#like it’s like they develop a complex where u cant even talk to them about why they’re facing what they’re facing

[neotrances]

trying to reason with other transmen n transmasc (usually white ones) that ppl critiquing men as a class does not make their experiences with transphobia lesser AND doesn’t mean men can’t be ridiculed, like does transphobia exist and do ppl try to force u to be a woman (whether that be detransitioning, making u wear make up or dresses ect) because of transphobia? yes, does that mean masculinity is under attack and that toxic masculinity in our society isn’t damaging? no, a lot of u are not understanding that u being treated poorly when u present masc by cis people is NOT bc masculinity is frowned upon but because masculinity practiced by ppl who aren’t considered men (i.e being trans) is what’s being attacked, when ur perceived to be a woman and not being “womanly” u are going to face backlash, and this backlash is not bc society as a whole hates men and masculinity, it’s because societies perception of YOU is someone who shouldn’t be participating in masculinity, it’s a massive thing online where white lgbt ppl (and im only rlly speaking about transmasc and trans men rn) start facing their first bigotry ever and all logic of why and how the bigotry their facing works flys out the window, masculine men as a whole aren’t hated, general society promotes and wants all men to be masculine, general society also just hates trans people, what isn’t clicking

[dreamychuu]

Hi! Could I request a scenario where keito has a crush on a gn reader and he finally asks them out after gaining the confidence/courage?

Thank you so much, and do take care! Lots of love 💕💕💕

A/n : do u guys know that keito is a hopeless romantic! Huh, what? You ask for source? The source is that i made it up ‼️

₊˚ପ⊹ - is this... Supposed to be this complicated?

╰┈➤ - warning/info = gn!reader, "!" Era, keito is an hopeless romantic.

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✿ - Keito never understood the complex of "being in love" that his classmate's, unit mate, and others experience.

he always thoughts confessing to someone is easy. "All they has to do is to admit the romantic feelings and it's over" Or at the same time he doesnt care about it at all.

but for some reason lately he's started to develop feelings for a certain someone.

And the certain someone is you.

whenever he's near you, he can feel his heartbeat going faster, as smiles apper on his face after chatting with you, and the fact that he always appears when someone talks about you whether it's good or bad topics.

At first he didn't notice how he act like that, until finally the student council president or so we called eichi pointed it out to him and told him maybe he was in love.

With a bit of shock he started to re-think about it, maybe eichi was right?.

now he understood the complex problem people around him feel about being in love!

As times went by... He cant stop thinking about you..

He then start to be so desperate because he lacked focus on his work just because of the feeling.

he then asked the so called love expert "hakaze Kaoru" To helped him.

Of course, the blonde haired man was in shock, he never thought "the always serious student council vice president" ask him about love!

and that's how he learned that if he wants to confess to someone, it's better to ask them out first.

because that way he can know whether the person he likes is interested in him or not.

Keito still doesn't feel he is ready, yet.. He already thinking about just sending a small letter to you, but Kaoru was against it and said that it was a way that coward's choose.

keito was a bit offended but still complied with him.

everyday he's always trying to test his courage in front of you, by being nicer to you or spending more time with you, which surprises you a bit.

As if an angel bless him.. in the end he was sure that it was time for him to ask you out!

And unfortunately he still used his original idea to just sent a letter through your friend so you know that he want you to meet him after school.

believe me, he so nervous! he even wrote various scripts that he could tell you...

even a few days before, mao had seen keito's desk full of papers filled with many kind of scripts while keito can be seen fell asleep in the middle of writing another one.

the school bell finally rang as you packing up your things and went to the place marked on the letter.

once you get there you can see the dear vice president already there.

You greeted him and asked why he asked you to met him after school.

"Do you know about the cafe near here? Yes, the cafe that's two blocks from here, I hear they serve's great foods , even though the food is not that healthy for an idol or anyone, there are still many people who like to go there and actually the scenery there is quite mesmerizing with lots of different kinds of flowers that are put up there as well, making the cafe stand out more... I also still have a lot of student work so if I go there maybe it's rare or you could say only once.. talking about flowers earlier I realized that there are flowers that remind me of you then I can also count you as reliable to help me so with that I hope you can help me and go with me there after school the day after tomorrow ," he answered by giving you the same length as the lecture he always gave.

"So , keito is asking me out?", you ask

Keito, who didn't expect that you realized it, only looked down so you wouldn't see his face that was starting to turn red.

Seeing his reaction you then continue your words by saying that you were just kidding and you accepted his offer.

when keito wanted to say something else you heard your name being called by your friend as you immediately said goodbye and left him.

You may not have seen it.. but he smiled after hearing that you accepted his offer

[inosukeslefttoe]

g-guhh... i watched this movie the other weekend and i wanted to rewatch it again before posting anything but like.. homie i honestly dont think my heart can take that lol

so from the aspect of like,, the amount of buildup and quality of the development of relationships and characters and just overall emotional-ness of the movie compared to the anime, clearly the anime is superior... HOWEVER.... this one decided to completely bypass the part of my heart dedicated for anime feelings and just jab right into the part that made me feel genuine heartbreak. so like,, i might be projecting my own feelings n experiences onto this a bit too much but i just gotta talk about it hehe

obviously ugetsu and akihiko had some super mixed up feelings towards each other that made their relationship super toxic and i just wanna talk about the complexity of those feelings and why i think they felt how they did. 

so i think that one of the biggest reasons they stayed together in their on and off sort of thing was because they were each others first loves. i believe akihiko mentioned that he moved in with ugetsu before he got the chance to live alone or smthn like that,, and they basically started their adult lives knowing nothing but each other. they were still developing as ppl and finding their own way as adults,, but before they were allowed to fully mature, they fell in love and fell into this almost codependent relationship where it was hard to imagine themselves without each other bc at this point,, all they knew was each other. 

another reason they fell in love was because of their shared passion for music and for the violin specifically !! but i also think that this is one of the major things that caused their downfall. i think that they ended up putting too much of their relationship onto that shared passion so it was no longer like,, something individual to each of them,, it was no longer about their individual passion for their craft but something that was holding together their relationship. and sure, having something so strong connecting two people can be wonderful, but it can also be harmful if it takes something so personal and unique to each person and is suddenly forcing it to be glue holding them to each other that leaves little room for their own expression if that makes sense.

 i think this shared love of music was also causing akihiko to feel like he was living in ugetsus shadow. and honestly, when u have a partner who is just so perfect at everything they do and u cant seem to catch up to them, it becomes rlly exhausting. akihiko didnt want his partner to see him as lesser or to pity him or act condescendingly seeing him struggle to catch up to his own talents so i think that could be part of what drove akihiko away from the violin. aside from this,, i think that since akihiko fell in love with ugestu due to his epic violin skills, he started associating the violin super strongly to ugetsu and no longer felt like it was an extension of himself,, but just something to relate to his partner who he also felt was far superior to him in this subject. as long as ugetsu was in his life, the violin would only ever remind akihiko of his partner and it could never be regained as something personal and expressive of himself. 

uhhh i think thats all i wanna talk about for rn regarding why their relationship got so messed up but like,,, i would also like to be emo about ugetsu for a second lmao

i just... when he was talking to mafuyu about how he was just sitting there waiting for akihiko to come home... how it seemed like he was talking less about their apartment and more like himself... UGH IM GONNA CRY BRO THAT FEELING WHEN U THINK SOMEONE IS UR HOME AND U THINK UR THEIRS BUT UR BOTH JUST MESSED UP AND TRAPPED IN A BROKEN HOME.... and also how he was clearly not having any of his needs satisfied by akihiko and would yknow have sex w other ppl and stuff but still go back to akihiko and it was clear that nothing rlly meant anything to ugetsu without him... god my feelings pls... HHH AND THE SCENE WHERE AKIHIKO WALKED AWAY FOR GOOD.... FUCK DUDE IM GONNA CRY THINKING ABOUT IT... it just hurt so bad to see that akihiko had matured and was so easily letting go of ugetsu for the final time and yeah that was fuckin awesome for him and im rlly happy he had the strength and development to do that... BUT... u can tell that ugetsu didnt have that maturity... and u could just see the panic and heartbreak and just overwhelming emotions that he was seeing like dude i could fucking hear every voice in ugetsus head just screaming at akihiko to come back to him and hold him one more time ... but he couldnt say anything. he looked so lost. he hadnt known anything aside from akihiko ,, and his passion for music was still strongly connected to their love so i imagine that at this point he genuinely felt that he had nothing. not even himself. the entire person that he built himself up to be was always leaning on akihiko since theyd grown so much together and akihiko had always been something constant in his life to where things didnt mean much without him. and suddenly he was just,, gone. and he took every part of ugetsu with him. at this point im probably projecting more than analyzing, but  this was just my take on their feelings and that specific scene. it was very very good that the two cut contact and are working to better themselves, and i know that they both knew that, but their whole situation was just. so fucking heartbreaking. and something extremely hard to do in that sort of codependent toxic relationship...

OKAY THAT WILL BE ALL BEFORE I CRY LOL BUT I HOPE IT MADE SENSE !!

[deadwriter16]

Mina, Kaminari, and Ochako for the character break down ask game

hi fizzy <3 thanks for always giving me asks i love u very much /p

ask game: https://deadwriter16.tumblr.com/post/668953835639832576/give-me-a-character

mina:

How I feel about this character: i love her a lot!!. i think her strength as a hero is underrated and she’s super fun to see onscreen. 10/10

All the people I ship romantically with this character: kirishima, sero, ochako, jirou, bakugou, poly bakusquad

My non-romantic OTP for this character: kamimina and bakumina

My unpopular opinion about this character: she's actually pretty present in the storyline and shouldn’t be overlooked as unimportant

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: more scenes, esp w/ krbk cause they'd be a great dynamic

kaminari:

How I feel about this character: one of my favorite characters in all of bnha. i love him so much he has way more complexity and nuance than some people realize. he’s hilarious but also very smart and he deserves a lot more screentime. 69/10 cause i think he’d like that

All the people I ship romantically with this character: jirou, kirishima, shinsou, sero, uraraka, bakugou, poly bakusquad

My non-romantic OTP for this character: kamibaku

My unpopular opinion about this character: his importance to the storyline is his intelligence, kindness, and tactical skill, not as comic relief or a mild perv, although his comedic scenes are always great

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: for kamijirou to be canon. i want it so bad they're the best let them be happy. also kaminari backstory please i am begging

ochako:

How I feel about this character: hnnnnnngh i love her SO MUCH. i literally cant even talk about her without just gushing because i love her that much. shes so amazing. shes baby and badass, shes strong and amazing and i love when she goes feral but i also love it when shes adorable and sweet. she's so multifaceted i wish we could see more of the hinted at sides of her in canon instead of her being so often pushed to the side or just used as dekus love interest. shes written really badly but its not her fault because in the well written scenes we do get of her my god is she wonderful and amazing. i unashamedly simp for her because shes so pretty and hot and a sweetheart and kind but also sassy and flawed but also so good and i don't know how to stop talking abt her. marry me ochako. infinity/10 best girl

All the people I ship romantically with this character: iida, mina, tsu, kaminari, izuku, toga, bakugou, deku and bkg at the same time

My non-romantic OTP for this character: kirikacchako and izuocha

My unpopular opinion about this character: her best scenes are the ones where she isn’t solely used as deku’s love interest or the focus is on her feelings for deku. she’s at her best when the focus is either on her and deku’s platonic relationship (blackwhip, chapters 323-325, etc) or on another aspect of her character (backstory, togachako relationship/fights, kacchako fight + how it affects her throughout)

also: uraraka > todoroki (in my opinion/personal preference), and she isn’t all uwu innocence. she’s adorable as hell, but she’s also strong and badass and more than a love interest and her romantic feelings. she’s a person and more than just deku's LI

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: character development and more (/p) kacchako screentime

[choriso]

[Diff. Anon] Im glad to see your passion on this topic & while I agree that its good to see professionals (if they can), I can see the point that like there are people living in a bad family/situation and people who cant recieve medical care or cant go see a professional (lack of $$, parents, etc) where this may be beneficial to them, this is just me talking tho and there may be diff opinions on this

Oh yeah absolutely! Self diagnosis is a good start and it can help you tons since it's based on "hmm I have this symptom, what do people do to try to feel better" or find similarities in mental illnesses that you could have, I've gone to my psychologist/psychiatrist saying "I think I might have this thing" and together we have talked it out.

The thing is, at some point *when you can* you gotta talk it out with a professional, even if it's some months or some years. Even if it's in 5 years or more: why?

Mental illnesses are really complex; sometimes you might have lots of symptoms and experience a depressive episode, but you do not have clinical depression. This DOESNT mean your experience is way better or worse than someone else, just that you might NEED a different approach. Maybe you need for a certain time some meds, or maybe you need to change your entire routine. It's needed to get checked if it's an internal factor or an external one. Maybe you are someone who obsesses about something being wrong with you and you need an external perspective of the whole thing. Psychologists and experienced in the medical field *need* other psychologists because they can't tell themselves what they have.

This is why I mean the whole self diagnosis is part of the process, of course you will get aware of stuff you are experiencing and seeing similarities, and you will be probably right about what you have! Or not be too far off the tree. Or you can be completely wrong and have a whole different thing (as happened to me, went to the doc being 17 thinking I have 1 thing but turns out I had a mix of... Tada!!!! 5 things and made me realize I had a severe case of anguish)

And I understand the part of not being able to go to the psychologist, I really do. I also understand that there are BAD psychologists/psychiatrists.

On the first topic, I had a big breakdown and attack of seeing things that were not real at 13-14, people thought I was making it all up and well, a lot of stuff happened but I was unable to see professional help until I was 17 nearly 18. And I still struggle to be able to go to the psychologist because I don't have much money but I seriously encourage to try to find the way *at some point* to go

On the latter, I've gone to terrible professionals. Literally a psychiatrist I went two times made me only cry and told me things like I had to suck it up and other stuff I don't remember when I was going through what I think it was a big depressive episode. Though, as all things, you keep trying to find a professional that you can trust. That one psychiatrist was an old fart and kind of a mean man and when I started searching again for professional help I found quite helpful rly young people who had some kind of similar mindset (being able to tell jokes in meetings, comfy to call them on the phone, little things I'd notice in the first time I see em)

Sorry for this long post and I feel like I'm repeating myself a lot, but this topic in particular, if I had self diagnosed and never consulted a professional because of my trauma, it could have happened 2 things:

- I could have had a brain tumour and never know

- I would have believed I had untreated schizophrenia and I would have waited out developing symptoms, believing in my ignorance of that mental illness (have in mind I was experiencing this as a teenager with no resources) that I would become someone losing myself and I even would have worried more about "my diagnosis" that the real problems I was experiencing (dealing with the symptoms). I remember being SO obsessed when I was 15 about what was wrong with me and thinking I would end up having some sort of outbreak at some point and hurt someone or hurt myself I completely forgot of actually take care of myself

Everytime there's a mental awareness day posts get full of "depression and anxiety" stuff which, don't get me wrong, it's super important to get talked about. But there's more than 5 principal mental illnesses and there's lots of stuff we don't know, like how a mix of two things can affect someone's mind. That's why I encourage going to professionals when u can and to have an open mind about what you could have if you find out there's something else going on

[snkpolls]

SnK Chapter 124 Poll Results

The chapter 124 poll closed with 2,065 responses. Thank you to everyone who participated!

This month’s poll team: @erensjaegerbombs @momtaku, _Puppet_ ,  @shifter-lines and @ladymoe6​

  RATE THE CHAPTER 1,926 Responses

Fours and fives still dominate but there’s no denying that this chapter lacked the hype we’ve seen recently. “Thaw” had the lowest number of 5’s this year, performing similarly to the Zeke-centric flashback chapter in 114, “Sole Salvation”. (There’s a pun to made here about us “warming up to Thaw” but sadly I am not smart enough to make it.)

The Chapter of Necessary Filler & the Obligatory Cliffhanger

I love that Isayama isn't rushing everything and is actually focusing on little details and small interactions between characters. He really isn't glorifying an "apocalyptical scenario" just for the sake of destruction in itself or shock value.

This chapter felt like a nostalgia trip, but I wasn't in for the ride.

This chapter was a breath of fresh air ngl. These past chapters were mostly full of either a flashback, monologue or just having two characters talking in a realm where nothing happens and time is frozen, but, at last, the plot is moving foward in the real world too. Not only it contained long gone titan action, but also great character development/moments as well. I missed this.

The leaks didn't give this chapter justice

A weaker chapter overall, I hope all this buildup will be well spent in the next chapter.

I actually loved everything about this chapter, I can't believe Isayama finally gave me a reason to kind of like Gabi. I'm sure she'll do something to immediately change that…

Isayama-sensei is the best, each chapter is a 10/10 for me. I do agree that this chapter is not as great as as the last 5, but it's still great. This year is impossible to choose the Top 5 Best Chapters of SNK

It was good, but I was hoping for a crazier year closure.

  WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS YOUR FAVORITE MOMENT?

1,995 Responses

There were many great moments in this chapter, but Annie’s highly anticipated return to the active plot takes up the largest amount of votes! Other notable moments were: Shadis taking command, Armin realizing Annie’s crystal must have unhardened, the 104th discussing Eren, and Jean’s salty reaction to Floch’s continued survival.

A N N I E is BAAAAAAACK!!!

as someone too invested in the gabi-nicolo-braus plot thread by i love sasha i am absolutely Fed with that excellent "get out of the forest" talk. thank u for the good food nicolo

It's great to see the other 104th members discuss about Eren's actions. At least we got a glimpse on what they think about Eren's plan.

For once I'm gonna forgive Isayama for putting off Levi and Hange. I FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE ANNIE BACK ON MY BIRTH MONTH!!! BEST PRESENT EVER

I like the parallels to Trost, especially the part with the thunder spears sort of mirroring the thing with the guns and the elevator from S1

  WHO WAS THIS CHAPTERS MVP? 1,988 Responses

Despite the influx of negative commentary, 38.2% of respondents agree that Gabi’s persistence to save Falco and reconciliation with Kaya earned her the MVP title this month. The strongest contenders were Shadis and Jean.

Annie saved this chapter from the Gabi / Kaya focus

Connie- the underrated suffer boi

Gabi best girl!

I am proud of Jean for taking charge, he acted like a real commander.

Reiner Best character 😔👌

SHADIS IS THE MVP AND I LOVE HIM

  WHICH CHARACTER WERE YOU MOST DISAPPOINTED WITH? 1,998 Responses

“None of the above” was a popular suggestion (25.2%) but Connie edged that choice out by a percentage point (26.3%) . At least you guys listen when the evening news says that stealing children is bad.

Silly of you to ask us which character we're most disappointed with. We're always disappointed with Floch in every panel he shows up in

it's good to have a connie development, but I was a little sad about his attitude

I'm not so much disappointed with Connie in this moment as I am with the direction his character arc has gone lately in general. I miss when he was fun instead of angry all the time.

I think everyone is acting super irrational. Eren is going to destroy the world but all the SC are "accepting" of it. I think deep down they are all horrified and in a completely insane mental state causing irrational decisions and thoughts such as Jean being okay with genocide.

I understand that Connie is desperate to find a comfort after all the ppl he lost, but I'm still extremely disappointed in him for wanting to murder a child. Not just Connie tho, the same goes for Jean and Armin. Armin didn't say "Let's not kill a freaking child" he just objected because he didn't want to provoke Reiner and Pieck.

  WHAT DID YOU THINK OF REINER’S ROLE THIS CHAPTER? 1,889 Responses

Reiner takes a back seat this chapter, and just barely over half of the fandom believe he deserves that nap after all he’s been through.  Another quarter, at 25.8% are wishing he could just die at this point, for better or worse.

"Enough already. Just sleep." - Reiner to Eren in 117

Can Reiner pick an opinion and stick with it for .2 seconds. he's like hardcore ready to kick ass and then immediately turns around and is ready to die again

Game over man

He's cute. End of the story.

I think it was bizarre that Gabi just let him fall asleep and left him in an enemy territory where he could be captured or eaten by a mindless titan

I understand him being tired an all, but sleeping in the middle of a warzone and at the start of the apocalypse???

Helos needs his rest and good dreams of Bert

I think it is set up for his future death : saving Falco by being eaten by Connie's mom (he was there with Connie in Ragako village)

Madlad goes to sleep instead of dying

Man literally too tired to die

There were certainly worse ways than "passed out from exhaustion" that he could've been written out of the chapter. At least we know his current status this way, unlike a certain duo...

He need some milk

Reiner votes for “Can’t he just die already?”

  WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE EREN PARALLEL IN GABI AT THE MIRROR? 1,869 Responses

Gabi’s design is based on Eren, and she’s had similarities and parallels to him in the past, what does the parallel in this chapter mean stacked on top of all of that?  About 70% say it’s to further emphasize how similar she is to him at her core.  12.7% don’t think it was an intentional parallel to that Eren scene, 7.7% say she’s going to receive his titan, and a solid 1% wrote in the eloquent thesis of “Fuck Gabi.”

A bit too on the nose

Both have the common factor of determination and the desire to fight to save someone else. "Fight, fight" = "Like I'd give up" In Eren's case, his scene in the mirror is portrayed in a darker, more aggressive environment, he must fight to save his loved ones, but for this goal he must destroy everything. On the other hand, Gabi shows a more heroic/pure attitude, the light is predominant, and his words refer to the desire to fight to save Falco without taking this violence path unlike Ere

Eren cant copyright this hairstyle

How dare she stand where he stood.

I didn't like any parallels that include Gabi. Not this one, and most certainly not the one with Sasha.

It definitely foreshadows something, but I don't think it's that she'll inherit his titan. I think she's going to be the one to end this madness and break the cycle. Unlike Eren, who fights for freedom both for himself and his loved ones, Gabi will fight for peace and equality: a different kind of freedom.

It symbolizes Gabi's character arc starting to go in the opposite direction of Eren, rather than showing them being similar.

It symbolizes Gabi's change in motivation to do anything to save her friends. Just as Eren's motivation in the mirror scene really marked the moment he turned genocidal to protect his friends.

  DO YOU AGREE WITH JEAN’S CONCLUSION THAT EREN IS DOING WHAT HE’S DOING TO PROTECT THOSE HE LOVES? 1,950 Responses

Jean believes he’s figured out why Eren’s doing what he’s doing, does the fandom agree?  The large majority think that’s at least a part of it, as 40.8% think it’s solely that goal in mind, and another 53.5% believe it stemmed from that desire but has evolved and become more complex.  3.3% of fans don’t believe that’s where his motivation stems from at all.

But if that's his goal it still doesn't explain chapter 112

EREN is doing it to protect his friends. YMIR wants vengeance and bloodshed.

I agree, because I really don’t know what else could have been done. The Eldians were hated all over the world and Talk-No-Justu is a folly.

I don't know what to think. At first, Jean seems to be in denial (like most of the 104th), but perhaps it's his way of realizing things. No, Eren must love them a lot, there's absolutely no way that his genocide is unjustified. Right...? Wait…

I think he's being pragmatic and analytical. Like a real leader. Something I expected from Armin. However Armin has strokes of genius during critical times so I'm expecting something.

In a breaking bad way, yes

Yes, although I believe Eren's old and complex relationship with the idea of freedom also plays a big part in this situation.

No, because he isn't doing anything about the mindless titans and treated his friends like trash. I didn't see any kind of concern while they were in danger. I think he's more eager to set his ideals into action.

  WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS THE CORRECT RESPONSE TO WHAT TO DO WITH FALCO? 1,958 Responses

Another serumbowl type discussion arises, yay!!...?  The vast majority, at a combined 81.4% don’t want to feed Falco to anyone, and just want to wrap him up and not start any more conflict.  11.6% think he should be fed to a known titan such as Pixis, and only 4.3% side with Connie’s reaction of feeding him to his own Mama Springer.

Falco is too important. He and Connie will probably have an arc.

Feed him to Floch, jaw titan always dies stupidly and Floch never dies so it should cancel out

Feed him to Levi that way we get jaw Levi and his hand back.

Feed Zeke to Connie's mom instead and take Falco somewhere safe

I don’t have anything against Falco personally, but it makes since to feed him to someone else

I like Falco, but Connie has lost far more than anyone outside the Walls. If feeding Falco to Connie's mom gives Connie some semblance of peace, so be it

NILE !

In a perfect world Connie can have the satisfaction of feeding ZEKE to his mother. Kinda proud that I predicted the “Connie tried to revive his mom” plot point but I think the fact that it’s falco means that Connie fails

There's no right answer here, but I can't imagine any mother would be able to live with the fact that she ate someone else's child in order to live again, so that's probably the worst option.

Well, logically speaking, Falco should probably be fed to Pixis. But my heart calls out for me to wrap him in a blanket.

  WHAT DID YOU THINK OF CONNIE SEEMINGLY SNAPPING ON THE OTHERS AND INSISTING FALCO BE FED TO HIS MOTHER? 1,947 Responses

Understanding prevaled with close to 80% of the fandom selecting “I don’t agree with his actions but I wholeheartedly sympathize with his reasoning”. Only 13% indicated that they were disappointed with him.

Falco's a kid, man! You don't cross that line!

Connie, if your mom needs a kidney transplant, you don't just shank another person to steal their kidneys. Just saying.

Connie has been pushed to his limit. He needs a nap and a minute to cry.

Although Connie is not thinking clearly, I'm glad they're not blindly hating on him like some have been doing for Eren.

Connie's break is truly amazing to me. The guy was always so good and chill and dedicated before these hard times. To see him at his breaking point, horrified by everything that is happening and overwhelmed by the situation, and thus reverting into single-minded dedication to one fundamental goal - saving his mother. It's tragic to see him like this and it's probably not the best "logical" action, but it makes complete sense that he'd do this. He's sick of this clusterfuck. He has a ticket to save his mom and he's gonna take it. Poor Falco though, of course.

I didn't see it coming, but it's not like it's unthinkable. When the world collapses we often want to run back to our mama.

I disagreed with him, but I thinks his feelings are understandable and, also, I liked a lot that he pointed out 104's hypocrisy. The serum drama is coming back to bite their asses.

I understand he wants to see his mom again but does he really want to give her the cruel fate of becoming a titan shifter?

I understand his reasoning, but this is literally the WORST possible time to cause an internal crisis

I'm sad for him & deeply uncomfortable by it.

I’m mad at Connie only because he straight up abandoned his duty to pacify the Titan situation.  He left Jean, Mikasa, and Armin to take care of it without him. Lucky Shadis was there to help.

  REGARDLESS OF YOUR VIEWS ON CONNIE’S ACTIONS, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HIM FINALLY GETTING SOME TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT? 1,946 Responses

More than half the fandom was happy to see him speak his mind and get some character development (53.3%). 16% were absolutely thrilled. Those who don’t care, and those whose disappointment over how he returned soured the moment came in at 10%... I’m willing to bet at least one of those votes is because he doesn’t have a new hair style.

Going to the dark side doesn't suit the former sunshine called Connie.

My man has been in the story since the beginning. He is well overdue for an arc.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

But why FALCO? He's the ONLY character outside the Walls I actually LIKE!

Finally we get to see him say something about his mother. Yeah, maybe he's not one of the most important charcters overall, but what he lived through when he saw his mom on that roof finally deserves some thoughts and emotions. Connie was on the margin of the story for way too long, and I'm happy we get to see him talk about how he feels.

Glad he’s doing stuff but he’s 100% going to die

I haven't really liked his development. He's, altho understandably, just an angry dude that can't help himself from getting overcome by his emotions. Not a good look.

I really liked his whole "Eren's crossed the line", now he's making the same mistake. A bitter irony, but does Isayama have time for that?

I'm really disappointed in Connie's "friends" for basically telling him to "chill out, you can't save your mother because we need to make our enemies happy". Hell no to that, I completely sympathize with Connie far more than his "friends" especially since Armin is being the world's biggest hypocrite

It's good because it now opens up the possibility of Connie finally getting his revenge on Zeke

My Boi Connie deserves his own plot-line, so I'm really excited

  TITAN ACTION! BUT OF THE PURE AND AVERAGE VARIETY INSTEAD OF COLOSSALS, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THAT AS THE FOCUS OF THE CHAPTER? 1,936 Responses

A chapter in the endgame that’s almost reminiscent of the defense of Trost with respect to mindless titan action and defending a base.  Despite many other happenings such as the rumbling going on currently, 46% were totally fine with the focus on mindless titan action and thought it was written well, whereas 35.6% enjoyed it, but wished there was a bit more beyond checking that box.  10.8% wanted a larger focus on the titans in the rumbling, and 5.5% would have preferred a focus shift away from Shiganshina entirely.

I love the fact that shows how prepared and easy fighting mindless titans is for them now. When the titans attacked Trost they were hopeless and Jean was the one frozen in fear. Now we get to see him clear up the titans with ease.

I think showing smaller happenings before the big reveal of Eren's titan and the effects of the rumbling are important buildup.

I would have rather focused on what's happening to Pieck and the others near the wall.

I didn't feel that was the focus, but either way, I liked it.

I wish more would’ve happened outside of it BUT it’s important to show them being dealt with otherwise readers would be like “wait, what about all those people who turned into titans?” So not the best, but necessary.

I'm not crazy about fighting scenes, I prefer the ones where they discuss stuff, but these were really emotional with Shadis and Pixis and everything. Like, it wasn't even so much about fighting itself, for me at least, but about Shadis uniting people again and Armin setting Pixis free finally.

I wish the chapter had explored the idea of Titans appearing now that the Military has begun using weapons which are more effective against humans than Titans. I had thought that the reappearance of Titans would do much more damage since the Military is no longer equipped to handle such threats.

Reminds me of the Trost arc and I love it, but it will probably end up being the last time we see pure titans as this much of a threat.

I love the Season 1-esque fan service. How this series has evolved.

I just wished they didn't have to kill their comrades...C'mon this poll question is so heartless wth?

  AFTER EREN GAINED THE FOUNDER, WHY WHERE THE MINDLESS TITANS STILL ATTACKING THE SOLDIERS? 1,944 Responses

Nearly half of the fandom are giving Eren the benefit of the doubt that he simply cannot control the titans, rather than not caring about them or using them. Although many believe that he’s too focused on other things to concern himself with them, and many others feel certain that mindless titans attacking the soldiers is part of his greater plan.

3 times it was mentioned that Eren/Zeke can't control the Titans, I think someone else is controlling them. Possibly Ymir, maybe we'll see Eren getting betrayed.

Eren can't control the mindless Titans because they're Zeke's Titans

It's highly likely the Founding Titan's power and control over Pure Titans has a collective effect of sorts. That is, it can turn Pure Titans back into humans, but if it did, it would happen to ALL Pure Titans, not just a specific group of them. It's possible that is how the Fritz royalty used the Pure Titans while maintaining the Eldian population during ancient times. Here, if Eren were to use that aspect of the Founding Titan's power, both the Military Branch Officer Titans AND the Wall Titans would be turned back into humans. Right now, Eren is bent on using the Wall Titans to flatten the World, so he most likely does not want to use the power of the Founding Titan to turn all the Pure Titans in Shingashina + Connie's mom into humans; otherwise, the Wall Titans would turn into humans again too, and that would ruin his rumbling plan.

Regarding Eren and the mindless titans, control issues aside, I just don't think he cares.

  WHAT WAS THE MOST MEMORABLE TITAN KILL THIS CHAPTER? 1,968 Responses

In a chapter full of titan action, several titan kills stood out as both awesome and tear jerking.  Just over half of respondents, at 51.6%, most remember Armin taking out Pixis after thanking him for his service to the cause.  In a very narrow battle for second place, Keith Shadis sowing the recruits how it’s done won out over Gabi taking a cue from Sasha and saving Kaya.

All of them were pretty darn cool

Gabi's and Mikasa's tie for me

Hard to choose, they're all good

I didn't find any of them memorable if I May be honest

Can I choose all? Because I am.

It's a tie between Shadis arriving to save the recruits, Gabi saving Kayo from the Nile Titan, and Armin killing the Pixis Titan. If I was forced to pick, I'd say Armin's scene because of his sorrowful dialogue upon seeing Pixis as a Pure Titan and the flashback to one of Pixis's earliest highlights when he believed in Armin and Eren shortly after they first met.

Literally all of them what kind of sadistic question is this how could I possibly choose

Loved all the kills!!!

ALL OF THE ABOVE

  THERE WAS A LOT OF DEBATE AS THIS CHAPTER WAS COMING OUT ABOUT GABI, AT THIS POINT DO YOU LIKE HER AS A CHARACTER IN THE STORY? 1,985 Responses

Nearly two-thirds of of the fandom currently enjoy Gabi’s overall character, despite what their first impressions may have been (65.1%) . Though there are still many who have yet to warm up to her, if they ever do (34.9%).

Gabi is beginning to grow on me enough I feel neutral about her.

Gabi is a LITTLE more favorable to me, but I still hate her and I wish she never existed. She can never earn forgiveness for Sasha.

gabi is good you guys are just mean

  WHICH THOUGHT BEST MATCHED HOW YOU CURRENTLY FEEL ABOUT GABI? 1,977 Responses

One of the most controversial characters in the story is of course Gabi Braun, but what do fans truly think of her?  Almost half, at 45.9% don’t profess love for her character from the mountains, but understand why she’s important to the story.  In contrast, 19.6% firmly believe the story would be better off if she never existed, and 17.6% want to see even more of her in the upcoming chapters.  16.9% just think she’s been in the spotlight a little bit too much.

Fuck Gabi, Eren will always be better, not this carbon copy Mary Sue

gabi fucking GANG

Such a great chapter! I’m glad that the Gabi hate is stopping now.

Don't know why are people surprised about Gabi. Her closure with the Braus family is something I figured was gonna happen eventually. Guess Isayama wanted to get that out of the way early.

Of course my opinion of Gabi is unchanged. I still hate her no matter how much "development" she gets.

Gabi is a super uninteresting character to me

i really liked gabi’s character development in this chapter, especially since i was previously a gabi hater.

She is the new MC now. Upgrade.

I see why Gabi exists but she’s just such a forced character. The parallel between her and Sasha was so forced and just felt wrong. Don’t care about her killing Sasha her character is just a forced rehash of eren.

I'm disappointed in her as she is becoming more likeable

Gabi's character development finally completed in a brilliant way

Like Eren, she's fighting for people she cares about, even if she's wrong/vicious with her methods.

I’m tired of Gabi

Really wish we wouldn't have Gabi shoved down our throats, she's not a good character, let alone person

I'm really proud of Gabi and how far she's come from her original POV. I'm really hoping that this influences Eren and I really hope Falco and Gabi get to reunite.

yams wants us to like her more

She has the same motivations as Eren once had, to save the world, basically.

I will admit Gabi has gone through a lot of development. But that doesn't mean I have to like her. I still hate her, and I will NEVER EVER forgive her for what she did to Sasha.

Gabi's haters being mad is so funny. My girl truly shined this chapter, I love her even more.

Gabi.... I feel like I would absolutely hate being around her irl but I guess I do appreciate her as a character in the story.

Never wanted to kill a child so badly in my existence

Death to Gabi Braun!

I don't hate Gabi enough to want her dead, but "too much spotlight" is the understatement of the year, especially when there is still a lot that has yet to be resolved with the main characters

She just wants to protecc

I love Gabi but she gets too much screen time at this point in the story. I want to see Historia and hopefully Eren later.

I LOVE GABI SO MUCH SHE IS THE BEST GIRL

I like Gabster. Gabi Gang Gabi Gang

Me no likey bad bad

  NOW THAT ALL OF THE ORIGINAL BRANCH HEADS ARE GONE, WHO SHOULD BE IN CHARGE OF THE PARADIS MILITARY? 1,955 Responses

The head of all of Paradisian government, Darius Zackly, went out with a bang, and now we’ve lost the interim head Pixis, as well as Nile Dok.  Who’s going to pick up the torch?  There’s a big three that seem to have emerged as popular choices, with Jean winning out, Hange coming in second, and Shadis taking up third.  

A combination of several people noted above.

Hanji+SC Armin+Garrison Jean+MP

Anyone but Floch

Jean. He's the only one that can view the Rumbling objectively and not rule it out as bad because their enemies are destroyed

Armin for strategy, Jean for leadership, Hanji for progress

Daz

Shadis should take over, but only untill Jean can get a little more experience leading.

As long as they agree Marley needs to be wiped out for the sake of Paradis, I'm okay with any leader that accepts that responsibility

Definitely not Hange. She wanted to make peace with Marley. Not leadership worthy at all.

Rico ;-;

Hange may be commander, but they are unfit for taking on as the head of the military. Same goes for Keith, though in this chapter he shows courage by stepping up to push the trainees to fight, I doubt he is willing to go back into a similar position as he was before as the Survey Corp's commander. Among the candidates, Armin may seem like a promising candidate, but aside from his proven intellect, just like Hange both do not possess the level of prowess of leading all three branches (four if count the training squad)of the military. More I think about it the "best" candidate in this list may surprisingly be Jean, but so far he hasnt been giving me the impression as someone who can take on such a massive role.

Erwin

  WHY DID FLOCH ARREST THE VOLUNTEERS? 1,903 Responses

The fandom is fairly divided on Floch’s motives, with a three-way split that comes close to being even. The highest amount of respondents feel he is arresting the Volunteers because he doesn’t trust them based on past actions. In the middle, people feel that he doesn’t want to be associated with any non-Eldian people. And in third place, people felt that he doesn’t trust Yelena specifically, and is taking her group down with her.

As far as I've seen, Floch is on Eren's side, not Zeke's. So that would make Yelena, who hasn't heard about her boss and the euthanasia plan, dangerous as fuck. Even with that, Floch's following his own principles. He has different reasons than Eren, but he just needs the "devil" figure to project his own will.

He always knew Yelena and Zeke's intentions because of Eren, and now he's arresting them to prevent more trouble caused by them. I think Eren "trusts" and is working with Flcoh more than the fandom expect.

Because they conspired to sterilize/euthanize the Paradisians.

He's a completely inconsistent character whose personality and character motivations change at the drop of a hat in order to create conflict in the story.

He thinks Yelena can take over his position of the best Yeager fanboy and he can't have that.

He was never really on their side at all! Just like how Eren saw them - they were a means to an end, a useful tool but a dangerous one that could never really be trusted. Now that Eren has made his intentions clear and the ideological split is visible, he's fully turning on them and suppressing them from potentially pursuing their own agendas further.

There’s not enough room on Paradis for both of those eccentric hair cuts

  GABI AND ARMIN BOTH SEEM INTERESTED IN PUTTING ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES: WILL THE SURVEY CORPS AND WARRIORS TEAM UP? 1,928 Responses

After having been warring factions since the beginning, will the warriors and Survey Corps finally team up as one?  62.9% feel a team up will happen, but not everyone from both sides will want to be involved, and a solid 30% believe a full team up is in the cards.  Only 5.8% don’t feel that it’s possible at this point.

Any cooperation will be a compromise, so maybe?

At this point I really don't know. Their passivity disappointed me fully this chapter. They need their TRUE leaders who are MIA at the moment.

I hope it happens but I think Armin is acting under Bert's influence

I hope not, it sounds lame.

i think maybe they will be forced to work together to stop the titans because they are attacking both sides.

It's the ideal scenario I suppose

Only until the Rumbling stops. After that, the SC needs to dispose of all the remaining Warriors to end the war for good.

PLEASE MAYBE REINER WILL GET SOME CLOSURE OUT OF IT

Probably but it’s waaay to cliché. Please don’t Isayama

They'll team up to stop Eren, if that works they'll be enemies once again

Yes and Yes! I've been saying this for months: warriors and SC are going to have to work together. Magath is going to play a role in this too.

  ANNIE!! THOUGHTS: 1,948 Responses

91 chapters.  91 Months.  7 and a half years.  Longer than we were with the characters pre-timeskip.  Annie has been in a crystal, but now she's free!  33.4% think she came back at the perfect time and Isayama has nailed his writing once again.  18.4% are excited for her return, but don’t feel there’s much time left in the story for the wait to be worth it.  15.7% aren’t worshippers at her crystal, and so aren’t too hyped out of their minds.  29% however: A N N I E

akueeoekskfnfjyfjekqwiruuri MY GIRL IS BACK BITCHES, AND I NEED POST-AWAKENING MIKANNIE FANFICTION NOW

glad she's back but the plot has nothing for her to do anymore

How he brought her back makes perfect sense and I love it. If she chose to come out at this time rather than being forced, it would have been awkward and forced to be honest. But Eren taking away all hardening is the best way to bring her back AFTER SEVEN FUCKING YEARS.

glad to have her back but sceptical of her importance

go back into hibernation

Good in-story reason, great writing, but waited far too long. Not sure if she will even be relevent for the remainder of the story that already has a lot of loose ends.

Hentannie

I am not hyped because it took too long and the series has gone too far down a path I can no longer follow.

I DID MY WAITING! TWELVE YEARS OF IT! IN AZKABAN!

I don't know what Annie can do at this point of the story that will make her return worthwhile

I don’t think Isayama and his editors would allow her to be brought back for a poor plot point/reason, so I’m curious to see what role she’ll have.

I wasn't too concerned about Annie at this point in the story but I'm glad that her return makes sense with the events currently taking place and I'm interested to see what Isayama has planned for her.

I'm no fan of her so I'm not excited at all, but I assume she'll drive the plot somewhere soon.

She's got a lot of catching up to do. Concerned it won't be handled well.

The reasoning is sound, and I am glad that Isayama thought that part through, but we have a limited number of pages left, so I am worried about how this will play out.

Took too long so it ended up being very 'meh' for me, but congratulations Annie-stans, have a drink tonight

Should've been way sooner, her potential as a character feels wasted since we're almost done now. All she'll have time to do is get caught up on what happened and then have a couple reunions.

I honestly have no idea what Isayama plans to do with her but I’m just GLAD SHES FINALLY FUCKING BACK!!!! MY BABY GIRL IS BACK!!!!

  ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT ANNIE WILL DO NEXT? 675 Responses

Annie will have a run-in with Hitch, get things explained and head towards the main conflict.

Dare I say it, Assist With Armin’s Talk No Jutsu with Eren

"Run"

Definitely try to get to her dad.

Try to find her warrior friends

Determine her situation and act accordingly

She won't be too surprised at what Eren's become. She remarked how when the "good guys" take power, then it's all over to Marlowe in Season 1.

A girl can dream of her and Pieck being badasses.

All the titan shifters will come together (location-wise), it seem like a flag? Since all the shifter's powers is a part of Ymir herself, having them close might have significant meaning.

ANNIETHING

Be traumatized by manga spoilers? Wonder wtf happened?? Try to find Reiner??

Annie will join Eren.

Not give a shit about anything apart from Papa Leonhardt

Annie will play a huge role in stopping Eren, in some way.

be a badass like usual and FEMALE TITAN ACTION?????

Change her clothes because why is she wet

umm take a shower lol

Character development and teaming up against Ereh

I think Hitch will be the one to find her - she was in charge of guarding the crystal. I think she'll be too weak to fight right now though, so I'm worried that she's just going to be used as a Titan Shifter snack :(

Somehow affect Eren's mindset. Not sure exactly how.

Go kiss Armin pls

I'm hoping for Armin to transform into the Colossal Titan. Annie will see this thinking it's Bertoldt, and then have a good character moment upon finding out that Armin ate him.

Her endgame is to at least partially counteract the rumbling with her scream ability.

Confused --> Shocked --> Mad --> or all at the same time. Anyway, she will probably meet up with Armin and the gang and they will explain the shit situation to her and somehow they will come up with a plan or smth.

I think she’ll be forgotten about for a few chapters then show up in the battle. It’ll be interesting to see what side she takes at that point. I’m sure someone will conveniently fill her in on the last few years.

She's a wild card, but the last we saw her she wanted to get back home. I'm sure she will be invested in saving the world from annihilation.

She is FAR away right now. I think dealing with Annie is a good wind-down after all this World-ending stuff has been dealt with, like when they save the Shire after defeating Sauron

Crystallize

Yeet to Marley and die with her papa.

Annie's first move will be to find a toilet sure she must be dying for a pee like

  HOW HAS YOUR OPINION ON THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS CHANGED?

Shadis, Jean and Gabi are the big winners in the opinion poll this month with the majority selecting “More Favorable” reaction to them. Shadis had 1379 respondents selecting “more favorable”, Jean had 1076 and Gabi came in third with 980. Fighting titans so soon after surviving a bear attack is impressive, so I’m not surprised with these results. At the other end of the spectrum, Connie (542) and Floch (496) had the most number of “Less Favorable” selections. While the good outweighed the bad, Gabi again proved to be polarizing with 432 people choosing “Less Favorable” despite her positive development this month.

  FAVORITE NEW TITAN DESIGN? 1,926 Responses

Isayama’s nods to his television viewing habits continue with the appearance of the “Better Call Saul” titan. Our appreciation of Isayama’s sense of humor continues with more than 50% of us selecting it as “Favorite New Titan Design” (51.5%). Pixis was a distance second with close to a quarter choosing his titan form (23.7%) as their favorite.

Still laughing over the Saul Titan. Good ol' slippin' Jimmy

the Better call Saul titan looks more like Bolsonaro (Brazil's president)

one last hurrah to the Pure Titan mayhem the series was originally known for, and witnessing the tragic end to Nile and Pixis

  WHAT ARE YOU HOPING TO SEE NEXT CHAPTER? 1,926 Responses

The three elements of the story which have been absent for months, or even years, take the top overall votes for what the fandom would like to see next. 33.6% are dying to see present-day Levi and Hange again. 24.1% are still eager to get Historia’s perspective. 23.6% are still hoping to one day see Eren’s inner thoughts.

All I want for Christmas....Is Historias POV

I'm missing Connies adventure on the 'What are you hoping to see next chapter?' question.

Bitch give me Levi. It’s been more than half a year.

I literally only care about the 104th characters so the more of them we can see next chapter the better

Give me more Eren action pleaseee

So why is Annie pov not an option for next chapter?

I have waited for 7 years, finally, Annie is back. I wanna see more of her story and  character development. I cant wait to see her conversation with Hitch and Armin!

Please Isayama give me more good Shadis content

I really want to see Eren's full complete titan. Issayama, stop blueballing us please!

I would actually like to know more about that spine creature that is evidently the source of Titans.

Is there a Kiyomi option?

  WHERE DO YOU PRIMARILY DISCUSS THE SERIES? 1,843 Responses

With close to 200,000 members it’s no surprise that Reddit continues to dominate the discussion field (47.7%), followed distantly by Tumblr (15.5%), Real Life (9.8%) and Discord (6.7%). Amazingly, 9% don’t discuss it at all. This month, FIVE of you said Snapchat, up from four last month, so while there’s still technically a possibility that you guys are actually forming some weird snapchat cult and this isn’t an elaborate psyop, I’m still not convinced. But regardless of where you discuss the series, or if you even do, we truly appreciate your participation in the chapter poll!

  ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? 416 Responses

OMG! Okay, it's happening! Everybody stay calm! Annie! Annie! Annie!

Annie got crystalized in chapter 33, and now she's out, 91 chapters later. Since 12 chapters are published in a year, we have been waiting for her (not including flasbacks and her just chilling in the crystal) 7 years and 7 months. I salute all the diehard Annie fans, you had a long wait.

Once again I have marked my calendar. May 9, 2012 - December 5, 2019. After 7 excruciating years our queen is FINALLY awake. This deserves a new record for longest amount of time a character has been comatose in real life. Thank GOD it's finally over I still can't believe it.

I'm a big fan of all of the smaller storylines coming together, hoping for everything to be wrapped up nicely and characters from different factions (i.e Hange, Annie, Historia) all coming together to address the rumbling.

It felt a little like a breather chapter, despite all the action. It was nice to slow down and get some character development for everyone.

“Everyone has a devil in them” is a great message. Hope they all team up and stop Eren. Very curious about what Annie will do!

The parallels to Trost arc were nice, but I felt like the endgame was finally amping up only to be put on hold.

Great chapter! I like Pathland, and the flashback with Levi and Hanji was great, but it was a relief to get some current time action. Gabi is best girl, Armin just went up by leaps and bounds in my book, and Annie is back!! So excited for the next chapter…

Great one ! The fear from the mindless titans in back, like in Trost. Many side characters development/deaths (Nile, Pixis, Shadis, Kaya, Nicolo, Gabi, Annie, Connie, Jean...). So much good stuff, I almost forgot about the rumbling going on !!

Amazing. If Isayama maintains this quality til the end, then this will be one of my favorite series, of any media, ever.

I'm wondering what Annie can realistically do at this point. Sure she beat Eren before but now he's in another level.

Guess we don't have to deal with the genocidal jock for a while

REINER HELOS BRAUN WILL SAVE THE WORLD (after his power nap)

ANNNIIEEEEE; Shadis' comeback was wonderful. I hope he can make up for the loss of Pixis and Erwin and such. He has great potential and he's a well developed character. Jean is asking the real questions, but the showdown between him and Floch is about to go down.

I said previously that if Floch survives I wanted my money back. But you know what? I'll take my refund in Annie store credit. Thanks for that bright spot, Isayama!  Also: this chapter pointed out how many good people in the world will suffer if Eren succeeds. And I felt as frustrated with the remnants of the 104th as Gabi. Nicolo and Shadis became my unexpected heroes this chapter.

Is Zeke still alive? Is he still controlling the mindless titans?

Floch didn’t do anything particularly bad this chapter but every time I have to see his face my opinion of him becomes less favorable. When Jean said “so you lived...” I FELT that disappointment lol.

I love the Braun siblings interaction in this chap. And Nicole's "we'll try to get out of the forest" sends chills. I think that's one of the point ISTM is trying to get across.

Does Connie realise that if his mother was given one of the nine titan powers she would be made to fight? Getting one of the titan powers is very much a curse not a blessing (especially with the Jaw titan)

At this point the Eren/Gabi parallels are feeling a little overdone and forced.

If Gabi receives Eren’s Titan it will be the stupidest most disappointing thing to happen in this- no all of manga! Besides, what is the damn point of her “paralleling” Eren anyways? But the Sasha paralleling was even more gnarly YUCK!

It's true that the people of Paradis will benefit from this shit, but I highly disagree with any justification when it comes to Eren's horrible actions. GENOCIDE IS NEVER THE OPTION. I think Jean is disappointed too but he's trying his best to rationalize the crap Eren's carrying out for he still doesn't want to believe his friend is committing genocide. I expect he comes back to his senses soon otherwise I no longer will appreciate him as a character.

That "who are you most disappointed" will sadly be filled with Armin hate tbh. And in the end he was just wanting to avoid unnecessary conflict... tbh Anyone hating on Connie, Gabi and Armin doesn't seems to know how humans emotion work in helpless situations...

What Yams is doing to Connie is further proof he is ruining his main characters (the good ones) to make room for his precious Marley characters (the crappy ones)

Connie's regression and frustration was more and more visible since Sasha died. He's lost everyone close to him. I am happy to see him finally snap at Armin and go his own way. This was foreshadowed for a while now.

I hope Isayama sensei doesn't forget to include World Millitary's raid in the action. They already mention in some previous chapter by Zeke.

Quantity-wise, the chapter wasn't centered around Gabi, okay. But. BUT. Gabi got quite a few powerful scenes, very Gabi-centric scenes, and I'm not happy about that. I don't see how and why the fandom so easily forgave her for what she's done. Isayama drawing parallels between Gabi and Sasha was insulting and distasteful.

It is highly likely that this is the last time we are going to see Pure Titan mayhem in the series now that the Rumbling is taking place, so I think it was great to that focus in this chapter. I thought it was handled well, especially with Shadis's scenes, the parallel of the new recruits seeing the Pure Titans peaking through the hole of the fortress tower much like a similar scene in the Trost arc, the tragedy of seeing Pixis and Nile (two of the last remaining head honchos of the military not counting Hange and Shadis) as Pure Titans and getting killed off for good, and how characters like Armin and Jean fought those Pure Titans.  

WARMASTER FLOCKE, TO LEAD THE ARMIES OF ELDIA TO VICTORY! Haha no I guess not. I'm torn between Flocke, Jean, Eren, and Shadis. All could be good picks but all outcomes would have different implications on the story and what it means. I guess if I had to pick, it'll be Shadis or Eren for now and then perhaps Jean later when things have settled and they've grown up more.

I honestly can't keep up with how many faces Floch has.

With how the pacing is handled there's no way this is ending in 6 chapters. The real climax is Eren having to go against his friends because there's no way in hell Mikasa is allowing him to genocide kids

As heartbreaking as this chapter has been, I already had my hopes destroyed when 119 was released. Today has been the confirmation for two awesome characters, who fell because of the non-veteran rule. I don't know why I still hope to see Keith staying alive, but at least we got an awesome moment of his.

Characters are being balanced relatively well. Isayama's got a lot of characters and plot threads to deal with, and while Levi, Hange and Historia are getting less focus than I would like, I think he's doing a pretty good job of keeping each character relevant and giving them all some good arcs/ moments

Everything (except for Gabi scenes) was perfect for me!

Eww Gabi-focused chapter…

I simply hate how cowardy the 104th is acting. It's clear they're only fighting in their own interest and are just pulling excuses after excuses for supporting Eren. At least Floch is honest about it.

Man, the 104th always been the group I care the less in the story, but this chapter they're being so annoying (apart from Mikasa). Well, I can forgive Connie because of everything he went through, but Jean... why are you saying this ""there was no other choice, eren is protecting us"" bs ? Nice of you to be complicit of mass genocide. (Yes, I know his face shows he's conflicted, but he still sides with eren) Also Armin... at least he's horrified at what's Eren's doing but when he said that if they don't kill Falco there would be no conflict with the warriors since Marley will be gone....that's just dumb. Their home and families are going to be destroyed, but ok Armin, go off. And getting into another serumbowl situation, with one of my fave uncounscious while the SC decides who will eat him... I don't like it. (I don't think Falco will be eaten tho, the whole thing raised many death flags on Connie)

Great chap, Isayama seems to finally give closure to certain plot parts. End is near.

Here's a crazy idea: feed GABI to Connie's mom instead of Falco, there would be nowhere near as much arguing with that

Highlights that people can rise above their conditions to become better people, offering a counterargument that humanity should be wiped out.

I don't get why the story pacing was disrupted so much. Why build up to a climatic cliffhanger with the rumbling, only to basically ignore it for the entire following chapter?

I honestly wonder if titan shifting still works as it used to. I'm afraid of seeing Falco get eaten for nothing. Honestly I'm worried about Falco dying for nothing while people right over him as a pawn in general.

Quite interesting chapter. Had fun with it. Much, much slower paced than expected almost. But then again we need time to cover all this stuff. And I'm happy it all took place in the current rather than another flashback. Not really a fan of the Gabi stuff but it is what it is. The other character developments were quite nice. Reiner literally just falling asleep tho lol. Overall I guess I wouldn't say it's a "big" chapter but it is necessary to bridge what came before with whatever comes next. And at long last Annie is back, so that's GLORIOUS.

I hope Annie will have such a big role she gets repaid for the all years she's been gone😞

I hope Isayama uses the slowdown in the pace to better sell the scale of the rumbling, we already see part of that by hoe Eren's dino titan still isnt complete, even after all this time

I love how the story is progressing.The next chapter is always something I personally don't expect and it's always exciting. The hype at the beginning/end of the month is unreal. As for the chapter itself, it's always refreshing to see Jean's perspective on Eren's plans because I love his interpretations on him. #TEAMJAEGER

i love my waifu annie i missed her so much

I love you Connie and I'm sure your mom is nice and all but Falco is a precious bean who needs to be protected.

I really hated the Gabi-Sasha and Gabi-Eren parallels. I also still think Gabi was never needed in this story, in fact I don’t know how I’ll be able to stomach season 4. Ugh, the first half will be completely and utterly Gabified. Gabi in color and motion plus speaking, YUCK!  Anyways I hope that the next chapter will have an update on Hange, Levi, and Historia. And maybe Floch getting punched by Shadis that would be the Cherry on top.

It was an average chapter, not bad but nowhere near as good as the previous ones. Plus I'd appreciate if other characters, outside of Gabi, had more spotlight. Her arc and development is done, give more development and screentime to other characters such as Mikasa please.

Just being disappointed. The pacing is very slow. Also the main cast's reactions were too passive. I hated it.

Just great. Just great. The drawings were incredible and the plot just keeps getting better.

Less Gabi, more Historia!

Levi and Hange better return in some way, shape, or form, or Yam's is in for it.

Levi is the new Annie

Love getting to see thoughts from many different characters and where they stand. A lot of them are still left behind trying to rationalise things to make it emotionally palatable, or simply stuck not being able to accept the reality, whereas Gabi has kind of gone ahead and realised there's evil on both sides, and she's willing to kill Eren or work with him if she can best protect the people she cares about (eventually probably not just her friends and family either, but the outside Eldians as a whole).

My baby is back!!!!!!!! I wanna see more of ANNIE!!!!!!

Nicolo talking to Kaya and Gabi was cringey af. Did they really do back to that derpy forest analogy? If this series ends with them holding hands and singing around a campfire imma legit be so disappointed. I need me my Rumbling!

This chapter felt like a nostalgia trip, but I wasn't in for the ride. It was a mess of short catching-up moments when I just want to pick Eren's brain. I want to see Levi and Hange alive or hear what Annie and Historia think about the events, but at the moment I don't care about even those storylines. I just want to know what the relationship between Ymir and Eren is now that the walls came down.

The first panel being Mr. Leonhart was a pretty strong indicator to me that Annie would be released in the last panel, and it was. I felt that to be extremly poetic, and the timing is good too. Another wildcard in the plot. Excellent.

Compared to the previous chapter, this one turned out to be very disappointing. I was excited to see the rumbling and getting a glimpse of Eren’s thoughts and feelings. But instead I got Reiner going to sleep, Gabi being paralleled to Eren (again) and Sasha, the 104th busy arguing over what to do with Falco instead of, you know, focusing on THE RUMBLING

Good chapter, but if S4 is the final season and airs Autumn 2020, and with a monthly release, curious as to how isayama might tie up these "last minute" plot threads such as the new developments with Connie and Falco.

What else can I say except it's amazing and it was worth the wait

Where is Levi damnit

[lizardl0ver43]

the society and toxic masculinity

lol i feel like one thing the society does is basically the opposite of what you usually see on TV with male vs. female characters, where on the society all the girls are complex characters and all the boys are like 2d caricatures of how much men suck. and im not sure that's a good thing, just flipping the script.

like, take campbell for example, who started out like he could mayyybe be a ~complicated~ bad boy (although still shitty and unlikeable), and then it turns out, nope. he's just a pyschopath with no redeeming qualities. which, okay, maybe that's fine. let's explore head-on how that kind of person can hurt those around him. maybe that can be compelling, if it's written well.

and then you have harry, who is the absolute weakest, most entitled character on the show. rather than representing depression well, they just kind of went "oh, hes a crackhead now." the audience almost cant tell whether they're supposed to sympathize with him or find him pathetic, because they make him so unlikeable at times. (and ofc not to mention his rape fantasy about cassandra that literally no one (@ hallie stans) wants to talk about.) and at this point, it's almost kind of fun! like, yes, finally, representation of how shitty men can be.

but then you have will, who is probably one of the more disliked characters. which is weird, because he's objectively okay, but he's so BORING. because, rather than use his character to discuss racism, poverty, privilege. . . rather than expand on his background and point of view. . . his entire storyline is basically romantic subplot, the way a lot of female characters are often sidelined. first, it's pursuing kelly in a way that's. . . insensitive and entitled and not really romantic at all. and then, he suddenly flips and pursues allie, and guilts her when she says it's not the right time and. . . it's just bad writing. because unlike harry and campbell, which at least are compelling in some ways, there's just nothing interesting about will. maybe they could run with it, make it a commentary about entitled "nice guys"? but now we're stretching.

and then theres gordie. god. gordie, who is the only good straight man on the show, and even he was unlikeable when it came to cassandra. his devotion to her, which couldve been ok if he didnt have weird lines about her needing him? and like the weird implication that hes only taking care of her because he expects something romantic from her? but then, at the prom when she kisses him, he does tell her not to do it if she doesnt mean it, and the way she was kind of using him, and damn. that was an interesting dynamic they couldve explored if they hadnt killed her off lmao. but after she dies, hes just kind of purposeless. he becomes obsessed trying to find her killer, he becomes a doctor, he's still technically a useful member of new ham? but his character is just kind of floating, a lot like will. his is the kind of character that should be really likeable, but instead is kind of bleh.

and finally, the male characters who dont get as much screen-time: luke is maybe the most likeable, with the greatest possibility for redemption, but that's only because of our investment in his relationship with helena, not because he's an incredibly dynamic character or anything. clark and jason start off as stereotypical dumb jocks, but then power gets to them and they abuse it, they become sadistic. and that's good and fine, but when literally every male character on the show is unlikeable at least and violent at most, it starts to become tedious. like they're beating us over the head with how much MEN SUCK, but accidentally forgot to make interesting characters along the way. and grizz and sam, who we ofc love and find no fault with. . . are still somewhat two dimensional, and didn't get much development as individuals nor in their relationship. and yet, they're probably the only representations of good men on the show! (and it's kind of a broke take that straight guys, even the good ones, are doomed to b shitty and poisoned by toxic masculinity, while gay guys get to be sensitive and funny and kind.)

now, id argue that the society generally suffers from having unlikeable, underdeveloped characters. which is maybe bc it doesnt manage its large ensemble cast well. (dont get me wrong, i still like it. i adore some of the characters, and m certainly invested. . . its just not a masterpiece). but the men on the show are sometimes comically bad, comically lacking nuance. it all boils down to a half-hearted statement of "well, look how much men can ruin society." and the truth is, all of this could work! it could b an actually cool commentary on male entitlement and privilege and violence. it's even kinda hinted at well in episode three where they're going with all this. but the society simply isn't an intelligent enough show for the two dimensionality of its male characters to seem deliberate. instead, it's kind of just bad writing? and i really hope the men actually get development and redeemable qualities if it gets renewed. (and by redeemable qualities, i dont mean being cute. @ hallies, @ the few whacko campbell apologists, im BEGGING you. being cute is not a redeemable quality. u guys are just straight.)

[blatherkatt]

i just started reading your blumenthal kids reunionfic and i LOVE IT! Its so good and so full of potential and angst and I LOVE IT!!!💞💞💞 The way you write Eodwulf is soooo good hes such a mess and so gay help him. and Astrid Omg... I cant wait for more of her i checked out some of your posts on here and shes just great??? You've clearly put a lot of thought into them with the child designs and stuff, did you have any major inspo for the two of them like songs or other characters and stuff???

hey tumblr dont…delete part of my answer what the heck

anyway!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH,,, ed ( @tactfulgrimalkin ) is the one doing the actual writing but we plan everything together and i edit and do artwork so he deserves lots of love for the great writing…i dont remember what else i had here before tumblr deleted it so i hope thats the gist of it 

eodwulf is a gay disaster of a bastard man and astrid is SO fun and im SO GLAD UR EXCITED TOO BECAUSE WE SURE ARE

anyway you just opened pandora’s box and i’m very sorry for the length of the rest of this answer but here we go prepare for some cursed content necessary to answer that question ( | ) w ( | ) it was a Wild Ride getting these two characters to where they are boy howdy 

so the thing is in order to explain how we created these characters i actually have to get into the origins of the fic on the whole because the two are inextricably linked, and also, the origins of this fic are incredibly cursed and you can send all ur hatemail right here go on blast us we’re ready 

but we were talking about caleb and how we’re both excited for whenever astrid and eodwulf turn up, and the thought came up for basically the rough skeleton of that scene in chapter 2: 

“hey how messed up would it be if instead of them both hunting him down like we’re expecting…one of them comes in with a huge savior complex and sincerely thinks he’s delusional and should still be in the asylum, how MESSED UP would that be” 

…and then shortly after that, this happened 

thats the cursed part dont say i didnt warn u but listen you know we’re right

also that pic of caduceus didnt exist back then i went back and got this screenshot just to share the curse with you all

ANYWAY

in classic us format we got carried away and eodwulf got slotted into the role of that scene in chapter two and his character was largely developed around that scene, like, what kind of person would still be clinging to caleb after all this time to that degree to make that happen? and what was come up with was an extremely avoidant person clinging to a fantasy version of things wherein they don’t have to fight

(eodwulf was developed into a Person before astrid, i should note at this point, and ed did most of that developing; i took point on astrid later on)

but around this time i went “screw it im gonna do some concept art we’re both in too deep now” so here’s some of that for u guys 

started with them all as teens and did a couple sketches as well as one of baby (well. teen. so baby) caleb/bren/we were calling him felix at the time as some of u probably already know 

first draft had astrid with longer hair than eodwulf lmao check this out 

flipped the hair length on those two which was for the best because at the time we were imagining eodwulf as a bit more mischevious which is another thing that got reversed over time now astrids the prankster and eodwulfs the overworked mom friend because bren takes astrid’s ideas and makes them SO MUCH WORSE but he still looks better with longer hair and then i played around w/ colors for a while and wound up w/ this

voila, the initial kid concepts, to which subtle yet vital changes were  made after time. if any of you are curious about if im frustrated that that’s still the best i’ve ever drawn eodwulf’s nose the answer is yes. yes i am. 

astrid’s hair is not messy enough, theres not enough freckles, and she does not look ready to fight the entire world for a dare. 0/10. 

anyway then i did adult versions which look WAY OFF NOW LMAO 

eodwulf with way too much beard, looking far too messy when he ought to look very clean so that he can hide how much of a disaster he actually is, and also a glimpse into the very boring Ice Queen/Heartless Bitch we vaguely had astrid as to start with. even more out of character tho is the earring, astrid as she is today would absolutely never tolerate an earring unless she absolutely had to, girl’s got sensory issues but she didn’t back then. ALSO STILL NOT ENOUGH FRECKLE 

anyWHO a while after this it was decided that eodwulf has ADHD, something both the authors have a whole lot of lmao, and that was the point where ed REALLY took off and developing eodwulf went out of control and we both went Well I Guess We’re Gonna Have To Write This At Some Point Now

and with that happening is when developing astrid took more priority i think, because man, at that point in the game she came way too close to that really  annoying trope that shows up in fanfic a lot wherein The Girl is A Bitch who is Getting In The Way Of ~*The Yaois*~ and thats like, thats bad. we knew from the outset we were absolutely not setting this up as a love triangle because we both hate those but even w/ her having no romantic relationship to either of the two, like…she was kind of just There and the one who was most loyal to trent (the only thing of her original characterization that really stuck, honestly) and sooo boring???? 

so like, and i say this honestly, i managed to COMPLETELY FORGET that “reverse sasuke” cursed comment from the beginning of all this and STILL go “well what if we made her more like caleb’s rival that’d be fun” 

and that’s how astrid sorta wound up accidentally morphing into the Scrappy Underdog of this anime trio and calling her a naruto analogue is extremely cursed but also not inaccurate tbh 

started out with the concept of her popping into bren’s window because she heard they were doing magic and wanted to learn it too and evolved from there; we decided that she was gonna be neurodivergent too but, hilariously, initially that she was “the best at pretending to be neurotypical” (WE COMPLETELY REVERSED THAT AND IT IS FOR THE BETTER. SHE’S SO MUCH MORE FUN NOW) and made her also autistic because it one meant she could be like SAME HAT at bren really hard which’d make her feel more like part of the group instead of just the odd one out, and two because it fits with the whole rivals thing

branching off of that we made her just. INCREDIBLY direct. like. astrid’s thought process is “how can i accomplish what i want accomplished with the smallest number of steps? what are the consequences of doing it this way? do i give a shit? no? im gonna do that.” 

(which is why she climbed a tree to get into bren’s attic instead of using the door because that way she just completely skipped having to convince his mom to let her in)

i cant get into it much here because so many spoilers and we’re gonna explore it all, but like, astrid’s backstory turned into this exploration of the intersection of sexism and ableism especially as applied to a medieval-esque society in which the word “autism” doesn’t even EXIST and in which a convenient double standard exists Right There in the form of bren and like,, its gonna be good guys im excited for it 

as far as characters tho she does also have just a touch of Vimes from discworld to her, albeit like, she’s lawful evil to his lawful good, but she’s got the same tendency to stick REALLY FIERCELY to the rules that she thinks are important, even when they inconvenience her, even if it’d be so much easier to bend them just this once 

and for songs i cannot link like any astrid songs because they all might accidentally give away so much BUT I CAN LINK AN EODWULF SONG 

this one was HUGE for him 

uhhhh i think that’s everything i can think of that we can say right now unfortunately so i’ll end this with a comparison to the current teen designs we have now that are being used in the actual fic, even tho im not fond of how bren came out in this picture, but like, for the sake of comparison 

lets see how far we’ve come 

I N C R E A S E    F R E C K L E 

[daddyd0nt]

I was diagnosed ODD at 12, so about a half decade before my brief squatting saga (which was less “crashing in an abandoned building” and more “deciding as a collective house to not pay the landlord until he fixed our heat which he never did until we moved out”, but legally i was considered a squatter and didn’t want police attention drawn to the living situation).  And yeah like I said a lifetime of body terrorism including from my eating disordered mother and emotionally abusive father was in the long run more traumatizing than the violation and embarrassment of my assaults and just because I was too drugged to remember the encounter doesnt mean it wasn’t violating and traumatic and horrible thats some soren-tier rape apologist bullshit “oh it must not have been traumatizing because it wasnt violent” like fuck u dude ur literally talking about one of the most traumatizing and personality changing events in my life ur talking about somebody violating my body in the most intimate way possible can you at least afford the subject a LITTLE gravity?  And the CSA I experienced was, outside of the incidents with my soulmate’s family fiend, exclusively from older children and none of the incidents were violent, I didn’t even know anything bad had happened until we learned about it in health class and I was like “what do u mean ur not supposed let people touch u there, lots of people touch me there” and I developed a religious trauma complex around purity and virginity that lasted through my teens.  But being touched in a non-violent way by somebody who tells u they just want to show u how to feel good is very different from finding out that a postal worker in my area has violent rape fantasies about women on his routs and wants a fic where he breaks into all of their houses and rapes then murders them, including their facebook profiles in the request “for appearance reference” and specific details of how he fantasized about killing these real life women (that one I actually did report to a tip line because real women were being involved) or a man claiming to be a teacher asking for a story about making his female students submit to sex with him for protection during a mass shooting. I knew pedophiles were out there, I was literally an underage fetlife “star” pedophilia is an upsetting concept and a horrible crime but my skin had been thickened by my own experiences being groomed and preyed on by  pedophiles all through my teens on fetlife but hearing these everyday unassuming men having these violent fantasies about women especially women in their lives made me feel like any man who cast his gaze upon me wanted to kill me in some horrible way, like there was no telling who was safe.  I wasn’t afraid of pedophiles, they wanted to hurt kids not me, but these sadistic men made me feel like I couldn’t tell who around me was dangerous.  Finally I never said fatphobia is worse than rape, I said the two can’t be compared because one is a single traumatic instance while the other is more of a slow erosion of your humanity and dignity.  Its the difference between ripping a bandaid off and picking at it, its the same amount of pain just distributed over a different timeline.  U cant quantify pain in such an absolute way, especially emotional pain, and just because something is more traumatizing to UR brain doesnt mean the event itself was more traumatic or that another brain might have stored it differently (For example, I have a very strong PTSD reaction to the cartoon Happy Tree Friends for some fucking reason where I don’t respond with typical PTSD symptoms to talking about my rape.  That doesnt mean Happy Tree Friends is worse than rape, just that my heart starts beating weird and i cant breathe when i see that cartoon but I can talk about my sexual trauma in a very matter of fact way because instead of coping with it I just went numb).  But again we are talking about the literal worst things that have ever happened to me I can’t imagine talking about somebody‘s trauma with such callousness.  Am I even a real human being to you or just disembodied text on a screen to scorn and mock?

[ofjcsie]

werd. it meme, kayla, with yet another muse. this is my bad bitch josie, lets get to know her shall we

「 ISKRA LAWRENCE, CISFEMALE, TWENTY-FOUR, JESY NELSON. 」┈did you read that latest viral gossip issue on JOSIE PRYOR? she is the VOCALIST in ETHEREAL, one of my favorite POP groups. they’ve been releasing music for ONE YEAR now, but viral gossip has only been talking about them for the last YEAR. get this, i think i heard SHE MARRIED A STRANGER IN LAS VEGAS. they’re known as the THE CATACLYSMIC of the music industry, since they have a rep for being BENEVOLENT but TENACIOUS, but who knows. maybe that will change once they become #1.

firstly im gonna apologize if this is all over the place. im gonna try to organize it but i cant make any promises.

BASICS

full name is josephine iridessa pryor, but goes by josie for the most part

named after her maternal grandfather, joseph.

originally from tallahassee, florida. ur basic suburban middle class white family. one older sister. her mom owned her own bakery and her dad was a paralegal.

ex high school cheerleader

one tough cookie

AESTHETIC

leather jackets, skin tight jeans, fishnets, roses with the thorns still on the stem, red nail polish, fangs, messy hair, scars covered by tattoos, the moon at midnight, high heeled boots, dancing like nobody’s watching, and structured handbags.

HEADCANONS (?)

literally ppl are always like “josie can’t sing. she’s inconsistent.” or “she’s the ugly one” or rlly mean Ugly comments about her body and just general ugly body shaming. like she Knows she’s not the same size as her bandmates but like ???? she loves herself??? it took her a long time to get to this self love level and she loves her girls so she’s always telling people to fuck off

literally gets in trouble with management for telling body shamers in her comments or ppl that are generally rude to her and/or ethereal to fuck off. probably has blocked some accounts (even stan ones sdscdcs) like jesy has

cute but will 1000000000000% fight u if u make her mad, say bad things about ppl she cares about, or start body shaming

body posi, self love, and self care activist and supporter of the #metoo movement as it relates to her past

since her mom had a bakery, she worked there in hs and knows her way with cupcakes

hates wine & has never done hard drugs

i rlly cant stress enough how she will fight anyone and everyone for being an asshole

Straight (shes like my only straight character it’s Wild)

never had a serious relationship because she’s always been guarded but she has been in love, or at least thought it was love

curvy > plus sized bc she is by no means “plus” and knows this. by measurement/fashion standards she is between straight size and plus, so just go with curve/curvy

DETAILS (?)

TRIGGER WARNING FOR BODY/FAT SHAMING & SEXUAL ASSAULT:  josie’s curves developed faster than other girls her age, so even in like 6th grade ppl were calling her rlly ugly names because her hips had grown and saying things about her, even going as far as slut shaming and oversexualizing her developing body like gross. around this time someone she thought was a friend would repeatedly touch her without her permission (also she was like 13 and knew absolutely no better than ‘uh he’s my pal so i guess it’s alright if he touches between my legs when i dont want him to). it rlly tore her down and she felt like she was nothing. that low self esteem rlly followed her into high school. the bullying kinda morphed more into unwanted glares from boys, girls calling her a sl*t, and ppl just being generally mean because of her body shape. her sophomore year she tried out for the jv cheerleading squad bc she really just wanted to be involved and have school spirit, plus she had a friend who was doing it. things were rad, she made the team, all was good, she rlly liked it and even wanted to go out for varsity the next year. junior year came around and she was on jv again, but their coach ended up quitting so the trainer stepped in. he was nice to all the girls bc he’d known them and was working with them but rlly this was just grooming tbh, like he kinda made it seem like he was hte only one in their corner if they were having problems. she got a weird feeling from him but folks were just kinda like “eh you’re over-reacting, it was just a hug” but when they went away to cheer camp it was like damn what a change. he got a little bit violent and ut was just generally a Not Fun experience, like yelling at the girls and embarrassing them to the point where other coaches and such were like “uh he needs to chill tf out”. to make everything worse one of the nights he knocked on the door of the room josie was staying in, saying he wanted to talk to her, she let him in and long story short he got handsy. when she told school authorities what happened, it was her word against his, but after testimony from teammates about his behavior at camp and everything, the school gave him an ultimatum: resign or be fired and go to court.. lmao guess which he took. so basically he got away with molesting her and being an abusive bag of dicks. END OF TRIGGER

for a long time she blamed herself bc she thought she was too naive or maybe if she hadn’t opened the door, or it was all her fault and she let it happen. sometimes she still has self doubt moments where she thinks about “but what if....” or she says “at least it wasn’t as bad as...” she’s very passionate about the metoo movement tho, and abusers being held accountable for their actions (no matter their gender or sexuality)

she doesnt really talk about what happened in detail, but she has been vocal about the metoo movement and she stands with her #MeToo sisters because she’s been there

since cheer was like “aha nop never again” senior year she got involved in the drama club. she’d sang in church choir before, but nothing Super Serious. but the fall production of grease really caught her eye, so, she auditioned and voila, Sandy. 

after graduation, she started community college in musical theater, still working at the bakery but she fuckin wanted to leave florida (dont... we all??) so she used the money she saved from the bakery, bought a one way bus ticket, and ended up in austin texas... not exactly where she wanted to be, but it was out of florida.

she started singing at bars and trying to get involved with local small theater productions/companies, but that really just was not cutting it. so she asked her dad for some moolah and she moved to los angeles. for a long time she lived in a very very shitty apartment complex (if u rememerbr YEARS ago there was a show on the cw called the complex... it was about struggling young actors/musicians living in one place.. lowkey it was good but it got cancelled before season 2 wow shocker amirite) her agent was kinda bad, like joey’s from friends, but the one thing he got right was booking her an audition for a new girl group that a label was putting together. and boom, ethereal.

AS for the vegas thing lmAO.... i’ve been feeling like it was kind of recent. like, ethereal had already formed or was right at the beginning of the four girls coming together. (i still gotta work out those kinks) but essentially she went to vegas and on a Wild night, married a stranger. all she remembers from the memory clips are they met at the casino, there’s a chapel, back in her hotel room, a charge on her credit card for the honeymoon room service package, and the next morning she woke up alone in bed with a huge fuckin headache and a cheap ring on her finger. she was 22 and dumb. but aint we all?? she’s still technically married, but does NOT wear a ring or talk at all about having a husband because she doesnt know the dude. like literally can’t find him lmao, can’t find him to get that shit annulled or file for divorce. therefore, technically married.

SOME WANTED CONNECTIONS

i dont have a Ton but some that i’d love to have established are a mentor (probably someone who is older or more accustomed to fame), a roommate or ex-roommate (could be multiple), a celebrity crush (again, probably more fmaous), someone she tells everything to (they’d probably know about the vegas thing and her history regarding sexual assualt)

other than that, hmu or like this if u wanna plot??? im down for anything????

[tumblunni]

OH MAN THAT EPISODE WAS SO GOOD

Amethyst is the beeeeeeest

God that was so great any time we get Honest Amethyst Feelings it is pure gold!!! I love hpw she somehow manages to be both the cheesy shonen protagonist fun goofball and the tsundere grumpyness at the same time. So complex aaa so many good sad complexity plots because SHE CANT TALK ABOUT HER FEEEEEELIIIIIIIIIINGSSS

Feeeeeeeeeeliiiiiiiiiiiings

U make me feeeeeel them amethyyyyyyyst

And man i also kinda love this one thing that the show is really good at? Its good at actually making people's mistakes genuinely hurtful, and genuinely misleading the audience. Like I totally thought amethyst was backsliding here and losing some of her character development when she suddenly started acting aloof to the problem of ruby being missing. But then it turned out she was faking being 'normal goofy sunshine amethyst' because its the only way she knew to cheer steven up. She just tried too hard and made it look like she didnt care. But it all worked out in the end cos it led to them having a more honest talk about feelings :3

And like they did a very similar thing with Peridot? With how it slowly became apparant that her rudeness was due to her being raised in a bigoted society, and she was indeed capable of learning otherwise, when at first she'd looked like a realy big ol scary villain. And then the awesome tension of her redemption episode where it looked like she was gonna betray everyone but then she called her boss a clod instead and officially sealed her goodness! Like.. In most other kids shows I probably would have been like 'nahh its not gonna happen, she's totally gonna predictably be good' but in this show they always take such unprrdictable routes to the ending. And like.. The characters are never 100% morally pure even when theyre heroes, they all still make mistakes. You could pretty much pull any conflict out of a hat and there'd be a very natural and emotionally logical way for thay character to end up in that position if you played the fiddle of their heart just right. Flawed casts are an infinate well of new plot ideas, yo! And man i just really like how amethyst's tsundere-ness can sometimes be a joke but its always taken seriously at the same time? Aaa its so hard to put words to this!!

Anyway MAN wasnt that a great episode??

I like the kinda confirmation here that she saw rose as more of a mom figure than everyone else, and sees steven like a little brother rather than a son. I mean that's a feeling I always got from their dynamic together but its nice to see it addressed in canon.

And DEAR GOD it hurts my soul that amethyst was being all mature and considerate and trying to not show everyone that she was sad cos itd make them more sad, but in the process she looked inconsiderate and made them more sad anyway. God she's such a good symbol of that nebulous late teens early 20ish period where youre trying to pull yourself together into the idealized version of adulthood you think exists, but instead youre realizing your idols didnt know what they were doing either and adults are really just human too. Theres no magic moment where it all clicks and becomes easier, yet you still have to try and look that way so youre a good influence on the kids. Amethyst tries to be 'fun mom' but she's also always worrying about being a negative influence on steven, i think. And it shows a lot of progression from where she was at the start of the season when she was just like 'psshaw u guys worry too much, youre the boring adults and me and steven are cool'. Like she doesnt see herself on the same level as him anymore and it hurts. We saw some of this before when she was scared that he'd become stronger than her and now she was completely useless to him. I like this because its a way of showing how in real life people dont always get better over time, but also not retreading old ground by making her relearn the same morals or anything. She made new mistakes as she learned more emotional maturity, she ended up accidentally hurtibg her friends in new ways or feeling low self confidence for different reasons. And also even when she's acting the same its for different reasonsb she just pretends to be her old disinterested emotionally immature self cos she thinks thats whatvshe needs to be to motivate everyone. Amethyst your fun mom status didnt entirely hinge on you smiling 24/7 no matter how much it hurts!!d

Aaaaagh ame seriously aaaagh it shows a lot of maturity to be like 'i dont wnana burden steven with more problems' but also YOU DESERVE TO TALK ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS TOO and HE WOULDNT SEE IT AS A BURDEN

Im so glad they had a good lil talk. I hope they get to talk in more depth about the complex rose feelings that she's keeping locked away, even if she feels like now isnt the time and they need to stay focused. I hope the gang gets some down time to actually fully examine their reactions to things and wprk thru yhe trauma, rather than it being a rush from one conflict into another like the zoo arc or the connie phone thing. We needed a good episode like this after those ones, yknow?

God ame is just so hugs

Forever fave

Good punk sister who is doing her best

Lovv she

[autisticmob]

tagged by uhh nobody but allie @pundeserving kinda left it open and im swoocing in because its fun. you cant fuckng stop me.

Rules: Choose any three fandoms (in any order), answer the questions and tag 10 people you want to get to know better

I choose…

1. homed Stuck

2. mob psycho

3. fma

The first character you loved!

1. ARADIA like ok first panel she was in i saw her and i was like “telekinesis? kinda spooky?? oh shit my TYPE” and that was it. it helps that she turned out to be objectively the best homestuck character as well.

2. MOB HES SUCH A GOOD BOY!! like, he’s the first character you’re exposed to and he’s so good, I don’t think you can avoid loving him first.

3. i mean. it’s gotta be alphonse. like... what a sweet boy? all the bad shit happened to him and he deserved NONE of it, my poor fucking SON.

The character you never expected to love so much!

1. ok in all honesty, sollux. sollux is tied with aradia for my all time favorite homestuck character, but the only reason i ever paid any attention to him was because i happened to have some weird 3D sunglasses, and that meant he was the first character I was able to cosplay easily. but obviously if you pay enough attention to him you realize hes a fantastic boy. like hes a fatalistic douche and a massive weenie but he cares about his friends so much?? like to the point of repeated, kinda horrifying self-sacrifice? and he was 13!!! its so fucked up but he just is love his friends THAT MUCH and now I’m sobbing.

2. shou. it’s 100% because i watched the anime first, and he’s barely in it at all, so it’s hard to get a read on him from that. but obviously after reading the manga im like oh hes just a young chaos gay. a sweet baby boy who doesnt know shit except how to exploit psychic powers for fun and profit (and also revolution against his shitty dad.)

3. ed tbh? hes such a shit boy. like tbh i found him kind of annoying and unlikable at first? but he’s the protag, so you KNOW he’s gotta get that good good character development throughout the series, and he does! hes a lot more complex than he seems at first and even if he’s largely STUPID about his interpersonal relationships, that’s just because he’s, y’know, a literal child, and doesn’t mean he doesn’t care a whole fucking lot about his family/friends.

The character you relate to most!

1. dave. there is an ever-expanding running tally of outside sources which have pointed him out as my government-assigned homestuck kin and at this point it would be foolish to argue. rose is a CLOSE second.

2. mob. i have a whole post about why he’s so relatable to me but tl;dr he’s got mad issues with expressing emotions outwardly, but that doesnt mean he doesnt love his friends more than fucking ANYTHING and thats a mood

3. winry. special interest hell, no time for bullshit.

The character you’d slap!

1. andrew hussie the man himself... (among a number of other characters. it would take a lot to list all of them but just know orangeman is at the top of that list)

2. touchy hoe is the obvious answer, I think.

3. envy. the nonbinary representation i deserve and you’re coming in here with that hair?? that fucking crop top monstrosity?? get the fuck out.

Three favourite characters (in order of preference)!

1. aradia, sollux, dave

2. mob, shou, serizawa

3. alphonse, riza hawkeye, olivier armstrong. im gay, what do u want from me.

A character you liked at first but don’t anymore!

1. i had a phase toward the beginning of my time in the fandom where i really really liked eridan. i don’t like... DISLIKE him now or anything, but i just... don’t really care about him all that much anymore?

2. this is hard because my love for most mp100 characters has only grown over time. i guess mezato? again i dont DISLIKE her, i kinda thought she’d have more to her character than just manipulating mob for her own interests, but then she just... didn’t, really? which was disappointing, i thought there was more potential there.

3. most of the homunculi? tbh? they all seemed really interesting and honestly opening with greed’s arc the way they did I thought they’d all get more development than they did. like... envy got some, sort of, and pride/wrath kinda did too, but like. not enough to be satisfying. and then lust gluttony and sloth were just kinda... there? idk i understand WHY they didn’t all get individual arcs because like thatd be a mess but the fact that they didnt is why my interest in them kind of dwindled off over time. (aside from greed who was Very good the whole time.)

A character you did not like at first but do now!

1. She Who Must Not Be Discoursed. like at first i was like aight shes bitchy and terrible whatever im not interested but then as time went on i was like oh shes bitchy and terrible AND interesting. idk. still have mixed feelings about vriska and i absolutely will Not get into discourse about her but yeah shes Neat if nothing else.

2. teru... honey im sorry but before i watched mp100 everyone was like “wow i love teru!” and when i first saw him i was like “... okay why tho...” but I KNOW NOW. teru did a lot of things wrong, in his life, i know this and i love him.

3. roy mustang. literally didn’t give a shit about him for like... a lot of the time? toward the end i started warming up to him tho.

Three OTPs!

1. aradia<3sollux, sollux<>terezi, dave<3karkat. like... these are just some kids who genuinely care a lot about each other, and i like to cry about that sometimes.

2. teru/mob/takenaka is a good one. teru and takenaka both like mob because he likes them regardless of the fact that they are passive aggressive dicks. they continue to be passive aggressive dicks to Each Other for a while until they like, idk, actually talk to each other like real people and realize that they have shit in common and are actually capable of being decent. After this point they Will kill or die for each other (and mob still.)  serirei is of course a classic tale of two disaster gays. and then ritshou is VERY good. like. its SO fucked up how quickly they go from like one-sided crush, one-sided Mortal Enemy Status to just. Real Chill Bros in canon it makes no sense and my only explanation is that they were both so goddamn desperate for a meaningful connection with somebody their own age that they just. Settled for each other?? at which point they got VERY lucky because they both turned out to be genuinely good and sweet boys underneath all the trauma and questionable life choices.

3. ok ed and winry are okay and all, i get the appeal and stuff but like. WHY DO PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT ALL OF WINRY’S EXCELLENT GIRLFRIENDS? paninya?? an incredible option, 10/10 cyborg gf. sciezka? cryptid live-in gal pal. LET WINRY HAVE A TON OF GIRLFRIENDS, ITS WHAT SHE DESERVES!!

gonna tag...... uh. @whentvsfly @imhereformysciencefriends @margoslxix and i think most of the other people i wouldve tagged have already BEEN tagged so uhhh mutuals all of u DO it

[groundramon]

Homph I finished tri and I wrote down my thoughts as I was watching because I had too many funny shitposts and nobody to share them with bc charlie hasn’t watched tri yet

PS i wont be reblogging tri spoilers (besides MINOR stuff like, digivolutions of already confirmed digivolution lines or non-spoilery shitposts, but I’ll try to tag shitposts as #tri spoilers anyways [digivolutions specific to tri ill tag as well but not ones that were already basically confirmed]) for a while so ur safe here!  I’m just gonna like everything/most things because then I can rb em to hisyaryumon lmao (also u should check out hisyaryumon....its me n charlie’s digimon blog)

EP 1:

- ok. alright. ok. good. they’re dealing with kari’s emotions now instead of just. nothing.  ok. alright. cool.  Still dont like how obscure/”artsy” they’re being with it, this is digimon not kagerou project, but ok.

- Also. I stand by tk and kari being one of the few good straight ships in digimon.  just saying.

- kari: this is my fault... me: god damn it shut up you little brat also me: god relatable ALSO me: ill take whatever display of emotions i can get

- I love how nobody believes tai is dead like.  They’re upset and worried but they’re also like “nah. he cant be. that fucking asshole just left us in our time of need” (actually only matt is the last one)

- Gabumon i would die for you also im crying and I think that’s the first time tri managed to make me fucking CRY

EP 2:

- I had thoughts but then the 02 kids happened and I entered another plane of reality.  I don’t feel real right now

- the only one I can remember is evil!gennai being a dumbass and being like “SUFFER AND SQUIRM YOU PATHETIC HUMANS AS YOU FIGHT OVER THE LAST SEAT” 1. humans are KNOWN for their ability to care for others you dumb obvious fuck and 2. is. is the entire tube going? because that tube can fit too people if they squish.  This isn’t a joke I’m serious it can.

- oh yeah also when i saw whomstever the fuck his name is (adult guy who i love but fuck names) and he was all bloodied i was like “its a cold day in hell when i see blood in digimon” (I think there was blood in an earlier ep but shh idc)

EP 3:

- didn’t nishijima start off as a fucking life coach to these kids.  What the fuck he was supposed to help them find a career not emotionally scar them by bloodily dying in front of one of them

- im realizing that the reason hackmon was always in his cloak, in the shadows, standing still is that they cannot animate him in any normal position for the life of him.  I drew him with better anatomy when i was 14 and didn’t have a tablet.  No seriously, look:

I didn’t say it wasn’t bad, you guys are just underestimating how bad the anatomy on this poor creature is.  Why cant ppl draw dracomon or hackmon correctly imma cry

- ordinemon has the best reaction faces

the best part about these two screenshots is that they literally cut one to the other, first the first one to the second one and then it cuts back to the first one.  They were really proud of these stupid ass expressions.

- I started overcoming my dissociation shock from the second episode and my hypercritical mind was analyzing the shit out of everything that happened (it is Not happy) but then evil!gennai called kari and evil goddess and idk if he’s exaggerating to make her feel bad or if she’s literally a fucking god of chaos and destruction and either way im like

she did kinda like.  Watch wizardmon die, watch tai die, watch gatomon get absorbed.  The dark ocean is just a metaphor for depression and honestly if 02 wasn’t all over the fucking place I think Kari would’ve had some pretty decent development in it.  Actually you know what, I’m using that as an angle to approach Tri at now, wish me luck bc i might actually give it more leeway now

EP 4:

- I’m not dissociating but I forgot to say anything again and I already forgot what happened

- Cant believe mei is fucking dead

EP 5:

- I like to imagine that Tai got there like a few minutes ago, but he was like “well damn guess yall figured it out without me.  alright ill just. see if I need to do anything” and then meicoomon was Still Bad so he waited for when she struck just to make the most badass entrance possible.  Fucking extra ass bitch

- I forgot to write anything again but uhhh I wasn’t satisfied so anyways lets just get into the Juicy Details

Originally I was actually planning to be kinder to Tri than I expected.  Was very invested during it.  ‘Round the end of the last ep I realized hmmm no this isn’t working out.  Where are the 02 kids.  You should’ve brought them in to save the day.  That would’ve been SO cool and SO fun.  Fucking cowards.

god I’m kinda tired so I’m going to address a couple things I still had problems with, note that this isn’t everything it’s just everything I felt comfortable yelling about without rewatching past eps.  Like I forgot nishijima was all bloodied and presumably died in the last part until they brought it up and I was like “????” ALSO DID THE LADY WHO WAS HIS PARTNER OR W/E KILL HERSELF WITH THE GUN SHE FOUND, I JUST REALIZED LITERALLY AS I WAS TYPING THIS THAT SHE FOUND A GUN AND THEN I THINK IT CUT TO BLACK AND I’M

DID SHE FUCKING KILL HERSELF WHAT THE FUCK

anyways my problems:

1. They did joe. really dirty.  I’ll write a more proper rant on this sometime later (mostly bc charlie is MUCH better at talking about joe than I am) but basically I can tell you that his character development in the movies squandered his OG character development.  He’s basically an entirely different person.  Like Tri joe isn’t bad, besides being largely neglected (yes he has a whole half a movie to himself, no that doesn’t make up for it all), its just...not OG joe.  He’s a fine character just not the same character, and its NOT fine when you put the two together.

2. THEY DID THE 02 KIDS EVEN DIRTIER IM SO BITTER sorry you nostalgia-blind, money-hungry fucks at bandai, but the 02 cast is PART OF THE ADVENTURES UNIVERSE.  The only people who hate 02 are ones who like the characters but hate the mess of the storyline at the end, or are completely irrational and elitist about their love of the digimon series and would greatly re-evaluate their opinions if they watched the original series and 02 back to back.  They couldn’t even show them in some kind of group montage at the end??? Standing in the background when they call Mei???  Why couldn’t they call mei from a home phone also, but that’s a less important problem idc that much.  It was a cute scene besides the lack of 02 characters.  Whatever.  AND THE PROBLEM IS LIKE kari and tk?  This entire time???  Were like “oh they disappeared. oops” instead of being frantically searching for their lost friends???  Like i get tk and kari probably have fucking ptsd and can’t express any emotions because they watched important people die in front of their eyes at an incredibly young age but also 1. they didn’t address the ramifications of ptsd, so fuck that theory/excuse and 2. THAT??? WOULD ONLY MAKE THEM LOOK HARDER??? and put on a brave face as they look, but inside they’re so scared and so worried.  Not just “oh sweet, they were found/saved, theyre in the hospital but that’s fine” like WHAT theyre fucking assholes if that’s what they’d canonically do lmao.  God I am SO bitter over the ENTIRE thing with the 02 kids, it would’ve been BETTER if they were deleted from the fucking canon entirely.  Would I have still been bitter?  Yes.  But at least I wouldn’t be madder at TK and Kari too.

3. I stand 100% by the notion that Digimon is not and will never be cut out to be an adults’ franchise.  It wasn’t designed for adults, and it can’t be skewered towards adults.  These particular characters were designed for kids to relate to and find entertaining.  They do not work when placed into an adult setting.  Like, can you imagine a character like Ed from FMA going to the Digimon world?  I guess in a way that’s just Marcus but like.  Just imagine the FMA cast in Digimon Adventure.  It doesn’t work.  Digimon Tri is basically that except real.  Also Data Squad was darker than Adventure so my joke doesn’t even work.

I guess my primary point is that Tri isn’t mature enough of a setup for an adult audience.  It puts a focus on being “complex” and “philosophical” instead of working within Digimon’s constraints and making something good and adult out of that.  Like!  Digimon is a fucking TOY COMMERCIAL.  Don’t give me messages about the futility of human life.  I want bad puns and emotional characters.  That’s what Digimon has ALWAYS been, and ideally always will be.  Tri could’ve made itself more mature by dealing with the ramifications of the Digital World’s events, how it affected the kids psychologically and dealing with healing old scars.  It would’ve been a more mature take on a story we loved and would use things we loved about the story already - the fact that it took so much time exploring characters’ emotions and was surprisingly mature for the time - to make itself better.  You need to take the aspects that drew adults to the show and amplify them, not just slap on a complex story and unfunny dialogue and be like “oh this is fine, right?”

It’s not that Digimon can’t exist as an adult property, its just that if it repeats what Tri did, it’s got no merit and in my eyes the franchise is dead.  If it survives I guess I’ll be happy that people can still enjoy it but I find it unsustainable and unsatisfying to fans of the older series.  Tri is just a fuckfest of highly specific nostalgia that tries too hard to appeal to old fans without capturing what made the original series so magical, and in part thats because the original series WASN’T FOR ADULTS.  I don’t know about the Digimon Story games, bc they’re T-rated so perhaps they’re a better take on an adult Digimon story than Tri?  But you either need to make your own characters and lore specifically for an adult-oriented Digimon season, or perish.  Also, please make it a series and not a group of movies.  Getting four eps every 6-9 months was hell.

I stand by saying Appmon is a more faithful Digimon season than Tri to Digimon’s original spirit.  I believe it holds more potential for success than Tri and better embodies the spirit of the older Digimon seasons.  It’s dumb, its corny, it has horrible puns, but I LOVE it because it also has a deep dark story and emotional moments.  If you dislike Tri and you agree with things I said that make it unlikeable, I highly recommend giving Appmon a chance - if you watch a few episodes and think “oh yeah, I guess this is decent” you’re going to like it.  It’s everything Digimon has always been and hopefully always will be, just with a different concept.  And hopefully the end of the series doesn’t leave a sour taste in my mouth and I have to redact this statement haha since I’m not done with it yet, but I’ve heard good things about it so I’m hoping not so.

Overall, if you watch Tri, don’t get your hopes up.  It resolves everything okay-ish but it’s a pretty forgettable anime on its own and simply doesn’t work as part of the Digimon franchise.

I am, however, pretty interested in what evil!gennai said at the end about Diaboromon and Daemon.  It raises interesting questions about the timeline too.  We know Daemon is in the dark ocean, so perhaps that’s a hint at a future project?  (They did confirm a future project btw, in conjunction with tri being over)  But what about Diaboromon?  I dont believe that Our War Game (I think thats what its called?) took place after Tri, based on the outfits and ages and stuff, but I also don’t remember the movies that well.  Could Diaboromon still be out there too?  It’s interesting.

However, because of the lackluster performance of Tri, I don’t have my hopes up and I really hope that this “next project” goes in a different direction.  Although I guess if they include the 02 kids, I’ll be somewhat less salty...

Side note, did they ever explain why the gennais went evil?  Like ?  That’s a pretty important thing.  The gennais helped SAVE the human world in 02.  And I get that apparently Tri is ignoring 02′s ending but still.  It’s shitty, because Gennai was still a good guy in the original too (and also they cant just keep is younger look and act like 02 never happened)  MAYBE its something I missed but I dont think so.  God there’s just.  So much wrong with Tri.  I’m very displeased and very bitter and I wanna get back to Appmon asap.

It’s got good moments, its got bad moments, I dont know, I don’t care.  There’s nothing wrong with you if you like it, there’s nothing wrong with you if you don’t, and there’s nothing wrong with you if you flip flop and are split like me.  I just wish Tri fulfilled its potential instead of becoming a boring mess.

[ssorethroat]

bnha, 001 for the ask thing ??? yre one of my fave mutuals even though we've never talked but yre so cool and yr art is amazing and ; A ;

 i OMG FIRST OF ALL I GASPED???? YOURE SO SWEET ; M ; i cant believe this .. im so sorry weve never talked before but i would love to start!!! you seem super cool and really kind and i looked for your art but i couldnt find any but u should link some …. ITD BE REALLY NICE TO SEE!!! TT v TT I HOPE I CAN GET TO KNOW YOU MORE THIS IS SO EXCITING IM SO HONORED.. ; M ; omg im making the text super small and putting it under a readmore bc this is SO LONGGNGJDFKNGKJFD

Favorite character: /shoves my entire deku shrine into closet while mumbling Uhhghudfgd oof i dunno .. IM JK ill be proud about it. the light of my life the joy of my heart is deku he tries so hard … it inspires me to try hard too … HAHAGDFJNGJKFD but i really do have a mini deku shrine in my dorm room i force my friends to say hello to my son before they enter. THATS WEIRD .. but im such a big sucker for the underdog story and i love the very .. long term take on the self sacrificing hero narrative where he literally just busts his bones out!!!! i like how he has to adapt his approach by dealing with realtime consequences for it!! i think it makes him a really interesting protagonist and i often dont find myself caring too much for the main protagonists like i do for him .. i love him :[

Least Favorite character: I MEANNNNN OK MINETA ASIDE BC I FEEL LIKE THATS A GIVEN… i dont really like monoma though i think its interesting what horikoshi did w him!! as in i just think hes annoying CRIES .. i dont think that means hes not a good character though ogdfnj WE’LL SEE!!

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): AHAGDKJNGJFKD ok .. i love todobakudeku n im just gonna say that or else the pairings inside that will take up 4 slots..  ooof i love erasermight … i love MOMOJIROUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SO MUCH .. i also love iiocha … and miritama.. ; - ;

Character I find most attractive: OHHHHH OK …… OK ………. GENUINELY? i cant draw these ppl but i wish i could… Buckle yourself in but shouji mezo.. is like objectively so attractive like hes got the shark grin under the mask? the emo hair? hes after my heart … and? i love his personality its so strong and stoic .. shifty eyes .. ughhhggjnjn also .. blood king is SO hot. so is the dragon lady WHEWWW… ectoplasm is also like so hot i could die you know what if guillermo del toro could make his fish man have a butt that wont quit i can be in love with ectoplasm i want him to serenade me with all 36 of his clones

Character I would marry: OMG NOW THEYRE HITTING ME W THIS CHARA I WOULD MARRY QUESTION AFTER I JUST ADMITTED MY TASTE IS ALL OVER THE PLACE hmm i guess personality wise id want to marry momo actually shes so sweet and kind and CUTE she tries her best ; m ; ..

Character I would be best friends with: OMG I REALLY DONT KNOW im thinkin hard trying to compare my own best friends … on one hand? tokoyami and his mad banquet of darkness .. other hand? i feel like my friends are all as supportive and sweet as kirishima ..

a random thought: i really love TWICE as a character.. i think his backstory was the most interesting of the villains (that have been shown).

An unpopular opinion: AHHHHHH I HAVE A LOT!! BUT ILL SAY THIS (though idk if its unpopular) … i dont think the female characters are given good treatment NOT just costume wise. i think the only female character we’ve really gotten a fair amount of development (even approaching the level that male characters have gotten) of is uraraka and even then im kinda like  ehhhhhhhh this isnt enough … horikoshi does a good job showing female characters in strong positions doing strong things BUT i dont think thats the same as treating them with the amt of depth they need, giving them complex story arcs, etc. i also dont care for them being used simply as devices for the character development of male characters if they arent given stories beyond that. i hope we get to see eri some more and maybe her recovery bc i think horikoshi portrays abuse well and the healing process for todoroki was realistic. the dialogue for chisakis emotional abuse was really realistic to the point of me freaking out a lil bit LMFAO… another unpopular opinion is that i kind of dont care about endeavor’s potential redemption arc too much either way, i just hope whatever happens is handled with nuance…

My Canon OTP: deku capturing the hearts of the nation

My Non-canon OTP: bakugou x cognitive behavioral therapyMost Badass Character: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGNJFDGNJDF GANG ORCA. I ALSO CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT HIM I CHANGE EVERYTHING ABT MY ATTRACTIVE+MARRIED ANSWERS FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA GET PLOWED BY GANG ORCA, SECOND OF ALL, I WANNA MARRY HIM    I would give my whole life to gang orca. My canon otp is me x gang orca

Most Epic Villain: AHAHAHAGHDFNGJKAGHAGAFJGNKJD I HATE TO BE LIKE THIS BUT mr compress? truly? iconique…. i also love rappa he just wants to fight and honestly? relatable…

Pairing I am not a fan of: hmmm … i dont really dedicate a lot of time to disliking pairings but i dont really ship non platonic kacchako i just dont really like it bc it reminds me of some tropes ive disliked in the past!! i also am not really a fan of stabi :/

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): (snarls) SHINSOU WAS ROBBED secondly more attention needs to be given to hatsume mei. she is literally a genius prodigy mastermind and yet shes given like 3 pages after her ICONIQUE SHOW STOPPING performance at the sports festival .. give us more … 

Favourite Friendship: I LOOOOOOOOOVE THE MIDORIYA/URARAKA/IIDA TRIO!!!!!! I SAW SOMEONE I FOLLOW TAG THEM AS THE POWERPUFFS AND I LOVE THATTTTGNJDFKNGJKD I ALSO LOVE KIRIDEKUS FRIENDSHIP .. ; M ; and you know what? I think bakudeku is getting there .. i hope we can see them be good friends comfortable w each other !! AND IN LOVE!!  

Character I most identify with: WELL actually believe it or not its todoroki LMFAOOGNJKGFD not bc im as sweet or nice or cute or amazing as him but just bc i Hashtag Relate to his emotional journey following parental abuse.. i guess if you dont factor that in i also am equally terrible with kids when i had a brief stint as a volunteer teacher they were always dragging me i guess not for the five pee pee thing so i guess it could be worse but. You know 

Character I wish I could be: i wish i could be have my life together as much as aizawa does .. he always got his sleeping bag w him? he living in 3000017…

[chickenkooks]

black magic [m]

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❛❛im one of the brightest witches at this prestigious magic academy and ur a human who somehow got admitted and everyone knows u dont ACTUALLY have magic but cant prove it so they hate u for it but i actually like you??? and have a crush on u??????? our paths have just never crossed until ur class blew up n somehow we became class partners and-- hold on what do you mean we fucked up this spell so we wanna fuck each other’s brains out??❜❜ AU

COUNT → 18.430

GENRE → smut 

PAIRING → taehyung | reader

WARNINGS → dom and sub tones | mild cum play | explicit language | female masturbation (male if you squint) | oral sex | penetration | graphic dirty talk

NOTE → this was requested and inspired by @blueagust!!!!!! the idea went thru several stages and yelling over kkt but this is the final product :-D im sorry mom

You hated everyone at this fucking academy.

It wasn’t just that they always smelled like unicorn turds—and that wasn't a compliment because unicorns had the nastiest smelling shit in the entire universe—but they were so arrogant and had this fucking superiority complex when it came to humans. You were sure if they actually lived with them and in human society instead of hidden away at some prestigious academy they wouldn’t pull this bullshit in the first place, but they still despised them.

Or maybe it was just one human they despised in particular.

"What’s that he’s eating?”

“It’s a sandwich.”

Your classmate sitting beside you on the dock hummed to himself, mumbling something under his breath about how he’s at a magic academy and shouldn’t be eating a fucking sandwich, but you ignored him. Taehyung wasn’t like everyone else. For one, he was a human—the only human at your school; everyone knew that and hated him for it, mostly because no one could actually prove it. The biggest mystery was how he even got admitted in the first place. Your academy wasn’t exactly visible on a human map—or any map for that matter. Though, it was hard to explain where exactly your school even was. It was almost like it was in purgatory—like a cross between two different planes—so it really wasn’t anywhere. It was nowhere and everywhere at the same time.

“I just don’t get it,” he continued, acting as if he was just innocently questioning Taehyung’s taste in food.

“Jimin,” you huffed out, your old weather-casting spellbook closing with a slam, coughing loudly as dust flew in your face. “It’s just a sandwich. Why does it matter to you what he eats anyway?”

He mumbled something under his breath—presumably sarcastic—and you rolled your eyes. As he continued to go on and on about how sandwiches were lame and dumb and not the wizarding way, the unheard whispers of your incantations went unheard as you attempted to freeze over the pond under your feet by memorization. The water in the shallow pond iced over then, seemingly encasing the fish swimming below—but not enough to be correct.

Leaning over the wooden dock, you groaned at the sight of fish coated only in thin layers of ice as the water thawed instead of completely encasing them entirely like your spell was supposed to. You had to make sure it worked perfectly, along with all the other weather casting incantations, in order to pass the final—and at least by the time the sun set in a few hours, which was proving to be impossible with fucking Jimin running his flapping lips. He'd been insulting Taehyung for the past twenty minutes and breaking your focus, causing each cast of your spell to be weaker than the last from your fingertips. And it wasn’t even because you had this big crush on Taehyung that you were so protective of him but he just didn’t deserve it—no one deserved to hear what all your shitty classmates said about him. Taehyung kept to himself for the most part and never bothered anyone else, but everyone avoided him like the plague—just because he didn’t have magic and just because he was a human.

Like you said, you hated everyone at this fucking academy.

You glanced around, looking for your familiar so that you could just go back to your dormitory and practice your spell casting there instead. Your academy was very accommodating for familiars in the first place since it was required to have one by the end of your first year. It wasn’t uncommon to see a lone bat roaming the halls or never even being with their master; a familiar wasn’t a pet, after all, but a magical partner. And sometimes, it seemed like your familiar was the master and you were the familiar—but you didn’t really mind that much.

Jimin moved on to Taehyung's lack of developed taste buds then—he hadn't taken advantage of Food and Culture 101 to your knowledge, which provided a potion at the beginning of the semester to alter your taste buds—even though you made it pretty clear you weren’t listening. He had something against Taehyung for whatever reason, more than any of your other friends—if you could even call him your friend. You knew he had a crush on you or something but you brushed it off because you weren’t interested in him and never would be. In fact, you weren’t fucking interested in any of them. If they had to knock Taehyung down to impress you, you didn't want a single thing to do with them. And anyway, Taehyung had already ruined your taste in men forever.

But even if you grew old with nothing but your good-for-nothing familiar to keep you company while Taehyung was happily married to some girl, you wouldn’t be bitter and would be happy for him because you loved him.

And that felt strange admitting that to yourself but you really did love him. Maybe you only got to talk to him once a day if you were lucky, but you treasured those moments. Something was wrong with the other girls in both your year and entire school if they weren’t as attracted to him as you were—and actually hated him just as much as the guys—but the only explanation you could think of for that was they were as fucking blind as their bat familiars.

Just thinking about how attracted you were to him reminded you that he had to be the best looking guy in your year, or even in the entire academy. He had tanned skin, thick eyebrows, beautifully silky hair—at least when it wasn’t hidden under his uniform’s hoodie, that is—and he was just so tall. Everything about him was equally proportioned, though, like his round nose with a small freckle at the tip and his long, extending fingers—

You had to stop yourself there. If you really thought about his fingers, you'd never perfect your incantation.

You heard a satisfied meow from across the pond then and recognized your chameleon shorthair familiar immediately as she rubbed herself against Taehyung's leg with him leaning against one of the willow trees in the garden. It wasn’t even out of the ordinary for the two of you to be just walking the halls and then have her ditch you at the sight of him—but that was too relatable for you to even be mad at her. You wished you were a fucking cat sometimes just so you could follow him around and have him scratch you behind the ears and touch you and—

But your familiar didn’t ditch you just for Taehyung—she also ditched you at even the faintest smell of tuna and whenever you were on the fifth floor; the fifth floor’s garden especially was her favorite place, which happened to be where you were now. It was the only garden on all ten floors of the academy that was actually on a balcony, the single magical dome framing it by some force spell giving it an almost fairy-like atmosphere. It was also home to wildvines, which were moss-like vines that sprouted flowers and bloomed depending on the amount of sunlight. They stretched from the exterior of the academy all the way across the dome overhead. Alongside those, there were also a lot of other magical plants you couldn’t find anywhere else, so it was a popular spot for familiars.

Your lips curled upwards at the sight of them—Taehyung offering her a bite of his tuna sandwich and her sniffing at it curiously before licking at some of the tuna that fell to the ground. Did Taehyung even have a familiar of his own? you wondered. Just because he was human didn’t mean he wasn’t required to have one. Although felines were the most popular choice when choosing a familiar, there were also crabs, dogs, and bats to choose from.

“Azura,” you called but she ignored you as usual.

Fucking bitch familiar, you thought to yourself.

Sighing, you stood up, casting a shadow spell on your spellbook so that it’d simply follow after you instead of you having to hold it. Your round toe uniform shoes dug into the grass as you approached them, him scratching behind her ears like he knew she liked. Taehyung was looking handsome as always with his back leaning into the bark of the tree, his signature hood pulled over his chestnut brown hair with his fringe tickling the hairs on his eyebrows.

“Hi, Taehyung,” you greeted with a shy smile.

He straightened his back when you came to a stop before them, grinning up at you.

“Hey,” he said back, his hand moving to scratch under Azura's chin. “Looking for this?”

“Yeah,” you replied. “She wasn’t bothering you, was she?”

“Nah. She can hang out with me whenever.”

“Don’t encourage her,” you said with a laugh, smiling at her sniffing the ground for more tuna. “Then she’ll break our contract and become your familiar instead of mine and then I’ll have to repeat a year.”

“That’s cool with me,” he quipped, his head settling into the tree trunk again as he looked up at you. “I can’t have you graduating before me. What would I do without you here to keep me company?”

You dropped your gaze to your feet, the spell on your book wavering as your heart raced and brain turned to mush. Just then, you felt Azura’s striped tail brushing against your leg, walking ahead for you to follow her.

“I have to go now,” you muttered. “You know how she is. If I don’t follow her, she might get us into trouble.”

He nodded, biting into his sandwich. “I understand. See you around?”

“Yeah." You watched as he licked one corner of his lips, swallowing. "Bye, Taehyung.”

Spinning on your heel, you chased after her already scratching at the closed double doors leading to the fifth floor hallway. Taehyung, on the other hand, followed your figure closely in fascination. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Jimin pack his things at the dock and approach you talking to Azura animatedly, as if you two were arguing.

Knowing Azura, though, he wouldn't be surprised.

“So, I was wondering—”

“Fuck off, Jimin.”

Jimin continued to follow you, however, even into the hallway. You were probably going back to your room to study and tongued his cheek at the thought of Jimin following you there. He just couldn't take a fucking hint that you weren't interested. Whenever he saw you at the library or anywhere, your peers just flocked to you like a moth to a flame; they found you just as captivating as he did with your bright personality and warm smile.

You were the only person in the entire academy that gave him the time of day—the only person he wanted to give him the time of day. Everyone else treated him like a squashed bug beneath the bottom of their shoe, like he didn't belong at their school. Maybe they were right; he was the only human at a school for witches and wizards, but no one really knew anything about him—no one except for you. But even you didn't know why he was really here or why he was even admitted into a school of magic when he had no magic of his own to show for it.

He didn't care for acceptance from his classmates, though—just yours.

The highlight of his day was always Azura finding him after running off somewhere because that meant you’d come looking for her eventually—and that meant he'd finally get to talk to you and see you. It was hard to normally since you two were hardly ever on the same floor and had never once had a class together.

Before you closed the double doors behind you, you looked over your shoulder back at him and waved, smiling warmly before disappearing behind the steel doors. He chuckled to himself, hand still hanging in mid-air after waving back. If you so much as looked at him, all the other wizards gave him the stink eye, as if he wasn't good enough for you to talk to him. He got just as jealous as them but that didn't warrant him telling you who to talk to. But he didn't blame them—not really. You were the prettiest girl in your year, or even in the entire academy. A girl like you didn't come along that often, at least not a girl with a heart made of fucking 24-karat gold like yours was.

And he knew the other wizards didn't care about that part of you—or maybe you just never gave them the chance. You were so warm and so bright that he couldn’t help but get stuck in your flame like everyone else.

And maybe that’s why he’d started packing tuna sandwiches.

“I have an announcement.”

Your classmates groaned, a few of them slamming their foreheads onto the table in front of them. You, however, were just hoping you were finally getting your bound incantation assignments back—like the nerd you were.

“The other incantation class on the third floor exploded.”

At the mention of an explosion, suddenly everyone was listening.

“So, that means we will now be sharing a classroom that only has room for twenty-two students—but no one asked if this was okay with me and I have no say in the matter so that's fine, I guess... We'll be sharing this class with another twenty-eight. I want to see at least six people per table to accommodate your new classmates a—”

Your fellow witches and wizards stood up quickly to make room at their tables, eagerly watching as a surplus of new students filed into the classroom. The classroom itself was large but there were limited chairs, like your professor explained, and no one wanted to be that person stuck with an empty table. Then again, you wouldn't mind an empty table because that meant you wouldn't have a group for future assignments and didn't have to remind your peers to do their part and then have them never do it and make you do all the fucking work anyway.

You scooted over at your table until there was room for at least two more people to sit at yours, then followed your classmates’ lead and observed the new students as they continued to come into the classroom. However, once you saw a head of brown hair and his uniform jacket’s hoodie framing his face, you straightened your back.

Maybe you wouldn't mind a table that wasn't empty if that meant Taehyung was sitting next to you.

Taehyung stopped for a moment, lips curving into a warm smile as soon as he saw you, but then was jostled forward by someone behind him. He scanned the classroom for a moment and you took that chance to face away from the front and cough into your hand to smell your breath. You muttered a quick incantation under your breath then, feeling frost nip at the tip of your tongue, as if you just chewed on ten sticks of gum. Turning towards the front again, you waved at Taehyung as if you weren't nervous at all at the idea of him sitting next to you in the same classroom as you for the first time, gesturing for him to sit with you at your table with a wave of your hand.

Just as you did, however, your eyes connected with Jimin’s, whom you hadn’t even noticed was in the same class as Taehyung. Maybe it was because he was so short that you assumed he was a fucking lost child. Jimin took your eyes locking as a green light for him to sit at your table and tried to weasel his way into the space next to you, but you reacted quickly, whispering a medium level wind spell under your breath. As soon as he placed his chair he brought in from the other classroom beside you and sat down, he was blown across the room by a powerful gust of wind. Instead of retaliating like you expected, however, he simply glared at you in silence, which you ignored.

Taehyung took that as his chance to take his place, setting his chair down beside you. He was the only one physically carrying his chair as everyone else just used shadow spells like the lazy witches and wizards they were.

As he scooted his chair in, he pulled back his hood and grinned at you. You smiled back, so ecstatic that this was happening. What were the odds that the only classroom that exploded happened to be Taehyung's class? What were the odds that it happened to be your class he joined for the time being? You weren't sure how he was in a spell casting class to begin with, seeing as he was a human without magic, but you weren't about to complain.

Not to your surprise, your table was completely empty. If your classmates would rather sit on the grimy tiled floor than sit next to a human, then you hoped a dragon flea dug through the dirt to crawl up their ass and hospitalize them for the rest of the semester. You would never understand what it was about Taehyung that people hated. Taehyung was so bright and so funny and so charming. They didn't even want to get to know him.

More for me, you thought to yourself.

“Everyone settled in?” your professor asked, his eyes falling on your empty table, save for you and Taehyung. He sighed to himself then, just as annoyed as you by your classmates. “Then take out your textbooks, please.”

“Shit,” Taehyung mumbled under his breath and you looked over at him.

You furrowed your eyebrows. “What? What’s wrong?”

“My— My textbook,” he answered. “It’s back in our old classroom.”

“Th-That’s okay! We can share mine if you want.”

You slid over your textbook, pointing to the page you were on. Taehyung smiled and thanked you under his breath.

The class droned on, your professor going into detail about the spell you would be practicing. It was some sort of a bewitching charm but you weren’t paying attention due to the fact that you were sitting next to the most beautiful boy in your entire school. He wasn’t even doing anything out of the ordinary, just chewing on the cap of his pen and jotting down quick notes. You’d never shared a class so you were captivated by him in a classroom setting.

“I’m going to project the incantation on the wall,” your professor announced, surveying the class for anyone asleep. “Read it very carefully and if there is an explosion of any kind, I'm going to be very unhappy.”

The classroom got eerily quiet at that, remembering what happened last time.

When the chatter resumed and your professor began to walk around the class to answer questions, you squinted as you attempted to read what it said. Something about a tongue and— Whatever that translated to.

“Taehyung,” you began, “can you read that at all? I can do the incantation if you tell me what it says."

He nodded, jotting down the incantation for the charm onto a scrap of notebook paper, then slid it over to you to read aloud. You had to stifle a laugh at his handwriting because it was just like him—in all capital letters while at the same time completely neat and legible. The spell was supposed to be casted on your partner and then vice versa, except you knew Taehyung wouldn’t be able to cast it back to you. Closing your eyes, you concentrated, channeling all your energy and opening one eye every few seconds to read what he wrote on the piece of paper.

“I frui magnus cornu decer—”

Just then, a giant cloud of floral-smelling smoke surrounded the two of you from the tips of your fingers. Taehyung coughed out instantly, clearing away some of the smoke with one of his hands as you both struggled to suck in a lungful of air. Your eyes locked through the clearing smoke and something changed in that moment. It was small—barely noticeable and almost subtle—but you felt it, like a shift in the atmosphere that you couldn't recognize.

“Taehyung,” you breathed out, “are you—”

“What the hell happened over here?” your professor asked as he approached the two of you, recoiling at the smell from the smoke, both like hydrangeas and brimstone. “This was a simple charm. Didn't you read the incantation?”

Taehyung looked at you for a moment, both from not being able to tear his eyes off of you for some reason and looking to you for what to say, then returned his gaze to your professor with his hands on his hips. “We were—”

He raised his hand then to silence him. “I changed my mind. I don’t want to know.” Looking to the rest of your class, whom had stopped their own spell casting to stare at you two, he let out a sigh. “Class is dismissed."

You vaguely remembered nodding, packing up your things and stuffing your textbook into your bag in a daze. Taehyung was in a similar state as he followed you out the door and into the main hallway. As the two of you went to part ways, with you going to the fourth floor where your dormitory was located and him elsewhere, you paused.

“I’m just gonna—” He gestured over his shoulder down the end of the hallway in the opposite direction of where you were heading. When his eyes connected with yours again, his sentence cut off. “—go... this way...”

“Yeah,” you replied, awkwardly. “M-Me too. I mean, I’m going this way.” You paused to point in the opposite direction towards one of the vine-operating elevators. “And you’re going th-that way.”

He nodded, robotic-like. As he made his way down the hallway, you were left with your own thoughts—thoughts that usually were quieter but had somehow started to scream into the void as he disappeared from view.

The air in the hallway was clear—easy to breathe in—but somehow you had a hard time taking in each breath; it was like swallowing nails. It wasn’t painful but it required more effort, required you to consciously think about each breath. You didn’t know what happened and what spell you’d casted instead of the one your professor instructed you to, but you knew it was of the same classification—it was some sort of bewitching charm.

For some reason, you felt like you needed Taehyung around to breathe properly but you also had a harder time breathing with him around. It was a confusing feeling, to say the least. Not only that, but his smell was so alluring out of nowhere. Not that he never smelled good before but you could still smell him after he left—like mint leaves and how the world smelled to you after being in a small classroom for an hour and finally breathing in fresh air.

Swallowing thickly, you quietly walked down the hall, hoping the spell you casted would wear off by tomorrow.

Your eyes snapped open at the feeling of warm breath against the back of your neck. A single hand was wrapped around your stomach—softly, not hard enough in its grip to bruise the skin there. You attempted to look over your shoulder but then quickly returned your gaze to your bare dorm room wall when the hand smoothing over your pajama top slipped underneath the fabric and skimmed the expanse of your skin there. A shiver ran down your spine, gasping from the back of your throat as the hand kept sliding higher and higher until a single finger pressed against the wiring of your bra, tapping almost feather-like against it. You could hear him lightly snoring behind you, the steady rhythm from his heartbeat almost enough to lull you back to sleep—until he maneuvered his hand so it was grasping one of your bra-clad breasts and squeezed gently, causing you to fidget and squirm against him.

"Taehyung," you hissed, eyes wide.

The palm over your breast simply laid flat over the cotton material of your bra, not moving an inch. You blinked, sluggishly trying to process what just happened. Sinking your teeth into your bottom lip, you glanced over your shoulder at the sight of him sound asleep, his face buried into the back of your neck. Wide awake, your own hand reached underneath your shirt to find his and slowly pull it away from you so you could go back to sleep already, chalking it up as him just groping you in his sleep again—it was so hard to tell if he was awake or not sometimes.

Just as his fingers brushed past your plaid pajama shorts, his forefinger tugged on the band, letting go so that it snapped against your skin lightly. Peering over your shoulder again, you saw one of his eyes blink open.

"You're awake," you noted, panting slightly.

"I am now."

His palm pressed into your mattress when he leaned over you. Blinking up at him over your shoulder, your eyes connected as you felt the fingers tugging at the band of your pajama shorts slip past them, finding your underwear and cupping you gently under the fabric. You couldn't breathe—couldn't even think properly—as his middle finger stroked at your entrance, coating the tip of it in your juices. Steadily, he added in his index finger and each felt at your walls, his short fingernails scraping against them and sending a sparking sensation straight into your core. Taehyung watched as your head fell against the junction of his neck, grinning when your eyes fluttered closed. Blindly searching for something to hold onto, your nails scraped against the smooth skin of his arm, your hand grasping onto the taut muscle of his bicep—the very bicep connected to the hand currently pleasuring you.

"Feel good?"

Instead of answering, you just shot him a playful smile. He knew exactly what he was doing but you weren't complaining—not one bit. Rolling onto your back, he readjusted himself so he was hovering over you, pulling his hand out of your pants inch by agonizing inch. His fingers trailed past your inner thighs on the way out, leaving evidence of your arousal on the skin there. You wiggled your hips, reaching down to pull your shorts past them.

"Why are you awake, huh?" he asked, leaning in closer until his lips were ghosting over yours.

When your shorts hung around your ankles, you kicked them off into the corner, your fan blowing directly onto your inner thighs and sending a chilling sensation from the wetness he wiped on your thighs. You settled your head into the center of your fluffy pillow, biting your lip as he waited for you to respond, his gaze flickering across your face.

"Because of your wandering hands."

"My wandering hands?"

You nodded. "Yeah. You were touching me in your sleep again."

"Where?" he rasped out, glancing at his hand rubbing circles into the skin of your elbow.

You poked at your chest, too embarrassed to have him watch you palm one of your breasts.

"You're embarrassed, right?" he asked, watching as your breasts jiggled slightly with each poke against your chest, your pinky finger brushing against your shirt there. "I touched you—" He bit gently into his lip then. "—here?"

His big hand completely encased your breast as he palmed you again, albeit consciously this time.

"Y-Yes," you managed to say. "Right there."

He gave you a squeeze, watching as a soft gasp escaped you and your hand poking at your chest dropped to fist the sheets at your side. Tugging the hem of your shirt upwards, you raised your arms so he could fling it behind him to land somewhere near your shorts. Then he pulled at the straps of your bra, dragging them down your shoulders, then easily moved the cups out of the way and saw your hardened nipples—both hard from the fan on your night stand and his watchful gaze. He tweaked one of them between his thumb and forefinger, never taking his eyes off of you. He knew where to touch you and how hard you liked it; he knew exactly what you liked like he knew his own cock. You squirmed then, one of your feet sliding across your covers at the end of the bed as you angled your leg.

Cracking your eyes open, you barely had time to look at the pleased expression on his face before his lips inched towards your own and finally closed the distance. You softly moaned into his mouth, lips parting slightly. His tongue licked across the seam of your lips, pausing to peck one corner before sliding his tongue into your mouth. Your hands raised from their place at your sides to cup his cheeks, smiling into the kiss. He happily returned your smile, pulling away briefly to laugh softly before he came swooping back down, asking silently for entrance again with his tongue. His tongue swirled around your own and your noses brushed against each other as your heads tilted to the side to deepen the kiss further. When the kiss began to heat up, one of his arms reached behind you to sit—in his lap almost—sliding his hand up your unclasp your bra expertly. After undoing all of the clasps, it hung over your breasts loosely, the straps its only anchor to them before slowly sliding down your arms and into your lap.

His arm raised to grasp the back of your neck then, pulling away so you could remove your top completely and fling your bra into the same corner as your shorts. Not even a second later, he came back to reconnect your lips, gasping into your mouth as he tried to breathe through his nose and lick at the insides of your cheeks. Your nails dug into the base of his scalp, panting and groaning as his steadily hardening cock pressed against you over the thin material of your underwear. He felt so long and you were so wet that you knew he would slide right in.

Then he pulled away again, your room filling with the sound of your heavy breathing as his breath fanned across your cheeks and yours fanned into his neck. Inch by inch, his lips trailed past your lips, leaving pecks and soft licks on his way down to your chest, stopping to suck a nipple into his mouth and bite gently. Your hands cradled him there, you moaning out softly about how good his lips felt on your bare skin. That only spurred him on and he descended further down and past your stomach. As soon as his fingers tugged at the tight band of your underwear, he nudged you until you fell onto your back again, your hair messily framing your face and awaiting his touch. Your head pressed more into your pillow, closing your eyes in pure bliss as you felt him touch your inner thighs, his warm breath against your scalding core causing you to instinctively squeeze your thighs together and fidget impatiently.

He pried your legs apart, running a single finger from the base of your cunt all the way to your clit, amazed at how wet you were already. Unlike the wizards you'd fucked before, Taehyung wasn't the type to make you beg. If he knew what you wanted, he wasn't about to make you ask for it to boost his own ego; he just went in head first—quite literally and figuratively. Nothing was hotter to him than doing everything he fucking could with his fingertips and tip of his tongue to make you come apart on his mouth—loudly and without a care in the world who heard.

You jolted when he suddenly flicked at your clit, looking up at you with a knowing grin. As soon as his tongue licked a clean stripe up your outer lips and dipped past them, your legs quivered and you moaned out loudly, unable to stop yourself. He pulled back—startled—but then grinned at you again before diving back in, lapping and licking frantically at the juices that had accumulated at the base of your entrance. Then he alternated between sucking your clit gently between his lips, swirling his tongue around it, and simply licking at your entrance. Taehyung blindly grabbed at the back of your legs, dragging your body down your bed until the backs of your thighs settled against his broad shoulders. You raised yourself onto your elbows to watch him through the darkness of your room—the only source of light your bedside lamp—but found yourself losing your strength as he continued to suck your clit.

You felt like you were going to start crying because of how good it felt, eyes rolling into the back of your head as spike after spike of pleasure shot into the pit of your stomach. Your legs instantly flew off his shoulders and into the air at an especially precise lick from the tip of his tongue, your heels settling against his back as he kept up that same rhythm after listening to your sobs. Clenching your walls, you concentrated on the feeling of his nose continuously brushing against your clit. Taehyung only came up momentarily to take in a quick breath before descending and plunging his tongue back inside of you, as if he was getting off on fucking you with his tongue.

"T-Taehyung," you stuttered out, gasping for air. "Wait, wait— I want to cum with you."

He slowly pulled away, your juices decorating his chin and lips. "Right now?"

You nodded, your legs unwrapping around his waist. "Can I?"

Taehyung stood up, pushing himself off the wooden floor from kneeling. You watched him carefully, crawling backwards until he followed after you, hovering over your lips as his legs settled on either side of your own. You could smell yourself on him easily but he didn't kiss you. Just as he said your name with a smile, lust clouding over his eyes, goosebumps formed on your skin and his hands skimmed past your arms to reach for your cheeks. Tilting your head to the side, he leaned down and kissed you, the hair on your arms sticking straight up from the pure—

Your eyes snapped open, the darkness of your dorm room making it difficult to come back down from the intense sex dream you just had about Taehyung. It felt so real, like he was still in the room with you—as if he just went to the bathroom to take a piss and would be back to fuck your brains out momentarily. But as your eyes adjusted to the darkness, you sighed to yourself, the unpleasant feeling of wetness between your thighs evident.

It was just a reminder you didn't have a certain brown-haired third year to bring you to your peak.

You sat up then, blinking groggily. You’d had dreams about Taehyung before but nothing that graphic. It was like it wasn't even a dream—you could feel every lick of his tongue and every touch from the tip of his finger. Settling yourself back into your bed and pulling your covers up to your chin, your eyes closed—until you heard groaning.

Sitting straight up again, your covers fell into your lap as you glanced at the door curiously. There wasn't someone having sex in their dorm room, right? Maybe you were still hearing things from your dream and it was just a part of your imagination. With that thought in mind, you slowly lowered yourself back into bed, slightly unsettled. You really hoped that was the case because boys weren't allowed in the girls' dormitory after curfew—and if they snuck in and were caught, the punishment would be ghastly for everyone involved. It was unethical but for something this serious, your professors would go to all lengths to figure out who it was, even using truth spells.

At the thought of being put through the same painful process you were put through last time, you wondered if you should say something. Maybe call one of your professors at this ungodly hour just to let them know you heard something so you wouldn't get in trouble like you did the last time you tried to fucking protect someone.

It probably didn't seem like it but being expelled from school was one of the more lenient punishments.

The more you listened, the more you realized it actually wasn't coming from anywhere. You definitely heard it but it was almost like the sound was muted—like you could hear it somehow even from far, far away. Listening more closely, you noted there was an echo to it almost as the same groans and grunts flew in one ear and out the other.

“Yeah, just like that,” you heard and your breathing stopped for a moment.

That sounded fucking exactly like Taehyung.

Was he— You paused in your thoughts, not wanting to finish that question. Just the idea of Taehyung having sex with anyone that wasn't you made you feel sick to your stomach. Of course, he wasn't your boyfriend and you didn't own him. He could have sex with whoever he wanted to. That was fine, but it also wasn't because it was unsettling—unsettling to think that he could be interested in and having sex with someone that wasn't you.

Ever since one of the third years was caught and promptly expelled for sneaking into the girls' dorm last year, your professors had upped the security with high level bewitching charms and alarm spells. No one could be that stupid. Everyone knew that it wasn't worth it for just one good fuck—everyone. But maybe Taehyung was the exception.

Then again, he was living proof that he was the exception to everything.

You pursed your lips, trying to cancel out the lustful sounds that floated through your eardrums. Letting out a groan of your own—albeit not the sexual kind—your head fell into your pillow, then pulled it from under the back of your head to use as a shield from the continuous noises of pleasure. Strangely enough, you didn't hear the girl he was fucking—just him. Maybe if you just told them both to kindly fuck off you could finally go back to sleep.

Pulling back your covers, you stomped towards your closed door, flinging it open but not violently enough that it slammed against your wall and woke every witch in the vicinity. As you took a step into the empty hallway, you listened closely for the sound of a penis ramming its way into some vagina somewhere nearby—but nothing.

Your hand gripped onto your door frame, confused by the sudden silence.

But then you heard it again.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck.”

At that, you felt your hand returning to your side and walked back into your room in a lust-filled daze. Your legs shook slightly on your way back to your bed that you nearly lost your balance. You didn’t even have to look to know your panties were drenched. Was it the dream that caused you to feel so horny this late at night?

No. It was Taehyung's voice as the same curses he rasped out repeated themselves over and over in your head.

Sitting down on your mattress, you glanced up to see your door was still open and quickly went to shut it. Your thighs pressed against each other as soon as you sat back down, clenching your walls almost unconsciously. Whether he was having sex or masturbating, his voice was doing something to you; Taehyung wasn't even touching you and it felt so good. How was that possible? Without thinking about what you were doing, the light touch of your fingertips alerted you that your hand had slipped past your shorts, straight to touching your drenched panties clinging to your pajama bottoms from the wetness seeping out of you like a faucet.

It was like you couldn't control your own fingers as they trailed past the tops of your thighs and straight towards your core. You didn't have a roommate unlike most of the other witches in your dorm, so masturbation was almost every few days, especially after waking up from a particularly hot dream about Taehyung. But this time, it was like you didn't even need to touch yourself to bring yourself to your orgasm—just think about him stroking his cock or pounding his dick into someone else. Before you knew it, your back fell against your covers and your eyes rolled into the back of your head as you took two fingers and thrusted them inside of you, not giving yourself time to adjust to the sudden intrusion. You let out a quiet whimper, eyebrows furrowing at how good it felt to be filled.

Your thumb then began to circle your clit at the same speed, causing your back to lift off the bed as the pleasure took over and made you unable to think about anything else but cumming. Your lips parted, as if you wanted to scream or sob into your sheets at the feeling, but nothing came out. Fingers surely dripping with your own juices by now, you replaced your thumb and used each finger to stimulate alternating sides of your clit, the wetness making it easy for you to circle around it but at an agonizingly slow pace out of almost nowhere.

You could only wish that it was Taehyung's fingers fucking into you and rubbing at your clit instead.

“T-Taehyung,” you moaned softly to yourself, trying to quicken your pace but you just couldn't.

Your room was silent, save for your heavy breathing and the soft sound of your fan going. The groans had quieted, wherever they were coming from, but now it was eerily quiet from their end. Were they finished now and—

“Who’s there?”

The sudden question startled you, causing your fingers to pause and rest against your abused clit. It really sounded like an echo, as if they were somewhere but not somewhere nearby. But how was this possible? How could you hear him so loudly and so blaringly if he wasn't in your dorm fucking some girl or at least somewhere nearby?

“H-Hello?” you called out timidly, sitting up and taking your hand out of your shorts.

You heard nothing back but continued to listen regardless, the silence unnerving. About to ask again, you opened and closed your mouth nervously. Just as you got the courage, though, he said your name, as if he wasn't sure.

“Y-Yes, it’s me,” you replied.

“Where are you right now?”

You furrowed your eyebrows. “I’m in my— I'm in my bed. I-In my room."

The conversation came to a stop, both of you confused by what was happening.

"Where are you?” you asked after a solid ten seconds of silence.

“That’s fucking weird,” Taehyung said. “I’m in my bed, too.”

“Were you—” you started to say, laughing awkwardly, then continued, "Were you— you know...”

He snorted. “Yeah. Were you—you know... too?”

You felt your cheeks ignite at that, crowding yourself against the wall beside your bed and bringing your knees to your chest. It was like he was in the room with you—except late at night and with his hands down his pants.

“M-Maybe,” you said with a shy smile, as if he could fucking see you.

“This is so fucking weird," he said again in awe. “What the hell is going on?"

“I don’t know," you answered. "You sound like you're actually here."

"Yeah," he agreed. "Like an echo or something."

It was silent again before you cleared your throat.

“I should pr-probably let you get back to it.”

Your fingers anxiously tapped on the tops of your knees. If you could hear him and he could hear you, that meant he could hear you moaning and that wasn't something you wanted to think about.

“I mean... I can’t really get off now knowing you can hear me.”

You furrowed your eyebrows. “Why not? Just pretend I’m not even here.”

He laughed, the sound melodious to your ears. “But you are here.”

“Yes, but pretend I am not," you said back.

You swallowed thickly, thinking the sudden silence was him reaching for his dick, but then he said quietly, “Maybe we could both get off at the same time. I'm hard as a fucking rock and can't go back to sleep like this.”

"Okay," you easily agreed, your vagina doing the talking. "Do we just—"

"Yeah. Let's just— Maybe we could just—"

“Yeah," you said. "Do you want me to—"

"Mmm," he hummed. "You're not even here, remember?"

It was silent again, but this time it wasn't out of awkwardness. Exhaling shakily, your fingers trailed past your stomach and into your shorts again. You settled yourself against the wall, grabbing your pillow with your other hand so you could lean into the wall more comfortably. Just like before, you started a fast pace almost immediately, pumping two fingers in and out of your scalding core, as if Taehyung really wasn't there.

You were surprised at how easily you could forget about his presence, except for the fact that you could hear him panting and moaning to himself. It didn't even occur to you that Taehyung would be so vocal but you liked it.

As soon as you were getting used to the rhythm, it slowed down again and you sighed.

Although Taehyung was focused on his own pleasure, he slowed down, too. "What's wrong?"

"Oh." You let out an embarrassed laugh. "It's just— I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like— It's like every time I feel myself about to cum, my fingers— Like they have a mind of their own or something and—"

Your fingers slowed their pace entirely inside of you and you groaned in frustration.

"Wait a second," Taehyung started to say. "Tell me what's happening."

Although the idea of telling him what you were doing was beyond embarrassing, you relented. Your fingers began to thrust into you again at a significantly faster pace and your head fell against the wall with a loud thud. You couldn't even form a coherent sentence because it felt that good—only moans escaping your mouth.

Taehyung called your name, bringing you back down to earth a few seconds later. "What's going on?"

"It's okay," you breathed out. "I don't know what's wrong. Maybe they just cramped up or something."

"No," he said and your pace slowed again. "Did it slow down again?"

You whined pathetically for a moment. "Yes. I just want to cu—"

Your fingers plunged back inside at a frantic pace, leaving you to only gasp for air. Head thrashing from side to side, you tried to keep your moans and cries to a minimum, knowing Taehyung could hear you—although, maybe he wanted to hear you. Maybe he wanted to hear you so he could get off faster. At that thought, moan after moan came slipping out of you as your fingers continued to pump inside you faster and faster, one of your knuckles brushing against your clit with just the right amount of stimulation. Taehyung was surprisingly quiet until—

"Is that fast enough?"

Your thumb then brushed against your clit again, your other hand unclenching around your covers to grasp at one of your clothed breasts. You had no idea what was going on but you'd never felt so turned on in your life.

"Wh-What's happenin— Fuck..." You panted, trying to take in a lungful of air. "Taehyung, are you—"

"I don't know how but—" The pace slowed, giving you a chance to breathe. "—it's like we're in sync."

"You mean... Whatever you do to your dick is what happens to me?"

He nodded, then realized you couldn't see him. "Yeah."

"Then what are you waiting for? Go fucking faster."

"Now, is that how you ask nicely?"

"Please go faster," you added.

Not even a second later and the pace resumed. You were surprised that you were still holding on and not making a fucking mess in your underwear but you weren't about to complain. The feeling before you orgasmed was always the best and you knew that this would be the hardest you'd ever cum; you weren't about to waste it.

"It's like I'm right there, isn't it?"

"Y-Yes," you managed to say, sweat dripping past your brow.

He snorted at your lack of response. "How are you doing?"

"I'm doing just fine," you said back. "How about yourself?"

The conversation came to a stop for a few moments, the sound of slapping skin from his end sounding like an alarm going off as you softly willed yourself to breathe through your nose. It was a good thing your fan was going because in such a small room, it was easy for you to start sweating—even through the thin material of your shirt.

He exhaled, groaning. "J-Just fine... I have to say this is—shit—the biggest boner I've ever had."

"M-Me too. I mean—" You cut yourself off to recover. "I just mean I'm really turned on right now."

"Yeah?" he asked. "How wet are you? I wish I was there so I could actually touch you. Unless you don't—"

"I want you to," you quickly added. "God, Taehyung... I want you to so fucking badly." You licked the seam of your lips nervously. "I thought— Before— I thought you were actually here and you were fucking someone."

He laughed. "Nah. We both know no girl at this school would let me come anywhere near them."

"I would," you mumbled to yourself, but he heard you loud and clear. "I have dreams about you, you know. I had one tonight actually and that's why I'm so— Or maybe if we're in sync like you said, maybe I was just—"

The pace slowed again, but you didn't complain. In fact, you saw it as a good thing because here you were having a conversation with Kim Taehyung that lasted longer than sixty seconds—and you were being honest with yourself.

"I had a dream about you, too."

"Wh-What was it? What happened?"

"I was in your bed—with you." He paused to swallow thickly. "I don't even know what your room looks like but it felt so real—like I'd been there a thousand times. I've never even been in the girls' dormitory but it was so real."

"That's the same dream I had," you muttered. "You were fingering me and then you— you ate me out."

"And then what? What happened after that?"

"Then I woke up."

He sighed. "Me too."

After a brief pause, he asked, "Are you lying down?"

"No. I'm against the wall," you replied. "Why do you ask?"

"Lie down for me." You heard him moving around briefly. "Please."

Doing as he said, you pulled yourself away from the wall and brought the pillow you placed behind your back beneath your head, waiting for him to tell you what to do next. Your clit throbbed while you did—torturously.

"I want you to fuck yourself against your pillow, all right?"

Merlinus fucking Caledonesis, you thought to yourself. You were actually going to die because you knew where he was going with this and couldn't even control yourself as you sat up quickly, readjusting your pillow so it was nestled between your inner thighs. While you were at it, you pulled at your underwear until you were naked completely from the waist down. Your thighs squeezed together then as you waited for him to continue.

“Are you touching your dick right now?”

“I mean... I kind of have to for this.”

You laughed to yourself, smiling.

“You got your pillow?"

"Yeah. What do you—"

He groaned and you heard him quickly stroke down the length of his cock. As your thighs fidgeted, the zipper side of your pillow pressed directly into your bare cunt and a cold shiver ran down your spine at the feeling.

"Let's just cum as fast as we can so we can go to fucking sleep."

"Don't sound so excited about it, Taehyung."

He laughed. "I'm fucking ecstatic. I am but—"

"I know," you said with a giggle. "I was just kidding."

"Fuck," he groaned out. "Do you know long I've wanted this?"

You started to squeeze your thighs together as the pillow pressed tightly into you, then rolled over onto your stomach and slowly began to grind into it, raising your hips every few seconds to brush the zipper against your clit.

"M-Me too. How close are you?"

"So fucking close. Just hold on."

You nodded, continuing to grind into the pillow.

"I'm so turned on, Taehyung. I don't know if one orgasm will be enough."

"Jesus..." he muttered to himself. "You are so fucking hot right now."

"I know this is probably because of that charm but—" You let out a high-pitched moan as the feeling of ecstasy and pure bliss began to expand in the pit of your stomach. "God, not yet. I don't want to cum yet. It feels so good."

"Cum for me," he breathed out shakily. "And then cum again and again and fucking again like I know you can."

You whimpered, reaching under your stomach to grip onto the pillow and drag it back and forth so the zipper continuously brushed against your clit, completely coated in your wetness by now. Clenching your walls every second, you knew you were so close. All it took was for him to get there and you would be right fucking there.

"Taehyung," you moaned out. "Taehyung. Are you going to cum? I don't want to cum without you."

"Holy shit," he gasped, increasing the speed of his strokes. "Keep fucking talking."

"But I was finished."

"Oh."

You laughed to yourself again, wishing for nothing more for him to be in your bed with you.

“Then I’ll talk,” he said suddenly. “I'm so fucking hard right now. Fuck— I feel like I'm going to die."

"Me too." Your thighs frantically squeezed around the pillow. "I'm so wet, Taehyung."

Taehyung probably had more to say but he was so close to the edge he couldn't even speak. Spurts of cum came from the tip of his dick and onto his stomach just as you came all over the edge of your pillow, gasping for air.

“Fuck! Fuck, fuck—”

You breathed out, smiling to yourself. Pulling your pillow away from your throbbing core, you quickly unzipped the cover and threw it into a laundry basket, grabbing another pillow at your feet to place behind your head.

"Taehyung?" you called, but heard nothing.

“Did you want to—”

“Taehyung?" Sitting up, you strained your ears. "I can barely hear you."

"I'm—" you heard before he completely cut off, his end completely silent.

It was unnerving to hear his voice for the past twenty minutes and for it to suddenly stop, but you just hoped he was okay. You'd see him in class tomorrow anyway; though, you were anticipating what you'd say to each other.

After all, what could you even say to the person who just heard you fuck yourself into a pillow?

Taehyung had been making walrus noises for the past ten minutes.

“Taehyung,” you said with a giggle. “We’re going to get in trouble.”

After the incident in your incantation class yesterday, your professor decided today would be a study period and took you all to the library. For the most part, he didn't really care who you sat with or if you even studied, so Taehyung made sure to sit with you at your table—even knowing Jimin was glaring at the back of his head.

He decided that he wanted to play with your mind link—which was what Taehyung started calling it for shits and giggles—and found that even if you were together in the physical sense, you could still hear him in your mind.

"So, it really was the spell," he mumbled, almost to himself.

Although Taehyung decided this period was not a study period, you thought otherwise and had immediately made a bee-line for the section of the library with old spellbooks and papyruses, carrying as many dusty books to your table as you could in an effort to figure out what spell you'd casted on the two of you—and how to make it stop.

"Seems like it," you replied, flipping through the old, torn pages of one spellbook at the top of the pile. "I can't find anything about it. What was it again—the incantation? Do you still have that piece of paper from class?"

He nodded, pulling his bag onto the table to search through his notebook. Pulling it from one of the pockets inside, he handed it to you gingerly, careful not to touch you for too long. The spell seemed to be very finicky and after last night, he didn't want to go through that ever again. Boners were cool, but not at such a fucking extreme level; it was like he couldn't concentrate on anything else until he came. The spell had to be some sort of charm, some sort of love spell—except sexual. Love and sex came hand in hand in the world of magic, though, and everyone knew that love spells were impossible to break once the charm was in place. Taehyung knew that it was the fucking same with whatever sexual charm you casted—and it was his fault that you casted the wrong spell.

He was the one who wrote it down wrong, after all.

After one of the librarians shot you an icy look from the front desk, you sunk lower into your seat as you repeated the incantation written on the piece of paper over and over again in your head. Glancing at some of the staff stacking books in the shelves and continuing to peer at you from over the tops of books near the front, you groaned quietly to yourself. Somehow you knew—deep down—that the two of you were stuck like this.

It wasn't exactly bad because you had a good time last night but you didn't want anyone to find out.

"Taehyung," you whispered at him from across the table. "What do we do if I can't find anything?"

"Maybe— Maybe we just need to get it out of our system or something?"

You hesitated to ask but did anyway, "What do you mean?"

Looking around the library, as if someone could hear your whispering, you turned your attention back to Taehyung, gulping at the sight of him leaning forward and pressing his toned arms into the carved mahogany table. Your gaze landed on one particularly bulging vein that trailed from the middle of his arm and disappeared under his uniform blazer. He was saying something but you just couldn't concentrate and knew it had to be the spell.

He scratched the back of his neck. "Maybe we just... go somewhere and... you know..."

You didn't know if it was him or the spell talking, but suddenly that seemed like a good fucking idea. Standing up, you slammed your hands on the table, the pile of spellbooks wobbling slightly. Some of your classmates glanced over at you in surprise and you awkwardly whispered out a feeble apology. After they went back to what they were doing—either homework or quietly practicing incantations—you gestured for Taehyung to follow you.

Clasping your hands in front of you, you anxiously peered around corners as Taehyung followed you through the long, hypnotizing aisles of magic texts and spellbooks. You wanted to make sure no one else was around.

Just to be careful, you muttered a silencing spell under your breath so that even if the two of you were yelling, no one would hear you—at least until it wore off because it had a time limit like most lower level spells. Glancing down the aisles once more, you interlocked your fingers and dragged him until his back was pressed against the end of the aisle, giving you a good view of the rest of the library and if anyone came looking for the two of you.

"Taehyung," you began and he waited patiently, "I want to suck your dick right now."

"Wha— Are you serious? We could get fucking expelled if someone catches us."

You liked how his concern wasn't the fact that you wanted to suck him off but if you were caught.

"We won't," you told him confidently. "I just really need something in my mouth right now."

"Go get a dragon fruit from the fucking cafeteria then? Jesus—we could get in so much trouble."

It had to be the spell—it had to be. You liked Taehyung and would gladly suck him off but not in the fucking library. And you didn't want just anything in your mouth, though; you wanted Taehyung's hard cock down your throat.

"Please?" You blinked up at him in a pout, hoping he would agree to it. "Pretty please?"

He rolled his eyes but laughed to himself. "All right, all right. Get on your knees."

You complied immediately, sitting yourself on the back of your calves while he fumbled with his belt and slowly unzipped his uniform pants. Hesitating, he looked over his shoulder and down the aisle to see if it was clear.

"Just hurry up," you said anxiously. "I casted a silencing spell so we're fine—for now. The faster we do this, the more likely it is we won't get caught. So just take out your dick already so I can put it in my mouth."

His head fell into the shelf behind him. "You're so sexy when you're horny."

Impatiently, your hands pulled at his pants, tugging them down until they were around his ankles. You reached inside his boxers then and began to lightly stroke his dick as soon as it was freed from the confines of his underwear. Although the mind link wasn't as apparent since you were together, his dick was still hard.

You knew he wanted you to suck his dick as much as you wanted to.

Getting used to the length of his cock, you quickly kissed the tip, licking the underside of his shaft before encasing him completely in your mouth. He nestled between your lips comfortably for a moment and you swallowed as much of him as you possibly could before you started a slow pace. One of your hands rested against the base, stroking up and down in a tight fist in combination with your head bobbing on his dick. He exhaled shakily, his fingers grabbing a fistful of your hair and you whimpered but didn't tell him to let go—it kept you anchored there and you would be lying if you said you didn't like the feeling. Your own fingers splayed across his hips as you continued, quickening your pace as your other hand became a blurred movement up and down his cock.

"Shit," he groaned out, mouth falling open in pleasure. "You're so good at this—fuck."

As soon as he said that, you watched him through half-lidded eyes after simply having them closed to concentrate purely on the vulgar sound of his cock thrusting in and out of your mouth. The hand stroking his shaft then trailed down to his balls, touching them lightly to see if he liked that at all. At the sound of a low whine, you knew he did.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, you pulled him out of your mouth and went back to stroking him, spreading your saliva at the tip of his cock down his shaft for better lubrication. You peered down the aisle and saw someone was just looking for a spellbook, finding it easily and walking to the front desk to check it out. Breathing out a sigh of relief, you went to put him back in your mouth before he stopped you, tugging your head back by your hair.

"Wait, wait, wait," he said with a gasp, then slid down the wall so he was sitting with his legs at your sides. "Let's just slow down for a second, all right?" As you did what he said and sat against the back of your calves again with a pout, he exhaled and closed his eyes, settling the back of his head against the shelf. "Can I kiss you right now?"

"Why would you want to do that?" you asked, confused.

"Because I like you," he said with a soft smile.

You felt tears brim in your eyes, choking on air as you smiled. Taehyung's hands gently found your waist, then yanked you to sit on his lap. Just before you pressed your whole weight on him, he pulled his dick out from under you and it settled between the two of you as you continued to smile at each other. He was looking at you like you were the most beautiful girl in the room—like he didn't want to be anywhere else or with anyone else but you.

"I like you, too," you whispered.

He tucked his dick back into his boxers then so he could pull you closer—so much closer that your breasts hidden underneath your blazer pressed into his chest. Your hands trailed past his biceps before settling on his broad shoulders, feeling his grip on your waist tighten, and then he closed the distance between your lips.

"I know you were getting into it," he mumbled into your mouth after pulling away for a brief second, "but I don't want you to do this because of the spell or whatever this is. I don't want you to do anything you don't want to do."

"But I wanted to. That's not how bewitching charms work anyway."

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't you know how love spells work?" you asked, sitting on the tops of his thighs. "They're bewitching charms and they can only work if the feeling is already there. It wouldn't have worked if it was anyone but you, Taehyung."

He swallowed thickly. "I thought you said you didn't know anything about it."

"I just know about love spells generally and it's obvious this is a love spell."

"So," he began, "if you casted this on Jimin instead of me—"

"It wouldn't have worked on me, just him."

His head tilted to the side, grinning to himself.

"That's such a fucking relief," he mumbled. "I thought you two—"

"Never." You shook your head and recoiled in disgust. "Just you."

"Why?" he asked, eyebrows furrowing. "Why do you like me so much?"

Your fingers drifted past the junction of his neck until your forefinger circled one of the buttons on his blazer absentmindedly. "Because you're so kind and so warm. You don't need magic; I don't care about that. You're easy on the eyes, too, so that helps." He let out a loud laugh at that. "I don't care if you're a human. I just want you."

"God," he mumbled to himself. "Why did it have to take a spell for something to happen between us?"

You shrugged but didn't disagree. "I don't know but can I go back to sucking your dick now?"

"If you really want to that badly," he answered with a playful roll of his eyes.

Without waiting any longer, you reached into his boxers to pull his cock out again and immediately sunk down on him, your knees digging into the marble floor of the library. You crawled backwards slightly to give yourself more room and situated yourself between his legs as you bobbed your head on him at a fast pace right from the start.

Your nails dug into his thighs and you grunted as you tried to pull him as far back as you could, choking on his cock for a second when he brushed against your gag reflex. His teeth bit into his lower lip, trying to conceal his sounds but not succeeding entirely when you continued to bob your head on him quickly, moaning out unashamed.

Taehyung could barely keep his eyes open but couldn't resist the urge to peek down the aisle to check if it was still clear. To his horror, he made direct eye contact with Jimin at one of the tables from somewhat far away. Immediately, he ducked his head out of view, then looked again a few seconds later.

Jimin was still staring, his eyes narrowing in suspicion.

"I think Jimin's coming this way," he said quickly, trying to pull you off of him. "Come on. We gotta go."

"No," you said after you pulled your mouth away from him. "I want you to cum in my mouth."

"He's going to fucking catch us. Pull your head out of my asshole and let's just go."

"Please," you begged, fisting his cock with fast strokes. "He's not going to."

Taehyung peered down the aisle again and watched as Jimin stood up, looking as if he was going to come directly towards you. He yelled out in frustration but gave in, nodding. Instead of placing him in your mouth again, you just stroked him up and down quickly, then leaned in to kiss him. He gasped into your mouth but didn't pull away, groaning and granting you entrance with your tongue. While you continued stroking him, you didn't catch his fingers trailing past your arm to cup you over your pants, then slip inside your underwear to finger you.

"T-Taehyung," you moaned out and he grinned into the kiss.

"Shit—fuck..." He pulled away to gasp for air as you stroked him faster. "I'm gonna cum."

Your eyes widened and you immediately pulled away from the kiss, sinking down on his length to lick his shaft. A few seconds later, you noticed his thighs clenching beside you and you breathed through your nose, preparing to swallow every last drop of cum he spurted into your mouth. Taehyung could only watch as you licked it all up, not complaining about the strange taste at all. He was sad that he couldn't get you off but that could happen later.

"Okay, okay," he said, pulling you to your feet. "Let's go now."

Quickly, he tucked his cock back into his boxers as it softened, then pulled his pants past his hips and redid the buckle to fasten them. Just as you were running a hand through your hair and wiping your mouth for any leftover residue of cum, Jimin appeared around the corner and looked at the two of you suspiciously.

"What the hell are you doing back here with him?" he asked, glaring.

"Just looking for a book. It's none of your business, Jimin."

He tongued his cheek in annoyance, then the bell rang. Rolling his eyes, he spun on his heel to walk back over to his table. Taehyung watched him closely, only letting out a sigh of relief once the sound of his footsteps grew faint.

"That was fucking close," Taehyung said.

You nodded, smiling. "I know. I'm sorry."

He watched you for a moment, smile widening as he couldn't tear his eyes away from you. Just then, he reached for one of your hands, tugging you towards him so he could give you a quick kiss. "Don't be sorry."

After he pulled away, your gaze fell to the floor shyly. "See you tomorrow?"

"Yeah. Tomorrow."

"Taehyung? Is Azura with you right now?"

It was currently thirty minutes until curfew and you couldn't find that fucking familiar of yours anywhere. If she wasn't back in the familiar dormitory in at least fifteen minutes, both of you were going to get in trouble. The mind link seemed to work in the library a few hours earlier, but you still weren't entirely sure how exactly it worked.

"Taehyung? Are you there?" you called again, anxiously sitting on your dorm bed.

"Hey. What's wrong?"

"You can hear me." You sighed in relief, happy to hear his voice. "Is Azura with you? I can't find her anywhere."

"Nah. I haven't seen her since yesterday," he said. "Is she missing or something?"

"Y-Yeah, but I'll find her. I just wanted to know if she was with you. Thanks."

"Wait—!" he suddenly yelled. "Do you want me to help you find her?"

You hesitated, your mind immediately flashing back to how you sucked his cock in the fucking library because you couldn't control yourself. And that was with people around. What the hell would you do if the two of you were alone together? You'd probably force him to nail you to the floor with his dick and fuck you for ten hours.

"Um..." you trailed off. "I don't think that's—"

"Oh." He cleared his throat awkwardly. "It's cool. I understand."

"Taehyung, that's not what I mean—"

"It's really okay. Don't worry about it."

"Taehyung— I just— I'm kind of scared."

There was a lull in the conversation at that.

"Scared? You think I'm going to force myself on you or something?"

"Of course not!" you exclaimed. "I'm more worried about— about you."

"Me?" he asked with a laugh. "Why would you be worried about me?"

"Because I basically forced myself on you when you didn't want me to."

"It's okay. I liked it but I just didn't want you to get in trouble."

"Just me? Wouldn't you get in trouble, too?"

He paused at that. "Well— I mean—"

Somehow, you knew what he was going to say.

"Taehyung," you started to say. "You don't need to explain yourself. I just don't know if it's a good idea for us to be alone together—at least until the spell wears off. We should probably stay away from each other actually—"

He sighed. "Well, if that's what you want to do."

You swallowed thickly. "I just— I don't want this to happen once and you never talk to me again. I would have sex with you after because then I knew you weren't just doing this because you're under the charm of some spell."

"Babe," he groaned out. "I can fucking promise the spell isn't making me like this."

"Then prove it. Meet me outside the girls' dormitory and help me find my useless familiar."

"You sure?" he asked. "All right. Then I'm on my way."

You didn't say anything after that, afraid you made a big mistake.

Not even bothering to change out of your pajamas, you locked your door behind you and briskly walked down the hallway leading to the fourth floor's main hallway. As soon as you opened the door, you were surprised to see someone was already opening it and stepped back at the sight of Taehyung without his signature hoodie.

"Hey," he said with an easy smile. "Am I too early?"

"No," you replied. "You're right on time."

It was silent as he followed you down the hallway, casting a spell on the magical escalator that would take you to the fifth floor, which was the first place you wanted to check. Azura loved the garden there and maybe she was still there. Although, maybe she was doing this just to fuck with you because she knew you had low blood sugar.

"I've never been on one of these before," Taehyung said, looking around in fascination as the two of you stood side by side on the top of the escalator. As soon as the vine-woven door closed, it started moving and he quickly grabbed onto a nearby vine acting as the railing for balance. As the fifth floor was considered the earth-based floor, the escalator there was made entirely of plants as it lowered you further down. "I just take the stairs."

You turned to look at him, smiling at him sadly. Sometimes you forgot that he didn't have magic just because he fit in so well—at least in your eyes; to everyone else, he didn't belong. There was a distant look in his eyes as the two of you neared the fifth floor but you couldn't glance away. How did he even deal with the people at this school?

Gazing down at you after a few silent moments, he said, "I don't want you to feel sorry for me. Please."

"Taehyung," you began as the two of you stepped off the escalator, "why do you go to this school? You can't be happy here—not as happy as you could be at a human school. I would miss you but seeing how they treat you— It's terrible. But that's what wizards are like—think they're better than everyone else, better than humans."

"You're not like that," he whispered, barely audible.

The two of you walked down the empty hallway, not a single person in sight. "I've never told anyone this but you've sucked my dick now so maybe I can trust you. My parents— My dad's human and my mom isn't. So, that's why I don't have magic because I'm a halfling. No one knows that, though. They just think I bought my way into this school—as if I would eat fucking tuna fish sandwiches every day if I was rich. They really don't understand anything about humans and they don't want to—that's what makes me mad." He stopped and you looked over your shoulder at him sadly. Sighing, he continued, "You're not like them and you've never been like that."

"I hate them, too," you offered with a smile.

He laughed. "I know you do. What was it you told Jimin yesterday? To fuck off? I swear, he follows you around everywhere. I'm pretty sure he would strangle me just for a chance to fuck you with that small dick of his."

"I know," you said with a loud laugh, quickly covering your mouth at the realization you weren't supposed to even be outside your dormitory at this hour. "He's always offering to walk me to my room or to class and stuff."

"I wonder if he would bust a nut if he found out you sucked my dick—whatever nuts he has left."

You laughed again and he smiled over at you as you continued to walk towards the garden.

"Azura? Are you in here?" you called just as you opened the double doors. "God, she's going to get me into so much trouble. This fucking cat— I don't want to get expelled just because she likes tuna more than me."

Taehyung placed a closed fist in front of his mouth as he laughed. "Do you have any of her hair somewhere? Because maybe you could use a locator spell to find her? Or maybe she's in the kitchen pantry again."

"Maybe I'll just go back to the dormitory and lock my door. That'll teach her to fuck with me."

"Do you want me to walk you back?" he asked, following you towards the double doors.

"If you don't mind," you shyly answered. "You never know where Park Jimin could be hiding."

Just as you reached for the handle, you glanced through the window paneling and saw the lights flicker off.

"Oh, shit," you mumbled to yourself, then casted a clockwork spell to check the time. A illuminated projection of a clockwork solider appeared on the wall next to the doors. "Shit, shit, shit! Has it really been a half an hour already? I'm so fucked if someone catches me outside my dorm, Taehyung. I can't get expelled. I can't—"

He placed his hands on your shoulders then and spun you around to face him. "Hey, hey. It's okay. I'll get you back to your room—don't worry about it. I've been out of my room after curfew more than I'd like to admit."

You raised an eyebrow, curious. "You have? Why?"

His mouth opened and closed in an effort to reply. "It doesn't matter. I just know another back way to the girls' dormitory, so I'll take you there without anyone catching us, okay? You'll be fine. Just worry about Azura later."

"So many questions going unanswered," you mumbled to yourself but followed him anyway.

Slowly, he reached behind him for your hand and you laced your fingers with his, feeling your cheeks heat up. You let him drag you down the hallway in a daze, intoxicated simply by the smell of his cologne and aftershave. To your surprise, he pulled you to one of the old, crumbling lockers lining the hallway and you furrowed your eyebrows.

"I thought you were taking me back to my room? Why are we opening your locker?"

"It's not my locker." He spun the combination and opened it effortlessly, then pulled the locker open to reveal it was not a locker at all and was actually a hidden doorway. "And I am taking you back to your room."

"How the—"

"A magician never reveals his secrets."

Inside—although squeezing through the locker was enough of a challenge—there was a single spiral staircase surrounded by cemented walls and flooring, littered with cobwebs.

"This will take us to the fourth floor bathroom."

You nodded mutely, looking around as he pulled you up the stairs. After ascending the stairs, you opened a door and were amazed that it led into one of the stalls in the boys' bathroom.

"You're kidding me."

He laughed at your reaction, tugging on your hand until you stopped at the door leading to the fourth floor hallway. When he saw a bright light, however, he quickly slammed his back into the wall adjacent to the door, pulling you with him to come crashing against his chest. You breathed shakily into his neck as the two of you waited for whoever was out there to walk by. But even after they left, he didn't let go, just tightened his grip.

"I thought—" You paused to nervously dart out your tongue and lick your lips. "I thought you said you were going to prove me wrong and that the spell had nothing to do with this."

"It doesn't," he rasped out. "It's just you."

His hands grasped at your hips, the fading footsteps in the hallway long forgotten. All you could see was Taehyung and all you could feel was his thumb rubbing slow circles over your pajama shirt. You closed your eyes briefly, breath catching in your throat as one of his hands drifted to your top's hem, slipping underneath to touch your bare skin, each feathery touch from his fingertips leaving behind a scalding hot trail. As his hand grazed your bra's band at your back, you reached for his other hand still at your hip to slide it under your shirt and grasp your bra-clad breast, him squeezing gently a second later. His thumb brushed against your hardening nipple then.

"Aren't I supposed to be proving something?"

"Yes," you gasped out, eyes closing again. "Keep proving it."

The hand grasping your hip pulled you into his chest then and his lips crushed against yours, tilting his head and nose brushing against your own as he quickly deepened the kiss. You moaned into his mouth, bringing your hand away from his own still tweaking and pulling at your breast to hold onto the side of his neck. As your lips parted, his tongue plunged into your mouth, licking at the insides of your cheeks and swirling around your tongue.

"T-Taehyung." The front of your thighs inched closer to his, legs brushing against his hardening cock. "Don't stop touching me—please." After he heard your begging, he began to bunch your shirt up under your bra, not wanting to pull away long enough to take it off entirely. "Why is it so fucking— so fucking hot in here? Or is it j-just you?"

He removed himself from your lips to pant out, "I think it's just you."

You lost your balance for a moment when he said that, trying to pull yourself away from him but somehow managing to trip over your own feet. Just before you fell over, he wrapped one his arms around your back and the two of you crashed into one of the nearby sinks, knocking over one of the floating bars of soap dripping wet.

From your peripheral vision, you saw the same light peer down the hallway again and your eyes widened. Taehyung followed your gaze and sputtered for a moment before he gestured towards the stall again.

"We gotta go," he said, ushering you forward and locking the stall behind him.

He pulled open the cemented door, shutting it behind him, and then placed his hands on your shoulders to steer you down the stairs. He glanced behind him, listening for footsteps but either you were too far away or they didn't follow after you, then slowed down and pulled you back into his chest halfway down the stairs.

After his breath fanning against your neck caused a chill to run down your spine, you managed to take a few steps away from him and take in a deep breath to center yourself. "Maybe it's a good thing they came back."

"Yeah," he breathed out. "You're right. This spell doesn't control us—we're in control."

You turned around to look at him, nibbling onto your lower lip. "Exactly. It's like you're reading my mind."

As if to contradict what he just said, his eyes trailed past your lips to scan your body. Gulping, you quickly turned back around and went to walk the rest of the way down the stairs, hearing his footsteps following after a pause.

"S-So," you began, "do we just wait till they're gone? I can't get back to my dorm with them scouring the halls."

He shrugged. "And that's the only back way I know unless you want to start bombing the walls."

Just as the two of you stepped through the locker again and into the fifth floor's main hallway, the same light from the fourth floor—or a different light altogether—shined down the hallway and on your shadowed figures.

"What the hell are you two doing?"

You brought the back of your hand in front of your face to shield your eyes, but then gasped as you realized it wasn't a professor but a student—specifically one of your classmates.

It was Jimin.

"Jimin?" you called. "What the hell are you doing? What are you doing here?"

"Well, I— Uh..." He lowered his light, deactivating the spell. "I was just—"

"Did you fucking follow me here?" Taehyung asked, angrily.

"No!" Taehyung raised an eyebrow. "Okay, fine. It's just— You two have been acting really weird lately. You were sitting together in class yesterday and then— And then I find you two huddled in some dark, creepy corner in the library? What the fuck is going on between you two? Do you owe him money or something?"

You sputtered out a response, in complete awe one person could be so stupid.

"She doesn't owe me any money," Taehyung calmly said.

"Then what does she owe you? I'll pay whatever she does."

What the hell was his problem? you thought to yourself.

"Jimin," you started to say, breathing deeply in an effort to calm yourself. "Is it really that unbelievable that I'd want to hang out with him out of my own free will? This isn't 1874; I can do whatever the hell I want."

"But he's a human," he said. "I've never understood what you see in him."

You tilted your head back, the anger brewing inside of you, before you completely snapped. "We're fucking. Is that what you want to hear? Maybe now you'll leave me the fuck alone. I have his cum inside of me right now so if you could just fuck off and go back to sadly masturbating alone in your bed, that'd be great. Good-fucking-bye."

Not giving him a chance to respond, you grabbed Taehyung's hand and dragged him down the hallway and into a nearby library. Surprisingly, the door was unlocked and he hesitantly followed you inside.

Growling to yourself once the door closed, you started your rant, "I can't fucking believe him. Him and everyone else at this school. Why can't they just treat you like a person? You were standing right there and he was going to talk about you like you weren't even there." You paused to yell out in frustration. "Argh! I could just kill him."

"He doesn't matter," Taehyung said, trying to calm you down. "I don't care what they say about me."

"I know but—!" You cut yourself off to scream. "I hate them all."

Then you heard a knock on the library's closed doors.

Rolling your eyes, you stomped over and peered out the window to see Jimin still lingering there, attempting to apologize—though, you were pretty sure he didn't mean a single word. Even as you glared at him, he continued to knock, so you muttered a quick incantation under your breath so some of the nearby vines in the library covered the window and he could no longer see inside. However, he could still hear you and you could still hear him.

"I'm sorry, okay? I didn't mean— m-mean what I said. Taehyung's cool and— I don't hate him, okay?"

"And my ass has three cheeks," you quipped. "Just go away. I'll talk to you tomorrow."

Taehyung's chest grazed against your back then, his lips nearing your ear.

"Is he not going to leave?" he whispered in your ear, barely audible.

"I don't know," you whispered back, pressing your ear into the door.

"Play along," he mumbled under his breath. "Thank fuck he's gone, babe!" The sudden increase in volume caused you to jump, your head knocking into his forehead. "Ow... I mean— Now we can finally get back to what we were doing before, which was my penis in your vagina." You looked at him from over your shoulder, your eyes wide. He winked at you, then continued, "That thing we were doing just five minutes ago was that—in case you forgot."

You stifled a laugh, smiling at how obvious he was being about it but Park Jimin was an imbecile.

"Oh, right!" you gasped out, realizing you had to play along. "You're so good with your dick, Taehyung. I just came one minute ago before stupid Park Jimin came along with his small penis but now I am wet again—for your dick."

"And how wet are you for me? How wet is your vagina for my huge dong?"

"I could probably do your laundry for a month with how wet I am! I don't know if I can go again, though. I mean, the last time we fucked—which was two minutes ago—you made my pussy into this gaping hole of your cum with that big cock of yours. And I'm pr-pretty sure—" You had to pause just so you could laugh into your hand. "I'm pretty sure if you fucked me right now, I wouldn't even need to be wet—like I am right now so it is okay."

"Wow, babe! You're really turning me on with your dirty talk right now!" he exclaimed, exaggerating every word. "Where should I fuck you? This library sure has a lot of choices and surfaces of which I can fuck you nicely on."

The door handle jiggled and you had to place your palm over your mouth so he couldn't hear you laughing.

"Guys!" Jimin yelled through the door. "This is awkward—fuck—but I can hear you and stuff, so—"

"Oh, my gosh, Taehyung," you gasped out in mock surprise. "He said he can hear us. Do you think that meant he heard every word? Like how you want to fuck me onto the table he was studying at today in this very library?"

"Perhaps!" he replied, loudly. "I really hope he doesn't come in here because I'm already inside of you and that would be awkward." He snorted to himself, both of you laughing. "Wouldn't—" He couldn't even finish his sentence, he was laughing so hard, you elbowing him in his side. "Wouldn't you agree?"

Instead of responding with a coherent sentence, you let out a long moan. "Oh, I totally agree! I would agree to anything right now because you're so deep inside of me. Remember when I was sucking your cock earlier today in the library before Jimin showed up—" You let out an exaggerated gasp. "I forgot he can hear us, Taehyung!"

"Oh, no! That he can!" Taehyung responded. "He probably heard every word. You're so good at taking my dick, though. In your mouth, in your pussy, in your ear—you take it so well and—" You almost died laughing at that but he quickly placed a hand over your mouth. "All nineteen inches of me, too! I wonder if Jimin has a big dick. Hey, Jimin: do you have a big dick? How do the ladies take your dick when you fuck them? Unless you've been saving yourself for this fine slut I'm fucking behind this door that you cannot get into. This is one tight pussy she has!"

The other end grew quiet and you assumed Jimin either fainted from the shock of it all or simply left.

"That was so fucking funny, Taehyung," you said, bursting out laughing.

"I know," he replied. "Didn't think he'd buy it but then again, he's an idiot."

You bit into your lower lip, turning around to look at him. "I'm kind of turned on."

His arm came to cage you into the door, fingers grasping onto one of the vines. "Me too."

"Maybe we could just—" You paused, glancing down at his dick straining against his pants. "—quickly..."

"Yeah. Just quickly, you know? I wouldn't want you to make you suffer or anything."

"Exactly. I mean, we can control ourselves and this is our own decision."

"We definitely can control ourselves. We have been but it's just—"

"It's just—" You cleared your throat, stepping away from the door. Walking him backwards, one of your fingers absentmindedly played with one of his blazer's buttons, biting your lip. "I want this off right now, Taehyung."

"Yeah? You want it off?" he breathed out. His hands came to rest against your ass, pulling you right into his hardening cock. "My hands are kind of busy at the moment so if you could just— I'm sure you don't mind."

"Not at all," you replied with a coy smile.

The finger circling his button then drifted past his taut chest and fumbled with the first button, cursing to yourself when you had difficulty getting it unbuttoned in less than five seconds. After your fingers were a blurred movement down his chest, quickly unbuttoning the blazer, both your hands trailed past his bare skin.

"Your hands are kind of cold," he noted huskily.

"Are they?" you asked. "Maybe you should warm them up."

"Gladly." After you pushed his blazer past his shoulders, the cotton material fell to the floor in a heap. He brought his own hands to yours, cradling them in his while he breathed warm air across the back of your skin. "Warm enough yet? I can't have you freezing to death on me, not before heating you up with my dick."

You exhaled shakily, staring at him deeply. "I th-think I'm all w-warmed up now, so let's just—"

One of the study tables came into view and you quickly laid yourself down on top of it, pulling at your shorts and underwear until they dropped to the cold, marble floor. "Warm me up with your dick. I know you want to."

"Oh, I want to very much," he said, licking at his dried lips after they hung open for a good twenty seconds.

His warm fingertips made contact with your dripping pussy, pulling back immediately just from how wet you were.

"You know," he began, "I thought you were just saying that but you really are wet for me."

"Not wet enough," you breathed out, pulling yourself even further back on the table.

He quickly grabbed your night shoes and tossed them behind him, them thudding against a nearby wall. Kicking his own shoes off as well as his pants and boxers, he climbed on top of you on the table and framed your face with his elbows. Just then, he slowly ground into you, your mouth dropping open at the feeling of his length against you.

"Not yet," he whispered. "Like you said, you're not wet enough and I want this to last for hours."

You moaned out at that, just his dirty talk enough to make you clench around air and bite your lip.

"You like that?" He reached under your back to pull you into his lap. "I think you'll like this, too."

Holding you up against his chest with one hand, he used the other to grab at his cock and run his shaft over your outer lips, giving you a taste of what was to come. The tip slid in so easily just from how wet you were but he quickly pulled himself out of you, teasing you endlessly. You whimpered, nails digging into his shoulders.

"Taehyung, please," you begged. "Fuck me right now."

"I don't know," he sang, feigning concern. "I think you can be wetter."

He switched your positions then, with you on top and him lying on the hard surface of the table.

"Sit on my face," he commanded, already reaching for your waist to bring you right where he wanted you.

You inched your thighs closer to his face until he grabbed onto your legs and anchored you to him. Right as you hovered your cunt over his parted lips, he went to town almost immediately, lapping and licking at your wetness, one hand splayed across the skin at your waist and the other spreading your outer lips so he could plunge his tongue in as far as it could go. Your palms quickly planted themselves flat on the table on both sides of him as he continued, almost grinding into his mouth and clenching around nothing. Head tilting back, loud moan after loud moan fell from your lips and he grinned. As he saw your hands holding you up, he took that chance to take his other hand away from your hips and pump a finger inside of you, reaching farther than his tongue could reach.

"T-Taehyung!" you gasped out, choking on air. "God, don't stop. Please don't fucking stop."

As his tongue pulled out of you and went instead for your clit, your mouth fell open in a silent scream, sobbing into your closed fist as you brought it to your mouth to stop your cries and screams of pleasure. You couldn't hold yourself up any longer as you came, your muscles growing weak at the intense feeling exploding inside of you, and found yourself falling backwards, barely catching yourself as his fingers were forced out of you. Your thighs pressed together and your walls clenched violently, whimpering as you could still feel him pumping deep inside of you. You panted, raising yourself up on shaking elbows and tried to ease yourself off of him so you weren't crushing him.

"Good?" he asked, sitting up just as you hopped off the table.

"I think you know," you said, tossing him a look over your shoulder.

"I do," he said with a laugh. "You're so fucking hot when you cum."

"Then make me cum again with your dick inside of me."

He guffawed, then smiled at you as you placed your hands flat on the table, leaning in close with your lips ghosting over his seductively. "Right fucking now? I don't want to hurt you. Maybe just a few more minutes."

You shook your head, grabbing at his hands to pull him to his full height. "I want your dick in me right now."

He didn't even say anything as you pulled at your shirt and quickly unclasped your bra, now fully naked.

"Okay, okay— Where do you want to—shit... I can't think clearly with you like this. Tell me what you want me to do before I lose control of myself and fuck you into the floor," he rasped out shakily, hands resting on your hips.

"B-Bathroom," you replied, moaning as his chest grazed your own. "I don't want anyone to hear us."

The both of you speed-walked to the bathroom just a few hundred feet away, past a few aisles of magical texts and vines clinging to the shelves. Upon opening the door, Taehyung's jaw dropped at how fucking beautiful the girls' bathroom was. Meanwhile, he got stuck with the abomination that was the boys' horrendous bathroom.

"You girls get a fucking rose garden and we get the fucking landfill?" he asked, laughing in astonishment.

Everything was made of porcelain and crystal. The sinks that lined the wall had vines growing and weaving together, beautiful mauve carnations just blossoming. The tiled flooring was like walking on clouds and there was a giant mirror between the sinks, opposite to the stalls on the other side of the bathroom. In front of the mirror was a velvet chair that looked brand new and there were three crystalized chandeliers floating inches from the ceiling by some sort of magic spell. In that moment, all Taehyung could think about was that he wanted to fuck you on every single surface as soon as possible in as many positions and make you cum as many times as he could.

"I'm going to bust a nut just looking at this bathroom," he said, pushing you forward and shutting the door.

Just as he turned back around, you were on him like a fruit fly to a mango, tugging at his hair and kissing him so roughly he felt like his lips would bruise. Your breasts pressed firmly against his chest, nipples hardening, and he moaned into your mouth. He walked you forward, fingers drifting down to your awaiting pussy and began to thrust them inside of you in preparation for his dick, even though he knew you were already wet enough. Taehyung just wanted to pleasure you before his dick could, not leaving a single second for you or your cunt to be dissatisfied.

Your fingers fell from their tight grip on his strands of hair, falling to his shoulders before blindly reaching around you to find something to hold onto, knocking over a vase of carnations sitting beside the faucet. Your back slammed into the sink then and he quickly lifted you up, your legs instantly wrapping around him.

He didn't even give you a second to breathe before he was easing his way inside of you.

Just like he thought, you were wet enough and he slid inside easily, pulling out of you entirely. He grabbed ahold of one of your legs anchored to him and pulled it away from you so he could fuck into you deeper and you took the hint, removing your legs from around him and instead spreading your legs as wide as you could. You met each of his thrusts by grinding your hips forward then and grunted into his ear. It was indescribable—the feeling of him inside of you and stroking your walls with every single inch of him he had to offer. You couldn't even think properly because of how good it felt and he knew it felt good just by how loud you moaned for him, clawing at his back.

"Tell me how it feels," he whispered into your ear and his fingers drifted past your stomach to circle your clit.

"So good," you managed to say, groaning at a particularly deep thrust that fucked against your g-spot.

He pulled you away from the sink then and you wrapped your legs back around him. Carrying you to the chair against the large window, he sat down and eased you back down on his length, moaning out at the feeling of you around him once again. Taehyung easily gave you the upper hand and you took that chance to start immediately bouncing up and down on him, your breasts bouncing along with you. His head fell back against the chair, a bead of sweat dripping past his cheek as he breathed heavily. You circled your hips and then continued to sink down on him agonizingly slow and he whimpered in response, forcing you to go faster by his tight grip on your hips.

"Shit—" He sat up, pulling you with him and flipped you over so you were on your stomach, then pulled your hips so your ass was hanging in the air. Immediately, he pounded back inside of you, the new position making it easy for him to reach even deeper inside of you. "So fucking good. You're so tight and—" You clenched around him, causing him to let out a long moan of pleasure. "You're not leaving this bathroom until I'm done fucking you."

Suddenly, some of the paintings on the wall began to shake and you knew it was because of your fluctuating emotions as he continued to hammer into you. He didn't know that, however, and pulled away. Looking towards the rug on the floor, he pulled the two of you to a standing position, still fucking you and your legs began to shake as violently as the paintings. You easily lost your balance and fell to the floor, the rug breaking your fall and he rolled you onto your back, hitching your leg around his hips and penetrated you again. This had to be the most positions you'd been in while having someone fuck you and it was amazing; you didn't want him to pull out.

Just then, some of the mirrors in front of the sinks began to crack, shards of glass flying across the room. Taehyung's head ducked just as one flew past his head and he looked at you in alarm but didn't stop.

"Don't stop," you breathed out. "Ah—! Fuck, fuck, fuck! Taehyung, keep going—please..."

The cracked mirrors forgotten, he continued to plow into you and then the door slammed open, nearly flying off its hinges. He sputtered out an incoherent question but didn't stop like you asked him not to. The door slammed shut, only to open again—and that was when the stall doors followed suit and he would be lying if he said he wasn't a little bit afraid of being hit by a flying fucking door. As your orgasm loomed closer—his own close behind—the intensity of the bathroom with the breaking glass and slamming doors only got worse but he kept going.

"Shit," he muttered to himself. "This is intense. Is th-this—fuck me—what it's like to fuck a witch?"

"I don't know," you said, panting. "Have you fucked a witch before?"

"I am right now."

He was watching the stall doors still and reacted quickly, pulling you into his lap just as one flew off its hinges and crashed into the giant mirror behind the burgundy chair. His thumb came to circle your clit so that you would finally cum and he wouldn't get a bloody nose from fear of the chair coming to life and wanting to kill him.

Just as he played with your clit, you moaned out and felt yourself cum almost immediately. He gave you three more sharp thrusts, your chest jostling into his roughly with each thrust, and then he finally came as well.

As your orgasms faded, the doors settled down and everything went silent, save for your heavy breathing.

"That was life threatening," he said after a few seconds of silence.

"If that's what it's like to be murdered by a dick, then I don't mind the threat."

He laughed, rubbing circles into the skin at your waist, then pulled you up on shaking legs. No words were exchanged after you two left the bathroom, not even considering having to explain to someone how the two of you fucking destroyed one of the most beautiful bathrooms in the entire academy. Someone would ask but they would never know it's you—unless Jimin decided to run his fucking mouth, but you didn't think he would.

Taehyung handed you your clothes and the two of you dressed in silence, the space between your legs still tingling from what just happened. After your genitals were hidden beneath your pajamas, you turned to look at him.

"That's a tight ass pussy you have there," was what he decided to say to clear the awkward air.

You burst out laughing and shoved him playfully. "You gonna violate this pussy again?"

"If you let me," he whispered, shyly. "I really don't want this to be the last time I see you."

"Me neither. I really do like you, Taehyung. I like you a lot."

"I like you a lot, too." He paused, a distant look in his eyes. "No. I love you. I just wish this stupid spell wasn't what brought us together, you know? I planned on asking you out on my own, not having my dick do it for me."

"It wasn't the spell," you said. "I don't know if you realized but the mind link wasn't working the entire time."

His eyes widened. "You're— You're right. So you said all that on your own? Wow. You dirty bitch."

"Your dirty bitch," you quipped.

"My dirty bitch," he affirmed. "My dirty girlfriend."

"Yeah," you said, liking the sound of that. "Your girlfriend."

He smiled at you softly. "So, should we fix the bathroom? At all?"

"That would probably be a good idea."

As you two walked back into the bathroom, you realized you never did find your cat.

[diabolikpersonals]

Like, what do you think of them generally?

alright alright alright alright alright thank u for the opportunity to talk about diaboys!!! I appreciate it ! under a read more bc I ranted forever

LAITO:

My first exposure to dialovers was the anime so my first impression towards Laito was like “oh, he’s the flirty one - oh shit he’s banging her in a church, you cant do that, thats nuts lol” but as I got more into the games, Laito became SO IMPORTANT TO ME??? especially like his relationships, w/ ALL the characters like his brothers and yui and the other families and everything! I especially love learning more about his relationship with Ayato and Kanato because it’s so dang complex. His feelings towards his triplet bros is really complicated because he loves them and you know he loves them but his trauma w/ his mom sort of fucks it all up so he’s got like this genuinely nice and kind and loving personality fighting against this trauma and warped view of the concepts of love and family that Cordelia gave him, and what you get is, “I love my family and I hope they die” and throughout the games u learn more about the reasons why he has those world views and it’s SO GOOD Laito is such a well thought-out character!?! As a writer Laito delights me but as a fan, his whole deal makes me so dang sad djhfghjdkdfd

That’s why I was so fucking satisfied w/ Laito in the Laito vs Shin cd because you got a bunch of the darker stuff surrounding him (his tendency to push people off of buildings, that FUCKING VOICE DROP he does when he’s genuinely mad) and Laito was like...he was SCARY. And he was scaring YUI and he was scaring HIMSELF, too, which made me so sad!! Laito was like crying and punching walls and being like “why am I acting like this??” and it fuckin broke my heart dude. He’s a genuinely good person, he’s so wonderful, but he’s recovering from some really really nasty stuff. So that cd really gave me a sense of like, “Man, Laito hates this just as much as I do.” It makes me want to...idk...it makes me want to give him more opportunities to be good. He really is good!!!

KANATO:

As for my first impression, I think Kanato turned me off right away because I could instantly recognize all the tropes they were gonna use when they were designing him. You can look at him and tell that he’s gonna be the ~yandere~ character (I hate using that word but u know what tropes I’m talking about). As soon as they showed him eating a bunch of sweets I was like “yep.” When they showed us his room full of wax dolls, I was like “uh huh, that seems about right.” And then he yelled a lot and tried to stab Yui for making him french toast or whatever and I was like “ok.........I’ll go start ayato’s route” u know??? just super not my type, and the Kanato vs Azusa cd was torture because Azusa’s so soft-spoken but Kanato’s always yelling at the top of his lungs. I had to keep messing with the volume and it bugged me.

I think I would like Kanato a lot more if he...had a...friend. I think rejet kinda realized that he needed one and they had that in mind when they were introducing Azusa, but that ended up being a pretty bad failure I think. Kanato doesn’t really get along with anyone and he’s pretty open about admitting that he doesn’t like anyone particularly well. I’m glad to see him starting to love Yui genuinely but...idk I feel like every other diaboy has another diaboy(s) that he gets along with really well and it’s always nice to see them acting friendly and even encouraging each other sometimes! Kanato doesn’t really have that kind of relationship with anyone. When Ayato tried to reach out and apologize in LE, Kanato was like “lol kill yourself” and I was actually so fuckin mad at him, I was like “boy if you don’t fix that attitude of yours-”..........I guess I just wish that he had more character development by this point. That scene really hurt.

RUKI:

Basically the WORST first impression ever...my first Ruki scene that I ever saw was when he broke the cat’s neck and I was so pissed. I was like “immediately fuck this guy” and he became my least favorite character right away. And on top of that he was really elitist and one of those jerk intellectuals “ohhh solve this puzzle or STAY OUT THERE IN THE COLD you big dumb idiot. im smart and you’re not” and I was like FUCK this guy, how does yuma put up with him with HIS backstory?

But I hella warmed up to him during MB, like especially during Reiji’s route where Ruki was like “...uh...okay” the whole time jhdghdj that shit was hilarious. Ruki started feeling really real. And I think that like...hm...like if Laito is a genuinely good person surrounded by bad influence, Ruki is the opposite - he’s a bad personality surrounded by good influence. Ruki’s a jerk and he’s been a jerk his whole life but he has these wonderful brothers who love him so much and this lovely angel Yui and he’s just got all these good people who look up to him and he has to be good. This little asshole kid who treated all his servants like shit is now cooking dinner for his three adoptive brothers every day and they love him so much and they love him so much. It’s so fucking satisfying. I love seeing him supporting his brothers even though it conflicts with his personality and his main drive, like letting Kou run away with Yui even though Kou couldn’t become Adam. Ruki’s most important thing in MB was making one of the Mukamis become Adam but he gave that up to let Kou be happy. That shit is so important. Ruki was such a fuckin turnaround for me, I hated him at first but now I love the hell out of him and what he represents for the Mukamis.

KOU:

Kou is great!! I think he’s affected lots of characters in really positive ways, and he’s been affected in positive ways by different characters and it’s really nice to see. For sure he’s still got that trauma from his past but I really appreciate that Kou is in an environment that doesn’t have a lot of reminders of the bad stuff from his childhood. Like, how Kou was sought after for being such a beautiful child, and how he was trapped in a dark place for such a long time. There’s none of that shit when he lives with the Mukamis. Rejet could’ve easily put in tons of haunting reminders about Kou’s whole “too beautiful for his own good” thing but whenever he gets complimented, it’s usually for something different. Azusa will talk about how talented and amazing he is, and Kino’ll be like “idol clothes are pretty nuts huh? lol” and Ruki will be like “you’re working properly after all” and I fuckin love that shit...They could’ve made it so dang hard for Kou, but no, he’s in a much happier place now. He’s nice and comfortable being with these people. That makes me feel relieved lol

I already talked about how he helped Ruki but I think the most important relationship with a diaboy that he has is SUBARUUUUU cuz like, when you look at Subaru’s route you’re like “oh he definitely needs a friend, I’m glad he has a gf but he was so dang lonely and self-deprecating that he DEFINITELY just needs a genuine good friend” and then Kou showed up and he was like “guess what subaru? we’re gonna be friends, I’ve decided” and subaru was like “???” and MB happened and by the end of it Subaru was like “I took everything you said really seriously and I do want to be friends with you..............im not gonna say it out loud tho. let’s just shake hands ok” and I was like AW HECK YEAH!!!!! And then you keep seeing nice little reminders that they’re friends in other games, like in either LP or VC (Im sorry I literally cannot tell these two games apart) they were picking out hair accessories together for Yui, and in the Subaru vs Kou cd, Kou asks Subaru at the end if he had fun, and in LE Kou gave Subaru that pep talk and made Subaru laugh, and Subaru was like “Kou if I’m gonna die then I want you to kill me” and Kou was like “But I don’t want you to die!” and Subaru was like “you dont??? you actually care? about ME???” ITS SO FUCKING GOOD DUDE Subaru needed Kou so badly. Thank god for Kou honestly

KINO:

It was weird like...I was so mad at him during certain routes but I could never actually dislike him. It’s because he’s so dang funny tbh. He literally killed some of my favorite characters but then he would say a funny line and I’d be like “haha, I’m glad kino is here!” like it’s almost scary how charismatic he is towards both the other characters and to me, the player. He asked nicely if he could kill Shu and Shu was like “ok, sure.” Kino is hands down my fav villain because of this. Especially because you can really tell that deep down he wants to be a real member of the Sakamaki family and like he genuinely wants to be friends with people like Yuma and Kou, and he’s got the whole villain-turned-awkward-family-member trope which I LOVE. Like especially in that drama cd where he was like “I never get to go to school so I want to do home ec with you guys! Let’s make donuts!” and Kou was like “ok!!!” and kou tries to be super positive and encouraging the whole time even though Kino was actually secretly plotting to blow the place up. Kino looks like an idiot but he’s a genius tbh

and and and and and and I want him to kiss yuri. I think yuri is super in love w/ kino too, despite the fact that he’s. annoying. thats all I got dhgfdjskj...I love the childhood-friends-to-lovers trope so fuckin much

CARLA:

hey carla fuck you

I was really mad at him for his actions in DF mostly ^^; And tbh it’s really hypocritical because it was a group effort between both of the Tsukinamis, but I ended up loving Shin and hating Carla. Kino also did similar bad stuff to Carla, but I ended up loving him while hating Carla. So, why?

Well here’s fuckin why. Shin and Kino are cute & funny. They have their nice little payoff moments - maybe Shin hurt one of my favorite characters, but then you get to see how bubbly and energetic he gets around his big brother. He was walking one of his wolves around christmas time while wearing a red jacket and a random kid approached him thinking he was santa claus. That’s adorable! For a long time, Carla didn’t have anything like that. And he was a jerk to absolutely everyone, including Shin, who was so dang devoted to him!! Like remember in the DF cds where he was like “hey shin, the plan is we suck her blood until she’s purified from the vampires” and shins like “ok nii-san got it” and he started sucking her blood, exactly like he was ordered to, and then carla came in and STABBED HIM and was like “hey dont touch my property” like SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK CARLA U TOLD HIM TO DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! IT WAS THE PLAN

And he fucked Ayato up real bad in DF so I was so mad...;; I only recently started forgiving him once diatwitter and LE started up. Diatwitter let us see his cute old grandpa side where he fuckin wanders around amusement parks by himself like some kind of cryptid and kou keeps being like “wait was that carla? what the heck??” and LE gave us some pretty nice stuff like carla being like “ur definitely my brother, shin” so...carla is ok I guess...but then again LE also gave us some bad carla moments like “if ur not actually a founder then u lied to me and im gonna kill u” so basically uh?? carla’s just a jerk I think. I’m warming up to him at a snail’s pace but he’s still a jerk. sucks about the endzeit tho, I hope he’s like permanently ok now