#nik; [corrupt]

[kazifatagar]

No Corruption in Flood Mitigation Projects: Nik Nazmi Now Says

Natural Resources, Environment, and Climate Change Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad refutes corruption allegations in flood mitigation projects, countering Bersatu leader’s claims of inflated costs. Nik Nazmi clarifies that the government reviewed high-priority projects with a set Finance Ministry ceiling of RM11.8 billion, not RM16.6 billion as alleged. Social Media Links Follow us…

[mrsparrasblog]

I just listened to "My Tears Ricochet" and had an idea.

TW: Angst *laughs in free therapy*

So, imagine the boys need to fake their deaths. How macabre it is that they attend their own funerals, wanting to watch their loved ones. (These are standalone scenarios they don't fake their death together)

Price: You were his wife for all these years, always waiting for him to return. The funny thing was you could clearly remember the last argument before he left.

"Love, just one more tour, and I'm coming back to you. Then we can start a family and all that, but the boys need me."

"It's always the last tour with you. When is it really the last?"

"This time, I promise."

To some extent, he was right. You thought it was his last tour, but it wasn’t fair. You knew it was over when you got the call from General Shepard. Your husband was dead. You lost the love of your life, and all you got were his dog tags and a check large enough to end world hunger. You slapped your friend after she said at least you were financially secure now.

Price watched you from behind a tree. He saw how you clung to his grave, hugging it tightly and lying on it as you always used to with him. Your dress was dirty, and the tears wouldn’t come anymore.

When Laswell and Nik approached you, you screamed at them, blaming them for not protecting your husband. You trusted them, and now you couldn't bear to let anyone else near his grave. John wished he could comfort you, tell you he would come back to protect you, but he couldn’t. Instead, he sent Simon, who endured all your insults, screams, and even a punch to his crooked nose until you were ready to move on.

Kyle: You and Kyle were born on the same day, in the same room, in the same hospital. It was like a movie; he was your best friend since forever, your first everything, and you were his. It was a love like in all those movies. The only thing separating you was the military, but you stayed home waiting for him. Not even war could separate you. Last year, he brought you that ring. You remember lying in bed, cuddling him as he promised you that you were allowed to die first. He knew you wouldn’t survive his death. So he made the silly promise that you would die first. He thought it was the first promise he ever broke to you.

Kyle had to be held back when he saw you crying at his grave. “Guess I’ll find you in the next one, love. Sleep well.”

Ghost: He was never good at love, and he was sure no one would come to his funeral. No one knew "Ghost," and Simon Riley had been buried since 2009. But then he saw you, the cute medic he always tried to push away. He was afraid of hurting you or corrupting you. How could he have known that pushing you away wouldn’t stop you from loving a dead man?

All the conversations came flooding back:

"Here, Lt. I made you red velvet cookies, your favorite."

"You're going to sit down and let me fix that, idiot."

"You're beautiful, Ghost."

"You're enough."

"It's kind of silly to be in love with someone whose name you didn’t even know. I hope you find your peace, big boy." You placed lilies on his grave and left. In that moment, Simon Riley realized he was loved, and he would burn the world down to come back from the dead just to return to you.

Johnny: Contrary to popular belief among the team, Johnny wasn’t a whore. He was a loving husband and father. That was written above "Sergeant" on his grave, at least.

His funeral was crowded with people who wanted to pay their last respects. Most of them were blue-eyed MacTavishes. Then there was you, holding your three-year-old in your arms. He didn’t understand why everyone was crying or why Dad wasn’t there anymore.

Johnny watched you sit at his grave, sighing as you talked to your husband. "James doesn’t understand what’s going on, but he misses you. He wanted me to give him a mohawk. It looks ridiculous, just like you. I know you’re rocking it in heaven. Just please wait for me, okay? Don’t want you to hoe around in heaven," you chuckled, holding back the tears. "You watch us from there, right? Can’t miss the birth of your princess, can you?"

[celestialprincesse]

𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧 𝐆𝐨 - 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞

More Nik just 4 you🫵😚 Trying to make this reasonably slow burn but I just want them to fuck😔

Pts 1 & 2 here!

Nikto is shitting himself. In his enthusiasm to make amends with you, to spend time with you, he completely disregarded his greatest issue. He can't eat with his mask on. He can't very well show you his face when you look like the human embodiment of Tinkerbell, and he looks like - he doesn't really know what he looks like.

Whilst your neighbour is in crisis, you're perfectly happy to flit about your house, debating whether to wear your favourite pink miniskirt or a lacy white dress. The white would compliment the pretty satin kitten heels you're wedded on, and the virginal, snow coloured lingerie set you hope is finally seen by someone who's not you, or your mirror. Your hair is perfectly styled, lipgloss applied with meticulous precision. The outfit is the only spanner in your otherwise beautifully constructed works. You're so giddy that you feel sick.

Your neighbour shares a similar struggle in selecting his outfit, realising that he hasn't taken a woman on a date in a long time, and since then, his muscles have outgrown the sleeves of the suit in the back of his closet, and the pants to match are as moth eaten and neglected as his heart. Of course he wants to look as though he's making an effort - doesn't want to make you feel anymore unwanted by him than you already do, and yet most of his clothes make him look more monolith than man, no decent fit for a woman so soft and feminine as you.

You'd never have expected him to turn up on your doorstep with flowers. Peonies with fluffy pink petals, gently wrapped in a sheet of brown paper, tied up with blush lace. Kind of like you. He would never have dreamed of the way you fling your arms around his neck, tits straining against the thin alabaster fabric of your little dress. "You like them?" He rumbles thickly into your ear, flowers hanging at his side as he wraps his free arm loosely around your back, pushing the thoughts of how the plush skin of your ass would feel in his hands. "They're wonderful." You breathe, taking a sudden step back at the realisation that you've just entirely invaded his precious personal space.

"I need to tell you something." He murmurs, words coming thick from his throat, his confession trapped down in his chest, safe where no one can find it. "Of course, anything." The gentleness in your tone only makes him hesitate further. Why should he corrupt such a soft thing like you? Tie you down to a beast like him? "I am - I need to tell you something, and I understand if you do not want to spend time with me anymore. I am deformed."

Biting your tongue feels practically impossible. You so desperately want to reassure him. How do you tell him that you can see his laundry room window perfectly from your kitchen where you spend most of your time. How do you tell him that you've seen the scars he hides when he puts his mask in the washing machine.

"That's okay." You nod reassuringly. Why is there so much care in your eyes?

"You're sure? I am not handsome." You just want him to let you in. So desperately.

"I promise."

I'm so sorry for writing such short chapters but I need these two to get down and dirty rn💕

[st-el-la-luna]

El's COD Kinktober 2024

I figured this would be a good way to keep my blog alive. Expect short pieces, and missed days. But I will do my best

NSFW Minors DNI

1. SOMNOPHILIA: JOHNNY "SOAP" MACTAVISH

Soap wakes up to you moaning in your sleep. He helps you make your dreams a reality.

➳ gnlafab!reader, wet dreams, somnophilia, dry humping, fingering, premature ejaculation, use of "pup" once

2. Sensory Deprivation/Blindfolds: John Price x Reader

Somehow it's better when you don't know it's coming

3. Double Penetration: Alejandro Vargas and Rodolfo Parra x Reader

Your Colonel and Sergeant comfort you the day after a bad date

4. Lingerie: Simon "Ghost" Riley x Reader

You want to surprise Ghost for his birthday. Things go wrong, in perhaps the best way.

5. Mommy Kink: Philip Graves x Reader

After a particularly long mission and several bad months at the company, Graves' spirits are low. He needs someone to take care of him, to tell him he's good

6. Threesome: Kyle "Gaz" Garrick and König x Reader

KorTac has been working alongside Task Force 141 for a while now. Kyle has always had his eye on you, but it becomes clear that the Austrian giant feels the same. Tensions rise between the two until they decide to prove which of them is best once and for all

7. Restraints: Kim "Horangi" Hon-jin x Reader

Horangi is in debt to you and your going to teach him a lesson: either he pays you back monetarily or...

8. Body Worship: Alex Keller x Reader 

Alex thinks every inch of your body is perfect. And he won't stop telling you until he's sure you believe it too.

9. Face Sitting: Kyle "Gaz" Garrick x Reader

Gaz overhears you telling Soap you've never enjoyed receiving oral. He decides to change that

10. Exhibitionism: Nikolai x Reader

Nik likes to show you off whenever he can. The Task Force has been eyeing you too much as of late. He reminds them who you belong to.

11. Thigh Fucking: König x Reader

König is just too big

12. Breeding: Simon "Ghost" Riley x Reader

Mid-fuck, Ghost let's slip that he wants to be a mommy.

13. Overstimulation: Rodolfo Parra x Reader

After everything that happened with the Shadow Company, you're just glad to have him back. Your relief at his wellbeing quickly becomes more and, well, you have a lot of stress to work off. But he can take it.

14. Free Use: Kyle "Gaz" Garrick x Reader 

You and Kyle have an agreement. Whatever either of you want to do, whenever you want to do it. You both enjoy your agreement.

15. Blood Kink: Nikto x Reader

Nikto comes to your door, desperate. You tell him you can't, you're on your period. Blood has never bothered him before, why would it now?

16. Dry Humping: John "Soap" MacTavish x Reader 

You can't, it's a sin... Luckily even God leaves loopholes.

17. Uniform Kink: Philip Graves x Reader

He can't get enough of the way you look, all dressed up for this event. And you can't get enough of him in his dress uniform.

18. Cockwarming: Alejandro Vargas x Reader 

There's nothing Alejandro likes more than coming home to you. And to his second home, between your legs.

19. Pegging: Alex Keller x Reader

One of his friends bought it as a gag gift. You laughed. Alex didn't.

20. Oral Fixation: Kyle "Gaz" Garrick x Reader

Gaz notices how you've always got something in your mouth; a pencil, gum, a lollipop. He can tell it calms you. At a formal event, he senses your stress and gives you something to help ground yourself.

21. Corruption Kink/Loss of Virginity: Johnny "Soap" MacTavish x Reader

After months of dating and never doing more than make out, you ask Soap when you're going to, well, do it. His answer surprises you, and you learn something about yourself that's even more surprising.

22. Spit: König x Reader 

In the heat of an argument you spit at your Colonel's feet.

23. Choking: Simon "Ghost" Riley x Reader

An accidental training misshap leaves Ghost reeling, you help pull him in.

24. Werewolf: Keegan P Russ x Reader

Little Red Riding Hood, you should know better than to wander the woods at night alone. Especially tonight.

25. Spanking: John Price x Reader

John decides to get you back for slapping his ass in front of his men.

26. Predator/Prey: Valeria Garza x Reader

You and Valeria play a game of hide and seek with a twist...

27. Praise: John Price x Reader

Joyn worries he isn't good enough, that he's gone too often. That he's a bad person. You assure him none of its true.

28. Boot Worship: Simon "Ghost" Riley x Reader

You show Simon your new boots. He reacts unexpectedly.

29. Hair Pulling: John "Soap" MacTavish x Reader

You accidentally grab his hair during a spar. He moans like a whore.

30. Cumplay: Poly!141 x Reader

Soap had an idea for a fun game. You're just surprised he was able to rope the others into it too.

31. Wild Card

[c-rowlesdraws]

The thrilling follow-up to The Magnus Archives But Make It 80's, hot and fresh for this Halloween season! 15 Entities, 30 top hits from the 80’s— two songs per Entity. I've been listening to Protocol and selectively re-listening to TMA lately, and felt inspired. Track list and key below the cut:

(some songs fit their entities lyrically, and some just have titles that made me laugh)

The Buried

Take My Breath Away - Berlin

Locked In - Judas Priest

The Corruption

Poison - Alice Cooper

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

The Dark

Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer

Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge

The Desolation

I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen

Burnin' For You - Blue Öyster Cult

The End

You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band

Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine

The Eye

Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project

Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics

The Flesh

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Footloose - Kenny Loggins

The Hunt

Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen

Eaten Alive - Diana Ross

The Lonely

Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen

Alone - Heart

The Slaughter

Toy Soldiers - Martika

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

The Spiral

She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

Where Is My Mind? - Pixies

The Stranger

Don't Talk To Strangers - Rick Springfield

Somebody's Knockin' - Terri Gibbs

The Void

Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes

Higher Love - Steve Winwood

The Web

Who's Zoomin' Who? - Aretha Franklin

Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart

The Extinction

I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Nik Kershaw

1999 - Prince

[urlocalwormtoday]

i was rewatching the first time the albatrio met Nik and when Gillian first made the deal with him, and I just wanted to point out/bring attention back to some things regarding all of their deals :D

the specific phase of the moon used in the NK tattoo represents corruption, as opposed to the sun, which represents freedom and life. Griz said they were similar to the yin and yang, and we see this again later with the sun and the moon temple

mayor Rolin said that, before he was overcome with the black ooze, the number of voices in his head had multiplied and he wasn't able to properly function, SO LOOK OUT FOR THAT Y'ALL IN FUTURE EPISODES ‼️‼️ (I also do want to point out that when chip first entered the hole in the sea he did hear whispers, sooo.. 🤨)

since Jay is off attempting to warn Lizzie before the Grandberry Pirates all get ambushed, Chip, Gill, Drey, and Gryffon are all alone in the hole. Chips deal rules that he cannot interfere with Gillions favor, meaning that no one except Gryffon and Drey can stop whatever Niklaus orders of him. and also considering the point where we left off Drey was missing, I don't have high hopes T-T

the wording behind Chips deal is very vague, I've noticed. it simply says he cannot interfere, but it was never elaborated on whether or not it would magically keep him from interfering, or if it would compel him not to, or if he did there would be repercussions, it's all very confusing. intentionally confusing, I assume, bc it's confusing but in the smart way

Jay's deal essentially gives Niklaus the ability to order her to do anything to anyone, excluding Chip and Gill. this could very well mean she could be ordered to kill Lizzie or Edyn or Caspian or even her own dad @_@

on the flipside, it ALSO means Jay could be ordered to release someone she was about to kill, or protect someone who's naturally her enemy

[homosexualgirlandbags]

There's a certain kind of pain from watching your loved one rot away in front of your eyes.

Watching the man you've spent decades with, grow old and waste away, bits and parts of his brain eventually devoured by age, whilst you stay immortal, standing still in the sands of time, your skin flawless and perfect. An anchor in time

How could you grief a man that's still alive anyways? How could you celebrate life when the man you've sworn to heaven and hell is actively degrading in front of you? Sitting in a wheelchair with a ventilator following him around?

The pain seems bone wrecking when Nik stands in front of Price, and watches the man's milky eyes take him in fully, before finally recognising him. The way John stutters over his name, how his chest heaves with even the most simplest of words. (Like muttering a loved one's name, a name that should be engraved in his memories by now) He watches as John stays quiet, allowing Nik to push him around the garden, occasionally stopping down to watch the flowers and ducks, pointing at the direction he wishes to go. Silence following them, filling the air with whispered hopes and dreams.

John's time on Earth was most definitely limited. Unlike Nik, who had seen the face of several wars and great empires rise and fall, John will soon vanish with time, left as another body for Nik to mourn six feet under dirt. His body will eventually decompose, and serve as fertilizer for the land around him. His grave will rot and grow with time, before ending up as another nameless stone tucked into a small corner of the earth. Nothing to remember him by, nothing that's permanent at least.

Nik watches as John slowly gets up, only to nearly damn collapse from the lack of use of his muscles, saved by Nik hastily holding him. It reminds him of how little time he has left, how eventually he would have to remember John's face from a photo instead, how he already needs videos to remember how John had sounded. Memories would only fade and distort with time. And Nik realises the mortality of John Price fully for the first time. How in another century or so, he would not have the equipment to access videos of Price anymore, left with only the corrupted memories of a loved one gone to help.

The next time he visits, John takes a little more time to recognise the face of his lover, still never questioning how Nik looked no older. He stays for the whole day, wheeling John around before letting him walk around with a walker.

The next time he sees John, it was in the picture of a younger face smiling at him, etched in stone. Bundles of snowdrops flower (the favourite flowers of a man he'll never see again) spread around his grave. Another nameless man in history, to be swept away by time and technology until Nik could no longer remember the face he once held dear to his heart.

[criminallyyoursvn]

If Nik had met the MC in elementary school, would his obsession have taken root even earlier, shaping his possessiveness as they grew? Would he have clung to them, craving their attention and growing jealous of anyone who got too close?

And if the MC later forgot him—whether due to transferring schools or simply drifting apart—how would he react? (Especially since as adults we work in the same building) Would he be devastated, or would it only fuel a desperate determination to reclaim his place in their life? Would he track them down, manipulate circumstances to cross paths again, or silently watch from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to remind them of what they once had?

Also, I absolutely loved criminally yours like, omg it was a treat to play, already can't wait for part 2 👏🥲❤️

It 1000% would have formed much sooner yes. It’s just a part of his personality. He would have been corrupted a lot sooner 😅

He’d be devastated if that happened, but Nik believes he can do anything he sets his mind to- so his priority would be to make it so he could be in their life again, and use their past as leverage. It would probably make getting together a little easier.

Thank you so much! Part 2 is going to be a whole meal by comparison, we’ve got a lot of fun things planned 🤩 💖

[urlocalrambler]

devils night: unpopular opinion: michael crist edition.

michael was actually such a bad friend if you really think about it. this is so ironic because his character is built off the fact that he's diehard for his friends to the point of having insane loyalty to them. he's supposed to be loyal to the point where he chooses to torment rika for that friendship's sake, to the level where he struggles with choosing love/rika over the guys in corrupt.

but like,, he was also so rubbish as a friend and person. it may have been due to oversight and PD not thinking about the overarching relationships that clearly, but c'mon, michael escaped prison while his friends were sent in and has huge guilt over this...

yet, he never once thinks to help damon's sister, who he KNOWS exists and who he knows would be SUFFERING in a house run by big, bad gabriel torrance. he knows his best friend is in jail, that she was the only family damon cared about to the point of keeping her under wraps and hidden away from everyone, and yet, michael never reaches out or tries to help banks??

and michael also knows kai is agonising over her in hideaway, they're actively against damon at this time and he has this top secret info to his name, yet he never thinks to tell kai who banks really is. everyone (including PD) uses the argument michael minds his own business, but no he fucking doesn't, if he did then he never would've messed with nik back during devils night or threatened her at the hotel.

the fact is that we should've either gotten a humanising moment/mention of michael actually being sweet for once in his life, and see him at least keeping an eye on banks if not reaching out while damon was in prison (although, i think it would've been a great platonic bonding scene if he had sought her out before the events of hideaway even if it's just to offer her an out that she may not take, or to simply ask how she is). OR, michael perving on banks that one night, him discovering she's damon's sister– that whole thread should've been omitted because it honestly made no sense to me and just made me dislike michael even more.

[h999pe]

"’Perfect’ makes you corrupted."

True Name: [REDACTED BY S]

Chosen Name: Artemis

Nicknames: Arte, Art, “A Work of Arte.”

Age killed at - 17

True Age - 738

Birthday: 12/17

Species: Goddess, “Demon”

Disabilities/Mental Illnesses: Autism, PTSD... alot more...

Dislikes: Lambs, hickeys, static.

Height: 5’6

Weight: 89 lbs

Scent: Lavender

Pronouns: Any. Prefers She/Her, though.

Sexual Orientation: Pansexual

Relationship status: Married

Love Interest: Archeon

Children: Seth, Alice, Claire

Text color: Red

Depictions in art:

credits to @iampinkponygoddammit

Close friends: Archeon, Zailyn, Nora, Pancakepieman45, etc.

Powers: Manipulation, tendrils, flowers, abyss.

Weaknesses: References to the past, her father, fire.

Backstory:

Originally born as a sacrificial lamb, Artemis was used and used over again for their own favor.

Once finally dying at 17, she was reborn as an angel with her parents being two gods, Atlas and Anastasia. After an... event, that happened when she was four, Artemis seemed to have hated being touched ever since.

Ascending to divinity at 16, she had become a Goddess of Peace.

—

Personality:

Before the abyss: Absolutely despises touch and humans, will push someone away and scream at them if she feels the slightest graze. Barely trusts anyone, only a few select people. Would get overwhelmed alot. Her mood will change depending on the rotting.

After the abyss: More prone to touch, will allow more people to generally touch her, due to the abyss saying that she should embrace it and that what happened when she was four was her fault. Will run off at times to go speak to… something, it seems to be the prophet. More easy to get corrupted.

Artemis' Signature Song(s) -

Voice claim(s) -

Before abyss:

After abyss:

Tags:

Artemis Posting - Normal posts. (Will NOT be used when she is trapped into the abyss.)

Inquiries Answered - Used for asks.

Prayers Answered - Used for roleplays, or for prayers.

Words Spilled - Used for poetry, or when she is trapped in the abyss.

. . .

[panchulien]

Unrelated, but Reznov's speech that went like

"What is left to believe in, when you are betrayed, by your own? When all that you are, all that you have done, is buried beneath the lies and deceit of corrupt men."

made me think of Nikolai. I feel like they'd understand each other, as fellow soldiers/patriots who were let down by their countries. Though Viktor is more driven by revenge.

I say let down about Nikolai because of that one conversation with Laswell "You think he's working for the Kremlin?" & "I wouldn't be surprised."

Probably not worth thinking too much over, but Reznovs speech reminded me of Nik.

[soph-the-podcast-nerd]

Questions I have about the hello from the hallowoods world that may or may not be answered later in the show idk I’m only on S3

ill just keep adding to this as time goes on

also im keeping it to mostly world building kinda stuff so there shouldn’t be a ton of spoilers

How were deserts affected by the black rains? Obviously there is very little rainfall in those areas, so does it take longer to affect things? Note: I asked Mx. Wellman this question here

Does it go the same way for rainforests and other very wet areas? Are rainforests like a do-not-enter zone because of how much the black rain has corrupted the area?

3. Why do all the entities/gods have the same formula for their names, phonetically speaking? For example:

nikignik is nik-ee-nik

Xyzikxyz is ziz-ik-ziz

Syrensyr is siy-rin-sire

Tolshotol is tol-sheh-tol

Lolgmololg is lolg-meh-lolg

so like, its an A-B-A kinda thing

[celestialprincesse]

you're so real for your response to the anon that wanted nikto and fem reader to hurry up and bangalang nasty style

i want them to have the most deep, delicious, heart-healing, back arching, desperate, trusting, nasty bangalang EVER

imo that man WOULD be rough no doubt, but not on the first time

Thank you!! I very much am foaming at the mouth thinking about them doing the nasty, but I need to do Nik justice because he deserves EVERYTHING💕🫶 He's literally scared to be in the same room as my soft fem reader angel baby - he's that concerned about his appearance, and scaring her with it. When they do eventually have sex, it'll be when they're both comfortable around each other, and he finally trusts her enough to show her all the painful parts of him. I think also he still doesn't trust himself to a certain extent, not used to having such lovely, beautiful things, and he's genuinely terrified that he'll hurt or corrupt her. She's so much stronger than he thinks, but is also the most patient, understanding and non-judgemental person there is.

Some kind of higher being must've put them together, because they're just so right for each other.💕🎀

Sorry for ranting!! I'm so!! so!! invested in them!!🫶💖

[mariemarieohcontrary]

Choices MCs (Filipino Edition lol)

《Next》

Finally drew four of my Choices MCs inspired by @cassiopeiacorvus and her wonderfully done OC compilations (how do you have the patience to draw all of em omg)

I'm thinking of doing the same for my Romance Club MCs too (background would be the purple of the homescreen there)

Interested in commissioning me? Click the source! 💗

Evangeline Marie G. (Guzman) Lakandula - Ah yes, my soft, anxious babie with self-worth issues. She comes from a messy background with a horrible father. She was close to her late (paternal) grandparents and had a very complicated relationship with her late mother. One of her relatives shes v close to is her older cousin, Ethan.

She's a college dropout thanks to her father's bad choices and worked the moment she had a chance to.

After her mother passed, that was it for Evangeline. She kinda needed to go away from her dad and his loud voice and other issues. So she left home and Ethan helped her out before he left for a business trip abroad.

He had her go to a house he owned in Laguna where she could live in provided she just do the cleaning in there. She found simple work that she was qualified for and that was her life for the next few years until a certain bachelor party came into her life.

Diwa Kalangitan M. (Masangga) del Rosario - My chaotic good and very protective MC who definitely rabbleroused in the school she works in.

She was raised in a household that follows some precolonial beliefs and traditions. She has a stepfather who's an albularyo and two half-siblings. One is studying in college, the other is still in high school. She has a close relationship to both her parents.

And she is rather happy with her job as a teacher in a private school. Sure she sometimes goes against curriculum to make sure the kids enjoy her lessons. She's a class advisor also so when she found out their math teacher humiliated one of her students, she confronted said teacher.

Her trip to America is really just a birthday trip until the events of the book started. In the end she ends up in a poly relationship with Nik and Cal. (She does end up pointing out to the boys that she'll have to go back to her work and family at least just to properly resign and find work near them and also to assure her family she's safe.)

Maya Chelidonia C. (Caacbay) dela Rosa - The local tired detective who had to move abroad for their own safety. Love them SM.

Maya is the child of Jaime dela Rosa, a cop in the Philippines who does not follow in corrupt practices and tries to do right by the community. He was killed after coincidentally seeing signs of corruption in the force and wanting to expose it.

After their father's death, Maya also followed in his footsteps. On their end, they wanted to try and do some good in their job but ended up experiencing some discrimination in the work force. Enter them finding the same evidence of corruption that their father found as well. This time they managed to expose the corruption but in the end, one of their few friends in the force warned them that they'll have to flee the country due to some v angry officials.

So they fled with their mother and younger sister.

Their sister became a fashion designer. Maya found work as a private detective and the two teamed up to be able to live a decent life. Their sister travels with their mom on fashion shows. They're fine living nearby their maternal uncle with their dog, Spudge. (He's a scaredy cat and a lil crybaby who doesn't like strangers and by that I mean he starts crying when the strangers notice him. It's not out of trauma, he just likes Maya and their fam more than anyone else and is v shy with others. He's also scared of the dark and loud noises.)

Inocencia Honorata G. (Galang) Valenciano - and finally, my love's embarrassing bby. My Rafael Aveiro romancer. Love her sm.

She and her mom, older brother and little sister ran away from their father when they were a kid. Her parents annulled their marriage after a few years.

Her older brother became the youngest lawyer in the country and had a firm in New York seek him out. This led to him helping Inocencia and her sister (who had skipped grades and managed to enter college the same year as Inocencia).

Inocencia is v non-competitive that she chose De La Salle University while her sister went to their grandfather’s alma mater, University of the Philippines. At college, Inocencia got dubbed as SiaSia because of the repeated -cia in her first name and surname.

The two got accepted into Edenbrook when they were gonna start. Inocencia being 27 and her sister being 25. By then, Inocencia still isn't competitive and didn't sign up for the competition for the diagnostics team but her little sister shoved her to try it out.

[cod-dump]

https://www.tumblr.com/nowhen-but-now/718457890981183488/having-lived-in-bucharest-i-can-tell-you-he-would?source=share

So Nik is literally Not Allowed to drive any vehicle on the ground unless the goal is to run down a target as fast as inhumanly possible (see CoD:MW 2019). Literally everyone except Price would rather get in a car with Ghost behind the wheel than Nik. Price just got used to it and he's ruined.

Rumor has it Price used to drive fairly well, then he spent too much time with Nik and just forgot how to be a decent driver. This lead to Price 'corrupting' Ghost and now 141 has three grown men who are not allowed to drive because they refuse to follow basic road safety and break every law imaginable. Laswell has countlessly had to cover up the damage the three have done while behind the wheel.

One time Laswell, Soap, and Gaz were waiting for Price, Ghost, and Nik to show up at the safe house and they just see this massive (very stolen) truck come crashing through a field beside the safe house. The truck jumps a ditch, swerves through the yard (tire marks are everywhere), and slides to a stop in front of the house. The three are staring, jaws dropped, as Nik climbs out of the driver's side, Price out of the passenger, and Ghost out of the back.

All three men are unbothered by their entrance and just ask Laswell if they need to run to the store to grab anything. Price and Ghost ignore Laswell when she asks what happened to the small, unmarked car they originally left with and Nik just shrugs while saying "It couldn't handle it".

[crimsonlyinglilly]

DAY 9: necromancy

More of @febuwhump, still on catch up, just ten days behind-ish

Back to Stolen Three, Kol learns a key fact of his life was a lie and puts together three missing older siblings and the three odd but powerful wishes he's met.

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Kol really thinks she's lost her mind.

His mother after failing to kill them once, succeeding in getting him alone killed decided to bring him back to work with her against his Siblings.

The siblings he had always been closer to than her.

He had woken in some poor witch’s body with Esther in another even younger witches body telling him of her plans to reunited their family and starting over to do better but for all her claims of doing all of this to make up for past mistakes, he was very aware his freedom and mostly pain free state was because she thought he agreed with her.

Maybe there was an excuse for her insanity, he had never had a child but he couldn't picture a world where Klaus would take something that special from any of them.

Yet that didn't for a second allow him to forgive her.

It was eye opening to discover a core truth of his childhood was a lie, no wonder Klaus had reacted as he had learning the true of his birth, if Esther didn't have all the control and Kol in a human body, he's s not sure he would have left her alive.

All their lives, they had lived in the shadow of their dead oldest siblings; Golden Freya, Brave Finnbjorn, Little Fighter Eylaugr, lost too soon.

Yet they hadn't been lost they had been bartered and stolen, as had all their own future children. Mother had made them vampires to prevent any more firstborn and forgotten- no ignored her oldest children.

They had thought she just loved them more but she couldn't have if she was willing to leave them with a woman she'd rather kill her unborn grandchild than risk her return.

Kol’s lived a long time, seen a lot but after Esther had explained everything he had realised she's the most disgusting person he knew.

He had idealised her growing up and yet he couldn't feel any of that as she had spoken about how killing Klaus' kid was for the best while ignoring the fact she had left three of her children with a woman she felt was so much of a nightmare death was better.

That was the other half of his issue, she had brought him back to convince the others to jump bodies and end her line, to deprived Dahlia of those promised to her but Esther was ignoring the three she had.

If Dahlia was a danger of returning, what of their siblings? Had she assumed Dahlia allowed the only witches she claimed for her coven to die. If Dahlia was alive then those she had would be.

Kol had spent much of his immortal life escaping his siblings into witches circles, he noticed the pick of rumours about powerful witches appearing once a century.

He had never really given them that much thought, every so often every line had a gifted child born but with Esther very real concern of her sister's return and the knowledge his siblings never died he was starting to put things together.

Like the similarity of his first sired impossible lovers name to his dead oldest brother. Sage’s paramour who appeared one year every century stinking on more power than most witches can handle.

Then a century ago he met two such witches, first the european witch, that the french quarter covens elders, had asked him to warn out of the city, months before he was daggered, concerned he was corrupting their children. The young man had met him with amusement and without a hint of weariness who had the elders who stood up to Nik wary, whose accent was a century older than it should have been. Then months later Thier was the woman at Klaus’s party, who he hadn’t thought about until now due to being daggered that night but looking back was hiding her full power and still stronger than most. Who had introduced herself as Freya.

There was something familiar about them that he hadn’t been able to place something about their magic, watching Esther he realised.

They were the same.

Sage's lover’s laugh reminded him of Father's rare one and shared Rebekah's look of judgement.

The young man the elders feared had Esther's eyes and Henrik's smile.

The woman at the party looked like Esther and had Klaus’ smirk.

The fourteenth year of every century since she had met him, Sage and her witch spent nearly the whole year together. He had stopped by several times over the centuries, surprised to see the same witch despite the timespan, they had never spoken beyond basic manners dictate, the other soley interested in Sage. His meetings the other two would have been during her year with him last century

Sage had told him once her lover was claimed and cursed by another witch, that she was his one escape.

They had married at some point, he realised as he remembered the appearance of a wedding ring, slipped onto a necklace during the rest of the century and returned to her hand during the year.

Sage was married to his long lost brother, his first sired was his sister-in-law.

And was the one place his lost brother chose spent his freedom from their evil baby stealing aunt with.

Sage who was now dead, had died with him and now her very powerful witch who already likely had a grudge against their family would be waking up soon to learn that.

Esther feared her sister but Kol was thinking more about his own the three powerful witch sibling Esther had left to be raised by her.

Did they know about them? Had Finn- Finnbjorn known they were brothers during their brief meetings, had the amusement in the witch a century ago been because of the secret Kol hadn't known.

Freya had, he realised the small glimpse of awe he had seen as he show her around wasn't aimed at the house as he showed her around but him, she had come to the party knowing it was a Mikaelsons party.

Esther was devious, powerful and already working against his siblings, and until he found a way to free himself from her he couldn't seem seen trying to help them, he didn't want her to decide he was a more useful as a battery to channel.

Dahlia was a unknown enemy and a powerful witch

He may hate Klaus but he’s still his brother and Rebekah and Henrik were attached to the miracle baby already, something that was far less dead than Esther believed, given the absence of Rebekah.

Over centuries they had developed a patterent for how they each dealt with a loss, losing a child should have had them all come together; even when he and Klaus had been the middle of their worst argument the death of one of Rebekah's lovers from old age he had returned.

A death, a hurt, caused an outsider was time to regroup, the only time one of them was missing was to protect something or someone; like the time Henrik had vanished from one of the mourning times to take and resettle the daughter of Klaus’ dying lover far from them as she had asked.

When Esther revealed herself they were going to fight, when this aunt of theirs came they were going to fight and currently Kol was trapped in the wrong side.

So that had led to Kol step back into the town he had been born to a thousand years ago and died twice, for a spot of necromancy.

Revive his first sired, explain everything and aim her at her dear husband, her return would also send a warning to his siblings once they heard and they would, Sage was good at that, she had made herself as much a part of the fabric of the vampires society that it would return to them, the Strix had ears everywhere and would call Henrik at least. Then he'd hope for a happy siblings reunion and the removal of the pervious generation.

Thankful Esther had lost her mind and believed him when he explained he had an idea of how to convince Henrik of her plan he just needed to leave New Orleans for a couple of days. It wasn't completely easy the spell on his hurt was going to start hurting if he delayed his return and likely the wound would grow worse until he did but he was free for now.

A short detour for the items for a privacy spell so she couldn't watch him and the additional power he'd need.

Messing with the order of nature, life and death was always tricky and took power, but he's much of his time deprived of his magic gathering useful tools to help or give him a brief reminder of his lost connection.

However he ran into his issue once he got to Mystic falls, he had not idea where they had buried Sage's remains, he knew they hadn't burned her or his earlier spell would have gathered the ashes from the air.

So he was stuck looking for the surviving members of the mystic falls gang to find out where they buried her.

While no one had bothered to avenge him, Kol was thankful they did properly treat them for tricking and killing Henrik, however temporarily it had been, Henrik was the best of them and while they'll let him be an adult no one was allowed to hurt their baby brother like that.

The fact it ended the whole Silas and cure mess at least for now was a bonus.

Now to find the elder Salvatore, the blonde Klaus liked or miss Bennett.

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Sage coughed as she sat up, tasting ash on her tongue, she was pretty sure she was meant to be dead so it was an improvement.

She looked expecting to see her Finn, the only Witch she would have thought to bother only to blink at the stranger standing above her.

“Sage, did you know you married my brother?” the man asked, there was something in the way he looked at her that helped her realise who it was despite the accent and new body.

“Kol?” She asked before her mind replayed and registered the question. “What?”