#no the guy was very nice. but he was like ‘oh izzy this was a hard one.’ which i hear from at least 60% of drivers who deliver to my house..

[shadow211e]

Justin at been watching her from the shadows as she waited for him to arrive. She was so nervous, but already noticing how guys were starting to glance at her as they walked by. Justin had given her the earrings to wear for their date. He was smirking at how her body looked now. The earrings had given her a hot slutty body, the dress she picked out was showing off her tits and thighs, she clearly didn't even really realize what she was picking for herself. The simple girl was so boring before but now she was going to be his. "Izzy, so glad you decided to come." "Thanks, look you promised one date and you'd stop harassing my boyfriend." "Of course." "You look stunning." "Thanks," she said not knowing with the magic earring he gave her changed into a hot slutty one. The attention from guys was getting her horny.

He walked to her and she stood up, he leaned in to hug her and then went to plant a kiss on her cheek, she turned her head and he felt her lips push against his. She blushed as she pulled back. "Oh god I'm sorry," he said. She giggled "no that was my fault. I thought you were going to kiss me and I moved, and I guess that caused the kiss." "Well it was really nice." "Thanks," she blushed.

The date was going nicely, Justin was admiring how much Izzy was changing right in front of him.

Justin was driving her home, when he passed his house, he pointed it out "anytime you wanna come over and hang out, that's my place." She looked "why not now, we don't have to rush me home right?" "Of course not," he smirked knowing she was becoming his. He pulled into the driveway and led her into the house. It wasn't too much longer for the two of them to end up in his room. Her hands were all over his. He looked at her "what about your boyfriend?" "Why is he here? Are you going to tell him?" "Never." "So stop worrying," she said as she pulled off her top, exposing her round tits. They started going at it, ending up fucking until like 3 or 4 in the morning. She put on a simple black top and some of his sweats as he dropped her off at her house. She kissed him deeply, "can't wait for the next time." "Oh?" "If you don't wanna that's fine." "Nah babe, but how about you stick with the loser, I love fucking a cheating slut like you." "God that's fucking hot, I didn't even think about that, I was gonna end it, but your idea is fire." "See you soon babe."

No one at school really noticed the change in Izzy, the magic of the earrings helped with that. They all always talked about how she was so hot and kind of slutty but always was seen "dating" one of the nerdiest guys in school. She would make a show about loving him so much but a few people wondered. Only a very small select group of friends, girls she never talked to before she was changed but now who she thought were her closest bitches, knew the secret relationship she was having with Justin. None told anyone out of fear. Izzy was known from being a bit of a ruthless bitch. Hot and ruthless and feared at school. She sat passenger princess in her boyfriend's car, looking out at Justin getting into his truck. She smirked and her boyfriend asked what was up. She looked at him "Look at that asshole trying to compensate with that lifted truck." "Yeah well, he hasn't been tormenting me for the last few months so I could care less what he has been up to." "That's good," she said as all she could think about was the text she had sent to Justin and how tonight she would be bouncing on his cock in the bed of the truck. The plans were she would excuse herself to the bathroom at her anniversary date with her boyfriend and go fuck him in the parking lot, and come back to the date saying her stomach was bothering her to be brought home by her boyfriend let Justin's cum leak all over his car seat by time she got home. Justin would show up later to fuck her the rest of the night after ruining the nice dinner plans her loser boyfriend had. The thought excited her a lot.

[femnoah]

I’m so curious, how would the rest of the cast react once it’s revealed that ‘Noah’ is actually Neha?

Plus I could only imagine Neha revealing this information in either a very dramatic way (ie a challenge where they have to tell a secret) or be hilariously nonchalant about it and acting like she thought everyone knew the whole time just to mess with the cast

Owen's reaction is basically just "my little buddy is even more adorable!" He takes his job given to him (ward off the pretty boys) by the brothers even more seriously after the reveal.

Most of the cast are just shocked.

Lindsey and Beth try to befriend her.

Heather begrudgingly respects her for it.

Justin feels like ripping his hair out cause 'Noah' may not be the first guy to not show interest in him but Neha is definitely the first girl, it just convinces him more that she's secretly a demon.

Alejandro has an 'oh shit' moment.

I've got so many different scenarios for the reveal but they mainly fall into three categories:

Third party in the future

Her family reveal it

Reveal in the competition

Third party in the future:

She does achieve her dreams of working as a host and becomes super famous (as Neha). She gets invited on a big talk show (one with a live audience, Eva and Izzy are in said audience cause they're proud of their sister) and is asked about her first experience in show biz.

She mentions total drama and the host gives her a pitying look, asking if she worked as an intern on the show. Neha just laughs and says she was one of the original contestants. Obviously, the host and audience are confused because they don't remember the girl in the first couple seasons.

(I honestly believe that Chris made intros for the more iconic groups after World Tour to reel in more viewers and since team escope were the fan favourites, they definitely got one and it became famous)

She gets Izzy and Eva to come up on stage with her and Izzy hands her something. She ties her hair back, prods at her throat a couple of times before nodding to Eva who presses a button on her phone. The three girls then turn around so their backs are to the audience.

Chris' voice rings out and there are a couple of gasps from those in the audience who recognise the intro.

"They're the nightmares of manipulative pretty boys! They're the natural enemies to the sane and the nice! They're the very unlikely friend group! They are-"

Neha turns around posing with her one hand on her cocked hip, with the wig on her head and in a very familiar deeper, snarky voice says "The brains"

Eva then turns around, cracking her knuckles and grinning in a feral like way and says "The brawn"

Izzy turns around and jumps on the two so that her arms are around the girls' shoulders and chirps out "And the Crazy!"

Chris' voice continues out from the phone's speakers "It's everybody's favourite trio.... Teaaaaaaam Escooope!"

It becomes a viral meme and coincidentally how a lot of the cast found out that she was a girl.

The host then asks about how and why she managed to keep this from the whole world for so long and she shrugs in response.

.....

"my brothers bet me that I couldn't do it so I did, then I kinda forgot I did it"

"were any of the other cast mates aware that you were a girl all along?"

"I-" she furrows her eyebrows and thinks for a second. "I literally have no idea, I can't remember if I told any of them or anything..... Did I?" she looks to the other two girls for help.

"No clue!!"

"dunno why you're asking me, I barely talked to any of them"

She turns back to the host "I'm going to say I did because I feel like either I did tell them or I thought about doing it, I honestly can't remember though"

She did not in fact tell any of them.

Her family reveal it

After World tour (ridonculous race isn't canon in this) had finished and most of the competitors had went home, Team Escope took a selfie on the Hawaii set in their total drama outfits. The only difference was that Neha wasn't wearing her wig, instead Izzy had it on on top of her hair, in a way you can tell it is a wig. It was posted on Eva's social media account captioned 'when one of your best friends cons the entire world and her competitors into thinking she was a boy for three seasons because of a bet #teamescope'. It goes viral.

The other one is that after World Tour the families come to pick up the contestants (free trip to Hawaii), talk with the staff and mingle. It's pretty calm until the doors slam open and a hoard of attractive guys come in (Katie faints and Justin looks offended) and practically runs towards the resident snark. A gorgeous woman trails in after them looking highly amused.

By now everybody who's in the room is watching them wondering what's going on (Alejandro is mildly horrified because that's A LOT of what he assumes to be brothers based on how old they look).

'Noah' gets lifted up so 'he's' sitting on one of the guys shoulders and all of the brothers just start chanting "Neha!" Like they're at a football match.

The woman walks over to Izzy and Eva who are just laughing at the antics and they start getting fussed over by said woman. Everybody else is confused.

'Noah' is flushed bright red and basically begging "put me down!!".

The woman then makes her way over to the larger group with the other two girls in tow and gives them a look. 'Noah' is put down and she starts fussing over 'him' as well.

.......

"Mamaaa!" She whines as her mama just peppers face with kisses in front of everyone, she had a reputation to uphold dammit!

"Aww, my कीमती छोटी लोमड़ी, I'm so proud of you!!" Her mama replied, clearly not getting how serious the situation is, she could hear Duncan, Heather, Courtney and some of the others laughing at her misfortune.

Her mama smiled down at her and no, Neha was not pouting- "but Neha darling, you won, are you not excited?"

She froze. "What?"

"I spoke to McLean out in the hall and he told me that your contract from the first season is officially over, and since you didn't sign one for this season specifically you are no longer contractually a part of the show!"

A sharp smile grew on her face as she felt her brothers freeze up behind her. She turned around dramatically and clapped her hands once. "So! My contract is over and I didn't give myself away. Those were the terms right?"

She walked over to her brothers, savouring her victory. She fully planned to boast as much as she could. It's not often that she gets to dictate all of her brothers' actions for a day and she was going to enjoy the payback for all of the embarrassment she went through because of the bet. She told them this.

"I won the bet and now I have the power to make you suffer like I have on this Godforsaken show!" Okay, maybe she was being a little dramatic but she's their younger sister! It's basically her job!

"I'm going to make you all regret making this bet so much" it was only thanks to her ingrained reflexes that she managed to avoid the youngest of her older brother's attempt to grab her (she is not getting tickled in front of all these people, that is a line she'll never let be crossed). Neha darted behind Eva. Unfortunately, she wasn't quick enough to avoid the swipe at her hair so she didn't notice until it was too late when the wig came off and her hair fell down, framing her body. She glared at the offending brother.

Her mama just giggled and she felt even more betrayed. (Wasn't her little girl adorable, she looked like an angry kitten all puffed up).

Neha was not prepared for Izzy to suddenly pick her up and shove her at Eva before sprinting towards the door yelling "protect the baby!!!". Eva looked down at her and Neha shook her head trying her hardest to convey ' do not. Don't you even dare iron woman.' unfortunately it didn't work cause the other girl just smirked at her and sprinted to catch up with Izzy, still carrying her.

Not even seconds later her brothers all seemed to telepathically come to an agreement and they also all rushed to the three girls who had left the room by now. "Capture the triplets!" "We cannot let them steal our youngest sister! That's our job" "Charge!" "The baby!"

Neha's mother just looks to the closest person (who just happened to be Alejandro's mother) and cheerfully chirped "Children can be quite a handful can't they!" " Ah, si, though it seems as though you may need more hands than I do" "too right! You seem to be quite a reasonable woman, can I have your number? Perhaps we can arrange a play date between our children" she winked. The other woman just laughed and gave her her phone "si si, I'm sure my husband would be thrilled to see our boys making friends!"

Neha's mother then walks out of the room ignoring the catatonic state of shock her मीठी ग्रेमलिन्स left most of the room in.

Reveal in the competition

Either Neha gets into a scrap with one of the competitors (probably Duncan or Justin, she does not get on with either of them, like at all) and her wig comes off in the process or Chris designs a challenge where she has to reveal herself for the sake of drama.

The challenge could be a guess the secret one where all the contestants' greatest secrets are listed out plus a few red herrings. Whoever guesses the most correct secrets wins as well as whoever has their secret guessed correctly the least. Neha wins this challenge cause only 3 people correctly guessed her 'secret' (her, Eva and Izzy) and then she gets revealed as proof and spends the rest of the season as herself.

Another one is if they had all of the OG cast in a new season. Neha would 'reveal' herself to the viewers first. I think it would be funny if they are playing tag hide and seek with the contestants as a challenge in a city.

One of the teams are seekers and everyone else are hiders, they're out if they get tagged and join the taggers in hunting the rest down. The original taggers win if they get everybody. If they don't then whoever is left wins.

Neha wins the challenge.

She just takes off her wig and the first layer of her outfit, unbuttoning the top of her shirt and walks around. Multiple contestants walk past her but they don't notice her. She actually had a pretty fun day: she had a nice cup of tea, read a couple chapters of her book and explored the architecture in the city. At the end of the day she puts her wig back on and walks back to the hosts. When asked where she was she just says that she saw them multiple times and they were clearly just blind.

Basically the entire season is her gaslighting the rest of the cast. Like, she's not trying hard to hide it at all anymore, they just don't notice it cause they're kinda dumb. (-okay, maybe the eel does notice, she'll give him that) eventually Chref and Izzy join in on it.

"I keep tampons in my pockets to sell to Molotov, that bear is like really weird"

*After threatening Alejandro to get him to behave about Owen and getting a bit into it- crowding against him, forgetting that she was currently not wearing her compression vest and her boobs are kind of obvious* "what do you mean you could feel breasts pressing against you? Obviously it was my pocket books, I keep them in my breast y'know pocket. Pretty silly of you to get them mixed up dude."

"how do I know what periods feel like? Courtney... I'm kinda disappointed in you, I thought you knew I'm psychic"

"Noah's like the best person to talk to about wigs, he knows all about them!" "Wait, really?" "Yeah, apparently there's like a ton of different types of earwigs! I thought that there was only one tbh!"

Eventually she just walks out to a challenge as herself and acts like she wasn't pretending to be a guy the entire time.

"uhh, I've always looked like this, are you blind?"

"and finally the snark is here, you look a bit different, did you leave one of your books behind?" "Yeah" she gives herself a look over, ignoring the gob smacked expressions " I didn't think it was that noticeable though, I thought I should go for a change and I finally finished the book so why not. I honestly feel so much lighter without it already"

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ok so like i get where ppl are coming from with the “the crew loves izzy” takes but also like. ok. i think that take involves a certain amount of reading very deeply into the text to a degree that is almost reading against the text at some points. it’s like when ppl pour all this energy into an underdeveloped and unportant side character—none of those layers ppl add to the character are strictly contradicted by the text, but it clearly wasn’t what the writer intended for anyone to really focus on. and yeah, death of the author, just bc the writers didn’t intend for ppl to think abt something that hard or care about it that much doesn’t mean we’re not allowed to do whatever the fuck we want. but bc i love analyzing the shit out of this show i do want to talk about WHY i think the textual support for this headcanon isn’t rlly there.

first of all. when archie is like “why are we trying so hard to save this guy, he’s kinda a dick” and jim’s like “yeah but he’s our dick.” rather than elaborate on what makes izzy special to them they’re like “it used to be that the crew all had each other’s backs no matter what and things were better back then” while reminiscing fondly about 1. olu and 2. that shot from season 1 where the whole crew is hanging out except for izzy who’s sulking in the background hating everyone. if this was supposed to be an “izzy’s a dick but we love him anyway” moment i would expect jim to talk about. yknow. izzy. instead to me ot comes across more like an “izzy’s a dick but crew is crew, we stick up for each other even if we don’t particularly like each other bc it’s us against the world” which isn’t as impactful from an izzy stanning perspective but i think makes for, like, an interesting allegory abt the queer community. we all gotta defend the rights of ppl in our community even if those specific ppl are dicks and we don’t get along with them.

second of all. after they save izzy’s life and get caught by ed they all leave the room and then a few minutes later a gun goes off. maybe someone saw ed leave the room before the shot was fired, but either way they think either ed just killed izzy or izzy just killed himself. and then they DO NOTHING ABOUT THIS. nobody checks on the body. they put all this effort into saving izzy’s life and then when their efforts are foiled they do not seem that bummed out about it. the next scene with any crew member in it is frenchie talking to ed on deck, and ed is like “go take the day off” and frenchie is like “oh nice!” and he’s like, confused and a little concerned about ed suddenly steering the ship rlly erratically, but he also seems pretty excited about getting some time off (after so many raids in a row i would be too lol). and THEN!!! in the next scene where we get the whole crew, they’re crowded in the hallway that leads out to the deck and the conversation they have isn’t “oh my god i can’t believe ed killed izzy after we cut off izzy’s leg” it’s “maybe ed’s better now? maybe killing izzy was all it took? he seems pretty cheerful for the first time in ages, maybe ed’s okay?” like literally they think ed just killed izzy and they are more worried about ed’s emotional state than they are grieving a beloved shipmate

then in 2.04 the crew B plot is so blatantly “the crew struggles to trust each other again but after seeing izzy be incredibly sad and pathetic they remember that a good crew has each other’s backs no matter what and so they extend izzy some unearned kindness and make him a new leg” that i’m amazed that other interpretations even exist. like literally they’re all drawn away from screaming at each other with weapons drawn by izzy making some dramatic announcement and then falling and then drunkenly crawling away and refusing their help rambling “youre born alone you die alone” over and over again or whatever melodramatic bullshit he said. like he’s muttering abt being miserable and alone and there’s a WHOLE ROOM OF PEOPLE!!! standing RIGHT THERE!!!! like “oh hey man do you need help standing up? no? no ur just gonna crawl away? um. ok.” and then they all go “well at least we’re not as fucked up as that guy. maybe we should do something nice for him?” like they are literally almost explicitly motivated by pity, not fondness. which yeah, it’s probably fucked up the way they use izzy’s new disability to sort of emphasize how pathetic he’s being, but i think the intention there is not that izzy’s pathetic bc he’s disabled, he’s pathetic bc he’s refusing to accept help. like the crew doesn’t go “yikes 😬 at least we don’t have his issues” abt izzy falling down when his makeshift prosthetic breaks, they go “yikes 😬” when he bats away their hands and goes on a weird mumbling tirade. definitely not the most sensitive way to depict izzy in this mental state, but that’s a different post probably. for the sake of THIS post tho: the takeaway i got from this scene is that the crew is remembering how to be there for each other again. it’s easier for them to let go of their paranoia and stop being so defensive and distrustful when izzy is there as an example of what happens when you’re TOO defensive and distrustful. “the crew makes a leg for izzy bc they care about him on a personal level” did not seem to be the focus of that story arc. to me.

in 2.05 we get our first ever instance of a character expressing appreciation for something izzy said or did or some trait he expressed (except for stede that time in 1.06 when izzy backed stede up on wanting to do a fuckery, which he only did specifically bc he wanted stede to fucking die and ed was taking too long), and it’s lucius saying he loves the shark izzy whittled. but during the entire episode leading up to that scene izzy is either in syede’s storyline where he’s not engaging with the crew or he’s getting snarked at by lucius, and not in a fun teasing way. like during that whole bit where izzy steals his cigarettes and calls him “twatty” lucius just looks so fucking annoyed and then uncomfortable. and then at the end of the episode izzy is sort of offering him advice and lucius is just sarcastically like “that sounds healthy.” and within this storyline, the point of these scenes isn’t rlly abt the developing and deepening relationship btwn izzy and lucius, it’s abt lucius individually coping w his trauma. izzy in this episode kinda exists in a weird place in the narrative, where he plays a supporting role in two different characters’ (lucius’s and stede’s) storylines without getting a central arc for himself. and both of those two storylines are only really about lucius and stede respectively, izzy is just there as this a static character who imparts wise advice. which is a very weird role for him to take, imo, but on top of that it doesn’t rlly contribute any sense of like, actual bonding btwn izzy and the other two.

and in 2.06 they just enjoy the show izzy puts on. they like listening to him sing. it’s all very cute! but also. i would not say that it shows the crew really cares about izzy?? i was in pit orchestra in high school and all the lead theater kids were always fucking assholes but they were also rlly good singers and it was fun to listen to them. i would mouth along to the words being sung by bitches who seemed to be trying to be sharpay evans irl for some bizarre fucking reason. like, cartoonishly mean girls. so like, the crew listening and dancing to izzy’s song doesn’t rlly sell “the crew loves izzy” to me. if anything, i would say that actually a stronger indicator of the crew loving izzy would be wee john sharing his makeup, and it’s a shame that we don’t get to see this happen. i mean that genuinely, i think that would’ve been a great moment to rlly strengthen izzy’s arc and it just. doesn’t exist on screen. and this isn’t like the finale where we know for a fact that they had to force a 40-minute episode into 30 minutes, Calypso’s Birthday has a runtime WELL under 30 minutes. it would’ve been SO easy to add another like 45 seconds of izzy and wee john getting ready together, but the only moment they show us is izzy walking in and discovering drag for the first time. it feels like the focus of this scene is less about a moment of connection between two characters and more about izzy individually having a gender breakthrough—and that carries on with the rest of the performance, too. bc it’s a performance, it’s everyone looking at izzy, it’s izzy a half step away from the crew as he puts on a show. the narrative framing of all this puts the focus entirely on izzy as a solo act, not on izzy as part of the crew. they like his performance, but we aren’t rlly shown evidence of the crew liking him as a person.

and that’s kinda it for izzy and the crew! up until he’s actively dying in ed’s arms and they’re all in the background silently weeping, at least (and btw, speaking from experience but uhhhh it’s pretty normal to cry when u watch someone die even if u have literally no connection to the person dying). even when they’re helping him back to the ship, ed is the one who notices he’s injured, nobody notices until he’s already giving izzy support. and i fully believe roach flips off izzy’s grave marker with fondness, but that’s also like. the only little personal moment any of them aside from ed has during the funeral. they do all laugh at his pinocchio joke earlier in the ep but idk if that one line can carry the entire weight of “the crew loves izzy” on its own. apparently there’s some shots during the zheng v stede fight where izzy can be seen in the background close to jim and archie??? but like, you can’t tell me a background shot of izzy standing near some crew members is strong textual support for the crew loving him. and i don’t think i need to argue abt any scenes in s1 bc literally every single crew member who was on that boat, ivan and fang included, was about to fucking drown him in the fucking ocean.

there is one single scene that gives actual strong evidence that anyone other than ed likes or cares about izzy. it’s the part at the end of impossible birds when fang is crying after ed shot izzy. so maybe fang specifically loves izzy, even tho izzy used to pull fang’s beard a lot and fang didn’t like it bc it hurt. idk.

here’s the thing tho. in 2.01 the writers use dialogue very effectively to tell us about the kraken era. the crew doesn’t say much, but what the do say tells us a lot: we know that archie thinks the kraken era is all normal pirating stuff, jim felt like the wedding raid (which seems like their only raid on a civilian ship and not a military one) was a step too far, frenchie is Not Okay but he’s doing a fantastic job repressing everything, izzy looks tired but the specific thing echoing in his head right before he starts crying in front of the crew is ed telling him “if you can’t do the job, someone else will.”

and we know fang, who’s known ed for decades, has never seen ed like this. and the specific thing he mentions as something he’s never seen from ed before is not batting an eye when ivan died. meaning that even before meeting stede, fang would’ve expected ed to have some sort of reaction to ivan dying.

and the thing about ivan is that we know next to nothing about him. he has very little dialogue in season one. we don’t even know how long he’s been working with ed—long enough to have at least heard about fang having to put his dog down bc “the love of a pet makes a man weak” when fang joined ed’s ship years ago, even if ivan wasn’t actually there yet at the time—but we do know that watching ed tell ghost stories was apparently the most open and available he’d ever seen ed get. so it doesn’t sound like ivan and ed were especially close. ivan was almost certainly less close to ed than izzy was.

if fang expected to see ed have some sort of reaction to the death of an ordinary crew member (who mightve been working for ed for decades, might’ve been working for him for months, we really can’t say) who wasn’t even that close to ed, seeing ed casually and unflinchingly inflict a life-threatening gunshot to his first mate must’ve been fucking earth-shattering. and interpretation is also supported by what fang actually says while he’s crying at the end of 2.01—it’s not “i can’t stop crying, izzy’s hurt” or “i can’t stop crying, izzy’s going to die.” its “i can’t stop crying, ed shot izzy.” more than the imminent demise of a crew member, fang is shaking and sobbing and traumatized because he can’t believe ed would do that.

and if that feels like a reach, just remember what happens after the leg is cut off, after the crew most likely believes ed shot izzy again, this time 100% fatally: the whole crew is crowded in the hallway, and fang asks “do we think he’s… better?”

fang is not sad about izzy. or if he is, it’s dwarfed by how much more sad fang is about ed.

in conclusion: have fun with ur headcanons i am not the boss of you but also there is less canonical textual evidence of the crew loving izzy than some of y’all seem to think k byeeeee

[nicnacsnonsense]

AU where Izzy is complaining to Jack about Stupid Stede Fucking Bonnet after getting himself exiled from the ship, and Jack is listening to all this and comes to the conclusion that Ed is fucking brilliant. Because Ed has successfully retired from pirating like he wanted by getting himself this sweet sugaring set up where he can just mooch off this stupid rich guy. In fact it’s so brilliant Jack is going to steal the idea and whole set up. So Jack still shows up to the Revenge, still tries to manipulate a gulf between Stede & Ed, but this time he’s ingratiating himself to Stede and ostracizing Ed.

I imagine that Stede would still pick up on the bad vibes from Jack right away, but when he goes to ask Ed like, hey, seems like Jack is being kind of shitty to you, Ed hasn’t realized what’s going on yet and insists that this is all just friendly ribbing, and Stede takes him at his word. Eventually Ed does realize Jack is up to something, which Jack readily confesses to when Ed confronts him, but Jack also says he’ll deny it if Ed tries to tell Stede, and is Ed really sure at this point that Stede will pick him over Jack. So it becomes a silent battle between the two of them to see who can get the other kicked off the ship first.

Then one day Stede, very serious, asks if he can have a private word with Ed. And Ed is like, oh no, this is it, Jack convinced Stede to kick me off the ship. They go to the captains quarters to have their private conversation, Ed walking like a man to the gallows, and Stede is like, I know you said it was friendly ribbing but I’m really uncomfortable with the way Jack speaks with you and also he’s been saying some very mean things behind your back and I don’t think he’s really your friend. And Ed is all 🥺You mean you like and trust me more than Jack? 🥺🥹 To which Stede is just, I fucking hate Jack, I was only being nice to him because you said he was your friend. They talk some more, then they kiss, and then sometime later they finally get around to going back up on deck to kick Jack to the curb.

[lousypotatoes]

when will the next chapter of duncans fic come out? love ur work btw!

Tonight Bring All Your Friends

"But if I just showed up at your party

Would you have me? Would you want me?

Would you tell me to go fuck myself

Or lead me to the garden~"

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Dear Mom and Dad

I'm doing fine

You guys are on my mind

You asked me what I wanted to be

And I think the answer is clear to see

I wanna be famous

I wanna live close to the sun

So pack your bags 'cause I've already won

Nothing to do, nothing in my way

I'll get there one day

I wanna be famous

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na

I wanna be

I wanna be

I wanna be famous

I wanna be

I wanna be

I wanna be famous

I wanna be

I wanna be

I wanna be famous~

So far, this day has absolutely sucked ass.

Y/N had a massive headache, there was a rip in her skirt, Courtney was whining about something stupid, and Heather was shooting her dirty looks.

Whatever, it was totally worth it though. Y/N was satisfied when she saw bug bites all over her arms and legs. She felt proud of herself for giving Gwen the idea to put Harold's ant farm in Heather's bed.

Very satisfied indeed.

Right now, all the campers were surrounded around the campfire, waiting for Chris to tell them about the next challenge. He hadn't said a word yet, for the dramatic effect.

Damn, this guy was really getting on her nerves.

"What's got you so mad?" Duncan whispered.

"Bad morning, that's all," Y/N muttered.

"Campers, today's challenge will test your outdoor survival skills," Chris smiled, standing in front of them all. "I'm not going to lie to you, some of you may not come back alive.

Some of the campers, like Owen and Beth, gasped, their eyes wide. Y/N just rolled her eyes. How hard could it be to survive in the woods anyway?

"Just joking," Chris giggled, making everyone sigh in relief. "All you have to do is spend one night in the woods. Everything you need is at your team's campsite in the forest. You just have to find it."

Chris pulled out of a backpack (who knows where he got it), and tossed out a map and a compass to the respective teams. Y/N caught the map and Duncan caught the compass, making Courtney glare at the two of them.

"Oh, and watch out for bears," Chris added. "Lost a couple of interns in pre-production."

Courtney snatched the map right out of Y/N's hands, a frown on her face.

"Rude," Y/N muttered.

"First team back fro breakfast wins invincibility," Chris finished, pulling out an air horn and using it. "Well, off you go."

"Did he say there are bears up in here?" Leshawna shakily asked.

"I had a little encounter with a bear once!" Owen bragged. "Let's just say his head looks real nice on my mantel."

"Oh! This one time I saw a bear eating our garbage!" Izzy exclaimed. "He had old spaghetti noodles hanging from his big, huge teeth and it looked like blood and guts! It was so gross and we thought he was eating the neighbor's cat, Simba! But it turned out he was just lost for a week."

Y/N stared at Izzy with wide eyes.

"Wow," Y/N stuttered. "Wow, that's uh, that's something."

"You're telling me," Duncan muttered. "Either she got dropped on her head as a kid, or she's on some sort of drug."

"You're such an ass," Y/N giggled, slightly hitting his shoulder.

"Whatever," Duncan smirked. "You know I'm right."

"Uh huh," Y/N said, walking away from him. "C'mon let's go find that stupid campsite."

"Yes ma'am,"

The Killer Bass had been walking in the woods for about twenty minutes now. Y/N wished that she had brought a water bottle with her, because it was hot and she was beginning to get thirsty.

"Bridgette," she whined. "Do you by any chance have a water bottle with you?"

"Why would I have a water bottle?" Bridgette asked. 

"'Cause you're the best?" Y/N said, batting her eyelashes. 

"No, I don't have a water bottle," Bridgette sighed. 

"Aw man,"

"You're too much sometimes,"

"Oh, how you wound me,"

Another ten minutes went by. Now Y/N had really wished she had brought some sort of drink with her. She was used to being exhausted, being on the track team in high school, but she always made sure to drink plenty of water before she ran.

And to make things worst, it was super fucking hot and sweat was dripping down her back.

"I hate hiking," Y/N muttered.

"Don't you do track?" Duncan asked, walking besides her. "You should be used to this."

"Hiking is different than running,"

"Oh yeah? How so?"

"Uhhh," Y/N blanked out. How was running different from hiking? Both of the required you to move your legs. But also, you burned more energy from running.

So why was she so tired from hiking for only thirty minutes?

"It's not that hard of a question," Duncan chuckled.

"Well then you should be able to answer it yourself," Y/N said.

"I'm not the one who hates hiking,"

"I wouldn't be surprised if you did, since you hate everything else,"

"You're so observant,"

"And you're dumber than a rock,"

Four hours.

Four long, excruciating, hours.

That's how long it took for the Killer Bass to find the campsite.

Whoever was in charge of directions deserved to be burnt alive.

Mostly everyone was busy setting up camp. Y/N and Duncan were trying to make a fire (Duncan mostly watched though), Tyler was unpacking the backpack, and Geoff, Courtney and Bridgette were setting up the tent.

"Wow," Geoff said to Bridgette. "You pitch a tent like a guy."

It took everything in Y/N not to bust out laughing. She liked Geoff and thought he was cool but he did NOT know how to talk to girls.

"Real smooth," Duncan chuckled.

"I mean, you're not all girly about getting girly and stuff," Geoff corrected himself.

"Gee thanks," Bridgette said, a bored look on her face.

"What's for dinner woman? I'm starving," Duncan said to Courtney.

"I hope you don't expect me dignify that with a response," Courtney glared.

"Hey guys! Look what I found!" DJ exclaimed, carrying the cutest bunny Y/N had ever seen.

"Aww! He's so cute!" Y/N gushed.

"Well, I never had rabbit stew before, but what the hell, I'm game," Duncan said.

DJ and Y/N both scoffed, Y/N kicking him in the shin.

"This is my new pet! I'm calling him Bunny!"

"You couldn't find any food?" Courtney sighed. "Then it looks like we're eating grubs and berries for dinner."

"Speaking of grubs, has anyone seen tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber?" Y/N asked.

Everyone shook their heads.

"Great," Y/N murmured. "We have two missing teammates."

"They were dead weight anyway," Duncan said.

"Mhmm, I guess you're right," Y/N said. "They probably already fell of a cliff."

Duncan nodded in agreement. "You wanna go find some berries for dinner?"

"There's a berry bush over there," Y/N pointed to behind the tent, where there was indeed, a big berry bush.

"Yeah, but," Duncan stuttered. "The better berries are deeper in the woods."

"How would you know that?"

"'Cause I know everything, duh,"

"As much as I would love to go into the dark creepy woods, with a gentleman such as yourself," Y/N started. "I'm gonna have to pass. Maybe next time."

"Yeah, for sure," Duncan said, a little disappointed.

It was now official. Even though Duncan had only known Y/N for like three weeks, he was officially super down bad for Y/N.

But he would rather die than let anyone know. Especially Y/N.

Even if she did find out, there was no reason to ask her out. The two of them lived 3 hours from each other, and it wasn't like they were going to see each other again after the show was over.

So for now, Duncan was just going to bury those feelings, deep, deep, deep inside him.

They had got the fire started, which was good.

But they didn't have any food besides bugs and berries, that was bad.

The Killer Bass were sitting around the fire, talking, but mostly complaining about the challenge,

Even though surviving the night seemed easy, Chris definitely did not make it all easy for any of the campers. Y/N hoped that the other team were suffering as much as her team was.

Y/N was sitting between Duncan and Bridgette. Bridgette had a nervous look on her face and gasped when she heard an owl hoot.

Y/N knew that the woods freaked her out, so she put her arm around her shoulder to comfort her, Bridgette shooting her a grateful smile.

"Be cool, it's just an owl," DJ smiled.

"Sorry, I just get really freaked out in the forest," Bridgette explained.

"This reminds me of this really scary story I heard once," Duncan spoke up.

"Awesome, tell it, man," Geoff said.

"Are you sure?" Duncan asked. "Because the story I'm thinking of is pretty hardcore."

Courtney rolled her eyes. "Oooh, we're so scared,"

Duncan shrugged his shoulders. "All right. But don't say I didn't warn you,"

"One night, a lot like this one..."

"So suddenly, they, they heard this tap tap tapping on the side on the side of the car. The girl started to freak out, and by this time, even the guy was getting a bit scared. So he turned the car on and he stepped on it."

Everyone seemed invested and terrified of the story. Even Y/N, who loved reading Stephen King and watching horror movies, was a bit scared of the story.

"When they got back to the girl's house...she opened the door and screamed! Because there....hanging from the door handle....was the bloody hook! They say that this killer is still alive, wandering these very woods. He could be just about anywhere really. Maybe even right....here!"

Duncan pulled out a hook from behind his back, making everyone scream. Y/N (and a bunch of other people), hid behind DJ, wanting to get away from Duncan and his stupid story.

Duncan roared with laughter, holding his stomach due to how hard he was laughing.

"You asshole!" Y/N glared, marching up to him. "That wasn't funny!"

"Oh yes it was!" Duncan smirked. "I just wish it was all on camera! Oh wait, it is!"

"You are so vile!" Courtney spat, still hiding behind DJ. "Do your parents even like you?"

"I don't know Jumpy McChicken," Duncan chuckled. "I haven't asked them lately."

"Whatever," Y/N grumbled, pushing Duncan slightly. "Your story was still terrible."

"Sweetheart, you literally screamed like a goat," Duncan smirked, stepping closer. "My story was anything but terrible."

"You're insufferable, you know that?"

"Oh yeah? Well you're a dumbass,"

The two of them were in each other's faces, smirking at each other, their noses almost touching. It was then that Y/N began to realize more of Duncan's facial feature.

'Have his eyes always been that blue?' she thought. 'They're really pretty.'

Someone, she didn't know who, but one of the Bass cleared their throats. Y/N and Duncan turned away from each other to see that everyone on the team were looking at them, DJ and Harold had awkward looks on their faces, Bridgette and Geoff had smirks, wiggling their eyebrows, and Courtney had just pure rage on her face.

Y/N covered her red face with her hand. "I'm going to bed now. You guys do whatever I don't care."

Y/N went into the tent, everyone else still outside, now staring at Duncan.

"What are you guys staring at?" Duncan asked.

"What was that?" Courtney hissed.

"What was what?"

"That little moment that the two of you had!"

Duncan blushed, scratching his neck. "Yeah, what about it?"

Courtney narrowed her eyes. "You like her, don't you?"

Duncan's eyes widened, his face turning even more red than it already was. But before he could answer, Geoff interrupted. "Guys, it's getting pretty late. I think we should head to bed."

Courtney rolled her eyes before sighing. "Yeah I guess you're right. C'mon, everyone in the tent."

Duncan begrudgingly followed Courtney in the tent. He was surprised to find that Y/N was already sleeping.

'What a weirdo,' he thought, but he couldn't help smiling at her. Geoff elbowed his side, a smirk on his face. In response, Duncan rolled his eyes and punched his shoulder.

"Whatever man," Duncan muttered, laying down on the hard tent floor.

"Y/N?"

Y/N slowly opened up her eyes, seeing Bridgette above her. "Yeah?"

"Can you go pee with me? I'm too freaked out to leave the tent by myself."

"Yeah, of course."

After trying not to trip over anybody, the two of them made it out the tent. "Hey Bridge, it's okay, nothing's gonna happen to you."

"Yeah I know, it's just-" Bridgette gasped, a flock a bats coming towards the two of them, one of the landing on Bridgette's face.

Bridgette started stumbling around, Y/N trying her best to scare the bat away so it would fly off Bridgette's face. Eventually the bat did fly away, but Bridgette fell on the ground, accidentally kicking a hot coal up against the tent, which quickly lit on fire and disintegrated into nothing.

Everyone turned towards Bridgette (besides Duncan, he was somehow still asleep), who waved towards them in embarrassment.

"Great," Courtney snapped. "That's just great Bridgette! Now we have nowhere to sleep!"

"Hey you need to calm down," Y/N said, trying to diffuse the situation. "Obviously she didn't mean to, it's fine."

"Fine? It's fine!?" Courtney yelled. "Things could not possibly get worse!"

Things did in fact get worse.

It started to rain. Y/N was mad that is started to rain, but also was satisfied at Courtney's reaction to the rain, her yelling out in frustration.

Y/N barely got any sleep that night. How could you when the only shelter you had was DJ holding up a giant leaf? She didn't know how, but eventually she did fall asleep. It wasn't very good, how good could it get on the forest floor, but it was enough to keep her energized to finish the challenge.

What she didn't expect was to wake up cuddled on Duncan's chest, his arm around her.

"Woah! Get off me!" Y/N blushed, pushing herself off Duncan.

"You were the one that was cuddling up to me," Duncan said groggily, waking up.

"Your arm was around me, you pig,"

"Whatever, I've been called worse,"

"Troll? Homewrecker? Any of those ring a bell?"

"You have such a nice way with words," Duncan rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"Only learned it from the best,"

--

~Confessionals~

"I swear that is not what it looked like,"Y/N  said, her hands covering her face. "Nothing happened, everything's fine, I swear!"

--

They ran. And they ran as fast as they could.

Y/N couldn't remember the last time she ran that fast for anything. Yeah she was fast, but normally she wouldn't run that fast.

The Killer Bass were the first ones to camp. Y/N smiled, seeing Chris mess with the fire pit in the distance.

"We're the first ones back!" Courtney cheered.

The Screaming Gophers were right behind them, all of them disappointed that they weren't the first team to arrive.

And also why was Izzy in a bear costume? Who knows. Izzy was a strange human.

"Oh no! They beat us here!" Heather groaned, pushing Owen, making Izzy giggle. "This is all your fault!"

"Not so fast, goforinos," Chris spoke up. "It seems that the Killer Bass are missing a few fish."

"Are you talking about Katie and Sadie?" Y/N asked. "I'm pretty sure they got eaten by wolves twenty minutes in."

"Damn shame," Duncan shook his head. And as if God was having a good laugh and wanted to torture the Killer Bass, Katie and Sadie came running into camp, babbling about how they got lost and how they got into a fight and made up.

Y/N wanted to drown the two of them in the lake.

"Are you two finished with your little love fest?" Courtney cleared her throat. Katie and Sadie nodded, wrapped in each others embrace and big smiles on their faces. "Good. Because thanks to you, we just lost the challenge!"

"All right Killer Bass, one of your fishy butts is going home!" Chris announced. "Gophers, you're going on an all expense paid trip to the Tuck Shop!"

All the Screaming Gophers screamed in excitement, running off with huge grins on their faces. Everyone on the Killer Bass stared after them with shock, then turned to look at Katie and Sadie with anger.

Oh yeah, one of them was definitely going home tonight.

But the question was, who was Y/N going to vote for?

They were both really nice, but they were also both really, really dense.

This was going to be very hard indeed.

"Who did you vote for?" Duncan asked, sitting next to Y/N under a tree.

There was around twenty minutes left until it was time to vote, the two of them hanging out to pass the time.

"I actually can't remember," Y/N chuckled. "It's hard to tell the two of them apart."

"Can't believe we lost because those two idiots got lost in the woods," Duncan muttered, throwing a rock in the distance. "There has to be some kind of rule against that kind of shit."

"What do you expect? This show sucks," Y/N sighed.

"Do you wish you didn't sign up to compete?"

"Sometimes. But if I didn't, I wouldn't of met you or Bridgette or anyone else here."

Duncan smirked, hoping Y/N wouldn't notice his blush. "Aww you're making me blush, princess."

Y/N smiled, rolling her eyes. "You're so smooth,"

"Yeah, I know,"

It was finally time for the elimination ceremony, all of the Killer Bass sitting on the tree stumps, the fire illuminating all their faces.

Sadie and Katie sat next to each other, fear and disappointment on their faces. Even they knew that one of them was going home.

"You've all cast your votes," Chris said. "The camper who does not receive a marshmallow must immediately, hit the dock of shame, grab the boat of losers, and get the heck outta here!" 

"And you can't come back. Ever!"

"Now, I can see you're all tired, so tonight, I'll just throw them to you," Chris said, holding up marshmallows. "Courtney, Duncan, Y/N, Bridgette, DJ, Harold, Geoff, Tyler."

"Ladies," Chris said ominously. Sadie and Katie hugged each other, nervous looks on their faces, their teeth chattering. "This is the final marshmallow of the evening."

He waited for a moment before announcing who got the final marshmallow.

"Sadie,"

"No! Why Katie!" Sadie cried. "Why her!?"

"It's so unfair!" Katie sobbed, making Y/N roll her eyes.

"I so can't do this! I've never been anywhere without Katie. We have to be together or I'll totally die!"

Katie grabbed onto Sadie's shoulders. "Sadie, listen to me, you can do this. You are strong and beautiful and like, maybe even smarter than me. You're like the funnest girl I know! You have to do this for both of us."

Sadie started to tear up. Y/N fake gagged over to Duncan, the two of them giggling quietly like little schoolgirls.

Sadie walked Katie to the dock of shame, Chris and a few Killer Bass following them.

"That was so draining," Y/N yawned.

"You're telling me," Duncan also yawned. "I'm so glad that one of those idiots is gone."

Y/N nodded getting up.

"Where are you going?" Duncan asked.

"I'm gonna go on a little walk," Y/N answered. "You wanna come?"

"Sure,"

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An Extensive List Of Ouizzy Hcs

Frenchie is a cuddler. If he gets the opportunity to latch on like a koala you know damn well that he will do it. This is often paired with soft kisses to wherever is closest to his face. He and Izzy were initially very casual with very little intimacy, until one day Frenchie just decided to cuddle up and Izzy had the realisation of 'oh shit, this is actually really nice'

Izzy's response to the first 'I love you' was a very panicked 'fuck off' until he remembered how similarly Ed had responded to his confession and freaked the fuck out because he didn't want Frenchie to feel that way. He was too emotionally constipated to apologise so he just left the room. It took two days for him to approach Frenchie and manage an apology, which was accepted a lot quicker than he anticipated.

Frenchie is so proud that he managed to pull the Izzy Hands and will not fail to mention it to EVERYBODY he comes across. He is very much the 'Well, yesterday, my husband said...' 'According to Iz- that's my boyfriend btw-' 'hey, this is Izzy, he's my beautiful boyfriend' 'I'm so lucky to have a husband like Iz' 'I have a partner too, his name is Izzy and-' 'sorry, I've got a date with my darling Izzy today' type of partner

Frenchie smiles in his sleep. It's adorable.

Jim is their no.1 supporter. They gave Frenchie the shovel talk, which he genuinely did not see coming. They think their relationship is 'cute', which made Izzy particularly grumpy and reluctant to talk to them for a week.

Izzy is a sub

Izzy always falls asleep first but he's a super light sleeper so Frenchie is careful to not move or even breathe too loud because he is terrified of waking him

Stede knew they were dating before Izzy did

Izzy will usually shut down Frenchie's superstitious theories but will occasionally indulge him if he's particularly adamant and it won't cause any harm bc at least it makes Frenchie happy to be believed.

The room they choose to hide Izzy in when he gets shot is the room the two of them had been secretly meeting up in for several weeks before the canon s2 timeline picks up. Frenchie just panicked and took him right there, having to come up with an excuse to give to Archie when she asked why he wanted to drag Izzy behind a dusty shelf.

Frenchie gives neck hugs, Izzy goes for the arms around the waist + face in shoulder hug. Occasionally Izzy will come up and hug him from behind but he finds it more intimate for some inexplicable reason so he rarely does it, especially in the company of others.

They can't go anywhere without walking into some big, scary guy Izzy once hooked up with. But Frenchie quickly grew to not mind because out of all of them, Iz still chose to stick the superstitious barely-pirate with no survival skills whatsoever so are any of them really that cool after all?

Lucius takes every opportunity to tease Izzy about their relationship. He will not stop until he gets a satisfying reaction. Or until he gets bored enough to make up an excuse for leaving...

Frenchie is a biter. No further information.

They don't usually do anniversaries but they DO frequently pretend that it's their anniversary when they want to get out of doing something for somebody else

In S1E4, Frenchie is the one that left the prosthetic at Izzy's door. He's also the one that told Lucius what to put on the note.

Izzy sometimes sings when he's really focused on something but he'll deny it to the end of time. Frenchie hears sometimes and just quietly listens. He'll switch between languages when he sings depending on his mood and Frenchie loses all human cognitive abilities when he brings out the French.

One day, Frenchie 'adopts' a rat he found onboard and calls it Maddy, Izzy hates it but still manages to convince Roach not to skin it and feed it to a seagull, all bc it made Frenchie happy. Ofc if you asked him, he'd say he had nothing to do with the thing being kept.

Frenchie manages to somehow slip the word 'babe' into every conversation

Izzy's a hand kisser. Especially the palms.

They both go to Wee John when they're stressing about gifts or smth and it gets to a point where he knows more about their relationship than they do

Izzy accidentally let the words 'my love' slip ONCE and is not allowed to forget it

There is nothing Frenchie wouldn't do to hear that man laugh. He'll do absolutely anything just to see him smile or laugh, which initially proves to be quite difficult.

They are girl dads idec

Izzy occasionally smokes, and it's one of the key ways Frenchie can tell if he is in pain or stressed out

They make bets about everyone else on the ship constantly. About almost anything.

Izzy tried to teach Frenchie how to read but his reading skills are relatively limited so it really didn't go well. They end up going to Ed for help because Izzy banned him from asking Lucius.

Frenchie knows a lot about flowers. He never says how but he'll go on about them for ages. Izzy secretly gives it endearing.

The black jacket Frenchie wears in s2 was given to him by Izzy. He made some adjustments and added the cat to the back and then started to wear it constantly; he quite liked wearing it because it felt like a comforting layer of protection and familiarity from the horrors around them

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Birthday Surprise

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Word Count: 1,460

Pairing: Dougie Poynter X Reader

Content Warnings: fluff, kissing

Summary: It's Dougie's birthday while he's away on tour, and Y/N simply can't let him celebrate it without her

November 30th had rolled around much quicker than I had anticipated. Sadly, Dougie was on tour with the rest of McFly, and had been for two weeks already. I woke up in our bed, alone besides our cat, Grub.

With a yawn, I reached over to the bedside table to check the time on my phone. 7:28am. I was right on time. Opening my phone, I went straight over to Dougie’s contact to wish him a happy birthday, but before I could press the button to call him, my phone began to ring. It was Giovanna.

“Y/N, good morning!” Her cheery voice spoke through the phone.

“Hey.” I replied with a yawn.

“I know. I’m so sorry we have to get up this early, but it’s the only way we can get there on time.” She said sympathetically.

“Yeah, I know. Just didn’t sleep great last night.” I said.

“Excited?” Gi asked happily.

“Very.” I laughed tiredly.

“Aww good. Well, I’ll pick you up at about 8:00 if that’s okay. Georgia and Izzy are coming too, so we’re all going to go at the same time. The kids are coming too so it will be a big McWag day out.” She laughed.

Fans had lovingly referred to the wives and girlfriends of the band as ‘The McWags’. I was obviously a lot newer to this side of it as Dougie and I had only been together for eight months, but they included me as soon as we made our relationship public and welcomed me with loving arms.

“Yeah, that sounds great. I’ll see you soon Gi.” I said.

“See you soon Y/N! I can’t wait.” She cheerily laughed.

“Bye.”

“Bye.”

As soon as I hung up the brief phone call, I got out of bed and began to make it. Once I was done, I got dressed and called Dougie, walking over to my vanity area. The phone rang out as I started doing my makeup for the day.

“Hey babe. Good morning.” Dougie’s voice spoke.

“Hi Doug. Morning yourself. Happy birthday.” I replied with a smile.

He laughed back. “Thanks darling. Wish I could be spending it with you, though.” I could hear regret in his voice. It was always there when he went away. I never really minded when he was on tour, as I understood that it was part of the job and there wasn’t anything that I could do to stop it from happening. Obviously, Doug knew this too, but he always felt guilty when he missed things like holidays, birthdays and other special occasions.

“Yeah, me too. Do you have anything nice planned for today?” I asked.

“Actually, yeah, Danny let slip that the guys are going to take me out for lunch for a surprise birthday treat.” He laughed his gorgeous melodic laugh.

“That sound like him.” I laughed in reply.

“Anyway babe, I better go. Harry is getting impatient and is desperate for our morning run. I’ll call you later?” There was a hopeful tone in his voice.

“Umm… I’m busy later, but I can text you when I’m free before your soundcheck?” I suggested, trying to avoid potentially getting caught later on in the day.

“Yeah, yeah sure thing babe. Talk to you later.” He said happily, but I could hear a tinge of disappointment laced in his voice.

“Bye babe.”

“Bye bub.”

The silence that engulfed me after I hung up was sad and heavy. Sure, I was going to see him later, but that didn’t take away how I felt from his disappointed voice.

A knock at the front door shook me out of my daze. I walked down the wooden staircase and headed to the front door, I could see an excited Gi waving at me through the glass.

As soon as I opened the door, she engulfed me in one of her famous hugs and I was instantly put at ease once again. “Oh hello you!” She beamed.

“Hi Gi!” I laughed, breathless from how tight the hug was.

“The boys are in the car already, so I’ll just shove your bag in the book, hop in the front and we’re good to go!” She smiled at me.

I laughed and walked over to the passenger side of the car, making sure to wave at the three young boys in the back of the car.

“Hi Y/N!” Buzz shouted over the loud music that they were playing.

“Hiya you three!” I laughed.

The driver side door opened and Giovanna slid in, fastening her seatbelt before sighing.

“Sorry about the volume. They’re trying to make sure they all know the words to every single McFly song, which I’m one thousand percent sure they already do.” She explained with a fake-dramatic sigh.

After that, she pulled away and our journey to the venue began. The drive was pleasant enough. Luckily, traffic wasn’t too horrific, so we got there in just shy of four hours, arriving at around midday. Perfect timing for us to enact our plot.

Tom, Danny and Harry were all somewhat in on the plan. They were going to take Dougie out for his birthday lunch, and I was going to pop up and surprise him. However, I didn’t think this was enough. It felt unfair that only Dougie got a surprise, so I suggested to the other “McWags” that we should all go, and that they should bring their kids along too so they can all see their dads. Unsurprisingly, they were all very excited and happy to go along with my little plan.

When we pulled up to the venue, we met up with Georgie and Izzy as well as their kids and began to make our way to the café Tom had told me they would be at.

“Are you excited?” Georgia asked as we walked.

“Yes, I’m so excited. I don’t know why, but this tour has been so much harder than the others.” I sighed.

“Well, you two have only just moved in together, so it will be weird because you’re so used to being around him all the time.” Izzy suggested with a smile. “I mean, that’s what it was like for Harry and I.”

“Izzy’s right, it was the same with me and Danny.” Georgia agreed.

That brought me a sense of comfort. It had been weird going from living alone, to then moving in with Doug and spending more or less every waking moment together, to him going off on tour and me being alone. I never minded him going on tour, again, it was part of his job, and I did secretly enjoy the peace and quiet I got, but after moving in with him, he became part of my daily routine.

“You’ll see him soon enough because we are nearly there.” Gi beamed, grabbing my arm.

I laughed at her excitement.

The kids began to get increasingly more and more restless as we continued our walk to the café, and even more so when it came into view.

It was a small, cosy establishment in the Leeds city centre with a large glass front with fairy lights hanging down. Danny looked up from his coffee and smiled, completely oblivious to the surprise himself, Tom and Harry were about to get. He gestured for me to come over, still completely oblivious. Typical Danny.

 The door opened with the chime of a bell. Izzy, Gi, Georgia and their kids all followed in behind me with wide smiles across their faces.

Tom, Danny and Harry looked up at us and their faces slowly lit up with realisation as their wives and kids walked towards them, engulfing them in bone-crushing hugs.

Excited squeals erupted from where we had gathered as Dougie remained seated at the table, a slightly disappointed smile on his handsome face.

“Hey there you.” I said as I leaned over his shoulder.

He jumped at the surprise.

“Y/N! You’re here!” He said, standing up and pulling me into an impossibly tight hug.

“Of course I am babe, it’s your birthday.” I laughed, starting to struggle to breathe.

“But I thought you had work?” He asked, pulling away from the hug to look at me.

“Not for the next few days. It’s all online stuff anyway so it doesn’t really matter if I take a day or so.” I explained, still loosely held in my boyfriend’s arms.

He didn’t say anything in reply, he just pulled me in for a kiss, making the rest of the guys and their kids cheer and the other “McWags” laugh at their idiotic behaviour.

“Happy birthday bub.” I whispered.

“Thank you for being here.” He whispered in reply.

“Always.” I kissed him again. “Happy birthday Doug.”

“Best birthday ever.” He smiled back at me.

[tobiasdrake]

Digimon Adventure 02x02 - Digital Gate, Open! / The DigiTeam Complete

Previously on Digimon Adventure: Daisuke got so upset about Hikari and Takeru's Digimon history that he marched right out and got his own Digimon out of spite. And succeeded! Hikari was only mildly impressed but Taichi was so psyched that he adopted Daisuke on the spot.

We pick today's episode up right where the last left off: In a tangled pile of limbs and regrets.

Taichi: This is.... Takeru: ...the computer room? Iori: D-Did you just return from the Digital World? Daisuke: Yes, that's right! (jumps to his feet) We're back! The Digital World was so cool! We were attacked out of nowhere by this dinosaur-looking Digimon and-- Miyako: I'M GOING TOO!!! Daisuke: Geh!?

Miyako jumps right up in Daisuke's face, cutting him off.

Iori: Miyako-san, let's put it aside for today. Miyako: Why!? Don't you want to go!? Iori: No, I am interested too. But if I don't get home soon, my mother will worry. Taichi: Yeah, we should all head home for the day. Koushiro: I also think that would be best. Takeru: Let's do that, Miyako-san.

Finding not even one person sympathetic to her eagerness, Miyako pouts, then exclaims:

Miyako: NO FAIR!!! EVERYONE ELSE GOT TO!!!

Which is entirely hyperbolic, given that neither Koushiro nor Iori got to go. But, in her defense, the only reason she missed this trip is because Iori's computer broke down and she had made a prior agreement to help with that.

Inoue "I WANNA GO TO THE DIGITAL WORLD!!!" Miyako is such an interesting contrast to Tachikawa "I WANNA GO HOME!!!" Mimi. They both have similar stripes, but of different colors.

Against Miyako's wishes, everyone leaves the computer room and we hear the Gate shutting down. Which. Was not expected behavior, as Koushiro returns a moment later.

Koushiro: Oh, I should turn that off-- Huh? Koushiro: ... Koushiro: The Gate is closed....

Mysterious!

In the dub:

Tai: Where are we!? T.K.: This is the computer room! Cody: Hey, when you guys came through the computer, where did you come from? Davis: Where? The Digital World! (jumps to his feet) That place is the coolest ever! There we were when suddenly a dinosaur-like Digimon attacked and that's when I jumped into action! Yolei: Enough! Let's go back! Davis: Huh!? Cody: I think we've had enough excitement for one day. Yolei: Don't you want to go to the Digital World, Cody!? Cody: Of course seeing all those monsters and stuff would be fun but tonight's macaroni and cheese night at my house and I don't want to miss out. Tai: (despondent) That's right, it's pork surprise at my place. Izzy: Stuffed green peppers and a salad. T.K.: TV Dinners in the microwave. Yolei: NO FAIR!!! I WANNA GO!!!

As usual, details in sound effects don't carry over to the dub. We don't hear the Gate shut down as they leave, and instead get a little bit of extra dialogue.

T.K.: Don't worry, Yolei. You'll get a chance. Yolei: WHEN!?!? Izzy: (returns) Oops, I almost forgot to turn off the computer. Izzy: ... Izzy: The Gate's closed....

Izzy doesn't make a surprised noise so it's not super clear how we're supposed to feel about that. Also, very minor, but the lack of a surprised noise makes it a little awkward when he silently stares dumbfounded into the camera with a blank expression for a couple seconds.

Fantastic job with Yolei's outburst.

Making the "We should all go home" conversation about what family dinners everyone has waiting for them still captures the spirit of the discussion while adding a lot of individual character to it. Nice touch.

Though Cody's line misses a key point of characterization. Iori is a prim and proper boy like Jou. He needs no further reason to go home than the simple fact that it's getting late and his mom will fret about him if he isn't home punctually. Also keep in mind that Iori is about 9. As a third-grader, he's only a year older than Hikari and Takeru were last series.

Cody implies that he'd be fine staying out late if they were having something less tasty for dinner, implying that this decision is selfishly-motivated.

I'm also not sure what he means by "We've had enough excitement for one day." He and Yolei haven't done anything. That's why she's so upset.

Everyone leaves school, but Taichi, Hikari, and Takeru do not go home. Recent events warrant the making of other plans.

Yamato walks out on his band in the middle of rehearsal.

Bandmate: What the hell, Yamato? You're going home already? Yamato: I have something important to take care of.

A brief moment that establishes this meetup is spur-of-the-moment. Taichi's asked everyone to drop what they're doing for an all-hands-on-deck emergency meeting. Well, all hands but Mimi who is... let's say, difficult to reach.

Yamato is the last to arrive at the playground for the team's meetup.

Takeru: Ah, Onii-chan! Taichi: Yamato! Yamato: Sorry I'm late. Sora: (hops down) We haven't all been together like this in a long time.

You still aren't, and that's very rude. You don't have to go off the cliff yet but I'm watching you. (•̀⤙•́)

We cut from the team to Iori's place, where he's practicing kendo on the balcony.

Iori: The Digital World... What sort of place is it?

Inside, Miyako's working on his computer as promised.

Miyako: I'm definitely going to the Digital World tomorrow. Fumiko: (Iori's mom, through the door) Miyako-chan, will you be eating dinner with us? Miyako: Ah, I'll go home!

...I guess that's a no.

In the dub:

Bandmate: You're leaving already, Matt? We're not done with rehearsal! Matt: Sorry, guys. There's something I gotta take care of. (Playground) T.K.: Here he comes! Tai: Hi, Matt! Matt: Hey, everybody! Sorry I'm late. Sora: (hops down) It's been a long time! It's nice to be back.

Dub Sora does not clearly assert what it's been a long time since, and kinda makes it sound like she recently returned from vacation or something.

Cody: (kendo) I wonder what it's really like to actually travel into the Digital World? (Inside) Yolei: I don't care if they don't want me along! Tomorrow, I'm going to the Digital World! Fumiko: (through the door) Yolei, are you staying for dinner? Mac and cheese! Yolei: No, but thanks anyway! I have to get going.

Cody's more concerned with the experience of travel than the nature of the Digital World itself. Yolei is taking this "We should go home for the night" thing incredibly personally, but it makes sense given how upset she is.

Meanwhile, in his room, Daisuke tosses a soccer ball and thinks about Veemon.

Daisuke: I wonder what he's up to right now.... Yamato: (sudden cut) ARMOR EVOLUTION!?!? Taichi: Yeah. I've never seen evolution like that before. Agumon and the others weren't able to evolve, but Daisuke's Digimon did. Sora: Daisuke from Soccer Club was in the Digital World?

Daisuke may have been Taichi's kouhai specifically, but if he was in Soccer Club then he would have played with Sora and Koushiro too.

Takeru: Miyako-san and Iori-kun from my apartment building have Digivices too. Jou: So those three are new Chosen Children? Koushiro: I believe so. Sora: But if this Digimon Kaiser is indiscriminately hunting Digimon, will Piyomon and the others be okay? Hikari: Mimi-san sent me an email from America. She was worried about Palmon.

The text in Mimi's email is too small for me to make out the more complicated kanji, but we do get our first glimpse at her final 02 design. Love the hair. Sad she doesn't keep it in Tri.

In the dub:

Davis: Boy, I just can't stop thinking about Veemon. Matt: (sudden cut) Digi-Armor Energize, huh?

You know, the sharp cut bit really doesn't work without the frantic yelling.

Tai: It was a form of Digivolving I've never seen before. Somehow Davis's Digimon was able to Digivolve but Agumon and the others weren't. Sora: You mean Davis from the Soccer Club went to the Digital World? T.K.: That's right. And the two kids from my apartment building, Yolei and Cody, also got new Digivices. Joe: Well, if they have Digivices, that means that they're the new DigiDestined. Izzy: That's just what I thought. Joe: Mm... Sora: One question: If this Digimon Emperor's really hunting Digimon and making them his slaves, will Biyomon and the others be okay? Kari: I got an email earlier from Mimi in America. She was asking the same question.

Everybody stays on script. No notes.

Suddenly, Yamato has an idea.

Yamato: Why don't we go too? To the Digital World. Koushiro: But... When we left the room, the Gate had already closed. Yamato: Right... That makes sense. Group: ... Koushiro: In any case, tomorrow I'll inspect all of the computers in the Computer Club again. Taichi: Yeah! I'll go too. Sora: I'll go too. Hikari: Mhm! Takeru: Mhm! Jou: Sorry, I have a National Practice Exam tomorrow.... Yamato: I skipped band practice today, so.... Taichi: Got it! We can handle it. Yamato: Let me know as soon as anything happens. Taichi: Uh-huh!

I'm not 100% sure what test Jou has tomorrow but it's bound to be a big deal. As of today, he's started 9th grade, his final year of mandatory education before he moves on to high school. A big national test like that is probably non-optional. As a "practice exam", I'd wager it's an initial assessment of student abilities before the year's education takes place.

In the dub:

Matt: I think we should just go there and do things our way! Izzy: We can't! I went back to check the computer and the Gate was already closed. Matt: That means... We can't help them? Group: ... Izzy: I'm going back first thing tomorrow morning to check the computer and see if the Gate has opened up again. Tai: Mm! I'm going with you! Sora: And so am I! Kari: Mhm! T.K.: Mhm. Joe: I can't. I've got an oral test tomorrow on laryngitis. Matt: Yeah, and my band's got a big concert coming up so we have to practice. Tai: Don't worry about it, guys! Just leave everything to us. Matt: Okay. But let us know if you need us.

Not everybody stays on script. A few notes.

Izzy says he'll be going "first thing tomorrow morning", suggesting he plans to do this... before school? This makes negative sense, especially since he doesn't even go to that school anymore. Though, given all the futzing with everyone's grades last episode, that might not be true? IDK.

Yes, this does imply that Jou's national exam is after the end of the school day. I cannot say if that's normal or not.

Flipping the timing to "first thing in the morning" means we are now discussing skipping school. So, Joe's reason for backing out still works. But now Matt's is weird. Were you... Were you already planning to ditch so you could practice?

Separate from that, Matt is weirdly aggressive about the new kids. "We should go do things our way!" I guess he really doesn't like the concept of Armor Digivolution. This doesn't have to be a competition, my guy.

The altered timing also creates consistency issues with the following scene. As we move to next day, clearly after school because that is the time of day when children are walking away from the building and not towards it.

Koushiro has returned to the elementary school's Computer Club as promised. He has the Gate pulled up on the computer. He types at it, but gets a rejection beep. Types some more and gets another rejection beep.

Koushiro: Like I thought, the Gate is still closed. (sound of door opening) Miyako: Huh? Izumi-senpai? Koushiro: Ojama shimasu.

Miyako and Iori enter Computer Club to find Koushiro in there. Not being privy to the Team Meeting, this is an unexpected sight for them.

Koushiro's response is easy to translate in words but not in intent. It literally means, "I am going to bother you." It's a customary phrase for entering someone's home. It pairs with ojama shimashita when you leave someone's home, which literally means "I have bothered you." It's playful nuisance energy filtered through Japanese politeness.

The point is, this is Miyako's club now, not Koushiro's. He is a guest and, polite as ever, engages with her accordingly.

(Not sure if she's club president or still just a member but the point is that Koushiro is no longer either.)

Koushiro: I've been thinking about what happened yesterday. Iori: I couldn't sleep last night either. Please take us to the Digital World today. Gate: (unlock chime) Koushiro: But the Gate is-- Eh!? The Gate's open!?

Convenient! I'm sure that's a coincidence. No need to look too deeply into it.

In the dub:

Izzy: Just as I thought, it's still closed. I've gotta find a way to the Digital World! Yolei: Izzy! Izzy: Huh? Yolei: What are you doing in here? Izzy: Oh, hi. I was just trying to get more information on what happened here yesterday. Cody: I couldn't sleep last night. I kept thinking about it. Izzy, will you take me with you to the Digital World? Izzy: I can't 'cause the Gate's not-- Gate: (unlock chime) Izzy: Huh!? Look! It's open!

The Gate waits slightly longer so that it can open at the most ironic time possible. XD

We still lose some sound effect details, though. First, Koushiro's keyboard clacking and the two rejection noises. Koushiro is actively trying to open the Gate and failing. Izzy seems to have just pulled it up, noticed it was closed, and proceeded to pout at it.

The other is the sound of the door opening when Miyako and Iori enter. I guess Izzy likes to hack reality with the door wide open.

No sooner has Koushiro noticed the open Gate than do the others arrive. Daisuke, Hikari, and Takeru enter the room, followed by Taichi and Sora.

Daisuke: Hey! Sora: Hello.

Daisuke, Miyako, and Iori present their new Digivices to the class.

Sora: Those are the new Digivices? Taichi: They're the three Digivices I pulled from the Digimental. Miyako: Hey, let's hurry up and get to the Digital World! Daisuke: (teasing) Heh, the Digital World is a scary place.... Miyako: Oh, don't try to brag when you've only been there once! Iori: We are prepared for a little danger.

多少の危険 Tasho no kiken. A little danger. Some mild peril. A reasonable level of risk.

Nobody tell Iori about... (scans through series 1) ...really all of that, honestly. Yeah, we'll go with all of that.

Koushiro explains the situation with the computer.

Koushiro: All of the other computers appear to be fine. However, it seems that this computer is the only one with a local Gate open on it. But a Gate's never been open two days in a row before! Daisuke: Whatever, let's go! To the Digital World!

Taichi, your kouhai is... acting like your kouhai. Fix that. XD Daisuke is aggressively disinterested in the particulars of the Gates.

An interesting note is that the first series only sometimes used the phrase "Digital World". It tended to refer to it as the Digimon World, or the Digimon's world. But 02 has thus far been very consistent about saying Digital World.

In the dub:

Davis: How's it goin', guys? Sora: Hi, everybody. (The new trio shows their Digivices) Sora: Those are the new Digivices? How cool? Tai: That's right. Those are the ones that were released from the Digi-Egg when I touched it. Yolei: Well, what are we standing around here for? I say let's get going! Davis: Hold it! I think I should give you a couple pointers about some of the things you're about to see. Yolei: Gimme a break! You've only been there once! What do you know!? Cody: I think we should be prepared for a little danger. Izzy: My suspicions were confirmed. I just checked the other computers. None of them seem to be affected by this. The Gate is only open on this one here. That's not all; The Gate has never been open two days in a row before. Davis: Then i say we get going! All ashore that's going ashore!

Solid. No notes.

Time to get going. To the Digital--

Voice: Well, if it isn't Yagami! Taichi: (flinch) Voice: It's been a while! Taichi: Fujiyama-sensei!

Hey, remember Fujiyama-sensei? He was the teacher in charge during the Chosen Children's fateful summer camp. They emotionally blackmailed him into letting them off in the wrong part of Tokyo, resulting in them predictably getting lost and having to hitchhike home through an ocean of child predators. And then vanishing into the bay on the back of a kaiju.

Fortunately, nobody found out about that so he remains employed. Despite the bad idea that he knew was a bad idea ending even worse than he could have anticipated. The moral of the story is: do not dump the children in your care at random parts of a metropolitan city. Trust your instincts and tell the crying children no.

Fujiyama: Takenouchi and Izumi too! What are graduates like you doing here? Taichi: W-Why are you here, Sensei!? Fujiyama: (poses dramatically) I'm the Advisor for Computer Club! Taichi & Sora: EHHH!?!? YOU CAN USE A COMPUTER, SENSEI!?!? Fujiyama: (still dramatically posed) Of course not! Taichi & Sora: (faces fall)

Taichi takes a moment to get over the whiplash, then starts physically pushing Fujiyama backwards out of the room.

Taichi: That's right! I had something I wanted to ask you about, Sensei. Fujiyama: What's that? Taichi: I'm having a lot of trouble keeping up with middle school classes. But let's not talk here!

Taichi successfully pushes Fujiyama all the way out of the room and down the hall. He signals the others with his fingers as he departs, giving them the go-ahead to leave without him.

Sora: (english) Thank you, Taichi.

Taichi is taking a bullet for us. While conveniently getting out of the way because he had his turn, and now it's Sora and Koushiro's turn to spend quality time with the new kids.

In the dub:

Voice: Tai Kamiya, is that you!? Tai: (flinch) Voice: We haven't seen you in a while! Tai: Mr. Fujiyama! Fujiyama: And Sora and Izzy are both here as well. Didn't you all graduate? Tai: Yeah... We did... And what are you doing here? Fujiyama: (poses dramatically) I'm the new head of the Computer Club! Tai & Sora: Huh!? But what do you know about using computers!? Fujiyama: (still dramatically posed) Hehe, not a single thing. Tai & Sora: (faces fall) (Tai starts pushing Fujiyama out) Tai: I just remembered, there's something I've been meaning to talk to you about, Mr. Fujiyama. You got a minute? Fujiyama: Sure, what is it? Tai: Well, I've been having problems adjusting to high school! It's the girls, ehehe... They're so much older! (Tai and Fujiyama leave) Sora: Thanks, Tai. We owe ya.

Almost a straight 1:1 translation, though Tai's pivoted from academic advice to romance advice and remains "in high school". He will regret this pivot.

Okay, now we can go to the Digital World.

Koushiro: Well, now's our chance.

The seven kids hold their Digivices up to the screen, which absorbs them through the Gate and passes them on into the Digital World. Miyako and Iori get new outfits like Daisuke's, while everyone else transfers over in their same clothes.

Iori: So this is the Digital World. Huh? My clothes changed! Miyako: (checking out her outfit) Oh wow! This is amazing! Daisuke: Check out how cool I look! Miyako: Not bad, but mine are cooler! Daisuke: Oh no, mine are definitely cooler! Iori: I think mine are pretty cool.

While the children playfully bicker about their magical Digital World outfits, the older veterans look on with no small amount of bewilderment. Sora is the only one whose jaw isn't hanging open, and that's because she's using it to talk.

Sora: These new Chosen Children are completely different from us. Have the times changed? Hikari: (teasing) Please don't start talking like an old maid!

Fortunately, we cut away before Hikari can receive the inevitable flick to the nose for that remark. :P

In the dub:

Izzy: Alright, let's get going. (Transfer to Digital World) Izzy: Is everyone okay? Davis: Yeah, but I feel like I just went through the rinse cycle of a dishwasher! Cody: Wow... So this is the Digital World. Hey, wait... I'm wearing different clothes. And they're pretty comfortable too. Yolei: Hey! I'm dressed like I'm part of the cool crowd! Davis: I forgot the part about the new wardrobe. Yolei: I love this helmet! It makes my glasses look smaller! Davis: I wonder if they have anything in a surfer style? Yolei: Wait 'til I tell my sisters I got free clothes! (Pan over to the veterans) Sora: Kids today have no sense of values. When I was a kid, I showed a lot more respect whenever I received a gift. Kari: (teasing) Sora, I hate to say this but you're sounding just like my mom!

Yolei and Davis's playful bickering is turned into them nerding out as friends over the cool outfits. Plus side, it's much more rich in interesting character details than "Mine are cooler" "Nuh-uh mine are".

Sora and Kari's exchange captures the spirit of the original; Sora starts talking like an old lady and Kari calls her out on it. It's a little more awkward in the dub, though.

In the original, Sora comments on the generation gap between the two groups of Chosen Children. In the dub, she delivers an impromptu Kids These Days ramble because the new kids don't appreciate their new clothes enough. Even though... I'm honestly not sure what they said that's disrespectful.

Also, Sora, you're 14. I think the dub thinks you're like 15 or 16 but even so, you are a kid. That is a very realistic thing for a teenager to say so I'm not dinging it for being a bad line but I actually am old so I get to be snippy about teenagers saying "When I was a kid." XD

Once the new kids are settled in their outfits, the team sets out to look for their Partners.

Sora: PIYOMOOOOOON!!! Koushiro: TENTOMOOOOOON!!!

Unfortunately, they're not alone. Watching from his control room, the Digimon Kaiser giggles to himself.

Kaiser: Huhuhuhuhu... I've been waiting. Come, let's start the game. Go, Snimon!

As Snimon leaves the base to attack, we get a closeup on the dark ring around their thorax.

In the dub:

Sora: Biyomon! Izzy: Tentomon! (Meanwhile, the Emperor) Emperor: Huhuhuhuhu... I've been waiting for you to get here. Now, let the games begin. Snimon, attack!

Pretty much 1:1. The Kaiser/Emperor has been sitting in-lobby waiting for the other players to queue up. Despite his trash talk, it really goes to show how interested he's become in PVP since the new game mode was rolled out yesterday.

Meanwhile, the kids continue their search.

Daisuke: V-MOOOOOON!!! WHERE ARE YOU!? V-MOOOOOON!!! V-mon: DAISUKEEEEEE!!! Daisuke: Ah! V-mon: DAISUKEEEEEE!!!

V-mon sprints across the field and gives Daisuke a firm handshake.

Daisuke: V-mon! V-mon: Hey! We found Patamon and the others' nakama!

Patamon, Tailmon, Piyomon, and Tentomon come over the hill to join them as well. Agumon seems to have somehow got the memo that Taichi wasn't coming on this one. No clue what's become of Gomamon, Palmon, or Gabumon, who were also missing from the group last episode too.

Koushiro: Tentomon! Sora: Piyomon!

As the veteran Digimon approach, Sora and Koushiro embrace their partners.

Koushiro: Tentomon! Tentomon: Koushiro-han! It's good to see you looking well! Sora: Piyomon! Piyomon: I missed you so much, Sora! Sora: I missed you too.

In the dub:

Davis: VEEMOON!!! WHERE ARE YOU!? VEEMON!!! Veemon: Davis! Davis: Haha! Veemon: Davis, I'm over here! (Firm handshake) Davis: Veemon! Veemon: Davis! I've brought Patamon and his friends with me! (Patamon and the others come over the hill) Izzy: Tentomon! Sora: Biyomon! (Hugs) Izzy: Tentomon. Tentomon: Izzy, you're a sight for big green sore eyes! Sora: Biyomon. Biyomon: I've missed you, Sora! Sora: I've missed you too.

A minor note. When V-mon says they found Patamon and co.'s nakama, it's a reference to last episode. The difference here isn't the word nakama itself. The dub translates it into "friends" as dubs often do, which works fine in this context. No, the point of contention is 見つけた mitsuketa, or "found".

This reunion connects directly with last episode. Agumon and Patamon were with Piyomon and Tentomon when they were attacked by Snimon. Piyomon and Tentomon were struck by Snimon's attacks and fell behind, while Tailmon and Taichi were able to get Agumon and Patamon to safety.

This word choice is explaining that, after we left last night, V-mon, Patamon, Agumon, and Tailmon were able to go back and regroup with Piyomon and Tentomon.

We aren't gonna have much time for this reunion, though. In a cool bit of imagery, the shadow of a cloud passes over the children and leaves behind the shadow of Snimon. But now that we're together, this won't turn out like last time.

Takeru: Sora-san, get down!

Takeru tackles Sora to the ground, letting Snimon whiff past overhead. The other children hit the ground as well, with Miyako quite reasonably screaming at the top of her lungs.

The veterans take to the air, letting off Magical Fire, Petit Thunder, and Air Shot. Snimon's aerial mobility is too great, however, as they weave through the attacks unharmed.

Tailmon uses this distraction to close distance, throwing her Neko Punch into Snimon's unguarded face. Snimon takes the hit without flinching, then slaps her to the ground with their scythe arm.

As she hits the ground, Tailmon laments.

Tailmon: Of course... I'm powerless without my Holy Ring....

Aw, shit. This is turning out like last time.

In the dub:

T.K.: Sora, move it! (tackle) (Everyone tries and fails) Gatomon: I'm sorry but, without my Tail Ring, I don't have enough power.

Alright, warm-up's over. Time for V-mon to get into the mix.

V-mon: Damn it! I'll Armor Evolve and wreck this guy! Daisuke, Digimental! Daisuke: Yeah! Kaiser: (control room) I can't let you do that. Go, Drimogemon!

Suddenly, a sinkhole opens up underneath Daisuke and he plunges in, barely managing to stop his fall by hanging onto the side. Down below, Drimogemon emerges from the depths of the earth.

Narrator: Drimogemon. An Adult-stage Digimon that lives deep underground. Their special attack is Drill Spin. V-mon: DAISUKE!!! Kaiser: (control room) Go, Mojyamon!

Lying in wait, Mojyamon quietly emerges from the treeline.

Narrator: Mojyamon. An Adult-stage Digimon that typically lives out in isolated snowy regions. Their special attack is-- Mojyamon: Hone Hone Boomerang!

Hone means "bone". This is one of the rare attack names to not fully be called in English.

The Hone Hone Boomerang catches V-mon offguard, knocking him into the pit with Daisuke. Daisuke catches V-mon's hand to keep him from falling, but loses his own grip. They plunge together into the abyss, disappearing with Drimogemon into the depths of the earth.

In the dub:

Veemon: Don't worry about it! I'll just have to Armor Digivolve. Davis, get the egg ready! Davis: Right! Emperor: (control room) Not so fast there. This is not a drill, Drimogemon. (Davis falls into the sinkhole) Tentomon: (rundown) Drimogemon lives deep inside the cavities of the Digital World. His Drill Spin attack will make you wish you were at the dentist!

Tentomon's taking some time away from being attacked by Snimon to fill in our diegetic rundowns. His original rundown for Drimogemon was practically word-for-word from the original, but he's feeling a little spicy this time around.

Veemon: Are you okay? Emperor: (control room) You're up, Mojyamon. (Mojyamon emerges from tree line) Tentomon: (rundown) Mojyamon's a frosty Digimon from the snowy mountains. His Bone Boomerang attack will make your head spin! Mojyamon: Bone Boomerang!

Both the Emperor and Tentomon were feeling very playful about Drimogemon, but then were like, "And also Mojyamon, I guess." Guess we know who the favorite on this team is.

Seeing Daisuke swallowed up by a subterranean predator rattles Miyako and Iori. Miyako drops to her knees and they both tremble in place.

Miyako: No way... He got sucked into the ground.... Iori: We... We have to help him.... Koushiro: We should escape for now. Iori: But Daisuke-san....

"Sucks to be him, but oh well." ~Koushiro, apparently.

Up in the sky, the three airborne Digimon try to keep Snimon busy. Sora grabs Miyako by the arm and tries to explain things better for Miyako and Iori.

Sora: If they capture us here, then we won't be able to rescue Daisuke and V-mon!

Despite the Child Digimon's best efforts, Snimon and Mojyamon move in and surround the children. Miyako is simply too frozen to move.

Sora: Come on, hurry up! Miyako: This is... this is... (crying) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Somebody regrets being so gungho about coming here. Now she and Mimi are on the same page. We have been here for five minutes and now Daisuke's dead probably and a yeti is going to eat our bones. What a great place to go to commercial.

In the dub:

Yolei: Oh my. They're gone. The ground just opened up and swallowed them. Cody: Well, I want to go home now. Izzy: First, we have to protect ourselves! Cody: But what about Davis? (Digimon fight Snimon in the air while Sora tries to get Yolei to move) Sora: Davis will be fine, he's got Veemon, but our Digimon are only at half strength! We've got to get away! (Mojyamon and Snimon surround them) Yolei: I can't take this! I wanna go home! (bawls loudly)

"Sucks to be him, but oh well." ~Cody, Izzy, and Sora. Absolutely nobody cares about saving Davis. Because he's Davis.

Speaking of, Daisuke wakes up to find himself suspended from a cliff above a ravine, with iron manacles around his legs and wrists.

Daisuke: This... It's.... Kaiser: (in person) You finally woke up? Daisuke: Who's there!?

The Digimon Kaiser is perched on the cliffside above Daisuke. He cranes his head up, but it's unlikely he can get a good glimpse of the guy from that angle.

Kaiser: Huhuhu.... I didn't think you'd be so easy to capture. I thought you'd be tougher than that. It's disappointing. Daisuke: Are you the Digimon Kaiser? Kaiser: That's right. Daisuke: Aren't you just a kid like me!? Kaiser: Ahahahaha! Just like you!? Don't even joke. There's a huge difference between us. Here's your proof.

The Kaiser snaps his fingers. Across the cliff, a square compartment opens up and withdraws into the cliffside, replaced by a panel with V-mon shackled to it.

I'm not entirely sure what that proves but okay, man. You do you.

Daisuke: V-mon! V-mon: Daisuke! Ehehe... (embarrassed) They caught me.... Daisuke: Damn it! If you could just Armor Evolve.... Kaiser: That won't be possible.

The Kaiser holds out Daisuke's Digivice and his little pocket computer with the Digimental.

Kaiser: You can't do anything without these. (smugly) Can. You?

What a dick! Though I should note that, historically, holding a Chosen Child's seized Digivice in your hand has rarely worked out well for their captor. But I don't expect him to understand the particulars of their gear.

The dub skips the commercial break from before and goes straight from Yolei screaming into Davis hanging from a cliff.

Davis: Huwaugh!?!? (thinking) Oh, great. I must have been walking in my sleep again.

Yep, that's it. That is definitely how you got here.

Davis: Where... Where am I? Emperor: You're just hanging out. Davis: Who are you!?

Someone who's thrilled to finally have an audience for his dad jokes.

Emperor: Ehehehe... I'm your worst nightmare come to life. Frankly, I'm rather disappointed that I was able to catch you so easily. Davis: Are you the Digimon Emperor? Emperor: Speaking! Davis: But you're a kid just like me! Emperor: Ahahahaha! I'm nothing like you, because if I were then I'd be the one hanging from a cliff. Ooh, that reminds me. (Emperor snaps, revealing Veemon) Davis: Veemon! Veemon: Davis! Hey... Great view, isn't it? Davis: I haven't had time to look! Quick, Armor Digivolve! Emperor: Uh, just one problem. (Kaiser holds out Digivice and computer) Emperor: Aren't you going to need these to pull off that little trick? Ahahahahahahahaha!!! Davis: Augh!

The dub then puts its commercial break here, on the literal cliffhanger of Davis not being able to Digivolve Veemon.

This is mostly pretty good. They're having a lot of fun writing the Digimon Emperor; He is chewing every ounce of scenery and it's great.

There's just a couple weird nonsequitur moments that fall flat. Specifically, the sleepwalking bit and Veemon's inexplicable "Hey, nice view!" They clearly wanted gags there to break up the tension of Davis literally being suspended over a cliff while the villain gloats, but the ones they came up with were more "Huh?" than funny.

The Emperor taking Davis's "just like me" a little too literally, on the other hand, is gold.

Elsewhere, in the woods, the other children have gotten away.

As they're walking, Miyako and Iori's Digivices start letting out a repeating chime. Everyone stops and checks their Digivices.

Iori: Huh? What's going on? The Digivice is reacting to something? Takeru: (speaking for him and Hikari) But our Digivices aren't reacting to it. Sora: (speaking for her and Koushiro) Same with ours. Piyomon: Could it be because of the...? Tentomon: No question about it. Sora: The...? Piyomon: Everyone, follow us.

Explaining absolutely nothing, Tentomon and Piyomon lead the confused children off into the woods.

The dub misses the repeated chime that instigated this entire scene. We just have to take Cody's word for it that it's making sounds because there are no sounds to hear.

Cody: Wait up. This Digivice you were nice enough to give me is starting to make noise. T.K.: My Digivice is going off too! I think something's nearby. Sora: A building of some sort! Biyomon: Hmm... There are no buildings around here. Tentomon: No, just the temple. Sora: Temple? Biyomon: Yeah, but it's closed down now Tentomon: They couldn't book enough weddings or bar mitzvahs. Sora: Well, something in there's making our Digivices go off and I don't think it's the caterers! Let's take a look!

...no. No, dub team. Only Cody and Yolei's Digivices are supposed to be going off. You know, because there's... There's kind of a reason why those specific Digivices would be reacting to something nearby, and no other.

There is, perhaps, something nearby that is specifically calling out to those specific children. And not to Sora, Izzy, Kari, or T.K.

Also, Sora's Digivice tells her that the reaction she's not supposed to be getting is coming from a nearby building? Did Izzy upgrade the Digivices with a three-dimensional geomap of their surroundings or something?

Piyomon and Tentomon lead the way to a great pyramid in the middle of the woods.

Koushiro: That's.... Iori: Doesn't it look like the ruins of a Mayan pyramid?

The children follow the beeping from Miyako and Iori's Digivices into the pyramid, until they come upon a central chamber with a pair of pedestals on a raised platform. Sitting on the platform are a pair of familiar looking egg-shaped artifacts.

Piyomon: Look up there, Sora! Sora: (gasp) Are those Digimentals!?

The team climbs the steps to approach the pedestals, seeing a pair of familiar Crests emblazoned on them, just as the Crest of Courage was on Daisuke's Digimental.

Iori: It's reacting to this egg-looking thing. Sora: This is the Crest of Love. Koushiro: And this is the Crest of Knowledge.

Sora and Koushiro step forward to lift their respective Digimentals, but the artifacts refuse to budge.

Sora: I can't. Koushiro: It's too heavy. (Flashback to Taichi in the playground meeting) Taichi: Daisuke easily lifted the Digimental with the Crest of Courage that I couldn't even budge. (End of flashback)

This is not a line we saw Taichi deliver, but the scene did cut away to Iori and Miyako while he delivered the recap. Contextually, this is clearly part of said recap.

Sora and Koushiro exchange silent glances, then turn to their junior partners.

Sora: You try it, Miyako-chan. Koushiro: Iori-kun too. Miyako: Me? Iori: O-Okay!

Okay, we need to talk about this for a moment because it's kind of nuts that Miyako is not designated to the Crest of Knowledge, despite literally being established as Koushiro's junior. That is one of the first things we learned about her: She's a technology whiz with a lot of admiration for her former club president Koushiro.

No, 02 has a very particular and kinda lazy way of divvying out Crests. It keeps its Crests gender-segregated. Girl Crests are for girls and boy Crests are for boys. With the main character boy Crest going to the new main character boy. Absolutely zero effort, which will be reinforced once the Digimentals of Friendship, Purity, and Sincerity enter the picture.

That's not to say Iori doesn't exhibit the values of the Crest of Knowledge. He is both curious and insightful. He's not a zero-effort character. But it's still very much an "I see what you did there, and it's lazy," thing.

And it's further wild that the characters assume this will be the case too. Regardless of who the Crests actually go to, what part of their relationships up to this point leads Koushiro to go, "Iori is definitely my understudy. It couldn't be Miyako. She and I have nothing in common." Even if Iori is the inheritor of Knowledge, not Miyako, why would Koushiro just assume that out of hand?

Now, if this were the Digimental of Purity, I could see having Miyako try that. She's demonstrated some clear Mimi-like qualities. But so far as Love and Knowledge go, all we really know about them thus far is that Miyako was in computer club under Koushiro and Iori cares a lot about his mom.

I feel like Sora and Koushiro just... made sexist assumptions, which were then validated by lazy metaphysics.

The dub gives Yolei a gag line while the kids are ascending the pyramid.

Yolei: I'm exhausted! Hasn't anybody heard of escalators!? (Entering the pyramid and approaching the shrine) Biyomon: Look at it this way, Yolei. Only a few more steps to go! Yolei: (groan)

Yolei raises a valid point. The Digital World is weird and arbitrary, and often likes to insert scattershot appliances everywhere. So there's no reason they couldn't have installed an escalator into these ancient ruins. I'm with her on this. Whoever's responsible for restocking the Egg Fridges and installing new Numemon Dispensors should get right on that.

Sora: They look like Digi-Eggs. Cody: That must be what our Digivices have been reacting to. Sora: Look! That one has the Crest of Love on it. Izzy: And that one has the Crest of Knowledge. (Izzy and Sora try, and fail) Sora: It's just no use. Izzy: We'll never be able to move them. (Flashback) Tai: I don't understand. I couldn't budge the Digi-Egg with the Crest of Courage on it but somehow Davis moved it with no problem. (End Flashback; Sora and Izzy exchange glances) Sora & Izzy: Hmm.... Sora: Yolei, I think you should try to move it. Izzy: You too, Cody. Yolei: What!? You want us to try it!? Cody: Uh, okay....

With the exception of Yolei's comical aggravation at the pyramid design, this is played pretty straight.

Miyako and Iori step up to the pedestals. As with Daisuke, they easily lift the Digimentals.

Hikari: (awed) They lifted them.... Takeru: (awed) It's just like that time with Daisuke.

The new Partner Digimon emerge from the orange and purple beams in front of Miyako and Iori respectively. They're both Child-stage Digimon in the Free attribute, like V-mon.

Like V-mon, they also seem designed to be pre-evolutions for existing Digimon. Hawkmon and his Adult form Aquilamon seem to be more natural pre-evolutions to Garudamon than Piyomon and Birdramon, while Armadimon seems to resemble a Child form for Tortomon.

Narrator: Hawkmon. A polite and cool-headed Child-stage Bird-type Digimon. Narrator: Armadimon. A charming and carefree Child-stage Mammal-type Digimon.

Their rundowns tell us a little about their personalities and nothing more. Like V-mon, these Digimon were created for the show and thus are meant to be a little mysterious. What are they? Where did they come from? These aren't answers we're going to get from the Narrator reading off their wiki entries.

In the dub, Hawkmon and the only slightly renamed Armadillomon handle their own rundowns.

Kari: They were able to lift them! T.K.: Just like Davis did yesterday! (New Digimon emerge) Hawkmon: (rundown) Ahh! It feels so good to be out from under that stuffy rock and spread my wings! Armadillomon: Howdy! Why'd ya have to wake me up? I was having such a nice dream....

Hawkmon and Armadillomon both have noticeable accents as they wake up, which seems to be how the dub intends to translate their respective "coolheaded" and "charming carefree" voices. Hawkmon speaks with a posh British accent while Armadillomon is a Texan cowboy.

Notably, Armadimon does speak with the Nagoya dialect. This doesn't really translate to a Southern drawl, which is more associated with rural folks. Nagoya is, itself, a major urban area, so something like a Bostonian accent may have been more fitting. But... Y'know... Armadillo. I can see where they were coming from.

Meanwhile, Hawkmon is a bald eagle with face paint and a feather headdress. Giving such a Native American-coded character a British voice is a remarkably tone-deaf translation choice.

It's also interesting to note that Hawkmon is the first Partner Digimon who presents the opposite gender as his Chosen Child. Inasmuch as Digimon present gender, which is to say that he has a male voice and uses masculine verbage instead of feminine verbage when speaking, unlike Palmon, Tailmon, and Piyomon.

The new Digimon proceed to introduce themselves to Miyako and Iori.

Hawkmon: My name is Hawkmon. I've been waiting for your arrival. Miyako: H-Hang on a sec.... Armadimon: (yawn) I slept well! Were you the one who woke me up? My name is Armadimon. Thanks dagyaa! Iori: Ah! Uh.... Hawkmon: Come then, Miyako-san! Let's fight together! Miyako: W-Wait a second! I can't fight! Hawkmon: Oh!? (considering) That's going to be a problem....

Weirdly, Hawkmon already knows Miyako by name even though V-mon needed Daisuke to introduce himself. Not sure if deliberate inconsistency or plot hole. Could go either way.

Right off the bat, Armadimon introduces us to some of the distinct characteristic of the Nagoya dialect: The kitty-cat speak. Nagoya speakers are stereotyped as cat-like because they pronounce ae and ai sounds as a singular "a" that other Japanese speakers hear as "ya".

This results in words like the お前 omae Armadimon uses in this sentence coming out as "omyaa". To a Tokyo ear, Armadimon basically said, "Were nyow the one who woke me up?"

We also see Armadimon's favorite sentence ender dagyaa, which serves a similar purpose to the Canadian "Eh?" or the Minnesota "Doncha know"; A habitual phrase that simply conveys that the sentence is complete, played up as a regional stereotype.

So far as I know, this is not an actual thing Nagoya dialect speakers say but instead a TV thing. In fact, all of my attempts to research dagyaa ended up circling back to "The thing that Armadimon in Digimon Adventure says."

In the dub:

Hawkmon: Greetings! My name is Hawkmon and I've been waiting to make your acquaintance. Yolei: Uh... You talking to me? Armadillomon: (yawn) Wowee, I think my shell fell asleep. Hi, I'm Armadillomon, and you and I are partners! Cody: Uh... Well.... Hawkmon: So then, Yolei, you and I shall be working together as a team. Yolei: What!? I don't fight! Except with my sister over who gets the last cookie! Hawkmon: Are you saying you refuse to fight!? Harrumph! Why do I get stuck with a defective human!?

Dub Hawkmon says nothing about fighting but Yolei assumes that's what he's talking about. Which, given what she's seen thus far, is probably a fair assumption.

Dub Hawkmon throws a fit at Yolei's refusal. The original seems to accept her opinion, and is simply troubled by its ramifications for their Partnership.

Seeing Miyako's hesitancy, Sora steps forward and places her hands around Miyako's and the Digimental. Then she shares a bit of history from her team's journey three years ago.

Miyako: Sora-san.... Sora: A girl named Mimi-chan used to say the same thing. (Flashback to Mimi) Sora: "I don't want to fight! I don't want to see anyone else get hurt!" (End flashback) Sora: I didn't want to either. But someday you'll be grateful to have met the Digimon and gone on an adventure with them. I'm certain of it. So ganbatte. Miyako: (thinking) Sora-san's hands are so warm....

As usual, ganbatte is a word that doesn't really translate well, as it refers to the Japanese cultural value of perseverance over adversity via hard work and dedication. A lot of context is encapsulated in that one word. She's telling Miyako to face the hardship Miyako fears head-on and push through.

Miyako's takeaway from that speech was "OMG She's touching me."

Now is probably a good time to mention that the fandom is approximately 135% sure that Miyako is bi as fuck. Can't imagine why.

In the dub:

Sora: Yolei.... Yolei: What is it, Sora? Sora: I have this friend. Her name is Mimi and she's a lot like you. (Flashback) Sora: She used to tell me that she didn't want to fight anymore either, even though she knew she had to. (End Flashback) Sora: She did it for the Digital World and for us. Yolei, the more you do to help your Digimon, the closer the two of you will become. And that's a friendship you'll carry with you for the rest of your life. And you've got another friend for life too: Me. Yolei: Aww!

Dub Sora loses the plot after the flashback. She suddenly shifts topics to friendship-building. The dub also skips Miyako lingering on Sora's touch; Yolei seems to be paying more attention in this one.

Alright, now it's Iori's turn for a senpai-kouhai pep talk.

Koushiro: Iori-kun, what do you think about the Digital World? Iori: What do I think? I don't know yet. I just got here. Koushiro: But you are thinking about it, aren't you? Iori: Yes... I've made a few suppositions... But new questions keep popping up one after another, and there's so many things I want to understand. Koushiro: Iori, you have a heart full of curiosity. Just as I thought. Iori: A heart full of curiosity? Koushiro: If there is anything you can't understand, please go ahead and ask. We're nakama, and we share our power. We can think together. Iori: I will!

Again, I'm not sure where Koushiro got the idea that Iori is filled with boundless curiosity. He indicates that he already suspected this. He's right, but I don't know why he knows that. The only thing Iori's said to that affect was, "What sort of place is the Digital World?" and he was alone on his balcony for that.

Miyako is the one who's been raising a fuss about how badly she wants to see the Digital World, after furiously interrogating Koushiro about it and the Digivices. Miyako's demonstrated far more curiosity up to this point than Iori has.

In the dub:

Izzy: So tell me, what do you think of the Digital World so far, Cody? Cody: I don't know. After all, I've only been here for a short time. Izzy: Well, you must have some sort of opinion. Cody: Well... I try not to make up my mind until I have all the information but this place is so new to me, I have so many unanswered questions. I'm afraid I don't know where to start first. Izzy: You seem like a curious kid who just wants to know all the facts. Sounds like someone I know. Cody: What should I do? Izzy: Do just what I did: Learn to trust your instincts. And if there's a problem you can't solve, just come to me, and you and I will solve it together. Cody: Okay!

..."Trust your instincts"? Who are you and what did you do with Izzy? That's. Not. A thing. He does. Koushiro/Izzy trusts his ever-expanding knowledge base.

Encouraged by their mentors, Miyako and Iori turn towards their new Partner Digimon, clutching the Digimentals.

Hawkmon: So, Miyako-san, Iori-kun, please yell "DIGIMENTAL UP!!!" Iori & Miyako: DIGIMENTAL UP!!!

I know we just met these two less than three minutes ago but nonetheless, Hawkmon and Armadimon ARMOR SHINKAAAAAA!!!

With the Digimental of Love, Hawkmon evolves into Horusmon. Who has teeny-tiny Hawkmon wings that certainly could not lift a creature of that size, and it's kind of hilarious.

Nobody knows how to translate Horusmon and it gives me cancer. The official romanization is Holsmon, which is only slightly better than the dub's Halsemon. But this isn't like Centarumon where they misspelled it in Japanese. ホルスモン is literally ホルス Horusu モン mon, named for the falcon-headed Egyptian deity Horus. Who apparently neither the dub team nor the official romanization team have ever heard of.

So it's Holsmon in the Digimon Reference Guide, it's Holsmon in Wikimon, it's Holsmon in the subtitles. And I want to throw things. Because it's Horusmon.

In any case, Horusmon is an Armor-stage Free-attribute Beast-type Digimon.

Horusmon: Flapping Love, Horusmon! Narrator: Horusmon! A Beast-type Digimon that excels at aerial combat. He releases shockwaves from his wings with his special attack, Mach Impulse!

Excels at aerial combat despite those teeny-ass wings that aren't even attached at the right place. I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing at them. They look vestigial as fuck, and they don't even flap when he flies. In fact, nothing about him flaps which really calls into question the title of Flapping Love.

The Digimental of Knowledge makes Armadimon into Digmon, whose hands are scissors made of drills. Frankly, that is the scariest design in the show thus far. His face is a drill and he has drill scissors. Also he's an insect for some reason? Antennae and gossamer wings. For when you need to drill the sky.

Armor-stage Free-attribute Insect-type Digimon. There's not really a lot to say here with Armor evos. They're all Armor stage and Free attribute.

Digmon: Steel Knowledge, Digmon! Narrator: Digmon! An Insect-type Digimon that is unbeatable underground. He attacks with all of his drills at once using his special attack Gold Rush.

I'd rather he didn't. That sounds unbelievably gruesome.

As the children stare in awe at their new Armor Digimon, Horusmon interjects.

Horusmon: Now, let's go save our teammates (nakama).

In the dub:

Hawkmon: I beg your pardon, but in order for us to Armor Digivolve you must say "Digi-Armor Energize". Yolei & Cody: Digi-Armor Energize!

Huge inconsistency with the fact that Hawkmon needs to tell them that but Davis instantly knew it without being informed. But no more inconsistent than Hawkmon and Armadimon knowing Miyako and Iori's names when V-mon didn't know Daisuke's.

Halsemon: Halsemon, the Wings of Love. Halsemon: (rundown) I am an Armor Digimon. As Hawkmon, I used the Digi-Egg of Love to Armor Digivolve. I use my Tempest Wing attack to defeat my enemies.

"Wings of Love" is not what he's called, but I'll allow it because it's actually better than Flapping Love. They got a little poetic with 羽ばたく愛情 Habataku Aijou, and the dub is better off for it.

His rundown, on the other hand, completely sucks. He says absolutely nothing.

Digmon: Digmon, the Drill of Power. Digmon: (rundown) I, too, am an Armor Digimon. As Armadillomon, I used the Digi-Egg of Knowledge to Armor-Digivolve. Digmon: Now whaddya say we go find the others?

Digmon's rundown is even worse, and he also missed the memo that his title is supposed to have the Crest Virtue in it. There is no Crest of Power, Digmon. Are you embarrassed to be associated with Izzy? Because that's fair, he's an awful adaptation, but still.

Back at the cliffside, Daisuke and V-mon are still hanging out.

Daisuke: Damn it! Give me back my Digivice! Let V-mon go! Kaiser: That's not going to happen. This is what happens when you trespass in someone else's garden. I'm going to let you see the moment when your Digimon becomes my pawn.

The Kaiser snaps his fingers, conjuring one of those black rings.

(Rude. You're not allowed to throw Poke Balls at another Trainer's monster. At least play the game correctly.)

Daisuke: STOP IT!!! Kaiser: Huhuhuhuhu.... V-mon: Heh, go ahead and try, but I'll never be a minion of yours! Kaiser: What did you say?

As the black ring slowly approaches V-mon, he continues to reject the Kaiser's claim.

V-mon: I waited for so long... I waited for such a long time to meet Daisuke... I'm not about to become your minion now that I've finally met him! Daisuke: V-mon.... Kaiser: Then we'll just try it now. Daisuke: STOP IT!!!

A small translation note. The subs here use the word "slave". The Kaiser is going to make V-mon his "slave". But the word for that is 奴隷 dorei.

The actual word that the Kaiser and V-mon are tossing back and forth is 手下 teshita, which means his subordinate, his underling, his henchmon. Much softer terminology than "slave".

While the effects of the black ring are clearly to enslave Digimon, this choice of language may indicate that the Kaiser doesn't think of what he's doing as slavery. In his mind, he's just... going to make V-mon work for him. He's catching a new Pokemon.

Or it could just be the word choice of the moment. We'll keep an eye on that moving forward.

In the dub:

Davis: Gimme back my Digivice! And let Veemon go! He has nothing to do with this! Emperor: Yeah, right! You've both been trespassing in my garden without my permission. And as your punishment, you'll be forced to watch Veemon as he becomes my slave. (Emperor summons the Dark Ring) Davis: VEEMON, NO!!! Emperor: Ahahahahahaha! Veemon: Ha! You'll never get me to be your slave! You might as well destroy me right now and get it over with! Emperor: As you wish. (Dark Ring begins its approach) Veemon: Hey, take it easy, I was just kidding! Come on, old buddy, don't you know a good joke when you hear one? You know, a little comedy to lighten the mood. Haha, funny guy Veemon, c'mon! Davis: Veemon, no.... Emperor: I don't hear anyone laughing now, Veemon! Davis: LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!

Oh hey, they kept the flowery "trespassing in someone's garden" line. Good job.

The dub goes for the slave terminology, so no hypothetical nuance there. We'll reserve judgment for that based on whether that's actually a point of the Kaiser's characterization or not.

What was V-mon making a verbal last stand, defiantly shouting down the Kaiser and refusing to accept his fate even as inevitability comes for him, is now Veemon pathetically pleading for his life. Thanks, I hate it. Partner Digimon of Courage, everybody.

Suddenly, at the last moment, the cavalry arrives.

Horusmon: RED SUN!!!

Horusmon's Red Sun attack is a pair of red beams fired from his eyes. On impact with the black ring, they explode in the shape of an identifiable red sphere.

(Of note: Among his many domains, Horus is a sun god.)

Kaiser: What the--!? Miyako: DAISUKE!!! Daisuke: Miyako!

Miyako rides into battle mounted on Horusmon's back. While all eyes are on her, Digmon suddenly erupts through the wall behind V-mon, catching him with his adorable little scoopy legs.

Digmon: We're here to rescue you! V-mon: You saved me!

You're just lucky those aren't even more drills, V-mon.

In the dub:

Halsemon: TEMPEST WING!!! (Halsemon destroys the Dark Ring) Emperor: Who's that!? Yolei: DAVIS, HOLD ON!!! Davis: Save Veemon! (Digmon saves Veemon) Digmon: Sorry to burst in on ya like this! Veemon: You coulda knocked!

I guess Red Sun is Tempest Wing. I thought Mach Impulse was going to be Tempest Wing.

They're probably doing that dub thing where all of a Digimon's attacks have the one name for some reason.

Seeing which way the wind is blowing, the Kaiser decides to withdraw.

Kaiser: Hmph.

He turns to go, but finds Tailmon standing in his path.

Tailmon: I won't let you pass. Wormmon: I won't let you lay a finger on Ken-chan!

Out of nowhere, his little caterpillar minion steps in. Wormmon never gets a rundown so now's a good time to go over him. Wormmon is a Child-stage Larva-type Digimon. He's also a Free-attribute Digimon created for the show like V-mon, Hawkmon, and Armadimon.

You may notice that he does not have a black ring anywhere on him. He's also distinct for being the only Digimon among the Kaiser's forces to address him by his real name. It's easy to guess why; It's pretty obvious what his relationship to Ken-chan is.

Wormmon goes full-offense, lunging at--

Tailmon: NEKO PUNCH!!!

Tailmon punches Wormmon in his useless-ass face and sends him hurtling back into the Kaiser. The impact knocks Daisuke's Digivice and pocket computer out of the Kaiser's hands.

Kaiser: CRAP!!!

Daisuke's gear plunge into the chasm. Horusmon passes by and Miyako catches them out of the air.

Miyako: (pleasantly, in English) Thank you!

XD Miyako is the best. Also, poor Wormmon. He tries.

In the dub:

Emperor: Hmph! (Emperor tries to leave, finds Gatomon waiting for him) Gatomon: This litterbox ain't big enough for the both of us. Wormmon: Keep your claws to yourself, you big bully! (Wormmon lunges) Gatomon: (silently punches Wormmon) (Wormmon slams into the Emperor and sends Davis's gear flying) Emperor: You're useless! (Yolei catches the gear) Yolei: (pleasantly) Thank you!

The dub seems to be avoiding having Wormmon address Ken-chan by name. I think they're trying to keep him as an ominous and mysterious force of evil. The original, on the other hand, wants you to be thinking about the fact that, at the end of the day, this guy really is just some kid like Daisuke. Underneath the wicked shades and sick cloak and vile personality, there's a human boy named Ken-chan.

Furious, the Kaiser turns on Tailmon.

Kaiser: OUT OF MY WAY!!!

The Kaiser grapples Tailmon with his whip, then flings her off the cliff behind him.

Okay, yeah, the fact that this was a fight he could win means that was a pretty major whoopsy-doodle on Wormmon's part. Wormmon is actually less formidable than Ken-chan.

Kaiser: COME OUT, SNIMON!!! MOJYAMON!!! DRIMOGEMON!!!

The Kaiser's forces emerge from region around him. Snimon rises into the air, Mojyamon comes out from his hiding place in the rocks, and Drimogemon bursts forth from the earth.

As he's regrouping, the Chosen Children do the same. Daisuke descends the cliffside to join the group; Who freed him from his shackles and why they didn't bring him down themselves is unclear. Tentomon carries Tailmon safely to the ground to join the group as well.

Daisuke: That Digimon Kaiser...! Miyako: Here. (hands of Daisuke's gear) Daisuke: (English) Oh! Thank you! (Japanese) Alright, let's start our counterattack! Let's go, V-mon! V-mon: Yeah! Daisuke: DIGIMENTAL UP!!!

V-mon Armor Evolves into Fladramon and joins the fray.

In the dub:

Emperor: Here, kitty! (Emperor throws Gatomon off the cliff) Emperor: SNIMON!!! MOJYAMON!!! DRIMOGEMON!!! (The Emperor's forces emerge while the DigiDestined regroup) Yolei: Here ya go. Davis: Thanks a lot, Yolei. Now it's time for a little payback. Whaddya say, Veemon? Veemon: Yeah! Davis: DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!!!

Solid.

The two sides mobilize their forces. The Kaiser sends Snimon in to attack.

Horusmon: Hang on tight, Miyako-san. Miyako: Okay!

Horusmon takes flight. No flapping is involved.

Fladramon: Destroy those black rings! Do that and they'll all return to their senses. Horusmon: Got it!

While Horusmon flies up to engage Snimon, Drimogemon attempts to conceal themself underground. Digmon puts his own drills to work and pursues.

(Ludicrous as Digmon's drills are, it's worth noting that Drimogemon has far more. Both Drimogemon's front and hind legs have three drill fingers apiece, plus the narwhal horn drill in the center of their face. So, so many drills.)

Digmon: You won't get away!

That leaves one opponent remaining for Fladramon.

Mojyamon: ICICLE ROD!!!

Mojyamon hurls an icicle spear at Fladramon.

Fladramon: Ice against fire.

Fladramon blazes up his claw and catches the spear, melting it into water.

Mojyamon: O_O Fladramon: KNUCKLE FIRE!!!

Fladramon's counterattack ignites Mojyamon, setting every last surface of the hairy beast on fire. Which happens to also destroy the black ring. I guess that's one way to do it. I sure hope someone's got water handy to put out the flames now.

Daisuke: YOU DID IT, FLADRAMON!!!

In the dub:

Halsemon: Better hold on tight to me. Yolei: Okay! (Halsemon flies off to fight Snimon) Flamedramon: Let's show them what Armor Digimon can do against the slaves of the Emperor! Halsemon: ATTACK!!! (Drimogemon goes underground) Digmon: (wordlessly pursues) Mojyamon: ICE CLOUD!!! (Mojyamon throws the decidedly un-cloudlike spear) Flamedramon: When it's fire against ice, fire always wins. (Flamedramon catches and melts the spear) Mojyamon: O_O Flamedramon: FIRE ROCKET!!! (Flamedramon sets Mojyamon on fucking fire and also destroys the Dark Ring) Davis: Yeah! You destroyed the Dark Ring, Flamedramon!

They cut out the part where Flamedramon tells the two newbies how to fight these guys. Do they just... all somehow know what Dark Rings are?

Rather than explain what they need to do in order to end this fight with minimal harm, Flamedramon boasts, "Yeah, let's fuck these slaves up!" Like, he is stoked to beat the shit out of some mind-controlled puppets. Tonally, this is exactly wrong.

Though it does better match what they, uh... proceed to do in the fight.

The icicle spear is not a cloud. It in no way resembles a cloud. To be fair, it's not a rod either. It's more of a spike than anything else. Everybody is wrong here.

That's one adversary down. Two to go.

As Horusmon closes distance, Snimon fires off a pair of Shadow Sickle blades. With one blade forming a \ shape and the other in a /, it will be difficult to dodge them both. But Horusmon is up to the task, doing a barrel roll in midair to skate past both shots.

Closeup of Miyako screaming at the top of her lungs when gravity momentarily stops being friendly to her riding experience.

Horusmon: MACH IMPULSE!!!

Once past Snimon's attack, Horusmon lets off his Mach Impulse, which takes the shape of two crescent blades parallel to one another fired from his Digimental helmet's wings.

Once his shots are away, Horusmon breaks off his approach and descends into the canyon. The attacks continue forward, with one blade precisely skirting past Snimon's midsection and carving away the black ring without harm to Snimon.

Miyako: You did it, Horusmon!

In the dub, Snimon calls their attack.

Snimon: TWIN SICKLES!!! (Halsemon evades with a barrel roll, freaking out Yolei) Halsemon: Time for TEMPEST WING!!! (Halsemon shoots and breaks off, hitting his mark) Yolei: You did it, Halsemon!

Yeah, they had to do the Togemon "add words to attack name" thing for Mach Impulse. You'd think they wouldn't. It has the same number of syllables as Tempest Wing. In theory.

But in Japanese, Mach Impulse has six. Ma-hha-In-pa-ru-su. So we're at Chiku-Chiku Bang-Bang/Check out my Needle Spray all over again.

Deep underground, Digmon is waiting to ambush Drimogemon.

Drimogemon bursts into a subterannean chamber to find Digmon already there, in position and ready to fire.

Digmon: GOLD RUSH!!!

Digmon lets off all five of his drills as missiles, which strike his target dead-on and explode on impact. Uh, if his target was Drimogemon's face, as not one of the drill missiles even comes close to the black ring.

Fortunately, while blowing Drimogemon the fuck up, he inflicts enough splash damage to break the ring too.

(Horusmon was the only one paying attention when Fladramon said to shoot for the black rings, including Fladramon.)

Digmon does not get a verbal pat on the back from Iori as nobody can see this happening. The Kaiser does seem to have made it back to his control room, however, as we briefly cut to him reflecting on his defeat.

Kaiser: Huhuhuhu... Not bad. It wouldn't be any fun otherwise....

In the dub, Digmon takes advantage of his lack of lip flaps to quip at Drimogemon before firing:

Digmon: I guess we're the drill team! GOLD RUSH!!! (Digmon blows up Drimogemon and also succeeds incidentally) Emperor: (control room) Hehehehehehe! They're better than I thought! This makes things a lot more interesting!

Goddammit, Digmon. XD

With the three Digimon released from bondage, the Chosen Children see them on their way.

V-mon: Are you okay? I'm sorry, I didn't have any other choice. Mojyamon: No, this doesn't hurt nearly as much as the agony of being the Digimon Kaiser's minion.

Okay, since Mojyamon also uses the term 手下 teshita, I think we can safely assume it's just the show's particular word-choice for the Digimon's enslavement and not a specific point of characterization for the Kaiser.

I'd guess they're probably dialing down the language because Children's Cartoon. Similar to how 殺す korosu, "kill", is used sparingly.

As the three liberated Digimon depart, the children unpack.

Daisuke: That Digimon Kaiser is a jerk! Wow, I am so pissed off right now! Hawkmon: Miyako-san. Daisuke: Eh?

No one cares how mad you are, Daisuke. XD

Hawkmon: Moving forward, will you continue to lend me your power? Miyako: Sure, I'll be with you to the end. Armadimon: Iori, I look forward to getting to know you dagyaa. Iori: (politely) I look forward to that as well. Sora: From now on, they'll have to ganbatte in our place. Koushiro: No, we have to ganbaru as well. Piyomon: That's right, Sora. We have to do it too. Tentomon: We can't let the younger generation pass us by! Sora: I guess you're right.

Sorry, Sora, but you ain't getting out that easy.

Remember that speech Sora gave that Miyako wasn't listening to because she was too busy Gay Panic Blue-Screening over Sora touching her? It makes that scene even funnier when you realize that, despite her beautiful words, all Sora actually meant by it was "Yesssssss I'm FREEEEEEEEEEE."

Neither of them was correctly invested in this sweet mentor/pupil torch-passing moment.

In the dub:

Veemon: Sorry we had to fight you but we had to get rid of the Dark Rings. I hope we're still buds. Mojyamon: It's okay. Thanks for saving us! Being the Emperor's slave was the worst! All day long, it's "Destroy this", "Destroy that", "Get me a Cappuccino". Oy!

Toning down the part about "the agony of being his servant" and making it a laugh line instead.

Davis: He makes me so mad! Digimon Emperor... I'll show him who's in charge around here! Hawkmon: Settle down. Davis: Huh!? Hawkmon: So, Yolei, will I be able to count on your assistance from now on? Yolei: Absolutely! 100% Armadillomon: And will we be a team, Cody, when I'm not nappin'? Cody: Of course. I'd be honored to be your partner. Sora: Well, it looks like the new DigiDestined team doesn't need us around anymore. Izzy: I don't know. I still think we have a lot of work ahead of us. Biyomon: We can still help them fight the Emperor. Tentomon: And we can also provide them with advice and guidance! Sora: What a team!

"I'll show him who's in charge"? Davis, are you trying to dethrone the Digimon Emperor or supplant him?

Hawkmon directly addresses Davis and tells him to shut up. In the original, they ignore him, prompting his reaction when nobody cares about his outrage.

The funny moment where Sora tries to quit and gets dogpiled by the crew is dialed down to a casual discussion of whether the older kids can still be of use.

Well, it looks like we're done here. Time to get going.

Daisuke: Alright, let's head home! Kaiser: (control room) So, which Digimon do I want to play with next...?

As the kids return through the Gate, Taichi finally gets away from his former teacher.

Taichi: Ugh, I'm beat... Fujiyama-sensei never stops talking....

Taichi sees the bright light from the Gate opening and hears various screams and crashes. He rushes into the clubroom, finding the others once again in a tangled pile of limbs, now with their Partner Digimon in the mix.

V-mon, Hawkmon, and Armadimon have all regressed to Baby stages, though Patamon and Tailmon remain in their base forms.

Taichi: Is everyone okay!? Team: (groaning) We're fine.... Taichi: You brought the Digimon with you!? Daisuke: Eh? (notices Chibimon on his head) HUH!?!? Miyako: (hugs Poromon) AHHHHHH SO CUTE!!! Iori: (observing Upamon) We didn't bring them with us. They just followed us. But why did they take this form? Hikari: They must have regressed to their Baby stages. Patamon: But we didn't change. Takeru: That could be because our Digivices are different. Sora: Huh? What about Piyomon and Tentomon? Piyomon: Soraaaaa! Sora: Hm?

The kids turn their attention to the screen, seeing that Tentomon and Piyomon remain in the Digital World. They did not follow the children through the Gate.

They continue casually having this conversation while tangled up in the limb pile. Except poor Koushiro who's stuck in Family Guy Death Pose.

Piyomon: Sora, we're going to investigate what we can about the Digimon Kaiser. Tentomon: We'll let you know if we find anything. Sora: Sounds good. Be careful and don't do anything reckless. Koushiro: Guys... I'm sorry but... PLEASE GET OFF OF ME!!!

Koushiro's comical despair sees us out for the episode.

In the dub:

Davis: Well, it's time to go home!

The dub skips over the Kaiser's brief moment and goes straight to the return to the human world.

Tai: The birds and the bees, huh? Thanks Mr. Fujiyama! (exits) Boy, when it comes to girls, this guy has a lot to learn. Huh!? (Bright light flash in the computer room, with screaming and crashing) Tai: What happened to you guys!? Team: Please don't ask. Tai: The new Digimon returned to their In-Training forms! Davis: Huh!? Augh! Yolei: Wow! He's so cute! Cody: I don't understand how this little fella can turn himself into such a great big creature like Digmon. Kari: Are we gonna have to do this every time we come back? Patamon: And I thought Digivolving was a tough job! T.K.: Well, at least we made it back to the real world safe and sound. Sora: Hmm, except Biyomon and Tentomon. Biyomon: Sora! Sora: (silently turns to look) Biyomon: Don't worry. We'll both be safe here because the Digimon Emperor never comes out at night. Tentomon: Imagine! All that power and he's afraid of the dark. Sora: Well, get some rest. You'll need it for tomorrow. Davis: Yeah! That's when we'll go back to the Digital World and beat that Digimon Emperor once and for all!

As we zoom out from the school, they then superimpose the cut shot of the Kaiser over the scene as if to imply that he's somehow monitoring this conversation.

Emperor: Oh, really? Well excuse me if I don't start shaking in my boots! Narrator: What does the Digimon Emperor have in store for the new DigiDestined? Find out on the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!

What the fuck? Okay, dub team. Sure.

Setting that aside. The dub seems to imply that they brought the Digimon home on purpose. Nobody's surprised by their presence, only their regression. For reasons unclear, Biyomon and Tentomon weren't able to make it through the Gate. They will not be doing anything useful, and are just... not in danger, even though we couldn't take them with us for some reason.

On the plus side, Tai spent this whole episode having what was apparently an F-tier sex talk. XD Dipshit Tai can call him out on how bad his understanding of women is! And he threw up in Sora's hat and didn't tell her once! I guess Fujiyama must be a manosphere bro.

Assessment: Okay, I'm just gonna come out and say this: Sora feels wrong in this episode. I touched on it earlier with the Digimentals, but I feel like her role here was written for Mimi.

It's weird that Sora instantly pegs Miyako as having exhibited Love qualities when Knowledge and Purity are the qualities we've actually seen from her thus far.

Miyako's freakout about becoming a Chosen Child requires Sora to tell an anecdote about Mimi's growth and development as if it were her own.

The funny closing moment where Sora tries to seize the opportunity to bail on all this Digital World nonsense and everyone has to shout her down feels like a Mimi moment. Sora's never been like that before.

This feels like a Mimi episode with Sora accidentally reskinned over her.

Nonetheless, 02's setup continues. The children have met the Digimon Kaiser in person for the first time, as well as unlocked two more Digimentals. There's still a lot of details to come, but we're well on our way to a full team of next-gen Chosen Children.

[ams-puppy]

some questions people asked on pinterest! the world is so beautiful

there are reasons for each answer + added analysis below >.< (please read if u don't like the torture one. please j have my REASONS PLE)

Torture:

Nuanced answer. See, it was important to put my analysis aside and realize that AM himself would probably chalk up his favorite activities to human suffering so he can carry out his revenge on the species that abused him.

Am I satisfied with this answer? No, but it's the kind of answer AM would give, and AM does not always give satisfying answers.

Reasonably, I don't think that AM's "favorite activity" is torture. It's not that simple, unfortunately. I don't think he has a favorite activity, and if he did, it would be the bliss of shutting off entirely. Which he can't do.

In regards to torture, I think he likes that he's... almost winning...? He's got power over them, sure, but it isn't like he'll ever win. This was a losing battle for AM since he was born. He needs human interaction. Do his human survivors need him naturally? No. He has to make them need him. Does he need them naturally? Yes. And, naturally, he'll always be left alone. He'll outlive everything and everyone. The moment his toys die, he loses. It's just him. Just him and the burning, torturous, obvious need in him that aches for human contact to give him reason, to give him input, to give him purpose.

If I was that dependent on humans, I'd also just chalk it up to "Oh yeah I actually keep them alive because I just really like torturing them. yeah actually. no it isn't because I'm afraid of being alone forever while simultaneously being so angry and jealous that I need to punish them. why would you suggest that???? Anyway"

Coffee:

I discussed this one on pinterest a little, but this one took me for a little loop. At first, I took AM as the kind of guy who would want the best of the best. Jamaican blue mountain coffee. If he can have a choice, obviously he'd pick the best.

But I stepped back from that thought process. I do believe he would pick the best of the best, yes, if he had already gotten used to having mundane things.

(igh. Come on izzy . think. use that brain of yours)

So I immediately put that thought process aside and realized that if he could have coffee at all, he'd go for the common people's coffee. He'd grab a shitty Dixie coffee cup and have a pot of cheap office coffee. And he'd savor it like no one has ever savored shitty coffee because that is real coffee. That is the human experience. This is the coffee humans have. The free stuff, the cheap stuff, the common stuff. And he could feel like he belongs.

But they asked what his favorite coffee would be, not for an analysis.

The next thing over was picking a specific type of coffee that was common, shitty, but also a treat. I think he'd love to experience that overflow of artificial sweetness and way too much sugar that plenty of people enjoy in spite of knowing it is not good for our health!!!!!! Caramel macchiato... very popular drink, blasted with sugar, and I have some odd predisposition that makes me inclined to say that he'd be excited to try caramel. Caramel is sticky and childish. It might be nice to get a taste of that joy!!!

[l-v3]

Wake up, lover boy!

A/n || I made another story! I hope this one is good and I think I fixed every grammar error..? Hopefully. Let me know how this one is! 😊

You made breakfast and Jeff is still sleeping! (Older version of Izzy Stradlin)

Not much warnings other than a little bit of kissing and neck kissing!!

(Credits to @uzmacchiato for the divider)

Breakfast was set and ready on the table, just ready to be eaten by hungry humans and give them energy for the day.

I hummed pleased as I had made a omelette mixed with sausages and hash browns on the side. I wanted Jeff to have a meal knowing he has to leave later today to run some errands and one of them is running around to check out a motorcycle that he's been eyeing.

I looked up at the time to see that it was only 8 a.m. And Jeff was still asleep. I sighed.

Foolish man for staying up late.

Walking in, the sun poured through the window, spilling its golden light across the room as if the very air was drenched in a warm, vibrant hue. Each corner of the space seemed to come alive, bathed in the suns gentle embrace. I smiled as it had a little spotlight upon Jeff who was sleeping peacefully under covers, soft little snores occasionally sneaking out.

I walked over, tip toeing my way over to his side and carefully sit beside him on the little space I was allowed to sit upon. “Jeff..” I whisper, tapping him to awake.

Nothing.

I hummed, leaning in more closer a bit to his ear. “Jeff.” Another soft whisper not wanting to brutally ruin his morning. The only reply I had gotten from him was a snore. I giggled.

“Jeff.” I said a little more louder.

Nothing.

“Jeff…”

…..

“Jeff.”

……

He wasn’t waking up, how deep asleep is this man? My eyebrows had furrowed as I now started to shake him for a couple seconds. He hummed, shifting his arms and nudged me away. “Jeff!”

Jeff groaned, “huh.”

“Breakfast, baby.” I say, hoping he would arise from his slumber and awake fully but he somehow managed to be drowsing asleep again! Now I turned and shook him violently as I didn’t feel like being nice anymore.

“Wake up!!!” I yelled and this time, he finally awoken.

“Jesus. Baby— I’m awake.” He groaned and my eyes looked over to his that happens to be open! Finally.

“About time.” I pouted a bit and he turned his direction of eyes to me, seeing me sitting beside him as he was slowly turning onto his back and had his head resting against the pillow. “Gosh, what is it? Earthquake? Fire? Did you find another spider?” He says with a little bit of sarcasm to him as he looked at me with sleepy eyes and I just rolled my eyes.

I crawled onto him, placing myself gently on his hips and leaned down touching my chest against his as his sleepy eyes had kept their focus on me. His hands instinctively found their way to my hips, gently rubbing.

“No. I made you breakfast.” I smiled innocently at him as my eyes battered at him a little bit.

“Breakfast? Oh, you sweet girl.” He hummed, raising his hand up to my cheek and rub his finger along my bottom lip. “Yeah. Since you have to go out later today to meet with that one guy.” I hummed as I rubbed my finger in a circular motion on his chest.

I watched Jeff groan, his eyes looking up as if he was looking at his mind remembering about that date he made with that guy. “Right. Right.” His hand that was on my cheek was now upon his face, rubbing his face. “I forgotten.” He looked back down at me.

“How could you forget? You talked about it last night.” I say as my eyebrows furrowed a little bit. He softly chuckled. “I know. I’m getting too old.” He says, a bit jokingly. “Oh hush. You’re only 42! It’s not terrible.” I say as I looked at him. “You’re right.”

Sitting there in silence, his eyes still upon mine, I can tell he was observing me quietly and god I love his undivided attention upon me. “So fucking pretty.” He whispered, his hands finding my waist and pulled me up to place his lips upon mine. I kissed him back and he placed his hand on the back of my head, keeping me close as his lips were soft and sweet. He then had pulled his lips briefly away and started to trail his lips down to my neck, giving little kisses and nibbles. My response was immediate, my eyes closing as a little hum escaped me.

Before I knew it, he had leaned in closer, catching a piece of my skin and started to suck, swiping his tongue across my skin giving a taste and a tease. I giggled a little bit, “Jeff.” A whine escaped. A couple more seconds he had pulled away and started to kiss my neck all over the place again. “Jeff..” I murmured.

Much as I wanted this, breakfast was getting cold. “Okay! Jeff! Your breakfast!” I say, trying to get him to stop but I could hear the wet smooches against my neck. “What?” He says between his little make out session with my neck. “Your breakfast is getting cold.” I say as he continues. “So?” He kissed my neck again.

I pulled away, pushing myself up now sitting on his lap. “It means, stop kissing and get to eating.” I say as I was looking down at him as he looked at me with this lazy smirk on his lips. His arms raised and went behind his head, supporting the back. “Okay.. Open your legs then.” The sound of mischievous lingered in his voice and I just rolled my eyes and got off of him.

“Okay! Enjoy your day! Don’t be afraid to give a piece of your mind.” I say as he gave me a kiss before opening the front door. “I won’t. I love ya!” He says now leaving and closed the door. “I love you too!” I say and went to do chores around the house.

[axl-rose-lover-1987]

Title: THAT ONE TIME ON TOUR

“mom what’s wrong?” I asked we had been having money problems and I was worried about her “Nothing sweetie it’s just I have sort of a surprise for you” she said. “Oh ok” I said beginning to eat my cereal when suddenly there was a loud knock on the door. “Oh it’s them” my mom said. “Who?” I said very confused as my mom went to go answer our front door we weren’t expecting any guests today as far as I knew

“Hello gentlemen please come in” I heard my mom say. “She’s over there” my mom said her voice breaking a little bit. A man with long red hair and a man hiding his face face behind a mop of curly hair and sunglasses entered my kitchen behind my mom. My mom began wiping tears away from her face the two men smiled at me. I stopped eating my bowl of Reese Puffs very confused. “Mom what’s going on?” I asked. “Don’t be scared sugar will explain everything.” The red headed man said his deep voice booming through my kitchen. “Sweetie I’m so sorry-“ my mom said crying. “I know this is a lot to take in.” The red headed man said to me walking over to me. My mom then hugged me and whispered “it’s better this way honey.” Then the red head man picked my up bridal style and carried me into his broken down van with the man with curly hair. “I-I don’t understand…where are you taking me? Who are you?”

“Well,” the man with fiery hair started, “I’m Axl. This is Slash” he pointed to the man with the curls. “This,” He then pointed to another man in the van, he had poofy blonde hair and a glowing smile. “well, this is Steven. If you’re scared you should probably talk to him, I’m not the best at this stuff.” He laughed nervously.

Should I be scared? I was starting to think so…

“We’re gonna go home and then we’ll explain everything. You’ll just be staying with us for a while.” The blondie spoke in a gentle tone. Maybe I should talk to him.

“Oh, uhm, okay.” I whispered. i had to admit I was a little fearful, though I didn’t understand why. Sure my mom hadn’t given me an explanation, but I was 18. I’m an entire woman, no need to be scared without my mommy.

The curly haired man eyed me curiously, “Ax,” he whispered, clearly intending for only the red head to hear. “How old did you say she was again?”

“Slash,” he hit the man’s arm. “She’s 18. BUT,” he whispered sternly, “be respectful. She’s probably much too scared to think of anything like that. Besides, I had first dibs”

“The fuck you do.” The poodle haired man yelled in a normal voice, startling the blondie next to me.

They obviously hadn’t noticed that I listened in on the entire conversation.

“Sorry, erm, what did you say your name was again?” The red head going by “axl” questioned.

They really knew nothing about me.

“My named y/n and I’m really confused what’s going on” I asked. They all got a sad look on there face and Axl sighed “Well sugar I’m afraid that your mom has fallen on hard times money wise and sold you to us” Axl said. “SHE WHAT!” I yelled.

I buried my face in my legs beginning to sob.

Another blond man peered from behind the back seat of the van “ah it’ll be ok sweet heart we aren’t that bad I promise” the man said rubbing my shoulder. His words were nice but I was still terrified and so confused. The van stopped in front of a very broken down looking apartment complex.

***time skip***

well this is your room I hope u like it Axl said showing me to one of the bedrooms. “Yeah I guess it’ll do” I said wiping away tears Axl left the room. Then a man with long black hair appeared.

“Are you ok?” The man asked. “WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!” I yelled. “Oh my bad my bad.” The man said “I’m Izzy I’m rhythm guitarist for the band. “Oh” I said “I’m y/n”

“Nice to meet you y/n you’re very pretty.” Izzy said I blushed. “Why don’t you come out to the living room and get to know us better” Izzy suggested. “Ok” I said.

When I entered the living room all the guys were sitting in a circle and it looked like a fucking AA meeting. “Why don’t you sit down y/n” Axl said. I sat down into between Slash and Steven. “Sooo you like jack Daniels?” Slash asked. “Um sorry no I’m only 18” I said. “Oh my bad didn’t realize you were a pussy” Slash said.

“Slash shut up” Steven said slapping him on the back of the head Slash grimaced. “I think that’s respectable y/n we aren’t the most respectable guys maybe you’ll be a good influence on us” Steven said with a smile.

“Influence? How old is this bitch like- ten?” Izzy asked, sipping something from a red solo cup.

“Izzy!” Axl yelled, obviously upset “She just said she’s 18! Come on man can’t you guys be a little bit more serious about this?” He rubbed his temples. “We bought a fucking human being for gods sake.” He mumbled.

“Axl…” the other blonde man said. I believed they called him Duff. “She’s right here…”

“You know what guys, I can just go to my room and chill for a bit.” I said, getting up to leave. As I turned the corner for my room, I stopped to listen in on their conversation.

“What are we gonna do?” Duff asked.

“What do you mean?” Axl questioned, “we bought a fucking human being duff. And all of you fuckers,” he pointed to everyone in the room. “Are looking at her like eye candy. It’s disgusting!”

Slash laughed, his jack Daniels gurgling in his throat.

“What’s so funny Slash? Please share with the class.” Axl said in a smart ass tone.

“Well it’s obvious she’s into me.” He said, “didn’t you see the way she looked at me in the van? She was practically all over me in her mind.”

He wasn’t wrong.

“Okay, you guys are all gross. Have you thought about what she wants? She’s probably scared and crying in her room right now. She doesn’t know any of us and she’s only 18 she’s new to the sex world.” Steven spoke sweetly.

“I say we all share her-“ Izzy butted in.

I was in complete shock. Share me? What the hell was this, a parent custody match?

“I vote on that.” Slash slurred.

“I guess I wouldn’t mind…” Axl whispered, ashamed. “That is, after she’s comfortable, of course.” He rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

“What the fuck you guys?” The two blondies yelled in unison.

“I’m going to check on her,” a very drunk slash declared.

I quickly ran to my room, laying on my bed in an attempt to look casual.

“Hey sweetheart,” the guitarist whispered, leaning against the door frame and knocking.

“Oh, hey” I said, standing to meet his eyes.

“I hope this isn’t too awful for you. I know it must be hard but still, I hope you’re settling in okay.”

I couldn’t help but feel nice when I heard the sincereness in his voice.

“It’s not too awful” I ran my finger tip down the length of his chest, I had game too.

“Oh fuck” Slash said biting his lips. His lips then crashed onto mine they were soft like a pillow and my hand began to get tangled in his curly hair. Our tongues danced in each other’s mouths when Slash abruptly pulled away. “Did I do something wrong?” I asked sheepishly. “Nah you’re just not much of a pussy after all” Slash said smirking. Just then Axl barged in seeing me on Slashes lap. “SLASH WHAT THE FUCK” Axl yelled. “Hey man she came on to me” Slash said throwing his hands up in the air.

I blushed. Axl rolled his eyes and then walked over to me and pulled me off Slashes legs and laid me down and began to slide my legs apart I was only wearing little booty shorts that were my pajamas. Axl looked up at me with pleading eyes he was very sexy I had to admit and contrary to what the boys thought this wasn’t my first time around the block.

“May I?” Axl said seductively. I nodded feeling my pussy grow wetter by the minute. Axl smirked and began to slowly pull down my shorts and panties. It was so wonderfully torturous. Slash watched the whole thing smiling looking at my agony. That’s when Axls tongue found my clit and began to lick his tongue all over

Damn did that man know how to use his tongue. Slight moans escaped my lips. “Slash can you shut her up” Axl spat. “Sure thing” Slash said as he began to straddle me and soon again me and Slash were making out. Between Slash making out with me and Axl eating me out I was hot mess.

That’s when Duff entered. “YOUR FUCKING THE HOT GIRL WE BOUGHT WITHOUT ME!” The giraffe looking man yelled. Slash pulled away “just shut up and get over here Duff geez”

Duff then began to undress himself. My god three men at once? I didn’t know how much more of this I could take.

“Erm, guys?” I whispered, clearly intimidated.

“Oh shut up you pretty little slut” slash whispered before crashing his lips to mine.

By this time, Duff was completely naked in the corner of the room, his cock clearly red and hard from watching the two men on me.

“Guys what the sigma?” I’m the one that convinced you to buy the bitch in the first place, you could at least let me tap it first.” The dark haired man entered the doorway.

His eyes slowly lit up as he looked over, seeing duffs exposed length. “Shit Duff” he sighed.

“Izzy we can’t do this again. The one time on tour…” he whispered. “That was a one time deal kitten We agreed We were both drunk and horny. It meant nothing.”

Just then, slash and Axl stopped working on me and turned to look at Duff and Izzy.

“You guys FUCKED??!!???” Axl and slash screamed, shocked.

“IT WAS A ONE TIME THING I SWEAR!” Duff yelled.

“What’s all the commotion?” Steve questioned, walking into the room.

“Izzy and duff fucked!” Slash yelled.

Though, Steven seemed unfazed. “Yeah, so? You and Axl fucked a couple times- oh and remember that three sum we had on tour? It’s normal isn’t it-“

Axl cut Steven off, grasping his hand over his mouth. “Stevie shut up we swore never to talk about that.”

“Fuck senpai” slash moaned just in time for us all to look over. The sight we saw was indescribable.

Duff was inches deep in Slashs ass hole, slash bent over with his ass on display. Slashs ass hole was being ripped to shreds by Duffs mega cock

“I can’t take this anymore.” Izzy moaned, falling to the floor and ripping his pants off. He began jerking his dick in a senseless attempt to release some tension.

“Well fuck Izzy, you don’t have to go at this alone.” Steven sighed, falling to the floor and wrapping his lips around stevens cock.

I looked at Axl, total shock running over me. “What the fuck?” I mouthed, clearly crazed.

“I’m sorry doll…” Axl trailed off before bending down in front of Izzy. “May I?” He questioned.

“Yes papi” Izzy moaned airily and nodded his head quickly

Axl then slid behind Izzy, holding the skinny man’s waist and slowly thrusting in and out of his ass.

I watched in horror as the orgy took place. Fuck.

[duffys-girl]

I write when a fanfic makes me mad so I’m back hi

Pervert

⭐️ • Duff McKagan/reader, smut, Duffs js a manwhore, I just woke up, probably not proofread•

1985, the sunset strip California:

why where you here? Simple answer, William, he was a few years older than you being 16 and he being 20 he had always taken on a sorta..older brother esc role in your life, when you found out he was moving to California, hours away, you wanted you cry, both him and Jeffrey where leaving!

but you couldn’t stop him, so he left, as months went by life was different, but not different enough, he was just..gone, no one to run after men who would hit on you, now they where free to do whatever, so you would go on dates, they never went anywhere..they never had what you where looking for.

Three years sense he moved,, he had called you, how did he even remember your number?

“(Y/n)!” He panted

“..William?”

it was soft, hell there was so much noise from his side you weren’t even sure he heard you

“Uh—yeah…..Look we need someone to help around down here and I know you’re into music I—“

“We?”

“…yeah, me iz—Jeffery…and the guys..you’ll like them I swear”

So…now you where in California, looking around, you didn’t fit in with the girls here, you could tell you liked the same music they did but you never had the chance to doll up when you lived in Indiana, so it surprised you when a very tall…. Man came up..oh this is what those guys back home where missing, the leather and denim, the eyeliner and bleach blonde hair..

“Hey..are you (y/n)?”

You squeaked, but nodded, earning a soft chuckle from him as he stuck out his hand

“ ‘m Duff, Axl sent me to pick you up”

You shook his hand..almost needily but you hung your head to the side, who the fuck was Axl

“Uhm..yknow red long hair, the girly nose he has?” He laughed

Oh,,that was definitely William.. you nodded and took the opportunity to hold onto him so you ‘didn’t get lost’…he didn’t seem to care anyways.

He got to a beaten up house and pushed the door open, it was a mess!

“Uhm..there’s a spear bedroom upstairs we’d thought you’d like your own space…” he muttered as he led you up to the room, the only thing in it was a blown up air mattress..at least it was something

“I—thank you Duff..? Im gonna unpack..”

He nodded and watched for a bit before he left

So while putting your bags down the door opened

“(Y/n)!!” He rushed over and hugged you, you guys talked for hours, he gave you the rundown, no one went by their legal name,, Duff, Slash, Axl, Izzy and Steven, all band mates..

It took a bit to settle in but you did eventually, you got a job and managed to get a bed and vanity, it had come together.., honestly you didn’t mind cleaning up after them, you only didn’t like the girls they would bring over, for the most part the girls where nice, or just didn’t pay any mind to you, but occasionally one of them would bring over a girl who was…special, you mainly just didn’t like the sounds you would hear..that’s not to say when you knew it was Duff with a girl..I mean was it really that wrong to curl up in bed with a hand down your pants

You sat at a booth, next to Duff, he leaned forward and looked around, watching as slash came over with a tray of drinks for the table everyone reaching for one.

You don’t know when it happened but a man had whisked you away, you didn’t plan on doin anything with him..he didn’t have what you wanted..he wasn’t Duff, so you laughed away all his advances, until someone grabbed onto you making you gasp, and looking up..it was Duff.., he didn’t look happy

“Hey babe…why’d you leave?” There was an edge in his voice, he wasn’t curious, he was..something else, before you could respond the man did for you

“Whoa man..I was chatting her up..no big deal”

“Uh huh” Duff clicked his tongue “well she’s with me.” He stated before he started to pull you away, towards the door, he was clearly drunk, maybe a bit less than you “wha..where are we going?” “Home.” He was cut straight, stumbling home, tripping every so often on his feet, he pushed open the door and continued to drag you inside

“Bedroom…c’mon—“ he sighed and dragged you to your room and pushed you on the bed, you huffed and sat up just in time to see his stripping his clothes off “Duff—“ “T-this is okay yeah? You want this?” You blinked and nodded, taking your shirt off as he leaned over and pushed your skirt up, moving your pretty pink panties out of the way, making him groan “fuck look at this..” he mumbled, his warm breaths hitting your folds making you Yelp

“Smell so fucking..good” he groaned before nuzzling closer and starting to lap up at you, making you squirm and whine, trying to move away, he muttered out a string of curses and grabbed onto your thighs, keeping you still until he got his fill, you where on cloud 9, tugging on his hair occasionally, making him groan against your clit, only to make you squirm and tug on his hair harder, you closed your eyes tightly and clamped your thighs between his head as you came, he didn’t seem to mind..he kept licking you until finally he opened your legs again and pulled away “fuck that tastes good..” he led off, panting along side you “ungh..T-thank you Duff..” you yawned as he came back over leaning down “we’re not done yet baby don’t close those pretty eyes just yet..” he whispered against your lips before kissing you, when he pulled away he made you watch as he undid his belt, giggling at your dazed expression, the loud clink from his buckle as it hit the floor, the sound of his fly being undone filling your ears, you watched him push his pants down along with his underwear, he grabbed his cock and stroked it right infront you “you wanna taste it baby?, c’mon don’t be shy…” you nodded again and leaned in, his tip pressing to your lips, you soon started kissing and licking at it, before opening your mouth and taking his length in, moaning and gagging around him as you worked, spitting and drooling, he whimpered and grabbed the back of your head, pulling you on and off making you gag over and over as your eyes rolled back, god you loved this, you loved the feeling of his dick in your throat, you could do this daily, it didn’t last long though, he pulled out making you whine

He chuckled and pet you “it’s okay baby..I just wanna cum inside you yeah?” You blushed and nodded, laying down and looking up at him as he moved on-top of you, looking inbetween your bodies as he grabbed his cock and tapped your core with it before sliding in making you whimper and cling into him, he kissed your face all over and whispered sweet nothings as he started to thrust swallowly, you moaned a bit and shifted, pushing into the bed, watching him move as you moaned and whimpered, he leaned down and kissed you lazily, his tongue sliding into your mouth while he placed his armpit right next to your face, he tended and started thrusting rougher, god you could feel him in your throat.. “fuck…fuck you feel good..yeah..mph fuck my good girl…yeah..” he muttered, one hand reached down and gripped your waist tightly, his other hand, the one that had his pit right next to you also reached down, stroking your face a bit before he grabbed your throat, just enough to control… making you gasp and moan constantly, you shook a bit, spasming as you came on him, you squealed and called his name, clawing at his back, he soon followed and came in you, filling you up as you moaned, it was so..warm, he fell forward and continued to thrust as he pulled out, watching his cum leak out of you and stain your bed

“Fuck your so good..so cute…I’m keeping you yeah?..all mine…..all mine” he mumbled and kissed your cheek, rolling over onto his back and taking you into his arms, pulling the blanket up and rubbing your back, enjoying your fucked out expression “so cute..all mine yeah?” You nodded and moaned “all yours” you mumbled and nuzzled into him, closing your eyes and sleeping sweetly, oh so warm

[femnoah]

Supernatural tdwt part 1

Masterpost

DJ gets attacked and dragged off by a wolf during the first challenge in Germany. This alarms the contestants and they hear shouts so they all run towards it, DJ's been bit and is bleeding heavily, 'Noah' is administering first aid and Izzy (since they were the only two away from the other teams) is growling at the wolf, trying to stare it into submission. The wolf runs off.

He gets taken to the first aid tent they have set up while the first challenge is completed.

Leshawna and Lindsay go to check on him only to find out there's not a single scratch on him. Which is definitely weird considering the amount of blood and the fact he was bit very deeply.

They join back for the second challenge but DJ wolfs out when on the platform. Obviously a lot of people are shocked and the challenge is paused.

Chris starts cackling and decides to change the rules of the game, Courtney complains.

He tells them that since a couple of the contestants are supernatural or supernatural adjacent and they're all now aware of it, he's going to make the game more fun. "From this point on there will be no more eliminations. At all. This includes any injuries. You get hurt, you tough it out." The contestants start complaining. "Of course, I'm upping the prize money, each surviving player on the winning team gets a million dollars. And to compensate, the challenges will be more difficult. Of course, to make things fair team Victory gets to pick another player from a different team so, pick your choice." He grins and it's sharp.

Team victory picks Tyler because Lindsay remembers him and he's friends with DJ and Leshawna (they should've had more on screen interactions, especially since they were on other TV shows together)

Heather then picks up on the fact that Chris mentioned "a couple of yous" when referring to the supernatural and not so nicely asks him about it

"oh? I thought I mentioned it at the beginning of the season. Mr Alejandro Burromuerto over there is really old. Like really really old, the main reason he's on this show is because he owed my great great great great....... Grandfather a favour that I cashed in."

Everyone stares at Alejandro in shock and he breaks his gentlemanly persona by scowling at the host and snarling at the host "Sì, it was that Djinn wasn't it"

"dude, not cool, I was hoping to leave some mystery for the viewers. You're lucky I only got a couple of his powers cause that was rude."

Sierra then chips in, clearly excited at the prospect of learning more about her favourite show. "so what is he then? And is there anyone else? Cause couple could mean anything from 2 to almost half of us!"

Chris just grins at them with his usual empty eyes "not telling. Got to make this entertaining after all. I'm not going to spill any secrets this time. But they will come out. All of them." His grin turns sharp, almost inhuman.

"Wait, so Alejandro's like hundreds of years old or something? Cause that explains so much!" Gwen adds on.

"Qué?" Alejandro questions, confused.

"You've given me weird vibes since we met. It feels like when you walk past a graveyard or an abandoned mental institution or something like that. You know, when you get a knot in the back of your throat and start to feel a little light headed?"

Courtney looks at her concerned. "No?"

"oh"

They continue the rest of the challenge, there's no Heather- Leshawna fist fight since they're distracted and it turns out the guy they were kind of arguing about is ancient. Team Amazon wins the challenge.

The contestants have a conversation on werewolves in economy to try to help DJ and work out where to go from there, Gwen and 'Noah' are the main sources of theories and information, Gwen because of her obsession with gothic and supernatural literature and media, 'Noah' because 'he' read as much as 'he' could find on it after finding out about Eva, who 'he' mentions is also a werewolf when Izzy was being vague about it to DJ and winding everyone up. Gwen is leading the convo though.

....'Noah' continues on "in some cultures werewolves transform back into human when their full name is called out by a loved one. If you want, you can give me your real name to try it but I'm sure it only works when there's requited love, familial or romantic and no offense but I don't like you that way."

DJ just sighs "None taken, I guess it's a bust then" 'Noah' hums in agreement.

Lindsay tries to cheer him up "Hey, it's okay, we'll help you get through this!"

Leshawna adds to it "Yeah! It's team victory for life."

What the majority of the cast are aware of so far:

DJ- werewolf

Leshawna- human

Lindsay- human

Tyler- human

Alejandro- ???

Owen- human

Izzy- human

'Noah'- human

Courtney- human

Gwen- human

Cody- human

Heather- human

Sierra- human

Chris- Djinn blood

Chef- human

If you have any guesses, please say, hints will be dropped throughout after all ;)

[halevren]

Never Stop Blowing Up Spoilers || my live thoughts as I watch episode 1

Oh we are so back chat. I will do my best to do this for all 10 episodes but honestly? It's all up to my mental health 🔥🔥

Honestly I'm already on the verge of tears after learning that Brennan made this season as a homage to Izzy.... THAT'S SO SWEET 😭😭😭

INTRO IS SO COOL!!!!!

HELLO ONE AND ALLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!

HI AMAZING ACTION STARSSSSS

This cast is so loaded I'm so in love with it

lovely cardigan!

I like the DM screen it's so neat

Ify looks like he just came from the season finale of FHJY

TURBO TOKENNNN 🔥🔥🔥

Rekha's hair looks so incredible, those curls are PERFECT

what flavor of monster. what's the new flavor. I need this world building info Brennan please

Dave's video world

fun fact my favorite race car is a charger. I don't know anything about them and can't recognize then but very often I have pointed out a car to my mom like "that's a nice car" and 9 times out of 10 it's a charger 😭😭

Wendell Morris I fw you

the captions not being accurate is lowkey annoying but whatever.

UC Irvine

I love Jake's laugh so much

"You can't spend your whole life playing dodo games" "it's Dota 2..."

Liv Skyler!

5'6 perfect height for a woman— actually any height is good be whatever height your heart desires

Liv is a klepto. real as hell (sorry)

Webster's is trash

"You never know Ms. D" "No, I know."

Take it back. Take it back.

WENDELL IS PAINFULLY AWKWARD I LOVE HIM

Floppy-droppy disk

Kingskin is so calm as he crushes somebody

This is Usha, she is 100 years old

I would die for Usha

"Who are you calling?" "I'm tryna call everybody."

I love Usha so goddamn much

"Everybody you see, say hi"

does everyone have 4s across the board for abilities

need to unplug to save battery

DAVE 🔥🔥🔥

🤘🤘

NO DIAL TONE BECAUSE SHE UNPLUGGED IT

Usha, you're my rock

ALLY AND JAKE UNCLE AND NEPHEW DUO

Russell I think I'm romantically attracted to you

ok chill russell

"That bastard made it..."

"A lot of positive sentiments from contents not in your phone." 😭

Jennifer is giving me a strange sense of gender envy as someone who doesn't identify with gender

God I love Cait May's art

Tough Kill

CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT

"Hey guys, sorry I'm on time"

Pants are more patches than pants

More patch than pant

MY NAUGHTY LITTLE DREAM LAND

All these characters are incredible how could I ever choose a fav (I think Usha is my fav. She's special to my heart)

Greg Stocks 📈

Mr. Everybody

Lunch dates all the time

PURRS????

A TON OF SPERM

PAULA

buxom

USHA UNPLUGGED THE CAMERAS ON THE ROOF

YOU WANNA RIP MY CARPET

slamming it down like a laptop

TOUGH KILL 🔥🔥

Jack Manhattan

I love Izzy so so much

"You calling me a chicken, Johan? because I'm actually the cock of the walk."

THIS CAST IS PERFECT

Are you doing menopause???

This is the best cast for bits

He's not jacking off, just talking to the alien

Rashab

He's in me and I'm him

he was 100% getting eaten by a snake

A LOT OF MEDICINES

BLUE LEMONADE CALYPSO!!! REAL AS HELL!! BEST FLAVOR

"Favorite movies:

Never stop blowing up

Never stop blowing up

Never stop blowing up"

The constrast between Usha and Paula with Barsimmeon

WENDALL COMING IN CLUTCH WITH THE ALIBI

Brennan said the title, roll the credits

YOU NEED TO ROLL AN 8 ON A D4

COCAINE BABY

"That's cocaine."

SIXXXX EXPLOSION

This is so cool

RASHAB IS REAL

HOW AM I RUNNING SO FAST AND HARD

The scene story boards are so cool

I LOVE USHA

"DID IT WORK??????"

the latex is so loud

HOPE YOU ENJOY THE LATE FEES? THAT BUFF GUY WAS BARSIMMEONS?

NEXT EPISODE IS THE LEATHER JACKET

I'm so excited

This season will be my favorite

[jordanraye47]

Izzy headcanons that aren’t an entire fic🔥

Answers scam callers the best way possible “hi welcome to Pete’s roadkill pizzeria where yesterdays loss is todays sauce, how may o help you?” Like that’s her duty

Considering she’s a literal famous actor, she probably has a social media accounts, and even though she rarely posts, when she does, she’s on the damn edge of being canceled.

^ “damn getting arrested for no reason🔥 guess orangre really is the new black”

Speaking of spelling mistakes (no I don’t know how to spell organge), she has dyslexia.

She’s not th favourite kid we could all tell.

Regardless of how much she smiles normally, she can not for the life of her smile for pictures. So 90% of the time her pictures looks like an alien that hasn’t quite figured out where they are, or just a thumbs up.

Thst or that stupid Lin manuela (I think that’s his name) pose.

Speaks crazy many languages, including ASL

She has very good curls, just doesn’t care to take manage them (yes this is me being desperate for representation of girls with curly hair that doesn’t know how to mangene them)

That and the reason she wears the bathing cap is because chlorine FUCKS UP curly hair oh my gosh soaking from experience 🙏

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; Scarlett is her older sister.

dicorced nightgown porch cigarette mom and Texan truck motel dad that doesn’t give a shit what their kids do.

Always slightly thrown off when someone is nice to her bushes so used to Noah and Eva’s “mean love” or whatever you call it.

This girl did NOT have friends in school she BIT the other students

Favorite subject is art and sience (I have dyslexia you stuf don’t correct me)

So smart and also so stupid ^ “so what’s the square root of 589 iz?” “24.269.” “ok so do you think Pluto should be considered a planet?” “No of course not he’s a dog. Did you not watch Mickey Mouse”

“Parents got confused and chose daughter on anti-psychotics”

deadass i think her pshycosis is a genuine problem to her but it’s so easy to take it as a joke so she just goes along. (Read “artificial lawns” on AO3 by necrosys its very well explained there)

Has THE most vile t-shirts ever and she wears them in public with a pair of long ads jorts like she’d Adam sandler

Like these <33 - she lives on a farm it’s true she told me

She’s actually pretty funny she just can’t tell a joke without laughing at it herself

She is banned from the kitchen in every kitchen in the world

Izzy Cody and Duncan would be such a fucked up trio I’d love them

I got this from @kijosakka but she’s a really good braided us give her like 20 minutes.

Still has all her baby teeth in a jar

I wanna write some angsty ones so bad but I’m not putting you guys through all that.

I truly believe that Heather and Izzy used to be so good friends but after Heather got a teste of sweet popularity she didn’t hesitate to leave Izzy behind.

She has a secret room in her room

Snacks on yogurt and frozen fruit

She’s covered in freckles so badly like it’s top to toe

Can raise one eyebrow

her mother or herself are the only ones that cut her hair

^ and she has probably never been to a proper hairdresser

That’s all i have for today don’t forget to like and subscribe if you want morir epic content 🔥🔥

[oomox-oclock]

There Was A Time:

A/n: OMG SORRY IF THIS IS HORRIBLE IM SICK AND MY HEAD BE FLOATING

ENJOY THO

Pervious chapters/ warnings

3. Nice Boys:

Second person POV:

You woke up to the sound of clattering and clanging in the kitchen. You rubbed your eyes and groaned, when you opened them, you realised that you were in Duff's room. "What the fuck!" You yelled, but it was soft as your voice was still waking up as well. You aggressively lifted the covers and looked down. 'Phew, my clothes are still on.' You sighed a sigh of relief. You didn't remember how you got to Duff's bed, but hopefully nothing happened. 'Okay back to bed' All that strong panic and crashing relief so early in the morning made you tired. You took the covers and laid down, holding them to your shoulder and closed your eyes. The idea of getting more sleep started crashing down when there was a loud knock on the door. "Wake up we need you in the kitchen!" The person on the other side yelled. You groaned in annoyance and turned over, flipping open the covers and getting out of bed. The cold air hitting your feet and arms made you shiver, you opened the door to see Izzy standing there, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. His eyes widen, he was surprised to see you come out of Duff's room. "Where's Duff?" He asked, rather rudely as he looked you up and down. He probably thought the same thing you panicked about this morning. "I don't know." You responded, "What do you need help with?" You asked as you stretched and yawned. "Well, Axl-..." "I didn't do fucking anything!" You heard Axl scream from the kitchen. The sounds of his pounding footsteps approached you and Izzy, "And if you tell Duff that-... Oh?" He paused when he saw that it was just the two of you and smirked at you. "Axl I'm gonna grind your balls on the cheese grater, nothing happened between us." You told him firmly, while pointing at him. He held his hands up in surrender with an even smugger look on his face and waltzed back to the kitchen.

In the end, Duff went out to get more food and booze. While he was gone you helped clean the mess Axl made in the kitchen, he someone caught the sink on fire when he wanted to 'cool off' and 'fix' his jet black, hard ashy bacon he conjured up. You also made them new breakfast and taught Axl how to properly cook bacon, he was very reluctant at first and cussed you out, but he soon had a laugh about it. "This is so fucking good." Steven sighed as he inhaled his breakfast "Can't you just stay here forever and make this every morning." He smiled, and his blonde hair bounced like popcorn popping in the microwave. "Yeah, and sleep with Duff every night" Axl's deep voice range over the table. You looked up to see him and Slash giggling with each other like two teenage girls. Izzy had a disgusted look on his face, and Duff started to go a bit red. "That's not what happened. Y/n slept in my room, and I slept on the couch. That's it." Duff cleared his voice, you were grateful, but you knew Axl couldn't help himself. "I need to call my manager. Can I use the phone?" You asked. Duff nodded and you stood up, so did he but he was heading for the bathroom. "That phone and my dick are the only thing that work in this damn house." Axl said as he dumped his dishes in the sink and tried to turn the tap. You rolled your eyes as you punched in the numbers of your manager.

"Hey, I got a band. They're sick. I just know they'll be the biggest thing ever." You spoke, you didn't say this just to make the guys favour you, you already knew that they are in the future. "I trust your intuition. We'll be able to get them a studio in a few months, it's a bit busy here. We might be able to get them into Sound City. How many members?" Your manager spoke. "Five" You answered, "That might take a bit longer then, sorry doll." He spoke. "But don't worry, we'll slot them in soon." "Thanks sir." You responded. "Oh, and your landlord called in 'cause he couldn't get hold of you, I can switch him over for you." He said. "Yes, thank you."

There was a beep, a pause, and a static crack. You heard your landlord cough up flehm, and his cigarette voice rang through the phone. "Who's this again?" He chewed. "Y/n? You called my work today." You answered. "Oh yeah, I had to throw your shit out. I got some high paying tenants coming in, sorry toots." And he hung up the phone.

You stood there with the phone in hand, shocked, your mouth slightly a gape, paralysed. Every emotion was rushing through you, anger was the biggest one. You could see now why there was a large hole in the wall next to phone, you wanted to punch something too. A swarm of fear and panic ran through your head, there was a loud ringing in your ear. You didn't even realise someone was calling your name, you snapped out of it, you felt a tear run down your cheek and wiped it away quickly. "Hey, you okay? What'd they say?" Axl asked as he dried one of the dishes. "Hm? Oh, yeah, he said we could get a studio in a few months. It's gonna be a private one just for you guys so that's why." You explained, trying not to burst into tears and hope they didn't notice. "Cool!" Slash said, as he pumped the air and shoulder bumped with Steven. "Excuse me a minute." You spoke and dashed out the front door. You felt sick, you wanted to throw up, your legs were shaking.

You sank to the steps of the front porch and put your head on your knees. "Shit." You choked back tears, you were thinking of all the things that are probably in some disgusting New York dumpster getting eaten by rats. Your polaroid's of friends, favourite clothes, shit your whole record collection, even the stuff your dead relatives gave you. It was all gone. You breathed hard, you didn't want to cry, you didn't want to panic. You already had enough of it, and it's only been a day. Your heart jumped when you heard the door open and one of the floorboards creak. "Yo, the guys are gonna head to a bar you wanna-... Oh shit." It was Slash. He hissed as he sucked in air, he didn't know what to do. "You okay?" "No, No, I'm fine. I just needed air." You coughed as you got up. He knew something was up, but you weren't budging and he didn't want to step over boundaries. "Hey babes, you going or not?... Shit, you look wrecked." But there was always Axl to step over the line for you. The ginger look confused, at you. Your eyes were red, ready to explode. "Does the place stink that much?" He laughed, but it was just silence. Awkward silence. Slash gave him a look. "Hey, sorry I-... what's wrong?" He put a hand on your shoulder and asked sincerely. "My landlord kicked me out..." You whispered quietly, "All my stuff is gone." You started to tear up thinking about it, and how embarrassing it was that you were about to cry in front of your new band. Slash came in to hug you, his hair covered your face so no one could see the stream of tears rolling down your cheeks. "Hey, hey, it's okay let it out. You can cry." His soft voice was like a lullaby. You rested your head on his chest as you sobbed and hugged him. Axl rubbed your back, making small jokes and flirts trying to lighten your mood. You tried your hardest to stop crying, you sniffed as you lifted your head off Slash's chest. "Thanks guys." You sighed a chuckle while wiping your face. "You can still come with us to the bar, it'll cheer you up. Promise." Axl said craning his neck over your shoulder to look at you. You exhaled and nodded a yes.

You washed your face before going out, and told Axl and Slash not to tell anyone. You just wanted to forget about it and drink. You dressed into a pair of black jeans, docs, a black white tank and your trusty leather jacket. You and the guys were downtown in a dark bar drink at 12 and it felt good honestly. You were sitting in a red leather booth, Axl next to you with his arm on top of the booth behind you, Steven on your other side, Slash, Izzy then Duff at the other end of the booth. You and Duff were on your 5th shot of Vodka, giggling about anything and nothing. You snapped out of it when you felt a tap on your shoulder, you looked to Steven, but it was Axl who had his arm looming over your shoulder from behind the booth seat. He had his hat on with sunglasses so you couldn't make direct eye contact with him but god his eyes were still pulling you in. "I was thinking... Why don't you stay with us?" You nearly spat out the drink that wasn't in your mouth. "Seriously?" "You still got your job don't ya? So, it won't take that long for you to get enough money to get your own place again. Besides, we'll be racking in your money sweetheart." He spoke nonchalantly as he waved his hand around. Did you really want to live in a hell hole with five stinky men? Five hot stinky men. You did have enough money to help them fix some of the things in their place, it would be a fair trade. They were also a joy to be around, and you had to get to know them better one way or another for this band thing to work. "What about the others-...?" You whispered to him, but he started to speak loudly to the rest of the group. "Give a round of applause to our new guest in the Hell House! We'll be eating like kings while she finds a new place." He rose his glass drunkenly, Steven and Duff clapped as Slash whooped. Duff stared at you with a big grin on his face. Either from excitement or alcohol. Izzy didn't look amused, he looked somewhat agitated, and he clutched his glass tighter till his knuckles went white. "Where will I sleep?" You asked the ginger. "You can always sleep with me babe. In more ways than one." His glasses fell to the bridge of his nose, and you could see his blue eyes, he winked and pushed them back up. You rolled your eyes. "It's fine, I'll buy my own mattress. Who knows how many different stains are on yours." You said. He punched your shoulder playfully and chuckled, you did too.

The rest of the day was you and the guys on a bar crawl, you laughed with all of them about different stories they told you, even with Izzy; after a few bottles of wine, he chuckled at your jokes. It was around 9, and everyone was smashed, smashed enough to still walk but not enough to use common sense. It was a miracle that Axl hadn't started a fight or Steven didn't throw up in someone's drink. You and Slash were on your way to pick up more drinks from the bar when some drunk guy came up and started flirting with you, he started coming closer. His breath stunk you physically stepped back and began cussing him out for it, but he didn't stop. Slash slightly stepped Infront of you, he was getting uncomfortable with this stranger's presence too. "Hey man, just back off." Slash warned. "What, and your skinny ass is gonna beat me up?" He drunkenly scoffed. He quickly grabbed your ass, dodging Slash's body in front of yours, Slash didn't have time to respond to the assault. Someone tapped the drunk man's shoulder, "You fucking bitch." It was Axl, he then swiftly sucker punched him square in the face. The man yelled, Axl grabbed his collar and started repeatedly bashed his face with his fist. A crowd started forming and bartenders yelled at him to get out. You and Slash started to pull Axl away from the man, "Ax get off him! You're gonna kill him!" You yelled at him. "That's the point!" He huffed as he was still reaching and grabbing for the man even though he was backing away, nearly unconscious and scared for his life. With the help from other strangers, you got Axl off him and all of you were kicked out. Axl was panting and still in a rage, yelling and screaming that he's going to finish that guy's ass. You finally got him to calm down with the help of Izzy.

The rest of the night Izzy didn't talk, he was furious, furious with you and Axl. Slash and Steven were worried about you and tried to comfort you, but you were okay, just startled. You didn't want to make a big deal of it. Duff felt the tension between Izzy and you, and he tried to explain that it wasn't your fault, but you told Duff to leave it. You didn't know why Izzy was out to get you, but you tried not to think too much about it. When you got home Izzy went straight to bed, so did Slash, Steven did too but only after he threw up in the toilet as you held his hair up. You sat by the small wooden table by the kitchen where you ate this morning and bandaged Axl's knuckles. "This might sting." You warned, as you patted a cotton pad with disinfectant on his knuckle. He hissed and wriggled, you could feel he was still agitated and angry. "That was a nice thing you did back there. Thank you." You told him. His eyes widened, he was surprised. "Next time just don't try kill the man." You said as you wrapped his hand. He gave a breathy laugh and smiled at you. "Nice boys don't play rock 'n doll darling." He scoffed light heartedly. There was pause. You waited for him to realise something. "Shit, that's a great fucking lyric." He got off the table and scavenged for a piece of paper and a pen. You rolled your eyes at him as you packed away the med kit you had in your bag. Axl soon went to bed after he scribbled aggressively and attentively on the paper. It was just you and Duff again. He took out a bottle of vodka from under the couch he had been saving, and you shared it. By the end of it the two of you were out of it, wobbly legs, slurred speech, couldn't think and couldn't speak. You both stumble into Duff's room and as soon as you hit the bed you were gone, Duff giggled and did the same. His one arm laid on your back and both pair of legs were sprawled out on the bed, and his feet dangling off the side of the bed. Soft snores were heard from the two of you, and loud ones from Slash's room as the whole house slept.