#marve au

[panxramic]

Death Family Supervillain Fic

Finding Lullah (part 1?)

Tallulah could hardly breathe. The sounds of explosions rang through her ears causing her to scream in agony. Her voice was nearly gone, only a rasp left behind with every yelp and scream.

Everything was so loud and overwhelming. She tightened her hands against her ears, but nothing stopped the moans and cries of agony of the dead around her.

She had her eyes tightly sealed. If she ever locked eyes with one of the ghouls they would immediately run to her, their voices haunting her and yelling at her to help them. It was torture. And here stuck in the rubble of a collapsed building more souls awakened, reminding her of all the living that used to live among the walls.

Then, someone tapped her. She shrunk into herself and squirmed away from it. She refused to open her eyes, fearful of what she would see.

A voice, high pitched but soft, yells above the sound of the fighting going on, “You need to get out of here!”

Tallulah shakes her head furiously, tears making their way down her ash ridden cheeks.

She hears whoever was next to her huff and then runs off. The sounds of heroes and villains fighting continue on, but slowly it gets lost in the distance.

It feels like an hour or two goes by before the world goes silent, as silent as it could get with the sound of the dead roaming around.

Tallulah hears something land outside her hiding spot under the debris. She hears a pair of small footsteps run over followed by slower and bigger footsteps. By this time she’s hunched over on the side of her body, knees hiding her face from the world.

“Dad, right here.”

There is a loud sound of rocks being slammed down onto the floor, until Tallulah can feel the cold night air on her again. She hears the footsteps run towards her and stop a foot away.

“Hello!”

She whines.

“We aren’t here to hurt you, we want to help.” It’s the voice of a kid.

Another voice pipes up, deeper, clearly an adult, “Are you hurt?”

Tallulah squeezes further into herself, “It’s s- so- loud.”

The man speaks up again, “loud?”

“They won’t stop please- make them stop.”

The voice, the little boy, questions her, “but it’s only us here?”

Tallulah shakes her head, “No no no no! Not here-“ She hiccups, “ -in my head.”

“Oh.” She feels both of them get closer, “If you want to make them stop we have to get out of here.”

“Yeah!” The little boy excitedly continues, “We will get you out of here. I have some cookies baking back at my house if you want some? We can share!”

Tallulah slowly opens her eyes. Everything is blurry and hazy, but she can make out enough.

In front of her, crouched down, is the supervillain the Angel of Death himself. He is covered in all black and has a bucket hat with a veil that hides his features. Behind him, two gorgeous black wings lay, almost as dark as the night. The boy though, she doesn’t recognize. His identity is hidden behind a skull mask, he is covered in a black and purple hood. There are knives she can see hidden underneath.

Quickly she yelps and hides again, “please don’t hurt me please don’t hurt me.”

The Angel softly responds, “We aren’t going to hurt you mate. By chance, are the voices you’re hearing undead?”

“How did you know? Are you here to lock me up too?”

The boy gasps, “Wha- No! Who would ever do that to you?”

She stays silent.

“Do you have anywhere else to go? Someone we can call?” The Angel asks.

Tallulah stills for a second, then she opens her eyes and lets go of her ears. Slowly she looks around, the only people with her are the Angel and the boy.

The only thing she hears is the Angel and the boy.

A small smile crosses her face, “They- they’re gone. How-“

She looks over at the Angel, something about him feels… different. “You- it was you! How did you…?”

“My dad is pretty cool.” The boy nods proudly.

Tallulah looks in between the boy and the Angel, something about the both of them made her heartache. The way the Angel stands near him, wings almost encasing him. It looked so warm, he looked so loved.

The boy steps forward, one hand out, an invitation. “We can help, I promise.”

“Pinky promise?”

He holds out his pinky, “Pinky promise.”

Tallulah had nobody, she’s never had anybody. But maybe, just maybe, things could change.

[fl0w3rs-m1nd]

Fun fact.

Sea Angels eat Sea Butterflies

(TW: Disturbing imagery¿ there's a bit of blood in there too..)

[This isn't canon to the actual story btw. Just know it's a possibility in some other universe. Unless I change my mind lmao]

[dreamflayer]

Sketches of Emery and Marv w their parents bc i was bored

Also this is why i never post sketches 😭🙏 lookat how messy it is

Feel free to ask questions about the au or the kids

[warm-lullabies]

The best friends of the protagonist boys also exchange roles in this AU 🤔

Well, it seems that Marv here is someone tough (him and Swap Charlie hate each other in this AU) and Liam here is someone ambivert and intellectual but with a good sense of humor (devil's advocate but with nice vibes), he also has a good self-esteem.

[spookai69-420]

I can’t hide it. Tma!Wyatt might be Gerard kaey since I find the idea of the stupid gen alpha slang TikTok user being SUPER goth when not surrounded by those he knows

Julien wandering the halls of his mall only to see this 16 year old goth boy (that WILL be his friend)

(They are of either of the stranger/spiral and buried and deeply marked by the vast. Sorry guys)

Also Madison as distortion. May change Kim to be Daisy or Melanie. I dislije Melanie 👎 but I also like unfathomable rage so

I have to think about this. Which Girlboss to be applied to,,,

Also thinking about how much of a swap Tma au this could be, async cast aside. Obviously caring and mildly skeptical archavist and his sarcastic super stubborn boyfriend. Archavist still doesn’t know social cues though so😒

Also thinking about how I could call Marvin Marchavist. I cannot hide this any longer. Marchavist can and will exist

[this-aint-massachusetts]

Hi, I have aus, now y’all gonna listen. Warning for gore, limb losing, cults, demons, lesbians, petty hate fucking gays, cannibalism, and Billy and Billie being horrible people @schmidtsbf because they seemed to wanted to read this :33

High School AU

✧ Billy and Billie Parks

✧ Darlene and Derek Danforth

✧ Clapton and Cherry Davis

✧ Josie and Josh Futturman/Woman

✧ Marla and Marv

✧ Toby Mitchell

✧ So it’s obviously pretty much self explanatory. It’s Jhutch characters plus some of the gender swaps in high school. Yet there’s more to it actually.

✧ The main thing is supposed to be it follows mainly Billy and Billie and about their past connections with a cult and some kinda demon. This demon has so far inhabited Billie’s body and they���ve kept it a pretty good secret till they realize that the demon left her body a long time ago and is now on the loose somewhere in the school.

✧ Now the demon is hopping from body to body through the high school with all the others having no clue. The only indication of the demon being in their body is the sudden insatiable craving for meat. So the siblings trigger a lockdown at the school at hold everyone hostage in the cafeteria to figure out whos the demon.

✧ Issue though is that the demon is constantly hopping from body to body so they end up killing multiple of the students because the demon hopped body at the last minute.

✧ Later on it’s more explained why Billy and his sister had a connection with a cult and why the demon was in Billie’s body in the first place. It’s kinda like a Hereditary situation with Paimon. The twos parents were the previous ones with the demons with their dad having the demon in him but the demon prefers female hosts so the dad had a child with some random woman so they would hopefully have a girl and it could just inhabit her body instead of it being his problem. Yet they ended up having twins instead and the demon accidentally ending up in Billy. And it’s hard to transfer it to another body without killing the current host but there is another way where you can cut off a part of the hosts body and attach it to another body and it will transfer there. So he cut off Billy and Billie’s arms and just swapped them. Causing them to have slightly longer/shorter arms.

✧ But the reason the demon left Billie’s body is because of an accident where she lost a hand and so that made an escape route for the demon so it left and went to the first person they could find that had an opening. That person being Marla for having a broken arm and being female.

✧ Yet part of the demon is still in her. It’s small and doesn’t really affect her yet since she lost just a hand and not the whole arm it’s still partially there.

Billy

✞ In this au Billy is one of the teachers, or more of a teachers assistant. He only signed up to annoy the principal (Derek) and also to keep a closer eye on Billie so the demon stays at bay.

✞ Ever since finding out about the demon and the cult (which neither of them were ever supposed to lean) he’s genuinely considered killing Billie. He never went through with it but he has held it over her head multiple times for blackmail. (Yeah Billy isn’t really a good person here, neither is Billie but Billy is worse)

✞ Is actually the reason Billie lost her (or I guess his) hand. He was sick of having to deal with the demon so he purposely sliced off her hand with a meat grinder and framed it as an accident. Yet he just didn’t know he had to either kill her or get rid of the whole arm.

✞ Hates kids, would rather put a bullet through his head then continue being a teachers assistant. But he knows he has to because Billie still goes to the school. But he has begged her multiple times to just drop out like he did.

✞ Is 26 in this au.

✞ Made Billie kill Derek.

Billie

⚠︎︎ Genuinely hates her brother, once she found out losing her hand wasn’t an accident she almost murdered him. And her dad too, she absolutely despises her dad for putting this on her.

⚠︎︎ Only finds solace in school. She often just hides in the vice principals office with Darlene and Josie because they’re the only ones she really likes and trusts. Despite neither of them having a clue about her issue.

⚠︎︎ In return for Billy blackmailing her and cutting off her hand, she cut off one of his arms and ate it, also fed part of it to him. He decided to not fuck with her after that. (Though it was mainly the demon who had her do it, yet Billie still does have an obsession with cannibalism)

⚠︎︎ Is 18 in this au.

⚠︎︎ ︎Killed Derek :))

Clapton

♬ Is 18 in this au.

♬ Has been friends with Billie since second grade. Till he caught her eating the teacher alive with Billy helping. Ever since then he’s been scared shitless of the two. Billy threatened to shot him if he said anything so he’s kept his lips shut for over 10 years now.

♬ Is cousins with Cherry in this au, Cherry does actually know about the demon without Clapton telling her though. (I’ll explain that more later when I get to her character card ;))

♬ Has been used like a martyr for the siblings in order to keep his mouth shut. Since they’ve been trying to rid of the demon for years they finally decide they can get rid of it in fragments like with how their father swapped their arms. Since Billy got her hand sliced off, she lost a fragment of the demon. So to transfer the fragment she attaches it to Clapton. Yet the hand also had a fragment of Billie’s soul as well so Billie can partially control Claptons body. (Like a Chucky/Nica situation.) They were going to continue with this till they found a different vessel.

Cherry

☮︎︎ Is 20 in this au.

☮︎︎ Currently has been kidnapped and is being used as a vessel. Basically what they’re doing is they’re going to kill Billie and transfer her non-demon contaminated soul into Cherrys body who their also going to kill in order for her to just have Billie’s soul and not both of them.

☮︎︎ And that was going well yet Cherry was able to get out before they could kill her so the exact opposite happened, and now she has her soul contaminated by fragments of Billie’s. So now Billie has worsened and she’s lost so many fragments of her original soul that the demon is mainly taking over so they’ll need to find a new host for her soon.

☮︎︎ Meanwhile Cherry escaped out to Clapton and she quickly learns that he also has fragments of the demon in him. So she chops off his hand to neutralize it and it works despite it still having the tiniest amount of control.

☮︎︎ But it’s eventually spit out of Claptons body soon when Billy finds where Cherry escaped to and they kill Claptons since no demon in him = no use for him anymore. Yet they do keep a hold of his body in case he does need another puppet for Billie. Which he of course does eventually does need so he transfers her soul to Claptons body. Soon after everything goes back to relatively normal with Billie pretending to be Clapton and Cherry escaped.

Derek

☘︎︎ Is 32 in this au.

☘︎︎ Lightly referenced to that he was in a past relationship with Billy.

☘︎︎ Is the principal of the school.

☘︎︎ Has been in on the whole thing with the siblings since the beginning. He was also involved in the cult and used to be a previous host. (in this au its also implied he’s trans) The second he learned there was a new host after 28 years of him being dormant and that the host was in his very school he lost his shit. And the second he found out it’s Billy’s fault he lost it completely.

︎ ☘︎︎ He threatened Billy that if he doesn’t remove himself and his sister from the school immediately he’s going to kill both of them. Billy didn’t because he actually wants Billie dead. Derek was surprised at Billy’s heartlessness on how he was just so open to leaving his unwilling sister for dead so instead he was the one who put the idea of cutting her hand off to neutralize the demon. Yet we all already know that didn’t work.

☘︎︎ Derek had to lean that the hard way though when Billy sticked Billie onto him.

Darlene

🜲 Is the vice principal for the high school, terrible at her job though.

🜲 Billie and Josie are her favorite students, it’s the main reason she lets them in her office.

🜲 Was also involved with the cult because of Derek being the host till he was 28. She was supposed to be the next host but she wasn’t really into the whole cult thing so she left before they could transfer her soul.

🜲 Until Derek told her about Billie and she, like Derek, was not happy about this. Yet she let Derek handle it and we already know how that ended.

🜲 After Billie killed her brother she didn’t do anything about it. She actually helped cover up the murder. Because she knows this demon because of the experience she’s had with it when Derek was being used as the vessel. So because of that she decided to not fuck with it.

🜲 So she leaves them alone up until the Cherry situation because Billie is dead and just lost a female host so they go to Darlene and she (reluctantly) agrees.

🜲 She is 33 in this au.

- Billy and Billie are born and their arms are swapped so Billie gets possessed by the demon

- Billy blackmails the demon in Billie’s body

- Billie and the demon get pissed and eat Billy’s arm

- Clapton finds out about the cult

- Billie goes to high school

- Derek finds out about the cult and that it came back

- Billy chops of Billie’s hand

- Billie kills Derek

- Darlene helps the siblings dispose the body and cover it up

- Darlene becomes the principal

- They attach Billie’s hand to Clapton and a fragment of her soul and the demon are transferred into his body

- The siblings kidnap Cherry

- Billie dies

- They prepare the transfer but Cherry escapes and flees to Claptons with fragments of Billie’s soul contaminating her soul

- Billy finds Cherry and kills Clapton and Cherry escapes

- Billy uses Claptons body as a vessel for Billie’s soul

- Billie pretends to be Clapton for the next two years

- Eventually Claptons body grows too week for Billie to inhabit anymore so they use Darlene’s instead

- Cherry returns with the reanimated corpse of Clapton

- The demon fully leaves Billie’s/Darlenes body and goes to Marlas

- The siblings find out about this and get the school on lockdown to shut Cherry and Clapton out and so they can detect the demon

- They find the demon in Marla and kill her but the demon quickly hops to the next available body

- The demon goes to Toby

- Toby gets killed

- Cherry and Clapton finally break in as well as the reanimated corpse of Billie

- Billie’s fucking pissed that all this happened and that Billy didn’t just kill her once they found out about the demon

- Billie kills Darlene’s body and reabsorbes her soul which is pure and has no one else’s soul in it or the demons

- The demon completely disappears

- Billie kills Billy

- And Cherry, Clapton, and Billie get out and completely disappear off the map

And that’s all I have for this au. Bye now ✌️

[docheros]

this is for you @uhhbeans my most beloved

ok so like. originally seán made a game about the egos that was so successfull that a company that makes movies approached him with an offer to make a movie based on his game

BUT

we all know what seán is doing to these characters now, the anomaly found video and the comics are just the tip of the iceberg. so, let's revamp the actor au!!

(backstory, info about the actors and some headcanons under the cut)

before we properly start: seán is friends with a guy named antony; they started to talk when "jacksepticeye" was created, antony used to help him with some of the editing. so, in this universe, antony was one of the editors along with alice

seán always discussed this story with his editors, and antony was the one that really motivated, gave new stories, reasons, showed how he could make it better, and act better as well!! he's an actor too :]

so, when seán (i'm repeating his name too much sorry) started to change the route of the story and said he wanted something more serious, antony (and a team, ofc) helped him develop Anomaly Found. and for all his help and ideas, seán asked his friend to portray anti from now on. and antony couldn't be more honoured

so, anomaly found happens! seán's chase here like irl. and the comics come out, and much more stuff, etc etc. to give the egos an ending, he decides to make it a movie, but since he couldn't like. act as 5 dudes and at the same time help with production, he decided to hire actors!

WITH YOU, THE SEPTIC CREW!!

Elias Schmidt, German, 32, as Henrik Von Schneeplestein!

Ryan White, American, 35, as Chase Brody!

Oliver Williams, British, 39, as Marvin the Magnificent!

Patrick O'Brien, Irish, 35, as JackieBoyMan!

George Cole, British, 43, as Jameson Jackson!

and finally, Antony Moore, British, 40, as AntiSepticEye!

and now, some headcanons of this AU for the soul :]

Seán and Antony were the ones to make the auditions, and they both wanted actors that could bring their experiences and thoughts into the characters

bc of that, Elias' german (but not a doctor, that'd be asking too much), George's mute and Patrick's autistic

Elias is very good at acting as Henrik, but he's not like him in the slightest. he's the youngest of the crew and a big jokester

despite that, he loves Henrik to bits! he's always doing lives and videos like "henrik answers your questions" while they're filming

this is Ryan's first big budget movie, and he's kinda nervous about it

different from Chase, he isn't married and honestly hates alcohool. when asked, he usually says "so is anyone interested in being my stacy? aside from the divorce and well. the horrors"

Elias jokes he's much more like initial Chase (he watched all the videos about the egos, even if Seán said it's not necessary bc a lot changed) and Ryan's much more like fanon Henrik

Patrick and Ryan are the most serious of the crew, it's hard to get a smile out of them. that doesn't mean they don't enjoy the movie or their company, ofc!

Antony's a dad! his son plays as Chase's kid bc it was the only kid that wasn't scared of Anti's makeup (and the antiaverage shippers of this universe enjoy this fact a lot)

Oliver and George are the ones who unintentionally spoil the most

Oliver looovees to talk and read about Marvin shipps. he's feeding the marvelsepticeye shippers very well!

Patrick on the other side isn't very happy in joining his shenanigans lol

George is a modern man, he loves his cellphone and his bluetooth earphones, so acting as Jameson (a man from 1920s) was a bit of a challenge to him, but he loves challenges!

he's very vocal about ableism towards mute people. and also very vocal about jj's sexual life

if they ever went to buzzfeed to promote the movie, Patrick would loooove the puppy interviews and George and Elias would loooove the "[x] reads thirst tweets"

when asked if they knew jacksepticeye,

Elias: ofc, who doesn't? i used to watch his videos all the time! what do you mean he's the one behind this

Ryan: i used to watch a bit when i was younger, we're the same age so it was like hanging out with a friend. what do you mean he's the one behind this

Oliver: ooh, i guess so? my siblings used to watch this dude like, all day. he's the one doing this? neat, i guess

Patrick: of course, everytime i mentioned i'm from Ireland people used to be like "omg jacksepticeye's from there!!!", it kinda annoyed me. he's the director????... he didn't hear me, right?

George, signing: who?

Antony: i heard he's a pain in the ass to work with (cut to Seán telling him to shut the fuck up)

[scrunkly-scribe]

I wish sam really did get a fucking lobotomy in s7. Let his ass stay in the psych ward forever, it’s my dream.

[leobashi]

At this point I might just drop all the Ghost Hunted lore because I want to talk about it but I don’t have time or motivation to draw it all :,D

What do y’all think? Wanna ask about it and what I had planned for it?

[tobyneedssleep]

I think I’m being normal about my interests and then I steal Marvin’s name, aesthetic, and gender like it’s an occupation

[panxramic]

Sundrop and Moondrop AU

A Death Family Tangled AU that I have honestly been thinking about for months and even wrote about on my Twitter. I finally have a concise story plan and I can’t wait to start sharing more :)

Phil -> Sundrop, the pure essence of the Sun. He’s born with the powers of healing and light. He’s also a threat to the powers of the Moon and thus when he’s a kid is sent out to be killed. He barely escapes with his life.

Missa -> Moondrop, the pure essence of the moon. He has the powers of darkness and destruction. Missa grows up being used by those around him, a tool to aid them in their growth for power.

Tallulah -> She is rescued and saved by Phil after an incident with the powers of the Moon. She’s struck by the Moon and her hair turns black. Phil is able to heal her with his powers.

Chayanne -> Chayanne is special. For the first time in centuries we have someone who holds the pure essence of both the Sun and Moon. When he was just a baby, Phil and Missa gave a part of themselves up to save his life. It caused both of them to lose their powers but ended up giving Chayanne a piece of the Sun and Moon.

The main story and plot follows Chayanne and Tallulah. But I do have a prequel purely based on Phil and Missa and how they ended up meeting. I might end up sharing that full story so watch out for that one. For now this is just the introduction :D !!

[soft-and-exhausted]

WOW PERFECT SAMBUCKY, PETER PARKER CENTRIC HIGH SCHOOL AU! IT WORKS SO WELL!!! Y’ALL STOP SLEEPING ON THIS

[dreamflayer]

I saw a this image and thought of the twins, N’s the one taking the picture

[akgirl129]

Harry Potter X Marval FanFiction Rec.

On Punching Gods and Absentee Dads by Enigmaris 

Summary:

Harry finds out that his dad is alive, has been the whole time. Instead of being overjoyed, Harry's disgusted. His dad left earth and abandoned his friends. Every painful thing he's ever gone through can be traced back to one man. Now Harry's got super strength he can't control and an almost unnecessary amount of magical power. His dad might be living it up with the Avengers now but not for long. With the help of his friends, Harry comes up with a plan for revenge. Get ready Avengers, Harry's out to punch a god.

I was luck enough to read this fanfiction as a it was being published! The Story is now completed, so no need to wait between chapters now! Loki plays the part of the Absentee dad and Harry is read to give "James Potter" the punch he deserves! An amazing read, that defiantly will cure any reading hangovers!

[wearelondonhq]

(ray) welcome to london, MAXINE ‘MAX’ MINX! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like MIA GOTH? well, no matter, we hear that you are 26 and working as an ACTRESS. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from X (2022) and have a tendency to be UNINHIBITED as well as ARGUMENTATIVE. 

(ray) welcome to london, MARV BOSWICK! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like EWAN MCGREGOR? well, no matter, we hear that you are 50 and working as a DETECTIVE. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from SPIRAL/SAW and have a tendency to be INDEPENDENT as well as FOOLISH. 

(ray) welcome to london, ADDISON CORDAY! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like LESLEY ANN BRANDT? well, no matter, we hear that you are 40 and working as a WAITRESS. we also hear that you currently DON’T HAVE your memories from SAW and have a tendency to be CONFIDENT as well as SARCASTIC.  ( please may i switch casey cooke from split pls bc no muse for her :(( )

— WELCOME TO LONDON, maxine minx, marv boswick, addison corday! you look very familiar, do we know you from somewhere? anyways, take your time settling in because whether you want to or not, it looks like you’re going to be living here for awhile! // welcome ray, please be sure to follow our checklist here. welcome to the group! ** casey cooke ( split ) is reopened for applications!

[shy-urban-hobbit]

Modern au

Lambert takes his niece to get her ears pierced for her birthday and oh no, the new guy at the studio is ridiculously hot!!

"You still sure about this, kid?" Lambert asked as the two of them rounded the corner onto the next street, Ciri took a break from demolishing her purple frosted doughnut to give him an excited nod. It was the answer he'd been expecting but it still didn't hurt to check. Ciri had expressed interest in getting her ears pierced a few months prior and the agreement she'd reached with her father was that if it was something she still wanted by the time her birthday came around and it wasn't just a passing whim then she had his permission. That day had finally arrived and Lambert had volunteered to make the arrangements and take her to his usual guy, fully convinced that Geralt would just end up wandering into the nearest Claire's otherwise - having no personal experience, the man had proven himself to be clueless when it came to researching reputable places.

He felt Ciri press a little closer to him and he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. He didn't blame her, they weren't exactly in the most respectable part of town anymore - he was pretty sure the rats would try to mug you if they were capable - and if any of Ciri's three parental figures were with them (Jaskier was definitely in the realms of honorary parent at this point, whatever the situation was with him, Geralt and Yenn) they'd probably be making them turn around and head back. They weren't though; and Lambert had been using this place for the last seven years, since he was eighteen and making questionable choices just to push Vesemir's buttons.

There'd been some new graffiti added to the red brick of the outside of the studio since the last time Lambert had visited - not that it'd stay there very long before one of the inhabitants covered it with work of their own. Years of this has led to a good portion of 'Dyn Marv tattoos and piercings' being covered in a mish-mash of traditional tattoo designs, psychedelic swirls, detailed wolves and tigers and a relatively fresh looking comic style UFO by one of the top windows.

Lambert's brow furrowed a little in confusion at the noise that greeted them as they entered. There was music playing - nothing unusual in that, there was always music playing on a low volume but this wasn't Cedric's usual heavy metal or Schrödinger's classic rock or even Axel's K-Pop. It sounded almost like folk rock if Lambert had to guess, unfamiliar but not unpleasant.

The figure behind the counter was also unfamiliar as they stood with their back to them, fairly tall and dark skinned with black curls tied back with a strip of blue cloth, a sleeveless white tank showing off muscular arms. Lambert cleared his throat awkwardly to catch their attention, then felt his throat dry up instantly when they turned at the noise. Oh no.

He was fucking gorgeous. A few loose curls framed a high cheek-boned face, full lips framed by labret and septum piercings pulled up into a wide smile which in turn caused khol rimmed, emerald eyes to crinkle at the corners. A silver chain disappeared into the low neck of his tank top which also offered a glimpse of toned chest, the edges of black ink barely visible.

"Hi there, can I help you?" He asked and oh god, even his voice was hot.

"You're not Cedric." Lambert immediately wanted to go drown himself in the customer bathroom.

"He left me in charge while he had to run out. Something about moving apartments and Schro getting stuck in a box again..." He finished with a shrug, "I'm Aiden."

Lambert felt something click in his brain, "Cedric's brother right? He's mentioned you a couple of times."

"Whatever he's told you, it's all lies." Aiden said with a wink, leaning on the counter and resting his chin on his hand - the back of said hand Lambert noted, sported a tattoo of a realistic snarling, green eyed black cat.

"So anything I can help with today or would you rather hang out and wait for Cedric, although I couldn't tell you how long he'll be."

"Depends. How are you with kids and piercings?" He knew Dragonfly only dealt with tattoos whilst Joel specialised in the more 'adult' piercings and didn't tend to take clients under twenty one. Lambert gestured to Ciri who had wandered away from him to browse over the display of various spiked cuffs and brightly coloured necklaces for sale.

"I've experience with both. I did my apprenticeship and got my qualifications under Cedric and Axel and have many niblings and foster siblings, as you probably already know if you know Cedric."

Lambert nodded. Cedric and the others ran a tight ship, they wouldn't allow Aiden to work here if he didn't meet their standards, "Ciri." He called, dragging the girls attention from a plastic unicorn necklace she'd been eyeing up "This is Aiden, he's going to do your piercings, ok?"

Ciri scrutinized him for a couple of seconds before giving a nod. Aiden grinned back.

"And what are we going for today. Nose, belly button? No don't tell me... eyebrow!"

Ciri giggled, "My daddy said I can get my ears pierced for my birthday."

"Oh really?" He threw a quick look at Lambert and something in his expression closed off, "Well let's get some studs picked out and then we'll get you all comfy and set up."

"Can I use the bathroom first, please?"

"Just through there, sweetie." Aiden said, gesturing to the lime green door behind her before placing one of the standard forms in front of Lambert, "We'll do the boring paperwork in the meantime."

"I'm not daddy by the way." Lambert blurted out after a couple of minutes spent in awkward silence.

"Huh?"

"I'm her uncle." He held the form out for the other whilst trying his damned hardest not to stare at those lips.

"Well," Aiden deliberately brushed his fingers against Lambert's as he went to take it, voice pitched lower as his eyes slowly looked Lambert up and down, "If you ever want to be someone's Daddy, I wouldn't be opposed."

Before Lambert could even think of a response to that Ciri returned and Aiden was back to being professional, yelling for Dragonfly to come watch the front before showing his newest client all of the different earrings she could choose from and having a serious discussion about red Vs. blue as if he hadn't just made Lambert's brain short circuit. Dragonfly chimed in with her opinion every now and then too whilst throwing a smirk at Lambert which left him wondering how much of that exchange the petite, heavily tattooed blonde might have heard.

Lambert was ready to leave at a moments notice as Ciri glanced around Aiden's workspace, sitting stiffly and looking far too small in the leather chair.

"Ok Ciri, we're all ready to go." Aiden settled on a stool next to her, angling himself so the tray bearing the bright pink studs (and more importantly, the needle) was out of Ciri's eyeline, "Now, you look a teeny bit nervous there so would you like me to explain everything to you or just shut up and get on with it?"

"Could you tell me please? I don't like not knowing what's happening."

Ten minutes later, after having Aiden show her everything he was going to be using and answering all her questions, a much calmer Ciri was staring at the far wall trying to count all of the band stickers which had been put there and added to over the years, with Lambert sat on the now vacated stool by her feet "Feel free to swear kid. We won't say anything if you don't."

"Absolutely." Aiden agreed, "Ok. And 3...2...1"

"BUTTS!"

Lambert rolled his eyes heavenwards whilst Aiden looked like he was trying to hold in a laugh.

"Well, I can honestly say I've never had anyone scream 'butts' in my face before now. You got a poop to go with it? 3...2...1"

"POOP!"

"I need to be having a word with her dad if she thinks butts is a swear." Lambert muttered as he paid, Ciri back to hanging around the jewellery display and proudly showing off her new piercings to Dragonfly.

"Oh come on. It was pretty hilarious." Aiden chuckled somewhat awkwardly, "Hey, I'm sorry if I came on a little too strong earlier by the way. Sometimes my mouth shoots off before my brain kicks in."

Lambert made sure Ciri was suitably distracted before leaning in closer, "It's not your mouth I want to make shoot off."

The hitched breath he got in response was incredibly satisfying.

"Uncle Lambert, look what Dragonfly gave me!" Ciri yelled, breaking the moment and holding up the unicorn necklace from earlier.

"For the birthday girl." Dragonfly looked a little too smug and Lambert was going to figure out a way to get revenge.

"Well then...if there's nothing else I can help with today...?"

"Actually-"

Vesemir sighed, shaking his head in defeat as he caught sight of Lambert, "Please tell me taking Ciri wasn't just a cover for that. What on earth were you thinking?"

Lambert merely waggled his eyebrows in response, the new gold bar in the left catching the light as he did. Right now he was thinking getting an impulsive piercing to give the pretty guy a reason to touch him wasn't the dumbest thing he'd ever done by a longshot. Especially when said pretty guy gave him his private number afterwards "Incase you have any problems with aftercare."

He smirked as he fished out his phone, firing off a message to Aiden inviting him to find out sometime exactly how seriously he took aftercare.