclined to your ‘type’ (you used to believe that you didn’t have a type—until you imagined all the guys you’ve liked in one room, and you realized that you sort of did have one, with Taehyung notably being able to blend in just alright in that said room). “I appreciate the help, nonetheless. And I have a feeling that he would have done worse before my friend came along, so thank you for being here.”

“Glad I was.” Taehyung gave your hand a gentle squeeze, a sign that he was about to retract his hand back, but you unthinkingly squeezed it just as he was pulling away to keep him in place.

“Is it okay if I buy you a drink? As thanks?” you shyly asked, it was now or never, stepping closer so holding his hand wouldn’t be such an effort given the distance of your bodies. “Only if you want to, though. No pressure.”

He chuckled, peeking at your hands for a second and then turning his focus on you. “I think I’d like it more if I buy you a drink, to be honest.”

“But that would defeat the purpose of my supposed act of gratitude.”

“You wanting to share a drink with me alone is enough, ____.”

Your insides tingled at the sound of your name falling out of his mouth again, accompanied by his voice that registered in your ears too pleasantly. “Well, if you really insist…”

Taehyung grinned, biting the bottom of his lips and slowly tugging you to the bar counter, keeping you close amidst the dozens of people dancing and jumping around you so that you wouldn’t get lost in the sea of the crowd.

Reaching your destination, Taehyung assisted you on sitting on the moderately high stool and you had the bravery to hold onto his shoulders for support when you did, the booze you’ve consumed earlier letting you have a go at spending its effective liquid courage that you once more didn’t draw your palms back as fast as you should have.

“You haven’t told me your name yet,” you said, fingers latched on his shoulder blades, the pad of thumbs slightly pressing on his flesh.

He was definitely further attracted to you at this point. All he wanted to do earlier was save this pretty stranger from trouble for the shallow reason that you were indeed pretty, but he didn’t expect that he would get more than a thank you after it was done.

Okay, maybe he was hoping that he would—though the part that he didn’t think would happen was you being this confident or even being a bigger flirt than him. “It’s Taehyung,” he said.

“Taehyung,” you repeated. “Familiar name.”

“It is quite common. Wouldn’t question it if you already had a friend who has the same name.”

“Nope, I think I would have remembered if that was the case.”

Of course, the name ‘Taehyung’ was familiar to you because you read it 20 years ago on a young boy’s name tag at the Halloween party. You didn’t remember however, like how Taehyung didn’t remember that you were the fairy princess included in the fond memories of his childhood. Regardless, it was no question that the both of you were experiencing this quick connection that allowed you to feel this comfortable with each other despite only formally meeting for the first time since you were kids.

“Can I buy you that drink now?” Taehyung wondered out loud while blatantly staring at your lips when you did it first, just an innocent glance that you didn’t mean to do for longer than a second but inevitably did in the end.

With a nod, you leaned towards his ear and whispered your preferred drink, Taehyung smiling and turning to the bartender to relay the order.

***

It was funny how the universe had to wait for so long before it granted the two of you the chance to meet. Though it seemed as if everything was going according to plan, because it so happened that you and Taehyung were in the stage of your life where you were content with what you had: a not perfect but happy family, friends that were here to stay, somehow adequate jobs that paid enough to be tolerable and not resign from. The only thing missing was a person to love, which wasn’t a requirement for adults in their mid-20s, but nonetheless a nice addition to cherish when you’re in a flourishing age.

The problem was, however, that you and Taehyung didn’t really realize that a serious relationship was what was installed for you both, because after a few more drinks, conversations, and eventually, some rather sensual grinding back in the dance floor, you found yourselves in one of the corners of the club, shamelessly making out, your fingers lightly pulling his hair as his hands kneaded your waist, thinking that this was just going to be a fun one-night stand shared between a guy who helped the pretty girl and nothing else.

“Hmm,” you hummed as he placed kisses on your jaw, down to the base of your throat, nipping and licking, “my place is 40 minutes away, give or take. How about yours?”

Taehyung leaned back, chuckling again at your straightforwardness before capturing your mouth, slipping his tongue inside at the instance you let out a breathy moan when his large hands moved to your ass. “20 to 30, depends on the traffic,” he answered right against you.

“Damn it,” you frowned, “that’s too long.”

“I brought my car with me,” he added immediately, a clear offer of an alternative. “I’m supposed to be the designated driver tonight, that’s why. Are you good with that?”

You grinned, heart leaping out in happiness (or horniness). “I’ll be good with anything other than the toilets.”

With another chuckle and a long kiss, you and Taehyung hurriedly made rounds inside the club to say your farewells to your friends, not letting them respond that much as you literally just shouted that you were heading somewhere else before running away, the both of you in giddy laughter with your hands glued together while you exited to the back where the parking lot was nearest.

There, Taehyung couldn’t hold himself back from kissing you with excitement until he spotted his car; he clumsily fumbled with his key fob to unlock the vehicle, opening the door to the backseat, gesturing for you to freely enter, and watched as you crawled inside, hastily dragging him closer to you the second he closed the door behind him and locked the car again.

“You’re clean and have a condom, right?” you asked after a few minutes of grinding on his lap; your mind was a little hazy from the alcoholic beverages, but you knew you were still sane to absolutely want to suck this man’s dick and let him do all the things he wanted to do to you.

“I wouldn’t have kissed you in the first place if I wasn’t and didn’t.” He teased with a grunt, helping you take your top off. “You?”

“Wouldn’t have let you bring me here in the first place too if I wasn’t.”

“Smartass.”

You smirked and returned to heavily making out with Taehyung, whimpering as he intentionally brought you down harsher on his clothed hard cock, thrusting up and pushing you lower at the same time, causing more friction to take place on where you longed for it the most.

Needless to say, you both got what you were hoping for.

You sucked him off sloppily, Taehyung grunting and guiding your head in the pace he desired, stopping when he was one pump away from blowing his load right at your face. He then urged you to lay back, murmuring that he was going to return the favor with a cheeky grin, and god—when you say that he was so fucking good with his tongue on your heat, you really, truly, mean it. You might even go as far as saying that he was the best man who has ever eaten you out, going down at you like he’s been craving for the taste of you since forever.

“Fuck, that feels—” you moaned, bumping your head on the car window.

He glanced up from between your legs, chuckling a bit though concern could be seen in his eyes. “Be careful, sweetie.”

You whined, the pain ignored for how could you give your attention to that when Taehyung’s pursed lips on your clit was driving you nuts? “I, I—too good—shit—Taehyung, p-please—” you uttered more nonsense, unconsciously sliding yourself farther from him at the stimulating sensation but his arms were quick to haul you closer each time you did, the ministrations always better than the last.

You came strongly shortly after, thighs convulsing and Taehyung diving his face deeper to your pussy, desperately sucking and fucking you with his tongue with a loud growl of pleasure. You couldn’t remember a moment wherein someone managed to make you come with his tongue alone, further proving your point earlier about his crazy skills in oral that you were already thinking about how Taehyung was going to be the standard from this point forward.

He slithered higher so you could be in level again, mouth no longer hesitating to crash onto yours. “Wanna be inside you so bad now,” he admitted, the ripping of the foiled packet being heard.

“Do it.”

“Yeah?” He rolled the rubber on his dick. “Think you’re ready to take me, sweetheart?”

You moaned, staring at Taehyung while he spat on the palm of his hand and brought it down to his shaft, spreading it. “Yes. Yes—please. Please fuck me.”

He pressed a kiss on your cheek. “You’re so hot when you beg like that.”

“Please,” you said again, your speech sounding like a whimper, and Taehyung grumbled, his tip entering your folds in the most languid way he could for you to adjust well. “Please, please—” you whined over and over, a plea to have him move quicker, until finally, he had you pierced to the hilt and your next word was barely audible, the ecstasy that came along in getting filled so amazingly rendering you speechless.

“Shit, you feel amazing, ___.” He pulled back and slammed his hips right in, the rhythm he’s setting building up rapidly. “Gonna make me fucking come fast with this warm tight cunt.”

His filthy statements had you clenching, Taehyung gasping and biting at your collarbone to control himself because of it. He was having a crisis on whether savoring this moment with you or pounding on you with every power he had left; about 10 minutes in—more or less, he couldn’t keep track, he was too consumed with your sweet sounds of pleasure, kisses, and touches—Taehyung decided to screw everything and just let his desire command him, pulling out of you and instructing you to get on your hands and knees in the backseat so he could fuck you from behind.

“Oh my god!” you cried, ass pushed back while he gripped your cheeks roughly, slapping them hard. “Fuck, fuck, fuck—right there, right there—don’t stop—!”

You were close to coming for the second time. He could feel that, could feel your warm walls pulsating and squeezing him amazingly, that he started to thrust in and out of you with more determination, wanting to get another orgasm from you and even get you to do it at the exact time he was going to.

“I’m close.” He grunted. “Don’t come until I tell you to, okay?”

You whined in protest. “I, I can’t—”

“You can.” Taehyung fell on top of you, his clothed chest in contact with your bare back. He sucked on your earlobe, his hips resorting to slow and rough thrusts that didn’t help you with your situation at all. “Won’t take too long, I promise. Just wanna feel you do the same when I do, sweetie.”

You tried to give in to his request, you really did, but it was so damn difficult.

“Little more,” he whispered in encouragement, thrusts languidly returning to its previous speed, fingers brushing over to your clit. “Stay being good for me.” He kissed your shoulder, teeth biting on the skin. “I promise I’ll make you come on my mouth again after this too.”

“Don’t say that,” you complained.

He snickered.

Thankfully, you didn’t have to hold back any longer, because soon Taehyung was shooting his seed inside the condom, strumming your clit to add more stimulation, and urging you to come for him. You did—without any form of reluctance, this following orgasm hitting you with an unexplainable force that cannot be competed against the previous one. All you could say was that it made you moan so fucking loud that you were sure you could be heard from outside, your eyes rolling back and your body going into some sort of frenzy that made it impossible for you to calm down that quick, Taehyung’s praises worsening your weakened state, catching you as your knees grew tired of holding up.

“I got you, sweetheart,” he cooed, assisting you in taking a seat on his lap once he was done discarding the condom. He was gentler this time, acting as if you were truly something fragile while he took you in his arms.

You straddled his waist, head pressing on his shoulder in exhaustion, before he gently lifted your chin up and led your lips to his, kissing you, soft and wet lips on yours.

“You’re amazing,” he said.

You kissed him back, encircling your arms around his neck and angling your face to the side. “You too.”

“Do you think it’ll be crazy of me if I ask you out on a date right now?”

You paused, surprised to receive that question when you haven’t even recovered from your high that much yet. However, any sign of joking you were trying to find on his expression was absent, and you were convinced that he wasn’t just saying that just to get a reaction.

“I want to see you again after this,” he confessed as you failed to speak. “I’d drive us to some cafe right now, honestly, and do that date there, but I think it’d be nicer if we were both prepared and not worn out like this.”

“You’d want to see me again?”

“Yeah.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.” He grinned, pecking your mouth. “Figured since I magically just skipped all the bases and landed a homerun before the first date, I might as well do this properly.”

You copied the grin on his features, a part of you in disbelief still. “You don’t have to, though. I’m not going to act all petty and hurt if this just ends up as a one-night stand.”

“Why? I’m not bad, am I?”

“No. You were already too good—hell, best I ever got recently—” he raised his eyebrows at that— “that’s why I’m not going to make it a big deal.”

“But that’s the thing, ____.” He caressed your waist. “I think I don’t want it to just be a one-night stand.”

“The sex is still messing with your mind, isn’t it?”

He rolled his eyes. “No. I’m serious, you know?”

“I want to believe that you are. But a lot of guys have definitely pulled something like this on me just to leave a good impression before I’m ghosted.”

“I wouldn’t ghost you.”

“You can’t be sure of that.”

“Fine.” Taehyung wrinkled his forehead. “Let’s just do that date right now like I said then.”

“Huh?”

“Then after we get that coffee, give me your number. And when I drive you home and get home myself, I’m going to text you and invite you to a brunch date tomorrow. How about that?”

You gazed at him, half-fascinated and half-suspicious. “You are crazy.” You told him. “I just fucked a crazy person.”

He knew you were teasing; it was amusing, and he had an impulse of making out with you again. “Just say yes or no, ____. Don’t make me nervous.”

“You’re nervous right now?”

He grabbed your hand and pressed it on his chest, the spot where his heart is supposed to be. “I’m palpitating.”

“That still could be from the sex.”

“Stop being a smartass for God’s sake.” He appeared to pout, emitting a laugh out of you. It was cute for a guy who just railed you to the heavens in this very car.

“Okay, okay—I’ll take your word more seriously,” you said as you scooted nearer, granting him that kiss he’s been thinking about for a few seconds now.

He grinned on your mouth almost instantly, playfully raking his teeth on your bottom lip. God, you were going nuts about how much of a great kisser he was too. “So, you’ll go out with me?”

“Sure.” You shrugged in a nonchalant manner. “Why not?”

“Later or tomorrow?”

“Whichever you decide.”

“How about tomorrow? But I’ll get to have you all day.”

You snorted. “Now, you’re just plainly abusing the power I’m giving you.”

“Don’t you want to?” he asked, palms back on your ass, rocking you towards him, and you didn’t think you would be this turned on once more. “Don’t you want to have me all for yourself tomorrow?”

Blood rushed to your cheeks at the new kind of shyness you were experiencing. He was purposely flustering you, his confidence telling you that he was aware of how you were attracted to him, and normally, you would have been unfazed about a guy’s attempts to do so (because most of the time, it was just their ego making them act that way)—but this was Taehyung, and as you’ve constantly reiterated so many times this night, you couldn’t completely grasp the connection you were feeling about him and the effect he had on you to do what you usually did.

“I do,” you replied, longer than you should have, and he didn’t conceal that relieved sigh he did when you finally answered. “I, I want that.”

“Perfect.” He firmly pressed your lips against each other.

You didn’t say anything else, just carried on kissing him, embracing him, and giving him the permission to do the promise he made earlier.

When morning came the next day, you woke up to a hundred texts from your best friends in the group chat, demanding a story from you about the ‘hot guy’ you got out of the club with. You smiled to yourself, about to answer, when just like how destiny has been truly working in your favor and somehow forcing it to your face in its odd ways, a text from Taehyung popped up at the top of your screen.

You remembered then that you exchanged numbers last night before he dropped you off at your place.

Taehyung: Good morning :) We’re still on for brunch, right?

You: who’s this?

Taehyung: Not funny 😤

You: hehe just kidding yes we’re still on for brunch i’ll have you all day for myself, don’t i?

Taehyung: Yes. I’m all yours today ❤️

You: good 🥰

You certainly didn’t think that that would be the beginning of something far greater than just a one-night stand.

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You and Taehyung have been in an exclusive relationship for 7 months. It happened after three more dates from the daresay unexpected meeting at the club.

So far, it was going splendid, smooth, and all adjectives that could convey how you two were both smitten and hopelessly crazy for the other. You didn’t reckon that you’d feel such a way for a man that you only wanted a good time with, but here you were, months later with that said man laying down on your chest after telling you that he was going to stop by at your place after a half-day at work while you filed a leave to fulfill a task that was impossible to do now because of his presence.

“I’m supposed to be cleaning my apartment,” you muttered, your tone trying to convey annoyance but the way you were stroking his hair told him otherwise.

Taehyung chuckled, raising his head to look at you before placing an affectionate peck on your chin. “I’m being a distraction, aren’t I?”

“I’m glad you’re at least aware that you are.”

“I’m sorry.”

“No, you’re not.” You smirked. “If you were, you would have gotten off me five minutes ago when I said I seriously needed to start vacuuming.”

“Well, you didn’t sound convincing enough.”

“Oh, so it’s my fault?”

“Clearly.” He grinned and placed a long kiss on your mouth when he perched himself higher. “You should have just pushed me off you if you really wanted to clean.”

You rolled your eyes, a comeback waiting to be thrown towards him but the notification sound of your cellphone ruined the moment before you could, causing you to avert your eyes to where the device was laid on the table and for Taehyung to automatically get it and hand it over to you.

He went back to pressing the side of his head against your chest while you checked your phone.

Turned out, it was just a chat from your dad with an image attached alongside the message he sent. You were already guessing that it was another update about the current move he was doing with his wife (not your mom, just to get that across again); the former two got married three months ago and were in the process of moving their belongings to their new home, something that was seemingly always the topic these days as your dad picked up the habit of sending random things he just found as he packed and unpacked from his previous place to the new one.

For this instance, it was obviously a picture from a photo album that you even forgot existed, a picture that was a little pixelated because of how it was zoomed in, but you could still see what your dad was trying to show you upon forwarding the image—a toddler version of you who was wearing a fairy princess outfit in the Halloween party you could recall you were forcefully dragged into.

You snickered, more so at the caption that you dad had:

Dad: you looked weird in the costume haha

You: thanks for telling me 2 decades later dad

“Babe,” you called to get Taehyung’s attention, “look at what my dad just sent me.”

You lowered your phone down so he could catch a glimpse of the screen.

Taehyung grinned automatically, fond at how you looked adorable in the photograph, though soon inevitably moved his gaze to the boy beside you that was included in the cropped photo, the one with the similar playful smile that you from before was bearing in that moment, and then began to realize why the Clark Kent outfit that the little guy was wearing seemed to have triggered some part of his brain as he realized that he was looking at the younger version of himself and you over and over again.

He immediately sat up, furrowing his eyebrows in amazement. “Is this really you?” he asked. “The fairy princess. It’s you?”

“Yeah?” you answered with a chuckle, puzzled on why he was looking at you like he was seeing you for the first time. “I mean, there’s no way I’m the Superman, which is the boy—”

“—beside you, yeah. He’s dressed up as Clark Kent, making him Superman.” He finished.

“You’re right…” you trailed; you were even more dumbfounded at his smooth supply of words, especially with how he was still giving you that stare of amazement. “Uh, Taehyung, is there—”

No matter how cliche it was, your next sentence got cut off due to the manner in which Taehyung launched himself towards you, kissing you with more vigor than he had seconds ago, your head pressing firmer against the pillow from behind as he laid fully on you.

You were still at loss with whatever it was that was happening, no clue on why he was suddenly attacking your face with loving kisses and why he was doing it with this big grin on his lips. However, regardless of your curious thoughts, you didn’t bring yourself to ask nor address it as fast as you normally would have, for you were not one to certainly deny any form of sweet gestures like this from your boyfriend too.

“It’s you,” he murmured breathlessly against your lips; you could literally feel his whole body buzzing with happiness, and you wished that you could understand quicker on where this kind of feeling was coming from him. “It’s you. I can’t believe it’s you, ____.”

“What?” You laughed, the tickling sensation of his lips on your throat making you do so. “What do you mean, Tae?”

“The fairy princess,” he immediately said. “You’re the fairy princess.”

“Yeah… I just said I am? What’s with this reaction? Do you have a thing for—”

“___,” he was still grinning like an idiot, the way he said your name causing something to stir inside your stomach, “listen to me. You’re the fairy princess. And I’m… I’m the—” he took a deep breath as an attempt to make his next words clearer somehow as he was aware that was probably overwhelming you with his actions— “I’m Clark Kent. I’m Superman. I’m him, sweetheart.”

You stared at Taehyung. Really stared at him.

Of course, there was no way you could possibly remember what that little boy from before exactly looked like, so you resort to abruptly getting your phone again and placing it beside Taehyung’s face, comparing his features with the child that you considered to be a part of one of your fondest and earliest memories.

Undoubtedly, the both of them had the same eyes—the same damn bread cheeks you adored as well! And the more you took in the photograph and your boyfriend’s face right next to it, the more it was sinking in that he truly was the Clark Kent you met a few years back.

That you’ve had the chance to meet him in the past, when you were only five years old for crying out loud, and yet only recently did you get to know him on a more personal level, something that you might have hoped for even then.

“Oh my God?” you exclaimed as realization hit you once more, Taehyung’s permanent grin widening. “Oh my God! I can’t believe—how is this possible? How can you be this kid?” You laughed and he kissed you full on the mouth the moment you did, no ready explanation from him but it’s not like he knew either. The both of you were so surprised to discover that your first meeting in the club apparently wasn’t the first like you thought.

“God,” Taehyung giggled, “I’ve always had a hunch that when it came to you—there were no coincidences whatsoever. But this? This is a whole new level of destiny.”

“This is crazy.”

“It’s destiny, I tell you.”

“I’d agree with you but that honestly sounds so cheesy.”

He rolled his eyes at your teasing, and then his gaze softened, face lowering down to yours to give you one more slow and passionate kiss, one that literally took your breath away once it was done. “I love you,” he said, in such a casual and easy tone, like he has said it for over a million times and not for the first. “Been meaning to say that for a while now, don’t know why I always hesitated, but maybe because it needed to be said right here and not any other time.”

You smiled, heart bursting at the surge of emotions going through your system because of his statement. “I love you too, Taehyung.” You kissed him again, teeths almost clashing when you did. “My Superman. My Clark Kent.”

He hummed appreciatively. “That sounds kinda sexy when you say it like that.”

Another kiss.

“Fairy princess doesn’t. That’s unfair.”

Another kiss. Longer. His hands were moving under your shirt and your next breath hitched at once because of the movement.

“That’s okay. You can do nothing and still be sexy as fuck.”

You laughed. “Whatever. You’re going to help me clean my apartment after we’re done with this.”

“Done with what?” he teased.

You didn’t answer him, you just pulled him in for the nth kiss that afternoon, Taehyung snickering as he pressed himself deliciously against you.

Who would have thought that the little boy who got hit by your wings 20 years ago would be the same man that was making out with you like his life depended on it? Certainly not you, and certainly not Taehyung—but hey, who were the both of you to question destiny, right?

tysm for reading & feedback is always appreciated ,,( ˘ ³˘)♡

[dolugecat]

On some Japanese social issues I had learned about at uni and abroad):

(Rb ok!)

Legit had an epiphany about the true hidden meaning of the last arc of Mob Psycho 100. It’s hella projection but for real there is nothing neurotypical about Mob or Mob Psycho. I do not wish to enforce my interpretation on others (ironic bc I do that all the time but this is a serious social theory). There are some interesting and very sad social issues in Japan that the west really doesn’t understand but would I think help people understand a lot of context behind not only Mob Psycho, but also a lot of other anime. I learned this at my shitty university (prestigious but horrific) and while studying abroad in Japan and talking with Japanese peers. Get ready here we go (and tw for bullying and darker things):

Unfortunately in East Asian education systems, bullying can be extremely intense. Growing up I assumed it was over exaggerated extremely in anime for drama but it really can be so horrific. From what I’ve heard, there is often a single kid or so who is just shit on by everyone else, even the teacher. Mogami land *is* the reality of some Japanese kids. I’ve read that in Korea, this social punching bag sometimes is just the darkest skinned person (yayyy colorism /angry) and or someone who does not fit in. I mean, we have that in America too, but maybe not as common for the bullying to be as focused on one misfit rather than several. These kids just can’t escape the stigma too, kids from other schools find out they were a major victim at their old school and it starts anew. Thus there is so much stigma and incentive to join in on bullying so you aren’t the one. Sadly, this also ofc leads to higher suicide rates. That’s where the “shoe on building roof” anime trope comes in, bc somehow taking off shoes is relayed to death (I forgot why sorry)

There is a difference in how intense in general high school vs college is too. In the West, commonly college is the more intense curriculum and is harder than high school, but in Japan it’s usually the opposite. Grind suuuupppeeerrrr hard for entrance exams (huge standardized tests that determines what college you can qualify to) bc unlike the ACT or SAT here, that test is by far the most important factor for college admission. Then chill and relax a bit in college. Can’t relate. Name and prestige is very critical for job application, more important than here. That’s why planning out your future is sooo much more intense for Japanese high schoolers than in America, and why there is sooo much more pressure to excel in high school than here. Japanese school years and holidays are done different than ours, I’d suggest looking it up.

Social prestige of going to an American high school or college is nuts. Like whyyy do you value our shitty education, Japan’s is much higher quality (it’s bc we neo colonized them). Being able to speak English is very, very highly valued and any association with Americans make you cooler. From my experience, some Japanese students got very excited to practice speaking English with us, and their biggest issues with learning it is pronunciation, lmao. Wasai english is unique slang that is indeed English words but it’s kinda different and it’s kinda jarring to remember lol. So, Teru having parents that are working overseas isn’t too uncommon, idk about leaving him absolutely alone, but I did have a ex-friend who just came from Japan in middle school who’s situation probably wasn’t too far off from that. Empty wealth with no love, it’s no wonder those kind of people can end up being huge bullies (minori?)

I did a presentation on 引きこもり(hikikomori) for which means “shut in”, (like Serizawa) and it’s fucked up. It’s a social phenomena where according to some Japanese researchers a mix of undisciplined parenting, guilt/not living up to expectations, and hopelessness makes an alarming amount of youth/ young adults literally never go out side their house/room. Often a parent is “enabling” the behavior by supporting them, but idk the articles seemed a bit victim-blaming to me when I read it, but I don’t think I should make a judgement too hard, not my place. I will say I do suspect and believe I read something to support that ASD might play a role in hikikomoris (there is pitiful resources for autistic people in Asia, much much less support than even here, to the point I don’t think most know it exists). Like come on, with the other points I laid out my personal opinion as an Asian American with autism is that it really seems it’s unknowing ableism against autistic classmates, but I didn’t grow up in Asia so I don’t want to say.

Mental health in general is tragically quite abysmal in Japan, and with it being so hyper competitive and brutal work culture, it’s no surprise birth rate in Japan is so low; some Japanese young adults say it seems unethical to bring a life to such hostile world. Suicide rate is of the highest in the world. It’s fucked, I’ve interacted with some of the locals in Tokyo and they were so nice, but the business men just looked dead inside, it’s so sad.

Relationships between child and parent is also strained bc of this intense work and school culture. Quality time is too scarce when you gotta work so much. And the pressure from parents to do well in education or else you might end up socially stigmatized is rough. Bc your job is who you are, it’s hyper capitalism (thanks us for making them do this)

With autism being so unknown, support for parents in raising autistic kids is almost nonexistent. What happens if the “darker” side of ASD shows up in kids? I used to be a menace when I had meltdowns, I felt so bad but really just became so indiscriminately violent. See where this is going? Legit, I think ESP is a sort of metaphor for neurodivergance to ONE. There is so much stigma around it, and even less way for kids to understand why they are different than the others. My Korean family can’t admit we all got ASD, too much fear and internalized shame.

I got finally diagnosed with ASD as an adult and I’ll tell ya, I relate too much to Mob hurting Ritsu. I felt so bad, but also not in control, I knew what I was doing but not how to stop. Luckily, is was blessed in that my hyperfixations involved science and logic, so I did well at school. Sadly, our boy Mob just don’t got the passion or ability to do well at school. His kanji is very bad, even to point of not being confident he wrote a kanji (世) they learn when they are 9, in elementary school (thanks @katyatalks). Him being a bit berated by his parents for having bad grades and bending spoons seems harsh to Westerners I think, but IMO it’s pretty tame from what I’ve seen of some Asian parents (I get to say that lmao). Ofc, however the shaming is very real and Mob just agreeing with them about how weird and stupid he thinks he is so sad. There is even more pressure for the eldest to be better than here, I feel from some interactions. Nonetheless, it’s implied Mob is quite emotionally detached from his parents, even though he loves them, which also adds to his emotional complex. Combined with originally fragile self esteem and feelings of worthlessness, we got one emotionally stunted boy. However, contrary to common belief people with ASD are sometimes hyper empathic and experience emotions very intensely. We are prone to having “meltdowns” which if not assisted with can be quite violent if very intense. For me, my worse meltdowns as a kid came from when I didn’t understand why I wasn’t getting what I wanted, it seemed selfish and cruel of me but I couldn’t control it. I wanted to be a good kid, so why did hit my moms leg at target when she refused to buy me Pokémon toys? I couldn’t come up with a good reason for why my mind just commanded my body to do bad things, just a single thought was controlling me, I want I want I want I want I want ____. Which I argue could be what ???% represents… bc well…. Yeah….. hmm….. not in control of self (mob unconscious), selfish (not actually, I’ve forgave myself but my “normal” kid self was so ashamed), destructive, hurt family, wanting to stop but can’t, that’s kind of…. Too relatable.

But legit, since realizing my new HC, I’ve started to think of the last chapter of mp100 when I “explode” and it helps me feel better and I do gain “control” a bit easier. I don’t feel so bad anymore either, Mob!

[faroreswinds]

Final Thoughts - Three Hopes Scarlet Blaze

As I finally wrap my my playthrough of Scarlet Blaze after nearly 90+ hours of gameplay, including recording my playthrough as well as grinding supports, S ranks on missions, and so on, I figured it would be wise to jot down my final thoughts on the route’s writing as a whole, since that’s what I am primarily interested in. This is going to be generally informal, since I don’t have the energy nor the desire to write a 50 page thesis on the qualities (or lack of) of this route befitting a publication. 

It’s still a long one though, so be ready.  

As a quick note, there are some lore inconsistencies between the two games, Houses and Hopes, but this review will not touch on those issues very much. I may occasionally bring something up as I feel is needed, but overall, I will try to review Hopes as its own entity. 

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First of all, Scarlet Blaze is a much better route for Edelgard when it comes to quality versus Crimson Flower. Not that that is a great accomplishment, mind you. Crimson Flower is a general disaster in many ways, but Scarlet Blaze’s first third of the game is honestly competent. 

But not perfect. 

The first 4 chapters of the route are actually excellent, provided you come off of Three Houses with some general knowledge of Foldan and the lore. Although these chapters are told at nearly neck-breaking speed and skips over a lot of world building that Houses had done in its academy phase, as mentioned earlier when you come off of Houses it’s not really as necessary for this story and it helps to get to a new story that doesn’t force the player on a repeat of White Clouds. Scarlet Blaze instantly establishes Edelgard as a young woman with intelligence and agency on her own path, while also willingly using dubious methods to get to her war. Using the Church’s forces to help her cast out the Slithers from her Palace, only to turn on them later 2 years down the road, using Jeritza to rescue Monica but being sneaky with her commands to him. She left out Ferdinand, Bernadetta, Caspar, and Linhardt from her plans to invade the Palace since their fathers were involved in the Insurrection years ago. These are all logical actions, if not a bit callous at times, that establish her as a strong female character with the desire to make changes in the world.

The foundation of her war is more streamlined and concrete here too. Crests are often mentioned but they take a major backstep to most of the story. People have Crests, true, but the focus here is more on bloodlines in general, and the Church’s doctrine being something Edelgard finds to be the biggest problem. Her war is declared on the Central Church for being corrupt, and for causing the Empire to break up all those years ago. Using Count Varley to set up the Southern Church as a means to undermine the legitimacy of the Central Church not only weakens the Central Church’s power, but also delegitimizes both the Kingdom and the Alliance’s existences. Both nations have no choice but to either bend a knee to her, or fight. Diplomacy only matters here if Edelgard gets her way. It’s legit brilliant. We then follow Edelgard to taking down the Garreg Mach, and sending Rhea on the run to the Kingdom. 

Probably the only issue I have with the first 4 chapters is that Scarlet Blaze sidesteps Ionius as a character, who is present in Houses but is not present here at all. If you haven’t played Houses, though, this isn’t as big of a deal as Hopes makes it clear that Ferdinand’s father is the real power now, but Houses informs you that Ionius is still on the throne technically. This makes Edelgard’s grab for power seem a little odd in context then, because Ionius is not part of the process at all here, unlike in Houses. But this is a minor issue. 

The pace of the story slows down at this point, but this is where the writing starts to fall off a bit, unfortunately. I am not kidding when I say the next chapters till chapter 9 is just Edelgard putting out fires. This is meant to be the conqueror route, but we spend a lot of time rescuing lords that are in tough spots, either due to general war strategies or due to a lord’s own personal vendetta. Chapter 5 has us going to rescue Lord Lonato, because he hates Rhea for killing his son and sees her fleeing to the Kingdom as a chance to kill her. The reasoning for rescuing Lonato is not because he is some great person, but because we need to prove to other Empire vassals that the Emperor has their back... apparently no matter their folly. Lonato has done something pretty dangerous in regards to the war efforts, yet Edelgard is more worried about the Empire’s image for those who want to switch sides. This is not a bad reason per say, but it does feel a bit jarring and frankly, boring. 

The next part of the story is rescuing Count Bergliez from Claude’s scheme that nearly has him killed, and I’m not kidding when I say the rescue effort takes two chapters. This by itself would not be a problem, but the route is only 15 chapters (17 if you include the secret chapters), and we are already on chapter 7 and it feels like nothing has happened since chapter 4. So wasting two chapters for what is honestly a single big event seems like a chapter was just thrown away, especially since we had to already rescue another Lord prior and this is meant to be the conqueror route. Claude ends up kind of looking like an idiot here rather than a tactical genius, despite all the peacocking the characters do to praise his vast intelligence. 

Chapter 8 is still fairly boring because, once again, it is a rescue mission, this time for Count Rowe and for the dominion over the Silver Maiden, a large fortress of great strategic importance. Just like Lord Lonato, there is no love loss for Count Rowe. He is a slimy bastard who will change alliances as easily as one changes their hat. He can even turn on you if Gwendal, his knight, is defeated before you can reach them, where they become enemies instead. Again, the importance here isn’t that we are rescuing a great man, but rather proving that the Emperor has everyone’s back, as well as preventing the fall of an important fortress. None of these men are well established from Houses, or even given any screen time from that game at all, so as a player we know very little about them and have no attachment to them either. It feels like we are rescuing nobodies, even if these characters have unique models and portraits. 

It would be interesting if Scarlet Blaze had something to say about keeping all these traitorous men safe under the Empire’s care, as a sort of “we have to do what we have to do in war, no matter how wrong it may be or if these people are worthy of our protection or not”. But it frames these rescues as less of a necessary evil, and rather instead as something noble. Edelgard is saddened by the lost of Count Rowe if he dies, because she is saddened that there was so much death due to the battle, rather than something that was ultimately his own fault because he turns on her. It seems the route is doing everything in its power to underplay exactly what Edelgard is doing. 

Some of the supports do briefly, oh so briefly, touch on her actions. Her support with Jertiza and Monica are the better examples of this. With Jertiza, it is revealed that they have a contract with each other, which provides Edelgard with a stone cold killer called the Death Knight, who kills anyone and everyone. In Houses, the Death Knight wandered the streets, killing innocents. In Hopes, he seems a bit more reigned in, and they only focus on a single crime- killing his family. Edelgard is more than happy to have this killer’s services because they suit her needs, and even informs Jertiza that she would not mind sweeping his crimes under the rug due to his killing services. 

And with Monica, she admits openly to Monica that she only rescued her because it was beneficial at the time to, and not because it was to rescue a loyal vassal or a friend. 

Both of these actions are cold, calculating actions, dubious in nature. This would be great, if the writing did anything with them. But the route is more interested in spinning these situations into something positive. Jertiza tells Edelgard he wants to go to jail for his crimes, and she says he will let him, since everyone should “choose their own destiny”. And with Monica, Monica is such a simp that she just comes away from the conversation praising Edelgard for all her glory, unbothered by the fact Edelgard was willing to sacrifice her if it meant it would lead to her future. 

It’s not just in the supports that we see this: this happens throughout the route too. I am not kidding when I say that Scarlet Blaze suffers from the same tonal issues as Crimson Flower when it comes to the cast recognizing exactly what they are doing. Most of the characters lay blame on the opposing forces for what happens in the war- Ferdinand remarks that the people’s fears are in the people’s heads when it comes to the Empire, seemingly forgetting that they are the ones instigating the war. Caspar is legitimately bloodthirsty, and even at one point during a camp dialogue, you can “share in his bloodlust”. Many of the characters “wish for peace” but seem unaware they broke the peace to begin with. Only Dorothea makes a comment that they are the ones who instigated the war and no one wants to be taken over and lose their way of life. Linhardt makes some comments about how he just wants it all to be over and for Edelgard to just stop her war. And Arval has to remind Shez that they are the aggressors. 

The GD crew seem pretty unbothered overall to be on the Empire’s side. In fact, SB makes a point to show that the GD are only really there because someone else kind of told them to, but they would also as quickly turn on the Alliance due to one reason or another (to the point that even Claude makes a comment on it).They care less about being on the side of the Empire, and more about being in a war. But Ashe and Mercedes, the only two recruitable Lions, seem either nearly suicidal about their choice to defect (Ashe), or are unsure if they should be there at all (Mercedes). Especially since Ingrid must die in Chapter 8, which really sends Ashe down into a deep depression. 

And to be frank, Ingrid dying and Dimitri mourning her death was the most interesting and heartfelt part of Chapter 8, and for the route up to this point. There could have been something more here, with Edelgard’s traumatic past or something. But Edelgard’s past is rarely brought up, and rarely plays a role in anything at all... just like in Houses, really. 

Edelgard’s horrific past, the experiments she suffered, the loss of her siblings, etc... none of that really matters here. It is occasionally brought up from time to time as a off handed remark. It is also brought a bit more to light in a paralogue, which requires that you recruit no less than two different people in order to even access it. But in either of these cases, we never actually learn about what exactly Edelgard went through. She never discusses her siblings and how her new future is for them as well. If it didn’t connect her to the Slithers, it might as well not even be there at all. 

Moving on, chapter 9 is finally when the story gets interesting again, because this is the chapter where Shamir and Catherine, on the behalf of the Central Church, raid the Palace to assassinate Edelgard in Enbarr. One thing I really liked about this chapter is that a few NPCs note that, back in Enbarr, life is pretty normal. In fact, people are generally cheery there, because they cannot image a world where the their Empire will lose, and they do not have to worry about the realities of war hitting their doorstep. 

I like that they mention this, but I don’t think that it leads anywhere. It’s a great touch because it shows how the aggressors see most of their people leading normal, untouched lives, but there is a war being waged by them onto the innocents of other nations. It’s almost a nod to the dark reality of this route, without allowing it to actually be impact. Which is a shame, really. 

The chapter ends after thwarting the assassination attempt on Edelgard’s life and Ferdinand’s father escape from his imprisonment, and then the game goes into a time skip of about six months. During this time, the war was apparently at a stand-still, and our characters did not fight in any battles during this time. We open up into Part 2 with Edelgard and Claude coming to an agreement and fighting the Kingdom together. 

If you have been following my notes during my playthrough, you may have noticed I found this story beat to be particularly baffling. Claude makes no indication or clue that he had any inclination to join with Edelgard prior to the time skip, and we do not get to experience or witness the build up to this rather important moment. This is actually a pretty big deal, for two sides to join together to fight the third, and yet, it kind of comes from out of nowhere. Even if you have played Houses, this comes out of left field. Claude in Houses never attempts to join with Edelgard, even if he claims they share some ideals, and will even fight to the death in one path (and can only live at the mercy of Byleth or Edelgard). 

Not only that, but this is when the story starts to feel like a real conquest route for about 2 chapters (chapters 10 and 11), and you start to feel pretty bad for the Kingdom. It is revealed that the Kingdom had finally brought some peace to what lands they have left, and now the Alliance and the Empire are marching on their borders again. 

As we move into Chapter 10, this is when you can either kill Jeralt or spare him to recruit Byleth. The method to do so is somewhat tricky, although not entirely impossible, and it leads to two different outcomes and story beats for Scarlet Blaze. As I talk about them, I will refer to the “recruited Byleth path” as Path A, and “killed Jeralt” as Path B from this point on. 

Path B has you killing Jeralt, as I mentioned before, which had somewhat been Shez’s goal throughout the route. I had not really brought it up yet in this review, so this is a good time to briefly discuss Shez, Arval, and their roles in this story up to this point. 

Shez is the new protagonist of Hopes, replacing Byleth in this role. Byleth is instead relegated to somewhat of an antagonist. At the start of the game, Shez and Byleth come to a head about a year prior to the start of when Houses would have occurred, where Shez’s mercenary group and Byleth’s mercenary group were hired pretty much against each other. Unfortunately for Shez, Byleth is the stronger mercenary, killing everyone in Shez’s group and nearly killing Shez as well. Shez only survived due to the awakening of Arval, whom I will discuss in a moment. The two fight before Byleth and co leave. 

It is due to Arval’s timely save that allows Shez to meet the lords a year later, ultimately changing the story that we know from Houses into the one we see in Hopes. Shez prevents the lords from meeting Byleth, killed Kostas, which allowed the other bandits to flee to a different base than in Houses, which in turn prompted Edelgard to rescue Monica. This allowed Edelgard to out the Slithers from hiding, including in Enbarr, and thus, the war started a year later than it does in the original game. 

Shez himself as as a character (I chose the male avatar) seems technically more interesting than Byleth, on the basis that he actually talks. He speaks to other characters, raises concerns or praise, and it more than just a blank piece of paper for characters to bounce off of. To many, this is an improvement off of Byleth, who never actually speaks in the game.

However, I cannot give Shez a lot of praise overall. Shez is basically a shonen protagonist, in that his only real qualities as a character is being upbeat, giving the right advice at nearly all times, being an idiot at other times, being nearly beloved by everyone, and being as flexible as whatever support or story beat needs him to be. His biggest talking point in his supports is how he was raised by a woman who was not his biological mother, which is another point I will circle back to later. 

As a character, Shez can be all over the place. In one support with Lysithea, it is revealed that he is bad with words, so he has memorized lines to give to people when the moment calls for them. This is particularly strange, though, because he never does this in any other support, being frank and honest in his thoughts at nearly all times. It exists in this one, single support chain, and never anywhere else. 

In other words, Shez is basic, and therefore uninteresting. He is basically just as much along for the ride as Byleth was, except that the story doesn’t entirely hang upon him nearly as much as Houses did to Byleth. His redeeming quality that does making him interesting, however, is Arval. 

Shez is meant to be the antithesis of Byleth in every meaning of the word, and as such, also as a child-like, sassy and snarky being living in his head, giving him advice or talking to him in general. This is Arval, a boy-ish entity that has some connection to Those Who Slither In The Dark, a secret the game makes no attempt to hide at all. In fact, from chapter 3 or 4, the game practically outright tells you Arval is associated with the Slithers to a degree. It’s less a plot twist, and more a giant neon arrow blinking “GET IT” right in your face. In my opinion, however, this isn’t a bad thing. Anyone coming off of Houses would have made the educated guess that Arval would have been a Slither, so it was probably better to not try to treat it as a twist at all. 

Arval himself is far more interesting than Shez. He’s almost fatherly to Shez, yet also underlyingly manipulative with his words, even if Arval isn’t aware of his own manipulation. In many ways, he is like Sothis, in that he berates his host’s intelligence a lot, but also loves his host and protects him, while also being like a child with wisdom beyond their apparent age. 

Early on in the story, I actually found Arval to be quite annoying. He interjected his thoughts into the story far more than Sothis ever did, and he was never has funny as the writers thought he was. It made his quips grating rather than enjoyable. However, as the war progressed, this happened less and less. Arval become less annoying and more insightful, such as being the first character (and one of the few) in Scarlet Blaze to remind Shez that they aren’t just fighting a war, they are the instigators of the war. 

What was particularly interesting about Arval is his insistence of Shez killing Byleth. Shez didn’t really have it in his heart right away to kill Byleth in revenge for his fallen friends, until Arval urged him on. He calls Byleth a monster, and frequently mentions to Shez about his opportunities to finally kill him. Right before Chapter 10′s big battle, Shez even wonders if he even needs to kill Byleth, and that he would rather get such a strong person on his side. It is not Shez that really wants Byleth dead - it is Arval. 

Arval speaks about not allowing the cycle of this world to end, and it would end with the death of Shez. Another point we will circle back to later.

So throughout the story up till this point, Shez continuously meets up with Jeralt and Byleth in battle. As mercs, Jeralt and his son are hired by anyone who needs their assistance, and until chapter 10, this is either the Kingdom or the Alliance, depending on the chapter. It’s honestly pretty hype when Byleth enters the battle field - the music changes, and you watch as stronghold after stronghold falls in the Ashen Demon’s wake. 

In this regard, the story did a somewhat decent job building up Byleth and his father as a threat to Shez, making Path B’s choice to kill Jeralt not entirely without textual support. I cannot say it was strongly done - Jeralt and Byleth are more minor roles than compared to Claude or even Dimitri - but they appeared enough in battle that by the time this chapter roles around, it doesn’t feel unearned. 

What is particularly strange to me, however, is the writers’ choice in who else dies as a result. 

See, killing Jeralt has quite a few consequences. It changes the story in a few different ways, and one of the most notable ways is the death of another character. Each route has another character die by Byleth’s hands as a result of Jeralt’s death. In Scarlet Blaze, this character is.... Randolph.

Randolph is not really much of a character. He is a background character, along with his crazy sister Fleche, who is loyal to Edelgard due to the opportunities she has given him. I can say he is more defined than the other general chick that I literally cannot remember her name (nor do I feel like looking it up), but that’s like saying a square is more defined than a triangle because it has one more side. 

Randolph, along with Fleche, are actually more memorable due to their role in Houses for Dimitri’s character development, rather than as characters in their own right. It’s Dimitri who threatens to torture Randolph to death, and later Fleche who attempts to kill Dimitri as revenge, only to kill Rodrigue instead. It is these moments that made people remember them. 

Even in Hopes, the story does little to build them up as important or someone worth caring about. They exist in the camp, mainly, but that is not enough. So when Randolph suddenly appeared in a cutscene before the battle, I knew that this was the writers trying to remind the players that this is a character that exists, and to hopefully build up some emotional attachment to him before he dies. It comes off as cheap, especially since they had given us Monica. Monica was a character we never actually met in Houses since she had died. But here in Hopes, we save her life, and becomes an important figure in the route. Randolph is not offered the same dignity here. 

So when Randolph died to Byleth in battle, my response was “oh. Well, ok. Sucks for him.” Even Fleche’s cries weren’t enough to make me care. This was a character whose role is apparently to die at every chance he gets. 

I have mixed feelings about the scenes that followed. On one hand, the characters after the battle comment on the atrocities of war, and it really feels like they took a true loss for the first time. In other battles, they “mourned” deaths of their allies in that they simply noted that there was death in general. But here, they really feel like they are reflecting on the deaths of so many people. It’s more harrowing. Even if I didn’t care about Randolph, I did enjoy the characters reflecting on the losses they suffered. 

However, Fleche calls Byleth a monster for killing her brother, but Byleth did not kill Randolph out of revenge for Jeralt’s death. We learn later that Byleth didn’t even know his father died at the time. Randolph just... lost to a better soldier. But the writing makes it seem like we should be feeling that it was unfair, that it was unjust. It completely ignores that it was just a natural event that happens in war - the luckier and stronger opponent kills the other. The end. 

For other character deaths up to this point, there is little mourning from the Empire’s side. Instead, these are treated as necessary sacrifices to the war effort, characters that were just on the wrong side. Some characters even delight in the killing, such as Hubert and Caspar, while others claim that it was their choice to die, such as Ferdinand. 

It is understandable that the characters would mourn an ally rather than an enemy general, but it’s presented to us as if this loss was an unfair and unjust one, rather than just a natural consequence. 

But what about Path A? 

If you recruit Byleth by sparing Jeralt in battle instead (or rather, you just never fight him at all), Jeralt and Byleth decide to allow themselves to be hired by Edelgard since they failed to protect their employer, Rodrigue, from being killed in battle. 

This path is rather jarring. For one, Randolph’s brief set-up prior to the start of battle becomes obsolete - he is again relegated to a background camp character after this moment. But more notably is the change in tone of the scene that follows the battle. 

Rather than mourning the losses of all their soldiers, the characters instead stand around Byleth, practically slobbering all over him in awe. No one seemed upset (except maybe Monica) about having someone who killed their allies on their side. They praise him, gush over him, are excited by him. If you understand that Byleth is literally the Goddess reborn, this natural fascination the characters probably feel isn’t totally farfetched. But it’s still jarring to see, in my opinion. 

This goes further than just this scene. After Chapter 10, Edelgard and Hubert’s A rank support unlocks, and Edelgard spends it talking about how she feels naturally attracted to Byleth, and how it might be her Crest that does so (this support happens regardless if you recruit Byleth or not). It canonizes Edelgard’s obsession with Byleth to the power of their matching Crests, which has a slew of implications that I will not be touching on in this review. 

After this chapter, however, you may be surprised to learn that the choice to recruit Byleth or not does not play much of a role until later down the road. Byleth is either relegated to a camp character, along with Jeralt, or disappears until he comes back up for one more showdown with Shez. Whatever you chose to do does not reflect at all in the next chapter, where you continue to push your conquest further into the Kingdom. 

(One side thing to note: Dimitri has a long scene about mourning Ingrid’s death earlier in the story, but there are no scenes of him or Felix mourning the loss of Rodrigue at all. It’s rather disappointing). 

And for me, this was the toughest chapter to swallow, because this is the chapter that truly highest the tonal issue with this route the most. 

As I stated earlier, Scarlet Blaze is meant to be the conquest route, and so far, there has been very little... conquering until chapters 10 and 11. It’s been a lot of trying to keep things from falling apart, really. Throughout this entire endeavor, however, most of the characters are gung ho about conquering to “change the future” for the better, to “bring peace” (despite being the ones to break peace in the first place). 

Instead of being a campy story about taking over the world or a dark story about a conquering nation taking over a weaker and desperate innocent one, Scarlet Blaze presents itself as a legitimate side with a moral backing. Hopes wants us to believe that all three nations of the war have a leg to stand on in their reasoning for the war. These types of story can be well done. But if one of those sides are the aggressors of war, then you better have a very good reason to be conquering in the first place.

To me, Scarlet Blaze does not offer a good enough reason for the Black Eagles to be taken as morally right in their war. Edelgard’s reason for war is to give everyone in Foldan a chance to rise to the top and to chose their path in life, regardless of their bloodline. This means that the Alliance and the Kingdom must also fall to their knees to her reforms. She has deemed the Central Church as the ones at fault for these social norms, and as such as made them her main enemy. 

Unfortunately, Scarlet Blaze does little to justify these claims other than, frankly, heresy. After Chapter 4, we interact very little with the Church as all. Off the top of my head, the only things we actually see the Church do that can be called questionable is Rhea promising to kill Edelgard after Edelgard raided the monastery, send assassins to try to kill Edelgard in Chapter 9 and to Count Varley in general, and... that’s pretty much it. As an antagonistic force, the Church has very little screen time here. They really don’t appear as a major threat until the last two chapters, and even then, Chapter 14 didn’t even focus on them as much as it does on the Kingdom. 

If you played Houses and came away believing the Church is the source of all evil, then that screen time isn’t necessary. But if you are like me, and came away believing that while the Church has its issues, it was by no means enough to start a continental war of conquest over, then this is very notable. 

That’s not to say the game doesn’t try to vilify the Church in other ways. This is usually in dialogue with the characters, such as Shamir claiming that the Church wouldn’t help people in need and would focus on the fight instead, or Edelgard claiming that the Church upholds rigorous standards that shackle Foldan to the past. 

But we never see these claims in action. We are merely told these things, and even then this information does not always line up. I cannot tell you if it is intentional or not, but there are plenty of times when characters spew a lot of negative rhetoric about the Church or the Kingdom, only for the game to contradicts these claims elsewhere. 

For instance, Ferdinand claims that the Kingdom has very few nobles without a Crest. In fact, he claims that the Empire is gaining more nobles without Crests, while the Kingdom only has a single Lord without one, due to his generation simply never having one in the first place.

However, we know this simply isn’t true. Even if you ignored Houses, Hopes itself doesn’t support this claim with its own enemy units.

The devs did take care to give Crests to generic nobles fought in the game, and yet we see plenty of nobles here from the Kingdom who lack a Crest. And this isn’t even all of them.

This makes Ferdinand come across as kind of a fool, one who does not verify his information and has fallen prey to the rhetoric he is subjected to on the daily. 

If Scarlet Blaze wanted me to believe that the Church is responsible for much of Foldan’s problems, it makes it harder for me to believe Edelgard’s words when her followers get such basic information wrong. 

Chapter 11 really shows this the most in my opinion, because we get some rather startle dialogue from our cast that is meant to be the “heroes of this story”.

Chapter 11 is when Edelgard conquers the Western part of the Kingdom. The last of the Kingdom lords loyal to the crown have taken to hiding in a single fort as a last ditch effort to stay alive. And we get some very interesting dialogue from our characters.

This is not all that is said in this chapter, but it’s comes across as tone deaf, because the route isn’t treating itself as a villain route. If it was treating itself as a villain route, then I would have no complaints. 

But this is being said about people of a foreign nation, one that the Empire is forcing to its knees to force change upon them. These are people who are seeing their lands taken from them, their way of life questioned and vilified, and the characters all basically say “Well.... they just refuse to change, it’s their fault!”. 

The route wants us to feel that these characters are fools for just not bending to the will of invaders. 

We also get some rhetoric about the mentality of these nobles trapped inside from Edelgard, which I found particularly baffling. 

The thing is, we do see Baron Domonic prior to battle, and this is never brought up by the Kingdom nobles at all. Never is it stated that they chose Dominic to be in charge due to his bloodline... Edelgard just makes that claim out of nowhere, because it fits in with her beliefs. 

It is also baffling to me because we do know that the idea of nobility and having responsibilities is not unique to Foldan. Petra is a foreign Princess (made queen during the route at some point offscreen) who is literally right there among the cast. She talks frequently about her responsibilities as queen, and it is a position of birthright just as much as the other nobles in Foldan. But Petra never brings it up as a comparison to Edelgard’s claims. Edelgard never makes mention of wanting to fix the entire world itself- just Foldan. And if the Church is only bound to Foldan, then how does it cause suffering to nobles outside its borders like Brigid? 

It doesn’t help that Shez, somewhat a player mouthpiece into the world of Foldan, is ecstatic by Edelgard’s words and wholeheartedly agrees with her.

(This is extra startling because Shez starts out somewhat criticizing Edelgard’s war in their C support, only for him to become an undying loyal follower just like Hubert and Monica). 

The thing is, they could have made this a legitimate route to root for if they had just... tweaked Edelgard’s focus a bit. It wouldn’t even take much! Just imagine instead... if Edelgard started her war to root out the Slithers. 

Think about it. Edelgard was already subjected to Slither experimentation. She knows what they are capable of. So, what if she knew they were deeply rooted among the people of Foldan, in positions of power? She didn’t know who she can trust - she even says this at one point in a discussion with Hubert! 

This slight change would instantly make her war a truly morally grey one, one where the suffering subjected to the common folk is understandable. She can’t just try to talk to the other nations - she doesn’t know who has been Slithered. She needs to take over everything to sniff them out, and free Foldan of their underground tyranny for good. Heck, I might even be on her side for that then!

But alas, the Slithers are treated more as a second set of antagonists. Like the Church, they get very little focus. However, they DO get more focus, for better or for worse. 

Besides some paralogues (that lead to nowhere, honestly, in terms of information), the Slithers do kinda get a few chapters right after Chapter 11. Because you see, besides being a conqueror route, we don’t really get to conquer too much. Right after we take over the Western Kingdom, there is a sudden crisis back at home and we find our cast putting out fires again. 

Turns out, there is an insurrection happening back in the Empire. Some Empire nobles unhappy with the way things are going have joined forces with the escaped former Duke Aegir, who is leading the charge. Along side of him are the Slithers, who had helped him along the way.

12 Chapters. It took 12 chapters before we got any substantial Slither antagonists to deal with. It took this long before we saw Solon again, and it’s not till Chapter 13 that we get to see Kroyna again either. 

And what are the Slithers doing exactly?

That is a very, very good question. Because we never truly learn their aim in this war, other than their ultimate goal is to take back the world from everyone on the surface world. 

Why did they suddenly help Duke Aegir in his insurrection and cause mayhem in the Hyrm territory so that they can take Fort Merceus? I guess apparently to spread chaos. That is their reasoning. 

Yay. 

I suppose one could infer that they want the war to go on because the more death the people of Foldan deal to themselves, the easier the job will be later for the Slithers. But this is never directly stated by the Slithers, ever. They just.... do their thing.

Not only do they do their thing, but they do their thing separately. They barely work together, as it turns out, each Slither kind of working independently for the same goal. So they do random experiments for different reasons, or cause insurrections for different reasons, without being a monolithic entity of deep innerworkings that is unified under a single banner. 

The fact the Slithers are basically the cause for the insurrection in the first place is troubling, because it removes agency from the people of Foldan. Scarlet Blaze would have you believe that most of the Empire is pretty ok with Edelgard’s rapid reforms, and those who aren’t have just decided to suck it up. 

This isn’t very realistic, honestly. But instead of having Duke Aegir gather unhappy nobles to his side, it is the Slithers who push it along and who make it a reality. It’s always the Slithers who cause the chaos, rather than people just being people and doing awful things on their own. 

And again, we don’t really learn much about them. Solon appears at the end of the battle for a brief moment, only to get away. And in Chapter 13, 9 chapters after we first meet her, Kroyna is just... killed rather unceremoniously. 

So to recap at this point, Scarlet Blaze introduces the Slithers as early as chapter 3, then we almost do not hear from them until chapter 12 and chapter 13, and the route is only 15 chapters long. PLUS, only 4-5 of these chapters is actually about conquering, and the rest is about just putting out fires within the Empire or along the front lines. 

Edelgard is one of the one most affected by the Slithers, yet they only have garnered a mere 2 or 3 chapters for her story. 

Plus, chapter 13 has me feeling bad for Duke Aegir. The slimy, whiney, frankly quite awful human being Duke. Me. Feel BAD for this guy. He laments about not being given a chance like the other nobles like Linhardt’s father, and if he had he may have fallen into line. But Edelgard never extended this chance to him in particular. 

Which brings up another thing. In Houses, it is revealed that the Insurrection of the Seven, in which seven noble houses overthrew Emperor Ionius and took power. It’s not fully addressed in Houses though, and why exactly they did as such is never fully explored.

Well, it’s not explored here either. How Edelgard managed to convince those who once plotted against her father to her side is never explored. The Insurrection of the Seven is never explored. We learn absolutely nothing new.

Did Aegir deserve to be thrown into jail? Yes. But was he less deserving than the other noble houses who not only were pardoned, but even given positions of power? Take Count Varley. He’s one of the most corrupt nobles in the Empire who loves money more than his job. And yet, Edelgard made him the new leader of her Church. He is clearly the worst person for the job, yet he got it anyways. (Not only that, but the route makes no commentary on Edelgard installing her own bishop into a position of power over the biggest religion in the land. You aren’t supposed to like Varley, but you aren’t exactly given any indication that this action is a wrong one either. This should be indication of what kind of route this is, but the route plays it totally straight.) 

Was Aegir not given a chance because he was the only one who subjected Edelgard to experiments? To be frank... it’s honestly not clear. And that’s a shame. 

(There is Hubert’s father as well, who Hubert killed during the raid in Enbarr. We don’t get to learn his side of the story either). 

However, this is a good segue into characterization for a moment. 

When compared to Crimson Flower, Scarlet Blaze offers some characters more time in the spotlight. I cannot say the entire ensemble gets to shine equally, but there is a notable improvement on character purpose and focus. Without Byleth taking over all of Edelgard’s precious time and love energy, it leaves room for other characters to interact with her instead.

When it comes to the main story itself, both Hubert and Ferdinand get to shine the most, with Hubert really stepping up to the plate while Ferdinand gets his own small subplot related to his father. Ferdinand doesn’t get to shine as much as Hubert - the subplot is relatively small, and only relevant for a few chapters, but it’s still more than what he had gotten in Houses.

Ferdinand is the one who kills his father, with an axe to the neck. Ferdinand is understandable shaken up by this, but he deems his as his duty. He feels it was his fault that the Duke staged an Insurrection because Ferdinand had insisted on a fair trail first, rather than just executing him as soon as they could. While I find this logic... confusing, I’m not really going to get into that in this review. 

Unfortunately for Ferdinand, that’s as far as his character really goes here. He’s more serious, less funny, and more in line with Edelgard’s desired future. Instead of being Edelgard’s number three like he is in Houses, that spot was taken by the newest Black Eagles member, Monica.

AND OH BOY DO I HAVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT MONICA.

Monica is, without a doubt, the worst character in the entire cast. If simp was in the dictionary, it’s definition would be Monica. 

Monica’s one and really only defining feature is that she LOVES Edelgard. She adores her. Worships her. She counts the number of times she has had tea with Edelgard, the number of times Edelgard has eaten cake, the number of times she sighed, what she does every day, who she talks to.... And no, I am not exaggerating. 

For any fans who have played FE Awakening, there is a character called Tharja that is an equally obsessive character to the player insert, Robin. And Monica... is far worse. Because at least Tharja has more qualities than loving Robin. 

Monica has almost no other characterization. Nearly everything she says, with a few exceptions, is about how Edelgard is wonderful and who dared to hurt Edelgard, and hey, why don’t you love Edelgard as much as she does? 

I could go on, but I have other things to talk about. 

The rest of the Eagles aren’t really too much different than their Houses counterparts, but I do want to give a shout out to Petra for not only being far more interesting in Hopes than in Houses, but also for having the best support in Scarlet Blaze with Caspar. I won’t talk about it here. Just go watch it - it’s very good. 

Speaking of supports.....

One thing I noted with the supports is that they are sometimes at odds with Edelgard’s characterization, or even her desired future. Edelgard literally comments that she wants to create a future where only merit matters, and not bloodlines. Quite a few of these supports, especially with Ferdinand and Lorenz, make comments about restoring noble honor, or restoring their house, or breaking down the barriers between nobles and commoners.

Some of these supports are cross supports that actually probably make sense in their original route, but some are only viewable in SB, which makes it all the more confusing. Edelgard’s future is for the world to not know of privilege but of merit, and that bloodlines and origins do not matter. And yet, there are plenty of supports viewable in SB that continue to boast about nobility.

One support that stands out to me is Edelgard’s support with Balthus, where Balthus asks to be her bodyguard for a fee. Edelgard flat out tells him no, then lists one of the reasons as his “family history”. I find this quite baffling, for if one’s origins do not matter, then why would Balthus’ family history matter? Ferdinand’s own father was a criminal snake but Edelgard keeps Ferdinand under her employ. And yet, Balthus is not offered the same dignity, part in due to his “family”. Is that not hypocritical?

Edelgard being a hypocrite does not bother me - she was already hypocritical in Houses. What bothers me is the writing seems unaware that she is being hypocritical at all.

Not to mention her bizarre choices of who lives and who dies. When Lorenz’s family betrays them, she welcomes them back with open arms after they defeat them again. However, if Count Rowe betrays her in battle, they cut him and his knight down. Duke Aegir is another example of this, as discussed before. 

I also want to call out another Edelgard support in particular that was really... something else. Edelgard’s A support with Ferdinand has them talking about how commoners won’t just be able to rise to the top right away, if nobles already have a leg up in education. Ferdinand than comes to believe that that was Edelgard’s plan, to create a free school to teach everyone a good education. Edelgard looks baffled... then says this is why she needs him, because she needs ideas like that.

In other words, she didn’t think her future plan through. It didn’t occur to her that commoners wouldn’t just be able to rise to the top by merit alone, if they lack the education. 

(Of course, this still ignores the reality that even with access to an education, the commoners will need an industrial revolution first to free them from the labor of the fields, so that they actually have time to learn). 

We are fighting for this grand future, but the person leading the charge has not thought beyond “get rid of church, ????, profit”. 

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We now reach the last two chapters of this route to discuss. I know it’s been a lot, but if you made it this far, congratulations. We have now reach the part where your choice to recruit Byleth or not matters.

That’s right, this whole time up until this point, Byleth’s existence hasn’t made much of a difference to the story, other than a few pieces of dialogue changes here or there. Chapter 14 is where this difference finally rears its head. So, let’s discuss these two different paths. 

In Path A, we are reminded that Byleth and Jeralt are, in fact, characters, as they make a brief entrance into a scene with the cast. We then see Rhea and Dimitri planning their next move - Dimitri will march his army to the Valley of Torment while Rhea goes to take the monastery. Claude meets up with Edelgard and Hubert (remember him? He’s barely been in the story either, and now he’s back, yay! We also hadn’t seen Rhea since Chapter 4, nearly 10 chapters ago) and explains that Dimitri is marching to the Valley. They all agree to meet up there for a three way battle. And this is what happens - All three (four, including some of the Knights of Seiros like Seteth and Flayn), meet up in the Valley for a bloody battle, the Alliance and the Empire versus the Kingdom and the Church. 

Once Sylvain has been killed, and Dimitri routed and on the run with Claude on his tail, something very interesting happens. Arval takes over Shez’s body and attacks Byleth. 

This then leads to the 2 secret side chapters of this game, taking the route from 15 chapters to 17 chapters. These side chapters have us saving Byleth from Shez/Arval, then Arval killing Solon as a sacrifice to enter what I call the Shadow Realm, taking all three lords and Shez with him. 

Here, we learn that Arval is, in fact, basically an AI designed to help usher in the consciousness of Epimenides, an ancient Slither who was once an ordinary man, who was bent on killing Sothis in an act of revenge and taking back the world for his race. Shez was meant to be his vessel in this era.

Shez, along with the lords, kill him, removing his presence from the world for good.

During this time, in Scarlet Blaze, Edelgard has a chance to talk to both Dimitri and Claude. 

Her discussion with Dimitri is.... well, she’s not very kind here. She shuts down any notion of them having a history together, and has very little interest in conversing with him. I think I will save a deeper analysis of this discussion for my Azure Gleam review, after I play that route. 

Her discussion with Claude, however, I find much more fascinating, because it’s more important to their long term plans and why they are working together. But we will discuss that in just a moment. 

After the Slither is killed, the lords and Shez.... somehow manage to get out of the Shadow Realm (literally somehow), say their goodbyes, and go their separate ways to finish off the last chapter.

Now, what happens in Path B?

Instead of Byleth talking with Edelgard, we see Byleth talking with Claude. Apparently, Byleth has “given some tips” to Claude, which changes Claude mind on siding with Edelgard. He claims that he only agreed to join her side because the Alliance was under duress, but now sees a chance to strike at them and get the upper hand. He rallies his soldiers to destroy the Kingdom and the Church so that they aren’t shackled to the past, and to get rid of the Empire for their aggression. This leads to a real three way battle, with Byleth popping up at the end. 

This is the only path where Claude can die in the entire game (also marking the only one of the three Lords who can die in this game as well). Byleth will also die here, to Shez’s sword.

Now, before I go on, let’s talk quickly about Sothis. Because....well, there is some stuff to say. 

Sothis is not exactly the character we know from Houses. Here, she is... crueler. More vengeful. She calls Byleth a glove to be worn, and it is she who seeks out revenge for Jeralt’s death, moreso than Byleth. I could venture a guess as to why, but I think I’ll save that for another review. 

It is Sothis who controls Byleth in the last chapter, and the only reason why Shez wins is because Byleth is kinda fighting her back for control. It makes Byleth sloppy, and thus... killed. Much to the delight of Arval, who finally feels a great burden lifted from him. 

I don’t know how I feel about this Sothis. Sothis was always motherly, but here, she seems almost out of character in her vengeful nature. Again, I can hazard a guess, but I’m going to save that for a different review. 

I want to wrap this up, so my comments on the final chapter after this will be brief: Edelgard and co go to the monastery to stop Rhea once and for all. Thales.... just happens to be there, which is very contrived. You beat both Rhea and Thales, who then kill each other. Edelgard and Shez then.... high-five, then roll ending text. 

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So, which path is the better path in terms of writing?

Well..... neither, really. 

Each path has it’s hiccups in terms of writing. 

Path A leads to removing Rhea, Thales and other Slithers INCLUDING Arval from the world. The ending scroll has the Alliance and the Empire reaffirming their agreement, before marching to end the Kingdom once and for all. It’s almost conclusive, save for some sly comments from an NPC that wonders if the Alliance will uphold their agreement. We also get to learn what Arval is and his purpose as well. 

However, there are some issues. For one, not everything makes sense, and this is where I circle back to Edelgard and Claude’s discussion in the Shadow Realm.

Claude, as it turns out (which I already knew from leaks), wants the Central Church gone. However, he doesn’t want the Kingdom gone at all, wants Rhea dead, and wants to change the WORLD, not just Foldan.

Edelgard, however, only wants to change Foldan, wants to capture Rhea, and wants the Kingdom gone for good because they are too rooted in Church doctrine for her comfort. 

Despite the ending scroll telling me they reaffirm their agreement and march on the Kingdom, their ideals do not match up for the long term. Claude doesn’t want the Kingdom gone, per his claim, and he has “real ambitions”, as he tells Edelgard. It sounds like to me, something will happen along the road that will break up their treaty. 

Not only that, but the secret chapters don’t seem to have been written for this route. Dimitri has lost nearly everyone he loved - Gustave, Ingrid, Sylvain, Rodrigue - yet is happy to have been talking with the two lords if but for a moment. 

This comes off of Claude literally telling Dimitri to stop running so he will “stop chasing”, and Claude also blames Dimitri for being there in the first place. (Another thing to save for a different review). 

Path B, however, never has you learn about Arval at all, and yet has Claude do the more rational thing to his long term plans and betray Edelgard, leading to the ending scroll saying the war went on between all three nations. Arval is still potentially a threat to the world as well, since he could one day take over Shez’s body in the future.

Not only that, but it was Byleth’s existence on the other side that pushed Claude to betray Edelgard, and we.... don’t really learn what Byleth told him. Since Byleth is meant to be God, then what does this imply about Byleth’s influence in this context? Claude even mentions that he wishes he had Byleth sooner on his side to be pushed into the right direction in the first place (implying that siding with Edelgard isn’t the right path, even thought it is Byleth’s advice that leads to his death in this route). 

Plus, it’s... so coy with this nod to “my teacher, I wish you chose me” sort of thing that also plagued Houses. 

But in both of these paths, the “rivalry” between Sothis and Arval is basically nonexistent, which the box art somewhat alludes to but ever follows up on. 

The box art would have you think that Sothis and Arval are two side to the same coin but... they aren’t, really. Hell, after Byleth dies, that’s just it. We don’t learn more about Shez’s past AT ALL (they talk all the time about how Shez’s past is a mystery, how he was adopt, about who his adopted mother may be). They literally leave that hanging. We don’t learn about the “cycle of this world” that Arval had mentioned at the start of the game. All of that is completely left untouched.

So, Path A - learn more information overall, technically a better ending, but the writing of the secret chapters don’t feel like they fit this route very much. Or Path B - Learn nothing of Arval, Claude’s actions are more understandable with his character motivations, but the world is more worse off than ever. 

I can’t decide which one I think is better in quality at this time. Both really aren’t that great.

Not to mention that the final chapter is just ridiculous. Thales just HAPPENS to be there when Rhea is, and despite Rhea and Thales being long time enemies of Edelgard, they actually take each other out instead of Edelgard having the pleasure to do it herself.

And it ends on... a  high five.

This is a call back to the start of the route, where Edelgard didn’t know what a high five was and didn’t do it. Now here, she does, in the wake of her “victory”. 

And I think this high five is the symbol of this route. It shows just what this route really is - a route that fails to recognize the gravity of what it is doing to the continent. A route where your pretty female lord is only praised by her followers, who is almost never questioned and whose actions are always somehow justified, even if they shouldn’t be. 

A conqueror route ends on a high five. 

And I think that should tell you something. 

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Thanks for reading this really long review. My next task is to start Golden Wildfire. I look forward to seeing what else this game will offer, and how my thoughts will change as I go through this adventure with Claude!

[inevitably-johnlocked]

List five things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of the last ten people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity 🌻🌼🌷

Awww Lovely!

Needed to see this, thank you! Feeling BLUH this morning, cramps are murdering me, LOL.

Let's see...

Puppies (or cute animals in general).

Staying curled up in bed under 2 covers and hugging 3 pillows, and reading fanfics on a lazy Saturday.

Drawing on my iPad. I am SO glad I bought it last summer. It's really helped with my feeling "trapped" on my computer.

My current hyperfixations, whatever they may be (right now, it's Moon Knight, chocolate milk [like, I'm ALWAYS CRAVING it], and sorting recipes, which is a weird one but okay, LOL). Most of the time these are fandom things, and they just... really give me dopamine hits whenever I see stuff from said fandoms, which is why I spend so much time on Tumblr. If it's a show, I'll rewatch all my fave parts over and over and OVER again. I'm on Week 3 of rewatching MK in chunks, LOL. Before that, I rewatched OFMD a LOT.

Video games... currently any of the Assassin's Creed games. I get REALLY into open-world games and I will spend literal MONTHS on grinding to get everything before I get to the final boss of the games I play. (AC Valhalla, I have around 350hrs clocked on it. Before that, the longest was Skyrim, with 225 hours). Problem with me gaming, though, is that, again, it's a hyperfixation I think, because I will game for literal hours and lose track of time and not eat. It's why I got the iPad so I could try to focus a bit more on my art work and be more aware of my hours.

Can I add a sixth? Writing ficlets. Y'all, I have SO many fanfic snippets half done, because I get invested in fandoms, then ideas happen and I have to write them down but nothing comes of them. I should try to finish some. I miss publishing. What I want to do is find my old Sonic stories and rewrite them. Hmm.

OKAY ONE MORE: My collectables, especially my Funko Pops. Yes, I know they're terrible shitty things, but I fucking LOVE my Funko, okay?? They make me SO happy. Plus my obsession is keeping a local business very happy LOL. I mostly only get Funko of shows and movies I think I will love, and I get a hit whenever my pre-orders come in and one of them is a hard-to-get Chase figure because I legit sit and refresh their website a year ahead of release daily so I can make sure I pre-order before the photos are even up LOL. Just sad that I have most of them in storage because I have no room for them in my apt. I can't wait for a bigger place.

ONE MORE I PROMISE: Making people happy GENUINELY makes me happy. I think that's why I spend so much time working on this blog, because I know it makes other people happy, and I just... always hope someone messages me, and tells me, and then BOOM instant dopamine hit. I dunno. DOWNSIDE to this is that I'm also prone to "feeling bad" if I think I failed in making people happy. It's a horrible thing, sometimes, to be a people-pleaser BECAUSE I like making people happy. I dunno. I'm weird, I guess.

Anyway, thank you so much for this! It helps with my mood to do these positivity posts <3

Feel free to do this yourselves, friends! <3

[midoriyas-wifey]

All I want is some size kink headcanons with kirishima PLEASE HSHSHSH (I prefer fem)

Ok so this kinda turned into a horneé post about kirishima but it definitely has size kink overtones bc you can’t have kiri without a size kink you just can’t 🤷‍♀️ bone app the teeth @shorkbrian come get y’all juice

This man is built for size kink, everyone in the bnha fandom knows this, it’s canon at this point. Usually people headcanon him as being 6ft something, but not me. I’m built different and so is he. He is Fatgum height, and nearly as broad across with muscles. You heard me. He’s a behemoth of a man. 7’10 or bust babey!! I mean All Might is 7’2 so it’s not implausible in this world that he could get that tall.

The God of Himbos ™ there’s literally no one nicer on this planet, which helps make up for his near-cruel dick game. You’d better say a prayer to whatever god you believe in before he drills up into those guts. And he’s so nice the whole time too (usually).

Has thighs thicker around than your entire body. He’s like a tiger in that his legs are so strong that even if he got killed he could die standing up. He’s a beast. Loves it when you straddle his thigh and grind on him, begging for attention. And when his baby girl begs so sweetly, how can he refuse?

His biceps alone are bigger around than your head, his arms are so massive but are so gentle and careful with you. His hands are huge and rough as well, and he loves to cup your face (really your whole head with the size of his hands) and pepper it with smooches and sharp toothed smiles. 

He loves all of you, but your ass really does him in. And he loves thighs too; but especially your ass. His hands are on those cakes 24/7 in some manner or another. If he could just keep a cheek in hand the whole day to squeeze on he’d die a happy man. Pinching, squeezing, smacking, spanking, biting, eating it. If it involves your ass then you’d best believe he’s into it.

He’s not even a tiny bit discreet about it, will stare and watch that thing wobble in your (and his) favorite sundress. 

And if you can throw it back? Make it wiggle a lil for him? My mans is on one knee already. 

You really are too cute for him to handle. He’s all hard edges, his figure large and intimidating. You just look so sweet and soft while pressed up on his chest, tiny hands grasping at whatever you can, moans and hiccups and girlish ‘ah ah ahs’ pouring out of your mouth while he pummels your juicy pussy. Too cute.

Loves to praise because he knows it makes you clench down and gush around him, which honestly he didn’t even know your pussy could get any tighter than it already was, but now you got him stuck inside your heavenly cunny and he’s not one to pass up an opportunity. 

He’s up in your ear like, “Goddam baby girl, this pussy feels so fucking good around my dick. Whose is it? Huh? Who does this sweet little pussy belong to?” all while pounding you out, never breaking pace.

Near folds you in half when he gets down to business, you have to remind him to not squish you too much.

He might sort of have a thing for squishing you a lil 👀

Maybe more than a lil 

He loves the noises his dick can draw from your sopping pussy and drooling mouth. Your tongue hangs out and he has you panting like a bitch in heat no matter what position.

The sloppier the better, he wants all the naughty noises you and your body can make for him. 

One time he called you ‘Commander in Queef’ and you wouldn’t let him touch you for 3 days after that 💀

He wants to live a life with no regrets and that includes stuffing you silly every chance he gets. Every. Single. Chance. Doesn’t matter what AU he’s written in Kirishima lives and dies for your sweet pussy, it was made for him he just knows it. 

Nothing has ever fit him better than his precious pebble’s pussy, even when you whine it’s too much he knows you can take it; he just has to do a bit of prep work. 

He’s always too much in the beginning, no matter how much prep work goes in, there’s always that overwhelming stretch, that sense of total fullness that follows the whole way through. You learn to love it, and now you know that no other dick could possibly fill you up like his does.

You love his bigness, and even if you’re not petite, even if you’re big, up against him? Leedle girl. Leedle girl he likes to pick up and bounce on his dick til he creams inside your sensitive lil cunny and adds to the tummy bulge already present from his dick.

Speaking of which it’s legit like forearm sized idc idc. The first time he whipped it out you sucked your lips into your mouth in surprise because how the fuck were you gonna take that?? It’s so heavy that even when he’s fully hard it dips down below its own weight. It's much tanner than the rest of him, but ends in an angry reddish-purple head that’s oozing with thick precum. He’s got one thick vein that runs the length of it on the left, and then a smaller one running on the underside.

Suck on those veins and right underneath the head of his dick and Lord have mercy cuz he’s about to bust. 

His cum is thick as hell and it comes out in buckets. He prefers to cum inside you because it satisfies his breeding kink and he loves to see his cum leak in thick rivers out of your destroyed little cunny while he tries to scoop and push the thick cream back inside.

He also likes cumming on your face but rarely gets to do that since it tends to get in your hair and fuck tryna get all that out.

His balls are huge and heavy, like each one are the size of a peach. They’re straight up wrecking balls. And they’re sooooo sensitive no matter how much experience he gets under his belt. He can’t keep his cool. 

Like you could be sucking his dick for hours but the moment when you reach to cup his balls and play with them he’s putty.

Suck. On. Them. This man will go apeshit, rutting his hips up and moaning for more, just please keep playin’ with ‘em, pebble.

He wants to smother your face with them while he fucks your throat, or just smother you with them in general. He’s just a nasty dude that loves rubbing himself all over you, and seeing his huge dick plop down on your surprised face while he has you suck on his balls makes him cum HARD.

So yeah he’s just a big dude that you can use as a horny jungle gym, and all he asks in return is you let him destroy that tight little pussy over and over again.

[avinaccia]

A Completely Objective and Logical Ranking of Every Hetalia Character Song

New character songs are dropping,  I have too much time on my hands, let’s go. 

Also here’s a Youtube playlist for the ~✨nostalgia✨~

Bring it on in the tags 

71. Ah Legendary Class⭐The Awesome Me Highway [Prussia]: Absolutely tearing it up on the drums and on the vocal cords alike (I pray for Atsushi Kousaka). Great for the memes. 

70.  Happy Thoughts Museum [???]: This is listed as an official song but I had literally never heard of the title. Then I listened to it and BAM! Smack back to 2013 watching the teasers for the show on Funimation. Not sure I’d count it as a character song though...

69. (Nice)  My Song that is written by me for me [Prussia]: Deafened me but I can appreciate the industrial grind.

68.  My House is...Quiet. ~With the Trolls~ [Norway]: I have never heard this song, nor can I find any version of it online. By default it goes here and I am so sorry Norge.

67.  Make a Wish to Santa♪ [Sealand]: The discordant notes and childish exuberance only serve to make this sound like a demonic plea to Santa to eliminate the singer’s enemies.

66.  Heaven and Hell on Earth [Rome]: Rome sounds like he’s been in the corner of a restroom. Extra points for the metal version, minus points for the fact that the beach scene was replayed like 1764 times.

65. Canada Complete Introduction [Canada]: Quiet af until Kumacheerio shows up and blows out your speakers. they did you dirty my darling 😔

64.  It’s Easy!!! [America]: I don't think any video of this has ever stayed up for more than 20 seconds. Sounds cool, but like I was listening to 20 different genres at once, someone make him calm down.

63.  Bù Zàiyì the Small Stuff ☆ [China]: I cannot for the life of me find the complete song anywhere, clips have a cool beat though

62.  Let's Boil Hot Water♪ [Italy]: Exactly what it says on the tin..though a bit too close to elevator music for my tastes.

61.  The Fragrance of Early Summer [Japan]: Very ‘from the books’ Japan-esque song

60.  Peace Sounds Nice…[Baltic Trio]: All well and good until the radio demon shows up

59.  W●D●C ~World Dancing~ [America]: How a song can sound like it’s from 4 different decades at once is beyond me

58.  Overflowing Passion [BFT]: This is just drunken karaoke and I have 0 clue what’s going on #iconicforallthewrongreasons

57. Ren●Ren●Renaissance♪ [Rome+Chibitalia]: Wholesome Grandpa with Grandson content - barring the fact that Italy sounds on the verge of a nervous breakdown and Rome has had too much wine.

56.  Roma Antiqua [Rome]: Similar energy to any one of China’s songs - there’s a part of the song where it sounds like he’s singing in the shower, and I will never not laugh at [CENSORED]

55.  Country From Where the Sun Rises, Zipangu [Japan]: Very chill, very Japan, but just meh for me.

54.  Moon Over Emei Shan [China]: Good message, okay song.

53.  My Friend [England]: What a mind palace you must have Mr. Kirkland

52.  With Love, from Iceland [Iceland]: Three words: Heavy. Metal. Puffin.

51.  Having Friends is Nice...♫ [Russia]: Russia is the cutest thing ever

50.  Mm. [Sweden]: Smooth transition from WWE Smackdown to shopping at IKEA.

49.  Why don’t you come over? ~Beyond the Northern Lights~ [Iceland]: I don’t want to be mean but...this does sound like the second closing theme to an anime whose first closing was much more popular (à la Soul Eater)

48. Gakuen☆Festa [Germany, Italy, Japan]: Sounds like a 60s song of the summer but oh dear their voices do not go together. Hella cute though.

47.  Wa! Wa!! World Ondo [Main Cast]: One time I travelled 10 hours in a coach bus with a bunch of teenagers to a city of note in my country, and the only souvenir I bought was the fucking PAINT IT WHITE DVD. Perfectly chaotic, UN ĐĕùX~~

46.  In the Bluebell Woods [England]: In the album cover for this song he’s holding a guitar but this is not a rock song. Still has ‘running through the hills’ levels of dramatism though.

45.  Poi Poi Poi♪ [Taiwan]: You’re telling me that Taiwan, someone whose has *ONE LINE* in Beautiful World (which is criminal tbh what kind of representation-) managed to get an eNTIRE CHARACTER SONG???????

44.  White Flame [Russia]: There’s something to be said for a song that is 3x the length of any Hetalia episode

43.  Ich liebe… [Germany]: Baking cakes for your friends has never been so wholesome.

42.  We Wish you a Merry Christmas [America, China, England, France, Russia]: Nice to see they’ve gotten their shit together since United Nations Sta-hmm.

41.  Ah, Worldwide à la mode [France]: Sounds like a Disney Princess song, hard not to picture France frolicking in a field of flowers.

40.  Che Bello! ~My House is the Greatest!⭐~ [Italy]: Would not be out of place in an advertisement for Sea World.

39.  May You Smile Today [Japan]: THE feel good song of the summer

38.  Let’s Look Behind the Rainbow [Italy]: I will protect you.

37.  I'm your HERO☆ [America]: “Anyone who’s sad or sullen will be arrested” did NOT age well.

36.  Mein Gott! [Prussia]: Alternating headphone effect at the beginning is cool, so is the confidence...the actual singing on the other hand...

35. Nihao⭐China [China]: Listen, all of China’s character songs are great, I just can’t vibe with this one like some of the others.

34.  Pechka ~Light My Heart~ [Russia]: I’m still having difficulty wrapping my head around the fact that this and Winter were released at the same time.

33.  Pukapuka⭐Vacation [Germany, Italy, Japan]: Seems just a bit too much like they’re running on a treadmill that’s picking up speed and trying to sing at the same time. Peppy.

32.  Santa Claus is Coming to Town [Germany, Italy, Japan]: This is unironically the best song sung by this trio; can only vibe with for two months out of the year though.

31.  Excuse Me, I Am Sorry [Japan]: Japan’s character traits speedrun. Gives me barbershop quartet vibes for some reason but is catchy as hell.

30.  The Story of Snow and Dreams [Russia]: A superhero anime opening in the making

29. England’s Evil Demon Summoning Song [England]: Sir that is not how you roast a marshmallow, don’t cut yourself on that edge.

28.  Moi Moi Sauna♪ [Finland]: Exactly the type of song you’d expect and it’s wonderful

27.  United Nations Star⭐ [America, China, England, France, Russia]: This isn’t as much of a song as it is a four minute struggle for everyone to sing without America yelling every 5 seconds...Like a particularly musical episode of Hetalia.

26.  Paris is Indeed Splendid [France]: Paris-pa-pa-pa-paris

25.  Absolutely Invincible British Gentleman [England]: Poppy, rocky, polka-dotty

24.  Vorwärts Marsch! [Germany]: To quote the comment section: “This sounds like a German version of I’ll Make a Man out of you.” There’s some truth to that.

23.  Hamburger Street [America]: The product of America’s rapper phase. 8/10 because he’s trying so hard and because I can unironically sing along to all of this.

22.  Hoi Sam☆Nice Guy [Hong Kong]: A song that would absolutely destroy the ankles of anyone in DDR.

21.  I Am German-Made [Germany]: There was once a version that had Germany and Prussia singing at the same time and it sounded positively demonic and Broadway could never

20.  La pasión no se detiene ~Unstoppable Passion~ [Spain]: Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping...

19.  Fall in Love, Mademoiselle [France]: Sounds like it should be in Mozart Opera Rock, I have kiss kiss falled in love.

18. Embrace the Très Bien Moi [France]: This is the definition of SELF LOVE PEOPLE. 

17. Carrot and Stick [Belarus&Ukraine]: Absolutely DRIPPING in 2000s power ballad energy. The type of song that plays on repeat in the mind of the widow whose millionaire husband ‘mysteriously disappeared’ (and the only legit character song ever acknowledged by the anime)

16. C.B.C (Cowboyz Boot Camp) Vol. 1 [America]: AH MAH GAWWDDD

15. Winter [Russia]: Heavy metal fever dream and the perfect song for an angst-ridden teenager

14.  Seychelles Here ⭐ Vacation Island [Seychelles]: UN👏DER👏RA👏TED SONG👏OF 👏THE 👏SUM👏MER👏

13.  Nah, it will settle itself somehow [Romano]: One day I aspire to reach this level of chill

12.  Let’s Enjoy Today [England]: I will never not feel happy when listening to this.

11.  Einsamkeit [Germany]: Ludwig manages to air every single one of his worries about not being good enough compared to his friends and always being perceived as mean or uptight when he’s actually just a softie and now my heart hurts. 💔

10.  Aiyaa Four Thousand Years [China]: A very poignant and beautiful song about the passage of time and the inevitability of its passing; comparable to an ancient ballad complete with explosive crescendos and meaningful lyrics.

9.  Bon Bon Bon❤️C’est Bon C’est Bon! [France]: Peppy, cheerful, adorable, groundbreaking; has been my alarm tone for six years and I’ve yet to tire of it. 9/10 The moaning interspersed throughout has been an interesting wake-up call.

8.  Let’s Enjoy! Let’s Get Excited! Cheers! [Denmark]: This is on par with Everytime we Touch by Cascada in terms of rage potential unlocked (the good kind)

7.  Dream Journey [Japan]: Whoever’s playing the shakuhachi is absolutely KILLING IT. Dramatic, wonderful, great metaphors.

6.  Gourmet’s Heart Beginner Level [China]: Absolute banger, I’m a vegetarian but this would inspire me to eat shumai.

5.  Always with you...Nordic Five! [Nordic FIVVVVVEEEE]: Everyone harmonizes beautifully except for Denmark. Extremely catchy, number placement seemed appropriate. 

4.  Pub and GO! [England]: I love this trash man

3. Maji Kandou⭐Hong Kong Night [Hong Kong]: If you thought Denmark’s song was a banger JUST YOU WAIT. I WILL BLOW OUT MY SPEAKERS LISTENING TO LO-HA-SU.

2. Steady Rhythmus [Germany]: THIS SONG IS METAL AF. Seriously, if it can be classified as ‘hardcore’ by my father and his group of 50-somethings who have decided to single-handedly gatekeep the metal and hardrock genres, it can do anything.

1.  The Delicious Tomato Song 🍅 [Romano]: Beautiful, absolutely awe-inspiring, poignant, catchy lyrics with an extremely deep meaning that only years of meticulous research and analysis can unlock, Romano I love you.

BONUS: Closing Songs

5. Hatafutte Parade (World Series) 

4. Hetalian⭐Jet (The World Twinkle): The song is good, the dancing is cursed 

3. Chikyuu Marugoto Hug Shitainda (World⭐Stars)

2. Marukaite Chikyuu (Hetalia: Axis Powers): nE NE PaPA

1. Mawaru Chikyuu Rondo (The Beautiful World)

[canary3d-obsessed]

Restless Rewatch: The Untamed Episode 06 (first part)

(Masterpost)(Episode 05)

Warning: This contains spoilers for All 50 Episodes

Bad Boys Bad Boys What You Gonna Do

Nie Huasang’s brought his nuts, and someone’s brought wine, so the boys are drinking in Wei Wuxian’s guest house. Finally he gets to drink some of the Emperor’s Smile wine that he’s been doing all those product placements for.

Boys, get a bowl or something for your shells, were you raised in a barn?

Wei Wuxian hits on waxes poetic about the wine, and Jiang Cheng tells him to shut up. 

Wang Zhuocheng’s raw-fish-eating face may have failed him, but his drunk faces do not disappoint.

Wei Wuxian teases Jiang Cheng about his list of standards for a chick: She should have natural beauty, be virtuous and caring, from a good family, not too talkative, with a gentle voice, and not too capable. Also she should not spend too much money. Drunken running ensues.

Cue Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin

(more behind the cut)

Much of the fandom has decided this list is a good fit for Nie Huaisang himself, and it sorta is. But he is both talkative and unvirtuous, what with all the current sneakiness, and all the eventual murders. 

This also definitely doesn't fit Wen Qing because she's capable as hell.  

This list is, however, a 100% a match for Jiang Yanli. Not in a weird, Jin Guangyao way--a lot of men want to marry a woman like their sister.  In a gender-divided and generation-divided society, a man’s sister might be the only woman he’s ever known well. Jiang Cheng adores Yanli and she’s his ideal model of a woman, as opposed to his mother, who...isnt.  

All these robes and talismans over the door do nothing to stop Lan Wangji from strolling in.  

Okay so - Lan Wangji is the senior disciple of the Lan Clan, yea? There is no way that patrolling the guest area is in any way his job. He is just walking around here at night specifically to see what Wei Wuxian is doing.

I already did a gifpost of the boys and their totally nonsexual horseplay, over here. I’ll just add, for sad factor, that Jiang Cheng is play-choking Wei Wuxian when they’re all on the bed, and later in the running-and-crying episode he is gonna for-real choke him. Foreshadowing! or maybe just coincidence!

One fun thread running through the young-cultivators episodes is that Nie Huaisang is legit terrified of Lan Wangji while also having a major aesthetic crush on him. Look at how flustered he is here, trying to act sober while also checking him out. 

Lan Wangji is shocked and visibly upset - what are you guys doing? This is not his busting face, this is, for a moment, his vulnerable and disillusioned face. He is super not used to what normal people are like. 

Wei Wuxian doesn't lie or otherwise try to get off the hook, which has got to have Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang grinding their teeth in frustration. He invites Lan Wangji to join them for a drink. LWJ cites a the “no drinking on campus” rule and WWX tries to convince him to chill. 

Then we have this lovely coordinated faint by the boys, to get out of going to get punished. Nie Huaisang has been practicing fainting in front of a mirror just in case he ever needs a skill like that in the future. 

Wei Wuxian keeps trying to turn this into a date. Eventually Lan Wangji is so upset he admits he can’t take all three of them by himself. 

Then the boys run away fake-barfing and Wei Wuxian hits Lan Wangji with a talisman. 

Steal His Agency That’s What You’re Gonna Do

What Wei Wuxian does to Lan Wanji here is definitely wrong. But it's not entirely a disaster.  It allows some crucial information to be shared between them, and it results in Wei Wuxian getting the utter shit beat out of him and never doing this again. I mean, he continues to mind-control his enemies and their eventual corpses, but he doesn't intentionally violate a friend or ally's autonomy in the future. Uhh not counting that whole golden core surgery-without-consent situation. And probably some other situations I’ve forgotten. He improves slightly, okay? 

It’s important to note, incidentally, that the Lan rules about drinking and other “vices” should not be viewed through a Christian lens. The Lans are neither puritans nor ascetics (look at their clothes, furniture, and jewelry, for starters). Being drunk is forbidden probably because it’s a loss of self-control. 

Speaking of self-control, mad props to Wang Yibo for being able to have zero physical reaction to fingers snapping in his face.

Drunk Lan Wangji

Under duress, Lan Wangji knocks back a cup of wine and promptly passes most of the way out. 

Wei Wuxian puts Lan Wangji into bed not unkindly, but pretty much like a sack of potatoes. Compare this to how tenderly he handles Lan Wangji the next time he’s drunk. 

WWX tells LWJ to call him Wei Gege, and giggles. Is this a term of endearment in this context? So far the various boys are calling each other -xiong, not -ge or gege.  In Western media, men calling each other “bro” is basically saying “no homo,” but brotherhood and sisterhood in C-Drama is often a way of indicating stronger love than friendship, without saying whether it's sexual or not. 

They finally start to have a conversation, and when Lan Wangji explains that no-one can touch his headband except, etc etc, Wei Wuxian stops trying to touch it. So at least he's not a handsy bastard in addition to all his other faults. 

Wei Wuxian tells Lan Wangji that his clan is boring and women won't want to marry him. Lan Wangji says that's fine. On one level this is the show acknowledging that he's gay, but I think he's responding in a gender-neutral way; he doesn't want to marry anyone. Marriage, from his perspective, is the literal worst. 

We don't know how he felt about his father, but he definitely loved his mother deeply, and she had a profoundly unhappy marriage, in which her husband did not provide companionship and her children were taken from her.

A note about all that: The dynamics of heterosexual marriages in The Untamed are not based on contemporary companionate marriage. Sex and reproduction is a wife's job in this world, and giving a gentry woman the option to choose her husband is radical. Wei Wuxian is the only one who dares say that Jiang Yanli should have a choice when Jin Guangshan casually tries to give her to his son in front of everyone.  

OP made this today but will totally reuse it when episode 23 rolls around

So Lan Wangji’s parents' marriage was extremely problematic but not necessarily for the reasons it would be in contemporary terms. Having signed on to marry Lan Dad, Mom would have expected to live together and get laid regularly (important for health, in some traditional views, regardless of love/no love) and to have the company of her children. Instead, she was isolated. Lan Dad wanted to have it both ways and so even though he loved her and apparently hooked up with her sometimes, he didn't do his duty by her. She didn't love him but she did her duty. 

Wei Wuxian continues to not get it, calling Lan Wangji dull and babbling about Lan Wangji’s parents until he realizes that LWJ is an orphan like him. 

A nice shift happens here. Once the penny drops, Wei Wuxian doesn't ask a single additional question - he just sees - by reading Lan Wangji’s face - what the deal is, and shares his own story to show he understands. 

This is the first time Wei Wuxian mentions being chased by dogs, which is kind of a big deal, because why was he left all alone when his parents died? 

Why didn't anyone take him in before Jiang Fengmian found him? How isolated are independent cultivators in this world? 

Tea Time

Lan Qiren and Lan Xichen are having tea, and the Lan Clan is so uptight they don't touch each other's teacups. I don't know what this thing is called so I'm going to call it a tea speculum. 

Lan Qiren is back from the cultivation conference and says the red crack plague is happening over in Qinghe where the Nie clan lives.  Lan Xichen fills him in on the water demon, specifically saying Wei Wuxian figured out the connection to the red crack dudes, and explaining who WWX is, as if Lan QIren hadn't already thrown stuff at him and threatened to eventually kill him. 

Fun fact that I just noticed this week so didn't make it into earlier posts: In Episode 46, when Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are in the Jiang ancestral hall, WWX says he was often punished to kneel there, and LWJ said that they heard about this in Gusu.  

So when WWX came to Gusu he already had a reputation as a troublemaker, and the Lan brothers were aware of it.   

Busted and Beaten

A Lan snitch comes in to say that Wei Wuxian has successfully corrupted Lan Wangji, which really shouldn’t cause as much surprise as it does.

“Wei Wuxian got drunk”

“Lan Wangji got drunk”

Lan Xichen takes a moment to consider carefully whether Wei Wuxian is a good friend for his little brother and whether perhaps he was too hasty in throwing them together. Ha ha ha no he doesn’t. 

On the punishment porch, Lan Xichen tries to lecture Lan Wangji in a calm way, but Lan Qiren wants to beat him and Lan Wangji wants to get beat. Wei Wuxian can’t understand why Lan Wangji doesn’t let him take the blame for the drinking. 

Lan Qiren goes way the fuck overboard with this punishment because he's angry--losing control and losing his sense of proportion--and Lan Xichen is shocked. The drone camera watching from above is also shocked.  

Lan Qiren has a few (very few) redeeming qualities, but his extreme rigidity and chronic resentment of anyone he perceives as bad are serious problems. His nephews are both struggling with complex moral quandaries as they get older, and he is absolutely no help to them in resolving their conflicts.

This is definitely...a style of parenting & teaching, but you can see how poorly it works, with Lan Wangji straight up saying “fuck it” after many years of conformity.  Lan Xichen is devoted to the middle path and tries to be obedient. But he is actually not walking anywhere near the middle path, as he gets pulled into colluding with a murderer at the same time as getting dragged onto his brother’s carnival ride. These men need parenting that isn’t so, uh, fucking stupid. (Yes, grown adults still need good parenting; watch Go Ahead if you doubt me) 

Wei Wuxian initially yells and falls down when he gets hit, but then he sees Lan Wangji is taking the beating without any reaction and he tries to do the same. 

Aftermath

Jiang Yanli gently lectures the boys, blaming Jiang Cheng for Wei Wuxian's drinking.  Jesus Christ, he's the younger sibling, could you just NOT, Yanli?  

Both boys ask Yanli not to tell their parents. The boys bicker about who's at fault and then Wei Wuxian shifts to baby voice and starts whining to Yanli about the pain. 

Yanli tells him to suck it up, and says after school she'll -- ok and I know this will be a surprise for everyone -- make soup for them. The boys immediately get back on the same team, which is team Please Put Meat In the Soup.

There's a nice character building moment for Wei Wuxian here. When he sees Lan Xichen he initially turns away to avoid running into him, but then he adults-up and goes to face him and greet him, giving him a half of a bow because of the pain, the pain. Rather than complaining about his punishment he meekly asks if he's broken another rule. 

Lan Xichen tells him that he did wrong but that Lan Qiren’s punishment was too harsh, and then in what is one of my favorite Lan Xichen moments, invites Wei Wuxian to use the cold spring to heal, but doesn't invite Jiang Cheng to go with him even though Jiang Cheng also was beaten. Lan Xichen, Matchmaker Auntie Extraordinaire. 

Then he answers Wei Wuxian’s question about his mom by saying she was just like Wei Wuxian and drove Lan Qiran up the wall. Jiang Cheng's reaction to that is really sweet. He does enjoy Wei Wuxian at the same time as being constantly irritated by him. 

Lan Xichen does his patented “breaking off in the middle of saying something and leaving out a chunk of the story” maneuver, although this time he doesn't include a flute solo. 

OP is mildly obsessed with Xuan Lu’s shoulders in this outfit. Also Yanli has an interesting sword, that's got some wood carving similar to Subian, but without the organic look, which OP only noticed because of screen capping Xuan Lu’s shoulders.  

Club Ruohan

Wen Qing continues to be pretty and slightly evil at this stage, sending magic fire notes to her boss using this talisman that is definitely floating in the air and not just hanging from a string. 

Wen Ruohan is in the mosh pit with his zombie groupies while he reads Wen Qing’s extremely vague status update and says "it all makes sense." 

Reach out and touch faith

Soundtrack

Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode

Writing Prompt

How did Wei Wuxian’s parents die?

Admin Notes

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Continued in the second part later this week!

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『 Their best sexual characteristic | Haikyuu!! Headcanons 』

Part 5/?

Characters: female!reader, Miya Atsumu, Miya Osamu, Sakusa Kiyoomi

Tags/warnings: Haikyuu!! (anime), 18+, explicit descriptions of sex, headcanons, imagines

Attention: All characters in this series are aged up to be at least 18+

⚠️ 18+ CONTENT! MINORS: PLEASE DO NOT INTERACT ⚠️

A/N: These headcanons really are getting longer each time 😫 But I had a surprising amount of fun writing these ones. Hope you can tell that by reading them! Previous parts are linked at the bottom of the post. Thanks for reading! Please enjoy! ♡

Miya Atsumu

» His dirty talk

First off: that voice. I think y'all know what I'm talking about literally orgasmic

It's so deep, and smooth, and relaxing in a way that just gets you going. There's just something about it that makes you rub your thighs together if ya get me

And when he presses his lips close to your ear, his voice feels like he's caressing you all over yes all over

You basically get high off his voice. Cloud nine ☁️😍

He absolutely loves to talk dirty to you, telling you exactly what he's going to do to you, how pretty you look with your mouth around his cock, or how you're taking him inside you so well hnng

He's got a knack for choosing exactly the right words, and it gets your pussy dripping and aching for him

He always says about how your pussy feels like it was made for his cock

It fits so snug. Loose enough that he can fuck you whenever, but tight enough that he has to work for it

Astumu really loves teasing you – taking his time and priming you with his dirty talk, experimenting with just how close to the edge he can get you when he's hardly even touching you confident little shit, I love him

And it's pretty close

He's exactly the kind of guy to take over an hour making you desperate and horny for him, enjoying the view of your sensitive body squirming beneath him, craving some kind of release

Seeing you like that for him, all just with his words and the occasional well placed hands, boosts his ego to no end as well as making him literally rock hard, aye papi

And the sounds you make when you're a hot, horny mess~

Lord, he wants to record them on his phone and play them back full volume when he jacks off

Honestly, he just wants to record you in general. Take a video of you mewling for him. Maybe snap a pic from above of you with your top pulled up over your tits, nipples hard, thighs pressing together, and with the most desperate look on your face so he has it...you know...for later...

But he'd never actually do any of that without your consent, just to be clear

He'll do this until all you want – all your can think about – is having his cock inside you

And he can be ever so slightly mean and make you beg for it, with that cocky, lidded gaze and a faint smirk again – the little shit. But I love him

"What is it that you want, babygirl? I need to hear you say it. Don't be shy. Use those big words of yours."

But he'd never be so mean as to deny giving it to you. He always planned on fucking you until you can't walk please, oml

Besides, while he's been getting you all riled up, he's been getting just as flustered and desperate. He can just hide it pretty well because he relishes the process

And it's not all just talk, either. Astumu really delivers prime dick 🙌 let me tell you

But the dirty talk doesn't stop there

He uses that voice of his and those delicious words to drive you closer to your climax, his words getting cruder as his hips get sloppier, praising you to no end

He's not shy about what he thinks. He's incredibly straightforward about it

You're making him fucking horny? He'll tell you. Your pussy is the best he's ever fucked? He'll tell you flat out while he's pounding into you. He thinks you look beautiful stuffed with his cock? He won't even hesitate

Communication is key, ya know?

Astumu is a great sexter, too. He has you rushing home on a regular basis to get dicked down omw, lol

And he can't resist whispering dirty nothings in your ear in public, watching you twitch as you get flustered and needy he thinks it's really fucking adorable

The hottest shit since fire was discovered

But underneath that confident, teasing exterior, he's actually super soft for you

You mean the world to him, and his dirty talk is just a declaration of it. His little way of saying 'I love you'

And he's just as whipped for you and your pussy as you are for him and his cock

Awwww. Guys, true love is real 🥺

Miya Osamu

» He loves mutual masturbation

Is it a kink? A fetish? Yeah, pretty much

There's just something really fucking hot to Osamu about getting each other off/getting off in front of each each other

Like, stroke his cock while he's fingering you, and he's cumming in 2 minutes tops

Does it fully replace regular sex?

Nah. Osamu is still down to jump your bones, like, 80-90% of the time lmfao

But he's a pretty practical guy, you know?

He knows that people don't always have the time or the energy, or sometimes even the enthusiasm, to go ~all the way~ every single time

Even for a quickie which he is a fan of, tbh

So he sees mutual masturbation as a great alternative

You both get what you want, you get to do it together, and it really, really turns him on win-win, tbh

Plus, this way, he generally gets a better look at you while you two are going at it he loves a good view

He's a ~connoisseur~ if you will

Osamu is also really into thigh riding and dry humping not just for practicality, either

It's not uncommon for you to crawl onto his lap or thigh when he's busy at home and you're feeling needy, and slowly start grinding on him to get his attention

He might try and ignore you at first, play a little game of will-he-won't-he before he stops doing to whatever it was he was doing before and gives in to you

He'll never turn you away if you're desperate enough to start riding him like that. He's like, 'Damn, she really wants me, huh? 🥵'

Even if he wasn't horny before, he sure as hell is once you start rubbing yourself against him like that

He doesn't even really understand his fascination with all this stuff himself. Like, is it the fact that you're still wearing clothes? The extra friction? The intimacy? The neediness of it? Who knows 🤷‍♀️

All Osamu knows is that it makes his dick stand up faster and straighter than a patriot hearing the national anthem, lmfao, sooo....

He tries to let you do your thing when you're grinding against him like that, but his hands normally find their way to your hips and start firmly working you down into his crotch or thigh, harder and faster

He just can't help himself. The more he gets turned on, the more is hands wander they're kind of cold and it sometimes makes you jump or shiver

If he was being entirely honest, he'd admit how much he loves the feeling of your wet pussy sliding against him, or the feeling of your juices seeping through his trouser leg, making a beautiful, glistening mess but he's rarely that honest, unlike his brother, lol

Definitely the kind of guy to casually lick his fingers after making you cum around them 👅 he may or may not kiss you directly after

His face can be a little hard to read sometimes, but he gets this particularly hungry look in his eyes whenever he's turned on that sends a tingle up your inner thighs *eyebrow wiggle*

The proximity when you're getting each other off is a big win for him – the heat, the panting, the intensity, the little or not so little sounds that escape your lips~

It's all so steamy. It really gets his blood pumping to his diCK

When he's turned on, he gets a little blush across his cheeks that spreads to the tops of his ears you love seeing it from your vantage point when you're straddling him

One thing is certain, though, and that's that he wouldn't do this kind of thing with just anyone

There's something about mutual masturbation, thigh riding, etc. that's very intimate and personal to him, and he'd only do it with someone that he really loves and, perhaps even more importantly, trusts

It's an honour, my gal 😌 He doesnt open up to just anybody 🥺

Sakusa Kiyoomi

» His cum kink

So, a 'cum kink' is pretty vague, as it can mean literally almost anything to do with cum make sure you do you research, my peeps

But Sakusa has a pretty specific cum kink, and that's that his goes inside you

Doesn't really matter if it's your mouth or your pussy I'm not going to say ass, because I feel like that's a big no-no for him

He just likes it going inside you. Swallow it, hold it in by laying on your back with your legs up – whatever. All good to him

But!

It's not a breeding kink thing. It's actually surprise, surprise because it's cleaner. Less mess

Now, Sakusa holds great pride in being able to make you cum, and duh he likes the feeling of himself cumming. He just doesn't want it getting everywhere

Cum is a nightmare to clean out of stuff!! And he wears a lot of black, so it's not a good mix!!

Legit, don't get cum stains on black clothes, guys. 100% not a good time 😭😭

The reason for it isn't the hottest or most romantic thing in the world, but like I said before:

He loves cumming inside you

Just, for the love of God, don't let it all flow back out again please. If not for his sanity, then for your own, because he will fucking go off 😭😂

Condoms are normally a must again, for hygiene reasons

Wrap that shit up, my dudes

But if you get to the stage of your relationship where you're wanting to try going raw and maybe have a baby then~

Damn, this man is going to absolutely destroy your pussy 😩

And if you happen to have a little breeding kink yourself, then you're in for a treat, my gal~

He'll definitely play it up just for you, and will not shut up about how he's going to fill you up until you're fucked out and your pussy is stuffed to the brim with his cum

When you're done, he'll literally take a firm hold your legs and keep them up in the air to stop his cum escaping *sweats in breeding kink*

Rest in pieces if you have a bad gag reflex, because Sakusa enjoys deep-throating, and literally cumming straight into your stomach lmao, and he's a big boy, so prepare yourself

Again, no clean-up = ideal

He can normally be a little rough, but he is the GOD of hate/angry/frustration sex. Like, taking out his stress and frustration in bed just makes it even better

He can be a little iffy about giving you oral or fingering you, though. 'Tis a bit messy for his tastes

He doesn't like to make you do all the work, though. It makes him feel lousy

So one time he offered to finger you while wearing a pair of those latex gloves that doctors wear lmfao, gold star for Kiyoomi. He tried 😭

And I'm not even remotely exaggerating when I say he will outright refuse to have sex with you if you have a cold

Exchange of bodily fluids when you're ill is a big NOPE did you honestly expect anything else? 😭

This isn't even about his kink anymore. Whoops 🙃

♡°☆°♡°☆°♡

Part 1: Oikawa, Daichi, Kuroo

Part 2: Ushijima, Suga, Bokuto

Part 3: Iwaizumi, Akaashi, Asahi

Part 4: Kageyama, Noya, Tendou

© imo-chan-imagines 2020

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Persona 5 Strikers/Scramble

So! I finished the story of Persona 5 Strikers and I wanted to share my thoughts as I have soooo much to say but cannot share with my friends due to spoilers :’) I am currently playing on a New Game+ as, ya girl wants the Platinum Trophy :o

I will talk about some of the things that I really liked here (Spoiler free don’t worry) AND include spoilery things under the cut so I won’t ruin the experience for anyone else!

The Plot

Obviously this takes place after the original Persona 5 story finishes and as opposed to a whole year, you just get 1 month with the Phantom Thieves. I really liked exploring all the cities you travel to and the character interactions were so cute!! I really like the two new characters introduced (Sophia and Zenkichi Hasegawa). Both of them fit the story so well and their interactions with the other Thieves are honestly so good and pure! Also?? Their outfits? Amazing T_T It was such a nice change seeing everyone in casual outfits as opposed to their school uniforms!

I also loved the fact that you could choose to play with characters that get introduced late game like Haru for example straight away. I for one, always have her in my party as soon as she’s available so having her for the whole game was like a dream come true haha. I’ll talk about Sophia and Zenkichi a bit more under the cut but I will say that it’s so fun to play as them! I personally prefer Sophia more as she has healing skills which are always really useful and she uses yo-yo’s for her weapons which are so fun to use. Zenkichi uses a great sword which is very Final Fantasy of him and I am loving it. I love their Phantom Thief outfits! Sophia looks super cute in her floofy coat and boots and Zenkichi just looks so cool! His hat is goals, I want one T_T

The anime cutscenes in the game are also... Omg... I just can’t help but fangirl over how everyone looks... ESPECIALLY SOPHIA OML, she’s so... Bby... And of course, the dialogue options you can choose are so funny, then again what else can you expect from a game that had the option to say “you jelly?” to Ryuji.

I won’t spoil the main plot but this game works similarly to Persona 5 in the sense of, you still go into dungeons but these ones are a lot shorter and when you leave the dungeon, the days don’t actually move forward, only specific story points advance the days. So essentially if you wished, you can stay and grind for as long as you like!

The Gameplay

I won’t lie, as expected from a hack-and-slash it gets quite chaotic at first if you don’t fully know what’s going on but you get used to it pretty quickly! The game gives you tutorials whenever anything new appears and you get the hang of it pretty well by the first dungeon. You still only have 4 characters in your party and Akira must always be present but here you can actually run around as the other party members when the battles are over! Also? Morgana gets comical sound effects when he does things like jumping and running and I was LIVING for it.

The other thing that changed is, obviously it’s not turn based so if you were like me and wore the SP restoring accessories to get 7SP back each turn, you’re in for a last surprise! In this game you actually use your items quite a lot as there isn’t a limit to how much you can use as you access them mid battle by pausing. Later on you get specific skills that restore your SP after each battle or by performing All Out Attacks and 1 More’s so honestly, SP isn’t really a problem for regular battles. I mainly found it running out quickly when I was fighting some of the optional bosses but I always had SP restoring items so it was all good hehe.

You still do things like All Out Attacks and 1 More’s in this game but you also do something called ‘Showtime’ which is very similar to the ones introduced in Royal only in Strikers it’s for one character, you basically build up the showtime gauge as you battle enemies and, once activated, you deal significant damage to stronger enemies like bosses as well as all of the enemies in the area. The All Out Attacks also have their own little animation with your party posing and just looking really good!

Yusuke being so extra is honestly such a mood omg... Also Mona T_T So smol.

Every party member has their own special quirks such as Ann and Makoto applying Fire and Nuclear affinity respectively to their regular weapons, Morgana turning into the Mona car and so on. I personally always had Haru and Yusuke in my party and kept switching between the other Thieves to see what I like best. Personally, I really like having Morgana or Sophia as they’re really good healers, Morgana obviously having the more powerful skills such as Mediaharan and Salvation.

Also... The menus... Omg... If you thought the Persona 5 menu was stylish then you will LOVE the Strikers menus. They’re so stylish! And I love that all the Phantom Thieves are there too, it’s so cute T_T

The only thing I don’t like is the game doesn’t pause when your controller dies so uh... I may or may not have died during a boss battle when I was like 2 hits away from winning and then just... Stopped moving letting the boss hit me with a killing combo :)

To be honest though the party that I had pretty much all the time was:

But as I said, I liked to change Morgana and Sophia around every now and then.

The Music

Omg the music. Atlus really just said: Hey what if we made Persona 5 music again but like... More epic?

The song that plays right as soon as you have control of Joker is SO. GOOD. I legit had to pause for like 5 mins just to jam out. I don’t think it will come as much of a surprise but in my opinion, Persona 5 definitely has one of the best video game soundtracks, I absolutely love all the songs!

I will discuss some of the dungeon themes in the spoilers but I absolutely love the soundtrack for this game. Every dungeon theme is so fitting for said dungeon, I genuinely listen to them all the time, especially when doing my research for my essays!

The battle music is really energetic as opposed to the jazzy feel from the original Persona 5 soundtrack but it’s very fitting for the actual battle as you often fly all around the area instead of standing in one spot. I will say, Last Surprise made an excellent comeback despite being an already amazing song which is just, amazing, incredible, fantastic...

Other things

Well, I can’t go into detail due to spoilers but they deadass put a JoJo reference as well as a character in the game :’) The moment I saw them I was fangirling so hard!!! Also? The villain designs in this game??? Amazing. Beautiful. Very creative!

The Phantom Thieves interacting with each other is also really cute! I ESPECIALLY liked the fact that Morgana and Ryuji got along a lot better! They still had small fights here and there but they pretty much apologised to one another straight away which I really liked! Also? Ryuji protecting his friends, especially the girls? Amazing. Wonderful. Cannot help but stan.

Well, that concludes the non-spoiler section which.... Is kinda long haha, Below the cut I will talk about the spoilery things so I advise looking at it AFTER you finish the game!

The Plot

The plot of this game is really fun if you ask me. You travel around Japan defeating Monarchs in Jails AND you get to experience the joys of summer vacation with your friends and your new Persona dad. I really like the fact that you don’t advance time when you leave the Jails because this gives you the chance to grind as much as you want before tackling harder fights like some of the optional bosses. The boss designs themselves were so good! Especially Alice?! My God? She’s beautiful?? Look at her!

Persona 5 Strikers said you can be horny on main... Just this once o_o. She literally steps on Joker in the Jail which o_o Ma’am... Plz but she ALSO steps on her manager in the real world.

I really liked all the bosses in this game because they felt so... Real? Obviously I don’t agree with them for brainwashing people into worshipping them, but I really like how the game gave them backstories that showed why they strayed away from the right path. The fact that the Thieves tell them that they understand their struggles because they themselves went through the same thing (Like Ann and Yusuke) honestly made me appreciate the story that much more. I really liked Haru’s little arc in Sapporo because not only did she help Mariko Hyodo and show her that despite mistakes you can always stand up and start again, but she also got to have more screentime, like that cute fountain scene she has with Akira! ALSO? The Hee-Horde?! I was laughing for a solid 5 minutes when I saw it! It was so cute how Haru, Sophia, Ryuji and Yusuke were so into it while Futaba was just there like: ????

I think my favourite Jail out of all of them will definitely have to be the Kyoto one, a.k.a. the Jail controlled by Zenkichi’s daughter, Akane. Despite how short it is, you can learn so much about her. The overall aesthetic of the jail shows her love to the Phantom Thieves and in the actual Jail theme you can hear fragments of ‘Life Will Change’ and ‘Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There’ which I think is absolutely amazing! The boss fight for this jail honestly took me 3 tries to beat as the first time, I died due to not fully getting how Shadow Joker worked, and the second time, I was about 2 hits from beating him but then... My controller died :’) By the time it turned back on I was already c-c-c-c-comboed to death so :’) This is also the jail where Zenkichi awakens to his Persona and honestly? I found the little segment where he has to sneak around in his usual everyday attire so cute, bless him, he really did adopt 7 teenagers, their cat and an AI daughter.

ALSO?! They deadass put Dio in this game? Like when I first saw Natsume’s shadow I was like: Hm looks kinda familiar...

BUT THEN?!

Needless to say I was fangirling pretty hard.

I liked Akira Konoe, very much vibing with his Power Ranger aesthetic however, I have to say, his boss fights was surprisingly... Easy? At least it felt easy to me which was kind of... Disappointing I suppose for him supposedly being “the final boss” HOWEVER, I very much liked how his calling card was delivered, and the fact that Zenkichi could finally get his revenge was very satisfying! 

Now, let’s talk about the end game, mainly the Abyss Jail.  I did NOT see it coming (haha) that it was Ichinose all along! As I’m currently replaying the game, the fact that she doesn’t want to look at Sophia despite specialising in AI technology should have been my first clue that something is not quite right here! 

When she forces Sophia to attack the Thieves, it honestly broke my heart. The fact that she recognised Joker and Skull... And she threw herself off the ledge just so she can’t hurt them anymore... Yo, I love her so much T_T That’s why her awakening to her Persona (her true Persona) was such a satisfying scene! Her Persona (Pandora) has a really cool design, I especially like the fact that she represents the Hope Arcana (as there was hope left at the bottom of Pandora’s box) and that Pandora herself kept the box-y design from her original “Persona” Pithos. I found it quite funny that all the skills Pithos has ended with a “?”. Anyway, the scene where she tells Ichinose all the things she learnt, and that Ichinose herself has a heart despite believing that she doesn’t for so long was so touching. It showed that Sophia deeply cares for her, despite the fact that she literally said she’s the reason so many people are getting mind controlled by EMMA. The ending scene with the two of them laughing and holding hands... My heart T_T

Now then, let’s talk about EMMA.

I. Loved. The. Final. Boss. Fight.

The fact that the game makes you use ALL the characters for the final fight! As I usually switched out characters here and there, my reserve party members weren’t severely under-levelled which made the fight pretty okay! I had quite... Strange groups I would say as I had Makoto and Zenkichi being a team, Morgana, Ann and Ryuji being a team, and Akira, Haru, Yusuke and Sophia being the final team. The final boss itself, has an absolutely beautiful design. I especially loved the angel like wings because it really showed that EMMA saw herself as a saviour. The cutscene that plays after with all the Thieves dealing the final blows before watching all the desires fall around them was honestly so pretty... Man, this game series is just so aesthetic!

When the credits rolled and all the photos started appearing I couldn’t help but start crying. It really felt like you were actually there, living through all the memories and the fact that Sophia called the photo of all of them together “Treasure”... T_T

The Gameplay

I already pretty much said all I wanted for the gameplay in the non-spoiler section but I will say, the Showtimes and the Master Skills each character learns are so good! I love that once you master all of them you’re bascially unstoppable, I especially love Haru’s and Akira’s as it allows them to deal damage even if they’re a safe distance away from the enemy. The fact that you can learn Bond skills that restore SP with every All Out Attack and One More is honestly so helpful because it saves you going back and forth between the real world but then again, by this point you probably have way too many HP and SP restoring items!

I really liked that Zenkichi has no weaknesses and uses Almighty damage but I find the whole Fury/HP consumption combination a bit weird. After a while you get used to it and obviously you don’t have to activate fury at all but as I said before, I prefer playing as Sophia. Although, I will say that gun wise, I think Zenkichi’s are a lot more fun to use than Sophia’s blasters, but then again that’s just my personal opinion!

The Music

As I said, the music was so fitting for each Jail, I absolutely love it.

The first Jail, you honestly can’t help but bop your head to the beat. It really gives you the impression that you’re in some kind of twisted theme park which really fit the overall aesthetic of the Jail. I loved the vibrant neon colour scheme in such a dark looking place.

The Okinawa Jail... My God that theme was so good. I can’t really explain it but the song really made you feel like you were... Alone, like the place was truly abandoned and forgotten. As soon as the violin started playing I couldn’t help but just stop and listen to it. The overall jail was just so... Creepy. The Shadows there resemebled the shadows you would usually find in the previous Persona games, just this black mass slithering around. I think it was very fitting that they put the Reaper in this Jail. 

As I mentioned before, the Kyoto Jail theme is my absolute favourite. The fact that it has elements of other Persona 5 songs due to Akane being a big Phantom Thieves fan was such a good choice! I love how when you take a closer look, you can see the Phantom Thieves logo on the lanterns and the fact that Shadow Akane herself made a Phantom Thief outfit for herself... Big mood. I loved how all the Thieves encouraged her to try and get along with her dad better AND that they taught Zenkichi how to cook just so he can make curry for her, especially when you remember just how much curry means to someone like Futaba. 

I really liked the remix of Rivers in a Desert, then again what did I expect from a Persona game? The battle music is ALWAYS amazing. I really liked how this played when you fight Konoe as it parallels when you fight Shido in the original, supposedly the final fight, only to find out that there is something MUCH bigger than them.

Other things

This post is already way too long and if you read all of this... Thank you so much. Sadly, I cannot share this with any of my friends as it’s spoilers so I hope you guys don’t mind me sharing this here! I would love to see your opinion of this game!!!

Also? Yusuke and Akira are now canonically dating and I think that’s beautiful

And then that scene later on

Why do you think we came here with Yusuke, Morgana?

TL;DR: I love this game

[hihellogoodbyebruh]

Just Me and You - Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Pairing: Rio Alvarez x Black!Plus size!Oc

Summary: Simone Dunn is a singer just trying to live her best life and make it through the obstacles that have been put in front of her. Living life in the city isn’t always easy. Life might be kicking her in the ass presently, but she kept a smile on her face regardless. Rio Alvarez is all about his business. He’s expanding up and out of just the money laundering business. He wanted it all. He was hooked from the second he heard her voice, but will her past and his enemies let them be together?

Warning(s): None really. It’s a meet-cute. They meet, it’s cute. 

Word count: 2,026

Author’s Note: I’m not gonna lie, this story means a lot to me. I was never sure if I’d start posting it or not. Simone has been an OC of mine for a long time now and when the idea to pair her with Rio popped into my mind I knew it could be something very special. I hope you all enjoy the journey. As always questions, comments, and concerns are welcome! Might even start a tag list but we’ll see. Thanks for reading. xo

Rio stared out of the window, looking out at his investment. It had the perfect eye line for all the exits and it had the best view of the stage. Since he began flipping his game and moving up in the world he became acquainted with folks that had different tastes than him. The opportunity to invest in this club kind of fell in his lap. His new co-owner was a sloppy prick, but Rio couldn’t deny the club was bringing in a nice grip of money for him. He liked the anonymity of being a silent partner. Every two weeks he’d roll through, check up on the club, and collect some cash to put into his other businesses.

As he looked down at all the club goers, he was pleased to see the place was pretty packed. He was not happy to see the owner, Shaun, with two women on his arm. This wasn’t a social hour. He was here for business. Mick, his right hand man, was guarding the door and hadn’t moved an inch to let Shaun in. 

“Hey man. Place is poppin tonight right?” Shaun greeted Rio as he tried to maneuver past Mick who only moved at Rio’s nod. “Enjoying your night? These are a couple lady friends of mine. Say ‘hi’ ladies.”

“Hi.” The two girls parroted at Rio, waving at him.

Rio didn’t bother greeting the women. “Get rid of the bitches man.”

“What?” Shaun asked, his tone confused.

“I ain’t gonna tell you twice.” Rio’s face hadn’t changed. He just stared Shaun down.

Shaun cleared his throat and whispered something to the ladies before they shuffled back out of the room. It was quiet except for the sound of the music pumping through the speakers.

“My bad man. They were sexy as hell though right? Can you really blame me?” Shaun tried to excuse, a smile on his face as he walked over to where Rio was standing.

As soon as he was within arms reach, Rio gripped the back of his neck tightly and pulled him close. He stared directly in his eyes. “Don’t ever bring nobody to one of our meetings again. I choose to keep you on, but that can easily be changed. Get my money and stop fucking playing with me.”

Shaun merely nodded and Rio let go of him. Shaun tried adjusting his suit and cleared his throat. He walked over to the wall that was furthest from the window and opened a panel in the door. He put the code into the panel and opened it up. There was a silver case inside that he pulled out before closing the door back. “Business has been better than ever. I was able to add a permanent residency here that has us packed every week. We may even be able to up prices a bit.”

Rio’s eyebrow quirked in interest at the man’s words. “Permanent residency?”

Shaun had set the case on the table and Mick opened it, starting to count the money that was inside. Rio walked closer to take a look inside and noticed that there seemed to be a couple more stacks than usual.

“Yeah. I’m still having different live performers come in, but people also like consistency. They like knowing they’re coming to hear quality music. And the pipes on this one? Massive. Doesn’t hurt that she’s gorgeous too.”

Rio would never admit it but he was definitely intrigued. “Who is she?”

Shaun walked back over to the window and smirked as he looked down. “Simone Dunn. Lucky for you, you came at the perfect time.”

Rio noticed the club music had shut off and people were clapping. As he walked to stand next to Shaun, a slow instrumental was playing. A soft spotlight appeared on the stage and the crowd’s clapping intensified. A giggle was heard over the mic.

“Aww, y’all are too good to me.” The woman’s voice was clear as day, but had an alluring quality. She had big black hair falling over her shoulders in waves. Her dress was pink and it gave a tantalizing view of her breasts as well as her full figure. Her skin was creamy brown and the outline of her ass was particularly appealing to Rio.

“We’re starting off grown and sexy tonight y'all. So if you’re vibing with someone, gon’ head and pull ‘em a little closer. I’m just tryna help y’all possibly end the night on a good note, if you know what I mean.” She winked at the crowd and people laughed as others hollered and whistled.

A familiar beat reached Rio’s ears, taking him back to house parties in his old neighborhood. He remembered talking slick to a fine girl as she danced on him, knowing she was gon let him fuck by the end of the night.

I'll always think of you Inside of my private thoughts I can imagine you Touching my private parts And just the thought of you I can't help but touch myself That's why I want you so bad Just one night of

The sultry sound of her voice traveled from Rio’s ears straight to his dick. He watched as her hips moved side to side as she gripped the mic stand. She was a temptress, an enchantress. Hell, she was a siren and her song was the one calling him home. Home being the absolute treasure he was sure is hiding between her thighs. 

Can't get my mind off you I think I might be obsessed The very thought of you Makes me want to get undressed I want to be with you In spite of what my heart says I guess I want you too bad All I want is

Her eyes were locking onto different people in the crowd. She was working her magic on everyone. People were partnered up and there was lots of grinding happening on the dance floor. As she looked around, her eyes happened to dart up and land on his. She looked taken aback, but curious. She never once stopped singing and now it seemed like she was singing the words directly to him.

“She’s a beauty, ain’t she?” Shaun asked, but Rio ignored him. His eyes were still locked with Simone’s as she sang. A smile pulled at her lips and her cheeks felt hot so she pulled her eyes away from him to look back toward the crowd. She missed the quick smile that appeared on Rio’s face before he turned his back to the window.

“Have you had any trouble here? Fights? Anyone tryna shake you down?” Rio asked Shaun, who looked perplexed by the sudden topic shift.

“No. I would have called you right away. Like I said, things have been great. Should I be worried or on the lookout?” Shaun asked, his tone taking on a nervous quality.

“Nah, man. Just looking out for my investment. Enjoy your night with your lady friends.” Rio dismissed the other man and Shaun took the exit without hesitation.

“You think they know you got dealings in this place?” Mick asked, once Shaun was gone.

“No, but you can never be too careful.” Rio replied, eyes drifting back toward the stage. She had begun singing a new song. Something a bit more fast paced. “I wanna keep this place as legit as possible. We need something clean in case we run into some trouble. But I aint scared of them. I’ll deal with ‘em when the time’s right.”

Mick merely nodded his head as he finished up the count.

“Everything square?” At Mick’s confirmation, Rio walked over to him. “Go ahead and take everything back to the warehouse. Imma stay and check things out for a bit. Have a drink. I’ll call you in the morning.”

Rio headed down to the bar and got himself a shot of brandy. He nursed his drink as he finished listening to the performance going on. He was in the middle of texting some associates to set up meetings for the next week when applause broke out all around him. He looked up to see Simone walking towards the bar, blowing kisses as she went.

“Ji, baby! Please get me one last malibu pineapple and I’ll love you forever.” She exclaimed, taking a seat one away from Rio. He was watching her interaction with the bartender.

“You better already love me.” The bartender, Ji-hoon, retorted even as he went about making her drink.

“You know I do boo.” She winked, a wide grin on her face. “In fact, I love you so much that I’m leaving you a big tip tonight.”

“Are you trying to buy me? Cause I’m absolutely up for sale.” He smiled, sliding her drink over to her as he leaned on the bar. He glanced over at Rio and nodded his head towards him. “Hey, you need to be topped off?”

“Yeah, man.” Rio answered and Simone finally noticed him sitting there. Ji poured Rio another drink before getting distracted on the other side of the bar by other paying customers. 

Simone made eye contact with him before looking down at her drink and swishing the glass around.

“You have a beautiful voice, mama.”

“Thank you. I appreciate that.” She looked up at him with a smile on her face.

“Interesting choice of song too. I know a couple people here gotta be happy about the assist you gave them.” 

She laughed and shook her head. “Anything for my fans.”

“Anything?” He asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Within reason.” She quickly added.

“So you’ll let me buy your drink, then.” 

It was her turn to raise an eyebrow and she turned around in her stool to face him, legs crossed and her silver heels shining. “So you’re a fan?”

“I am now.”

“I’ve had an open tab all night and I just promised Jian a big tip.”

“Okay.” He shrugged, and her eyes narrowed.

“And what do you want in return for so graciously picking up my tab?” 

A smirk appeared on Rio’s face and he slid one bar stool over to be closer to her. Their eyes never left one another. “I’d love to have a conversation with one of the sexiest women I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Her lights lit up in surprise and delight at his words. That soft smile of hers, returning to her face. “I guess I could swing that. So what’s your name?”

“It’s Rio, sweetheart. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“Rio….I like it. I see you’re familiar with Shaun. Y’all friends or something?”

“Or something.” He answered, taking a sip of his drink.

“Or something. That’s not mysterious at all.” She joked.

“I aint no mystery baby. What you see is what you get.”

She snorted. “That’s what they all say.”

“Who?”

“Boys.” She retorted, finishing her drink.

“I’m all man and I’d love to demonstrate just how much of a man I am.” 

She looked back over to him and there was a delicious smirk on his face. No one man should be able to look like that. It’s too much power. “Tempting, but I have plans.”

“At 2 in the morning?” He asked, raising an eyebrow at her.

“Is that judgment I hear in your tone Mr. ‘I-Can’t-Say-How-I-Know-Shaun?’”

Rio had to chuckle. “You got me there.”

She checked her phone and sighed at the time. “I gotta go, but it was nice meeting you Rio. Hope to see you again.” She then asked Ji-hoon to hand her the bag that was hidden behind the bar.

“You will.” He asserted, wondering why she didn’t use the employee lockers he remembered being installed. The thought was erased from his mind by her leaning into his personal space. His hand immediately went to her waist and his fingers grazed the top of her ass.

“I’m counting on it.” She whispered in his ear, before walking away and waving at a couple people as she went. He watched her the whole time and it wasn’t until she reached the exit that she turned her head to look back at him. He knew he had her.

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so ayon nga hehe

so ayon nga mga marecakes hehe narrate ko na lang nangyari today.

so i was like chilling today right im all set for school because i did my homeworks naman days before it was needed so i was like, "aight lets get this shit today". tapos karlo message me he wanted cuddles eh i was like hMMM... we just made out the other day eh and its like tuesday palang today !! i told him nalang na make it happen, not rlly thinking he would make it happen. but this mf took it as a challenge and actually made it happen.

before all that tho i was badtrip because ha made a very uncalled for rape joke and it fucked me up in the head, plus the fact na im being taken to someplace unfamiliar. i was very tensed the whole ride there. anw he didnt get the hint na it was THAT awful to me, but its aight we resolvedt it already. i'll keep a tab on this tho. for me that was a red flag.

anyways we made out in this tambayan place their family owns. basically it has a large parking lot and across that space was this little studio type housie house. the place had a large ass gate, wasnt really paying attention to what he was saying about the place because i was still tensed with the bad joke he made. anyways we went in and it was a very nice place. outside the house, it wasnt that obvious, but when you go in, it legit looked like one of those sala sets in malls with the note "thank you for not sitting" typa shit. so yeah it was nice it had same vibes with vista mall maybe because of the ceiling yellow scattered lights and of the fresh ass furniture and the whole place itself. it was a pretty decent size, not too big not too small for at least two people to share in the long run. it also had this aircon i always wanted the expensive ones u see in 5 stars. anyways it was quickly cold. there was also the bathroom that had a shower, then theres this chair where you pull a button and a foot rest will pop up lmfao. there were also two other sofa charis by the window. the window was the type then you push back up, not much windows tbh. but thats aight and reasonable since it has an aircon. i was tensed at first when the room was opened. it was obviously recently used idk maybe by his relative. WAS TENSED BRO same feeling when you enter an empty room newly unlocked by your teacher. THAT. that typa anxiety. anyways eventually joined him to sit by the small bed. was pretty much good for one big ass person to comfortably lie on, but fitted both of us nicely. didn't really bottom at that sesh so i don't really remember if the bed was uratex when weight is applied on me but it probably is AHSHDHASHDHSAHDSAHAH ok mej funny yun goiz liek- HAHA ok serious na nga hmpz. we cuddled first before doing nasty stuff. it was nice. i'd exchange all those laplapan just to wholesomely cuddle in peace and probably have a great nap together. i like the feeling the warm feeling. it was nice. yes. anyways,, yeah it was nice. cant stop talking about how nice it was because it was nice. heck... it was so nice. it was so heart heart. idc about my coochie getting rubbed, CUDDLE ME BITCH. anyways we started kissing and the rest is historyYYYYYY. jk. basically the make out routine starts with cuddling then kissing then he touches me until it reacher the forbidden softie softie, main bec he likes hearing my sexy ass moan. even before in tinder when i vm my boytoys for the first time the first thing they say my voice is smexy. cant blame them i agree. even when im alone and i randomly fake moan gat dam bro i get turned on too LMFAO. so yeah i moaned bec it was music to his ears and turned him on big time. was ngl kinda steamy when we breathe in each others mouth thats one of my favorite parts of it and also when i suck on his tongue. or also when i moan into his mouth. yep. also when he cusses it means im doing a great job. hehe. nice stuff ryt there. we pause sometimes to rest, then go aead again. i got many rounds that day. we did same stuff on the bed several times. then he pulled me so i'd be on top. im such a great top bro he aint know hoe to topppp. then was cuddling on top of him and then accidentally (wink wink) grinded on his rock solid stuff. he was turned on sabi nya shit anuyon sabi ka ah ayaw mo ok BUT THEN he was like gusto ko. tnagina pabebe yarn. anw i started kissing then grinding and he was cussing bec im so good at it. later my pants were off and later his shorts too. so we were underwear-away from grinding on directly. was nice got me tiredt. THEN HAHAH i saw this 5 peso coin by the bed and i was like eto yung token sa rides AHSDHASHDASHDHA WOF YAN TEH? tangina tawang tawa sya gago ang funny ko tlg san ka makakakuha ng kallapan na funny. tas nilagay ko sa gilid nya singko started grinding again. bet u he was grinding too. AND IT WAS SO HARD IT LOWKEY HURT TO GRIND ON. GEEZAS. so basically the whole bed was shaking. and i did my deed as a good girl to keep the music on (aka moaning) because there was no music. felt like

asmr. boring af. unlike when we make out sa car, theres always music. i like making out on the white chev instead of the fortuner BECAUSE THE FORTUNERS WINDOWS AIN TINTED what in the world was i thinking making out inside an untinted car INSIDE A PARK WHERE THERE ARE LOTSA PPL PASSING BY. anyways back to the bed, we paused, cuddled. then i was badtrip again for some reason so i got up to get dressed but we eventually made out again on the sofa hehe. legs spread again bec he liked touching there so i let him. then eventually was begging me to allow him to eat me out but i was like BROOOO NOOOO you gon taste it and it be not groomed yet in anyway but he was alr there begging looool he looked so adorbs but NOOO. i asked wala ka man benefit jan, sabi nya ikaw meron. tas sabi ko why do u wanna do it, he said he wasnted to satify me liek HNGGGGGG ok i would let you but it really not be groomed oakay NEXT TIME for sure. AND HECK the lights were on. it was daylight and the lights were on like hasdhahsdhashdas it feels liek im being eaten out at the home decor station at vista mall U GUYZ. anyways ayon. after non i think he tried carrying me for some reason. and i knew he found me heavy lols. but yeah i was a cute little moment he carried me around the room pretending its a mall and he's touring me and shit, "to your left, is the sala set, to your right is the flat screen tv..." things like that HAHAHA funny cute moment. anw later on we found ourselves sitting on the little bed again i was on top of him. he didnt want to lay down bec he alrady made the bed lol so we started grinding again sitting, me on top doing my best !! giving my all !! bec he also had a finger down there as i grinded on his stuff so it basically felt like a direct grind lols. anyways was nice. then later on we made out standing up. was kinda hard because he was 7 inches taller. OH AKALA NYO TITE SIZE YUNG 7 INCHES NOH. hinde. so ayon we were making out and he was shy to ask for a deep throat HAHSDHAHDHAS HECK NAW BITCH U TOLD ME A RAPE JOKE. so this is the part where i get revenge. he was standing there, and i was teasing him. was acting clueless, but he hinted he wanted his belt off so i took it off. was honestly confused with the belt. lol. anw i got to remove it and said, so ano next? playfully hhehhehehe. anyways ayon nga eventually me teased him everrr soooo slowly his dick went from solid-jelly-solid-jelly. LMFAO omfg will i cause him illness? omg. anwwww ayon. later on i removed his shorts as he asked. then i stepped aaway from him across the room because he was doing the shy type hands while hsis shorts was by his foot. and i LOL'd at him for a good few minutes just clapping my hands out of entertainment HAHSDHAHSDAS. then he asked me to put my hands inside, did it slowly and i told him to smile ka nga muna. AND HA THE MF WAS SHAKING. LOL. my fucking powerrrrrrr. anyways later on i was teasing out the underwear, then later i got my hands in again and then touchedt the dick *YAY* finally we got there!! anw it was only for a few secs and i told him its over HAHAHA. then i put his shorts back up again, but subtly teasing that i would suck. bec the shorts were by his ankles so i had to kneel. did i suck? no. did i make sure he thought i was? YES BITCH. and then he lay down fretting because i didnt suck his dick and then while was laying down i opened his shorts again to pretend that his dick was a computer mouse and told him "lets play solitaire, o kaya counterstrike or maybe purble place. gawa ng cake hehe" lmfao mfer be cry laughing because he dont know what to do bec he was teased. so ayon we ended that way and i thought he was bad trip bec of what i did. but he assured me na di naman like dapat lang duh. anyways ayon hehe.

uwi na kami after nakauwi ako 1. andon kami 10. hehe. hinatid nya man me pauwi. tho yung byahe pauwi di pa kami nakakalayo sa place he pulled over so i was confused bec there were no big vehicles incoming but to my surpris he started kissimg me again lol bro deins ka ba nasasawa. anw yon. was nice naman. making out with a guy from a rich fam is nice bec yall dont need to pay to rent in motels lol but still has pressure, bec if we end on a bad note, i swear most of the blgs here are engineered by his relatives. thats how prominent they are. the place we went to is owned by his uncle, who works at legazpi rn thats why the place was vacant. theyre making a mall i think idk. so thats why his uncle is making another like that na place dun. so he has somewhere to stay. like what in the wealth... its crazy how people have money. and for sure even if the place we stayed in was small, it costs millions fr. anyways ayun yung promised detailed chika ko. hehe ciao. mej pokpok nga me pero look at me suffering the consequences, may sipon na ako aside sa ubo because he had mild sipon. now my sipon is malala compared to his, and he alr is recoveredt tangina unfair. but yesterday he insisted to see me to drop off some meds and he hugeed me and cried. because i asked for a time out the night before. bec i was having a hard time. he allowed it but over thinkedt it so yeah he cried while hugging me tight in the car. and kept on saying sorry mainly bec of the sipon thing. but it was, i felt, directed to the other stuff he had disappointed me with. anyways before that sabi nya ok lang ba sayo mag punta munang emall may bibilhin lang, sabi ko naur im sick. it was bec he wanted to buy me gummy worms lol. cute. u shoulda bought them before going to me, mofo. jk. loveee u penggg.