#like at this point who cares abt characters being ooc or the telling but not showing of link having a temper

[waywardsalt]

yeah there's a lot of stuff in pulvis et umbra sumus that makes me want to tear my hair out esp in relation to linebeck being an amputee with prosthetics but i think the worst thing rn is the fact that it never once occurred to me to give him like. a wheelchair or something

[whenishipiluxurycruiseit]

After reading some twts about how the reveal should not affect the kaishin fandom bc of how old it is and how most old shippers had the suspicion of kaishin being related and proceeded to not care and accept and even ship them more leads me to the acceptance stage and the realization stage where this is all fiction and not true thus it will not affect anyone greatly and most of us should realize this too HAHAHA

I mean i had my suspicions too ya know but like i was expecting them to be distantly related not this closely related gahdang gosho JAGDHSHS also i was kinda closing my eyes when i saw how similar toichi and yuusaku looked like when i saw them so AHDGSHS lovelies lets just think that the reveal made the ship spicer that ever

Kaishin may be cousins and what? Its fiction, this ship is old, there are even more worse ships than this, will this hurt anyone? No (unless ur really in deep like delusional deep), will this change the world? No, will this affect your daily life? No, will this change your morals? For me no, cause i know they are not real, why on earth would they change my morals.

Honestly its not just kaishin, there are a lot of ships with this kind of relationship, and other shippers must realize the fact that they are not real and no one will get hurt. If you get disturbed by the fact that we ship cousins/twins/siblings then you may close your eyes and move one to the other post, im not like validating this bc in the real and current world this may seem disturbing but everyone must know the difference between real and fiction, do not do what fiction do but you may learn what fiction do, just put it at the back of your head as an additional knowledge and the possibility that some other people might mix up fiction and real life.

Anyways so much for the monologue JAGSHS

THE REVEAL FIRED ME UP INTO MAKING ANOTHER PROMPT YEEEEY

Like im not even focusing abt how kaishin is cousins anymore but at why toichi did that to his son, what is incest compared to betrayal (not rlly cause kaito still didnt know hes alive BUT STILL THATS HIS KID??? HIS CHILD IN THE EYES OF DANGER?? AND HE LET HIS CHILD DO THAT?? BOY?)?

Like i know he protects kaito at the side (it was on magic kaito 1412 i forgot what episode) but he protects kaito with kaito experiencing trauma bc how tf how dare u use my dead dads face you traitor like that like bro??

I dont even also think that chikage knew that her husband is alive, only yuusaku (like wow cute they mustve been such close siblings but thats not the point) knows that hes alive and yuusaku probs only also knows cause hes yuusaku and yuusaku knows everything in just once glance for some weird ass reason

ANYWAYS SO

My prompt is that (please know that some of the characters are ooc!!! Esp the parents cause they dont show much wth JAGDHSH also ill put in a oc for plot purposes WAHSGAHSGA)

Shinichi, still as conan, was in a pinch and was suddenly saved by a mysterious guy. Whom he thought was like akai san but he sensed someone different like.. KID? No.. dad??

Toichi who saw a kid who looked like his nephew when he was a child is being chased by men in black (who suspiciously looked like snake for some reason but snake doesnt wear shades in the dark cause thats a foolish move) decided to help him and lose the pursuers off his back

“Boya are you ok?” “…..(hmm? What is this feeling.. i feel like i’ve met him somewhere but..)” “boya?” “Ah! Un! Thank you uncle!”

Toichi suddenly thought of shinichi when he heard conans voice saying uncle, it sounds just like 10 yrs ago when he visited yuusakus house to teach yukiko the art of disguise

Toichi then took conan to his guardians when he found out that his parents was in america apparently (1) and he also found out that his guardians were the mouris (2) which was 2 points of suspicion which wasnt that bad but just weird cause why didnt his younger brother tell anything, not that that shit tells him anything at all. Adding to the fact that he has not seen his attention loving smart nephew in the news for a while now then pops out a child that looks like him makes the suspicion highly likely. (Their family kinda has a knack for attracting dangerous orgs, from what he seen to himself and his son, he just hopes his younger brother and nephew didnt get it (which was highly unlikely now too))

Consider his suspicions correct when his younger brother decides to okay dumb (he knows ok, theyre twins for a reason and hes a older brother for a reason) the problem now was which shady org was it and how much does his nephew and younger brother know….

2 weeks later he found out

Apparently he wasnt the only one suspicious of someone

His, (knew it), dear shrunken nephew was too! Bc of one comment from mouri kun (have we met somewhere before?) and his suspicions were proven right when he saw yuusakus phone lying around with his message on the notif screen

(Toichis so proud, thats my nephew, be nosy kid you will go far in life)(it made his nephew cute too 🥰)

and color him suprised when his nephew has a shady org at his back too (he was kinda hoping that his nephew only stumbled on the scene of the crime that was he was chased not being a victim himself sighs the family curse)

and toichi and his nephew (whom just found out they were related with the first kaitou kid, who was supposed to be dead) made an alliance! (it kinda feels good to not only have one person know about your secrets, it also makes him relieved that his nephew has a lot of trusted people at his back other than some bigass shady org)

it also makes toichi happy that his son could be himself (not just kaitou kid but really being kaito his son whom he left with his wife toprotecttonotpullintothismessbutthey-) with his cousin

his son was inlove with his cousin

oh shit

yuusaku why did we not let them meet again

how he found out? he got the front seat

with snake

but does that really matter

(is akai kun included when hes so far away from the build the confession was happening)

(akai kun just shoot snake pls)

then it all went to shit (from his perspective cause wdym kaito did not even notice snake was there so its ok uncle shinichi kun did u also not notice my mental breakdown too)

they apprehended snake, and found out he was just some lackey in the black org and wanted to be the same lvl as gin so hes chasing after some immortality granting stone (yea hes not gonna be on the same lvl as gin hes stupid says his dear cutified nephew)

he told his younger brother about the confession

his younger brother knew all along ever since he caught kaito sneaking in their house to leave a jewel that he stole and saw him caress shinichis face.. yuusaku told him with the face of did u really not see that coming, we never let them meet when they were old enough to remember.

like valid? but at least share the tea gahdang

yukiko also knows? brother? i thought bros before hoes? (he nearly got mauled to death by his mystery loving younger brother, bc how dare you call my wife a hoe? ur the hoe u *spits real talk that hurts*)

after yuusaku hurt him internally he has come to the fact that yea he was worse than his son.. (also who can blame him, shinichi kun has yukikos genes (not that his darling wife is any less beautiful than yukiko, his wifes beauty came from being reckless and he likes that in his woman sighs i miss my wife) and their reckless genes so, with his wifes beautiful and shiny loving gene with his reckless loving gene, shinichi, conan, his nephew was the perfect person for his son. not ignoring the fact that shinichi kun is also a very understanding person. his nephew grew a lot (internally cause well.. he shrunk physically))

and now shinichi is looking at him weirdly

no way

did he not hear his sons confession

"shin kun... what did you think about what my son said to you?" "hm? ah that chase?... isnt it just a chase? oh im sorry uncle if i hurt kaito, it was needed to make it look convincing haha, i dont plan on capturing him rn dw!" "... oh! its ok shin kun ^^"

it was not okay, how does his nephew not notice his sons confession to him? (his son was a child of two phantom thieves, making a heist even grander than it already is shows that his son is courting his nephew SO HOW TF- oh, oh yuusaku just told him that every heist shinichi went to was always that grand so he might not see the difference? oh. oh my gosh.)

how to break this to his son who thought his father was dead

yuusaku just smiled (useless asshole, just bc hes still close to his son even though his son is in another identity now and can still pretend to be his new sons identities father bc of the disguising art that toUICHI HIMSELF TAUGHT HIM)

shinichi kun said to wait till evrything was over, or wait till the black org is down cause he will help explain too cause he hid it too after knowing his undeadness (at least his nephew was helpful, might be yukikos gene)

"you know, ever since i met kaitou kid, i knew that i might need his help to bring this org down, but i never knew that it would be the first kaitou kid that will help me hehe"

his nephew is so cute (yep its yukikos genes, yuusaku could never be like that anymore, still regrets the day where he showed off to his younger brother his magician skills)

the org was brought down but the antidote for shinchis problem still hasnt been made but time is an essence they need to reveal the truth to his family now or it might get worse

family reunion time! :DDDDDDDDD

shinichi went to get his son and wife while he and his younger brother prepares his execution letter

(if u wanna know how shinichi went to get kaito and chikage pls comment! ill write it up on the other post)

"yukiko chan can u-" "nope"

"yuusaku istg id u dont help me we're twins for a reason if i die you die too" "fk u" (helps him)

then it all went to shit (pt 2) (shinichi kun can see it now too, toichi thinks even hakase next door can feel it)

his son did not walk out bc of shinichi kun ("kaito, listen to you father please, you know my situation, its kind of the same but in your fathers case, you are ran" "at least you were close to her!" "does it really matter when all she saw was conan not shinichi?" "but-!" "kaito, the woman i love is slipping before my eyes because i cant go to her like before now! everytime i go back to my body temporarily all i think about is how she will get hurt if the organization realizes i was one of the victims they failed to kill and will go after her and her family and friends! there are numerous people in the org who already knew about my real identity, they mightve been killed or decided to not tell about it but there is no saying they might decide to not do the opposite!"

[gothcsz]

Hi, big time fandom lurker here! For real I rarely pull up into people's inboxes, just out here on main aka in my office cube at work being secretly horny and occasionally telling my absolute favorites thank you so much for all you do. So I wanted to say the latest Unscripted Desire fucked me up so bad. I loved it. As you said, you really locked the fuck in bestie. Frankie in the Ghostface mask was the Halloween version of a Christmas miracle, so I guess just a Halloween miracle? Going to take me a second to recover from that. And really just everything about Javi. Him basically groveling but being still being Javi. I died when he said he's not popping a pill to get hard like out of principle or something and also not giving reader more out of principle, too. It is all so Javi coded! You write the BEST Javi and you're just an amazing writer in general, hope you know that, always so excited whenever you post anything.

Also, hopefully this is not annoying, but I would lowkey be remiss if I did not ask. Have you ever read Roommates by @punkshort? It is a pornstar!Joel series. I only point it out because I fully think you deserve a goddamn Pulitzer for best pornstar!Javi and she deserves one for best pornstar!Joel. No clue how that award works, but it should work that way. She mostly writes Joel so you two probably are not familiar with each other's game, BUT both UD and Roommates WIN pornstar trope in this fandom. Seriously. I would actually fight anyone who says otherwise. Nobody has done it better and I seriously doubt anyone can do it better than you two! I think pornstar!Frankie is still available for the taking though. ❤️

hey diva (gn) ! you're so real for the being horny at work bc like... same 😪 omg thank you so much what the hell !! this is so nice of you to say, i'm like doing backflips at my desk right now no joke !! i def understand the whole lurking thing, it can be kinda intimidating to interact but i finally pushed myself out of my own head and now here we are 🧍🏽‍♀️ DJHFJAKSDFHKASDF

please don't get me started on ghostface frankie bc i will slip into a tangent he's so hottttt it makes me want to peel my skin off. just picturing his voice saying the line... lord have mercy im bout to bust (rip leslie jordan) a HALLOWEEN MIRACLE INDEED! A TREAT IF YOU WILL!

dude i freaking love writing javi like his character is so interesting to me and honestly the type of character i gravitate to when it comes to writingggg and even then i still feel like i'm being a little too ooc sometimes so i have to brainwash myself with narcos clips lol arhghggh so happy to hear that you like my portrayal wtf you got me all flustered, gracias bebe i really appreciate it 😭 and that you're into my writing style too ughhhh on my knees for you rn 🖤

i really wish you guys could look into the dossiers i have in my brain abt this world (or any of my aus tbh) CAUSE LITERALLY OUT OF PRINCIPLE!! so much i could say but yes, we are on the same page.

not annoying and unfortunately i have not read that fic but now you've just given me something to binge this weekend so THANK YOUUU omg not the pppfu (pedro pascal pornstar fic universe) ikdr @punkshort i was unfamiliar with your game 🫦 and every other pornstar au out there we really out here in this subgenre killing it lol pleaseeee no fighting let's leave that to the fictional characters, we're lover girls (gn) out here.

but not seriously someone take one for the team and give us single father pornstar!frankie doing it to provide for his kid ofmgmfgmfmgf

(me to me when i ramble: we do not care)

[m1ckeyb3rry]

Hurricanes / Hummingbirds: XII

Series Synopsis: As the years go by, you find that it is incredibly difficult to survive wars and fight storms, especially when the only thing you have by way of a cursed technique is the blessing of a tiny bird.

Chapter Synopsis: You and Kashimo continue on your journey to find the woman from his past, but the trip is not exactly smooth sailing.

Series Masterlist

Pairing: Hajime Kashimo x Female Reader; slight Kento Nanami x Female Reader; slight Satoru Gojo × Female Reader

Chapter Word Count: 5.3k

Content Warnings: swearing, enemies/rivals to lovers, character death, canon-typical violence, angst, gore, original characters included

A/N: sometimes i worry abt kashimo being ooc then i remember he had like 0.2 seconds of screentime so he doesn't even have a character to be out of.

You gave Kashimo an incredulous look. He seemed very pleased with himself, as if he was entirely delighted by your shock in the wake of his story.

“So you’ve known of me for years?” you checked.

“Yes,” he said.

“And you only even became strong in the first place because you wanted to fight me?” you said. This was the most difficult to believe, that the man so taken with his own strength and power was only even like that because of you.

“Correct,” he said.

“That’s why you’re so singularly obsessed with it,” you said. “Fighting me is your final goal, as mine is defeating Ten.”

“In a sense,” he said. “Certainly, I was not born to fight you, the way you say you were born to fight Ten. But I want to, so I will.”

“But only if I let you,” you said, and then you let out a soft laugh. “Hajime Jigoku. That’s how you were known? Such a dramatic past you had, Kashimo.”

“I may have exaggerated some things,” he said. “Or maybe not.”

“I noticed you omitted the girl’s name,” you said. He puffed out his cheeks.

“You realized I was lying?” he said.

“Of course I did. I’m not a fool, just as you are not the kind of person to not learn someone’s name, even if you claim that you are. Besides, if you didn’t know her name, this entire journey would be somewhat pointless,” you said.

“That’s true enough,” he said.

“But I am confused about one thing. Why did you and Daisuke never try to find her?” you said. “Why am I the one who has to do it?”

“I don’t think she wants to be found by us,” he said. “Or at least that’s what I believe, and I’m sure Daisuke agrees. If she ran away without even saying anything, then she must have a reason for it, right?”

“There must be one,” you agreed. “But it doesn’t mean that you and Daisuke are it. It’s possible, I won’t say it’s not, but it’s not necessarily the case, either. Maybe she wants to be found by you two, but she just doesn’t know how to be a person that can be found in the first place.”

“She must have heard of me,” he said. “I can understand giving up on finding Daisuke, but…why did she never try to find me?”

“She knew you as Jigoku, the boy from hell, not as Kashimo, the god of lightning. What if she doesn’t even realize that both are aliases for the same Hajime that she spent some time with in her youth?” you said.

“Why are you defending her like this?” he said. “You don’t even know her.”

“Try to disguise it though you may, I can tell that you were fond of her and Daisuke when you were younger. Perhaps they are the closest to friends you have ever known. I don’t wish for you to lose that because of a misunderstanding. When we find her, what will you say?” you said.

“Nothing,” he said. “I will say nothing. She means nothing to me. You claim that she and I must have been friends at one point, but that’s not true. She was a girl I knew, as Daisuke was a boy I shared my room with. Nothing more.”

“Nothing more, indeed,” you said. “So it’s like that, then.”

Kashimo was the kind of person that didn’t understand companionship nor affection. Perhaps it was a symptom of his upbringing, that he did not understand how to explain that he did care about the girl and Daisuke, but you could tell even with your limited knowledge of his personage that he did. You found in yourself a sort of pity for him, and then you wondered what it would be like if the roles were reversed.

What would it be like, if Kamin Gojo had taken Kashimo in that day and rejected you as a marriage partner for Hisashi? What kind of a world would it be, the one where Hisashi and Kashimo grew up as brothers and you were the girl locked away in a dark room knowing nothing resembling love? Would you still care about defeating Ten, or would you curse the hummingbird, which had never done anything for you in return for its demands?

You could understand Kashimo’s bitter, jaded manner now. How could he understand duty and debt when he was the one that was owed, not the one that did the owing? Hurricanes were not as benevolent as hummingbirds, after all. They did not embrace their wielders with their jewel-bright wings; they battered them with furious winds, tore them down until there was nothing left but the power that remained, until they could be considered nothing but gods. Gods, that was what they became, gods of storms and lightning and rain, but gods that never knew the warmer aspects of life, gods that were as cursed as their gentler counterparts were blessed.

“Don’t pity me,” he muttered when you did not speak for some time. “That’s not why I told you all of that.”

You went to respond before an offhand comment he had made finally clicked for you, causing a frown to tug at the corners of your lips.

“Kashimo,” you said carefully. “You said that even Daisuke could not know about what happened to you as a child, before Kamin Gojo found you.”

“Yes,” he said.

“Am I the only one that knows, then?” you said. You could see his throat bob as he swallowed, thinking about his answer before he made it, forming it in his mind with the most delicate thought you had ever seen him give anything.

“You are the only one,” he said.

“Why is that?” you said, oddly flustered, though you had no reason to feel such a way. “Why am I the only one that gets to know?”

“You already think so lowly of me. I am the beast of a man who wants to kill you and everyone you hold dear; any opinion you might hold of me is soiled already, so what does it matter if you know everything? I cannot ruin what you think of me anymore than it already has been ruined,” he said.

“That’s true,” you said. “Though I do think you are an honorable beast. The kind of beast I do not mind trusting.”

“Is that the case?” he said, and this time it was his turn to have an amused, knowing tone to his voice.

“At least, you would face me in a fight before putting a knife in my back. There is some honor in that,” you said.

“I’ve never been considered honorable before,” he mused. “I do not mind it.”

“I’m sure I’m the only person who thinks of you as such,” you said.

“And your opinion, as per usual, is the only important one,” he said. You went to respond with something snarky, but you were distracted by the wheel necklace you had received after challenging Ten. You had largely forgotten about it, though you wore it constantly. It was generally a benign piece of jewelry, but suddenly, it had begun to burn into your skin, causing you to hiss in pain, lifting it away from your collarbone and staring at it balefully.

“What?” you snapped. “If this is you, Ten, then I hope you know I have no desire for games. Tell me what you want from me and let us be done with it!”

The first wedge of the wheel glowed a malevolent blue, and then from it a mass of cursed energy lifted, coalescing into the shape of something vaguely round, blocking the path you and Kashimo were on. Exchanging looks with him, you swung off your horse and handed him the reins, stepping cautiously on foot towards whatever was forming in front of your eyes, your hand on the hilt of your sword.

It was an enormous rat — well, enormous when compared to its brethren, though it likely only came up to your knees. On its forehead was the same wheel symbol as your pendant, and its eyes were the exact shade of the now-opaque first wedge, as if the light from the pendant had transferred to the rat’s glossed-over gaze.

“Are you Ten?” you said, wondering how it could be that such an unassuming creature could be the great lord of the sky himself. Shouldn’t the hummingbird have been able to defeat him without the need for a vessel, if that was the case? The rat cocked its head at you, sitting back on its haunches.

“I am Ten, but I am also not Ten,” it said, its voice echoing strangely, like multiple beings were speaking in unison. “Ten is everything, and he is everywhere, yet he is nothing and nowhere, all at once. My siblings and I are facets of Ten; that is to say, neither of us can be considered him in total, but it is only through defeating us that you may gain the right to face him.”

“Hm,” you said.

“I am Nezumi, the beginning and also the end. I am the first you will face, though in truth my purpose is to inform you more than it is to test you…there will be plenty of time for that later…” it said, breaking off and chittering nervously. “Oh, how I wish the others were here…why must it be me, I have no great desire to die — but I must serve my lord!”

“What do you wish to inform me of, Nezumi?” you said, giving the rat a wary look, drawing your sword so that you were ready for whatever it did. If it was truly a facet of Ten, as it claimed to be, then it could not be trusted in the slightest.

“My lord…oh, my lord Ten, he is a mighty being, one so mighty that the world would collapse if he were to appear in it. Ten has no love for humanity, but the world collapsing — you understand it would kill him, too, right, challenger? I don’t mean that society would crumble in his presence, I mean that the sky would be awed by his vastness and would bow in such deference that it would crush the earth,” Nezumi said, its tail swishing back and forth, dust pluming up from where it beat the appendage against the ground.

“If you mean to deter me from facing him, you are doing a poor job of it,” you said.

“Ten remains in his Domain for that reason, and only those who have proven themselves are allowed access,” Nezumi said, biting down on its tail, cursed energy dripping out from the punctures it made as it gnawed on its own body. “Ah, ah! Challenger, if you can kill me and my siblings, you will be granted the key to Ten’s Domain, and you can die at his hands as the others do. It is a good death; oh, how I envy you, what I wouldn’t give to die at his hands! But he could never kill me, he claims I am too important to him, that I am his dearest Nezumi…”

“Is that all?” you said, vaguely disturbed by the rat-like curse. Nezumi squealed indignantly at your interruption.

“I have told you such wonderful things, and you dare act as if they are inconsequential! Do not presume to think you can defeat my siblings, even if you can face me!” it said. “I am weak, and I always die, always, always, it is such a tragedy…but anyways, I come back. As long as my siblings or my great lord vanquish you, I will come back! Relish it, challenger, relish the superiority you feel, because when you die and the wheel reforms anew, I will return, but you will not. I have lived through this conversation and my subsequent defeat a thousand times, and a thousand times I have been born again!”

“I can promise you one thing, Nezumi,” you said, not even feeling the need to activate your cursed technique against the pathetic creature. “There will not be a thousand-and-first rebirth for you. This time, when you die, you will stay dead.”

You brought your sword down upon its neck, digging the blade through the malleable flesh until it came clean out the other side, leaving Nezumi to explode into a burst of dust and stars. You glanced around and then down at the wheel on your neck, which was serene now that Nezumi had been defeated — with the singular change that the wedge from which the rat had erupted was now a pleasant, sky-colored glass. You supposed that that was the marker of its defeat, and you wondered when the rest of the rat’s siblings would appear to fight you.

“What was that all about?” Kashimo said as you rejoined him, sheathing your sword and taking your horse’s reins back from him, remounting and motioning for him to continue onwards.

“The first challenge of Ten’s. The rat and its siblings are something like shikigami for him — no, I don’t know if that’s quite how to describe it, but I suppose it’s close enough, so it’ll do for the sake of the explanation — and I have to kill them all before I can reach him,” you said.

“You have to kill a bunch of rats in order to face the lord of the sky?” Kashimo said. “That doesn’t sound terribly difficult.”

“No,” you said. “I don’t know why, but I don’t think that the rest of Nezumi’s siblings are the same as it. For one, it seemed particularly confident that I couldn’t face the rest of them, and I had no trouble dispatching it. It stands to reason that there would be some gradual progression to it all. Besides, if it were so easy to reach Ten, then certainly other people would do it.”

“Other people don’t exactly believe in him,” Kashimo reminded you. “But I guess the rest of it makes sense enough. What is your next step, then?”

“There is no change in my plans. I don’t know when the rest of them will appear to challenge me, but in the meantime, I still need a sword from Daisuke, so we have to continue onwards until we find that woman.” You paused, smiled sweetly, batted your eyelashes at Kashimo, who for his part was entirely unimpressed by the expression which had convinced Hisashi to do many things for you in the past. “Now that you know the urgency of my situation, might you tell me her name?”

“No,” Kashimo said bluntly. “I won’t have you shortchanging Daisuke.”

“That’s not the reason you won’t tell me,” you said. “There’s something else to it. Something else that’s keeping you silent.”

He pursed his lips and then nudged his horse into a gallop down the path, which had flattened out into a long stretch of nothingness. Your eyes widened as he took off, and then narrowed at his childish avoidance of the question. Kicking your mare in the sides, you clucked with your tongue so that she, too, began to gallop, racing after Kashimo in hot pursuit.

“You — are — a — child!” you shouted at him as you caught up, though the whipping rush of your speed made it hard to gather your thoughts enough to talk, let alone comprehend his answer.

“Do — you — wish — to — find — the — woman?” he shouted back. “Stop — being — nosy!”

You hardly believed it could be considered nosiness when it was directly impacting your own life, but Kashimo was one of those funny people that believed in his own version of events and said things accordingly.

Only when the road threatened to grow windy again did you both slow your horses to a canter, then a trot, and finally a walk. Both of them were heaving from the effort, and foamy sweat colored your poor white mare’s neck a steely grey. You patted her, half as praise and half as apology, but this earned you nothing more than a snort, so you silently promised to sneak her an extra treat with her dinner in the hopes of making it up to her then.

“Is she beautiful?” you said. You doubted you would get a straight answer from Kashimo, who did not have much appreciation for worldly aesthetics unless they could somehow improve one’s power, but you were bored and felt like teasing him in wake of his irritating flight to avoid answering your other question, the one you had actually cared to have answered.

He glanced at you. “Who?”

“The girl. The one we are looking for,” you said. “Who else?”

“Oh. I don’t know. Her mother was a prostitute.”

“So?”

“So, yes, I guess she could be considered beautiful.”

There was a faint red coloring on his cheeks, and you laughed, which only caused it to intensify. Steering your horse towards him until your legs were almost brushing, you poked him in the shoulder.

“You are naive,” you said. “Thinking about things like prostitutes and their allure makes you uncomfortable. Doesn’t it? Is that why you cut me off earlier, when I was telling you about me and Hisashi?”

“No,” he said, a bit too loudly for it to be true.

“No? Then let me ask you something which I confess I am a little curious about,” you said, finding perverse enjoyment in messing with his newly-discovered weakness. “How many women have you had?”

“How many women have I — what?” he sputtered.

“Since we’re in the business of getting to know one another and all, and of course you know my circumstances, isn’t it only fair for you to tell me what yours are? Oh, don’t be a spoilsport, Kashimo, tell me!” you said.

He said something, though the only reason you even knew that he had was because you could see that his lips had moved. Unfortunately, you hardly knew what had come from them due to how inaudibly he had spoken.

“You’ll have to repeat that,” you confessed.

“None,” he said defensively, like it was an accusation he was hurling at you. “There have been none.”

“None!” you said. “You mean to say that there have been no ladies utterly charmed by your prowess in battle? None that have been enamored by the god of lightning’s handsome face and lofty title?”

“Even if there were any, it wouldn’t matter. I hardly have the time nor the interest in such affairs,” he said.

“Hardly have the time or interest…I apologize! I shouldn’t have assumed,” you said. He furrowed his brow.

“Assumed — ah, no! It’s not like that, either,” he said. You snickered. If you had known how easy it was to rile him up, you would’ve started doing so ages ago. “I’ve spent my years thinking about fighting. It’s all I care about. Fighting other people. Growing stronger. There is no space in my mind nor my heart for anyone.”

“What an admirable man you are,” you said. “So dedicated to your goals! Though I would say I am equally as dedicated and have made time for the pleasures of life, so it is not an impossibility.”

“Is it like that between you and the white-haired one?” Kashimo said.

“I know that you know his name, by the way,” you said. “But no, I was only joking. Not that it matters, since I’ll marry him regardless, but Hisashi and I are actually only friends. He does not presume to control me, so long as I —”

He cut me off with a derisive chuckle. “Presume to control you? The thought of him controlling you is presumptuous, indeed. So long as you do what? He is attaching conditions where there should be none. You are the stronger one, so he should be obliging to your demands, not the other way around.”

“That’s not how it works,” you said, though privately you believed it ought to. Kashimo’s black-and-white view of a world ruled only by strength was the other extreme, one that you also could not fully agree with, but there were some merits to some of his beliefs. After all, the society you lived in currently could also not be considered fair, not when it expected your subservience to a man who could never even be your equal.

“What a shame,” he said. “Anywhere that strength is not the deciding factor is a place I do not wish to live in.”

“Then you must have plans of dying very soon,” you said dryly. You had been expecting something snide in return, but he was quiet. You gave him a worried look, but it was not that he had taken what you had said to heart — rather, he was entirely distracted with reading the sign of the village you had come to.

“We should go around this place,” he declared.

“What? No,” you said. “I’m sure there’s an inn or something where we can sleep for the night, and the horses need to rest. If we keep going, who knows how far we’ll have to continue until we find lodging?”

“Very far,” he said. “But it’s alright. We’ll do it.”

“No, we very well won’t!” you said. “I told you already, the horses won’t make it much longer without food and water. Why are you against this?”

“This place,” he began before shaking his head. “No, it’s alright. Let’s go.”

You did not question him for fear that he would change his mind. It was in silence that the two of you walked forwards into the village, wandering the streets until you reached a small inn. Although you likely could’ve afforded the main inn with Hisashi’s money, you had this sense that Kashimo wanted nothing to do with the generosity of the Gojo family. Anyways, you had no desire for opulence, as long as you were fed and your horse cared for and you had somewhere to sleep for the night.

Two boys bowed at you before taking your horses, and a girl motioned for you and Kashimo to follow after her.

“It’s so exciting that you’ve come here!” she chattered as you walked alongside her, Kashimo trailing behind. “We normally don’t get such beautiful people visiting. Don’t tell my mother I said that! Of course, our usual guests are wonderful, but lady, you are such a pretty woman, I hope I look like you when I grow up! And you, sir — well, it is sensible that you are married to her, is all I’m saying.”

“Married?” you interjected. “No, he is only my traveling companion. We are not married and have no plans of ever being so, either.”

“That’s a right shame,” the girl said. Kashimo seemed to have been rendered mute — whether by the girl’s extroverted demeanor or something else entirely, you could not quite tell. You wished Daisuke were here; surely he’d be able to understand what was bothering his friend. Or former roommate. Or whatever he and Kashimo were to each other.

“Not really,” you said. “He’s a very disagreeable man. Actually, he wants to kill me.”

The girl stared at you in shock, trying to discern whether you were joking. You kept your face carefully blank so that she could not tell, and finally she gave up, giggling nervously at what had not really been a joke.

“This is your room,” she said. “Apologies, we thought the two of you were wed when we accepted you to stay, so you’ll have to share this one…”

“It’s fine,” you said. “He’ll sleep on the floor, I expect.”

She glanced at Kashimo, who was stiffly walking into the room, and then back at you. Pitching her voice lower, she beckoned you to come closer. You leaned in, your ear against her lips so that you could better hear her.

“Er, if he tries to hurt you, miss, please call for aid. I may not look like much, but my older brothers will make sure he ends up in a bad way for even looking at you strangely,” she said, playing with the hems of her sleeves.

“Don’t worry, I was only jesting earlier,” you assured her, though of course you had been telling the entire truth. It was such a complicated situation, though, that even if he did want to kill you, he was probably the safest person in the world for you to be around at present, and you hardly felt like explaining that to her.

“I see,” she said, obviously unconvinced but also not wanting to seem invasive. She smiled politely and bowed her head. “The innkeeper will bring your evening meal soon.”

“Thank you,” you said before joining Kashimo in the room, which seemed so small compared to his towering bulk. It was not made to contain him, this kind of place. It was like putting an eagle in a canary’s cage and imagining it’d fit.

“I will sleep on the ground,” he said before you could say anything. “Even if it is your fault that we are in this situation, so by all rights you deserve the comfort the least.”

“As the future lady of the Gojo household, I am above sleeping on the floor, so you were right to offer,” you said haughtily. He scoffed, rolling his eyes, though his normally confident actions had a nervous cast to them that had never been there before.

“You would be the one to say that,” he said.

“Why are you so upset?” you said directly instead of acknowledging his biting sarcasm. “It is not like you, this caution.”

“I am not upset,” he said, answering just as quickly as you had asked. “Nor cautious.”

“You are, but I can’t understand why. You didn’t want to come to this village at all, and you’re so nervous now. Why? What could make someone like you nervous?” you said.

“I keep thinking I’ll see her,” he said. “She’s everywhere. Even after I left, she’s still everywhere.”

“Who?” you said before belatedly realizing. “Daisuke’s girl? Kashimo, did you lo—?”

“Not her,” he said. “The mistress. The woman who gave me the name Jigoku. There she is, around the corner. And here again, coming through the door. I could kill her now, but…but no, I couldn’t.”

“Why not?” you said, sitting down with crossed legs and nodding your head for him to do the same. He fell with a great thud, crossing his legs as well and looking at you beseechingly, begging for you to understand something that you could not quite yet.

“She did not want us,” he said. “She did not want to care for us, but it was the only way she could get money from her former lover. So as long as that money kept coming in, she would do what it took.”

You bit your lip. “You don’t mean to say —”

“She could never punish me, at least, not in any way that mattered. Sorcerers have more resilient bodies than normal people,” he said, like he was particularly proud of this fact. “It was the same with Daisuke and the girl. So she learned other ways to hurt us. She tried depriving us of food first, but that meant nothing when Daisuke could sneak out and get more. To her eternal consternation, we were as rebellious as ever, no matter what she did to us.

“She wasn’t stupid. If Daisuke, the girl, and I were allowed full reign of the orphanage at our young age, there’d surely be chaos, and what then? Then she’d be out her one source of income. She decided that there was only one thing that could be done: if harming us was out of the question, if there was nothing she could do to us that would quell our resistance, then she’d harm everyone else until we cooperated.”

“No,” you said. His eyes were trained on his hands now, refusing to meet yours.

“Yes. It was the worst for T—the girl,” he said, tripping over his words, almost saying her name but catching himself just in time. “She was particularly fond of the little ones. Sure, Daisuke helped them with their reading, but she was like a genuine mother to some of them. She cared about them, and so it broke her heart to see their small faces bruised and their plump cheeks hollow for the mistakes that she was making. So she stopped making them entirely.

“It hurt Daisuke too. I know it did because sometimes I’d hear him cry and have to pretend to be asleep — he was good about it, tried to muffle his sobs to avoid waking me up. He didn’t stop, necessarily, but he became sneakier in his misdemeanors, only doing them under the guise of his cursed technique, where he could be sure to not be caught by the mistress.”

“What about you?” you said, wanting for there to be some way you could reach out to him. But there was none. You were so close to him, but there was no way you could surmount that invisible wall between you two, that wall that was formed by the supposed enmity you held for each other.

“I stopped caring about them. When the mistress paraded them in front of me, I felt nothing. Eventually, she realized I could not be controlled in such a way and had to work out some other manner of keeping a tight leash on me, but it was futile. I am not the kind of person that anyone can leash. It was only because of Daisuke’s pleas that I agreed to settle down, but that was a favor, not a command,” he said.

“I’m sorry,” you said.

“You are not the one at fault, so you have nothing to apologize for,” he said. “You did nothing wrong.”

“I did nothing wrong, but I am still sorry that that happened to you. Though, I want to ask…if it’s as you said and her methods of control did not work on you, then why are you nervous now? Why can you not kill her even at present? She cannot harm you,” you said.

He reached out first. That was how the wall was shattered — he reached out, and he embraced you, holding on to you tightly, as if he could safeguard you from the entire world by doing so.

You inhaled sharply at the contact, knowing you should push him away. What would Hisashi think? What would Kamin Gojo think, seeing you like this with the boy he had found and promptly discarded? But you could not. Actually, you could not explain it at all, but you found yourself wrapping your own arms around him, bunching the fabric of his white clothes in your fists so that no one could ever drag you away from him, not ever, not Hisashi nor Kamin nor Ten nor anyone.

“There is someone now,” he said. “That is how she can control me anew. There is someone now who I do not want her to hurt.”

“She cannot hurt me,” you said. “No one can. I am as strong as you, maybe even stronger, and if that woman tries to hurt me — tries to hurt you — then I will cut her down. I promise you that no matter what she did in the past, she is someone you can face now. She is someone you are above. Those people that she hurt are free from her clutches. I am free from her clutches. You are free from her clutches.”

“Who said it was you?” he said. “I want to see you dead. Why should I care if you are hurt?”

“Don’t you?” you said, because in the years that you had known Kashimo, you had come to realize some things about him, had come to realize that he could not bear to see you hurt if he was not the one doing the hurting.

He did not say anything, only clung to you impossibly tighter. This was not the strange part; it was, after all, only a confirmation of what you already knew. The strange part was this: that you found yourself wanting for him to never let go.

[gaygayaurel]

As game Lambert #1 fan 5ever the Nerflix Lambert sucks but not bcs of what people think? (I didnt read book of elves I love and respect myself sometimes )

As in game Lambert is kinda fun in that he got actually defined compared to Novels and Hexer where he did not exist ad character proper. He is deeply mean and sarcasric person, being willing to chew out his closest friends and enemies alike. He isnt as morally concerned abt stuff as geralt and when someone asks him to kill a monster he'd do it. Fuck he'd even go as far as use Axii to make two bandits die in horrific way. This is after all his lot in his shitty miserable life. He hates witchery and witchers and the very concept of this much suffering ("But you kept the table" he says furious to Vesemir as they stand above screaming Uma). His attitude is just such a complete 360° from Geralt' silent acceptance of what was done to them. It truly becomes the only voice of like hey fuck what happened to us, fuck it all to hell. Hes an utter fucking dickhead and hell provoke people for no reason (talkinf abt geralt and triss in front of phillipa for no reason) (i deadass dont think he would fuck up yens stuff on purpose tho #;#&#&)

His main core personal element is revenge. In his short appearence in w1 he proclaims desire to slaughter salamandra for killing Leo. In W3 he goes on massive revenge rampage spanning CONTINENTS for a guy we dont know (and thats pretty cool to me, implying he has adventures outside geralt, both him and eskel). He says his first action after he left Kaer Morhen was to find and kill his dad ( and him being sad he couldnt save his mother his life is all just empty revenges that will never fill the holes of people hell miss).

But also main Core element of Lambert is also love as cheesy as it sounds. He cared deeply for Leo and Aiden and even his own mom. After Triss. Got conked out by a mage guy in witcher 1 he cared for her and watched over her (they were hardcore inplying shipping which is funnt but whatever). He literally puts his life on line dor Ciri and Geralt. The thing is he is dickhead but he will do Everythinf for those few peoples he has left in his life.

The Point is games being games and larger allowed Lambert to have depth and nuance. He is imo one of the most interesting and coolest game characters. Netflix Lambert however did not have the time for variety of reasons to get that.

One is Lambert is very minor person in books. Second is that the show didnt...realy care abt witchers past vesemir maybe. So he wasnt a focus. In the end what we get is disappoitninf character not helped by the fact most witchers in netflix are cannon fodders for baba yaga.

ONE issue that I have is people saying Lambert was a dick to Ciri and thats OOC. While I cant speak from the POV of books (altho my friend who did read them say he is sexist), from POV of game thats untrue. In fact I believe game Lambert would VERY much be a fucking dick to Ciri fron a start. It doesnt even need to have sexist colouring to it. This dude HATES witchering. He hates the mutagenesis and the pain of it all, the destiny in it. I firmly believe he wouldnt be OK with a bew trainee and guess what? While he didnt live through instructors not giving fucks abt new witchers because like 1/20 live to become witchers he LIVED through it. On his skin. I firmly believe Lambert being DICKHEAD to ciri at first is nit only a whiff of the complex game!Lambert but a decent start of its own standalone character.

In witcher 1 also wheb tou tell him Leo died he laments he "was not ready". Leo. Just like ciri never got his mutagens (take this with grain of salt because leos whole character is weird tm). So him being an miserable instructor who will push you until you cry is in character ingame. This guys has ten layers of issue.

What Netflix misses is the fact we dont SEE lambert getting to his relationship Ciri where we see rhem albeit briefly in game (willing to fight to death for her). We just have this awkward jump from utter hostility to them beinf kinda pals after baba yaga fight. In the end netflix lambert is just. Boring.

Also hes not a balding fuck and i cant forgive that

[millimononym]

Choose violence ask: 10, 12 and 25 for Galactik Football

k imma be honest this was really hard cuz like. Galactik football is a really small fandom so we don't really have a general "fanon" consensus or really a general Anything consensus so i had to think abt it real hard

10. worst part of fanon

ok so we don't really have a fanon (again) but something i saw in some fics (not bashing anybody btw) quite enough was making the other SK super unlikable to the point of OOC just to make another character seem better or more sympathetic (it's Micro-ice). Just. Complete assholery to a ridiculous level that would never happen in between the main cast(at least in the first 2 seasons) just to make u feel bad for the guy.

And i don't understand that. Because like. Micro-ice is already kind of mistreated in canon? he literally never got an apology for the way he was treated (which made him RUN AWAY IN THE FIRST PLACE!!) and everyone just returned to being friendly with each other despite them never addressing Micro-ice's feelings in a proper way imo. So WHY would you feel the need to make the others OOC to a ridiculous degree to try and make people sympathize with Micro-ice??? He's ALREADY SYMPATHETIC!! Just adress his feelings !!!

Oh and this was also done mostly for shipping reasons because...of course.

Can't have a character have a healthy support system outside of the one person they're dating!! Nope!! We HAVE to isolate a person from their friends by making them uncharacteristically horrible just to make the only outside option look better!! Peak romance!! /S (literally it's just the family friendly version of that fanfic trope where writers kill off canon characters who 'get in the way' of their ship lol)

12.the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Ok so i know "unpopular" in this context means hated or unliked but... I think i agree with most of the fandoms opinions on this one lol. Just to check, The hated characters that come to my mind are Yuki(don't really hate her on her own, but her relationship with Micro ice makes me wanna throw myself off a cliff so as a side effect i dislike her), Mark(no strong opinions to give except "he's boring" which we've all heard a million times by now), p much everyone in s3...idk i can't really remember anyone else. I personally find duke Maddox annoying but that's not the point of the question

So I'll take this as LITERAL unpopularity. You may have noticed but a while back i was obsessed with The Shadows and giving them personalities since i was upset that as the rival team they never got screen time. I think i was the only one that cared about them lol so there's that. It's just...Sinedd was a semi-main character! And they made a big deal out of him leaving for the Shadows!! And then NEVER expanded on them as a team other than "they aggressive 😢" !!! They should have done something with them!!!! Also the other rival teams as well. We should have gotten more alien content in this sci fi series goddamit!! They all have lots of potential that was unfortunately unused imo

25.common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

I agree with most common fandom complaints..but as this is a small fandom, so we probably think of different things (or I'm just forgetting something)

The most common complaints i hear are that the pirates subplot took up too much time, clothing design being wack and generally disliking season 3. i agree with those, personally.

Again you and i probably think of different things when we hear "common fandom complaint" so feel free to tell me which ones i may have missed because I'm probably forgetting a lot

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

How to Survive Your Yandere Demon Boyfriend and Live with him in Peace and have Fun: Chapter 4

A/N: FINALLY. After writing 9 drafts of this chapter...... I felt this was the best of them all..... (My back is ded-) This is again a "build up" to the main conflict, so not much aside from plot-building happens.......

Also, this chapter's writing style is a bit different (imo) , but it still has the "changing povs" in between.

Also, also, after this, I won't be much active, due an upcoming exam that I have to prepare. I may start taking requests again in late july.....

Anyways, as always, have a great day ahead!

(Yandere AU x Replaced MC AU)

Yandere Lucifer x MC

TW: Implied Bullying ; Implied Sexual Content (Mild) ; Unhealthy Mindset ; Yandere ; Angst ; Insults ; Swearing ; Denial ; (If I have missed something please tell me!)

Extra: Mention of "Note"(1) ;OOC Demon Brothers ; Changing POVs ; Unreliable Narration ; Female Reader/MC ; OC Lucifer (According to what I think of him as a Yandere) ; Secrets ; Use of Pact ; (Slight) Dark!MC.

“MC! Today I made an appointment for us at my favorite spa!”

'A memory…….'

“MC……! You should hang out with me!”

'Of those days………

Those precious days……'

“Hehehe….. you’re so cute MC!”

'You were always kind……….'

“Hey, MC………. Do you love us? Then would you stay with me and my brothers….. forever…? I promise you wouldn’t regret it!”

'I would love to………..

You are my family after all…'

“Oh, MC darling! I’m sorry, but I promised Irina that we would hang out today…….. I promise I will make it up to you!”

'Ah, it’s ok.

It’s just one time, one day.'

“uh…..MC? The thing is…… I am quite busy….. today….”

'…….'

“You know MC? Blue doesn’t suit you……. *sigh* why am I with you…… rather….. why can’t you be like her….? Whatever, just my luck.”

…………………….

'It’s ok.

H-he doesn’t mean it….'

“Why are you talking to me? You’re wasting my time.”

'………

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129 notes - Posted May 30, 2022

#4

hi^^ i'm not feeling well recently and i was wondering if i could request some Mammon fluff to heal me. the scenario being, Mammon and MC are best friends and promised to tell each other everything, so when he overhears his brothers gossiping that MC admitted to having a crush, he gets a lil upset because 1) how could you not tell him abt it first? and 2) who is MC crushing on???? and he acts moody with them until he finds out that MC's crush is on him whether by confession or the brothers, up to you. i just need a lovestruck Mammon being oblivious to his own feelings for his best friend until the idea of them being in relationship with someone else sets him off... i'm sorry if this is so cheesy and cliché!

A/N: Thank you for requesting! I hope you feel a little better after reading this! And also please take care of yourself, I hope you feel better! 💕

Let me tell you, I like my my fluff cheesy :) so don't be sorry! This is such a cute request after all!

And also....... this is my first fluff writing so, any corrections or even suggestions are appreciated! 💖

As always, have a great day ahead!

Also....! While I was writing, I was listening to-

I Like You, I Love You (Kagamine Rin)

TW: None (Apart from some mistakes and the repetition of the words "Best friends")

Extra: Fluff ; Unreliable Narration ; Second-Person POV ; Oblivious Nature ; "MC" addressed as you and not directly as "MC" (majority of the fic).

Mammon X MC

My Other Half

Only one demon in the whole of Devildom knew you like the back of his hand.

Mammon.

In the first weeks of the exchange program, he had seen you as a nuisance not he nor you knew when that changed. You two had grown accustomed to each other’s presence to a point many had assumed that you were a couple. Of course, the demon had to explain that you two were best friends and not a couple (while tomato blushing). His brothers especially Lucifer and Asmo would relentlessly tease their brother while a small and soft smile played on their lips.

In the span of only a few months, the demon had become someone you could talk with and complain about in a very dramatic way that never failed to make the demon laugh at your antics. So, in the end, you ended up telling him everything about yourself, your likes, dislikes, your life back in your home realm, family, and just about everything.

Like you love chocolate filled with almonds.

Or which brand of Devildom soda you had come to like.

Or that one manga Berserk manga you love and that one manga you especially dislike. (He also agrees with you on that….)

That one game you like and also the character you like so much that you call him your “Husbando”. (he nearly wanted to throw hands with a fictional character)

So of course, not only Mammon would boast about how was he your first, but also about how much he knows you and how you would spoil him.

You two would help each other in almost everything, and also get punishment from the eldest together.

“The peas of the same pod.” You two were truly just that.

Or that was supposed to be that way…..

For some days you acting quite….. weird….. but in a good way.

Out of nowhere, you would take him to Hell’s Kitchen or Madam Screams and then you would look in his eyes, searching for something in them.

Then you started to hug him out of nowhere while running at him at lightning speed….. every day. At first, he did not at all understand why you do this, which caused him to think that you were in danger so he literally sprinted in the direction you came from, to rip the sonnuvabich to pieces, only for you to tell him with a smirk that you wanted to surprise him. Why………. I mean he is not against the hug itself it's just that it was so sudden. Though, don’t worry now he will catch you and hug you before you could! After all, he ain’t the fastest demon for nothing!

Only….. for you to pout at him……. (so cute…..No! He ain’t blushing or anything!)

Then one day, a demon started to hit on him, only to get spooked by your very angry face. That day, Leviathan screamed at you for being so much jealous that it triggered his demonic nature.

Jealous…….?

Were you…….

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#3

ok see Mammon having named a crow after mc when they leave after season 1. Cue Mammon being embarrassed and having to explain to mc why this crow has the same name as them when they walk in him.

A/N: A lot smaller than I expected... but still I hope you like this anon! (damn I am getting a lot of Mammon fluff reqs, I'm not complaining tho-) Plus, this was very cute request! Thank you for requesting!

Also any corrections or suggestions are highly appreciated! 💖💖

As always, have a great day ahead!

TW: None. ; Fluff.

Extra: GN!MC ; Second-Person POV ; Unreliable Narration.

Mammon x GN!MC

Missed you so.....

Finally, you were back to your lovable and dorky demons.

It felt like it had been too long, even if it wasn’t truly like that…

It's just that these demons and everyone else had become a part of your heart that can’t be replaced…….

And it seemed that even they shared the same sentiment.

You were smothered by bear hugs the minute you made your entry, as they told you how they missed you. (some of them cried too-) (Mammon denies all claims of this-)

It felt like coming home.

Warm and soft.

It felt as if everything was in place, as it should be, perfect.

….

So then why was your name being frantically called by the Avatar of Greed in the long hallways of your abode?

“Mammon?” you call him peeking your head to see the commotion, worried for the demon.

“Tch. Where in the- where did it go?!” the demon searches frantically for something…..

You approach him quietly, “Where did what go?”

“DAH!”

“Mams?”

“I- uh- uh- NOTHIN’ BYE”

Ok.

‘So something is up’ you think as you can still hear Mammon screaming your name.

You sigh and go back to your room, exhausted.

Just as you enter your room, a loud cawing noise greets you.

“Huh?”

You look up to see a crow sitting on your room’s window looking at you as if to say something….?

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205 notes - Posted May 20, 2022

#2

How to Survive Your Yandere Demon Boyfriend and Live with in Peace have Fun: Chapter 3

A/N: I have finally decided to write this fic again! Though it is still on Semi-Hiatus. This chapter is basically setting up the timeline of when this Au happens and a deep dive into Reader/MC’s thoughts over the situation. So, not much happens in this chapter (except Lucifer and MC’s relationship gets a little depth as well-)

I hope you like this!

As always, have a great day ahead!

(Yandere AU x Replaced MC AU)

Yandere Lucifer x MC

TW: Unhealthy Obsession, Unhealthy Mindset, Manipulation, Yandere, Implied Sexual Content, Abandonment Issues, Angst, Mentioned Stalking, Implied Imprisonment (?), Self-Doubt(?), Denial, Curse Word (only once). (If I have missed something please tell me!)

Extra: Changing POVs, Unreliable Narration, Female Reader/MC, Slight Dark!MC (?) , OC Lucifer (Yandere) (According to what I think of him as a Yandere), Slight Masochism (?).

Third Person POV:

“Lucifer, we need to talk.”

Lucifer spun around in 0.1 second at that line, anxiety already churning his guts. Even so, he flashes his smirk at her, “Yes, love?” he asks trying to sound normal.

“Do you have any updates on Irina? Anything new?”

“Ah………. Yes, it seems she had learned about pacts today and was asking Mammon to make one with her. He somehow got away from her.”

Ever since that evening, Lucifer has kept tabs on Irina’s movements under MC’s order.

“……Tch.” She shakes her head, as if to say, ‘she had seen this coming’. “Lu, can you please call all your brothers here in your study?”

The demon raises his eyebrow, “Will you be ordering them not to make a pact with Irina?”

“…..Yes. Would that be petty?”

“…..Yes, however, I do feel you should do it since it is a need now.” He looks at her, eyes soft and reassuring. The human looks away from him, eyes looking outside the window. She sighs deeply eyes closing for a moment-

“Do you think that I should have been stricter towards them?”

“….”

“Do you think maybe I should have been like Solomon? Making pacts just for the power? Maybe then…. Then things wouldn’t have come to this……”

“….MC….”

“Maybe it was because I was too trusting of them……. Maybe it was because……. I was too soft on them? Or maybe….. they only pretended that they care for me………”

“…….” He knew that this was wrong, but he had now seen an opportunity arise at this. “Maybe they did….” He replies, standing up and walking towards her, a faint yet twisted smile on his face.

“Maybe they did, after all they are demons. They may have pretended to like you since, Diavolo and I had told them to be civil towards you.” He wraps his large hands around her waist and kisses her on the neck, he continues, “They may have done it out of fear.”

“If that is so, then even you may be pretending right at this moment, yes?”

Chuckling darkly, he smiles at her lovingly, “I am not like them, sweetheart. They did so for their own good and became blind to their own power over your heart and you, our master. Even though it hurts my pride a bit, but it is the truth, demons in pacts are like wild dogs. They need to be trained to respect their master. If the master doesn’t trains them? Well, there are repercussions of it. For example, losing respect towards them.”

“But they can be disciplined with love as well, right?”

“True, there are two ways teach an insolent, bratty dog, either to love them or to show them where their place truly is. You, my darling, have taught me through love, something that I and many others saw as an impossible feat. Yet you achieved it.” His hands tighten around her figure, he nuzzles on her neck.

“I am your loyal dog. And you are my master. I have already pledged my loyalty to you since the night I had bound myself to you through our pact, but I shall pledge it once more to you.” He suddenly removes his arms and steps away from her.

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My #1 post of 2022

Could we get Mc finding out diavolo has concubines while they are dating. And diavolo doesn't understand what is wrong with it. The angst, the drama.... then Mc just tell him she'll indulge in the brother then. And maybe it clicks for dia.... and he is just like..." oh...OH! Ya ok, we getting rid of the concubines, MC COME BACK!" And basically turns into a sad puppy dog following Mc around saying sorry over and over as Mc just keeps kissing the brothers, like all of them, one by one, right in front of Dia, until he finally really gets it. That if he wants real love and true loyalty in a lover, that the same is expected of him.

Ps, I like your writing, so whichever way you take this, I am down. I like seeing what ya do and reading your stuff. Keep being awesome! ^-^

A/N: First of all, thank you for the compliments! Second, I did make some changes just to fit it better, for the angst. Third, I really, really hope you like this story! And fourth, thank you for requesting!

Tbh, it was little difficult, since I never wrote anything for Diavolo. I feel like he is guy that is very hard to figure out, more than Lucifer.

But! I still had quite the fun making him suffer :)

And as always, have great day ahead!

Edit:  My thoughts on writing Part 2

TW: Implied Cheating ; Mentions of Cheating ; Angst ; Depression ; Fainting (?) ; Mentions of Concubines ; Harem ; Pretending to be alright when you are not (idk if this a real TW but oh well-) ; Poly Relationships ; Implied Sexual Content.

Other: Cheater!Diavolo ; MC addressed as "you" and not directly as "MC".

Diavolo X MC

MC X Brothers

How does it feel now?

“Dia?”

The name falls off of your mouth in utter horror as you look at the scene in front of you.

There he is, sitting on his throne looking ever so handsome, embracing and kissing a body that is not yours.

You don’t know if your voice was unheard or ignored, as Diavolo, your ever so charming lover, was kissing the lips that were not your own. A moan escapes from his mouth as one of those…………. whoever she was had started pleasuring him with her mouth, as you had once.

You drop on the ground, as you feel………. a lot of things……

First comes fear, disgust, and then despair.

You can’t hear anything.

You can’t see anything.

You can’t feel your own body.

Everything is dark.

Before losing to the darkness, you wish only one thing-

‘Please let this be an illusion.’

How naïve you were.

*************************************

You open your eyes to the ceiling of his bedroom.

His bedroom……. wait.

Shooting right up from the bed, eyes wide open, looking everywhere.

You sit in silence and internally plead to every god for that……scene to be just a very bad dream.

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[alyimoss]

this 100%

one time on twt (i know. i know...) someone had posted like. a headcanon/random thought they had abt a character. and then someone else - someone with several thousand followers - qrted them to say that that thought sucks and is ooc and goes directly against canon and that theyre stupid for thinking it and anyone who agrees w that thought is similarly stupid (the funniest thing is they completely misinterpreted canon themselves while making that argument?? like practice what you preach girl...)

and then one of my moots tried to kinda. argue w them (not really, even. just weighed in w his own thoughts that contradicted the big acc). and they laid in on him for it bc he was "so wrong" or whatever. and i decided to also weigh in bc i didnt like how they mischaracterized and misinterpreted the characters (one of them is literally a character i hate w a passion so that says a lot. even if i dont like a character im not gonna stand for blatant mischaracterization for the sake of some agenda or narrative or whatever)

and also i called them out bc they were being. kinda fucking mean abt it. like needlessly so.

yeah so i had like 40 followers at the time?? moot had like 500 or 600. this person, again, had several thousand. of course they didnt rlly argue with my moot (not to mention hes kinda well-known as almost an authority on one of the characters like hes real good). me however? yeah im a great target. whos gonna defend me, after all? whos gonna care? so they sent they fucking goonies after me who all made horrible points and misinterpreted my own and wouldnt listen when i told them what i actually meant.

and the big acc got huffy abt me telling them they were being kinda mean. and told they werent. while uh.. insulting me, i believe, and being kind of a jackass. and, again, sending their followers after me...

yeah this is all basically to say wick is right, normalize being ""wrong"" and ooc and liking fanon as long as it doesnt hurt anyone. bc what joy are you getting out of like?? borderline harassing ppl on the internet bc they said something abt a character you personally dont agree with?? just let people enjoy things and mind your own damn business, do you know how little time we have on this earth??

normalize being able to like things in a wrong way. normalize being a little bit weird at all given times. nobody is normal. nobody is perfectly accurate to the character except the creator themselves. normalize enjoying fanon because it makes you happy and you don’t owe it to anyone to be 100% correct all the time with how you view things. normalize being abnormal with your interests and not being mad at other people for being abnormal with their interests. normalize joy

[manic-pixie-dream-dude]

I've been meaning to ask, what's Cassandras role in your moon Varian au?

ANON! Thank you for the opportunity to ramble abt this!!! I'm stupidly passionate about how my interpretation of Cassandra and I redirected all of it into this AU lmao.

OHHKAY SO!

Obviously, the difference here is that Cass never gets the moonstone, she doesn't need to imo.

I love S1 Cass a whole bunch. She's so interesting, her character was a smart addition and I think the taking the moonstone was, to put it simply, Not Good. Also ooc? And an odd reaction to her situation?

See, Cass is a very logical person. She's smart and careful and very blunt. We see time and time again how she thinks things through first before doing anything, even if her thinking is flawed. She also does this alone (another flaw) and has been shown to like working alone (though by the end of S1, she's learning to work with others).

So I'm baffled as to why, when she finds out she's Gothel's daughter, she hates Rapunzel for it despite seeing how cruel Gothel was (+ the fact that she was basically saved from a life of neglect and potential imprisonment).

Yes she was shocked, but... her reaction would stay 'shock' for a bit, wouldn't it? I think after such a reveal she'd stray a bit from the group, at that point she already felt isolated and ignored (maybe even realizing she doesn't want to simply serve someone?) so she'd go back to processing things alone and won't confide in anyone. The closest person she does gets to telling this to is Eugene but ultimately keeps it to herself.

(Side note: Eugene, being the person who seems to understand her most of the entire gang plus slowly becoming her friend throughout S1 and 2, would notice how the stress is causing a rift between her and Raps. When Raps fails to properly get through to Cass, he tries himself. After Cassandra v. Eugene, they start to work together more. This momentum in their relationship should've continued into S2)

Then she'd start getting scared. If the gang is already ignoring her input, what will they do when they find out she's related to the person who kept Rapunzel prisoner for 18 years? How would Rapunzel react?

That's right, I'm giving her abandonment issues let's fucking go 👏👏

And then do I see anger, she's dedicated so much and worked so hard to be seen or even acknowledged but she isn't being considered anymore. What difference does it make if she leaves, if she works alone?

(I should also note that Cass can be a spiteful/petty person.)

I see her having her own "Rapunzel, I used you." moment, where she tells Raps about Gothel, tries to use it to say that her betryal was bound to happen, it's in her blood, as a way to hurt Raps and push her away before the same can happen to her.

Other than that I want to mention how all throughout S2 Cass was wary abt the moonstone and the vagueness surrounding what it could do to Raps if she held it. She didn't trust anyone Raps trusted and has been harmed due to it.

Cass won't then risk it and take the moonstone herself.

She'll just take the person who has it.

I've touched on this a bit in the past, but I think Varian and Cass' arcs should've been swapped. Meaning, I think Cass would work with the Saporians for her own purposes because, in this AU, the Saporians are working for Zhan Tiri. I doubt that she'd believe in their goal, but if Zhan Tiri thinks she's got Cass, then Cass can use it to her advantage.

(I'm actually surprised the Saporians weren't used for something similar? We don't get much lore for these guys but you could easily utilize them and give them a bigger role. You can imagine how mocked I felt when Mime got to the Dark Kingdom in a hot air balloon but not the Saporians aslkjs)

Of course, even if Cass thought about this for long, she didn't think it through. Working alone in such a high stakes situation isn't the right choice, but it is a choice that makes sense for her character at that point.

So she goes with the Saporians and Zhan Tiri, to learn more and understand Zhan Tiri's plan, and they take a magically unstable Varian with them after he grabs the opal to stop any of them from getting to it first. A distraught Rapunzel is left behind, halfway to a breakdown.

So yeah! that's it for now. I'm still trying to find a cohesive way to tell her arc in a way that isn't confusing or full of ooc decisions.

I'll gladly ramble about her in s3 once I, yknow, finish S3 lmao (I'm sorry I have NOT been able to watch much of this season tbh).

ALTHOUGH! my S3 deviates a bunch compared to S1 and 2, so I will say that she's apologetic and sympathetic to Varian, and they get time to have some progress in their time together as charas who can understand each other's perspectives.

[cassyapper]

I thought I hate jotakak before but after reading ur jotakak content I find out that I wasn't hating this ship, but hate how many jotakak fans mischaracterize them. Most of the jotakak content I saw is always a very strong and masculine jotaro protecting a very feminine kakyoin, which is very ooc for both of them. Jotaro is always reduced to a character who only punch people and show his love to kakyoin all the time,no emotion for anything unrelated to kakyoin, while in canon he is someone who kept himself in a prison and stay away from his loved ones(to the point of hurting his loved ones) to protect others. Kakyoin is also reduced to a damsel in distress, always need jotaro to save him and protect him, very sweet that he wouldn't even hurt a fly. Idk why many jotakak fans just want to fit them into a classic romantic relationship( a stoic handsome guy and a sweet housewife) when they are a lot more than that. Sorry for such a long post, I really appreciate how u characterize them :)

omg dude im so honored and happy that i could make u reconsider these two im going to actually melt...im so honored bro this is such a big ego boost thank u so so much for telling me this <333 im so glad u like how i characterize these dumbasses <3

and also YEAHHH fanon jotakak is soooo bad it's gotten to the point i tend to use "noritaro" instead of "jotakak" as a ship name because i don't want to be associated with those ppl ghgngkdjn

but yeah god i agree dude it's so infuriating. jotaro is an INCREDIBLY emotional person it's not that hard to see it just because he doesnt show it in a typical fashoin doesn't mean he's not constantly making about 93.4% of his decisions based on feeling alone. and literally in the first line of kakyoin's character bio it states that he hates being submissive! he hates being coddled and made to feel useless! he doesnt LIKE being taken care of he lieks DOING the taking care. i have no idea how the popular fanon god these two so fucking wrong (well i do, it's because they shoved them inot boxes so theyre easier to get off to but still. disgusting tbh!)

but yeah theyre a much more interesting couple when theyre allowed to be, you know, themselves. they both have a lot of issues but the way they could help each other address those issues is very tantalizing and we see bits of it in canon and just <3 hgngh i care about them a lot and they canonically care abt each other a lot just in their weird repressed 80s teenager way

but yes thank u for sending this in dude im so honored <3

[lostmystyx]

Pls enlighten me with ur kankri Hot Takes I don't know alot about the dancestors 🙏🙏🙏

buddy i know EVERYTHING about the dancestors. everything. and im wrong about nothing. i have read meenahbound at least ten times and that is an underestimate and not a joke. i have read every single fucking word kankris ever spoken, even the tiny shit, multiple fucking times, because my dedication to my craft is nothing if not thorough and torturous. ive read every goddamn character analysis there is on kankri, ive seen all the posts, ive read all the fics (not rlly i love myself), and i can tell you for a fact that everything everyone tells you about him is fuckint wrong. i started studying his character because i was mad abt how ooc ppl made him and i just got madder. i learned how to write him. i perfected it. and i havent done it in years because i hate him and his fans so fucking much. the world is not READY for my kankri takes. they do not DESERVE them.

but i love it when ppl ask me things, so for you, anon, i will take the time to divulge some of my secrets. first off, kankri is a bonafide grade a fucking asshole, hes ableist and sexist and abt every -ist under the sun, and he hides biting remarks under layers of political correctness and ranting so that by the time he insults you youre too zoned out to notice. that said, hes also not an outright asshole, hes not blunt with his meanness, hes not straight up about it, and people who just make him an uncaring dick are ALSO wrong. its an extremely thin line to walk and everyone is falling off like a toddler on a tightrope. he cares, deeply, but hes also fed up with everyone around him (and for good reason, because all of the other dancestors are ALSO massive assholes). he cares about being pc more than he cares about the actual issues hes "fighting for," he makes some good points, and he also makes a lot of bad ones. sometimes hes right, and sometimes hes just so caught up in what i believe boils down to a form of self-loathing via extreme policing of himself and others that he says and does the stupidest things known to man that make me want to cut my own dick off and staple it to my forehead so he can call me a whore and a transphobe.

second, hes capable of not ranting. like, he can carry a normal conversation where he talks a normal amount. it happens. inevitably someone will say something that gets him going, but you know. not every sentence has to be an essay.

third, oh my fucking god if one more person writes some fucking shit where hes "cured" of being celibate i am going to print out and laminate cards that say "youre an aphobe" to pass out to the masses. kankri isnt aroace, hes clearly in love with latula and just has self-imposed celibacy on himself possibly bc he thinks its gonna keep him from mucking up his quads, but even though hes not, and even if he was, the way people handle his celibacy is disgusting and offensive. if you dont want to write him celibate just dont make him celibate and pretend that never happened. otherwise it plays into the "ace ppl just havent found the right dick yet" thing, which iS RLLY OFFENSIVE. this is like. one of my number one kankri pet peeves. ill kill someone over this. the sexually repressed kankri hc i constantly see sucks and is objectively wrong anf im going to rip the head off of the next person i see doing it like a rabid fucking dog.

im going to make this my last note on this, bc i already have a headache just thinking about kankri, but the way ppl characterize his interpersonal relationships is bad. its bad. his relationship with latula is a mirror of karkats with terezi, nothing more, nothing less. his relationship with porrim is fucking bad and unhealthy. porrim babies and infantilizes him and regularly crosses his boundaries, and i t hink (?? dont quote me on this one its been a minute) the only time he rlly gets angry and blows up at someone is bc porrims does something he didnt consent to. at the same time, hes rlly rude to porrim and says loads of bigoted shit to her and treats her like shit. hes super ableist towards mituna, thinks hes an idiot, and treats him like shit. he doesnt really have a good relationship with anyone, because everyone hates him and he hates everyone and all of the dancestors are lions in a cage without enrichment, pacing back and forth and wondering how much longer they can stand each other before one of them snaps and kills the rest (oh wait! damara and meenah kind of did already! and kurloz is actively plotting a second death!)

anyway yeah. this is less of hot takes and more of a list of my pet peeves but yeah. i hate kankri, actually, i think hes the fucking worst, and i obsessively know everything about him out of spite.

disclaimer tho: i like all homestuck charas as charas like its cool its neat theyre cool n i hate kankri like you hate a villain but also i hate the fandoms idea of kankri and i hate kankri fans and if youre going to comment on this post defending ur hcs dont

[cryptvokeeper]

I think about that fuckin “my first day on the server I killed my son it was pogchamp and then I cried” audio at least once a day cuz its funny so ya’ll know it was inevitable I’d start thinking abt it in terms of storytelling right.

Cuz theres something to be said about how Philza and Technoblade specifically came onto the server as plot points (Techno joining being framed as him coming to help Pogtopia and Phil’s entrance onto the server being that). Phil especially joined at quite possibly the most plot heavy moment possible, and he came in with a prepared backstory/connection to the cast as Wilbur’s father. And as far as I can think of I don't think anyone else who joined the server had that. Like everyone else had some sort of grace period where they could ease into lore (if they wanted to be in lore at all) and decide their place on the server. Phil’s was predetermined to some extent. Clearly characters can expand past their initial use *gestures at c!techno’s entire everything*, but its an interesting distinction between him and most other people on the server. Like where most people on the server start out less lore heavy and grow more involved as time goes on, Phil started off extremely lore relevant and then dropped off suddenly as he took a step back to do things like grind for materials, or just to hang out with people in a non-lore capacity. 

And this abnormal progression on the server probably contributed to his interpretation of being a neglectful/uncaring person, because we the audience are told "hey this is Wilbur’s dad, and he’s gonna be around now! He’s super cool and nice, look at how he gets along with everyone!” During the 16th basically the entire cast recognizes and acknowledges his name coming online. There are ooc jokes about the family dynamic, about finding tubbo in a box, more in-character (or at least debatably in character) moments of Tommy acting particularly familiar with him, Fundy embracing him as his grandpa, and Tubbo inviting him to be a part of L’Manburg and the cabinet. But after he completes his plot-mandated Filicide, Phil basically doesnt get involved in anything plot related (save for going fishing that one time with fundy) until the butcher army, which even that he’s more of a plot device/damsel in distress than an active participant in plot. And then c!Phil turns around and is like ‘lol nah I dont care abt any of you people’ when the plot finally gets going for him. Not to mention it contributed to the whole schrodinger’s family problem, where no one really established what the relationships were, probably because the creators themselves hadn't yet decided what they wanted to do about it but due to everything I just mentioned, were giving off conflicting messages in an attempt to have their cake and eat it too. Like the aforementioned fundy fishing trip is sandwiched between moments of Phil casually talking about fundy being his least favorite grandson, telling him not to call him grandpa, and generally bullying him (again, in moments that aren't clear in whether theyre canon or ooc). Same with Tommy, he visits him in exile once and expresses relief when he knows Tommy is safe with techno, but he never attempts to prevent said exile, and once Tommy leaves techno Phil turns against him pretty solidly. I hesitate to call these contradictory or out of character, but they muddied the waters on an already unclear character, and it lead to no small amount of arguments over c!Philza and what was ‘really’ canon in his interactions with people.

TLDR is that Phil, both the character and the creator, are in a really unique position on the smp as someone who came in specifically for plot purposes, without getting the chance to establish real character presence beforehand, and that has led to a very different plot and character arc than most other characters. Which is interesting, but makes things very complicated when it comes to analysis.

[janiedean]

I came from a country where being gay is not illegal but still very badly seen so what Eric did to me came off as spoiled and privileged. Nigerian men risk their lives every time they try to live and he just comes on a holiday risk for nothing and get a high out of it like... I get he is a poc in uk so racism but he is still privileged in respect to Nigerian living there and it felt like when tourists do all they want and use foreign countries as a eat pray love playground for adrenaline and Deep Moments

thanks for having partially confirmed to me one thing i didn’t quite know how to articulate and again i don’t… right with the premise that ofc not being poc and/or lgbt myself so my opinion is worth what it’s worth i felt like not only it made eric come off as privileged and not quite realizing it - or if it was the target then it wasn’t well written nor did it come across well - the points that imvho are not well put in this entire narrative are the following

let’s say one target was ‘we want eric to reconnect with the nigerian part of his heritage and realize that being gay in the uk is a privileged position in comparison to being gay in nigeria’: there is a single moment where he feels unsafe on the car but then he goes into the bar and it was played as… like THRILLING WILL WE GET CAUGHT OR NOT but i didn’t perceive that he felt in danger or like he realized exactly what he was facing

the whole family reconnection part was like… his mom lied about her husband bc family peace and kind of forces him to not be out bc she fears for his safety so like now unless i remember wrong eric has been out/never felt like he didn’t have to be since the show started so it should have a) given him insight re how it feels to NOT being able to be out b) let his mom connect with him on having to lie abt your significant other part c) concluded with at least a hint he could come out to nigerian family and like… point b) was more or less explored, c) was hinted bc he talked to his grandma abt adam but a) felt ABSOLUTELY missing because he comes back and everything he seems to gather from it is I WANT TO GO TO BARS BECAUSE I CAN? and most of all……. going through a) should have made him more sympathetic to adam’s struggles and instead it seemed like he deduced ‘oh since in nigeria it’s illegal then it makes no sense he’s taking so much time’ like…? it’s… a pretty self centered take to get out of this entire experience and if it was a check your privilege storyline then good but… it didn’t feel like that was how they framed honestly and why talking abt adam to the grandma if he’s gonna dump him???? 

now the eat pray love thing you mentioned is… i mean i felt like it was along those lines but as stated couldn’t be sure re my take but again my issue is with how they went at it, bc you CAN do that narrative if you clearly frame it as ‘we like eric and he’s a swell guy but he’s not free from that kinda behavior in light of the fact that living in the uk gives him automatic privilege wrt being out so we’re going to explore how he deals with it and it might be badly but then he learns from it and checks his privilege’ like it’s smth that can happen and everyone in this show has been shitty wrt smth at some point which is good bc it means everyone is written realistically… i’m not sure the narrative said THAT but it didn’t look like even the writers knew bc it was all over the place?? and i mean… i get that this show has realistic teenagers which means they can behave like petty assholes but like it was rushed, badly explained, not overt re wtf they wanted to do with this storyline and it’s not clear if eric even cares at the end?? and thats ooc anyway bc the eric we saw until this point isn’t… that callous or dismissive? and it never seemed to me like they wanted to write him as positive char that progressively gets less sympayhetic so honestly this entire plotline looks stupid

like the thing is at the end of it: - has eric reconnected to his nigerian heritage/found a way to balance it with his uk background? doesn’t seem to me like he did - has eric concluded anything re telling the nigerian side of his family that he’s out? no - has eric gained some actual insight from his experience that’s not ‘I want to go to bars because I can and I have no patience for someone who needs to take it slower’? doesn’t seem to me like he did - has eric realized that adam not being ready to tell his own mom stuff was a sort of parallel situation to his own mother not being ready to tell her mom stuff and like... if eric’s own mom lied about her partner to her family for years and still wasn’t ready to do it then why is giving adam a bit more time to tell his own mom especially given his less than stellar background re accepting himself and coming out such a hardship? no and we just don’t know basically this entire plotline could have gone a bunch of different places that were interesting/could have caused strong conflict/interesting storytelling but it didn’t do any of these things and fell back on like... cheap drama for the sake of it and honestly idt it was very sensitive wrt anything included in it which honestly strikes me as odd bc if sex ed ever did one thing right was treating sensitive subjects well without dancing around it or making things sugarcoated and still letting the characters not be cardboards so I’m very very perplexed about it and I just hope they plan to reveal wtf they wanted it to be next year because honestly I don’t know what it wanted to be and if they didn’t make it clear it’s not good writing - which until now they had in spades, therefore....

like, there’s nothing... narratively wrong in ‘I want to show that character X who faces racism and homophobia in the UK would have privilege wrt being able to be out/live his sexuality without shame in the UK and not in the country his family comes from and he has no idea because he hasn’t entertained that thought and he might come off as unpleasant or incapable of immediately getting it while that happens’, but the thing is that in this specific narrative it’s not clear whether eric got it or if he didn’t bc teenagers are shallow and don’t get it (which..... I mean the teens in this show aren’t exactly shallow like that so that doesn’t really hold up) or if he’s having trouble processing it or if the trip shook his entire world (didn’t seem like it) so like... I should hope next season it’s addressed what they want this thing to be because honestly idk and I don’t particularly like the direction it took

this adding that anyway again the way they broke eric and adam off like that makes the whole S2 finale look sour and eric come off like an asshole also wrt rahim because I mean, one thing is ‘eric has been in love with adam/has liked adam best all along but adam wasn’t around and he liked rahim so he gave it a shot but rahim wasn’t it for him so when adam does the great love gesture for him in front of everyone he decides to leave rahim for him’ because like that sucked for rahim anyway but it also wouldn’t have been fair to him to not break it off if eric had stronger feelings for someone else (and that was clear from the get-go) and then when they get together eric puts effort in it and they go places, one thing is ‘all of that happens but then the moment they aren’t on the exact same page and/or eric realizes he doesn’t want to put the necessary effort into respecting the time adam needs to handle his things even when adam forgives him and says he’ll try to get on track with him’ and so the solution is nah let’s break up instead of putting some work into it when ngl adam has been doing 85% of that this season................. it makes him look like the moment there’s an obstacle to a relationship he’s in or his partner isn’t on the same wavelength he’d just rather break it off first instead of giving it a go and that’s not a really great look on him and as stated it makes the thing with rahim look really bad because again one thing is leaving someone you like for someone who feels like is the love of your life and another thing is leaving someone you like for someone who loves you that much but then you’ll leave them too because..... he needs time to talk to his mother and he’s not ready to be fully out when he comes from repressingyourfeelingsinternalizedhomobiphobia central? like........ dunno but it just feels sour and like nothing one would expect out of eric as he was written/developed until now so I’mma just wait to see what they do next season but it’s just not good writing all around

[hobgayblin]

💫 !!!! yes tell us about blazblue :)

literally don't even know where to begin with blazblue as a whole so I'm gonna sit you down and walk you through my lovely ninja's story instead gskfghsgg it's rly long so don't feel like you need to read it I'm just gonna yell for 1000 years about him

This is the sweetest man in the world and he goes through just so much shit 💕

The earliest stuff we know about him is from a young age he trained under a lady named Tenjo, along with Kagura (whore) to be a ninja. Why Bang is a ninja and Kagura is not even though they trained under the same person is unclear and like most things never explained. Anyway Bang is her star pupil I'm pretty sure and it seems like he cared abt Tenjo kind of like she was a parental figure. and THEN shit skips to the Ikaruga Civil War where Tenjo is murdered in front of Bang by Jin (cunt) who had also just cut him down and given him that scar on his face. So he got his ass kicked and then was on the ground bleeding tf out as he watched his mentor be murdered in front of him while he couldn't do anything about it 💔

After Tenjo is murdered he like, almost immediately gets his shit together (debatable) and gets all the survivors of the war together and brings them to Kagutsuchi (the main city of the series) to build a new home for the refugees with his bare fucking hands. It's been called the Ronin district and I think it's pretty much left alone by the NOL(bastard organization)/the rest of Kagutsuchi and it's built under a rly big bridge or something idk. He also writes a history textbook about the Ikaruga Civil War which is just wild to me.

God this is already getting 10000 miles long and this all happens BEFORE any of the games gsdgfh spark notes for the games under the cut I guess:

I don't actually know what happens with him in Calamity Trigger bc I didn't play it. I think he's not very important/he's just a joke character and he like ACTUALLY dies but they retconned it bc people liked him

In Continuum Shift a lot of shit happens bc it's a game about like 1000 different timelines happening all at once or something. This was my first game and we learn that uhhh he's a vigilante and he patrols Kagutsuchi looking for crime to destroy or w/e. Also he's looking for Jin to get revenge for killing his master and giving him the scar. There's one timeline where he actually DOES get revenge and kills Jin and then the god powers that be reset the timeline because he was being OOC, and no I am not joking that's the real reason. Anyway he's running around helping people, fighting people, adopting children whether they like it or not

I played Chronophantasma not that long ago and I still don't remember all the shit that happens with him sgdgfhs these are big games. But he goes to the burnt down ruins of his old home in Ikaruga, things happen, he's looking for Tenjo's child, we learn at some point Tenjo's soul is in the giant nail on his back which is a very important weapon that is the key to destroying all the seither (magic element of some kind) in the world. During the big ending of the game he meets the man who CAUSED the civil war (Relius, the world's biggest cunt) and he obviously has a little breakdown over it. He then watches as two of the people he cares most about in the world (Litchi, and Carl, who is Relius' son but Bang adopted him sorta) join forces with the man that destroyed his home and caused the deaths of everyone he loved and he has to fight them. Also his big nail IS used to destroy all the magic shit and thats how this game ends

I haven't played Centralfiction yet but uhhhh everyone loses their memories and a lot of things happen. everyone gets turned to magic dust through the game but are brought back after Ragna kills the main antagonist and dies. Bang gets brought back and drops his comphet crush on Litchi to go rebuild Ikaruga

Other things to note that I just don't know how to put into the plot:

massive annoying comphet crush on Litchi, where she just does not seem to notice he has a crush on her which is honestly hilarious bc shes one of the smartest people out here

He IS a comic relief character and it shows hes very very stupid and constantly like. shown to be weak even though he's actually very strong idk what these cunts are talking about

in like so many things Bang is like, INCREDIBLY beloved because all he does is help people and do good things but all of the characters in the game treat him like he's just a weird annoying cunt 😭

He keeps adopting kids/people in general as his disciples and theres nothing they can do about it. Tao is disciple #1, and she's all about it, he actually DOES train her. Carl is disciple #2, and he's like, mixed feelings about it but he likes Bang a lot !! And Platinum is disciple #3 and Luna is not about it sgfsgdgfh Sena seems fine with it tho (Luna and Sena are 2 souls in the same body named Platinum don't worry about it). Also in CF if you change the voiceover to Bang he calls them Disciple 1/2/3 when you pick them in character select its SO cute

I could literally write a separate essay about how Bang is highly traumatized but can't deal with it properly (because he's comic relief mostly but also for real reasons) but I will not

Theres no confirmed ages in this fucking game but I think he's like? in his 30s? but he's called old man a lot because he speaks in a super old an archaic form of japanese which is honestly so funny. idiot

ALL HE WANTS IS TO MAKE PEOPLE SMILE HE SAYS IT IN CHRONOPHANTASMA I THINK. HE JUST WANTS EVERYONE TO BE HAPPY AND SEE THE SMILE ON PEOPLES FACES IT MAKES ME

TL;DR: I love him

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It is 1am and i just finished s2, so this is gonna be long and rambling and misspelled and im sorry okay?

I am not thrilled with the writing of klaus this season, can I just say? They completely undid all of his substantial development in s1, while also removing a good chunk of his positive qualities.

There were scenes where s1!klaus shined through (any of the scenes with Allison and vanya, mainly, and i was really worried abt the scenes with bby!Dave but they were handled really well imo) but those scenes were vastly overshadowed by the unnecessary cruelty? Why did they make my boy so mean this season, I am asking this question for real. S1!klaus was wild and a disaster and heartbreaking, but he was also so kind, and willing to grow as a person in ways that his siblings actively avoided most of the time.

How do you go from beautifully empathetic s1!klaus crying in response to his abusive father's suicide, protesting luther locking up vanya and later being so adamant that they take vanya back in time with them that he literally clings to her feet, to s2!klaus who seems to not care much about anything or anyone at all?? The man is dead in heaven with his father telling him point blank what a let down he is, and he still has enough love in him to cry for him, but 3 years pass and suddenly he doesn't shed a tear for his brother who just died saving their sister?? They took away so much of his emotionality and I do not understand why.

S1!klaus also absolutely would have been open to trying possession with Ben imo, and we could have avoided the intensely uncomfortable possession sequence, which should not have been played off as a joke because it wasn't funny at all, and instead just highlights how little autonomy klaus actually has- but that is a rant that needs way more brain power and research lmao.

S1!klaus also would never have hid ben from his siblings, after spending literal years telling them that ben was there with them??? He would not have done that.

And the scene where they try to save vanya was intensely ooc in my opinion- even high off his ass klaus is quick to react and jump into action- helpful or otherwise (throwing the fire extinguisher, improvising at the prosthetics lab for 5, trying to save luther in the club, running into the theater when they hear gunshots despite having no idea how to use his powers offensively, even in s2 when he finds allison at the protest) and I refuse to believe he would need to be pushed into trying to save vanya, who he has put his life at risk to save before.

The cult thing will be getting a post of its own because I have so many feelings about that whole deal but I again, am too incoherent currently.

I loved him and allison so so much, and he and vanya just break my heart together bc they are such opposite sides of the same coin and the show doesn't seem interested in exploring that whatsoever? I was a bit bummed to not really see him interact with the boys at all though. He and Diego seemed pretty close in s1, 5 and klaus have some good scenes together, and he and luther had some good interactions at the end of s1 as well, and i wish they had kept going with that.

It just feels like they were so busy with the others, and klaus got lost along the way. We do nothing with his powers except for the possession thing, like literally besides ben and the two ghosts at the very end of the last episode klaus doesn't use his powers at all during the entire season! I loved watching everyone else kind of come into their own, but that just never happened for klaus this season- if anything, he devolved.

And I think as a side effect of fucking up klaus, they fucked up his relationship with ben, and the other boys to a lesser extent, as well.

S1 ben and klaus is what i would expect from a pair of siblings stuck together for 17 years- nagging and sarcastic and judgemental but also loving and close and they work well together. They are both dumbasses who do things like play patty cake to test ben's tangibility, and decide that tossing a bowling ball is a good way to prove that ben is present.

S2 ben and klaus are entirely antagonistic; more in line with luther and diego in s1. I have seen lots of comments saying that anyone upset with ben and klaus's dynamic in s2 doesn't have siblings, and to that i have to say- people who think their dynamic in s2 is normal don't have abusive parents. There are lines that you absolutely do not cross, and comparing a sibling to your abuser is one of them. And you don't need to have siblings to know that dismissing the death of a loved one like, isn't a good thing to do? This is especially jarring given their relationship in 2019 and as children- there is no set up for this kind of behavior from either of them.

And the others were just so overall dismissive of klaus in a way that goes beyond just sibling annoyance. During the family dinner no one bats an eye when ben jumps into him, causes his body to jerk around, and literally says that he's ben?? He lies on the floor of the elevator looking like death and we don't so much as ask what's wrong? Klaus pukes out the contents of 7 fully grown humans practically and no one offers a tums, or a ride to the damn hospital?? Like wasn't diego a fuckin cop, he should know that none of this is the result of an overdose??? As far as i can recall,, klaus doesn't even use drugs in this season? We see him drink but that's it unless I'm forgetting, which is entirely possible since it is now 2am lmao. And they just play it off as jokes, we are meant to find this funny?

And just like, he wasn't involved in the actual plot of this season much, if at all, besides being a largely unwilling catalyst for ben. Nothing would change in this season if they had cut him out completely, and i really hate that.

I'm not upset at all really- despite sounding upset and writing a long ass rant lmao- the let down of one character doesn't ruin the season for me, and honestly, given how other shows have failed me this year (looking at you, the politician) , i count this season as a win overall. Luther especially has changed so much for the better, and he was probably the highlight of this season. I'm just bummed because klaus was s u c h a good character in season one, easily one of the most interesting characters, and they did nothing with him this season.

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sometimes we talk about our dnd characters for several paragraphs and thats what this post is but it just got so long i was like. we gotta put this under a cut

i’m playing a teenager in two dnd campaigns and one (reef) is the only young person in a party of adults and the other (cyrus) is in a ‘party’ of one other teenager and like. frankly i play reef as a sort of immature wildcard that but as a kid with no current or former peer group a lot of that is a sort of bid to be seen as independent and capable and able to handle himself. he’s blasé about risk out of a quiet sense of pride & as i think more about his backstory and the character he’s come to be it’s like, even though there’s jokes both ic and ooc about him being the baby he’s still treated like an equal by the party, if an equal with poor decision making skills. which is not necessarily something he’s never had but like... this adventuring party is probably his first group of friends.

i’ve been thinking abt how i might play him if he didn’t consider them friends or if he felt they didn’t take him seriously enough and he’d be much more [self] destructive and risk seeking because a lot of the time for him the way to get respect is to pull off something drastic and wild to prove his ideas aren’t bad and his work is worth something. while it’s definitely good that he’s not doing that, it’s also interesting that he hasn’t really learned that’s not a good way to go about getting respect because, well, it’s worked so far, and he’s not really caught on to the fact that the party would still treat him like an equal even if he wasn’t trying to pull off wild stuff all the time. obvs as a pc he’s not a main character so i doubt this’ll ever be directly addressed nor do i care abt it being addressed but it’s fun to think about what might catalyze a shift in his thinking, or what might further lock him into what he already thinks. reef is immature and kinda obnoxious and thrill seeking, but he doesn’t actually like... like the thrill itself. he likes the sense of accomplishment and being included and just doesn’t know how to get it in any other way.

by contrast cyrus is also an immature wildcard but it’s specifically in tandem with another teenager, where they both egg each other on and bounce back and forth and behave that way to make each other laugh or to play into a friendly rivalry. cyrus does, in fact, love being Like That™. he’s self aware and knows what he’s about and is pretty good about telling a fun risk from an actual life threatening one, although his judgment is skewed by being sixteen and therefore not having that much life experience. his behaviour comes from a much more lighthearted place and comparing him to reef is very interesting. i  think part of this is ability scores & how they factor into my rp (reef has 9 int and 20 cha, but cyrus has 17 int and like 11 cha i think) but it’s also interesting the huge difference having peers makes. cyrus doesn’t really care about adults seeing him as grown up and he doesn’t care about if they think he’s childish or incapable because he has 0 doubt in his abilities and therefore doesn’t see why he should care if someone else doubts him. he’s never been incentivized to care what adults think over what his peers think and doesn’t see why he should start now

there isn’t really a point to this it’s just fun to draw the lines between characters who could be described in a pretty similar way and tease out why they act how they do. also i love playing immature wildcards lmao adhd gang rise up