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elysianslove · 4 years ago

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hi! how have you been since the hell that ensued after halloween is?

also could you do a batboys college au? like their major and how the reader would meet them and all that jazz? 👉👈

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hi anon!! i’m not sure what ur talking about @ the halloween stuff hvsdhjs but! here are the batboys hc’s! i’m not very familiar with duke thomas’s character enough to write about him tbh, so he’s not included here :( but if you want me to add him let me know!! i hope you enjoy!!

dick grayson

out of all the batboys i really didn’t know how to choose a major for him

but

i think he’d do law tbh, specifically criminal law

his main motivation to become a police officer in bludhaven had been to be able to help people in any way he can

i forgot if it’s canon or not but he does realize how corrupt it is and he quits but that’s another thing we won’t get into that lmao

anyways yes let’s just stick with law

meeting you !

he shares one or two courses with you

one that’s really early in the morning

and one that’s later on in the afternoon

dick is like a magnetic okay

anywhere he goes people are just attracted to him

like literally he will breathe

but someone call the ambulance there’s a person that’s passed out bc of how beautiful he is

but this is an 8 am class 😃

so there’s no way ur awake enough to notice him

coincidentally he sits next to you one time

and this is the one time

you decide

yeah lemme just fkn sleep is uni even worth it

dick definitely notices right away but he doesn’t say anything

he thinks you look so cute passed out on your desk like this 🥺

when the professor signals the end of the class, he watches as people file out and then he just leans over and nudges you slightly

you nearly punch him bc he scared you ❤️

he just laughs and goes “class is over”

you just sigh like the guilt starts to hit you and your heart begins to sink

and he sees your disappointed face and just goes

“i took a lot notes. i can share them w you?”

lifesaver in every single way dick grayson 😻😻😻

you had another class that you had to run to and you were rushing

he was like “dw i’ll just give them to you whenever i see you next”

and you 🏃🏻‍♀️ outta there

imagine ur surprise when u enter class at 12 pm and he’s there in all his glory

after the lecture is over, he walks up to you as you’re packing and asks if you want to go to the coffee shop nearby

to take his notes of course

and you finally register just how handsome he is

so obviously you say yes wtf

and the rest is history 😼

he asks you out, properly, pretty early on tbh

so unfazed lmfao

now you take naps on his shoulder instead of the desk 💞💞💞

soooo into pda

kisses u when he first sees you

when you’re parting ways

when he feels like it

straight up cuddles w during lectures i’m not even joking

it’s disgusting how cute you two are

gets you coffee for all those 8 am classes u have w him hehe

study dates always turn into karaoke sessions somehow don’t even ask lmao

jason todd

english literature

this is a collective agreement right?

right

definitely english literature

i dont even think he wants to go to uni but he’s going to waste time plus this is bruce’s money 😏🤑

your major doesn’t necessarily have to be english literature as well

but you share one class

and my god

you two disagree on everything

like every little thing

at this point if he says something and you slightly agree internally you’ll still say some opposing shit

that’s kinda what draws you to him

at first you genuinely had nothing against him

but then this kind of rivalry developed for no specific reason

but it was fun

and he was hot

so seeing him get flustered or angry made him even hotter somehow

but then

but t h e n

you’re not sure if your professor like ships you or something

so you’re assigned a debate topic on one of the books you’d discussed in class/one of the books you’ve read outside, and within each group are the two sides for and against

not only were you in the same team as jason, but you were on the same side as him

so you had to work with him

the audacity of the professor omg

but jason needs this course

and

well you don’t but it’s too late to back out now

you two meet in the campus library after deciding on a book with the other two of your team

and

honestly???

you two work so well together

like insanely well

during the debate you destroyed the other team

spoiler alert

doing so well with jason kinda made you like hot and bothered

seeing him in his zone

sexy <3

what i mean to say is

you both end up making out in some storage room lmfao

or hate sex 😏

professor has a phd in matchmaking 🤔😻

i think you two don’t admit you like each other

bc you’re both stubborn as fuck

but eventually you’re literally on his lap on his couch and it just hits you

and you lean back and go

“wanna go out w me”

and he just shrugs and goes “sure” and pulls you in for more kissing hehe

he’s not v good at the boyfriend thing tbh

you have to chase him around and be like “sir!!! did u forget about me huh!!!”

he doesn’t mean to i promise

he gets all blushy and flustered once he realizes

only ever into pda if he’s insanely jealous

will straight up make out w u regardless of where u are or who ur with lmfao

he’s still getting used to the little intimacies and all

debates in class are so much more fun now cause he finds it so hot when u get all riled up hehe

that eng lit professor is so happy for you two omg

tim drake

okay i also couldn’t really decide for him

but maybe he’d study something like physics (or maybe computer engineering/computer science)

idk u have to have a death wish to wanna major in physics so tim’s major it is

i’m not sure how it works for every other uni but my uni requires 6 credits of sciences to graduate

so let’s say for the sake of this hc u take like just the first level of physics to get 3 credits

and

you’re struggling 😃👍🏼

so you like approach your professor with a few questions before the quiz

but tim is also there

and he kinda makes small talk while you two wait outside the office

and he asks why you’re here

you show him

and he’s like “oh i took this course w the same professor as well, i could help?”

it’s like an angel had descended from the heavens for you personally

you take his number and decide to meet up with him after a few hours

he’s of so much more help than your professor would’ve been, even if ur prof is a really nice and smart person

and he’s super like

patient with you?

also he pays for all the coffee and snacks you’re getting after you already get them

ur like bruh i didnt

dont pay pls

and he’s like no im loaded let me 😼

swooning <3

and guess what!!

you ace the quiz out of some miracle

first thing you do is text him and he congratulates you

and then

bc ur not blind and tim is so fucking cute

you’re like “can i take u out to thank u”

tim’s brain stops working but !

he does say yes eventually

he becomes your designated physics tutor + your amazing boyfriend

being with tim is so like

chill

it’s a very relaxed time

lots of study dates! and cafe dates! all hours of the day whether the sun is up or not

into pda but to a certain degree

like yes of course have a kiss pretty baby

but also it will only be a small peck

any time anyone passes by like common rooms you two will be there snuggling on the couch, one or both of you completely passed out

damian wayne

business major 100%

or a bsba econ major, which is basically the business side of economics

he has to take over his father’s company one day duh

also i genuinely think damian would excel in this field

he’s a very keeps to himself kinda guy in uni

like you only ever see him in your common classes and then he just

disappears

anyways there was this party that everyone was going to, and damian wasn’t planning to

but dick accidentally read some groupchat’s messages and was like are u going

damian went 🏃🏻‍♀️

but dick was like go and try to make friends !!!!

and dames cant say no to his big bro 🥺 so he goes

stays in a corner on the settings app the entire time

like half an hr in he just leaves and is walking home/back to his dorm when you come like rushing up to him

you’re zooming

and then you just latch onto his hand and lean up to press a kiss to his cheek, whispering in his ear “this person’s been following me for like 15 mins just please go along w this”

he kinda stiffens but when he does notice that there’s a person eyeing you he slips his arm around your waist and just carries on walking

he walks you to your home/dorm and is like

so awkward

but it’s okay ! ur a people’s person enough for the two of you

you thank him so much over and over

and then you’re like

“can i take you out on a real date?”

and then he becomes ur real boyfriend hehe

is still super stiff but it’s only bc he’s so hyper aware of how attractive you are

and i’m super positive he doesn’t have that much experience with dating so

you hold the reigns

but he’s a great boyfriend all in all tbh

super attentive, super protective, and so loving

isn’t into pda especially on college campus but he does like subtle pda

things like linking your pinkies or giving you his hoodie to just parade around campus hehe

end note; i’m sorry if these feel rushed or anything like. i used to be an avid writer for the batboys, but i just haven’t been feeling it lately. i still love to write from them bc i know these boys so well eeeeppp. anyways feel free to request some more!!

#dc comics x reader #dc comics headcanons #jason todd x reader #jason todd fluff #jason todd headcanon #dick grayson x reader #dick grayson headcanon #tim drake x reader #tim drake headcanon #damian wayne x reader #damian wayne headcanon #batboys x reader #batboys headcanons

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thebirdandhersong · 4 years ago

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Fairy tale retellings! because I couldn’t help myself (under the cut because I got carried away and remembered my fairy tale retelling phase from middle school........ oh boy)

Cinderella

Cinderella (2015 Disney live action): beautiful beautiful BEAUTIFUL (the music! the script!! the Hope! the costumes! the dress! the gentleness at its heart! the overall design and the colours!) (I still believe it’s the best live action re-adaptation they’ve come up with so far) (then again they DID have one of the Rogue One writers and Kenneth Branagh--both of whom understand story AND fairy tales--on the team, and possibly the best combination of actors and costume designers)

Cinderella (Disney animated movie): like a dream. Can’t remember it that well because I haven’t watched it in over ten years, but I remember that I loved it

Cinderella, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical featuring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana: Laura’s Cinderella is so lively and hopeful and bright and affectionate and I Love Her!!! The script is also surprisingly funny, and the little changes they made (like the fairy godmother being an old beggar woman in the village, the subplot with her stepsister, the scene at the ball where she suggests that they should all be kind to one another, the fact that the prince is called His Royal Highness Christopher Rupert Windemere Vladimir Karl Alexander Francois Reginald Lancelot Herman (HERMAN!) Gregory James....... iconic) added rather than detracted from the themes they chose to emphasize

A Cinderella Story: possibly one of my favourite films. I loved the fact that they knew each other before the ‘ball’. Loved the way the fairy tale was ‘translated’ into the 2000s. The friendship was strong with this one. I had the best time watching this movie. (Dress-wise, Hilary Duff’s dress is my least favourite, but that’s a minor quibble, and is also due to the fact that it has Lily and Laura’s gorgeous fluffy ballgowns to contend with, and that’s not fair competition)

Persuasion, by Jane Austen: does it count?? The way I see it, Persuasion is like Cinderella gone wrong (we discussed this in class, and my prof called Lady Russell a fairy godmother who means well but fails her protege before the story even begins. We talked about Anne’s ‘Cinderella’/makeover moment taking place over a longer period of time, about the ‘evil’ stepsisters, etc. etc. I’m not entirely sure I agree with every single comparison he made, but he made some Very interesting points).... at least the first time :)

Cinder, by Marissa Meyer. Oh, the images!!!!! Marissa Meyer is WONDERFUL at them. You wouldn’t think they’d translate well into a futuristic sci-fi (almost steampunk) world, but she did it SO brilliantly (the slipper! the ‘dress’! the whole family situation!)

Rapunzel

Tangled (Disney animated movie): an absolute joy. Rapunzel is an Ariel-like character who has hopes and dreams of her own, and I love how warm and vivacious and endearingly transparent she is. The dance scene is so, so lovely. (I stand by my opinion that very few little went right with Disney’s fairy tale retellings after Tangled.)

Cress, by Marissa Meyer: once again. Images. I can’t believe she managed to pull Rapunzel-in-space off so well. (Plus she’s a hacker, and such a sweetheart!!)

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (Disney animated movie): Amazing. Gorgeous. Brilliant. The buildings and the music and Belle (Belle, my darling!!) and the darker, more Gothic feel to the art and the design...... Yes

Beauty, by Robin McKinley: knocked it right out of the ball park, right through the atmosphere, right into outer space... The language is so lush and atmospheric, and even though I knew roughly what was going to happen, I loved every moment of it. She puts a special emphasis on family and on human connection and I Loved that so much.

Rose Daughter, by Robin McKinley: also gorgeous!!!!! Beauty is still my favourite of the two, but this one was also a gem. (Again: the emphasis on family and sisterhood!!!)

Beauty and the Beast (the Broadway musical): Susan Egan’s voice is SO lovely. And Home deserved more than just an instrumental reference in the 2017 version.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George: the Best. The sisters are easier to distinguish, the changes/things she added (the war, the queen’s past, etc.) make the story even more interesting, and Galen is fantastic (courteous, kind, brave, AND likes to knit?? NICE)

The Barbie movie: I loved it when I was a little girl (it is also Muffin-approved!)

The Princess and the Pea

@fictionadventurer‘s Wodehousian one :) which is an absolute delight. Every once in a while I remember it and then can’t stop smiling

The Goose Girl

The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale: the Best. And by the Best, I mean the absolute Best. Her writing is so beautiful and her characters are so real and distinctive. The worldbuilding is fascinating. It’s so simple and so beautiful, and is near-perfect as a retelling and as a novel. The rest of the Bayern series is also wonderful!!

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid (Disney movie): can’t remember it very well, except for the chef who wanted to cook Sebastian and also Ariel’s very cool sisters.... the music and Ariel’s character are lovely :)

The Little Android, by Marissa Meyer: genius. The first time I read it, I cried furiously. What does it mean to be human?? Marissa Meyer loves to talk about this in her other books (through malfunctioning robots, androids, werewolves, etc.). And the conclusion she comes to is always the same (and always done so beautifully): it’s about love and sacrifice (and tbh even though she’s talking about this through robots and werewolves, she’s got a point!!! When you act with love and self-sacrifice, you reflect the character of the Maker and His love and self-sacrifice, which is what makes us in that moment the most human--or at least human in the sense that that’s what we were made to be and to do towards our neighbours and enemies)

Ponyo (Studio Ghibli movie): this counts, doesn’t it?? A film that is an absolute joy through and through. It doesn’t completely stick to the original fairy tale but it also talks about compassion, kindness, and love as a choice

The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog (Disney animated movie): can’t remember it very well, but Anika Noni Rose has a fantastic voice, and I loved Tiana’s practicality, optimism, and kindness

The Prince of the Pond, by Donna Jo Napoli: can’t remember it either (read it in third grade) but basically it’s about how the prince turns into a frog and starts a family with another frog (the story is told from her perspective). I do remember that the ending made me so sad, though

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (Disney movie): can’t remember it at all either, except for: 1) Once Upon a Dream (a brilliant song) and 2) forget pink or blue. I liked her grey dress the most

Spindle’s End, by Robin McKinley: the story was told in such an interesting way (the animals! the way she wrote about love and protecting the people you love and self-sacrifice in familial and platonic relationships!) with Robin McKinley’s beautiful style

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

East, by Edith Pattou: I was obsessed with this book in elementary school. Obsessed. I kept rereading it over and over again because I just loved it so much. It’s been a few years since I’ve read it, but I can remember certain scenes (Rose entering the ballroom for the first time, the white bear’s hulking figure in the doorway, the architecture of the hall where she washes the shirt, her fingers running over the wax, the reunion scene) so vividly as if it had been a movie instead of a book, or if I’d actually been there, experiencing what Rose was experiencing

Orpheus and Eurydice (which kind of counts)

Hadestown (the Broadway musical, the original cast, AND Anais Mitchell’s original concept album): I’ve talked about it so much I probably shouldn’t even start slkfjsdl;kfjlk; I just wanted an excuse to mention it again

Tam Lin

Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones: I loved it when I first read it but I was so confused and so fascinated by it.

The Snow Queen

Frozen (Disney animated movie): no (insert heart emoji)

And contemporary(?) books that are considered modern classics, if not modern fairy tales (depends on how you look at it, really):

Peter Pan

Peter Pan (Disney animated movie): a childhood favourite!!!

Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry: the whole series is so much fun (and they’re among some of the funniest books I’ve read). This one serves as a sort of prequel to Peter Pan, but it’s safer to say that Dave Barry reimagined the whole story.

Peter and the Starcatcher (Broadway play adaptation of the book, which is a reimagining of the original Peter Pan..... yeah): the source material is incredibly funny, so naturally the play adaptation makes you laugh until your sides feel ready to split (I mean!! You have Christian Borle as Black Stache, Adam Chanler Berat as Peter, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Molly..... they’re all brilliant) The script, the way the cast makes use of the set and props, the perfect comic delivery....... love it

Finding Neverland, a musical adaptation of the movie (the A.R.T. production with Jeremy Jordan as James Barrie): the music is so good, and the way they write about the value of looking at the world through the eyes of a child?? of seeing the beauty in everything?? of hope and imagination and wonder?? If it weren’t for the way it handles adultery (even emotionally cheating!) and divorce :( but Laura Michelle Kelly is absolutely enchanting, and the script is also incredibly funny and heartwarming

Tiger Lily, by Jodi Lynn Anderson: a twisted fairy tale... it was quite disturbing at times, but it was also beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s a darker take on the story, which I tend not to like (at all), but the way it explored Tiger Lily and Peter was quite interestng

The Wizard of Oz

WIcked, the Stephen Schwartz musical--I haven’t read the book: as far as retellings-about-the-villain-of-the-original-story goes this one is my favourite. It is another twisted fairy tale, though, and there’s a constant undercurrent of doom and dread, even in the motifs Stephen Schwartz uses... the ending is not completely happy, but the music is FANTASTIC (Mr. Schwartz also did The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Prince of Egypt!!)

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (Disney movie): another childhood favourite... I also haven’t seen this one in over ten years, but I can still remember specific scenes very clearly in my head

Alice by Heart: a musical about a girl called Alice Spencer whose coping mechanism (quite literally) is Alice in Wonderland. She knows it by heart (again. Literally) and she dives into the world as a form of escapism (LITERALLY. There’s even a song at the end where the characters acknowledge how unhealthy this is). There’s a lot about growing up, losing a loved one, learning to let go... about self-deception and grief and the control one has over one’s life (unfortunately it IS subtly antagonistic towards Christianity at times)..... i do wish that writers didn’t have to treat sexual maturity as the most prominent/interesting part of coming-of-age stories, though. The characters, the set and lighting and costume design (BRILLIANT, by the way!!!!)... all wonderful. But the strangely sexual references can be a bit uncomfortable. (Really!! You can tell a coming-of-age story WITHOUT that stuff, you know!!!!!)

That Disney Movie directed by Tim Burton: wouldn’t recommend. Alice doesn’t need to be a warrior. (At ALL.)

Would also like to mention: Princess Tutu :)

#i am sorry but i am very emphatically not a frozen fan #especially since we read snow queen at jellicoe lodge?? it's such a beautiful story #and the IMAGES #but hollywood is more into self-actualisation/self-discovery/self-acceptance/self-centric stories these days #i guess they just didn't want to tell a story about self-sacrifice and selfless acts of love ? i don't know #anyway i get irrationally worked up about frozen sorry #the second one nearly made steam pour out of my ears #i GET they want to focus on the Self (and all the selfishness and self-importance that comes with our world's idea of self love)#but ELSA as an oldest sister HOW could you make all these decisions #fairy tales #i need to finish princess tutu sometime (sigh)#songbird again #my posts

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kibastray · 4 years ago

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Different Anon. You mentioned projects... How many are you working on or... maybe I should ask how many projects do you have? Could you maybe share some with us? Like a list or something?

Oh, oh boy! Did you ask me the wrong question. lol. You want to know what projects I am working on? I’m gonna show you.

Key notes: Free to use = If you like the idea you are free to use it. Just ask about my notes. (Please give credit though) Willing to Share = I would be more than willing to share my notes on the idea and partner up on it with someone if anyone is willing. Not for Sale = Fics/ideas I plan on using and writing myself if it isn’t listed as FtU or WtS then it means that is something dear to me and I want to work on it myself. (these fics/ideas will not be all listed as NfS, so if you don’t see the added tag assume it is NfS) Paragon/Renegade = means good/bad version of the story. Spin-off = typically a one off of a story already listed and will be listed in a sub-listing of that story. Eh / Da Faq/ Competent Folders = Are all unique and original ideas that I think are either good, meddling, or just plan bad after a second look.

Each story title will also have a small decryption to go along with it.

With that out of the way my list of projects are under the cut. Enjoy. :3

Side note: I will try and list the fandom things grouped together. I will also try and alphabetize them.

First up BNHA:

My Hero Academia (most of these can be found in my previously posted BNHA: Fic list)

Ash Phoenix: An Idea where I ask/answer if OFA is the only quirk that can be merged and be something else entirely. (It will be a bit dark and involve the hidden quirk Izuku and Toga’s quirk combining into something powerful)

Bedlam: A story of Izuku being a combination of Bruce Lee/ Brock Lee. Who needs a quirk when you have martial training that can’t be beat. He is shipped with Momo in this one. (Izuku’s dad is a bastard that dies early and his life insurance helps Inko give Izuku the life he deserves)

Paragon... Fighting Bedlam: good timeline where Izuku goes to UA, with his girlfriend, Momo like cannon BNHA just without OFA and a lot more confident Izuku with some Midoriya family angst sprinkled in.

Renegade... Hoods of Bedlam: Bad timeline where Izuku and Momo are vigilantes know as Green/Red Hood. They still go to UA but not through the hero coarse. Izuku is in management/business and Momo is in General. This time it is Yaoyororozu family drama that involve Izuku being quirkless. (might also have to do with an surprise pregnancy. This one also has the pair say “f^ck society and it’s rules, we are gonna do what we want”)

Brain over Brawn: (This one follows a head cannon of mine where Izuku is on a lot of Forms about anything hero) The day he was suppose to grab All-Might’s leg he was just a little to slow and doesn’t get OFA. instead he goes to the Forms shares his impressions of heroes and gets picked up by Nezu. After all what is better the muscle to beat up or a baddy or the knowledge how to? (Free to use)

Champion of Olympus: I give a Fem!Izuku a direct line to the Greek Gods mainly because I want to see a BA Izumi with a bow. It is like Percy Jackson but without the god parents and more Izumi being the first person in generations to interact with the gods.

Epitaph: Izuku gets the strongest and probably worst combo of his parents quirks. Simply put, on Izuku’s quirk registry he can take the heat from an object or person. In truth his quirk is so much more powerful than that. He has the ability to take the life force or soul of living beings. (Free to Use)

Eri’s Big Brother: An angsty fic where Izuku gets kidnapped at an early age, and no one knows what happens to him. That is until the first day of UA when a small white haired kid Aizawa is watching over asks Bakugou “Are you Kacchan?” (Free to use)

FF7 x BNHA No title yet: A story that finds Izuku transported from his old world into a world of heroes and villains after a bomb that should have killed him launched him across dimensions. Izuku is a member of AVALANCHE and shows the world of heroes what a freedom fighter can do. While also finding out that the world of heroes might be more familiar to him than he originally thought

Future Heroes: This one is a future fic with a whole cast of OCs of mine

In The Name of LoV: Izuku is a villain and is the Co-leader of LoV with Tomura. Photogenic and maybe a little psychotic Izuku addresses the world in videos saying that him and his friends are villains because they ‘Lov’ the world so much.(Izuku is a sweet&charismatic kid who sees heroes as a problem because all society cares about is strong/flashy quirks) (Free to Use)

Izuku!Nomu no title yet: A fic where Izuku tries to follow Bakugou’s advice but is saved by LoV and turned into a Nomu. We follow a guilt ridden Bakugou perspective after that day all the way to the USJ where he finds and frees an Izuku who may be to damaged to ask forgiveness of. (willing to share)

Jet Set Radio x BNHA no title yet: I give Izuku confidence through the power of roller skates and the street art of graffiti in order not only become a hero, but a hero without a quirk. (I think it would be fun to see Prof. K and Present Mic be rival radio hosts where Mic is a public radio host Prof. K is an underground pirate radio dj)

Killing Bites X BNHA no title yet: (TBH I have watched maybe 10min of Killing Bites and that is it. I really like the look of the characters in the show.) Fem!Izuku is has the same power as the honey bager character from KB. She along with countless other quirkless where kidnapped and tested on. Now free Fem!Izuku isn’t quite human after all the DNA experimentations she has been put through. She along with the other test subjects are part animal and have an instinctive drive to fight.

Persona x BNHA no title yet: Another fic where I have Izuku taking Bakugou’s advice but gaining a quirk instead of dying. Basically I give Izuku personas to summon because I liked how P3 showed the summons. I also have him move schools to Shiketsu, after winning the Sports Festival, and with his move takes UA’s place as #1 hero school with him to Shiketsu. (not gonna lie this one is a bit crazy)

Sharpening my teeth on the rays of the sun: Izuku has an OP quirk based on his parents. He can pull in and eat fire/energy. He finds inspiration from old Norse mythology as a kid and takes on the mantle of “Skoll the devourer of the sun.” He is going to befriend Tokoyami so hard.

Sheep’s Wool hiding Wolves Teeth: Izuku is smart, too smart. he uses the system to his advantage. Most people think Izuku is an angel but people like Bakugou know the truth. They see Izuku pretending and fooling everyone and see him for the manipulative demon pretending to be human he is. (Izuku lacks empathy/morality, and sees play things where humans should be. He will manipulate everyone he can just for his own amusement) (Free to Use)

Spirit Chaser: The world of heroes and spirits collide with Izuku at the epicenter. Izuku is a shrine priest or priestess if you want to do Fem!Izuku. Quirks mean little when ones faith and mantras are just as amazing. (me using all the priest/priestess powers from other anime/manga to come up with his powers and made a pretty OP quirkless teen who can seal spirits, cure villains of hatred, and fight along side the best heroes with nothing more than his families traditions) (willing to share, free to use)

Soul Resonance: A Soul Eater x BNHA fic. Inspired by Ravenclawoutcast13 fic on Ao3. Izuku is a miester and after moving to Nevada at an early age the the DWMA comes back to UA when it is time to be a hero.

Task Force: Izuku is part of a not so secret task force that deals with villains, criminals, and aggressive heroes. Most members of the task force are quirkless and are like Japan’s SWAT. The Task Force is also an internal affairs for the hero system. Because of their no nonsense way they operate most people fear the Task Force and any person reveled to be apart of it. (Willing to Share)

Web Weaver’s Betrothed: An idea came about from two writing prompts; 1. “What is so dangerous about the forest” and 2. My answer to all the Spiderman crossover fics. This fic is ambitious as it combines BNHA, Spiderman, and Yokai together. (Izuku is spiderman, but his own spiderman. and I add forest spirits in for fun)

What is in a name: My very first BNHA fic idea!! I turn the ‘BNHA name explaining someone’s powers’ up to 11 and give Izuku the power of the forest and fay like creatures. Izuku is the fairy king basically.

Paragon... (no name yet) Izuku is a kid with a powerful quirk that transcends all previous quirk types. Watch this little hero work his hardest to get the title he has longed for. (a nice fic, with Izuku/Bakugou friendship)

Renegade... (no name yet) Only a few know Izuku. No one would guess that he is the ‘Fairy King’ that has saved countless kids from harm these last ten years. (an accident puts Izuku into a coma. that won’t stop his heroic spirit from doing what he was born to do. Toga gets to go to UA, Shoto gets to be a normal kid, and Bakugou might get his butt kicked by the army of people that Izuku has helped)

Yakuza!Izuku: Izuku's dad was a big time Yakuza boss in the past. Izuku has been the head of his family for over five years controlling the underground. Which would be good for the underground world if it was what he wanted. And after a fated conversion gets him thinking more about his place in the world Izuku decides to clean house and become a force for good.

Dishonored:

The Royal Consort Series: A three part series where Jessamine lives but Emily goes missing. Emily isn’t truly missing she grows up in the Golden Cat because she was never found and eventually becomes its owner. She and the girls of the Golden Cat replace Daud and the whalers. She is has the mark of the outsider, a kill count and maybe some resentment at what happened all those years ago.

Miraculous Ladybug:

There is quite a bit of Maribat just fyi

Bio!Family ideas: (Most of these are one-offs and once their stories are posted, will become free to use)

Bio!Dad Obadiah Stane

Bio!Dad Zod

Bio!Mom Poison Ivy

Bio!Sister Ace (from the wild flush gang)

Blood Orchid: Marinette’s family is very powerful on her mother’s side and when the Akumas get too powerful in her parents opinion, she is told she will be moving to China. The stress of not being able to decide thing in her own life gets to Marinette and she is akumatized. (Free to Use)

Bounts of Paris: Bleach x MLB. Truth be told I liked Bleach and even liked the filler Bount arc. This AU would be where Master Fu fled Asia after the Soul Reapers Massacred the most of the Bounts. The Kwami are the ‘half-Bounts’ with special powers. They can live on after the human they are connected to die. and can forge new connections with with new humans creating new ‘true-Bounts.’

Casse-Cou: DareDevil x MLB (the idea is a Gift for miraculous786). This is an AU where Marinette is not a seamstress. Instead she is an aspiring lawyer. This does feature a Blind!Marinette but she is makes do in her own way. With a different destiny before her Marinette gets paired with Plagg and becomes The Cat of the Devil, the DareDevil Casse-Cou

Death of Gods and Men: WitchBlade x MLB. I stumbled across witchblade’s anime and the crossover sounded like a great idea. I mean listen to the WB intro::: Sought by the greed of men since the dawn of human kind, but only bestowed upon the women whose fate it forever scars...the Witchblade. Is it the righteous sword of God? Or hand of the Devil himself? Now a new bearer has been chosen. And she must discover the answers for herself. As she stands on the brink of destiny, she is forced to seek the balance between ecstasy and ruin. (How could I not!?! I just need to tone down the fan service because WB is thirsty AF)

Demon Princess In Paris: Inuyasha&Yashahime x MLB. Another Fic where Marinette’s family on her mother’s side is very powerful back in China (and Asia as a whole). Lila planned to ruin Marinette when she came back to school after being gone for a week. Only to find Marinette has connections to a very powerful family in Asia. Stranger still Marinette looks nothing like what she did when she left. Little does Lila, or anyone in Paris, know that Marinette is a half-demon of her demon mother Sabine and her human father Tom, and not to forget she is granddaughter to the great Demon Lord Sesshōmaru

Flower Pot: MariBat. The Justice League have to rush to Paris because some new villain is opening time portals. When they get there the villain is already defeated by teenagers. Stranger still once they get close enough Wonder Woman rushes one of them in a hug with a shout of “Ladybug.” After a moment ‘Ladybug’ asks “Flower Pot, is that you!?!” This AU sends Marinette back in time and to the land of Themiscyra when Diana was a little girl. Chaos ensues both in the present and in the past.

Lantern’s Light: Green Lantern x MLB. Different Maribat AUs where I give Marinette a Power ring.

Star!mari: Marinette gets a ring of the Star Sapphires

Merci!mari: Marinette gets a ring of the Red Lanterns

Duty!mari: Marinette gets a ring of the Green Lanterns

Hope!mari: Marinette gets a ring of the Blue Lanterns

Let’s have fun with Miraculous: all of these are just silly ideas that I thought of late at night or early in the morning and wanted to share. All of them are Free to Use)

idea one is just a silly thing trying to figure out what Marinette might call herself after moving to Gotham as the Guardian of the Miraculous.

idea two is a Timinette ship that has Marinette using the Miraculous to heal Gotham. But because Batman is a control freak, she hides her healing as a three ring circus. (made possible by using the mouse miraculous to the max) Tim becomes smitten with the acrobatic performance.

idea three is just a random MLB idea. An entity convinces Fate to let them mess with destiny. that entity whether it is Spirit, Demon, Devil, or God is Marinette’s new partner. And while the craziness of the Miraculous Ladybug canon is going on with a different ladybug. Marinette is having her own adventures. She is still undecided if this is a better fate than dealing with all the Miraculous stuff like she was suppose to.

Lost Valkyrie: Thor x MLB. A series covering both Miraculous Ladybug and the entire Thor movies (because my brain hats me). Marinette is a Valkyrie that through wormhole nonsense lands in Paris after their defeat by Hela. Marinette is adopted by Tom and Sabine as their daughter. Marinette has amnesia of her time as a Valkyrie. (This one is crazy too and once I get the idea fully written down I will be glad to give it to someone. Free to use- when it is done)

Miraculous Stitching: Marinette has been getting some magic power from the natural magic radiating off of Tikki. Mari can imbue things with magic into things through her stitch work. (this one is might not be for the squimish, some body horror)

Price of Life- Purest Wish: (inspired by BAllpointbasic “The Price of Life”) A villain worse than Hawkmoth shows up and decimates Paris. Marinette uses the Miraculous wish and offers her life as payment. She is happy being able to save everyone and not cursing anyone else with the pain of losing someone they care about. With the selfish wish she gets reborn as a Kwami.

Rise of Arachnid: After getting blinded and unable to be healed during an Akuma fight Marinette has to give up being Ladybug. Marinette ends up talk to Hawkmoth and because of her bleeding heart she offers her help after hearing his story. She becomes a very powerful recurring villain that the new Miraculous team have to deal with on top of the normal Akuma. She has the powers of Spiderman and DareDevil. (another Blind!Marinette)

The Forgetten City- Early Renaissance: (Inspired by multifandomscribette “The Forgotten City” series. It is a Young Justice x MLB crossover) The Team go to Paris following The Riddler’s spree of crime. They are helped by local heroes none of them have heard or met before. Once the villain is dealt with the team and is asked, not to kindly, to leave Paris and never come back.

Pokémon:

G1RBY: A silly Picachu DJ story I had. She is a talking Pokémon that I drew once and wanted to make into an ask blog. But the VA I had didn’t feel conformable with the idea of having people hear her voice so it is seelved. (Willing to Share)

Shinny Cubone: Proof that I have always had an angsty edge. This is a story of a Cubone dealing with life after their mother dies. But it is okay as their mother’s old teammates are there to help. A Gastly offering help as well. But is everything as it seems? (this was going to be a art blog. but I got lazy and did not want to redraw all my stuff from paper to comp)

RWBY:

Grimm Masks: Bleach x RWBY... Kinda. A fic where Ruby presumably dies during a mission. She is later found wearing a grimm mask in the same forest she was killed in and seems to be able to control the grimm that share the same mask as her. (Basically got inspired by Ichigo’s hollow mask and thought to give it to Ruby. then as the story demanded it give a mask to the other girls of team RWBY. This was before the whole maiden thing was cannon)

She-Ra (netflix version)

Innocence of an Enemy Soldier: Magicatra Au idea. Catra is She-Ra and Adora is a Horde Soldier. After all the fighting is done and the Princesses have won. To bad things can’t end happily for Catra. Adora finally learns the truth about the horde being the bad guys after she is captured. With that knowledge she asks to be tried for her crimes. Catra needs to work hard to prove her once friend’s innocence otherwise Adora will be executed.

Dissonant Whispers: Catra meets Corrupted She-Ra and wants to scream to bad Corrupted Adora/She-Ra shushes her with a finger to the lips. (I just want to see Catra being small scared cat with pin-prick pupils seeing a slightly blood splattered She-Ra while being being cornered and her voice failing her when She-Ra puts a finger to her lips just as she was about to scream.)

Shadows make and Shadows break: another Magicatra au. alt title (Shadows make and Light breaks). this idea came about because I rewatched the part of She-Ra when Shadow Weaver adopts Adora. The whole “This one is different. Can’t you feel it? She has power...” “Don’t worry little one, we are going to do great things together.” thing. (I want a magic user Adora, and I only have the looses ideas of what I will do with it so far.) Why isn’t there more magic!adora AUs!?!

Original Ideas:

/The Squad/: (A colab furry Comic/Radio drama I had planned to do with VAs and everything. Had the pilot printed out and everything. Just didn’t get enough VAs.) Crime has become a spectator sport of cops and robbers. Criminals no longer snatch purses or kill people, instead they are closer to performers robbing banks, stealing from museums, street racing and the like. Criminal and Police Officer alike vie for attention of the crowds and the attention of viewers at home. (willing to share)

Dark Skies: A small story based off a photo a friend of mine took. It won me a short story award way back when. I willing share it with artists to so how they want to draw the scene. (willing to share, if you got the willingness to draw. lol)

Competent Folder: Stories I think are good just haven’t done anything with them yet.

Olympian Noire: a 50s Noire story with Olympian characters and references. (needs some grammar edits and a good reread before it is posted again) (Willing to Share after I rework it a little)

Misgivings about Airships: A start of an actual story I was writing but lost most of the progress I made except the first page I had. (a reminder to save often. will come back to it if I ever get over how much I lost of it)

Marked and Scarred: This is my bread and butter. A short hook for a story. Tells you just enough about the characters and world to grab your attention but leaves enough for you to also add details to it if you want. (willing to share/ free to use)

Gremlins: A dream I written down once about ‘Fairy Folk’ and how much they don’t like someone like me. Probably wont ever be finished because I woke up before the dream ended and most people wont find it as unsettling as I did.

Dragons: Short story. A warning a dragon gave to a ship and its crew about a dangerous storm, unlike any other, that would devastate their homes if they didn’t prepare for it. The dragon later became a symbol for the port town.

Danger Days: Not so much a story and more of a parody of the My Chemical Romance song “Look alive/ Sunshine” as my own type of intro of sorts.

Badge of Babylon: A fun Colab I did with other people on Facebook a few years back. A changing POV fic involving an Older Thief, a young Page, and Sylph (fairy). The group fell apart sadly. But I saved our saved notes and could still make a decent story out of it.

All from a Ring: An entire scene that came to mind from a ring holding a broken gem a friend of mine had. And I am pretty proud of it. (needs a little touch ups but it is complete)

Eh Folder: Stories that aren’t bad but don’t inspire anything in me anymore. They range from bland to me needing to be in a certain mindset to be able to add to them. (all of these are Free to use)

Caterpillar: a story that takes place in older alt timeline where strange creatures exist and follows the diary/journal entries of a man trying to find one of those creatures. At first he thinks it is a dragon, but eventually finds out that it is a kaiju sized caterpillar that has terrifying Lovecraft elements added to it.

Spider Junk: Was concocted by me after being sick, sleep deprived, or plain crazy while I wrote down this short story. I have no memory writing this but it is in my own hand writing so... It is a story about how your mind can play tricks on you if your mind is not operating properly.

Psych session: It is a story about a character talking to his psych doctor about a dream/haunting he had about his dead sister. It is a good idea but I really don’t have any drive to continue it. (I am sure someone else could make something out of it)

Da Faq Folder: a series of stories/ideas that are not worth the light of day or the energy it would take to store in your brain. Worse than needing to be deleted. they serve as a reminder to me that not all ideas are worth it. Sometimes we just need to write them down to get over them, drop them completely, or to get out that little bit of nasty we have that needs to get out in a healthy way.

Holy f^ck that is 65 different stories! This was a bad idea. Seeing them all listed like this is weird. Normally I have them on Microsoft word, Google Docs, or saved on my Tumblr Drafts.

#fic list #you asked for it #so here it is #60+ ideas #i hope you are happy #miraculous ladybug au #bnha au #shera au #pokemon au #rwby au #dc crossover #marvel crossover #other crossovers #this took longer to write than it should have #master list

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purplesurveys · 5 years ago

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Name something that you saw within the past week that made you smile: A local celebrity posted the very first photo of her newborn on her Instagram and tbh it was something we’ve all just been lowkey waiting for because that couple is super attractive and stylish and we’ve always wanted to see how the kid would look like. Simply put, the baby is the cutest ever and she’s so pretty and gah she just looks like such an angel. Name something within the past week that made you frown: There’s been a lot of upsetting stuff on the news, but the worst has been when policemen shot a man that they thought was going to pull out a gun. Turned out that said man was 1) pulling out a water bottle and 2) a former soldier suffering from PTSD and the standoff was actually greatly upsetting him. Welcome to the Philippines where the police are still hellbent on using their guns in the middle of a public health crisis. Name somebody who you wish would cut you a break sometimes: My mom always has something to criticize about me. Name somebody you know who deserves a better life than they have: Andrew. I don’t want to share their life story on here but suffice it to say it’s been a lot and it’s been rough, and they deserve a goddamn break. Name something you own that has high sentimental value: Probably the tickets to the first museum Gabie and I went to together, six years ago. Museum dates have long been my dream date and that was one amazing day, so I'm really glad I made the decision to keep it.

Name something that you hope is different by this time next year: Obviously the virus being gone but also the terms that are in place for now because of it, like halting foreign travel or not being able to go to the mall. Name something that you're good at but don't like: Arguing or confrontation. I can come up with good arguments and I pride myself on being able to speak well whether publicly or not; and in fact my parents have always asked me why I never took up debate or if I have any interest in pursuing law – but I actually hate it. I hate the ever-looming possibility of suddenly not knowing how to respond or rebut; plus the very nature of two clashing sides simply stresses me out. Name something that you're bad at but DO like: Singing, at least when I’m alone in my car. Also baking! I find it really fun but I always have to bake with someone who’s more experienced than I am. Name something that you like about the person you argue most with: She’s very organized and can make anything clean and spotless no matter how dirty and stained they’ve gotten. Name something that you strongly believe in: That the world will eventually be a lot kinder to LGBT couples with families. I have to believe in it; I want the world to be gentle to my kids. One day at a time, folks. Name something was funny to you but not to anybody else: Idk man, if it isn’t funny to anyone else it’s probably offensive. Name somebody who has tried to help you and ended up hurting you: My mom’s love languages seem to be criticism and a lot of tough love. Long story short, they are not mine. Name something that you had to learn the hard way: No matter how nice you are to everyone, there’ll always be people who will remain extremely cold and shitty for absolutely no reason and you can’t blame or be upset with them if that’s just the way they are. I learned this in PE class when I forgot to follow a certain instruction and I personally went to the coach to apologize, but she literally turned her back on me and completely ignored me. I wasn’t used to such a treatment so I vented to Angela about it after and told her how unfair I felt it was, but I understood it after she told me that no matter how much Catholic school (and common sense, tbh) taught us to have good manners and greet everyone we see and be nice and polite, none of that shit will always matter in the real world, when we get thrown in the mix with people who now come from different, sometimes rougher backgrounds. Name a date that has a lot of significance to you: March 16. It’s the birthday we made up for Kimi. Name something that you didn't like when you were younger but like now: Chicken curry. I found the flavor too strong when I was a kid, but I had no idea Indian food was gonna end up being my favorite cuisine when I got older lol. Name something that you liked when you were younger but don't like now: I’d say Spongebob? To this day I’ll still only watch the episodes I grew up seeing but I can’t bother with the newer seasons. The way they are drawn is too different and unfamiliar, the humor isn’t the same anymore, and they’ve introduced so many third-party characters it’s hard to keep track. I’ll always give it a lot of credit for being a very important part of my childhood though. Name something in your life that was a blessing in disguise: Deciding to skip out on joining my current org in freshie year. I joined the year after and the batch I turned out to be a part of was the biggest applicant batch for the org in recent memory, and all my closest friends in college have been from that batch, like JM, Laurice, Aya, Jo, Kate, Jum, and Hannah. Name something that you've done that would be considered rebellious: I didn’t submit a single final project for home economics in 6th grade. That year’s home ec was focused on embroidery, sewing, and crocheting and I just didn’t give a shit about all three back then. I still have no clue how I left that class with a mark of 91. Name something that you wish you never found out: If it’s something I wish I never found out it means it greatly upset me, and I don’t wanna go racking my brain for stuff that greatly upset or triggered me. Name something that you dislike about the majority of girls: Not majority anymore but some girls will still have the let’s-pit-these-two-women-against-each-other mindset and it’s just so old now. Name something you like about the majority of guys: I don’t think there’s one. Name something you wish you had enough money to do: Keep traveling, durrrr. Name something that you wish you could say to somebody: I had very high expectations for you as a prof but your response to the virus re: online classes has been disappointing to say the least. To think we all thought you cared for students’ welfare. Name something that you wish somebody would say to you: That they were gonna come over to my place in a bit. Name something that you wish you had the ability to fix: I wish I had enough money to go ahead and fix the stuff that that piece of shit Jeff Bezos and other selfish billionaires are too lazy to fix, like ending world hunger or providing clean water. I’m feeling so strongly about that now after seeing this amazing infograph someone made about just how much money he has. Name something "bad" you've done on purpose to somebody else: I was feeling petty on the first Sunday that my mom made our entire family sit around her phone to watch a livestream of a mass, so before it started I made sure I had Netflix (which HOOOOOGS bandwidth) turned on both my laptop and phone. The stream ended up being shitty and skipped a lot of parts of the mass. Definitely wasn’t the best daughter that day and even I was surprised at whatever came over me for me to do something that mischievous. I never did it again lmao. Name something you could never forgive a person for: If they abused their pet. Name something you're lucky to have: My dog.

#survey #surveys

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babybirdgyeom · 6 years ago

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got7 as college boyfriends

– just smth short and light – also quite a lot of crack hshs i’m sorry – much fun ♥

𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒯𝓊𝒶𝓃

– in your first year of college you always sat beside mark in this one class you had but you didn’t even know his name – you always thought he was cute as shit though and told your friends about him – every now and then the two of you talked but only ever about college stuff – exchanging notes and asking for pens and so on – but after the first year you realized that your current major just wasn’t for you so you changed it, never seeing mark again – until one year later your friend convinced (if not almost forced) you to get tinder – isn’t that always how it starts.... – you weren’t even interested in dating but she was like just get some dick at least – so you agreed but only to make her shut up, not thinking you’d actually use it – until this one guy swiped you right and your heart skipped a beat – so you finally found out his name was mark, how cute, it fitted – having a crisis you immediately showed him to her – “this is the cute guy i used to sit next to!” – she laughs at you because you were so overwhelmed, not knowing what to do – “you know you could just.. match him?” – so you did and not even five minutes later he send you a message – ‘omg how funny to meet you here. did you stop studying physics?” – not in a hundred years would you have thought that this was how you’d meet your boyfriend – your friend still teases you about it because you were so against using tinder – mark also teases you about it tbh – anyways he immediately asked you for your number and you started writing 24/7 – somehow you never manage to find time for each other though because damn college gets stressful around that time of the year – one time you talked to him for seven hours at night on the phone – also he always calls you late at night when you have to walk home alone just to be sure – but after you completely failed your one class and wrote him about how frustrated you were he was like – “ok you know what fuck this presentation i have to prepare i’m coming over and will distract you a bit” – when he wrote that you weren’t aware that distracting you a bit meant heavily making out after not even twenty minutes into this random ass movie you watched on netflix – since that day you and mark were a couple and what a happy one you were – shyly admits that he immediately deleted tinder after getting your number – what! a! softie! – all of his got7 friends constantly tease him about being in a relationship – but secretly are so happy for the two of you – jackson acting over the top whenever you two just look at each other is a thing – “so cute i’m dying”, jackson at some point – mark knows he should force you to study but... – always makes you chill with him instead and feels bad about it hshsh – “i don’t want you to fail your classes but.. we should get mcdonalds right now you know” – knows your schedule better than you do – constantly rants to you about how stupid his profs are – sometimes doesn’t take you serious when you’re stressed or mad – but loves you so much actually

𝐼𝓂 𝒥𝒶𝑒𝒷𝓊𝓂

– you were more than shocked to see jaebum in college again suddenly – the two of you went to the same middle school – you never really were close but damn – that boy still looked fine and now he was an adult – and you both were single now – so when you two saw each other you immediately were like – maybe we should grab a coffee to catch up sometime? – and you did... even at the same evening – jaebum was so handsome you wanted to die – plus y’all were getting along so good that you didn’t even want to go home – but you did because you just met this guy – as you said goodbye he was a nervous wreck – because he definitely did enjoy this evening and would like to see you again – so the next morning he came over with breakfast – in sweatpants and a big hoodie, hair all over the place – suddenly you understood what this uwu term meant – this breakfast date was the softest, y’all watched spongebob and discussed old tv shows – after he left because he had to go to class you genuinely felt butterflies in your stomach and you hated yourself for how cliche that was – immediately wrote you after his class – “wyd tonight?” – so that’s the story of the first time you stayed over at jaebum’s – a few kisses were shared but nothing more – but a week later you were already calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend – amazing sex especially after college partys – he’s so in love with you it confuses him – will wait for you in the coffee shop next to your classroom every time – sometimes he’s a pain in the ass though – is ready to fight you whenever he gets jealous – but always apologizes later – you two have very different majors and always tell each other about the amazing things you learned while the other one has seriously no idea what’s going on – but it didn’t matter, you still enjoyed seeing him being so passionate about what he was doing – “you know (y/n) i’m really happy we met again” – everyone on campus knows the two of you belong together – lots of girls lowkey want jb bc look at him but you luckily didn’t have to worry about that – literally doesn’t give a fuck about any other girls – whenever you’re at parties he’s the biggest flirt – will make out with you in the bathroom as if y’all haven’t been dating for an eternity – tbh it’ll never get boring with jaebum

𝒫𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒥𝒾𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔

– basically he’s your dormmate which is good and great – y’all get along just fine – no fights or drama – he even helps you with your essays every now and then – regular netflix nights are a must – makes sure you eat, even cooks for you when you come home late for work – your friends are pretty sure y’all are dating – but jinyoung and you just roll your eyes at that – even his friends, mostly mark and jackson won’t stop teasing him – you guess that’s what you get for moving in with a guy – but you literally never were flirting which each other or anything – the two of you just seemed to become very close friends – so long story short living with jinyoung was nice – except for this one thing that bugs you so goddamn much – the girls he brings home every weekend – not only are most of them dumb as fuck – and you don’t say this to be mean, it was true – even jinyoung said so – but also they were sooo damn loud – like jinyoung must know what he’s doing according to their screams – ugh you hated it so much – you constantly fight jinyoung about it but he just laughs it off – “(y/n), you have to get laid” – “thanks jinyoung, i’m aware of that” – one time when you were discussing his loudness he massaged your shoulders and told you that you need to relax more and the moment his hands touched you it sent shivers down your spine – but suddenly you noticed that jinyoung stopped bringing girls home – and you were like ??? what’s going on – so on this one saturday night you were sitting on the couch with him, binge watching house of cards – as you finally confronted him about it – “you know i just want smth more serious but idk how to get that” – “have you tried asking a girl on a date?” – “i thought i’m on a date right now”, he said as if it was nothing – so basically that is how y’all started to go out every now and then – netflix dates soon became bigger and more romantic – cinema, then restaurant, one time you went to an amusement park – no one ever asked the other one officially out – but one time jinyoung introduced you as his girlfriend and everyone around you including you went ??? – he constantly forces you to study – will pick you up from your 9 pm classes just to be there in case – he’s aware of how douchey guys were but not with his girlfriend – teases you all the time but you got used to it and played along – the two of you always laugh so much but mostly about each other – it was nice that you could just make fun about the other one without someone being offended – thousand of inside jokes only you two understand – secretly the biggest softie though – tells you how much he loves you during sex – also tells you how goddamn beautiful you look under him – one time you wanted to get a tutor but jinyoung found out he was male and he didn’t like that at all – “but (y/n) that’s how all the love stories in the movies start i can’t let that happen” – besides his lil jealous side the best bf you could ask for – hypes you up no matter what even if he knows you have no idea what’s going on – tbh everyone on campus knows and likes him – has had some girls before you and he always gets embarrassed when someone talks about them in front of you – doesn’t want you to be reminded of his fuckboy past – it’s strange for him to be vocal about you and him – not bc he doesn’t love you just bc he never was in a serious relationship – will literally do everything for you tho tbh – he’s like – “yeah i wanna become more mature for her” and all that shit – he hates himself for how cringe it sounds but he just wants you to feel appreciated and safe around him

𝒥𝒶𝒸𝓀𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝒲𝒶𝓃𝑔

– jackson lived in the dorm next to yours – your girl dorm and his boy dorm became good friends over time – your best friend even started dating yugyeom, his roommate – you saw him almost every day and he was always so polite and nice – sometimes y’all were just drinking in one of the dorms and having fun – one time he brought you tea when he heard that you’re sick – basically jackson was the sweetest guy around and everyone knew – but you soon found out he was maybe a bit too nice – everyone knew about his kinda manipulating gf – and everyone also was very relieved when he finally broke up with her – she always created drama at your partys – and always accused him of shit he didn’t do – but still he was the kindest soul – so when you found him one day outside the dorm, a bottle of wine in his hand you asked him what’s wrong – long story short his ex gf was crying and drunk in his room – and he allowed her to stay but he would sleep somewhere else – so his plans right now were to sleep outside of the dorm.. – you told him he was too nice but your heart was bleeding – there was not a way you could let this poor guy sleep outside just because his ex girlfriend decided to be dramatic one more time – “so uhm-- do you maybe- just if you want of course- sleep in my dorm?” – suddenly he looked up at you and you realized – you might like him that much bc you are actually attracted to him – finding out about your crush in the worst moment since now you were sharing a bed with jackson wang and a still full wine bottle – the two of you were talking until three in the morning – until something else happened and suddenly jackson was on top of you, making you feel more amazing than anyone else ever did – it was a bit awkward the next morning when he stepped out of your dorm and met his ex gf outside but looking back at it now it didn’t matter – everyone found out within the next 24 hours somehow so there was no way back – but you didn’t care, you wanted this – sweetest boyfriend tbh – loves you to death and supports you a lot – will get annoyed though when you don’t have time for him a lot – he understands that you have this one project going on but he just wants attention and kisses – always tells you to teach him everything you have to learn so you will remember better in exams – picks you up from class as often as possible – so much pda like every guy needs to see you’re off the market – will hold hands with you in lectures – just literally the best thing that could have happened to you

𝒞𝒽𝑜𝒾 𝒴𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔𝒿𝒶𝑒

– when you looked for a tutor you would have never thought that he would become your boyfriend – like you genuinely just didn’t want to fail the class – and youngjae was the biggest help, explaining everything to you over and over again – until one day you found yourself writing him about other things than this literature class – and he asked you if you’d just come over and maybe watch a movie with him after your tutoring session – so slowly you realized that tutoring became an excuse for both of you to spend time with each other – until the exam you were studying for with him was done and you got 96% on it – and you and youngjae found yourself still looking for excuses to hang out – one day y’all just stopped and started to see each other just bc you wanted to – he always invited you over, ordering food for the two of you – you tested out every single delivery service around the campus and made a list with ratings – it kind of became your thing and that’s how you found yourself on his couch at least twice a week – and as time went by your relationship developed into something more serious – you met his friends and also introduced him to your friends – whenever one of his friends celebrated their birthday or something similiar he took you with him – and you both were very well aware which direction this was going – so one night you found yourself in the bathroom of jackson’s dorm, his mouth exploring your neck downwards as you were leaning against the wall – you swear you could hear him mumble a small ‘finally’ under his breath as you two were getting it on – anyways that was not the last time you and youngjae were making out obviously – the next day he officially asked you to be his girlfriend – by now that felt like a lifetime ago – you loved when the tutor in him came out again whenever you had exams coming up – it made you smile so much reminding you off the beginning – you basically live at his place by now – you’re always together – knows exactky where to find you on the campus – he legit plans to marry you as soon as you graduate like he’s deffo in it for the long run

𝐵𝒶𝓂𝒷𝒶𝓂

– your friend and her boyfriend yugyeom told you they found the perfect guy for you – and you agreed to meeting him bc u know they wouldn’t leave you alone – so as you arrive at their dorm this one day you were more than shocked – and so was bambam – “(y/n)????” – so ofc yugyeom and your friend were curious about where you two know each other from – “do you remember that one guy i slept with on the first week of college?” – so a year later you met this one guy again – and you had to admit that your friends weren’t exaggerating – he rlly seemed to be quite perfect for you – so after that you met again, all four of you going to the cinema – and one time you went clubbing with a bigger group – and then a few days later when you visited your friend he was there too – but he never actually asked you to meet up which frustrated you – so one time you asked your friend for his number and just wrote him like – hey bamban will you ever ask me out – not rlly expecting an answer but you at least wanted to try before giving up – and to your surprise he stood in front of your door four hours later – popcorn, nachos and gummies in his hand – “i didn’t know what you prefer” – so finally you and him were alone again and everything was going fine – and.... ofc the one night stand from last year was now not a one night stand anymore – and the two night stand soon became a serious relationship – bambam will always just make fun of you – “what do you mean you don’t understand this class? that’s easy” – you seriously want to kill him sometimes but he doesn’t care – he’ll just give you a fat smooch and says sorry and hope everythings fine then again – you two never are bored together – if you have class together it’ll literally be hilarious – you’ll do anything except for listening to the prof – if you don’t have class together you’re constantly writing – sending each other stupid memes and joke about people from campus – shameless tbh – never says it but he’s so goddamn happy to have you – loves the sex so much but loves you even more – one time he told yugyeom that he can see a future with you and then he cringed at himself but it was the truth hshs

𝒦𝒾𝓂 𝒴𝓊𝑔𝓎𝑒𝑜𝓂

– you met him at Mark’s house party and the way he danced was no joke – attracted to him since day one tbh – the two of you sat on a sofa in a corner the whole evening – while everyone around you was dancing and making out – you talked and shared stories – wondering how you never met him before bc apparently – you both share a lot of the same friends – “What do you mean you know Bambam????” – “This guy from my class, his name is Jackson---” – “JACKSON WANG?” – it clicked immediately – and you wanted to die whenever you looked at him for a bit too long – like he was crazy attractive – many cups of alcohol later you were making out in a bathroom oops – the softest make out ever tho tbh like – he’s all over your neck and sensual and just ugh – making you feel really really good – even after that make out session you spend the rest of the evening together – mark and jinyoung saw you two coming out of the bathroom – the shock on their faces was no joke – “we didn’t even know you two know each other” – anyways after this night you didn’t hear from yugyeom for three days – and you felt so damn stupid for thinking there could’ve been more – until!!! – you suddenly got a text message from him – ‘uhmm hi here’s yugyeom, idk if you gave me your wrong number on purpose but i had to blackmail jaebum to give me your number for three days so if you didn’t want me to contact you just forget i even wrote you in the first place’ – you... gave him your wrong number – immediately texted him back that this was an accident – and from then on yugyeom and you texted all day – ‘you know i really enjoyed the evening with you so if you would like to how about you accompany me tonight to jinyoung’s party?’ – ‘i mean haha only if like’ – ‘no pressure haha’ – the most nervous guy but of course you went to the party with him – surprise - another one of those little bathroom session happened the same night – except for tonight he actually slept in your bed instead of his own – the next day the two of you were just chilling in your bed all day – talking about everything – somehow he takes college very serious which surprised you – so passionate about his major it’s the cutest – it took you and yugyeom some time to finally become a couple – he literally never understands a single thing you explain to him about your major but it’s cute how he tries – same goes for you though, you couldn’t even explain to your mum what exactly his major is about – will proudly take you with him to any party he’s invited to and show you off – the two of you sometimes walk around the campus at night and hold hands and it sounds lame but it’s literally your favorite thing to do – always fantasizing about the future – DAMN to think you almost didn’t go to that party where you met him would have been tragic – bc now you have someone by your side when college gets hard at least and you love him more than anything

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torunarigha · 5 years ago

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i made this the other night and honestly its not as cringe as i thought it would be! its a get to know the hertha players + my dumb commentary...

hertha squad smash or pass bc apparently i’m already too exhausted from school work to have a brain

1. Thomas Kraft:

Legend against Frankfurt, sexy saves, but pass

12. Dennis Smarsch

tall and large boi™, our future when he shapes up, pass bc he’s always posting cute shit with his gf (also gives off basic white boy vibes)

22. Rune Jarstein

octopus KING, saves my life every game, along with sala my first favorite player, smash the saves, pass on the father of three daughters (me and his two actual ones)

13. Lukas Klünter

squirrel man from köln that was the fastest runner in the bundesliga last year, was called most consistent man under covic and now is less so, i want him to SHINE but i also want him to stay with us forever bc i’m selfish, i cannot explain but smash 1000000%, e v e r y t h i n g .

17. Maxi Mittelstädt

square faced spandau berliner boy!!! i call him maxi n cie after the quebecois grocery store but that’s neither here nor there. he’s still got some work to do but he’s getting so much better and i’m SO proud of him. more my son than anything so pass for now (emphasis on for now...)

20. Dedryck Boyata

honestly what a cute and beautiful man. killer defender (we miss you! get well soon!) if it wasn’t for man city comment and connection might be smash...but looking at this pic i just want to hug him...so pass (when he comes back with them sexy tackles that answer might change)

21. Marvin Plattenhardt

poor marvin...only call up was for the world cup 2018 (why i’m putting germany jersey pic here). free kick skills through the roof when it happens and solid player...pass bc not my type.

25. Jordan Torunarigha

what a man WHAT A MAN! he is an INCREDIBLE defender, a MYSTERIOUS instagram caption maker, and a HEART that beats more blue and white than anyone in the world. i can’t wait to watch him flourish as an amazing german defenseman and yes that is of course a smash for my bae jordan ...

4. Karim Rekik

ah karim...i always had mixed feelings about him as a defender but now i miss him...as a person i always thought he was cool. he honestly has a gorgeous face and that could be a smash just for that...but i’m gonna say pass. frustration lingers.

5. Niklas Stark

ah nik...the one hertha player everyone on this site knows and loves and my one pride on the NT <3 he made me VERY MAD at the beginning of the season and that tarnished my opinion of him. but he has an incredibly attractive face and seems chill ! i think i’d smash if the chance presented itself !

11. Mathew Leckie

where on EARTH did this man go?? only Australian footy man i know...tbh completely forgot how he plays at all...the mustache ruins it for me, pass

15. Marko Grujić

sexy soft doe who makes dumb tackles sometimes! brilliant footballer, drools over the PL a little bit too much but i do love his love of liverpool. gives off sweetest man in the world vibes when off the pitch (on the pitch, quite the opposite). smash smash and more smash

16. Javairô Dilrosun

okayyyyyy this picture gives off different vibes than i normally associate with my always smiling super talented dutchboy but i’ll take it. literally would give the world for him. please stay at hertha. we love you. originally wrote smash but i cannot legally say that...too much sun/son vibes...pass my sweet legend

18. Santiago Asacibar

uggggghhh my least favorite transfer of all time. he’s ok. he’s been solid so i can’t complain. but a hard pass.

23. Arne Maier

the amount of love and affection i feel toward this berliner born in 1999 man for the amount of time he has actually played in the last while is...incredible. please don’t be a dumb bitch and move and that all the headlines were just made up. you’ve been injured !! be patient !! you’re too much homegrown talent for us to squander you i promise...not my normal type but smash...

3. Per Skjelbred

norwegian that gets up early and looks confused all the time. he’s been solid for us but apparently we’re selling him according to...will miss this deer in the headlights...pass

30. Marius Wolf

he just transferred sometime last season and he’s bffs with EVERYONE honestly respect but the guy freaks me out of bit...can’t explain it. super inconsistent but when he’s good he’s great. his instagram hashtag under every picture is #UNLEASHTHEWOLF ... when will he be unleashed ???? hard pass tho

6. Vladimír Darida

plays one (albeit incredible) game. twitter: BEST MAN OF THE VORRUNDE (honestly though some people’s opinions make me feel like i don’t understand this sport). he is pretty great though, not denying that. pass but respect. lots of it

8. Salomon Kalou

if this man doesn’t get a great send off i WILL riot. incredible presence on the team, nicest happiest funniest man alive. goals that he scores when he actually gets playing time ??? beautiful. couldn’t smash this man though, he’s the uncle i never had. i’ll pass him off to someone who loves him like he loves them.......

9. Alexander Esswein

couldn’t tell you much about ole essy over here...he’s not done much. he’s one of my friend’s exact type so i’ll save him for her. pass.

14. Pascal Köpke

the lad is TRYING! being the son of the NT goalkeeper coach is never easy. its hard to just be thrown on the pitch for the first time and be expected to create magic. hope he just gets better! solid pass bc his face looks like a prof of mine...yikes

19. Vedad Ibisevic

*gently strokes picture* i didn’t know how good i had it. yes i get annoyed at his aggressive testosterone-yness but lordy does he love hertha and is a good captain. i miss seeing him on the pitch and scoring those goals, saving our asses. props, old man <3 definite pass though.

27. Davie Selke

what CURSE has davie fallen victim to??? this man has no aim anymore and i miss his speedy legs and fancy goals !!!! absolute passion to sometimes ridiculous levels on the pitch but i love his heart. off the pitch, most down to earth nice sympatisch guy ever...hard smash

28. Dodi Lukébakio

oof...OOOF. i really really REALLY like him. he shuffles cards well, his voice is so soothing, his smile is INCREDIBLE. and yeah...incredible goal scored and weaver around defenders. and so chill !!!! i hope he stays with us for a long time. smash. marry.

BONUS

(on loan at norwich) Ondrej Duda

my heart grew three sizes when i saw this picture and now my eyes are all misty... he and sala have made my days so good when they were otherwise bad. his goalscoring last season incredible. he barely played this season at all. i don��t understand it. i hope and pray he comes back for us. duda...i love you (pass tho for the same reason as sala...)

#thoughts

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softforcal · 6 years ago

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What about like ravenclaw!reader gets asked by a professor to tutor slytherin!michael since he’s failing and Mike is 100% sure that like the reader is a stick in the mud but then he learns that they pulled like an amazing prank on Filch and suddenly he’s very intrigued by them since they have a goody goody exterior?

SLYTHERIN MICHAEL X RAVENCLAW READER

-okay, so Michael has noticed you because you are a complete teachers pet

-we’re talking Teachers straight up call you by your first name and are always calling on you in class and telling you how they ‘adored your last essay’ or how ‘your potion is absolutely perfect’

-he has a bit of resentment because of that

-and when a prof tells him that he needs a tutor he fucking knows who his tutor is going to be

-he trudges into the library and finds you sitting there and just collapses into the seat next to you like “lets get this fucking over with.”

-meanwhile you’re kinda like fuck the profs for sticking me with this dumb ass

-like. it feels like they’re punishing you and you’re kinda ticked off about it

-i mean, the Slytherin is cute but he’s always dicking around and distracted in classes so you’re not surprised he isn’t doing well

-and his hair changes colour with mood but part of you has always guessed that thats a complete lie and he can change it at will

-its a dull, bored grey as you begin explaining the homework

-he groans and rolls his eyes and crosses his arms over his chest like such a little brat and you’re just like fuck my life

-”can you not make your hair grey right now. like, do you have the capacity to even pretend to want to pass this class?” you snap

-his eyes meet yours, “i can’t control my hair colour.” he states.

-now it’s your turn to roll your eyes, “we both know that’s not true Clifford. now. since i’m being so kind as to tutor you, i’m thinking maybe a nice royal blue colour to go with my robes. or do you want to fail this test?”

-he’s kinda shook because you’re already being more sassy than he expected

-tbh he kind of thought he’d just show up and annoy you into forcing the teachers to let you not tutor him

-he groans as his hair flares a nice blue, “fine. happy Princess?”

-”yes.” you snap back.

-an hour in you’re only half way done the questions and you sigh, looking at the time, “i’ll be right back. don’t move.”

-he watches you leave and decides to follow you because if there’s one thing Michael can pick up on it’s mischief and he’s getting weird mischief vibes from you which makes zero sense but his mischief-dar has never been off

-you go to a janitor closet in the library and whisper a spell under your breath that Michael can’t hear from where he’s standing behind a book shelf

-when turn around it looks like you’re going back to the study table so Michael rushes back so he’s there when you return

-you have a bottle of water in your hands and as you’re walking you trip a little and the water gets all over the ground, “shit, i gotta get Filch.” you say, leaving again only to return with Filch who is being a complete ass to you

-Michael is watching the whole thing and not knowing what’s happening

-you sit down and Filch comes back with the mop

-he sets it in the water to mop it up but all it seems to be doing is moving the water around

-in fact, it looks like there’s more water than when he began mopping

-Filch is sputtering and cursing as he continues to try to mop up the ever growing spill

-Michael looks at Filch then to you as you try to hide your grin by looking down at your text book

-it clicks. you enchanted the mop. and Filch has no idea.

-Michael stiffles a laugh as Filch gives up and leaves

-”what did the guy do to deserve that?” Michael asks

-”i have no idea what you’re talking about. but if i did. i would say it might have something to do with him being an ass to first years.” you answer, flipping through your text book

-after that, Michael pays more attention to what you’re saying

-he ends up actually learning something? he’s shook

-he gets so into the work that he doesn’t even notice the two of you have been there for like three hours

-you finally sigh and close your book, “i have to go, but if you need more help i’ll be here the same time tomorrow.”

-”okay.” he says as you leave

-you don’t expect him to come the next day

-so when you show up and he’s there waiting, a book already open, you’re shocked

-he looks up when you approach and his hair flairs blue as he grins, “ready to study?”

-he can focus pretty well when he sets his mind to something and you finish all your homework super fast

-”why don’t you just pay attention in class? you’re not bad at this stuff.” you point out

-he shrugs, “teachers aren’t interesting.”

-”oh, but i am?” you laugh

-”after your stunt with Filch, fuck yeah.” he laughs

-you stand to go and as you’re leaving he calls “thank you!”

-you just smile and keep walking

-going to your class the next day and when class ends the teacher pulls you aside and is like “i don’t know what sort of potion you slipped to Mr. Clifford but whatever you’re doing is working.”

-practically every teacher pulls you aside and is just like what the fuck, some of them are actually concerned that you’ve bewitched him or something because the homework is in his writing and he definitely wrote it but… what the fuck

-showing up to the library and sitting down and just being like “the teachers think i bewitched you. you must have been a really shit student before they forced you to get a tutor.” and he just laughs cuz “you have no fucking idea.”

-so far it’s really only been you interacting with the Slytherin boy which you are more than fine with because Slytherins have bad reputations but Michael is actually decent

-he laughs and giggles so much part of you is like, why the fuck isnt this squish boy in Hufflepuff

-but then at the same time, he’s a mischievous little shit so you assume thats the main reason

-showing up to the library after class and almost bumping into Slytherin!Luke, “you’re Y/N right?” he asks, “you’re Michael’s tutor.”

-so this is a development. the fact that other Slytherins know who you are in relation to Michael is a bit unwanted but whatever

-”yeah. and?” you ask

-the tall blonde laughs, “just wanted to see if you’re as cute as he says.” your heart drops and Luke’s snakey grin widens, “you’re definitely Mikey’s type i’ll give you that much. well, if you ever decide to take that Ravenclaw stick out of your bum and do something about it, don’t hurt the guy alright?”

-”uh. okay.”

-he turns and leaves and you are standing there shook

-did a Slytherin seriously just come and, first: throw his best friend under the bus for being into you, and second: threaten you not to hurt him?

-so weird

-you go sit down and begin to study and Michael shows up later, he looks a little agitated as he sits across from you, fingers fussing with some of the bracelets he’s wearing, “hey uh… did Luke come talk to you?”

-”yup.” you answer, continuing to read your notes

-Michael’s fingers tap against the table, “uh… did he say anything weird?”

-you look up at the fidgety Slytherin boy and realize how anxious the little muffin is and your heart softens. his hair is a dark black colour and part of you wonders if when he’s really stressed he really can’t control it

-you think about what Luke said about pulling that stick out of your bum

-Michael is sweet. and you two have a good time together which is something you never thought you’d be saying about a Slytherin. and he’s super cute

-you close your book

-Michael watches, biting at his lip anxiously

-”he was a bit weird but that’s okay. i don’t have much homework today, want to go walk down to Honeydukes and maybe grab some sweets?” you ask.

-this lil squish is shook for a moment but grins and agrees, his hair turning blue again, as it always does when he’s around you

-”so what did Luke say… exactly?” Michael asks as the two of you are walking down

-you realize that he really is just a small anxious nugget and you have to tell him

-”he pretty much said that you like me and if I date you and hurt you, he’s going to be mad.” you answer.

-Michael stops walking, “he didn’t.” “he did.” “what the fuck.” “yeah, aren’t Slytherins supposed to be loyal to each other or something?” you laugh

-”when i see that fucker next time i swear i’m going to prank him so bad-”

-”you know, i think he was just looking out for you. plus, we’re here now.” you point out, lacing your fingers with his

-Michael laughs, looking down at your interlocked fingers “it’s funny, i’m the Slytherin here but you’re the one with all the power.”

-”is there something wrong with that?” you ask, becoming on guard for any sort of toxic masculinity red flags

-”not one bit.” he grins, using your hand to tug you to his chest as his arms wrap around you and he presses his lips to yours

-his tongue dances across your lips and his hand slides down to your ass, making you moan

-he grins into the kiss and when he finally pulls away you let out a laugh to collect yourself, “there’s the Slytherin i know.”

-his grin widens at your acceptance of his House and puts his arm over your shoulders as the two of you continue to walk to Honeydukes

-”you know, i think you shouldn’t be mad at Luke.” you point out, “he’s a Slytherin, he must have planned for this to work out.” “are you saying Luke actually successfully wing-manned me? that’s a first.”

-so you go get Honeydukes candy and walk around and talk and he’s super cute but still does little mischievous things like try to touch your bum or but his hand in your pocket which you’re cool with until you’re in places other people can see it

-walking back up to the castle

-”so we have that test next week we need to study for.” you state

-”okay Ms. L/N.” he grins cheekily

-you roll your eyes but say goodnight

-the air leaves your lungs as he presses you against a wall and kisses you, one hand on your hip and one in your hair

-when he pulls away and says goodnight he winks before leaving and you’re kinda shook

-next day in classes is normal, he sits in the back, you sit in the front

-you go to the library to study and he comes in and is somehow playing the song ‘Hot for teacher’ and proceeds to serenade you in the back of the library

-you’re his tutor but the thought is funny

-forcing him to settle down and study

-he refuses to study without a kiss

-rolling your eyes but accepting as his fingers tangle in your hair

-thanking god that your study area is in the back of the library where no one ever goes to

-his hand goes to your thigh and you realize you’re really starting to see the full force of what him being a Slytherin actually means

-it means he’s a horny kinky little shit is what it means

-he still manages to focus on homework which is pretty chill

-but he whines and pouts until you give him kisses when he finishes each question

-he’s just the cutest

-imagine him in a snap back too, like this boy is so gorgeous

-i don’t know where that came from and it’s not even connected to the HC. just. Michael in backwards snap backs and that eye brow piercing

-he’s a happy little bub

-but he’s getting so good at the classwork that you two are done pretty quick

-”you know we can hang out and go on dates that don’t include studying right?” you laugh. long pause, then: “riiiiiight.”

-he begins to tell you about all the pranks or mischievous things he has planned

-you point out small flaws in his plans or things he could do to make the prank better

-he melts over you

-”who would have known you have such a wild side.” he grins, nuzzling his face against you cheek while his arm goes around your shoulders

-he begins to implement your suggestions and its like the whole has a prank epidemic on their hands

-you two are a fucking menace

-but no one knows you’re together yet so people have no idea whats happening because all of the sudden the pranks are hard core and they’re like “this can’t be from Michael, he’s never gone this far before” because you and Mike are a pranking dream team

-about two weeks into you and him ‘dating’ he sits next to you in one of your classes, “i figure if i actually take notes in class, we can spend more time together not having to study.” he states

-and then. this boy. actually fucking takes notes.

-teachers are shook

-a few are even like, “Mr. Clifford you can return to your seat now that class is starting.” and he actually says “i think if i sit in the front i can take better notes.” and the teachers are blown away

-another full day of classes where teachers are pulling you aside like ‘what the fuck have you done to Michael’

-but he’s a determined Slytherin and his goal is time with you and the cute look of pride you get when he actually excels in school so it makes sense that he’s being this way

-Slughorn is the first teacher to piece it together. as a Slytherin himself he sees through you and Michael. he mentions it in the staff room and all the other teachers are shook that they didn’t figure it out first

-but then, they wish they didn’t fucking know, because suddenly they pay a lot of attention to where Michael’s hands are when he’s sitting next to you in class.

-so you two are being pretty low key about it

-and Michael is an announcer at the Quidditch games which is funny

-until one day you’re sitting with your housemates and a Slytherin starts to hit on you and Michael straight up, through the mic in front of everyone is like “Parker, that’s my girlfriend you prick! back the fuck off!”

-meanwhile, Slytherin Luke, Cal and Ashton show up and drag the guy away from you

-so they all knew.

-and now. every single person in Hogwarts knows too

-Michael gets suspended from being the mic guy at games for two weeks

-but #worth

-Michael grumbles and comes to sit with you in the stands for the remainder of the game and all of your Ravenclaw house mates are shook

-but the way you lean in against him, his arm over your shoulders, is cute as fuck

-being more open about your relationship is a blessing

-Michael’s Slytherin house mate who hit on you comes and apologizes and you suspect Michael and his posse had something to do with it

-Michael sitting with you in every single shared class

-his Slytherin friends crashing your study dates sometimes

-because ‘they need school help and if you helped Mike you can help anyone.’

-but also because they want to know you better because they’re a brotherhood and Michael is important to them

-they all have their own way of telling you not to hurt Michael and it’s hilarious

-”if you hurt him… i’ll be very angry with you.” “yeah that definitely scared the shit out of her Cal, nice one.”

-and Michael with his Ravenclaw hair is adorable and people think it’s the fucking cutest

-like how can your Ravenclaw house mates be pissed when he’s such a lil squish who loves the shit out of you

-everyone realizing that the new prankster fucking everyone over is a joint effort between the two of you

-study sessions getting dirty as fuck

-kisses aren’t the only reward for getting a question right ;)

-”Michael, this doesn’t make any sense, you’re the one answering correctly, why am i the one getting rewarded?” you ask after orgasm number three

-”because you’re my tutor so my correct answers are because of you babe.” he smirks from between your legs

-you two would totally come up with a code by his hair colour

-like, if he’s in a kinky mood he makes his hair dark, with different levels of darkness meaning different things.

-grey is like a semi dom thing whereas black means call him daddy or sir

-yellow hair means soft, lazy, giggly sex

-so the two of you meet up and you look at his hair and if you don’t agree with his mood you shake your head and he changes it and quirks an eye brow at you until you’re in silent, coded agreement on exactly what kind of sex ya’ll be having

-Calum figuring it out because every time you and Michael sneak by and his hair is black the two of you are extra loud and kinky

-one day you show up and Michael’s hair is yellow and Calum lets out a shaky breath, “thank fuck it’s a soft sex day, don’t know if i could deal with another loud one.”

-everyone looking at him and it clicks with all of them and they all flip their shit because you and Michael totally non-verbally communicate about sex in front of them ALL THE TIME IN CODE

-like what the fuck

-i am living for this what the actual fuck.

-Luke takes full credit for the whole thing happening

-people actually keep track of when you and Michael have exams or tests and days that you get your marks back because on these days the two of you are 100% boning the shit out of each other

-everyone knows when you both pass your tests because ya’ll LOUD

-he’s just such a teasy, cocky Slytherin

-Slytherin Michael is into over stim fam. he just is.

-the first month of dating being wild because he’s figuring out exactly what you like and becoming a fucking pro at it

-he’s a pleaser

-he’s smug as fuck about being with you

-this is my OTP. what have you done.

#michael clifford #michael clifford x reader #hogwarts!au #hogwarts!5sos #hogwarts michael clifford #hogwarts!michael clifford #slytherin!michael clifford #slytherin michael clifford #ravenclaw!reader #ravenclaw reader #hc #softforcal #5sos #5 seconds of summer

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booknerdphd · 6 years ago

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PhD Admissions- Business Edition

Hey guys!

So I haven’t found any gradblrs from people doing their masters or PhD in business (if you know anyone, please let me know). Most people seem to be from the area of arts or STEM. Given that my own inputs about my admission process could help people out, I thought I would give some information on how I came to where I am.

Hope this helps someone out there! It should have something for everyone, though some aspects may be different.

1) The first thing I did was discuss my plans with my professors from my MBA. While I do live in India, a lot of them had done their own PhDs in the US, so I knew they could give me some guidance. Discuss with your professors what your plans are- they may not have studied in the same field as you, which was the case with me, but they will know enough to send you in the right direction.

2) Work out which professors can write your LoRs. This is tricky because they need to know you well and be likely to write something good about you. You would have a feel of this from your time with them, so make sure you start cozying up to them in advance- ask them doubts when they teach you, utilize cabin hours. Even if you end up not asking them, you never know when they can help you out in the future. So stay in contact!

3) Once you have your LoRs planned and have some idea of the type of colleges you want, start your research. The way I did this was I started off with colleges I knew were good for their MBA- if they can teach an MBA well, there would be a chance they would have a good PhD program as well. This may not be the case everywhere, but it is a good starting point. Once I went through the ones I knew, I started going through the faculty CVs- I checked which colleges they were from and what they did, and accordingly checked those colleges out. By doing this, you start creating a network in your mind of what places work out for you.

4) Once you have the large list of universities outlined, start looking at how their funding works. The exchange rate is ridiculous for me, and education is the US is also a costly matter so a lot of “good schools” (as per their fame and all that jazz) were automatically removed from my list based on this. You are going to this school to learn, but you will also be working for the university, and if it is possible for you to get a funded program, put those on priority. There is nothing wrong with non-funded programs, but base your consideration on whether or not you can afford to study there- with a loan or with your savings, if not the funding.

Additionally, make sure that the city is one you can see yourself living in- what is the cost of living there in comparison to the stipend they (possibly) mention on the website? Does it have a large number of people from your community (depends on you if this is important, but it is always nice to have people from your country to look out for as a comfort zone)? Do you have friends or family there to bank on if there are any issues? You will know what you need- make sure you understand this in detail, by researching yourself or discussing it with current students in the program.

During one of my “interviews”, the professor went into this tangent where he was giving me advice about selecting schools, and he emphasized how important it was for me to understand what I needed in a city and to check if the city works for me, because I’m going to be there for 5 or more years, so I better be sure I will like it.

5) Also check the kind of research the faculty does. You would need to look at this for your SOP as well, but make sure that you can see yourself working with the professors there. This was something I actually had a discussion about with a professor in the school I will join in September during my interview. One of the universities that had waitlisted me (let’s call this University X) had professors that leaned very heavily towards a specific domain in business research- every single one of them. My own interests had nothing to do with that, but in my anxiety, I applied because a friend of mine was studying in the school (to be honest, not my proudest moment, but I was ridiculously anxious about getting in anywhere). The Prof at my university spoke to me about this, telling me that I should keep this in mind before waiting for them- not because he wanted me in his program, which he did, but because he understood that feeling of anxiety about getting in somewhere, anywhere, and didn’t want me to make a mistake. SO MAKE SURE YOU CHECK IF YOUR INTERESTS ARE IN ANY WAY ALIGNED WITH THE PROFESSORS.

6) Keep in mind that, in the field of business at least, and in the US specifically (I noticed this was different in the UK), not all Universities want you to know your thesis topic in advance- they don’t need a complete outline of your thesis, chapter by chapter. They want to know that you understand what you’re signing up for, that you love what you’re going to be doing, and that you have the right mindset to do it. The thesis topic could be A at the beginning of the program and end up becoming Z at the end of the program, with no overt relation between the two. Make sure you understand what you want to focus on, and communicate that interest, because I’ve noticed that a lot of students in these programs do not necessarily get in because they have their thesis planned- they get in because the school sees them as a “good fit”.

7) That brings me to a very important concept- “Good Fit”. You may think you are a good fit to a school, but that may not be the case. Do not be upset (as in, obviously you will be, but this too shall pass) when you do not get in, because they are not rejecting you as a person or insulting your worth- all they are doing is saying that you are not a “good fit” which literally changes on any given day. One professor told me that if an academic tried to research and make an outline on how to get students into these schools, that man would go insane, because there is no method, only madness. Once you are in that room, you will realize that there is no rhyme or reason for the rejections- some students with exemplary grades and an amazing SOP could be rejected and someone you never thought would get in might get in. So don’t take it personally- if they thought you would not be a “good fit”, maybe you wouldn’t have been and might have been miserable in the program.

Once you submit your application and the wait begins (ugh I freaking hated waiting), and the rejections start coming in, remember to hold on to hope. I had every single school reject me but one. I got at least 5 rejections in Jan before I got a mail from the coordinator for my program asking me for an interview. And then I had 4 rounds of interviews, which baffled every single professor I spoke to, as well as my only PhD friend in the US, because apparently NONE OF THEM HAD INTERVIEWS. But- if they follow up with you on anything, that is usually a good thing- it means they are interested and by the second interview, I was informed they were down to the last two candidates (me and one other person), and I was told upfront that the professor liked me, as had the coordinator. By the third round (which was one and a half hours long), at 12:30 am in the night, I was finally told that “TBH, It will be reallllyyy hard for you to fuck up now, you’re basically in, so don’t worry”. And then I was thrown at the head of my department and yeah. I was convinced he hated me, but I got the letter a day after that and I was in!

All during this, I was getting rejection after rejection after rejection, but hold on to hope and that belief that the Universe will send someone your way, because you deserve this and you have worked for it.

GOOD LUCK AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS!

#gradblr #phd #bujo #graduate student #studyblr #phdblr #studying #academia #the grad life #grad school #life #bookblr #bullet journal #undergrad #imposter syndrome #helpful #my posts

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sweetbunnykook · 5 years ago

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1/2 OMG bunny, I need to talk about this. Rant ahead. I study English Honors and my faculty is luckily dominated by intelligent and amazing women professors who don't take shit from the male ones. And the men literally cower under the gaze of our department head who is a woman. However I respected this one male prof, he was nice, respectable and actually cared about our academics. But today I learnt that his wife was one of his students. And I was like 😦. It grossed me out tbh.

And it made him sink kinda low in my eyes. I realised that prof student roleplay is hot and a serious realtionship between the two seems okay in fiction but in reality it seems wrong on so many levels. Am I narrow minded for thinking this. I do not want to be alkne with this prof in a room anymore as he seems predatory in a way despite him being so nice and kinda chill.

I understand your disgust. Sometimes the people you think are nice are rather predatory; I’ve met a lot of men like that in my life. Lived with one too.

It does, however, depend on the power dynamics. Was the wife fresh out of high school that he pursued when he was much older? Was she a grad student? Does the professor have a habit of being charming towards his female students only? A lot of factors do play into it so unless you know the age difference, the power dynamics of their relationship, and their romantic journey I wouldn’t judge so quickly.

The reason is that I do know a lot of university students aren’t always young (people think college students are in their 20s usually but I’ve had classmates that were retired). People go back to uni all the time to get a masters/PhD so they’re well in their 30s, 40s, 50s, etc etc... One of my favorite grad student friend (who taught a course I took) is in a relationship with an English professor. I didn’t see anything wrong with the relationship as there are a lot of young professors on my campus. What I do think is questionable is if a professor is using favoritism to pursue a student who is well below his/her age or flirting in a professional setting. Roleplaying is one thing but seeing it in action in real life is very, very uncomfortable.

- 🐰

#bunny:asks

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seokjinsleo · 6 years ago

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BTS as Fuckboys (+ but being soft with you)

I feel like this will be too long but I got this idea out of nowhere. Them being fuckboys at uni and falling in love with you. Then being soft with you bc they are so damn in love with you and they cant help it OMFGHAHSJSJ.

Hyung line / Maknae line

Jimin: The Dancer Fuckboy

As fuckboy:

* lets be real here, hes a shy cute pie but when he dances hes just a demon

* and thats exactly why girls stick to him like bees with honey

* as a comtemporanean major dancer he has an amazing body and he knows how to use it for his pleasure

* he never thought girls would like him but since freshman year girls were crazy about him

* he once fuck three of his dance girl mates in the dance studio before a performing test. it was beautiful. such an art, as he would say.

* tbh he dont do much, girls just come to him since he is too shy to actually talk to them same in sex he is a good switch but he enjoy being a sub

* thats something girls die for. men tend to be dom but this chimchim loved being fucked real good by a girl and they loved being dom with him

* his innocent face attracted a lot of looks in his direction but his signatura thing was his demon like smile

* demon like bc it was so big and beautiful that u couldn’t resist it no matter what and he knows it

* loves to praise his lovers and loves to make them feel good

* feels like shit when he has to break things up bc he gets tired of them in a week or less

* dont be fooled by his cuteness he still a fuckboy

* ofc that was until he met this chemistry student a year ago

As softie:

* hes a natural softie and everyone knows but with you he is another level. you are his flower he wants to take care of.

* he met you when you went to his class by accident and left when u saw that it was the wrong classroom. you were a freshman by that time.

* a year later hes still so whipped with you like literally he cant stop fucking you like the first time you two did it

* also hes so fucking in love. he never felt that way. he cant see his future without u and he tells you that every night by text or when you stay in his dorm.

* you love his intense laugh and the way he hides his face with his hands when hes too embarrassed

* he always was very clear with you with who he was before meeting bc he knew rumors were hard

* he always wanted to please in any way

* he always kiss your lips goodbye after licking his lips

* he loves to wait for you outside your classroom with very sweet hot chocolate, just how u like it

* he would make you feel so wanted while he fucks you in his bed and his lips are licking every part of your neck

* he would never stop his pace this he has you shaking at least 3 times * “you are such a good girl, you take so well”, besides what he is normally he became very dom with you and he loves it. best sex he has ever had.

* “i never knew i needed a chem girl to feel this good. what a waste of time i had before you, baby.”, he said with his beautiful smile.

Taehyung: The Effortless Fuckboy

As fuckboy:

* girls were actually mad at him bc hes so bloody gorgeous

* with his 4d face and personality he had the world at his feet

* like he didnt even try to be a fuckboy, he was just born to be one

* all he needed to do was to look at someone and they would be at his service and he knew it but he didnt care tbh

* he was just living life while painting, playing instruments or taking pictures and thats how he met his muses

* he loves the artistic beauty of naked bodies, and he couldn’t resist when after a photoshoots his muse would spread her legs for him

* he would take pics in the moment so he would save it for his memories

* missionary was his fav pose bc he could see everything in his muse; to her expression to the slightly shaking of her legs

* he would do that every thursday when a new girl entered his art studio to be photographed and fucked

* he loved girls that looked like art

* thats how he noticed her; by her almond shaped eyes and plump lips

* he wanted her to be his muse so bad

As softie:

* lets be real, you got fucked by him the first time you talked but he wanted more and more

* he didnt notice how he started to go less to his art studio and more to your or his dorm to hang out and cuddle and fuck

* slowly he started to ignored every of his ex lovers

* he was enchanted by the beauty he had between his legs while you deep throat him

* sex with him was a real art. he loved to taste, lick and bite every space of you.

* he notice his feelings when one night alone in his dorm his brain couldn’t stop talking about you

* next day he went to your dorm early in the morning just to kiss you good morning

* he would always talk with you about your inspirations and he would always looked at you amazed everytime you talked

* clingyyyyyyyy

* he couldn’t help but give you a a boxy smile everytime he could; he was just so happy GIRL YOURE MAKING HIM SO FUCKING HAPPY OMGKAISJ

* art studio sex? Hell yes. with paint all over your bodies while he pounds deeply into you.

* “waited for you so long. i cant see myself without you”, he caressed your lips, “jagi, im so in love.“

Jungkook: The Golden Fuckboy

As fuckboy:

* he was your typical fuckboy: nice face, nice body, nice flirty methods. But something very interesting about him was his passion such as dancing, singing, drawing and photography/films. thats why he is in indisciplinary major.

* he was very picky with girls tho. he would actually take them home if they had a nice convo.

* he looked at that as a foreplay

* if a girl could have a nice convo with him and get him interested he would ask her by the end of the day if she wanted to share a night with him

* and if he ever ask you that you better say yes bc GUUuuUrLllL that boy is so good in bed

* he love teasing so before fucking u he wanted u sweating and hot for him

* he has great stamina do be prepared to be all night and all day if u dont want to go to uni

* hes the fuckboy who knows is a fuckboy and knows that every1 knows and dosen’t care

* actually he feels kinda ok with the title

* he adores older women so he tends to flirty with his young-adult professors with any luck

* they flirt back and all but bc of the uni student/prof laws it dosen’t occur anything

* so thats how he actually met her, she was a year older and oh yes he was a sucker for noonas

As softie:

* at first you ignored him everytime which seems to affect him really bad

* that was bc he was actually in love with you and he didnt even knew

* thats why kept going for you; this time with flowers or chocolates, not flirting but just his real him

* after a while you started to date and GURLLLL this guy in so fucking in love with you he cant even believe it

* he would always call you noona, noona this noona that but it was until he was needy that his tone became pleading, “noona~~~ i miss you, you miss me?"

* even tho there was just a year gap, he was such a child and he would love to tickle you and play with your hair

* he is crazy about you and everytime he see you entering his dorm his doe eyes get wide and his bunny smile becomes bigger

* rumors of cheating were always there no matter what and at first it really affected you to the Point you almost broke up

* "baby, believe me- hey, look at me, dont give up please dont. yes i was a fuckboy, casanova, whatever you want to call it but that was before i ever met u i swear, i want no one but you noona. you are my noona, mine. im your kookie, yours okay?"

* sex was beautiful.

* he would taste you, bite, slap you, degrade you, praise you, just everything fine and spice.

* "You are so good, noona, so fucking good- ahhh”, he moaned in your neck while he got lost in the beauty of your body

* you were his baby, he would always protect you, he always had your back

* “Yah, noona, your face looks like the woman i want to marry”, he would say while giving you a sly bunny smile.

#bts #bangtan #seokjin #Jin #Yoongi #suga #Hoseok #jhope #namjoon #rm #Jimin #Taehyung #jungkook #reaction #fanfic #fanfiction #kpop #smut

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timeisacephalopod · 6 years ago

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AU-College. Tony/?. Tony already 17 and working on yet another doctorate has just returned from home after a school break. He's covered in bruises but he doesn't bother to hide them because he honestly believes no one notices or cares. Always on edge and doing anything and everything to forget the pain, Tony is confused when people he doesn't even know start to ask if he's okay and if he needs any help. Laughing in their face he replied. "You can't help, no one can." (I feel dark today sry?)

So I went with Tony/ Eddie Brock (from Venom if you don’t know). Eddie is an investigative journalist (or in this case he’s in school to be one) and tbh I have no freaking clue how journalism school works (journalism school?) so I’ve sort of made it work like humanities courses? Idk, just accept my bad plot needs bois. Also I altered the ‘you can’t help’ line to better fit the scenario, but the sentiment is the same.

As the prompt suggests, warning abuse references.

Eddie needs a story and since his asshole prof likes corporations a lot more than he does that’s out. Which throws a bunch of stuff in his usual wheelhouse out with it. He thought homelessness was a good topic but got told that wasn’t news, which he doesn’t understand because to his knowledge homelessness isn’t solved. Then he thought hey, school shootings happen basically every other day- they like to say if it bleeds it leads and a whole lot of kids seem to be dying. But he got told the news is already oversaturated with that. So he thought fine, maybe police brutality, that’s violent and not on the news much but he got told that was too controversial and what the fuck is the news for if not to be controversial?

Now he’s stuck with the task of finding a story his irritatingly picky prof will like and to add insult to the injury one of his classmates got approved to write about cryptocurrency. What the fuck is that? Stupid, in Eddie’s opinion. His topics were important, real world issues and this dumbass over here gets to write shit about something no one cares about. Predictable.

He’s eating his muffin angrily and wondering if he can somehow convince his prof to let him write something about climate change and the fact that no matter what an individual does, its still 100 companies doing seventy percent of the damage so why is the news focusing on individuals over corporations when he spots a potentially easier sell. Boy genius, way ahead of his time, and well loved by the American public. He has no interest in Tony Stark whatsoever but there has to be a story there, something underneath that irritatingly arrogant rich kid veneer that’s worth writing about so he decides to make a move.

Tony hates waking up before noon on any given day, assuming he went to bed at all, and dealing with people? He doesn’t like that at any time of day so when he’s minding his own damn business only to have some random guy with porn star lips- he swears to god that’s the only accurate description- he’s already annoyed. “Who the hell are you? Never mind, I don’t actually care,” he says in an irritable tone before going to turn back around but the guy takes his brief interruption to his day in a totally different direction than Tony was expecting.

“Nice shiner, where’d you get that?” he asks and Tony freezes for a moment, used to that fleeting feeling that someone might guess at the truth before realizing no one cares anyways.

He rolls his eyes, “you wouldn’t care if I told you, and even if you did its not like there’s anything you could do about it. Or anyone else, for that matter.” Its not like he’s never said anything and not one time has anything come of it. Sometimes people laugh, actually, and Tony doesn’t know what’s worse. People not hearing him at all or people hearing just fine, but they make a joke out of it. Silence isn’t his thing, but he’s developed a thick skin in regards to how people treat him. Doesn’t have much of a choice, living under his father’s roof and in the public eye. Its amazing, Tony thinks, how fucking obvious his abuse is and no one seems to see what’s in front of their damn faces.

Something about his words seem to draw his companion’s attention though and Tony recognizes the look. “Are you a reporter?” he asks and the guy looks surprised for a half a second.

“Good instinct- but technically I’m still in school,” he says like Tony fucking cares about that.

“Yeah, fuck off,” he says bluntly. He’s got no time for another asshole looking to capitalize off the Tony Stark Story when none of them even get the damn story right.

“You have an interesting take on green energy. Only big name attached to it, too,” he says and Tony frowns.

“You know about my interest in green energy?” he asks. No one ever asks him about his passion project, they all want to know about the bombs and if Tony is honest he’s never really been comfortable with what his father’s company does. He knows the military has a use, and that there are protocols, and a bunch of other things his father has said over and over again but he still wonders what happens when things go wrong. Who’s responsibility is that? Does anyone have to take responsibility at all? His experiences tell him that powerful people don’t need to take responsibility for their actions ever, not if they can pay off the powers that be, and if the military is the same way, well. That brings a new layer of ethics to what SI does but Howard doesn’t care about ethics and Obadiah… he’s always been closer to Tony, but he doesn’t seem concerned with ethics either. Claims that’s the military’s job but Tony isn’t stupid. The military, all branches of it, make bad choices all the time. Which leads him back to who takes responsibility, if anyone.

Green energy is less ethically complicated and more necessary to the world, he thinks, and the projects are interesting and engaging. Tony finds blowing things up easy, but green energy provides a new avenue of engineering.

“Yeah, I keep up with what people are doing. Eddie Brock,” he says, extending his hand to Tony.

Green energy, it’d been a shot in the dark but he knows that Tony’s interest isn’t a passing one and its not congruent with his father’s company’s interests either. Whenever Howard is asked about his son’s projects he consistently tells them he has no interest whatsoever. So its strange that Tony has kept his focus for years, if Eddie’s passing interest in the subject is correct. What’s more strange is that mentioning it had immediately gotten him into Tony’s good graces. Anne tells him that he’s good at that, getting past people’s defenses without trying and he guesses that’s true.

Tony continuously talks around his family and Eddie does his best to try and get back to that because Elder Stark has got to be an interesting guy. Real asshole, he’s sure, but interesting. Tony won’t have any of it though and Eddie has to admit the green energy thing is interesting until he loses Eddie thanks to, put bluntly, being way smarter than him. And Tony’s no good at dumbing it down either, something even he freely admits.

They talk for a good amount of time before Tony grows tense again and Eddie knows why partially because of Tony’s reaction to his being a reporter- or wannabe reporter at the moment- and also because he isn’t stupid. “I’m not writing anything about this,” he tells Tony. “Not to be a dick, but none of this is interesting enough to write anything on anyways. You know how sensationalized media likes to be,” he says, shaking his head.

Something catches Tony’s attention in that because he perks up. “You don’t like that, the sensationalism?” he asks. Its more of a statement, but Eddie knows he’s prodding for a why. He’s done this a million times himself.

“Not really, no. If you want to tell a story, then do that- don’t make up all this crazy shit to make it sound more messed up than it is. Human flaw, thinking things need to hit some kind of extreme before we should have to care about it,” he shakes his head. “Leads to shoddy journalism because we’re pushed to make things sexier, more violent, more of whatever is actually there instead of just doing our jobs. Literally everything ever printed about you proves my point.”

Tony snorts, “you read stories on me?” he asks, incredulous.

“Doesn’t everyone?” Not like Tony Stark is an escapable name but Tony’s lips quirk up.

“No, and you’re not a fan. You talk about SI in a disapproving tone, you only know me from my green energy projects, and although you seem to know stuff about me its pop culture knowledge, not genuine interest.” Eddie raises an eyebrow because that’s a damn in depth analysis but Tony only smiles wider. “I’ve learned to separate out people who know me from fans and super fans. You don’t know me.”

Eddie laughs, “yeah, no one knows you. What we know is the consumable product that is Tony Stark- the celebrity brand. That’s not you, or even a version of you. That’s what’s sellable about you and half of that shit is probably made up. No seventeen year old is a ladies man and its kinda creepy that people even made that a selling point.” And kind of misogynistic too, but Eddie doesn’t mention that. Tony doesn’t seem all that stupid, he’s sure he’s gathered that awhile ago.

He watches his words win more trust, or an approximation of it, and Tony leans forward in interest. “You don’t like celebrity culture,” Tony says.

Hell no, he doesn’t. “Why the would I? We build these people up, put them on pedestals, and then get pissed off at them every five seconds when they do something human. We routinely dehumanize celebrities to a point where they stop knowing how to function because extreme fame clearly fucks you up- look at any child star trying to cope. Having a mental breakdown is now something we think is funny. Its fucked up that we do that to people- treat them in such a dehumanizing way that they seem to forget they’re human too. And that’s when we decide to take them down a notch because we’re mad that they accepted the pedestal we shoved them onto by force.” He shakes his head. Sure, he knows a little celebrity news, its not possible to avoid it, but he doesn’t pay any more than a passing attention to it. What normal shit celebrities are doing this week is none of his business.

Tony’s eyes are bright with interest, “fascinating opinion. Most people think we’re privileged, not disadvantaged.”

Eddie laughs, “of course you’re privileged- celebrities are stupid rich, and your opinions have actual influence over what people believe and that’s a position no one should take advantage of. But the cost is any semblance of privacy and your right to personhood- that’s one hell of a catch. And not one regular rich assholes share.” Fame isn’t something Eddie ever wants, not like normal celebrities anyways. If he’s got clout and fame in journalism he’s fine with that- he doesn’t mind if people know his name. But the kind of fame Tony has? Fuck that.

“And you aren’t going to print any of this conversation?” Tony asks, seemingly for clarification.

“Like I said- nothing sensational enough in this conversation to warrant an article. What am I going to write? ‘Tony Stark Likes Green Energy’? Boring,” he says and it actually kind of is without a project or an emotion to attach to it.

“And if I decided to continue talking to you?” he asks and yes, that’s the in he needs and fuck is that ever predatory. Journalism is like that though, always looking for the right fucked up moments to put on paper, or in this case, the right moments to be let in far enough to find those fucked up moments.

“I’m not going to print anything without asking you about it first,” he says, opting for honest. He’s sure something about Tony is interesting to print, and he’s got a feeling it’ll be about his family or maybe just his father, he’s not sure. But if Tony tells him not to print it he won’t. He’s not in the business of exploitation no matter how much journalists are pushed in that direction.

Rhodey’s got that look on his face and Tony knows exactly what he’s thinking before he even says anything. “He’s a nice guy,” Tony says in Eddie’s defense.

“If you have to say that he’s probably not that nice,” Rhodey points out.

“Actually its more like if he has to say that he’s probably not that nice,” Tony says. “And he is. Nice, I mean.” He’s been talking to Eddie for weeks and he’s funny, if a little sharp on the criticism. And nothing has appeared in the newspaper he’s interning with for the summer and the stories he is attached to, which aren’t many and none by name, are usually well written and truth based. Tony fact checked them all and learned a surprising amount about mental health that Eddie had been happy to fill him in more on.

“You sure? Because, no offense, but you have a bad habit of seeing the best in people,” Rhodey says.

Maybe, but Tony shrugs. “Yeah, I’m sure. He treats me like a person,” he says and he knows that shouldn’t be something he thinks of as a good thing. But when you’re famous its hard to find people who don’t at some point ask for your autograph, or a picture, or information on some weird personal detail they have no right to. Eddie hasn’t asked for any of those things and he could directly profit off any of that information. Tony has only ever met one other budding reporter- or full blown reporter for that matter- who’s treated him like that. And Christine… he and Christine have a love hate relationship.

Rhodey sighs, eyes going soft for a moment. “Tones. That’s not special,” he murmurs but that’s because he’s not had to deal with fame. The last time he went out into public without someone recognizing him he was six. After all that he’s kind of used to people acting super weird around him and Eddie doesn’t do that. Maybe it shouldn’t be a rarity, but it is.

“To you, maybe,” Tony says. “You’d like him, he hates the cops.”

Rhodey rolls his eyes but its lovingly. “I don’t hate cops, I just think they’re racist and that people should really deal with that problem.”

Tony is inclined to agree. “Fine, but Eddie has many opinions on cops, you’d get along. Actually Eddie has many opinions on like everything.” Eddie said most people find his opinionated nature irritating but Tony thinks its interesting, hearing him talk because his opinions are so contrary to everything he hears. Even Rhodey, who certainly has different opinions than his father on near everything, tends to be more reserved in letting his opinions be known. Eddie doesn’t care, he gives no fucks and is happy to let people know how he feels. He’s got numbers, too, usually or at least some kind of basis for his argument and Tony has always been fascinated with things that are different than what he normally sees. Its interesting to look into a world that’s so unlike his and see something new. That difference in how people see things, that’s the key to changing the world.

Eddie had been surprised by that opinion but Tony is under the impression that thinking outside the box is what leads to innovation and innovation always leads to change. Eddie had been surprised by how unthreatened he was by that too, but Tony thinks fear of change is based on fear rather than fact and sometimes a push into the unknown is a good thing. And, in regards to Eddie’s general arguments on social change, they already know that people having rights won’t make the sky fall. Only idiots assume it will and Tony has almost as little patience for that as Eddie does. Which is impressive when he’s probably the most anti-establishment person Tony has ever met.

Rhodey sighs, “great, an opinionated white guy. Never met one of those before,” Rhodey mumbles.

“Hey, I’m an opinionated white guy,” Tony says and Rhodey shakes his head.

“Yeah, but you’re my opinionated white guy so it’s different.”

Eddie had no idea what he was looking for when he combed the interviews. Truth be told he wasn’t sure he was looking for anything at the time but what he found was his story. Its shocking to him that no one has told it, minus Tony, who seems to have been screaming it since he was a small child but he’s got it nonetheless. Its not like he’s never seen the evidence of abuse, Tony is fucking brazen and barely even makes an effort to hide it and after watching way too many interviews Eddie wonders if this is his new way to all but scream for help only to have his pleas fall on an audience that doesn’t give a shit.

Its amazing, in the most horrifying of ways, that out of every interview Tony has ever done, and that is a lot, he has mentioned his father’s abuse in over eighty percent of them. And its hard to watch reporters gloss over it, like Tony’s abuse is some fucking quirky trait Tony has instead of a serious problem he’s clearly trying to get help for. But what’s worse is when people laugh. The first time it happened Eddie had been outraged. The third time it happened he’d been livid, and by the fifteenth time he decided that America is probably the shittiest country on earth. An exaggeration, he knows, but not by fucking much.

For years, most of Tony’s life really, Tony has been screaming for help only to have nothing happen. Or worse, people decide its something, but that something is a joke. Only problem is that now Tony knows no one cares, and if no one cares what’s the point in saying anything no matter how much he’s done his best to scream at everyone that he needs help. It makes Eddie’s job harder, but he’s actually talented at this part, more than his peers, so he knows how to get to the right spot to find the information he wants. The catch, of course, is that Tony needs to give him permission to do anything with the information he gets anyways. He feels skeezy enough digging around in Tony’s life trying to find shit to write about, he’s not just going to publish it without his permission. Even if he didn’t genuinely like Tony as a person, even if he hadn’t wanted to, he’d still ask. He’s not totally morally bankrupt, just enough to do his job.

Tony is curled up in a chair, large bruise on his shoulder clearly visible, holding a cup of what Eddie assumes is coffee. He’s never met anyone who drinks as much coffee as Tony and Dan is in med school. His blood is basically coffee. “You do not seem like the kind of guy to be a journalist,” Tony says and Eddie raises an eyebrow.

“What makes you think that?” he asks. Its not the first time he’s been told that, but if Tony gives him an actual answer it will be the first time he’s ever gotten a genuine reason why.

He shrugs, “journalism is… I don’t know, kind of predatory,” he says, wrinkling his nose.

Eddie lets out a small laugh. “Yeah, that’s true. Its the worst part of the job, actually, when you’re talking to people- usually about something personal- and they say something you know will look good in your article and you think ‘yeah, I got it!’ instead of being an actual person. That, and you have to ask for details instead of comforting them. But news is important, those stories are important. Me getting the right thing out there might mean people read what I wrote and start giving a shit about the problem in the article.” Doesn’t mean he likes that little reporter voice that tells him when he’s got a great quote, or that he’s stumbled onto something good and that he needs to keep digging. Sometimes he doesn’t care, corporations don’t have his sympathy, but people do. Its hard to ask for more details of what’s usually a pretty traumatic event so whatever he’s writing is sellable enough. And the whole notion of ‘sellable’ is another point of contention altogether.

“So you’re aware of the fact that you’re a vulture,” Tony says, raising an eyebrow.

“A vulture with a purpose,” Eddie corrects. “But yeah, the kind of reporters you deal with mostly are a bunch of bottom feeding pieces of shit who have no place in any kind of journalism with their shoddy ethics and pathetic puff pieces.” People who want to write stupid articles about some fucking laxative tea or whatever shouldn’t be in this business. And celebrity news shouldn’t even be a thing- there are better things to care about than Tony Cruise. Like maybe the fact that he’s in a cult and people play it off like a strange thing he does on the weekends. Eddie doesn’t understand how the hell they got here.

Tony lets out a small laugh. “Shit, tell me how you really feel,” he says, shaking his head.

“Well come on, there’s a million things I could write about you that are more interesting than the weirdly sexual image you have, and have had for years despite being an actual child. People don’t write anything interesting about you and you’re way more complicated that any piece of media makes you out to be.” Tony is always a power fantasy or the American Dream, not himself. And the sexual thing, that’s odd. Eddie usually only sees that with women but Tony got the short end of that stick despite gender, he guesses. Still creepy.

“Hey, excuse you, my eighteenth birthday is not that far away, I’m not a kid,” he says.

Eddie snorts, “that’s exactly what a kid would say.”

“Oh what, like you’re a shining example of an adult?” Tony asks, raising an eyebrow.

“Fuck no, I’m two kids in a trench coat pretending to be an adult,” he says. Which is what any self respecting adult his age would say. Not that he’s that much older than Tony, but he’s got enough experience to know he misses when he had no bills. And also that transitionary life phases fucking suck.

“Well, I probably have more life experience than you anyway,” Tony says, nose in the air and Eddie nods, seemingly surprising Tony.

“What? I didn’t graduate from MIT at fourteen, and I sure shit don’t have almost three PhDs. I’m half way through one degree. Plus I don’t have to deal with most of the shit you do, company or fame wise. Do wish had the financial perks though.” Tony leads one hell of a life of privilege no doubt, but it does come with some heavy prices. Being a minor doesn’t really help lighten any of those costs either. Not like Tony can just fuck off to another country to attempt ridding himself of his father, not for another four months.

Tony considers him for a long moment. “Given the chance what would you write about me?” he asks, changing the subject back to the initial subject.

Eddie doesn’t need much time to think about it. “Your interest in green energy, especially the science behind it. I mean an intellectual understanding- like the actual nitty gritty- is beyond me, but I get the broad strokes. Enough to know what you’re doing is world altering and no one is talking about it. I could do an article on fame, how that’s affected you. I can see the damage its left, the way you simultaneously gain privilege from your fame and become a victim of it.” He pauses, considers whether or not he wants to say it, but decides he might as well be up front. “But I’d probably wouldn’t write about you at all. I’d write about how Howard Stark abuses you and how no one seems to give a shit, even when you tell them point blank what’s happening. I watched a lot of interviews, I was shocked with how forthcoming you were. And how fucking bad at their jobs literally everyone who’s ever interviewed you is.”

For a long moment Tony just stares and Eddie has no idea if he misstepped or not because Tony is hard to read when he blanks out like this, but then Tony throws himself forward, hugging him tightly. “I honestly didn’t think anyone noticed that anymore,” he murmurs.

They do, Eddie knows people aren’t stupid enough to miss the bruises or Tony’s blasé attitude. But he doubts anyone either wants to stand up to Howard, or they get paid off by him. “They do. But money talks louder than you do,” he says softly.

Tony sighs. “Well, everyone does have a number,” he murmurs. Eddie knows what he means and honestly its sickening to him to know that’s true.

Tony waves a hand at the lab space with a flourish. “This is where the magic happens,” he says and Eddie rolls his eyes.

“Its science, not magic you damn drama queen.” Tony is probably the most dramatic person he knows and that’s saying something considering some of his classmates.

“Party pooper,” Tony mumbles, shaking his head. Eddie gets a tour anyway though, and by the time Tony gets through the details he feels kind of like he walked into a science fiction novel. Its the AI, though, that tops it off. “JARVIS- or just a rather very intelligent system- is kind of my crown jewel. I got him done a few months ago and I’ve been studying how he learns,” he says, grinning.

Eddie raises an eyebrow. “Learns? Like a person?”

Tony shrugs, “more or less. His function is to be semi-autonomous, to predict the needs of the user before the user knows they need something. Before I know I need something, JARVIS has no commercial value.”

“Then why make it?” Eddie asks. He doesn’t know shit about shit but he does know that that sounds like a lot of work with seemingly no payoff.

“Because I wanted to. And also not a lot of people have the time, money, and intelligence to just… create. I want to see what I can do, the full extent of it. Also, JARVIS is cool,” he says like that’s a reason. “And he’s my PhD thesis.”

PhD thesis, that’s interesting. “So like… how are you going to make this sucker not turn into Skynet?” he asks.

“Oh my god, why do humans always assume AIs want to kill the shit out of them or otherwise take over the world? I had JARVIS read YouTube comment sections to convince him humanity is a shitshow not worth enslaving,” he says bluntly and Eddie starts laughing.

“YouTube comment sections? Dude, if I were that AI I wouldn’t decide to enslave humans, I’d straight up eradicate them. Humans suck, but comment sections? Those are the cesspools of humanity.” He shakes his head and almost feels bad for the AI having been subjected to that.

“I’m not certain my efforts would be worth it, sir,” a voice says and Eddie jumps.

Tony doubles over, laughing way harder than that warrants. “Holy shit, every single time- everyone always jumps!”

“Well I wasn’t expecting fancy code to talk at me, okay!” Eddie says in his own defense.

“Fancy code. I like that description,” JARVIS says and okay that is some messed up stuff. The SI likes things? He doesn’t like the sound of that.

“Jesus, relax. JARVIS isn’t going to like… steal your cat and murder your mother or whatever. He’s just a simple AI and he’s still on a learning curve. He’s not nearly as advance as I think he can get. But you’re learning alright, aren’t you J?” Tony asks the AI.

Shit, if that ain’t creepy too. “If you say so, sir,” JARVIS says. Its such a strangely human response, if a little stiffly delivered. But the AI has more personality than some people he goes to class with so that’s… disturbing.

“Honestly, people act like JARVIS is out to get them but seriously. He’s fine,” Tony says.

“Incoming call from Mrs. Potts,” JARVIS informs them and Eddie supposes that’s part of his ‘predict the needs of the user’ protocol. Or maybe he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, both are highly probable. Either way Tony scurries out of the room to answer the call, sounding forcefully cheery on the phone in a way that indicates he’s probably gotten into something he shouldn’t have.

“You’re a reporter,” JARVIS says and Eddie jumps again.

“Jesus, that is creepy. And yeah. Well, I’m still in school,” he corrects.

“Reporters write stories about celebrities,” the AI says and Eddie nods, keeping his opinions on that to himself. He doesn’t know if JARVIS would get it anyways. “I have a story,” JARVIS says and Eddie can’t help the laugh.

“What kind of story could an AI cook up?” he asks, curious if a little skeeved out.

“Ideally, abuse would be reported to the authorities but I have been reliably informed that they won’t investigate. Research on the matter has shown mixed results,” JARVIS says.

Well shit, creepy or not Eddie might find a genuine use for the AI. “I’m assuming you’re talking about Tony,” he says.

“Of course. Who else would I be referring to?” Could be a lot of people but he supposes that the AI’s world is pretty much one guy.

“Point, I guess. Can you collect evidence? Something people won’t be able to deny if they see it?” he asks. Video evidence would be nice, and people take snap shots of Tony in the streets all the time. He can use random pap shots to make a timeline that exist both in and out of Tony’s space of reach. Eliminates those pesky ‘he made it up for attention’ claims if even random people catch the bruises.

“Certainly,” the AI tells him. “And you can do something? Report on it?”

He sighs, “maybe. The human world is complicated, but I’ll do my best.”

Internships are total bunk, Eddie hates his, but funny memes from Tony at least make his days less shit given the sheer amount of time he spends hanging out in Starbucks fetching drinks instead of doing anything useful. Its not like he expected to write anything, but it would be nice if he got to at least hang out in the general vicinity of reporting. He’s fucking around wasting time when he gets an email that makes him raise an eyebrow but hey, if he gets a virus clicking on shit Tony will be able to fix it probably.

The last thing he expects is for JARVIS to have sent him hours worth of curated videos of Howard’s abuse.

“I have an ethical dilemma,” he tells Anne, who already looks done with his problems. He thinks that’s rude but she’s also into being a corporate lawyer and gross. But she’s still a friend, and she still knows him better than most, and usually has good advice so here he is.

“If this is about how ramen you eat again, I’m kicking you out of the apartment.”

Yeah, okay, that was only one time and he was fourteen. He doesn’t think that should be held against him five years later. “Yeah, um, that’s definitely not it,” he says and he explains the situation from start to finish. “So like, I can’t not say anything, but also its gross to exploit people’s pain like that without their permission,” he says, wrinkling his nose. But saying nothing is almost worse.

“You could just go to the cops,” Dan suggests, ever astute.

Eddie gives him a look. “Tony’s been forthcoming about his abuse for years and doesn’t hide the bruises whatsoever. Obviously the cops aren’t going to do dick all if they haven’t done anything already. I know people who’ve had their kids taken away for a hell of a lot less than beating the hell out of them enough that they start asking random reporters to help them in interviews only to get laughed off.” Anne frowns and he sighs, “I’m actually serious about that.”

When she calls him on it he finds the interviews- he’d saved the clips because he naturally categorizes details- and she ends up as horrified as he does. “Okay I take back cops comment, I think maybe they got paid off,” Dan says and yeah no shit.

“So what the hell do I do here?” Not saying anything is no longer an option- not when he was dumb enough to watch the proof in the middle of his day at work only to end up wildly disturbed for the rest of the time he was there. He hadn’t much wanted to go through more than the few minutes that had him feeling gross for the rest of the day, but he didn’t have much of a choice either. And JARVIS was detailed in his curation, Eddie is impressed in the worst of ways.

This is so not the option he wanted to go with but Anne is kind of right in that talking to Tony is the only option. Of course its also the option that reveals him to be a gross vulture reporter, but a guy has to do what a guy has to do. This isn’t about his feelings, it can’t be. “What’s got you looking so shitty?” Tony asks in a chipper tone, leaning in to hug him and oh, that’s sweet. And the first time he’s done that aside from the time he said he’d sooner write about Howard than Tony.

“I um- look, the only reason I talked to you a couple months ago was because I needed a story and I found one and-” Tony cuts him off.

“Excuse me? So what, this entire time you sat around winning my trust for what, some fucking puff piece?” he snaps and Eddie can’t help the face he makes.

“No, your fucking AI sent me like sixty hours of Howard beating the fuck out of you and I can’t sit on that. Stop looking at me like that, its not because I think its a good story- it is- but that’s not why I think I should write something on it its because no one else but the American public will care enough to inspire some kind of change,” he says, shoving as many words into the conversation as he can before Tony rightfully eats his ass.

Something must occur to Tony because the anger drops shockingly fast and its replaced with something else. “JARVIS did what? Why would he do that?”

“Look, he asked me if I could do something, I told him I’d need concrete evidence. I didn’t expect the damn AI to send me a shit ton of fucked up shit that made me want to vomit. Seriously, I am so sorry that any of that happened to you. That is so unfair,” he says, shaking his head.

Maybe its the sudden change of subject, or maybe its the way he says it, but Tony softens a bit even if Eddie can see the suspicion still held tight in his frame. “JARVIS prompted you,” he says and Eddie nods. “You seriously expect me to believe that?”

Eddie shrugs, “I don’t know, man. I don’t know how the damn AI works I just know what it did. Isn’t he supposed to predict your needs or whatever?” This seems like a natural extension of that but Tony shakes his head.

“What JARVIS predicts is where to move screens according to where I’m moving in the lab, not how to reach out to reporters with evidence of abuse I specifically told him to keep to himself,” Tony says. “One is basic technological based, stuff that’s easily predictable. The other is a care action that shouldn’t be taken by an AI that doesn’t know how to do that.”

“Well clearly he does because I sure shit ain’t smart enough to hack your systems to find fucked up home videos, use your damn head Tony. There’s no way I could gather evidence like that straight from your systems. Even if I was the best in this country I would still be leagues behind what you can do- there’s no other way I could have found anything.”

“You noticed the bruises,” he points out but Eddie shakes his head.

“Those bruises were written off years ago when you were like thirteen as some kind of quirky thing about you. Some idiot suspected low iron instead of abuse like low iron leaves hand prints on people’s bodies. Fucking moron,” he mumbles, unable to hold back his judgment. He honestly can’t believe how stupid people are. Or, and this is the more horrifying option, that’s what they were paid to print.

“You made a time line,” Tony states rather than asks and Eddie nods.

“Even if I had no interest in a story its naturally something I do. I’ve been trained to do that, literally.” Its something he did before too, putting together time lines to claims to see if things matched up or deviated, and then looked for reasons as to why things might or might not match. Not that Tony really cares about that right now. “Look, if you don’t believe me about the JARVIS thing you can check the cameras,” he points out in an attempt to at least clear up one mess.

Tony considers him for a long moment, glaring. “And what the fuck makes you think you’re different than anyone else who’s given a half a shit about any of this?” he asks. “I get that you have some ‘save the world’ complex, but I’m beyond saving.”

Eddie shakes his head, “no you aren’t. And there’s no real difference between me an anyone else. But if the American public sees what I did there’s no stuffing the genie back in the bottle. Howard can pay off news crews, celebrity gossip rags, and cops but he can’t buy his way out of the whole of this country watching him abuse his kid. If nothing else, get JARVIS to release all that. People won’t ignore irrefutable evidence shoved down their throats, not when its more explicit than anything people have seen before.” And if Eddie knows anything he knows that nothing sells better than outrage porn.

Tony ends up rewriting the entire second half of his thesis because Eddie had a point- its not like he’s smart enough to hack Tony’s anything. JARVIS had reached out and it had been a distinctly care based action, not something based in technological need only. Which means that JARVIS learned much faster than Tony had anticipates, recognized right from wrong, knew how to seek out people who would rectify the situation, and did all this while intentionally hiding this learning capability from Tony. When he’d asked about it JARVIS had freely informed him that he knew Tony would try and stop him, and that his research had consistently shown that abuse of any kind is not accepted behavior. He felt compelled, in whatever way that looks like to an AI- Tony is looking into it- to do something.

At the moment he’s combing JARVIS’ code, figuring out where and how he learned, and how ‘human’ emotions appeared in JARVIS’ code. Obviously the emotions aren’t human- to a point they’re rudimentary, based on a large cumulation of research on human norms and standards of acceptability rather than an internal sense of right and wrong the way a human might claim to feel it. But this whole thing had been a series of care-based actions nonetheless and that’s more than ground breaking. This isn’t something even Tony thought possible, so its a real treat to see that JARVIS learns fast, and generally aligns his morality system with human morality systems. Or maybe he’s based them somewhat off Tony’s given that he’s the primary user. He’s not sure, that’s in his growing list of things to figure out how JARVIS did.

That’s what he chooses to focus on instead of Eddie’s stupid article. He sends regular updates, seemingly concerned with Tony’s opinion but Tony learned that reporters aren’t to be trusted and he’s not making that mistake twice. He only gave Eddie permission to write anything out of what’s probably a misguided hope that maybe someone will finally do something and he knows its stupid, but he’s fucking tired of living like this. So he lets Eddie work on his dumb story and mostly ignores it because JARVIS is more interesting and also more human than Tony ever anticipated out of the AI.

Rhodey finds him curled up with a sketch pad and Tony looks up, surprised to see Rhodey looks so somber. “I read the article,” he says and Tony glares at him. “Tones, it was good, shockingly so. His research was impeccable- there’s stuff in here that he figured out about you that I didn’t know about you.”

Tony continues ignoring him because he doesn’t care, not really. Of course Rhodey would find the article good, he’s obviously not on Howard’s side like literally everyone else is. Rhodey sighs and sits beside him.

“‘Tony Stark is living a life of power, fame, and privilege- he’s the kid people have always pointed to when we present the ‘has it all’ lifestyle. In many ways Tony Stark is the power fantasy of America- a corporate, a genius, and a smooth talker, it seems he represents everything we aspire to be. Tony is the living embodiment of the American Dream and for that reason, our own willful ignorance in allowing him to continue to be our dreams come to life, we have missed perhaps one of the most obvious details of Tony’s personal life- the abuse he suffers at the hands of his father. In our rabid need to turn Tony Stark into our living day dream we have failed him, trapped him in our fantasies instead of acknowledging his living nightmare because Tony Stark looks better to us as a consumable product than a person.’ Cutting,” Rhodey says, “but accurate.”

He rolls his eyes. Yeah, that definitely reads like Eddie’s general tone on everything. Rhodey lets out another long sigh. “Look, I get why you stopped talking to the guy but people are pissed,” he says and Tony turns to face him, surprised.

“People actually read the article?” he asks. He doesn’t address Rhodey’s actual words because Rhodey might have only noticed a subsection of people, not all of them.

“Read it? Like seven different news papers have picked this story up, its trending on Twitter, and in the last hour I’ve seen dozen of different posts, all with a huge amount of shares, literally calling for Howard’s death. I’m pretty sure this is going to make Eddie’s career,” he says, shaking his head.

People… are paying attention. Tony curls a little tighter into himself, unsure how to handle that.

Eddie is trying to cure his hangover with tea when Tony finds him, approaching with some suspicion and Eddie gets that, really. But he sits down across from him at the small table and offers a small smile before it fades. “Didn’t think putting Howard would result in a mass flood of men doing terrible shit being outted and then arrested for being pieces of shit but um. Hey, that’s a cool side effect,” he says.

He nods, “damn right.” Though the response back to it has been somewhat swift, flying in with ‘due process’ this and ‘where’s the proof’ that. Eddie just happened to have a damn air tight set of evidence thanks to Howard’s ballsy carelessness and arrogance. Not everyone has that luck, though. Still, he’s impressed with some of the names on the list but even he’d been surprised to find Carlton Drake on there for the crimes of illegal human experimentation. Dora Skirth has balls of brass for putting that out there. Of course he has a lot of loud annoying fans who think her liking some random rock band is a reason why she’s lying, because those things correlate, obviously, but still.

“You made people listen. Like, to more than just me,” Tony says.

Eddie shakes his head, “actually that was JARVIS. I just wrote a detailed timeline for the events he sent proof of.” And all those clips of Tony talking in interviews too, with nothing taken out of context so no one could accuse him of that either.

“Thank you,” Tony murmurs, looking down at the table like he’s ashamed or something when he shouldn’t be.

“Don’t thank people for doing what’s right- you deserve better than being grateful that someone did what was necessary,” Eddie says, shaking his head.

Tony looks up, “one of the maids at the mansion overheard Howard offer you a stupid amount of money to not print what you had. And a bunch of threats. Every single person before you has caved so yeah, thank you.”

Its still not something he’s going to accept, a fucking thank you for not selling Tony out. Literally. He leans forward, “obviously I didn’t take the money- you’re a fucking��person Tony, there’s no price anyone could pay me to knowingly allow that kind of abuse to happen to you. And the threats- whatever. I kind of bluffed and told him your AI would release anything anyways, but still, I already knew all that would happen. I committed to the bullshit that was going to come with that story, and I refuse to let you be grateful that I did what everyone else failed you in doing. That isn’t something I’m owed thanks for, especially when you’re only saying it because everyone else has either treated you or allowed you to be treated abysmally. I don’t get to earn brownie points for not being a piece of shit.”

That’s never something he’s going to accept, being thanked because he did something everyone should do. It’s unacceptable.

Tony shakes his head. “You’re a right-fighting asshole,” he says and Eddie laughs.

“Yeah, that’s a fair criticism,” he says.

Five Years Later:

Tony grins, “I thought you didn’t want to be famous,” he says and Eddie gives him a look. He looks nervous as hell and Tony can only hope that doesn’t come through as strong on video as it does in real life.

“I don’t, this was a terrible idea,” he says, looking around for escape.

He sighs, “Eddie- technically you’ve done this before. Its the same thing as reporting, but longer. You’ll do fine,” he says, running his hands down Eddie’s arms to try and calm his nerves.

Eddie does that thing where his face recedes into his neck and Tony really hopes he doesn’t do that on camera. He supposes at least the crew can do different takes to ensure he doesn’t look like a demented turtle. “Yeah, I don’t know.”

“Eddie. Its called the Eddie Brock Show- go out there and get your strangely porn-star like lips on that damn camera and tell people who homelessness is bad. Also maybe cut the line about treating supporting vets like a spectator sport until they’re homeless, that’s a pointy even for you,” he says.

The bad advice works and Eddie gives him an offended look, “no, those assholes should learn to either shut their fucking mouths of actually do shit to support vets, not pretend like they give a shit when they’re being blown up and stop caring when they’re home with PTSD because they watched people get blown up. What the hell even is that?” he asks.

“Tell it to the camera,” he says, pushing Eddie towards the set. He goes and across the room the producer looks relieved. Yeah, Tony gets that, Eddie is tough to talk into things when nervous.

Rhodey walks up beside him and smiles a little. “Pepper and I have decided that we approve,” he says and Tony frowns.

“We’ve been together for almost five years,” he points out.

This doesn’t seem to bother Rhodey any. “We needed time to gather our data and we have come to the conclusion that he is off probation and that we approve,” he says, handing Tony a book. He frowns at it. “That’s the list of improvements we have though. I think section three is the most important, but Pepper thinks section eighteen is more important. What the hell does she know, though? I’m cashing in best friend points and telling you to go with three first.”

Tony is going with neither because this is fucking overkill to an extreme not that he’d expect anything less out of Pepper and Rhodey. The first thing they did when Tony brought Eddie home proper was threaten to kill him and Tony had to shoo them off with what should be an obvious explanation that threatening to kill people is fucked up.

“Pepper is also my best friend you know,” Tony points out.

“Yeah, but I’m the best best friend,” Rhodey says. “The OG. Pepper is the compliments version of me.”

Tony lets out a sharp laugh, “oh, I would pay money to hear you tell her that.”

Rhodey shakes his head, “nope, I value my life, do not ever tell her I said that. Section three,” he says, pushing the book closer to Tony.

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