#mostly (h)armless

[xannador]

The finale of Mostly (h)Armless goes live on Patreon this Friday. The public release is 2 weeks after, on Friday the 31st.

I'm... honestly still devastated by the news about Tango Gameworks. It's hard to put into words. Other people have described how much of a tragedy it is much better than I could have.

Working in the game industry myself, I can only imagine how the team feels. It's one thing to have your studio shut down when you've produced a failure, it's another to have it happen when you've published hit after hit.

I hope the team of Tango Gameworks know that their work is, and will always be, loved.

[betajams]

warm up sketch dump under the cut i did while reading @xannador’s mostly (h)armless! its a little old since ive been sitting on this for a while lol

[shapeshift16]

Slight warning but I decided to take the Chai pony form I draw him as and twisted it.. based off the Mostly (H)armless comic by @xannador here's the sketch version using the most recent page as a reference.

Any parts where shading is placed is where Blood is, so the colored version will have a blood warning..

[xannador]

Wow! Thank you so much for the fanart! It continues to amaze me that people like my weird comic project so much they take a significant amount of time out of their day to make fanart of it, especially fanart with so much thought and artistry put into it. I actually learned something new today from your explanation lol The themes and symbolism are all very fitting! Spiders and self-sacrifice aren't something you expect in the same sentence but that's M(h)A for ya. I also love the bold and saturated colors, really makes it stand out.

What a wonderful piece of art! Quite book cover worthy imo! Thank you!

a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye / nothing remains, nothing rewinds

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mostly (h)armless by @/xannador is really freaking good you should go read it. notes + close ups under the cut :]

[nicos-w101-liveblog]

References within Quests:

This one's gonna be updated regularly as I find them. Will keep it to the same post.

Saving Private O'Ryan, Unicorn Way. Referencing Saving Private Ryan, which I have never seen.

Yellow Brick Road, Unicorn Way. Very clear reference to The Wizard of Oz, which is an iconic movie.

Secret Strife of Pets, Olde Town. I dunno when this Quest was made, but I do know of a movie The Secret Life of Pets, which even has a sequel, so...

What's in a Pet Name?, Fire Cat Alley. Taken from "What's in a Name?", a line in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Better Get Kraken, Triton Avenue. Referring to the phrase "Better get crackin'", which means "get to it".

Don't Need the Trolls, Cyclops Lane. Referring to the phrase "Don't feed the trolls", warning one to ignore toxic people online.

The Lore You Know, Wizard City. Referring to the phrase "The More you Know", generally used when learning something new.

Mostly Armorless, Cyclops Lane. Referring to the phrase (in an accent that skips its H's) "Mostly 'armless".

Penny for Your Thoughts, Dark Cave. The phrase originated in the early 1500s and is used to ask somebody what they're thinking about, usually when they're off in their own world.

Oh me, oh Minotaur, Cyclops Lane. Referencing the phrase "Oh me oh my", used as an exclamatory statement. But very dramatic.

Mad Maximus, Cyclops Lane. Referencing the movie series Mad Max. Can't say I've ever seen it, but it involves racing, I think?

Akilles' Deal, Cyclops Lane. Referencing the Achilles' Heel. A tendon in the human body and the mythological warrior Achilles' only weakness.

Fishful Thinking, The Commons. Allusion to the phrase "Wishful thinking."

Which Hunt?, Firecat Alley. Alluding to a Witch Hunt, or a hunt for a witch. Which is what the quest is doing. Hunting down a witch. But which witch?

100% Not That Witch, Firecat Alley. Maybe not intended, but it sounds like she's saying "I'm 100% not that bitch."

Firecat's In the Bag, Firecat Alley. As in, "cat's out of the bag", which is slang for spilling a secret. But in this case, the secret is kept. Kinda.

[thehangeddemon]

Xavier had been soft banned from Rohan's cabin. His exact words to Abel upon return from Greensboro. The lie had been successful; at least it had seemed that way. Simon seemed surprised by the amount of ash he'd been handed, but not for how little.

Must have been indoors, his step-sire commented. Being so light, most ashes were stolen by a breeze.

It had been Pavel, Simon's eldest son, that followed MJ's every move. The one that asked of Holden White's family. And the one breathing deeply as MJ saluted his goodbye.

But none of that was on MJ's mind tonight. Third night in a row pacing back and forth at the foot of Holden's bed. Waiting, watching, waiting. Torpor could last for years, he'd heard. His own never lasted so long, and he didn't expect it to with this boy, but his patience had never been his strong suit.

Two bags of blood on the bedside table. Two more in the fridge. One gently sloshed between MJ's hands. Where Xavier got this much blood was anyone's guess. Athletes was the general answer, but he began wondering if the servants of the grand house had lent a hand on such short notice.

He'd been tempted for a taste of each when the lanky dead body on the bed began to stir. Began to breathe. Wouldn't have been his first instinct, but MJ froze, watching as Holden struggled to breathe evenly. Winced and groaned, rolling onto his armless side. A quick realization that had the fledgling sitting up with a start. Now short, rapid-fire breaths. Wild eyes dancing about the room in confusion.

Rohan Dalca would hear those stirrings differently. Groans, panting, whimpering, groans of the old bed. The patter of feet. The crashing of two bodies and the sharp clack of a falling chair.

"Easy! Easy!" he'd hear behind the door. The panicked scream of their newest member. Silence for a beat. The shuffle and thumps of a moving body.

"There ya go. Fuckin' H. Christ, man. Drink."

Rohan had spent the past three days on tenterhooks. There was nothing left to clean in the entire cabin. Nothing left to organize or fledgling-proof or occupy his hands and time. It was nothing but a waiting game now.

He’d been trying and mostly failing to read for the third night in a row when he finally heard noise coming from behind the locked door he pretended he wasn’t watching.

He was on his feet in an instant, casting his book aside to press his ear to the bedroom door. What was happening in there? A struggle to be sure but to what extent?

The last time they’d awoken MJ from torpor his room had been left a disaster but that wasn’t Rohan’s main concern at the moment. Messes could be cleaned; the boy’s mental state was another matter.

He waited a beat before gently knocking on the door. “Is everything all right?” he asked softly. “Are you both okay?”

[fairymadnessyeah]

BNHA Ship to Finish the Year

KotEri (Izumi Kota x Eri Aizawa)

Canon

I like to think that Kota and Eri meet during October. Eri never went trick or treating, and since Kota is a kid her age and Ragdoll is available for taking the door to door, Shota deems it okay.

They met before Halloween night, and it goes okay. Mostly they talk about costumes.

They dress up as LeMillion and Deku. Ragdoll sends a lot of pictures, It's too cute.

From there on out, the two are inseparable. I feel like Kota would be Eri's first friends, and he teaches her the beauty of pranks. Once, they put cooking oil on the floor and watched as Iida went flying into the TV. There is a no running rule now.

I don't think they would go to school together until they go to UA. 

I feel like until then Kota only sees her as a friend until they start high school. Suddenly, the guys of class 1a are talking about who the cutest girl and they all think it's Eri.

He knows he shouldn't, but he is mad about it... Oh no!

I feel that for Eri, it happens later and more slowly. She knows she can trust Kota. Whenever she has a problem or needs someone to talk to, she knows she can trust in him.

By the second year, when I imagine he suddenly hits a growth spurt and enters his emo phase, she realizes he is handsome. 

The two don't say anything until they go to a hero-convention (Deku Merch!) and one of the ex-Hassaikai attacks as a villain and recognizes Eri.

Kota helps her by taking her around the city, and when they get to a Sakura tree, Eri leans in and kisses him. He obviously returns it, and they start dating.

They keep it a secret for as long as they can, since Aizawa is the principal and very protective of his daughter. However, once he finds out, his trust in Kota is completely broken. He is not welcome in their home anymore.

However, Shinsou is weaker against Eri's puppy eyes.

I don't know why, but I would love a fic about them like this:

"Hey Izu-kun, you know how to drive right? And your aunt's and uncle let you take their car whenever?"

"Yeah, why?" "I need you to drive me somewhere?" "Sure, where?" "Tartarous," "... alright."

"So, why am I driving you to Tartarous?" "Oh, I want to talk with Chisaki," "*stops abruptly* WHAT!? You want to talk with the man that tortured you since you can remember and made your life a living hell!? WHY!?!?"

"I need closure. I know I might never be able to forget him and what he did, but I can't freeze every time somebody mentions him. I need to do this, I need to move on,"

He goes with her, as moral support. It kind of helps seeing him armless, behind bars and defeated, but Eri simply tells him she is moving on with her life and he should too.

After it, they go for ice-cream and a walk in the beach (I like to think this is a favourite date for them). I think it's a very romantic moment until Shinsou interrupt them.

Her family was made aware that she visited Chisaki and have been looking for her like crazy.

Family

Aizawa is not happy when he finds out. This is what happens:

*Eri comes in with Kota. The two have smoothies, Kota a blue one and Eri a red one* "Hi dad! We are going to be in my room studying! Don't interrupt us!" "Alright!"

*An hour later* "Eri, Mic is going to be home in a few minutes, we'll have dinner when he arrives. Is Kota staying?" "No, his aunt is picking him up in a bit," "...Why is your tongue purple?" "Oh... um... maybe it was the smoothie," "You had a red smoothie... and Kota had a blue... one..." 

*He realizes what happened and starts stomping up the stair, Eri behind him, telling him to calm down. He slams the door open and sees Kota, with his hair messed and his lips covered in lip gloss, throwing himself off the window.* "Come here, you traitor!"

Aizawa calls a family meeting, and even Shinsou who has his own home has to come. He is ready to expel him, he feels betrayed. He trusted that kid in his home, and he takes advantage of his daughter? I don't think so! He is going to die.

Hizashi cries, his baby girl is replacing him. (I headcanon that she would die her hair to look like a rainbow, and Kota helps her, instead of Hizashi)

Shinsou is the one who sides with Eri, reminding his parents that she is old enough to make a decision like this, and they should trust her. "Besides, I was her age when Kaminari and I started doing stuff," "What?" "What?" "I don't live here anymore, I don't have to keep secrets,"

Shinsou lets her come to his home to get ready for her dates, so that Koda doesn't have to fear for his life in their living room. However, he still threatens him.

"For some reason, you make Eri happy. But if that changes, and you make her sad, you are going to wish, Midoriya never saved you from Muscular," "H-how do you know that?" "I know everything. Have fun on your date!"

The WWP are embarrassing. They have a photo album ready, they tell Eri how much he talks about her.

They also have an open-door policy, but Koda is a rebel and doesn't follow the rule. However, they found a way around it.

*comes in without knocking* "Hey kiddos, want some cookies?" "No, Aunt. We are fine," "Alright, just keep the door open!"

*comes in without knocking* "Hey lovebirds, are you thirsty? I made some lemonade!" "We are fine, Pixie-bob," "Alright, just keep the door open!"

*comes in without knocking* "Have you seen the cat?" "We don't have a cat, Ragdoll!" "Oh, right! Keep the door open!"

But when he locks the door:

*BANG!* "Aaaaahhhh!" "Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" "Tiger! Did you just kick the door open!?" "Yes! Remember to keep the door open!"

Also, when they found out, the WWD follows them on their date. They need pictures.

The problem is that Kota and Eri are not on a date. They are helping Katsumo give a tour of the city to his sister. They all notice the four pros following them, Kota tells them to ignore them.

I feel like Deku would be happy for them. His first fans are so cute together. 

AU - Band AU

This is a modern setting au.

So, Eri was adopted into music. After she was rescued from Chisaki, she was adopted by Present Mic and his husband, Aizawa.

Present Mic is a famous radio host, and before that, he and Aizawa and Oboro played in a band together. Now, Aizawa is a music manager for young artist, in between those there is 1A band.

As she grows up, she is introduced to music, and it becomes one of the best things in her life. She is a great singer, and she also learns how to play the piano.

She want to have a career in music, so when she is a teen, at UA school, she joins the music club.

She is trying to form a band, and along the way she finds Katsuma, who becomes the bassist, Tamashiro on the drums, and they only need a guitarist and vocalist.

Enter Bad boy Kota. His parents were musicians that died in a boat accident, and so Kota now lives his aunt and their dancing group, The Wild Wild Pussycats.

He used to love music, but now it's only a reminder of who he lost.

But one day, Eri hears him sing. She asks if he would want to join their band. He refuses and leaves, but that is not the last he sees of Eri.

The two are paired for some school work, and while working on it, Eri starts singing, and it wakes something in him.

Kota doesn't know what it was, but suddenly, he felt as if he was with his parents again.

He tells her that he'll join her band temporarily, at least so he has enough time to figure out what was that feeling.

They are all ecstatic, and they start playing together.

Eri and Kota are the ones who most clash since he is really into rock and edgy stuff, and she is more cute and pop style.

However, the two spend a lot of time together.

Kota wants to understand how Eri makes him feel stuff, and Eri doesn't really mind his company, so she lets him stay. She was always very shy, so it's hard for her to make friends without recurring to music.

At some point, Eri tells Kota about her life as Chisaki's toy, and it makes him realize why Eri is so special.

She is real, she suffered and survived, and now she can keep smiling. Which Kota never got to, he never moved on from his parents death, and still hold on to the rage and sadness.

Kota also opens up to Eri, and he tells her about his parents death and his departure from music.

Eri asks him to sing with her, and when they do, Kota feels like he has his parents back. It brings him to tears, but Eri hold him.

The band present themselves to the talent show of the school and somehow end up winning. 

During the celebration party, Kota and Eri kiss.

Fanon Opinion

I'm sorry, but I don't feel comfortable writing NSFW stuff about Kota or Eri.

I know that I age up everybody, and I did so with these two, too, but I can't.

I can't picture them as nothing, but children and I am not going to write PWP about that. 

I don't they would do it until their third year, but I do think that they make out.

I think this is a very cute couple. They have that puppy-love thing going for them. 

Also, I love this because it would be a good thing for Eri. We just want good things for Eri.

And I know that Eri is older than Kota, and supposedly she should be his senpai. But with all the emotional baggage she has, I think it makes sense that she would start school a little later.

I think that they would be a beach and parks couple. In summer, they go to the beach, while in the winter they hang around the park.

I feel like they would love to go camping.

Also, they match. They are horn buddies.

Also, Tik-Tok has a lot of stuff about them, so I recommend seeing them. I got the Band AU idea from it.

I imagine that they would become heroes when they are older. Eri would be like a new recovery girl, but scarier, and Kota would torture the children when they go to the training camp.

In my mind, Eri uses Aizawa's capture weapon, but she has it wrapped around her arms, covering her scars.

Also, while they are at the dorms, they are the Parent Couple. The two take care of their classmates with Kota stopping them from doing stupid shit and lecturing them, and Eri comforting them and healing their bruises.

Also, if Katsuma goes with them to class, he would be the baby.

"Oh, No! This is Bad! This is Bad! Stress is bad for the baby!"

"What baby?"

"ME! I'm the baby!"

[xannador]

“Something-something-promises-you-can’t-keep.”

Fantastic rendition of the best duo! It’s so high quality and clean- *chefs kiss* just look at that shirt! It’s a treat to see one of the very few quiet and sweet moments in the story in your art style!

Most of the Chai and 808 interactions are still coming. But their scarcity makes them all the more valuable.

But until then we’re stuck in hell with Chai being meme’d to death by the community for his hubris. 🗿☠️

redrew a panel from @xannador's mostly (h)armless!!!

[xannador]

(BURST THROUGH THE DOOR ON BEAT) DID YOU HEAR? IT LIVES! HI FI RUSH LIVES! CHAI IS ALIVE!

We are so fucking back

[betajams]

this was only supposed to be a doodle but things got Out Of Hand.

anyway more m(h)a stuff :3

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*I’m in a community orchestra and this was something our conductor said to us like 30 minutes before our first concert of the season and it’s been stuck in my head for a month. that being said the context is boring so i will not elaborate

bonus:

[marsixxart]

mars reacts to tpot 1

i’ve seen other people doing it and i decided to try it out too! i wanted to document my reaction so i can look back and laugh at my probably wrong theories when the new episode comes out :) i also have thoughts i wanted to share with others, so let’s get on with it!

oh, so they know about the prize switching back to bfdi

too late, yellow face >:/ (also your warehouse was ransacked, thought you should know)

oh, i thought two was gonna make their own elimination method since cake at stake was kinda four’s thing.

two, no one’s gonna hear you with your inside voice!

gasp! how dare you call mangosteen, the queen of fruits, a purple tomato! (they’re really delicious btw)

i see, two’s thing is clapping.

while cake at stake’s going on, i sure hope they pick two RCs since they’re, y’know two. i would’ve thought they liked the number two. also it wouldn’t be equal anyways. alot of these RCs looked really cool so it was hard to choose just one.

avocado: maybe you should learn a thing or two about suspense.

oooh, burn!

nickel: three of them? but... i only see two. (nickel says while looking at two)

i looove winner, but i sure hope price tag wins!

two: the next one out is.... taggy.

no!

wait rlly? two’s a prime number?

n..no.... it’s an even prime, not a...  i expected better from you, tb.

gb: we’ll have to add somebody!

yay, i was right! but the second most voted RC is nonexisty and i like them but... not gonna lie, it’d be a waste of a character slot.

two: taggy, welcome to the power of two!

YAY!!

price tag: i take back all the things i said about winner while i was down there >:)

h-

um, pda is trying to break out.

donut: cool, so you wanna stay on the same team?

naily: no.

but... the memories they made together..

is needle still photoshopped or is that her normal asset?

yay, w.o.a.h bunch!

pfft- winner is scratching his back-

chicken nuggets!

winner’s backstory made me sad, how a duo separated and ended up with one of them bathing in the spotlight while the other was forgotten. it got pretty deep. or maybe that’s just me.

performing.. touring.. what IS loser’s career, anyway? any ideas?

are you guys really friends though, cake? you forgot about clock last time..

yeah, eggy’s right. sorry cake.

naily really be taking advantage of cake’s situation and asked him to join her team lol.

puffball joining a team with basketball in it would be pretty awkward since she impersonated her back at bfb 12 which lead to basketball losing gb’s trust in the first place.

pie: did pen even prevent death at all?

remote: not that i remember.

but pen helped back at ep 4!

i’m kinda glad pillow’s gone. i don’t trust her but i’ll rant about her later. 

pen: i was leaving anyways. later, haters!

):

wooow, gb. ily but that’s not very nice.

aw, rocky!

oof, but i can’t blame gaty.

i’m... trying to make sense of book’s anatomy. also, pillow, that is VERY rude and disrespectful.

clock: hey, icy. we’re still in a truce, right? wanna team up?

what truce? (i realized he meant the truce back at bfb 1 several minutes after watching the episode)

yeah, lightning! stand up to sb!

bell, that’s not very nice either!

robot flower: this’ll be your first time being in a team with no other balls.

that doesn’t really matter though?

i had to replay what cloudy said three times to understand. mostly because i got distracted by winner’s voice.

cloudy, don’t even think about collecting winner.

bottle: i’m gonna go where the fun is. that’s the team for me!

D: my bottlextree ship...

aww, i’m glad lightning is trying to become a better person!

who’s the last person? ...oh, it’s sb.

wow, sb’s in a team full of armless people (mostly female too) and he’s not throwing a tantrum over it? he really IS trying to uphold his dignity.

tb, no!!! you ruined it!

hey, w.o.a.h bunch isn’t stupid! it’s a genious name!

donut and barf bag at the back, just so done haha.

i. don’t. trust. pillow. copying book isn’t helping. she’s reading book like.. a book!

they’re gonna switch the colours, aren’t they? ....yup. i like the change of scenery, though!

THE INTRO. THE. INTRO. OMG IT’S SO ANIME. they didn’t even HAVE to make the animation so smooth and fluid and i feel blessed this intro must’ve come from heaven i’m so happy i feel like bawling it’s beautiful it’s amazing the animators are so talented did they actually manage to fit 42 characters in it-

two: going back down is against the rules!

wait, you meant it like that?? oh no!

is puffball incapable of growing larger now? what happened?

clock: i see. ice cube: wha?

ohh i get it. i didn’t notice it before when i first watched it, but ice cube thought clock said icy.

winner, you dare touch clock’s ticking clock hands?!

oh, marker is thinking! good for you, but that plan won’t work.

is there a difference between a trebuchet and a catapult?

this tree is still yellow. wait, are those pin’s blueberries? they’re so big now!

oh no, they overshot it! oh, it’s fine. the tree will act as a catapult and get them- aaaand they’re going back and forth. puffball, help!

cursed. but yay for team are you okay!

two: gasp! are you okay?

that’s going to be a running gag, isn’t it? lol.

i think it should count too.

ahh, so that’s what the tpot release date reveal clip was showing. i recognized pin and needle’s point, but i thought they were trying to break the RCs out or smthg.

gaty: magnet powers, activate!

wh- huh? since when was that a thing?!

cake: y’know, i could really go for some-

-chicken nuggets right now!

i sure hope death pact again wins!

oh no! black holes aren’t known-

remote: oh no! black holes aren’t known for their sense of hearing!

dangit, tree.

fanny: then let’s throw something else!

good idea! what about marker’s cap? ...or that, i guess.

so THAT’S what marker was trying to do. good work!

nooo! death pact again is UFE...

it’s not your fault, lightning!

omg haha! i like two, but making fun of him is so much fun! XD two haters must be enjoying this right now. they wouldn’t even dare do that to four, huh. OMG GRASSY IS ATTACKING TWO TOO- YEAH YOU GO GRASSY!

other, final thoughts

the team logos, jingles and names are rad! well, except for maybe ‘the s’. that’s... an unfortunately stupid name.

so far, bottle is the only one who died. i wonder how two recovers dead contetants?

four never had a problem with projecting their voice, even being able to do it as far as outer space. (bfb 15) this probably has something to do with his ability to screech people to near death, an ability he uses often in the past. this is why the contestants can’t hear two too well like they used to with four. it’s because four’s vocal chords are way stronger compared to two. in conclusion, four is better than two.

i’m happy to see new unexpected dynamics between the characters like basketball and snowball (never thought i’d see those two interact), and lightning and fanny (both originally in iance) as the new death pact members. can’t wait to see them prevent death!

the EXITors’ 2nd attempt happened at the end of bfb 17 but i didn’t notice anything different with four or the bfb episodes. i wonder what happened?

on an unrelated note, there’s something i wanted to point out back in bfb 18, when four said there wasn’t enough room in the EXIT which makes... no sense. i mean, loser and spongey escaped the EXIT so there should be two spots left, right?

winner is either incapable of eating through his mouth, or it’s just his preferred method of food digestion by absorbing it. i wonder if he can absorb other things as well? if so, can he taste it too? i sure hope not. that’d be really disturbing.

at first, i thought winner was going to be the opposite of loser, in a sense that he’d be hated by the other characters.

i never knew about barf bag’s walking problem theory until recently and as much as i like the idea, she seems to be doing all right so that theory might be debunked.

i don’t like pillow ever since bfb 1. she is one of, heck, probably my LEAST favourite character ever. first, she made the arm-waving theory which lead to teardrop being misunderstood and i won’t stand for that. second, she joined death pact because she heard someone say ‘killing’ which is. not reassuring at all. third, her sacrifice back at bfb 4 didn’t... i still don’t understand what the heck happened back there. she looked like she had ulterior motives! so yeah. thanks for listening to my rant. im sorry if you actually like pillow.

despite that, i enjoyed the episode very very much. i’m really excited to see what else tpot has in store!

[thatblondeguy555]

And since Mostly (H)armless, Chai has something else in common with Rex aside from having the same Japanese VA: both end up short an eye ._.

if I had a nickel for every time I played a game where an mc loses their right arm I’d have 3 nickels. which isn’t a lot but its weird that it’s happened 3 times in a row

[mysteryartisticwriter]

What’s Stopping You? // Peter Parker X Reader

A/N: Oh look, an update or whatever. My procrastinating ass still hasn’t even finished the ones that were requested lmao. I’ll see what I can do tbh. But for now, have this.

Also, Peter and the reader will be 18 years old since Harley is 21 in Endgame because the reader needed to be legal so that Harley doesn’t really look like a pedo lmao

Reader - 18 years old

Peter - 18 years old

Harley - 21 years old

ENDGAME: TONY STARK LIVES AU

REQUESTS ARE CLOSED BTW (FOR NOW)

Requested: Nope

Warnings: Cussing and a jealous Peter Parker ;))

Not my gif!! (Please tell me if you, the owner, would like me to take the gif down!)

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You remember meeting Harley in 2013 after your dad, Tony Stark, introduced the two of you. You didn’t have many friends at the time and you dad thought you and Harley would have worked out perfectly.

And you both did. Now, 2023 and the whole Thanos and snap thing had ended, everything seemed to be back to normal. Well, mostly.

When you came back and came to the battle against Thanos’ army, it was a lot to take in all at once. But once the battle was over, everyone was able to relax once more.

Natasha had been lost getting the soul stone with Clint, but a funeral had been made after the battle in her honor. You had loved Nat, she was practically your Aunt and when you first met her, you gave her the name of ‘Auntie Natie’. She loved it and thought of you as the child she could never had. You missed her dearly but without her sacrifice, the remaining Avengers wouldn’t have defeated Thanos.

Bruce, now known as Professor Hulk, had lost his right arm bringing everyone back. But you were forever grateful to him. Clint was now reunited with his snapped away family, but still distraught after losing his best friend. Steve had decided to go back and live the life Tony recommended him, being with Peggy. You supported him with his choice, but you knew Bucky and Sam would miss the old Captain America. Thor went with the Guardians to space and left ‘New Asgard’ in the hands of the new ruler, the Valkryie.

And your father, the famous Iron Man, Tony Stark had defeated Thanos by using the stones and snapping away him and his army. Luckily, he had survived but suffered the same fate as Bruce, losing his right arm. You’d rather have an armless father than none at all. He was extremely lucky but nonetheless, you were just happy to see him.

You and Peter Parker, known as Spiderman and your best friend since you met him in the first year at Midtown High as sophmores, were one of the people snapped away five years ago and now you were back as well as everyone else who was snapped.

Which comes to now, it was now a couple of weeks since then and Nat’s funeral, and your father was getting better, you met your little half sister Morgan (who you immediately fell in love with) and went to start college with Peter, Ned and MJ.

You and Peter had come back from checking out a few colleges that you might go to.

“Dad! Mom! I’m home!” You called out, throwing your keys on the table next to the front door.

“And I am also here!” Peter yelled after you, causing you both to laugh.

“(Y/n)!” You heard a little voice squeal out.

A grin formed onto your face as you kneeled and spread your arms for your little sister to jump into them. You spun Morgan around before attacking her with kisses on her cheeks and forehead.

Peter watched in admiration at the love you and your sister showed. It had only been a couple weeks and you were already wrapped around little Morgoona’s finger. He was too, but he could never match the love you two had.

Peter sighed internally, he’s been wanting to tell you how he felt since the moment you were being dusted away before him. How he urned to hold you in his arms too and kiss you. But you had been friends for four years, how could Peter ruin all of that just from his feelings? So he kept them all to himself.

“How’s my little gumball doing?” You asked Morgan after setting her down.

“Harley’s here! Harley’s here!” Morgan replied, jumping up and down in excitement.

Your grin only grew as you heard the name of your old best friend.

“Harley? Really? Then lead the way!” Morgan grabbed onto your hand and led you towards the couches, leaving a pouting Peter in the doorway.

Once you and Morgan got into the living room, you saw your dad, mom and a familiar brown/blond haired tall boy sitting on the couches facing away from you.

“Harley!” You said, joyfully.

Almost immediately, the said boy turned towards you and a smile broke out on his face.

“(Y/n) oh my god!” You then were tackled into a large bear hug by the boy.

Just then, Peter had walked into the room to see you hugging a random boy he hadn’t seen before. Jealousy bubbled in his chest as he saw the boy hold you, just like how Peter wanted to hold you in his arms.

Tony and Pepper saw the look on Peter’s face when he came in and smirked to each other. They knew the feelings he had for their daughter, although Tony was hesitant to agree to it, he realized Peter had the same look he himself had before he started to date Pepper.

Finally, you and Harley broke apart from the hug and smiled to each other.

“It’s been so long since I’ve seen you!” You said to him.

“You do realize it’s only been like two weeks, right?” You both broke out into laughter before you noticed your other best friend standing a few meters away from you two.

“Oh right! Peter, this is my old best friend, Harley! You remember him from Nat’s...funeral, right?” You were a bit hesitant to mention your Auntie’s funeral but Harley grabbed your hand in comfort when he heard your words grow soft.

Peter was not happy with this action but put on a face smile and held his hand out to Harley.

“Yeah...I remember you. I’m Peter Parker, (Y/n)’s best friend.” The brunette introduced, putting an emphasis on ‘best’.

Harley shook Peter’s hand and said:

“Harley Kenner, I am also (Y/n)’s best friend.” A few seconds of awkward silence went by before you broke it.

“Well...I don’t meant to be rude but, Harley, why are you here? I thought you went back home a while back?” You questioned.

Harley let go of Peter’s hand and turned to you.

“I did but I decided to come back for a couple weeks to help out with Tony. Besides, I couldn’t leave my best friend behind, could I?” Replied Harley, smirking in a casual way.

“Harley will be staying with us for a while until he can go back. But why don’t you guys talk while Tony and I make dinner.” Pepper cut in, getting up from the sofa and helping Tony.

“Can I go play outside?” Morgan asked, pointing to the play fort she made.

“Alright but be careful, don’t go any deeper into the woods.” Tony said. Morgan nodded.

“Can you come play with me, sissy?” The little girl asked.

“Okay but only for a little while.” Soon, you and Morgan were out the door, giggling.

It was just Tony, Harley and Peter in the living room and Peter still seemed to have the fake smile on his face but the ex-Avenger could see right through it.

“I’m gonna go help Pepper. Play nice boys, we just cleaned these floors.” Then Tony left to the kitchen, leaving the two boys in the room.

It was an awkward few minutes of nothing before Peter finally spoke up.

“Soooo....when did you meet (Y/n)?” The spiderboy questioned.

“When I was ten so maybe around 2013? But Tony was the one who introduced us, saying we would get along very well. Since I don’t live here, (Y/n) and I usually just call or text a lot.” Harley laughed at the memory.

“Yeah...Tony said that about me and (Y/n) too. But I met her in my sophomore year.” Peter’s jealousy only grew.

‘Okay so what if he’s known her longer? He lives in somewhere away from here so I shouldn’t worry about that, right??’ Peter thought to himself.

“Alright let’s cut to the chase. I saw the way you looked towards (N/n). You like her, don’t you?” Harley smirked at Peter’s shocked expression.

“W-well...I-I wouldn’t say I-I liked her....b-but she is very pretty and kind and smart...” Peter rambled on about his best friend and crush, making Harley’s smirk deepen.

“Aww...you don’t like her. You LOVE her. That’s adorable.” Harley almost laughed out loud when he saw the red face of Peter Parker.

“W-well what about you? Do you like (Y/n)?” Peter asked but dreaded the answer he didn’t want to hear.

Instead, a low chuckle escaped from the blond boy’s mouth.

“Nope. (Y/n) is my best friend, practically my sister so that would never work out. I love her, just not the way you do.” Harley’s words comforted Peter as he let out a sigh of relief out loud.

“Oh thank god-“

“But dude, you get jealous so easily that I can’t believe you two aren’t even together yet!” Harley exclaimed.

Peter almost faced palmed.

“Is it really that obvious?” Questioned Peter.

“Duh, I saw it, Tony saw it, Pepper saw it. Hell, I think even Morgan saw it!” The boys shared a laugh as Peter became less tense from Harley.

“I would have already asked her out by now but...so much has happened in the past month that it’s hard to find a good time to do so.” Peter said as he looked out the window to see you and Morgan play fighting.

You as the evil dragon and Morgan as the knight. It was an adorable sight and Peter found his eyes on you, your (h/c) hair seemed to glow more today and your (s/c) was smooth as a baby’s bottom. And most importantly, your bright and genuine smile was the cherry on top of your beauty. Peter Parker loved you. He just wished he could say it.

Harley looked to where Peter’s eyes were and saw the same sight that Peter was seeing, only he looked into Peter’s eyes and saw love, admiration and happiness.

“Well today might be a good time.” Harley said, interrupting the hero’s thoughts.

“What do you mean?”

“Look at her, she’s happy, not really busy and there’s no battle happening right now is there?” Peter shook his head. “Then what’s stopping you right now?”

Peter looked at Harley then back to you. He was right, today would be a good time because there was nothing happening at the moment (besides you playing with Morgan). Peter took a deep breath and smiled as confidently as he could.

“You’re right.” Peter felt a hand go on his shoulder and saw Harley giving him a comforting grin.

“Go get her, Peter.”

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“Also if you hurt her, I’ll shoot you with my potato gun.”

“Wait what?”

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A/N: Lemme know if you wanna be tagged in my stories!

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Rockman - Static Cling, Ch. I

Chapter 1 of "Static Cling," a Rockman cross-fiction story.

A bit of backstory on this one, chums…

I wrote a story for a certain "jade butterfly" that involved the whole line of her characters. Problem is… they weren't all her characters. That was a problem! (Mostly, for me.) So, that story ended up on in limbo until such a time as… I feel like un-limboing it, more-or-less. However, from that story came the inspiration for this one! See, at the end of that one story, I wound up writing a fun little thing that showed some history between my character and one of the characters that wasn't part of this story. Doing so made me realize that I kind of wanted to write a full-fledged story starring that character and mine interacting. So… I did! This is the first chapter of that idea~

Oh and, yeah, Joseph is dating one of the Chou Numbers, and he exists in this particular Rockman timeline (fan canon-wise), and yadda-yadda-yadda…

Word count: 3,161 – Character count: 18,045 Originally written: October 19th, 2019

While being rescued from a gang of thugs, Joseph does something brave… and asks the resident super-hero out for a friendly meeting.

DR/LN-001 Rock/Megaman, "Mega Man," and related characters and concepts created by Akira Kitamura Heatman created by Toshiyuki Kataoka, Gutsman and Albert W. Wily created by Keiji Inafune All commercial characters redesigned/touched up by and Keiji Inafune and © Capcom Co, Ltd.

DChN-000 Kaitlin/Thundergirl created by and © Kaitlin EXE David Chou, the Chou Numbers series, and related characters and concepts created by and © Jade Green Butterfly

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    On a random Saturday night, a man found himself wandering the city, trying to keep from going insane with boredom.  His girlfriend had to stay late for work, and his other friends all had prior engagements, so he figured it would be a good time to go check out a new arcade he’d heard about.  When he got there, however… it was being ransacked by a local gang of thugs!      Upon seeing that, he tried to turn tail and run… only to bump right into one of their members who, coincidentally, had just come from the coffee shop with drinks for all her buddies.  Said drinks ended up all over her nice, new leather vest and chaps.  She was not happy.

    Not long after the incident, the man wound up being chased into an alley and facing five of the meanest-looking punks he’d ever seen.  He fell to his knees, begging and pleading to the woman he’d offended, but all that did was make her laugh.  She suggested that she and her leader teach him what happens when someone messes with one of them, and it looked like he’d wind up in the hospital… until a bright flash of light and a powerful war cry pierced the air.

    “It’s thunder time!!”     That was the last thing the punks heard before sparkling balls of crackling electric disabled the lot of them.  Then, out from the shadows stepped a form that the man recognized…

    At a glance, she looked to be a short girl with brown, shoulder-length hair and curled bangs, and chocolate-brown eyes.  As always, she wore a purple beret and matching, armless shirt, both with a gold lightning bolt on them.  She also had her usual, dark-gray slacks tied with a gold band and tucked under big, bright, yellow-and-red boots.  As she adjusted her red bracelets, he could already see the grin forming on her friendly face…

    “You just can’t stay out of trouble, huh?”     The man groaned, rubbing his face.  “Hiii, Thundergiiirl…” he replied.     She took a second to examine her handiwork before turning back his way.     “Ya know…” the girl mused, “people are gonna start sayin’ things if we keep meetin’ in back alleys, like this!”     He blushed, his vulpine ears folding back.     “But seriously, I should prob’ly go.  The police’ll be here, soon, and I’m sure they’ll have a lot’a questions for ya!”     She offered an encouraging smile and a soft laugh.     “See ya next crime, huh?”     “H-hey, wait…”     Thundergirl had already turned to walk away.  As she heard him call to her, though, she stopped and turned back with a curious expression.     “Yeah?” she asked in her usual, chipper tone.     “I… um…”     Her head tilted.  The man seemed awfully nervous… and with good reason!     “I… d… do you wanna, maybe, meet for lunch, sometime?  O-or, breakfast, or…”     To her complete surprise… it seemed like she was asking her out!     “Um…”  She didn’t know what to say.  So, for whatever reason… she told him, “Sure?”

    And, that’s how the whole thing started… –––––

    The following Tuesday morning, the man sat at a café, sipping his favorite sort of hot beverage and taking small bites of a blueberry muffin.  He was casually minding his own business when someone came up to him, calling his name.  It took him a minute, but once he got a look at the person’s face… he recognized her neat hairstyle and gentle eyes.

    “I… huh.”     “What?”     “W-well, when I asked about meeting up, I guess… I was expecting something else?”

    After greeting her acquaintance, the girl sat down at his table and smiled… only to give him an odd look.  Her companion was staring…     “What do you mean?” she innocently asked.  “It’s just me.”     “Right, but… you look different.”     “Ya noticed, huh?”  She brightly smiled.  “Well, I thought it was a good idea to put on my civies before I met up with ya!  I can’t be the other me all the time!”     “Okay, but…”     The man uncomfortably squirmed.  Just as he noticed, Thundergirl wasn’t wearing her usual outfit.  And, just like he also noticed…     “You dress… like a little girl.”

    Rather than her “super-hero” outfit, she wore a purple, overall-dress with big, yellow buttons on the shoulder straps, gold trim around the chest, and a big pocket with a lightning bolt on it.  Under that, a lavender T-shirt and black bike shorts, then metallic, yellow tennis shoes with yellow “energy ports” on the sides.  Thundergirl certainly didn’t look like the lady he’d seen, prior, and she certainly didn’t look like the super-hero he knew on an almost-personal level…  It was a little unnerving, in a way… especially since she did, indeed, look like a little girl.

    “Well…”  She continued to smile as she told him, “I am a little girl!  Ah– Joseph?”     Her face grew concerned.  Joseph suddenly sputtered and coughed into his drink.     “W-w-what– ack–”  He snorted, trying to clear the hot liquid from his nasal passages.  “W-what do you mean, ‘you are a little girl…?’”     “Exactly what I said – I am a little girl!” she reinforced with another smile.  “Well… I’m made to look like one, anyway!  And… people say I act like one, too…”     Thundergirl’s eyes turned away and her smile faded.     “B-but, I really am mature for my ‘age!’” she said, giving him a brighter sort of smile.     “Uh… I guess fighting crime–”     He blinked, coming to a sudden stop.  The girl was shushing him with an angry look.     “Uh…?”     “Joseph…” she whispered after leaning in.  “The other reason I wore this is to be incognito!  If people knew who I was, they’d all crowd around for autographs, or… or, bad-guys would come and try to fight me!  I just…”     She leaned back, softly sighing.     “You asked me out as a person, not a hero.  So… I wanna be normal, today.  Ya know?”

    Joseph tilted his head.  Thundergirl looked less confident than before.  Actually, she looked a little uncomfortable, all-of-a-sudden.  So…     “You… wanna bite of my muffin?”     He did something to change that.     The girl looked up, blinking her brown eyes.  Joseph was offering his breakfast to her.     “No,” was her polite reply, “thank… actually… yes.  Yes, please.”     He smiled as he handed the item over, then watched as she picked nibbles off the side he hadn’t touched, popping them into her mouth to eat them.  When she closed her eyes and made a “yummy” noise, he had to smile.     “You can have as much as you want,” he told her.  “I don’t mind.”     That was all it took to get her that bright smile back on her face.     “Thanks!” she said before she started biting the muffin, directly.  It was kind of cute to watch, Joseph thought.  She wasn’t exactly a “dainty” eater…

    “So, Kaitlin…”     The girl looked up between bites, her mouth full of the confection.     “I… uh… snrk…”     She swallowed before giving him a look.  “What?” she asked.     “You’ve got blueberry juice on your mouth.”     “I do?”     The hero blinked a couple of times, then she rubbed her mouth with the back of her hand.     “Did I get it?”     “More-or-less.  Heh.”     She smiled.  A second later, she hummed…

    “Hey, how’d you know my real name?” she asked him.  “Did my little sister tell you?”     “Yeah.”  Joseph chuckled.  “She talks about you every-now-and-then.”     “She’s not sharing any of my top-secret info, is she?!”     “Naaah…  She just says how cool you are, and how much she admires you.     He grinned, his fox tail wagging behind him.     “You are pretty cool… for a little girl.”     “Thanks!” she laughed.  “You seem pretty neat, too!  For a wild animal.”     His grin widened.  The girl was smirking at him.     “Better watch how loud you say that…” he teased.  “My skulk might be listening!”     “Th-there’s more of you?!”     Kaitlin went wide-eyed with surprise and, if Joseph wasn’t mistaken, excitement!  Animal-people weren’t exactly common, in that city…  He hadn’t seen many of “his kind” in the streets, since moving there.  Her excitement was well-placed, he figured, if she liked animals.

    “Nah…” he told her, deciding to be honest.  “My sisters live in another city.”     “Oh…”     She almost seemed disappointed to hear that.     “It’s probably for the best,” the girl said as her smile returned.  “If they get into as much trouble as you do…”     “Heeey…”     She grinned and laughed as her companion pouted.  It was such a cute reaction.

    Joseph and Kaitlin spent a good hour at the café, that morning, just chatting and getting to know each other, the former learning a few things he didn’t know, before, and the latter mostly asking about his relationship with her younger sister.  The conversation stayed light and friendly and, by the end of the hour, the two felt less like strangers and more like friends.

    “This was a lot’a fun.”     Joseph smiled, standing from his seat as she stood from hers.     “We should do this, again.”     “Even though I’m just a ‘little girl?’”     Kaitlin grinned… as did her friend.     “Yeah, yeah…” he replied, his tail flicking.  “I just… uh, Kaitlin?”     “Huh?”  She blinked, then looked up.  “Sorry.  Your tail got my attention.”     “Heh.  You really are a little girl…”     “No…?”  The girl frowned, giving him a dirty look.  “I’m just… easily distracted…?”     He waved his tail.  Sure enough, Kaitlin’s eyes followed the white tip at its end.     “By what, exactly?” he asked.     “Things…”  She did, indeed, sound distracted.     “Well, that’s okay.”  He wiggled his tail before telling her, “So am I!”     “That’s good…”     The fox snickered…  That girl was completely transfixed on his tail.

    “Do you wanna pet it?”     “W-what?!”     Kaitlin suddenly snapped back to attention with a surprised look.  When she noticed the knowing way Joseph was looking at her…     “N-no, I’m good.”     She turned away, hiding her face… which had turned slightly pink.  She must have realized what she was doing…     “Okaaay, your loooss…”

    The brunette blinked, then she watched her friend push his chair in.  When he took a couple of steps away, he paused to look over his shoulder and swish his tail…     “I’m going to the park,” he told her.  “If I happen to see you there… I wouldn’t object to the company.”     “Um…”  Kaitlin blinked before she nodded.  “S-sure…?”     With another knowing grin, he strode out of the café, letting his tail swing with every step he took.  It looked a little odd, to be sure, but he knew it was sure to keep at least one person’s attention…  When he looked behind him after crossing the street, however, he was kind of disappointed by what he saw.  Or rather, what he didn’t see.     “Aww.  She left…”     The fox sighed, then he shrugged.     “Just as well.  She had a good point about people seeing us together…  Granted, the circumstances were a little different, but….”     He chuckled before continuing on his way.

    Not long after leaving the café, the fox found the entrance of the park and walked inside.  As Joseph make his way in, he noticed that a lot of people were outside, enjoying the sunny Spring day.  It was unusually warm for that time of year, so he wasn’t too surprised to see people walking around in shorts and skirts.  As for him?  He was one of those kinds of people who wore pants year-‘round.  Even so, he was dressed pretty light, not bothering with shoes and sticking with his favorite black T-shirt, in addition to his forest-green jeans.

    After people-watching for a bit, he turned his attention to – and headed right toward – his all-time favorite feature of the public gathering place…     “Ah, the swing set…”     He smiled, looking up at the tall piece of equipment.  It was made of five, solid, metal pipes and housed four different plastic swings tethered by two sets of chains, each.  Surprisingly, he seemed to be the only person interested in such a thing, that day.  As he sat in one, though…     “Well, howdy, stranger!”     He heard a familiar voice call from his left.     “Eh?  Thu– I-I mean, Kaitlin?”     Seated in the swing nearest to him was, of course, the friendly girl in the purple dress, brightly smiling and, seemingly, waiting for him to arrive.  How she’d gotten there, however, was beyond him.  He was certain she wasn’t there, before…

    “That’s right,” she said in a playful tone.  “I’m Kaitlin!  And, you’re Joseph!”     “Last time I checked…”  He chuckled.  “What are you–”     “Keeping you safe.”     He blinked a couple of times, tilting his head.  When she pointed in a random direction, though, his ears fell back.     “Aw, c’mon…!”     It was hard to tell from where he was, but clear across the park, he could see what looked like a bunch of people in leather hassling a hot dog vendor.  To make things worse… he recognized the colors that the group of ruffians wore.  It was that exact, same gang that trashed the arcade on the night he asked Kaitlin to join him…

    “Seems like wherever you go,” the girl said as she kicked off, pushing herself into the air, “trouble follows!”     “I… I guess…”  Joseph deeply sighed, following her lead.  “Damn it…  Can’t I just have a normal day out where people just… be nice?”     “Guess not!  But…”  She smiled at him.  “At least you’re never bored!  Kind’a hope they start something…  Boy, will they be surprised, hee hee!”     He shot the excitable girl a suspicious look.  “I thought you wanted a ‘normal’ day, too?”     Kaitlin visibly jerked, interrupting her stride.     “Uh… I– I do!” she anxiously assured him.  “I just… uh…”     “No, it’s fine, Kait…  I understa– I get it.”     She felt a little confused when the fox suddenly corrected himself, but she didn’t ask.

    “You like being a hero,” he started as his motions carried him farther-and-farther into the air.  “The life of a hero is far more exciting than, say, sitting on a swing or just hanging out.  Plus, just from the few times you’ve saved my bacon, I’d say you’re pretty good at it.”     She hesitated before quietly thanking him.     “So, yeah.  I kind’a get it.  If you wanna go give those guys a scare, I–”     “H-hang on!”     Joseph yelped as the girl grabbed his swing’s chain.  It nearly right threw him off as their weight played havoc with their momentum.  When the two finally came to a stop, she let go before putting her hands between her knees and looking at the sand under her feet.

    “Joseph… I… I really meant what I said!” she told him, sounding a little conflicted.  “I do want to just spend the day off!  Being a super-hero isn’t all fun-and-games!  Sometimes…  sometimes, it’s really hard work!  Like… like…”     She inhaled, then exhaled before continuing.     “Remember Heatman?”     “Tch…  How could I forget?”     Joseph scowled, looking at a bare spot on his tail.     “When I saved you and my sister, that one time, I got a direct hit on his CPU!  But, usually… my electricity isn’t that effective.  His armor absorbs it or something – I dunno.”     The fox tilted his head.  “Okay?”     “Joseph…”  She closed her eyes, her face turning sour.  “We got into a fight at dad’s place.  It… it turned ugly.”

    Joseph blinked a couple of times.  Something weird was happening…  His fur was starting to bristle and he felt kind of tingly… but he knew he didn’t feel nervous or hungry.  He took a closer look at his companion… then, his ears fell back.  Her body was sparking, and the electricity was flowing through the all-metal playground equipment, itself.

    “Kait…?” he quietly called.  “Are you okay?  You’re, uh…”     “S-sorry…”  She stopped sparking, then looked his way.  “Heatman just… he really upsets me!  A-and… he said something that got my circuits just sizzling, last night!”     “What did he say?”  Joseph was genuinely curious.     “He said… he said…”     The girl trembled.  She was sparking, again…     “H-he said that… that… that I’m always in his way…”     He tilted his head.  “In his way of what?”     “I said the same thing!  But, when I asked what I meant…”     Kaitlin’s body quietly crackled, causing her companion’s fur to puff.     “He.. he said… one day… he’ll… he’ll…”     “K-Kaitlin…?”     “He’ll take my little sister away from me…”     “K-K-Kaitlin…”     “I knew what he meant…  H-he wants to marry her…  B-but, the way he just… laughed…”

    The entire swing set was jumping with electricity, sparks and tiny bolts snapping and crackling as Kaitlin inadvertently charged it with her current.  She was so angry… far angrier than Joseph had ever seen her look.  However, he wasn’t really in the mindset to try and comfort her or, really, say much other than…     “K-K-K-Kaitlin…!”     “What?  Oh!”     All-at-once, the brown-haired android leaped up from her swing and took a few steps forward.  The instant she was out-of-range, all of the energy she’d put into that swing found its way right back out… through Joseph’s body.

    “Omigosh, omigosh, omigosh…!!”     The girl ran back over and, after making sure she was completely discharged, she crouched to check on her friend.  He’d been tossed out of the swing and hit the ground with a loud snap.  Every strand of his fur had expanded onward, making him look like a big puffball or something.  But, as comical as that should have been… it was offset by the fact he was laying on the ground, erratically twitching.     “Joseph…!  Joseph!!”     Kaitlin gently slapped his cheeks, her face full of worry.     “Are you okay?!  How– how many fingers am I holding up…?”     He dizzily stared at the girl’s raised hand before asking, “D-d-do thumbs count…?”     She blinked at the response… then, she sighed and smiled as he gave a thumbs-up.  It seemed like he was just fine…

    “Sorry ‘bout that…”     After helping Joseph to his feet, the two sat on their swings, idly dangling.     “Heatman just makes me… so angry, sometimes!” Kaitlin told him with a scowl as she tightly squeezed her chains.  “Uh, you gonna be okay?”     “Do… do you want my honest answer?”     She blinked, giving another worried look… only to raise both eyebrows.  Joseph… was blushing at her.     “I… I kind of liked it?” he said, sounding ashamed of himself.  “Is… is that normal?”     “No,” she replied with a hollow chuckle.  “No, that is not.  But, everyone’s different…”     The girl offered a friendly, somewhat-uncertain smile.     “Just don’t ask me to do it on purpose, okay?  That’d just be weird.”     “Aww.  There go my plans for our next date.”     “Date?”     Once again, she had to stare at him with suspicion in her eyes.

    “Joseph…?”  She tilted her head.  “You were kidding, right?”     “Yeah,” he said with a soft laugh and a smile.  “I–”     “Because…”     It was his turn to blink, then.  Kaitlin was blushing and fidgeting…     “I’ve… never been on a date, before,” she confessed.  “N-not a date-date…”     “A cute girl like you?  Really?” he said before he could stop himself.  “Uh, I-I mean–”     She blushed a little more… but she was smiling.  Then, she looked over and asked…     “You… wanna make this official?”

[calicofeatherpen]

If y’all want to really get that fix, might I point you in the direction of a fun little comic called Mostly (h)Armless? :3c

a friend of mine showed me a playthrough of hi-fi rush and literally the entire time we were talking nonstop about how bad we want to break his bones. THIS MAN NEEDS TO BLEED. im glad someone else gets it

WE NEED TO ATTACK HIM FR. BUT LIKE HE NEEDS TO ACTUALLY TAKE DAMAGE FROM IT. i need to subject him to the most violent kabedon fr.