#nestly? yeah

[dragon-kazansky]

Veil of the dreamless

Morpheus x Reader

A cursed Morpheus holds your father prisoner when he enters The Dreaming without permission. You, also able to enter the realm, take his place. Now a prionser to the Dream Lord, you do all you can to learn about the curse and hopefully break it.

{Masterlist}

{Previous Chapter} - {Next Chapter}

Chapter Two - Curse of the Dreaming

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The figure steps out of the shadows, and you feel yourself unable to breathe. He is unlike anything you have ever seen before. He is unnatural.

From head to toe, he is covered in feathers. Two large wings sprout from his back. They are large and make him even scarier to look at. His eyes are the most piercing blue, however.

"You dare make demands of me in my own castle?" He growls through his teeth.

"Let my father go."

"Never!"

"Then I'll take his place!"

"No!" Your father yells. He begs and pleads over and over.

"You would take his place?" The creature asks.

"Yes... send him home, and I will stay as your prisoner... Punish me instead." You look him in the eye.

"Foolish mortal. You would take his place for his freedom? You're a lot more stupid than I thought."

"I don't care. Insult me all you like. Just let my father go..."

Your father tries to plead again, but the creature ignores him. He holds up his claw like hand and blows what looks like sand toward your father. You turn and gasp as he vanishes from the cell. You turn to ask where he went, but you find yourself pushed into the cell. It locks behind you.

"You made your choice. Live with it."

The "King of Nightmares" vanishes back into the shadows. The candle nearby distinguishes. You're left with only the dark for company.

You sigh as you sit in the cell. You curl up into a ball and think of your father. You think of Hob.

The Dreaming is real, but it is nothing like you read about. This place... was a nightmare.

Some time passes. You're not sure how much of it, though. The darkness seems to stretch on for ages. You're about to nod off when you hear a sound.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

You slowly rise from where you lay on the ground. You can't see through the dark, but you can hear the tapping and the sound of wings flapping.

"Goddamn it, open." Someone grunts.

"Hello?" You call out.

"Just... just hold on!" He says.

"Who's there?"

The tapping continues, and within moments, light floods the hallway. You blink to adjust to the sudden brightness and then find yourself looking at a woman, who had just lit the candles, and.... a bird?

"Are you alright?" The woman asks.

"Yes..." You stand up. "Who are you?"

"My name is Lucienne. This is Matthew." You look at the bird as she gestures to it.

"The crow?"

"Raven," he corrects.

"You talk?"

"Yeah. Get used to it." He caws.

You look back at Lucienne, who smiles slightly. She can tell by looking at you that you have questions. She reaches over and pulls the lever near by, the gate to the cell opens. Matthew had been trying to pull it himself, but couldn't.

"Come with me."

You cautiously step out of the cell. "Who are you? What are you?"

Lucienne smiles. "I am the librarian. Or was."

You tilt your head as you try and piece everything together.

"Should you be letting me out?"

Lucienne goes silent for a moment before speaking. "Not exactly, but I can not sit by and let you stay in that cell. You leave Lord Morpheus to us."

"Lord Morpheus?"

"The man you met earlier."

"Man?"

Lucienne sighs softly. "I'll explain later."

The librarian leads you up the dark stairs and into a dimly lit hall. Matthew flies over your head and goes on ahead. You continue to follow Lucienne as she leads you through the palace.

There is no sign of that creature you saw earlier. The whole building is eerily quiet.

You are led up a set of stairs and down the Eastern hall. Lucienne brings you to a nicely decorated room. You step inside and look around. A nestly made bed sits up against against wall, and a large wardrobe takes up one corner. There is a large window that has a view over the front of the palace.

"You can stay in here."

You turn and look at Lucienne. "In this room?"

"Yes. It's much more comfortable than sleeping in a cell." She smiles.

"Are you sure this will be okay?"

"You let me worry about Lord Morpheus. You just enjoy the room."

You walk in a little further. "I... I read a book about dreaming. A realm where dreams take place. The description of the palace in the book kind of matches this one, but everything feels so off here. It's all so much darker... emptier."

Lucienne glances down at her shoes before meeting your eyes again. A look of deep-rooted sadness crosses her expression. "The Dreaming was once such a place, yes. That was a long time ago."

"What happened?" You ask softly.

Matthew perches on the end of the bed and looks up at you. "The curse."

"Thr curse? Like... the kind in fairytales?"

"Yes, quite," Lucienne confirms.

"I want to know." You say, sitting down on the bed.

"It was almost a century ago."

"A century?"

"Yes. This is the Dreaming. We, that is, those of us who live here are immortal. Dream was visited by one of his siblings. Unfortunately, things did not end well. Desire decided to get back at Dream in the worst way they could. They made a deal. The result was a curse."

"So he didn't always look like that?" You ask, voice turning soft.

"No. He was human looking. I'd show you a painting if we had any, but he despised looking at himself after the curse." Lucienne explains.

"And I assume there were others here?"

"Yes. Many of us. Thousands. But ad the years went by, more and more of them left. Lord Morpheus became... difficult to deal with. I can't say I blame them for leaving."

"But you stayed. Matthew too."

"Yes. I'm very loyal to our King. I shall stay as long as possible."

"Me too!" Matthew chimes in.

You smile at the pair of them. "At least he's not completely alone."

Lucienne smiles, too. "Lonliness would only make him worse. He needs the company, even if he denies it."

"Isn't there a way to break the curse?" You ask curiously.

"Well..." Lucienne and Matthew glance at each other. "If there is, we're not sure what it is."

You don't pick up that she's lying.

"Oh..."

"I'll leave you to rest. I'll bring you up some dinner later."

You thank her and watch both Lucienne and Matthew leave. You sigh as you close the door behind them and turn back to the room. You decide to rest. There was a lot that had happened today and you needed to gather your thoughts.

Lucienne and Matthew headed down the hall.

"Do you think they're the one?" Matthew asks.

Lucienne sighs quietly. "Quite possibly."

"Are we going to meddle?"

Lucienne smiles. "A little meddling shouldn't hurt."

Matthew caws.

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@littleblackcatinwonderland - @kpopgirlbtssvt - @missdreamofendless -

[vi-trying-to-survive]

Valentine's Picnic

Peter Parker x f! Reader

Warnings: None, it's just fluff :) 💖💖💖

Summary: Peter and Y/N go on a Valentine's Day date

A/N: I know it's short but, I hope you guys like it :) 💖💖💖 Also sorry for super slow updates :') 💖💖💖

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"I didn't know that this date was gonna involve this much walking", Y/N huffed as she strained to climb the grassy hill, tugging down her skirt every few minutes, slowly growing more and more exasperated, "If not I would not have tried to look this cute". Her face was damp and eyes stinging as she blinked into the sky, tightly gripping the hand that was intertwined with hers.

He chuckled, sparing a second to glance back at her, "But you always look cute".

"Very smart Pete", she rolled her eyes, taking advantage of the opportunity to plant her feet into the ground, swinging her hand free to grip onto her knees as she bent over panting rather unattractively.

"Just give me a minute", the lack of wind made her skin feel sticky as she gasped out in response to his exasperated sign, "I swear I'm gonna pass out".

"But we're almost there", he groaned, slipping his hand back into hers, pulling her back up the slope, much to her dismay, "I promise you're going to love it".

By some miracle she made it to the top, she thought, face contorted in exhaustion, but her expression softened as she took in the sight in front of her. A deep blue blanket was laid on the grass, the stark contrast drawing her eyes towards it, and on top of it were warm mugs of coffee paired with little sandwiches, the sides sliced unevenly. To top it all off, a bouquet of daisies tied neatly with a large red bow, set comfortably in the centre of it all. "Oh- It's so pretty", she couldn't help the large grin that spread across her face, spinning around, wrapping her arms around him tightly, "Did you do this all yourself ?".

"Yes", he smirked, pulling away to peck her nose gingerly, "I am a romance expert if you didn't already know"

"Oh really", she grinned teasingly. The edges of his lips began to curve into a pout. She laughed, "Ok ok- I'm sorry, I love it, really", the smile prideful smile finding its way back onto his face.

"And look look, I got all our favourites", he beamed, face flushed with excitement, "Pizza, cupcakes and coffee".

"It's great", she replied, tangling her fingers in his soft hair, as she pressed her lips against his. He was quick to respond moving against her, familiar and comforting, her safest place in form of a person.

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"So, I got you something and I just really hope you like it, and-", she fumbled, passing him a shining red package, the edges folded meticulously around a cube-like object, without a single out of place crease or tear. Bringing a hand to her lips, she gnawed at the raw edges of her already very short nails, watching him carefully.

He shook his head with an affectionate smile, pulling her hand into his and interlocking their fingers, "Babe, I'll like it no matter what".

He unceremoniously ripped at the package, soon turning the beautifully-selected wrapping paper into unremarkable shreds of trash. She couldn’t help but giggle.

As he held the box in his hands his eyes grew wide, "What?! I can't believe you got this for me". He turned it over, skimming the vague lines printed on the back, “This must have cost so much".

"Yeah, but it's worth it", she grinned, tracing her thumb across his cheek.

Falling back onto the blanket, he exclaimed, "I'm literally gonna start when we get home", clutching the colourful box close to his chest.

"Oh my- sometimes I forget what you're like", she sighed, throwing her head into her hands.

Wrapping his arms around her waist, he pulled her back towards him on the ground, laughing,"But you love me don't you".

She shrieked, playfully smacking his arm, "If I didn't you should be worried".

Nestling her head into his neck, she quickly dozed off as the warm summer breeze brushed past her.

"Love you too", he whispered, shifting into a more comfortable position, careful not to stir her, placing a kiss on her forehead.

[funny-fella-fantrolls]

Vextri! From the whispers goin' around, you seem close to Ofunno and without prying too much, what's it like between you two and how did you meet? :O??

Guess][n' y[]u g[]t that fr[]m Shu, eh?

Yeah, we're pretty cl[]se.

Needin' t[] stress, th[]ugh, we're n[]t ][n any s[]rt []f r[]mant][c agreement. N[]t ][nterested.

We met sweeps ag[], s[] s[]me deta][ls'll be k][nda f[]ggy. But ][ was just []ut []ne day, hav][n' a wander, and ][ sp[]tted h][m l[][]k][n' l][ke he had the blues ab[]ut s[]meth][n'. Went []ver, had a chat, and we k][nda just h][t ][t []ff.

We pretty much tell each []ther everyth][n', h[]nestly. ][f []ne []f us ][s feel][n' d[]wn, we get t[] talk][n', and we f][gure ][t []ut. And bef[]re y[]u ask, n[], there's n[] pale stuff happen][n' there e][ther.

He mutters the next part under his breath.

W[]uldn't c[]mpla][n ][f there was, th[]ugh...

[grimsbygrovedrama]

Is it wrong I feel kinda bad for Nestly? I mean, yeah, they shot themselves in the foot with how they acted and did things but....damn. Seeing them hit rock bottom like that still feels awful to see. idk maybe it's just me. But I like to see if people can change for the better, and I like to hold onto that hope. So seeing something feel that defeated still kinda hurts. They were stupid, not a monster

I think we said please keep this blog to everything but wyngro since there's another tumblr for that, unless there is a big interest to open this to all evolving species groups.

[jadipose]

Well? Did you take the flight?

YEAH o+f co+urse I did! Their ho+ttest was a mango+ habanero+ wing and it was ho+nestly no+t as ho+t as I tho+ught it wo+uld be. A nice balance between sweet and savo+ry and spicy

[jerboadoesart]

i wonder if im actually gonna do anything with godfield later on or im just gonna use him for jokes and shit

h(-)nestly id say d(-) s(-)mething imp(-)rtant with g(-)dfield if hes actually supp(-)ses t(-) be a can(-)n character, (-)therwise yeah just use him f(-)r the j(-)kes

[goddamntyranical]

man yeah.

d°wnl°ad'n' huuluu 's just 's bad 's bein' a stalk'r.

h°nestly, what were they ev'n thinkin'.

tryin' s°meth'n' b'f°re cast'n' m°ral judgement.

scandal°us.

i say.

what 'f y' wr°ng th°ugh.

if y' g°t s° much °n y' dni.

h°w y' ever g°nna getcha w°rldview chall'nged?

🧵 I don't need my worldview challenged by the people on that list, because they're all socially deemed as problematic.

[allthebestcowgirls]

not to be a bihet.... but when b*ys have goofy smiles...... like wow you might have just done something there bro

[after-witch]

What’s the worst physical punishment overhaul would resort to? :3

H o nestly, for yandere Overhaul, I don't see him as being big on physical punishments that are 'traditional,' like spanking and whatnot.

I can see him (as I wrote before) washing your mouth out with soap if you dirty it with unhealthy greasy food or, if he reaches a breaking point, nasty words.

I think his biggest physical punishment would be restraining you to a bed, especially if you have a medical condition and you're being stubborn regarding treatment. This would come with additional humiliation--if you're restrained to a bed, guess how you're going to the bathroom? Bed pan. Don't worry, he'll turn you over often to prevent bed sores.

Regular Overhaul, though? oh yeah, that man will cane your ass. (Also because of a very specific niche kink post I read which stuck with me forever, he'll tickle you, too. Mean tickling. Tickling that makes you full body shiver to think of later.)

[funny-fella-fantrolls]

Vextri - Still thinking about what Ofu said?

H[]nestly, yeah. ][ mean... what else am ][ g[]nna th][nk ab[]ut, my best fr][end and h][vemate adm][tted he's red f[]r me, but, l][ke... ][ haven't ever seen h][m that way. ][ mean... he's really sweet, he'd be an amaz][n' matespr][t, better than ][ fuck][n' deserve, that's f[]r sure, and he's a cute guy, ]['m n[]t g[]nna l][e, but... ][ just d[]n't see ][t. ][ kn[]w, deep d[]wn, ]['m st][ll n[]t m[]ved []n fr[]m bef[]re, hell, my recent pr[]ject ][s ev][dence []f that. He deserves better than a br[]ken, jaded assh[]le wh[] st][ll can't m[]ve []n fr[]m h][s ex, but... when we're sat t[]gether, and he cuddles up t[] me l][ke he d[]es n[]w... ][ c[]uldn't bear t[] tell h][m that. ][t'd break h][m. He needs t[] f][nd s[]me[]ne far, far better than ][ c[]uld ever be, s[]me[]ne wh[] can l[]ve h][m ][n the way ]['ll never be able t[].

An orange tear rolls down the bronzeblood's cheek, and he wipes it up with his bandana before putting his head in his hands and muttering quietly.

]['m s[]rry, []fu... ][ w][sh ][ c[]uld be wh[] y[]u need me t[] be...

[nebuliskenetic]

G★D. yeah i c✦uld use ✦ne right n✦w h✦nestly.

acr✦nicknames are fine! 'ㅅ' whatcha g✦t in mind?

ugh 2ame wiith the back paiin. what you need ii2 the taffy puller.

you two. how do you feel about acroniickname2?

[nanaminsonyfans]

⛓️Taken⛓️

Masterlist ✨ Requesting Rules

Request; Hey can I request a wei beifong x metal bender!reader were when they are fighting the red Lotus she gets captured and tortured? He goes crazy trying to find her and when they do she is badly hurt. I just want some angst with fluff at the end.

A/N; oh hell yeah. this is ANGST at it’s finest, we love a man in uniform to kick some fucking ass, also in this oneshot we are going to pretend they stayed in zaofu for like two months ^^ rock and roll buckroo

Pairing; Wei Beifong x Fem Metalbender!Reader

Warnings; Kiddnaping, torture, angst, descirption of wounds, cursing

Honestly, everything seemed okay at the time. You were apart of Team Avatar, just growing up as a kid on the streets you found Bolin and Mako, and they decided to take care of you. Birds of a feather stick together. Because you were apart of Team Avatar you got to travel with them to find the rest of the new airbenders. Asumi appreciated having a metalbender on a metal airship. Like, if there’s a dent you’ll bend it out ya know?

Being a metalbender meant you are also an earthbender, you never really liked bending rocks and stuff, plus you could manipulate metal into whatever you imagine. Knives, swords, bracelets, literally anything. When you arrived at Zoafu, you were amazed by how everyone manipulated the metal. A boy had caught your eye, his name was Wei Beifong. He was a twin to a brother named Wing, both the youngest of the family. That was amazing to you, being the youngest one of this entire group.

You both had a lot in common, shared the same sense of humor and competitiveness. You clicked immediately. Fell in love even, he was the flirt that always made you blush. “You look amazing today.” “Green is a great color on you.” “Wow, do you just metalbend? Because something else his bending up.” You always got flustered and stopped what you were doing. If you were bending while he said any of that? It stops immediately and the metal crashes to the ground.

Wei finally asked you out, and you became his girlfriend. You were so fucking happy and so was he. The relationship was amazing, everything was so pure and loving, practicing bending together, cuddles, power naps. Everything with him made you happy. Everyone was so happy for you, Mako and Bolin has never ever seen you that happy. Your smile was simply beautiful and everyone noticed. Korra, your close gal pal noticed more, happy about it. 

Everything changed when the Red Lotus attacked.

Korra was being abducted by them, and because you shared a room with the young Avatar, they took you as well. Knocked you out by hitting your head since they didn’t have another tranquilizer. Your head was bleeding from the force of the blow to your head, leaving a small droplet trail of blood. Pabu woke Mako and Bolin up, both waking up to fight and hopefully save both of you. 

They all tried their best, Wei fought with his aunt and mother to let him go down to save you but being a mother, Suyin refused. They weren’t able to get you, they were fast but Ming-Hua was faster, basically encapsulating your body in water. Bubbles of oxygen rose up to the top, everyone watched in horror as the last bubble rose from your mouth and nose. 

The Red Lotus immediately took you to the hideout that would eventually hold Korra. You woke up to a burning sensation in your chest, you rolled over and started to vomit up water mixed with the last thing you ate. Your head was pounding as you finally regained your vision that was blurry. Your clothing wasn’t the same as what you had on when you went to sleep the other night. More like rags. 

“Don’t bother trying to bend.” A man’s voice said, causing you to flinch and turn towards the voice. A man with tanned skin, broad shoulders, long black hair, and a small and thin mustache. You didn’t recognize this man so your face of confusion caused him to sigh. “I am Ghazan.” Okay, that name rang a bell. You heard of him from adults while growing up, he’s an earthbending master with the unique ability to lavabend. Metalbending was already a substyle of earthbending, but he was the only one you have ever heard of that could lavabend. Even growing up you thought it was a myth.

He also was a criminal, everything was making sense now. You tried to stand up but your chains and registrants only jiggled. “Yuh-You don’t know who I-I am.” You state, fear overtaking your body as if you could sense his power, and that fucking scared you. “You don’t think an earthbending master can’t tell one of their own?” Your eyes widened in which Ghazan just smirked and chuckled softly. “I didn’t know which type but, your face confirmed that suspension.” “Bastard.” You mumbled under your breath earning a slap to the face. “Watch your tone. You are not in control here.” 

Your eyes watered from the hit, your left cheek started to sting from that slap. You tried to bend the chains away to no avail. “Yeah keep trying, you can’t bend platinum.” Ghazan taunted and backed up to the doorway. That’s when you realized you were in a wooden cage, suspending above the ground. You started to panic. “What do you want with me?! I’m not important.” You yell, thinking that they could let you go, they obviously wouldn’t.

“We’ve been doing our best.” Kuvira said to Wei Beifong, who had been worried sick for you for two weeks now. “Well try HARDER.” He hissed and stormed off. “Wei…” Wing sighed and ran after his brother. “Listen, we all care about her and we are looking for her but there’s only so much we can do.” Wing explained to his brother that was now fuming with hatred and anger. “You didn’t care for Y/n the same way I did! You don’t understand how I fell! The person I love his captured and possibly being tortured-” His voice cracked as a few tears rolled down his cheeks. “I don’t even want to think about it.” He sniffled and quickly wiped his eyes before turning down the hall.

Your screams were deafening, this was mostly because Ghazan was burning you with lava, Ming-Hua delicately stabbing your sides with ice spikes, and Zaheer suffocating you then letting you slip unconscious. You felt so weak, like you were on the verge of death but they wouldn’t let you die. That was the worst punishment for you. You just wanted to die or see your friends and boyfriend again. Blood trickled down your leg as you blinked back tears from the spike stabbing your left thigh. Your throat was raw from screaming, so you didn’t even bother with it. Why scream? It’s been clear for weeks that no one was coming to your aid.

To your understanding, it has been five weeks since they originally brought you here. Yes, you were fed, dressed, cleaned, and you had been given water, but doesn’t mean the torture ever stopped. Each passing week they took their frustrations out on you, until you heard other’s come, murmurs of them being Airbenders. ‘Opal, oh my god Opal is with the airbenders.’ 

“Opal! Jinora! Ikki!” You scream, your voice cracking and raw, that’s when you saw then, under your cage. Oh no, these bastards took children? You weren’t anywhere close to the ground so you couldn’t even help them, shit. “Y/n? Oh my spirits you’re okay!” Opal said happily and looked up at you. “Wei? Is-Is he okay?” You whisper weakly and grip the wooden planks with your bloody and bruised body. “He’s worried, hopefully they’ll be here soon…”

It was easy, Korra is going to let the airbenders go and then they would reveal your location. Wei was nervously waiting along with the rest of the Zaofu soldiers, shaking from the anticipation and worry for his girlfriend. “She better be alive.” He mumbled under his breath as they waited on the side of the cliff, remembering the moment he found out you were taken.

Wei’s face fell when Bolin told him what had happened to you, his girlfriend, HIS Y/n. “What?” He snapped, his voice and expression going dark with murderous like intent. “Wei calm down-” Wing started, “Don’t FUCKING tell me what to do.” Wei snapped at his brother and whipped back around to Bolin. “So you’re telling me, you had her, you had them knocked out, and YET you didn’t fucking grab her? You had her in your sights and you didn’t do shit? Ha...haha.” He started to laugh a ran a shaky hand through his hair as tears started to flow down. “She’s gone...and it’s all of YOUR fault.” Wei made the ground beneath him bend into a crater as his emotions got stronger at the loss. He shoved Bolin back and stormed off, leaving a trail of tears behind. 

Wei Beifong was shattered at the loss of his first love. He never gave up hope on finding her, he made SURE everyone was looking for you. No stone was left unturned when searching for you. He was so hurt by this, he swore that the Red Lotus would be fucking obliterated for laying a finger on his Y/n.

Your vision blurred when seeing a familiar tanned skinned girl in blue, but your ears worked. “Strap the Avatar to the platinum chains, and let that earthbender down, she’s too weak to even hold her head up. Bring her to where the Avatar will be held.” The familiar voice spoke, Zaheer. Fuck sake, you were gonna die. You let out a bitter chuckle as you were dragged out of the cell by Ming-Hua and her waterbending. “You’re going to try and kill the Avatar yeah? Good luck, she’s a tough nut to crack. I doubt you’ll be able to do it.” 

Taunting earned you a firm slap to the face which made your vision get spotty and blurry for a second while your head spun. “Do you really want your last word to be bitter and taunting?” Ming asked with snark in her tone. “How’d you know? Really, I’ve been begging for the past three weeks now, thank you for finally taking that request.” You said faintly and breathlessly as you felt yourself loose consciousness. “Fuh...Fuck you...you…” You whisper as you tried to fight the sleep. ‘Damn, I really failed again huh? This shit sucks.’

Your ears rang as your eyes fluttered open, you heard movement, the earth under you was moving, you felt every vibration, you heard whooshes of fire, and a voice. Bolin? Mako? “...Y/n?! Y/n!” The familiar voice of Bolin called out to you. You coughed and looked around, moving your head. “Bo...lin?” You were weak, your voice showed that. “We have to go.” Mako said as he ran over to you, the entire cave seemed to shake. “If I’m going down, SO ARE YOU!” Ghazan yelled as boulders crashed down. The firebender scooped you up in his arms as he ran, Bolin following close behind. “Don’t drop her!” “I am not going to drop her! She weighs like nothing Bolin!” You laughed softly at their sibling bickering. 

“Tha...Thank you...Mako.” You whisper weakly, cupping his cheek. “Y/n save your energy.” Mako said, all big brother like because that’s our beloved mako. You squinted when you got outside. “Y/N?!” Wei’s voice snapped you toward the boy. He rushed over and took you from Mako’s arms. “What...what did they do to you?”

Your legs were covered in burns, gashes, bruises, your collarbone had semi-deep cuts, bruises around your neck, black eye, busted lip, bleeding nose. There wasn’t one place that wasn’t injured. Your hands seemed to be the worst. Your fingertips seemed like they were shaved down, your nails ripped out, and your knuckles bloody and bruised. 

“That doesn’t matter…” You whisper, tears running down your cheeks. “You came for me?” Your voice was soft, almost in disbelief. “Y/n, I never stopped looking.” Wei whispered back and took your hand, kissing your bloody knuckles. “Your safe now.” He said calmly as he noticed you shaking and trembling. Six weeks, that’s how long you were there. Finally, you were safe.

✨Epilogue✨

After a year of healing, you were finally able to do everything you did before you were kidnapped. When you were found, you had brain trauma from the constant suffocating and you had some nerve damage. You recovered, not fully but enough to be able to nothing for yourself, you regained your comfortability to bend again! Wei was with you every step of the way. He did his best to help you and honestly? That was enough for you. You had grown closer with his family as well, them being your family too now. I mean, you were obviously going to marry Wei so everyone accepted it. 

You fought along side them when Kuvira was being like, a major bitch, and Toph had taken a liking to you! After everything happened, a few years later once Wei and you turned 20 you finally had a wedding. Everyone was so happy, Bolin was your maid of honor because he apparently called dibs. You looked simply beautiful and Wei started crying because after everything, he’s just happy to have you, safe and sound.

[silver-wield]

(1/3) Agreeing with the 🌼 anon. That blogger didn’t use “woman empowerment” but she did use “female assertiveness”, and she’s actually an abuse victim herself. Only problem is that she seems to invalidate people who’ve had different abusive/uncomfortable and toxic experiences with behaviors like Aerith’s. I think she raises some good points about the use of the word “abusive” in fandom spaces, but her assumption that the people speaking out haven’t suffered abuse is what makes me critical.

(2/3) She’s recently talked about how Tifa forced Cloud to do things as well. I’m of the opinion that the two situations are largely different for a variety of reasons. Cloud never outright tells Tifa “no” and has it ignored. His grumping is often just a front. With Aerith, on the other hand, he’s consistently uncomfortable. Forced to take little to no pay for his work, faced with people who don’t take no for an answer, and is prevented from leaving by Aerith intercepting him.

(3/3) I said “prevented from leaving” when I should have said she exhibited some truly stalkerish behavior and jumped out at him in the darkness from an alley as he was trying to go. It’s not exactly shining behavior on her part. Especially when she then delays his leaving even more. I think it’s strange to grasp for a lot of people because Cloud doesn’t put up more of a fight, but I also think some manipulation tactics were put into play.

(4/5) Anon who agrees with 🌼 again. The issue has been bothering me a bit because she does raise a good point: why doesn’t Cloud ask anybody else for help? I was wondering if you could answer that question (no pressure, of course). What bothers me the most is that this blogger keeps assuming people are mentioning this as a way to justify hating a character. She implies that the people speaking up haven’t experienced abuse and that they only know it as an abstract concept.

(5/5) That’s incredibly damaging to a lot of people. I myself liked Aerith as a character once I got to know her better, and actually ship her with Cloud (I’m a multishipper), but there’s no ignoring that Aerith acts very strange in chapter 8, at the detriment of Cloud’s consent, comfort, time, and stability. The fact that so many people have spoken up about this isn’t a coincidence. People with bad experiences are coming out and getting disregarded. That shouldn’t be happening.

Apologies for the long post 😅 I hope you don’t mind. I’m pretty impassioned about this issue, honestly. Because I do actually agree with the blogger on multiple points, but find that she seems to keep missing the issue and hurting other people in the fandom. Cloud doesn’t need to be held at gunpoint to be put into an uncomfortable (and possibly dangerous - he doesn’t know Aerith all that well) situation. She’s right about how certain words are misused, but she’s dodging the heart of the issue.

Honestly, it’s exhausting how these people take concepts they don’t understand and slap them on shit that’s the exact opposite like if they scream they’re right enough people will believe them. 

It takes as long as your browser and typing speed to look shit up.

Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive.

WITHOUT.

Assertiveness is not gender oriented, so what the fuck even are people blabbing about now? Female assertiveness? Gimme a break. Being assertive is a character trait. Some people are naturally assertive, while others need to learn how to stand up for themselves. Like a particular spiky haired protagonist.

Aerith’s not assertive, she’s pushy because she doesn’t respect Cloud, and respect is part of being assertive. Being able to get your point across without being a douchebag about it. Like how certain people are constantly screaming how they’re right and dragging everyone else through the mud. Those people aren’t assertive because assertiveness is a positive trait. It implies confidence in oneself and one’s ideals. There’s no need to be a dick to people because they believe in their viewpoint and see no reason to pull others down. 

Ex: I’m both assertive and can be a dick because one of my other traits is petty bench, but on the whole I’m assertive without activating that petty bench mode until people piss me off because I operate on a respect and respect alike policy. If people come to me and give me shit then they shouldn’t expect flowers in exchange. 

Back to the thing.

Aerith talks over Cloud, ignores his opinion, bullies him into doing what she wants “this is the plan, Cloud, and you’ll learn to love it” and deliberately ignores the fact he says no. That line creeps me tf out and it obviously does Cloud too because he literally steps up to her and says “what?” in an aggressive voice. Cloud has a limit and Aerith was very close to going over it. 

Cloud. said. no.

And guess what? Cloud’s not assertive. Not for himself. Not until he’s pushed beyond normal means.

He couldn’t say no to Jessie, despite not being happy about the job. He couldn’t refuse to help Aerith, despite not wanting to fight Reno -- he knows how tough Turks are, he’s not an idiot -- and then he got compensated with a date that made Reno call him a weirdo (and he never accepted it either, so Aerith’s yet another person in sector 5 who took him for a fool). So, yeah, no goddamn wonder Cloud’s reluctant to argue when Aerith could ruin his hard won reputation inside of an afternoon. He says “That wasn’t the deal” when she tries to force him to stay, but can’t keep insisting when that doesn’t work. Because Cloud is shy af. Were people not paying attention to the promise? To CC? That’s real Cloud and real Cloud makes up the core of soldier Cloud. He’s a shy, awkward boy who could barely speak to his crush. He didn’t get along with others because he’s introverted. He’s quiet and reserved. Just because he kicks all the ass doesn’t change that about him. 

Cloud isn’t a talker. Everyone knows this about him. It’s a canon fact. So, not being a talker, being reserved, quiet, introverted, unable to speak up for his own sake when he wants something that together showcases someone who isn’t good at standing up for himself. He tries. He tried so hard to refuse Aerith, but he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He either got lost trying to get home or he put up with the pushy girl who keeps making him do shit he doesn’t want to. He sighs and pulls faces and doesn’t look happy. He wants to go home. He still said no several times to her whenever she tried to waylay him further. She didn’t care about what he wanted. That doesn’t make her assertive. It makes her the asshole because she has no respect for him.

People think that because he called Jessie desperate that it meant he wanted to stay with Aerith. That he’s capable of speaking up for himself. Nope With Jessie, he’d had a long ass day of work and longer ass night, been excluded by both Barret and the Avalanche trio, made to break into Jessie’s house (which doesn’t sit well with Cloud’s actual moral compass), then did a bunch more difficult shit fighting off Shinra and then literally jumped off the plate. Okay?! Cloud had a long ass day and it was like 4am by that point and he was tired. Anybody tries to say after that much work they’d be nice Imma call them a goddamn liar. 

Aerith refused to tell Cloud the way home, absolutely prevented him from leaving, made him do a bunch of work for shitty or no pay, belittled and insulted him, then barricaded the hallway so he couldn’t escape and stalked him to the exit when he escaped. He literally pulls a yessh face after reluctantly agreeing to let her show him how to get home. And then when they get there she withholds vital information for how he can actually get into the sector (or did people not notice him saying the giant gate was shut too?) until she gets what she wants out of him. And he sighs. Again. He has no say in anything because Aerith doesn’t listen to anyone but herself. The only reason he starts being nice to her is she tries to get info about Zack out of him and Cloud’s a nice guy who feels sorry for her. He knows he’ll never see her after this (or did people also misinterpret that reaction to Elmyra? Probably, since the only person he’d want to make a normal life with is Tifa, so being told he can’t is gonna get a reaction duh), so why be a dick to a girl who’s obviously upset about her boyfriend? Literally the second he saw Tifa -- barely even saw her because he knew that was her from the back of her head, her shoulder and hands -- he ran to her. He forgot Aerith even existed. But, sure, please do focus on the fact that he respected Tifa enough to do as she asked after an entire goddamn day of being disrespected by someone else. He’s not gonna treat Tifa the way he was just treated by Aerith. He actually cares about her.

And what did they think the message in Stand Up was? It’s not about dancing ffs. Andrea’s telling Cloud not to be afraid to be himself. That means speaking up for himself too, not about being real Cloud, which is a message he wouldn’t even understand at that point because he’s soldier Cloud and not aware of real Cloud. Andrea figured out Cloud right away. He saw a boy who’d do anything for the woman he loved, even let himself get pressured into something he’d be embarrassed by. That’s what stand up means in relation to Cloud. 

Tifa never forced Cloud to do anything. She asked him to go with her to collect filter money, then immediately backtracked when she realised she’d have to pay him for that too. Cloud agreed and smiled at her. She also let him keep all of the money they got, which in the end gave him a grand total of 2150 gil, not the 2000 he was promised, so they overpaid him to make up for the delay.

She also asked him after the first quest “what do you want to do now?” and he said “Dunno,” so she made a suggestion. There’s no force behind that. He could refuse and go take a nap or something. She spent the day getting him work and helping him with that work, so much so that he was fully prepared to split the fee with her. Unlike with Aerith. 

I could go on and on about this because I’ve gone over that chapter so many times. I don’t just replay odd chapters to get stuff, I replay the entire game, so I get to see the development of everything as it unfolds and see those connections between things that I overlooked before because I was too busy looking at something else. People think because they spend umpteen hours in sector 5 that Cloud did too. Nope. Cloud was there for around 11 hours before he left.

It was morning when he woke and since in December the sun would rise around 8am, that’s the earlier possible time that it could’ve been. In fact it could’ve been later. Cloud and Aerith spend several hours getting back to the sector so that it’s close to dinner time when they arrive. She then makes him do odd jobs for a few hours and then they eat and Cloud has a nap -- because he literally has a dream. You know, that thing people keep clinging to. He can’t dream if he’s not asleep. When he wakes up it’s dark and since it’s past dinner time, it’s around 6-7pm when he escapes and makes for the sector 6 exit. And that’s chapter 8. 

Chapter 9 takes around 4 hours for them to complete. They spend a couple of hours fighting in the coliseum, then Cloud messes around while Aerith’s getting ready, which from Madam M seems to take around an hour. That leaves the rest of the time for the honey bee inn show, getting Cloud changed, walking to Corneo’s and the bit in the dungeon. Then they get dropped in the sewers. 

Do you see how little time Cloud actually spent with Aerith? He’s known her for like 15 hours total before he reunites with Tifa. And people think he fell in love with her? Ew. Even Disney knew better than to try that. 

[jadipose]

Yeah. At least YOU know that you're beautiful and lovable. Hopefully no one who discriminates can ever take that away from you.

I'm built like a frickin bulldo+zer and I lo+ve it, ho+nestly. My partner do+esn't care abo+ut my size and I find myself beautiful, so+ who+ cares what everyo+ne else may think!

[shady-item-shop]

Yeah, ðat sounds right...

⮚ ðey sa-id you "torture stuff"... ho-nestly, i don't bu-y it.

⮚ ...oh ye-ah, ðat must b-e it.

Well, how do you know? Ðere are a lot of houses wið huge robot legs! /src

⮚ ...

Okay, sorry. Ðat wasn't funny.

[@shady-item-shop]

(Cassilda hasn't noticed you, presumably because Shady is tiny and Cassilda is in a boiler room. Kschwal, try writing a letter or something.)

[jerboadoesart]

"plays a very interesting character" are you talking about the fact how for a long stretch i was the most feared person in the server until i got 1v4ed and eliminated, reclusing into my sad fate as a simple neutral town owner before even having that destroyed? idfk bro im still mad about that shit

i mean

yeah id say thats definitely a maj(-)r part (-)f "very interesting character" like t(-) me, [talking ab(-)ut the CHARACTER fr(-)m n(-)w (-)n and n(-)t like. *y(-)u* y(-)u.] karkrak's interesting because (-)f b(-)th the things that happen t(-) him and the things he causes. thats a G(-)(-)D thing!! hes n(-)t just sitting in the whirlwind (-)ther characters cause and g(-)ing "this is fine," but hes n(-)t c(-)mpletely unb(-)thered by what (-)ther pe(-)ple d(-) either. he makes stuff happen and has t(-) deal with what (-)ther pe(-)ple cause as well

s3 karkrak especially was SUPER interesting t(-) me. i have a s(-)rt (-)f biased perspective here (-)fc, having *been* (-)ne (-)f the characters interacting with him rather than an (-)utside (-)bserver, but the VIBES he gave (-)ff were s(-) intense: it felt like he was saying, with(-)ut w(-)rds, "i DO have power [despite having been knocked down], i AM worth fearing [i can and will spring back up again], and there IS something im hiding" which is s(-)mething i find s(-) c(-)(-)l!

h(-)nestly i r(-)tate the l(-)re tri(-) [karkrak, tricky, cr(-)w] in my head s(-) (-)ften because theyre just that interesting t(-) me. 90% (-)f my th(-)ughts ab(-)ut em cant really be put int(-) w(-)rds wndfjksndfjiiasxjkamsnd

..yeah i went (-)ff (-)n an unrelated tangent here asgewsdfghnhewqsdfg