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7 minute verdict
8/29/1989. Friday. Should be, anyway. I’ve lived a week in these last two days.
It’s a really windy Tuesday. Thought I saw the wind blowing the stars around like sparks flying up from a fire.
The day of the 7 minute verdict.
7 minutes to give a guy 7 years.
One year per minute.
How do I feel?
Humiliated and happy.
Glad I ain’t got a death grip on it.
I poured my soul into the trial but managed to hang loose, too.
And, that’s good.
And, to have all of that work and lust
Crash down in 7 minutes.
Amazing.
In a way, a blessing. No lingering torture (waiting for a verdict).
I think “Am I losing my touch?”
God, 7 minutes.
A blind dog could have probably kept them out 8.
Obviously my whole participation in that trial was moot.
The foreman was an old coot.
He’s been on 2 jurys before.
Next time “he’s” out. (A potential juror like him)
The 2 girls who didn’t like tattoos (client must have had visible tattoos)
Next time “out”.
They were honest.
I should have listened
It does hurt in such a way that I must keep silent myself.
Nice hiding tucked away at Mom and Dad’s tonight.
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I was a deputy public defender in Stanislaus County when I lost that jury trial. I had completely forgotten that trial. If I hadn't recorded the trial experience, it would have been lost forever.
I'm in a jury trial in Stockton now. I just completed another November 3rd, 2023. That one resulted in a not guilty verdict as to car jacking and robbery with a gun. Completely different post trial experience than i had in the 1989 case above.. I will blog that trial experience as soon as the client's cases are finished. She had one other active case other than the one that resulted in the jury trial.
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pov gregory
#fnaf#post fire au#sun x reader#moon x reader#daycare attendant veteran in Restraint and newbie y/n recently exposed to Gregory radiation about to mcfucking lose it(tm) GO#gregory is the true trial of Love between these three fr#if they can overcome Gregory together they can overcome anything#art: copper cogs rusted through#fanart
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I think I'm going to start drawing Apollo's children because I love them and they don't have enough appreciation.
So here is some Idmon and Aristaeus for the soul!
And some happy family bonus (they don't know that one of them is going to die)
#aristaeus#idmon#apollo#cyrene#apollo x cyrene#greek gods#greek mythology#toa apollo#apollo toa#toa#trials of apollo#art#They are my tragic babies#I know that canonically in pj Apollo does not have immortal lovers#so Aristaeus lose is brother when he go to te Argo and later lose is mother because he is inmortal
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This is my Skysona Rose, she's a little dumb but she got the spirit
#incompetent yet competent at the same time#street smart not booksmart#1 uber for Trials#winged light hunting#and eden#dont ask her to candle run forest or valley#she has NO idea whats going on in there#krill dodger but shes not good at it#thats why she can hunt wl with her eyes closed#shes always losing hers lol#skysona#sky kid#that sky game#sky children of the light#sky cotl#sona#oc#sketches#my art#artists on tumblr
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Third year of doing this solangelo pride redraw :D they are so beloved
#the sun and the star#will solace#pjo#my beloveds#solangelo#nico di angelo#nico di angelo fanart#will solace fanart#solangelo fanart#percy jackon and the olympians#the trials of apollo#heroes of olympus#solangelo pride art#pride month#pride 2024#trans pride#bi pride#ace pride#gay pride#pride art#pride fanart#trans t4t#t4t mlm#queer pride#trans will solace#trans nico di angelo#T4T SOLANGELO GUYS HEAR ME OUT#I can’t stop drawing these guys I’m losing it /pos#number 1 solangelo fan real not fake#Romano draws
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i love love love when whumpees curse out their whumper. blood trickling out with their words, teeth bared and every sound vicious. and when the whumper replies by leaning in with the smallest of smiles and strokes their face. “careful.”
and whumpee whimpers. shrinking back, the bite in their eyes fading into terror. crying, shaking, pleading.
#just. um. the switch up#it’s really nice#like whumpee knows they fucked up#they just had to lash out one last time#man i love when whumpees only push their defiance so far and know when to back down#they’re willing to beg if it means they don’t get hurt#they walk a fine line and yeah it’s one they learned through trial and error#‘whumper loses it when i call them a little bitch and i don’t want to lose a finger again so not doing that’#‘but i had to try it for myself first’#whump#whump writing#whumpblr#whump prompt#whump community#whump ideas#whump prompts#troy talks#whump scenario#defiant whumpee
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☆ de fontaine
{☆} characters furina {☆} notes cult au, imposter au, drabble, gender neutral reader {☆} warnings angst, suicidal thoughts, hurt / no comfort {☆} word count 1.4k
This wasn't fair. This wasn't fair. This wasn't fair!
She thought, for one moment, she could put the mask down and breathe – for one moment of daydreaming, she thought she could just be Furina. She thought she would finally get to live the live she should've had in the first place, the life she threw away to play God to an audience who saw her as nothing but a circus animal, dancing to their whims. Furina just wanted to be selfish for one brief and fleeting moment..and it was gone before she could even grasp it in her hand. A comet soaring past far out of her reach.
She can barely keep her hands from violently shaking as she looks down at them – broken and bloody and more a corpse then a person – and she feels so numb she can't even feel the rain pelting against her back. None of this is fair, she wants to scream, why is it always me? But her voice is silent beneath the torrent of rain. She wonders if the ocean would take her if she sank into it's depths – just for a moment, she wonders how it would feel to finally be able to sleep at ease.
Furina is tired.
But Furina is nothing if not useful, isn't she?
So she forces her feet to move, dragging against the stone beneath her heels, and drags their bloodied body into the nearest empty building, letting the rain do the work of washing away the smeared blood following her path. The smell makes her feel sick, the feeling of it sticking to her hands and gloves makes her lightheaded, but she persists. Because Furina is useful, because Furina won't let them die out in the rain, because Furina won't stand by and just let them rot on the streets like some..pest.
Furina wants to go home. She wants to sleep and she isn't she if she wants to wake up, this time. But she keeps going anyway.
Because it's all she's ever done, and the habit sticks.
An Archon she may not be, not anymore, but the expectations of five hundred years still linger like eyes on the inside of her skull. They watch her, pry and prod at her thoughts, mocking laughter and judging eyes following her as she forces herself to dance to the song they weave with glee. Furina never stepped off that stage – she's still there, she thinks, watching the crowd stare at her in disdain as the curtain call looms above her like a guillotine. She still hears Neuvillette deliver her damnation and salvation with a trembling voice, still feels her hair stand on end when electro crackled like the crack of the whip, Clorinde's blade aimed at her like a loaded gun.
She's trapped on that stage and she never left, not really.
She hates it. She thinks she hates them, but it's not their fault. They didn't ask for this, didn't ask for everyone to turn against them, didn't ask for her to save them. Neither did she..yet here they are, she thinks.
She tries to tell herself she's in control this time, though. She can stop performing her part in this horrible, bloody play any time she wants. It makes her feel better, just for a little while, if she convinces herself she's still Furina, painfully human.
And Furina has always been good at lying.
It's the believing that's the hard part.
There isn't time for her to wallow in her own self pity, though. They're still bleeding out onto the dusty, creaky floorboards of some random, broken down house and she's just standing there as the blood stains the wood. She can fix it – she's good at fixing things. She's done nothing but fix things – try to, anyway – for five hundred years. She can fix a little wound, how hard could it be? Her hands are clenched so tight they ache as she kneels down, wincing at the creak of the floorboards beneath her heels– she hesitates just long enough to wonder if she's making a mistake before she peels away just enough of the outer layer of their clothes to see the deep, bloody gash across their chest. She tries not to think about it – it's deep, too deep, and she feels dizzy just looking at it, but she's handled worse, right?
Furina can fix it. That's what she's good at.
She doesn't feel so confident when she tries to wrack her brain for..something. Five hundred years, and a little wound stumps her? No, she had to have learned something, right? She's decidedly not trying to buy time because she's panicking, parsing through hundreds of years of memories like flipping through a book. Furina isn't made for this, not really – she's running on nothing but adrenaline and she's really not sure what she's doing, but she's trying. And just like before, it won't be enough, will it?
She'll fall short again – she'll be too late to fix it before she's alone again.
Furina was an Archon..used to be. What use would she have for that sort of knowledge? Which makes her predicament all the more harrowing and bleak. What was she supposed to do?
Furina had heard it first hand, that vitriol in Neuvillette's voice. She isn't sure she's ever heard him that..angry before. She's not sure he would listen to her if she tried, either. And that scares her more then anything. All of Fontaine was up in arms about this..imposter, yet here she was, staring down at them bleeding out in front of her, and she was trying to save them.
Why? Why is she throwing away her only chance at normalcy for a fraud? Why didn't she just turn them in?
They were dying – that should've been a good thing, shouldn't it? So why didn't it feel like it?
"Why you?" Her voice breaks as she speaks in harsh tones, grabbing the front of their shirt in trembling, bloodied hands. "Why now?" She wants to scream, to demand answers they can't give, to claw back the reprieve she was promised after five hundred years of agony..and all she can do is sob into their chest, pleading for an answer that will not come. "Why me?"
Silence is their answer, and it hangs heavy on her trembling shoulders as she cries.
Of course they don't, she thinks bitterly, no one has ever answered her pleas spoken in hushed sobs. Not her other self and certainly not them.
Furina has always been alone. Furina will always be alone.
Because Furina never left that stage, never left that moment when she looked at herself in the mirror and took up a mantle too heavy for her to bear. She always finds her way back eventually. There's no one on the other side anymore – she stands alone on a stage, waiting for an inevitable end she isn't sure will come.
"Please," She pleads through tears and choked sobs, clinging to them like they are all that keeps her from sinking. "Please don't leave me, too." The words burn on her tongue – how pathetic is she that she craves companionship from the bloodied body of the imposter? Perhaps she's truly lost her mind after all these years..perhaps she's finally gone mad. She must have.
But their presence is like the first feeling of gentle warmth upon her skin as the sun crests the horizon, like the gentle lap of tides along her heels, the sway of branches and leaves as the wind blows through them like an instrument all it's own. They are the soothing sound of rain against the window as she watches the dreary skies in fond longing, the first bloom of spring as color blooms upon the landscape like paint had been spilled across the hills and valleys.
They are like the faint spark she carefully nurtures and stokes, so fragile even the smallest wind could blow it out like a candle. She cradles it within her palms, pleads with whoever will listen – prays that someone finally listens, because if not for her, then for them.
She's failed to protect too much already, let too many people with so much trust in her fall between the cracks of her fingers like grains of sand. She won't let them go – she can't.
If nothing else, if she couldn't be saved when she begged for salvation from that five hundred year long agony, even if she never got that chance..
Furina will make sure they do.
#sagau#genshin sagau#self aware genshin#genshin impact sagau#self aware genshin impact#genshin cult au#genshin impact cult au#fic tag#furina#so um. looks around. okay look. i know im like THE ts@r1ts@ dealer (censored so it doesnt show in tags. hopefully)#but the moment i saw furi in fontaine the day it released she became my fav even more then the tsaritsa SORRY SHES SO..#this is my love letter 2 furi (making her suffer unimaginable horrors)#open ended kinda in case i decide on making a sequel maybe#furi makes me feel cuteness aggression so bad i start acting like a rabid animal#furina the woman that you are. thats my girlprince meow meow id kill someone for her#playing her part as archon so well but being so horribly irrefutably human in every way..#five hundred years not even knowing what the real plan was. when it would end. knowing if she slipped up it was over.#and in the end almost no one knew what really happened. a select few people know the real weight of her sacrifice.#furina's story was always a tragedy. it was never going to be anything but a tragedy.#and thats one of the most tragic parts of it isnt it? she didnt know how itd end. she didnt know her story was always going to be a tragedy#furina never knew a thing. and still she did it for the people of fontaine and succeeded.#how do you define “yourself” when you havent existed for 500 years?#to be so selflessly human you give up “yourself” to save people who will never know of your sacrifice.#sometimes i think about the confrontation on the stage and have a week long mental breakdown#sacrificing EVERYTHING for fontaine and still. still! the people closest to you turn on you.#heavy on clorinde. she was as close 2 furi as neuvi fight me on this. i bite.#her bodyguard and friend and she ends up staring down her blade wondering if this is it. she failed. she failed them all#because even when faced with the trial. with losing everything. she still thought only about fontaine. oh furina.#do you think she has nightmares. wonders if she was never meant to win this game of g-ds. that her story was always meant to be a tragedy?#do you think she still wonders if she was ever meant to have a chance at a happy ending? a doomed tragedy from beginning to end
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To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?
Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.
#in the 16th century canon he starts out as an introverted but sincerely well meaning guy that never quite manages to find his social niche#he was a sensitive kid and when subjected to enough pressure#his insecurity fearfulness and powerlessness mutate into distrust resentment aggression suffocating repression and self-restraint#I don't think he's a bad person in fact he consistently tries very hard to do the right thing#do his job properly avoid letting people down and get through life with a sense of dignity#but he is supposed to come across kind of cold impersonable and difficult to be around if you don't know him personally (and very few do)#people can sense there's something wrong with him and are put off by it#Vatican is a nest of vipers and as the stakes rise he retreats deeper into his coldblooded untouchable work persona#he has no choice but to start lying scheming blackmailing and eliminating his enemies#in order to maintain his position keep Vasco safe their relationship under wraps and his own head above water#essentially playing by the same rules everyone else in the holy see has been playing with for centuries#eventually he loses his spot as the secretary of state and is manipulated/forced to take on a role in the roman inquisition#and if people were sort of iffy about him before being the authority overseeing trials torture excommunications and executions doesn't help#and since he has so few allies and such an infamous reputation he's an easy target for scapegoating whenever necessary#towards the end it dawns on him that he's become the kind of twisted cruel corrupt person he used to fear and despise#and the guilt moral injury and abject self-loathing had largely sapped him of his will to live by the time the final assassin gets him#answered#anonymous#Machete#Vaschete lore#he thought his dream of priesthood would make him a better person more worthy of admiration safety and love but he climbed too high#and got roped up in the dangerous games that take place under god's nose and slowly got strangled to death
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sorry i was talking about this with dante last night but it’s literally so funny that marc was like i don’t even care about winning i’d trade it all for this podium with my brother :) and then you go down the laundry list of things he did to try and win this weekend and it’s like his bones are broken his ribs are bruised he was in excruciating pain he couldn’t breathe the bike was fucked six ways to sunday BEFORE franky morbidelli decided to clip him and take half his wind screen clean off/make his airbags compress his movements to death and in fact THAT event in itself is what made him go crazy and put it p2. like literally the shock adrenaline and pain of it. and then he passed ALEX for second place handily on like the second to last lap. so all this to say i think he is lying through his teeth,
#of course he is very happy to be on a podium with alex i’m sure that helped soothe the wound a LOT. and he loves him SO much.#but also very funny and yelling that his fist words in front of a camera after stepping off the bike were ACTUALLY IM OKAY WITH LOSING.#LIKE ITS FINE I DONT EVEN CARE. IT MATTERS NOT WVEN A LITTLE BIT.#after he did the trials of HERCULES to even get a shot at putting that thing p1#motogp#callie speaks#marc marquez#good morning.#*telling. you understand
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#how is she this adorable 🥺#still losing it over her talking about filming in Portland; cannot be more perfect#oc: sabrina donovan#alycia debnam carey#it's what's inside#it's what's inside press#adcedit#alycia jasmin#alyciadebnamedit#wip: in hope of tomorrow#wip: a trial of errors#mygifs#myedits#character inspiration#character reference#fc5 deputy#far cry 5 deputy#dailywomansource#flawlessbeautyqueens#thequeensofbeauty#femalesource#wonderfulwomendaily#dailywomen#femaledaily#brunettesource#womensource#geekedweek
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Cannot overstate the fact that I haven’t specifically written this snippet for a fic, but I was thinking about the kind of mindset Jason must have been in pre Burning Maze and this snippet just kind of happened:
Jason knew that Thalia was the first person he’d ever loved, but he could only miss his sister like a kind-faced stranger. He missed her like a butterfly he’d chased through the woods when he’d been little—almost close enough to touch, but always just out of reach.
Jason missed Reyna, but the feeling was foreign, like phantom pain in a lost limb—an incomprehensible ache originating from a part of him that was no longer there that flared up at random intervals and that he didn’t know how to soothe.
Jason missed Leo like the fire of a hearth. Like the warmth and safety of a home he’d never known, and had realized from the beginning he wouldn’t be able to keep. Because if there was one thing Jason could rely on in his life, it was that the good things never lasted.
Jason missed Piper like a final string. He‘d thought that at least he’d always have her—until, suddenly, he didn’t.
And then he was free falling.
#Jason loves so much and he doesn’t get to keep any of the people he loves and I feel so ill about it actually#he loses Piper in two ways: both in her ending their relationship and in knowing via the prophecy that one of them will die#and it’s going to be him. because he can’t let it be her but also because Piper has things left to lose#jason grace#hoo#heroes of olympus#ToA#trials of Apollo#my writing#grace siblings#Thalia Grace#leo valdez#valgrace#<- minor but it is implied#please assume it’s generally always implied#the burning maze
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basically they were on a date here
#how the frick do you make it not lose quality#giffing is so maddening bc I'm learning all with trial and error bc i'm lazy i should look up tutorials#it movie#it#reddie#richie tozier#eddie kaspbrak#richie x eddie#it 2017#it 2019
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the voices won
#parkour civilization#parkciv#seawatt#parkour champion#paper#sketch#wip#xuh art#god above i will try to finish this digitally some time#seawattgaming#ajthebold#seawatt gaming#ok LISTEN. LISTEN. OK. WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THIS SHIP#WHO CARES ABOUT EVBO /J#NO. FOR REAL. THESE TWO'S RELATIONSHIP DICTATES THE WORLD AND NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT#HOW COME SEAWATT SETS THE RULES BUT AJ HAS THE CHAMPION BOOTS???#WHAT KIND OF DEAL GOES ON BETWEEN THEM#HOW COME SEAWATT RAN AWAY AT THE END OF MOVIE 1 BUT AJ IS NEVER SHOWN AGAIN. WHEN WE KNOW EVBO SURVIVES THE CHAMPION BATTLE DESPITE LOSING#THE FIRST ROUND. IS THIS THHING ON? DOES ANYONE HEAR ME? IS AJ SOMEWHERE IN THE NOOB LEVEL? HE'D RANK UP UP IMMEDIATELLY ONCE EVBO MADE THE#TRIALS POSSIBLE. DUDE WAS THE CHAMPION. WHERE DID HE GOOOOO. HOW WOULD HE FEEL ABOUT SEAWATT'S DEATH. DID THEY EXPLORE EACH OTHERS BODIES W#O SAID THAT#i just have to fuck myself and get attached to the ship that HAS NOTHING. WE NEVER SEE THEM INTERACT BUT WE KNOW THEY MUST. ugh. f#fuck my stupid baka life
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OOH OOH CONCERNED-POLLO?? MANS IS MOTHER™
Y E S
Poor guy's stressed out over everyone's safety 24/7 consciously AND subconsciously
#this is more concerned-lester but it had do be done#criminally underrated scene#he showed he genuinely cared!!! for the first time!!!! he was anguished over the thought of losing his kids!!!!!!!#beautiful#if you couldn't tell this is the moment the toa obsession clicked for me btw#actually maybe it was the copollo plotline but this was a strong contender#trials of apollo#toa#apollo#lester papadopoulos#meg mccaffrey#percy jackson#pjo#scribbles#lonely thoughts#ask#i should've probably coloured this but i'm rusty as hell 💀 haven't drawn anything since. december? maybe?#damn
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We only see each other at funerals
(On Jason, Thalia, Nico, Bianca, and their parallels/connections)
The Titan's Curse (Rick Riordan), @/anxiousmaya_, Right Now (Gracie Abrams), The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan), Joan of Arc (Mary Gordon), The Lost Hero (Rick Riordan), Episodes Toward and Elegy for Halley's Comet (Lindsey Drager), Jason Grace (Riordan Wiki), The Gods Show Up (Michael Kinnucan), The House of Hades (Rick Riordan), What the Living Do (Marie Howe), The House of Hades (Rick Riordan), Planet of Love (Richard Siken), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), Tangerine (Nolune), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), I Bet On Losing Dogs (Mitski), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), @/abhorarchive (Twitter), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), Seventeen (MARINA), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), @/rollercoasterwords, The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), @/the-overanalyst, Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley), Grit (Silas Denver Martin), Softcore (The Neighbourhood), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Frost (Mitski), @/moonbends, I'm Your Man (Mitski), Sun Bleached Flies (Ethel Cain), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Three (Sleeping At Last), My Art
#nono you don't understand it's about the siblings#it's about how thalia lost jason once only to get him back and lose him again#it's how jason and bianca both walked into their deaths with their eyes wide open#it's about zeus trying to kill nico and bianca and him doing nothing to stop jason from dying#it's about thalia being in the hunters and nico hating her but he knows how to grieve with that kind of loss#so he'll help her. for jason. for bianca. because no one deserves to mourn a sibling alone#like these four barely interact but they're soooo connected i could go on forever#i'm so sad thalia and nico never actually got a scene together after the burning maze#and ALSO#it's about the fact that reyna is one of the most (if not the most) important people left in their lives#LIKE#do you think thalia found out how close nico and reyna were and started watching her more closely#because every person the two of them have shared has ended up six feet under#so reyna gets annoyed with how protective thalia is but she doesn't stop her bc part of her can tell thalia needs it#and nico constantly checks to make sure reyna's life force is still strong#bc he never wants to be caught off guard by a death again#ok im done now i promise#the trials of apollo#trials of apollo#nico di angelo#reyna ramirez arellano#reyna avila ramirez arellano#web weaving#fanart#my art tag#thalia grace#jason grace#percy jackson#percy jackson fanart#bianca di angelo
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i like how the peepaw leos are at each others’ throats while the teenage leos are just vibing 🤣
the peepaws:
Trial & Error by @apatheticrobots
Mutant Ninja Midlife Crisis by @mutantninjamidlifecrisis
Odd Man Out by @threestripeslider
We’ll Meet Again, Soon @chiangyorange
Replica by @kathaynesart
the gremlins:
Celestial AU by @ashwii
Bloodbath by @trubblegumm
Nothing Left to Lose by @leo-kinnie
Mystic Mayhem by @yourloveaton
Life Mission: Save My Brothers by me 😛
#rottmnt#rise of the TMNT#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#tmnt 2018#rottmnt fanart#rottmnt movie#rottmnt leo#my ert#rottmnt life mission AU#life mission AU#separated AU#life mission leo#rottmnt celestial au#bloodbath AU#nothing left to lose au#mystic mischief AU#rottmnt replica#trial and error#mutant ninja midlife crisis#odd man out#we'll meet again soon#future leo#is this crossover big enough?#nah not big enough i say#don't get me wrong. the gremlin leos would still come at each others' throats in the right time#i think they'd all rather make others suffer than make each other suffer tho#they're all criminals probably#they'd all rob a bank together /j#i'm still omw to binge read all the peepaw fanfics sdlfjhnd-
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