#like right after he decides he wants you he goes home and starts scheming

[rabbitbonesandsheabutter]

happy friday the 13th i’m celebrating by writing about that old man’s peen 😃

ok ik Dale is 50-60ish and his dick might not cooperate but I’m so sure he would go to great lengths to be able to fuck someone he wanted. Like I would think working for satan should come with bonuses like being young and able to fuck forever, but Dale’s been let down on everything else so far, maybe he’s only kept fit enough to carry out his duties. And even though imo he’d value actual companionship above sex, if he thinks he’s gonna get some he’s stopping at nothing to make sure it happens and he doesn’t ruin the relationship before it really happens by being unable to meet your expectations.

So anyway imagine he can’t get/keep it up. I feel like his first resort would be something like herbs with aphrodisiac properties (for the aesthetic) - he’s making tea, he’s making weird pastes or salves and applying them directly, he’s powdering and fucking snorting them. If that fails he’s digging up the crustiest dustiest books on magic he can find and poring through old wives tale after old wives tale, making up spell jars and drinking the nastiest concoctions all in an effort to feel all of you, to be able to please you as best he can.

And I think if he could get it up but not last he’s not above numbing cream. Would get unbelievably frustrated that his plan worked and he can’t feel enough, bc let’s be real he doesn’t do things by halves, even if he did get genital specific numbing cream he’s using wayyyy too much. Ends up numb for hours and practically sobbing into your shoulder as he grinds into you, both exhausted but he still can’t cum. When he finally does (maybe you get out a strap/top him) he has never been more satisfied with himself, both of you laid out sweaty and gross, smug little smile despite him still having tears and eyeliner down his face. He will be doing that again.

[berrygoodjob]

I'm having a Thot about Sho ditching a hangout with Leo last second because reader asked him if he wanted to come over ("I'm alone, want to come over ;)" "you are the only one who lives there. You are always alone") and after fuming for a while Leo walks outside the cathedral (I think that is where the mc lives) and uses his stigma to see if he could hear some gossip but goes deaf for a second hearing you two going at it. Whether he is going to use it as blackmail material for his best friend or think about it for something else he is going to decide in a while. Sho doesn't understand why Leo doesn't look him in the eye for a few days

MDNI 18+

Eavesdropping

Tokyo Debunkers one shot

Leo paced around his room. He just got a text from Sho cancelling on him. For the third time this week.

‘What does that asshole think he’s doing cancelling last minute like that?’

Leo ruminates on it for a while, not that he’d ever admit it. He knows something is up though. The way Sho’s been acting lately made him more suspicious. Smiling at his phone, humming while he cooks because he thinks no one’s around, he even asked Leo for skincare advice. Definitely suspicious.

So Leo decides to follow and investigate this time. He tracks Sho all the way to the abandoned cathedral. He stops in his tracks, fuming.

‘That asshole ditched me for the NPC?!’

Leo is beyond pissed. For a quick second he almost forgets to use his stigma and just barge in there, but he catches himself.

“haxs”

Nothing could’ve prepared him for the sounds he heard. That was definitely the NPCs voice he just heard, practically screaming Sho’s name. The sound of wet skin lewdly slapping together. The unmistakable sound of moans and grunts of pleasure from his best friend. And worst of all Leo got there just in time for the ‘finale’.

Leo speechlessly walks away with a red face. He walked back to Vagastrom in complete silence, not even scheming ways to use this information yet. He goes and prepares a bath for himself.

‘Sho’s doing the npc…..’

He tries to get his mind off of it, but the sounds keep coming back into his head. To make things worse, Sho just got home.

Sho knocks on the bathroom door.

“Hey man, sorry for last minute cancel. Something came up at the office.”

‘Liar… the only thing that ‘came up’ was his dick….’ Leo stops the thought there. “Yeah, whatever. Don’t pull that crap again though.”

“Well come down when you’re done. I’m making dinner, the honor student’s coming too.”

Leo groans audibly at this. “You invited the NPC?”

“Yeah. Get over it. They’re actually pretty cool…”

Leo scoffs and thinks to himself. ‘Of course the one who just got his dick wet would think so….’

When Leo gets out of the bath he goes down for the most awkward dinner of his life. He can’t make eye contact with either one of them. He tries to play it off as annoyance.

“Can you please pass the-“ *the NPC starts, but Leo quickly just tosses what they were about to ask for at them.

“Dude what are you doing!?” Sho huffs, dragging Leo out of the room. He glares at Leo, but Leo is looking everywhere but at him.

Sho knows something is up right then and there. Leo is usually not passive aggressive like this, he’s usually very open about his dislikes of things.

“What the hell’s going on with you? Is this because I canceled on you?” Sho tries to question a bit.

“Shut the fuck up.”

“I told you I-“ Sho stops his sentence there when he sees the tips of Leo’s ears are tinted pink. “You followed me didn’t you?” Sho sighs.

Leo turns to argue but his face goes bright red. “Never bring this up again…..” he groans in defeat.

[brainddeadd]

About damn time

Quinn Hughes x fem!reader

Jack Hughes x fem!reader (platonic), Luke Hughes x fem!reader (platonic)

Warnings: fluff, angst, fan hate, pining, jack calls reader "bub", Jack's a menace, Nico shows up cause he's the loml

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You grew up with the Hughes brothers

At two months younger than Jack, you blended in with their tight-knit group

You met the Hughes brothers when you and Jack were 7. He shoved a kid in the playground for being mean to you, even though you were going to let it go, and the rest was history.

Jack became more like a twin than a friend. You two were inseparable. You were the calm to his storm.

Luke worshipped the ground you walked on. Followed you around like a lost puppy, and often, when he was having an off day, you were the only person who could calm him down. His own personal sanctuary from the world.

Quinn was the older, quiet brother who was always polite and friendly, but to anyone on the outside looking in, you guys just didn't work together well. However, they couldn't be more wrong. You quickly became each others solace in the chaos of their lives.

You went to every game you could, wearing the number of whichever brother was playing that time. Always in the stands, you were their biggest supporter, so it wasn't a surprise when you were invited to Quinn's draft.

Politely clapping and cheering with their families, fans started to be critical of your appearance and your actions. Rumours started to spread that you weren't interested in hockey, only wanted the money and fame that came along with being close to the Hughes brothers. They assume you're a bitch, instead of shy.

Jack shuts that shit down.

jackhughes: it has come to my attention that people are being little bitches towards my twin. that stops now.

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The other brothers repost the pictures to their own instagrams, and the hate dies down slightly. You make a new private, personal instagram.

Jack's draft comes and goes, and you're accepted into the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Quinn is over the moon but hides it. Jack mopes for 3 days.

Quinn asks you to move in with him while you get settled into Vancouver. He says it's to help you, but Jack and Luke know better.

Fans start to photograph you at Quinn's games, a blank look on your face, and the rumours start up again. You ignore it until they say you're a puck bunny who's fucked your way through the brothers and will move on to other players eventually.

Quinn finds you crying. He can feel his heart break in his chest at the tears streaming down your face and the way your mascara is smudged around your eyes.

_quinnhughes: my best friend. my favourite supporter.

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Fans change their tune after Quinn's post, suddenly deciding that they love the idea of you two together. They think his use of "my" was a declaration.

The thought of being Quinn's makes your heart flutter, but you keep quiet.

Little do you know, Quinn feels the same.

Luke gets drafted and goes to New Jersey with Jack, where they're left alone to scheme and form a plan to get their big brother to finally get the girl.

"You sure about this?" Luke asked, his finger overing over the call button on your contact.

"Dude I'm telling you, they just need a lil push in the right direction."

"Uhh, this is more of a check into the boards." Nico's voice chimes from his places on the younger boys' couch.

"Just call her!" Jack ushers Luke away, firing off a text when he hears your voice through the phone.

Jack: yo quinn, is bub ok?

Quinn: yes ? I think ?

Quinn: I'm at practice

Quinn: wait

Quinn: whys she not answering her phone

Jack: idk man

Jack: I can't get through to her

Jack: neither can Luke

Quinn: she's supposed to be at home

Quinn: wait

Jack's phone remains silent for ages until he hears a commotion on the other end of the line from Luke's phone. Quinn's yelling, and Jack winces at the panicked edge to his voice.

"I'm here, Quinny," your voice is soft and gentle, confusion lacing your tone, and Jack can hear the sigh his brother heaves, picture the way his shoulders must fall in relief. "What's wrong?"

Luke chooses that moment to hang up.

"Bro!"

"I don't wanna hear that!"

It's two hours later when Jack receives a text from Quinn. It's a photo of your legs resting on Quinn's, hands entwined. The caption reads:

We've been dating for months dumbass

Jack's offended that neither of you told him and takes it upon himself to get revenge.

jackhughes: you're welcome for shoving the kid when we were 7. without me, you'd never have met.

congrats losers

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[casperth3ghost]

"mundane hcs" but its acc just shit i do on a daily basis

ANYWAYS, a list of random things i do that i think tts & vat7k characters would do‼️(this is like most characters btw, like not js the main ones this is like as many as i can remeber and that fit with my self projection

lance will get home from the busiest day ever and the first thing he does is make himself a bowl of ice cream, no matter what hour of the day, he WILL have a bowl of ice cream

varian tries to brush his teeth twice a day but usually how it goes is he takes a shower and then lays and bed lying to himself like "yeah ill js rest my eyes for a couple minutes and then ill get up" and then he actually falls asleep, but every morning he brushes his teeth with no problems

eugene used to brag about how many cavities hed get until he had to take care of them and started missing when he didnt have any

rapunzel can be mid convo with somebody while texting them and then out of the blue just space out and like "huh..." when she realizes what js happened

cassandra and yong are both lactose intolerant but cass tries to take care of herself(she drinks almond milk & eats frozen yogurt which are 10/10 alternatives for non-lactose free items BTW) but yong just keeps eating everything and then wonders why he feel absolutely diobolical 10 mins later

catalina says shell start a book and then reads 1 page then forgets about it for around 3 months ans then remeber and the gets so focused on it no one knows if shes okay, angry does the same thing but with tv shows

nuru tends to not stop what shes doing to go pee so shes suffered the consequences(shes had a UTI before)

rapunzel, despite telling everyone around her to drink water, shes always suprisingly dehydrated

ulla will wake up at random times at night wondering why the fuck shes awake and then go right back to bed like nothing happened

donella has thought of multiple schemes to kill people but has decided that for her own good she will not commit any of them

quirin forgets to say please and thank you at restruants and then says them last minute and then gets so embarrassed and akward he will just flat out stop talking, he passed this onto varian who seems to suffer with this to even MORE extent bcuz he doesnt realize when someone is complimenting him so he'll just stare at them and then be liek "oh!! oh my gosh thank you!!" but the person already walked away and now he feels like an asshole

adira will wear the same pair of pants for 3 weeks straight w/o washing them bcuz she wears other pairs in between that pair so she has a pant cycle, but none of the pants get washed until she can acc smell like dog shit on them or smth and realizes just how morbidly gross they are

hector says hes a hopeless romantic but has never fallen in love a day in his life

donella knows every word to satisfied from hamilton but she literallt doesnt relate to angelica in any way, shape, or form

catalina is a shameless taylor swift fan

angry is a taylor fan but she will always refuse to admit it bcuz idk she feels ashamed

rapunzel will find a band that scratches her brain and listen to that band until it is literally impossible for her to do so anymore

cassandra loves fettuchini alfredo

king edmund is an accidental social butterfly

queen ariana had attempted to drown willow in a pool more times than she can count

kind fredric will butt into random convos if even just 1 word peaks his intrest

hugo knows how to crochet but never has enough money or motivation to actually make something even mildly useful

hugo is a "booktok" girly but he doesnt and never has had enough money to invest in the shit ton pile of books he wants

varian would rather go to a meuseum then lay in bed at his house

ulla would do cartwheels in an aquarium if she could w/o getting kicked out

cyrus says goodnight and goodbye to everyone but can never muster up to say "i love you" after just bcuz he thinks itll be too akward😓

amber is the type of gay girl to say "ewww lesbian/gay" to her friend/gf bcuz they say smth gay knowing she is just as queer

uhhhh thats all i can think of rn, but like this is mostly based off shit i do... so take all that as you will🤺‼️ ill post any art i decide to shit out in the next couple of days on here but also a reminder i am painfully active on pintrest so uhhh ya:3!! BTW most of these hcs are just stupid and for fun so like pls dont get offended and feel free to add on or give suggestions:3!!

[starlightshadowsworld]

Bsd except the baby Atsushi saved and left with Tachihara (in chapter 29 of the manga) ends up being raised by them both.

Atsushi going back to help clean up the wreckage caused by the Guild. And finding Tachihara trying to calm the kid.

Feeling bad for just leaving him like that, Atsushi rushes over and successfully calms the kid down.

Tachihara looks at him in awe, because how the fuck?

Atsushi explains that back at the Orphanage the older kids tended to look after the younger ones.

Seeing that everyone else has been paired off, Atsushi asks if Tachihara wants to join him and he agrees.

Doing their jobs for the remainder of the day and keeping the kid company.

They aren't able to find the kid's guardians and so Atsushi decides to take them home for now. Not wanting to leave the lil guy alone.

This routine goes on for a while, Atsushi starts looking forward to spending time with Tachihara.

They talk about anything and everything, except their jobs.

At some point Atsushi tracks down that the kid's parents died in the incident and their families want nothing to do with the kid.

The kid would be given up to an orphanage, and given the nearest one is Atsushi's orphanage.... He ends up taking the kid in.

The kid is a lil baby boy called Kisho (named after the student in irl Atsushi Nakajima's Legend of the Master)

Returns home after the papers are signed and has a freak out because oh fuck I'm a dad?! I can't be a dad!

Kyouka talks to him, having known all about this from day 1 and tells him he'll do great. Given he's already doing a good job.

And determindly says she'll be the best aunt in the world.

Tachihara is completely on board with it when Atsushi tells him. And says he's gonna help out too.

Tachihara: Hey, you ain't alone in this. I've got your back.

Atsushi: You do?

Tachihara: Duh, you ain't getting rid of me that easy, weretiger. Me and you we're gonna be the best damn parents this kid can get.

Atsushi: smiles Yeah, yeah your right!

Kyouka, looking at them both like "I know what you are."

Atsushi falls first.

But Tachihara falls harder.

Both are in denial.

The Agency found out after a week.

Ranpo deduced it when he noticed Atsushi falling asleep at his desk and got concerned.

Telling Kunikida to let Atsushi rest before the other can try and wake him.

Ranpo does leave a packet of sweets he liked as a kid on Atsushi's desk.

Atsushi was afraid what the others would think of him but Kyouka encourages him to tell them.

It went well. Everyone is surprised (minus Ranpo) and teases him over being a dad. "Oh our Atsushi's all grown up!"

But they make sure he knows that they had his back.

Fukuzawa: emotional I have a Grandchild?

Atsushi: You...You see me as a son?

Fukuzawa: Hugs him close Of course I do.

Atsushi: Sobs into his arms.

Yosano appoints herself as Kisho's personal doctor, saying she'll give him a check up and make sure he's healthy.

The next day Atsushi brings Kisho to the office and everyone gushes over him. Fukuzawa cries, again after being able to hold him.

Naomi took several photos.

Dazai is a bit taken aback when Atsushi let's him hold Kisho. He was afraid he'd accidentally hurt the lil guy.

They have some staring contest before Kisho starts laughing and Dazai just internally melts.

Dazai: I've had Kisho for 5 minutes but if anything were to happen to him. I would kill all of you and than myself.

Kunikida makes a schedule so that Atsushi isn't overworking himself and that when he has a mission there's someone to look after Kisho.

He questions how Atsushi's been managing so far. Atsushi's just like "Oh Tachihara's really been helping me out.

Pause.

Everyone seeing Atsushi visibly light up and talk about how he and Tachihara found Kisho.

And how he's been visiting and watching over for Kisho when Atsushi's at work because he mainly operates at night.

Everyone: thinking These bitches gay.

And scheme to set them up.

Meanwhile the Port Mafia finds out in like 5 minutes.

Because Tachihara was texting Atsushi during game night and Gin asked what was making him smile so much.

So he told em all.

Akutagawa:....

Tachihara: Is he, okay?

Gin: Give him a sec.

Akutagawa: I'm an uncle?! How could you not tell me I was an uncle?!

Tachihara: emotional cos Akutugawa also sees him as his brother.

They tease him a whole bunch because they can tell he's got a crush on Atsushi but Tachihara's like pfft nah.

He totally does.

Chuuya: Soo when do we get to meet the lil guy?

Tachihara: texts Atsushi They're both coming over tomorrow, he said you can come meet Kisho.

Akutagawa: Very well, I will... Tolerate the Jinko for now.

Everyone looks at him in shock.

Atsushi is hesitant but he warms up to everyone.

Akutugawa and Gin fight over who gets to hold Kisho while Chuuya and Kouyou are already planning on spoiling him.

Atsushi: Akutugawa! Stop coming in through the window!

Akutagawa: It's not that big a deal okay, now where is my nephew?

Atsushi: It's a huge-... Why do I even bother? Here hands him Kisho.

Gin: appears at the door You!

Akutagawa: smug Me!

Atsushi and Tachihara: catch each other's eye and laugh.

The entire alliance between the Port Mafia and the Agency lays on the foundation that no better hurt Kisho.

Or else.

The Cannabalism arc in this just goes straight to everyone working together.

Atsushi realises he likes Tachihara and with his friends help, plans a day out and confesses.

Only to get rejected.

Tachihara:... Listen, now that the Guilds been taken care off and the virus is taken care off we don't need to keep pretending.

Atsushi: Pretending? What are you saying?

Tachihara: Do I have to spell it out for you? All of this, was just me following orders so the Port Mafia didn't mess up the alliance with the Agency.

Atsushi:... Oh... Tears in his eyes Right, yeah... Of course. I'm sorry for wasting your time than, I'll be out. Come on Kisho, say goodbye to your da-... Tachihara.

Leaves.

Tachihara: cries

Because Tachihara realised he'd fallen for Atsushi too. But knew the mission was more important.

His orders made him who he was, he can't throw all that away.

... No matter how much it hurts to watch the smile fade from Atsushi's face. The tears to well up in his eyes as he leaves.

Tachihara doesn't go after him, even if every part of him wants too.

Everyone notices a change.

Atsushi shows up late. Kunikida stops mid lecture the moment he sees Atsushi's tear stained face. Kisho is in his arms and he's lead to the sofa by a concerned Junichiro.

Junichiro: Atsushi sits beside him what's wrong?

Atsushi: It wasn't real... It wasn't, not to him. He was just following orders and... I'm so stupid.

Kyouka: murderous intent.

Tachihara is silent. He doesn't banter with the other Black Lizards not even Gin. He's brutal in his fights in a way he's never been and it's concerning.

Gin: Hey, talk to us what's gotten into you.

Tachihara: Nothing, I'm fine.

Akutagawa: Did some happen with Kisho?

Tachihara: No, no he's fine. Can we not do this right now...

Gin: Alright... but, we're here for you.

Tachihara: sad smile thanks.

They don't learn what happened until Akutugawa and Atsushi end up on a joint mission.

Akutagawa is so confused because he saw how happy Atsushi made Tachihara.

Akutagawa: Somethings up with him, this isn't right.

Atsushi: Akutugawa, it's okay.

Akutagawa: Jinko, I care for Kisho and I have grown to care about you. And I know Tachihara, he would never do that to someone he loved pauses... I mean.. Cares about.

Atsushi: shakes his head No... The Headmaster was right, I wasn't made to be loved. Who could love a monster like me?

Akutagawa: Do you want the list alphabetically? Chronologically? I will get hand written letters from all of your friends, I'll do it.

Atsushi: sad smile What did I do to deserve you as a friend?

Akutagawa: rolls his eyes, affectionate You didn't need to be anything but yourself. But your adorable child and cooking skills definitely helped.

But things stay as they are, with Atsushi and Tachihara both feeling the others absence in their lives.

As does Kisho who looks around for Tachihara and lights up only to look sad when it's not him at the door.

Atsushi misses the way Tachihara could brighten up a room without even trying. How Tachihara told the worst jokes just to get Atsushi to laugh.

That Tachihara would watch horror movies and than hide his head in Atsushi's shoulder whenever a jumpscare appeared, and than deny it.

Tachihara misses the way Atsushi was a calm presence in the chaos of his life. How Atsushi looked at him like he was his whole world.

That Atsushi would fall asleep beside him because he knew he was safe with him.

And than... Jouno arrests Dazai in broad daylight and the Agency are on the run.

Tachihara assuming his role as the 5th Hunting Dog.

He's under the influence of the page and yet his heart hurts seeing his friends get hurt by his hands.

Everytime Fukuchi talks about the Agency falling, all Tachihara can think, 'is Atsushi okay?'

It eats at him... until one day he walks into the Port Mafia and is told Akutugawa is gone.

He's lost another big brother.

The weight of it all hits him like a truck and he can't breathe. Someone's talking to him, someone's at his side and it's Atsushi.

And Tachihara knows he doesn't deserve this, knows he doesn't deserve Atsushi's kindness and yet he caves.

He's fallen, he fell so long ago and here is his tiger holding him like he's his whole world.

His tiger that he hurt.

Tachihara: I'm sorry... I'm so, so sorry.

Atsushi: It's okay.

Tachihara: No, no it's not. I lied, it was real. I was just too much of a coward to admit it and I hurt you... But it will be, I'm gonna make this right.... If you'll let me.

Atsushi: I won't lie it hurt, a lot. But what hurt the most was being alone, was feeling like I'd lost you.

Tachihara: I'm not going anywhere. And I'm never leaving you again.

Atsushi: tears up hugs him

Tachihara: hugs him back soo does this mean you wanna be my boyfriend?

Atsushi: snorts Obviously.

Kisho crawls to him and Tachihara holds him close "hey lil guy, you miss me?"

He had everything and he threw it away... Not anymore.

Tachihara reveals everything that he knows and is shocked to learn that wasn't all. As the news of the Decay of angels hits.

That Fukuchi hurt Atsushi and took Akutugawa as a pawn because suprise, vampires exist now.

Tachihara: fussing over Atsushi He didn't hurt you did he?

Atsushi: Well he cut off my leg but-

Tachihara: I'm gonna kill him... I'll fucking kill him.

Just seething rage.

Atsushi is also angry about everything Fukuchi's done but the look he gives Tachihara is nothing but fond.

He missed him.

Tachihara notices said look and just blushes bright red.

Gin: Ay lovebirds as cute as this, we've got a world to save.

Tachihara manages to get amengozen away from Fukuchi and hands it to Fukuzawa.

He won't kill him, he won't lose anything else to this man ever again.

He ends up getting injured in the process but not nearly as much as he would have.

Because he's not alone.

Atsushi is right there with him, never left his side even for a moment.

Even managed to swipe Fukuchi's eye.

Atsushi: That's for Akutugawa you bitch!

Tachihara: proud boyfriend smile.

Fukuchi is taken care off and the world is saved.

Both of them hold each other, barely able to stand but their smiles are nothing but relieved.

And they kiss.

Akutagawa, now mortal looks down at them both like it's about fucking time.

[fanmoose12]

OMG I just realized I misread the Fanfic Trope post like the moron that I am, sorry! 🫣

So how would you mix 46 "Blind Date" -that I previously requested- with 88 "Erotic Dreams"?

Thank you Fanmoose, I love your works ✨

oooooh, that's a hard one. a very, very hard one

but, and, please, bear with me, let's imagine that levi develops a little, totally not serious crush on one of his coworkers and it leads to his subconsciousness... having a little fun while he's asleep. and since it's levi we're talking about and he can't just, you know, talk about his feelings, and he's definitely, one hundred percent sure that his crush is unrequieted, because why wouldn't it be? after all, the person he's crushing on is funny, kind, incredibly smart, beautiful (and, yes, wears glasses)

so. he decides to suffer through it all in silence. but, there is a slight problem with that. because, while levi has perfected the art of ignoring his feelings during the day, he's not... so successful at it during the night. which doesn't bother him that much, but it does bother his roommate erwin, who is really tired of pressing a pillow to his head in hopes that it'll muffle the sounds that his best friend's making

erwin tried breaching the subject, of course, but levi either denied it or became so embarrassed that he literally raw away from that particular conversation. so! erwin comes up with a genius idea: since levi is so clearly sexually frustrated and won't do a thing about it - erwin will do that for him. as soon as that idea pops into his head, he calls mike and asks if any of his friends are single. mike doesn't hesitate with an answer even for a bit, because his cousin has been acting weird for weeks now, pining over some idiot who doesn't even notice their advances.

and so! mike and erwin set up their two respective idiots (which, in erwin's case, took a lot more convincing than he was honestly prepared for), levi, resigned and already anticipating a disaster, dresses up in clothes erwin told him to, goes to the cafe erwin told him to, and there he sees.... hange, the coworker he's been crushing on for months. his first instict is to flee, of course, but just as he starts to, hange notices him, waves and smiles at him, and levi has no choice but to join them at the table

hange, after making sure that levi is really, actually their date, throws their head back and starts laughing, and, again, levi desperately wishes to run away, but, for once, he's glad he didn't, because once hange calms down, they explain the reason for their laughter. they tell him how they didn't want to go on that date and how mike basically forced them to, but now they're really happy they did come.

'it must be destiny!' hange exclaims. 'or mike's meticulous scheming, since, you know, i kinda wanted to ask you out for a really long time now.'

levi's brain starts working for a moment, because surely he must have misheard. that, or it's actually another dream and he and hange will start having sex in the middle of a cafe the very next second. wouldn't be the weirdest dream that he had. but hange doesn't pounce at him like they do in all of his extremelly disturbing dreams, they don't even pull him in for a kiss, they just keep looking at him, with a gentle, pretty smile

and levi - for the first time in his entire life - decides to stop hiding his feelings. he covers hange's hand with his and murmurs, 'seems like erwin did something right for once'

it pulls another chuckle out of hange, but they don't take their hand away, they just slightly move it so that they can interlace their fingers with levi's

the date goes smoothly after that, and, although they don't fall into bed after having just one coffee, a kiss that hange presses on his cheek after he walked them home feels so much better than anything levi's seen in his dreams

[thenightling]

A quick explanation of Beetlejuice for newbies (every incarnation)

Okay, Beetlejuice is trendy and some younger people might be feeling out of the loop. So here's a quick explanation for you. In 1988 there was a haunted house horror / comedy released called Beetlejuice. It was one of the first (but not the first) film of director Tim Burton. In the film Barbara and Adam Maitland die in an accident on a covered bridge. They soon discover that they are ghosts trapped in their own house. If they attempt to leave they get teleported to a sandworm infested moon of the planet Saturn (known as Sandworm land in the animated series. More on that later). A yuppie couple called Charles and Delia Deetz move into the house and start redecorating. Charles has a daughter from a previous marriage, Lydia. Lydia is a Goth and the only one able to see the Maitlands (at first). The Maitlands make a dinner party dance along to a lip syncing of Day-o (the banana boat song). Instead of scaring off the unwanted house guests this accidentally entices them to want to make money off the ghosts. Delia's friend, Otho, attempts to summon the Maitlands and accidentally beings an exorcism ritual that can destory them. Lydia (who had befriended Barbra and Adam) is forced to call upon another ghost to save them. This ghost is Betelgeuse (pronounced as Beeltejuice), the "Bio-exorcist" (meaning he drives humans out of haunted houses where the ghosts don't want them there). Beetlejuice is invoked or banished by calling his name three times in a row. Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice) is an extremely powerful poltergeist. Al though the musical and second movie would call him a demon he has proudly called himself "The Ghost with the most" and he was once mortal. Beetlejuice agrees to save them but only if Lydia agrees to marry him, if she marries him this will make him mortal again. And he doesn't like being dead. Beetlejuice's scheme is thrwarted and The Maitlands decide to live peacefully with the Deetz family. In fact the Maitlands (who couldn't have children while they were alive) start raising Lydia as if she was their own daughter.

That's the first movie.

_______________________________ One year later came the Beetlejuice animated series. The Maitlands are no where to be seen. Lydia and Beetlejuice are now friends and go on spooky adventures together. He's no longer perverted but actually very protective of Lydia and has his own twisted sense of right and wrong. It's surprisingly wholesome. The show had four seasons but there was an excess of episodes since both ABC and Fox were airing the new seasons. This enabled there to be new episodes appearing on TV as late as 1993 of 1994 even though production stopped by 1992. This version of Beetlejuice under-goes character growth and though somewhat gross (bad hygiene and eats insects, particularly beetles) he is very likable and is definitely a chaotic good trickster (though he probably wouldn't admit it).

__________________________________ In 2019 Beetlejuice became a Broadway musical. In this version Lydia isn't just Goth. She's grieving a deceased mother and resents that her father is remarrying to Delia. Yet again Beetlejuice wants a "green card" marriage to Lydia and this time he actually succeeds but his quickly killed. Then Juno (who was Barbara and Adam's ghost social worker in the first movie) is revealed to be Beetlejuice's mother and the true villain of the story. Beetlejuice (now a ghost again) saves them and Lydia comes to appreciate life and a sense of "home" she did not have before after her mother died. This could at as a prequel to the Beetlejuice animated series.

_________________________________ In the 1990s Beetlejuice became a fixture of live shows in Universal Studios. He had battles with The Ghostbusters where he sometimes lost or sometimes won. But most famously he had a stage show called Beetlejuice's Rock 'n roll Graveyard review where he transforms the classic Universal monsters into a Goth / Punk band. The final performance of the rock 'n roll stage show was 2016. It was very popular. (I bet Universal studios regrets ending it now!) _______________________________________________ Beetlejuice then appeared in Teen Titans Go where he messed with the superhero team. __________________________ In 2024 the 1988 Beetlejuice movie finally got a sequel. Beetlejuice is still obsessed with Lydia. The Maitlands have moved on. Lydia has her own daughter now and when her daughter gets in trouble with the ghost world, she's forced to call on Beetlejuice for him. He, again, wants to marry Lydia but this time it doesn't seem to be about becoming mortal. He's now hyper-infatuated with Lydia to the point of unhealthy obsession. Beetlejuice saves Lydia's daughter. Delia dies by misadventure but she's reunited with Charles in the afterlife. It turns out Beetlejuice has an estranged ex-wife who had poisoned him on their wedding night six-hundred-years-earlier with the intention of eating his soul to make herself immortal. While dying from poisoning, Beetlejuice killed her before she could accomplish her goal. Delores (Beetlejuice's wife) came back as a powerful succubus-like entity that can eat other ghosts but Beetlejuice successfully gets a sandworm to eat her. Beetlejuice (having gained a love of song and dance possession numbers) performs the entirety of MacArthur Park at his wedding. Lydia and Astrid (her daughter) find a way out of her deal with Beetlejuice and banish him back to the Netherworld. LYdia is still haunted by nightmares of Beetlejuice, which may be caused by the real thing, it's hard to tell. And that's it. That's Beetlejuice in a nutshell.

[cerealforkart]

I made myself these little dress up dolls because everyone’s getting changed all the time, here’s the first batch, outfits pre-episode 13

Design notes under the cut

[part 2] [part 3]

Lincoln

* I would first of all like to thank Lincoln for being shaped like a model (long boy) and thus very easy to dress up

* I forgot that Link needed to tear off his sleeves to make Normal a diaper in lesson 14, so in lesson 11 he grabs a sweater when I assume he goes home between escaping the FBI and returning to school

* Lincoln is so comically tall the Teeny costume (which I just moved from Normal to Link and edited to match Link’s pose) only reaches his knees. It actually looked so stupid that I had to edit it to make the Teeny costume slightly longer in the legs

* Link has two roombas in his room, he’s a clean boy, he isn’t walking around Taylor’s house in his bare feet, he doesn’t trust like that, it’s sock time

Scary

* I actually originally planned for Scary to have more piercings, but I forgot to add them in lesson 1. Let’s just say her mom won’t let her go crazy on the piercings, from what we’ve heard in rad facts (wouldn’t let her get a tongue piercing or learn guitar) that sounds in character

* I wanted to do the Shit Garden logo on Scary’s shirt like one of those metal bands that only people who like metal can actually read, but I only have so much time and patience

* I want so badly to play with Scary’s hair more, but I haven’t really had the chance, I hope there will be more excuses to give her different styles in the future, I like the braided bun for fancy occasions a lot

* Big T-shirt and shorts are peak pyjamas, love it for her. Also, you don’t need to know how long I spent trying to come up with something for her shirt to say

Normal

* Don’t tell anyone but I kind of miss drawing Teeny’s big stupid head every day, it was easy comedy

* I did actually draw a Jimmy Buffet design on the shirt before scribbling over it, you can barely see if you look closely

* I don’t actually have anything to say about Normal’s dance outfit so I guess I’ll just take this opportunity to talk about my Normal design in general. He was the one it took me the longest to land on and I’m still unsure if I’m happy with him, I want his hair to be long enough to just sorta hang and be greasy, but not so long that it will get in his face too much and I still consistently fail on it

* Not much to say about his sleepover fit either. Froggy :)

Taylor

* I had originally planned for everyone to be wearing their bracelets on their left wrists but in episode 8 it’s mentioned that Taylor is wearing his on his right, at that point I think I had only drawn Taylor’s bracelet once so it was easier to just change his and let him be a special boy (also, they keep the bracelets on post-FBI because Taylor never really has an opportunity to take it off and the others wear theirs in solidarity)

*After Lesson 10, Taylor swaps out the crest of friendship from Digimon to wear his dad’s ring of swapping as a necklace, he tends to grab at it when his dad or the topic of betrayal comes up

* I hate Taylor for his dance fit. No longer my favourite son

* Not really a design note but I watched the Sailor Moon dub in three parts on youtube with my little sister huddled around our home computer after school, we’re real OGs

Hermie

* I finally decided to add the Joker makeup to my Hermie design, I found a powdery sorta brush to use for it so now he’s a true clown. Good for him I guess

* You may notice that I’ve tweaked my Hermie design and his colour scheme just a little bit. This is because white Hermie is dead and you know what? Good for him. I also made his hair a little wavier for Scam, you’ll start seeing the updated Hermie design (as if you can tell there’s a difference other than the very slight change in hairstyle) in lesson 16, because I drew the lesson 15 pages before episode 23 came out and I wasn’t going to go back and change them

* Stupid Joker tie. Hate it

* No sleepover fit for Hermie. Tragic. They need to have another sleepover and include him

[jasontoddiefor]

Absolutely begging for the trans WWX who’s living her best life as Lady Mo, I’m obsessed with this au

(Also I just want you to know there is now a crack version of this incredible au in my head where upon meeting “Lady Mo” playing Wangxian for Sizhui, Lan Zhan has a full on falls to his knees clutching WWX’s going “you’re as beautiful as the day I lost you” alla HTTYD 2, gets a dramatic (to Sizhui, read confused for WWX) “Lan Zhan!?” in response and the Lan Zhan (in an actual miracle of being able to communicate) goes “I raised A-Yuan all of these years for you, I’ve raised our son into a wonderful cultivator” (the miracle has ended, and WWX is currently bluescreening trying to connect the dots of teen I am traveling with is baby I loved what do you mean our son ooo wait Lan Zhan thinks I’m pretty!)

And thus creates the misunderstanding for Sizhui that “Lady Mo” is actually his apparently not-dead mom who’s apparently been vibing as a wandering musician for the past 13 years. Sizhui goes through the five stages of grief before settling on “I can work with this” as a-niang starts showering him with affection and apparently thought he was dead and thus began Sizhui’s grand scheme of luring his incredibly oblivious mother into marriage with his father and it becomes “unstoppable force vs unmovable object, second times the charm on baby trapping, right?” adventures.

This doesn’t matter but it’s important to me that you know this popped into my head. This au is absolutely incredible and there is so much comedy gold. NHS has been left alone in the group project but he still manages to scramble together enough to pass decently, good for him)

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aaah I'm flattered to hear that!! and tbh, it's not so much that NHS has been left alone in the group project but that he decided on the project and then didn't call anyone to do their parts. never got to write it but i figured the whole reveal would go sth like this:

Gusu doesn't look like Wei Ying remembers it, but it has been decades since her attendance. After the war, well, for all that Lan Zhan had asked her to visit, she'd never accepted it.

And look at her now! Going to the Cloud Recesses voluntarily, accompanied by Lan Zhan's little juniors. They're good kids, polite and inquisitive and opinionated and so very alive. She wondered how much Lan Zhan must have changed in the last years to raise them this well.

What if Wei Ying doesn't recognize him at all? No, that can't be. Lan Zhan was too memorable for Wei Ying to ever forget a single detail about him.

"Just ahead now, Lady Mo," says Lan Sizhui. "I'm not sure if my father is home. He's taken to traveling more...."

He trails off, his face splitting into a smile as he looks ahead. "He's there!"

Wei Ying expects some unfamiliar Lan, but no, standing there is Lan Zhan. He looks older, refined, and happy at their return.

Oh, thinks Wei Ying. I always want him to look at me like that.

Playing the dizi isn't always for pleasure, especially chenqing, summoning all kinds of evil, but the song Lan Zhan taught him is like homecoming. Wei Ying watches in delight as Lan Zhan's eyes widen in recognition, she thinks.

The juniors look at her in wonder, but Wei Ying pulls the dizi from her lips with a smile.

"Lan Zhan!" she calls, "Lan Zhan, I heard you're walking around, clearing my name!" And then, just for pleasure, just for herself, she calls his name again. "Lan Zhan, I've been traveling! I've seen the world and it's alive."

I'm alive, I'm here, won't you ask me to come with you a final time?

Wei Ying can't place Lan Zhan's expression until it breaks into something hopeful, something grieving, something lost.

"Wei Ying?"

[vizzy740]

He was beautiful like that.

Todoroki wasn’t always fine, when they first met, Katsuki had hated him.

Katsuki’d hated his power, even at half his potential, Todoroki was able to easily wipe out the competition, easily surpass Katsuki without giving one fuck about it. Emotionless in the face of his superiority.

Then they failed the provisional license exam, and things changed.

Katsuki dumped his feelings, he opened up, and Todoroki… Todoroki started acting all buddy-buddy. He called Katsuki his friend, not caring what Katsuki had to say on the matter.

It was annoying, but eventually it grew less grating, like Shitty Hair and the idiots.

But unlike them, they didn’t end up in this position.

“Thanks for dinner.” Todoroki, or Shouto, as he should really call him, says as he sits next to him on the couch. He leans against his side, even though it isn’t an armchair, and there’s enough space for him to sit comfortably with a good foot between them.

Katsuki hums in response, “You’re staying over, right?”

Shoto shrugs, “I guess so, I haven’t stayed overnight in a while. Yaoyorozu asked how things were going. I think she thought our fake relationship was going downhill. Though this couch is uncomfortable.”

He turns to look in Katsuki’s eyes. Katsuki returns the gesture, and it goes quiet for a second.

Soon after he’d finally debuted as a pro-hero, after he’d finally hired PR people, an annoying prerequisite to being a high-level public hero, he’d been told his image was too sharp, aggressive and angry, he didn’t appeal to most, he lacked most likeable aspects of his ‘archetype’, he was the bad boy that didn’t go to bars, the playboy that never brought anyone home. It didn’t fit.

‘All your rough exterior and rude personality seems to hide, is that you really really care about your work. You’re like a remake of Endeavor, but more… villain I suppose.” Was something that was said to him once, and restated in different words many other times.

To repair this ‘issue’ they decided to go for the most hair-brained scheme imaginable.

“Is there anyone you’d be comfortable getting into a fake relationship with?” His PR lady had asked him once. “You could just handle it like a normal relationship, not say anything to the public, just bring someone along to certain events, you don’t even have to say you’re dating them, just be… a bit nicer to them than you would be to other people, hang out with them in private, between only you two. At least that, which isn’t a lot.”

Katsuki agreed to it because it meant his advertisement deals would be better, because it turned out most money that heroes make isn’t their actual salaries, but cuts for appearing in commercials.

Fucking stupid.

Around the same time, Shoto complained about getting too many romantic fan letters, a problem for every young, heartthrob hero and basically no one else. Katsuki answered by complaining about his own PR team and their insistence that he get in a relationship, and Shoto replied that he’d do it. 

And now they’re here, a few months later, in Katsuki’s apartment together.

“Could I sleep with you?” Shoto asks.

“Do you know what the fuck you just said?” Katsuki replies back, because even now, two years after UA, Shoto still doesn’t understand some elements of informal language, mostly in more… faux pas contexts but still.

It takes Shoto a second to realize, “Oh, no, I wasn’t saying we should have sex. I was asking if we could share your bed, you said it was a double, right?”

“Yeah.” Katsuki replies. “Sure, you can sleep on it with me.”

“Good.”

They both stand up and walk to Katsuki’s bedroom. Neither of them say anything, and it’s comfortable. Ever since their second year in UA it’s always been comfortable, when it’s just the two of them.

Todoroki comes with him to hero galas and every other press event, to keep up the charade, but it isn’t grating, he stands by his side, he’s someone Katsuki wants to be around, and stays with him as he’s tossed between reporters that go between political to vapid in a second.

“Do you have anything I can wear?” Shoto asks.

“Yeah,” Katsuki replied easily, then told him where he stowed his clothes.

He walks out, probably out to take a shower before sleeping.

Katsuki looks back to the bed. He’s got enough pillows to make a wall between them, but it’s too much effort. He doesn’t care if they get tangled up together in the night. Todoroki won’t say anything about it.

Shoto returned, his wet hair had fallen limply over his face, his left side taking on a darker shade of red, more crimson than usual, contrasting even more with his white hair.

He chose to wear one of Katsuki skull t-shirts and black sweatpants. The clothes didn’t fit as well on him, the former a bit too wide and the latter a bit too short.

They laid down, and fell asleep.

Katsuki opened his eyes to Shoto with his arms around him. He was still asleep, like he usually woke up later in the mornings than Katsuki.

Katsuki tried to move away, but Todoroki tightened his hold. Katsuki sighed. He had the day off today, he could stay in bed and wait for Todoroki to wake up, but if it took too long, he would definitely get him up.

As he laid in his arms, Katsuki felt Todoroki’s breath rise and fall. He looked mostly the same as when he was awake, his face still mostly emotionless. His hair was a bit more tousled, the red and the white mixing together. His limbs were a bit more limp, but not by much.

As he waited for Shoto to finally get up, Katsuki carefully moved a few strands of his hair around, back with their respective color, then he ruffled it up again, it looked better messy.

He was beautiful like that.

-Catcity

[glapplebloom]

Something I’ve been doing for a while.

So if you've been on any social website with video, you may see meme animations based off some song but only one part of it. But what is the full context of it? So here are four songs that I’ve seen the memes first then found the full song.

Red Flags

The Meme is a date goes so bad, one of them is asking for help with Morse Code. The date asks if anything is wrong and if they can help, and not wanting to reveal their intentions for fear of something bad happening to them, decides to deny asking for help when a waiter comes up to see if they need it. So why is the date so bad?

In the full song, it's because she’s a fan of Human Centipede. A legit fan of Human Centipede.  The Chorus is her saying “Human Centipede” while she talks about why she likes it. And for those who don’t know what that movie is, the song perfectly sums it up with her explaining the plot. So hearing that and all the ways she likes it, the date thinks she’s going to kill him. Either by feeding him or reenacting the movie.

After the meme part, she convinces him that they would be a great couple. So convincing that they’re already talking about marriage on the first frikkin date. Of course, the wedding has to be themed. And the theme? Human Centipede. I’m amazed the most I’ve seen of the song was the blinking segment when Human Centipede was so meme worthy to me. Luckily others have been doing the beginning as well.

Open the Door

The Meme is someone thinking they got everything right for entry. But one mistake locks them out. This is followed by others asking to be let in despite looking like things you should not let in. Honestly, this is the most straightforward of the memes since the song is based off “That’s Not My Neighbor”. The game is all about checking if the person you’re letting in is a real one or a monster. So basically the entire song is about the meme.

Am I Hot or Cute

This Meme starts with a girlfriend asking her boyfriend if she’s hot or cute. The obvious answer is she’s both but she insists that there can be only one choice. And if he wants to keep dating her he has to answer. If you follow only the meme, you would think it ends with him getting a call from his mother (being it real or not depending on the video maker) and her thinking he’s lying.

In the full song, this story continues. He was lying. He texts his group of friends to ask if his girlfriend is hot or cute. They immediately think it is a trap and after explaining why it is, what is hot or cute and their thoughts, one of his friends said the only answer is what she thinks it is. In other words, they did not help. So he has to gamble into answering before she dumps him.

He comes back with his answer and the twist of this entire thing is revealed: she asked him this because he keeps calling everyone dude and she wants him to stop calling her dude. He agrees and she reveals what the boyfriend and one member of the friend group was thinking: hot and cute are the same thing. Honestly I want to remake the entire thing with ponies.

Why Aren’t You At School

In the Meme, a mother calls her son because she found out he was not at school. He claims that he is. She doesn’t believe him and he said that if you don’t believe me just come to my school. So she does. The meme ends with her going to school while the boy playing hooky tries to rush back to school.

That’s not what the song is about. The kid was at school. The school that called the mother was his girlfriend. This was an elaborate scheme to get the alcohol from his mother so they can celebrate their anniversary. Why couldn’t he just fake sickness like his girlfriend? Besides his mother knowing when he’s faking, even if she believes him she won’t let him out after. Sounds like a fool proof plan.

The mother arrives at school, sees her son being there, then when she drives back home the girlfriend will pick him up and they can celebrate. But there’s a flaw in his plan: since his girlfriend called his mother, when the mother called back to complain about the school she found out about the call coming from the girlfriend since she didn’t pick it up and let it go to voicemail. A voicemail that does not belong to the school.

So basically the jig is up and the boy’s mother calls the girlfriend’s mother. The two are most likely going to be grounded. So let this be a lesson to you, don’t complicate plans. 

[justsome-di]

Nobody Ends Up Dead in a Bathtub, Everyone Keeps Their Organs: Chapter 29

Summary: Alex is an ordinary, highly-introverted office worker. He clocks in and out and goes home to his little apartment he shares with his younger sister. He hasn’t dated in years by the time his co-workers set him up on a blind date.

The only issue is he and his date are not on the same page. At all.

While Alex thinks it’s a normal date, Damián is under the impression Alex is a client who paid to be there. No-so-quickly, they realize something is up. It’s all a prank. Damián is a sex worker Alex’s co-workers hired as a sick joke.

After reassuring that they’re both okay, Alex decides he wants revenge for both him and Damián. The plan is to use the stigma of sex work and start a 6-week, scandalous fake dating scheme with a big finale at the office Halloween party. Alex’s co-workers will be too horrified to try to prank him again. At least, that’s the plan.

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Alex showed up right after Damián got home and changed into comfy clothes. He stood over Damián with a critical look. Thankfully, he didn’t bring up anything from the night before. He seemed totally absorbed in the present.

“You do look a little pale,” he said.

 “I’m fine. Also, pot calling the kettle black much? You’re pale.”

“I’m always pale. I’m white.”

“You got me there.”

Alex crossed his arms. “Why did you almost faint?”

“I just got a little light-headed.”

“Okay, why did you get light-headed?”

“I don’t know.”

“Have you eaten enough today?”

Damián had a lie ready to go. He was going to tell Alex yes, he had had enough to eat. On the way home, he had made up three meals. Egg over rice for breakfast, salad for lunch, and Diego’s fun little pasta for dinner. But staring at Alex, he shook his head.

He couldn’t do this anymore.

His body ached. His mind was slow. He was cold.

“I don’t think I have,” he said.

“That must have been it then. Do you have anything here you feel like eating?”

The honest answer was no. There was nothing Damián wanted to eat. But he just stared at Alex until Alex took it upon himself to go into his kitchen. Damián followed.

“You have avocados,” Alex said, “I can make you avocado toast if you have bread.”

It was easy to accept food from Alex, and Damián told himself that he was getting dangerously close to associating Alex with his better mental health moments.

They ate avocado toast in silence.

“Thanks, by the way,” Damián said. “I should know better than to have a doctor as a client.”

“I think he did the right thing.”

“Yeah, but he was annoying about it.”

Alex took his empty plate and rinsed it off.

“I’m fine now,” Damián said. “You can go home if you want.”

“No, I’m staying here until Leo gets back.”

They sat together in silence as Damián scrolled through true crime documentaries. They were all so brutal. So grizzly. Abducted children, murdered mothers, gaslit wives.

The avocado and sourdough bread sat so heavily in Damián’s stomach, he felt nauseous. His throat ached. His tongue felt slimy and the roof of his mouth was scratched from the hard crust.

He had never purged before, but he could see the appeal. There was a reason people had to do it—to feel empty again, the erase mistakes. Making yourself vomit had to feel like a reward, Damián thought. Exercising that level of control.

Purge was such a nice word. It was beautiful. Purging yourself of impurities. Ridding your body of food that you crammed down your throat. The abuse had to feel so good. The aches, the swelling, the burning.

Damián looked to Alex. There was no way he knew what Damián could be thinking. He just sat there, trying really hard to keep facing forward.

There was tension left over and when neither of them acknowledged it, Damián’s anxiety climbed until he had to say something.

“Can I ask why you wanted to leave last night?” Damián asked.

“Um. You mean when I wanted to leave the museum?”

“Yeah.”

“Uh. I just. Wanted to get out of there. You said to let you know when I wanted to leave.”

“Okay, but it was sudden. Were you okay?”

Alex tucked his arms into each other. “When we were looking at the art installment, you basically said sex is meaningless.”

“I didn’t say it was meaningless. I just said there isn’t always a higher purpose.”

“Yeah. And so what does that make what we did? Was that sex for sex’s sake for you?”

There was an edge to Alex’s voice. Damián fell into the back of the couch. He felt like an idiot and a jerk.

His relationship with sex had become so casual and most of the time, it was unattached from anything but work. It had been different that night with Alex. He wished he would have told him so.

With Alex, he was more carefree. It felt better. Loads better. And falling asleep next to someone without worrying about leaving before their time was over was nice.

It had been a while since Damián had been with someone outside of work. He had missed it. He had forgotten what it was like. He had forgotten how other people felt.

“No,” Damián said. “I didn’t mean to imply that. I’m sorry.”

Alex repositioned himself on the cushions. “I shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions.”

“It was more like a deep step. I wouldn’t call it a jump. I was going on and on about this whole pretentious sex thing. I forgot what it’s like for some people. If it means anything now, it did mean something with you. It just usually doesn’t mean anything much beyond a job—a job that I like but it’s still a job.”

“I got too wrapped up in myself.”

“No, I don’t think anything you thought was unjustified.”

“I should have said something sooner.”

“That might have been better. But I also could have tried to be more thoughtful. I think we would have been better off if we had assumed that our relationships with sex have been different.”

“Right. Because you’re the most desirable person I’ve ever met, and I was a virgin—“

“Don’t say it with that tone. Don’t say it like it was a bad thing.”

Alex sighed and with a forced, perky tone said, “And I was a virgin!”

Damián didn’t want to laugh, but he couldn’t hold back a little giggle. “Better. Also, you’re really overselling me. I’m not a grand, flawless person.”

“I know. I know. But still. You’re just,” Alex waved his hand, “professional and better at everything than me. I guess I thought that we had equally enjoyed it.”

“I think we did! Alex, for me, the only thing that matters is who I’m with if I’m serious about it. If it’s not a job, I don’t care about anything but the other person.”  

“But it must be like playing chess with someone who barely knows the rules.”

“It is absolutely nothing like chess.”

“You know how it’s supposed to go, and I froze up when we started. I couldn’t do anything.”

Damián didn’t say anything else for a little bit. He leaned into the back of the couch and crossed his arms over his lap.

“When I had just started working,” Damián said. “A client asked me for a blow job, and I had to research how to give a blow job before seeing him. And when I met him, I tried it, and I threw up on him.”

Alex lifted his head. “Are you serious?”

Damián nodded. It no longer mortified him, but there would always be a twang in his stomach when he remembered peering up with watery eyes to see his client staring at him with horror. He had been nice, thankfully. He helped Damián get cleaned up and showed him out. Damián refunded him and never saw him again.

That was why Damián could never be bulimic.

He was better at blow jobs now. He had learned to control his gag reflex. But that memory resurfaced every time a client requested oral services.

“That’s awful,” Alex said.

“It was. I don’t admit it to many people.”

“Why did you tell me about it then?”

“Because I want you to know that I haven’t always known what I’m doing. And that sometimes sex is messy and gross, and sometimes someone throws up. You don’t always know what’s going to happen.”

Alex tucked his hands between his knees. “Can you be honest with me?”

“Yes. Of course.”

“Would you have sex with me again?”

“Right now?”

“No! Not after you almost fainted.”

“In the general future, then, yes.”

Alex nodded. He raised his shoulders to his ears. “This whole thing—can I get some clarification? Because I’ve never really—I don’t know what this is.”

“What what is?”

“Our relationship? I mean, if it is a relationship. If it isn’t ever going to be one, I’d like to know. I don’t want to get my hopes up.”

Damián pressed his lips together. He didn’t know what it was either. He didn’t know if there was a word to describe what they were.

“I,” Damián said. His heart was racing. “I do like you, Alex.”

“I—I.” Alex took a deep breath. “I feel like a child.”

Definitely not the worst thing Damián had been told.

“I mean, me too. I like you,” Alex said. “But I don’t know how to make that not sound like I’m in middle school.”

“It’s okay. I think that’ll do it. I think we can say we like each other. And how about after the party, we check back in with each other?”

Alex nodded. “That’s good. That sounds good.”

Damián leaned in and when Alex didn’t pull back, Damián closed the gap and kissed him, briefly.

“Right now, we can be vague and build ourselves up to something with labels,” he said.

“Right now, you can eat something else for me.”

Damián scoffed, loud, trying to brush off the sudden squeeze of anxiety through joking. Alex had noticed. Alex had noticed, and Damián was going to have to get better. Either that or cut Alex out of his life completely.

“We just had avocado toast,” Damián said.

“And I think we should have a little more. You’re still a little pale, and I don’t think avocado toast was enough.”

Damián was too quiet for too long. Alex’s face went from the panic of the conversation before to soft, gentle worry. Alex was too good for him. He was too caring and picked up on too much.

“Maybe later,” Damián said, quiet, barely audible.

Alex agreed to that. He draped a blanket over Damián’s lap and made him tea and together they sat through a shitty movie until Leo and Eve tumbled through the door, talking about their night.

All the while, Damián thought, Alex was seeing him. Finally, there was someone there who was picking him up as he crumbled.

And Damián didn’t even need to totally break down. Alex saw the cracks, starting building supports, and that was all he needed.

Later that night, when Alex was clearly tired and would have probably preferred to go home and be in bed, he made Damián soup. He laid it in front of him at the table and put a supportive hand on his back.

“Just a little bit,” Alex said. “You deserve to take care of yourself.”

And that was enough to pull Damián back toward his old self. His more confident self. He was going to return to the person he usually could be—loving himself and knowing that he was worthy of food and rest and care. And maybe, he realized, he liked being that person more than he liked being a ghost of himself.

[darling-archeron]

Hello again! 🧑🏻‍🎄

I hope you had a wonderful Halloween full of candy and fun! I ended up not doing anything much beyond dressing in black and orange at work bc I was so tired by the time I got home, but I did do a little more prepping before midnight kicked off and I started writing your fic for nanowrimo! Two days ago while writing, despite following the outline, Feyre and Rhys still managed to take control and change something right at the beginning😔 but honestly I love it and how it’ll enhance some of the plot and I hope you will too!

Any plans this coming week? I’m flying to visit a friend tomorrow night so will be busy probably until late next week, but I’ll still be tapping away those keys as best I can in my down hours.

Also - I know it’s a bit late but re the favorite fic post - i just adore Hot Chocolate with Cinnamon! Feyre drawing those cute little puns makes me smile so much☺️ and for the wip post feysand fake dating au?👀

And for your first snippet, a line I literally wrote five minutes ago:

“I’ll trip you,” she admitted blatantly. “If a wolf decides to show its face to us? I don’t have to outrun it. I’ll just have to outrun you.”

And Rhys just laughed at that, loud and carefree, either unaware or unbothered by the looks it earned from the other townspeople out and about on market day.

Have a great week!!!

Hi Santa!! I have had so much Halloween candy the past couple weeks, it's been great haha. My actual Halloween was pretty uneventful, I dressed up and went out with a few friends!

I personally always love it when the characters run away with the story, it's usually when I end up getting most inspired and writing in big streaks.

Hot Chocolate Cinnamon is one of my older favorites! One of the few times I don't make anyone suffer 😅I'm so glad you enjoyed it, I want to keep writing more aus like that in the future :)

I'm having so much fun with the fake dating AU! I'm forcing myself not to post it until I have the majority done because I'm notorious for leaving multichapters unfinished, which is a habit I'm trying to break. The premise is that Feyre and Rhys are partners for a class project in college, and Feyre ends up needing a fake date to a work event because Tamlin will be there...and the whole thing goes from there! Here's a little snippet for fun :)

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Feyre narrowed her brow. “This better not be some elaborate scheme to sleep with me, Rhysand.”  

“It’s not, and I’m a little offended that you think so little of me.”

“What then? You’re just really bored? Between the two of us, I’m the one who was home alone last Friday night.”

“I already told you, I can’t have you slacking on our group project! Is that not a good enough reason?”

Hardly, Feyre thought, but bit back the remark.

He was helping her, after all.

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I hope you have a great flight and a great time with your friend! Last week I got to see some friends I haven't seen in forever.

Omg this snippet has me so excited. Soft/domestic vibes? Chef's kiss!! Thank you for sharing!!

I hope you are doing well, have a fantastic week!

[ew-selfish-art]

I’ve decided I want to give Dani more agency in this (instead of little kid brain accidental adoption) so, following the comment made by @passivedecept lets say that Dani absolutely did this on purpose.

...

Dani has travelled the world, she has her wits about her, and for the most part she loves being her own person/ghost and not really relying on others. Sure, she misses Danny and Jazz, but really she’s self-sufficient. Writing letters home has shown her how much her perspective of the world has grown and getting Danny’s letters back... She starts to realize that her Template isn’t exactly thriving under the Fenton’s roof.

Sure, his letters back (along with texts and calls) he talks about having Sam and Tucker. But he also includes how he stays at their places more often than not and how Jazz moving out for college has really made the Fenton home seem more ominous (not his own words of course). She knows that he has a go-bag and honestly, that’s just not her style. Her style is to have a bag and use it, not worry about having to use it.

So she starts to scheme. She starts by hitting some of the bigger tourist destinations and begging Danny to come out for a visit. He portals in and out, they spend a great day or two together over a weekend and he goes back to Amity once ‘he knows she’s not in any danger’. Danny will always be there in an instant if he thinks she’s in danger- she’s called him when in trouble before and honestly, her big bro could be pretty scary. Her challengers never stand a chance.

Then in a letter, Danny confesses that he feels that he can’t leave Amity cause he has too much responsibility there, and it makes Dani see red. She calls him- “Shouldn’t I have even more responsibility there? My other creator is literally the Mayor. Danny, I dunno what your friends say about you trying to martyr yourself for the Fentons but it’s bullshit if you think you can’t leave.”

Danny fires back that he’s not having this conversation with her- he doesn’t even know if she’s had a meal or a safe place to sleep most days!

“So what, if I find a family to adopt me you’ll come out of your ass?”

“That’s not what I’m saying. I’m just saying that you don’t approve of my choices, and that your choices scare me sometimes. It doesn’t change the fact that you’re my sister and I can support you regardless of where you are in the world. Can’t you please do the same?” He sighs.

Dani isn’t just going to let this go but it takes her finding some intel and forming a plan before she can change things. She basically gave away her plan in that conversation but Danny was too fixated on their conflict to register it- her big brother had too big of a heart (which meant that she did too, damnit).

And then it’s like the stars align and the Infinite Realms sing out- She comes across the Bats in Gotham, and they take a liking to her. Not to mention she starts to really like them.

Well, and sure, she made her story a tad bit more sob worthy (not going to mentally think about that) and was wounded when they found her (not going to let her pride think about that) and that they wanted to investigate her as a threat (...this makes up for the pride thing). But! After she recovers in the Bat-cave for a few weeks and admits that she’s just going to wonder the Earth a bit more- they invite her upstairs. As in out of the Batcave. As in, into their lives. To stay.

She can’t help but admit that she’s grown attached to them as well but... Now it’s time for Danny to get his head out of his ass. She starts writing him letters, and he starts calling more often. She always answers and then explains that she’s got a family activity that she’s doing with the Waynes before hanging up on him- and she knows how much that riles him up.

The bats also get Danny’s story, it was something they wanted when asking after her origins as a clone but she denied them at the time, and it’s obvious how even Alfred has begun to prepare a new bedroom in the Family wing of the manor. Right next to her room :) and she made sure there was a model rocket and a telescope put into it :)

Then one night at dinner, the room’s temperature drops below freezing and the windows frost over. Every noise seems to grow louder, every second seems longer, and the lights begin to flicker. Then the doorbell rings (and echos).

Danny looks pissed, but he brought some grocery store flowers and premade cookies as a peace offering. He’s here to make sure his Sister is safe, and there will be an infinite number of Hells to pay if she’s not.

Dani smiles, and looking briefly at a no-longer-blood-thirsty Damian, knows that the Bats love a challenge.

Dpxdc Au: Dani has taken up letter writing on her adventures around the world! It gives Danny something to look forward to even if he can just text or call her… wait why is she spending so much time in Gotham??

Danny was thrilled that his clone sister had taken to writing letters as part of her travels- sure he could always give her phone a ring but this was so much cuter! She always included little drawings of things she’d seen and it was obvious that she was using letter writing as a way to reflect.

Jazz had mentioned that it was probably kind of like diary writing being good self-reflection time… Danny kind of zoned out during that lecture turned instruction manual, but he’s still super excited everytime a new letter shows up! Plus it’s not like his mom or dad ever check the mailbox.

Her letter last time was all about Gotham and the creepy heroes she talked to while she was there. It had a lot of details but Danny just figured she must have thought a lot about it with her own connection to having powers and using them for good. He’s hoping that she chose to go to metropolis or even Central City next but he opens the next letter and… Gotham.

She’s still in Gotham. Apparently she really likes the creepy heroes now, and she totally saved their butts on a mission. Huh, well, okay. It’s not like Danny is going to tell her to move on, cause the city’s most famous anti-power aka anti-meta advocate is hanging out with her according to her letters… whatever. He gives her a call but she says she’s in the middle of a board game night and will call him back.

2 weeks go by and a new letter arrives- checking the postage- she’s still in Gotham!!! She’s staying with a family that she really likes and thinks Danny would like as well, they have all his favorite video games and the food doesn’t even fight back! Danny is starting to get a bit anxious but… he’s glad she’s getting some semblance of normalcy.

Next few letters are detailing her life with this family and then in the last one she calls the oldest kid “Big Brother Energy times 1,000” and it makes Danny come to a realization.

Holy shit- Dani’s been adopted!!

He immediately flies to Gotham to inspect this family and what the heck? Why are they being so nice to him?? He’s trying to interrogate them!! Dani stop helping them!! He doesn’t need to also be adopted!! Ugh!!

[auspex]

luke tell me about mark (knife emoji):

🤥, 👪, 💐, 🌙, 🙈, 🙊, 🙉, 🌌, 📣, 🪤, 👑, 🖍️, 🌠, ☄️, 💔

sorry im sending u a ton bc i want to Know also bc these quesitons make me INSANE and i want to make you have to contemplate them in you head.

HIIIIIII this got relaly long and also i am so so tired so hopefully this coheres also sorry it got out of order cause i had to find ones i answered already! anyway enjoy.

OKAY first the ones i’ve answered before:

Bouquet answered here!: www.tumblr.com/blood-bound/724128649517858816/and-for-porphy-and-for-mark

💐 [BOUQUET] If you could send your OC a bouquet, what flowers would make it up and what is the overall message? “White lilies - mourning, but also purity and rebirth. Blue star - admiring determination and endurance Begonias - thank you Zinnia and forget-me-nots - a reminder never to forget absent friends the message is: STAY STRONG, STAY HUMAN, YOU CAN DO IT + THANKS FOR ROTATING IN MY BRAIN I know nothin abt flowers so i used this link https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/gardening/g2503/surprising-flower-meanings/?slide=85” I still like this answer :) Manages to have a coherent color scheme too. -

Milky way and Megaphone answered here: www.tumblr.com/blood-bound/731196362845241344/megaphone-milky-way-clover

“The first thing I decided was clan - Tremere - and the second thing was that he would be an adjunct professor who was a closeted gay man. he was my first OC and first VTM OC and i was new to EVERYTHING so that is mostly what I had. :) He did Much Expanding from there.”

But I will expand: So after that I used making his character sheet to expand him. His street racing backstory came from me wanting him to have SOMETHING in the physical skills category. Then I wanted his more immediate backstory to be that he saw his bf getting drank from and it made sense for him to be a touchstone, and then I decided that his family and him were distant so I didn’t want any of his touchstones to be family; thus ex boyfriend and faculty advisor. I also picked his predator type of sandman, because I didn’t want him to be evil but I did want him to actually drink blood from humans so sandman made sense to me and it ALSO let me get an auspex dot :D cause I wanted all three disciplines in clan to start. -

Megaphone: “Mark's voice is somewhat on the quiet side. It's solidly masculine but it is higher pitched. It's kind of what you would expect from a nerdy dude. When he is intentionally speaking more quietly it has a bit of a scratchy quality to it. If he was in the year 2023 he'd prob have a gay lisp but he Hid That Shit cause closeted.

I am Desperately seeking a voice claim pleaseee if anyone has ideas send.” -

Shooting star (Make a wish with no consequences)was answered here: https://www.tumblr.com/blood-bound/726830818058797056/train-cloud-shooting-star-for-mark

But due to plot developments his answer changed! Now it would be: That Julius dies :) YAYYYY. I’m not sure if he would actually be able to make himself wish that though : ( if he’s not able to it would be to get out of the Kyle contract still. -

Comet and See-No-Evil answered here: https://www.tumblr.com/blood-bound/731194724679090176/lol

☄️ COMET - what do people assume about them? are they right? “-That he's a nerd: Yes - That he is a neonate: yes in the sense he is independent from his sire, but certainly not in age. He seems older due to his sire making him Politically Safe but he's a baby. -That he has Many Secrets: Yeah but not the type they think for sure -That he has someone powerful protecting him: Yeah <3 There are prob other things that I'm not myself aware of cause im bad at recognizing such things but… those are some!” - 🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your oc that they don't want to show other people? “Both before and after embrace: His romantic side . Teehee. That's a short answer so lemme expand: He really is romantic and believes in true love and stuff but that goes against his Professor Persona and is not Cool so unless u actually are that person who is romantically into, u aint gonna waterboard this one out of him. After embrace: He doesn't want to show his sympathy for ghouls to most, out of fear they would start questioning him about his own. He's a bit more open about some of his other kindness but NOT that” - Family answered here: https://www.tumblr.com/blood-bound/724397820458778624/for-mark 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY — how many people are in your oc's immediate family? how many people are in your oc's extended family? do they have aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc? who in their family are they closest with? are they close with their birth family, or do they have a found family? But I will redo my answer: Just his mom and dad are in the immediate family. I still haven’t really considered extended family - i think when he was younger his grandparents would visit but they died while he was in college. I think his dad had a sister that he’s seen before but Mark didn’t like her so doesn’t care that he doesn’t see her anymore. So he didn’t get close with his cousins either (he had 2). If he HAD to say who he was closest with it’d be his mom but he’s distant with mom and dad. He wants to see them again before he fakes his death but thats about the extent of it. He still has no found family :( - Crown answered here (what does ur OC want to be rememebred for): https://www.tumblr.com/blood-bound/728760375815946240/for-mark “He wants to Not Die and thus not need a legacy because he will Live Forever. But seriously uhmmm lemme think. I think he definitely wants to be thought of as 'one of the good ones' as in he wants to meet final death before he loses his humanity. Beyond that he's kind of having a crisis because he Doesnt Know. He had a goal in life - professor of Roman history, be famous in that field - but now that seems like Not Enough as a kindred. If he wasn't dealing with more immediate crises he would be dealing with an identity crisis for sure… he does want to reexamine all of history and, if it doesnt already exist, write stuff regarding how kine influenced kindred history and vice versa. So we'll see how that goes for him, if it ends up being anything he'd wanna be remembered for that work and for helping kindred appreciate the kine more :D (GOOD FUCKING LUCK W THAT MARK LMFAO)”

- Now the new ones! - 🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying? Mark has 2 manipulation and 1 subterfuge. So. A dice pool of three, which to me means he is below average but not god-awful. He usually talks around things or refuses to answer.

If you know him well a tell that he has is he will make a point to NOT fidget with his glasses because he feels like that WOULD be a tell but. He always fidgets with his glasses so it is actually notable when he doesn’t for an extended period of time. He also def does the thing where his eyes look up while he is thinking of the lie. -

🌙 MOON - what is your oc's greatest wish? how far are they willing to go for it? Mark wants a lot of things right now. His greatest wish though… hmm. IDK I’m indecisive. Have a bunch: -To be free of Julius -To make Sampson happy - which means he has to let him go. -To be able to let Sampson go - he is kind of worried how he’s gonna react when he actually gets to that point. He’s trying not to think about it. -Someone, just one person, to both know him very deeply and love him deeply. Someone who also believes he is good, and someone he believes is good as well. He does not want to stop caring.

He’s willing to go quite far because they are all interrelated and, the only things he has to lose are the hope for those wishes. So, so long as it won’t ruin one of the above, he would do a lot and risk a lot. He has a lot of resolve and will certainly push himself beyond his limits. -

🙊 SPEAK-NO-EVIL - what is something your oc will refuse to stay quiet about? Uhm. He’s quite willing to stay quiet for his own safety buuuuuuut probably someone wantonly attempting to kill innocent humans he could not stand for, he would HAVE to try to do something to stop it, and also his hatred of Sabbat - he would not accept someone saying the Sabbat aren’t so bad. Which sucks, but that was his experience.

Oh also he cannot accept Julius slander at this time. He will argue about it. Yes he’s trying to kill Julius. Look. Blood bonds make things complicated. -

🙉 HEAR-NO-EVIL - what is the worse thing your oc could hear from someone?

Other than being informed of stuff that would mean he’s fucked (‘Julius knows you want to kill him” for example), it would be someone he cares about and trusts telling him that Sampson was right, he’s just pretending to care and there isn’t hope for him, that he’s not capable of really loving anyone anymore. :( He’s holding on to hope of true love, ok??? -

🪤 MOUSE TRAP - what will always lure them into certain danger? a loved one in danger? a promise of something they are always searching for?

All of the above and more. Mark has become kind of arrogant - his sire makes him close to untouchable politically, and he’s also just arrogant due to his Beast’s influence + Julius’s influence (Julius’s fatal flaw is his arrogance). And he is also desperate. Teehee. -

🖍️ CRAYON - what advice would you give to them?

I think i had actually answered this one before but I can’t be bothered to find it and my answer wasn’t that good… because it’s still not good. I DONT KNOW. Mark’s situation is so tough and I’m doing my best to RP him accurately while making the best decisions for survival. I think I would tell him that he’s gotta keep his hunger managed, dammit, do NOT let yourself get hungry or it’s going to go really bad. I would also give him the advice that he should be really, really careful about the nosferatu on his territory cause while he’s being careful already i OOC know it is even more dangerous than he realizes. Otherwise. IDK. -

💔 BROKEN HEART - what could their partner do that would absolutely break their heart? HEEEEEEEEHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Yeas. this is a funn question. Okay. So Mark is gonna have a lot of baggage that his next boyfriend would have to navigate. Other than something like I wrote above about the worst thing he could hear from someone, which would of course break his heart… a partner saying that he took advantage of Mark opening up would break his heart too - sharing his secrets with someone else for gain. Or really just sharing things about Mark that he keeps private without his consent would really hurt his trust due to what he’s been through. Or his partner beginning to stop caring about humanity/think little of kine, cause then Mark would really struggle with which conviction he should follow…

[worriedvision]

hello, can you do Heizou x male! reader? thank you. I was thinking: they are good friends but, what if a fairy creature tries to seduce the detective by impersonating the Reader one night? Oh beware of fairies, my dear author, some could devour a man whole if they wanted to!

Okay so this is my first time (I think? Maybe) writing for a male reader. Hopefully it turns out well!

Heizou found you interesting, to put it bluntly. Typically, he wasn’t approached often given his reputation as a detective. Sure, he was great at his job and he was easy to talk to, but people also feared the idea of being part of a scheme to get a friend arrested for a crime they were unaware of. 

However, he found himself drawn to you. You didn’t avert your gaze when he walked by, and you didn’t show any signs of discomfort with him. He decides to approach  you, introducing himself, and that’s how you became good friends.

When Heizou hangs out with you, it feels nice. He doesn’t find himself thinking of ways to solve cases and involving  you in them, but instead he finds he can just have a good time with you. It feels natural as well, no signs of faking the joy you both have together, and you grow closer and closer. 

One night, Heizou is having a midnight stroll, and he spots what he thinks to be you in the forest. You’re clearly just enjoying the sights, eyes closed and he finds himself walking towards you.

‘You’ talk to him, throwing in flirty comments and giving him looks that imply something that was more than friendly. He had to go home after a while, but he finds every night he goes to you during the night. 

During the day, he flirts with you, flustering you. Heizou doesn’t mention any of the nightly stuff, only coming out of nowhere - calling you dreamy, handsome, calling you cute when you start to stumble with your words. He doesn’t make any physical moves, simply waiting for the right moment to make a move to make you his. 

However, the night time you is completely different. Heizou would have usually realised relatively quickly that you were getting far too flustered for this to be the real you. However, thanks to the tricks this version of you was using on him - spells, potions, knowing what Heizou liked - Heizou fell into the trap that should have been obvious. 

On a dark night, Heizou just knew he wanted to confess his feelings for you, that he wanted to be romantic with you instead of being platonic during the day. That he would cherish your heart, he would protect you from anyone who would judge the nature of the relationship, that he would love to be yours only. 

‘You’ accept his confession, a warm smile on your face as you admit your feelings for the man. ‘You’ lean in, preparing for the kiss that would trap Heizou under the fairys command, and Heizou slowly starts  to close the gap. 

Unfortunately for this fairy, the disguise falls, revealing a horrifying sight. A being that was not human, a being that looked downright ghost like. He pulls away, eyes wide, and the fairy goes back to the disguise.

The next night, the actual you is in the forest. Heizou looks over, seeing you, and he is now sceptical. You hoped you could admit your feelings for him, that he would be open to talking to you, but he gives you a look of disgust before walking away. You run after him, hoping to catch up to him, but he doesn’t allow you a chance as he manages to lose you. 

You now feel confused. You thought Heizou had similar feelings to you, based on the flirting that felt far too good to not be true. Now that he’s looking at you with distaste, refusing to talk to you, it really stings.

He tries to talk to you like he didn’t give you that look either, not apologising and just talking like he was fine. You guard your heart, no longer letting yourself become confused with this whole thing, and alas you grow distant to the point of becoming strangers over time.

Then one night, on a nightly stroll, you see ‘Heizou’ in the forest.